WEBVTT 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:09.779 Okay, well it's good to see everyone today. Definitely a joy to be here and a big, big, big privilege. 00:00:10.660 --> 00:00:13.140 But I'm just going to pray for us and we can start. 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:22.500 Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for this morning. Thank you first of all for waking us up this morning. 00:00:22.500 --> 00:00:28.760 Thank you even just for the gift of common grace to be able to see such a bright and beautiful day. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:37.039 Most importantly, we thank you for your work on the cross, saving us from our sin. 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:46.340 And that's why we gather every Sunday just to fellowship and enjoy and remind ourselves of what greater gifts you're giving us in Christ Jesus. 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:53.140 But as we're about to just jump right into the talk, we pray, Lord, that you speak to each and every one of us. 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:56.500 That you challenge us. That you'd encourage us. 00:00:56.500 --> 00:01:00.479 That you spur us on towards love and good deeds. 00:01:02.219 --> 00:01:04.840 Humble our hearts and speak to us this day. 00:01:05.379 --> 00:01:07.040 In Christ's name we pray. Amen. 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:12.400 I just encourage you to do a sound check with the audience to see if everybody's hearing you. 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:13.379 Okay, okay, sounds good. 00:01:13.659 --> 00:01:14.539 Okay, use the mic right. 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:14.980 Alright. 00:01:15.539 --> 00:01:16.420 Can everyone hear me? 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:17.260 Maybe. 00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:18.740 Okay, maybe I might have to use the mic. 00:01:18.739 --> 00:01:19.299 Sorry. 00:01:21.299 --> 00:01:21.579 Sorry. 00:01:21.959 --> 00:01:22.699 Who's the... 00:01:22.699 --> 00:01:23.339 What's up with this? 00:01:24.619 --> 00:01:24.979 Huh? 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:28.219 Let's see. 00:01:28.819 --> 00:01:29.339 You're right. 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:29.780 It's a safe. 00:01:31.679 --> 00:01:34.259 Alright, it's time to get out of the way. 00:01:34.500 --> 00:01:36.619 Alright, so I'm just going to get started. 00:01:36.739 --> 00:01:43.500 So I was, you know, called to come talk a little bit about taking the gospel to remote villages in Nigeria. 00:01:44.459 --> 00:01:45.579 So I'm just going to... 00:01:45.579 --> 00:01:47.599 So this is my outline. 00:01:48.420 --> 00:01:50.359 I'm just going to explain a little bit about who I am. 00:01:50.739 --> 00:01:52.579 For those of you who don't really know me. 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:54.500 And I'm going to talk about my home. 00:01:54.859 --> 00:01:56.239 I'm going to share a little bit of my testimony. 00:01:56.980 --> 00:01:59.200 That basically grounds, you know, this work. 00:01:59.260 --> 00:02:01.620 Taking the gospel to villages in Nigeria. 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:04.219 Because it started from coming to know the Lord. 00:02:04.960 --> 00:02:06.060 So I'm going to talk about my testimony. 00:02:06.060 --> 00:02:11.240 I'm going to talk about how I started thinking about living out this faith that I had come to have. 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:13.560 And I'm going to talk about Jada. 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:14.640 Jada is a village. 00:02:14.980 --> 00:02:17.120 Just on the outskirts of the town I grew up in. 00:02:17.600 --> 00:02:19.480 I'm going to talk about that village and the work I did there. 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:20.900 As well as in Beo Village. 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:24.939 Which is also, not around where I live, but more further up north. 00:02:25.780 --> 00:02:31.020 And then I'm going to talk about the work I started more recently doing with refugees in Nigeria. 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:35.040 And then I'm just going to give up the time for prayer. 00:02:35.760 --> 00:02:36.040 Okay? 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:38.439 So I think we can roll. 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:39.920 Alright. 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:41.519 No, no. 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:42.979 Not quite that one. 00:02:43.899 --> 00:02:44.139 Alright. 00:02:45.319 --> 00:02:45.679 Sweet. 00:02:45.979 --> 00:02:48.239 So my name is Kelechi Omoga. 00:02:48.399 --> 00:02:48.939 That's my name. 00:02:49.419 --> 00:02:54.019 And so Kelechi in my language means, literally means thank God. 00:02:55.500 --> 00:02:56.859 And there's a story behind that. 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:00.079 Because I was, so when I was born, I was my mom's fourth child. 00:03:00.539 --> 00:03:01.659 So she had two girls. 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:03.079 First girl, second girl. 00:03:03.539 --> 00:03:04.259 The first guy. 00:03:04.399 --> 00:03:05.079 And then she had me. 00:03:05.580 --> 00:03:08.040 So I sort of completed the cycle for her. 00:03:08.140 --> 00:03:09.300 So she was like, you know what? 00:03:09.420 --> 00:03:10.260 Two boys, two girls. 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:10.980 This is perfect. 00:03:11.500 --> 00:03:11.940 Thank God. 00:03:11.980 --> 00:03:12.340 I'm done. 00:03:12.980 --> 00:03:14.660 And so she literally named me Thank God. 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:16.140 Which is Kelechi. 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:17.420 So that's the main of my name. 00:03:17.820 --> 00:03:19.700 I was born and raised in Abuja, Nigeria. 00:03:20.460 --> 00:03:23.040 Abuja is the capital city of Nigeria. 00:03:23.180 --> 00:03:24.380 So I'm going to talk about that a little bit. 00:03:24.420 --> 00:03:26.040 And I'm the third of five children. 00:03:26.099 --> 00:03:28.819 I'm talking about having, being the fourth, right? 00:03:29.419 --> 00:03:31.299 So my mom thought it was, you know, perfect. 00:03:31.439 --> 00:03:32.359 She's done having kids. 00:03:32.819 --> 00:03:38.539 But unfortunately, two years after I was born, the second girl passed away. 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:40.620 She died very suddenly. 00:03:40.699 --> 00:03:41.259 She was six. 00:03:41.819 --> 00:03:47.379 So my mom wanted to, you know, have more, try and see if she could balance it back and have more kids. 00:03:47.379 --> 00:03:47.959 So she tried. 00:03:48.419 --> 00:03:49.919 And she had a boy. 00:03:50.539 --> 00:03:52.079 And then she tried again and she had another boy. 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:54.500 So now it's four guys and one girl. 00:03:54.500 --> 00:03:54.539 Wow. 00:03:55.180 --> 00:03:57.860 So it's not as perfect as she thought it would be. 00:03:58.139 --> 00:03:59.400 But, you know, but God is good. 00:04:01.259 --> 00:04:01.900 So, yeah. 00:04:01.939 --> 00:04:02.560 So that's me. 00:04:03.020 --> 00:04:03.960 I'm going to talk about my home. 00:04:04.139 --> 00:04:06.000 So I'm from Nigeria. 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:12.599 And Nigeria is right here, the western part of the continent, right? 00:04:12.920 --> 00:04:14.699 So that's Nigeria right there. 00:04:15.099 --> 00:04:17.339 And in Nigeria, I'm from Abuja. 00:04:17.420 --> 00:04:19.519 And Abuja is right in the middle. 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:20.779 You can see right there. 00:04:21.180 --> 00:04:21.800 So that's my city. 00:04:21.879 --> 00:04:22.560 That's where I was born. 00:04:22.639 --> 00:04:23.160 That's where I was raised. 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:26.480 But my parents are originally from the southern part of the country. 00:04:26.620 --> 00:04:27.840 They're from the southeastern part. 00:04:27.900 --> 00:04:28.740 They're from Abia State. 00:04:29.180 --> 00:04:33.880 But what happens is that, you know, once people, you know, are born and raised in a certain area, 00:04:33.880 --> 00:04:37.220 they go actually to go study and then, you know, get work. 00:04:37.820 --> 00:04:40.180 So my parents got a job in the capital city. 00:04:41.080 --> 00:04:42.160 So that's where I grew up in. 00:04:42.500 --> 00:04:44.740 And just some quick facts about Nigeria. 00:04:44.840 --> 00:04:46.020 So Nigeria is a British colony. 00:04:47.260 --> 00:04:49.200 And we gained our independence in 1960. 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:52.519 The population of Nigeria is about 190 million. 00:04:52.719 --> 00:04:54.339 Some estimates say 200 million. 00:04:54.519 --> 00:04:56.519 So it's a very populous country. 00:04:56.639 --> 00:05:02.300 It's actually the most populous country in all of Africa and the seventh in the world. 00:05:03.159 --> 00:05:04.699 The official language is English. 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:06.319 A lot of people ask me, oh, you're from Nigeria. 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:07.779 Why do you speak such good English? 00:05:07.779 --> 00:05:10.619 I'm like, yeah, I speak in English since I was three. 