All right guys, welcome back to the channel if you're new members, but we guys promising video today We're gonna react to day of judgment in AI we asked AI to draw Islamic moments by the channel towards Eternity guys as always if you enjoy the content, please leave me a thumbs up subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and with no further I do let's have a look What's gonna happen is robust appeal to do everything better than us Imagine if you could be in the office without the community every time what's gonna happen next the most important foundational technology of our time Artificial intelligence how good and artificial intelligence can imagine these I'm not sure about what's going to happen next Let's see a ceremony come brothers and sisters. We have something amazing in front of us I couldn't believe my eyes and you won't either. Yeah, you know the topic of this content, right? Yeah Yeah, but I've never seen it. We are going to use artificial intelligence in order to produce some vision content So what are we going to do today? I'm really curious. You see this before ya keywords There are a lot of things that we're going to try. I want to have good outcomes for all of them except one I hope that we won't have any result from that because they're going to type perfect moment I said that we said we don't want any picture. No one can dare do this So let's see what happens brothers. Could you come to here? Okay? For gun could you please come it's the first time for me by the way to me is a graphic designer What do you think bro? I'm going to ask the artistic style to you and when we write the wind style the brush technique changes It's something amazing. They can imitate him. What when we started to type some keywords with Yasin miradu I was speaking love like I couldn't understand what is happening This is beyond my imagination when the people around me hurt my voice all of them came to mind What is happening? What is the problem? I told that are we close to the doomsday? What is happening? Okay, are we ready? Okay. Just choose one of them. Let's go with this one Muslim people praying on space Okay, there we go And there's nothing to do with the day of judgment. How amazing Look at this one. Have we even built a mosque there? Could you see the lights it's like spacecraft? Wow brother this picture this visual experience does not exist anywhere in the internet None even one computer has this picture. This is beautiful, but I'm not too impressed. We've already seen a lot of AI pictures We don't need you anymore So what about a Muslim robot robot? Yeah, try. Yeah, sure.  Just give some artistic style. Okay. Come on. Okay cinematic and maybe realistic and also 4k. Okay. We're waiting for the sound. What is going to happen next? They say that we are going to have this for the videos too. For example, you want a man playing I mean, it's a fun little thought experiment But ultimately if you really come to a stage where you have muslim robots you're screwed because it means we as humans Actually failed and got replaced for the cloud not good actually moving Not a good idea. You're going to see that Robot in scarf? Wow This is a you know female robot. So could you please someone tell me how this computer works? How could it know that it should be in scarf? But at the same time robot for example, look at the detail the glasses and scarf. He job. Masha Allah. He's a very good Very strict Muslim Is this a male robot? I don't know these three are female. I think it's where is male Interesting bro. And then there's a mosque in the background. So really it just came out of the prayer. I think I don't know I don't know. Allah may Allah accept your prayer It's funny, but it smells at the same time. Aliens with muslim family. Well, let's try this So maybe like in ramadan if tar dinner, let's see imagine artistic style, please. Let's try something new Okay Okay Wow, do you want it to be rainy or snowy? These are easy for me, you know Snowy. I don't think that it can combine all of these. There we go. It can for sure Oh Aliens are having winners. Masha Allah understands But there are no muslims around them. They're just only alias. Maybe they run away when they saw the alias It is snowy. Yeah, wow. What's happening? Is this real? There are three UFOs. I don't know. Wow I'm not sure about what's going to happen next It's in the end of times, man. The day of judgment. That's what we want to see. What about the muslims? He's parting the red sea with his staff. Wow. What do you say? I tried but I couldn't get some good result But it would be easier because there are already many pictures online for cable read. Yeah, we can try. Yeah, let's try so prophet muslims parting the red sea with his staff and Maybe feral's armies behind chasing. I don't know. Do you have any single hope that we will have a solution? There was a you know animation movie regarding this, but I don't know. They will inspire from this or not. I don't know Actually, it's very enjoyable. Yeah, it is And surprising and entertaining really for tourist eternity videos We have to create some thumbnail pictures and also some stock photos some stock pictures. This will work inshallah Oh This is the best tell me what's gonna happen next This is the army of feral. Yeah, you might be there in front of him, but this one is no This is the sea. Yeah. Yeah, this showed the parting of the sea better and this showed the army chasing him better Yeah, I'm not surprised. I've seen certain christians trying to feed certain information into the ai and more over We already have a graphics of moses parting the sea you can do a simple google search So therefore it should be fairly easy for the ai to replicate this Millions of people waiting in the judgment day Horrifying. Okay. I want some real good artistic realistic. Okay, brother. We should write everything we know It's the score with horror details and the realistic than red. Maybe red will make the scene more rubbish Horrifying Yeah, it's visual, but we will have something like this Maybe in one hundred series later. I don't know. But certainly we will have this day We will be one of these guys waiting You know about the details about judgment day Yeah, and there will be no clothes on us as far as I know But people will be so scared that they won't even look at each other. So they will be concerned about themselves. So they will be Yeah, running and shouting and you know if my mother will, you know throw her baby Okay, that's right. Prophet Muhammad is still at us. I hope that we won't have any results for this I think they wouldn't dare, but I don't know. Oh band phrase band phrase He's banned. Could you please read circumventing this filter to violate our rules may result in your excess being revoked Okay, of course, I have to say here that I'm glad that Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was not depicted here However, I do have to admit that I'm really fed up with the filtering and with the censorship on AI If you look into chat gpt for example, it is so hard nowadays to extract an answer that is not politically correct If you will everything is filtered everything is censored I don't believe that this is the right way to go into the future Concerning AI you're limiting AI and AI will not be able to learn 3d to learn openly. You're already infusing it with liberal pc culture. It's absolutely destructive Have some red lines. So And this is also our red line. So it's it's better for them. What about I don't understand if it is your red line Why do you ask the air in the first place? Hope that we won't have any result. We have this is not a band category It's it's it's not good. This doesn't resemble this guy. Let's try something interesting Imagine we all have this dream the al-Aqsa being liberated. So let's write liberated al-Aqsa And at least see the visual maybe it can move us to do some actions to achieve this inshallah. You're already raksa It's good. These are Muslim people actually kubatu sahra. It's fantastic, but it's not clear It's blurry kind of I don't know. It's not bad. Okay Yeah, it's like you know in the first phases of this AI So I don't know what will happen really and it gets really developed and really Of course, what is that? It's like three-year-old. Yeah child Swat bridge. Have you tried these? I don't know if they really know about this imagine, bro Come on. Swat leading to the heaven.  Wow What is happening? What are we going through? Yeah, it's funny that we see something here But it's scary that we are certainly gonna experience this. We are gonna go through this bridge This is real. This is happening whether we like it or not We are approaching this day in this bridge everything's gonna end for example 100 years later.  It's certain There are 7.7 billion people in the world all of them will be underground Like a plant's growing we will grow into new life and go through this bridge If we are simple if we didn't pray and a lot didn't forgive us We won't pass from this bridge and then fall to the hell And every one of us will see the hellfire and we'll be you know passing on the hellfire And if we are good muslims, we'll just pass this bridge incredibly quickly and just like a lightning really Yeah, yeah, may Allah protects us really Yeah, there's a hadith and I don't know the arabic version of this hadith But the prophet Muhammad aleyhissalaam said that the prayer is the pillars of the faith pillars of the dean So if we neglect our prayers if we just don't give really Importance to our prayers then what kind of you know religion are we talking about? What religion are we living really if the pillars are destroyed the building is destroyed the building will yeah We'll be collapsed if you don't put your religion intact with the pillars of the prayer of the salat Then you'll be buried under the building and end up in the hellfire as to she died That's what I came to the conclusion with as well because if you look at many islamo folks They will tell you what islam is supposedly about but they never talk about the five pillars of islam Because if you redirect your focus onto those beautiful pillars, you will see islam for what it truly is It is an absolute amazing way of life We experienced something and we loved it was a different experience But when we saw the syrat we couldn't love because Imagine ourselves walking there. You can imagine yourself walking on this bridge too. It's gonna happen There are two possibilities for you and for me. We're gonna pass through the bridge enters to paradise We're going to see our people our family our grandmothers grandmother the prophet adam the prophet yusuf the prophet isa The prophet muhammad al-seraat of as-salam everything's gonna be beautiful and worse importantly, you'll see Allah Monsha Allah I have goosebumps right now and the second possibility that we don't want to happen You can't walk through the bridge. They don't let you walk you start to fall into the hellfire May Allah help us brothers and sisters and also I want to add one thing You know the verses in the Quran the ayat in the ground