Part 6 Chapter 7 of the Voyages of Dr. Doodlittle by Hugh Loftin. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter 7 The Doctor's Decision Well you can guess how glad we were when next morning the doctor after his all-night conversation with the snail told us that he had made up his mind to take the holiday. A proclamation was published right away by the town crier that his majesty was going into the country for a seven-day rest, but that during his absence the palace and the government offices would be kept open as usual. Polynesia was immensely pleased. She had once set quietly to work making arrangements for our departure, taking good care the while that no one should get an inkling of where we were going, what we were taking with us, the hour of our leaving, or which of the palace gates we would go out by. Cunning old schemer that she was, she forgot nothing. And not even we, who were of the doctor's party, could imagine what reasons she had for some of her preparations. She took me inside and told me that the one thing I must remember to bring with me was all of the doctor's notebooks. Young Arrow, who was the only Indian let into the secret of our destination, said he would like to come with us as far as the beach to see the great snail, and him Polynesia told to be sure to bring his collection of plants. Bumpo she ordered to carry the doctor's high hat, carefully hidden under his coat. She set off nearly all the footmen who were on night duty to do errands in the town, so that there should be as few servants as possible to see us leave. At midnight, the hour when most of the town's people would be asleep, she finally chose for our departure. We had to take a week's food supply with us for the royal holiday, so with our other packages we were heavy laden, when on the stroke of twelve we opened the west door to the palace and stepped cautiously and quietly into the moonlit garden. Tip door, incognito! This bird Bumpo as we gently closed the heavy doors behind us. No one had seen us leave. At the foot of the stone steps leading from the peacock terrace to the sunken rosary, something made me pause and look back at the magnificent palace which we had built in this strange far-off land, where no white men but ourselves had ever come. How I felt it in my bones, that we were leaving it to-night, never to return again. And I wondered what other king and ministers would dwell in its splendid halls when we were gone. The air was hot and everything was deadly still, but for the gentle splashing of the tame flamingos paddling in the lily-pond, suddenly the twinkling lantern of a night watchman appeared round the corner of a cypress hedge. The plucked of my stocking, and in an impatient whisper, made me hurry before our flight to be discovered. On our arrival at the beach we found the snail already feeling much better and now able to move his tail without pain. The porpoises, who are by nature inquisitive creatures, were still hanging about in the offering to see if anything of interest was going to happen. Polynesia, the plotter, while the doctor was occupied with his new patient, signaled to them and drew them aside for a little private chat. Now see here, my friends, said she, speaking low. You know how much John Doolittle has done for the animals, given his whole life up to them, one might say. Well, here is your chance to do something for him. Listen, he got made king of this island against his will, see, and now that he has taken the job on, he feels that he can't leave it, thinks the Indians won't be able to get along without him and all that, which is nonsense as you and I very well know. Alright, then here's the point. If this snail were only willing to take him and us and a little baggage, not very much thirty or forty pieces, say, inside his shell and carry us to England, we feel sure that the doctor would go because he's just crazy to mess about on the floor of the ocean. What's more, this would be his one and only chance of escape from the island. Now it is highly important that the doctor return to his own country to carry on his proper work, which means such a lot to the animals of the world. So what we want you to do is to tell the sea urchin, to tell the starfish, to tell the snail, to take us in his shell and carry us to Puddleby River. Is that plain? Quite quite, said the porpoises, and we will willingly do our very best to persuade him. For it is, as you say, a perfect shame for the great man to be wasting his time here when he is so much needed by the animals. And don't let the doctor know what you're about, said Polynesia, as they started to move off. He might balk if he thought we had any hand in it. Get the snail to offer on his own account to take us, see? John Doodlittle, unaware of anything, saved the work he was engaged on, was standing knee-deep in the shallow water, helping the snail try out his mended tail to see if it were well enough to travel on. Puddle and Long Arrow, and Cheechy and Jip, were lolling at the foot of a palm a little way up the beach. Polynesia and I now went and joined them, half an hour past. What success the porpoises had met with we did not know, till suddenly the doctor left the snail's side and came smashing out to us quite breathless. What do you think? He cried. While I was talking to the snail just now, he offered of his own accord to take us all back to England inside his shell. He says he has got to go on a voyage of discovery anyway, to hunt up a new home, now that the deep hole is closed. Said it wouldn't be much out of his way to drop us at Puddleby River, if we cared to come along. Goodness, what a chance I'd love to go. To examine the floor of the ocean all the way from Brazil to Europe, no man ever did it before.  Now I must see the chance of a lifetime slipped by. He turned from us and moved down the sands again to the middle beach, gazing wistfully, longingly out at the snail. There was something peculiarly sad and forlorn about him, as he stood there on the lonely moonlit shore, the crown upon his head, his figure showing sharply black against the glittering sea behind. Out of the darkness at my elbow, Polynesia rose and quietly moved down to his side. Now, doctor, said she, in a soft persuasive voice, as those you were talking to a wayward child. You know this King business is not your real work in life. These natives will be able to get along without you. Not so well as they do with you, of course, but they'll manage, the same as they did before you came. Nobody can say you haven't done your duty by them. It was their fault. They made you King. Why not accept the snail's offer and just drop everything now and go? The work you'll do, the information you'll carry home will be of far more value than what you're doing here. Good friend, said the doctor, turning to her sadly. I cannot. They would go back to their old unsanitary ways. Bad water, uncooked fish, no drainage, enteric fever and the rest. No, I must think of their health, their welfare. I began life as a people's doctor. I seem to have come back to it in the end. I cannot desert them. Later, perhaps, something will turn up, but I cannot leave them now. That's where you're wrong, doctor, said she. Now is when you should go. Nothing will turn up. The longer you stay, the harder it will be to leave.  What, steal away without even saying goodbye to them? Why, Polynesia, what a thing to suggest.  It's not it, Polynesia, growing impatient at last. I tell you, doctor, if you go back to that palace tonight, for goodbyes or anything else, you will stay there. Now, this moment is the time for you to go. The truth of the old parrot's words seemed to be striking home, for the doctor stood silent a minute, thinking. But there are the notebooks, he said presently. I would have to go back to fetch them. I have them here, doctor. Said I, speaking up. All of them. Again, he pondered. And Long Arrow's collection, he said. I would have to take that also with me. It is here, O kindly one. Came the Indian's deep voice from the shadow beneath the palm. But what about provisions? Asked the doctor. Food for the journey? We have a weak supply with us for our holiday, said Polynesia. That's more than we will need. For a third time the doctor was silent and thoughtful. And then there's my hat. He said, fretfully at last. That settles it. I'll have to go back to the palace. I can't leave without my hat. How could I appear in Paddleby with this crown on my head? Here it is, doctor. Said Bumple, producing the hat, all battered in beloved from under his coat. Polynesia had indeed thought of everything. Yet even now we could see the doctor was still trying to think up further excuses. O kindly one, said Long Arrow. Why tempt ill fortune? Your way is clear. Your future and your work beckon you back to your foreign home beyond the sea. With you will go also what lore I too have gathered for mankind. To lands where it will be of wider use than it can ever be here. I see the glimmerings of dawn in the eastern heaven. Day is at hand. Go before your subjects are abroad. Go before your project is discovered. For truly I believe that if you go not now, you will linger the remainder of your days, a captive king in Popsupetto. Great decisions often take no more than a moment in the making. Against the now-pailing sky I saw the doctor's figure suddenly stiffen. Slowly he lifted the sacred crown from off his head and laid it on the sands. And when he spoke his voice was choked with tears. They will find it here. He murmured. When they come to search for me. And they will know that I have gone. My children. My poor children. I wonder, will they ever understand why it was I left them? I wonder, will they ever understand? And forgive. He took his old hat from bubble. Then facing long arrow gripped his outstretched hand in silence.  Said the Indian. Though none will miss and mourn you more than long arrow, the sun of golden arrow. Farewell, and may good fortune ever lead you by the hand. It was the first and only time I ever saw the doctor weep. Without a word to any of us, he turned to move down the beach into the shallow water of the sea. The snail humped up its back and made an opening between its shoulders and the edge of its shell. The doctor clambered up and passed within. We followed him after handing up the baggage. The opening shut tight with a whistling suction noise. Then turning in the direction of the east, the great creature began moving smoothly forward, down the long slope into the deep waters. Just as the swirling dark green surf was closing in above our heads, the big morning sun popped his rim up over the edge of the ocean. And through our transparent walls of pearl, we saw the watery world about us suddenly light up with that most wondrously colorful of visions, a daybreak beneath the sea. The rest of the story of our homework voyage is soon told. Our new quarters we found very satisfactory. Inside this spacious shell, the snail's wide back was extremely comfortable to sit and lounge on. Better than a sofa, when you once got accustomed to the damp and clammy feeling of it. He asked us shortly after we started, if we wouldn't mind taking off our boots, as the hobnails in them hurt his back as we ran excitedly from one side to another to see the different sights. The motion was not unpleasant, very smooth and even in fact, but for the landscape passing outside, you would not know on the level going that you were moving at all. I had always thought for some reason or other that the bottom of the sea was flat, but I found that it was just as irregular and chain-full as the surface of the dry land. We climbed over great mountain ranges with peaks towering above peaks. We threaded our way through dense forests of tall sea plants. We crossed wide, empty stretches of sandy mud like deserts, so vast that you went on for a whole day with nothing ahead of you but a dim horizon. Sometimes the scene was moss-covered, rolling country, green and restful to the eye, like rich pastures, so that you