15 beautiful African traditional clothes. Many African countries have distinct regional dress codes. These styles can be traced back to centuries of weaving, hand weaving, dying, and printing. This is because traditional African dress is diverse and varies by country. Westernized fashion has gradually infiltrated traditional African attire. Africans, on the other hand, have preserved clothing that reflects historical cultural customs, heritage, and pride. Traditional African clothing and fashion are among the most visible, if not the most visible representations of the continent's diverse cultural heritage. Various ethnic groups across the continent enjoy wearing traditional attire for special occasions, traditional festivals, special events, and everyday business. This creates a vibrant, colorful, and exquisite scene anywhere in Africa. These outfits frequently reflect both traditional society and the status of individuals or groups within an ethnic community. These ethnic costumes can help you reconnect with your roots no matter where you live on the planet. Hello and welcome to our channel. Join us as we travel through Africa discovering beautiful traditional clothing that will delight you. All 15 traditional African outfits on our list represent one of the continent's many regions. Please remember to subscribe to Africa Reloaded as we ride along. 15. The Sangha Traditional Dresses Southern Mozambique and South Africa Sangha culture is proud and vibrant, which is reflected in their traditional attire. Sangha gowns are among the most colorful and vibrant in Africa. They are always stunning when worn for important occasions and celebrations. The designs and patterns on these garments have a long history and significance, often reflecting stories about the Sangha people's forefathers and culture. Traditional Sangha costumes vary in color and pattern depending on where the Sangha people live in Africa. They're eye-catching, ornate, and leave a lasting impression. Colors that are commonly used include black, white, red, green, and yellow. Each gown is unique and tells the story of the woman who wears it. 14. Casa Traditional Dresses South Africa Traditional Casa dress is a sight to behold. They are frequently seen at special events, such as weddings and cultural ceremonies. South African Casa women dress in traditional Casa attire. They're also gaining popularity at international fashion shows. Each Casa gown has its own story to tell. No two traditional Casa dresses are alike. Each design is inspired by a different event or experience in the wearer's life and represents the woman who wears it. Some of the outfits feature jewels and shells, while others feature intricate stitching patterns. 13. Kaftan, North Africa Kaftans can be worn with or without a sash and are typically made of cotton, brocade, silk, lace, or synthetic fabrics. They can be found in a wide range of civilizations and countries, but they are most common in North and Western Africa. In some warm climate countries, the Kaftan is worn as a coat or overdress with long sleeves that reach the ankles and it is also worn as a lightweight, loose-fitting garment. The usage or titles of Kaftan vary from culture to culture in a Turkic Kaftan, Moroccan Kaftan, Algerian Kaftan, and West African Kaftan. The Kaftan has been the most important component of the Turkic Empire in India for centuries, Seljuk and Ottoman. The male Kaftan is known as the Kaftan of Honor in Algeria. The female Kaftan is enshrined in humanity's intangible cultural heritage. In West Africa, a Kaftan is a pull-over robe worn by both men and women, with the women's robe known as a Kaftan and the men's garment known as a Senegalese Kaftan. 12. Also Okay, Yoruba Land, Nigeria The West African Yoruba people created also okay fabric, which is a hand-woven cloth. Also okay is a weight of life, not just a cloth. It is one of the cultural instruments used to experience tangible aspects of Yoruba dress tradition. The four components of the fabric are a blouse known as a biuba, a wrap skirt known as a hero, a head tie known as a jelly, and a shoulder sash known as a Ibarun or Epel. It has successfully served as the Yoruba people's special occasion cloth. 11. Taco or Ataco, Northwest Cameroon The taco, on the other hand, is a popular traditional garment worn by the grass-field people of Northwestern Cameroon. In the past, only men and women of royalty wore the tov as a symbol of customary superiority over commoners. It's also a common choice for investigators, coronations, and other formal occasions. Taco is a multi-colored, embroidered garment. It's made of a strong black velvety fabric that's soft and comfortable to wear. Since the turn of the century, as more African-Americans traced their ancestors back to Cameroon, Taco has gone global. 10. Isiagu, Igbo, Nigeria The Igbo people of Southeast Nigeria invented the Isiagu. Isiagu literally translates to leopard's head. You'll also be surprised to see a lion's head on the cloth. The leopard's totem has been replaced by the lion. The Isiagu is made of silk and features a lion's head imprinted in a unique pattern. It's a long, loose-fitting blouse that goes well with black pants or knitted wrappers tied around the waist. Surprisingly, the Isiagu is more of a status symbol among Igbo men. They wear it at formal occasions such as coronations, traditional assemblies, and chief's funerals. 9. Isidwaba, South Africa The Zulu's dress in Isidwaba, a traditional Zulu garment. Isidwaba, also spelled Isikaka, is a traditional southern African garment worn by married or betrothed women. Normally, the skirt is made of leather, but it can also be made of cowhide or goat skin. The lady has decorated it with colorful matte-like cloth. Since its inception in the 19th century, Isidwaba has retained its form and design among the Zulu's. Isidwabas are traditionally given to the daughters of brides by their fathers from the cow, given to the bride during her coming of age ceremony. As a result, when a bride is about to marry, she is required to wear a skirt on the wedding day. 7. Shuka, Tanzania Shuka is a traditional African garment worn by the Maasai of Tanzania and Kenya. It's called an African blanket, and it's typically red with black patterns. Before the Scottish colonization of Tanzania and Kenya, chiefs and community members wore Shuka as a traditional dress. These days, it's also popular as streetwear. Workers wear a variation of this traditional attire to work. Shuka was once only worn by Maasai, but it is now worn by people all over the world. 6. Jalaba, Mangrab region, North Africa The Jalaba or Jalaba is a long, loose-fitting unisex robe. It is typically full-sleeved and popular in the Magrab region of North Africa. Traditionally, wool was the primary material used to make Jalabas. Cotton Jalabas, on the other hand, have become popular in recent years. Jalabas often sweep the ground, but lighter varieties can be leaner and shorter. Men wear light-colored Jalabas with an Arab-fez headdress and baboche footwear for religious festivals and special occasions. 5. Haid Shakemi's Ethiopia The Haid Shakemi's is a traditional Ethiopian garment worn by Haid Shaladis in Addis Ababa. Haid Shakemi's is a robe that extends from the neck to the ankles. It is common among Ethiopian and Eritrean ladies at formal events and vacations. It is now available in short and long-sleeve styles. It is typically made of cotton cloth and comes in gray, beige, or white. 4. Kanzu Burundi Kanzas are traditional white or cream African clothes worn by men in Africa's Great Lakes region. These people include Burundians, Congolese, Ethiopians, Kenyans, Malawians, Rwandans, Tanzanians, and Ugandans. The English call it a tunic, but the Arabs call it a thawb. It is especially popular in Uganda, where men wear it to weddings and other festivities. The Kanzu is worn by men of culture to project power and elegance. 3. Baobu Senegal The Baobu is a traditional, fashionable, and useful Senegalese robe worn by both men and women across Africa. It is typically 150 cm wide, varies in length, depending on the wearer's height, and is made from a single piece of fabric. There's also the massive Baobu, which is 300 cm long and reaches to the ankles. Traditionally, Baobus are made by folding the cloth in half, cutting a neck opening, and sewing up the sides halfway up to create flowing sleeves. A woman's neck is broad and rounded. For men, they are long and V-shaped. 2. Ero Adibuba, Yoruba, Nigeria Ero and buba, originally Ero Adibuba by the Yorubas, is the traditional dress of Nigerian Yoruba women. The dress was originally constructed in five sections. There's also the Ero, a massive wrapper tied around the waist. Buba is a loose blouse worn on the upper torso. Jeel is a head-tie worn by Nigerian women worldwide. On top of the Ero, the peel is a short fabric knotted around the waist. The Eburun wraps around the upper left half of the torso from the left shoulder. Transitors, on the other hand, are ditching the peel and Eburun in favor of lace, cotton, or chiffon in place of the traditional aso okay. 1. Kent, Ashanti Region, Ghana Kent is a traditional African garment cloth worn by both men and women that originated with the Ashanti and you people of Ghana. It's made from silk and or cotton cloth strips that have been cut to fit the pattern of the fabric. Despite technological advances, indigenous Ashantis continued hand-weave Kent clothing. In the past, Ghanian royalty wore the fabric in a Toba Lake fashion. As a result of the popularity of Kent patterns, Kent print has grown in popularity in Asia and the West. These traditional African garments have strong ethnic roots. They also represent Africa's cultural diversity and heritage. Unfortunately, for a list as short and detailed as this one, some key items are acceptable to be missing. Please let us know if you know of any important traditional African clothes that should be included on this list in the comments section below. For more exciting updates, like, share, and subscribe to Africa Reloaded.