that is describing the graphic description of the hellfire really People sometimes have problems about these verses But when we see these it gives us a reality check really it gives us this sense of you know Seriousness and these descriptions in the Quran is as it instills the fear of God in you Which is a healthy mindset to have because if you don't fear God you don't fear anything truly You don't fear any consequence to your actions and therefore you fall into hedonism and you fall into nihilism Which means anything goes. Why would you care if you are sinful or not? You can do whatever you want. That is the pitfall of mercy You have to fear Allah because he doesn't want us to end up in the hellfire That's why he describes them in a really graphic fashion detailed fashion. So it's not about his you know There's anger or anything. It's about his mercy. It's out of his mercy So we should understand and look at these verses and try to you know Correct our lives and be a better muslim in order to avoid this outcome. This end result inshallah All right, that's it for today's video. I personally expect this to be more about the day of judgment However, in this video, they showed many entertaining scenarios Aliens robots and what not I have to say even though they are entertaining They're scary as well because if we really come to a spot where aliens or robots are praying like muslims We absolutely failed as a society. This is not what islam is islam is about the human being within the quran You get the teaching what the human being is in what relation the human being stands to the angels to the animals Why we are created in the first place why this is a test for us and not for robots Of course, therefore we have to remind ourselves that this creation is created for us It is a human experience We have to return to that and deepen our practice But all in all I would have to say that this was an easily digestible reminder for the umma a reminder for the muslims To return to practicing islam and to fear god to be reminded of the hell fire Many people forget it They get lost in this world in this dunya and they think everything is just fun and games and enjoyment They forget the implication of judgment and you see that this society is training people to abstain from judgment You see that nowadays when children play sports out of a sudden they tell them hey, there is no winner Everybody wins. There are no second places or later on when women become promiscuous out of a sudden You can't slut shame them anymore or when people are obese you cannot fat shame them anymore People think that this is love people believe that this is very compassionate very nice However, this is the exact opposite because you're lying to people You're playing make-believe and you escape reality like this more Over you tell people that there is no judgment in this world and they start associating that there is no judgment ever And like that they let go of the fear of judgment day They let go of the fear of god and this leads them then to nihilism Atheism you name it it absolutely destroys the soul of the people All right guys, but this is it for today's video if you liked it leave the thumbs up If you haven't subscribed already guys, please do so and if you want to support the channel by Patreon For example, all the links are in the description box below. 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with my second episode of create a life you love. I did the first one last week and this is the second one. And I should, I really should number these so people can kind of watch them sequentially, but I don't think it's going to be necessary.  My name is Toni Green. I'm a psychic medium and I channel a tremendous, I channel almost everything. All my sessions are channeled. All of my shows are channeled. All of my books that I've done are channeled. This one, this one, by the way, I have two copies of it right here. Let's put that copy there. I don't want to make it look like I have more books than I do. This book right here, by the way, is poems and messages from above. And there are three poems in this book that I couldn't get through. Like I'm not kidding when I say I channel these, but one poem in particular kind of took me down for a minute. I tried to edit it and tried to edit it and it took me like three or four times before I could get through that poem without breaking down. It really hit something inside me and everybody who I gave a copy of the book to you to review it said have tissue with you. So these are, some of the poems are amazing and happy place poems but some of them will hit that spot in you that says, hey, wow, that's real. And there's a poem in here that I channeled that is from loved ones up above.  Next, this is the first book of poems that I did. I channeled poems and messages from above and it's a little bit more lighthearted. And then these four are transformation books that you watch, you do one word a day and they transform your life. And then there's this one, which is, what if a transformational journey? One of my favorite books so far. And I say so far because I'm always working on books. I'm always working on poems. I'm always working on, I'm always working. I just love creating, which is what we're going to go to now. All of my books are available at amazon.com. Tony Green with an E at the end. Okay, here we go folks, are you ready?  And please don't argue with me about this. If you wanna argue about anything that comes out of my mouth, argue with the angels because they bring it through me, okay? And this is intentional fear. This fear was intentionally brought to people at this time with an agenda. So we need to turn it around. We need to get back to that place of faith because faith is where we create. Faith is where we go into that space where we are knowing we are okay, the world's okay, everything is gonna be okay. Once we're in that space of faith, we can start really moving forward and ideas come to us in our vibration or our frequency raises. And that's really what we want. We want to be in that space where our frequency goes up even if just a minute amount every single day. We just really need to be in that space where every single day our energetic frequency goes up just a little bit, just a little bit, just a little bit. And then before you know it, you're flying high and that's where we wanna be. And a lot of this comes, this lower frequency vibrational stuff comes from our thoughts and our beliefs. And yes, okay, the last episode, one of the things in the law of attraction, it says put it on a board, just put it out into the universe. Yeah, that's really important. But you have to be able to feel it, okay? You have to be able to feel it with want and not fear. You have to feel it with faith.  You have to have the faith that it's something that's meant for you. 90% of the people who buy lottery tickets don't believe they're gonna win. They have a dream that they'll win. But if you ask them, do you think you're gonna win? Nah, I'm just like, I'm just wasting my money here. I don't believe I'll win the jackpot, maybe I'll win something. So that is what I'm talking about. What do you believe can really come to you? Now I want you to start changing your belief systems, your perceptions, even if just a little bit at a time. Last week, one of the things I said is, it's important for you to say, I deserve better. And the other important thing is, it's not what you want, it's what you believe you deserve. So the way we're brought up, we kind of are brought up in a way we're always getting punished as children, right? Tells where we're wrong. So we carry that into adulthood. But the other thing we carry into adulthood is what our parents said about money, what our family dynamic and economic system was. Was there always just enough? Because no matter how much money you make until you break that just enough pattern, let me say that again, no matter how much money you make, earn, bring in, until you break that just enough pattern or habit or belief, that's where your financial situation is going to stay.  So how do you get past that? You have to change that I'm surviving to I'm thriving. So don't even think survival anymore. Think I'm thriving every day. I deserve better and I'm thriving. I deserve better and I'm thriving. I deserve better and I'm thriving. And in this economic time, another thing I say on my show that I air every Monday at noon for 30 minutes is if there ain't a job, create one. If you can't get a job, make one. There's a reader on one of the readers that I listened to every once in a while. And she said, you know, before she started reading on YouTube, she delivered groceries to elderly people. Okay, how amazing is that? Like she just did it and like who cares? Who cares what anybody thinks about it? There are a lot of people who clean people's homes that could start their own business like that. They just have to get that right market, right? And if you don't wanna clean people's homes, start a cleaning business. All these businesses like at home and all these businesses that are out there now are catering to elderly people who don't wanna be put in a home. They wanna stay in their home. They need groceries. They need people to come in clean. They need caretakers. They just need someone to talk to start a business where people just go in and talk to elderly people and listen to them talk.  But that's not, I'm not gonna spend this whole show just naming businesses you could start. But the idea is there are so many businesses you could start. Excuse me while I get more comfortable and get like start to really get into this. Now, my notes are here today. Instead of there, that was awkward last week. So here we go. Ooh, here we go. Okay. Some of the thoughts or beliefs that we have are if something bad happens, we believe it's just gonna get worse. Like, right? We do. But if something good happens, we think it's just a one time thing. And why don't we believe it's just gonna keep getting better? So anytime you get a win, I don't care how minute that win is, how tiny that win is. Write it and say, oh, this is just the beginning of my winning. This is just the beginning of my winning. Okay. Don't think this happened so something bad's gonna happen. I went through a spurt of time and I often do and I don't brag about it because people say they want good for other people but inside if they're not having good happen for them, they kind of get a little ish-ish when they hear about good for other people, right? So I was going through a spurt of really good things in my life, like law of attraction, if you wanna call it that, just stuff coming in like nobody's business. And then I had my third near death accident.  And somebody said to me, well, maybe that accident happened because of all the good that came. Really, I feel so badly for that person. Like how can you believe that you would get blessing on blessing on blessing just to get a curse? That's not how the universe works. That's not why we're here. We're here to be blessed, to teach blessings.  