almost looked to see sheep cropping on these underwater downs. And sometimes this nail would roll us forward inside him like peas, when he suddenly dipped downward to descend into some deep secluded valley with steeply sloping sides. In these lower levels, we often came upon the shadowy shapes of dead ships, wrecked and sunk heaven only knows how many years ago. And passing them, we would speak in hushed whispers like children, seen monuments in churches. Here too, in the deeper, darker waters, monstrous fishes feeding quietly in caves and hollows would suddenly spring up, alarmed at our approach, and flash away into the gloom with the speed of an arrow. While other bolder ones, all sorts of unearthly shapes and colors would come right up and peer in at us through the shell. I suppose they think we are some sort of sun aquarium. Said Banpo. I need to be a fish. It was a thrilling and ever-changing show. The doctor wrote or sketched incessantly. Before long, we had filled all the blank notebooks we had left. Then we searched our pockets for any old scraps of paper on which to jot down still more observations. We even went through the used books a second time, writing in between lines, scribbling all over the covers back and front. Our greatest difficulty was getting enough light to see by. In the lower waters, it was very dim. On the third day, we passed a band of fire eels, a sort of large marine glow worm. And the doctor asked the stale to get them to come with us for a way. This they did swimming alongside. And their light was very helpful, though not brilliant. How our giant shellfish found his way across the vast and gloomy world was a great puzzle to us. John Doolittle asked him by what means he navigated, how he knew he was on the right road to Puttleby River. And what the snail said in reply got the doctor so excited that having no paper left, he tore out the lining of his precious hat and covered it with notes. By night, of course, it was impossible to see anything. And during the hours of darkness, the snail used to swim instead of crawl. When he did so, he could travel at a terrific speed, just by waggling that long tail of his. This was the reason why we completed the trip in so short a time, five and a half days. The air of our chamber, not having a change in the whole voyage, got very close and stuffy. And for the first two days, we all had headaches. But after that, we got used to it and didn't mind it in the least. Early in the afternoon on the sixth day, we noticed we were climbing along gentle slope. As we went upward, it grew lighter. Finally, we saw that the snail had crawled right out of the water altogether and had now come to a dead stop on a long strip of gray sand. Behind us, we saw the surface of the sea rippled by the wind. On our left was the mouth of a river with the tide running out. While in front, the low flat land stretched away into the mist, which prevented one from seeing very far in any direction. A pair of wild ducks with cranny necks and worrying wings passed over us and disappeared like shadows seaword. As a landscape, it was a great change from the hot, brilliant sunshine of Popsapettle. With the same whistling suction sound, the snail made the opening for us to crawl out by. As we stepped down upon the marshy land, we noticed that a fine drizzling autumn rain was falling. Can this be Mary England? Asked Bumple, peering into the fog. Doesn't look like any place in particular. Maybe the snail hasn't brought us right after all. Yes. sighed Polynesia, shaking the rain off her feathers. This is England all right. You can tell by the basely climate. Oh, but fellows. Cryed Gip as he snipped up the air in great gulps. It has a smell, a good and glorious smell. Excuse me, minute. I see a water rat. Shh! Said Chee-Chee through teeth that chattered with the cold. There's but a peach cluck striking four. We divide up the baggage and then the gip moving. We've got a long way to foot it home across the marshes. Let's hope. I put in. Dab-Dab has a nice fire burning in the kitchen. I'm sure she will. Said the doctors, he picked out his old handbag from among the bundles. With this wind from the east, she'll need it to keep the animals and the house warm. Come on. Let's hug the riverbank so we don't miss our way on the fog. You know, there's something rather attractive in the bad weather of England when you've got a kitchen fire to look forward to. Four o'clock. Come along. We'll just be a nice time for tea. End of part six. End of The Voices of Dr. Doolittle by Hugh Lofty.


So we're in Vancouver right now downtown Vancouver through boy Rich from Mississippi Live June 4th 2019 just walking the streets in a suit it's just what I do big buildings everyone's like yo what's the weather like in Vancouver what's it like in Vancouver this is what it's like in Vancouver man it's hot it's beautiful right now I hope you're having a good day in the markets having the biggest day in since January Dow Jones is up big news is coming out about tariffs in Mexico it's supposed to be very positive markets are rebounding based on that hopefully that just continues I saw a Namas they got crushed earlier in the day and then they bounced back so that was good nice to see Namas they have some life again after getting crushed earlier in the day I don't know what they're at right now I'm not looking at the markets just in Vancouver beautiful British Columbia you guys can see some action Vancouver is a very interesting place it's a lot of very wealthy and a lot of poverty all mixed in together they're wealthy in Vancouver and they have a lot of poverty cost of living here is very very high one of the most expensive places in the world to live so when you have that you're going to get a lot of poverty unfortunately you can see it around the streets that's a Vancouver alleyway you guys ever see Amsterdam cafe I don't know if you guys have these marijuana stores weed stores but we have it here in Vancouver take a look this is Hastings West Hastings street if you go straight down there it's all crackheads right down there that's where all the drug addicts are and straight ahead is Amsterdam cafe it's Amsterdam cafe right there and cannabis culture right next door cannabis culture right next door cannabis culture Amsterdam cafe that's where you go when you get your cannabis and people just hang out in there and you can get food and drinks and you did a parade there in Canada today nice there's another shop here shops everywhere beautiful day here in Vancouver see if I can get you guys some views of the beach if you want maybe a little bit later if I get some time but yeah this is BC man on June 4th 2019 here in BC yeah how you doing how you doing Brent it's going good down here in BC Vancouver join this beautiful day showing the people what I see on Hastings and Homer Street how you guys doing in the markets today am I buying ACB wanna buy ACB I don't own it right now I had a feeling it was gonna dip so I want to buy it just looking for the bottom hunting bottoms right now beautiful weather absolutely beautiful weather perfect day here in Vancouver it's not too hot it's not too cold probably like 20 degrees maybe get up 23 24 later on this is my street you guys ready here's my street Richard Street see that that's my street right there that's my street Richard Street see that the name that street after me right there they named it after me man look Richard's is it gonna become more obvious than that Richard Street can't be more obvious than that doesn't get more obvious than that look watch we're gonna close up to Richard Street ready see what it looks like right up there I am lying it's Richard Street it's Richard Street it's true I am lying so yeah this is beautiful British Columbia this is like right at the downtown core I see anything crazy if I interview anybody I'll let you guys know first I like to roll around downtown in the suit make videos people get scared they're like who's this guy with his camera in the suit they're all wondering what's up we'll just keep filming all right guys anything crazy happens I'll let you know this is your boy Rich I'm in an alley now let's get scary this is your boy Rich wish to be alive


Do you know that many churches they produce dancers, musicians, ushers, prayer warriors, but where are the leaders? Because these dancers, singers, you know, musicians, multi-media are all for program ministry. That's not for people ministry. Leadership, we need leaders that would take care of people to bring them to the level that they need to go. We need leaders to do that. We have enough singers, musicians, multi-media team. Where are the people-oriented leaders? The consequence is fatal. The church die because of singing and dancing in multi-media. You want the church to grow, you have to raise and produce more leaders. The more leaders, the better. Because these leaders are focusing on people, not on program. The pastor is not just preaching, the pastor is equipping. Shift immediately. You are thinking you must shift immediately right now. You are here to be trained, not just to preach but to learn how to equip and train people. Can I have a man?   That's your job. Jesus do that. That's the pattern, that's the original design. Come and follow me and I disciple you.  And when I sent you, you are on the level of an apostle. He is not a disciple anymore. He is what? An apostle. A true leader. So disciple is different from a leader. You cannot be a leader if you are not a disciple.  You need to be trained and equipped. So once you enter the ministry, don't follow the pattern of the old traditional way. That you must learn how to preach. No, you must learn how to train and equip people. You have to master that. How can I train and equip people? So do you have any idea about training? When you lost idea or you don't have idea, that's why many churches don't grow. Because when we talk about leadership, we think about you better go to Bible school. Because we don't have any idea that in the old way of doing things like the New Testament church, they don't have Bible school. Their training is in the house. Their pastor is an equipping pastor. Say amen. And we lost the original design. Amen. I'm glad there's a school like this to bring back the original design. Can I have a amen? So you're coming to this place to train and equip you to train other people. Do you see yourself training people? I think right now I'm trying to destroy that this is not about singing and dancing music. Somebody here is losing appetite on music now. Sometimes you're beginning to lose like, I don't want that. I want the real thing. Because the real thing is discipling people and then training leaders. That's the real thing. We cannot change the world by singing and dancing. We change the world by producing disciples that turn out to become leaders. That's how to change the world. How many of you want to change the world? You better learn how to train and equip. So don't just master preaching. Don't just master casting out the devil. Don't just master deliverance. Master equipping people. Training leaders. Who knows how to deliver people from demons. Can I have a amen? But remember this, everything you know you transfer to the person. If I know how to disciple, you have to know how to disciple. If I know how to train leaders, you have to know how to train leaders. Because that is duplicable ministry. That's how to conquer the world. Are you learning something? We have to answer what are the reason why we stop producing leader. Number one, we become less aggressive now in racing leaders. We become less aggressive. I find out that many pastors today racing leaders is not their passion. I realize that I should never ever lose my passion. I need to be constantly aggressive in racing leaders. In the Philippines, I have my national 12 leaders. 