Our children love coming to the farmer's market. There's always a face painter and live music. My husband Jose says he goes just for the apple cider donuts. We almost always buy some organic vegetables to take home and we brought some cilantro last week and the kids can't wait for the corn to come in. I'm struggling with it though. Prices are higher here at the farmer's market than at the grocery store. Jose reminds me that we're not just buying organic food but we're also supporting local producers which is important to both of us. But I really wonder if it's worth it. Frankly, I'm not even sure what organic means. We definitely want our kids to eat fresh food and to stay healthy and strong. But then again, I never ate organic food when I was young and my health is fine. However, I don't think I had even tasted a pop-up before coming to the farmer's market and I loved it. I would feel a lot better about our extra spending if I knew for sure that organic food is really healthier for our family. I'm going to check online to see if I can figure out if organic food really makes a difference to my family's health. The first result from my Google search doesn't look trustworthy. It's from a magazine and that has nothing to do with health. This one looks better. It's from a medical website, UC Davis. I think it's a hospital. I feel like I found a little bit but I want more. I remember learning about Google Scholar when I was in college and I'm going to check there to see if I can find medical research on the topic. Whoa, there's a lot. I'd even think about the effect of organic farming can have on the environment. Oh, aha. This one mentions human health implications. That's what I want. The PDF is here for some of the articles but not for all of them. I wonder if I can ask the librarian at the public library if they can get it through Inter-Wibrary alone for me. I use Libraries Connect Ohio for research on a lot of topics. I'll go to the Science Reference Center and I bet this will be a great place to start. At least learn a little something more about organic food from this perspective. Interesting, is organic better? Okay, now let's go to Point of View Reference Center for some pros and cons on the topic and it's available from the public library too. Okay, a couple results, overview, a guide. I like how I can narrow it down to only one kind of publication which might be helpful. Okay, let's see what we get. Oh, interesting. Healthy alternative. Summer here says organic foods make a difference in our healthier and richer nutrients. That is definitely in the pro column. Agricultural chemicals on food could be problematic to young kids developing organs. Oh, that's definitely another pro for organic food. Finding information about organic food has convinced me that buying organic food is worth our time and money. Knowing this has made me feel more confident about choosing organic food and buying organic food at the farmer's market makes us feel good and our family meals are much healthier.


Hello there, this is Bhavya Kaushal and here are 4 things you just can't miss this Startup Saturday. In mergers and acquisitions this week, mattress maker Cologne acquired US-based Spring Air to strengthen its presence in the premium bedding segment. Indian startups are unstoppable. If they are not raising funds, then they are looking to raise funds. Bengaluru-based startup Cred is reportedly in talks to raise 100 million from Hill House Capital and its existing partners. This week's funding game for the Indian startup ecosystem was a bit slow and on the slower side of growth. The highest amount raised was 4.5 million dollars and the lowest one was somewhere between 1-2 million dollars. The information of 100 million users of JustStyle is safe. The hyper-local search engine company has shot down rumors of data leak and has assured users of its double encrypted format.


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I was hoping you'd get here before my birthday was over. He said you would. I'm nine today. King sure is glad to see you, Bobby. Gosh, I wish King could stay here all the time. Well, King and I have work to do together. But maybe this will take King's place, Bobby. Happy birthday. Collie, I was wondering what that covered basket was for. It's your birthday present from King and me. Here, take it. See what's in it. I'll put it on the floor and then I'll cover it. Jesus, anxious as I am to have the cover off. Well, so am I, Bobby. Hurry up. I'm dying to see what it is. All right. What is it? A puppy, a pure white puppy. May I take him out? May I, Sergeant? Of course. It's time he woke up anyway. All he does is sleep. I'll lift him out. Come on, puppy. Isn't that the cutest dog, Ned?  