All right. Welcome back. Welcome to our class this morning. Let's begin with the time of prayer and then we'll get into our classes. Father, we thank you for this time. We thank you Lord for giving us this opportunity once again to study and learn practical insights on church planting and how Lord you have called each one of us to build your kingdom and even as we plan and prepare and learn a God, we pray God that you will speak to us, you will give us new ideas, strategies Lord, burden us, Lord, plans, the things of God that we will Lord fulfill through your strength, through your power working in and through us Lord. We thank you for what is ahead and we just pray God that even as we study this our Lord that you will minister and you will speak to us for God. Amen our hearts and we ask this in Jesus name. Amen. All right. So last class we started with chapter 14. We began with looking at the stages of growth. We looked at how just like the natural body goes through stages of growth the church also goes through stages of growth. So we did the first one which was a pioneering stage. Then we looked at administrative organizational and structural stage meaning there's a time when as a church grows you need to get administrative, you know, get the administration of the church. You got to organize things, got to have a structure and I also shared a couple of, you know, strategies and structure that we follow here at APC. Now again, those are all come over time, right? We learned it, we learned, okay, this is how, you know, we can be more effective. So the best part is maybe if we are starting a ministry you can start off with having these structures in place. You know, sometimes we may feel, hey man, we are a small church we don't need to be so organized or so we can just get things done. But remember that you're setting the foundation. So as the church grows, you see many more people joining and you already have set things in place. So we looked at that and then we looked at the pastoral team stage team ministry and senior pastor. So as the church grows, the new leaders are raised up and eventually those leaders can become pastors in the church and then the pastors have team ministries and then the senior pastor goes into a place of overseeing, right? Overseeing and the function, the overall direction of the church. So the senior pastor is no longer, you know, involved in every small detail, right? Now, because as the church grows, you have leaders who are taking care of it like pastoral team leaders. But he's overseeing, he or she as a pioneer or the senior pastor's overseeing, developing leaders, giving, you know, very important was to trust your leaders to have them be faithful. And when we trust them, they will automatically be faithful in what they're doing. And today we'll get into the fourth point, which is the equipping, building and the trainer stage, right? Now, over time, what's happened is the church has been growing. Now, after you have all of this in place, you have a pastoral team, you have team leaders and team ministries, then you have the senior pastor who is overseeing all of this. Then comes a phase where as a church, you will look at equipping others. So it's no longer only within the church, right? It's not that, okay, I need to make sure that my church is doing well. I need to make sure that we are growing spiritually, growing in numbers. It is no longer just the leaders doing the ministry or the pastors doing the ministry, but everyone is involved. So one of the, something that we always believe in at APC is that every believer is a minister. So we all have gifts and talents, God has placed in us. We all can serve some way or the other. We believe that every one of us can minister, right? And then there's this emphasis on supernatural ministry, right? Moving everyone into a place of science, wonders and miracles. Now, this is an important phase because in the initial days, as a church, if you are beginning to, you know, talk about the gifts of the spirit, now we must understand that there are different kinds of people who will come into church. Some of them will be people who are just new to the faith. Some of them may be way matured in the faith. Some of them are still learning, growing, have a lot of questions. So different levels, of maturity they are in. So, emphasize, something that we can do is emphasize supernatural ministry, right? Talk about supernatural ministry.   He wants to release prophetic. He wants to, you know, release the gifts of the spirit within the church. And every believer has the gifts of the Holy Spirit. And we can flow in these gifts. What are we doing? We are emphasizing that the supernatural ministry is there within the church. So it's not like only in the book of Acts there are healings and after that there's no healings. No. We are emphasizing. We are encouraging people to step into the supernatural. Now, even as we do this, it's very important as we do this. Now, even as we do this, it's very important as teachers and as pastors and leaders that we set guidelines, be there to, you know, probably give them set guidelines on how to minister to people. Right? So we can, we can have good motives. Right? Hey, I want to learn the prophetic, but also how a prophetic word is released or how a word of knowledge is released. And if God is leading you towards praying for healing, how do you pray for it? And things like that, just the practical aspects, but emphasize the supernatural ministry, emphasize that everyone can flow in that. Right? So then the senior pastor focuses on equipping and imparting and then comes in the pastoral care. Now, when you talk about pastoral care, there's so much, right? That is, that's caring for the members. And so something that we have at ABC is we have a separate member care team. And so pastoral care could include, you know, just going for house visits, hospital visits. Right? And over time, as your church grows, you know, you'll have hundreds of people. Now, it is obvious that a pastoral team of five or six people cannot do all the house visits, hospital visits, because they also have other tasks to do. So what you can, what we have at ABC is we have something called as a member care team. So the member care team, they call up our members, talk to them. Many times members don't want to share what they're going through in life because they feel, hey, pastors are already busy. I don't want to burden them with something more.  So sometimes they may hesitate. But when you have a member care team, they're willing, they're there for, you know, house visits, hospital visits, also for funeral services. You know, there are so many other things that need to be prepared for funeral services and all many other things, right? Within the church, just caring for the members. And so we have this in place as well. And then the church begins to penetrate the community and catch the vision of being a missional church, right? So one thing, one of the aspects that we try to do at ABC is we are doing it right now, is that we try to penetrate every sphere of influence, every community. And as we do that, we also have missions, right? So as teams, what we do is we, you know, we have people all across our nation. So we have two to three days conferences. Now these conferences could be a pastors conference. It could be a youth conference. It could be a leaders conference. Then we also have times when it is, you know, conferences on leadership and how to be a good leader. So all of these, you know, missions, works are there. And most of the time, what we do is we send our church folks, mature church believers who go, they don't have a, they may not be pastors. They may not be teachers of the word, but they're mature and Christ.  So what happens is believers are ministering to one another and they're ministering to people around the world. So it's no longer, okay, I'm in the corporate. I will only be in the corporate and I'll come on Sunday, serve and go. No. Right. It's more of, hey, I'm in the corporate, in the corporate sector. I am a minister of God. I am called to be a minister. On Sunday, I am there to serve volunteer. And apart from that, God is also calling me to reach out to minister to people around me. So we move the church from this place of only being recipients to a place of giving. Right. To a place of ministering. Right. Now, again, as pastors and leaders, we must be able to identify, right, good leaders. Right. So for example, if you're, if you want to start a life group, right, we cannot just choose anyone. Right. We need to make sure because the life group leader is going to be ministering to about 10 people within the church. So what he or she says is very important. Right. So we need to train them. We need to understand like, okay, this person, okay, he or she has caught the vision of the church, has been regular to church, understands the theology of the church, the doctrines of the church, understands how the church moves. Right. So because the dangers are if, for example, right, somebody comes into church and, you know, they say, hey, you look like you can be a good leader. We appoint them and then later we realize, you know, appoint them as a life group leader and they administering to people and later we realize, hey, he does not believe in the supernatural. What happens? It becomes a problem. Right. So it's very important to know the person to, especially when they're coming into a place of leadership. Then once we know them, we know the doctrine, we know what they believe in, we know their works, we release them to begin to minister to people. Right. And you will find people that way, right. They who are learning or growing, there'll be two years, three years in the church and eventually we can give them opportunities. Right. And then the fifth stage, I just want to apologize for the sound because there's some, you know, construction that's happening. So the sound is disturbing. I apologize for that. So, but please let me know if my voice is all right, if I'm audible enough, right. Yeah. Okay. So let's go to the fifth point. Now from the equipping stage, we are equipping people within the church to go out, to train, to lead others. Then comes the apostolic mindset. And this is again a phase of, you know, just going about doing bigger things. So it's no longer, I am a pastor of this church. You may be a pastor of this church, but the moment you get into this apostolic function, it, the mindset changes, right. Now it's not like you're saying, okay, I don't want anything to do with the home church. No. But your priorities have changed. Remember the pioneering stage? In the pioneering stage, you're thinking about your church, right. The administrative stage, organizational stage, you're thinking about your church, right. I need to get things right within the church. Pastoral stage, you're looking at the next generation or the leaders that are required. Equipping stage, you're looking at, okay, everyone in the church should come to a place of reaching out to people. But now it's not only the church inside, right. It's not about only equipping people within the church, but rather than the focus being internal, the focus is now being more external. All this while, the first four points were 85 to 90 percent internal. Now, when you get into the apostolic stage, 80 to 90 percent is external. 