Wouldn't it be great to
see the Story of Redemption
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in the form of a
docudrama? Well you will...
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Stay tuned and meet
the Creator-Producer
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of the "Redemption" Film...
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My name is Yvonne
Lewis and you're watching
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Urban Report...
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Hello and welcome
to Urban Report...
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So often, we want to
see great Bible stories
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in a docudrama format...
our guest today, Ryan Johnson,
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had just that vision...
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Welcome, Ryan,
to Urban Report...
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Hi, how are you...
thank you for having me...
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Oh, I'm so glad
to have you here...
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I have a couple of questions...
tell us who you are...
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Who is Ryan
Johnson? Sure... I grew up in
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North Carolina in the
South Atlantic Conference
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and after
graduating from Undergrad...
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I went... did some
schooling and Engineering
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and have a
background in Medicine...
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we applied our ability
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to create special effects
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and high-end graphics to
create a medical education
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software... and
that is what it is...
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I have been doing for
the last couple of years...
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building that Corporation...
the Company that we have
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Bellum Art and
Engineering is a new Ministry...
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that comes out of
our applying these skills
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to furthering God's
work... Oh, that's wonderful...
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that's wonderful...
so, your background is both
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Engineering and
Medicine... that's correct...
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and yet... you got involved
in graphics and animation
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and all of that...
what about your spiritual
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journey Ryan... why do you feel
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a responsibility
to do this project...
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these projects? I have
an interesting life story
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and it begins with the discovery
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that I am a Type
1 Diabetic... Oh...
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it saw me in and out of
the hospital quite a bit
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and actually resulted
after the Insurance kind of
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got rid of me... in a
stint of homelessness...
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while I was out there... I
developed with a real passion
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for being able to get
in front of young people
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and tell them that no
matter what life circumstances
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may be... no matter
how dire things may seem
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it is possible to
come back and to succeed...
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having that
drive... we began to wonder
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what sort of impact in
media we could put together
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to initially draw the eyes
and the hearts of young people
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but we rapidly
began realizing that
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the older folk
too could appreciate
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some of the things that
we're hoping to accomplish.
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Wow! that's
awesome... okay, I've got to...
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because you've
peaked my interest here...
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so I've got to stay on
this just for a second...
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so, you were homeless for a bit?
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That's correct... and this was
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between... this was after...
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at what point in your
life were you homeless?
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Certainly... this
would have been after
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Undergrad and
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right before I began Graduate
courses in Engineering...
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And were you
away from your family
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or did you just not want
your family to see you...
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or unpack that a
little bit for our viewers...
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if you don't mind...
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Sure... it's a combination
of both of the scenarios
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that you have just
mentioned, I'm very often asked
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how... in this day and age...
something like homelessness
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can become one... and
my initial statement is
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if one is not careful...
one can find him or herself
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in a very, very
compromising position...
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for me... I was in
California I'd gone out there
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to attend Graduate
School, and personally
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there's a degree of pride...
I went out to get a degree
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I went out to succeed and that
is what I had intended to do
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before going back
home... also, there's a degree
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of the student life,
which is not a very plush life,
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one lives on bare
bones to begin with...
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then there's the rapidity
with which things can happen
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the way that I discovered
that I have Type 1 Diabetes
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is my brother-in-law
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Dr. O.C. White now...
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along with his sister
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who is my wife, now,
and is Mrs. Johnson...
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actually found me
in a very, very poor
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state of health... and
dragged me to the hospital
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I mean... semi-comatose
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and things happened
very rapidly from there...
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the bills mounted
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I had to make some decisions,
and found myself on the street
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I was not able to go
home, I didn't have the funds
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and I did hide from my
parents as you can understand
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for a while... and
when they found out
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they went completely
berserk as you can imagine...
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Yes... wow... Ryan...
that... you know it never ceases
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to amaze me about the journey
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that each of us has... it's
like people will see you now
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and no one would ever think
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that part of your life journey
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was homelessness...
or Type 1 Diabetes...
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but God can take a
really bad situation
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and turn it into
someone who is the Founder of
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Bellum Communications...
I mean... it's just...
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it's an amazing thing...
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the way God can take
lemons and make lemonade...
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out of the lemons... so
you have a powerful testimony
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for the Lord... you
can show how He brought you
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from Point A to Point B
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successfully and now...
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you're doing "Redemption"
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you've done this
Project... "Redemption"
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tell us about "Redemption. "
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"Redemption"
began as an accident...