12 leaders. Big churches. I disciple this pastor to one. Then one day God spoke to me or yell. The 12 pastor that you are discipling right now are growing churches. You have to start a new one now. So I select young pastors aging like 28 to 35. I train them now. Because my goal is to produce this kind of pastor for the sake of the next generation. Producing leaders now. You understand what I'm saying here? I think we need to develop this idea that we need to keep on producing leaders. And we have to do it aggressively. Amen? Can I ask this question? What is your passion? How is your aggression for something? The only thing that I want to be aggressive is to disciple and race leaders. I spent my time for that. That's my passion. And I am aggressive racing leaders. Any opportunity that I can see. That's why when pastor blood tell me, pastor, you have to train these future pastors. That's it Lord. This is the reason I'm here. I said, thank you Jesus. I know Lord. I'm not there just to preach on Sunday that I am imparting to these future leaders. Can I have it amen? You must be aggressive on this. You need to have passion to disciple and race leaders for the future.  Now you have different passion. Because there are so many people who are singing already. I don't want to join them. I told those singers and dancers, do it man. May the Lord's anointing upon you. But we need leaders for the future. Ten times better than us. Can I have it amen? You have to have aggression on this. Your church must be aggressive in racing leaders. Because that's why many churches don't produce leaders because they lack aggression. Less aggressive in training leaders. Number two, we become less intentional. We become less intentional. Less aggressive, less intentional. Because if you're going to race leaders, you're going to disciple people, you must be intentional. Discipleship is intentional. It never happened by accident. Racing leaders is intentional. It never happened by accident. Intentionality must be in your heart. Amen? If you can go back to your church, you try to observe. Are you intentional in terms of discipleship and racing leaders? You must be intentional. Every church must be intentional. Must be aggressive in discipleship and leadership development. You must be intentional. Number three, churches was not able to produce leaders because we become less strategic in training leaders. We become less strategic. Because if you want to race leaders, you must be strategic. Not just aggressive. Not just intentional. You must be strategic. So I develop leadership pipeline. I call it leadership pipeline. That when a person go through this pipeline, I produce disciple and I produce leaders. I produce a system in my church so that one person when they come to know the Lord Jesus Christ, immediately they will go through a certain process and then we could produce disciples and we'll produce leaders. Do you understand what I'm saying here? You must be strategic. Okay? Not many church day are strategic. The first five years of my ministry, I visit Korea. You came from Korea? Long time ago. I've been to yoy in the church. Pasto yong gicho. I go there. I train, sell leaders on yong gicho's church. And when I visit Korea, I learned so much thing from Korea. That's where I learned I have to be aggressive, intentional and strategic. Always fill my mind. If you want to raise up leaders for the next generation, ten times better than you, you have to be aggressive.  You have to be aggressive. You need to show your passion that this is the right thing to do. You have to share today we have to change the world, but we have to equip ourselves. I have to speak to myself. And then I have to be intentional. I have to plan, I have to strategize on this. Amen, I need to have three words. I need to desire and then I need to design a strategy. I desire to change the world. Then I desire to produce leaders, to produce disciple. And then I design a system, a plan, a strategy. Are you listening? I need to desire and design. Desire and design. Most pastor don't have a desire to conquer the world. They just, it's okay for them. Got 50 people in their church, not me. Because the desire is the desire of Jesus to conquer the world. And he designed a strategy and I designed as well. His design is to select disciples, form the disciple until he can send his disciples. Desire and design. Amen. Every church, the people must desire the vision and they must design a strategy. So most churches, they lose no more, they are no longer aggressive on this matters. They are no longer intentional. And most of all, they are no longer strategic. Show me a church with training system, with preserving system. I promise you that church will grow. Because Jesus love system. What is the system? You evangelize people, what is your system? Now they go to church. What will happen? So we are just happy inviting people to church and then when they go to church, they don't know what to do with the new believer. Because they don't develop a strategic process how to do these things. I pray that every one of you would learn how to strategize, how to plan, how to strategize. We win, this is our strategy on winning. We preserve the people, this is our strategy. We disciple our people, this is our strategy. We train people for leadership, this is our strategy. And then how do we send people? This is our strategy. You must be intentional, aggressive and strategic in the way you do things. You are not guessing. I know what I'm doing because I follow the original design. The church's original design must be upon you. Can I ever amen?  That's why the church are weak. That's the consequence. The church are weak. We never produce disciples. We never produce leaders. We produce religious people. They just go to church because there's a program, there's a service. And then we have a weak church. Amen. Now I need to learn how to challenge my disciple. If you have disciple, you have to learn how to challenge them. Do you know how I challenge my disciple? How to challenge your people? How to challenge your disciple? Okay, let me clarify this. I got five system in my church. I develop this, I keep on developing it. Notice if I share this five system, every church must become systematic church. Say the word systematic. Most people will disagree with me because they think like if you use a system, you are no longer led by the Holy Spirit. Wrong. When Jesus told Peter, go back to the ocean and let down the net for a catch.  He's, he got a power. But Jesus respect the boat. He respect the paddle. He respect the net. Why? The boat, the paddle and the net is the system to catch a fish. So why did Jesus respect the system? Because Jesus knows that system is necessary to catch a fish. So stop blaming the devil if you are not winning souls. Why people are gone? It's the devil. Why people are out? It's the devil. Why you keep on blaming the devil? You're supposed to blame yourself. You don't know what you are doing. And the devil said, I know nothing about it because just by yourself is enough. You don't need a devil to destroy your ministry. You need to learn how to use system. Can I share to you my system? I'm on evangelism. I have a prayer evangelism strategy. We use like the prayer triplets. The three person will pray together. You pray for three, you pray for three, you pray for three. We are total of nine people. We pray together. Every three of us will be accountable, responsible and we have to do this. So the system is like this. You three, the triplets will pray three person. Each of them three total of nine, right? So this is what you got. At the next 30 days, you have to plan to pray. So don't, this is not about everybody, it's about your three. You plan to pray for the next 30 days. Plan for this, pray for this three person. Second, plan to invite. Don't just pray, plan to invite. We have a system. And then number three, plan to preserve the three, the nine. So plan to pray, plan to invite and plan to preserve. We have a system. So let's say I got 100 triplets. It means 900 people. So I will teach them how to pray. The system again. This prayer evangelism, I tell my people this is not the kind of prayer for put level of prayer. Because most people they pray for so like this. Lord in Jesus name, I pray for this three souls in Jesus name amen. That's prayer for put kind of prayer. You don't win people by that kind of prayer. So I need to develop a strategy. Prayer evangelism strategy. This is the system. One, you need to learn how to worship the Lord. That's before you pray. So that the assurance of God's presence will be with you. Two, you have to declare to speak life to these dry bones so that the bones will live. The second step, the third step you have to rebuke the devil in their house, in their campus, in their office because these are contaminated by demonic activity. You rebuke the devil. Number four, you have to pull down strongholds in their life because they have pride in their mind the unveiling must happen so you have to destroy all these strongholds in their life and the number five declare freedom in the life of these people. Imagine the three people will be praying like that amen. The nine people will be delivered and then we pray for them, we invite them and we preserve them. That's how we grow our church because we have a system in the way we evangelize people. So the first system is evangelism. The second system is preserving our harvest. I need to have a system. Everyone who come to the church we have a consolidation process. We have to preserve them because we gather the harvest but we need to learn how to preserve the harvest. How many churches to say they love having a harvest and then they lose the harvest and the system how to preserve the harvest. You know how we preserve the harvest? The three person who pray they are the one who preserve the harvest. I close down the Paluap ministry and the evangelism ministry in my church. Do you know that in my church we don't have evangelism ministry? We don't have that. You know why? Because if you got 200 people and you got 10 people on evangelism ministry and another 10 people or Paluap ministry the 180 people is watching. Only the 20 people are doing it and then they begin to blame one another because you don't Paluap but we win. No, you win but we cannot Paluap because they are not here. So I said I close down all the evangelism ministry. No more evangelism in this church anymore.  