10 percent is internal. Why? Because you've established a good framework here. So as a senior pastor, as a leader of the ministry, you can begin to freely move out, go to places, gain new territory, get, you know, start new programs.  Now, you feel it's a good opportunity.  That means what stage three has not been established properly, right? Because we need to have people on board, on the team who can take up responsibilities, right? It should never be that 10 years after a church that you are the only person who are preaching. It should never be that way. There should be other leaders. So now in the apostolic function, the senior pastor has people. So even if his presence is not there for a limited period of time, it's all right. Everything will go on. The wheels are in motion. Why? So for example, the senior pastor says, I am going for a month. Now, I've been, you know, doing a couple of events in a different nation. Now, we don't have to panic. Why? There's a conference coming up. OK, we have the teams. We have the administrative team. We have the organization. We have the structure. Everything is set in place. Just follow the structure. Everything will be done perfectly, right? So the apostolic states, the church begins to actively reproduce itself in regions beyond, meaning in different places. New churches are planted different, not only in the city, but in different parts of the city, different states, different nations. The church begins to minister, right? Believers have an apostolic mindset, meaning they're willing to sacrifice, go to new places, build God's kingdom, speak into people's lives, minister to people, right? And something that we have is I'm sure many of you have heard of it all these years. We had the short-term Bible college. We had, again, missions that we would go to. And it was wonderful to see, you know, even in the short-term Bible college, we had our church members going and teaching, right? When I say they would go, life group leaders, a few of them, they would go teach and come. So it's not always, oh, the pastors are coming to teach now. And so why are we doing that? So that we understand that, hey, as a church, we're a apostolic in nature. We want to go, gain ground. Imagine five people in the pastoral team, example, right? Five of them are doing all the missions. Now, how will the church function? We cannot, we need others to go. We need others to take up responsibilities. So the local church, that is your pioneering, point number one, your pioneering base, your starting church, the local church has become the missions base rather than a spiritual nursery, meaning more than just, you know, looking after people, you know, caring for them, and which is all important, right? I'm not saying that's not important, right? The church is always priority, you know, as pastors. The church is everything to them. They, their heart, their life is for the church, right? But rather than just being a place of, you know, just providing spiritual growth and all of that, which is important, it becomes a place of, becomes a missions base where we send out people to different cities, different nations, and they go and start a work of for God, right? So no more is it just looking after, hey, again, even as all this is happening, the other things are still going on. The wheels are in motion, right? Sunday services are going on, FTV is coming, people get connected to the church, people get connected to volunteer teams, life groups, all of that is happening. But as a senior pastor and as leaders, you're saying, hey, we are becoming a missional church, an apostolic church. We're going to raise up leaders, send them out. They will go start new churches, plant new churches, start new ministries, gain new ground. And then what the best part is, they have seen what we do in the local church, right? They have seen how they function. They have seen what works, what does not work. So they're able to replicate this in other places, right? And eventually we want to become self-sustaining, meaning establish ongoing discipleship, equipping of believers, leadership development, raising up of new leaders, all of this, and then become financially stable. So all of this will happen, right? But here's the thing. We cannot be in a hurry. We need to go along with God, go along with what he is doing, understand how he's working, make the right decisions at the right time, learn from your mistakes, trust in God, have faith in him. God will definitely do this, right? Because his promise is, you know, he says, I will build my church. The gates of hell shall not prevail against it. So he will build. All he's asking is for us to put our hands to work. Right? So these are the five stages, growth and consolidation. And, you know, these are certain areas that if you are planning to start a church, pioneering a church, just go over it. Think about it. Think about, see, the way we do the administration or the organization, the structure is in one way.  You can do what works for you, right? And then you can also make changes. If you feel that it's not working, make changes, right? Say, okay, should we do it this way rather than this way? So again, we ask God for wisdom to do that. But then it's important to have these set in place. And eventually we will see growth. We will see consolidation that is strengthening what we already have. Right? Any questions, any thoughts you'd like to share? I know we always, only one talking. Everyone are so quiet. Any thoughts? And if you have been involved in church planting work, like maybe with your pastors or part of a core team starting church, any one of you would like to share? Nobody. Nobody's been part of a, or even if it's not a new church, but at least maybe a new ministry within the church. Or what are things that, in terms of organization, administration, what are things that you learned or you see in your church? Would you like to share that? It would be a good learning. Administratively. If you'd like to share, you can share. Nobody? Okay. I know that Rosalind serves in the church. I'm not sure at what capacity. Rosalind, Zellie also, right? You also serve in the church. Okay. All right. Go ahead, Zellie. Yeah. I was an APC team, but before APC, before I joined APC ministry, way back in 2011, I was a part of ministry, church ministry in Cojima. Where after my Bible school, you know, like three of my friends and our mentor, we started a church, and it was such a great experience and great learning experience for me because I had no much such experience at the time. I was a freshly graduated from the Bible school, but by faith, we started the ministry. It was for, I think around six months, there was intense prayer session. We used to pray and we used to go around the locality, praying around that locality, claiming the lost souls and all those things. And yeah. And now I'm not a part of that ministry, but I see growth in that ministry and my mentor there, he's doing a great job. Yeah. Wonderful. Wonderful. Thank you for sharing, Zellie. Yes. Anyone else would like to share? All right. All right, no worries. So let's get into the next chapter. He'll be to stop me at any time if you want to share any thoughts or questions. Chapter 15, we'll talk about multiplication and branching out, right? So multiplication and branching is self-explanatory, right? Just multiplying. We see that in the book of Acts, there were churches, they multiplied and it just kept growing. Many churches were planted and many people were equipped. So one of the things that we can do, once you're, again, we've talked about this, right? You've planted the local church, you've pioneered the church one or two years down the line or even five years, right? The timeframe is something that we can choose, right? But one or maybe one to five years down the line, plant additional churches within the city, right? Now, even as you do that, how do you go about doing it? One, envision the church, share the vision with the church, right? So the thing is, sometimes we have the vision in our heart, but we need to share it with them. Share it with the church, right? So I remember in Mangalore, we were about 55 to 60 people in the church and we had a whole group of... No, Mangalore is a place where people would come from different cities to study. And so we had a whole group of Northeast community. So there were about 20 of them. Now, they would come to church, but they were not very regular, right? So I used to talk to them. I used to ask them what happened, why is it... So they give valid reasons. They said, see, Sunday is the day... the only day where they get to rest because Monday to Saturday, they have hectic schedule, studying the whole day. Sunday is the only day they get to rest. And two is, since it's a Sunday, the transport road or the vehicle transport facilities are lesser. So they have to travel about 12 kilometers only to get to church, right? And our church service starts at 10 o'clock, 10.30. So they said, these are the challenges that we face. So what happened was I spoke to them and I said, how about, since you want to rest on Sundays and the distance is too far, how about we start an evening church service near your area, near your colleges. So all 20 of you can come, right? So I checked with them. It's evening, okay. They all were very happy. They said, yes, evening is perfect because we get up late and it's understandable. They are young guys, right? Young people, early 18, 19, 20 years old. So I said, okay, it's fine. You can rest on Sunday, take your time, get good rest, do whatever work you have. Evening service and it's just five minutes away from your hostel. So do you think this will work? They said, yes, it will be perfect. We all will come and there are many students over here. We can invite them also and I'm sure they'll come. So what happened was I said, okay, give me three months. So I said to them, one of the regular students, I said, give me three months. So what we did was, what I did was I called the church together and I said, okay, this is what the vision is now. We want to start another location. Now, we didn't want to start just because, okay, we