Hi my name is Sandy Baird for this quick evening, a late-minute announcement but I hope that this program is going to be also recorded on CCTV because it's a very important discussion that I'll be having tonight with Eric Gagnaro, a person who knows a lot about France and the French elections and so he'll be giving us an update on the French elections, what it means for France, what it means for Europe and what it means for the United States and indeed for the whole world. France is a very important republic, the sister republic of the United States, our oldest ally, our oldest friend and so we find that the French elections has a lot of importance to us and to the world. So here's Eric who was from one of the former French colonies, maybe still is, from the Code d'Ivoire, our hybrid post and he has been with CNN before and Voice of America and we are going to ask him to analyze those elections in France which just occurred. So take it away. Thank you Sandy, the French went to both you know to choose their the member of the parliament right after the presidential election which saw Emmanuel Macron being reelected you know he was facing Marine Le Pen so after the French presidential election comes the legislative elections where you know the French will decide if the president will be governing with an absolute majority or with no majority of you know the National Assembly, in this case he will have to deal with you know the opposition in crafting you know deals to work to govern. So before we start it's very important that we understand you know how it works exactly how the legislative elections work in France. Usually bras fits small chested women like this. This is of 577 members they represent 566 district plus 11 more overseas to represent French citizens who live abroad seats are divided into constituencies with each meant to represent 125,000 residents all of the MPs in the chamber are up for election every five years and the vote happens in two rounds candidates who receive at least 12 and a half percent of the vote advance to the second round once in office the members have a number of responsibilities in addition to passing laws they also serve as a check on the president's administration holding weekly sessions to question cabinet members they can also convene parliamentary inquiries into matters of concern the number of MPs in the National Assembly has changed over time to account for shifts in population but the changes have not always reflected reality with some administrative departments losing residents but maintaining the same number of seats the two round system has also come under criticism for not being proportional giving an advantage to larger parties can you hear me okay Eric yeah okay are you ready for this second video the first video is already finished yes it played through did you not see it the whole time no okay all right so anyway they will add it I mean they were in the editing they were doing so this is how it works so all these parliamentarians have been elected and very soon we're going to understand what went on because Emmanuel Macron didn't have an absolute majority okay let me let me interrupt you about that first of all Macron won the election for president correct yes okay so but it was a narrow victory as well right it was a narrow victory right but in any case he became president okay so he became president and then there were elections for legislative seats yes okay and that's called the parliament yes France two is it bicameral with a senate and like a house yes the National Assembly like almost the House of Lords yes right okay so the National Assembly in us you know is that you elect legislators correct yes and usually those legislators belong to a party or not yeah they belong to a party so all the parties go to the elections and the party that comes with the majority then can have a prime minister okay but if you don't have the majority I mean the party that has the majority to be the party of the president so in the following video we will understand exactly what happened after these elections and what is the new you know configuration okay so we will watch a second video right okay Ensemble Alliance has lost its absolute majority in the French National Assembly just two months after he was reelected as president in France's parliamentary elections Ensemble secured 245 seats far below the 289 needed for a majority they were followed by the left-wing coalition noobs led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon who grabbed 141 seats in Sunday's vote and Marine Le Pen's far-right party their assemblement national celebrated a historic breakthrough by obtaining 89 seats jumping from the sixth the third biggest party well for more analysis of Sunday's results we're now joined by Rainbow Murray a professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London thanks for joining us on the program tonight Miss Murray and so is this a shock for President Macron and given the gains on both the hard left and the right is this a rejection of the reform agenda by voters it's a bit of a shock the polls said that there was a risk that he might lose his majority but the extent to which he's lost it the gap between the number of seats he has and the number of seats he needed is much larger than was expected it is a rejection of him by French voters and one thing that's important to understand is that they didn't massively endorse him when he won the election two months ago he was mostly getting support from people who were voting against his opponents Marine Le Pen rather than voting for him and that antipathy has now played out because people haven't been willing to give him a parliamentary majority which is something that every incoming president has enjoyed for decades including Macron himself when he was elected in 2017 but it hasn't happened this time around so this is a rejection of Macron but why have voters been given their backing to Marine Le Pen what does she really offer them it's not so much that they like Marine Le Pen as that they are disillusioned with politics as it stands and that they feel neglected and left out by the current political system there's widespread unhappiness in France with the cost of living crisis it's easy for a party like Le Pen's to blame skate goats to talk about Europe to talk about immigration and those are her normal stomping grounds and she's also worked extremely hard making her party more mainstream more politically acceptable so whereas once people might have felt like a bit of a pariah for voting for the far right now it's become normalized so who then could potentially play king maker the republicans they haven't done well but could you see them perhaps swallowing their pride and propping up Macron they are the obvious king makers and there are good reasons why they might prop up Macron's government for one thing they would gain influence and relevance that they otherwise won't have and they're in fourth place they've got 60-odd seats so they're not going to manage to achieve an awful lot without working with the government and in terms of ideological alignment there's a close alignment now between Macron and the republicans when Macron first came to power five years ago he was seen as a centrist and he spent the past five years steadily encroaching on the turf of the republicans usurping their people usurping their ideas their voters so if the republicans supported them supported Macron they'd largely be voting for their own policies the problem is that because he spent so much time stealing from them they're not inclined to help him now they resent him and they're worried that if they do join forces with him now that will entirely erase what they have left of their identity so there's a determination there to resist and I think the party is going to have some quite robust internal debates behind closed doors about whether they should now join forces with him or insist on resisting and if they do resist Macron's options are very limited because he doesn't really have anywhere else he can go okay what does all that mean okay all that means that you know uh Macron is in deep trouble because you know he need to have that majority to be able to continue he has a majority he has a simple majority he has a simple majority okay and then having a simple majority they doesn't you know help him you know pass all the measures that you will have to have deals with the the oppositions and and in this case he has some kind of a very particular position you have on one hand the far right of marine le pen yeah marine le pen right and and and and also the the the