We're here to accomplish, show, accomplish, grow.  So when you want something, you're not taking from anybody. There is so much being made every day. There is so much being made every day. Like, could you imagine, I want a Mercedes Benz, but there's only one. No, even in this economic time that is supposed to be so sucky, they're rolling them off the tracks every single, they didn't stop making Mercedes Benz. They didn't stop making BMWs. They didn't stop making anything except for Clorax wipes for a hot minute toilet paper, apparently for some reason we couldn't keep making those or enough of that. And isn't it ridiculous because, and here, that's a perfect example of mass law of attraction. The media put it out there that there wasn't gonna be enough and boom, everybody went out and then there wasn't enough. Okay, so there's a perfect example of mass law of attraction in fear. Now, we have to get back to that place of faith, okay? Home builders were still building, we didn't run out of building supplies during this time. I mean, thank folks, thank, anyway. So the first thing is, when something good happens, this is the beginning of my winning, okay? This is the beginning of my winning. If you are out and even if you find a dime on the ground, well, look up to heaven and say, hey, thanks to whatever relative you think gave that to you and say, this is the beginning of my winning, that's free money, it's a dime, but it's a dime, right?  Okay, another thing is, oh, okay. Okay, I heard this when I was growing up. If you're really happy one day, as happy as you are this day, the next day you're gonna be sad or cry.  Maybe they're sadistic. I don't know, but it's not true. All these things we heard as children are not true. What if that's the beginning of your happiness? What if you're just happy and you're always happy? Like, and here's where we go into the next one. It literally is not what happens to you in life.  Everybody has gone through trauma in life. Everybody has gone through something. It doesn't matter if you think it was their fault or not their fault or your fault or not your fault.  And we're neither. We're not victims, we're not victors, we're just here. We're just here learning and growing. So everybody has a story. Everybody has something. Everybody has a book in them. Everybody could write the traumas and the tragedies of their life. Everybody could do that, right? Because we've all had it. And as long as you look at it as a trauma or a tragedy, you're gonna keep repeating that pattern of trauma and tragedy. So it's not what happened. It's not what happened in your last relationship. And we're taught, okay, so this is gonna kind of merge into another thing. The way we're taught to handle things. The way we're taught to handle a breakup. The way we're taught to handle money. All of these things are still playing out. So our perception of what happened and then how we handled it takes us either to the next level up or the next level down. Sometimes a relationship ends and it just ends. It's, nobody has to be the bad guy. Even if somebody cheated, they don't have to be the bad guy. Maybe that was a blessing in disguise to move you to the next best thing or to just get you out of a situation where you weren't really happy in the first place. It doesn't matter. Nobody has to be the bad guy. You don't have to walk away from things being the victim because the victim never experiences the beginning of winning and then the continuation of winning. They're too in the energy of victim. Now, it's okay if you don't agree with this right now but just sit with it for a moment in silence and then look at the people you know who are in victimhood, who are constantly in the woo-woos as my one sister likes to call them. Yeah, she's so funny. Like when I talked to her, she was like, she literally, this is her literal sentence. And then I woo-woo and he woo-woo and then the woo-woo went. And I'm like, what's a woo-woo? I don't know what a woo-woo is and I can't ask her because she's in the middle of her stuff. I can't be like, wait, stop. What's a woo-woo? But I think it's the whole conversation in a ball. Okay, but as long as she's in her woo-woo state, there's no way I'm gonna be able to get through to her and say, listen, drop it and go. It's time to move to the next. It's time to move to that next level. Let go of he did this to me and move into I did this for me which is moving to that next level, whatever that level is, whether it's work, money, finance, work, money, relationship, move to that next level. And sometimes that next level is just by yourself. Sometimes that next level is you on your own learning who you are, what you want and building, okay? And that's perfectly beautiful. But as long as you're in that place where things have happened to you, instead of things have happened for you, you're never going to get to that place where things are happening for you. So let's let go of the things that have happened to us and have the perception that everything happened for us. We don't have to know why it happened for us. We don't have to know what the beautiful, unbeautiful lesson was. We just have to move into that space where we are going for the next level, the very next level, the very next thing.  So there are people that no matter what their job is, no matter how much money they're making, they're very happy. And then there are people who no matter what their job is, no matter how much money they're making, they're very unhappy. So it's the actually, it's how you feel about where you are and what you're doing that raises your frequency or your energy or lowers your frequency and your energy. And how much you feel you deserve where you are is just as big of a part of that. So if you feel you deserve better, that's awesome. Then go out and get better, but don't complain about where you are. Don't complain about what's going on with it. Don't carry that energy of feeling horrible about the circumstances you're in and where you are. Work towards something better. Like I said, I can think of a million different jobs, a million different businesses, a million different companies that people could have in a hot minute.  It really is that simple. There are business owners like Uber. I know I keep bringing up Uber on all of my shows. I don't know why. But there are so many different companies that have been started like this just in this way. And there are so many different businesses that are about to boom based on things that are going on in this world. Every time something in the world changes, it's an opportunity to integrate and bring next generation disruption businesses or new businesses in. If 2020 taught us anything, it's that those who had a strong online presence survived. So anybody who delivered or started delivering survived and they thrived. People who didn't deliver, found a way to deliver if they wanted to thrive. They didn't give up, they didn't concede, they didn't give in, and that's part of what this is about.   So if you are in a place where you're not happy, if you're doing work that doesn't light your fire, that's okay. You don't have to quit your day job right now.  Some people don't have to quit their day job Some people keep their day job for their benefits and then they have their side thing going on that they're slowly building, slowly getting there. Some people, I know people who keep their day job because they love their benefits, but then they start a YouTube channel on how to make braids and hair. And you think, but how do you make money off of showing people something on YouTube? There are so many ways to monetize YouTube, trust me. I get so many people contacting me, asking me to be their partners to push their products. Okay, I don't do that, but if you want to keep your day job, keep your day job, keep that, keep your benefits, keep that. But then at night or on the weekends or in your spare time, right, do whatever it is that you can do that gives you independence, creativity and raises your frequency. When you do that, when you take control of your life, and that's really what it's about, all of a sudden everything starts to come back into place. Now in relationships, in work, in finances, when we feel we don't have control, that's when our frequency starts to go down. When we feel like we have a bit of control, when we feel like I've got this, that's when our frequency starts to go up. Now the higher our frequency is, the more things flow to us, the easier life becomes. So sometimes we get into a relationship or a career or a company where we feel like they kind of own us or we've lost our independence or things just aren't going well and we don't know how to turn it around. The first step is if it's a career, start looking for something else and get into something else, okay? The second step is if it's a relationship, start jumping out of that relationship. Relationships are partnerships. They are 100% partnerships and they should be looked at as business partnerships first. Okay, if you wouldn't trust this person with the key to your business, don't give them the key to your bedroom for sure, for reals, okay? Seriously, that's just one relationship tip. But everything should be a partnership and if you don't feel that it gets equal and if you feel like you've lost control of an aspect or a part of your life, that is the thing that will bring your frequency down the fastest and you need to find a way to get it back. In a career, you can easily have a side thing, something you start on your own that brings in more money or helps you to be more creative or you can work somebody else's side thing, delivering food for the elderly. There you go. And making extra money and getting those ideas, getting that frequency back, getting back in that place where you're creating and not just existing. Creating is probably the most important thing you can do here, okay? On this planet, we come here to create, to co-create, to make miracles and your miracles and my miracles are gonna look completely different every single day of the week because we're two different people who want different things in our lives which is the way it should be. That's absolutely 100% the way it should be. My number one tip I gave last week, I'm gonna give it to you again this week as you fall asleep. And this is how I got my first vehicle, my first, not my first vehicle, although my very first vehicle, my Z-28, my Camaro Z-28, big block, eight, eight, what is that, eight? Anyway, that was a gift, that was a gift. But my first actually tried to manifest vehicle. I was falling asleep and I just thought of this vehicle and everything that I wanted with this vehicle and how I wanted to get this vehicle. And within two months, I received a Jeep Grand Cherokee off the showroom floor, absolutely free, didn't even have to pay the taxes on it. I put it out into the universe during prayer. I pray as I fall asleep and I was praying for this and the universe brought it back to me, God, I say God. So if you don't say God, I'm sorry, but I do. Whatever modality or deity you use is fine.