Yeah, and look at King watching. Did you thank Sergeant Preston, Bobby? Oh, I forgot. Thanks a lot, Sergeant. Does he have a name? Does he? Why, not yet. He's your dog, so you name him. Then I'm going to call him Whitey. That's it, Whitey. Oh, that's a fine name, Bobby. Yes, it is. And now it's up to you, Bobby, to take good care of Whitey. Well, golly, I sure will, Sergeant. I'm sure you will. How are things going, Ned? Getting anything from your claim? A little. Not much, though. I borrowed from Mr. Malin, the Selkirk banker, to tie this over until after the thaw. Working conditions will be better then, and I'm sure we'll get a lot more from the claim. I hope so, Ned. Well, King and I better get along. I want to go on into Selkirk before several times. Oh, I was hoping you could stay a while. Yeah, so was I. I have to go on through the Dawson's long trip. King and I'll be back this way in two or three months. We'll see you then. Three months went by. The thaw had come, and the spring was giving way to summer. The pup, Whitey, had grown into a beautiful, fluffy dog, and he and Bobby were inseparable. One day, after Bobby had taken Whitey to the general store in town, banker Malin's 10-year-old son, Richard, entered his father's office at the bank. Well, Richard, what brings you here? Right now, I'm pretty busy and, uh... I want a dog.  A dog? How's he here, Richard?  Anyway, I have plenty of dogs. They're the best money can buy. But you use them for your dog team.  Uh, look, Richard, don't talk nonsense. I don't believe in making a pet of a dog. I'll, uh, give you a dollar. I don't want a dollar. I want a dog. Why can't I have one? Why can't I? Oh, stop that infernal whining. I don't care. I want you to buy me a dog. All right, all right. I'll get you a dog as soon as I find one worth buying. Now, go home. No, I don't want just any old dog. I want Whitey. Whitey? What are you talking about? Bobby Small has a dog, a fluffy White dog, and his name is Whitey. And that's the dog I want. Now, be sensible, Richard. How can you have that dog if Bobby Small owns him? You can buy him for me. Ridiculous. I want Whitey. I don't want any other old dog, just Whitey. Bobby Small's poor, and he has Whitey, and we're rich. You can make him sell Whitey. You can make him if you want to. If he doesn't want to sell the dog, there's no way I can make him do it. So don't...  Maybe there is a way to get that dog for you after all. All right. But if I don't get Whitey, I'll... I'll go home and be patient, eh? I think in a day or two, you'll own the dog you want. Now, go home. Gosh. When I get him, I'll use a whip to make him learn tricks. I'll go home and, well, you get Whitey for me, like you promised. Goodbye, Dad. The next day, in response to a note from Banker Mallon, Bobby's father, Ned Small, went to the bank. As he seated himself in a chair across from Mr. Mallon, Ned spoke apologetically. I can guess why you sent for me, Mr. Mallon. My note is almost 30 days off a due. But I'm sure that in another month, I'll be able to pay it in full. I can't wait that long, Small. But on the due date, when I came to tell you, payment would be delayed, you said it was all right. Thanks, early. But I have to demand payment at once. No. No, you can't do that. The claim's just beginning to pay off. I have a wife and boy and I...  Eh, perhaps there is a way to extend that note. What way? If there's any other way, you know I'd be... You, eh... You, eh, own a dog, eh, white dog, don't you? Yes. Well, not exactly. You see, my boy owns that white dog. But what's the dog got to do with the note? Eh, just this small. I'd be willing to extend that note. If you'll turn over that white dog to me. No. No, that's impossible. Who'd break Bobby's heart to lose Whitey? Well, eh, I guess that's about all there is to say, Small. I'll expect to see you in the morning with your answer. Good day to you, sir. Goodbye, Mr. Mallon. That evening, Bobby Small went to bed with Whitey curled up at his feet. His father had sent him to bed earlier than usual, and Bobby couldn't go to sleep. As he lay staring at the barren landscape beyond the window, he heard his father speak in the other room. Susie, I... I have something to tell you that I didn't want Bobby to hear. Now that he's sleeping, I'll talk it over with you. Well, what is it, Nick? I knew something was wrong when he came in. Mr. Mallon wants payment on that note in full. He wants it right away. If it isn't paid, he's going to take over the cabin and the claim. Oh, no, he... he wouldn't. He would and he will. Oh, Ned, what are we going to do? He gave me only one way out, unless, of course, we pay the money. What way is that? He's willing to take Whitey and extend the note. Take Whitey? Oh, no, Ned, we couldn't let him have Whitey. Why, the dog belongs to Bobby and it would break the boy's heart to lose him. I know all that, honey, but we're desperate. It's our only chance to save ourselves. Susie, I'll have to let Mallon have Whitey. We'd better turn in and get some rest now. I have to go to town early if I want to. Whatever you're saying. Whitey, did you hear? They're