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00:03 we're living in unprecedented times. 00:05 Join us now for Today special program. 00:13 I want to spend my life 00:18 Mending broken people 00:23 I want to spend my life 00:29 Removing pain 00:34 Lord, let my words 00:39 Heal a heart that hurts 00:44 I want to spend my life 00:50 Mending broken people 00:55 I want to spend my life 01:01 Mending broken people 01:15 Hello, friends, and welcome to 3ABN Thursday Night Live. 01:19 That's right, we are live right now. 01:21 As I'm speaking, it's going all around the world 01:23 and it's because of our Lord and Savior. 01:25 This is the Three Angels Broadcasting Network 01:28 and just as it says, 01:29 Three Angels Broadcasting Network, 01:31 we're all about the gospel of Jesus Christ, 01:33 the everlasting gospel 01:35 as taught and preached and proclaimed 01:37 through the three angels' messages 01:38 that's going all around the world 01:40 and we're just thankful 01:42 and blessed that you're joining us. 01:43 We know you could be doing something else 01:45 but you're here. 01:46 And so tell your friends, tell your family members, 01:49 your enemies, your acquaintances, everyone 01:51 to gather around 01:53 because we got Little Light Studios 01:55 in the house tonight. 01:57 I'm excited about this time 01:59 we're going to have with Little Lights Studios, 02:00 because they have so much to share with us 02:02 about their ministry, about their media ministry 02:05 and how they're reaching the world, 02:07 how they're reaching young people, 02:08 the younger generation 02:09 and everyone 02:11 and enlightening them and teaching them 02:12 about Hollywood and movies and media 02:15 and all that they can. 02:17 And so, you're going to want to tune in, 02:18 you're going to want to stay with us. 02:20 I guess I should formally introduce myself. 02:21 I'm Ryan Day for those of you who don't know. 02:23 I'm a part of the pastoral ministry team 02:25 here at 3ABN. 02:27 And again, we're just so thankful that 02:28 you're joining us at this time. 02:30 We're going to have a special music number 02:31 before we formally introduce our guests this evening. 02:34 And our musical number is coming from Miss ET Everett, 02:38 a good friend of mine. 02:39 She is our sound center manager here 02:41 and she's going to be playing a beautiful song entitled, 02:43 "He Is Here." 08:20 Amen. Thank you so much, ET. 08:22 She has a beautiful touch on the piano. 08:24 Just a beautiful person in general, 08:26 a good friend and that song was such a blessing. 08:28 Thank you so much. 08:30 Well, my friends again, 08:32 welcome back to 3ABN Thursday Night Live, 08:35 and we've got 08:36 Little Lights Studios in the house, 08:38 and I guess I want to go ahead 08:40 and get right into the introduction 08:41 because I'm excited about 08:42 what we're going to be talking about. 08:44 We've had a little bit of time to chat, 08:45 you know, kind of behind the scenes 08:47 in preparation for tonight, 08:48 but I'm gonna start all the way down 08:50 this long highway of a table here. 08:53 At the far end there we have Brother Scotty, 08:58 I see Scott here, but I think you said Scotty, 09:00 which one do you prefer? 09:02 Scotty is fine. Scotty is great. 09:04 Scotty Mayor, you are director/speaker 09:06 for Little Light Studios, 09:08 and it's a blessing to have you here my brother. 09:10 We're going to have a lots of discussion tonight. 09:12 It's an honor to be here. 09:13 Thank you for inviting us. 09:15 Amen. Praise the Lord. 09:16 And to your left is Miss Kendi Callendar. 09:19 I told you your name was, it's just got that, 09:21 it's really nice to say Kendi Callender. 09:23 I've never heard that name before, 09:25 but thank you for being here tonight. 09:26 Thank you. Amen. Praise the Lord. 09:27 And to your left, Mr. Keith Detwieler, 09:30 how are you, Brother? 09:31 Good. How are you? 09:33 I'm blessed. 09:34 I'm just excited. 09:35 Don't speak too much tonight. 09:37 You just, you've been really calm, 09:39 but I know the floodgates are going to open 09:41 in just a little bit, I know. 09:43 Praise the Lord. 09:44 So, guys, Little Light Studios, 09:46 now I know about Little Lights Studios, 09:48 because it just seems like yesterday 09:50 and it was probably, 09:52 I don't know, it might've been seven or eight years ago 09:55 when I was first introduced to Little Lights Studios. 09:57 I was just doing some research in general on, 10:00 you know, movies and songs 10:02 and, you know, the music industry 10:04 and Hollywood industry 10:05 and somebody I think had shared a DVD with me. 10:08 And it was kind of one of your original, 10:10 I think, original old school presentations. 10:13 You had the kind of the Afro going on 10:15 and you were doing a presentation, 10:18 I guess, associated with a collection of DVDs 10:21 or content called Battlefield Hollywood. 10:24 And just the content of that just spoke to me. 10:27 And so, I've been introduced to Little Light Studios 10:30 for some time. 10:31 You guys' ministry have blessed me abundantly, 10:33 but there's someone watching at home right now 10:35 that doesn't even know 10:36 who in the world Little Light Studios is. 10:38 Who is Little Light Studios? 10:40 Well, we are a media ministry. 10:42 We have a passion for the youth of our church. 10:45 And I think, you know, I had a real big passion 10:48 for movies and television. 10:49 As a kid, I didn't grow up really watching a lot of it. 10:53 But in college I took some film studies classes 10:56 and it got bit by the bug, as they say, 10:58 ended up in Hollywood for about 10 years 11:01 and growing up in the Adventist faith. 11:04 I grew up in a very conservative home. 11:06 My parents were smart enough to know that, 11:10 you know, there's something wrong 11:11 with the movies and television, 11:12 but they couldn't quite put their finger on it. 11:14 It was just kind of not encouraged in our home. 11:16 And, of course, 11:18 when you discourage your kid from something, 11:19 they end up going and doing that for a living, right? 11:21 So I ended up in Los Angeles 11:23 and it's really something that, that filled my life. 11:27 And I just had no time for God. 11:29 It led me away. 11:30 I got caught up in the things of the world 11:32 and chasing the things 11:34 that everyone thinks is going to make them happy, 11:36 fame and fortune and all those things. 11:38 And God got a hold of my heart after that and won me back. 11:42 And when He won me back, 11:44 I think my passion was really to reach people 11:47 at the point that I walked away. 11:49 So that's why we kind of stuck with the younger generation 11:52 and, you know, video games, movies, music, 11:55 those kind of topics. 11:57 That's what they're into, so. 11:58 Wow, that's awesome man. 11:59 It's been, like I said, a blessing to me. 12:02 I was actually bragging a little bit behind scenes 12:05 with Keith here. 12:07 I was like, yeah, I think I have just about all the DVDs 12:09 you guys have made. 12:10 Here I am, I'm naming off like four or five 12:12 and he's like, no, I was like, 12:13 and he started naming off a bunch more. 12:15 We're going to talk about those in just a moment. 12:17 But I... 12:18 So, Scottie, while we're at it, 12:20 what is it that you do for a Little Light 12:21 because I understand you're kind of, you started it, 12:23 but what is it specifically 12:24 that you do within the ministry at Little Light? 12:26 Well, I kind of was one of the three, 12:29 my brother and childhood best friend 12:31 actually started it together 12:32 and I like to consider myself, 12:35 well anyone that works in ministry has 10 hats, right? 12:39 So we do a bit of everything, 12:42 I edit, I shoot, 12:44 do a little bit of administration, 12:46 little jokes throw stuff around the office. 12:49 But yeah, we all kind of just jump in. 12:51 I like a collective sort of mentality. 