00:05:11.679 --> 00:05:15.859 So, yes, the official language is English. 00:05:15.959 --> 00:05:19.719 So if you go to any form of school in Nigeria, you would master English. 00:05:20.199 --> 00:05:21.959 But I speak other languages as well. 00:05:22.819 --> 00:05:24.139 And Nigeria is incredibly diverse. 00:05:24.299 --> 00:05:29.279 There are about 520 languages spoken in Nigeria alone. 00:05:29.539 --> 00:05:30.899 I mean, 520 languages. 00:05:31.219 --> 00:05:33.599 So there are a lot of places in Nigeria. 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:37.020 Actually, most places in Nigeria, I do not understand the languages they speak. 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:46.400 If I'm not communicating in English or like a more colloquial way of speaking, which is like, we call it pidgin, which is more like abridged, jacked up English. 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:50.939 If I'm not speaking that or they're not speaking that to me, I probably won't understand. 00:05:51.660 --> 00:05:54.700 So there are a lot of languages, 520 languages in total. 00:05:55.220 --> 00:05:58.040 But out of the 520, there are three major languages. 00:05:58.240 --> 00:05:59.860 There's Igbo, there's Hausa, there's Yoruba. 00:05:59.960 --> 00:06:00.460 And I'm Igbo. 00:06:00.459 --> 00:06:03.819 The northern part is where you find most of the Hausa. 00:06:04.159 --> 00:06:05.959 The Igbos are in the southeastern part. 00:06:06.739 --> 00:06:08.739 And then the Yorubas are in the southwestern part. 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:19.339 And in 1999, May 29, which happened to be my fifth birthday, Nigeria became a, they adopted a democratic style of government. 00:06:19.859 --> 00:06:22.899 So just some quick facts just to orient you about the country. 00:06:24.019 --> 00:06:25.419 So religion in Nigeria. 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:28.879 So Nigerians are a-religious people. 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:31.480 People, they are very, very religious. 00:06:31.779 --> 00:06:35.920 And remember, I was reminded of when Paul was in Athens. 00:06:36.699 --> 00:06:43.219 And he said, he gathered and told people like, you know, I've been walking around and I see that you guys are a religious people. 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:46.319 And I feel like if Paul went to Nigeria today, he would say the same thing. 00:06:46.420 --> 00:06:47.719 Nigerians are very religious. 00:06:47.899 --> 00:06:52.699 You hardly find Nigerians who would look you in the face and say, I don't believe in God or whatever. 00:06:52.699 --> 00:06:57.060 You know, they are either Christian or Muslim, at least theoretically, right? 00:06:57.120 --> 00:06:58.819 They tell you, oh, I'm Christian or I'm Muslim. 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:01.199 You hardly find someone who's like, oh, I don't believe in anything. 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:04.300 So it's kind of like a 50-50% split. 00:07:04.459 --> 00:07:07.519 You have about 48.9% Muslims. 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:10.219 And most of the Muslims are, again, in the northern part of the country. 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:13.259 And then 48.3% Christians. 00:07:13.939 --> 00:07:16.339 Now, you might find some Muslims in the southwestern part. 00:07:16.420 --> 00:07:19.300 You hardly find Muslims in the southeastern part, like my part of the country. 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:21.399 But you might find them in the southwestern part. 00:07:22.300 --> 00:07:26.860 And 2.8% of Nigerians actually practice what we call traditional religion. 00:07:27.180 --> 00:07:29.519 So they're religious, but they're not either Christian or Muslim. 00:07:29.620 --> 00:07:30.459 They're just more traditional. 00:07:32.139 --> 00:07:37.339 And yeah, so unfortunately, religious conflict, because of this, again, 50-50% split, 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:42.399 religious conflict has come to mark a significant part of our history. 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:46.079 As a country, I remember growing up in Nigeria. 00:07:46.679 --> 00:07:48.299 And, you know, it's like a Friday. 00:07:48.419 --> 00:07:51.159 It usually happens on Fridays because, again, the Muslims go to prayer on Fridays. 00:07:51.219 --> 00:07:52.399 And that's when things happen. 00:07:52.939 --> 00:07:57.279 And it's Friday and, like, my parents come to pick me up from school, like, super early. 00:07:57.599 --> 00:07:59.799 And they're, like, you know, they're blowing up things. 00:07:59.979 --> 00:08:06.759 And, you know, so I grew up having that experience of just safety, 00:08:06.759 --> 00:08:11.719 just being very wary of where to go, where to be on a Friday, 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:14.820 being worried about where my dad is going to come back, if he's going to come back. 00:08:15.400 --> 00:08:21.780 I had friends whose parents went away and never came back because they were, you know, bombed or whatever. 00:08:22.440 --> 00:08:29.700 So that's a big part of one of the challenges we face in my city and in a lot of cities up north. 00:08:29.699 --> 00:08:38.519 And there's been an increase in the number of evangelical or what we call Pentecostal Christians in Nigeria, 00:08:38.639 --> 00:08:40.799 people who identify as either Pentecostal or evangelical. 00:08:41.019 --> 00:08:43.759 Over the last two decades, you know, starting from the 90s, 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:47.860 there's just been an exponential rise in the number of these people. 00:08:47.860 --> 00:08:55.000 And with that has come the growth of the prosperity gospel and the prosperity theology of, you know, health and wealth. 00:08:55.220 --> 00:08:59.259 And, again, it's just taking advantage of the fact that there are a lot of people who are suffering 00:08:59.259 --> 00:09:04.720 and just proclaiming to them this message of, you know, put your faith in God and, you know, you get all these things from Him. 00:09:05.259 --> 00:09:10.560 And that has come to mark, it's just a big part of the narrative in Nigeria. 00:09:10.559 --> 00:09:17.079 And if you come to Nigeria, you can see for yourself that spiritual darkness is still evident in the land, 00:09:17.259 --> 00:09:19.699 you know, and it's in a lot of other places. 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:23.699 But, yeah, so, again, just talking about my hometown. 00:09:23.859 --> 00:09:26.859 So, again, I'm from Abuja, and this is what Abuja looks like at night. 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:28.039 Very beautiful. 00:09:28.599 --> 00:09:29.399 I love the city. 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:37.000 Actually, my dad, in the early 80s, helped plan the city because it was a very rural settlement. 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:43.679 But in the 80s, he and a team of other people were employed by the government to help, like, plan. 00:09:43.740 --> 00:09:44.600 But that is an urban planner. 00:09:45.259 --> 00:09:45.960 So he did that. 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:46.879 So there's Abuja at night. 00:09:47.460 --> 00:09:51.700 But the interesting thing is that this is what Abuja looks like as well. 00:09:52.220 --> 00:09:54.879 So we have these two conflicting images. 00:09:55.799 --> 00:10:00.700 Again, this is just 30 minutes away from the beautiful capital city, right? 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:02.679 30 minutes away, this is what you see. 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:04.620 And these are people in Jaira Village. 00:10:04.620 --> 00:10:09.139 Now, this water source is where they get their drinking water from, is where they do their laundry, 00:10:09.740 --> 00:10:11.440 and is where the animals also drink water from. 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:13.759 Again, this is Abuja, just 30 minutes away. 00:10:13.879 --> 00:10:17.220 Again, thinking about this and that. 00:10:17.860 --> 00:10:23.539 And I don't know what this reminds you of, but it personally reminds me of New Haven, right? 00:10:24.019 --> 00:10:29.960 You know, one minute you're in a certain location, and the next moment you're in a totally different location. 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:31.399 Literally just probably five minutes apart. 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:32.720 You don't even have to travel 30 minutes. 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:37.180 But that's, again, a disparity that's apparent, you know, where I'm from. 00:10:38.019 --> 00:10:39.000 I'm going to come back to that. 00:10:41.040 --> 00:10:42.000 So my testimony. 00:10:43.040 --> 00:10:46.980 So I came to know the Lord during my sophomore year at Cornell. 00:10:47.740 --> 00:10:53.240 And again, I was born and raised in Nigeria, and I moved over here for college in 2011. 00:10:53.240 --> 00:11:03.080 And it was during my sophomore year, some young man reached out to me, and just through consistent, I guess, bugging. 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:03.960 They were like, bugging me. 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:15.620 Because I was at a place where nothing really made sense, because a lot of the successful people I saw, my goal coming to America was just to get some sort of success. 