Starting today I train you how to evangelize and I will train you how to Paluap people. Now I got a system the church begin to grow. I shut down my prayer ministry because every time I have my prayer meeting no one is meeting with me. I know it happens to your church. Come on liars go to church. I promise you you have your prayer meeting no one is meeting. So I decided not to do it so I bring the prayer meeting to those triplets and now the whole church is praying. That's why we win a lot of people because the people are engaging in their culture and in their community. You learn something here? So I got the first system is evangelism prayer strategy system the preservation number three is the small group system the cell system the small group system. This is so important. I ask this question if you saw a woman going to the maternity clinic after they birth a son or a daughter where did the mother bring the baby? Home, right? Not on a school. I see this to many churches when you become a Christian they brought you to school I said you're crazy that's a baby Christian you don't bring him to Bible school you bring him to home they learn how to follow Jesus they learn how to fish your a man and they learn how to fellowship see that? you have to connect that immediately because cell group is a place where we develop our growth growth happen best in the small group so the system is like this when you are born again on this building I see to it that you begin to connect to cells 12 to 24 hours you will be in the cells that's our system so I have system on evangelism I have system preservation I have system and cell ministry we got to take good care of the new believers number four I have a training system the equipping system equipping system runs two per one year the first training that I made is learning how to live learning how to live because they were dead in sin now they are alive they need to learn how to live kenebra men it took me like four months to do that for the new believers but after that I will bring him to another level of training I call this learning how to lead the learning how to lead will took you like six months to nine months so that after you finish that course we produce a cell leader are you listening who knows how to disciple people he know how to win he know how to preserve and he knows how to disciple and raise a leader do you understand that so four one what's number one evangelism prayer strategy system number two preservation system number three discipleship system right okay number five discipleship system you need to have a discipleship system in your church you learn something here okay this is so important so when you come up to a school and then when you become a pastor your priority is not to build building your priority is to build your system become a system builder oh that's probably the first time you hear that word because every pastor who train in the Bible school they will teach you how to start and run a Sunday service program how to how to baptize believers right how to conduct your wedding right how to pray for these houses how to dedicate babies they never teach you how to build the church you need to learn how to build the church church was built by building the system and the system must be followed it must be obey and everyone must be submissive to the system of the church obey submit and follow the system so I have my full time workers in my church I have my 12 disciples I told them this is our system if we talk about evangelism this is our system if we talk about preservation of the new believers this is our system if we talk about discipling our people this is our system I am a system oriented pastor do you understand I am not a kind of pastor who want to guess what to do next oh there are many people came what to do next I don't know let's entrust everything to God and then when they are gone the devil is attacking our church system baby system can I have your amen number two after you setting up the system you need to set up the process okay said it word process process is so important process means step by step things to do not every churches have a clear process okay let me give you the process number one process is to you need to master how to gather the harvest that is soul winning and evangelism the first stage of a true pastor is good on harvest soul winning you understand that you have to understand every possible way to produce evangelism in your church I rally my whole church to go to prayer for three the triplets so that we could have a great harvest so the first step of the system the system the process is start from harvest the second is to preserve the harvest after you gather that you see the process you gather the harvest but you need to learn how to preserve the harvest are you seeing that what's the use of harvesting people but fail to preserve it then you lose a lot of people then you evangelize them again you lose these people get tired I've been there I have already attended I like the church but I'm not coming back why because they were not disciple you see the first step is what the process starts from soul winning learning how to harvest people you must be a strategist on that number two you need to learn how to preserve what you harvest so you need to have an idea how to have a follow up strategy how to have a preservation strategy what is the next step so sometimes this is my strategy I always tell my people the moment somebody came to church that person must be introduced to seven to ten people so that he might feel at home okay so once you come to my church the cell leader and his leaders will begin to introduce the person to at least seven people this is our senior pastor this is our leaders this is our worship leader this is one of our cell leaders by the way this is my team and we welcome you and everybody said hey everybody's naming names when somebody get to know like hey hey Lee for example Ryan Ryan I want you to know our pastor Ryan I want you to know our worship leader Ryan Ryan Ryan until he was bombarded Ryan Ryan I said I'm popular here nobody called my name in my house I was rejected nobody loves me but in this house everybody knows me I want to be here that's strategy system can I amen we also have like we call wow church strategy wow church means you prepare to wow your first timer you wow the first timer right when you when this car comes someone is having a juice good morning sir welcome to our church you take our juice hot water cold water what do you want and the bus just coming down from that the car said what's that sir I know you travel probably you're tired you can have our juice you want cold water that's a wow thing no church is doing that here you might be the first one do you have a wow church that every time they come here they wow the singing is wow the preaching is wow everything is wow amen but other church when you go to church yuck yuck yuck you know yucky I don't like this I am completed na to come back again to have a preservation strategy amen don't forget that word wow so that when you come back to your church watch your church if you have wow ministry so I begin to create a hospitality team in my shirts the only thing they focus is the first timer amen we have to make the first timer comfortable someone is sitting beside him with a bible so that when the pastor said let's open our bible they will open for you this bible for you and it's wow I feel so special right and then from the beginning till the end somebody sitting beside him to help him that's a strategy right there are you learning something here do you have a wow church you're learning something here right so I have first I have the harvest system or process of the harvest net preserve and then train the harvest gather the harvest preserve the harvest train the harvest you don't stop processing these people if the person came here in our case let's say the person will come for the second time the third time we bring him to start up your new life lesson that's what we do in our church and then we eventually prepare the person to our life class study night lesson until they go to encounter then after graduating from encounter they go to the process of leadership we have to train the harvest so if you're not interested about the training process here well you can find another church well the other church they do nothing you can go there if you want to until you die in your spiritual life but here this is a disciple making shirts amen we train people amen we God will change your world so that one day you help to change the world can ever amen so first the process is gather the harvest preserve the harvest train the harvest and now send the harvesters again the same we select we form we send you see the strategy you see the process it's connected right so we do everything based on Jesus vision and Jesus strategy hallelujah we have to do that that way can ever amen so the picture is like this you are born here so the church become a maternity system come on not entertainment church the place is birthing a place for the new believers you have to create that atmosphere in your church that the church is the maternity system on this church people are born in their spiritual life after they are born they will brought them to our house cell group after a few times spending in the house like a new baby when they begin to grow it's time to send them to school training system amen and when they were trained now they win as well they reproduce their own kind you see are you seeing the connection of our vision and our strategy so every church must clarify their vision so that according to the vision that's how we conduct the affairs of our church we need to clarify our strategy select your disciple form your disciples and send your disciple then let's strategize on that based on our strategy it connects everything can ever amen so one day you will become a pastor you will no longer you know you will no longer focusing on just preaching but you are focusing on equipping right you are focusing not just on your teaching but your disciple making suddenly your mind has been shifted to a pastor who produced leaders of leaders to a pastor who will grow a church and conquer a city because that's the original design of the church do you learn something here I mean how many among you excited to gather the harvest to preserve the harvest to train the harvest and to send the harvesters I mean that's a very simple process amen and then you will begin to step by step doing that and I promise you you will do a lot of changes in your church are you part of a church here anyone you're part of a church everyone of you is part of the church right probably from another city coming from different places it's time for you to evaluate your church don't condemn your pastors I'm not trying to say that but I'm trying to say is this you evaluate what you have learning in this place so that one day you can make a decision what I will do when become a pastor if I go to another place I need to speak the right vision the language of the vision the language of the strategy so that when you begin to help other churches where you belong you can tell them that this is the original design of the Bible we have to conquer the world okay our church should not remain small in dry city we have 300,000 people we have to conquer the 300,000 people our church cannot contain that that's why we're getting ready to become big amen we need to dream now I want a big church I'm dreaming a church with 10,000 people I'm dreaming young people with my church will become like 20,000 I'm dreaming why? because my dream is big Jesus' vision is big can I remember and I'm using a system to make these things happen I know what's the step by step I know the process I know the system I know my goal because I learned it from the Bible you need to be the best on this can I ever admit can we give a clap or praise to Jesus thank you Jesus so how do you develop leaders right now to sustain our future let me say it on another word this is the time this is the season to reinforce our future with leaders many pastor they don't have an idea that if you fail to reinforce your church with future leaders we cannot make it if we want to transform our nation one day I have a one day I was a student during the time and God show me the vision he show me how the nation was corrupted and he show me how this nation was totally controlled by the devil and God told me this the reason is the church fail to reinforce the future with godly leaders not just leader for church but you failed to prepare the senators the congressman for the future the mayor and the governor because you are now winning the campus you are now training leaders in the campus so God called me specifically to preach the gospel to every campus by doing that I was able to prepare future leaders because I believe that at this time I have to reinforce the future with leaders now so I begin to talk to a student like this you can be the next senator of this nation you can be the governor the mayor the congressman for the future I want you to get ready and prepare and all these students he said yes suddenly they enter into training because they want to become leaders can I remember I want you to understand this that we have to solve the problem of leadership shortage because the pastors the churches in the past fail to produce godly leaders so what happened to our nations today yeah there's a lot of church but all our weak church useless they don't even people don't even bother to meet the church why because we produce leader who lack influence because there's no leaders inside the church one day if we believe on this vision senators