Alright, good morning everyone. Welcome to the session on open church planting. Let's just begin this time with a word of prayer. So maybe any one of us can lead in prayer. Zellie, would you like to lead in prayer please? Yes, your pastor, let's pray. Father, we come before your presence in the name of Jesus. As we begin our class, Lord, you bless each one of us. You bless our pastor so that he can preach the word of God according to will and Lord Jesus. Whatever works proceed of his mouth, Lord. It will bring, Lord, a new revelation inside in each one of us, Lord. We thank you for each of our classmates. You bless each one of us, Lord. You give us the spirit of wisdom and understanding so that we can grasp what you have for us. So the spirit is the Lord.  In Jesus' name, amen. Amen, amen. Thank you so much Zellie. All right, so we've covered quite a lot of ground up to now. We looked at strategies of how we can, you know, develop, build churches, evangelism, urban missions. Then we looked at how we are called to target different age groups. You know, yes, God is calling us to do ministry, but we must also be wise, right? We need to plan. We need to prepare ourselves for ministry. So we looked at different areas or different age groups. So you'll get children, teens, young adults, young couples, elderly couples, men's ministry, women's ministry, single adults ministry, you know, there's so much different demographics of areas that we are called to reach out to. Then last class, we looked at very important, the seven spheres of influence or the seven mountains you can use. Both of them are the same synonymous. Now, not all churches, if you look at it globally right now, not all churches, you know, identify or, you know, they keep up with the seven spheres of influence, meaning they don't agree with it. Sometimes some of them say, hey, there's nothing like seven spheres. It's just, you know, we are called to reach out in every sphere. But we must understand that the seven spheres, it may not be written in the Bible, but this is just a way for us as, you know, that we came up with this, the seven spheres is for us to penetrate into the different areas of society, right? So the seven spheres of mountains we looked at was education, arts and entertainment, media, business, government, family and religion as seven spheres, right? And we learned last class that new ways of ministry, new ways of reaching out to all these spheres, all these seven mountains must be encouraged within the church.  You may not have everyone sitting and, you know, reaching out to all these spheres. But over time, as the church grows, look at opportunities, right? So I've shared a few examples last class on how, you know, even in the initial years itself, one or two years after APC was founded, we got opportunities to reach out to different places in the city. Then 2008, we got opportunities to get into colleges and schools as a catalyst program. So these are opportunities that we must look forward to, pray for, and once those are open, we get into it, pray, prepare and reach out, right? We looked at the two points. One was the challenge, and two is the process, right? And three was, sorry, preparation. Four was positioning ourselves to what God wants us to do. So today, we'll get into a very important aspect, and I think all of us, you know, as church pastors or church leaders, ministry leaders, we want to see is growth, right? Now, growth is a sign of fruitfulness, right? Growth is not the only sign, but it is one of the signs of fruitfulness, right? So today we look at chapter 14, growth and consolidation. What is consolidation? Consolidation means to strengthen what you already have, right? Now, as a church, once you plant a church or a ministry, right? You're small, but you love to see growth. You want to see people, more people coming into the church. You want to see church growing, volunteer teams growing, new teams coming into place. It's exciting, right? When you see new people coming and getting plugged in, aligning with the vision of the church, it's very, very exciting, right?  So that's wonderful, right? If you speak to any pastor in this world, none of the pastors will say, I don't want church growth. Everyone will love to see a church grow, right? So let's look at a few aspects when it comes to growth and consolidation. Now, remember that our focus should not only be on church growth. Church growth is good. We need it, but we must also consolidate, meaning strengthen what we have. We need to focus on those who are already there. There will be people coming to your ministry, coming to the church who are still babies in Christ. We need to develop them. We need to take them to a place of maturity, preaching, teaching of the word. This is all very critical, right? So remember as pastors, don't focus only on church growth. It's one of the aspects of fruitfulness, but we also look at consolidating, strengthening what you already have. Now, just like in the natural, right? There are stages of growth. When you look at a natural human body, there are stages, right? The same way growth in the church happens in stages, right? And we need to be sensitive to what God is doing at each stage in the local church, right? Consolidate what God establishes in the local church community at each stage and then press forward, right? So don't allow, like this point here, don't allow the congregation to become comfortable in a particular stage, right? So for example, you planted the church. Now it's five years down the line. You've got 300 people in the church. Don't allow the congregation to feel that, hey, we've achieved 300. That's a good number. It's now we are growing church. It's wonderful. We have all the teams that are there and make the congregation feel comfortable. Now, when I'm saying comfortable, I'm not talking about the physical comfort of just sitting in good chairs or the AC and all of that. I'm not talking about that. I'm saying a place of rest. There should always be this desire to know more, a desire to grow more in the things of God as a local church community to continue to grow both in numbers and in things of the spirit, right? So just as the human body goes through stages of growth, right? The church also goes through stages of growth. Now, as a pioneer, as a pastor, we must be very sensitive to what God is doing in our communities at each stage, right? So first one, let's look at the... Right now, we have five stages here mentioned. So let's look at each stage and build a few points here, right? First one is the pioneering stage, right? Now we looked at it, right?  Laying the groundwork is the most essential part of a church, the pioneering. Look at this in the natural. If we have to build a 30-floor building, the foundation needs to go way deep down inside.  The foundation is nothing. It's just dug down deep. Now imagine, you know, only after the floors that are built and we see the completion of the building and say, hey, wow, what a wonderful building. Nobody floors, but nobody is appreciating the foundation because the foundation is insignificant. It doesn't look nice, but is the foundation important? Extremely important. Without the foundation, the building is not even going to stand. The building may look good, but with a bad foundation, what's going to happen?  It's not going to be a strong building. So just like that, in a church, when you have pioneered a church, think of it as a foundation. Look at a foundation. It's not, doesn't look really good. It's not something that everyone are going to applaud, but that is very important. Sometimes we may feel, okay, you know, I want to be like this church. We may compare ourselves. Oh, this church is, you know, they look so nice. Everything's so nice. The music is so nice. The worship is so nice. The equipment, the sound, the venue, the everything is so nice. The teams, we may want it that way.   There may not be a lot of applause. There may not be a lot of appreciation, but remember that it is very critical. It is very important to have a strong foundation. Remember what we talked about in the first service? In the first service, lay down your vision, your mission, and what you want to do. What you do in the first service is going to continue throughout. Right? So it is the foundation that is laying the stage, setting the preparation for the things to come ahead. Imagine this. If a foundation is not good, imagine this, a foundation is very weak and there's a fierce wind and this building just falls down. Is it, are people going to say, hey, you know what? This is such a beautiful building. Why did it fall down? No. They're going to say, hey, maybe this building was not built strong enough because you look at the other houses, they are standing. But just a little bit of wind has come and this building has fallen. People are going to question the engineer and the archie, the engineer of that whole, say, what did you do? Why is this building so weak? Did you not go down? Was your foundation not strong enough?  A strong and a deep foundation is required for future growth. So if you set certain principles right from the beginning, saying, this is what I will do in the pioneering stage is what you're doing.  Years will go by soon. We will pass on the mantle to somebody else. But what's going to happen? The foundation is still strong. Look at this example right in the Bible. Moses, God chose Moses. I'm just talking about the importance of the foundation in terms of ministry. Look at Moses, God chose Moses. God told Moses, come on, I'm going to bring the people out of Egypt. I'm going to do signs, wonders and miracles. And he did it. He brought the people out of Egypt. And it was time for him to pass the mantle on. And the mantle went on to Joshua. Do you think the people, the Israelites have seen these wonderful miracles of God? They've heard about it. Do you think they would not have thought, okay, you know what? Even Joshua must be able to do these wonderful miracles. Even Joshua must be able to minister to the people the same way Moses did. They would have thought that. Why? Because Moses laid the foundation. The same way in the church. When we lay a good foundation, that's going to continue on stronger and stronger. If you go to church that is united from day one, you say, hey, we're all united. It doesn't matter what language, what culture, what race, what work or our standing in society. All of this don't matter. When we enter the church, we are one body. We're all one. And so from the foundation stage, you're saying that. Imagine this and a church comes up to 300, 400 or 500 people. There's a sense of unity. Why? Because foundations are strong. Imagine this as a church in the initial pioneering stage.  You're being transparent. You're informing the church, okay, this is what we need for. This is what you're giving. This is how much we have received. This is what we have spent it for.  What will happen? Yours down the line, the foundation is strong. So people will continue to trust. And it's important that we keep that trust because foundation has been laid, right? So build a strong foundation. Sometimes, you know, we are in a hurry to start a ministry because it's exciting, right? Oh, I want to start. Yeah. But when you start, make sure that you have these principles set out. Make sure that as a person, as a leader, set certain guidelines, set yourself, right? Have rules and guidelines that you yourself, you and I should follow. Right? This is what I will do. If this situation comes, this is what I will do. Or if the enemy comes up with this kind of a situation, this is what I will stand with. Right? You set certain guidelines, set boundaries for your own life and don't cross over those boundaries. Remember, as a leader, right? When we start the church, it is our life and character that is very important. Our life and character will speak, right? So this is, you know, we must dig deep and lay a good foundation. Right? Second one, administrative, organizational and structural stage. Now, when church has just begun, you may have 20, 30 people, 50. But the moment you go above 50 people, now I'm just giving an example, right? 50 people. You and I have to assign roles and responsibilities. We need to define systems and processes to make sure that the church is functioning effectively. Right? Understand this, the church is also an organization. Right? It's not a business, but it's an organization. You need to organize it the right way. We must have good administrative skills to handle it. Right? Did Moses and his team have good administration skills? Definitely.  