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Hmmm... every
year... my parents...
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who are in charge of the
Choirs, one of the Choirs
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in the Communications Department
at the Northeast Seventh-day
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Adventist Church...
in North Carolina...
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they put on an Easter
Program, now, I was asked,
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year after year... to
assist in creating some
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graphics... just some things
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that they could use
to augment the Program...
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well, one year, my
mother calls me and she says,
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I'll never
forget... I was in the car...
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with my wife... it
was after Church...
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so the sun was still
up on the West Coast...
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the sun was down
on the East Coast...
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and my mother says,
"Son, we want to do something
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this year... that is
going to completely shock
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everyone... what
ideas do you have?"
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and I said, "Well,
Mom, the first thing
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we have to do is...
take time" because usually
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she would call me
and I would have... oh...
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one or two weeks to
put something together...
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and I'd some animations...
I said, "Let's take a year...
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and see what we
can put together... "
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Hmmm... and so, I
was talking with my
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wife... and she
shared a story with me
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when she was growing up
in Fresno, California...
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her Pastor...
Pr. Ezra Mendinghall
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who is the Host... on
the "Redemption" Project
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they put on a
dramatization of Noah's flood...
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and it was just a Church
Pageant but what they did
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was get flashes from
cameras and just tried to bring
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the experience out...
she shares that story with me
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and I began to think... and
I called my mother and said,
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"Mom, I've got it...
this year... we are going to
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dramatize the return of
Christ, and what we will do
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is... we will
apply all the skills
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that God has given us
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to have the skies part
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and have Christ return
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over the
Charlotte skyline... " Wow!
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and she said,
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"That sounds great...
how are we going to do it?"
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and I said, "I have no idea... "
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but that is what we did...
and the results of that showing
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that 9-minute
clip was so massive...
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people went down for
baptism, there was wailing...
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I did not
appreciate just how badly
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people were longing
for the return of Christ...
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and from that...
I sat down and said,
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"We may be on to
something here... "
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a ministry... and
"Redemption" began
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it's embryonic phase then...
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Wow! look at how God
moves on the heart and mind
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to develop a whole
concept you know, I mean,
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it just came
"from out of the blue"
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but we know that the
Holy Spirit was behind it...
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because that visual
piece is so powerful...
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when people can
actually see what they think
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the Second Coming
looks like... I mean...
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it's got to be
amazing... I want to see that
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by the way... I
want to see what you did
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with that... but
let's take a look
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at a Clip from
"Redemption" right now...
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we have a Clip right now...
let's take a look at it...
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For God so loved the world
He gave His only begotten Son
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that whosoever believeth
in Him shall not perish
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but have everlasting
life... he simply comes
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to restore and
redeem the blessed...
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and to put back
into full fellowship
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that which was
separated by sin...
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Thank God for the
gift of Jesus the Christ...
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That is so
powerful... Praise the Lord...
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that is so powerful...
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praise the Lord... is
right I mean... just...
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again that visual piece...
where you can actually see
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things as they happen and unfold
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and I've been able
to watch "Redemption"
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and... in fact... in fact
I have to tell our viewers
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that it is
airing every Saturday...
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I say Saturday
for those who are not
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Sabbath-keepers...
every Saturday afternoon
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at 4:00 p. m.
on Dare to Dream...
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we are airing... at
4:00 p. m. Central time
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Central Standard time...
we are airing "Redemption"
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so, you have to make
sure that you watch...
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Tell me, Ryan, what's
been the Community response
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to "Redemption" how
have people responded to it?
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You know... a
Church has its mission...
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and a part of
every Church's mission,
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I imagine, is a
Community effort,
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an evangelistic
effort... if you will...
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an outreach
effort... and very often
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the members of the Church...
they are aware of this...
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they attend the Church
but they don't feel that
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hands-on experience...
what we did not anticipate
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was how involving the Church
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in this "Redemption" Project
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and having Church Members
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be able to see
themselves... as part of this
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evangelistic tool...
would really heighten
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the Community... the desire for
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greater Community Outreach...
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and so what we have
seen is firstly the Church
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really cranking up...
its outreach program...
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getting a hands-on feel
and an active feel to do
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Community Outreach... as well...
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they have been
giving in North Carolina...
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they have been
distributing "Redemption"
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as part of the evangelistic...
their evangelistic program...