00:11:16.300 --> 00:11:20.900 But I realized a lot of the successful people I found here were not as happy or as purposeful. 00:11:20.899 --> 00:11:23.360 And so I began to question a lot of things. 00:11:23.439 --> 00:11:26.500 I had a really big crisis my first semester. 00:11:27.139 --> 00:11:30.519 And I'm just asking a lot of questions regarding the purpose and meaning of life. 00:11:31.019 --> 00:11:34.240 And through that, God basically brought me to himself. 00:11:34.679 --> 00:11:36.740 So again, my sophomore year, I came to know Jesus. 00:11:37.299 --> 00:11:39.360 And I started studying the scriptures more intently. 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:41.639 You know, these guys encouraged me to look into the scriptures. 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:42.819 They would read the scriptures with me. 00:11:42.820 --> 00:11:48.720 And what I saw immediately, what stood out to me, was that I saw this person called Jesus. 00:11:48.860 --> 00:11:55.320 I saw him express such a deep interest in the plight of the downtrodden, like the people who were suffering. 00:11:55.460 --> 00:12:01.740 I saw him just very, very tangibly just show love to these people, right? 00:12:01.760 --> 00:12:02.540 That's what I noticed. 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:05.060 And he also preached salvation. 00:12:06.060 --> 00:12:10.160 You know, but he preached salvation, but it was not like an empty, just words, right? 00:12:10.159 --> 00:12:13.459 He preached it, and he did things, right? 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:14.959 He fed a ton of people. 00:12:15.620 --> 00:12:16.759 He healed people. 00:12:17.439 --> 00:12:19.219 He raised people from the dead. 00:12:19.839 --> 00:12:25.079 So he was doing real, tangible things that could be measured, in addition to the salvation he was proclaiming. 00:12:25.139 --> 00:12:30.639 So I saw that there was sort of like a marriage between that gospel and action. 00:12:31.179 --> 00:12:34.679 And I began to think, because I was just, for me, I was conflicted. 00:12:34.679 --> 00:12:40.559 Because I grew up, again, in a very religious country, with a lot of people professing this faith. 00:12:40.979 --> 00:12:45.879 But this tangible action, I didn't really see it. 00:12:45.959 --> 00:12:48.239 Quite frankly, there was a lot of preaching. 00:12:48.419 --> 00:12:49.500 Nigerians loved to pray. 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:57.939 And you could wake up at 2 a.m. in the night, and I'm sure you would hear someone yelling from the next building, praying to God. 00:12:58.019 --> 00:12:59.039 Which is amazing, right? 00:12:59.039 --> 00:13:07.299 But oftentimes, I felt like the living out of this faith, like the next day at work, I didn't really see it, right? 00:13:07.620 --> 00:13:14.500 But again, I came to discover this Jesus who was preaching this salvation, but also doing a lot of tangible things. 00:13:14.860 --> 00:13:17.019 So for me, it was a challenge. 00:13:17.099 --> 00:13:19.000 And I saw that he didn't just do it. 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:26.899 I saw that he said, if you're going to follow me, this faith that you profess has to be lived out. 00:13:27.860 --> 00:13:30.179 And I'm kind of like a simple person. 00:13:30.460 --> 00:13:34.620 I like thinking in terms of black and white, and that's usually not very good for me. 00:13:34.980 --> 00:13:43.240 But I realized that I could not claim to profess this faith without living it out. 00:13:43.340 --> 00:13:44.200 Because that's what I just saw. 00:13:44.259 --> 00:13:45.799 I just saw that he didn't give that option. 00:13:45.799 --> 00:13:53.839 So my sophomore year, I began to start critically thinking of what to do to live this out. 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:59.919 Just saying I was a Christian, just saying it, I looked at scripture. 00:14:00.099 --> 00:14:01.719 It just didn't quite fit. 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:02.559 There was a dissonance. 00:14:03.139 --> 00:14:04.939 So I began to think, well, what can I do? 00:14:05.939 --> 00:14:07.799 And what can I give? 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:08.919 What do I have? 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:10.419 And what can I provide? 00:14:10.819 --> 00:14:13.599 So I began to think again back to my country. 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:19.800 Again, it's like my second year in America, and I've come to adopt this worldview of living. 00:14:20.580 --> 00:14:25.200 And so, well, the easiest thing for me to do was, I'm not really familiar with the terrain in America. 00:14:25.340 --> 00:14:26.639 Well, there's a lot I could do at home. 00:14:27.500 --> 00:14:31.820 So I thought back, I thought back to that, you know, again. 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:34.519 So there's two images of this and that. 00:14:34.519 --> 00:14:40.480 And I began to ask, well, again, what can I do to basically bridge this gap? 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:43.379 So I reached out to my dad. 00:14:44.179 --> 00:14:45.340 I said my dad is an architect. 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:49.939 And what he does in his, but he works for the government. 00:14:50.139 --> 00:14:56.220 But what he does in his free time, he goes to villages on the outskirts of my city. 00:14:56.220 --> 00:14:58.580 So he would go to different villages. 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:00.200 He would identify needs in this village. 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:02.379 And he would call the attention of my church. 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:04.720 And they would meet those needs in this village. 00:15:05.340 --> 00:15:06.960 And in the process, plant a church. 00:15:07.060 --> 00:15:09.060 So that's the model they had going on. 00:15:09.220 --> 00:15:11.500 This is what I, you know, grew up seeing my dad do. 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:16.019 But for the longest time, I resented my dad. 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:22.399 Because I felt like he could be using his time for better things, right? 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:24.039 Because we didn't grow up with a lot of money. 00:15:24.199 --> 00:15:25.679 I was more lower middle income. 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:31.019 And I went to a very rich high school with a lot of wealthy kids. 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:36.240 And so you see my dad technically, like, wastes his time doing this. 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:38.799 For me, it was just painful to see. 00:15:39.220 --> 00:15:43.959 Because I felt like if he worked harder, if he got more jobs, he could provide better for the family. 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:48.659 And so that's what my dad did, you know, just growing up, seeing him do it. 00:15:49.220 --> 00:15:51.299 But then I come to know Jesus my sophomore year. 00:15:51.299 --> 00:15:55.240 And I began to see, wow, my dad is probably the coolest person I know. 00:15:56.839 --> 00:15:58.120 And so I reached out to him. 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:00.759 You know, again, thinking back to what he does. 00:16:00.859 --> 00:16:01.459 I reached out to him. 00:16:01.519 --> 00:16:05.199 I was like, you know, hey, like, I am, I'm just, I'm reading the Bible. 00:16:05.459 --> 00:16:10.599 And I'm coming to understand some truths about who Jesus is and what he requires and what he calls us to do. 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:13.099 You know, what village are you working on right now? 00:16:13.179 --> 00:16:14.359 And how can I jump in? 00:16:14.500 --> 00:16:15.299 Basically, that's what I said. 00:16:15.299 --> 00:16:18.000 Again, this is like my spring semester, sophomore year. 00:16:18.500 --> 00:16:19.979 And he's like, well, we're in this village. 00:16:19.980 --> 00:16:21.159 It's called Jada Village. 00:16:21.300 --> 00:16:22.399 It's outside Abuja. 00:16:23.060 --> 00:16:24.740 We just started a church there. 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:26.720 And we're providing some water for them. 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:30.680 So, well, at this point in time, I'm thinking I might go into medicine. 00:16:30.759 --> 00:16:31.500 I'm not sure yet. 00:16:31.560 --> 00:16:33.440 So I was like, okay, well, do they have a clinic? 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:36.480 Again, this is me, sophomore year. 00:16:36.560 --> 00:16:38.120 And he's like, oh, no, they definitely don't. 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:41.720 I was like, whoa, can you design a clinic for me? 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:44.580 Let's, can we set up a clinic there? 00:16:44.659 --> 00:16:45.420 Again, I had no idea. 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:46.340 I've never been to this village. 00:16:46.340 --> 00:16:50.940 And he's like, yeah, I can, but like, who's going to pay for it? 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:52.940 Like, you know, just asking the real questions. 