going to give you a way to that. They're a rich banker. Oh, Whitey, I can't let them do it. I just can't. I'm not going to let them. I won't let you belong to someone else. As soon as I get rest, I'll take you away. Then they won't give you away, I betcha. We'll get out through the window and go far away, Whitey. So that old Mr. Mallon can't ever take you away from me. Later that night, the town of Selkirk was startled by a muffled explosion. Within a few minutes, a crowd of men were in the street to see what had happened. Hey, what happened? Where was the explosion? Here comes Ted. Hey, Ted, what happened? What happened? Where's the constable? Somebody just blew up the safe and the bank and got away. Yeah, there was two of them. I shot them riding off out the other end of town. Somebody find the constable while I tell Banker Mallon. All right. The following morning, Sergeant Preston and King stopped before the constable's office. Move, Blacky. Hold on. Come on, King. I'm sure glad to see you here right now, Sergeant. Something happened? Yes. The Selkirk bank was robbed last night. They took about 20,000 from the vault. That's bad news for Mallon. Yeah, he's having a fit. I tried to trail the two crooks. Someone saw a tool, I'm high-tailing it out of town. But I lost the trail. I came back to see if I could pick up any clues around town as to their identity. Perhaps King and I can help. You sure can. King can follow their trail and maybe pick it up where I lost it. We'll do our best, Jim. Sergeant Preston. I'm sure glad to see you in town. Bobby ran away last night. Bobby ran away? Why would he do that? Well, it's really my fault, I guess. You must have heard Susie and me talking about giving Whitey to Banker Mallon. Giving Whitey to Banker Mallon? Oh, I do that. I gave that dog to Bobby. Don't you want him to have Whitey? Yes, yes, of course we do. He'd be broken-hearted without Whitey. But while Mallon holds a note for 300 wants it paid in full today, he offered to take Whitey and extend the note. Otherwise, he'll take our cabin and claim it. Sergeant, please find my boy. He can keep Whitey no matter what happens. But you must find our boy. We'll continue our story in just a moment. Quaker-puffed wheat and Quaker-puffed rice offer these three important things you're after in a ready-to-serve breakfast cereal. One flavor. Well, nut-like flavor. Two, crispness. Tender, melt-in-your-mouth crispness. Three, nourishment. Restored natural grain amounts of vitamin B1, niacin and iron. What's more, Quaker-puffed wheat and Quaker-puffed rice are the famous cereal shot from guns. Yes, huge guns are loaded with only the premium wheat or rice grains. Then these choice kingpin kernels are shot from guns to make them crisp and tender. 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I bet your mom and dad will be sorry they were going to give you to Mr. Mowen when they wake up and find us gone, too. But I wish I could be with them. For a few moments, the boy and his dog moved slowly along the trail in silence. Then, coming to a tree stump alongside the trail, Bobby stopped and sat down. Whitey stood for a moment watching. Then, moving close to Bobby, the dog put his head on the boy's lap and whined.  But we have to leave or they'll give you away. I don't want to go away. I want mom and dad. Oh, whitey, I am afraid. I am. For a few moments, Bobby sat sobbing with his arms around his dog. And then, suddenly, he sat up and listened. Somebody's come along the trail. We'd better hide quick, whitey, or they'll take you away from me. We'll hide behind this tree stump. Come on, whitey. Come on. It would be a long ways away of a morning. Yeah. And make it to the past, to the stage. Whitey, hold it. Hold it. Come out of there, you'll get a bullet. Now you did it. We're coming out. Look, Jake, a kid and a dog. Whitey, quiet. What are you doing out here, kid? I'm running away, that's what. Who are you running away from? From home because my daddy was going to give my dog to Mr. Malin, the banker. Are you robbers? I'm not robbing that, Hank. The kid overheard us talking. They went about it, Jane, afraid of a kid like him. Isn't him, I'm afraid of your fool, but if someone gets on our trail and runs on to the kid, he'll tell them about it. That's right. I didn't think of that. We'd better do away with him right now. Hold on, I don't go for murdering a kid. Anyhow, the Monies never give up on a murder charge. No matter where you go, they find and get you. We can take them along with us and drop them off a few miles outside of Whitey's oars then. Before he gets there to tell them anything, That's better. Now, look, kid, we're going to help you run away, see? You can ride up here with me. No, I'm not going to ride with any bank robbers so there. Fresh for a size, too. I'll get down and lift them up to your Hank-Stanning telephone. All right, kid. What's up, my dog? You kiddin'? You just an overgrown pup.  