Eight niche market examples with untapped business potential, updated. Hey guys, have you ever heard of saying Jack of all trades master of none? Well, that's what happens if you don't have a good niche, okay? You're not good at any of them. So you really need to master one thing. And in this video, I'm gonna show you eight niches that you have got to check out because there's so much money to be made and it's not that hard to do. At the end of this video, you're gonna have that information.  So let's get going. Hey, if you haven't subscribed so far, make sure you hit that subscribe button down there. Don't forget to do that. Turn it from red to gray and don't forget to ring the bell. Turn on all bell notifications so you're notified each and every time I do a new video or I go live. Don't forget to give me a thumbs up in this video, okay? It helps the algorithm. I would really appreciate it. So let's check them out. What are these eight niches, okay? I'm excited to share them with you. Before we get too deep into this though, let's talk about what a niche is, okay? I don't wanna not define that before I give you a niche and you don't know what it is. A niche is nothing more than a particular market, an area of interest, okay? So each niche can be broken down into more and more different categories, okay? So let's say you are selling shoes, okay? So that's a really broad niche shoes, okay? And then you break it down to women, okay? So we break it down to women. And then we break it down to women who do athletic type things. So now we're talking about athletic shoes. So we could break it down even further and say women who have athletic shoes who are between the age of 18 and 24 because that style is gonna be a lot more different than a 65-year-old woman who's into athletics, okay? So what we wanna do is keep breaking down that niche to where it's very specific.  The first category is conscious customers. Now according to a survey done by IBM, six out of 10 consumers said they would change their spending habits based on their conscious consumerism. And what does that mean? That means that maybe they wanna go vegan. Maybe they wanna go without chemicals in their household and use all natural. Maybe they're into all organic. But these conscious consumers are a huge niche in the market right now. And what I'd like to do is show you a few examples now of companies that are going after that niche. Let's check out the first one here, which is Bees Wrap, okay? They're looking to replace plastic wrap with options made from beeswax. This is a natural alternative to food storage and it's not only environmentally friendly, but it's also more cost-effective for consumers because it's reusable. They can use it over and over again. More niche products ideas would be like reusable drinking straws, cruelty-free cosmetics, vegan-friendly apparel, and products of the same. Vegan-friendly apparel and other light products. Let's check out our next category now. Number two is health and wellness. Now, this is a category that's been big forever.  So let's check it out. Now, in 2020, health and wellness reached a 3.31 trillion dollar sales, which is huge. But if you think about it in 2020, you know some things happen. There were people that were a little concerned about germs and health and their wellness and all that, but it also goes into their spirituality too. So let's check out an example of somebody who has targeted this health and wellness and what they did. We're gonna look at happiness abscissa. Let's go check it out now. Okay, so they found their place in health and wellness niche through selling scents. Its products contain specific combination of scents that improve your state of wellbeing and happiness. Each scent is developed by a neurologist, wow, and packaged in a soap 10 candle or perfume customers can enjoy anytime they need a lift, okay? Pretty cool stuff. The product opportunities of this niche are endless food and beverage and personal beauty, skincare, immunity, digital products like eBooks recipes. Even though you don't have to be an expert to start a business in this niche, it's really a good idea to team up with a professional to develop safe products for your consumers. There's everything from melatonin infused gummies to, you know, mushroom infused coffees to all kinds of stuff that work in this niche. Number three, pet owners. Oh my gosh, pet owners. My wife has a channel on YouTube. You can check it out. It's the Furry Family Coach. But her name is Jessica Elfisher, so you can check that out. But the pet area is huge guys. In 2020 alone, there was $99 billion sold for pet owners. That's a huge market and it's growing and growing and growing. And the way we actually look at our animals now and the way we did 20, 30, 50 years ago is hugely different. They are family members now. They are family members to almost all of us. We look at them differently in the United States. Not so much in third world countries, but in the US, we've kind of figured that out that they're probably one of the most helpful things for our health and wellness and mental stability is to have a good animal around. So we wanna take care of them and we wanna treat them like a family member. Now, check out this site, Only Natural Pet. Only Natural Pet is a great niche business example of this market. It sells everything including natural food, flea and tick repellent, outdoor gear, toys, beds and much more. A pet owner can come into its website and find anything they need for their pup. While most people own fish, your dogs or cats, there's also unique pets like horses, lizards, turtles, even chickens. Each come with their own potential opportunities. And keep in mind, there's also a lot of ancillary products like pet cameras to check on your animals. I know we have them to check on our animals. Photos that are customized onto t-shirts and hats and the such, organic food for your pet. There's so many areas that you could sell in the pet arena. Number four, travelers. Travelers are huge. Wasn't so much in 2020. However, now it's coming back and it's coming back real strong and people are looking for more economical ways to travel, something that doesn't use up as much energy, that type of thing. But travel industry is huge right now guys and there's so many ancillary products you can sell to this industry. Let's check out this site now called Nomadic. Let's run over there real quick.  You can see this audience focus represented across the entire business from its product to its copywriting. There's all kinds of products including say smartphone accessories and technology that help you be more productive while on the road, athletic clothing that's more comfortable. I know when I was a kid it was a big thing. If somebody went on a flight they got all dressed up to go on a flight. It's not the case anymore, okay. People want to be more comfortable. They even have things like scratch maps for people to keep track of all the places that they visited. So there's a lot of different products you could sell to this market. The next category I want to talk about is home owners. This category has changed dramatically over the years. It's not what it used to be, but it creates a heck of an opportunity for somebody who wants to make some money. Now, as you can see from this chart right here, home ownership's been all over the place. It looks like its peak was in 2005 and that was right before the 2008 bubble, right, where everybody lost their home. And then it was at its low. It looks like around 2015, 2016, but you can see the increase now. The definition of being a homeowner is also changing. Homes are increasingly turned into investment properties or shared spaces that generate additional passive income thanks to companies like Airbnb or VRBO. That paved a way for August to launch its own line of keyless entry and home security products for homeowners. One of the main features is guest access, allowing hosts to grant access to renters for specified time periods. So here's their site right here. Here's their site right here, August. And it has an explanation of how their product works. It says smart locks are an upgrade to existing door lock and have added features such as keyless entry, guest access and automatic lock and unlock features. Now, there's so many other products you can sell to homeowners. It can be security cameras. It could be no drill blinds that go into a home to customize it. All kinds of things that people are using maybe to rent out their home where they didn't do that before. So this is also a huge market. The next area I wanna tell you about is work from home. Work from home's amazing. I'm able to do it, my wife's able to do it. And when polled, 80% of companies said that they're gonna let their employees work from home at least part of the time. And a lot of those companies said 47% that said that full time they could work from home because they understand it's actually to their benefit. If they can get the same work done, they don't have to supply a desk and a computer and lighting and air conditioning and all those things and office rental for an employee they're gonna actually save money. Now this next site is pretty cool because I work in coffee shops and I'm always out in them, working on my computer and so forth. But this place here took it a step further. This is called Freelancer at Work. And it's an example of a company serving this niche market of freelancers with products that can help attract potential clients. They sell laptop decals that advertise what you do wherever you choose to work from. That's a pretty cool idea. Keeping these remote workers' motivations and lifestyles in mind can help you identify product ideas and help them and the companies that employ them achieve their goals. Now there's so many other products that could be toys for your desk, that could be stuff like that, that could be decor for the home, that could be supplies that help you work in a coffee shop. Maybe it's a stand for the computer or your phone or whatever. There's so many different items you can sell to these people who actually work from home or a coffee shop. The next category is locals. Yeah, locals. A lot of big businesses are actually focusing on locals now. People who are self-identifying in their town. Now I know we're moving to Texas soon and we're gonna be at Austin. Austin's a huge tech town and people wanna identify. All kinds of sayings on hats and shirts and whatever, posters, wall hangings that have to do with Austin are hugely popular. So are they for San Diego and Los Angeles? People are actually wanting to self-identify with their town now so you can sell products for locals. Now, here's another cool thing. A lot of people may not live in the town they wanna live in, but they wanna represent that town so you can sell to them too. And number eight, the last one I wanna tell you about is people who are self-sufficient. Self-sufficient people. Now we own a company called Survival Cave Food been in existence for over 10 years and we certainly do sell to people who wanna be self-sufficient. We sell survival food and those people wanna have food in case an emergency comes up, they have a food supply and they don't have to worry about it. That's another area that you could get into and hey, if you wanna sell Survival Cave Food check out our site right there, Survival Cave Food and you could maybe become a retailer of our products too. So there you have it, eight niches that you can make a lot of money in starting right now. I hope you enjoyed this video. If you got something out of it, give me a comment below, let me know what you thought of it. Maybe you have a question about starting your business. I've sold millions of dollars of both digital and physical products online. I'll be happy to help you out and answer any questions you may have or maybe you had some success that you just wanna tell the rest of us about. We would love to hear it. Put it in that comment section below. Thank you so much for watching this video. Don't forget to subscribe, hit that big subscribe button down there. Don't forget to what? Ring the bell. 