00:16:53.860 --> 00:16:56.100 And so I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a good question. 00:16:58.780 --> 00:17:00.560 Just can you, okay, how about we do this? 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:03.379 Can you talk to the village chief and see if he can even give us a land? 00:17:03.899 --> 00:17:08.279 And I'm going to see what I can do on my end in America to maybe get some money. 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:09.420 And he's like, okay, sure. 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:10.840 I'm going to do that. 00:17:10.839 --> 00:17:13.759 So my dad designs this clinic. 00:17:14.220 --> 00:17:15.399 And now I'm freaking out. 00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:18.519 I'm like, I just told my father to, like, get on this project, to, like, design this clinic. 00:17:18.639 --> 00:17:19.399 And he gets a land. 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:20.939 Thankfully, the chief provides a land. 00:17:21.639 --> 00:17:25.000 And so I started frantically applying for grants all over the U.S. 00:17:25.619 --> 00:17:33.619 And thankfully, I was able to get about $10,000 from this organization. 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:34.919 I didn't, I just, I applied. 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:37.039 I remember applying the day of the deadline. 00:17:37.159 --> 00:17:37.959 It was, like, midnight. 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:39.319 And I applied, like, 11 p.m. 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:41.059 And God was faithful. 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:42.920 And I got that money. 00:17:43.059 --> 00:17:44.440 And I was able to raise extra money. 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:48.920 And the summer of 2013, basically, we started building this clinic. 00:17:49.860 --> 00:17:51.420 Again, this is sophomore year, summer. 00:17:51.779 --> 00:17:53.480 I mean, the summer after sophomore year. 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:55.059 I was 19 years old. 00:17:55.500 --> 00:17:56.980 And I show up to this village. 00:17:57.539 --> 00:17:58.819 And we start building, right? 00:17:58.900 --> 00:18:01.039 And my job this summer was just to, like, supervise. 00:18:01.100 --> 00:18:01.700 Again, I'm 19. 00:18:02.340 --> 00:18:05.519 And the people on this site were, like, in their 40s and their 30s. 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:07.319 And I didn't know what I was doing. 00:18:07.319 --> 00:18:09.799 I'm not even going to lie to you and say I have this plan. 00:18:09.919 --> 00:18:15.460 I was just, like, okay, the goal was just to set up a structure, some sort of structure and use this money. 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:17.500 So, that summer, we started building. 00:18:17.700 --> 00:18:18.220 And we built. 00:18:19.379 --> 00:18:20.200 And we kept building. 00:18:20.799 --> 00:18:21.700 Sorry, it's not that bright. 00:18:21.779 --> 00:18:22.839 I don't know why it's not bright. 00:18:23.500 --> 00:18:23.700 Maybe. 00:18:24.159 --> 00:18:24.179 The lights. 00:18:24.460 --> 00:18:24.779 Oh, yeah. 00:18:24.899 --> 00:18:26.119 You've got to turn the lights off. 00:18:26.159 --> 00:18:26.659 Oh, really? 00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:27.759 The lights. 00:18:27.779 --> 00:18:29.059 But I don't know how to do that. 00:18:29.200 --> 00:18:29.439 Okay. 00:18:29.439 --> 00:18:30.139 I've always got it. 00:18:30.460 --> 00:18:30.700 Okay. 00:18:31.980 --> 00:18:35.659 Let me see if I could increase the brightness in my, no, it's not working. 00:18:35.660 --> 00:18:37.900 I'm sorry. 00:18:38.740 --> 00:18:39.820 I thought it would be brighter. 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:40.240 I don't get that. 00:18:40.320 --> 00:18:40.820 It'll work. 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:41.180 Okay. 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:41.759 Anyway. 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:42.480 But, yeah. 00:18:42.540 --> 00:18:43.040 So, this is. 00:18:43.380 --> 00:18:44.160 So, we kept building. 00:18:44.259 --> 00:18:48.600 And this is kind of, like, the phase we got to, again, the end of the summer. 00:18:49.380 --> 00:18:50.720 And we ran out of money. 00:18:50.940 --> 00:18:51.160 Right? 00:18:51.540 --> 00:18:51.860 Okay. 00:18:52.019 --> 00:18:52.300 Better. 00:18:52.620 --> 00:18:52.820 Yeah. 00:18:53.259 --> 00:18:53.500 Yeah. 00:18:53.580 --> 00:18:54.480 So, that's kind of, like, the progression. 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:54.779 Right? 00:18:54.840 --> 00:18:58.740 So, we, again, we go from here to here to here. 00:18:59.380 --> 00:19:00.799 And, again, this is the end of the summer. 00:19:01.680 --> 00:19:02.620 And we have this. 00:19:02.680 --> 00:19:02.859 Right? 00:19:02.900 --> 00:19:04.059 And we run out of money. 00:19:04.539 --> 00:19:06.980 And I'm like, well, I'm going to have to go back to school. 00:19:07.079 --> 00:19:07.940 Again, this was the end of the summer. 00:19:08.059 --> 00:19:08.220 Right? 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:11.120 So, I went back to school junior year. 00:19:12.120 --> 00:19:19.420 And what would happen was, basically, my time in college was spent between trying to pass my exams and, like, raising money for this. 00:19:19.420 --> 00:19:24.279 Because I didn't imagine just, like, moving on with my life and, like, just living my life. 00:19:24.759 --> 00:19:27.259 So, I'd study and apply for grants. 00:19:27.340 --> 00:19:28.200 Study and apply for grants. 00:19:28.259 --> 00:19:30.200 And I'll get grants and I'll just send back home. 00:19:30.840 --> 00:19:31.200 Basically. 00:19:31.360 --> 00:19:33.200 I'll send back home because I couldn't come as frequently. 00:19:33.320 --> 00:19:34.620 It was really expensive to come back home. 00:19:34.680 --> 00:19:38.060 And, thankfully, my dad really devoted his time and his heart towards this. 00:19:38.420 --> 00:19:39.140 And we kept building. 00:19:39.279 --> 00:19:42.640 And this is what we achieved by 2014. 00:19:44.140 --> 00:19:48.480 And this is the clinic completed by 2015 November. 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:48.880 Right? 00:19:49.480 --> 00:19:51.059 The clinic was completed by 2015 November. 00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:53.120 I graduated college 2015 May. 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:57.620 And when I stuck around for another year in the U.S., I worked with crew. 00:19:58.099 --> 00:20:02.519 I worked as a campus intern, you know, just hanging out with students and engaging them. 00:20:03.140 --> 00:20:04.200 So, I did that for a year. 00:20:04.299 --> 00:20:06.480 And after that, I actually moved back to Nigeria. 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:08.799 Basically to run this clinic. 00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:12.740 So, this is what a clinic looks like. 00:20:13.420 --> 00:20:16.799 And we officially opened 2016, September 1st. 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:19.519 And this is, like, the consulting room. 00:20:19.659 --> 00:20:21.419 This is where the doctor sees the patient. 00:20:22.180 --> 00:20:23.680 And, again, this is, like, the male. 00:20:24.539 --> 00:20:25.799 We call it the male ward. 00:20:27.460 --> 00:20:28.339 Female ward. 00:20:29.319 --> 00:20:30.379 This is a delivery room. 00:20:30.539 --> 00:20:37.879 So, we, one of the biggest needs in this village is that a lot of the women were, they'll go to the bushes, basically, to deliver their babies. 00:20:37.880 --> 00:20:39.940 So, we set this up. 00:20:40.860 --> 00:20:42.120 And this was our first baby. 00:20:44.140 --> 00:20:46.520 She was born, so it was the end of September, I remember. 00:20:47.100 --> 00:20:48.880 This is the first baby we had in the facility. 00:20:49.640 --> 00:20:51.680 And this is our mini pharmacy. 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:56.440 And this is some of our doctors actually seeing patients. 00:20:57.980 --> 00:21:05.259 Now, so, I designed this model where, instead of waiting for the villagers to come, you know, to the clinic. 00:21:05.320 --> 00:21:06.480 Because a lot of them didn't trust the system. 00:21:06.600 --> 00:21:07.200 They weren't sure. 00:21:07.299 --> 00:21:08.440 This is not, they were not used to this. 00:21:08.560 --> 00:21:10.480 They didn't, they weren't sure they could afford it. 00:21:10.500 --> 00:21:11.480 So, they would just not show up. 00:21:11.580 --> 00:21:12.580 And that was a problem we had. 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:14.660 So, for some months, people were not showing up. 00:21:15.080 --> 00:21:16.120 So, we designed a model. 00:21:16.320 --> 00:21:18.120 Instead of waiting for them to come, we'll take it to them. 00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:18.759 Right? 00:21:18.879 --> 00:21:20.579 So, we recruited people from the village. 00:21:20.739 --> 00:21:22.899 And we trained them as what we call community health workers. 00:21:23.719 --> 00:21:28.979 And these people would go, knocking from door to door, checking in to see, is anyone sick? 00:21:29.019 --> 00:21:29.679 How's everyone doing? 00:21:29.899 --> 00:21:33.059 And these are, again, these are not, these are people from the village who speak the language. 