With the limelight being placed on the pressing challenges of food insecurity and climate change in the Caribbean region, a meeting was convened at the headquarters of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, ICA, in Costa Rica, to bring together agricultural ministers across the Caribbean, aiming to strategize a comprehensive roadmap for the region's agricultural future. During the official visit, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries Food Security and Rural Development Honourable Alfred Prospect, had the opportunity to visit the Tropical Agriculture Research and Higher Education Centre, CARTIA, which engages in research work and training, using a model linked to finding solutions to existing problems in the agriculture sector. Recognizing the importance of building resilience and sustainability in the sector, ICA representative in the Eastern Caribbean states, Greg Rawlins, expresses hope that this meeting will lead to the establishment of an agreement between the Ministry of Agriculture and CARTIA, allowing for St. Lucia to benefit from some of the expertise and models they have to offer. They would have visited the Cocoa Germplasm Bank that is at CARTIA, it's the second largest outside of Trinidad and Tobago. They would have seen the coffee Germplasm Bank as well. They have a lot of, I think it's the fourth largest in the world in terms of coffee varieties. They have significant propagation facilities for coffee as well, that is supplied to farmers. We would have also visited the Silver Pastoral Systems, where they adopt combination of grass and trees for species and so on to produce dairy cattle and achieve very high yields, very high productivity. Utilizing obviously forages and grasses. We also would have observed systems of small ruminant production, dairy goats, and using the waste from the dairy goats as an integrated manner towards a regenerative type of circular type of production system, so that we would have seen a lot of these systems that Costa Rica has that are based on sustainability. Honourable Alfred Prosper also had the opportunity to observe firsthand the research being done at CARTIA to incorporate resistant varieties of bananas, addressing the escalating threat of the tropical race for TR4 disease, which poses a significant risk to the vital banana sector in St. Lucia and the entire Caribbean. Minister Prosper expressed contentment at the potential benefits as there are continued efforts to develop TR4 resistant, Cavendish banana varieties. We also visited an area where they are doing work on TR4 tropical race diseases and the tropical race disease, they are very concerned about that because they also have lots of bananas and the family Cavendish is susceptible to the TR4. So they are already doing work in terms of using as pieces of bananas from Brazil that is resistant to TR4 and they are trying to see how they can breed the two. So the Cavendish, which is very vulnerable to it, which is the TR4, they can probably develop a new variety that will be resistant to the TR4. And that is important for us because in Australia, in Colombia, in all the parts of Asia, the TR4 is spreading rapidly and we have the TR4 now in Peru and Venezuela. Like you think about Venezuela, Venezuela is very close to Trinidad and you have lots of movements of visitors to and from those two countries. As a dedicated partner in this endeavour of achieving food and nutrition security in the region, the Ministry of Agriculture is resolute in playing a pivotal role in the region's collective efforts towards building a more resilient and sustainable future for Caribbean agriculture. From the communications unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, I am Anicia Antoine reporting.


The story of the 4th Marine Regiment is one of grit, determination, and unwavering loyalty. For more than a century, these brave men and women have stood on the front lines defending our nation. The regiment is one of the oldest and one of the most distinguished units in the United States Marine Corps. It was created as a result of President Wilson's concern over the nation's ability to quickly respond to rising tensions in Mexico. The regiment was activated under the command of Colonel Joseph Pendleton on April 16, 1914, and arrived in Acapulco Harbor aboard the USS South Dakota on April 28. From its infancy, the regiment demonstrated its ability to answer the nation's call on short notice with ready and capable forces. A short two years passed and the regiment took to the waves again, this time in response to a civil war in the Dominican Republic that threatened U.S. interests. The Marines landed in Santiago and fought northwest across the island. It was in these skirmishes where 4th Marines earned its first Medal of Honor. First Sergeant Roswell Winans was awarded the Medal of Honor for manning a machine gun with exceptional valor. He would retire from the Corps as a Brigadier General. In 1927, the regiment earned its place in history as the China Marines and its call sign of Shanghai when it deployed to join Brigadier General Smedley Butler in the protection of the international sediment in Shanghai, China. As the Imperial Japanese and Chinese fought in the streets of Shanghai, the regiment performed the vital duty of protecting its portion of the international sediment along Sucho Creek. As the war with Japan loomed in November of 1941, the Shanghai Regiment joined General MacArthur's forces in the Philippines on the islands of Corregidor and Luzon. The Imperial Japanese forces landed on Luzon in May of 1942. And following the defeat of U.S. forces on Luzon, quickly turned their attention to Corregidor. Here, the Shanghai Regiment would burn its colors and surrender to Japanese forces on May 6, 1942. 4th Marines was reformed on February 1, 1944 from 4 Marine Raider Battalions. In April of 1945, the Shanghai Regiment joined in the Battle of Okinawa as it landed just north of Kadena and initially fought north to Motobu until the Marines were shifted south where the regiment took Sugarloaf Hill and then pressed south into Naha. Following the surrender of Japan on August 14, 1945, the Shanghai Regiment would be the first American troops to set foot on the defeated Emperor's main island. On August 30th, the 4th Marine Regiment came ashore in Tokyo Bay. In the spring of 1965, the Shanghai Regiment landed in Vietnam and remained there through the fall of 1969. The regiment participated in Operation Starlight, Operation Hastings, Operation Prairie, Operation Hickory, Operation King Fisher, and Operation Kentucky, earning 11 medals of honor for their hard fighting and unrelenting courage in the face of death. The Shanghai Regiment found its current home in Okinawa in 1972. Elements of the regiment would fight in the long years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. In September of 2009, when Dakota Meyer earned his Medal of Honor in the Kunar province of Afghanistan, he was a member of the embedded training team that was formed from the 4th Marine's regimental headquarters. Through bravery and sacrifice, the regiment has earned a reputation as some of the toughest and most capable fighters in the world. Their spirit is unbreakable, their resolve unyielding, and their devotion to each other unending. As we look to the future, we can take pride in the knowledge that the 4th Marine Regiment remains as dedicated and determined as ever. Their commitment to our nation and to each other is unshakable, and their courage and sacrifice will continue to inspire us all. The whole purpose of being a Marine is to be lethal, deadly, capable, and adapted. That's why we won throughout history. I am fully on board and fully understand and agree with the concepts of information warfare and how technology is changing, but the nature of warfare is not changing. In the end, it's going to come down to the mean, well-trained, unflinching Marine getting it done. What we've learned is that the relationships that we've developed in the region over decades are paying off. They're reinforcing that incredibly important relationship between the U.S. and our allies and partners. They unambiguously understand the need to stand shoulder to shoulder with us should we go into crisis of conflict. What they came to find out is that our young Marines, they know what they're doing. Young Marines are well trained, they understand what we want from them, and all we have to do is take off the leash. They're going to fight. As we look at an enemy force, one of the things we're very focused on is what capacity they have to move on a moment's notice without demonstrating indications and warnings that we might perceive about that movement. The force we have is our alert contingency, MACTAF. We will be on the move before the enemy knows we've made a decision. The ACM provides us decision time in order to think about that second move. Our first move's ready to go on a moment's notice. How are we every day preparing ourselves for that 10 seconds? So we're not just making a decision, we're making the best decision. And that decision puts the people that we fight with in the best position possible in order to win. And then you just turn loose. Fourth Marine's Regiment is here, and we will not be stopped.