12:55 I think you get a better product 12:57 when everybody gets to throw their ideas in the hat. 12:59 And so that's kind of how we operate actually. 13:02 We bounce ideas off of each other. 13:04 We feed off of each other. 13:05 So that's pretty much what we do. 13:07 That's awesome. Praise the Lord. 13:09 Now to your left here again, Kendi Callender, 13:11 and I understand you're kind of the new person. 13:14 Are you the newest person? 13:15 I know that you've... 13:16 Have you been with them a while 13:18 or are you the newest person in the club? 13:19 Yes. 13:20 No, I'm not the newest, 13:22 I mean, God has definitely blessed a ministry for us 13:23 to grow over the years, 13:25 but I've been a part of it 13:26 for about two and a half years now. 13:27 Wow okay. 13:29 So what is it that you do for Little Light Studios? 13:30 Yeah, back to what Scotty was saying 13:31 about the multiple hats. 13:33 I think I've grown in the past two and a half years 13:34 more than any other time in my life, 13:35 just because of how much I've been exposed to 13:38 in a good way though, of course. 13:39 I think that's the benefit of working in a small ministry. 13:42 I get to interact with the different departments, 13:45 probably not in the same way 13:47 that I would in like a massive corporate operation, 13:50 but what is it that I do? 13:52 Well, I got brought on the team as a video editor. 13:55 But when I walked through the door, 13:57 they put me in front of the camera 13:58 instead of behind it. 14:00 So I do some hosting, 14:01 I go back and forth with people on social media, 14:05 you know, talk to donors and just interact. 14:08 I am loving, it. Amen. 14:09 Praise the Lord. 14:10 Keith? 14:12 Yes, sir. 14:13 So what do you do with Little Light Studios? 14:15 What do I do? I'm all over the place. 14:17 I mean, like they said, 14:18 everybody wears a bunch of different hats, 14:20 so I guess sometimes I see myself 14:22 as kind of tying up loose ends here and there and everywhere. 14:26 So a little bit of everything editing, shooting, 14:28 you know, developing programs, all that stuff. 14:31 Okay. 14:32 So I'm going to kind of just toss this out there 14:34 for you guys to just talk a little bit 14:35 on as you feel free to do so, 14:37 but I know that you guys have done. 14:39 I mean, you've been in the business now for a while 14:42 and you've got all of these incredible projects out. 14:44 I've seen I guess probably a third or half 14:48 of what it is you guys have put out there 14:49 and they've been such a tremendous blessing to me. 14:51 Let's talk about some of the previous projects 14:53 you guys have done and, 14:55 you know, how that has affected the ministry. 14:57 What kind of results you've seen 14:59 through those projects over the years? 15:00 So, how we kind of got involved in even talking about 15:04 like the Hollywood subject was 15:06 when I came out of Hollywood 15:07 and God really ruptured my heart. 15:10 I was really praying, God, what do you want me to do? 15:12 I don't know what to do, how to serve You. 15:16 And I said, I'll do anything that you want. 15:19 And all of a sudden I got a phone call 15:20 from an old youth pastor and he said, 15:22 "Hey, why don't you come and, you know, 15:23 talk at a youth rally 15:25 about your experience in Hollywood, 15:26 because all these kids know, you guys went to Hollywood 15:28 and worked on all these TV shows and movies. 15:31 So come talk to them and, you know, about the subject." 15:35 And as I started really kind of, 15:38 you know, diving into, what am I going to say? 15:40 How do you even approach the subject? 15:42 What are you going to do? 15:43 Show a movie and you know, 15:45 after two hours somehow make a point about God, 15:47 I was very into movies. 15:49 But I prayed a very special prayer. 15:50 I said, "God, I don't have any words, 15:53 but you do. 15:54 What do You want me to say?" 15:56 And I was a big collector of movies. 15:57 I collected tons of them. 15:59 And I put this one movie in from, 16:00 from fight club. 16:02 It was a movie out in the early 2000s. 16:04 A lot of guys probably saw this movie, right? 16:07 And I was just putting it in to get some inspiration. 16:11 And in the middle of the movie, 16:12 there was a scene between the two main actors 16:14 and one of the main actors slaps the other actor. 16:16 And he says, 16:18 "You have to consider the possibility 16:19 that God doesn't like you, in fact, God hates you." 16:21 He says, 16:23 "We don't need God, we don't need redemption. 16:24 We don't need salvation. 16:25 We are the children of the other side. 16:27 And I put it on pause and I just went, 16:29 I've seen this movie 20 times. 16:31 Like I grew up a Christian, 16:33 I know that there's a war 16:35 going on between Christ and Satan. 16:37 How was it possible that I could watch a movie 16:40 for two hours 16:42 and hear a message like that and not remember it? 16:45 And so, the first thing that I decided to do 16:48 when we were putting a project together is I said, 16:51 "I want to know how does the brain work?" 16:54 Like how is this possible that you can watch something, 16:56 but not remember it. 16:58 And that led us off into looking 16:59 into the advertising industry 17:01 and, you know, they use all these tricks 17:03 to sell you products. 17:04 So we traveled around the US 17:06 and we interviewed 17:07 neurologists, scientists, doctors, 17:09 anyone that would talk to us about the studies 17:12 that have been done on the actual brain 17:14 and what happens when you watch. 17:16 And so when we put it together 17:18 and started, you know, 17:19 passing that around 17:21 people would, you know, say, 17:22 "Oh, come to our church and, you know, 17:24 give this presentation or give this talk here." 17:26 And then it spanned off into different topics 17:29 like superheroes and, you know, cartoons. 17:32 And those are some of the early projects 17:34 that we worked on. 17:35 That's amazing. 17:36 You know, this actually reminds me at this moment 17:38 as we're kind of diving into this topic here, 17:41 you may be home right now 17:42 and may have questions for these guys 17:44 pertaining to their ministry, 17:46 pertaining to Little Light Studios, 17:47 or maybe just Hollywood in general, movies, media. 17:51 If you have a question 17:52 and you would like them 17:54 to answer these questions tonight, 17:55 there is a way you can do that. 17:57 And we want to show you right now. 17:58 There's two different ways you can send in your question. 18:00 The first is by text. 18:02 Okay, so if you want to text in your question, 18:04 you want to text that number. 18:05 It's right there on the screen. 18:07 It's (618) 228-3975. 18:11 Again, (618) 228-3975. 18:15 Text that question in 18:16 and we'll get to those questions 18:18 as soon as possible. 18:19 Or you may want to email your question in. 18:21 You can do that. There it is on the screen. 18:23 It's live@3abn.tv. 18:26 Again, that's live@3abn.tv. 18:29 So send in those questions, 18:31 I'm anxious to see the questions 18:33 so that I have an opportunity to also be knowledgeable 18:35 and to learn tonight as well. 18:37 So that being said, you know, 18:39 I, I know early on, 18:41 I think, I guess your Battlefield Hollywood 18:43 was kind of the, that collection of DVDs, 18:47 I guess it was because I went on your website today 18:49 and I was looking it. 18:50 You guys have so much now. 18:52 So tell us a little bit about Battlefield Hollywood, 18:54 and I'm not going to necessarily go through 18:55 each and every one of your DVDs, 18:57 unless you just want to, that'd be awesome. 18:59 But Battlefield Hollywood, 19:00 I know that was kind of the start, 19:01 I guess, of the work that you guys began. 19:04 And you talked a little bit about how that got started. 