Jesus 4 Asia Now

Evening Schools, Part 2

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00:22 Hello, and welcome to Jesus for Asia Now.
00:24 I'm Natalie Wood
00:25 and I'm here with my husband Jon.
00:27 Hello, love. Hi, darling, how are you today?
00:29 I'm doing fine. You look beautiful.
00:31 Oh, thank you. Where did you get that dress?
00:34 This is from India. Really?
00:35 And where did you get yours.
00:37 This is from India also.
00:38 All right. What's that called?
00:40 It's called a saree.
00:42 Yeah, this is a sherwani in some languages.
00:44 Yeah.
00:46 So are we talking about India today then?
00:48 We are talking about India. Right.
00:50 Yes and our viewers
00:51 that were watching on our previous show
00:54 know that this is part two.
00:56 Yep.
00:57 And we promised, in fact we gave
00:58 a little spoiler on that show
01:00 and we promised that we would share some more videos,
01:03 this time the story of a little girl
01:06 that goes to one of our evening school
01:07 so that video is coming up in a little bit.
01:09 Yep, in that video Jonathan
01:11 who is our foreign correspondent,
01:13 he actually went to her home as she went home from school,
01:16 the evening school,
01:18 and then he came back in the morning
01:20 and documented her getting up how she starts the day,
01:23 cooks the meal and works with her family
01:26 and then heads off to school.
01:28 Okay.
01:29 So it's going to be pretty amazing to see the life
01:32 that she lives and her family live.
01:34 Okay. This is an epic night.
01:36 This is an epic event to see, you know,
01:39 because how often do you get to go into somebody else's home
01:42 that's so far distant removed from us.
01:44 Right.
01:45 Let's see what it's really like.
01:46 Yeah. Yeah.
01:48 Well, I didn't get to be there for that.
01:49 I've gone into some of those homes,
01:51 but I wasn't there for that,
01:52 so I'm looking forward to that video.
01:54 Yeah, it's pretty amazing, pretty moving.
01:56 But first, we're talking about our evening schools.
01:59 Yes.
02:00 And for those of our viewers
02:01 that did not see the previous episode,
02:03 our evening schools we have, in the evening
02:06 tutoring in the local language,
02:09 the school work that they receive
02:10 from the local school,
02:12 and then a worship time
02:13 where they learn memory verses and sing songs
02:16 and hear character building stories,
02:19 morals stories as well as Bible stories,
02:22 and then they have a free meal.
02:23 That's correct.
02:25 And some, some of these kids don't actually go to school
02:27 during the day.
02:28 Some of them do and they get help in their studies,
02:30 other kids don't go to school,
02:32 so this is all they get.
02:34 Okay. So they just get a little bit in the evenings.
02:36 Yeah.
02:37 Yeah, but they do get that nutritious meal
02:38 which is so important in a country
02:40 where that has one third of the world's
02:43 undernourished people in it.
02:45 7,000 Indians die every day due to hunger.
02:50 And so the kids growing up, you know,
02:53 sometimes families have more than one child
02:55 or even one extra mouth to feed is a huge strain
02:58 on the family's ability to provide.
03:02 And so...
03:03 They make so little most of them.
03:05 There are so many that make a dollar
03:08 or just barely more or even less.
03:12 The schools also are to battle literacy of course.
03:15 Yeah. Literacy is a big challenge.
03:17 So what is the literacy rate in India, do you know?
03:20 According to the best statistics that we could find
03:24 37 percent of all the world's illiterate people live in India
03:28 which means that about 280, almost 300 million people
03:33 in India don't know how to read and write.
03:35 Wow. Yeah, that's huge.
03:38 Yeah, it is.
03:40 Can you ask him how he likes his work?
03:51 Since they don't have any proper job,
03:54 they hate to do this
03:55 but they still go ahead and perform the activities
03:59 of collecting the waste from the streets.
04:05 They consider this is their fate to do this.
04:13 If they had a proper job
04:14 they wish they do that job than this.
04:17 So he was picking through the trash and he'd gone
04:20 and collected it from the side of the road.