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Okay! Now I've finished watching Twilight! Let's go on with the video! Don't let me drown, don't let me drown Hey what's up you guys, welcome back to my channel if you're new here. Hi, hello my name's Lydia and I'm going to help videos here on YouTube pretty much every day! Say pretty much it is every day now because I pre-recorded videos! Whoa! So today I'm going to be covering some of the biggest misconceptions about the use of benzodiazepines. So to anyone who doesn't know, I take benzodiazepines and if you don't know what they are, they're a group of medications that come with a lot of stigma. So I don't understand that benzodiazepines are drugs people will choose to abuse and that's for no video. So what are some of the biggest misconceptions about benzodiazepine use? Number one, they can only be given for a short period of time and while, yes, GPs and some professionals only prescribe them for say four weeks or one box worth or a week's worth. They can be used as a long-term medication if they are seen to be helpful working alongside with other medications. So many people take benzodiazepines for long-term use. They have a group of people talking about how they can't be used as a... what was it? My door? What was it? People don't like the fact that some people get prescribed in a long term and they don't. Some people don't agree with these benzodiazepines. If a medication has the capability of helping you when you have tried everything else that you can try that for a moment time, I'd take the downpills. Number two, you can only be prescribed one at a time. That is completely incorrect. I know someone who takes three. All of the benzodiazepines work similarly but they have different effects. Clonazopam has a longer lasting effect than Loazopam does, which is the other benzodiazepine I take. Loazopam is very fast acting whereas clonazopam lasts over a longer period of time. So yes, it is possible to be prescribed more than one at any given time. I used to take... I used to take Loazopam and Loazopam. I take the Loazopam and clonazopam. Is it a misconception? It's a way not to take them! No, it's not. Yes, different countries have different regulations on what they could prescribe. For instance, in the USA you can be prescribed Xanax. In the UK that's illegal. The fourth misconception that I thought of, if you're on them you're going to become addicted and that is so untrue. I think it's ridiculous that people even think that and believe that just because people take benzodiazepines long-term. People have different things. People react differently to medications. Some people enjoy the feeling of being slowed down, which then leads to the drug abuse of that medication. Some people don't have that. If you're like me, I used to do cocaine when I was younger. That's what I would say in that. It was like two years ago now though. I've grown a lot. I like being speeded up. I like thinking about it in miles an hour. Hence why I'm once so many medications too slow me down. Because when I'm thinking, when I'm thinking this, that and everything, I'm going to miss really important details and I'm going to end up getting hurt. That's why I take my medication. I feel like that was important one to throw in here too. And the final misconception that I have for this video, they don't really work after you've taken them for a long time. Incorrect. Like I said, medications work differently for different people. Some people have to keep increasing their dose and change your medications. Personally, I've been taking the same sleeping tablet, the same benzodiazepines now since... Well sleeping tablet, I've been on for two years. So there as a plan I've taken for just over a year. So now as a plan I've been on since February. And it has the same effect on me now as it did back then. Yes, I've increased the dose, but that's as other medications have been added such as Bisoprolol, which is a beet blocker which I react probably to. It sends my paranoia through the roof, but I have to take that in the moment because of my heart. So there are different reasons why people need different medications. The stigma surrounding benzodiazepines just needs to die out. It needs to live. Like no one to hear. We didn't ask for you. And I think if before you go calling someone a benzodiaect or a drug addict, you have to understand the reasons why they're taking them. People with anxiety and people with mental illness don't want to take medication.  But I can't because if I don't have my medication it sends me paranoid, it sends me hallucinating, it sends me down a massive spiral of depression. It just knocks me about so much. And if one tablet, even if it's an addictive one, even if it's a benzodiazepine, even though it's got stigma attached, if I take one pill and my anxiety be okay, I will take it. Like look how organized that is. That is all I have for this video. If you aren't new here or have any requests, let me know in the comments and make sure you hit the subscribe button while you're down there and also tickle the little like button. And yeah, I'll catch you guys soon with a new video. Peace.


This is JSA TV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Dean Perine and welcome to JSA TV. We are coming at you on location from ITW 2018 in the windy city of Chicago, Illinois. And I am here with my new friend who just ran up the stairs to make it to this interview. Five floors. Five whole floors. Mr. Ryan Oro. Ryan is the senior vice president of Edgecore. Ryan, welcome to JSA TV. Thanks for having me. You bet. Thanks again for running up all of those stairs. We definitely appreciate it. And we appreciate it even more so because our viewers may not have heard of Edgecore before. Edgecore is a new logo in our industry and already making some waves. So Ryan, for our viewers that don't already know, why don't you talk to us a little bit about Edgecore? Absolutely. So Edgecore is a U.S. operator of wholesale data centers. We have a tier one orientation in terms of the markets that we're choosing. Really, we're choosing the markets that matter to the large hyperskill users and Fortune 1,000 account base. For us, what does that mean? Well, that means we are going into Dallas. We're going into Reno. We're going into Phoenix. On each of those properties, we already have acquired land at all three locations.  Well, where's next? So for us, we want to create a national platform that matters. So you need to be in the markets that matter. Chicago, the windy city, one of those markets. We're currently in market right now to acquire a land to support over 100 megawatts of demand. And after that, we are looking in the northern Virginia area. I can't tell you the exact sub market yet, but it's a sub market there. Come on, you can tell me, Ryan. Not yet. But it's definitely on our map and on our plans. I think you'll see us execute on that by Q3. And then the hardest market, but honestly, one of my favorite markets really is the Bay Area. You know, the Bay Area. We're in Ashburn is where the internet really began. And we need to have a presence there. It is a very hard market. I mean, if you think real estate prices are high, where we live, real estate prices in the Bay Area even tougher. Forget about it. So we will ultimately find a campus-oriented approach to development in that market and have capacity for our customers. Outstanding. You're actually creating some segues better than I could have ever done myself. So obviously a very aggressive build-out strategy. You've mentioned some of those markets now. But what's driving this strategy? What's driving the aggression, for lack of a better word, the aggressiveness of your strategy? It's aggressive because now is the time. And while it's aggressive, I wouldn't necessarily say that's risky for us. We're a team that's done it before. We have the ex-CEO of Corsight who essentially built a company from scratch. We're targeting these markets in an aggressive fashion because not we've done it, but there's opportunity. I don't know about you, but I love using the Internet. I love being on my phone. It's part of my daily life. And honestly, it makes everything easier. The potential use cases continue to astound me. What does that mean? Well, that's got to sit somewhere. And it sits in a data center, and hopefully it sits in an edge core data center. Fantastic. I mean, obviously, just in the 15 minutes that you and I have been here in this room at ITW, I can tell that there's a fire there. There's definitely something going on, and obviously you've got the team to make it happen. And so everything's happening right on the front end. But what does that ultimately mean to telecom operators? For the telecom operators, depending on which segment you look at, sometimes we are their best opportunity to grow their business. And sometimes we're the best opportunity for them to make money off of our business. A lot of our, for instance, the network environment, the network owners that are creating fiber capacity across the US to make it so that my phone loads faster. They are ultimately going to want to pop our data centers to go serve our end customers. And so it's a revenue stream. It's an opportunity. We're really part of this together, developing an ecosystem. We're just one key component of it. Yeah, absolutely. I love the fact that we're kind of talking to you on the ground floor of your supreme plan to take over the world. It's kind of fun for us to do something like that. But what I would really like to hear from you right now, so let's make it packed right now in Atlanta. We're going to do this again, and you're going to be telling me things next year in Atlanta that I don't know about yet. But you probably have an idea of what things are going to look like a year from now. Well, I can tell you, we definitely have the vision. We have the opportunity. It's really on us to execute, and hopefully I'm sitting here next year with a very different story of what we've completed and what we've done, because ultimately our brand, we have to execute. That's why customers are talking to us. Yeah, you bet. Ryan, a pleasure meeting you. Thank you. Absolutely. Thank you for your time today. And we'll definitely do this again next year. Fantastic. Thanks again. You got it. Thanks for watching. JSA TV. We'll see you soon.