have nothing to do. That was not the point. So I shared that. We shared that, hey, this is where it is. The students are staying far away. These are the challenges. That's why they aren't able to come. So let us keep this in prayer. Three months we'll pray and we'll also ask God to open the right door for us. So we kept it in prayer. We prayed as a church. And then one church member, I remember very clearly, I was in Bangalore attending a conference. So I had come from Mangalore to Bangalore to another. And I was attending a conference and I got a call from our church member who was there in Mangalore and he said, I found the perfect place for church. And I've also spoken to the owner. And the owner was very good, very kind. He said, we can go ahead. He's ready to give us the space. And it's exactly opposite the college. It'll take the students two minutes to get there. And it can seat about 100 people inside. Now, I didn't go searching. I didn't do anything. They went and then they did everything. These are all church members because the vision was already shared with them. So they went. They saw the place. They got the appointment with the owner. I went with them. We spoke. We got the permissions here from Bangalore. Permissions were granted. We got the space. The church themselves came forward and said, you know what? I want to give for the chairs. I want to give for the stage. I want to give for the music for the speaker. Everyone contributed something. Now we never asked them what happened. They themselves came forward. Why did that happen? Because they caught the vision. Oh, they are ministering to students. So students are important. They are the next generation. So after three months, we started the church. And when we started, we did the same thing what we do in the main church. Same thing. Same service. Same sermon. Everything is the same. The first Sunday, we had so many people who came. If I'm not wrong, we were somewhere around 35 people. First Sunday of the launch of the church. 35 more people came. And over time, the church began to grow. Unfortunately, what happened was the lockdown came. And so many of the students went back home. It was early 2020. And then many of the students went back home. And when they went back home, we had to close it down because there was no church services at all. So we went back to going online. But all of these students were able to minister to all of the students. Remember the work that is done. And even now we have a church plant there. So envision, share the vision with them. Send out church planting teams. Now here's the thing. For new church plants, churches function independently or they can function as one church, many congregations. And then you have churches as satellite churches, live stream, and then you have campus pastors. Now let me explain this to you. First one, churches functioning independently. Now you can have a church. So I'll just share from what we do at APC. So we have churches all across India. So the churches in North India, different states, they don't follow the same pattern that we do here because many of them are in towns and villages. So they function independently. So for example, whenever they'd like, they do youth meeting, men's ministry, women's conference. Whenever they feel they are independent, but they're part of APC. Whatever they plan, they plan, they do it. Then you have churches which functions as one church. That is what's happening in Bangalore. North, south, east, west, central. We all function as one church. It is the same sermon. It is the same pattern. It is the same order of service at all locations. So if you go and sit in any of our Bangalore locations, not south, east, west or central, it is the same. Plus the worship songs may be different. The worship leaders choose different songs, but it is the same sermon. It is the same PPT. It is the same order of service. So we serve as one. So for example, we have a men's conference or a women's conference. What happens? Emailers go out to all of them. North, south, east, west, central. We have a CHMS. We have a tour. We choose mail and age group. Click on it. We get all the men. This age group 30 to 60. And then we send them in email. So it's not like, okay, men's conference is only for central and for north and south, it's another day. No, we function as one church. All of us. So we always leave this option open. A person can move from central to another location or from another location to central.  No, we're all one church.  Many congregations. Then you have the satellite church. Now the satellite church is nowadays is, and this is already happening in the west and it's slowly coming in. And I'm sure in a couple of years, we will have it here in our nation as well is most of the times what happens is if there's a church, you have a campus pastor, right? So what happens is the worship happens there. Locally. And then when the sermon time comes, the sermon is broadcasted from the main church. So the main senior pastor is preaching and everyone in this church are watching the sermon live probably on the projector, LED screen, whatever. But you have a campus pastor to look after the needs of the people, right? Now the Lord's table and all of it may be done locally itself. Worship, you'll have worship teams, everything is done locally. But when it comes to the sermon, now this is just an example. There are churches which have, you know, people, even the pastors are preaching in the campus church as well. But most of these live stream satellite churches work this way. Now it's not very, it's not a growing thing in right now in our nation. It's not, maybe a couple of churches have prayed it, but we know that it can happen soon. We can do it. It's an avenue that we can, God will definitely open for us. So we can be in, for example, we can be in Bangalore and the Sunday sermon is being preached live and we can have somebody in maybe France sitting. We can have an APC campus group in France sitting in a college, maybe 50 of them sitting there and they are washing it together as a community. That becomes a satellite church, right? Now, again, the functions within that church may differ. They may have different kinds of events, youth meeting, men's ministry, women's ministry, children's ministry, all of that will be happening. But for the Sunday service, it works that way. And multiplication also includes planting new churches in other cities as well. So one of the things that, one of the ways that we have planted churches across our nation is through Bible colleges. So we have people coming from different cities and they would come, they would study here and some of them would approach and say, hey, I want to start a church in my hometown. So they go back, we help them to start a church initially, just help them to plant the church, give them spiritual guidance, just be a backbone, be a support to them. And so all of our, almost all of our outreach churches have been started that way. Most of them are BC alumni, Bible college students who've passed on, right? So envision them again, where even as Bible college students go, give them, you know, options to start church plans and be there to give them spiritual oversight, spiritual direction, nurture to build them up, right? Now here's the thing, in the initial of this phase of sending out people, planting news churches in cities and towns, the senior pastor will have to make decisions, right? Because now planting a church could involve a lot of finances, a lot of buying of material, you know, in terms of renting out a space, buying chairs, buying speakers, so the senior pastor has to be involved, right? And once the church has established and started maybe three, four months down the line, you can send people there, that's what the church in Jerusalem did. You see in the book of Acts, they sent Barnabas to Antioch because Antioch, the church was growing and it was a new church plant. So Barnabas went there, Barnabas said, hey, I need some help here, he goes and finds Saul of Thassus. And that's how they launched out on their first missionary journey after that. So it's good to do this, right? Even as they plant, now if you feel that you're financially not yet there to help a church plant, it's all right, right? It's all right, give it some time, right? You can also encourage them to, you know, start in a small way, maybe, you know, sell group or the small group and then encourage them to build on that, right? So some of the urban church growth models that we see, one of the most common models is Yoido Full Gospel in Soil Kareah, which is David Paul Yongi Cho, where he for many years was, the church was, you know, just stuck in a certain space, right, a certain number, but he used the model of sell groups. And through the sell groups, same thing with the Bogoda church in Columbia, here also, they replicated Yoido Full Gospel and in a couple of years the church began to expand and enlarge hundreds and thousands of people started coming to sell groups, eventually they were connected to the church, right? So then you have different kinds of churches, Calvary Temple in Hyderabad, which has, again, a huge following, Willow Creek Community, Saddleback Church, which is Rick Warren's church, Mars Hill, Marcus Call, Elevation Church, which Elevation is one of the churches which have live stream and satellite campuses, right? So, and then there was huge explosive church growth in East Africa as well, not only East Africa and the entire nation of Africa. There was huge churches. People used different kinds of models and of church growth and God was, you know, just building the church. So the APC Biblical Blueprint model is something that we always follow is that every believer is a minister and each one of us can reach out the gospel for Jesus Christ, right? And these growth models, yes, growth is not only physical in numbers, but it's also in the spiritual, right? So we'll stop here. We'll pick up from spiritual aspects next class, that'll be next week. And we'll build on this. I hope and I do know that each one of us are learning and but it'll be good to really, you know, use these pointers. If you've been thinking about starting a church or how to go about it, you know, these pointers will definitely help, right? You know, sometimes it's just that initial step and then once you get into it, you know, God is faithful. He will support us. He will strengthen us, right? Zellie says, sorry, it was the year 2003. Wow. Thank you Zellie for sharing. All right. Thank you so much everyone. Thank you for joining this class and we'll catch up next week. Continue on the spiritual aspects when it comes to church planting, right? God bless. Have a great week ahead. Thank you, Pastor. Welcome, welcome.