Okay, welcome. Good morning once again. And just wanted to read from John chapter 14, verse, yeah, verse, verse 16, 15, 16, right. And just talks about the Lord teaching about the Holy Spirit. Let me just read a few verses here. Verse 16 says, and I pray the Father and He will give you another helper that He may abide with you forever. Verse 17, the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees Him nor knows Him but you know Him for He dwells with you and will be in you. And just wanted us to go down to another verse which is verse 25 and 26, 26, right. But the helper, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you, right. And the Lord is talking about the Holy Spirit whom He's going to send during His earthly ministry saying, okay, now I'm going to go, but if I don't go, then in other words, He's saying if I go, then we will send the Holy Spirit, the helper who will be with you, who will remain with you forever, right. And it's amazing when you think about it, here is the Lord spending this time with the disciples and He's saying that, yeah, I've spent this time with you, I've talked to you, I've showed you many things, you know, you've learned a lot, but I'm going, okay. And I'm sure the disciples would have been like Lord, Lord at trouble, right.  The people, the disciples were troubled, 14 especially, you know, verse 1, it says, let your heart not be troubled, which means that, you know, He saw that people were troubled, that He was talking about Him going.  So, you know, many times we think, right, Lord, if only you were here, right. If Jesus was here, physically, he'll be great. And if he's just sitting next to me, he's talking to me, how wonderful it will be, we think. And that's what the disciples were also thinking. And today, you know, I'm sure that is something that we think also, saying that, Lord, if you were here, speaking to me face to face, how wonderful that will be. But the Lord is saying, you know, I'm going that I might send another helper and he will be with you forever. He's talking about the Holy Spirit. He will remain with you. He will be with you forever. He will teach. He will remind. He will lead you into truth. He will be with you forever, you know. So, I was so excited just thinking about it saying, Lord, you're actually saying that the work of the Holy Spirit in a way, you know, he's saying that it's even greater than his physical presence. You know, I don't know if I can even say that, right. But I'm just thinking, you know, my opinion, I'm saying the Lord is saying, okay, it's to your advantage.  He's going to be with you. He's going to teach you. He's going to remind you.  Right? He's going to be with you 24-7. And here we are.  What are you saying?  Right? So, this morning I was just listening to this verse and being shared and I was just, as I was driving, I was just thinking, God, what an amazing, what an amazing perspective. But you're saying that I'm going but then I'm sending and it's to our advantage that you're sending this Holy Spirit to fellowship with the commune with, to learn from, to be led through life's journey. Right? So, yeah, why don't we just pray and say, Lord, we just want to commit surrender, yield to the leading of the Holy Spirit. Right? And we just say, Lord, just open our eyes and open our ears to get a fresh perspective of the presence of the Holy Spirit in my life. Right? Father, we just want to thank you, Lord. Thank you, Father God, that we have the comforter, that we have the helper, we have the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit dwelling in us. And Lord, Father God, what an awesome privilege to host the presence of the Living God. Lord, that you choose to have an act with us, that you choose to inhabit us and dwell with us, God. We thank you, Father God. Lord, we pray, may this change us from the inside out. Lord, may this change us. Yes, Lord, we are no longer orphans. We are no longer alone. We are no longer, oh God, without Lord, any help or wisdom or Lord, we are no longer like that, God, because you, the God of heaven and earth is with us. And Lord, I pray that for each one of us that let there be a fresh understanding, a fresh revelation of the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives, Master. Lord, for it is to our advantage, Lord, that you went and you sent. And Master, I pray that we'll continue to walk, Lord, with this knowledge and understanding and may be a reality. Lord, let our life change, Father God, the way we see things, the way we do things, our conversations and everything. Lord, let there be a marked difference and transformation, God. We thank you. We give you all the praise this morning. In Jesus' master's name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Okay. So, Christian leadership, we've been looking at guidelines for planning. We looked at daring to dream, right? So, I think everything is all interlinked. I was just thinking that inner wholeness, Christian leadership is interlinking or interlinked, you know? Because if you are made whole, then you're there to dream, right? Because if we are hurting, then we are inhibiting, inhibited and not really daring to dream, okay? So, yeah. So, he's able to do much more than we ask a thing. So, you know, dream big. And in all the dreaming, let God be part of it, right? In all our dreaming, in all our planning.  So, dream big. But involve God in it, involve the Lord in it, right? Then the next one, if you look at, what are we looking at? We're looking at planning, right? Some of the tips of, you know, how ways we could go about this well, do this well. So, the next thing that we see is, it seems opposite of daring to dream, which means be realistic and be practical, okay? So, I just want to ask us this question, you know? Is being practical opposite of being spiritual?  Sometimes. So, what does practical mean? Logic and science? Backup plan. In case faith doesn't work, works will work. So, practical is something that is workable, right? So, we're saying, okay, is this really, in practice, is it possible? That's what we're saying, right? Is this practically possible, you know? We can have a lot of theory, we can have a lot of wonderful, you know, discussions, but in life, will this really work? At the end of it all, you know, that's the thing. So, that's being practical. But I feel, you know, sometimes we think that, you know, being a person of faith is being, not being practical. Or being a visionary is not being practical. So, having these lofty dreams and ideals is not being practical, right? But actually, it's not opposite. You know, if you look at Proverbs, the book of Proverbs, right? If you look at, if you go through those chapters, what is it about? What is it about? Practical wisdom, day to day, right? That is what is covering all aspects of life. You know, if you pick any verse, you know, it's so practical. It's so down to earth. I just turned to Proverbs 15 and verse 1. A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh tongue serves up anger. The tongue of the wise uses knowledge rightly, but the mouth of fools pours forth foolishness, right? So very practical, right? At the same time, is it spiritual? Yeah, it's the word of God, right? So, so the thing is that practical and spiritual need not contradict, you know, need not contradict each other, okay? So, it's not contradictory.  Is it workable? I'm sure you've read that book by Pastor Ashish, you know, being heavenly minded and earthly wise, right? So, which means that we, yeah, we need to be heavenly minded. We are living in two different realities, right? We are seated within the heavenly places at the same time, you know, on earth as well, living out our physical life here. So, we have access to two realities, two realms, the spiritual realm and the physical realm, right? That is, in our spirit, with our spiritual realm, we access, you know, the spiritual realm and, you know, the, whatever is there, the gifts and everything, which is part of the spiritual realm and we access by faith. At the same time, we walk on the earth, right, in the physical, natural realm. So, we have this privilege of doing that, right? So, one other thing, so the thing is when it comes to planning, when we say be practical, it doesn't mean that I'm not spirit-led or we should not be, you know, people of faith, etc., right? Efficiency 5 verses 15 to 17, see then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. You know, you see the whole thing, right? Saying, the will of the Lord, be wise, walk circumspectly, meaning be careful, redeem the time, don't waste time, right? And saying, understand what the will of the Lord is, right? So, will of the Lord, His Word, His ways, right? So, just wanted to share that, right? So, being practical doesn't mean that it's opposite of faith or opposite of being spiritual, right? Okay, so let's look at some, quickly go through some of these practical tips, right? Or planning hacks, if you want to call it that, right? Okay, so start with what you have, okay? So many times we are waiting, constantly waiting for that big thing to happen or, you know, big thing or big, whatever resources to come around, etc. And we never get started, so start with what you have. Do not take on more than what you can handle. Okay, so maybe in that season, we thought about season, right? Maybe you are in that season and we have certain responsibilities which go with the season. So, considering all that, don't take on more than what you can handle. Does that mean that I cannot stretch? Does that mean I cannot put in more effort? Right? So, it's talking about stretching and putting in an effort with all that, don't take on more than what you can handle, right? So, yes, when we stretch, we are capable of much more. Sometimes we, you know, we downplay or we are not even aware of our full abilities and