19:06 So what was some of your experiences 19:08 in the beginning 19:09 when you were starting that up? 19:11 What was some of the feedback that you got and what, 19:12 how did that take off? 19:14 You know, the first presentation 19:15 that we ever gave on this subject, 19:18 I think the youth pastor that invited us 19:20 to actually give the talks was really hoping that 19:23 we were going to show up and say something positive 19:26 about Hollywood. 19:28 And to be honest, 19:29 that's what I would have done 19:30 because that was what I was into. 19:32 But when I prayed that prayer, 19:34 it was like, God pulled the wool off of my eyes 19:36 and revealed to me, 19:38 there's a very real war all around us. 19:41 And you know, this war is for our minds. 19:45 And so that's why we kind of titled it 19:47 Battlefield Hollywood, 19:48 because we felt like there's a battleground here. 19:51 There's lots of battlegrounds going on. 19:52 You know, that may not be your battleground specifically, 19:55 but there is a major influence 19:57 that Hollywood has over people. 19:59 So we kind of wanted to bring the spiritual warfare 20:02 to people's minds, 20:03 open up their idea that, 20:05 hey, look, if this and this movie 20:07 is attacking God in this way, 20:09 is it possible that 20:10 there really is truth behind the war 20:12 between God and Satan 20:14 and look at what the Bible says, you know? 20:15 And it's like often when you analyze 20:17 a Hollywood major movie 20:19 through the lens of the Bible, 20:21 it's usually saying something opposite. 20:23 So that's what it was, 20:24 was pointing out a lot of those examples. 20:26 And then really putting Bible texts up there that says, 20:29 look, if the Bible says this 20:31 and this movie teaches you that, 20:33 how do you rectify that? 20:35 And most people don't watch a movie 20:37 and open up their Bible. 20:39 I mean, you just don't do that. 20:41 So it was kind of a shocker, I think to the audience. 20:44 In fact, we weren't preachers, none of us, 20:46 none of us were had any experience, 20:48 we were up there. 20:49 I think our first presentation went three and a half hours. 20:53 They sat through it though. 20:54 They watched the whole thing 20:56 and after that, I mean, 20:57 it was never our intent to give it twice. 21:00 It was a one-time thing. 21:01 I actually worked in Hollywood, 21:03 worked in television. 21:04 So I would work on the movie sets 21:06 during the week 21:07 and I would travel around 21:09 and speak in the churches on the weekend 21:10 until, you know, God finally knocked on my heart 21:12 and said, you cannot serve two masters. 21:14 You can't stand in both worlds. 21:15 And I had to make a choice 21:17 and, boy, it was the best choice 21:19 I ever could have made. 21:20 Amen. 21:22 So, you know, hearing Scotty's story 21:23 of his background 21:24 and how he kind of came into all of this, 21:26 did you guys have a similar background? 21:28 Was there something that 21:29 you might have experienced before 21:31 you came into this exposing the enemy 21:34 through this media outlet? 21:35 So what's your story and connectivity 21:37 to this ministry 21:38 and how it's function its purpose? 21:41 I'd say we're both products of the ministry. 21:43 Oh absolutely. 21:44 And I'll let Kendi start. 21:46 Okay. 21:48 I mean, there's a running joke in the office 21:49 about how young I am compared to these guys. 21:53 They keep throwing out references 21:54 that go completely over my head. 21:56 But yeah, I can tell you 21:57 a little bit about my back-story. 21:58 And don't let the accent fool you, 22:00 I was actually born on a little island 22:02 in the West Indies called St. Lucia. 22:04 And my mom and I moved to United States 22:06 when I was pretty young. 22:07 And she is a God-fearing woman, 22:10 which I thank the Lord for. 22:11 So whenever the church doors are open, 22:13 you could find us inside. 22:15 And when we weren't at church, we were either at a Bible study 22:18 at a friend's house or hosting it on our home. 22:21 And it was actually similar to Ryan. 22:23 A friend of ours gave us Battlefield Hollywood. 22:26 And that was our introduction to Little Light Studios 22:28 which, of course, blew my little mind like, whoa. 22:31 And we looked online to see 22:32 if there were any other productions 22:34 and that's how we found replacement gods 22:37 and magic kingdom, 22:39 all these productions that were happening. 22:41 You know, as you were in Hollywood reveal, 22:44 getting these revelations and just putting in the time 22:47 to create this content. 22:48 You were impacting people, 22:50 you know, even little babies like me at the time. 22:52 And so, yeah, but I always had a passion for film. 22:55 So Little Light Studios was the ministry 22:58 that really showed me the harmonious blend 23:01 between film and the gospel. 23:03 And that really excited me. 23:05 So after going to school for film, 23:06 I needed an internship site 23:08 and I went to GYC, 23:09 met Scotty for the first time, 23:11 you know, mustered all the courage 23:13 I could to give him my resume. 23:15 And I mean, that was about three years ago. 23:17 And that that's how I've been working with the ministry. 23:18 Praise the Lord. 23:20 It's always fun when somebody walks up to and says, 23:22 I used to watch when I was a little girl. 23:25 That's amazing. 23:27 And so I got to spoke briefly with you Keith 23:29 and you said you've been with them now for a while. 23:31 So how did you, you know, 23:34 obviously you were with them now, 23:35 you've been with them for quite a while, 23:37 but what's the back-story 23:38 on how you kind of came in contact with Little Light? 23:40 Yeah, I guess the back-story is starts kind of in collage. 23:46 I was 21 been out of church for seven years. 23:50 I didn't start college at 21, 23:51 but that's kind of a critical time 23:55 was searching, met a girl, 23:56 you know how that story goes. 23:58 She's now my wife, so. 24:00 But she challenged me on a couple of points. 24:01 One of them was, what do you believe? 24:03 The other one was, why do you believe it? 24:04 And if you would have asked me, I said, 24:06 I'm a Seventh-day Adventist. 24:07 And I knew the Ten Commandments were, 24:09 you know, God's law was, 24:11 you know, should be upheld. 24:13 I knew about the Sabbath. 24:14 But aside from that, 24:15 couldn't tell you really anything. 24:17 I had probably forgotten 24:19 anything that I'd ever learned. 24:20 So I started studying for myself 24:23 and to kind of fast forward 24:27 through that story, 24:28 learned a lot. 24:30 You know, my wife and I, we got married 24:32 and early on in our marriage, 24:33 I told her, you know, 24:35 I really have felt a call to work in ministry 24:38 for a long time, 24:39 since like 11 years old. 24:41 And, but God told me 24:44 there were three things in my life 24:46 that needed to change. 24:47 One, I needed to change what I was eating. 24:49 Second, I needed to change what I was watching. 24:52 And third, 24:53 I needed to be willing to move anywhere. 24:55 And God actually fulfilled all of those in that order. 24:59 I changed what I was eating. 25:01 I came across some videos 25:02 that made a lot of sense from a scientific perspective, 25:04 I have a science background. 25:05 Sure. 25:07 And I said, yeah, 25:08 that doesn't sound like it's very good for me. 25:09 And I want to serve God as long as I can. 25:11 So I cleansed the temple. 25:13 Then we, I remember we moved to our first house 25:16 and I've seen some videos 25:18 and it wasn't any of the documentaries. 25:20 It was Scott, 25:21 I think at AFCO doing some training. 25:24 It was on Facebook. 25:25 One of my friends, his nephew had posted it 25:27 and I was watching that video. 25:29 And I said you know what? 25:31 That makes perfect sense. 25:33 And for me, what I heard was the three angels' message. 