00:21:33.199 --> 00:21:35.799 Now, just context, I don't speak the language of this village. 00:21:35.979 --> 00:21:37.759 Now, this village is actually a very interesting village. 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:40.739 Because within the village, there are like six different languages. 00:21:40.899 --> 00:21:41.979 And this is not a big village. 00:21:42.299 --> 00:21:44.319 This is like a thousand. 00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:46.339 But like six different languages. 00:21:46.339 --> 00:21:47.579 So, they don't even understand each other. 00:21:48.119 --> 00:21:49.759 So, they speak pidgin to each other. 00:21:49.859 --> 00:21:51.220 But I speak pidgin, which is really good. 00:21:51.259 --> 00:21:52.960 Which is like the, again, more informal English. 00:21:53.799 --> 00:21:57.079 But this, again, these people who are from the community will go from door to door. 00:21:57.179 --> 00:22:00.139 Basically check in and see if anyone is ill. 00:22:00.220 --> 00:22:02.480 And they will bring them, accompany them to the facility. 00:22:02.859 --> 00:22:04.480 So, again, let's bring in the clinic to them. 00:22:05.339 --> 00:22:06.960 And so, we had that going on. 00:22:07.179 --> 00:22:08.019 And this is our staff. 00:22:08.139 --> 00:22:10.720 The first, I mean, things have changed over the years. 00:22:10.779 --> 00:22:13.119 But this is like the first group of staff we had. 00:22:13.119 --> 00:22:16.039 And the guy to the left, the extreme left, is our doctor. 00:22:16.039 --> 00:22:18.000 And we had a janitor. 00:22:18.119 --> 00:22:19.079 We had a receptionist. 00:22:19.180 --> 00:22:19.859 It wasn't a big. 00:22:20.319 --> 00:22:21.259 And that was our nurse. 00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:24.879 And this, actually, the lady to the right is actually a traditional birth attendant. 00:22:25.539 --> 00:22:29.039 So, she's the people helping the woman give birth in the bushes. 00:22:29.319 --> 00:22:31.039 So, this is the woman they trust. 00:22:31.039 --> 00:22:36.399 So, we employed her to also gain the trust, again, of the people in the community. 00:22:38.960 --> 00:22:41.379 So, that picked up. 00:22:41.859 --> 00:22:49.680 And, again, during my time in Nigeria, my church had begun setting up the school in the community. 00:22:49.799 --> 00:22:53.220 But they couldn't continue because they couldn't fund it. 00:22:53.259 --> 00:22:53.899 They ran out of funds. 00:22:54.019 --> 00:22:57.119 Nigeria went into a recession, an economic recession, in 2016. 00:22:57.119 --> 00:22:59.339 So, it was basically abandoned. 00:23:00.539 --> 00:23:04.659 And me, you know, I decided to take this up. 00:23:04.959 --> 00:23:07.319 Again, I had no idea how I was going to take that up. 00:23:07.379 --> 00:23:10.039 I was like, you know, yeah, we could look for a way to make this happen. 00:23:10.559 --> 00:23:15.359 And so, they handed it over to me to, again, like resurrect it. 00:23:15.539 --> 00:23:24.039 Again, frantically, thankfully, I came back to the U.S. during that time for like a month and a half to apply to interview with medical schools. 00:23:24.039 --> 00:23:33.019 And so, during that one month to two month space I had in the U.S., I started applying to grants just to keep this going. 00:23:33.659 --> 00:23:35.019 And God was gracious. 00:23:35.420 --> 00:23:37.059 And he supplied a lot. 00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:39.960 And we're able to like finish this up. 00:23:40.099 --> 00:23:42.940 And this is the primary school in that village. 00:23:43.019 --> 00:23:43.980 Again, so, they have the clinic. 00:23:44.180 --> 00:23:47.039 And next door, literally, this building is just next door to the clinic. 00:23:47.159 --> 00:23:48.399 So, the clinic is that way. 00:23:48.720 --> 00:23:50.280 And this is the school. 00:23:51.160 --> 00:23:52.200 And we set up the school. 00:23:52.280 --> 00:23:53.019 And these are our kids. 00:23:54.140 --> 00:23:58.120 And beside the school. 00:23:58.240 --> 00:23:59.160 So, again, it's the clinic. 00:24:00.140 --> 00:24:02.500 It's the clinic, the school, and the church. 00:24:02.660 --> 00:24:05.920 So, again, remember my church planted a small church. 00:24:05.980 --> 00:24:09.980 So, again, in this piece of land is a clinic, a school, and a church. 00:24:09.980 --> 00:24:17.380 And the idea was not just, oh, let's bring health care to this community. 00:24:17.720 --> 00:24:19.079 That was part of it. 00:24:20.180 --> 00:24:28.039 But a big reason I decided to pursue this was I was just, again, thinking about Jesus, right? 00:24:28.120 --> 00:24:29.960 What did he do? 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:32.099 He preached, and he also met physical needs. 00:24:32.099 --> 00:24:42.119 And, for me, it was just the, well, if we can bring health care and bring education in some shape or form, we can attract, you know, we can gain their trust. 00:24:42.459 --> 00:24:47.579 And over time, after establishing this relationship, we can begin to share this gospel with them. 00:24:47.639 --> 00:24:59.159 So, in our clinic, they come, and we, the pastor of this church, she would pray for people who show up, who, you know, who are open to prayer. 00:24:59.160 --> 00:25:08.720 And through the clinic, we have even the parents of the kids in the school, they'll come to school to pick up their kids and would engage them and have these conversations with them. 00:25:08.759 --> 00:25:14.320 And we've seen a lot of people come to know Jesus and give your lives to Christ in this building right here. 00:25:14.360 --> 00:25:16.540 So, that's the church, and there's a lot going on there on Sundays. 00:25:16.660 --> 00:25:20.820 Right now, it's probably after church now because it's six hours away, six hours ahead. 00:25:21.279 --> 00:25:23.580 But, like, this church was packed today. 00:25:24.500 --> 00:25:28.300 And that is the fruit we're seeing in this community. 00:25:28.299 --> 00:25:37.740 Again, God has been so faithful, like, I would never, like, attempt to take any credit for any of this because, again, the provision was just unreal. 00:25:39.099 --> 00:25:42.759 Anyway, so, I started medical school in 2017. 00:25:42.899 --> 00:25:48.799 I began to think about sustainability because the demands of school and writing grants, it was a lot to deal with. 00:25:48.799 --> 00:25:53.579 So, I thought about setting up a business basically to generate revenue. 00:25:53.859 --> 00:25:59.319 So, 100% of the revenue just goes into, like, paying my staff and doing other things. 00:25:59.740 --> 00:26:06.940 So, I came up with this idea to set up a poultry farm because the person managing the clinic and the school, for me, she actually runs a poultry farm of her own. 00:26:07.500 --> 00:26:12.659 So, since it was a business she was familiar with, I decided to, you know, how about we just key into that business. 00:26:12.660 --> 00:26:17.800 So, we got a grant towards the end of 2017 and we set up this poultry farm starting in April. 00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:23.660 And in June, when I went to Nigeria for the summer, we realized a potential for a fish farm. 00:26:24.200 --> 00:26:25.880 And so, that was what we embarked on. 00:26:26.560 --> 00:26:29.540 So, that's the poultry farm after completion in May. 00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:33.980 And some of the chickens and that's some of the fish. 00:26:34.060 --> 00:26:35.480 I don't know how well you can see it. 00:26:35.480 --> 00:26:37.819 But we got a lot of fish, we got a lot of chicken. 00:26:38.440 --> 00:26:41.339 And then, again, the challenge was, well, we got this, how do we feed them? 00:26:43.120 --> 00:26:47.000 But, again, God has been so faithful just seeing us through since July. 00:26:47.500 --> 00:26:50.319 I'm supplying the feed for these animals. 00:26:51.120 --> 00:26:55.940 And the hope is that by December, January, we'll start to sell the fish and the eggs. 00:26:56.400 --> 00:27:00.940 And the money will just be plunged right back in to the work we're doing in that village. 00:27:00.940 --> 00:27:09.340 Now, sometime in, so while I was in Nigeria in 2016, you know, a friend of mine reached out to me. 00:27:09.460 --> 00:27:12.940 He was like, Kilich, I had this dream about just going to this village. 00:27:13.559 --> 00:27:16.799 Like, I felt like, I saw this, I've never been to this village in my life. 00:27:16.820 --> 00:27:17.539 I've never heard about it. 00:27:17.580 --> 00:27:23.680 But I felt like God impressed upon me the desire to go to this village in Boronu State. 00:27:24.380 --> 00:27:29.700 Now, whenever you hear someone say Boronu State in Nigeria, most people cringe. 00:27:29.700 --> 00:27:33.500 Because that's the headquarters of Boko Haram. 00:27:34.500 --> 00:27:38.819 So a lot of their atrocities are in Boronu. 00:27:39.539 --> 00:27:40.319 So no one goes there. 00:27:40.360 --> 00:27:41.660 When you say Boronu, people run away. 00:27:41.799 --> 00:27:42.980 People don't even want to hear it. 00:27:43.440 --> 00:27:47.700 My friend, again, told me about this dream he had of going to this village. 00:27:47.819 --> 00:27:48.620 Now, this is December. 00:27:49.100 --> 00:27:51.700 I just come back to America because I spent two months interviewing. 00:27:52.100 --> 00:27:53.100 I come back. 00:27:53.140 --> 00:27:54.799 And the next day, he, like, called me. 00:27:55.340 --> 00:27:58.200 And he's like, yeah, man, I just feel like I'm losing sleep over this. 00:27:58.200 --> 00:28:01.059 I really, I feel like we should go to this village. 