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and what this has done is
help infiltrate the Community
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with some of the doctrines
as well as even the behaviors
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of the Church... and
they are more receptive
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to some of the things
the Church has to offer...
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Wow! but now...
let me back up a second
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because I saw
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a lot of unfamiliar faces
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people that I had
never seen before...
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where did you find the
actors and the participants
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in the film...
where did you find them?
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I have to tell
you... there's a woman
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by the name of
Sister Nidia Bowrey
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who has just moved
from North Carolina
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to Loma Linda to
further her education
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and she was running
a Drama Team there...
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now, I don't
live in North Carolina
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I heard about this drama team
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and she
suggested... these people...
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now, some of these people,
I have known since childhood
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because I did grow
up in the Carolinas...
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and when she suggested
them I couldn't see it...
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I said, "Are you
sure?" and I tell you...
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when I went out there
and I saw these young people
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come together and
show their skill...
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I was so
unbelievably impressed...
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so what you see
are Church Members...
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members of the Church...
using their talents for God...
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and as you can
expect... because of that...
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my phone rings off the
hook... with Church members
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from other
areas... other States...
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who are volunteering
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to be a part of
any projects we have
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coming out of the pipeline...
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Wow, that's great...
that's great... you know...
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this is such a
powerful evangelistic tool...
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when I watched it
for the first time...
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first of all...
like I told you before
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a couple of
people had approached me
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about the film...
and when one person
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tells me about
something, I take note
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but when more than one person
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tells me about something...
then... sometimes I think...
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well, maybe the Lord is
trying to tell me something...
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I need to check this out...
so I watched it for myself
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and there's such
an anointing on it...
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it is such a
powerful evangelistic tool
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because it can be given
to people who know nothing...
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about Jesus...
and they can find out
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from the
beginning... straight through
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to the
resurrection and the return...
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I mean... this is
such a great, great tool...
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what is your
vision for "Redemption"
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what do you think
the Lord has in mind
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as a plan for "Redemption"?
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You know there is an
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extremely fluffy
and sophisticated way
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in which I can
answer that question,
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I think I'll be honest...
"Redemption" has already
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done far more than
we ever imagined...
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we did not know that
"Redemption" could have
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the impact and
the potential impact
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that it has... I have no idea
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how far the Lord
intends to take this mission...
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but I know that I
intend to be ready...
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when he calls me
to do some work...
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Oh... What I'd
like to say, however,
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is the initial thing
as I earlier stated...
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that we wanted to
do... was create a format
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in which God's gospel
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and which His words
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can be
presented... that attracts
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the minds and
hearts of young people...
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and I've actually had
a couple of opportunities
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to speak in
front of young people
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and have performed an
experiment I'd get up front...
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I would read a text...
usually the text concerning
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"Letting no man
steal one's crown... "
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sit down... play the 11 minutes
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of the Second
Coming... get back up...
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give an
appeal... and I tell you...
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those young people
respond in droves...
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they do... Wow!
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Yes ma'am... that's amazing!
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that is such a
blessing... again... again...
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it's so important to
meet people where they are
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and we are in a very media-
technology-oriented Society...
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so our young people
are used to visual stimuli
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and so... we give them
that... and show the gospel
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and show the Second
Coming and these Bible stories
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through that medium...
it is just... I mean...
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it's just mind-boggling...
the effect that it can have...
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and that's what...
I'm so thankful that
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we have people like
you... that have picked up
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that mantle...
and you're saying,
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"Lord, here am I... send me... "
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you know... I'm
available... and you're using
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these gifts that
God has given you...
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these special effects...
I mean... I just saw...
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and our viewers just saw...
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when the sores on
the face of that person
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just disappeared... I mean...
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when you see
these visual effects...
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it's just amazing...
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so I praise the Lord
for you and your ministry...
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you are working
on another Project...
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The Daniel and the
Revelation Project...
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tell us about that...
Ah... Daniel and Revelation...
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the special effects
are one of the things
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that draw persons...
especially people who are very
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visual in the way that
they process information
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immediately following
"Redemption's" success...
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I and the team sat
down and began to think...
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there were a couple of
ideas that we've come up with...
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we have them in the
pipeline... in fact...
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I'm going to
answer your question
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but let me mention that
there was a young mother
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who was at the
premier of "Redemption"
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in North Carolina...
and she had recently lost
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her child due to
"Shaken Baby Syndrome"
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her child-care giver had
shaken that baby to death...