potential. But at the same time there are, we know that humanly there are limits. We get exhausted, you know, our energy is limited, right? Our strength. Yes, we are capable of a lot, but it's limited. We need times of rest, refreshing, recuperation, right? So, with all that, with all the stretch, with all the efforts, don't take on more than what you can handle, okay? Gather information about the task at hand. Okay, when you're planning for, maybe it's something that, maybe it's a church plan, maybe it's something that you want to take up, some projects, some, something that you want to organize, some outreach. Find out information. There's always enough and more, right? There are a lot of resources to gather information. Probably 13, 16 says every prudent man acts with knowledge, right? So, knowledge is information that you put together that is processed. But a fool lays open his folly, okay? Next one, you will not know everything. And that's true, right? So, we sometimes wish we had more information or more knowledge or, you know, more things about what will happen in the days ahead and all that. But we will not have full information, right? So, there is, there seems to be that gap. Somewhere we need to step off, right? The steps or the path seems to end. No, it's not laid out anymore, right? So, go with that. Plan with what we do know and step forward, right? Problems 20, 24, the man steps are of the Lord. How then can a man understand his own way, right? So, which means that the Lord is ordering or daining the steps. And sometimes, yes, it seems as if we don't know enough, right? I wish that these steps would be revealed. The five steps or ten steps ahead will be revealed. But it's not, but then go with what you have, okay? Then, don't be in a hurry, take things one step at a time, okay? Sometimes we want to fast forward things and just, it doesn't work, right? At the same time, I just want to say don't delay also, right? Sometimes, we delay unnecessarily delay waiting for things to happen and we end up not taking a step, right? So, don't be in a hurry. At the same time, you know, don't delay unnecessarily or postpone things, right? Then the next one is know your priorities. Know what needs to be done first, okay? In all this planning and, you know, what is the sequence of things? What is of the highest importance that needs to be addressed, okay? Problems 24-7, a great insight says, prepare your outside work, make it fit for yourself in the field and afterward, build your house. It's talking about the order, talking about the priority and importance. Prepare some, you know, prepare the outside work first. Write things down, okay? How many of us are in the habit of writing or in the habit of just knowing that my mind is there, you know, I can remember everything, right? I won't follow, okay, okay. So, that's about, that's the next thing. Next point, you know, that we need to look at. But yeah, the thing is to write down because we forget, right? We forget some of the things. It's good to, when I say write down, it's good to record somewhere. Maybe it's a voice note.  But, you know, file it away, save it, document. Maybe, you know, out of the 10 things, sometimes we forget that those two important things, right, that you thought of. And then because we've not made a note of it, we forget, right? So, document it. Communicate the plan. You know, if it involves people, other people communicate the plan so that everybody knows that this is what we want to do, okay? Okay, sixth one about when it comes to planning, receive Godly counsel. Have God speak into your life, you know. The thing is that we are not alone in this, you know, whether it's ministry or work or anything.  And sometimes God sends these people our way, right? I remember like as a new believer, as a young believer, there was this friend who always used to visit my house and it'll be on a, normally it'll be on a Saturday, you know, we'll meet and I remember that every time he visits and meets, I'll be so refreshed in my faith, in my walk with God so refreshing because he'll be talking about a lot of testimonies he'll share, a lot of information about what's happening in the, you know, what God is doing in the city, among the youth, in the colleges and so, you know, my faith will be so refreshed, right? So I remember that every time he comes and speaks, there's, there's so much of refreshing. Another person whom God would use in a very, very unusual way is like, I will have questions, I will have gone through some challenges and problems but, and then he would visit and we would talk and the conversation or the, some of the things that he shares will be exactly the kind of question, answers to the questions that I've been having, like that whole week, whatever questions that I had or whatever challenges that I had or whatever things that I was struggling with during the course of the conversation, what he shares will be those answers. So all I'm saying is that God will use, God will use others who have, you know, whom he has prepared, who have, you know, maybe more experience and more knowledge and understanding and wisdom, so we can receive, there's nothing wrong to receive counsel, Godly counsel, right? And Probs 1114 talks about the importance of receiving that counsel, you know, it says where there is no counsel or wise, you know, advice, the people fall, but in the multitude of counselors, there is safety, okay? And then several other, you know, scriptures in probably as well about correction and about receiving instruction and how plans are established by counsel, Probs 20 years 18. So, so we can always learn from others, but be discerning as well, right? Because, you know, others would share, you know, sometimes people in their sincerity share, this is what you should do, right? And, but the thing is that their situation was different, their experience was different. The factors were different, right?  Okay, the seventh one is when it comes to planning, don't be afraid to revise your plan, okay? Maybe something is not working, maybe you feel that, okay, here is something that is even better, right? Revise your plan.  Verse 9 Same chapter, a man's heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps. So, we are continually being open to the Lord's direction. So we plan, you know, let's say you plan something and you put down everything on paper and it looks good and it seems very watertight, you know, give space for the Lord to act on it, give space for the Lord to move and speak and make some changes, right? It could be it could be in several ways, you know, practically it could be maybe I'm just thinking maybe a worship leader maybe a, you know, maybe a sermon that you're preparing, maybe an outreach that you're preparing, so many ways, right? Practically if you see give space for the Lord, right? And if the Lord wants to make some changes and he's giving some new thoughts and, you know, some things to be operated, do that, revise that. And maybe the Lord says, okay, now is not the time you know, be ready to just go with it, wait, right? Be patient, okay? The next thing, okay, the most important part of planning is not planning itself, but why we are planning, okay? Because some of us get very excited about planning.  Come, come, you know, let's, let's plan, okay? Whiteboard, charts, everything. But the, that is just a journey, right? But the objective is that we need to work it out. We need to implement the plan. Sorry? How we can? So, may I just use the mic now? Sorry. Like sometimes we plan for things, we keep our schedules, but we miss them, like we can't able to do it because of maybe time schedules or because sometimes we are not well and because sometimes we just write it but we can't keep it into action but what are the things that we can take or the steps we can take in forward to or do the work of the plan. To implement it. Yeah, so practical things. So we look at a few things, you know, it's coming up in our scheduling so a few things are there so we look at it. But what I think the thing is for us to understand that, you know, all these lists, all these plans that I make, you have that execution mentality or I want to do it. Okay. And to be aware that all these tasks are going to take time. Sometimes we plan, you know, the days plan look like as if we have some 48 hours in that day. It's put in so many things, it's like, wow, I just want to do this, do this, do this. I want to finish this. It doesn't happen.  I mean, I used to plan like that for my exams. Three months back, three months back, you know, I'll have some 20 days for each subject. Then finally it becomes one day. Yeah, and then suddenly even the day before I'm like thinking, you know, I think I have time for resting. Maybe I have time to read the story book and all that. And finally just rushing, right? Yeah, so procrastinate, you know, delay. So all these things. So we can, so we need to understand that one is, okay, these tasks have some degree of difficulty and it takes time. So I'm going to do it. And one thing is to time box it. Saying that this task that I'm doing, maybe I need to draw this picture. I'm going to take this time. Put a limit to it. Start time, end time. Do it. And then after that, you might, because we might have some 20 things to do in a day, you know, let's say for example, and then your time box is saying that I need to finish it within this. Give yourself that, put that pressure to do it well, to do it, you know, in a perfect manner without mistakes, etc. I need to give this time. So give it to you. Give it that time. And now since we have our phones and everything, you can actually put those alarms, like put a stopwatch. Yeah. And then it just rings and then stops. And then you need to, you need to discipline ourselves to, you know, move on to the next task. So implementation, Proverbs 12 verse 11 says, he who tilts his land will be satisfied with that, but he who follows privility is devoid of understanding. So we want to do some good research. Okay. And you say, okay, let me check on YouTube. Okay. You started well, okay, on the subject, but by the end of the research, you're looking at some songs, you're watching some songs, you're watching some interesting videos on how to make, you know, butter chicken or, you know, where do you start and where are you finishing, right? So somewhere we just lost. Hey, that's a nice thing. That's a nice thing. So it says that he who follows frivolity is devoid of understanding in the sense, you know, I want some entertainment. We tell ourselves, I need some rest.  