Today, YouTube moves to improve live streaming to take on Twitch, Google Preferred Advertising Returns, and FanFest is coming to Toronto. Hello and welcome to YouTube News for April 1st, 2015. I'm your host, Alex, and I'll be walking you through some of the most important and interesting topics revolving around the YouTube platform. First up, it looks like YouTube is attempting to improve its live streaming capabilities in an attempt to compete with the live streaming platform, Twitch. According to the Daily Dot, YouTube actually is focusing directly on eSports. And one source was quoted saying that there's going to be a huge opportunity for established streamers and organizations. And that the record number of viewers for eSports will only grow once Google starts to promote and partner with these events. I'll be sure to keep you guys updated as YouTube will roll out these updates. Next up, YouTube FanFest, a live festival hosted by many of your favorite YouTubers, will be performing their first show in North America, specifically Toronto, Ontario, on May 2nd. YouTube FanFest has focused on shows in Mumbai, India, Singapore, Australia, Korea, and Japan in the past. Will any of you guys be attending this festival? Tell us in the comments section down below. And last up, the Google Preferred Advertising Program will be returning to YouTube and expanding internationally. For those of you who don't know, Google Preferred is a program that provides advertising inventory on the top 5% of YouTube channels. Through Google Preferred, YouTube creators who were involved in the service saw an increase in their revenue by 70% year over year, compared to the 50% increase by those who were not involved in the program. In my eyes, everything that brings more revenue to the YouTube platform is a good thing. So I'm excited about the return of this program. Anyways, that's it for me this week, guys. Thanks for tuning in and tune in again next Wednesday for the latest in YouTube news. The most important and interesting news topics revolving around the YouTube platform. First up, YouTube has launched YouTube for artists in the Creator's Hub. It's no secret that a lot of users on YouTube use it to-


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Today we're going to talk about scale-up block storage and how Amazon does it and how to do a scale-up block storage design I'm Eric Windish. I'm a principal engineer at cloud scaling and a Lead on open stack development. I'm a open stack developer since cactus. I've been doing platform as a service since 2002 infrastructure as a service since 2006 and I've done engineering for We're going to start with Amazon's architecture or at least what we can infer what we know about it most of this information we've gotten off of the Disclosures on failures that have happened and the analysis that people have done on it So you have a control plane and storage they're separate They're loosely coupled so you can lose a control plane or the storage and not both although in practice they've actually lost the storage and then realize that The control plane trying to control broken storage can kind of fail on them sometimes so they would Sometimes have to also shut down the control plane when they've had failures and then EC2 connects back into that storage they use distributed storage and it's not entirely clear if it's an actual DHT, but you could have a distributed network like this and By being distributed There are certain guarantees that you can or cannot have in a Distributed system. There's this thing called Bruce theorem. It's also called the cap theorem Which says states that it is impossible for a distributed system to simultaneously provide all three of the following guarantees consistency availability and partition tolerance So Amazon by doing this by having a distributed system Through whatever mechanism their system is distributed if it is truly distributed then you can only Get two of these three and that means that for storage block storage. I mean you have to have consistency that that's clear This is a problem. You absolutely have to have consistency, which means you have to decide to have availability or partition tolerance both of those Effect your reliability Which means that in a block a distributed block storage system You cannot have reliability It's impossible Well, unless somebody disproves Bruce theorem anyway, and you can kind of fake Having these other things so you can get two of these three and kind of fake the third one But you can't be guaranteed of the third one so because EBS doesn't have reliability users of EBS have to presume that doesn't exist people use snapshots Amazon provides the ability to provide snapshots Against their EBS as a form of reliability and only way to get their reliability is to use them So cloud failures They happen they have happened Amazon's had these problems occur already Read it posting about how red it went down from EBS failure other people Imager other cloud providers I don't know if Netflix went down or not, but plenty of people did So what really happened you can read all this stuff, but the reality is stuff happened I Tone that down by the way service providers fail Hardware does fail But operators fail and software fails more often than the other things so the Amazon failures somebody put a bad DNS record in one time and another one of the major EC2 failures was a bad router config that was accidentally uploaded Those were the longest Amazon outages actually I think one of them was something like 24 hours and for some effective customers and zones yeah, and Well, we actually took out names for these particular outages but you have 24 hours and 72 hours for some of these and People make mistakes right people make that software and the software of spogs or operators putting back configs so Quickly just go into scale because we're gonna talk about scale up quite a bit in this talk You want to make Box instead of make scaling up and making boxes bigger you want to scale out and make more boxes You don't want pets and dogs you want cattle You don't want you just want to if you have a problem with one of your cows you shoot it you Don't treat it nicely like your dog and you know pet it and feed it nicely Right because again, we don't have reliability like we already know According to the computer science theory we cannot have reliability So we can't treat our our things like pets We have to presume that they're just going to die and we need to have Small failure domains and not big failure domains. We can't have everything fail all at once because it will fail So the cinder architecture somewhat at the high level From the 50-foot perspective It kind of looks a little bit like Amazon You have a control plane It's loosely coupled to the storage and your compute nodes your what would be easy to or in this case? Nova compute talks to your storage We have a control plane And all these pieces here are scale out It's designed for scale out But then what we do in the bottom is we plug in to different block storage solutions and in cinder this well In cinder we have these mostly controlled by various vendors and we have 18 Different architectures in which you can actually deploy cinder So cinder isn't a solution cinder art is 18 different architectures and 18 different solutions And really that really comes down to all these because really provide one of these three things that NAS back ends distributed file systems, and that's actually a little thing of Seth there and block storage Generally sand ice-guzzy Fiber channel over ethernet or regular fiber channel for instance So before I talk about The storage back ends in more depth I really want to just talk briefly about this the control plane because it has Implications for which storage plug-in that you choose and how you do your storage back end And not all the plug-ins may actually work with a scale out control plane It turns out or at least not a highly scale out control plane So here we have a scale up scale up pattern. I don't know he does this This is you have a really big server controlling a really big Storage system in the back end and you can lose your really big either of your really big servers So something that was introducing grizzly was this idea of a multi backend pattern Where you can get your really big control plane or several multi big control planes to control several really big storage systems that they said well We're gonna we realize that we can't have this One really big storage system here So we're going to add multiple really big storage systems and manage them through Cinder and we're going to Just have this one box that can orchestrate these and then we can make multiple of these boxes that control multiple of these big giant storage systems and It becomes very expensive first of all because many most of these storage systems are expensive systems not always and You limit your ability to scale because now you have six of these storage systems and three of the control plane nodes and To prevent one of your control plane nodes going out and actually scale up that control plane node and get additional reliability you Have to make it very complex you get split brain problems if you actually try and Control one storage node from one machine and then the other storage it just becomes nasty if you Pretty much can't it's it's a very hard problem to solve and Cinder doesn't actually do this so To really do the scale up pattern. You can't even do it with a Cinder at all and To