They were able to organize. They had structures in place. They knew that, okay, when this tribe goes, the second tribe will be this. Okay? And this is the trumpet. They will stay back. This is the trumpet to gather the leaders. This is the trumpet to move on. So everything was organized. Right? And even if you look at the Levitical Offerings, organized. It was not like anybody could come and give their offerings. No, there was different kinds of offerings. Very organized, right? There was the guilt offerings, sin offering, pain offering, grain offering. Every offering had certain rules and guidelines. There was, it was already set in place. And you look at the New Testament, in the New Testament, the Lord Jesus himself, he had an administration to help people. He organized them. One of them was, you know, would keep the money. Right? Judas himself, right? Okay. So probably he went to Judas and said, Judas, we just went to, you know, Samaria and we came back. What was the amount that we spent? I'm sure Jesus would have asked, right? He would have kept a track of what's happening. Right? It may not be given in the Bible, but I'm sure Jesus would have done it. Okay. So this is what we have got from the funds that have been given by the people. And this is what we spent on our food and our shelter. And this is the money that we blessed others with. So what is remaining now? He would have had administration, right? Now, it is very important to assign roles and responsibilities for various ministries that the Lord may release in our midst, right? Now, as you assign these roles and responsibilities, right? Now, for example, you've got 50 people in your church. The church is growing. And then suddenly there's an opportunity to start, let's say children's church. Say, okay, we're going to start children's church because 50 families are coming. We have about 10 children. Let's start children's church. What are you going to do? You know, as a pastor, you have to have the right people to teach children's church. We cannot teach in the main church and go back to the children's church. So what must I do? I need to raise up the right people, raise up the right leaders. Okay, for children's church, we will assign two people. These are the two, maybe it could be a husband and wife or it could be just two people who will, two leaders who will look after the children's church.  Look at people, they are faithful. It gives them opportunities, right? And they learn, they grow on the job, right? While they're doing it, while they're preparing, they will learn, right? So, so assign a children's church coordinator. Then your church is growing, you've got 70, 100 people. In those 100, you've got 30 people. Who are you? Okay, so 30 youth, they can't just be sitting in the church and going back home. But we need to have some youth meetings. We need a youth leader, somebody who can recognize, right? What's happening in the, you know, just walk with them, understand them, you know, at their wavelength. So we assign a youth leader. So this youth leader is going to look after all the youth. He can have youth meetings, all the other things, right? And this youth leader must also look, you know, be accountable to the main pastor, the senior pastor, right? So you've got, now you've got senior pastor, you've got children's church coordinator, and you've got a youth pastor, right? Now, as the church grows, you'll get 150 people. Now, you have about 60 youth. So you understand, okay, the youth leader must be able to, youth pastor must be able to start youth leaders, to have about two or three youth leaders who can also minister to everyone, who can oversee the youth as well, right? So we put processes in place, right? So what happens is even if you're small, 100 people, when you put these processes in place, as you grow, you will know how to handle the situations. You will know how administratively you'll be very strong. Now, hey, this is, and even as you do this, you will understand and learn, okay, this thing work, this doesn't work, right? So you can make improvements, but you set processes in place, right? Then for example, there's an opportunity to plant a new church. So again, you do the same thing what you do in pioneering stage. You set up, you ask the church, okay, let's have a core team, right? Five people go out, reach out, minister to people there, be there to pray, locate an area, plant the church, right? So what happens is even if your church becomes 1000 people, administratively everything is strong, right? So what do we do? Let me give you a few examples. What do we do at APC, right? Now, this is just examples, but you can come up with your own ideas and solutions and ways to be administratively strong. Now, if you've seen the structure, what we have is senior pastor, associate pastors, ministry leaders, volunteer leaders and congregation, right? So that's a structure in place. Now, for example, you know, we want to hire something for an event, right? This is an example, right? We want to hire, you know, tables and we need to order food. We're having a one-day conference, right? So what do we do? Number one, so for example, right? I look after even the men's ministry at APC. So let me give you an example. If we have a one-day men's conference, what are we going to do? Number one, okay, we set the date. We know the date, okay. This is the date, September 15th men's conference. It's already gone out in the calendar, right? So firstly, I need to send the message to the congregation, right? So I'm just giving you a structure, okay? So we have many things in place. You don't have to follow all of it, right? But these are structures which really helped us, right? Over time, it's happened. So first is there's an e-mailer called save the date, right? So an e-mail goes to the entire congregation saying men's conference, September 15th, save the date. That's nothing more than that. Two is it goes out on the Sunday announcements, video announcements. Even as it goes out, then the following week is the message, WhatsApp message to the all the men of APC. The WhatsApp message will include the registration link, the price and all the details, right? Four, the IT team prepares for all the, you know, all the registrations that happen. It goes via online and there's also some who would like to pay in person at the venue. So we leave that option open, right? So registration start. Then in the middle, after a week or so, we send one more message saying a gentle reminder if you haven't registered for the men's conference, please go ahead and register. And then finally, we, you know, a couple of days before the event, we send them an appreciation thing. Thank you for registering for the conference and we just, we send the details. Okay, here is the conference. This is the timing. This is the agenda and everything is set in place. So for the conference, now that I know the conference is happening, I know that I'm going to have about 100 people coming for the conference. So I need to set teams. So we have sound and setup. You have the IT team, you have the media team, you have the graphics team. There's so much that happens, right? So all of these teams are involved for one conference, right? And as a ministry leader, what I do is I send budget approvals, right? So this is the budget for the conference, right? It's going to cost about this much. We get approvals for that budget. So why is all this needed? Everything is done on email, right? It's documented. Why is all this needed? So that administratively, we are strong. We know, okay, this is the structure. The moment we think, okay, there's a conference coming, these are the things involved. And everything runs smoothly. Nobody's going to say, oh man, who's going to do PPT for the conference? No, it's all arranged maybe a month before. We know who's going to do PPT. Who's going to be involved in the food coupons? We know a month before. It's already ready, right? Who's going to be helping with the parking of cars? And we know all teams are set in place administratively. It is organized. It's already set in place, right? Now, I'm not saying that when we started APC itself two, three years down the line, we were so strong. Over time, we were able to come up with these strategies and ideas. But this e-mailer, the WhatsApp bulk messages were done from 2001. 2001, from the time we started, we used to send e-mailer, right? So it's not something new. So we do it even now, right? 22 odd years later, we still do it. E-mailers, bulk messages sent, right? So what happens is there is organized, it is structured. Everything we do is structured. Even if you look at a church service, it's structured. We start at 10.30, 10.30 worship, 9.15. Of course, even as we're structured, we do open, keep it open for the Lord to minister. There are times we may extend, so we're not too stringent on that. But we have a structure in place, right? I hope everyone is getting what I'm saying, right? It's not that you have to do it this way initially, but it's good. It's good to start small. If you have a youth leader, right? You have 20 youth or 50 youth under that youth pastor. Crain the pastor. Let them see organizationally, this is what we will do. In the year, there will be one youth camp and two youth meetups. Camp will be for three days, or two days or three days. Youth meetings will be a half yearly. So what are you doing? You're setting it in place. So you're telling the youth pastor, this is how you should do it. And the youth pastor goes ahead and raises up leaders to make sure all of this structure is followed, right? It may look complicated, but it's really not, right? If you're used to it, you know, you get used to something, you keep doing it helpful.  It's not like, you know, you have a conference. You have 100 people, but hey, I thought 200 will come. I've ordered food for 200 people. Oh, you know, 100 people are coming. So you order food for 100 people. There's no wastage, right? There's no waste of food, no waste of money done well, right? So new ministries can be birthed by the Spirit in two ways. Look at that here. The Lord gives a vision of what needs to be done. And as you declare that vision, God stirs up people and they step into the role to carry it out, right? So for example, you're at church.   I feel that God is ministering to us and He wants us as a church to reach out to the corporate sectors. Example, right? Reach out to the corporate. Those who are light in the society, reach out to the corporate. So you begin to put that vision out. Out of the 100 people in a church, God may speak to one or two of them who are in the corporate sector. Maybe I wish I could do something. They'll come and speak to you. You know, I wish I could do something. Is there something that I can do? I'm available. Saturdays, I'm free. Monday to Friday, if you feel there's something that I can do. A new ministry can be birthed out of it. Well, God can speak. The pastor may say, you know, I feel that God is calling us to minister to the home for the aged, to reach out to them, to be a help to them. God can open a door. A new ministry can be birthed. Colleges, schools. The same way, right? So that is one way to the Lord may raise up or send people with certain gifts and callings and you recognize these gifts and callings and give them opportunity. And so what are the two ways? One way is you share the vision. God ministers to people's heart and they come in, you know, they want to align with that. Who is every people in your church and you see the potential. You see the gifts and the callings and the things that they can do. And as a pastor, you recognize it and you get them too. You know, it's not like you're saying you have to do it. You give them the opportunities. I remember this young man in church, this young boy, right? He would come to church and immediately after church, he would run away. So this one day, this is not in Bangalore and another city. And this one day, I decided I need to speak to this boy.  What do you do? You know, I began to talk to him any reason. He said, no, I'm very shy. You know, I don't like to talk to many people. And he was a young boy and he was very shy because we had a lot of youth in our church, boys and girls. So he was very shy. It's okay. It's all right, right? It's a natural thing to be shy. I could understand that, right? So I said, okay, don't worry.  Maybe some of them, some of the boys and the girls are there. You can just talk, just get to know each other.  And so he came for the youth meeting, right? One of the youth meetings, he stayed back. He really liked it. And what I understood was this boy was a brilliant drummer. He has been playing drums from the time he's six years old, right? There was a drum kit in the church, but nobody was there to play, right? And so after the youth meeting, he just sat on the drum kit and he started playing the drums so well.  