04:22 What was he doing?
04:23 He was like taking some pieces of it
04:25 and putting it in that other bag
04:27 and then some he put behind him I noticed.
04:29 Yeah, he's looking for things that he can recycle
04:31 that he can sell for recycling, so plastic things like that,
04:35 he can take it down to the local recycle shop
04:37 and sell it for money
04:38 and then that's how he can buy food
04:39 and survive through the day.
04:41 Okay.
04:42 The clothes that they wear,
04:43 the clothes that he wears right there
04:44 he found in the trash.
04:46 I saw, I saw a stack of clothes
04:48 that had bugs crawling all through it
04:51 and that was for the daughter not of this boy
04:54 but someone else's family, and this is what they have,
04:58 you know, whatever they can find is what they use
05:01 and whatever they can sell on the recycle
05:03 is what they run the family for the day,
05:06 and we did a episode of India face to face
05:09 from this particular settlement which is right near the river.
05:13 And this is one of the things that caused us
05:15 to really want to start the school
05:18 is this kid doesn't have the opportunities,
05:20 and so maybe if he had been able to go through our school,
05:24 we would have connected with him
05:25 and been able to help him find other,
05:28 other options in life.
05:30 And given him the hope and given him, you know,
05:32 what he needed to not just to survive,
05:35 barely survive through the day,
05:36 but actually you know go forward.
05:39 Right. And to know about eternity.
05:41 Absolutely.
05:42 Yeah that's the biggest thing obviously.
05:45 As Christians that we know
05:46 that there is a life beyond this life
05:48 and it isn't just another life like this one.
05:50 Right.
05:51 Or another thousand lives like this one,
05:53 but there is eternal life
05:55 without end and joy unspeakable.
05:58 Right, to share that with all these kids.
06:00 Yeah. That's right. That's right.
06:02 So our next video is the one
06:04 we've been telling everyone about.
06:06 Yes.
06:07 Where we follow Kalijavi home and see what her home is like.
06:10 Yeah. And it wasn't actually me going, it was Jonathan.
06:15 He's our foreign correspondent. Yes.
06:17 He's currently living at the moment in Thailand.
06:20 Yes. But he went to India with you.
06:22 So you'll hear his voice in the video
06:23 talking about his experience.
06:25 Okay.
06:30 Amen. Amen.
06:31 Bethel Evening Schools
06:32 have been helping children in India
06:34 by providing tutoring, a good meal,
06:37 and most importantly teaching them about Jesus.
06:41 Tonight, join me as I go home with Kalijavi
06:45 to see what her life is like at home.
07:06 It's customary in India to remove your shoes
07:08 before entering your home or church.
07:11 But when I got to Kalijavi's home,
07:13 I almost walked right in with my shoes on
07:16 because the floor of the hut was dirt just like outside.
07:23 As I watched Kalijavi study her homework
07:26 and get ready for bed,
07:27 I wondered what impact
07:29 the evening school has had on her.
07:32 It didn't take long to see one result
07:34 as she knelt down and prayed before going to sleep.
07:58 In a country where about one billion people are Hindu
08:02 and most homes have a Hindu shrine.
08:05 It was wonderful to see this girl and her parents
08:08 serving God in the midst of spiritual darkness.
08:32 It's a simple life this family lives.
08:34 They don't have many of the conveniences
08:36 that we often take for granted.
08:39 I mean, does your kitchen look like this?
09:02 Kalijavi's father is a daily laborer
09:05 which means he's hired on a day to day basis.
09:08 He drives 20 kilometers to work as a coconut husker,
09:12 and this is the tool he uses to remove the husks.
09:52 It was an incredible privilege
09:53 to step into the home of this family
09:56 and see what life is like in an Indian village,
09:59 and I'm so thankful that Kalijavi and the other children
10:03 in this village have the opportunity
10:06 to go to the evening school.
10:31 As Kalijavi leaves for school
10:33 and my time with her family draws to a close,
10:36 I can't help but think
10:37 how many other children in India
10:39 don't have the opportunity to know Jesus.