irregular right which is lehrip became which was lehri republican not like our republican so okay okay but you know there was ten for that if like simply would there would stand for the republicans here it's like the the conservatives right of course but they're not the far right okay all right so and then you are on the other end you have the far left the communists the communists the communists are still around the france you have the green parties you are also uh the uh france ensoumise which will literally uh translate in uh to uh the unbowed france it's a movement by uh the um uh the what is it Jean-Luc Mélenchon is now the flagship of that you know uh left right but the left movement is a coalition of all of these so uh that's how they managed probably to beat Macron I mean not beating literally yet because they decided to go all together so in each electoral you know uh zone they presented one candidate rather than rather than going separate so now they managed to have like a very uh consistent place rather than having gone like like the socialists the the uh communists would be far so but then united on one candidate in each district yes but unfortunately they were hoping to have the majority right having the majority they would have at a prime minister right because in France you know uh the party that has the majority the absolute majority appoint a prime minister they appoint so like there's a president the president the president appoints the prime minister but okay go ahead I'm sorry so uh so in this case Macron still has the majority so he can still appoint a prime minister if he didn't have the the majority and then the majority was held by one party or one coalition of party that uh you know have the same vision political you know also political objectives then they will have to you know present a prime minister to do to do in this case uh neither the far right neither or nor the left a far left has the majority so uh it will be a very complicated situation whereby Macron has to uh uh uh deal with this side of the parliament on some issues deal with this side of the parliament on other issues when we know that Marine Levin and the far right is very very much you know at the you know the you know opposite you know uh side of the spectrum compared to uh to far left how so uh I mean what is it what is it about Marie Le Pen that has been so in a sense demonized is there is she for instance like her father is she really uh anti-immigrant is she really a fun uh strong christian what's the deal with her yeah she's she's considered what you know in Europe is called the far right I know but what does that even mean the far right is anti-immigrant okay and then when it comes to immigration yeah they usually uh nationalize because remember the Hassan du Monde nationalized so it's a nationalized party that in France by France standard that is considered far right when in the US you know it's like a party would be maybe considered democrat but just to tell you that you know uh the way they look at Marine Le Pen in France in Europe in Europe is like uh you know uh she's anti-immigrant she's very much nationalized she's against NATO she's against nationalized you know there's a lot of people who don't like globalization and they are not really far right they are also many of them left there right so it's interesting so it's a it's a it's a melange of of ideology and and ideas that you know but the main main issue here is that she is and her party and parties that you know a side of the political spectrum are uh very much against Macron because Macron is the embodiment of neoliberalism correct and then yeah because and then remember France and Europe you know is not the US so liberalism in in in Europe is like uh like the democrat liberals in Europe are like democrats yeah because they're pro-business but you know a little you know there's a tradition of social welfare social like he wants to break some of that tradition right like tensions yeah because Macron is a charity yes and also is uh beyond of the banks beyond of the big corporates beyond of the you know of the you know ultra you know uh liberal i mean liberal in France it's like uh conservative i mean there for business so how how would we call them here like pro-business pro but it's all there but the democrats are also leaning in that direction of neoliberalism globalization um and reduction in social welfare programs is that the way Macron is also yeah so it's really like a global movement yeah it's a global movement like to to put it simply is that France is doing like maybe uh 30 years later what Reagan and Clinton and Clinton but Reagan and Margaret Thatcher yes so France of course because of this heavy you know history and and culture of welfare also socialism was very late to get into this neoliberalism right of course Mitterrand was there the socialist wave power so now Macron is to break all the last barriers before you know you know so it didn't go through with France because you know in France you know the unions are very strong people want to go to retire and he was close ally also US correct yes it's a strong ally of the US yeah and then and then most of his opponent call him a little uh a dog I mean a little puppy of the US yes yes yes yes yes yes yes to the US because uh uh uh the far right is against the war in Ukraine okay so let's get there all right so in France so you have a right a real right in Marie Le Pen you have a real left with Melanchol right and so those two wings of the French political system are going to block the problem yeah you're going to block my call I don't I don't know if you call the real right but let's be in the context of Europe and call them far right okay calm the far right because the communists will definitely be considered even in Europe or it and in here a much more so right as you know far far away but this but Francis always had a real left communists and socialists yes okay all right the problem is that the socialists at some point because remember that uh uh a gradual move towards liberalism is not only uh the fact of the governments the multinationals and that uh you know uh uh uh uh uh uh global government that is taking place now and and forcing all the governments to go uh to that path of ultra liberalism you know a forcing government so okay so is that those forces coming from the world bank and from the IMF for what or the UN or what is it they'll prove they're corporate forces okay all right let's see all right the corporate forces uh to which you know governments say to our governments and say to our welfare governments like France not resistable why not hey I mean why not that's why there's a rebellion that's why but it's a rebellion from the people from the people right the rebellion from the people and then even the socialists that were the uh I mean that were at the forefront of that resistance against ultra liberalism fell into the trap of liberalism because in any way with the European Union which is almost like a supra government right they don't like that much either so it's a reaction of the people against all these big ensembles that annihilate you know the you know the the will of the people local I mean democracy that annihilates democracy right so what we're seeing in France and then it's interesting at least it shows to the world that it's not about only Marine Le Pen the far right and it's a movement of the people which is expressed through different parties who would believe that today the far right and the far left can you know in terms of certain things it is happening here as well the far right is libertarian and the far left also is moving to that those kinds of positions also around this war for instance okay how does this war play out in this election the war I mean in Ukraine the war in Ukraine okay so you're the natal power France is in natal correct although okay so all about the goal the war for France out of the military command but still France is native so France and Germany Germany the big powers the big powers France is a very key power yes right of the US of the US war so with uh government in France which will have difficulties to be obedient to NATO the war in in in in Ukraine and the war in general yes of NATO against the rest of the world wait a minute it's not NATO against the rest of the world that this moment it's NATO against Russia correct yeah but you know Russia also is getting allies for at least people who doesn't who don't want or government who we don't want to align themselves with any position like sometimes look for example the US is passing a law to banish any government in Africa