Now, come on, get up there on the horse with Hank. No! Grab his hand, Hank. Here he is. I don't want to go with you. I don't want to. Get up and sit still. What about the dog, Jake? He can follow along behind there. Steady, come on. All right, let's get going.   Meantime, Sergeant Preston and King, with Ned Small and Jim the Constable, rode the trail toward Ned's cabin. You sure, Jim, that the two men you followed were the ones who robbed the bank? Well, I can't be positive that men in town said the crooks rode this way and that there were two of them. No one could give a description. They're the ones who'll have the gold with them. But what about my boy? You've got to do something about finding him. I know how you feel, Ned. When you reach your cabin, Jim can stop there and try to pick up Bobby's trail. He can't have gone very far. You and Jim can hunt for Bobby while I go after the crooks with King. At the same time, I'll keep my eyes open for Bobby and his dog. Let's hurry a bit. Come on, Bluggy. Get along there.  After leaving Jim and Ned at the cabin, Sergeant Preston and King continued on to the point where the constable had lost the trail of the two horsemen. They had ridden into a shallow creek and had followed it for some time. But though the constable had been thrown off the trail, King wasn't easily fooled. Bawl, bawl, bawl, bawl, bawl. Well, there, hold, Buggie. All right, King. Find them, fella. The intelligent dog stood sniffing the air a moment. The scent of the horses and men they had been following still clung to the bushes along the creek. And King, with a bark, started running along the bank, following the scent. Good boy, King. Come on, Bluggy. A couple of miles farther on, King picked up the scent where the horsemen had left the creek and turned back onto the trail. When Sergeant Preston and King reached the point where the crooks had caught up to Bobby and his pup, King stopped, sniffing the air and whining. Hold her, hold her. What is this, King? Ah, ah, ah. King recognized the scent of Bobby and the pup. Up to this point, the crooks had ridden a branch trail from the creek so King hadn't picked up the boys' scent before. Now he tried to tell his master. Yes, I don't understand, fella. Find them, King. After them, fella. Come on, Bluggy. Having ridden all night, the crooks, Jake, and Hank had turned off the trail and made their way to a deserted prospector's shack back in the hills. They had tied Bobby's hands and feet. And then, with Whitey the pup inside with them, they had rested a few hours. It was afternoon when they were getting ready to push on. Jake, while you get our stuff together, I'll go out and get the horses settled. All right, Hank. It's about time we got started. I won't be long. Hey, don't let that mucket away. I'll get him. Hey, come back here. Come back here. Hey, boy, here. Come here. The fog's running up the hill behind the cabin. Must be chasing something. Jake will have to come out and help me. Hey, somebody's riding up the trail. What's the matter? The rider coming up the trail looks like a money to me. What are we going to do, Jake? I'll make a lift to cover that big wood box in the corner. We hide the gold in there under a few logs. I'll go get it. Hurry up, Jake. Here's the gold. I'll hold it. Oh, he's already tied up. We'll gag him and put him in the wood box, too. What's big enough? Come on. No, the wood box. Oh, dear. Spend down. I'll keep you quiet. No, no. Hey, he can't make any noise. Now grab his feet. I got it. Wait a minute. Let go a minute. Push the logs aside.  With the kid and the gold hidden in there, there won't be any evidence against us. We can bluff out of it. Yeah.  There we are. I'll cover him and the gold with a jute bag. Yeah, here it is. Now the logs. I think the kid will smother in there. Oh, you'll have enough hair. Now sit down at the table. We look like we're playing cards when that Mountie rides up. Don't look upset or surprised or nothing. Come on. All right. Deal the cards out quick. All right. The door's still open. We'll just look unconcerned when he rides up. He's got a dog with him. Yeah, they don't mean nothing. Here they come. Well, we got company, Gene. Come on in. Hi there. I have some questions for you. I trailed you two from Selkirk. The bank was robbed there last night, as you might know. Your trail led from the bank. Well, that's natural. Hank and me had business at the bank before we set out on the trail. You mind if I search those saddlebags over there? I'll go right ahead. Watch them, King.  