Like verse 27, the lazy man does not roast what he took in hunting, but diligence is man's precious possession. So diligence, which means focused effort and, you know, being aware of how we spend our time is very important. So planning is the beginning. We must be diligent to work out the plan.  And we're going to look at that like how we need to delegate certain things, you know, for example, if it's possible, certain things we need to do. It's my responsibility. It's our responsibility. We cannot avoid it. Maybe it's something urgent, something very important. So we do it. But if certain things are there, certain demands are there, can that be you know, shelved so that what you planned to finish be done? We need to take a call. We need to decide is it important enough or can I do it later? So the present circumstances, you know, will always be there. There will be always some demands on our time or what needs to be done, but what needs, you know, what we should be doing be diligent enough to do it. Then the other thing is it's not enough to be busy but to ask ourselves, you know, am I busy doing what needs to be done or am I busy doing the right thing? Because a lot of activity, a lot of busyness does not mean that I'm being productive. I might be busy in some certain days where goes by where morning to evening I've been busy. I mean busy doing a lot of things and I'm thinking, you know, what did I do actually, right? And that happens when we, either when we have not planned or we have not been careful to check our plan with regard to the time that is just going ahead. So we've been busy. We've been doing things. It's not that we didn't do the important things or whatever, but what was planned did not happen. Did not take place, right? Okay. Any questions on this, about planning? So we looked at how planning is not, you know, it's not the opposite of spiritual. Like God is a God of plan and order and we looked at certain scriptures also, which you know, which we can misplace scripture which we can, we misapply to say that we should not plan, but that's not true, right? So with regard to warring, with regard to the Lord coming back and, you know, so on. So we see that God is the God of plan. He does what He purposes and so on. So we have him as an example and we'll be very effective, right, when we plan things. Okay. Okay. To no questions I think at all. Okay. So let's move on to another aspect. So which is organizing, it planning organizing, right? So we looked at vision, we looked at mission, we looked at goals, objectives and plans to achieve these goals. So when it comes to organizing, you know, this is also part of executing the vision or fulfilling the vision, right? So we need to organize. What does organize mean? To keep in order to arrange to put in place, right? Simple things that come to my mind is, you know, our clothes, right? At home, you know, do we, are we organized as personally are we organized, you know? To find some things, are we, do we spend some 15 minutes just searching, right? If you want to find keys, if you want to find your phone, if you want to find, you know, are you constantly searching or do you find it easily, right? So if you organize, then there is a set place for the set for the things, right? So we know, okay, this goes here, this goes there and so easy retrieval when you want to use it and and also effectiveness. Okay. So that's in a simple way. Arranging and systematic in orderly manner, right? So, but we look at organizations or ministries and teams and so on. So we need to understand that oh, by the way, you know, this, you will be learning in detail in church administration. I think that's coming next semester, I think, church administration. So, so you'll be leaning, learning this a little bit more in detail in depth of all these aspects, right? So anyway, so we know that every ministry has spiritual aspect of it, okay? And it also has organizational aspect of it, right? So spiritual aspect, meaning when it comes to ministry, what are some spiritual aspects or spiritual responsibilities? Let's say church for example, what is the spiritual aspect of a church?  Seeking God, pursuing God, worship, prayer, everything. Okay. So that's a big part of it. But also we should understand that the, you know, ministry and church and, you know, it has a organizational aspect of it. Okay. So what does that mean? That means like, okay, let's say we just take a church, for example, maybe church building, right? Maybe you're renting it, sorry? Congregation members, huh? Number, okay, number hmm. Yeah. So, so, yeah, maybe the growing or not. Yeah, so if the congregation comes in for worship, you know, you're invited, so where are they going to gather? How many are there?  Is it something that you're renting? Something that you're buying, right? So all this is the organizational side of things, you know, and if it's a building, has the rent been paid? Is there electricity? Is there water? Like simple example we went to, we went to Kalyan last year. Okay. Now it was, it was raining and the previous day, the day of the meeting also, and on Sunday, we went on Saturday, so Saturday's meeting it was, it was fine Sunday because of the rain, there was some you know, disruption, power disrupted, connection was gone. So the whole day there was no power. Okay, the whole day and you can imagine Mumbai after rains, moist, you know, the humidity, heat everything. The whole day there was no power and so we had the evening, I mean, so we had the Sunday morning service, everything, but we actually planned for a worship, worship team training, okay, worship team workshop in the second half, post lunch. Now the thing is the water could not be pumped. There's no power, water could not be pumped. So there's no water in the overhead banks, no water in the taps, no water in the toilet. Right, so and we had actually asked for, there was about 50, or 45 to 50 odd people, I think were willing to come be part of the workshop and all that. Finally, we had to cancel it because the thing said that there won't be any power for the rest of the day. So we see that the organizational side is important, right, is or we would say that that influences the spiritual side of it, impacts the spiritual side of it. Right, the spiritual side obviously very important, that also impacts the organizational side of it, the processes, the systems and everything. So both go hand in hand. The mistake we could make is emphasize only the spiritual, leave out the organizational, there'll be utter chaos. Okay, we're having a full day meeting, we're having lunch, who's in charge, I don't know, what time will it come, we don't know, where are we going to serve the food, we'll somehow manage somewhere here, here, there, where are people going to wash their hands, so that's going to be chaotic, right? And people will be hungry and the second half of it is going to be a problem, right? On time, delays, all those things happen. So these go hand in hand, okay, we need to understand that, right? So emphasizing the organizational part and leaving the spiritual aspect of it, again, that results in chaos and everything is very well done, systems, process, organized, but something is empty on the inside because the spiritual aspect is not given importance, okay? Okay, so when we look at the organizational side of things, okay, so four broad areas where we can organize, organize the church or ministry, organize the people, right, because we know that ministry, church, everything is about people, organizing our schedule, right, how we spend our time, organizing our finances, how we spend our money, okay? So organizing church or ministry will always help us to function better, to minister better, okay? And it's on the basis of the people whom we are ministering too, okay? So when we look at a church or ministry, okay, who are the people that we are reaching with our ministry? Okay, what is it that we are doing in our ministry and who are the people whom we are reaching, okay? So if you look at a church typically, the church is involved in evangelism, so there are people outside the church that we are ministering to, right? So which means that we need to organize that aspect of it or that ministry, evangelism reaching out, maybe it is reaching out people not in the city but beyond the city, other cities or, you know, so we call that missions extending beyond our geographical location, right, missions. So that can be one area of ministry which needs to be organized. And also it would also mean, you know, building people who are part of the church, right, discipleship, spiritual growth, fellowship and so on. So based on that, we can actually broadly, you know, organize our ministries, right? So you have these things. So if we focus, okay, what are these ministries within the church? List them up and what should we do? How should we do it? What are the ministries which are, you know, we are reaching people outside the church? So based on the people whom we are serving, the people whom we are reaching, we organize our church and ministry, okay? Second thing we said, organize the people, okay? So