It's still the breakfast and plus TV Africa and our first conversation for this morning. As the 2023 general elections draw nearer, the federal government has retreated that the administration of President Mohammed Bari is not and will not be a threat to the media. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, gave the reassurance when a delegation from the International Press Institute, Nigerian Chapter, paid him a curtsy visit in Abuja. He said, Nigeria has one of the most vibrant and free press in the world and the administration was not about to stifle press freedom or deny anyone he or her constitutionally guaranteed rights. We have Chief Lecturer of the Nigeria Institute of Journalism, Jaleigh Johnson joining us on this particular conversation. Good morning to you, Jaleigh Johnson. Thanks for joining us on this. Good morning, Johnson. Good morning to you, Jim. Good morning with Messian. Yeah, good morning. I'll be right over the wall. Yeah, good morning to you. Also now, this President, not the President Sirada, the particular administration is saying Nigeria has one of the freest press in them. The President has been very, very generous when it comes to press freedom, this dispensation. Do you agree with the position of the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed? Well, that's his own assessment. And I want to expect someone that will do an exam that will set the question. Mark, answer the question and mark the script and greet himself. So what would it do? So the Minister is also bringing the agamal is that it's a safer prison, serve adulation and serve execution. So that's his own assessment. But overall, that's not the true reflection of what has been the relationship between the media and the authority. There has not always been easy with the media and the authority, not limited to this administration or limited to Africa. There's always been a struggle. There's an attempt by those in government to control the media. And there is the media that attempt to ensure that the people right to know it's it's it's also essentially, you know, we have what is called official government secret, government who only wants to put a lot of their actions in secret. Whereas the media will always want to throw light to what government is doing. So it's an ongoing battle. But with respect to this particular administration, it has been a pattern mouse game. There have been various attempts by the present administration to spy full press freedom. The attempts to to come up with the social media being mysterious and the working of the NBC code and attempt to come up with the each speech, each became law. These are various attempts by this present administration to spy full press freedom in our country. So how would you access, you know, the embassy? Of course, we know that the embassy was established to regulate the activities of media houses. And so how far would you say they have fed in terms of, you know, freedom of the press? Of course, we should have freedom of the press with that particular. Unfortunately, the NBC became highly partisan. Under Modigo's cows, you know, under Modigo's cows, you know, NBC became highly and it was it was it was unfortunate in the first instance that Modigo Cow, who was supposed to be Larry Cow, who that was BBC correspondent for many, many years in Nigeria, was a journalist. And that I am an opportunity to work and he has worked with a foreign media organization to work in NBC. Odonda is, you know, NBC came up with different measures, stringent measures, draconian measures, to spy full, spy full broadcast organization in Nigeria. And I ask myself, because what's the essence of NBC? What's the role of government in NBC? The friend of mine, the former chairman of Lagos Energy, it is the basis on regulation of broadcasting in West Africa. I did a comparative analysis of the NBC in Ghana and the NBC in Nigeria. Hello, GD Johnson, are you still there? All right, we'll try and reconnect GD Johnson in a moment. You know, like Mohammed, that's the means of information and culture. Mercy said quite a lot yesterday. Let me just read some of the things he said. Hello. OK, we have JJ back. We lost you for just one moment there. So you are trying to connect NBC in Nigeria and the NBC in Ghana. Please go ahead with your comparison. So the NBC in Ghana is controlled by stakeholders. The membership are nominated by the stakeholder. It is patterned after the BBC trusts. The management are operating the BBC. You are lost in Nigeria. You are political appointees.  Where is that done? I don't seem to understand, to understand it. But if the way and manner this president administration was in a grand NBC and free speech, if that is the way and manner it was done on the genital, because of the people in government today will be in prison, that's the truth. So GD Johnson, so why can't we move to the place where the NBC or Press Council, all of them could actually be free from government interference? From the world goal itself, don't you think the formation in itself is 40? Why should it be a thing of the government, really? That's the best level. And that's what is really good of those of us that are stakeholders and practitioners of the media industry. You see, it's the best control for the media itself, revolution, and not government and state. Now, when you have the regulatory body being managed, being controlled by the stakeholder, and the real stakeholder needs to do the membership of this body, I can assure you that professionalism will be the other of the big, not partisanship, not propaganda or politics, the selfless interest of those that are in power. So that's what is good of the media we should be looking into. And that's good of the government. The government has no business, for example, in NBC. But I should go back, I'm absolutely, government has its own mouth, it is empty. Government is a controlling thing. Government is a controlling, a vast thing. But he needs the practice. But Jida Johnson, let's even look at that exactly. Don't you think that it's already faulty? We understand the fact that prior to this time, government had a monopoly. And once upon a time, it was government-owned media houses, like the television house, like you have mentioned. And including the radio, up until the time where you had Babangida with his liberation policy in 1992, and of course, independent license had to be given. But of course, moving forward, you have the NBC also coming through. What difference does he make? Like we already know, it's like you cannot be a judge in your own case. And so the fact that the license was given for independent media houses, and then you still have government controlling it, what result do you get? How do you even achieve press freedom? It's a classic piece of my local darling that it gives someone a RAM, and it did not release it. It did not use the rope. So you have not given a press management. You still have, and roll over the RAM, the regulation of 1991 was led to the establishment of the US private radio and TV station and fraudulent and other good companies. It brought about a change. Now, it liberated the broadcast spectrum. I can assure you that that singular fact has made it virtually, it not nearly impossible for us to have new things and turn it to a quality. You know, in the past, how you don't want to do is just for you to see FRCA, and then automatically have your fingers done with it. Because with that, how many radio stations do you need to see? And then you have given opportunities to a lot of people to hear their views, to hear their opinion, to have given voice to the voiceless. So the space has been democratic. And that's the goal of the regulation. But having government control in the practice is not good for the development of our society. You know what is good for the development of the press? Because the press is critical to national development. The press is critical to the establishment of democratic value. Now, the press, even the 1999 constitution as amended understood what should be the rule of the press, made an exclusive provision for the rule of the press. That's what 22 of the 1999 constitution as amended. The press need a watchdog and a whole government accounting. How could a body that the whole government accounting be be held accountable by the people that is meant to hold accounting? It's a contradiction. Because the press should be the candidate of government country because the press is the watchdog and it should be the body. That should hold them accountable. That's what the constitution is. And I think that media organization needs to go through first and challenge the exclusive right of NBC to have control of them through the respect to the world spectrum. 22 of the 1999 constitution made exclusive provision. However, there is also a provision in the constitution that exists. The constitution took away some of the responsibility that the constitution has given to the media. That's a contradiction. This is 22. And that is the problem with the 1999 constitution. It's a text of many contradictions. But however, the major way we deal with democratic space, we deal with our society, we deal with it. It's for us to approach the problem. Let the court determine. So I'm calling on the Nigerian leaders, the young generation, the Tau, all of the Nigerian protest organization, for them to come together and challenge government with respect to the news, attended by not this government you know, but by the government here, to start full press to them. Because without press to them, they can't be democratic society. All right, Gideh Johnson. The minister seems to believe that some Nigerians misconstrued their attempts to regulate social media, trying to hamper maybe the independence of the media in the country. That's one of the issues. But in your opinion, would you say this has gone beyond just the regulation of social media in Nigeria? Yes. It trace the historical development of the media. They are really giving the talent to be imagines of the media. When Nisipa emerged, it was a threat to the monarchy. It was a threat to the elite. Because the elite had monopoly over the silicon of knowledge, the iron of knowledge, and the Nisipa too. Same with magazine, same with radio, same with TV. That's not says when TV came. It was said that TV cannot be left in the hands of private operator. That's why it started as a model of public broadcasting. So it is not in the media where Nisipa, new media has been developed, is powered by technological illumination. And which gives more power to the people. What has the media done? What has to be done with that? They have given everybody to do both the creator, producer, and consumer of media tech. So anybody can do. So the power of the sector is not limited to the end of very, very few media organizations. But few elite can afford to establish media organizations. So that itself is a threat to those in control who want to control the people. So it is not in the news. One of the challenges in Nisipa had there, you know, we call it the journalism. We say about gossip and the rest of it. So what's the difference between one thing you have and the rest of the media now? OK, so let's look at it now. I mean, with a lot of emphasis, how would you describe the press under this administration? Do you think that press freedom, because few more days of this government will be out of place led by President Mohammed the Buhari? So how would you describe press freedom under this administration? Do you think it's been fair or? When someone, when the minister of the Commission comes out to read the value, to do an assessment of the administration, squad would respect the press freedom. You know what it's all about? So it's an education that something is wrong. If you have to score this administration with respect to press freedom, I think you will get between 35 to 40. That's the score mark they will get. It's not good, it's not fair. It's just, it's not fair. Because the membership has to be packed. God and mouse will listen. If not for public opinion, I can assure you that it will have been worse than what you are