25:36 And I said, this is now the reason 25:38 why I know I shouldn't watch 25:40 all of those things that I have been watching because 25:43 the media came in very strong 25:44 when my family left the church. 25:46 So one day called in, 25:51 called up the office 25:52 and I think somebody gave me Scotty's cell phone number. 25:55 He was at home at the time 25:56 and I poured my heart out for like an hour 25:59 and I said, do I sound crazy? 26:00 I feel like God is calling me to join this ministry. 26:04 It is a kind of a funny conversation, 26:05 looking back on it. 26:07 He's like, "Well, what do you do?" 26:09 I was like, "Well, I work in a laboratory." 26:13 Sure, sure. 26:14 I do chemistry and he's like, "Well, do you edit video?" 26:16 No. "Do you, Photoshop?" 26:18 No. 26:20 He's like, "Well what do you do?" 26:21 And I was like, "Well, I do chemistry." 26:22 And he is like... We'll take you. 26:24 We'll take you. 26:25 How is that supposed to work, you know? 26:26 Right. 26:28 But God was really calling me. 26:29 And so I guess the quick rest of the story 26:31 is He laid it on my heart to sell my house. 26:34 I told him if I'm going to do this full-time 26:35 you have to sell my house. 26:37 So I prayed a very specific prayer. 26:39 And two weeks later I got a phone call 26:40 without advertising and without calling realtor. 26:43 So that's pretty incredible. 26:45 That is amazing. 26:47 I sold my house in short order and we got going. 26:50 That's powerful. 26:51 So big into television, 26:54 big into movies and things like that. 26:55 But now you're in a ministry 26:57 where you're exposing all of that. 26:58 And do you guys ever get dubbed as the people 27:00 who destroy people's childhoods? 27:02 Yeah. Absolutely. 27:03 All the time. Yes. 27:05 So I was, it was a myth 27:07 'cause I grew up, you know, again, 27:08 watching Disney 27:09 and the many different child programs and cartoons, 27:12 and I was very much into movies. 27:13 Very much into video games and watch some, 27:16 watch the Magic Kingdom. 27:18 And I was like, what that didn't even, 27:19 it's just so much information that you don't realize is, 27:23 is it's there. 27:24 Like you said, you can watch it a hundred times, 27:26 a thousand times and you never catch it. 27:28 Now I can imagine 27:30 we talked a little bit about this behind the scenes, 27:32 but I can imagine 27:33 the audience that you're affecting the most 27:37 in your ministry is, 27:38 of course, probably more of a younger generation. 27:41 Because it seems like, well, certainly we know that, 27:43 you know, the older generations are just as much capable 27:45 of becoming addicted to media and different things, 27:47 but it almost seems like 27:49 obviously because of the recent, 27:51 you know, emergent, 27:52 you know, blast of technology 27:53 over the last couple of decades, 27:55 it seems like the millennia, 27:56 you know, the younger millennial generation, 27:58 the Generation Z, 27:59 this younger generation seems to be the ones 28:01 that are most affected by, 28:03 you know, Hollywood, media movies, 28:04 video games, things like that. 28:06 So talk a little bit about, 28:07 you know, your target audience 28:09 and how it is that has kind of taken off? 28:12 So when we sit down 28:13 and we really think about a project, 28:15 it is that younger demographic that we have in mind. 28:18 You know, as a church, I love my church to death. 28:21 I fight very hard for my church. 28:23 And so does the rest of our team. 28:24 I mean, we support everything that the church is doing, 28:28 but to be honest, 28:30 we have a difficult time talking to the teenagers 28:33 and college age range. 28:34 We're really good about talking to the kids. 28:37 We're really good about talking to the elder generation 28:39 and then we forget that middle demographic of groups. 28:42 And it's not necessarily because we just don't want to, 28:45 it's a hard group to talk to. 28:48 They're so used to Hollywood throwing, 28:50 you know, these amazing looking productions at them 28:53 that they've spent $800 million on. 28:56 There's a reason why 28:57 Marvel Universe looks the way that it does 29:00 'cause they put literally 29:02 almost a billion dollars into it. 29:04 And then we in, in Christianity it's, 29:06 we don't ever have access to that kind of resources. 29:09 So, you know, it's difficult for us 29:12 to really make them good looking enough 29:15 for the kids to even notice them. 29:17 And so, but we've taken it upon ourselves and, 29:21 you know, thinking of that demographic as well. 29:24 You know, we see them leaving the church a lot 29:27 and I believe that 29:28 those decisions are made when they're younger, right? 29:31 So that age when they're 12, 13, 14, 29:34 they're still in their parents' care. 29:35 They're formulating a worldview 29:38 that by the time they're 18 years old, 29:40 they've already made those decisions. 29:42 So if we can get to them in that earlier stage, 29:45 show them that this warfare is real. 29:47 Show them that God loves them 29:49 and learn to order your life after this book. 29:53 If you can filter the world around you 29:55 through the lens of the Bible, 29:57 you can see 29:59 like reasons why this is the way 30:02 that it tells us to live. 30:03 And so I believe that, you know, 30:06 there's this kind of misnomer with young people too 30:10 like the church isn't relevant. 30:12 And, you know, I don't believe that's totally the case. 30:15 I think the church is very relevant. 30:17 I think this information, 30:18 even though it's written years and years ago 30:20 is just as relevant for us today. 30:22 But what we're trying to do 30:24 is frame their world around them, 30:26 the movies, the video games, those kinds of things and say, 30:30 listen this is what your world consists of. 30:32 And the Bible has advice for you on this, 30:35 and so that's why we kind of aim at that demographic. 30:38 YouTube is obviously the easiest to get to them. 30:41 And, you know, we've got a lot of interesting data 30:44 coming from YouTube. 30:46 I mean, Keith, Keith kind of follows the analytics 30:48 on our YouTube a little bit. 30:50 So, you know, tell him a little bit about, 30:52 how, who's watching. 30:53 How do we know and those kinds of things? 30:55 Yeah, I suppose that we know from looking at our analytics, 30:58 we know we're reaching a demographic that's anywhere 31:00 from 18 to 35 is probably the bulk chunk of it. 31:04 A little bit younger and older as well. 31:06 But that's where the majority of the people are. 31:08 We probably have a mass about 8.5 million views. 31:14 You know, 1.5 million watch hours on our YouTube channel. 31:17 And what's interesting about young people today 31:19 is that they even find YouTube creators 31:23 more influential than Hollywood celebrities. 31:26 That's true. 31:27 Have you noticed that Hollywood celebrities 31:28 are now starting to become YouTubers? 31:30 Have you noticed this? 31:32 And I'm like, why is that guy have his own YouTube channel? 31:34 It's powerful. 31:36 My wife is the principal here and head teacher at our school. 31:39 And, of course, she had taught 31:41 at other Adventist schools as well. 31:42 And every year she'll give this, 31:44 you know, give these little assignments 31:45 where she'll ask them 31:46 to talk about what they want to be 31:48 when they grow up and all this. 31:49 And it's amazing how many kids, 31:51 what it is that they want to be is 31:52 I want to be a professional YouTuber. 31:54 And it's just like, what, like 10 years ago, 31:56 they don't even hear that, 31:58 you wouldn't even come up with that. 31:59 But again, I want to be professional YouTuber. 32:00 I want to create vines and, you know, have 30 million followers 32:03 and just make money from YouTube. 32:05 That's the way to go. So I get what you're saying. 