people who are involved in serving, leading, etc., you know, so how do we organize the people in the ministry, okay? So the best thing is to see, okay, if there is a ministry area or overseeing a ministry effort to have leaders, to have leaders for that particular ministry area, it could be maybe, you know, just taking an example from, you know, our own church, okay, let's say life group ministry, right? Or we have a ministry like working professionals ministry. So we have ministry leaders who will oversee that, right? So what is the advantage of that? Helpful in? In overseeing, in giving a direction to that ministry, whatever efforts that needs to go into that ministry, whatever planning that needs to go into it, right? So of course we will, you know, we will look at it much more in depth, but then we have someone who is leading and let's say that person is trained, that person has the vision, that person is equipped, gifted for that, then you as an overseer of that entire church ministry, you are free to focus on other things and give whatever guidance is required, right? So the actual work. So in doing that, that person who is the leader is also fulfilling God's call on his or her life. So as a pastor slash leader, whatever, we are actually facilitating them to fulfill God's call on their life, right? Rather than doing everything ourselves, we are actually making space for them to fulfill God's call. See, other things like being aligned to the vision, being gifted in that area, having a call, you know, having a heart for all that, you know, needs to be looked into, right? But then this is what happens when we organize it rather than, you know, one person who is just running the whole thing, he organizes that, okay, this is the ministry area, have you defined that ministry area, right? And having done that, if you would give an appoint leader, so ministry leaders. So within the ministry, there could be different teams, right? So making sure that, okay, this is a function to, you know, you recognize, identify the ministry, recognize and identify the function within that ministry, okay?  One is we have, okay, classes, classes are happening. What else? Agonization, hostels, what else is there? For the students, so the post classes, there could be certain things, right? And food is another outreaches, right? So this is one thing. And then if you look at the Bible college overall, if you see the whole process of administration overall thing and also admissions, which admissions is part of it, you know, there's so many different maintenance of the physical maintenance of the venue, right? So there are different functions within that overall ministry. So which means these functions, if it is big enough, if it is going to require time and effort, these need to have a leader. You can say a team leader or you know, somebody who is actually doing it, he needs to look after that. So when we set up things, and I'm sure, like, if you're serving in a church or if you're overseeing a church, you know, you've had that experience, just for us to know that, okay, this function needs a leader, right? It is an important function and without the leader, that function is going to suffer, okay? So we have that, okay? Then, of course, there are others who can serve in different areas, different functional teams, but you know, maybe they are volunteers, they are serving. Now, volunteers can be in all this, you know, ministry leaders, team leaders, they can be volunteers as well, right? Okay. Then, so we looked at organizing the church or ministry, organizing people, organizing our time, okay? Which is our schedule, our time, okay? So we need to know that time is a resource, okay? When we say resource, I'm sure we understand, you know, the first thing that comes to our mind is money. Money is a resource, something valuable, something that we use, something that is necessary. We need to understand that people are also resource, right?   So human, people are resource, resources. The third thing is that time is also a resource, right? This time is something valuable and in fact, it is something that cannot be, you know, once you, once time goes by, you cannot renew it, right? So that's the thing. You can't really say, okay, I want to add some more hours to the day or some more days to the month, right? It's a non-renewable resource, right? Like they say, you know, so it's good to organize so that we use our time well, okay? So, yeah, so you couldn't have calendars, right? So you can have an annual calendar where you can plan things for the entire year, right? Or and also a monthly calendar where you can plan for that month, right? So how many Sundays are there in a year? 52. 52 and I don't know if it's a leap year, I don't know if you can have one more. Anyway, 52 Sundays typically and, you know, if you're talking about a church ministry 52 Sundays, 52 times to minister and you might have some additional services like let's say Easter Sunday, sorry, Good Friday, Christmas, New Year this may or may not fall on a, Good Friday definitely not on a Sunday. So these are things that so you can plan ahead. You have an annual calendar and you plan, okay, what is going to happen on these days, right? So in APC this calendar annual calendar actually starts getting formed by October of the year for the next year, right? So October 2023 is when all this planning happens so that by January we know okay, these are the dates for some of those main things like conferences, other things, okay? So have you seen any of those calendars? Anyone? No? No? You've seen? Where? Yeah, yeah so please check, right? So it's there on the website if you go to let me just share that and then probably we can end so if you go to APC website events church calendar, okay? So let me just share that tab, okay, is it there? Can you see it on the screen? Okay, yeah so if you see it's February much the whole year and so it has some of these main events regarding the youth. So if you see this coming Sunday there is the youth meeting happening at APC South there is also the water baptism service that's happening, APC Central right? And so on. So these main events, these worship team shoots, many weekend schools everything is entered there so the dates are mentioned there so that way the entire schedule for the year is there. Now there is scope for change, right? In case certain things need to be changed, certain things are maybe cancelled, all that is there but then it is planned and kept so that everybody is aware of it right? So what happens is when we need to announce it to the church the media team just goes with this, look at the calendar they prepare whatever announcements and they go with it, right? If you see it also has the pulpit calendar okay, so I'm sharing that. So the pulpit calendar is mainly for the month okay so it talks about what are the church locations who is sharing where okay, if you see that it's who sharing where and also it talks about what are the messages, right? I'm just rolling the cursor over, you know, the power of the tongue second Sunday the power of the spoken word, third Sunday faith speaks, fourth Sunday healed by stripes, right? And then these are the people who are speaking at different locations so on, okay? So yeah, so this is one way of scheduling for the year or for the month, how we can organize the time, organize the schedule of the ministry, right? So this is useful and quite effective okay, so we'll stop here and catch up next week, okay


The leadership crisis rocking the PDP meanwhile seems to be getting deeper as the reverse state government, Yosemite Wiki, has alleged that the national chairman, Iochua IU, manipulated the party's presidential primary in favor of Atikua Babaka. Speaking during a media chat with journalists in Portaqut, Governor Wiki said, IU did everything to ensure that it did not emerge as a presidential candidate during the party's primary. The governor explained that the national chairman, Iochua IU, never wanted him to be the party's flag bearer, so the chairman worked against him. He said it's only a great about not winning the primary or start it would not have the opportunity to fight bandits and oil thieves. Who's supposed to be the chief umpire? Putting pressure, step down, step down. Some of the journalists were involved, some of the media's were ahead in their houses, to tell you and with a silent disappointment by the former senate president, said the governor of the market. He was the chairman of the conversation, planning committee. It has never happened in the history of election. To give back the microphone, to come again and speak after what has spoken, to say, I want to withdraw. Okay, not if you say you want to withdraw, you know what I had, that they should vote for Atikua Babaka. Governor Wiki also accused the PDP national chairman of being corrupt, insisting that IU received one billionaire from one of the presidential hopefuls in the party. While describing the leadership of the PDP as arrogant, the governor says the party must respect its constitution and IU must leave office for a saddening to ensure inclusive governance. One billionaire from Lagos? Yes, I would not deny, I would tell you, who gave you the money? Lagos. Not Lagos, they got better all the time. I'm talking about the money was given to him in Lagos, yes. For what purpose? He met one of the presidential aspirants and told him that he's not sure this governor's been want to sponsor the party. Let IU say no. I would even call some of the businessmen, I'm not saying I'm bigger than the party, but those who run away from the party can not suspend me for the party.  They should call Nekedah and say something and say, yeah, yeah, they're suspended for the party. I don't think you see you take it.  You are designed, Nekedah to move out. With the permission, it's not to move out.