00:28:01.140 --> 00:28:02.400 Again, this is this village. 00:28:02.500 --> 00:28:03.400 Very precarious. 00:28:03.559 --> 00:28:05.500 Very dangerous in Boronu. 00:28:05.779 --> 00:28:07.000 So I decided to pray about it. 00:28:07.840 --> 00:28:08.680 And I prayed. 00:28:08.940 --> 00:28:11.700 And, you know, quite frankly, sometimes you pray and you don't hear things. 00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:12.640 And I didn't hear anything. 00:28:13.319 --> 00:28:14.279 But I decided to go. 00:28:15.100 --> 00:28:18.200 Because I felt, you know, I mean, everyone needs the gospel. 00:28:18.500 --> 00:28:20.180 I don't need to hear a voice. 00:28:20.860 --> 00:28:21.620 And I went. 00:28:21.619 --> 00:28:23.000 You know, it was a very crazy idea. 00:28:23.059 --> 00:28:23.899 My parents were terrified. 00:28:24.319 --> 00:28:25.459 And they would not talk to me. 00:28:26.299 --> 00:28:29.899 And four days after that, I went after my friend brought this idea. 00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:30.479 And we went. 00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:33.839 And, again, this was like the 20th of December. 00:28:34.979 --> 00:28:35.619 And we went. 00:28:35.679 --> 00:28:36.439 We did a Christmas visit. 00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:38.859 So this is three of us in that village. 00:28:39.579 --> 00:28:40.319 So we traveled. 00:28:40.879 --> 00:28:41.799 An eight-hour trip. 00:28:42.199 --> 00:28:44.139 We had never been to that state before. 00:28:44.239 --> 00:28:45.659 Never been to that village before. 00:28:46.419 --> 00:28:47.639 Very dangerous zone. 00:28:47.799 --> 00:28:48.559 We just showed up. 00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:49.539 We printed T-shirts. 00:28:50.700 --> 00:28:54.619 And T-shirts said, you know, in their language, you know, Borno, home of peace. 00:28:55.259 --> 00:28:58.159 And we talked about, you know, and we just said about Jesus is the prince of peace. 00:28:58.240 --> 00:28:58.859 Stuff like that. 00:28:59.359 --> 00:29:02.899 And we took these shirts in our backpacks, about 50 of them, and went to this village. 00:29:03.720 --> 00:29:04.899 Three of us, we went there. 00:29:05.659 --> 00:29:08.720 And this is not very bright. 00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:12.299 But we went to the chief of the village. 00:29:12.379 --> 00:29:14.339 Again, this guy is a Muslim, radical Muslim. 00:29:15.339 --> 00:29:17.559 There was a decent chance we could have gotten killed. 00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:20.779 But at this point, I didn't even know what I was thinking. 00:29:20.940 --> 00:29:22.179 I'm not even going to lie to you. 00:29:23.700 --> 00:29:25.500 I just, we're just like, let's do it. 00:29:25.879 --> 00:29:26.419 That's all. 00:29:26.639 --> 00:29:27.319 Let's do it. 00:29:27.339 --> 00:29:28.079 And we went in. 00:29:29.019 --> 00:29:30.500 And we talked to the village chief. 00:29:30.619 --> 00:29:32.119 You know, like, hey, we're not from here. 00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:33.779 We're just visiting. 00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:38.839 And we thought we'll just come and just, we didn't know if people knew about what Christmas meant. 00:29:39.099 --> 00:29:43.179 If we could just share with you about why Christians celebrate Christmas. 00:29:43.500 --> 00:29:44.700 That was what we told this chief. 00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:47.279 Again, he had no idea how he would respond. 00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:48.539 And he was like, yeah, sure. 00:29:48.619 --> 00:29:51.200 I could send my boys to call everyone to my palace. 00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:54.160 So, it was pretty wild. 00:29:54.379 --> 00:29:55.440 It was like wild. 00:29:55.579 --> 00:29:57.839 Again, we showed up to this village at night. 00:29:57.960 --> 00:29:59.319 Again, we traveled all day. 00:29:59.799 --> 00:30:01.339 And we showed up to this village. 00:30:01.440 --> 00:30:02.519 It was like 9 p.m. 00:30:03.059 --> 00:30:04.379 We had no place to sleep. 00:30:05.819 --> 00:30:07.039 I'd never been there again. 00:30:07.700 --> 00:30:09.160 We had, there were no hotels. 00:30:09.299 --> 00:30:10.059 Again, it's a village. 00:30:10.519 --> 00:30:13.579 So, we had no plan as to where am I going to, where are we going to sleep? 00:30:13.700 --> 00:30:14.420 Where are we going to eat? 00:30:15.400 --> 00:30:16.580 So, we're just walking about. 00:30:16.700 --> 00:30:17.740 Again, three of us. 00:30:18.340 --> 00:30:20.320 I'm going to put that picture again so you just see us. 00:30:20.340 --> 00:30:22.700 So, three of us, again, at night with our backpacks. 00:30:22.740 --> 00:30:23.980 With the shirts in our backpacks. 00:30:24.940 --> 00:30:26.580 And we just keep looking around. 00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:29.740 And then we see a sign of Ekwa Church. 00:30:29.840 --> 00:30:30.960 So, E-C-W-A. 00:30:31.060 --> 00:30:31.620 There's a church. 00:30:32.100 --> 00:30:33.620 There's a church in Nigeria called Ekwa. 00:30:33.700 --> 00:30:36.060 It used to be Evangelical Church of West Africa. 00:30:36.059 --> 00:30:39.079 And it was planted many, many years ago. 00:30:39.220 --> 00:30:43.099 Pre, you know, by, I forgot the missionary group. 00:30:43.500 --> 00:30:45.679 But they would go and plant Ekwa Church. 00:30:46.399 --> 00:30:48.099 And now, but they switched their names too. 00:30:48.179 --> 00:30:50.899 Because they decided that they're just not focused on West Africa. 00:30:50.980 --> 00:30:52.940 So, they changed it to like Evangelical Church. 00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:53.859 Winning all. 00:30:53.859 --> 00:30:59.899 And so, these are, if you go to the deeper parts of the northern part of the country. 00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:02.159 If you don't see any churches there. 00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:04.059 If you see a church. 00:31:05.119 --> 00:31:06.359 It's going to be an Ekwa Church. 00:31:06.359 --> 00:31:11.240 Because these people are just, a lot of them are northern. 00:31:11.439 --> 00:31:17.699 And they focus very much on reaching these really remote parts of the country. 00:31:17.839 --> 00:31:19.959 Could you, could you say that a little louder? 00:31:20.139 --> 00:31:20.500 Sorry. 00:31:20.679 --> 00:31:20.899 Okay. 00:31:21.419 --> 00:31:22.879 So, it's Ekwa Church. 00:31:23.439 --> 00:31:28.419 And a lot of their work, they do a lot of work in the northern part of the country. 00:31:28.859 --> 00:31:29.399 Ekwa Church. 00:31:29.399 --> 00:31:32.559 So, if you go to a remote village in northern Nigeria. 00:31:33.740 --> 00:31:35.039 If at all you see a church. 00:31:35.039 --> 00:31:36.799 Now, there's a decent chance you won't see a church. 00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:38.659 Because, again, it's predominantly Muslim. 00:31:38.960 --> 00:31:41.359 But if you see a church, it's probably going to be an Ekwa Church. 00:31:42.279 --> 00:31:44.980 And, so, again, we're in this village at night. 00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:45.720 It's 9 p.m. 00:31:46.500 --> 00:31:47.220 Freaking out. 00:31:47.460 --> 00:31:49.019 Again, we're like, these people don't know us. 00:31:49.099 --> 00:31:50.899 They don't, I mean, we're just freaking out. 00:31:50.940 --> 00:31:52.000 And then we see a sign. 00:31:52.879 --> 00:31:53.599 Ekwa Church. 00:31:54.059 --> 00:31:56.559 So, we go, you know, to that place. 00:31:57.339 --> 00:31:58.720 And there's a little hut. 00:31:59.319 --> 00:32:00.639 And we knock on the door. 00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:03.319 And we keep knocking. 00:32:03.319 --> 00:32:04.299 But we hear voices. 00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:06.159 But no one responds. 00:32:06.960 --> 00:32:07.599 We keep knocking. 00:32:08.539 --> 00:32:12.000 And after, like, almost 30 minutes, someone comes in. 00:32:12.899 --> 00:32:14.500 A lady comes in and opens. 00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:18.899 And, again, she's visibly afraid. 00:32:20.579 --> 00:32:23.420 And she asks us, like, who are you? 00:32:23.460 --> 00:32:28.039 And we're like, yeah, we're Christians from Abuja in the south, you know. 00:32:28.039 --> 00:32:30.879 We're here to just talk to people about Christmas. 00:32:31.579 --> 00:32:33.839 And we could just see this relief in her face. 00:32:33.960 --> 00:32:38.639 Now, she was terrified, obviously, because these are people who are constantly persecuted. 00:32:39.539 --> 00:32:46.839 And these are people who are basically living their lives knowing that any moment from now, they would come and they'll be killed. 00:32:46.839 --> 00:32:54.579 And usually the Christmas, the festive seasons, Christmas, Easter, are usually when Boko Haram strikes. 00:32:55.179 --> 00:32:57.819 Because they know a lot of Christians are, you know, celebrating. 00:32:57.959 --> 00:33:00.500 So, they bomb churches and they do all sorts of things. 00:33:00.500 --> 00:33:04.640 So, this woman was afraid because she thought it was just that kind of visit. 00:33:05.420 --> 00:33:06.660 And so, she welcomed us in. 00:33:06.980 --> 00:33:09.579 And her husband was there, who was a pastor of that local church. 