that feels with Russia yeah I mean it's in favor of Russian influence in in in in in in the world or in Africa for example so where do you put a government in Africa who that is friends of Russia as an enemy of NATO right right so to me that's why I'm calling it a war against I mean not about the rest of the world because Latin America for example is not let's get there in a minute let's go back to the French because what I saw was the far right and the far left that you're talking about are kind of united honest they are against the war in Ukraine they think it there should be a negotiated peace at least yeah more more so it's not only the it's not only a question that right because even about this question there are some you know new okay yeah I'm pretty sure the socialists are not maybe in favor of this war but don't don't want to give a blind check to Russia so at least they will bring that issue to a debate when Macron could a few months ago go at war without having to you know ask any permission or to have even had to talk about it now you know Macron cannot decide I'm pretty sure to send any weapon if he doesn't go to the parliament okay right you know you know what I'm saying yes it's a little difficult and the war is not the only issue okay what are the other ones the other ones are for example the the you know the ultra-liberalism in general the bringing back the industries that you know went to China to the French industry yes a lot of you know a lot of jobs abroad to China you know you know you know created some kind of you know problems in in France there's also retirement right the French are very jealous of the you know as they should be yes so Macron wants to make them work you know Macron wants you know so it's like a fight for survival and the power of the people and and then that's why even imagine the there's a there's a last video that's very important because even a girl from France who is wearing the nika I mean the the veil he said she has good ideas if only she could be less you know aggressive about the veil and the muscles go ahead do we have that can we have the video uh uh uh yes that that's the last video and then it's also a very good take on the situation from you know England what's at the center now they are some you know as for Macron's authority has suddenly been undermined one paper called the country ungovernable France is not accustomed to such political uncertainty there were strong gains for the left a new group uniting socialists and greens is now the official opposition it's only a couple of months since Macron won the presidential election but now his reform agenda notably his plan to raise the retirement age is in doubt his popularity punctured here in in Le Pen's hometown there was a sense of triumph her far right party the RN going from eight seats to 89 wow we wanted to make Emmanuel Macron a minority president and it's done and we also wanted to have the means to defend our position Le Pen may have lost the presidential campaign but her party has benefited from the soaring cost of living she said the results was way beyond her dreams so delight for Marine Le Pen but of course misery for Emmanuel Macron five years ago he dominated the center of French politics so much that he squeezed the life out of the far right and the far left but now they have both bounced back so spectacularly that we have a hung parliament and France is about to enter its most volatile and divisive period of politics for decades Macron will have to try to be a more inclusive leader now but that change won't come naturally to him or his country the RN party doesn't have the same opinions and I think that's a good idea especially regarding the cost of living petrol prices energy bills there will be changes and I think it's a good thing and French politics is fractured nobody unites this nation and even here on her doorstep many are still wary of Le Pen her political program is quite interesting but the fact that she's against the veil against Muslims and against migrants it puts up a block for us around here the echoes of an industrial past that's left a legacy of disfigured land the economic strife and high unemployment the political landscape may be about to enter its own era of scars and discord Adam Parsons sky news northern France wow yeah but it's good because it's recomposition of the political spectrum it's a new question of you know how politics is done over there and and I think we're seeing it around the globe that's what I wanted to ask you what what influence will this have around the globe of course it will it will definitely you know you know poster you know all the national nationalist in Europe it will yeah but that's going to be perceived by most Americans as a bad thing is that true or are these nationalists really opposed to globalization and is is it a return to sovereignty yes yes indeed and then you can even see that yeah you can even you know it will be of course uh it will it will be you know it will have many things some will be ultra other will try to find the balance like we see in Colombia Colombia okay yeah okay let's get to Colombia okay but in Europe there are many movements that are considered nationalist movements they've been perceived here as fascist or even noxious but who but that's how it's presented in the media yeah but mostly you know the main I mean mainstream I mean the liberal I mean here what we call liberal yes MSNBC not facts so it's been presented to one part of the US as fascists yes but the other part because you know of course among them there are some parties some nationalists that are a little too extreme anti-immigrant anti-immigrant but even when it comes to immigrants people are fed up of this influx of immigrants that come to their shores like almost dying from you know boats and and things you know I mean I think that we have also to look at this question of immigrants not at the panacea for you know people that are living out conditions why are they living the country simple the forces that are played in Europe like the main dominant forces are pillaging their country exactly you know that's why so but there's something else too that I've always said you want to stop immigration stop war in those countries and those wars are are basically continued by the old imperial powers by the united states by France by England yes yes okay I mean its immigration works I come from a country that has 40 percent of its population from immigrants and among them 80 percent are not even I want because they this is the result of a political and economic system that has made I recalls the big factory where and published and published not power not to a country and published countries people countries that have been kept into poverty to to to to serve as a reservoir of cheap labor for that factory so creating massive movement of immigration from after other parts of Africa but I recalls people nobody leaves his country yet nobody leaves his country or her country you know happily they don't want to you know it just because you're looking for greener pasture but you know are we going to be you know governed by just movement of people looking for greener pastures or you know you know so immigration is a tricky subject you know if it's done not as like you know me I'm very sad to see these you know these you know dozens and I mean thousands of immigrants like dying to come to the US or to France or to France they should stay in the countries but we should make the countries viable at least give the chance to these countries to be viable countries so that the citizen won't leave the country stop in you know stop war stop ultra liberalism give sovereignty to these countries so that you know they don't have to you know to to be slaves of the big corporates you know the big corporates they go to these countries they don't create jobs they all just go there to create these shitty excuse my friend shitty jobs and people don't get nothing they don't get protection so they want to come to Europe at the cost of their life that's true in Mexico so all right so oh yes oh yes of course immigration is the right I mean you know people have the right to immigration but we have to make the world a place where everybody can be happy where they are and then you are forced to immigrate maybe in some kind of you know force majeure you know and so look global warming is going to create massive immigration that's not just war war creates that and war creates climate change too right so okay so they're anti-immigrant it's not it's not cool but you know there are reasons for that because in these countries you know