witnessing now. So the minister is just going to be done with your speech. So what more can the media do in this instance in as much as government is denying that there are threats to the media and that we know all of the issues? What more can we begin to do to actually make sure that our work, our report, our reportage, our comment and our analysis, you know, are actually pushed to the fore so that we can actually play our role as the fourth estimate of the rem. What more can the media do? The media can do much more than what they are doing and you know the media is right. Justin, you and I know the media organization is going to threat the environment. It's not conducive. Don't forget that the media is not going to exist as a model. But how much do you take to run the media organization to power your station with these things and the rest of it? For people to enjoy, you have to make use of it. As some have said that they have an allocation for the first year of government, second year of government, fourth year of government. The third year of government. The fourth year of government, people in the media, which is the watchdog, there's no provisions, but there's no budget allocation. So they are striving to survive. The media has done much, much, and you guys don't believe in view of the prevailing circumstances. In view of the prevailing circumstances. So we just, just imagine if the media organization will not get, and there are viewers that tend to fight with them, with the draconian community perspective, their economic impact and their economic mood. Because the visual issue, the newsprint distribution and circulation of newsprint and the rest of it. So Justin, are you willing to look, do that with the investment in the media organization? The media system is obviously, because they are really here to decide to move on. Because without the media, the tide is not even that we are going to be able to decide. Before Rio, and the merchant point of view, how can we decide? All right, Gide, the minister also seems to think that John List, or the media generally, have been unethical in the sense that they have been playing more of the opposition of government. Do you really agree? That the media has been unethical. That would have been unethical. He was asking if it's ethical for the media, or John List to be, or to play opposition to the government. Well, the media is not going to be in support of government, or to be in opposition of the government. The media is responsible as the most job. Tell government what they are doing right. Tell them what they are doing wrong. That's the role of the media. The media is an independent body. That has the role of maintaining order in the society. All that order is in opposition to what government is doing. Either order is in opposition to what government is doing. So be it. So the media has no friend, has no food. The media is the watchdog. And the watchdog will call you out when you do good, when you do bad. That has the role of the media. So it puts differently now. Unfortunately, it's going in authority. Yes. Because you do a lot of things, people. And they want a lot of what they do to being in public domain. They are usually seeing the media ask their people. They rise to know. The media always want to make people what government is doing. Government is going to continue what they are doing. But they are always going to put the people in terms of the role and responsibility. And a lot of that, not for the channel, the media is in opposition to what government is doing. Not government is doing what they are doing. But what government is doing to the interest of the media? All right, because I was going to ask that. But you just clarified that. OK, so but quickly, let's share your thoughts on this. The fact that the Nigerian press freedom has recorded very horrible case of killings of journalists. I'm in coupled also with the Twitter ban. It's something that you have mentioned because of all of this. I mean, it's OK for all of the restrictions and harassment. But we have witnessed it. I mean, it started from not really started from because there will be several cases, an incident where you have journalists being killed. But at the time, you had one of us killed in Ibadan. I mean, if you look at the scenario, he was shot outside his company. Those who accompanied him were not hot. He was the only one that was killed. Shortly afterwards, you had the Twitter ban. Up until you had some restrictions and international intervention. But what do you make of all of this that we have moved beyond just the regular to the fact that journalists are being killed on almost a daily basis?  And then I come to you just to do what you have to do. You have to do what you have to do. I mean, if you want to get the right decision, I just want to do it. And then I would be at an industry. When I talk about the industry, what measures are visible to protect? I mean, but it's not sufficient. You have insurance scheme. And you have the clear part to do. You have things that can be clear. And you know, if I like to do that, every day we go out. We go out in the work room. We go out in the work room. Because they are bad on our ideas. But the problem is that we have to strike between the ruling party and the opposition party. So often they are not. We are acting by the opposition party and supporting the government. And the government actually is not originalists but supporting the opposition. So we are in between conflict between the U.C. and the devil. So as a result of that, we are speaking on the basis of what I thought was wrong. But as an institution, as a body, conflict and conventional industry, what are the measures that we should include for our amendment? We can't do that to the government. We need to look involved and address this issue. It has the work style, how we are going to deal with that life, what's the perfect way to do it? What insurance thing do we have for them? Because they have this issue, it's this. We're not demarcating, I guess. It's about the generalists who are paid in front. They are written to you. The generalists lost their life. The foxes, the potter lost his life in the field. Covering the walls. These are challenging times for generalists. The work measures we have include to address this. All right, thank you so much, GD Johnson, for being part of the show this morning. We appreciate your time and your thoughts this morning. It's a pleasure to be with you guys. I'm Justin. Thank you so much, GD. Good morning to all of you and to every wonderful team. Me too. Thank you so much, GD. Just as we look forward to a country where press freedom is guaranteed, we will continue to do our bid every day as we grow the process. All right, that's it for Off the Press. We'll take a break now. We'll return when we have time for us to head straight to a second conversation, because before we call it a wrap, stay with us. We'll be right back.


Kelly Q. Malo, The Most Hurtful Thing Is Being Called A Killer Songstress Kelly Q. Malo's most hurtful backlash is being called a killer five years after ex-boyfriend Senso Mayewa's murder. Senso was shot dead in an alleged botched robbery at Kelly's mother's home in Voslores in 2014. The killer is yet to be brought to book. In an interview on SABC One's real goboza on Saturday, Kelly said the worst and most hurtful thing for her was being called Kelly the Killer. I think that hurts, because I'm not a killer. I may be a hell lot of things, but I am not a killer. Kelly said she was a child of God and there was nothing that would make her want to kill someone. Speaking to Chwissa Livee previously, Kelly said the agenda of people had when they spoke badly about her was a reflection of who they were and not of her as Kelly the musician. It is more of that pull-her-down syndrome. Kelly dropped a new single last month, called Undythe the Kansachi, which she said was about her finally meeting the power she had within herself as a woman. I finally met myself. I met the woman that I am, the highly gifted woman that I am. I'm done downplaying it. I know I am powerful. I know I am beautiful. I know I am resilient. She added that she was ready for the people who were going to pull her down due to her growth and success in the music industry. For the past 15 years I have been through quite a lot in my life, so nothing phases me, nothing surprises me. The question is, are they ready for me, because I'm ready for them.


Hey, good morning everyone Good morning to our online students as well. Thank you so much for joining us for this course So this semester Years, I'll be teaching objects So the first one is lifestyle evangelism, which we're going to do now and The second one is identity that is our identity in Christ Right. Let me just add those who are joining here All right, so Those who are online the notes are available on the classroom Google classrooms on the stream So feel free to download those notes and even as we go through the entire course you can you know just reference that and Join along with us So even before we begin this course, I just want to put out a few things one is if You have any questions in between the course right feel free to ask your questions You can just raise your hands ask questions Those who are online if you have any questions You can also just feel free to post your questions and we'll answer them during the session so lifestyle evangelism is the course that we're going to start off with today and This course is one hour a week, right? So we will try to cover a lot of material here and Identity will be two hours a week. Okay. All right, so Everyone have your books with you, right? Okay, so We're gonna learn about lifestyle evangelism though. Let me give you an overview of this course right now when the Lord Jesus He Directed and what is the last thing he told his disciples? He said to his disciples Go and make disciples He didn't say go and start the church right, he didn't say go and Start the five-fold ministry or he didn't say go become a prophet or apostle. He didn't say all of that He said go make disciples Now in this course, we will learn about how you and I Are called to evangelize right now many of us are from different Settings right some of us are from cities some of us are from towns some of them are from, you know from villages So we have different kinds of evangelism evangelistic strategies Right. So what works in the city may not work in the town? What works in the town may not work in the city, right? And so today this this entire session we're gonna talk about how wherever we are Right, whether we are in the workplace whether we are Students whether we are in in in business whether we are in ministry wherever we are We are called to live a lifestyle of evangelism Right What is the meaning of lifestyle? Or online students you can feel free to share your thoughts as well. What's the meaning of lifestyle? Lifestyle is something that We do every day So for example today, you know, we got up. We had our prayer time. We read the word hopefully Then we got ready We know, okay, seven o'clock or eight o'clock is breakfast when there's prayer time and so it's a lifestyle now evangelism or reaching out to people must also become a lifestyle so in this course we will learn about how Sharing the gospel is a natural thing for you and I as believers right Now even even as we go ahead, we will also look at what are the hindrances that stop us from sharing the gospel and why sometimes we We know we are fearful in sharing the gospel. What is the power of the gospel? How we can share the gospel So we learn all of that right Right, so Daniel says lifestyle is the way one person lives. Yes Right, so let's go to chapter one Chapter one. We're talking about sharing Jesus the necessity and the urgency Right Why is it necessary to share about Jesus? Right, why should we share about Jesus? See I've become a believer now. I'm happy. I'm a believer Right, I'm going to heaven. So enough Why should I share about Jesus? If they believe, let them believe. If they don't believe that's okay. I'm a believer. I'll go to heaven But Jesus's mindset was not