He said, yeah, I've been playing for quite some time now. And he was really good. And then we got him to audition. He got through. And he started playing drums in the church every Sunday. Finally, he ended up becoming a youth leader, right? And he started teaching others music. And he was the first one in the church. He would open the church. He would do everything in the church. The first one to run away, right? Sometimes, you know, people will not understand what is there inside of them, right? And as pastors and leaders, we need to be sensitive. You say, hey, this person can. This person has the potential to be, you know, maybe to do the declaration or maybe to start a life group, a cell group or, you know, or to, you know, potential to be a leader in this area. We recognize and we give them opportunities, right? So again, this recognizing, even as we choose people, right? It's important that we train them, right? So for example, what I do is I also look after life group ministries that is cell groups. So all the life groups, whether you are 10 years in the Lord, 20 years in the Lord, one month in the Lord, every life group leader will have to go through the life group leaders training. They have to go through it, right? And go through the life group leaders training and only then they get become a life group leader. We don't just randomly say, okay, start your life group. No, they go through a training, right? So these are certain guidelines that we have set and we follow it because it's good, right? And last one here, establish a reproducible model so that new church plans can replicate these things and start, right? So if this is what I'm following in this church, when I have a new church plan, I will follow the same way because I see that there is fruit, right? Now, again, when you start a church plan, it's not that initially you'll, if you will have like conferences and all of it, it may take some time. It may take some time to have a youth leader. There's no point of having a youth leader when you have five people in church or 10 people. It needs to grow, needs to come to a certain place, but you replicate the whole thing, right? So one of the things that we do at all our locations is the same. So most of you may have watched our service online, right? The service, the central service. It is the same thing that happens at all our locations. And so, for example, starts with worship. The pastor comes up, the Lord's table. Announcements, it's a couple of announcements we reiterate. If there is baby dedication or anything we do at that time, declaration, the word of God, ministry time close, same pattern. So if you go to any of our locations, APC location, any location, it is the same thing. All the locations have a welcome team, sound and setup team, first-time visitor, ushering team. We follow the same process for the first-time visitors. We have, you know, offering, counting, team, same thing. All locations, right? Why? Because the first one was good. Organizationally, it was good. It was fruitful, it was effective. Follow the same thing at all locations, right? Rosalind has a question. If the Life Group training, is the Life Group training available on the APC website for us to go through? So Rosalind, we have a document for the Life Group leaders training. We don't have the document on the website, but what will happen is next semester, we have a topic called discipleship in small groups. And so you'll learn more on that, right? How to disciple in small groups. So, but to answer your question, we don't have the Life Group training manual on the website. Yeah, so it's only when people or Life Group leaders want to start, we take them through the training, we share the document, and yes. But if you'd like to, I can just email it to you separately, personally, if you'd like, if you really want to go through it, I can send it to you, no problem. So everyone with me, administrative organizational structure, right? This will really set the stage for a beautiful, effective, powerful ministry, set this administrative things in place.  You may not be a pioneer. It's all right. So for example, the church, there are 100 people in your church and the pastor says, hey, why don't you be the worship coordinator? I want to be the coordinator of the worship team. So then it gives you an opportunity to come up with a strategy, come up with being organized, right? And I'm sure you'll learn more in worship ministry as well on how to, you know, raise up good teams, right? That's a sign of a good leader. Okay, so now that you have everything set in place, right? This is how we'll do it administratively as an organization. This is how we are. This is the structure we follow. Youth leaders or team leaders will always report to the associate pastors, associate pastors report to the senior pastors. This is a structure in place. Now, third one, pastoral team stage, team ministry and senior pastor stage, right? Now, as you, as a leader, as a pioneer, you know, it's so interesting when, and it's such a joy to see your church grow and you see young boys and girls, all of a sudden they're growing into maturity, not all of a sudden, but over time they're growing into maturity and suddenly five years, ten years down the line, ten years have passed. You've got a five-year-old boy, oh, see, you've got an eight-year-old boy sitting in Sunday school. Ten years have passed and this boy is 18 years old now. You see that he's matured, he's grown up and he becomes a leader in the church, right? Now, what must we do? Very important, establish a leadership team to carry out several areas of ministry. As the church grows, the ministries will grow, the doors will open, new ministries start and that's good, right? There are times as leaders we must, you know, you know, here's the thing, we can choose certain ministries and some ministries we can say wait, right? Again, we need to be led by the Holy Spirit for that. But establish leadership teams for the ministries, right? We talked about it, right, whether it's youth, life groups, men's ministry, women's ministry, teens ministry, children's church, established teams. Remember that we cannot do everything on our own. Ministry is not a single, it's not a single-handed work. You need teams, right? Now, why do we need teams? Because if one person is not, imagine this, you are a church of 200 people. You've got about 70 children or keep 50 children in the children's church and if you have one children's church teacher, that children's church teacher is unwell on Sunday and cannot come. What are the children's church do? Playtime. No, we should have a team. So, okay, if they are not there, somebody else can take over. Or picture this, you have sound and set up. You know that you have to go early morning, church starts at 10 o'clock, you should be there at least by 7 o'clock, set up all the equipment. So, by 9, 9, 15, you're done. The worship team comes, there's sound check, 10 o'clock, you're able to start service. Now, imagine you have two people in sound and set up. How much can two people do? You've got speakers, you've got mics, you've got stage monitors, right? You've got the mixer, you've got to lay out all the cables. There's a lot of work. And if they are not there, say, they say, hey, I'm traveling this week. I'm going out to station to my hometown. And you've got one person in the sound and set up team. What will happen? It's going to be chaos, right? Number one thing, raise up ministry teams. Raise up teams. If you look at what the apostle Paul did, we're talking about this in the book of Thessalonians, the letter he wrote. See Paul, first missionary journey, he chose Barnabas. And then from there, he built teams. Second missionary journey, Paul, Timothy, and Silas. Paul and Silas later joined by Timothy, right, teams. And then they further on went and built other teams, right? So teamwork is important, right? So one of the things that we always do is, if you have noticed, if you've watched online, if you see our video announcement that says volunteers needed every now and then we put it up because there are volunteers needed. We have at APC, we have about 350 volunteers across all locations, 350 volunteers. You may be wondering, what do they do? They do a lot of work. The most of it are done, most of the work is done by the volunteers, right? So we just, we go there, we preach, right? And then we minister to people, but a lot of the background work is done by the volunteers. If not for them, we'll not be able to have an effective experience in the church, right? All the teams involved. So when you start teams, when you have team, new ministries and new leaders, train your leaders to form teams. Because if we don't train them, the leader will feel, I can handle this on my own. He or she may be able to handle it on his own, but there'll come a time that ministry also will grow and then we must have a team to handle it. But he cannot say, okay, this is what I will do. I, you know, since I can't, I'm not there. Today we'll not have service. We can't say that. We must be strong. We must be able to form teams. And as you form these teams, the founding pastor goes into the senior pastor role, right? So he gives overall vision, growth, direction, okay, what to do. And now this stage may happen after three years. It may happen after five years. It may happen after 10 years, right? But it, but it will happen, right? It will happen as a founder, as a pioneer of the ministry. There'll come a time, right? That new ministries will start, new locations you may start. And then you'll move into this place of bringing overall oversight, right? If you look at what Moses did, right? He did all, you know, he was doing a lot of things and then his father-in-law came and said, why are you handling all of this? Don't you have teams? Don't you have leaders who can handle all of this? You must be more, you know, towards preparing and hearing from God and doing the ministry side of it. Why are you doing all these small things? People have, you know, the Israelites were fighting with each other. They had problems, what problems? Small problems. Now these small problems, they're coming to Moses. He took my things or she took my things, you know, small things they are fighting for. Moses is standing there and trying to solve these problems. That's when Moses' father-in-law comes and says, why are you doing this? You appoint leaders and you go and be in God's presence and you give overall vision and overall direction for what the Israelites must do, right? So it's a biblical thing. Continuously create opportunities and rooms for developing leaders and who are committed to the vision that God has given. Now here's the point. For senior leaders, pioneers, spend time nurturing new believers, right? It involves time. It involves patience. It involves being able to speak into their lives, right? So for example, we have a new leader, right? The church has 150 people appointed a youth leader and he does something wrong, right? So how are we going to nurture them? How are we going to correct them? Are we going to say, hey, this is a big mistake. You're out of this role. Because of opportunities, hey, they're learning. They just step into a new role. So we nurture them. We train them. We develop them, spend time with them. Now, all of these efforts is something we must do. If we want a good team, we have to speak into their lives. We have to build them up, right? We have to be able to come to a place where they are willing to hear because they've seen our lives. They've seen the fruit in our lives. They've seen the ministry working. And so be able to understand. This is the last point and we'll close. The more trust you give, the more faithful your leaders will be, right? The more you trust your people, your leadership, the more faithful they be. If you keep treating them like school children, did you do this? Did you do that? No. Give them responsibilities. Give them the role that they have to do. Give them the training that they require and tell them, hey, this is what needs to be done. And help them to get it done. Put your faith in them. Put your trust in them. Jesus did that to his disciples. And we'll see, we'll pick up more from next class and we'll continue on this. But yeah, so thank you so much. I know I've been talking a lot. I don't get time to hear from you all, but we'll definitely take some time, one of the classes to just hear your thoughts as well. Thank you so much for listening through this class. God bless you. Have a great week ahead. Yes, Rosalind. If you can just share your email address. I think I should have it. So I'll email the document. Thank you. Thank you so much. Have a great day ahead. God bless.