32:07 It's a powerful thing, powerful tool. 32:09 It's amazing because if you think 32:11 this is the generation now where they've grown up 32:14 and their entire life is like being filmed, you know? 32:18 Every moment has to have a selfie. 32:21 And you know, you have 32:22 to, you know, like you said vines something or Instagram 32:25 it or Snapchat it or what have you. 32:27 And it's like they're under this scrutiny, 32:30 this heavy scrutiny of their public image 32:33 that people of yesteryear never had to deal with. 32:35 And so that comes with an incredible amount 32:37 of social pressure. 32:40 That is, you know, just drives them to do some crazy stuff. 32:45 There's a saying, you know, 32:46 the 80s and 90s were a great period to grow up 32:48 in because there's no evidence of it. 32:51 Social media didn't exist. 32:52 That's amazing. That's amazing. 32:54 You know, what you were mentioning earlier about that, 32:56 you know, it's easy to reach the kids 32:58 or we have something for the kids. 33:00 We have something for the adults. 33:01 I did a sermon a couple of years ago 33:03 called Youthanasia, Y-O-U-T-H, Youthanasia. 33:07 Where I show basically just the startling statistics of, 33:11 you know, the statistics I found was that, 33:14 you know, four out of ten people or ten people, 33:17 if we went ten people to the church, 33:18 four of those ten people are going to leave the church. 33:20 But then when looking at the data of those four 33:23 that are walking out the back door, 33:24 more than 90% of those four 33:26 are between the ages of 18 and 35. 33:28 Wow. 33:30 And so, as you were saying 33:31 that earlier about reaching that demographic, 33:34 I can relate to that because, you know, 33:35 I almost was one of those. 33:37 Praise the Lord, I wasn't, 33:39 but I understand I have friends, I have family members. 33:41 I have acquaintances, people that I know, even in ministry 33:44 that they're struggling because of the culture 33:48 that they've grown up in. 33:49 They're struggling with that worldview, 33:51 that perception is being challenged. 33:53 And now you guys come in 33:55 and you're trying to reach them. 33:56 And that's the question I want to ask, you know, 34:00 we want to ask the question, how are you reaching them? 34:02 But what are some of the challenges 34:03 that you might have faced 34:05 in the process of trying to reach this demographic? 34:07 Because you're basically telling them 34:09 things that perhaps some of them 34:10 may not want to hear, right? 34:12 You know, oh, you know, that show that you're watching, 34:14 it's probably not the best show to watch. 34:15 Let me tell you why and what it's doing to you. 34:17 What's some of the feedback that you might've had, 34:19 maybe some challenges in the process? 34:21 I can speak to that. 34:22 Yeah, absolutely. 34:23 You know, growing up in church, you know, 34:25 you have resources like the hymnal, 34:27 the Bible, these things like that, which are fantastic, 34:30 but there are other tools out there that can be used 34:32 to further the gospel. 34:33 And that's something that I really 34:34 appreciated about Little Light, 34:36 because first off, there was so much information 34:39 that they're trying to throw at you, 34:40 but it's also packaged in a great way 34:42 besides Battlefield Hollywood, 34:44 which is more presentation style, 34:46 the rest of the documentaries have incredible 34:47 quality and value, production value where as... 34:51 There's this thinking that, oh, 34:53 if I want to see something really nice 34:54 as you were referring to, let me go to Hollywood, 34:56 because that's where the big bucks is, 34:58 but I saw their production where no, 35:01 our church can also produce something 35:03 that is just as good with the message 35:06 that's coming directly from the Word of God. 35:09 So that was something that I definitely appreciated. 35:12 I think a struggle to your question 35:16 is kind of loosening the reins 35:18 of the practices of yesteryear. 35:23 I'll be careful how I say that 35:24 because those are definitely important, 35:26 but to understand that there are tools presently 35:28 that can be used to further the gospel in powerful ways. 35:30 Okay. 35:32 So you kind of seemed hesitant to say what you just said. 35:35 Let's unpack what you just said for a moment 35:37 'cause I think that is important. 35:38 You talk about having to kind of readjust 35:41 some of the practices of yesteryear, 35:42 because to be honest with you, 35:44 we're talking about a generation. 35:46 I've read a quote just recently were, 35:49 you know, studies, scientists had, you know, 35:51 surveyed all these young people. 35:52 He had studied all of the demographics 35:54 and the changes in culture over several different generations. 35:57 And he came to the conclusion that over, you know, 35:59 every like 50 years or so, 36:01 there's this drastic cultural change where, 36:04 you know, the kids that are growing up 36:06 in today can't imagine, 36:08 or even come, I mean, the brains can't even fathom 36:11 growing up or living during the time 36:13 that their grandparents grew up 36:14 or that even their own parents grew up. 36:16 And so maybe just what she just said in regards to, you know, 36:20 maybe having to adjust some of the practices of yesterday. 36:23 Of course, we're not talking about compromising truth. 36:25 We're not talking about getting rid of who we are as a people, 36:28 but let's talk just a few minutes 36:29 about what is it that we might have to adjust or change, 36:32 or maybe take a different perspective 36:35 or maybe a different approach to, 36:36 in order to reach the hearts and minds 36:38 of these younger generation? 36:40 I've really appreciated 36:41 having Kendi come on board because, you know, 36:44 as Keith and I would like to think 36:46 we kind of have a little bit of youth left in us. 36:49 We are kind of one foot 36:50 in the sort of stepping out of that demographic 36:54 and to have somebody 36:55 who is connected to that generation, 36:58 understands that generation, 37:00 uses the technology of that generation 37:03 and not in a position where she came on board 37:06 and now we're all of a sudden telling her what to do. 37:08 We brought her to the table and said help us. 37:11 What is it that you want? 37:12 And so, some of the ways that we've overcome 37:15 or are trying to overcome is if we want to reach them, 37:18 involve them, put them on your, put them on your teams, 37:21 put them in your media productions, 37:22 put them in the room in a position 37:24 where they can actually make decisions with you and for you 37:26 because Kendi brings things to the table 37:28 that we're not even thinking about. 37:30 I didn't grow up with that, 37:32 or I didn't deal with that in that way. 37:35 And so to have that perspective, 37:36 a part of your core team, 37:38 I think it's very helpful to us. 37:39 Absolutely, yeah. 37:41 That's awesome. That's awesome. 37:42 So you bring that fresh kind of younger perspective 37:47 to the table that perhaps, 37:48 maybe others aren't able to perceive or to understand. 37:52 So, okay, so you guys are reaching out 37:54 through all of these different projects. 37:57 You're naming some I already mentioned 37:58 the Battlefield Hollywood, 38:00 we talked, I referenced The Magic Kingdom. 38:02 Pseudology was the one that we created 38:05 that really deals with the science 38:06 of what happens in the brain when you watch TV 38:09 and we specifically actually, 38:12 it took us three years to make that documentary, 38:14 that's sometimes the people don't understand 38:17 because the amount of research 38:19 and the amount of lining up different interviews, I mean, 38:22 we went to Seattle's Children Hospital 38:24 and talked to their top neurologist, and, 38:26 you know, those are not easy interviews. 38:28 You can't just call them up on the phone or go and get one. 38:31 And so 38:32 we specifically wanted to set aside the argument of religion. 