that way He said go and make disciples Right, so let's read this portion. Matthew chapter 28 was 18 to 20 Matthew 28 18 to 20 The mic is there. You can feel free to read Matthew chapter 8 28 was 18 to 20 28 Matthew 28 18 through 20 18 to 20 18 to 20 And Jesus came and spoke to them saying all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son of Son and of Holy Spirit teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you and And lo I am with you always even to the end of the age I'm in This is the last thing that Jesus is telling his disciples go therefore and make disciples So you and I are called to witness to people Right. It is not that, you know, I have to wait to become a pastor have to wait to become an evangelist I have to wait to become an apostle or I should become or I am a worship leader. I'm not called to share the gospel No, Jesus is saying we are all called to witness to one another. They're all different We each one of us have different gifts We have different callings. We have different areas of service that we are in right now for example Some of us may be evangelists Right for them to share the gospel. It's very easy. Have you have you met evangelists? right If you if you've met evangelists Wherever they are, they'll share the gospel Whether they are in the train whether they're in the shop. It is very natural for them Now the worship leaders have a different gift. They're good in music. They're good in singing Then you've got people who are good in teaching Then you've got pastors Or then you've got people who are in business who are working Now Jesus is saying we are all called to witness all of us So we don't have the excuse of saying, hey, I'm only a worship leader Or I am only going to sing songs. I'll write songs and All of us are called to witness the gospel whether we are in the city in the town Wherever we are, we are called to witness the gospel right We all in in this chapter. Let's look at the necessity of sharing the gospel Why is it necessary to share the gospel? The gospel is there. Somebody shared the gospel with each one of us. We've become a believer We've understood but why is it necessary? Let's look at a few points here first point Every person needs a savior The Bible teaches us that every one of us all of us are sinners Right All of us are sinners. So all of us Have fallen short of the glory of God our sins have separated us from Christ Because of sin we are separated from Christ and We are brought into bondage In between Satan and hell, right? So what's happened? When we look at the Old Testament when God made Adam and Eve, he made them perfect Adam sinned. What happened? We fell into bondage So the enemy brought bondage into our life. He brought death The things of evil started Cain killed Abel Murder started All kinds of evil started. Why? Because Satan has been given authority right We cannot save ourselves by our own ability Right now remember this No matter where we are We may be you know, there may be people who are very rich There may be people who are very influential full of wisdom great people great political leaders Whoever they are They will not be able to save themselves Yes or no Right They can't save themselves Nobody can say, you know, hey, I'm the richest man in the world. So I'll pay you Whatever I have I'll pay you.  Say Can I come and you know come into your life? No death will come Satan does not care whether we're rich poor Good-looking not good-looking whether we have wisdom.  So we cannot save ourselves from our own good works We need a savior and that's where John 3 16 came into Came into light Right. What is John 3 16? All of us must know this Come on. Any one of us can read it.  He gave his only begotten son Whoever believes in him shall not perish Right. Now the the the key word in that entire verse is whoever or whosoever believes in him There is no the Lord Jesus hasn't put Any limitations there. He's not saying only If you're a you know, you believe in me only if you believe in the law Only if you believe in Abraham and Moses and Isaac and Jacob Then You know, if you believe in me you'll have everlasting life. No Say anyone Whoever it is whatever background whatever age whatever You know faith they were and it does not matter Right. Whoever believes in him So God sent his son to This earth to die for us And he bore all our sins on the cross Right salvation is a free gift That is given to each one of us Right. It's a complete free gift. It sets us free from sickness Sets us free from sin Now each one of us here How many of you were paid money to become a believer? How many of you were forced to become a believer? How many of you were forced to join the bible college? Because it is a free gift Salvation is a free gift. It's it's free Right. Now if it's somebody's birthday Right and somebody gives you a gift When you take out your okay, how much is this gift? Will you want to give some money? You wouldn't want to do that. I mean it's a gift. It's just given to you You you have nothing in return for that The Lord Jesus when he died on the cross He he did it as a gift for you and me So every believer every person in this world Means a savior every person There's a saying, you know in every person's heart There is a god-shaped vacuum Right, which means one one empty place in our heart Which only god can fill Nobody else can fill it No father. No mother. No friend. No brother. No sister. Nobody. No money. No No, no fame. Nothing can fill that empty space. Only god can fill it And it's there in every one of us Right, I'll share this example This is an example. I I read Many many years back How many of you heard of Pete Sampras the tennis player? There was a there's a tennis player his name is Pete Sampras. He was a Wimbledon champion Right, uh, have you heard of tennis? What's if you've heard of tennis? Yeah Yes or no guys You heard of tennis Right, it's a it's a sport, right? So Pete Sampras was a wonderful tennis player and This is in the early 90s At a young age when he was five or six years old. He wanted to be a tennis player So he would go when he was five six years old He would go with his father And early in the morning they would get up now. Is it easy to get up early in the morning as a child? So you get up he'll go practice He had one goal in his mind One day I want to win and be the best tennis player That's all his goal was So all his life he sacrificed all his friends will go for partying. He'll say no, I have to go for practice All his friends are enjoying and going for vacations and holidays. We'll say no, I want I have to go back to practice So finally when he was about in his 20s early 20s he Got into the you know the best of the best And in his early 20s 24 25 he won The Wimbledon which is the highest form of You know winning in tennis It's like winning the world cup right So he won the Wimbledon The dream that he had when he was six years old he achieved it But you know he writes in his documentary he writes that he came back home He kept the trophy in his showcase He looked at the trophy And he said i'm still feeling empty I still feel No joy I still feel lonely Why the whole his life he was praying for that trophy or me he wanted But when he got it he's saying i'm still empty So every person in this world needs a saviour We must understand it So when we are sharing the gospel never feel that oh this person everything is all right He has big money. He has big car. You know, he has good health. He may not need Jesus. You know, he needs Jesus Okay, so always remember that every person needs Jesus What about the president the prime minister? Yes What about all these rich businessman and these influential people? Yes They need Jesus Okay, second point There is only one saviour and he is jesus christ Let's read act chapter 4 and verse 12. It's in your notes. So you can just read it from your notes Act chapter 4 and verse 12 Nor is there salvation in any other for there is no other name under heaven given among man by which we must be saved There is salvation in no other name Let's read first Timothy chapter 2 verse 5 and 6 For there is one god and one mediator Between god and man and the man jesus christ Who gave himself a ransom for all to the testified in due time? So there is one mediator between god and man the man jesus christ So there is no other mediator Right, there is only one saviour One person who died on the cross and his name is jesus Now let me ask you this question if you knew right example, you know the in early 2020 the Coronavirus was spread all across our nation If you knew there was a cure for that Would you not tell your friends? You will I'm sure all of you said, you know to your friends. Hey, you drink ginger water You know drink warm water stay indoors always wear your mask sanitize your hands You would have told your friends Why because you care for them Now imagine you knew that you know you know that a person a friend of yours has not accepted jesus And you know that if he does not accept jesus, what will happen? There's eternal hell And imagine I don't tell them Will it make sense? Oh because the corona virus only we were taking so much of Trouble. Hey, you know do this do this. We had a list Did you take the vaccine? but We know this here. We know that when when The Lord when people accept the Lord Jesus They're taken away from a place of hell They're taken away from a place of sin into God's presence Amen, right, so There is only one savior People are hurting People are searching Many many of them are searching for God. They're not able to find because they're searching in the wrong place They're searching They're searching in the wrong place Let me look around. There's all kinds of people There are people who are rich a fluent influential They are looking out for meaning For purpose in life. They're looking out for direction fulfillment Many of them, you know, who were influential, they don't like their lifestyle. They are They don't like it Hey, money can only satisfy to a certain point Money cannot buy relationships I know many people who are very wealthy But they don't have friends They live a lonely life right The spiritual searching that happens Uh for an encounter of truth You know, if you look, you look at, uh, you know, some of those posters, you see Sadhu Sundar sing there Right What was he doing? He was searching He was searching for a God if you read his story He was searching Who is this true God? If you are truly God you reveal yourself God revealed himself Sadhu Sundar sing and and we know what a great work he did So people are searching Now you may say, you know, my friends are fine. They are not searching. They are happy in their what they are doing That they can show outwardly Right remember we can we can show something but our heart is somewhere else Right people can show that everything is fine in their life But inside God knows what is happening Right, let's read Proverbs chapter 14 and verse 12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death There's a way that seems right to us We feel that this is the right way Right, we may feel okay. What I'm doing is right But if the Bible says here Its end is death. So you and I need to lovingly Bring people correct people and bring them to Christ Now here I want to say this As a church when I say church not abc as a body of Christ Some of the mistakes we have made is we have forced our You know our thoughts on people If forced them Right or we have done ministry the wrong way Right, we have said, you know, if you don't believe in Jesus, you'll go to hell Now we know that Right, but there's a way to tell the other person There's a way to minister to people We should you know speak to them lovingly imagine somebody says You know comes and tells me, you know what if you don't believe in Jesus You'll go to hell you'll burn in hell Just because of their tone, I'll say it's better to go there Right than to listen to you So there's a way to speak There's a way to talk There's a way to minister to people we do it. We correct But we do it lovingly and even as we go on this course, we will learn How to minister to people right what what are the attitudes that we must have John chapter 10 and verse 10 the thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy But I have come that they may have life And that they may have it more abundantly The thief what is the job of this of the enemy? He's come to kill steal and That's all his job is So sometimes as believers we feel oh, why is this problem here? Why is this happening to me?  