Good morning and can I welcome everyone to the start of the 22nd meeting of the Equalities and Human Rights Committee in 2018. Can we please ensure all electronic devices are switched to silent? We have apologies from Gail Ross, who is still in well, and we are joined by Linda Fabiani as a substitute member. We also have Ruth McGuire as a new member of our committee, so welcome to you Ruth. Item one is declaration of interest from our new member and can I invite you then to declare any interest that you may I have no relevant interest to declare. Thank you very much. Our next item of business is a choice of a new convener, following the departure of our past convener, Christine McKelvie, who was plucked from the ranks to ministerial office. On 1 June, the Parliament agreed to motion S5M-00278, which resolved that members of the Scottish National Party are eligible to be chosen as convener of this committee. Can I seek a nomination for convener of this committee? I nominate the Maguire. Thank you. Linda, thank you for that. Can I seek a seconder for that nomination? I see Fulton MacGregor. So there being no further nominations, or are there any nominations? That being so, can I put the question to the committee that Ruth Maguire be elected as convener of the Equalities and Human Rights Committee? Is everyone agreed? Thank you. I guess I can congratulate you, Ruth, on your appointment. I'll hand over to the next convener, or the new convener, and I'll take it from here, Ruth. Thank you very much, Alex. Thanks for holding the reins so ably in the absence of a convener. Can I add my thanks to the ones that Alex made last week too, Christine McKelvie, for her service to the committee as convener and wish her well in her role as minister for older people and equalities. Our next item of business is to further consider our approach to pre-budget scrutiny of the 2019-20 draft budget. The committee previously agreed to consider such discussions in private. Before I suspend the meeting and move into private session, I'd like to advise that at our next meeting on 20 September, we'll continue its evidence-taking of the Age of Criminal Responsibility Scotland Bill and we'll hear from Police Scotland and children's representative organisations. With that, I suspend and move into private session.


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Since the year of Julius Randall making an all NBA team. Cause last year, of course, a big disappointment. And in the first couple of weeks to the first month and a half of this season, big disappointed, but things have been changing. And you know what? I gotta give someone credit to Tom Thibodeaux. Listen, I was a fan of a team that was coached by Tom Thibodeaux. He has been throughout the entirety of his career whether it been in Chicago, whether it been in Minnesota, or it's time with the Knicks. He is a stubborn coach. Stubborn to a fault in a lot of cases. We were playing a lot of Evan 48. They were playing a lot of people that don't really provide production the way you want to. And then he decided, you know what Evan? I know we gave you this contract a couple of years ago and though you're still a good shooter, you're not giving us nothing on the defensive side of the ball. So we don't replace you with Q Grimes. I was at Summer League this season and Quinn Grimes looked like one of the top three players in all of Summer League. And Pierre, who's my cousin, Knicks fan said, the next to me, he said, oh yeah, this is Q Grimes this year. This is his year that he gonna get into the rotation. He gonna take a start in the spot. And then early in the season, Q Grimes is getting like DMPs and Knicks fans like, oh my God, for Evan 48, we'd rather be bad because they were already bad at the moment. And just like the young dude play at least he can develop. And eventually it got to the point now where he is lighting it up. But we knew he can score. I mean, he did that at Houston. He did that in the Summer League. I've been impressed with his defense over the last couple of weeks. And let me get this out of the way right here. Do not tweet at me if your favorite team beat the Bulls. We're bad. It is not an accomplishment to beat a bad team. Okay, shout out to the Knicks. But Knicks fans, as all of my mentors, how you feel right now? You must be upset. I'm not upset. I gave up on a season a while ago. We get it wimpy, you feel me? But no, I've been really, really impressed with the defense from not just Q Grimes but from the team collectively. In their last seven games, they're six and one. And the only loss is that one we were talking about where they gave up 41 points to the Dallas Mavericks in that third quarter. They have the second best defense in basketball in that timeframe. This team is defending like the Julius Randall all NBA gear but better right now. And that is a little bit scary because let's be honest, you look at the weapons on that team with Julius Randall, Jalen Brunson, RJ Barrett, they're never gonna be a team that's gonna be looked at as an offensive juggernaut. They probably won with this core, be a top 10 offense. But on the defensive side of the ball, you could continue this and be a top 10 defense and you still be an average offensive team because that's where they are right now an average offensive team. This is a recipe to be a good team. And right now they have been playing like a really good team. RJ is alive. During this win streak, RJ is averaging about 20 points per game, 43% from the field, about 39% from three on five and a half attempts. That's pretty good for RJ Barrett, especially we compare to the first part of the season where he was still giving you about 19 points per game but the shooting splits were bad. And the defense is looking good obviously as the team continues to do it but the body language from Julius Randall tells you a lot about what the hell is going on with the New York Knicks. When he was in his all NBA season eight, the body language was a one, no complaints. Last season it was in a tank where he's given a thumbs down to the home team after he had a clutch shot because he was so upset that they were so upset with his production, everything. And right now he's playing some of his best basketball in his career. And when you do that, obviously you're gonna be happy. You're gonna be locked in more defensively. I saw him switch up to Zach Levine so much in the last couple of days and hold his own. That's the type of person Julius Randall can be but through the first couple of weeks of the season, they weren't even switching Julius Randall onto the other guards or Forts and Lee cause he weren't really engaged. And recently they've been allowing him to do that. So Thibs decided to bench Evan Fournier, bench Derek Rose, who played today at the UC which is fun. And then bench Cam Wright as she was a young dude that should be getting minutes because people think he's gonna be good. But I mean, if you couldn't get minutes on the Knicks when they were struggling at the end of the day, it seems like what Tom Thibode was doing right now is allowing the players that play hard to play. I mean, Miles McBride took the spot of Derek Rose.  He's gonna hound you. Him and Quentin Grimes when they on the court together if I am a guard, I'm like, come on man cause you're not gonna get anything easy. And that's what they're doing. They're not allowing their opponents to take any threes. And when they do take them, they're never wide open. I think they have like a 20% open rate in the last two weeks or so. So they're closing people out from getting open looks and it's been amazing. So shout out to the Knicks, man. If they can keep this up, this team can be really solid and secure themselves a playoff spot, which at this moment, that should be the goal. Even though I'm gonna say this about any team that have a plethora of first round picks and the Knicks are one of those teams that have a plethora of first round picks. You don't really know. You know, Julius Randall's in a lot of trade talks and I don't know if that was specifically from the fans or something that's buzzing around the league. But it felt like Julius Randall might have been on the chopping block a little bit and now he's playing good basketball again. So I don't know what happens then. But this could be a team that buys at this deadline. They could buy because you know what? Even though they've been playing well, they're still playing a lot of their guys heavy minutes because it's a time to put away. You want to alleviate some of that pressure because it's just a smart thing to do in the longterm of the NBA scene. So shout out to the Knicks, man. Big wins, five game streak is getting good. Now let's go across the bridge to hit up the Brooklyn Nets who are also on a five game win streak after a game when it's shot from Cary Irving. Cary Irving hit the biggest shot. But I'm a bigger fan of the shot before that. And I think Cary Irving might have created that shot too. So shout out to Reeve for creating and hitting the biggest shots of the game. But you did a shoot up. I saw a TikTok from the Brooklyn Nets. Shout out to the Brooklyn Nets, by the way. I worked with them a couple of weeks ago and they finally posted it on socials the other day. Beautiful. They gave me a Polaroid camera and let me sit court side and I was snapping pictures. And I had never been behind the camera before. I usually do this type of stuff. I had a lot of fun taking pictures of Kevin Durant and Cary Irving. They gave me 27 pictures, 27 snaps. I think 22 of them were Cary Irving and Kevin Durant. I mean, they were the ones doing the cool stuff. You know what I'm saying? So shout out to the Brooklyn Nets for just being very cool and