they are also people that are looking for jobs so they don't want to have competition it's a normal behavior from human beings you know like when there is food for enough people you don't bother you know having people to come but also immigration could be also used as you know you know a subject a topic by politicians to get elected but in any case if it has a certain resonance in within the population it's because there is a problem there is a problem now the anti-Iowa immigration the we were talking about the nationalist yes but in Italy for example in Italy you know people I mean they've been the rise of people that are you know in February because Italy has always been a beacon for SMEs small and mediums enterprises right exactly right and then thanks to globalization you know Italy in each house there's at least a marketer to do something or to create you know you know they are businessmen they are the produce you know the capitalists yeah on a small scale everything where in China right same as the United States so what do you want people to do just for the sake of not being tagged as nationalist and fascist just give up you know the life give up the the businesses give up the history give up the we need a real discussion not like finger pointing all you were fascist because you don't like chemicals right which is what happens with more in a pen yeah right so that's what happened to Marie Le Pen of course Marie Le Pen can be you know very much extreme when she says okay you don't have the right to put your your your veil and that wasn't just Marie Le Pen that even Emmanuel Macron exactly it's interesting you don't have the right to wear your veil in school in school right I mean in school but I mean in in the but in the street you can mind it's interesting why can a student go to school we were there Marie Le Pen says that no she says no this is what happens in France right even Macron says no yeah all the French say okay when it comes to church because we have to when it comes to school we have to separate church and school but you know so it's a it's it's a debate over these issues that you know people fool you know I think bottom line is that people all over the world not just in France not just near our sick to death of this global economy which means essentially to me rule by the big corporations and the loss of sovereignty of the nation state which is not an ideal creation either but it's like for instance in this country that movement against globalization is called the America first and that's been associated with Donald Trump correct yeah but what are the choices either you put your own country first or are you submit to globalization is that what a man like Macron really has done with France he submitted all of France to a global economy that does not necessarily represent the wishes of the French people yeah is that is that what's going on or I think that we should not be you know at you know the extremes or because you know there are some rules in you know the fact that you can do business yes but doing business is not submitting your own country to the to the states but here too if you if you want to have sovereignty don't also go at war with other right exactly you know don't don't go to submit other countries you know to war because in this instance republicans and democrats they like to go you know but bottom line is you're right people want their country first well it seems to me that's the way yeah it's fair I do I do too I mean and I want to really use to look out for Americans yeah and there's so much now and then you know even you know there's so much in these countries in America I mean in the US within France in countries in Europe there's so much to address right right and going to wage war and and they will try to be the gendarme of the world you know there are people who are homeless in France a country which didn't know what was you know all these about there are people in this country that you know don't don't don't find food to eat or whatever you know we need to look into you know our own eyes rather than looking at the well it seems like it's happening in France right yeah it's happening in France it will happen in the rest of the world it's happening in India yeah okay so that's another whole subject to explore but the columbia elections the main ally in latin america of the u.s was columbia correct yeah and now they have a leftist government yeah which is not interested that much in doing the u.s bidding in latin america correct yeah but I also have the sense that they're not into you like you know I mean totally opposing you know doing business with the liberals you know of course I can't find some kind of right right because it's good also to have free market yes but before you can have free market you have to make sure that you don't put the uh light weather I mean light feathers with the heavy you know you know so so you know you have to you have to you cannot put countries that don't have the might of you know big big big big countries you know to compete you know free market is like okay there's no regulation everybody has to come back you know the u.s and and Sri Lanka don't have the same part right so you cannot expect them to compete the fair but this is a very big topic what's happening in france among the people in latin america in africa all over the world the people apparently are on the move to have really pretty drastic changes and that's a whole other subject for another evening but we will thank eric for being here and talking about france yes and you're you're on icing bow and whatever you know happens it's fast exactly the revolution or the revolution or the american revolution so but the american revolution was first yes so we want maybe those two countries are they going to another revolution we can see if there's any two countries that can do it it will be those two yeah because i'm pretty sure that the u.s fight that white balance it will inspire again i hope so you know of course you know captain is okay there are there is good in captain small capitalism small captain small not right exactly all right so thank you very much and we'll see you in a week or so and we'll be discussing what


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Alright. Okay, good morning. Welcome everyone to the course BC 314 on media and technology in ministry. We are in this section, we'll be talking about technology platforms or software platforms that different platforms that we can use for church and ministry work. And I'm just giving us an overview of how we are using different platforms and many of these are open source platforms. And hopefully, you know, it'll be useful. You may have an opportunity to use these as well. Let's pray. We get started and then I'll share a few things today that might be useful. Okay. Yeah, may come in. Can you pray? If you just pray with us, please. I will pray. Yeah, Father Lord, thank you for this wonderful time, Lord. Thank you for the subject, Lord. Lord, help everyone join on time, Lord. Lord, give us a good kind to it, Lord. Lord, pray for your pray that you give us a good knowledge and understanding about the subject, Lord. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you. All right. So yesterday, when you were talking about software systems, technology platforms that we could use, I shared first of all about the church management system and how we can do a lot of different things. And that is used to manage data of people, whether it's congregation members or donors or partners, things like that. You're managing their data. Then I also shared about the human resource management software. The product that we are using is a free open source product, orange HRM. And we use that to, that is to manage internally, right, to manage your staff, your consultants, people are working for the church or Christian ministry. You can use that. We use it, you know, to report our time, our work to apply for leaves for performance review. It can be used for performance review. And we're also getting going to use it for expenses and reimbursements. So that means if people are spending money on behalf of the church, they make some purchases which are approved, then they can submit their expense claim and they get reimbursed for those expenses because they've bought something for the church or the ministry. That's been approved of. So like that, you know, the human resource management software is used internally to manage your staff, your work, people are working for the organization. And it's always good. So if you look at it right now, because, you know, I guess because