38:36 We want to say, let's not be influenced 38:38 because you believe in God, I believe in God. 38:40 We emailed them from private email addresses. 38:43 We didn't tell them that 38:44 it was a religious broadcasting, 38:47 you know, situation. 38:48 Or we didn't tell them like anything 38:50 that we were doing with the project, 38:51 other than we want to know the straight science. 38:54 And so once we understood, wow, 38:56 you really are affected by what you watch. 38:59 Then it's like, you can apply that to, well, 39:01 does the message impact you? 39:03 And so Pseudology to me, it was one of my more favorite 39:06 ones that we worked on. 39:07 From there, we worked on a superhero 39:09 one called The Replacement Gods. 39:10 We actually made one and two, and they really dealt 39:13 with the imagery behind superheroes 39:16 because there is a lot of Christ like imagery. 39:19 This is incredible. 39:20 I didn't mean to interrupt you, I just got to say this. 39:22 I watched this 'cause I own, I have the, 39:24 because you guys have a part two now. 39:25 I don't know if I've seen the part two. 39:27 I've seen the part one. 39:29 I own part one. 39:30 I grew up as a kid, you know, idolizing Batman and Superman 39:34 and Aquaman and all these Spiderman, 39:36 all these different superheroes. 39:38 I mean, that was basically Ninja Turtles 39:40 and all these different things. 39:42 But when I saw Replacement Gods, 39:45 it's amazing at all like you said, 39:47 all of that Biblical imagery, 39:49 that Christ like imagery that you see. 39:52 Like these guys that are creating 39:54 these characters in these movies, 39:56 they're thinking and studying the Bible 40:01 to create and bring about and to depict 40:03 these characters in a certain way. 40:05 And I saw, I remember seeing one scene 40:07 where it shows like Superman falling 40:09 and he's like hanging up on a tree. 40:11 And it's like he's being crucified on a cross 40:13 and Superman's being portrayed or being depicted 40:16 as this Christ like savior of the world. 40:19 And so you guys show all of that 40:21 and how dangerous it can be to the human mind. 40:24 And I didn't mean to interrupt you. 40:25 I was just going to... I've seen it. 40:27 And it just amazed me and watching that. 40:28 Yeah. And the imagery is there. 40:30 No one can deny that there are Christ like parallels, 40:33 but it's very interesting 40:35 because we had some interviews in that production 40:37 where they talked about opening their minds 40:40 and letting the demons come in 40:41 and the demons were helping them write that movie. 40:43 So if you just kind of think of that thought, 40:46 like the demons were helping them write the movie 40:48 and you sit in a dark room, staring at a blinking light, 40:52 and you're just soaking that into your brain. 40:54 What is it that, what's the message really getting at? 40:57 And so that's where, that's where that project, 40:59 I think, hit home with a lot of young people 41:01 really kind of. 41:02 Well, it's relevant because what, I mean, 41:05 it seems like every year, 41:07 and they're even amplifying it now 41:08 where more and more superhero movies are coming out, 41:10 that seems to be the big box office hits these days. 41:13 There was an interview with a comic book writer 41:16 for DC Comics who wrote for Superman. 41:19 And he was having a conversation with another guy 41:21 who writes comic books too. 41:23 And he said, you know, this is really interesting. 41:24 It's like, we're rewriting the Bible. 41:27 And I think that thought right there went, 41:29 the Bible doesn't need to be rewritten 41:31 like that's what they're doing. 41:34 They're framing it in a Christian sense 41:37 so that you go, I feel familiar with it. 41:39 And then your guard goes down 41:41 and they're telling you a different story. 41:42 Yeah, and on a... 41:44 I guess on a neurological level, 41:47 many of these kids, 41:48 many of these younger individuals 41:50 who are watching these movies and they're seeing these movies 41:53 and then maybe later on down the road, 41:55 they're introduced to the Bible. 41:56 Do you think it might create almost like a complacency 42:00 or maybe a negative approach to the fact of, 42:02 oh, you know, this is the Bible story. 42:05 I've heard this. 42:06 And it's just kind of like Gilgamesh 42:07 and the story of Noah, 42:09 where people are trying to say that there, 42:10 there are so many multiple, 42:12 you know, different duplicates of this story out there. 42:14 Do you think that maybe the devil is using that 42:16 to try to create some type of negative perception 42:19 in the minds of the people watching? 42:22 That's exactly what I was going to say 42:23 is its creating confusion. 42:25 And then the stories that are put out, 42:27 I like the way Scotty always puts it. 42:28 You know, they show you a savior 42:31 that saves you from the world, 42:33 but never a savior 42:34 that saves you from your sins, right? 42:36 And that's what we need. 42:37 And so if you're not getting that, 42:39 and you're just getting this confusing story, 42:40 that's kind of like the Bible, kind of like Jesus, 42:44 and it doesn't seem like it does anything for you, 42:48 then the association 42:50 that they're putting with Christianity. 42:51 You're going to say, oh, I don't really need that. 42:53 See, what's different 42:55 than that in a pagan god, right? 42:58 A pagan god was saving you from something. 43:00 A pagan god was doing all these things 43:01 that were like Jesus. 43:03 You know, I was doing a little bit of research 43:05 on the god Baal. 43:07 And, you know, it's really interesting. 43:10 Baal was called lord. 43:12 He was called almighty. 43:13 He was called the god of the sky. 43:15 And the story was that 43:17 he went down into the underworld 43:19 and fought a snake god, 43:21 who was the god of death. 43:23 Died was resurrected and came back to life. 43:26 Now tell me where in that story 43:28 is that not a parallel for the story of Jesus? 43:30 Absolutely, right. 43:31 But clearly God said, you know, through Elijah, 43:35 choose you this day, you know, you're going to serve that. 43:38 God serve that God. 43:39 So God was specifically saying, 43:43 you may see these parallels in there, 43:46 but that's a pagan god 43:47 and it has nothing to do with Me. 43:49 And so, that's what we try to really teach people 43:51 is what is that the heart of the gospel, 43:54 that is a transformation of our sinful characters, 43:58 that's why His name was Jesus to be, 44:00 to take away the sins of the world, 44:02 Matthew 1:21, right? 44:03 So if that message is not coming out 44:06 in a Christ looking movie like Superman, 44:10 well, what do we call that when it looks like Christ, 44:12 but doesn't share in the mission of Christ? 44:13 That's right. 44:15 We call that an Antichrist. 44:16 That's amazing. 44:17 I just want to turn to Keith for a moment, 44:19 because as you were talking about the Pseudology, 44:22 you know, the science of the brain and all of that. 44:24 I know you have a background 44:25 in chemistry, biochemistry, or something like that. 44:27 So as you guys are formulating, planning, 44:30 creating these projects, 44:32 do you see now you're studying, 44:34 you're doing all these interviews, 44:36 you see all of the science behind this. 44:38 What was your thoughts now 44:40 as, you know, into science previously in your past career, 44:44 how did it affect you as a kind of like uh-huh moment? 44:47 Or did you know this stuff kind of going into this, 44:49 any of these projects? 44:51 No, I wouldn't say that 44:52 I knew this stuff coming into it 44:53 because I really studied mostly chemistry and biochemistry. 44:55 And a lot of this was more neuroscience and psychology. 45:00 But I definitely recognized, 45:03 you know, a lot of the chemicals 45:04 they were talking about, the neurotransmitters 45:06 and, you know, the hormones and things like that. 45:10 I was familiar with those. 