fix this we're gonna have to talk a little bit about the storage back in and We're gonna break it where we're gonna show you how it fails and it breaks so Scale out scale out right. This is what we just showed So I guess just to jump a little bit right so to do that pattern We were just showing a couple few slides ago was really a scale out then scale up pattern because even if you Even if you scale the control plane There's still really big back-end storage boxes that you're controlling that some vendor provided you so You can get a failed storage back-end transport failures failed servers and Now your front-end box has to be aware of that and understand that and stuff goes down and Most people try and fix this through doing ha pairs and When you do when you talk to an ha pair you're talking not to a system You're not talking to the active system in that pair. You're talking to the ha pair You're talking to the ha system because the ha system itself first of all can fail Ranny bias and myself have both given talks about how this design is generally broken because The pacemaker or whatever system that you use to actually provide this fail over Fails more often than the actual machines in which it's trying to protect from failing over And We have lots of in-depth analysis and discussion about that on our blog and some of the other slide decks that we've prepared that are linked there So just to give more depth on how bad this is. It's really complex you don't necessarily know where your data is because it you make it inconsistency between these ha pair nodes you Get more split-brain problems because not only have split-brain problems between the cinder volume agents and the storage back end, but then you get split-brain problems between the different ha nodes and Cinder still doesn't support this So this adds network complexity And this is just to get high availability for one of those for one of those back ends You'd have to do this for each of those back ends.  So We have a solution or What we recommend that people do And that we do cinder like we do Nova In Nova you have Some way of doing high availability for your API and that can be HTTP proxy. It doesn't have to be I Generally fit say that there's a single point of entry you can use LBS or any caster whatever ECMP through API servers into schedulers and in Nova those are compute nodes and in sender those are volume services, so Cinder is designed like this now. It scales out You just have to deploy in a way that you actually leverage this as opposed to designing where you cannot leverage this and Because all these machines are communicating point-to-point It is important that we actually communicate point-to-point. So at least a class scaling we've been deploying with zero MQ which is a distributed broker and The way that rabbit MQ is used in Open stack at present is through a completely centralized broker and By doing that you introduce Points of failure that machines can fail to communicate to each other because they fail to communicate the rabbit Because messages go through rabbits. So we have the machines talk directly to each other So that this pattern is actually direct communication between these nodes. So we scale things together we put our storage with these with this with with the cinder volume so it is more tightly coupled to the control plane slightly But only to the extent that the cinder volume service is Attached to the hip at the storage in which it's controlling This is simple. It's deterministic We're not going to lose all of our data, right? so if you have a distributed file system if you had some major bug in your architecture you could lose all your data or you could have problems that Well, I just don't want to get into but We just can't lose all of our data here because we're going to lose a box. We're not going to lose everything and Even though these leaf node Systems can lose data What's that really important because we already assume that there's no reliability in our application and in our use of this Back end and we use snapshots to hedge against it Which is what everybody does in Amazon already anyway and what everybody using cloud is or should be doing and we decide that Consistency and partition tolerance are more important than anything. They're more important than availability because if it goes down We just restore from a snapshot and that's how snapshots save us and we Just don't really care if we ever lose a node so Actually, that was a lot of slides and I went maybe I went too quickly. We have plenty of time for Q&A We also have a blog That's where you will be able to download this link and hopefully if this presentation was recorded You'll be able to view it again as well and point people to it Like to open the floor for questions So the question was how do you mitigate against the impact of doing snapshots like frequent snapshots? well, people are going to use snapshots anyway if You're doing an EBS style solution and you're providing a block storage Like this and people are approaching it from the perspective that they're using Amazon today Then they're already going to be doing this So no matter what your architecture is if you use one really big back-end storage box You are going to already have customers doing just the same number of snapshots as it would be doing with this It's just that Maybe you're not designing for it. So You have to design for it regardless so with this design so Actually, so one way that our design differs from Amazon's is that because we're not actually using your distributed file system It's actually really really fast. So and all the machines. It's Essentially direct attached storage at the far end of it and it's really fast. So You we can do reads and random reads incredibly quickly. We're using ZFS with L2 arc and And dedicated is old devices. So we essentially have hybrid SSD slash hard disk storage. It's really really fast. So This solution is fast enough to do all the snapshots that you need and in fact, we've Run into more problems with actually getting performance out of the software that does snapshots then the actual Storage solution itself. We actually it's really hard to make the software fast enough Especially if you're using something like Python to actually make it fast enough to do the snapshots Over there. Thank you So so so storage is not on the same nodes. So the question was how we deal with resource contention I believe you're saying with this being on the same nodes as the compute and This is scale out in parallel to this to the compute node. So there are dedicated storage nodes and compute connects into that but is not bundled with compute Over here. Yes So how do we deal with Upgrades if we have it kind of tied at the hip? well, first of all, we Try and avoid upgrades if we can So no, so we're actually so you can upgrade the control plane Pretty painlessly without affecting the back end storage if you have to really update the back end storage then you could Bring a node down and back up and through proper management of timeouts and configuration of You know, we're using ice guzzie for transport if you configure it correctly It can actually survive a fairly quick reboot if you had to do so But the reality is we can actually do most of our upgrades without reboots and without bringing things down in a drastic manner Keith is there any idea of data locality in our center schedule scheduler So we have that in our Nova scheduler so I Believe a present we're not doing that data locality in cinder, but we already have that filter for Nova so it wouldn't be impossible for us to consider that or for someone implementing this to build that in to their system Doing especially if you design your network architecture a certain way as we have Then you can very easily actually do something similar to host aggregates But for cinder scheduling right so the question is about performance guarantees when you create cinder volumes So I actually had a performance like I took out maybe I should have put it back in and As I was saying to the fellow earlier, I think that this is Pretty quick the way we've designed this has proven to be incredibly performant Slaze is something that is done by the deployer and user of the service and So if you were for instance a public provider or even a private provider to internal tenants you would provide that SLA to your users and your tenants and we can so when you design the system you can get an idea for how fast it is and then you would Essentially make whatever promises that you need to the tenants Right there. Is that right? That's a really good question so which backend driver do you use in Cinder for this to work and is this is cloud scaling thing so cloud scaling uses Cinder well really all the open stack pretty much out of the box We do make some various fixes What we roll into our packages and then and we make sure that those are put in upstream and Parallel as we develop it Presently we are using a ZFS plugin that is Well, I'm very present only within our product, but you could equally use this pattern with LVM You may not get quite the same performance In doing so, but it would work just the same with the pattern I just described so the LVM would do everything that I just described maybe not quite as well or as performant. That's all Yes back there So question is where you provide the Snapshot in band or out band so the way that we do it is Because we use ZFS we can create the snapshots On ZFS, but then we can download so this creating a snapshot