10:43 I hope and pray that more evening schools can be started
10:47 so that more children can hear about Jesus just like Kalijavi.
11:07 She is beautiful. Yeah.
11:10 Very different life though isn't for her.
11:11 It's very, very different.
11:14 And to provide just that little extra.
11:17 You know in the footage as we were,
11:18 as I was going through the footage
11:19 that Jonathan captured there,
11:20 you know, the morning breakfast.
11:22 She built the fire and then she put the rice
11:25 and she sat there for a long time,
11:27 it took a long time to do the vegetables and
11:29 so that was probably a 45 minute or one hour time
11:33 just to cook breakfast.
11:35 You know we come out of the morning
11:37 and pour bowl of cereal a little bit of milk,
11:39 in 15 minutes the whole thing's done.
11:42 Yeah.
11:43 So the kind of life pace is very different for them
11:47 and to be able to see that
11:48 and see you know with such, with such...
11:53 When you have this much
11:54 and somebody gives you this much,
11:56 it's not that much difference.
11:57 But when you have this much
11:59 and somebody gives you that much,
12:00 it's like a lot of difference for someone.
12:04 Yeah.
12:07 That's a privilege to be able to help them.
12:09 Yes, and a privilege to be able to be a part of their lives.
12:13 Yeah, that's neat. Yeah.
12:15 Well, we want to go to a joyful video
12:18 after this too
12:20 and that is reopening the Monotones school.
12:23 Now what's...
12:24 You know, you mentioned joyful,
12:26 to me this is even though it brings tears to my eyes,
12:30 I'm very happy for her she knows Christ.
12:34 You know, she...
12:36 Some people in this world don't have a very good life,
12:40 but we all have the opportunity
12:43 for a really good life in the next life.
12:45 And so if I can spend my life
12:48 giving that chance to other people
12:50 what better way to live.
12:52 Yeah.
12:53 And you, you get touched by Christ in a special way
12:57 when you're helping them.
12:58 Right.
12:59 Because it's just such a blessing,
13:02 to be a blessing to others it's such a blessing.
13:04 I see Christ reaching out to these people
13:06 every single day.
13:07 And if I can be a part of that then we become co-laborers
13:12 which is huge you know,
13:15 it's a blessing to work with Christ
13:16 that I believe this is what he calls his yoke,
13:19 his yoke you know where you team up,
13:21 the yoke is for two,
13:23 team up with him and work together.
13:25 And when I read the Bible, this is the way that
13:28 Christ has laid out to draw closer to him.
13:33 You know it's more than just a prayer and,
13:37 and Bible study, it's more than just those things
13:40 that we do in our minds by ourselves
13:42 but it's, it's entering into labor,
13:45 actual working with him to,
13:47 to help him accomplish his goals
13:49 and he has spirit, he needs physical flesh and blood
13:55 to do the work that he longs to do.
14:00 Yeah.
14:01 And, yeah, so that's why we love these schools.
14:05 We love all of our projects. Absolutely.
14:07 And we talk about all of them and...
14:08 Yeah, the missionaries that go out
14:10 and represent Christ in their own flesh and blood
14:13 and then the evening schools and the Bible workers and,
14:16 and all the opportunities where we see
14:19 Christ being made available and manifested to people.
14:23 Right, and especially to people that had no idea before.
14:27 And they think that all the gods are like them.
14:30 There's no help there, they go and pray and nothing happens.
14:35 They think the gods are angry.
14:37 They have to spend their life trying to appease the God's,
14:41 you know these things.
14:42 For the honest seeker his life is vanity,
14:46 life is a game and you live, you die,
14:50 repeat, repeat, repeat forever and ever and ever.
14:54 That's, that's and so this, this God for people that can,
14:57 they can see it, they can surrender and accept it,
15:01 you know, it means a lot.
15:03 Yeah.
15:04 The God that loves them and died for them.
15:06 Yes. Yeah.