partly because of the pandemic, the last ever since the pandemic started, that's early 2020 is when we went into lockdown. So, or two years almost, you know, we didn't come to the office, we the office was closed. Everybody's working from home, only for, you know, brief moments and then I think office opened up fully, more or less fully from earlier this year. So we actually didn't get a chance to meet all our staff and physically meet and plus people are in different, different places and we also have people who are working from different parts of India as consultants doing work. So we're not meeting each other. We have to, you know, somehow we have to still manage people, you know, people at their work and so on. And so that's why having a software system like the human resource management system can we can we can manage all our staff and consultants from anywhere. Right. So, you know, there are more than I think, I don't know the exact number but more than 60 to 70 people who get paid every month. There are sort of half of them are staff, that is, they get salaries, and another half are consultants they get paid hourly. So whatever hours they work, they get paid. So, you know, we have about 60 to 70 people every month, they have to be paid. And it happens through this HRM portal, as they report the times, everything time sheet they work everything is processed every month, and they are paid. So it's possible to do it even though you know we're all in different places around the country. It's possible to manage that. Okay. So now I'm going to today. I hope we'll cover one or two other systems. The next system I want to talk about is content management system, content management system, which is what we use to build our websites. So, our websites. So right now we, when I say we all people's church has about has six websites that it is managing and it is building. Okay, some of these are more, more developed than other some are still being developed. But each website is serving a particular purpose. And we have to make a decision on, you know, how to build these websites now there are many ways that you can build a website at a very basic level you could you just use, you know, plain HTML pages, you can have a website with that HTML JavaScript technology but there are what I refer to as content management systems, and many of these are free open source system software systems that people generally use today to build websites. The advantage with that is you don't need to know a lot of programming or you don't need to. I mean, yeah, you do need to know a little bit of the programming, but you don't need to do a lot of the programming. You just do a little bit, but the system is more or less packaged built for you. So you kind of just set it up the way you want it. You know, what pages do you want? What are the menus you want on your website and those kind of things. So it lets you manage things easy. So the goal is more on you providing the content rather than trying to build the system. So it saves people a lot of time. Now, there are many good content management systems, but the one that we are using is Joomla, and I will show you, I will put the website as well in the document when I give to you at the end. It's a very good content management system, a very robust used worldwide. So we are using that. We decided to use that same system for all of our websites because then, you know, it's very easy to manage. You just need people to understand it and they can configure it or set it up for all the different websites. Now Joomla is an open source product. You can download it. And then it has many extensions. That means you can add various features to it and the extensions are paid purchases. You buy it once for some amount and then you plug it in to the core product. The core product is free. Joomla comes with certain features, more than enough to set up a website. But if you want additional plugins, you can buy or they call it plugins or extensions. You can buy it, put it into the system and you can build your system. So it's a very easy thing to do. If you have people, volunteers in your church or IT people who are willing to help, you just tell them, hey, download Joomla. We're going to set up our website using Joomla. They need to know basic PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, the databases, MySQL. So they know that. They can, most developers today, IT people today are familiar with these programming languages. So they'll be able to set it up for you. You just tell them what you want. You know, what do you want on the website and they will be able to set it up very easily for you. So the work can happen very fast. So that's one advantage.  So that makes that work very easy. Content is being put out every day. For example, every day we have a daily devotional video. It's called Living Supernaturally. Five minute video, devotional video is being updated into our websites every day.  And so, sorry, I'm just writing something down. Okay. So that that also happens. And so these big daily updates, a lot of things, you know, it's very easy to manage it when they're using a content management system. So today I just want to give you an idea about it. And some of the things is when you are building a website and when you are putting content out there. One, one important thing is that it should be searchable. See, it's one thing to put content out there, but the fact is there are millions. I would maybe, I guess, millions of websites, or if you look at it from a Christian church, at least there will be hundreds of thousands of church websites all over the world. And everybody is putting some content out there. You know, nowadays, it's very common for churches and ministries to put out their sermons and maybe their books and whatever resources. So hundreds of thousands all over the world. So if you put out content, it has to be visible. That means it has to come up when people are searching for certain content. What you put out has to be searchable. And it should come up when people search so that they find it and then they can come and use the content. So that making content searchable, again, it becomes easier when you use a content management system. It makes it easier to do that. And I will just share some thoughts on it. So let me share my screen and share a few things here. So first of all, let's look at the product that we were talking about. We're talking about Joomla. This is the content management product that we were talking about, right, Joomla. And it's a flexible platform. It enables us to create our websites. It's a free open source product. So you can just download it and either you can host it or there are website service providers who will host it for you. And it's being used all over the world by people. And some of its features, like I mentioned, it's search engine friendly. So whatever you do, you can set it up in a way that's searchable. And nowadays, very important, people access the internet a lot from their mobile phone. So the website should be mobile friendly. It should render properly on mobile phone. So even though we designed something for a laptop, so right now I'm looking at things from my laptop. But many people access websites from their phone. So it should be mobile friendly. It should give you a lot of flexibility if needed. You can present your website in different languages. Of course, do a lot of designs. You can extend it, add a lot of additional features easily and give different users, especially those who are managing the website, different levels of access. So they can access it and so on. So this is a product we're using. This is what I would also recommend for you if you're thinking about setting up a website for your church or your ministry. And this is not the only content management system. There are others like there's another product called Drupal, which is also well known or used commonly. There is of course Wordpress, which is also used for website development or content management. But this was our choice simply because we felt it was, from our perspective, it was the best option for us. So all our websites, our APC website, church website, our Bible college website, let me open these in different tabs. Our Bible college website also uses Joomla. Our church website uses Joomla. We have other websites that we are working on that we are building it into. So basically everything is running on Joomla. So when you're creating your website, obviously the first thing you want to think about is what are the main menus you want to have? Typically you'll have something called home so that people click on it. They come back to the home page. You will have something called about us. It's where you can give some information about yourself, about the church. So we have things about the church. Then you can have things about the ministries that you're doing. You can have things about events that are coming up or you can have things about resources that you're making available. And in our case, we are highlighting our books and missions here and then other websites that we maintain. And of course we also have a Hindi version of the website. So typically you'd have your home, you have about us, you'd have ministries, resources and contact. You know, your church office, your church locations and so on.  