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Oh no... there's a scene
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in the "Resurrection"
not Christ's resurrection
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but in the Second Coming...
of the resurrection of the dead
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where a woman is
re-united with her child...
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and I was told
by this young woman
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that as a result of
that scene she wants to do
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any... and everything she could
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to be prepared
for Christ's return...
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and she also wants
to create a Foundation
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and to do a documentary
to help educate people...
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about the
dangers of shaking babies
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and warning signs of
people who may do so...
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so that's one
project we have going...
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and while I was discussing
that, the idea and opportunity
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came before us... to present
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Daniel and the
Revelation Seminar material
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in a format that is similar
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to the way that
"Redemption" was presented...
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so during some
research... I discovered that
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in a 15-Session
Daniel and Revelation Seminar
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the ministers are still using
very antiquated technology...
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I mean... they...
praise the Lord...
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they have been very
effective but they are asking...
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and have literally verbalized...
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for their verbalizing the need
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for higher-end
graphics... is it possible
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that we could create
some very gripping material
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to go along... with
our Revelation Seminars...
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and so, again, we
began to process...
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and think... what
are we on to here?
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and that is how the
Daniel and the Revelation
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project came to
life... imagine if you will...
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two cases...
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one case entitled "Daniel"
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and the other case
entitled "Revelation"
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and in each case...
there is a series of DVDs
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and on each DVD...
there are 3 to 5 sessions...
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and these sessions are hosted by
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a person... a
minister... who, he or she,
00:21:02.34\00:21:06.22
knows the Daniel
and the Revelation
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prophecies cold...
and is able to communicate
00:21:08.85\00:21:12.74
these doctrines... in a
way that is easy to digest
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and that is very
easy to remember...
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and now imagine that
interspersed in this dialogue
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are the very
gripping sort of visuals
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that are characteristic of
a program like "Redemption"
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that is the Daniel
and the Revelation project
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that we are trying to
bring into existence...
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Wow... that sounds incredible,
in fact, we have the trailer
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from that... let's
show our viewers...
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Your Majesty...
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Art thou able to
make known unto me
00:22:15.69\00:22:20.31
the dream which I have seen,
and the interpretation thereof?
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Oh King, live forever...
thou oh King sawest...
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and behold... a great image...
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Music playing...
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Wow...
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I was so excited
about that Project...
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I really, really am...
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Oh, as well you should
be... oh, wow, that is just...
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the thing that is
so important to me
00:23:37.66\00:23:41.50
is that... we are to
be the head not the tail
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and that... to me
is just up there with
00:23:44.96\00:23:48.14
anything else that's out
there in terms of quality...
00:23:48.18\00:23:51.45
you know... you're
not sacrificing quality
00:23:51.49\00:23:55.28
and that is just so
important because you know
00:23:55.32\00:23:59.07
we are to be the
head not the tail...
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so that is
powerful... where are you now
00:24:01.82\00:24:05.29
in this whole
process with this Project?
00:24:05.32\00:24:08.36
Right... you
know... we had an option
00:24:08.39\00:24:11.19
we could take the
resources that we have
00:24:11.23\00:24:13.96
and put it together
but after talking with some
00:24:13.99\00:24:18.40
people... in Washington...
00:24:18.43\00:24:20.49
talking to some very
influential ministers...
00:24:20.53\00:24:23.65
we have been
convinced to go about this
00:24:23.68\00:24:26.90
the right way... so
in addition to getting
00:24:26.94\00:24:30.08
the entire curriculum together
for a Daniel and Revelation
00:24:30.12\00:24:33.78
Seminar...
outlining all of the material
00:24:33.82\00:24:37.39
and putting it into a
format that is episodic
00:24:37.42\00:24:40.54
and that is easy to
remember... we are also doing
00:24:40.57\00:24:44.55
we are also doing the
hard work of garnering funds...
00:24:44.59\00:24:48.53
so that we can
produce this properly...
00:24:48.57\00:24:51.19
so that we can produce
this all over the world...
00:24:51.22\00:24:53.84
so, you are
really... right now...
00:24:53.87\00:24:57.38
you are in need of funds
in order to complete this
00:24:57.42\00:25:01.13
Project... bottom
line... you need funds
00:25:01.16\00:25:03.98
to complete this
Project... Yes... Ma'am...