15:08 Well, it is, it is so much a part of the joy
15:11 and we're told in scripture that
15:14 this fellowship with Christ and his sufferings
15:17 is the gateway to joy and,
15:20 and yet his fellowship his sufferings
15:23 or when he came here and he worked
15:26 and he sacrificed everything
15:29 for the sake of the lost which was all of us.
15:31 Yes.
15:32 And so to join with him in that is a great source of joy.
15:35 Yeah.
15:36 No matter how hard it is
15:37 or how inconvenient it is, whatever.
15:40 Yes.
15:41 It's worth being a part of Christ's joy.
15:43 Right.
15:44 And taking them the blessing of knowing Jesus.
15:47 Yeah.
15:49 And even, yeah, and even he was,
15:50 even Jesus was pursuing joy when he went to the cross.
15:54 You know for the sake of the joy
15:55 that was set before him,
15:57 he endured the cross despising the shame going after those
16:00 people that he would find great joy in.
16:04 I guess that's, that's what it is.
16:05 The purpose of the cross is to bring more people into
16:09 awareness of fellowship and back to the family of God
16:12 and that's where he finds his joy.
16:14 Yeah. So...
16:16 So we have a joyful event we want to share next.
16:18 And that is the opening
16:19 or actually reopening one of the evening schools.
16:23 We had a school in this church before
16:25 and it's going to be talked about in the video
16:27 but the roof was falling apart...
16:31 Yeah.
16:32 And they were afraid it would collapse on them,
16:34 and so they couldn't meet
16:36 there in the evenings to have the children they,
16:39 they weren't meeting there in the evenings
16:40 for the evening school,
16:42 they weren't meeting there for church.
16:43 Basically the building was unusable.
16:46 And now with your blessing Father,
16:48 we pronounce this place open.
16:55 In Jesus' name...
16:57 Amen. Praise the Lord.
17:01 Okay, they can go on inside.
17:11 Okay, so what you're witnessing and what just happened here was
17:14 the grand opening of the Marattukalam
17:16 or the reopening
17:17 of the Marattukalam evening school.
17:21 So I have Brother Israel here with me to explain
17:23 some of the history and some of the background of
17:25 why this place has to be reopened.
17:27 And first of all it has to do with the church structure.
17:30 Yes.
17:31 It was shut down because of the building,
17:34 because of the church structure...
17:35 The roof was...
17:37 Fully collapsed and when it rained
17:39 the water would just come inside
17:41 and not only that,
17:43 the roof was cracked and even the church members
17:46 were so frightened to worship inside so it was,
17:50 there was a time there when I came,
17:52 we had the Saturday worship here outside.
17:54 That's just right here in this little tiny spot.
17:56 Yeah, the members were gathered here
17:59 and then from there I spoke and it was,
18:01 you know, they were crying, they were crying, they said,
18:05 "We want a church."
18:07 We are scared to go inside.
18:10 We cannot have a peaceful worship.
18:13 Please do something.
18:14 You know Brother Israel,
18:16 my home church in America had a very similar problem,
18:19 is like an 80 year old church and the ceiling,
18:22 the roof was going like this.
18:24 And so it cost $160,000 to replace that roof.
18:30 How much did it cost to replace this roof?
18:32 $2,300 to completely take off this because
18:36 previously the roof was very low and
18:39 there was no ventilation, it was so low and
18:42 so they have completely taken out the ceiling
18:45 and now they have raised
18:47 nearly about four to five feet high
18:49 and they have put metal sheet now.
18:52 And there's good ventilation, air circulation,
18:55 so now the members are so happy!
18:59 And after they reopened the church they were asking
19:02 for the reopening of the school.
19:05 What happened to the school in the meantime?
19:07 Because we moved this school
19:09 to another village called Bahrady Nagar
19:11 because there they had been asking for a school like
19:14 this for many years and I said, "please pray, pray"
19:18 and God answered their prayer through this and they were...
19:21 With this disaster. Yeah.
19:22 And they got the school and they were enjoying.
19:24 So what would happen if we took the school
19:26 back from there and put it here?
19:28 Oh, they won't allow definitely.