They will be able to do it very easily.  So I'm not saying this has everybody has to do it like this. I'm just saying this is how we did it. That, you know, we have the highlight of our sermon because that's something many people would want to come for the highlight our daily devotion. So people can just come here and listen to the daily devotion. Of course, the devotional is available on the church app. It's available on social media and YouTube and Facebook. But here's another place. Right.  So this is what is, you know, coming up.  We highlight other things like that are free Christian books. Generally people want to know these are commonly things that people want to know, you know, so we highlight that here. And, you know, so some things about the church as well. So you can decide how you want to lay things out and make make things available like that. So all of this, you know, so this is our website is going to highlight some things here. See, one of the things is sermons. Now sermons are very important part of a church, especially. Right. What we've done is all our sermons from 2004. So, you know, so you say sermons from 2004. So we're talking about 18 years of sermons are available through this website. You know, so all our Sunday sermons since 2004. And of course they're listed chronologically here so they can come in. They can listen, they can watch download notes everything so people can make use, you know, if they missed a sermon they want to go back and listen to a sermon they can come in. And so this is all from 2004 it's available here. But of course, you want people to be able to quickly access filter this so they can filter by the person who preached, or they can filter by series. You know, what was the series that is used or which year they can go back and they can filter by any one of these things. So that's, you know, one way so they can either just go chronologically and listen they can you can do anything listen watch the sermon. The other thing we've also done is we've given a page where we list the sermon series very easily. Right so somebody could come to this page and they can say oh these are all the sermons series that were done. I want to listen to something here you know if somebody wants to listen about the holiness of God, or the mighty name of Jesus or the presence of God they can click on any of these. And it will take them to this page where just the sermons on that series are listed. They can download it and use it. Right. So this is something you can easily do it's almost like a library of sermons people can come. And so this is a big advantage here of using of using a content management system. And all of this can be managed very easily through the administration of this system. Similarly the daily devotionals right so we have our daily devotional, which is available. So every day is devotional. It's being released here. Similarly we have these series available, you know, because these all these devotions are done on weekly themes. And if somebody wants to go and look at it. Okay what are all the topics. So these are all the themes of somebody feels like today, you know, I want to listen to something about about Jesus or about the attitude or believers authority, or I want to listen about resolving conflicts. So they can come and they can click here and they will get, you know, the seven devotionals on the seven devotionals from Monday to Sunday to Saturday are on resolving conflicts. How do you resolve conflicts. So they can actually go through this devotional as and when they feel right. So again, all the devotions are listed by the teams, and anybody can come and choose a theme, and they can listen listen to the devotionals, which are very short five minute devotionals on on the on that team. So, so, again, all of this is managed very easily. Another thing is about the books. Again, here, the books. So the books are listed here. And many of these books, of course, they're all in PDF form. We will slowly bring out other formats, but many of these books are also available as audio books so you can download the whole book as an audio book as mp3 and if people don't want to read the PDF they can listen to the book in audio form so audio books are also available. And, and books will come out in other formats as well. So the books are listed here very, you know, easily for them. Now all this is searchable. It means, you know, we've put it here, but if somebody searches, you know, and I think I've shown this to you, but let's say if somebody searches for sermons on, yeah, maybe let's say women in the workplace, I don't know if it'll show up. So these are sermons by other people. But, okay, we don't have it. I don't think we have a sermons on women in the workplace. Okay, so here's our book, Women in the Workplace. So our book, Women in the Workplace on Google has shown up. Anyway, let me just, let's see if sermons on or have something that will pick up from our website. So I'm doing a Google search. Of course, I've done it purposely on the name of that sermon that it into Heart of God and you see the first in the search is our sermon. Now, I just think about this, there are about 8,087,000 results that match with this search string on the redemptive Heart of God. But that particular sermon from APC is listed first. Now, of course, it's because Google search also looks at your location, you know, where are you from? And it kind of brings all these together from different locations. So obviously it recognizes, you know, it will know that I'm doing this from India and so on. But that sermon series that we have put out on our website is listed first. So, you know, if somebody searches sermons on receiving, yeah, receiving God's guidance. So there is a sermon here on receiving God's guidance, sermon central, that's, you know, a repository, online repository of sermons. But then here you see the sermon from APC listed number two. Right. So, of course, I'm searching by these names, but the sermons, but what the point I want to make is the sermons that we have made available through our church website. Here, sermon series, right, is searchable. And so it shows up in Google search so people can, you know, we'll find it online when they do search by certain topics. And if that topic is available on our website, and if it's ranked high, it will show up on the early pages.  So making what you put out searchable is very important so that people can come and see. So similarly, you know, when people search for daily devotions, they search for books. A lot of our content is searchable and they will find it and they will come and use it. And I will show you, when we look at the search results, we can see people from around the world coming to our website and using the content. Let's look at the back end, that is the administrator side of things. Similarly, about the Bible College, we will talk about it later. But what does the back end look like? So, you know, as an administrator, you log in. And so this is the administrator side. So this is where, you know, we are able to manage these things. I just want to show you a few things here. So we have a pre-set extension. This is where all our messages and series sermons are managed. So this is the back end to what you saw on the website. So this is where these things are uploaded and, you know, the details are given. So these are all the recent ones. So this is where we manage them.  So it's easy. You don't have to do a lot of programming. You can just upload it here. You can set up the series here. You know, these are all the series that we have been, you saw on the series page of the website. It's all these sermons series. So these are the series and these are actually managed through this pre-set component, where we set up the series, give it some information and, you know, all of that. So all of this is being managed very easily, you know, from the back end. Similarly about the books. So this is the control panel for the books. This is where all the books are managed.  