00:25:04.01\00:25:06.64
I'm sure that... I
mean... this is something
00:25:06.68\00:25:09.27
that... a lot of people say,
00:25:09.31\00:25:11.81
"Well, I can't go...
00:25:11.84\00:25:14.55
I'm not a missionary... I
can't go to another Country
00:25:14.58\00:25:17.51
I'm shy... I can't
go... from door to door... "
00:25:17.55\00:25:21.59
well, you know
what... a Project like this
00:25:21.63\00:25:24.86
if people would get
behind a project like this
00:25:24.89\00:25:28.09
your funds...
whatever amount they send
00:25:28.13\00:25:32.07
could go for really
moving and promoting
00:25:32.11\00:25:35.75
the gospel...
everybody is not meant to
00:25:35.78\00:25:39.36
go door to door...
people just can't really do that
00:25:39.39\00:25:42.13
comfortably... some
of them... but they can
00:25:42.16\00:25:45.10
put some money
behind projects like this...
00:25:45.14\00:25:48.05
that really can
reach the world...
00:25:48.08\00:25:50.56
with the
gospel... with prophecy...
00:25:50.60\00:25:53.19
this is so
powerful Brother Ryan...
00:25:53.22\00:25:56.03
this is so
powerful... I'm so thankful
00:25:56.06\00:25:58.63
for your
ministry... and your team...
00:25:58.67\00:26:00.81
how many are on
your team by the way?
00:26:00.84\00:26:02.91
I have a core team of 5 people
and they are the "Think Tank"
00:26:02.95\00:26:08.88
the creative people
00:26:08.92\00:26:11.16
and then, of course, beyond that
00:26:11.19\00:26:13.02
we have any of the
Churches, any of the ministers
00:26:13.05\00:26:16.75
who contribute to the
Project, to whom we go and say,
00:26:16.79\00:26:20.45
"Will you work
with us to do this?"
00:26:20.49\00:26:22.43
but all of the Special Effects
00:26:22.46\00:26:25.74
all of the
filming... all of the framing...
00:26:25.78\00:26:28.78
and everything
that you see goes into
00:26:28.81\00:26:30.34
one of these
Projects is done by one of us
00:26:30.37\00:26:34.66
or all of us that are
in the Core Five Group...
00:26:34.70\00:26:37.81
That's just
incredible praise the Lord...
00:26:37.85\00:26:41.06
How can our viewers
reach you to make a donation
00:26:41.09\00:26:44.41
to your project...
how can they reach you?
00:26:44.44\00:26:47.37
we have a
website that we've set up
00:26:47.41\00:26:49.57
it's brand new and it is,
00:26:49.60\00:26:51.57
www. bellumAE.org
00:26:51.60\00:27:01.22
and on that we
set up a PayPal button
00:27:01.26\00:27:04.05
that anyone...
that feels inspired
00:27:04.08\00:27:06.78
they can click that
button and give any amount
00:27:06.81\00:27:09.99
that they feel... moved to
give to support this ministry...
00:27:10.02\00:27:14.27
Great... thank you
so much... Thank you...
00:27:14.30\00:27:17.72
we are so blessed to
have you and so thrilled
00:27:17.76\00:27:21.11
with the work that you're doing,
00:27:21.14\00:27:22.76
may God continue to bless you
00:27:22.80\00:27:24.36
as you move
forward with technology
00:27:24.39\00:27:27.49
in serving Him...
thank you... God bless you...
00:27:27.53\00:27:30.65
Well, we've come to the
close of another episode
00:27:30.68\00:27:33.73
of Urban Report... you
know, it never ceases to
00:27:33.77\00:27:36.79
amaze me... how
God can take a life
00:27:36.82\00:27:39.93
that's on one path...
and just put you on a totally
00:27:39.97\00:27:43.63
different path... look
what God did for Ryan Johnson
00:27:43.67\00:27:47.30
he was homeless at one point...
00:27:47.33\00:27:49.29
God had a
tremendous plan for him...
00:27:49.32\00:27:52.28
and God has a
tremendous plan for you...
00:27:52.32\00:27:55.21
just hold on to him...
know that wherever you are
00:27:55.24\00:27:58.32
right now... does not determine
00:27:58.35\00:27:59.83
where you're going to
be... thanks for watching
00:27:59.86\00:28:02.72
see you next time... it
just wouldn't be the same
00:28:02.75\00:28:05.57
without you...
00:28:05.61\00:28:07.27