congressman will coming be coming to the church because that congressman and senator and mayor are disciples of Jesus Christ being trained and equipped as a young person until they become future leaders of the land then they will change all this crazy law can I remember law like save the dolphin but kill the babies those law are crazy we can save the dolphins but we can kill the babies where do you learn that because these people are evil people they would rather kill babies and they give rights to the dolphins this is crazy isn't it why because we produce legislators trained by the devil to destroy our nation this is the time to open our eyes that the only way to save America is to raise up true disciple and leaders in the church can I remember are you getting ready to disciple young people young people to produce future leaders that's our goal that's why you are trained here so you are not coming from this place and then after finishing your course you are just leading small bible study no I'm changing the world my daughter always ask me that question dad where are you going changing the world okay and then somebody ask my daughter where did your daddy go of course changing the world so before I leave she was 12 now dad you going now just keep on changing the world daddy when it's my time I'll be there for you because she is 12 she want to change the world your daughters your sons one day will want to change the world because you are a world changer hallelujah amen tell your neighbor right now let's change the world baby hallelujah tell that person I was born for this hallelujah father we thank you for this season a time of change in our mindset indeed God we're going back to the original design and we're coming Lord to obey you we pray and lift up this nation Lord America America will be transformed because the gospel cost is being taught to this leaders Lord these are now world changers getting ready Lord to bring the gospel to every city Lord and bring glory to your name help us Lord this revelation will come upon our hearts thank you for unveiling it making it a revelation to see the reality of this vision thank you Lord and we ask this in Jesus name amen and amen God bless you let's have another break for 10 minutes come on break


We used to have good alternate Spider-Man costumes, but recently it seems like Marvel's just been putting out schlock for Spider-Man. But I mean, what else is new? Even Miles Morales got a cool alternate costume. People only hate this suit because it replaced the original. I think it's good. The only thing I'd change about it is just to give him his old mask under the hood. It seems to me that Marvel has definitely lost their spark when it comes to redesigning classic Spider-Man outfits. And do I think I could do better? Yes. Yes I do. Today I'm going to redesign three of Marvel's recent Spider-Man designs, while either trying to keep the feel of their original or completely revamp it while keeping its original lore purpose front and center in its design. Let's sit on some corporate artists. Alright, welcome to the non-scripted section of this video where today we are going to be starting with the threats and menaces suit. Now I already covered this suit in a super super old video, you should never watch any of my old content, and if I do hear about any of you watching my old stuff, I will go back and delete it, and it will be your fault. This is the threats and menaces suit. This suit is just not it for me. I already explained why I don't like it in a previous video which I don't permit you to watch, but I explained why it's not good there. I used sort of a meter to indicate where this suit was in terms of redesign, the beginning of the meter being the original classic Spider-Man outfit, and the very end of the meter being something completely new, like the black suit or the big time suit. And I said that for a Spider-Man design to be good it has to be either on the far left of the meter, which means it has to be really close to the original, or on the far right, which means it has to be something that's completely different that breaks away from the format and colors of the original. This suit is smack dab in the middle of this meter, and that's why I feel like it doesn't really work as a redesign. It's familiar yet new, it's sort of like the uncanny valley of Spider-Man outfits. The reuse of the blue from the classic suit in similar formatting is kind of what just throws this suit off for me. I made a video on TikTok around the time I made that video, and I remember getting a lot of flack for shitting on this costume. And by no means do I mean to shit on the original artist who made this, it's just that for me personally this costume doesn't really feel like a good Spider-Man outfit, and I feel like I've thoroughly explained why. The purpose of this suit, lore-wise, was to have Peter run around and stream his adventures to the internet, so it's essentially just the Twitch Spider-Man suit. So in my redesign, I wanted to implement as much streaming platforms as possible to reference them within the design, in a way that I felt like wasn't too pushy and worked really well. Also, this suit is a prime example of a lot of these Spider-Man suits not really having a name. I wish they would start naming their Spider-Man suits. So from now on, I'm gonna name this suit the streaming suit. This is my streaming suit redesign. It uses red and purple, the most popular streaming platform colors, red being YouTube and purple being Twitch. If it doesn't appear purple on your monitor, it might be a little more blueish, so trust me, it's supposed to be like an indigo purple. I wanted to implement as many streaming and just video playing iconography into this costume as possible. For example, if you look at the web shooters, they're fast forward buttons. If you look at the eyes, they're giant play buttons. The first I experimented with having the chest symbol being made out of a pause button, but then it just sort of turned into me taking these long rods and turning them and bending them into a spider logo.  And that's pretty much it. I do understand that this suit is a little bland, but I still think the design works and it's literally something I thought of in an hour, so I do understand that there might be some retooling that would make this suit better. But for now, I think this suit does everything I think I would have wanted the original streaming suit to do. Like this suit looks like if YouTube and Twitch sponsored Spider-Man or partnered with him. I like it. I like it a lot more than the original design, I mean fair to say I'm biased.  Is Marvel so good and they never do anything wrong ever? The Spider-Man Beyond Suit is one of the most controversial suits that Marvel has put out recently. And that's because it's kind of good. And it's also because the things people say about it are also justified. It's controversial.  Me personally, I like it. But other people don't like it for a very, very, very justifiable reason. And today, I'm going to be fixing the Spider-Man Beyond design. Are you guys ready? Are you guys ready? Are you guys ready for my Spider-Man Beyond redesign? Are you ready? Are you ready? Look.  I kind of sound like a dickhead. So I've decided to go back and maybe rethink some of the things I've said and provide more constructive criticism instead of screaming at my monitor for five minutes for you guys to all enjoy, which you probably would have enjoyed more. This costume isn't different enough from the source material or I feel like quality enough of a design to justify its existence. It's just a yellow themed Spider-Man suit with elements of teal. The color palette of this suit is good and I feel like it could work, especially because of the mischievous nature of Oscorp and that's what this is by the way. This is a costume that was made by Oscorp for Spider-Man and I feel like the color palette kind of does a good job of implying that it's not quite Spider-Man. I think placing the yellow egg sacks on his forearm without any sort of reason or justification for them to be there doesn't really work. I get why they're there because they have like mini Spider-Bots in them or whatever, but they just sort of feel plunked onto the design. The logo is nice, I like it, I don't mind it, but I also just think the yellow was more forced into the color palette of this suit than it was naturally integrated in. The shade of reddish pink I really like and again I think the teal could work for this design. I feel like the vest is really just juxtaposed onto the design of this outfit. I feel like you'd get much better results if you more cleverly integrated it into the outfit. If you look at the symbol on the back you'll actually find out that the whole thing is supposed to come off and it's supposed to be a little Spider-Bot, which is cute. I actually really like the Spider-Bot and it's the only thing about this design that I enjoy. I feel like the legs being wrapped onto the front of Spider-Man doesn't really work too well into the design, especially since we've seen so many good Spider-Man outfits that just take the back Spider legs and wrap them around the front. I feel like just doing that again wouldn't really be so looked down upon. Now that I've said everything that I don't like about this design I'm going to show you my design that I think improves on some of the critiques I have about this one. This is my design for the Oscorp suit. It has the gold, a darker teal, but the same pinkish red used before. Those legs that come off of the back Spider can still create the Spider-Bot scene in the final concept art and the egg pouch thingies instead of coming on Spider-Man's arm and just feeling placed on there with no rhyme or reason are now embedded into these big bulky yellow web shooters. I wanted to make the lenses look more menacing, something you might have seen on a Scarlett Spider suit, but if you don't like these lenses you could always just take the ones from the original and plop them onto this one. My friends in the Junk Art server edited this image so that it has the previous lenses from beforehand. I don't want to say my design is better than Marvel's or better than the artist who drew this thing up, but I think I am. I think if this was the design that was released for this arc, people probably wouldn't have lost their minds as much as they did when the Oscorp suit was released. And honestly, I think it was much less of a freakout session on Twitter than it was Oh look, Marvel put out another bad Spider-Man costume, surprise, surprise, and that's kind of how everyone feels. I think a lot of people have lost faith in Marvel and their ability to make good costumes for Spider-Man, and I think I know what the problem for that is. I think the problem is that Marvel is hiring people who just draw the comic books and not people who design the characters in the first place. I think if Marvel started hiring some character designers, you probably would have seen a lot better work than what we ended up with.  There's just a lot of room to grow and I think by properly critiquing them instead of just saying, oh costume bad is the best way to do it. That's why I always try to provide a reason for why I don't really like the costumes that come out. I always explain why I don't enjoy them in great detail and honestly sometimes very incessant and overdoing it detail. I don't know why I've grown such a soft heart for the poor Marvel artists who designed this. Poor is in, I've been shitting on him for a little bit. I think people aren't ever going to get better at what they do if we don't tell them why the thing they're currently making isn't good. I think when you say, oh this Marvel costume is bad without providing any reason for it is sort of what creates this divide between our criticism and the people at Marvel.  I'm not saying that you should attack these artists on Twitter because they made a costume you didn't like, but maybe provide some genuine criticism.