19:32 I think the children, they won't, will not...
19:35 So then this school has been closed for a year.
19:38 Yes.
19:39 And tonight is the first reopening.
19:41 Yes, tonight is a first reopening.
20:20 Yeah, another school opened. That's wonderful.
20:23 Well, you guys also had a privilege
20:24 of getting a testimony of one of the young people
20:28 that used to go to our school.
20:29 He's grown up now, he doesn't go to the school anymore,
20:32 but thanks to the school.
20:34 Well, let's shed...
20:36 This is a beautiful thing because we often ask ourselves,
20:39 does a school really make a difference?
20:42 And I think this video answers that question.
20:44 Okay.
20:47 Do you think that this school helped your life,
20:49 helped you in your life?
20:54 Yes, it was.
20:56 What was the best part of it? The food or the teaching?
21:02 He loved to sing songs. She was his teacher.
21:06 He was this size when she came to teach him.
21:09 Wow. Okay.
21:13 He will recite Psalms 15 very well.
21:16 And kids at his age used to do what?
21:31 In this age the children are smoking, drinking
21:34 but sitting here and there teasing the girls
21:38 but he is very, very respectful even today, till today
21:42 he used to say, "Akah, how are you?
21:45 How is everything" very respectfully.
21:47 He has no bad habits now.
21:49 So do you think he learned a lot of that
21:51 in, in the school?
21:58 Yes.
21:59 All what he learned was from this school,
22:01 the Biblical thing really has helped him
22:03 to be a witness in this village.
22:06 So he'll be a success in life now.
22:09 Even now after his work, he used to come
22:12 and stand and listen
22:14 to the Biblical things even now.
22:16 Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.
22:18 What is your name?
22:20 Kali Muthu. Kali Muthu.
22:22 Well, praise the Lord.
22:23 Thank you so much for your testimony.
22:24 Romba Nandri.
22:27 What does that mean?
22:29 Romba Nandri? Yeah.
22:30 It means thank you very much.
22:31 Yes, and what does this mean?
22:32 That means yes most of the time.
22:37 That's right, so he was going like this
22:38 and she was going like that
22:39 and they were saying the same thing.
22:40 Right because she was talking American
22:43 and he was talking Indian.
22:47 So what does he do for a job?
22:48 He drives a backhoe with the shovel in the front.
22:51 They call it a JCB because most of them are made by JCB.
22:54 Okay.
22:55 So it's like, he's a backhoe driver, so...
22:57 So he's got a good job then.
22:59 Yeah, big, big time job.
23:00 Praise the Lord, and that's neat that he comes
23:02 after work to hear the stories of Christ.
23:05 Yeah, well he just dropped by
23:07 while we were done with the evening program.
23:09 He just dropped by and met his teacher.
23:12 By the way that teacher Jennifer,
23:15 she was baptized in 2007
23:17 when we did an evangelistic series.
23:19 She along with her husband who is now
23:21 the overseer of all the evening schools in that area,
23:24 they were both baptized
23:26 during that evangelistic series back in 2007.
23:29 So it's neat how the seeds are planted,
23:31 grow up some 30 fold, some 100 fold and you see this.
23:35 And the seeds sprout
23:38 and then those seeds start spreading seeds
23:40 and the work goes forward.
23:42 Yeah, it's exciting. Yeah, that's really neat.
23:45 And what's cool about these evening schools
23:46 is like one of the cheapest ways
23:48 to get involved with God's work,
23:50 $7 a month takes care
23:53 and provides education and food
23:55 for one child for the entire month.
23:58 Wow. Yeah, that's amazing.
24:00 Yeah. God is good.
24:01 That's about a quarter a day. Yeah.
24:03 Twenty five cents for education and meal event.
24:07 We have had people approach us and ask for a self-denial boxes
24:11 or make their own self-denial boxes.
24:13 A self do what? A self-denial box.
24:16 What's a self-denial box?
24:18 It's a box where you put the funds
24:21 when you deny yourself something that you wanted.
24:24 Like if you're going to spend a dollar on an ice cream cone.