So about 500, almost 540,000 times these books have been downloaded and so on. And then you can go in and you can see books by various categories. Of course, this is German and so on. Let's see if we look at these books in English. So these are the English books and you can see, you know, each book, how many times it was downloaded. People have downloaded these books and you can see them. So Holy Spirit, 2000, 2009 and so on. And some of these are not publicly available. So these are, you have to look at only these numbers. Yeah. So, you know, you can see this book is downloaded quite often around 8,000 downloads. So this is where we manage the books. And the books is what we are seeing here, you know, these English books. Right. So all these books, these are actually managed by here, this page. And you can manage how you laid out and you can see what is happening, how many downloads and so on. Right. So setting up, you know, so this is the, you know, the back end. This is where an IT person would work. He would use, your IT person, he or she would use this back end to set up the website for you.  This is what I want to make available. And they would use the back end. So you see the back end is pretty straightforward. It's a web page and you can upload things and you can manage things here from the back end as well. Right. Okay. So I just wanted to give you a quick exposure to that. So this is how our website is set up. Now similarly, Bible College website very much similar. There's a back end to it.  And it'll show up. And again, everything is made searchable. So for instance, if we say online Bible College, you know, so there are research for online Bible College. Of course, there are so many more than 14 million, I guess, Bible College. You see a lot of these advertisements here from different foreign Bible colleges. And then you see APC Bible College on page one, you know, it's listed here. So our Bible College website is searchable. Or if people search online Bible colleges in India, then ours is listed right on top after University of Mysore and so on. But these two are ads. So these are paid positions, but this is APC Bible College ranked right up high. So you can make your Bible College searchable. You can make it searchable. And people search by various criteria. I don't know if we will show up here for free Bible College. It does come up here as APC Bible College. If people search for free Bible colleges in India, our e-learning, we offer for free. So they come. So the Bible College website is searchable and, you know, by different criteria as well. And it's all done the same way. It's using Joomla, the backend, and you add the titles and so on. And it makes the whole website searchable. People can come and, you know, look at the website. All right. So today what we've done is or what I would have very briefly shared with us is about Joomla, which is a content management system. Which we use to set up our website. And we can also make, sorry, we can make resources available through our website in a very, in a well managed way.  Many things can be done. I've just showed you very briefly a few of the things that can be done. And very importantly, you can make your content searchable. So when you use the content management system, you know, you're put in the right tags, put in the right keywords and so on. And then your content becomes searchable so that when people search on Google or some other search engines, they will be able to find what you have put out and they will come to it and make use of it. Okay. So keep this in mind, especially when you are planning to set up a website for your church or your ministry. Think about using a content management system, something like Joomla. You can use Joomla. It's free. Tell your IT person or any volunteer to set it up on Joomla. And you can tell them, you know, what you want and you can tell them, look, I want to make all the sermons available. I want to make, you know, maybe you're planning to write books or maybe you're planning to write articles, blogs. You can just set up a blog as well. They can do it easily for you. And they can manage it for you. Okay. So we'll pause here for today. We will pick this up again next week. I will talk to you more about other software systems and other products that you can use for your church, for your ministry. But a website and a content management system for a website is I think I would say very important or very crucial for any church or ministry. And we can be thankful that these days we do have, you know, very easy ways to set it up and to be up and running. Okay. Any, any questions, any thoughts? Okay. So let's, let's pause here for today. I mean, there's a lot more we could talk about, but then I just want to introduce these things to you so you could make use of them. We will continue this next week. And I will give you a little document with just the names of all these products that we're talking about so that in the future. And when you have an opportunity, you can use that as a list. You can look and say, hey, I want to use this product. And then you'll be, you'll be ready to do it. You'll know what to use for different needs. Okay. All right. Let's close in prayer and then we'll dismiss. May I ask maybe Thomas, if you, if it's okay, you could pray and dismiss us. Sure. Father in Jesus' name, we thank you for this day, Lord. Thank you for the learnings what we have learned today. Father, we love you and praise you. Father, let all what we learn that we be useful for the kingdom of God's advancement. We thank you for this time. We bless you, daddy. We give you glory and corner in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Thank you, everyone. Enjoy the rest of the day. Enjoy the afternoon and the weekend. Have a blessed weekend. I'll see you all next week. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.


Going to the theater, opening night, and watching a great movie surrounded by fellow fans is a fantastic experience. This is a rare thing. This isn't something that happens week to week. Hell, barely happens once a year. Which makes reflecting on it all that much more special. The movie experience I'll be talking about today is one that only happened a few years back. 2019. The film? Avengers Endgame. Before I really dive into this tale, I would really only be hurting myself if I didn't mention you could subscribe to Adam Does Movies and stay caught up on all the new videos I post almost daily at this point. It's a wild ride. I'd like you to be on it with me. And I believe Sheila has prepared some sort of a subscribe animation that will show up once in a while to let you know you can, you in fact, can do that. If she did her job correctly, Sheila! She's not even in the room right now. Wow, okay. April 26, 2019. We are on pins and needles for Avengers Endgame to start. The final chapter in Tony Stark's journey. Is he gonna live?  Is he gonna transcend time and space, come back as some sort of a new character altogether? We don't know! It's the MCU. Anything's possible. I had a good crew of people going with me too. It's been lined up for weeks. One of my friends I've known since the third grade. And I'm no spring chicken, so that's a forged friendship that's been lasting the test of time. We decided to make a meal out of it and meet early to have dinner before the movie. So we headed on over to Freddy's, which is a burger joint. It's a chain. I got some decent food. Good fries. Good shakes. Good service. Good smiles. Good fun. Good friends. That's a lot of it. None of that's in their slogan. I'm just talking to talk. We have a couple hours before the film, so we pull up a quaint booth in the corner, get our food, start to chat about all the exciting events that could potentially unfold and where things will take place at after Infinity War and all the previous MCU phase films. And then my buddy Derek hits me with a Hulk Buster-sized punch to the face. Let's punch in for this. He hasn't seen over half of the MCU films prior. What? Why? Why, Derek? You don't even have kids!  Besides staying healthy, being a successful electrical engineer, and being married. What are you doing? Movie fans, I know you can relate to this. I know you have this experience. There is nothing more fulfilling than almost taking part in the first time of someone witnessing something. For instance, you have a song that you really like or a band that you really like. That's not maybe that popular. Maybe they fly into the radar. Maybe they're underground. And you have a buddy that you know will really like this music, so you play it with them and now you are almost part of the band.  