Do you see any restrictions or regulations coming for the US in the next six months? I think it is unlikely we will see anything happening in the next six months. If anything, we might see some regulations or policymaking around, perhaps, ICOs. But in terms of regulating exchanges or the use of Bitcoin, I don't expect much to change. The vast majority of those regulations are applied on a state-by-state basis in the US. On a federal level, what really has application is the SEC, FinCEN, for crime enforcement, and of course the IRS. One of the regulations I would very much like to see, which would be useful, is that at the moment, if you do transactions with cryptocurrencies, no matter what the amount you have to do, capital gains reporting, and that is just ludicrous. If I bought some cryptocurrency for a dollar, and then I buy a cup of coffee, and in the meantime, that cryptocurrency has appreciated in value to a dollar or five cents, I have to report five cents of capital gains. The problem isn't the reporting of five cents of capital gains and paying 20% tax on five cents. But for these tiny, ridiculous amounts, you could end up spending hundreds or thousand dollars in accounting and reporting costs to produce these monster tax returns full of tables or transactions, which are completely useless to everyone, just to report a hundred bucks in capital gains. There is a proposal to introduce an exception to the law that says any transaction under, say, $600 does not require capital gains reporting. That would be smart, but I'm not holding my breath for governments to do smart things. Oh, very good. Someone actually mentioned that the bill for the capital gains $600 exception is HR3708. In 2014, you told the Canadian Senate Committee on Banking and Finance to hold off on regulation for five years. What would you say to them, and regulators generally now? First of all, I still have two years, so one and a half years, let's say. What I would say to them is, continue to wait. There are places where regulation is necessary, and the places where regulation is necessary are places where companies are offering services around cryptocurrency that are not decentralized, that in fact are highly centralized, and custodial in nature. That means they hold keys on your behalf. And there's a reason we have regulations for people who have custody of money. And the reason is that eventually, in almost every case, they try to run away with the money.  So if someone's holding money and they're not doing cryptocurrencies in a decentralized fashion, that represents a risk towards consumers. And I think those entities should be regulated. They should be regulated from the perspective of information security, capital reserves, insurance, etc., just like banks are. I don't believe in KYCAML regulations, but unfortunately that's not up to me. So I would say there are areas where regulation can protect consumers from custodial systems that put their money at risk. But beyond that, this is still a very early and developing space, and regulating without understanding how this technology works is going to suppress the technology. If anything, I would say Canada has benefited tremendously by having a sensible and light-handed approach to regulation, which has caused the ecosystem of developers, innovators, creators, as well as companies and startups to flourish in Canada. With that came a lot of jobs and investments. Banks are increasingly refusing to work with, meaning wire, money to exchanges and brokers. How do you think that will play out in 2018? The funny thing is that boycotting your competition in an industry that is rapidly changing is not a very good idea. Sitting in the sidelines, covering your eyes and ears, and going, I can't hear you. That kind of approach to competitive innovation historically doesn't work out for the incumbent. What happens if banks cut off the on-ramps and off-ramps to Bitcoin exchanges? Do the exchanges go away? Do they stop operating? Does Bitcoin stop operating? No, not really. What happens is a lot of the interactions move to other places. They move to over-the-counter exchanges, where, for example, people don't wire money to the exchange, but instead they set up an escrow payment with Bitcoin, and then wire money to each other. How do you stop people from wireing money to other people? How do you know that money is for Bitcoin? You don't. Effectively, by banning exchange traffic and closing down the accounts of exchanges, the banks are encouraging over-the-counter trades where the wire transfers are happening, from the buyer to the seller directly, not via an exchange. Ironically, it encourages the development of decentralization platforms, decentralized exchange platforms, with escrow, things like BISC, but also local bitcoins and various other platforms that allow you to escrow Bitcoin while you wait for a wire transfer. That's one aspect. The other aspect is that when banks cut off these wires, they usually also make it difficult to withdraw money from exchanges. That means you can't easily convert your Bitcoin into fiat. Unknowingly, what they're doing is they're encouraging more of a hold attitude by the buyers. They're also encouraging the buyers to seek out ways to either hold on to their Bitcoin or spend it directly without converting it into fiat. If you cut off the on-ramps and off-ramps, and someone's really enjoying driving on the freeway, they're going to stay on the freeway, and pretty soon you're going to have drive-through businesses setting up on the freeway to serve them there instead of waiting for them to get off and convert into the other currency. To mix my metaphors a bit, what that does is it encourages more and more people to operate within the economy, rather than treating cryptocurrencies as an intermediary currency. They treat it as their main currency in many cases, and they stop converting. It also encourages those who are investors to simply hold for the long term. When they do want to get out, they'll find less liquid, less convenient ways, like over the counter markets.


Good day viewers, welcome to another edition of Cancer with Dr. Denise H.J.O.C. of Cormorant Cancer Foundation in partnership with Floss TV Africa. June is Cancer Survivors Month, which is another international event to raise awareness of cancer, survivors, sufferers, and experiences today. Today we'll narrow in on chronic lymphatic leukemia and the role of an NGO in making a difference. And in the house who have I got, I have got Prof Nora Olubumi Akeola, who I will be speaking to about different aspects of the role of the NGOs. Hello Prof, how are you? Hello Dr. Denise. Thank you very much for inviting me. Nice to see your face again. Happy to be here. Thank you very much. Prof is a medical doctor from the University of Ife, now over from Awolowo University, and a trained doctor in internal medicine and pathology, which is known as hematology. Prof obtained a PhD in UK in 1992 and became a consultant physician, hematologist, then now a professor of hematology. Master Seed Health Awareness Initiative was established as a Master Seed support network as a non-governmental, non-political, non-profit making charity organization of multidisciplinary health care professionals that provide care and support services to people living with chronic illnesses, communicable and non-communicable diseases, particularly immunodeficiency conditions such as HIV infection, tuberculosis, psychotherapy, and cancer. Master Seed has received grants, many grants and awards, some of which include the USAID for the NACIN project, which was in 2008-2010. Global Fund Tobacco Assist Program grant, which was also received in 2019-2020, third fund NRF for the immunohistochemical. Medical people have very long words, molecular and side to genetic characterization of some cancers in southwest Nigeria. The Community Awareness Component and the IWCLL, now IW is a small letter, so Prof will explain that to us as we go along. A grant for the characterization of CLL in southwest Nigeria, Care and Clans Support Group Information Component, which is ongoing. Welcome Prof and the first question I'm going to ask you before we even start going far before I understand all these acronyms, acronyms. Many long words. Exactly, so first they want CLL please. CLL is chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Oh, so I was right. Oh my goodness. See, I'm not doing too badly. Oh my goodness. Thank you for helping me with that. You see, one of the things I've always done up to is I'm not a medical doctor. I'm a PhD holder in education. I talk about cancer as a survivor, somebody living with the disease. So welcome Prof to this edition of our program and thank you for going to join us. So here we go now. Let's have a talk. All of you watching us online. My name is Denise Edgewater, the CEO of Komoi Cancer Foundation. Let's go. What do the following two words mean? Immunohistochemical. I think that is immunohistochemical chemistry. I think that's what I think because I would say this is histochemistry. And then the chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Can you tell us briefly what those two first mean? Because without an understanding of that, the whole work you do will not be... Immunohistochemistry is the characteristic of lymphocytes that accumulate to form this disease that we call chronic lymphocytic leukemia. These cells have certain markers on them that determine the type of immune activity they may have. And we see that in the lab, use those to identify the cells and use those characteristics to determine whether indeed it is CLL or any other lymphoma. Lymphomas are the solid tumors that are associated with the immune system. And the immune system consists of various organs, the lymph nodes, the bone marrow, the spleen. And any of these areas can be affected when you're talking about lymphoma. So the cells themselves, which are the lymphocytes. Now these lymphocytes, they migrate from the bone marrow into the thymos and then the mature. And then they go into the peripheral blood and they function to help people to fight infection and improve, I mean, to fight any organism or any agent that is orange in the body. So the work to try and keep an individual in a healthy state and they constitute the main cells of the immune system. So basically, I'm going to speak it in an ordinary man's terms. Because one thing that is key in my head, I keep hearing is leukemia. I've always understood leukemia. Now I will go back to why leukemia is key for me. My mother died of leukemia. My grandmother died of leukemia. And leukemia to me is cancer of the blood. That's right, right? Correct. And then they break down into different components. All right, then thank you. Let's just stop there. Let me not even go and start getting myself when they twist before we go and get ourselves confused. Okay, so can you give us briefly an outline of what and who Mustard Seed Initiative is? Who are you? What is your project about and what is the benefit to us as any cancer space? Right, Mustard Seed Health Awareness Initiative started as Mustard Seed Support Network. But when we were to register in 2013 with CAC, the word network was rejected. So we had to change the name to Mustard Seed Health Awareness Initiative. And we've been working in the area of care and support for people with chronic illnesses. And as you said clearly, that this includes people who are living with HIV infection, psychosocial disease, tuberculosis and cancer. And as we've said, chronic lymphocytic leukemia is a cancer and cancers are lifelong conditions basically. And that means the people who suffer from cancer will need certain care and support services. And that is what Mustard Seed Health Awareness Initiative is involved in doing. And to do this, we go out to the community basically. We conduct outreach to sensitize the community about cancer. And for example, this was the flyer that we produced to celebrate World Cancer Day on the TETFON project. You can see TETFON written on there. And you can see some pictures of certain swellings on the jaw and other places. So to depict malignancies that is cancer of the blood and some solid tissue. And it includes also breast cancer, prostate cancer.   