45:11 But yeah, it was quite eye-opening. 45:14 That's amazing. 45:15 Yeah, go ahead. 45:16 Yeah. 45:18 And for me although I wasn't involved 45:19 in the making of the project, 45:20 what I got from it was 45:22 this might sound a little weird, 45:23 but we don't give the devil enough credit 45:25 and we give ourselves too much credit. 45:27 So when you have that glass of orange juice 45:28 and you put a drop of poison and you drink it, 45:31 well, you might not taste the poison, 45:32 but it's going to affect your body. 45:34 So just everything that I was learning 45:36 in the documentary is just really opened my eyes 45:37 like, wow, we need to be on guard 45:39 and study the truth 45:41 instead of filling our minds with the counterfeit. 45:43 That's amazing. 45:44 Pseudology, Replacement Gods, Magic Kingdom, 45:48 speak on that for a moment? 45:50 How many letters have you gotten on that one? 45:53 That project I did not grow up on Disney, 45:56 so I still to this day have not seen those princess stories. 46:00 That wasn't a part of my childhood. 46:02 I don't know if you guys have a different story than me, 46:05 but my brother who also started this ministry with us, 46:09 we used to take side jobs and stuff. 46:12 And we were working on this one company 46:14 that was kind of sending us around the country. 46:16 And we were staying in a lot of different hotels 46:18 and we walked into this hotel 46:20 and this was in the very beginning 46:21 of our ministry. 46:23 So I hadn't totally stepped away 46:24 from secular Hollywood type stuff. 46:27 And I was tired, been working all day 46:30 and we walk into this, to this hotel room 46:32 and on the floor 46:34 is a Walt Disney video called Mulan. 46:37 And it's sitting in the center of the floor, in the hotel. 46:40 Now, when have you ever walked into a hotel 46:41 and seen something that doesn't belong there? 46:44 That's rare, right? 46:45 Usually there are people that clean the room 46:47 or whatever, like that's rare. 46:48 And so my brother goes, "Let's watch it." 46:50 I go, "No, no, no, no, no. I'm going to bed." 46:52 So he stayed up and he actually ended up 46:54 watching it and I went to sleep. 46:56 And when we woke up in the morning, 46:57 he said, I know what Disney is doing. 46:59 And he quickly fast-forwarded it put the DVD back in. 47:02 And he brought me to a part that, 47:04 that Mulan was sitting there questioning and stuff, 47:07 or the other princess was questioning Mulan 47:09 about following the rules. 47:12 And what do you do 47:13 when your heart tells you to break the rules? 47:16 Do you follow the rules or do you follow your heart? 47:19 She said, you need to follow your heart over the rules. 47:22 And I just went, well, what else is Disney saying? 47:25 And I quickly went home. 47:26 I started doing research and time and time again, 47:29 Disney kept saying, follow your heart. 47:31 Follow your heart, don't follow the rules. 47:32 That's every Disney movie. 47:34 Follow your heart. That's every Disney movie. 47:35 And so from that premise, 47:37 it's like, what are we teaching our kids? 47:39 They go to church for one hour out of the week, 47:42 we try to build a worldview of obey God, 47:45 do what He's asking us to do. 47:47 The Ten Commandments have value in your life. 47:49 And yet all week they go home and fill their mind 47:52 with break the rules. 47:53 That's right. 47:55 It's powerful. 47:56 It's also powerful to think, 47:58 you know, just as you may reference Mulan, 47:59 it's not, I mean, it's Mulan and several of the other, 48:01 but you know, 48:03 these other things that the devil slides in there, 48:05 that's teaching our kids, these ideas 48:07 that, you know, like the state of the dead. 48:09 I think of... I grew up watching Mulan as a kid. 48:11 I've seen it several times. 48:13 There are several scenes of necromancy 48:16 where this little dragon's calling 48:17 all the dead spirits back from the grave 48:19 and they're talking to them. 48:20 And so, you know, these are little subtle things 48:22 that when you're a kid, 48:24 you know, you're just sitting there glued to the television 48:26 because you're just so 'cause all the whole flashing colors 48:27 and all the fast movements 48:31 and the story of overcoming evil, 48:32 you know, you kind of have 48:34 that heroic type of character that's in there, 48:35 but you're not, you're just kind of subconsciously catching 48:39 all of these other little elements 48:40 that's teaching you something, 48:42 that's placing something there, 48:44 by beholding you become changed. 48:46 So Magic Kingdom, man, ooh. 48:49 So, I've kind of begun to look at media 48:51 as, you know, it's little by little, right? 48:54 A little here, little there, 48:56 it's in the same way that 48:57 you're not going to go to church once. 48:59 And all of a sudden understand the things of God. 49:02 You're not going to see one movie and reject God. 49:05 But if you study your Bible and you go to church 49:08 and you pray and you have these little conversations 49:10 and you constantly keep going back on a daily basis, 49:13 pretty soon, you're going to have a relationship with God 49:16 and understand what God is getting at. 49:18 But in the same way, the world is doing the same thing. 49:21 It's not one movie, 49:23 it's all these years of when you're a kid 49:25 filling your brain with all those messages 49:27 that are like, don't follow the rules. 49:29 Don't follow the rules. 49:30 Don't follow the rules. 49:31 And it's totally contrary to this. 49:33 That's true. 49:34 I grew up, I have to admit to the fact, 49:37 obviously I haven't always 49:39 been a Seventh-day Adventist Christian, 49:40 but it wasn't until I was an adult 49:43 that I fully understood, for instance, 49:45 the concept of the state of the dead. 49:47 A lot of what aided to my false perception 49:50 of spiritualism was these movies that, 49:53 you know, Disney's Hercules 49:55 and where he's picking her translucent ghost up, 49:58 you know, and taking it back and putting in her body 50:00 and all of these different movies 50:02 that I watched growing up 50:03 gave me this false perception 50:04 that, oh, we have this, this ghost like apparition 50:08 or spirit that's living within us that, 50:10 you know, so it's little things like this. 50:11 And obviously, like you said, you know, the concept of, 50:13 you know, breaking the rules, it's okay to follow your heart, 50:16 all of those things. 50:17 And so absolutely the Magic Kingdom, 50:18 if you haven't seen the Magic Kingdom, 50:20 you got to get it. 50:22 It's powerful. 50:23 So Magic Kingdom, 50:24 what's what comes kind of next in your list here? 50:26 So after those, we started getting a lot of questions 50:29 about video games and, you know, like they say, 50:31 oh my kids, they don't, 50:33 they don't really watch a lot of movies, 50:34 but they play hours a day of video games. 50:36 And if you really think of, if you talk to parents 50:39 and you say, you know, in terms of 50:41 what do you see your kids really spend more time. 50:44 It's like two hours a day, maybe watching movies. 50:46 Some of these kids are playing video games for eight, 50:48 nine, ten all night long. 50:51 So parents were just pleading with us, 50:53 please do something on video games. 50:55 Now, I wasn't a big video game player. 50:56 Were you guys? 50:58 A little bit. 50:59 A little bit. 51:00 So there's some experience here, 51:02 but one of the other guys 51:03 that was part of our ministry in the beginning, 51:04 he was a big video game player. 51:06 And so he initiated the first video game documentary 51:10 that we worked on. 51:11 And then we'd kind of branched that out from there. 51:13 And it was amazing how much spiritual themes 51:17 are even in popular video games. 51:19 That's amazing. 