You did that. You brought that to them. That's the same with movies. I couldn't wait to show my kids Harry Potter. I couldn't wait to show them Star Wars. I couldn't wait to show my daughter The Matrix and she freaking loved it. She's awesome. So to experience a new movie with friends knowing that one of them hasn't seen half of the catalog going into the new one, we're already missing some of that connection. We're not going to be on the same playing field going in. I'm up here. He's right there. He needs to get up. Come on up, bud. Come up with me on Cloud 9. We'll look down at this film and bask in all its glory instead of looking up at it wondering, I wonder when I'm a big boy if I like it more.  I have a laptop in my vehicle. So I make a Cheerios B line to the car, grab it, go back to Freddy's, find an outlet, plug that thing in, run the wire to the computer, click, snap that thing in, flip the laptop, bam, hit the button that brings up the videos because I have access to them thanks to Netflix, I believe, at the time. I don't think it was, it wasn't about Disney Plus yet. I don't think they were a thing. I don't know how I had them, but I did. So now we were on a mission to figure out exactly which films Derek hadn't seen, decide which ones were an absolute must going into Endgame, and then determine which portions of the films he needed to watch, how much backstory we had to give to each of these characters, and really lead him down a road that would set the stage for Endgame properly. We got the basics out of the way. He had seen Iron Man, he had seen Thor, I don't think he had seen Captain America, but he got the idea, he gets the character, it's not too complicated.  Hadn't seen Captain Marvel because... sexist. Hadn't seen Ant-Man because... smallest. And he hadn't seen Infinity War! What are we supposed to do with this information? How are we supposed to process this and proceed? It was really a grab bag of different things. We went on to Wikipedia, we broke down the plots for him. That way it was easier than trying to regale everything off of memory. We then showed him clips of prominent sequences from Age of Ultron, from Civil War, and then we watched a large portion at Freddy's while eating our meal of Infinity War. The last, I'd say, hour or so. I mean, what are we supposed to do? You know, I believe he saw Guardians of the Galaxy, so that was helpful. That was at least something. At one point, I believe he wanted to get up to go get a refill on his water cup, and I said, nah, I'll get it for you. Anything you need, we will do. You want some extra ketchup for your fries so you can dip them while you're eating? I'm on it! You want some ice in that water?  Just watch the movie! The kids are flying by like seconds. Before we know it, we have to get to the theater. We have to get out of Freddy's and being good members of society. We pick up our tray with our food. We bring it over to toss it in the garbage. As we're waddling on over to the garbage can to dispose of our meal, we couldn't help but notice that there were some fellow nerds wearing Marvel T-shirts. One of them said, I noticed you guys were watching some of the films. Has he really not seen most of them? Why even go to the movie? I didn't even hesitate! Spin towards him, throwing some of the food remnants onto the ground. A third of a shake splashes on the floor. A kid walking by. Slips. He's dead. Broken neck. The mom's hysterical. Oh my boy!  Elbow to the nose.  I take him out with the tray to the face. He goes down harder than Black Widow did when she traded places with Hawkeye and sacrificed her life for the good of the entire universe. Baskin! Says one of the other dumbasses. Not cool, man. He starts to run away, but I'm not going to let him ice my friend out like that. So speaking of ice, I pick up a cube off the ground. Goes through the back of his head.  I run around the side, catch the ice in the air. Smash it through the other eye that's still alive. And now it's not. Unlike Thor, he's not getting any replacements for those guys. And he falls to the ground. Crumples over. The overweight one tries to run to the door, pulling up his pants that are sagging.  Jump up into the air, land on his shoulders. Twist, snapping the neck. He goes down. As we start to slow motion, walk toward the door in my mind. Another person gets up ready to jump into the fray.  And then I notice his t-shirt. Release the Snyder cut on the chest.  You're already dead inside. Let's go, boys. We head out. Sheila now would be a great time when editing to put the subscribe up if you could. Thanks, doll. We finally get to the theater. The place is packed to the brim. People are super pumped for the movie to start. I get in line for the concession. Derek offers to buy my food because of what I did for him back at the restaurant. You know, showing him the movies, not the killing of five or six people. I look up at the options and I just think to myself, this is so fun coming to the theater and paying $7.50 for a pop. Thank you for the cup. Nothing in it. Oh, cool. I get to fill it myself over at one of the four machines that still is working. Sweet. Let me get behind this older gentleman that's never seen a machine like this in his life and has no idea how to turn his iPad on. This should go really well as he tries to touch all the different bubbles and doesn't realize that to get the ice out, you just push in on that little lever down below. The one old school mechanic on it is the thing that gives him the most trouble. Perfect. We make our way into the theater and get our seats. People are ablaze with ideas. People are talking. They're chatting it up.  The movie hasn't started yet. I'm not gonna freak out. So while Derek isn't up here with us yet, we did inch him closer and that's all we were trying to do. Get him even more excited for the film. Get him even more pumped up for the outcome of some of these favorite heroes of ours. Right before the movie starts, the father comes in looking for his wife and child. He calls him out by name. Betty? Garrett? Betty? Has anyone seen a wife and kid? I was supposed to meet them here. I missed dinner at Freddy's. I had to work late, but I made it to the movie to watch with my wife and child. It's his first movie experience. I really wanted it to be a magical one. We've seen all the Marvel movies. I just started to slump down a little lower in my seat because, you know, that's the child and wife I killed at the Freddy's. The film starts. Silence in the audience. You could hear a pin drop in there. No phones lighting up. No one gabbing about plot points. And everyone was 100% there in the moment. For the next three plus hours or whatever this thing ended up being, everyone was celebrating the film in style, cheering at the right moments, laughing at the right moments, crying at the right moments. It truly was an amazing experience and a fitting end to Robert Downey Jr.'s character, Iron Man. I'm sure he'll probably be back in the future, but still. And theaters all across the world were freaking out at fan moments. The portals opening up on your left. The Wakandans coming through. I mean, it was, it was chilling. Chilling stuff. And the battle that ensued was great. It was satisfying. I just, you don't get moments like this often. You have to relish them. And then look back and say, yeah, I was there. I was part of that journey. I was part of that magic that played out on the big screen. And this is why I'm such a huge movie fan. I like to think at this point in time, Derek has seen all of the Marvel films, but I know that's not the case. I can only hope that he was as impacted and that that was as special to him as it was to me. And I could call and ask him, but we're not that close. Thanks for watching the video. Obviously, I made some of that up. You know, it's just fun to add a little bit of flair into the storytelling. It's a fisherman's tale, right? I just really wanted to engage with you about how cool that experience was seeing Endgame and hear what you thought in the comments below. So please comment below with your story of Endgame. Like the video if you liked it. Subscribe if you haven't already. And hopefully I'll see you real soon.  I feel a little bad about it. So fucked. Thanks again for watching the video. Hopefully it gives you a little bit more insight into why I do this channel and why I love talking movies so much. It's a passion of mine. It's a hobby. It's somewhat of a job for me. 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