So that leukemia, which is blood cancer, is not so common. Likewise, the lymphoma complement. So we call them lymphoproliferative diseases. They're not so common, but they are becoming more important because of the opalation at risk. There's usually chronic leprosythic leukemia, usually a disease of elderly. We have found that in Africans, there is a bimodal presentation. That is, you have a group of patients who are younger. That is around 40, 50. Even some 30-year-olds have been reported to have chronic leprosythic leukemia, which is supposed to be leukemia of elderly. And we also observed that the presentation of chronic leprosythic leukemia in Nigerians and Africans generally is somewhat different from the way it presents implications. So there's that vest. And this is what this project that we are about to embark on, that is being funded now by IWCL, that is International Workshop for chronic leprosythic leukemia. So that's what IW stands for, International Workshop. And they have been very generous to fund a project that was brought up in our department, the teaching hospital, OAU teaching hospital. And there's a component that involves the community outreach and support for the patients with chronic leprosythic leukemia. And this is where MOSTACID comes in. It was in 2017 that MOSTACID became a member of the CLLAN network organization that CLLAN is chronic leprosythic leukemia advocate network. It's an international network that incorporates, that works with NGOs all over the world. And MOSTACID supports, that is MOSTACID Health Awareness Initiative, is the first NGO to be incorporated or to collaborate with CLLAN in giving care and support to people who are living with chronic leprosythic leukemia. Now this project is going to enable us to reach out to people more. And not only in a fair area, we have a support group for our patients here. Since 2019, but we will be able now, because we have funding, to be able to reach out to patients across the Southwest, at least as an initial intervention. And it is a project that will be lasting for three years. And after that, depending on the outcomes and the success of the project, there will be a scale up of this to other parts of Nigeria. You have explained to us so far where you are with the project and the fact that it's a Southwest project, which will bring me back to a question of what I want you to finish because I want you to explain for us, please, the benefits of this project to the patients, because it's an advocacy stand. We're not talking about the medical, we're talking about the mental care that comes with this journey. And for me who lives with the disease, you know that I talk about it, it's just very hard. Can you please talk us through that, please? So it's the care, the word care and support. Yes, exactly. The essence of this project is to try and improve the care and support for our clients. We call them clients in the community. And what NGOs do is to do what doctors don't have the time to do in their clinics. And that is to give care and support. The care comes from the concern that a community volunteer has to help a client in need, basically. And we're saying that with the concern comes passion, passion to give care. And there is a need to affirm that relationship with the client. So we need to get the confidence of the client so that they will be able to cooperate with the care provider in the community. And they will be able to open up until the volunteer, the community volunteer, their challenges, their needs and aspirations as the outcome of the disease. Because it's a lifelong disease. It's once diagnosed, you live with it for life. So along the line, there's need therefore for us to ensure that the community volunteers respect the clients and they are able to encourage them. So that is the care side of it. The support side is that this NGO and other NGOs work together to provide services like nutritional support, financial support, psychosocial support, religious support. So these are the support services that we try to give our clients. And that is where support groups are important. Because the doctors don't have time to provide these services, the NGO will coordinate the support groups, encourage the patients to attend the support groups. And then they'll be able to meet with other members of the team, that is of the department or the clinic, who have the same type of disease, but who are also suffering from chronic lymphocytic leukemia, who are also suffering from CLL. As I said, the support group is for any condition that is a chronic illness. So as I said before, it can be for psychosocial disease, it can be for diabetes, hypertension, cancer. So all chronic diseases should have support groups for their patients. And they will be able to meet with other patients who have similar diseases and who can share their experiences during the time frame of the support group. Now listening to you, it's interesting because when you think about the support group and you think about the wide group of people you are catering for, this project now, is it catering for all the groups or have you got a part where we need at least cater for 100 people who have cancer in the Southwest and see how they are progressing. The reason I'm asking it is because cancer on its own comes with all those key variables that you have mentioned in these psychosocial ways that we live. And a lot of people assume that they understand and it's an assumption. And a lot of the time, cancer patients will run away from what you are describing, not because they want to, but because they feel that, you know what, I can't deal with this. It's not financially I don't have it emotionally. You don't understand and it's not because they want to, but because they have to. So I'm asking in the sense that you've got a plan, you've got the process, you've got a group of people that you are targeting. They are the most vulnerable I think in society where medical health is concerned. So now what is your way forward with that particular small group? Okay, as you said it's a small group because the prevalence of... I'm looking at the accounts now that's why I said that. There's a CLL, yes. It's a rare condition in this part of the world. So we're targeting, like say, 7 to 10 patients per year per centre. We're looking at enrolling about 7 to 10 patients from each centre across the Southwest. So we're talking about doctors, hematologists who are looking after CLL in all the states in the Southwest. This is the six states in the Southwest region. So we're looking at six. I want to do something. It's over a period of two years. So I want to do somewhere because I believe that this programme will help us to help those who have the disease. Some of them will come out because they need the support. They don't have. Yes, so let us look at it. Exactly. So how many communities... So it's not 7 per state. It's 7 per centre. Which... A centre. Exactly. A referral centre. You know, patients are referred to. Yes. Yes. So on the average, exactly. So there are people in the community who don't even know they have CLL because many times it doesn't show up with symptoms for a long time. And they don't get to know that they have anything wrong with them until they begin to feel sick. They start getting tired because of the anemia or they begin to see some lumps showing up in the neck or the axilla or maybe the spleen is getting larger. So these are some of the symptoms that they may experience that will bring them to the hospital. What we're saying now is we want people to come and just do a blood test, which we call the full blood counts. Yeah. All right. And that won't cost too much. It varies from 2000 to 2500 wherever you go around Nigeria. And let everybody who is 40 years and above do this at least once in two or three years. Okay, so now I'm going to ask you the next question. So based on that and you said 2500 and you have an NGO does your NGO have funding for us to put this out? It is to do require for them to do the blood counts because that's what drives them first and foremost. I don't want to know. I don't have the money. Why do I want to know? Well, it's going to be expensive if you ask everybody in the community to come and do a full blood count. We don't have funds for that. But what we do have funds for is to help those who have been diagnosed to have CLL to support them within the support group and also to enable them to do some tests while they come to the clinic. We will be able to support them with some funds to do that and also to encourage them to attend support groups. We'll give them some funds for transportation and refreshment and things like that during the support group. Yes, there is funding for that. Awesome. So I'm going to put this out now to communities and to health professionals and we're going to put it out so if you can please at the end of this share us whatever fly or whatever you got that we can put out to share so that for the medical space because it has to go into the medical space but we the patients don't really know and you are the only ones that can identify your target audience but we've got to get this message to the medics that this facility is available. And so if you can share that with us. We want to thank you very much and I'm going to ask you one last question and it's very brief but I need you to answer this. If you had a wish list. Okay. What would you like to see that impacts this social change because I see this as a social change project, right? Nationally because currently it's targeted as Southwest. So Southwest is three years. Three years is a long time if we do not try to find a way to get it across the country because it's a small group of people it's easier to find help for a smaller group of people than big groups. And this is a small group and currently is on Southwest but we need to get it across. So your wish list. Let me go very quick. Nationally one as NGO one. So something you want the angels to do for you to help us through this too. And the last one is for us or the community, everybody at large. Yeah. What do you want from us? Okay. Just to say before I tell you what I would wish that there is an NGO called Siskanen in Nigeria. It is the civil society organizer, I mean, association or society for eradication of cancer in Nigeria. Okay. And this is not being supported adequately. It's not been supported adequately by government. We need government to support the work of this NGO across the nation. So that's a wish list. That is number one. Okay. That's number one. And number two, I would recommend that if possible the national, the Senate puts out an act or something that would enable, that would enable some support under the national health insurance to support cancer or treatment of CLL in Nigeria. As I said, it's a rare cancer. It's not like the solid tumors like the breast, the prostate, the colon, you know. But we would like government to put on the NHIS lists support for the drugs for this patient because they're very expensive. They're very expensive drugs. And most of our patients can't afford the standard regimen for this condition. So that's my second wish list. That is one, that government funds NGOs through CIS canon. And then two, that NHIS would recognize the need to support patients with CLL and by extension patients who have hematological malignancies, that is cancers of the blood. CLL is just a portion, right? We have a sister arm, which is the CML arm. And that is the chronic myocytic leukemia, which is more common in Nigeria than CLL. OAU, THC is the hub for that in Nigeria. And all patients come once referred to ILEFA to receive free treatments with very expensive targeted drugs, all right, for their treatment. And this has been supported by international agencies. The Max Foundation has been very kind to us since 2002 where we've been receiving treatment free of charge for all patients with CML. And the drug is so expensive, but the patients get it free of charge. And this is what we also like to have happen for CLL as well. Thank you very much. Thank you for sharing with us. Thank you for your three requests. And for me as a cancer survivor, I'd like to say once again, Common Cancer Foundation is an awareness NGO. We create awareness. We open opportunities for discussion on the different cancers in Nigeria and opportunities for us as Nigerians. So I want to say a very big thank you to you, Prof, for sharing this. And I think there's a conversation we're going to have to keep going back to. For me, leukemia is very real and I would want to see it re-discussed when we come into leukemia month. So you know that trust me, we'll come back to this conversation. Maybe I'll get a panel of you. I want to say a very big thank you. Thank you for participating and engaging with us. You can follow us on Common Cancer Foundation as social media platforms. We are on LinkedIn. I think we're LinkedIn as Denise Edgeall. You can find Common Cancer Foundation or you can find us on Twitter. I'm still there. I just want to say thank you for following us. Thank you for watching. Thank you for being active and giving us feedback. And we want to ask you to send your comments, sending information, share what you're hearing, subscribe, like. All our videos are on Common Cancer Foundation YouTube. And this will be going live on there as well. We want to thank you once again. And we look forward to seeing you soon. Have a fantastic week. And to all of us, happy cancer survivors month.