What does he follow up? But I have come to give you life Right, so there will be people around us Who are living in sin? Who are living a very ungodly life.  I was working in the corporate sector right And I wanted to I became a believer, but I wanted to share the gospel with people. I wanted to do ministry So I would pray I said god And will I don't like this office Come to office and then from morning to evening. I'm here. I like my job. It's a good job, but I want to do ministry lord So for many for a long time. I was grumbling complaining And will I join ministry One day the lord spoke to me. He said you're worried about ministry start where you are Where are you office? How many people around you more than 2000 people? Because it was a big office building thousands of people come and work there in those companies Said okay, god How do I share? I was just like all of us. I was fearful. I didn't know how to share I didn't know what to say all I knew is Jesus touched me Jesus changed my life. How do I share this to people? I began to read the scriptures and I understood that all I need to do is speak The word of god Right, and we'll talk about that later. How the word is so powerful to touch people's life So I came to this was in in the book of luke where Luke chapter 24 36 through 49 Let's read that luke 20 24 36 to 49 and I'll explain what happened in the corporate sector as well Now as they said these things Jesus himself stood in the midst of them and said to them peace to you But they were terrified and frightened and suppose they had seen a spirit and he said to them Why are you troubled and why do doubts arise in your heart? Behold my hands and my feet that it is I myself handle me and See for a spirit does not have flash and bones as you see I have When he had said this he showed them his hand and his feet But while they still did not believe for joy and marvel he said to them Have you any food here? So they gave him a piece of a Broilfish and some honeycomb and he took it and ate in their presence Then he said to them these are the words which I spoke To you while I was still with you that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of moses and prophets and The psalm concerning me and he opened their understanding that they might Compared the scriptures Did you read till 49 verse 49? Yes, I'm Then he said to them thus it is written and thus it is it was necessary for the christ To suffer and to rise from the dead The from the dead the third day and that repentance and remission of sins Should be preached in his name to all nations beginning at Jerusalem And you were witness of these things behold I send the promise of my father upon you But tarry in the city of jerusalem until you are and endured with power from on high Okay Now The first time I read this I I understood so much from this passage See number one There is no other person who died and resurrected from the dead. Is there anybody else? Anybody Who has died and resurrected himself from the dead? Right the Lord Jesus when he resurrected now he was not a ghost He was not some spirit walking at all He was flesh and blood Meaning he was he was he was he ate Right. He ate food. He they could What did Jesus say to the disciples? He said he said to thomas come and touch me Touch and see because uh, I'm not spirit flesh and blood. I am flesh and you can touch and see right now When we think of this That the Lord Jesus he died He resurrected from the dead And he defeated the devil and he's telling I have commissioned you to go So for example For example You are here Now you want to do ministry Okay And you go you get a letter from the prime minister or the president of india You get a letter And the letter says So and so person can preach the gospel anywhere. Nobody should touch him. Nobody should say anything to him You got a letter Right now how confident you will be Will you be confident? What will you do first?  You can't do this first thing you'll do is we'll take out the letter See the president has given me a letter saying I can preach anywhere in india or anywhere in this world I can preach anywhere. Nobody can stop me. So all day.   He goes on there and he says Behold I am with you until the end of time. I am with you Now the president will give a letter, but he's not with you But there's weightage in that letter Jesus is giving the letter And she's also saying he's giving the authority and he's also saying I'm there with you When you preach when you teach I'm there. I'm standing with you So when you look in the book of acts when you read all through the book of acts, you see a powerful ministry That was established the church You see the church established in the book of acts when the great apostle paul started his ministry You see a powerful ministry, right? How? How is it because jesus says I am with you? So that really inspired me I said, okay god Now I'm in this workplace. How do I start evangelizing? So I got a simple idea Before we start our work We reach office probably about half an hour before so I said, okay. I'll carry my guitar I spoke to one of one or two christian friends there and I said, hey, why don't we have 10 minutes of worship? 10 minutes of the word 10 minutes we'll share one word Five minutes prayer. We'll close it off 25 minutes Then we can go get into our offices start the work So one one two of them said, okay in that two one person came So this is the early morning if we have to log in at eight o'clock 7 30 is the prayer Right. So we're there in the now. This is in the corporate setting, right? This is not church This is outside, right? Everyone are watching. There's a lawn area, right? So if you have to go to the office as a big open space lawn, you have to walk and you have to go So it was very embarrassing Right people are watching. What are this? What does this guy come with a guitar for? But then that day I remember the first day we took the guitar we started playing one song My friend was there We sang one two songs Then we just opened the word spent 10 minutes in the word Pray it and we closed I went back home and I said god This is one person came I sent so many invitations to people one person came I remember god saying you do I will I will help you And so I just kept doing it every day prayer I became five people became 10 people Then I began to share with people, you know people started to share that, you know, they they received healing They receive, you know, miracles in their life. So these are inviting other people In five six months, we were 70 people 80 people In in more than after a year we were 120 130 people now. This is where These are all corporate guys, right office people We all come 120 people sitting in the lawn Right and then slowly after the next year, we were 200 people. We were not allowed to sit So we said, okay, we'll take a room Take a hall. We took a hall We started having our prayers there so we moved it from every day to Saturday to three hours and During that whole time, you know, who were the most regular people People who are managers people who are senior managers head of operations The top guys they would come and sit And I would be surprised and say, so you have come here Yeah, I've come because My family is breaking. My children don't listen to me They've got so many problems But when we look at them in office, they're all suited and you know, they're all walking around You know, you feel that there's no problem, but they would come and sit Pray for me I feel I feel I feel depressed feel I want to commit suicide My wife does not love me. I don't know what I'm doing in life And to me, I thought to myself These people are high up in the ladder They are so, you know, people, they're so respected But they've come because I realized that every person needs a savior Nobody can be on their own Right that gave me such an encouragement. It doesn't matter who you are You can come to Jesus just the way we are Humbling ourselves and he'll change our lives, right This same commission that Jesus has given us he says in That we are witnesses, you know, the Greek word for witness means martyr. How many of you know, what is a martyr? A martyr is somebody who is willing to give his life for christ Who is the first martyr Of the church Come on Who's the first martyr? No Jesus no, but who like for the cause of Stephen Stephen apostles Stephen Apostle Stephen was the first martyr. Okay. Yeah anybody else Who's the first matter who has killed for the sake of Jesus First person who has killed John the Baptist sireen says John the Baptist. Okay Okay, okay So if you look through the scriptures, you see that James Right James who was the disciple of Jesus was killed By king Herod first. So he was the first Martyr for Christ, right? He was killed by the sword James the disciple then came Stephen and Again, John the Baptist as well. So A martyr is somebody who is willing to give his life for the Lord and it says here Right, we are called to be witnesses. That means we are called to be martyrs for christ Very hard, no Is it easy? Say no, we all love our life. We don't want to But that's the call that's the call that god has given us The good news is not good news until it reaches a person The Lord Jesus had good news imagine. He said he didn't tell anybody about the good news Did Jesus anyway shy shy away from who is Did he say oh no, don't tell anybody right now Everywhere he went he said I am I am the one you're talking about Before Abraham was I am Are you the Messiah? Yes, I am They took him to stone him They couldn't do anything But imagine the disciples when he shared with them. He chose simple People with simple jobs and made them great leaders The good news is not good news until it reaches people Right, imagine a prisoner in life sentence. Oh, this is a good one Imagine this picture this You're in a court And the judge is sitting there on his On his seat and he says okay, this fellow is a murderer Life imprisonment. He can never come out of prison. So he's murdered somebody Now as the judge is going to take that Thing and and make his decision.  It is that person he killed somebody else There this other man says no, I love him so much. So I want to do this Right The judge says okay somebody has to take the judgment Right, somebody has to pay the price Whether it is you or you. I don't know but somebody has to pay the price Now you're saying you'll take the place of this murderer It's up to you. So the murderer will go free. It says okay. It's okay And so this person comes and takes the place of the murderer and He takes the punishment The murderer just walks home He's free And that is what jesus did for each one of us And imagine this we are sharing this to somebody Right Maybe somebody who does not believe when we're sharing this it will touch their heart It will minister to them Somebody else paying the price for my son Where I had to be on the cross Somebody else took it for me I had to take that judgment of god somebody else took it for me right you know People cannot believe in jesus christ unless we tell People cannot believe Right, let me give you this example many many years ago I had a good friend and he's still my friend okay, and He was from a different faith. He was from the muslim faith and What happened was we we were very good friends. We would always talk But one of the most important discussions we would have is about Christianity So I he will bring up. He was a ardent believer right in In his faith. He's a wonderful guy. Very good boy. Very good friends So we would always talk about this. He would say this. Yeah, I would say that. No, this is what it is He would say he had good arguments. He would say, you know, how can it be? But throughout all of this right he always said jesus was very good. He's a prophet. He's a man of god But he's not god. He's a good man. He's a prophet He's not god and later on this in this Course we'll also learn how to share the gospel with a hindu how to share the gospel with a muslim But just sharing this After many many months six seven months You know one day I was saying god, how do I how you minister to him? I know you can use this boy and I remember this You know in in their scriptures. It says that the god came moses was there god came in the bush And ministered to moses Right, they believe in the Torah the first five books of the bible of the of the scriptures, right? So god came into the bush and spoke to moses I thought to myself, hey So he asked me this question. How can god become man? impossible I remember telling him In the scriptures it says god Came and spoke to moses in the bush.  