allowing me to experience the Barclay Center like that. You did a shooter. That was where I was going. I saw a TikTok a couple of days ago where you was asked, where's your favorite place to play outside of home? You know what he said? Toronto. And boom! He had one of his best games of the season right there against his former team in Toronto Raptors. It was just, it was a good performance all around. We'll probably make a Toronto Raptors video eventually. Actually, people on Twitter was like, Kenny, come on, go ahead, give us the work. Talk about us. But I'd rather highlight the good things going on around the league instead of the bad things, even though the Toronto Raptors have been one of my most disappointed teams this year. But they were with our OG again and no Gary Tran Jr., South Pass, everybody's banged up. South Pass though. It's so crazy what a different voice in a locker room can do to a team. There's nothing different about this team right now as far as on paper, when Steve Nash was the coach and now JV Jacques Vaughn, who's what they call him. And after this game, I think it was Kevin Durant. I'll be watching all the post game interviews and I get a mix. I think it might have been Kevin Durant that was saying we're giving a lot of credit to JV for changing the mindset of all of our players here. They're locked in on both sides of the floor. And let's be real. I know people are not talking about Kevin Durant as an MVP candidate because the Brooklyn Nets are 18 and 12. And a lot of the people that are above him in the MVP standings are also above him in the team success standings. Kevin Durant is an MVP candidate very, very easily. He won't get a lot of buzz. I don't think he'll get a lot of buzz. Even if they continue this streak, I don't know if Kevin Durant will get the buzz, but bro, every single night, it just feels like he cannot miss.  And this is still true. The man is shooting nearly 60%, 60% on mid-range jump shots this season on almost 350 attempts. Do you hear that? If it wasn't for his three-point shooting only, being 35%, this would be his most efficient season of his career. And it's damn near his most efficient season of his career when it comes to effective field goal percentage. A lot of people don't like effective field goal percentage. I understand. It's 61%. That was a few years ago, his first year in Brooklyn. Right now he's at 60.2. So even though he's not shooting the three ball well for his standards, he still is having the second most efficient season of his career. And it's by 1% his point. This man, Kevin deserves to be here. And defensively, I mean, we've talked about basically in his time once he went with the goal to stay. Whereas Al, Kevin Durant has turned into, he was never a bad defender, but turned himself into a more than just an average to slightly plus defender. He's playing some of his best defense of his career right now, y'all. He should be in the conversations for most valuable player. And I remember, this was right after he requested that Steve Nash got fired. I was listening to a bunch of podcasts and they were saying, even if Kevin Durant had the best season of his career, I don't think that what he did with his front office and requesting the trade that the voters would give him the respect enough to give him the vote for MVP. And I say that's BS. Cause if he is the MVP and he's playing like the MVP, he deserves those votes. But let me actually, let me go look at the MVP ladder and see where he's at. Cause last time I checked, he wasn't even on it. He's fifth. I cannot be mad at fifth because that means he is least in the conversations right now and there's a world where he can, he can get there. Come on, 30 points per game, almost seven assists, five and a half. I mean, seven rebounds, five and a half assists.  Anyway, they're playing more cohesively if that's, that's even a word. I'm still trying to figure out where I ranked them in the hierarchy of the MEA. Well, let's say hierarchy of the Eastern Conference cause right now I have the boss that sells his loss to Orlando today. Shout to Orlando. The team on a five game win streak after being the worst team in basketball before the streak, they're on a five game and he's to be the best team in the league. So I still have the bosses Celtics in the Milwaukee Bucks 1-2, but do I, is the Brooklyn Nets closer to being the first team on the second tier or are they closer to being on the, the third team on the first tier, if that makes sense? I don't really know just yet. I think this week they go against, let me, actually let me look at their schedule cause I know for sure they go against Milwaukee this week. So they go against the Warriors with them in Milwaukee and then Cleveland. Those three games could be interesting but you know, Steph Curry is out so maybe that won't be less interesting but seeing Boston and Cleveland and then Atlanta still with a bunch of injuries. So they got two games this next week that are big games in my opinion to help me determine where the hell do I rank them? But deeper than whether or not they're contender right now they're an extremely fun watch. The people on the bench are excited. Everybody except for Cam Thomas cause he doesn't smile is excited. They're winning games. Cary is still a monster. And then Kevin Aran, like I mentioned MVP candidate.  Four months between Kevin on question to trade. Kevin giving them ultimatum. Cary Irvin's controversies to now the last couple months have been ridiculous. And right now for the first time they just went two weeks of strictly basketball without nothing else happening. Whoa, even though James Harder did say something about his time in Brooklyn, but they ain't got nothing to do with that. They ain't got nothing to do with that. That's the James Harden thing. So shout out to them. New York basketball is like a good, let's take a look around the league and some other stuff that happened. Lou Rapify or Trey Young, shout out to Trigatray. I can't give him Trigatray cause I gave Trey Murphy, Trigatray, Ice Cold, Trey Young, had his first what felt like super dominant game. I know he's had times this season where the counter stats look good, but the shooting was so off today. A for 18, two for five from three, 31 points. He got to the free throw line like a madman. Also ended up with nine assists. I always say, if you need to get out of the slump go and get Charlotte. Go get Charlotte. Let me know. It's been looking good since he come back. He had seven. I didn't realize he had seven threes today. If you need to get out of the slump go and get Charlotte. That'd usually help. So shout out to him because they desperately needed a win after the last couple of weeks or so with all of the injuries. We just found out the click of pellets gonna be out for a couple of weeks. So it's just been weird, weirdness, injuries, all of that. But Trey Young was him tonight. The Kings beat the Pistons. Okay, I must say that. They're the superior team. That should be a win. The Moe Wagner game, 25 and eight from Moe Wagner against the Boston Celtics. I've always said that I really enjoyed the magic when they're in games.  But as long as their game is close, they're fun to watch. Because Palos are growing in France and I guess Moe now are really good players and I didn't watch this one specifically, but there you go. Kevon Looney was an assist away from a triple double. I didn't watch that game. I decided though that that's crazy. Nasred, 28, nine and three steals. Okay, so these are games I didn't watch and then Luca was Luca again. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. This wasn't a Luca game. Shout to Luca. I can't, that's so crazy. Luca's at the point where I see a stat line of 33, nine assists to six rebounds. And I'm like, eh, this game is about Christian Wood because he was given use of knurkets to hands tonight. And the feet, the post up, the jump shot. He was giving everything he wanted. He's getting everything he's wanted. So shout to him. As you could probably imagine, I didn't get to watch a lot of basketball today. That's why my recaps of the last couple of games they've been much because today was my anniversary. Me and my fiance have been together for nine years. Nine years is crazy. So we went out to dinner and stuff. So I missed a ton of these games. But what I will do tomorrow is watch the stuff I missed because that's what we do. We never behind the day. So I'll see y'all tomorrow.


Hello and welcome to the session. Let us discuss the following question. It says, a point is on the x-axis. What are its y-coordinate and z-coordinates? We shall solve this problem keeping in mind the following fundamental concepts of the three-dimensional geometry. The first one is any point x-axis is of the form x00 that is the y-coordinate and the z-coordinate are 0. And x is the distance of the point from the origin on the x-axis. Similarly, any point on the y-axis is of the form 0y0 that is x and z-coordinates are 0 and y is the distance of this point on the y-axis. Third one is any point on the z-axis is of the form 00z that is x and y-coordinates are 0 and z is the distance of the point on the z-axis. So, here if we are given a point on the x-axis and its distance from the origin is a and this point is a00. And if we have a point on the y-axis then its x and z-coordinates will be 0 and if b is the distance of this point on the y-axis then its coordinate will be 0b0 and similarly if this distance is c then the coordinates of this point will be 00c. Now, here we are given a point on the x-axis so its y and z-coordinates will be 0 and answer to this question is y and z-coordinates are 0. This completes the question. Bye for now. Take care. Have a good day.