51:21 So taking in everything that we've been talking about, 51:24 it just kind of in the body of the work 51:26 that you guys have been doing. 51:27 So what are some of the results 51:29 that you have seen as these projects have come out? 51:31 People have watched them, 51:32 you're putting them in the hands of these 51:34 younger generation. 51:35 What's some of the results that you guys have seen 51:38 coming from that? 51:40 I mean, we've, we get emails and social media messages 51:45 and all kinds of stuff all the time from people 51:47 that tell us this information changed my life. 51:50 I met a family once they used to live in Florida 51:54 and they said, you know, 51:55 your ministry totally changed our family. 51:57 And we realized where they were living at 51:59 and Miami was not good 52:01 for their spiritual environment. 52:03 They decided to move. 52:04 They moved to Montana. 52:07 They are very happy people, 52:09 you know, they're not miserable Christians 52:11 'cause they're not drinking and all of this entertainment, 52:15 you know, stuff anymore. 52:17 So, yeah, we get all the time. 52:20 Every time we go out and speak there's people that are saying, 52:22 "Oh, I love your ministry. 52:23 It changed my life. 52:25 I study my Bible more. 52:26 I pray more. 52:27 I spend more time with my kids. 52:29 I spend more time outdoors." 52:30 So we have a lot of interesting 52:32 comments and feedback and even stories. 52:34 Kendi actually does a lot of the commenting on YouTube, 52:37 so she shares and sees a lot of what people are writing. 52:41 Yeah, I was going to add that. 52:42 It's not just Christians, all these different people, 52:45 atheists, Muslim and they come in 52:47 and, of course, they like the science and the comparisons 52:50 and things like that. 52:52 And they agree with that, 52:53 even though they disagree with us 52:54 on some spiritual concepts, 52:56 but as time progresses, 52:57 especially with the gospel 52:58 that is included in every documentary, 53:00 they start asking spiritual questions 53:02 and that just leads down the road to amazing stories. 53:06 So I think we have a little video clip 53:07 of our YouTube channel 53:09 because our work has kind of changed 53:11 from really making these long form documentaries. 53:14 They take a long time to produce. 53:16 And so as this younger generation 53:18 has this shorter and shorter attention span, 53:22 we really needed to keep content 53:24 in front of them and keep feeding them on a faster rate. 53:27 And that's why we chose to go on the YouTube. 53:29 So we'll play a little clip here from our YouTube show 53:32 and you can see kind of a little bit 53:33 of the set that we have and sort of 53:36 some of the topics that we talk about. 53:38 And then we'll show you in a real world example 53:40 of what came out of that. 53:42 Absolutely. Let's run that clip right now. 53:44 What's up everybody I'm Mikey, I'm Kendi, I'm Michelle, 53:48 I'm Keith, I'm Scotty and we are LED Live. 53:53 Light exposing darkness. 53:56 It's a show where we take a look at pop culture, 53:59 movies, music, video games, you name it. 54:01 We're going to discuss and look behind the scenes 54:04 of what's really going on 54:05 and filter it through the Bible. 54:07 Find us on our YouTube channel Little Light Studios. 54:11 That's awesome. 54:14 Man, less than 30 second little clip, 54:17 I just want to walk. I want to get into it man. 54:19 LED I love that light exposing darkness. 54:22 And so YouTube, 54:23 let's talk about that just a little bit more 54:25 because you're, that's one of the major avenues 54:27 you're using to reach a lot of people. 54:29 It's YouTube, right? 54:31 We live in the age of YouTube 54:32 and it seems like so many people are going to YouTube. 54:35 I personally don't spend a lot of time on YouTube, 54:37 but I have friends, family members 54:39 that'll just literally sit 54:40 on there for hour upon hour upon hour 54:42 just looking at one video right after another. 54:45 So what have been some of your positive results 54:47 from the YouTube? 54:48 Oh, yeah, I mean, this church has such a wealth of truth, 54:51 but sometimes see people may not know how to communicate it. 54:55 So that's kind of what the show is seeking to achieve, 54:58 how to address pop culture, the different things 55:00 that are happening in this world. 55:02 Funnel it through the lens of the Bible 55:03 and just really introduce it to people of all ages. 55:06 So it's a little bit of the show. 55:08 The neat thing about YouTube 55:10 is you have this ability to communicate 55:12 with your audience really fast. 55:14 I mean, if we put something out, 55:15 somebody can respond within minutes. 55:18 I mean, it'll tell you right there two 55:19 minutes ago, somebody just asked you a question. 55:21 And we all get kind of pinged on our phones. 55:23 And so, you know, who's ever available 55:24 can just jump in there. 55:26 And some of the questions are really, 55:27 you know, like, hey, you mentioned that, 55:30 you know, you said this about the state of the dead. 55:31 Where did you get that from? 55:33 And we can say, hey, go look this verse up 55:34 or watch this video. 55:36 And you have this discipleship opportunity 55:38 that you get a chance to engage with them. 55:41 You can see who's really searching 55:43 and then lead them down a path 55:45 to maybe a different ministry 55:46 or a different piece of information. 55:48 And so to me, I think this is an exciting time. 55:51 I mean, people from around the world 55:53 are able to tune in and watch and engage real fast. 55:57 I mean, you guys have this opportunity as well, 55:59 but not everybody has the same opportunity that you guys have. 56:04 So what this did was really 56:06 put the tools in the common person's hand 56:08 and allowed us to be able to really have a voice out 56:11 there in the world. 56:13 That's amazing. 56:15 We're here with Little Light Studios, 56:16 if you're just now joining us, we're not through yet. 56:19 We're just, we're actually about to come 56:21 really quickly to an end of our, just our first hour. 56:24 We have another second hour coming up 56:26 in just a little while, 56:27 but I want to tell you, you guys, 56:29 if you have questions for these guys, 56:30 I already have a list here 56:31 and I'm going to be reading off here, 56:33 coming into our second hour. 56:34 We have some questions for you guys coming up, 56:36 but you may be at home right now 56:38 and wondering how you can send in your questions. 56:41 You might have, you might be a parent 56:42 and you have questions 56:43 about how to reach your young one or whatever it is. 56:45 Maybe you're struggling with something 56:47 and you might have some questions pertaining 56:48 to the ministry of Little Light Studios 56:51 and how they can help you, 56:52 or maybe how you can get in contact 56:54 with some of their content, 56:56 whatever questions you might have. 56:57 We want to put that on there right now. 56:59 Two ways, first by text, 57:00 that's (618) 228-3975. 57:04 (618) 228-3975. 57:07 Or you can email that's Live@3abn.tv, 57:11 Live@3abn.tv. 57:14 So send us in your questions. 57:16 Again, we're about 30 seconds 57:18 out from ending this first hour. 57:19 We're going to make a little bit of a switch 57:21 in people here. 57:22 We're going to come back in our second hour. 57:24 We're going to be with Little Light Studio, some more. 57:26 We're going to be diving deeper into some more time, 57:29 some more questions, getting into some future projects, 57:32 talking about what they're doing. 57:33 And so please, please don't go anywhere. 57:35 Stay with us. 57:37 There's a whole lot more that we have to discuss. 57:39 We're going to take a short break 57:41 and we'll be back in just a little bit. 57:43 See you in a little bit. |
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