in ZFS is actually very quick So we can then after we create the snapshot, which is an instant almost instantaneous operation then we can download that Into our estuary Swift cluster so that so the copying of So the copying to estuary would be out of the band but the creation of the original snapshot in which that was based on it would be somewhat in band it's it's based on extents and it's kind of a copy-on-write file system that lets you do this so it's it just starts creating new blocks and It's kind of like get in a way. So No, no, no, so the snapshots are not stored in so the question was if the snapshots are stored in the cinder control plane and They're not so those snapshots move up into Swift so they're stored in Swift and In this architecture, you would not want to put Swift on top of cinder So you would see you create the snapshots the same way that you create snapshots So the question is if you create the snapshots in cinder and the answer is that you create the snapshots in the same way that you Create snapshots with EBS and we actually At least we support the Amazon APIs So you would use the same tools and commands and API requests that you use in EC to To get those things into Swift and s3 Back there question is about Seth why we're not using it so I don't want to say anything bad about the design of Seth or distributed file system that I'm actually a Bit of a distributed systems guy myself Sage is pretty cool Amazon appears to be using a distributed system We are already assuming as I said earlier that we don't have the reliability so we could you know trade against that Reliability, I just don't know if it's necessary. So it's a there's a lot of complexity in doing distributed file store and if We're effectively distributing the data just in a different way and what I think is a much simpler way So I question in this case if we would really need it And if you're another another thing to be considered as if you used Seth For what we're describing here, you'd have to have to set deployments one for storing Your objects which are your snapshots and another for storing your data because if you don't trust the Reliability of your data storing and you and you can't when you use something I'm gonna say you can't use it when you use a distributed data store if you want consistency then you need to do the snapshots so Seth would have to either be consistent or reliable and If you can deploy it both ways and you'd have to have two deployments one which is one way and one which is the other way But if they both provide the same level of guarantees and this didn't it both all of your sender or all of yourself Sits on one side of Brewer's theorem, then you can't pull all of your data there. You have to have your data stored on both sides Over here on the moose file system We haven't tried to use it Do you mean do you have more specific questions about that? Right so the questions if we have experience with moose as a distributed file system and Also noting that nobody seems to be using it So we prefer to use things that are known well trusted and that We know we can make work Have the least level of risk and this is what I would consider to be a safe approach using Things that people have used for years and have worked reliably for with for people for years Like that. Okay. Let's answer the first question first First question was Oh, yeah, so about the ha so you're asking if we advocate using ha on These back-end systems, so could we essentially do this direct attached thing and then still do ha and I would say that's when you again start reintroducing split-brain problems and I would advise against it Now you could do that But I do believe that you start introducing Because you now introduce a consistency problem when you want to have consistent storage and every time you do HA pairs with storage You are going to give up consistency and I think that's a bad idea and if you're doing the snapshots, then you don't need it So why introduce the complexity? Then your second question was about what distribution and packages do we use? for ZFS and Linux or do we use open slairs and The answer to that is that we actually Have quite a few people at our office including myself who have used open slairs and derivatives over the years we have and we started with a poc that was based on So a Salaris Gen Unix kernel and we moved off of that so after we finished our proof of concept we then switched to Linux and We presently use a boon to with ZFS on Linux packages over here first The question is in grisly. There's a snapshot capability into Swift and and if we are using that and I I Am not certain so we're actually deploying on fulsome. So I believe that we're doing our own thing to get it into Into there but to be quite honest. I'm not entirely certain. I wasn't the actual engineer that implemented the Snapshots, so I'd have to confirm that I believe there's another question across the aisle earlier back there So the question is why can't you just have more copies with a distributed file system as opposed to Putting snapshots on one side and block storage on the other and the answer is that if you make multiple copies And you no longer have consistency and consistency is really important But if you have multiple copies, how do you have consistency you every time you make a right you update every copy or You have older copies and now you no longer have consistency so the question is what kind of hardware is underneath of this say in NAS and so these boxes the actual physical machines are for us anyway are Machines that are part of our HCL. So we are vendor Like semi vendor agnostic. So we work with various vendors and we certify hardware to work with our software so For instance, we support Quanta and Dell hardware I'm not sure. I'm not sure what the full HCL is but we have an HCL of vendor hardware that we support and these are x86 boxes with a Bunch of disks attached So the question is how do you do recoveries? Assuming that if you make snapshots that you then recover them and Users that deploy on the cloud if they lose their data or they lose their instance then every then they recover from a snapshot Your tenants do that You just make sure that they have the data available to them through recover from back here in the middle again So can you repeat that again? Yes, so the question is if you can create a new volume from existing snapshot and yes so the idea is that future parity with the way the Amazon does things and to support the things that they support such as that which is to Recover from a snapshot back back there. Do we plan on releasing those EFS code at all? Possibly Pretty much everything that we do is open source we do quite a lot of open source development Joseph Gordon here in the front and myself are very active core developers and core reviewers in his case of OpenStack and We do contribute a lot of code. I'm not certain when that code will be released and I believe part of the issue is that we only Fairly so only in our latest release. Did we actually port that over from doing the open salarist stuff? To Linux so we wait it we want to wait until we actually had the Linux based one before we released it because The open salarist stuff was something we figured that not only we're not going to use but probably nobody was going to use So we didn't want to release that any other questions We're almost out of time anyway, so Thank you very much


Fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud of dust, and a hearty Hio Silver, the Lone Ranger. With his faithful Indian companion, Tuttle, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. Nowhere on the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again. Come on Silver, let's go big foe. I am Silver! Wonders and his grandson Jimmy were rounding up their stock of horses. Razors and breeders of horses on a small scale, they had advanced to the point where now, by selling a proportion of their stock, they could pay off the loan that had given them their start. Yes, it was a great day for old Lamb and young Jimmy. Until just at dusk a band of horsemen swept on upon them from the neighboring Badlands dominated by Devil's Mesa. Ho ho, hold still, boy. Hey, Jimmy, Jimmy! Ho, ho there, ho. I see him, Grandpa. Who do you suppose they are? I'm not supposing young, and I know. That's like farmers' gang. But they're coming here. Yeah, sure they are. Where do you suppose they'd be going with all these horses inside? That dirty thieves? Grandpa, give me that rifle. No, you don't. Just get yourself killed. Oh, we've got to do something, Grandpa. Too late to do anything now, Jimmy. Just hold steady and watch yourself. I'll do as I can myself. Round them up, boys. Round them up and get them started for the hills. Ho, ho there, ho, ho. Don't make no move for that rifle, old man.  Hey, we're buying your horses. Any objection? Well, I can't stop you, Ike. But someday you'll pay for this. You can't always ride roughshod over law and order like this. It's got to stop sometime. Maybe it'll be soon. Why, who's doing anything against the law? I am to pay for these horses. Yeah, and here's something on account. Wait.  You need grandpa alone. I'll watch you, youngster. You get the same. I wish I'd have had that gun. I'd have shot you. Ha, ha.  Well, I like them like that. So maybe I'll let you live a little longer. All right, boys. Let's get going. Get up, boy. It's a long, youngster. Maybe I'll meet you again someday. And maybe sooner than you think. Oh, boy, easy. Grandpa, you all right, Grandpa? Yes, sir. I'm all right, Jimmy. Just a wrap on the side of my head and bruised a little is all. No, I ain't harmed in it.  