When the narcissist gets their karma, when the narcissist brings misery and misfortune upon themselves resulting from their actions Towards the end of the relationship The narcissist showed no consideration for you. They showed no care or concern It was all about them. It was all about what they could get from you They scapegoated you They used you as that emotional punching bag They took out all of their emotions on you They got angry at you Even though you may not have done anything wrong They had you running on this endless hamster wheel trying to please them Trying to make them happy Trying to make things right But nothing was ever enough for them They could never be satisfied. They were never grateful for anything you did for them They never appreciated you They always criticized everything you did for them or acted like it wasn't enough They ran you into the ground and showed no consideration for you Because it was all about them. It was all about what they could get from you Regardless of how it affected you by the end of it you felt defeated You felt immoralized and overcome by adversity You ended up in this difficult and unpleasant situation While the narcissist just seemed to ride off into the sunset Many people who go through these situations May begin to lose faith in whatever they once believed in They may question how God could allow this to happen to them And they may wonder why didn't the narcissist get their karma? How could they just ride off into the sunset after everything they did to you? How could you be left behind with nothing after everything you invested in them? The truth is this is all a part of your experience in life You didn't come here to live in a perfect world with sunshine and roses There are unpleasant things to deal with too Things that will help you to learn more about the nature of other people Things that will help you to learn more about yourself and there is nothing more valuable than having this awareness You could have all of the money and success in the world But what is it worth if you have no awareness of anything? You had to experience these things so that you could raise your level of consciousness So that you could you could become more aware So don't think that God isn't on your side God would never put you through something that he knows you cannot deal with You have everything you need to come out of this stronger and more aware You may not see it right now But one day you will feel grateful for this experience Because it has woken you up to the truth Now you know the true nature of people You know what some people are capable of And now you've learned more about yourself The narcissist is already getting their karma How we treat people is a direct reflection of how we feel about ourselves Their behaviors should reveal to you how they really feel they will act like they're doing great They will act like there's so much happier without you But just look at everything they did to you Look at how they left you look at how they had no consideration for you Those are not the behaviors of someone who is happy Only someone who hates themselves would engage in those behaviors and when they leave you Nothing changes They may post pictures on social media And act like they're so much happier with someone else But that's still a part of the illusion Remember how happy they pretended to be when they were with you It's all an act And it's only a matter of time until they reveal what they really are They know that no one wants to be around a miserable angry person So they hide it They pretend like they're happy because if you look back You will realize that's what drew you in That's what attracted you to them You wanted to be around that fun happy person Until you realize that it was all a lie and now they're just doing the same thing with someone else They're fooling them and they're fooling you They are getting their karma Every day is hell for the narcissist That's why they always need a source of supply They can't be alone They always need something to distract themselves from reality They always have to project their shame onto someone else They always need someone to be that emotional tampon Because they're miserable inside And they cannot cope with those feelings When the narcissist leaves you They think they're getting away with everything They think they've won something But that is actually just another part of their karma Because by leaving you without taking accountability They never grow or develop They never learn from their faults and mistakes And they stay the same for the rest of their lives They never progress It doesn't help them in any way It only causes more problems for them down the line Because the only way to progress in life is by taking accountability It's only then that you are able to make the changes that you need to progress To become better But they will never make the changes that they need to progress Because they're always playing the victim It's always someone else's fault and that is why they stay stuck That is why they stay miserable and dissatisfied For the rest of their lives Their entire life is just a distraction from reality They never really live in They find people drugs alcohol Whatever will help them to escape from life But they are not happy They are receiving their karma They are dealing with the consequences of their actions And that is why they are acting this way towards you It's just another distraction from their miserable lives Thank you for watching. 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People say in a one-on-one fight always bet on Kaido, land, sea, and air. Out of everything in this world, this pirate is said to be the strongest creature alive. Hello and welcome to One Piece 101, the series that breaks down everyone and everything in the One Piece world. And today we're going to be examining an incredibly major figure of the series, an emperor of the sea, and quite possibly one of the most powerful beings within the world as we know it, Kaido. Kaido is an incredibly large and overbearing horned individual who commands a profound sense of intense terror simply by being in his presence. Most of this is due to his physicality, but a lot of it can also be attributed to his exceptionally volatile nature and his constant focus on throwing the world into the largest war that it has ever seen. With that said, Kaido certainly is not without his quirky side, which generally appears when he is intoxicated, which, you know, seems to be quite often actually, but in this state Kaido can be any form of drunk you can imagine, whether it be a smiley, happy drunk, the sad, depressed drunk, or even the incredibly aggressive starter fight drunk. It's hard to know what you're going to get with Kaido. And just before we go any further, I will address the absurd amount of comments that I'm sure to get in response to this video, which will be something along the lines of LOLGLR, you should have waited a bit longer to make this video. And I recognize that Kaido is of course absurdly relevant in current events in regards to both the manga and the anime. And as a result, this video will undoubtedly be outdated fairly soon. However, at the same time, there has never been a good time to cover Kaido, and I don't think there will be for at least another year, possibly even two. So as a result, here we are. Just a nice Kaido video for those newer fans of One Piece or even non-fans who are just curious about a big old horn dude. Whatever your taste, let's continue. Kaido was first introduced into the series by name and epic silhouette that totally turned out to be exactly what he looks like, way, way, way back in the return toward Seven Art. When Monkey D. Gart paid a visit to his grandson Luffy and informed him of the existence of the four emperors of the sea. So he got off to a pretty strong start in the series, instantly being named one of the four strongest pirates in modern existence, alongside figures such as Whitebeard, Shanks, and the then equally as mysterious Big Mom. However, Kaido's formal debut in the series would not occur until chapter 795, which is, you know, over 350 chapters since he was initially mentioned, which was about nine years of real time. But he was a pretty anticipated character, and might I say, his introduction did not disappoint in the slightest. Kaido's debut occurred in a chapter entitled Suicide, in which a large figure was seen leaping off a sky island and falling 10,000 meters onto hard ground. However, rather than being dead, like most people should be in the situation, the figure we now know as Kaido emerged with nothing more than a mere heading. And that brings us to a very important aspect of Kaido, which is that from what we've seen at the time of this recording, his durability is so extreme that he is knight-on-invincible and has earned a reputation of being unkillable. In fact, it has been said that during his career on this planet, Kaido has been caught and tortured 18 times, as well as attempted to be executed by the Marines as well as other emperors a total of 40 times, only for each and every single attempt to fail, primarily because every weapon brandished upon him broke in the act of attempted execution. In regards to his history, Kaido at the time of this recording remains a bit of a question mark. However, we are well aware that he was a member of the Rocks Pirates, a legendary group of equally as profound figures, whose time on this sea was brought to a halt officially by Monkey D. Garb at least 38 years ago. After this, Kaido, as with many former Rocks members, went on to form his own pirate crew known as the Beast Pirates, although in the Vismanga translation they are dubbed as the Animal Kingdom Pirates. I'm going to continue with Beast Pirates though because it's less of a mouthful. Rather than be hailed as the captain of this group, Kaido goes by the title of Supreme Commander or Governor General, depending on which translation you use, and his crew were exceptionally active during the Golden Age of Piracy that was thrust into existence after the death of Pirate King Goldie Roger. Although at this time Kaido was not necessarily the pure powerhouse that he was today, and he did need to work his way up the ranks, at one stage even being a key rival to a familiar figure, we know as Gecko Moria, a rivalry that would come to climax when they clashed for a final time in the New World, with Moria being convincingly defeated and losing his entire crew in the process. Speaking of crews though, Kaido for a very aggressive and fickle being does seem to genuinely care about his crew, particularly the All-Stars, who are his three most trusted officers being King, Queen and Jack. Although this concern may spread much further down the ranks, as Scotch, a guardian of one of Kaido's favourite islands, blatantly stated that Kaido would not be pleased if he personally were attacked, not that that stopped Drake from attacking Scotch anyway, but that is another story. The purpose of the Beast Pirates however seems to be essentially to serve Kaido's ambition, which is to cause the largest war this world has ever seen, and in native of this desire, Kaido and the Beast Pirates have been working diligently for the last 20 years with one of their primary actions being the acquisition of Wano, the isolated land of the Samurai. After invading the island, Kaido and his forces were able to overthrow the Kozuki family, as well as defeat the legendary warrior Kozuki Oden, although not without consequence as fun fact, the one and only scar on Kaido's chest was inflicted by Oden. Despite this, Oden was eventually executed and Kaido joined forces with the current shogun of Wano, using him as something of a puppet to control the day-to-day running of the island. However, Kaido's acquisition of Wano was a strategic decision, as he proceeded to plunder their natural resources to craft a large array of factories in order to mass produce weapons for his eventual world war. But of course