He thought about it He thought about it. He had no answer. He took weeks And thankfully a couple of months later after ministering he became a believer He became a full-time minister Reaching the gospel What if I was just friends with him And not willing to share with him he would have been doing what he is doing Right, so all of us people get opportunities But it is our responsibility to take that opportunity, right? What is the urgency?  He didn't die. So when they brought him down from the cross, he came, got back his life And he went back home Then some people say jesus was not even a human being He was something else So there are different understandings What does the bible say? He died And he resurrected And he's alive and he's coming again Right What is the urgency of all of this? Why do we need to share the gospel? First of all, do we want to share the gospel? Are we interested in sharing the gospel? Right We must be right. So what is the urgency one? There is no second chance Right, let's read this First second Corinthians 4 3 to 4 Second Corinthians 4 3 it's in your notes But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing Those minds the god of this age has blinded would do would do not believe Lest the light of the gospel of the glory of christ who is the image of god should shine on them Or even if the gospel it is is veiled it is veiled to those who are perishing Remember, there's no second chance In the bible, we read about the rich man and Lazarus What does the rich man say? Oh only if I can get a drop of water right and Or Just send your Send your prophets to talk to my brothers so that they don't have to suffer like this No second chance The bible says when we are absent in the body We are present with the lord very simple There is no middle place If we as believers if we are absent in the body, we are present with the lord. We are in heaven Now what about unbelievers if they are absent in the body They are present in a place of torment And that is the truth. There's no second chance. We can't say give me one more chance I want to go and I'll believe in Jesus. We can't do that So now is the time right There's no second chance Secondly time is running out 2020 odd years ago Jesus said what did he say? I am coming What does he say? I'm coming soon Behold I am coming soon 2020 more than 2020 years ago I'm coming soon Now imagine how close we are when we look at what is around us When we look at the things that are happening around us Right Time is going time is passing God's clock is ticking we're growing closer to the end of time Now it's not to make us scared But we should be encouraged that hey God is God is going to use us Even as each one of us are here we've come here to study to do ministry Right, we must understand that God is going to use each one of us to minister to people You all will go to places those online as well. You will go to places where we may not be able to go Many of you from Rajasthan and different country different states. We may not even be able to go there But you have the opportunity To reach out right Heaven is real Hell is real Life is short And there will come a time You know that each one of us will stand So very important Don't be ashamed of the gospel Right, Romans 1 16 says for I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ For it is the power of God to salvation For everyone who believes First for the Jews first and also for the Greeks Don't be ashamed of the gospel You know when you look at the cross The Lord Jesus When he died on the cross It was not have you seen you seen you seen passion of the Christ, no all of you have seen passion of the Christ Passion of the Christ is nothing Because if you look at a Roman persecution if you had seen Jesus literally you would have been able to see his organs It is a gruesome death You would have seen his heart. You would have seen his bones his spinal cords everything Not a drop of blood was left in him The price was fully paid.  So wearing a cross is no big deal Anybody can do that It's become a show now But the point is believing in that cross Right. Don't be ashamed.  He doesn't want certificates He wants you To be willing to go and minister. That's all he wants Right first Corinthians 9 16 says for I preach the gospel I have nothing to boast For necessity is laid upon me woe to me if I do not preach the gospel Right. So Today we have covered this chapter the urgency and necessity of the gospel And We'll pick up from next week. Let's just close in prayer If you have questions, maybe next week we can Answer those questions. Let's close in prayer Father, we want to thank you for this time. Thank you for enabling us to study a God and I pray that each one of us Will grow and you will empower us to be witnesses for your kingdom lord We thank you for this time We bless all our students here and online Those who are going to be listening through the e-learning portal I pray your blessing over each one of us Use us lord to be witnesses of your kingdom in Jesus name. We pray amen Amen. God bless you. God bless you all online students. I'll see you next week Thank you pastor. Thank you. Thank you


Hey! Recently I've done this video which talks about the goals and I talk about how we were going to choose them by voting and we've done that. I'm currently at Barcelona for the KD Academy, largest KD conference that happens every year and there has been the voting for the goals and we have the new goals which are sustainable software, atomize everything and KD for all. I'm going to go through them but before that a couple of quick you know explanation on how the goals work they are selected in theory every couple of years. In this case we actually got three because you know the pandemic didn't allow us to do enough. So we previously had three goals already. I was one of the gold champions which are the people that actually bring forward the goals and what happens to the old goals that's a question I so the goals that we currently have so consistency Wayland and KD is all about the apps will continue to live because as soon as a community actually starts working on these kind of things you never quite stop. Simply we go ahead, we go through them and we take new goals to actually address, we create infrastructure for them. We also allocate actually some money for the goals if they need it till now they never needed it. Second question that you might have okay when is this going to happen again and this is actually going to happen every two years in theory or three if we get yet another let's hope not. Who voted? The KD developers. So actually who is a KD developer and who isn't? Isn't that clear and at the end it was mostly decided by Adam which is okay who is Adam that's another good question. Adam is the coordinator for these these kind of things is a community manager and he actually organizes the voting and everything so he decides all KD developers with a developer account get to vote and if somebody is involved in KDE but does not have a developer account he should ask Adam and he still gets to vote. How many people voted? Well for the past previous two times 600 people voted this time only 400 so there is a bit of an issue there maybe it's something to look after in the future making sure that not too many people lose interest in this. How does the voting work? Well all KD developers actually choose all goals from their top favorite to the least favorite and then there is a little script which has been written by Kevin and well at the beginning it was a temporary script written in PHP but since we used it every time now it's been standardized and it is the script to actually read the votes and decide which one are selected. So which one were selected again KD for all which is about accessibility, automatize everything and sustainable software. Let's quickly go through them to see what do they bring with them. Okay so the first one is KD for all which is about accessibility this goal has been proposed by Karl Schwann quick info about who is Karl Schwann and that is important because he's going to be the gold champion and the gold champion is the person that actually brings the goal forward. Karl joined KD in 2018 so around when I joined two and he has done a lot of work both on the website and also on some curriculum application as an example he contributed a lot I think he created a calendar but also Neochat and Tokodon which are pretty big applications. He proposed the accessibility goal this is because well he says we can create amazing software but not everyone can use it and that's an issue which is fair enough. He talks about how some things like the lack of keyboard navigation can be an issue for some people with disabilities and how we also need to improve in camps like special input methods voice braille and also UI elements that need to zoom in to actually see them so magnification these kind of things are necessary for a good accessible software. This goal is particularly important because if you do want to if you do want KD Plasma to be used in the corporate world or even in the public world for you know states well you need to comply with some accessibility standards that KD Plasma currently does not comply to which is a big issue so accessibility is very important. So let's look at the plan that Karl wrote. He talks about how we should start by looking at the state of art when using Wayland and Flatpaks as an example how containers actually change the situation. There's particular emphasis on screen readers and then he talks about how we need to fix the software one by one which is surely is going to be a complex thing to do that will require the effort of all people in the KD community but also documentation about the best practices because to be honest many developers me included me first maybe do not quite understand everything about accessibility. Personally I totally need a guide that tells me how to do good accessibility accessible software. He also talks about blogging about it which is something that I highly highly recommend. I've been a blog champion a goal champion and I think that blogging about the goals is the best thing you can do to get you know people to actually work on them and then also talks about reaching out to the communities who will benefit from this work and asking for feedback makes complete sense. Secondly we have to automatize everything by Nate but before we get into that one quick thing that's nothing so this goal has been proposed by Nate Graham again he joined in 2018 2020 so similarly to me and Karl and he was actually one of the a goal champion of the very first edition of the KD goals with the goal usability and productivity which you might know because he did blog posts about them they're very famous these week in KD blog posts were originally named this week in or not not even usability and accessibility productivity sorry for KD so that's where it came from. The blog series is still present which really shows how a goal never ends even if you select new ones. He also is a QA manager in the blue systems I've talked about blue systems yesterday and it generally works on Eliza and Patron Plasma I meant Plasma. Regarding this goal he actually talks about how KD is a community where people keep on entering and on exiting so the personal knowledge of all the people