00:33:10.220 --> 00:33:13.940 And they gave us food and, like, gave us a room. 00:33:14.660 --> 00:33:16.640 And we told them about our plan. 00:33:16.640 --> 00:33:19.800 And, again, we didn't speak the language in this place, right? 00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:25.000 So, we didn't even know how we were going to, like, share this Christmas message to people. 00:33:25.240 --> 00:33:28.180 But this pastor was like, yeah, I could translate for you. 00:33:28.700 --> 00:33:29.280 I'm like, great. 00:33:30.020 --> 00:33:34.340 So, the next day, the pastor walks with us to this, again, to this palace. 00:33:35.180 --> 00:33:37.840 And we hang out with this chief. 00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:40.759 And this chief summons a lot of people to his palace. 00:33:41.160 --> 00:33:46.320 And we just sit and just talk about Christmas and why we celebrate Christmas. 00:33:46.640 --> 00:33:48.120 And what Jesus did on the cross. 00:33:48.860 --> 00:33:50.240 And it wasn't real. 00:33:50.580 --> 00:33:52.680 It was just, it was ridiculous. 00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:54.420 Now, my parents are blowing up my phone. 00:33:54.620 --> 00:33:56.720 Like, they were not sure if I was still alive. 00:33:56.759 --> 00:33:57.420 And I couldn't pick. 00:33:59.060 --> 00:34:01.540 But, you know, after a couple of days, we went back home. 00:34:02.820 --> 00:34:03.940 We shared the shirts. 00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:09.300 Again, the shirts had some Bible passages in their language, which is really cool. 00:34:09.900 --> 00:34:11.460 And a lot of these people just took the shirts. 00:34:11.579 --> 00:34:12.180 And that's what we did. 00:34:12.179 --> 00:34:21.719 And the idea was, hopefully, I talked to the village chief about the possibility of setting up a clinic in that village. 00:34:21.799 --> 00:34:27.799 So, the idea was, we'll set up a clinic, a school, and in the process, plant a church. 00:34:28.219 --> 00:34:29.940 And we're trying to develop a different model. 00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:32.219 What we had in Jaida, we had a physical structure. 00:34:32.219 --> 00:34:42.619 But we're trying to move away from that because once a lot of the villages just hear church and they see a building, they avoid it totally. 00:34:43.219 --> 00:34:51.779 So, we're trying to move away from the physical building model to a more home-based model where we have people with disciples and they just disciple people in their homes. 00:34:52.500 --> 00:34:54.639 So, that's the plan for this village. 00:34:54.639 --> 00:34:57.940 But hopefully, that will pick up in the next year or two. 00:34:58.339 --> 00:35:01.699 I'm still trusting God to provide both the funds and the people. 00:35:03.440 --> 00:35:05.799 I'm going to be rounding up shortly. 00:35:06.539 --> 00:35:15.500 But, again, during my time, again, so this one year in Nigeria, post-college was very pivotal for me because, again, I lived there. 00:35:16.179 --> 00:35:21.500 Now, as a Christian, as a 22-year-old Christian, right? 00:35:21.500 --> 00:35:24.099 I left Nigeria at 17 to come here for college. 00:35:24.619 --> 00:35:25.820 And now I come to know Jesus. 00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:26.579 I was more mature. 00:35:26.739 --> 00:35:28.239 I could now see just the needs. 00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:34.219 And one of the needs I identified was this issue of internally displaced persons. 00:35:35.719 --> 00:35:38.039 So, these are, like, internal refugees within Nigeria. 00:35:38.159 --> 00:35:40.480 So, these are people displaced from the northern part of the country. 00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:44.420 Again, where, like, Boko Haram is pretty much decimating villages, right? 00:35:44.760 --> 00:35:51.420 In 2015 alone, we had over 3,000 people or 4,000 people killed by Boko Haram. 00:35:51.500 --> 00:36:05.139 So, what the government does is that it takes these people, a lot of these people who are children and, you know, people, and they're orphaned, obviously, and displaces them and brings them, you know, relocates them, quote, unquote, to safer siters. 00:36:05.139 --> 00:36:09.480 And by relocation, I don't mean, like, rehabilitation. 00:36:09.779 --> 00:36:12.940 I mean literally just dumping them on a piece of land. 00:36:13.739 --> 00:36:16.159 So, you can go to these IDP camps. 00:36:16.359 --> 00:36:19.519 They're called IDP camps, internally displaced person camps. 00:36:20.139 --> 00:36:27.199 And you just see hundreds of people, a lot of whom are children, children running around naked, you know, starving. 00:36:28.059 --> 00:36:29.059 And there's just a lot of suffering. 00:36:29.159 --> 00:36:32.300 And the funny thing is that these camps are not, like, on the outskirts. 00:36:33.139 --> 00:36:35.639 These camps are in the heart of the city. 00:36:36.699 --> 00:36:41.420 Like, beside these camps, you can just see massive structures, like buildings, offices. 00:36:42.019 --> 00:36:43.519 But next door are these camps. 00:36:43.880 --> 00:36:44.800 It's actually kind of funny. 00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:51.900 So, what I was doing when I had some time, when I wasn't in the clinic or helping out at the school in the village, 00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:57.060 I would come volunteer at these camps, teach the kids how to write and read and stuff like that. 00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:02.200 And so, the time came for me to go back to start medical school. 00:37:02.940 --> 00:37:04.780 And so, it was three of us who were doing this. 00:37:04.840 --> 00:37:08.240 And the other guy was going to England for his master's. 00:37:08.240 --> 00:37:10.680 So, we were thinking about, well, how can we sustain this? 00:37:10.679 --> 00:37:16.719 So, what we did, we raised some money and we sent 16 of these kids to schools in the area. 00:37:17.759 --> 00:37:23.019 And while I was in med school, we started getting reports from this school that these kids were doing so well. 00:37:25.259 --> 00:37:28.739 So, we decided, well, let's make this official. 00:37:29.659 --> 00:37:37.199 How about we just register an organization that exists to just raise money to send kids from this camp to local schools in the area. 00:37:37.859 --> 00:37:38.519 So, that's what we did. 00:37:38.519 --> 00:37:40.840 So, we registered, we called it Young Shippers Club. 00:37:41.559 --> 00:37:46.420 And it was basically like formed to raise money to send these kids from this camp to school. 00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:48.840 So, we sent 16 in the fall of 2017. 00:37:49.480 --> 00:37:54.519 And in the fall of 2018, we sent 120, which is amazing, right? 00:37:54.559 --> 00:37:58.920 Because it basically cost like $30 to send these kids to school for the entire year. 00:37:59.340 --> 00:38:03.179 Again, including uniforms and books, tuition, everything. 00:38:03.179 --> 00:38:06.559 So, I just reached out to my rich American friends. 00:38:06.779 --> 00:38:09.179 I said, hey, I know you eat dinner for $30. 00:38:09.239 --> 00:38:10.359 You know, you spent $30 on dinner. 00:38:10.519 --> 00:38:13.239 You know, you want to use that to send the kids to school. 00:38:13.339 --> 00:38:15.919 And that has been, you know, sort of our model. 00:38:16.679 --> 00:38:21.440 Now, the challenge is, well, we want to send these kids to school, but we don't want to end there, right? 00:38:21.679 --> 00:38:22.679 Anyone can do that. 00:38:22.819 --> 00:38:24.819 We want these kids to come to know Jesus. 00:38:24.820 --> 00:38:27.720 Again, these are kids from the northeastern part of the country. 00:38:28.539 --> 00:38:30.480 99.9% Muslim. 00:38:32.480 --> 00:38:34.620 But they're going to school and they can now read. 00:38:35.580 --> 00:38:37.780 And so, we're thinking of, well, how can we incorporate? 00:38:38.080 --> 00:38:42.920 How can we get these kids to know Jesus in a way that is not manipulative? 00:38:43.140 --> 00:38:46.340 In a way that is not viewed as, you know, we're forcing things on them. 00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:47.780 And we don't know yet. 00:38:48.260 --> 00:38:49.340 We're still thinking through that. 00:38:49.660 --> 00:38:52.080 We're not sure, but we see a great potential. 00:38:52.079 --> 00:38:54.219 Because by sending them to school, we have these relationships. 00:38:54.779 --> 00:38:55.579 They trust us. 00:38:55.699 --> 00:38:57.639 They call me sometimes, you know. 00:38:57.799 --> 00:39:00.900 They get phones and they call me and they send messages to me. 00:39:01.480 --> 00:39:02.900 So, there's this relationship that exists. 00:39:03.099 --> 00:39:08.519 And I'm still praying for just, I guess, creative ways to engage them. 00:39:08.599 --> 00:39:09.319 Again, they're still little. 00:39:09.480 --> 00:39:11.460 They're like, some of them are eight, some nine, some seven. 00:39:12.099 --> 00:39:14.539 So, I'm still praying about how we could do this. 00:39:16.659 --> 00:39:18.860 So, that's basically it. 00:39:18.860 --> 00:39:25.579 But, I'm going to leave just a couple minutes for questions before we pray. 00:39:26.559 --> 00:39:27.940 Does anyone have any questions for me? 00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:29.380 Thank you. 00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:34.220 So, I would guess from what you said that your dad was a committed Christian. 