24:27 A dollar? You would put...
24:29 Well, okay more than that, you would put that dollar.
24:32 This is a figurative, you know,
24:34 this is an example, there we go.
24:36 You would put that dollar in the self-denial box.
24:39 And then you would put that to the evening schools
24:42 or you know to the evening schools project.
24:44 Where do you get this idea?
24:45 It's from Mrs. White.
24:47 She actually says that every member of each household
24:49 should have their own self-denial box.
24:51 So instead of buying something for themselves,
24:53 they can put it in there.
24:54 Right. And what does that look like?
24:58 Well, we have one right here.
25:00 Ours looks like a little church,
25:02 and on it, it has instruction where to send the funds
25:06 when it gets full and it has a Bible text on it,
25:09 which text is on there?
25:11 This says, "In as much as you have done it
25:13 unto the least of these my brethren,
25:15 you have done it unto me."
25:16 Matthew 25:40.
25:18 So it's reminding us that God wants us to help
25:22 the least of these our brothers, his brothers.
25:25 Has anybody done this? Has anybody filled this up?
25:27 A lot of people have done it, and a lot of money has gone
25:30 to help these evening schools and our orphanage,
25:33 various children's ministries
25:35 because of these self-denial boxes.
25:37 I have people that come to our camp meetings
25:39 in the summer
25:40 and they bring the whole box crammed full
25:43 and they handed to me,
25:44 and I have Ziploc bags and I put it in the Ziploc bag
25:47 and I hand them back their church.
25:49 I remember carrying those things always.
25:50 What's in here?
25:52 Yeah, my suitcase is always very heavy after camp meeting
25:54 because of all the change but it's such a privilege
25:57 and people are amazed when they see
25:59 how much they actually saved
26:00 during the year for these children's projects.
26:03 Just dropping one quarter in here
26:05 will provide a meal and two hours of education
26:08 and maybe another memory verse for a child.
26:11 Yep. That's pretty cool.
26:14 So can people get these things can they...
26:16 Yes we have, we have, we have them,
26:18 we can share with people.
26:20 We have them, we can send out to people.
26:22 Okay, because these are nice
26:23 but you don't have to use one of these.
26:24 No.
26:26 We've had people that took a canning jar, a quart jar
26:29 and decorated the outside,
26:31 wrote a special thing, painted on it,
26:33 you know, in various ways of decorating it.
26:35 We had people that took little wooden boxes
26:37 and painted on them and put a sticker on them
26:41 saying what they were for
26:42 and that same Bible verse just to remind, to remind themselves
26:48 what it was for and to make it personal.
26:50 This is an excellent thing to do for your children
26:52 to teach them to start thinking about others
26:55 rather than themselves.
26:56 Yes, we've had Sabbath schools take them
26:59 and fill them in their Sabbath schools
27:02 and anyway it's a neat way to remember the children.
27:07 Yeah.
27:08 So this is an amazing way to help and amazing project
27:12 because we don't take anything out for overhead.
27:16 So if somebody sends a dollar for the evening schools.
27:19 How much do we send to India?
27:21 We send on the dollar. The whole dollar.
27:23 Well, whatever's taken out for like PayPal.
27:26 Yeah, any bank fees. Right.
27:27 But, but other than that everything goes.
27:30 Because we have made a commitment
27:32 to that a long time ago and the Lord has...
27:35 Matthew 6:33. Right.
27:36 "Seek first the Kingdom of God..."
27:38 "And he will provide for all of our needs."
27:40 Right. Yeah.
27:41 Praise the Lord.
27:42 If you would like to be a part of helping
27:44 God's other children,
27:46 you can send your tax deductible love gift
27:48 to Jesus for Asia PO Box 1221,
27:52 Collegedale, Tennessee 37315.
27:56 If you would like to call us
27:57 and ask for your free self-denial box,
28:00 you can call 423-413-7321
28:05 or check out our website at Jesus4Asia.org.
28:09 May God richly bless you until we see you again
28:12 on Jesus for Asia Now.


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