actually comes and goes so he talks about how we should make sure that there's internal processes and systems that take that knowledge and make it available for all of the people even if the regional creator of those technologies went outside of the community. We do already have some team-based workflows and documentation this is very new we recently moved to GitLab which allowed us to do many new things before that we were on Fabricator which was not as awesome and he actually proposes a very long list of things so I am going to go through a couple of points that I think are particularly cool he talks about making a template merge request so when you create a new merge request you actually get all the information that you should supply when doing one. He talks about adding a QML linter what's that QML is a programming language that's used to do the UI of Plasma and many applications and a linter is a program that makes sure that the syntax is correct or should I say like pretty like done correctly I mean not that it doesn't work but that it's correctly written in the code you know you know what a linter is don't make me explain he also talks about making sure that you either delete or fix all the tests that are filling and that everybody is ignoring and stuff like automatic spell checking and making sure that all strings actually are translated out of the box we can actually automatize these kind of things then he talks about creating a document that tells you all the steps you need to do to perform Q&A on the software on KD create and document again have enough boarding process because whenever somebody actually needs to get out of KD for whatever reason it happens we need actually system in place to make sure that everything he was maintaining as an example doesn't go rotten and that his knowledge more in general can be preserved within the community it talks about making sure that K user feedback actually makes sense that he is actually sending more data of course with the consent of the user only if the user turns it on as it is currently but the kind of data that would actually help the visual design group to make good decisions on the software he also talks about improving our release toolings and something that I see him talking a lot did a lot these days because you know is actually here with me I talk to him these days and he talks about actually releasing making making doorlies of plasma frameworks have more sense because right now I've done a video about that it is not aligned with plasma and there's a reason for that but as an effect sometimes you do have bugs that you can just not work around it also talks about in the goal to encourage apps to join the KD gear if you don't know what's the KD gear is the release casual for the majority of KD applications and also make ups adopt its version in schema so they don't have to be self-released and then he talks about the improving the developer internal process documentation having better garden gardening theme having having better QA team this kind of things then there is sustainable software which has been proposed by Cornelius I actually don't know Cornelius and luckily he's not at this KD academy so I can't go ahead and talk to him he got into topic he says in the 2019 chaos communication congress about how climate friendly software is and they talked about the sustainability criteria for resource and energy efficient software for blue angle or angel I don't know which is not blue system different thing so he actually went ahead and had the mission to make sure that KD software was sustainable according to blue angel which nowadays his actually ocular is the first application to actually have reached that goal and here at academy we actually had a cake with the KD logo need to the KD echo logo need to you know have a party thanks to ocular this one as a goal is the actually longest if you want to read through it you can see it here I do suggest you to give it a look it talks about you know the fact that our planet is at stake which is very much true so we need to find and implement more sustainable way to live and this also passes through software yes even KD software it talks about how we have been driven by sustainable principles since our inception and how software freedom is at the core of ethical use of software giving it giving people control to take responsible decisions as an example KD runs on software sorry on run sorry sorry on hardware that companies might have given up for years so you have some super old computer you can still run KD software on it to extend its life cycle and of course that avoids more pollution and then it talks about what the blue angel or angle certification is it's issued from the german government all of these things are particularly interesting so I suggest that you go to the link that is in the video description if I didn't forget to link it if I did so sorry tell me I'll add it and thanks everybody for watching I hope to bring more exciting news for KD Academy


The great search brah do you buy did you key and eight for every single week lady uses her power of engineering and more To show you how to find things on did you key lady to what is a great search of the week this week? Okay, this week so I was doing some analog mams and mikes projects, and I wanted to make a breakout for An amplified mams microphone. I like mams mics because of course there's no hand soldering you can pick and place them they're very small compared to electric mics and You know you don't need to buy us them the circuitry is is sometimes a little simpler because they just kind of give you analog output We also have done a lot of PDM mics and I2S mams mics Those are really nice because you know you get a little microphone and get your digital output But there are some times when you really want an analog output like a true and long waveform And in that case, yeah, you need to go with with the mams design Nothing's going to be is is for pick and placing Nothing's going to be as simple as just you know a simple Tin can style mams microphone with a little amplifier And there's no hand soldering which I'm trying to avoid in this design So we do have a breakout that is unamplified for the spw-2430 at the time when this came out a couple years ago You want to go to computer?  So I want to read we do this design I've kind of meant to redo this in a while and I'm finally getting to it but the bad news is that when I went to Order these to just check in on them to make sure that they were available They are in stock But there are NRND so not recommended for new designs, which yeah, there are 97,000 stocks It's not like I can't use this and I think You know, this is something that I'll be able to purchase for a bit, but You know, I don't want to design it if I'm gonna design a new design, you know I'm going to see if there's anything else available So don't get stuck in two or three years having to do a re-spin I might as well You're like a mems mic is a mems mic. I don't feel like there's any one that's particularly better than the other So let's find an alternative to this that is available So I definitely want to be a mems analog micro member There's there's three types of microphones you can get in mems you can get I2S PWDM and Analog and I2S and PDM are more expensive in specialty Analog is is usually very inexpensive. You see these are, you know, 50 cents or so I Don't actually care too much about You know the shape or anything. There's different sizes and packages, but they're all going to be about the same I don't really care about the signal noise ratios or something very simple Normally I would pick on the directional, but there are Just that's not a specific thing and also the frequency range can change so I think I'm just gonna look for any mems analog mics and Then I'm gonna look for only the active ones For this for this new design So let's see there's a couple options Looks like, you know, there's some that are in stock some that are not in stock a lot of that are bottom ported I think I want a top port design a top port design looks like this where there's a hole at the top Bottom port looks like this where that you have to have a hole in the PCB and audio goes at the bottom That's that's good when you want something flush, but in this case I don't I don't think I really need that. I kind of like this top. I kind of get top ported design So let's select for Port Location top and then let's also go with that normally stocking and So it looks like there's a lot of options here, which is really nice again. These are kind of generic There's you know, this is sort of looks like a weatherproof version. There's this kind. There's this kind Looking at You know the ranges it looks like, you know, I can do 20 to 20 kilohertz. That's kind of cool and They're all gonna be three volts But you know, you're gonna pay more for for fancier, so let's let's sort by price and see what we get So there's a couple. I think this is maybe a it's not look marketplace. Okay, okay Avoiding the marketplace looks like CUI devices has this one and then there's also this one this one looks kind of good to me because it's both inexpensive and There's three hundred and seventy thousand stock, which is always a nice look everything else. There's about two thousand stock I'd like it when there's a lot available. This looks like a pretty standard one And what's also nice is it looks like the pad out on the bottom It's actually kind of similar to the pad out here like it's got the four pads Which is pretty cool so I can you know use this and I'll check the the dimensions But hopefully it'll it'll be about the same so let's Let's open this up and then comparing it to This component So this one is Three by point one by two point five millimeters. This one is 3.7 by three millimeters It's a little bit wider and a little bit taller But I think I could probably have the pads fit either which would be kind of nice so I could start with maybe the parts I haven't stopped now and then adapt up to this other the SPU part and then another thing that was kind of neat is There are Different if you don't do the top port requirement Get rid of the port location. I still want to exclude marketplace There are a couple of cool ones like I saw this one. There was a 80 kilohertz Microphone it's bottom ported, but this is kind of cool because it can do You know ultrasonic High-frequency noise so it could be good for You know recording You know you could record high frequency noises that normally microphones are filtered out They usually kind of a window filtered from 20 to 20 Hertz to 20 kilohertz But if you want to make like a back detector This microphone is pretty cool. This is not what I'm going to use I might make a different break out for this back detector, but I thought it was neat that There is there is a men's mic that can go up to 80 kilohertz, so that's you know bats are getting a better app lately So I mean maybe we got to start detecting bats more. Yeah Like the new the new Batman. What else can use it besides to I don't know I think I think it said it was for like effects Like if you like it was for detecting sounds because you can and maybe far field It's kind of it was a little bit unclear exactly what it's for could be military use or You know high-frequency signaling, you know there was the the Wi-Fi chip from Amazon that would use high-frequency signaling to To set the Wi-Fi access point And because you can you can send very high frequencies and this would be able to detect them Stuff that you know even for humans. We can't really hear very well at close to 20 kilohertz You know we can't especially as we age we start I'm not being able to hear Over like 10 or 15 kilohertz This could be interesting. So this is not like the product. I want to use but I thought it was an interesting part That's kind of cool. I could see us. I mean, you know, we can't We'll get in trouble on Twitter if we start like making stuff that Angers the person so we just got to be careful with that but I think just some good ideas. Okay. Okay. All right Well, that's the great search. Okay, it's a great search Where is