00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:35.380 Yes, he was. 00:39:35.519 --> 00:39:35.920 He was. 00:39:36.019 --> 00:39:39.140 But, though you were in the church, you know, the gospel didn't ring home for you. 00:39:39.180 --> 00:39:39.640 Not at all. 00:39:40.019 --> 00:39:40.620 There at Cornell. 00:39:41.300 --> 00:39:41.660 Yes. 00:39:41.960 --> 00:39:42.660 Which is so weird. 00:39:43.440 --> 00:39:44.180 So weird. 00:39:44.380 --> 00:39:44.500 Yeah. 00:39:44.820 --> 00:39:45.140 Yeah. 00:39:45.260 --> 00:39:46.280 Really, really thankful. 00:39:46.400 --> 00:39:47.160 It was just God's grace. 00:39:47.240 --> 00:39:48.099 It was not going to happen. 00:39:48.099 --> 00:39:49.559 And, like, he just showed up. 00:39:50.139 --> 00:39:50.339 Yeah. 00:39:52.860 --> 00:39:53.819 Any other questions? 00:39:55.440 --> 00:39:59.860 Do you have any financial support from specific churches in the United States? 00:40:00.799 --> 00:40:01.199 No. 00:40:01.699 --> 00:40:02.619 Except Trinity. 00:40:04.099 --> 00:40:04.739 This Trinity. 00:40:04.839 --> 00:40:05.659 Yes, this church. 00:40:06.460 --> 00:40:06.900 Recently. 00:40:07.299 --> 00:40:09.559 Which I'm very, very, very, very grateful for. 00:40:10.059 --> 00:40:11.639 But, as far as churches, not really. 00:40:13.079 --> 00:40:16.339 Some of my supporters are not believers at all. 00:40:16.340 --> 00:40:20.579 There are some family foundations that I reach out to. 00:40:20.660 --> 00:40:21.980 Some Christian family foundations. 00:40:23.180 --> 00:40:27.600 But, for the most part, just individuals and, yeah, people. 00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:36.100 Because, you know, I like to, you know, I want to be clear about the mission aspect of this. 00:40:36.140 --> 00:40:37.600 This is not just humanitarian, right? 00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:40.259 Anyone can go and set up schools and clinics. 00:40:40.259 --> 00:40:43.960 But I want to be very intentional about the purpose, right? 00:40:44.039 --> 00:40:50.380 Again, thinking about Jesus and his model of, like, healing the Sikh so that they will come to know him, right? 00:40:50.460 --> 00:40:52.440 So that they will come to have this relationship with him. 00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:54.259 And I don't believe in just stopping there. 00:40:54.819 --> 00:40:56.639 So because of that, there are a lot of barriers, right? 00:40:56.679 --> 00:40:59.420 There are some funds I can't access because we're Christian. 00:40:59.420 --> 00:41:01.820 And that's just who we are. 00:41:01.940 --> 00:41:03.480 And some people are like, yeah, we're not going to fund that. 00:41:03.940 --> 00:41:05.180 So that's a challenge. 00:41:06.420 --> 00:41:06.740 Yeah. 00:41:08.539 --> 00:41:11.659 Who were the directors of the crew at Cornell when you were there? 00:41:12.059 --> 00:41:12.900 Directors of what, sorry? 00:41:13.220 --> 00:41:14.099 Who were the directors? 00:41:14.500 --> 00:41:14.980 At crew? 00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:17.159 Yeah, at Cornell when you were there. 00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:18.720 Oh, the campus staff? 00:41:18.940 --> 00:41:19.200 Yeah. 00:41:19.480 --> 00:41:19.680 Oh. 00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:20.519 Do you remember who they were? 00:41:20.579 --> 00:41:21.079 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:41:21.079 --> 00:41:21.840 I don't even know them. 00:41:21.980 --> 00:41:22.740 JW Betts? 00:41:22.780 --> 00:41:24.039 I don't know if that sounds familiar. 00:41:24.240 --> 00:41:25.820 But that was the only family there. 00:41:26.400 --> 00:41:28.559 But now, like, a lot of staff have joined. 00:41:28.559 --> 00:41:30.900 But it was just them and us. 00:41:31.420 --> 00:41:31.500 Yeah. 00:41:33.299 --> 00:41:34.320 Any other questions? 00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:34.679 Yeah. 00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:39.440 Would you say that reaching a point of enlightenment through your education helped to further your 00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:46.619 relationship with God in which kind of, not kind of it, it pushed you to pursue such a noble cause? 00:41:46.940 --> 00:41:47.320 Right. 00:41:48.179 --> 00:41:49.860 I mean, the pursuit of education, you mean? 00:41:51.099 --> 00:41:56.519 Just reaching a point where you became more educated, knowledgeable about the world around you, 00:41:56.519 --> 00:42:07.460 just enabled you to be more at one with Jesus Christ in which that is what caused you to be so passionate about you pursuing. 00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:08.579 Right, yeah. 00:42:08.759 --> 00:42:09.440 I mean, yes. 00:42:09.639 --> 00:42:14.759 Definitely my education did really challenge me to question things, right? 00:42:14.760 --> 00:42:19.020 Because, I mean, I grew up, I mean, they told me a lot, I heard a lot of things. 00:42:19.100 --> 00:42:30.240 But now, being at an institution where it's okay to question why we did what, I was free, in a sense, to just really challenge, like, wait, why? 00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:32.539 What is Christianity about, right? 00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:45.699 Because when I came to know God, I didn't want to, I didn't want to, you know, the idea of just going to church and, like, meeting people and hanging out was just not enough, right? 00:42:45.739 --> 00:42:53.579 Because I began to, again, read the scriptures and I saw very clear instructions as to what the Christian life ought to look like. 00:42:53.579 --> 00:43:01.059 And, again, the intellectual in me couldn't bear with just doing things just because. 00:43:01.159 --> 00:43:02.860 Because, I mean, I didn't have a lot of time. 00:43:03.400 --> 00:43:04.619 So I just didn't want to do things. 00:43:05.480 --> 00:43:06.900 You know, I'd rather just not do it at all. 00:43:07.079 --> 00:43:08.099 It had no meaning. 00:43:08.259 --> 00:43:11.960 So, yes, that really did help solidify a lot of things. 00:43:14.219 --> 00:43:16.000 Any other questions before we pray? 00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:16.639 Okay. 00:43:18.400 --> 00:43:18.760 Okay. 00:43:19.380 --> 00:43:22.280 So let's just pray for, like, a minute or two. 00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:24.719 Because I know we have to, like, I'm sorry. 00:43:25.800 --> 00:43:27.460 But just some things to pray about. 00:43:27.960 --> 00:43:29.659 We're just going to, you can just bow your heads. 00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:34.039 And I'm just going to call out a request and we'll just spend a couple of seconds praying. 00:43:35.860 --> 00:43:42.860 So we just, can we just pray for continued open doors in just the more difficult areas in northern Nigeria? 00:43:42.860 --> 00:43:48.579 Lord, we praise you for opening up that village in the north. 00:43:49.579 --> 00:43:52.519 And just doing an amazing work at the beginning and now. 00:43:53.380 --> 00:43:59.760 Oh, continue that opening of doors that we may praise you together. 00:44:02.260 --> 00:44:05.780 We just pray that the Lord will raise more laborers for this work. 00:44:06.019 --> 00:44:08.800 That more Christians will be willing to go to these hard places. 00:44:09.400 --> 00:44:09.840 Yes. 00:44:12.860 --> 00:44:22.680 Lord, thank you for putting that dream in Colachia's friend's mind, Lord. 00:44:22.860 --> 00:44:29.079 And thank you for giving those three courage to embark on that journey. 00:44:29.960 --> 00:44:33.039 And we pray that you would raise up more people. 00:44:33.500 --> 00:44:35.900 We pray that you would strengthen the churches that are already there, 00:44:35.900 --> 00:44:41.920 the EQUA churches that have been faithful in difficult places for a long time. 00:44:41.920 --> 00:44:50.039 And we pray that you would bring more Christians from the south of Nigeria and from even other countries that would participate in different ways. 00:44:50.639 --> 00:44:51.139 In Jesus' name. 00:44:51.380 --> 00:44:51.680 Amen. 00:44:52.059 --> 00:44:57.559 Dear God, we just thank you that we could just talk about the ways in which you're moving in Nigeria. 00:44:57.880 --> 00:45:03.639 Thank you for the privilege, the privilege of me just being a part of this work. 00:45:03.639 --> 00:45:13.359 Thank you, Lord, that it's just such an incredible thing that you call weak and broken people to partner with you in such majestic work. 00:45:13.360 --> 00:45:24.079 We pray, Lord, that you continue to work in the hearts of these people, breaking down the walls and the barriers, 00:45:24.559 --> 00:45:29.280 that the truth of the gospel will just shine through and they will be changed and transformed by it. 00:45:29.840 --> 00:45:31.180 We thank you once again for this time. 00:45:31.360 --> 00:45:32.840 We pray all this in Christ's name. 00:45:33.220 --> 00:45:33.420 Amen. 00:45:33.420 --> 00:45:33.820 Amen. 00:45:33.820 --> 00:45:34.420 Amen. 00:45:34.420 --> 00:45:34.500 Amen. 00:45:34.500 --> 00:45:34.920 Amen. 00:45:34.920 --> 00:45:34.980 Amen. 00:45:34.980 --> 00:45:35.420 Amen. 00:45:35.420 --> 00:45:35.500 Amen. 00:45:35.500 --> 00:45:35.539 Amen. 00:45:35.539 --> 00:45:35.579 Amen. 00:45:35.579 --> 00:45:35.620 Amen.