Kaido's efforts were not condensed to Wano alone, and he continued to expand his crew as well as his weapons effort, harboring a desire to build a crew consisting entirely of Devil Fruit users. And so in aid of this particular endeavour, he began a business partnership with now former Warlord of the Sea, Don Quixote de Flamingo, who agreed to produce artificial Devil Fruits for the Beast Pirates, known as Smile. Although it should really be said that these fruits were very defective products, with only a 10% success rate of gaining a power post-consumption. Despite those odds, Kaido has thus far amassed a force of at least 500 artificial Devil Fruit users within the Beast Pirates, the majority of which comprise factions known as the Gifters, although several higher ranking members within his crew are also Smile users. But back to Kaido himself, we've spoken at great length about the godlike durability of this man, and actually it might be a good time to point out that man isn't exactly the correct technical term to describe Kaido. Because you see, as he has grown in power to the point of becoming an Emperor of the Sea, Kaido has also become known as the strongest creature in the world. And this is a very important semantic distinction, because it goes to great lengths to refer to Kaido as something other than human. And this is actually a common motif when referring to Kaido, as he has even been called a thing by his former crewmate and fellow Emperor of the Sea, Charlotte Linlin. And whilst this aspect of Kaido is a mystery at the time of this recording, and I'm sure will be answered soon, I can't give you anything but pure speculation as to why he is referred to in this way. But you know what I can give you, cold hard facts. And those cold hard facts are Kaido's sheer power. Because whilst in the past many combatants seemed to have been capable of defeating him, Kaido has bloomed into quite possibly one of the most incredibly dominant beings currently alive today. With not only natural strength, but he has also demonstrated a mastery of Haki, having invoked armament in order to coat his club, and defeat a Gear 4th Luffy with a single strike. To add to this, it can be assumed that he is also a user of Observation Haki, simply because every top tier combatant these days seems to need to be, but it has also been hinted that Kaido is a wielder of Conqueror's Haki, although once again at the time of this recording, it is not confirmed per se. But moving into quite possibly Kaido's most devastating power, it would appear that he is a user of a mythical devil fruit that allows him to transform into a most ludicrously shenron-scale large eastern dragon, and casually create castle-destroying attacks with simple use of breath, not OP at all. Although just to add another disclaimer to this, at the time of this recording, it has not been confirmed that this is Kaido's devil fruit. If anything, it's also entirely possible that it's the other way around, and Kaido's dragon form is his natural form, and his more humanoid incarnation is the result of a devil fruit. But with all of this in mind, Kaido thinks pretty highly of himself, as he should, I suppose, because at this point in his life, there are very few things out there that could so much as touch him, and the crew that he has built is certainly one of the most formidable that the world has ever seen. And at this point, I'm going to throw in this spoiler warning, so if you're not up to date with the Margaret, and you don't want some pretty major spoilers, then please do skip to this time in the video. However, if you are up to date, or just simply don't care, well, then let us proceed. One such being that could rival Kaido has managed to appear on one recently, and that is, of course, Big Mom. And immediately after encountering each other, the two started a conflict that resulted in the same sky-splitting phenomenon that we saw when Shanks and Whitebeard clashed briefly in the Return to Water 7R. However, after fighting throughout the night on Kaido's island of Onigashima, eventually the two of them came to an agreement, choosing to form quite possibly the most dangerous pirate alliance in the history of the world, with Charlotte Linlan, who holds a bounty of 4,388 million berries, officially aligning herself with Kaido, a creature worth 4 billion, 611 million, 100,000 berries. Some more fun facts about Kaido. Throughout his own career as a pirate, Kaido has managed to become the proud owner of a Road Poneglyph. One of the four rare items up with their combined information will allow a person to pinpoint the location of the legendary island, Raftel. There are some slight inconsistencies in regards to the romanization of Kaido's name, as in one piece green, Secret Pieces, it was spelt as K-A-I-D-O, whilst a more recent manga chapter shows his name being spelt with a U on the end as well, like Kaido. It should also be said that during all of this time, Kaido hasn't simply been building up to his war patiently, and he has on occasion attempted to bring world-shaping conflicts, with the prime example of this being his attempt to intercept Whitebeard's forces on their way to Marineford to fight in the Paramount War. However, the Beast Pirates themselves were intercepted by Redhead Shanks, and while the details of that potential conflict are unknown, we do know that both parties came out of it, at least relatively unscathed. And finally, a truly useless fact, the anime episode featuring Kaido's debut was first aired on May 1st, which also just so happens to be Kaido's birthday. But that pretty much does it for Kaido, for this brief moment in time anyway. If you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produced in general, then please do consider donating to the Grand Line Review Patreon, because the support of all of your amazing people is what continues to make this channel possible. And if you'd like to see more videos like this, but applied to other anime manga series, then please do check out my second channel, New World Review, for all of your wider needs. And if you'd like to join the fun at any time, then please do head over to my Discord server, where a wide array of shenanigan retakes place on a daily basis. And finally, please do comment with who what or where you'd like to see featured in the next One Piece 101. What's your favorite One Piece ending theme?  I actually don't remember the series having one since I was in like high school. And that was, ooh, that was a long time ago. The very first one, which I think was called Memories, and it's ironic that I can't quite remember that, but it was absolutely brilliant. And I also have a soft spot for Glory, which was the one that just focused on the straw hats leaving Princess Vivi in the Desert at night. That one was beautiful, and Free World was also really good. In fact, most of the endings were wonderful. And I really need to listen to them all again properly though, but man, I really wish we still had endings instead of like super long openings. Do you only do YouTube videos, or do you have a daytime job as well? So increasingly, I am spending more and more of my time just doing YouTube stuff, especially because I'm really trying to push the second channel now, but I do still work mostly in the field of theater design. I definitely don't do as much as I used to, which was essentially working full time in commercial musical theater, but I am still very much around. Do you love me senpai? What kind of question is that? Of course I do. Thank you.


Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Hubert Lau from TrustBix. How are you today, Hubert? Fantastic, Tracy. Thank you for having us. We noticed that you just put some news out recently about looking at mergers and acquisitions or acquisitions in particular. Can you talk to us about your 2022 plan of action? Well, we're going to be growing our company in two ways. One is, of course, organically, continue to work with our existing customers and network. And the second is through acquisition. And the type of acquisitions we're looking for is that it will give us growth and revenue and profitability. And it's got to be very creative and synergistic to our existing solution, which provides the traceability and the aggregation of data within supply chains so that we can help companies report into their ESG as well as creating trust. Of course, if I recall properly, your revenue, you did have a sizable increase in revenue last year. Can you tell us a little bit more about how you're going to continue this trend? Keep building what we've been building. So we spent the first couple of years creating the foundation of what we need to do. And last year, we started taking a run with growing our revenue through the projects that we are piloting with our customers. This year is moving towards the commercialization of those pilots. And then continue to really focus on the growth through acquisitions. Because I think right now we have the right type of foundational pieces, both technology-wise and with our team that we're working together internally to grow and synergistically work with other companies to bring them in under the trust fix umbrella.  Can you talk to us about that? Well, the architecture side of the equation really comes down to saying two sides of the equation. One is from our retail or enterprise customers. What is it that they need? And we're analyzing quite often their corporate social responsibility report card and key metrics as well as their ESG report cards. And so that helps us identify the needs that they have. On the other side, as we continue to focus on growing the producers, the information about the food production, because by tying the two into a supply chain, we're able to really grow the value proposition we give to not just our customers, but to the consumers and to the planet. And so really when we're looking at how we're growing in terms of revenue and our strategies is really asking ourselves these questions saying, does it help the producer side of the equation, the food production side? Does it help the retailers, the enterprise side? Or does it really help on the supply chain reporting side of those equations for us? We were talking briefly about what keeps your blockchain technology competitive and a leader in this race. Can you share this with our investor Intel audience, please? Absolutely. The way we look at blockchain is that instead of trying to pick the winners and again to the argument of who's better and who's best, we really looked at our technology and saying, how do we connect and integrate to different blockchain fabrics depending on which country we're in, who we're servicing and why we're servicing it. And so we actually pick the best blockchain fabric that we can partner up and use depending on the circumstance. So from our perspective, we continue to work within in the blockchain world. But instead of trying to become ourselves, self-proclaimed the best or trying to pick a winner, we're looking at the right type of collaboration strategy so that we can answer the need of our customers. So am I correct in understanding that you are not only a disruptive technology, but you are appealing to the ESG funds at this time. Can you talk just a little bit just a little bit about this? Sure. The best way to think about it is that right now, more and more companies are really caring about their ESG report card and what they don't want to do is greenwash, meaning that they'll just put some fluffy information there that they can't back. So what we're bringing to the table is to for these companies, say, look, we have information of your whole supply chain.  And by doing that, that gives some hardcore evidence that they can show they're moving towards their ESG targets and goals. Well, as always, Hubert, trust, trust books. Thank you so much for joining us today. And I hope you will keep us updated as we look forward to following you closely this year. Thank you, Tracy, and have a great day.