Can you get back to the house? Do you need any help? Just help me up. I'll be all right. Oh, dear. Take my arm. Thank you. You're sure you're all right? Yeah, sure I am. Then I'm taking your rifle and following those horse thieves. Goodbye, Grandpa. Jimmy, come back here. Come back here. Give me. Give me. Who would listen? He'll be lucky if he ever gets back. Early the next morning, the Lone Ranger and Tahoe were making their way through the bad lands when they heard distant shots. You hear that, Tahoe? Gunfire. There's more coming from ahead of us. Isn't that right? It might be hunting. There's no hunting in this country. Well, maybe trouble. We'll find out. Come on, silly. Get him up, scoundrel. Racing across the jumble of rocks and lava, the Lone Ranger and Tahoe presently came with insight of a youthful figure, staggering forward a foot. As they drew nearer, the boy dropped to his knees, then slumped forward onto his face. He's got a very big foot. He's been shot. He's only a boy. He fired those shots. Why is he a foot? He looked for colorful fire shots. No, it wouldn't do any good now, Tahoe. Wait a minute. What happened? I don't see a wound. This boy hasn't been shot. He dropped because he's exhausted. Get a canteen. We'll give him some water. Ah, be doing it. With the Lone Ranger and Tahoe to attend him, young Jimmy Saunders soon regained consciousness. At first, he thought the masked man was an outlaw, but he soon realized that his life had been saved by men who wanted to be friends. He identified himself, then rolled double with the Lone Ranger. Somebody must have seen me following the gang, because the first thing I knew I was trapped.  Did you get with the inside of their hideout? No. That's too bad. I thought that I'd been looking for those horse thieves. You like to find their hideout? We'd look long time. Not find it. Everybody's looked for it, but nobody's ever going to find it, I reckon. Too well hid. And back there in the Badlands, you couldn't leave a trail even if you wanted to. You haven't explained those shots. Huh? We heard shooting, that's what brought us to you.   But before you could find your way out, you'd die of hunger and thirst anyway. Yeah.  How does that leave you and your grandfather, Jimmy? Have you more stock to go on with? Nope. They got every car use we owned. How about money? Can you start again? Well, not unless we can talk Mr. Metcalf into giving us more time on our debt. We've got no cash. Oh? We borrowed from him to get started. And now we've got to pay him back. That's what the roundup was for. We were going to sell some of our stock to get the money. Now we'll have to pay him with what we got saved. And after that, we'll be flat-bust. You say your grandfather borrowed this money from a man named Metcalf. It wasn't Dave Metcalf, was it? Well, that's it, Dave Metcalf. He's a big rancher. His ranch runs right in Towers. You don't know him, do you? Yes, I do. Donald and I once did him a favor. Maybe he'll remember and do one for us. Oh, how much farther to your place, Jimmy? Well, just past this rise. There it is. And there's Grandpa up front. Hey, Grandpa, here I am. Jimmy, excuse me. Jimmy, you're too back.  And Finn is a fiddle. Oh, sir. Jimmy, who's your smash-filler and the engine? They're not some Ike Farmer's gang, are they? No, they're the ones that saved me, Grandpa. I'll tell you all about it. Saved you? Well, that makes them all right with me. Lim, do you feel up to a ride? Ride? Me? Sure, but where to? What's it for? Saddle your horse, and I'll explain as we ride. Otto, you stay here with Jimmy. Jimmy, huh? During the ride, the lone ranger told Lim about his hunt for the horse thieves in the finding of Jimmy. Then later, at Metcalf's home, he explained his errand to the rancher. I'm sure Lim here is honest, Dave. I'd appreciate it if you extended his loan. I'll be glad to do it as a favor to you. But I'd have been willing to give Lim more time without you asking me. It's all right, Lim. I'm not hard up. You take all the time you need about that loan. Well, thank you, Dave. This is mighty kind of you. Oh, forget about it. Anyway, I owe you an apology. Me? An apology to me? I'd better make it. I reckon I'll feel better about it. What's this all about, Dave? Well, it's like this. Somebody among us ranchers down here in the valley has been tipping Ike Farmer off, as to just when and where to make his raids. If he wasn't, I couldn't have got away with it so long. And you thought that the man might be Lim? No such thing. For I'd work with a skunk like him. It's all right, Lim. Won't be anybody thinking that anymore. Not with you losing all your horses the way that you have. Well, that proves that you wasn't in with him. Like I say, I want to apologize for ever thinking it. I never knew anybody suspected me. Of course, I wasn't going to say anything to you about it, Lim. No, of course not. But there's something else I wanted to talk to you about, Dave. All right, what's that? Ike Farmer and his gang have been getting away with their raids all together too long. It's high time we set a trap for him. The lone ranger went on to explain what he had in mind, and both Dave Metcalf and old Lim Saunders agreed warmly with what he said. Then early the next morning in a part of the Badlands in the vicinity of Devil's Mesa, a horseman rode recklessly over rock and lava.  Get along there, boy. Come on.  He descended a dip, cut abruptly between two great rocks that stood as sentinels guarding a narrow entrance, and the next moment was thundering to a halt within the secret camp of the outlaws. Ho, ho, ho. Hi. What's the matter? I'm going to hurry. Ike. Ike, I got news. I got to see you. Ike, hold on a minute. What's up, Justine? What are you so lathered about? We got a chance to make a real strike. The best one ever, Ike. I just learned about it. Where? When and where? Tonight, down in the valley. Put down in the valley. We'll tell us about it. During the day in agreement with the Lone Rangers' plan, an immense gather of horses belonging to Dave Metcalf was made. Word was given out that they were to be driven to market, but when night came and the roundup was completed, the men assigned to hold them were apparently few. To one side of the holding grounds, out of the range of the campfires, the Lone Rangers spoke to Dave. You and Lem and Jimmy stay here. Ike makes his raid. He'd expect to find you three out in the open. But he shouldn't be looking for Toto and me, so we'll take cover in the brush. Right. How many others have you hidden out? Got half the men in the valley under cover. If Ike takes the bait, he's done for. Good enough. Come along, Toto. Time to take cover. Come on, Toto. The Lone Ranger and Toto took cover and waited. Slowly the moon rose. Slowly the fires of the roundup crew died down and then carried on the wind from a distance. Oh, Muslim come. Yes. There's something wrong about this, Toto. What matters? It was all very well for Ike to ride in on Lem and Jimmy without trying to take them by surprise. Then they had only an old man on the board to take care of. But this is different. This is Metcalf's ranch. They know he has a lot of men. What do you mean? I mean that maybe this is Knight's gang. Dave Metcalf, old Lem and young Jimmy had also heard the approaching horseman. Well, that is Knight's gang, Lem. That's a sheriff in the lead. I recognize his horse. I wonder what's happened. Funny they'd ride in on us like this. Something must have happened. You think they got Ward Ikes on his way and they're coming to help us, Grandpa? They don't know where Jimmy would just have to wait and see. Over here, sir. This way. What's up, sir? What's up? James. Before this afternoon, who knew about your plan to trap Ike besides you and the Massfeller and the Redskins? Why... Why, I reckon just Lem here. That's right, Sheriff. What about it? Which one of you was away from me for a while? Well, I rode over to my place once. Alone? Yeah, sure. But what did you say? How about you, Dave? You been alone any time today? Not once, Sheriff. You can prove it? I never been out of the Massfeller's sight or out of the sight of my man. Why? All right. Lem, you're under arrest. What? Under arrest? What are you talking about? What for? Ike Farmer knew this was a trap. He couldn't know it unless somebody told him. And you're the only one who had the chance. No, that ain't sure. How do you know Ike found out what we was planning? Because he raided Deep Phillip's place. What? He got every head of stock he owned.  The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. Now to continue our story. The Sheriff took old Lem's saunders to town and put him in jail, charged with aiding the Farmer Gang. At this time, the Lone Ranger thought it wiser not to interfere. But that evening, when the lights in the jailhouse had been extinguished... Otto, are you sure this is the window of Lem's house? Uh, me make sure. Good. Let's hope you're in the sleep. Lem, are you in there? Can you hear me? Lem! Hey, who's there? Don't you remember my voice? A mask man. Yes. Has there been any lynch talk? Not yet, there hasn't. If there was, the Sheriff would make short work of it. Maybe he arrested me when he shouldn't, but Sheriff Fleming will see that I get fair treatment. Good. I hope you don't think I double-crossed you. I did. I wouldn't be here. Not until I came to tell you not to give up hope. I mean to help you. What are you going to do? The only thing we can do... What's that? Find Ike Farmer's hideout and round up his gang. Once we've done that, he'll talk fast enough.  