Alrighty, let's take a look at this Which already did. I think it's definitely better. There's a better progression I think there's still some issues in terms of timing and giving the character enough time to Process what they're seeing what they're doing what they're deciding on and now seeing this Later like that my question to you is But my impression was that you're doing a clear, you know, there's a clear one two three and go Then this happens and then there's another one one two three. Oh, man And then here there's a one and then why would he look here? That's my question and I know we had that before but for some reason watching it now I feel like we can do this one two three and it will be faster and Then it would still end up with this so you do one two three is this but I would close the fingers a bit more So it's a clean paper view and then her arm is up here. So there's no It's a call tangent right there So your your thing will be here is she knowing the fingers are out clear clear gap between these two for negative space, but so it do one two three and then that's your This would be your ends and then she can slap him. I think that would be okay Let's go step by step here. So we're starting off and it's still a bit funky where That's okay, but then he he's kind of looking here And not quite looking at what's going on here and then overall It seems like you have a bit of a drift And the characters going forward. I still think that it's it would be interesting to just have a move at least this far back and Then as he does his Yes Going from here, which is also just a bit rushed you would do this where then you kind of Wiggle yourself forward from but cheek to but cheek You know moving one leg forward and then scooting back in to the will be closer And then this happens and he would do it again, and I guess then you could just leave it I'm just concerned about eyeliner and again the overlap of those arms So I know it's more work But I think it will be just interesting to get a bit more separation than something for her Was then that way you can have if she's further out here, right? And he's further out here and Did with the game?  It's very clear. It's it's a game. They both are okay with this goes forward And then second game she goes. Oh man, she would stay where she is He would scoot forward a bit more and you could end up then in this position here And this where they both are then this happens and then one two three and then this happens in that way She's close enough to smack him That's personally what I would do in terms of just a visual progression And then you can see how he goes forward once goes forward twice because he's still into this She goes forward once goes okay Why not once then she's frustrated and then she doesn't move forward that would be also kind of a cool visual cue that you know that in her change of Emotion or you know And how she feels about all this and The speed of this is cool one two three. I will keep it within that realm Just one two three goes. Yes. So what I what I'm missing here is that you going? Yes, and straight into this so I would do a That and then he goes. Yes, and from here I will bring those arms down and he looks at her. That's a beat and Then he goes forward like I said scooting forward Into this pose from here to here. It feels like we're rushing through every kind of skipping a couple beats Then this happens. That's all fine. And then what you could do is when He does this right and she goes forward. You could potentially Let's see if I'm sitting here and go forward, you know, she could lift her hands It could be up like this. Oh, that's a great pose Useless scribbles meaning that you know, she's in this pose and when this happens her arms could be maybe just a bit off The the legs just so it's not The thing where this is her pose and throughout the whole thing. She's always stuck in that pose I mean, it's just like that arm is just gonna be constrained there and that's all there is So when this happens here, you lift her arms kind of change the posing a bit and then you go back here one two three Actually what I like here is that you have her lean forward and then when they do the second one I think this is actually cool That he is actually more leaning into because he's more interested in this and she is a bit more Upright, which means that at the very beginning Go back and push this further have her lean in as well, right? So again, she would be further back. He's he would be further back and they're both leaning in meaning They're both interested in this the second one. He's still leaning and she's more straight and then the third one She's all pissed here That's all good. See that's great. He's still leaning in and she's actually leaning back She's really not into this. I think that would be a great progression So you already have a lot of that in there, which is cool So again, we could do this And same thing here you want to three and I think even here you can have a bit of a bigger moment of ha You do a bit of a yes again not as big as this obviously, but just a bit of a bigger moment there And you're mentioning that you tried to out thought process and you're hoping it's reading I think it does it's definitely reading better, but I think you can push this a bit more Especially for her because it feels like we're doing one two three and then on a whoa We go straight into this and we want to see a bit more where one two three and He goes into a ha and then we wonder wow How does she feel and then you can have a very clear Change in her face of ah man, and maybe her shoulders slumped down and she's a bit more like ah Bit bit inflated the back and round in the bit Then this happens and that's good that she goes back a bit And then this happens, you know and also when you go forward like this. It just feels like this is one Rotation forward meaning in one axis so at this point where she's less into it You know it could be me that this arm goes back here and she's a bit more twisted in why so the body is a bit more towards us The arm goes here and even her face could be slightly three quarter my drawings be nothing But slightly three quarters so that when he goes to here You know she could be a bit tilted also away from us. I would just change the posing so it's not here's a pose Here's a pose the only thing that has changed is a rotation through the route going forward so you can change your arm poses you can change the Curvature the tilt the rotation in Y so you have just different There's a different emotion between here and here and you can show that in your overall body pose And this Again, that's great. She's a bit further back. He's still leaning in and I would probably just still go one two three And this could this could be faster than this. This is already pretty fast, which is good But just for variation you can potentially even have more Speed in there. There's a bit more rush one two three So this is progression the first one is a certain speed second one is even faster And the third one is full-on so he gets really into this and she just wants to go over it get over this I Do like this though, I do like that. He looks at his hands and Then back and then slap but again, I would do one two three and that's your third one and goes. Oh, wow And that's cool I like this Face towards us. I'm a little pause But then you could probably Have to watch out if that's his butt cheek here just from a mechanics point of view He's kind of shuffling backwards and sliding back. I would have him Rotate and pivot off this side of the butt cheek So that you know that part of his pelvis here, which means his ear will be here But that's okay because you could just probably take this line out and that will be this would be your render resolution type of aspect ratio So you see a bit more room Or you go crazy where you know, he goes further out And we would say it's almost off which would be kind of weird, but I'm just thinking out loud What if what if we don't see this and it gets off off screen? So we lose the face as an audience we go to the only face that's there Which is her and then she can have a bit of a giggle good for laugh so that she's not going This is a pose. This is the same facial pose. You need some changes in there. She has this which is great This and now that she won now that everything is to her liking How does she feel at the very end? So I think that would be a different pose here, but again, it could be something where Full resolution aspect ratio be something like this or you can see him And then from a technical point of view, you've got to be careful how that IK leg They're stuck of all the rest of the knees are moving Just mechanics wise that hand is kind of floating and not really resting on that leg So just detail stuff towards the end you want to look at that But that's it. That's kind of what I have in terms of Body changes and just ideas that I know it's a pain on the side It's a pain to have him move back and have him scoot forward But I think visually will be more interesting and just mechanics wise would be more interesting than Then basically just staying put throughout and you know, you can you can see the change if I go from front to back He's a bit forward here We can kind of push that but you want to show this with him wiggling forward and trying to change his position was right now He's just kind of sliding you can see that foot here over time. He had just kind of slides forward and drifts So definitely need to address that in terms of proper Body mechanics. All right, that's it. Like I said, thank you All right There's an email you can sign up you can start whenever you want you can submit whatever you want You get 16 submissions either way a like and subscribe would be awesome. All right. Thank you