The Lone Ranger's promise of help gave Lem a strange confidence. Strange because he couldn't understand how the masked man hoped to find Ike Farmer's hideout when so many others had failed. After their talk with Lem, the Lone Ranger and Tonto rode away. Meanwhile, Ike Farmer was seated beside a flickering campfire in conversation with two of his followers. You've got another job to do, Slim. You and Dusty are going to help me. Yeah? What's that? You're going to help me pick a new personal riding horse. Why don't savvy? Yeah, if you'd have been along today, we'd watch the masked fella in this Indian part pick up that young Saunders kid you would. You was there, Slim. Yeah? Ever see better horseflesh than them two fellas was riding? Never did, Ike. Hey, Ike, you ain't thinking of what I think you're thinking, are you? Sure I am. You're going to try and grab them horses? Sure. And not both of them, just one. Which one? Well, Dusty, I'd like to ride that white horse the masked fella was riding, but I reckon that's out. What I hear ain't nobody ever rode him but the masked fella, and ain't nobody ever gonna. So is that paint I reckon I'll dab my loop on. How? How are you going to do it? Well, you don't reckon the masked fella in the red skin will leave these pies without making one more try and finding us, do we? I don't suppose so. Well, if they come haunting us, they're going to find us. And wish they had it. Ike Farmer's guess was right. Accompanied by young Jimmy Saunders who had begged not to be left behind, the Lone Ranger and Tuttle once again rode into the Badlands. What's the matter, mister? You haven't said a word for the last five minutes. What, uh, what was that, Jimmy? Well, him make plans, Jimmy. Yes, I've been trying to think of a plan. Nothing's come to me. See, the whole problem boils down to this. These outlaws know this country. They've left too many false trails. Well, that's a problem that's stumped everyone around here. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Oh, look up yonder. That's Ike Farmer. Ah, let him all right. Wait, he's trying to say something. Hi there. Listen to me, mister. Them shots wasn't a hitch. It was just to let you know we're here and you're to stay right where you are. And if we don't? You move and see what happens. I got my boys with me. You can't see them, but you're surrounded. What do you want?  Bad tactics. We might take some of you along with us. I didn't say we was gonna. I just wanted to let you know we could if we was a minor. Of course it might cost us some. But that ain't what we're after anyway. Then what are you after? Well, being as if we're a horse thief as the fella says, what would you suppose? They're after our horses. I heard that youngster you're wrong. Nobody want that crow bit you're riding. And that white horse, whatever you can keep him to of your mind, dude, it's a red skinned spake we're after. Turn them loose and head in this way you can keep going and save your skin. No. No, you not get scout. We kill them first. Now, wait a minute, Tutto. We're in a pretty tight spot here. Maybe we can make a deal. You give them scout? Oh, I couldn't. He isn't mine to give. That would be up to you. But keep us happy. Wait. Trust me, don't you, Tutto? But... Then leave this to me. Nothing doing, Ike. We don't like your terms.  No, not necessarily. We will if we have to, of course, but that's up to you. I've got another deal to offer. Yeah, what's that? A trade. Your horse for tunnels. What's the idea? You've got to give us a chance to save face, Ike. If we left here with a ton of foot, we'd be left out of the country. Yeah, maybe that's a good idea. I didn't want you to see that. Your terms are still your horse for tunnels. Otherwise, it's a fight. And if you think it's worth risking your life for the sake of a horse, Ike, why, you can start it right now. I'd still be getting the best of the deal even if I did trade. Of course you would. Wait a second, let me think this out. Well, I've got to have that horse, but I don't aim to fight for a mass, man. It's a deal. Good. Now start your horse down the trail and we'll send Scout up. Mask me. You mean... You really mean you'd give up to Ike like that? It's only a horse trade, Jimmy. And in a horse trade, it's sometimes a man who thinks he's won it. That's really lost. The trade was made while Jimmy looked on, puzzled, and more disappointed in the masked man than he would have cared to admit. Tonto too was puzzled, but had learned from experience not to question his companion's judgment. 24 hours went by, then in town in the Sheriff's office... Hello, Sheriff. What's up? Come in. He's a masked man in the engine again. What do you fellas want? After your prisoners, Sheriff. Take his keys, Tonto. They're there on the desk. Open Lem's cell. Hey, come back here, engine. Stay away from that door. You leave Lem in there. Come on out, Lem. We have a horse outside for you. We're riding. Actions on your hospitality, Sheriff. I never yet went to jail, but I got cabin fever. Time if I ain't glad to get out. You'll be back in it again, Lem. And these two with you. Come on, Lem, we're in a hurry. There's so much. There's so long we've seen you, Sheriff. Don't rise, you will. Come on, son. There was no suspicion in the Sheriff's mind that the lone ranger had wanted him to follow and had chosen a way to do it that was faster and more efficient than would have been a long explanation. If he had suspected this, the Sheriff might have understood why the masked man and his fleeing companions left so plain a trail. Even when they entered the Badlands, there was scarcely an interval when at least one of the fugitives wasn't in sight. But in the camp of their quarry, no one knew that the law had entered the Badlands. The outlaws had something else to occupy their attention. Ike Farmer had mounted Tonto's horse Scout, and Scout had turned himself into a fair imitation of an insane catamount. Ike was trying to get Scout accustomed to his new master, but as far Ike had only grown more accustomed to leaving the saddle and hitting the dirt. Watch out, Ike's going to sprout wings again. There he goes. Look at him fly. Try him again, are ya? You're all right. Craziness, I am. Somebody give me a club. If I can't knock Sensen of that critters head one way or another, I'll beat it in. I wonder if I were you, Ike. Who said that? Where are you? How did you get here? You showed me the way, Ike. No, don't move. You're under the sights of my guns. One bad break, and it's likely to be your last. Hey, what's that? A sheriff, Ike. See? How they come. Go be your guns, fellas, play them. My gun, it'll shot out of my hand. I warned you, Ike.  Now your day is done. The outlaws were too stunned to put up effective resistance, and presently with little trouble, the sheriff and his posse rounded them up and started them back for town. Later in the day, again in the sheriff's office, this dog-gone jail is just about full to bulge in. Never seen so many customers in all its life. But seriously, mister, something I want to ask you. Yes? You never told us how you located Ike's hideout after we tried all this time and couldn't. How did you, mask man? You'd better let Jimmy here explain it, sheriff. There was a time when he doubted my sanity. So I think he ought to tell you. Yeah, Jimmy, you in on this? I sure was, sheriff. The mask fella traded horses with Ike, that's all. Ike thought he was getting the best of the bargain, but like the mask fella said at the time, he didn't do so well as he thought he did. How's that? Why, Ike forgot that if a horse ain't led, he'll just naturally drift home, that's all, sheriff. So after Ike left with Tonto's horse, Tonto got on Ikes and let him go his own way. And the way he went without Tonto guiding him was right back to the hideout. Why, sure, of course he would. And why didn't we ever think of that stunt? You've got a visitor, sheriff.  Oh, sheriff, one of your deputies come out of my place said you wanted to see me. I want to know what for. He didn't tell you? No, sir, you wouldn't talk. Good. I told him to save it for a surprise, Dave. If you'd known who we got back in themselves there, Reagan, you wouldn't have come to Willem. What? What's that? They're filled with Ike Farmer and his gang, and they've talked.  That's a lie. I was never out of his sight that day. Sorry, Dave, we know the truth. He told one of your hands, and he carried the message to Ike. I'm sorry you had to go bad, Dave. You should have known that in the end it never paid. You'll never get me. Give me that gun. Why, you... Sheriff, look out, mister. He's grabbed my gun. Get back or I'll shoot. No, you won't. Give me that gun. No, that's it. No, no, don't.  Oh, golly. Yeah, good one. That should hold him. You can throw him in with Ike while he's unconscious. That's what I'll do. The two of them can talk over the error of their ways. Adios, Sheriff Jim. Adios. Well, Sherry, where's the Masked Man going? Where's he going, Sheriff? Why is he in such a hurry? Well, that man's always in a hurry, Jimmy. He's the Lone Ranger. This is a feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated, created and produced by George W. Trendle, directed by Charles D. Livingston, and edited by Fran Stryker. The part of the Lone Ranger is played by Brace Beamer.