You can't find anything to tie us in with that robbery. Well, there's nothing in your saddlebags. Who are you? And where are you heading? I'm Hank Miller. He's Jake Carver. We've come two from Indian Creek. We're heading for Whitehorse. I see. Tell me, if you didn't rob the bank, why did you try to cover your trail by riding in the shallow creek? Oh, that. Oh, we figured it'd be your shortcut, that's all. You can't save any time by cutting across the muskeg. It's too treacherous. The creek bed is firm. Of course, that could be your reason for following the creek. Yeah, of course it could. King, it's a trouble, fella. The great dog King recognized the scent of Bobby Small. He went to the cot in the corner, then sniffed at the wood box. What's the matter, King? Hey, maybe it's because he got the son of the animal who was in here. Just as we were riding toward the shack, a small bear or something beat it out the open door. Oh, that could be it. Here, King, never mind, fella. You got any more questions, Sergeant? Maybe I have made a mistake. Yeah, you know, Sergeant, you can't pin anything on us without proof. You can see the gold isn't hidden here anywhere, no place to hide it. That wood box might be a good place. Well, yeah, it's looking at them. Hey, you see, nothing but logs in there. Yes, you're right. You don't think we'd hide the gold in there if we had stolen it, do you? That's about the first place anyone had looked. Yes, that's true. All right, close it up. Well, King, looks as though we... That pup. That's Bobby Smalls, dog. You wonder where that pup come from? Funny he'd be way out here alone. Sergeant Preston wasn't completely convinced, but he knew that without evidence he had nothing to go on. He watched the pup whide as he ran to the cart, whining. Then whidey went to the wood box.  Then he began to scratch at the wood box. He caught that bear sent, too. Maybe there's something in that wood box right now that's excited that pup. I'll take another look. As Sergeant Preston started toward the wood box, Jake rose mis-chair and quickly drew a gun. The Mounties back was to him, and he was unaware of the danger. But the great dog King knew immediately there was danger in a pointed gun. And as Jake aimed at Preston's back, King sprang with a deep-throated bow. I'll take him off! Help! King, don't run away. Easy. Well, you'll do a gun, eh? Yeah, he did, but yours won't do you any good. All right, Hank. Take this! What's up, King? Now I'll look in that wood box. One side, Whitey. Bobby Small. I'll put you on the cot, son. There. Now to take that gag off and untie you. That's got it. You all right, Bobby? Don't cry now, Bobby. You'll be all right. My boy. We were coming along the trail and heard the dogs barking. I see you caught the crooks. Yes, Jim. There they are. The gold's in that wood box. I tried to bluff out of it and almost succeeded. There's a reward for the capture posted by the bank. $500. Good. It will go to Bobby. You won't give Whitey away, will you, Daddy? Say you won't. No, of course not, son. Anyway, with that reward, we can pay the note so we can keep our cabin and claim, and you can keep Whitey. Oh, golly. Gee, Whitey, you're sort of a hero, and I'll always keep you. Of course you will, Bobby. You and Whitey are a fine pair. King led me here and saved me from a bullet. But Whitey led me to you in the gold. Gosh, I'm glad this is over. Catching those crooks and finding Bobby at the same time is wonderful. It makes everything turn out right for Susie and Bobby and me. Yeah, I'm from Whitey, too. It doesn't have Whitey. You get this dog away, will you? All right, King. Let him up, boy. On your feet, Jake. You and Hank are headed for jail. This case is closed. In just a moment, Sergeant Preston will give you a preview of Wednesday's adventure. Here's a taste treat you'll want to repeat. It's Quaker Puffed Rice and Quaker Puffed Wheat. 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For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Hello and welcome to People's Dispatch and our special May Day series where we talk to labour organisers and representatives of trade unions across the world. Today we have a very special guest, Chris Malls, who was an employee of the Amazon facility in State and Island, but was terminated last month shortly after he raised very serious concerns about the health of the employees and the precautions Amazon was supposed to take but was clearly not Now Chris has become one of the faces of a major protest that is scheduled to take place on May 1st where employees of a wide variety of companies, Amazon, FedEx, Instacart, are set to walk out from their workplaces demanding on a wide variety of demands. Chris, thank you so much for talking to us. Absolutely, thank you for having me. So could you first talk about what was the origin of this walkout protest because this has become quite a big protest, major companies across the world, their employees are involved in this. So could you tell us a bit about the organizing that went around it and what are the key demands? Absolutely, thank you for having me. Yeah, you know, for the last couple of weeks we've seen a number of different protests and strikes all across the country regarding health and safety concerns. After my termination, my first walkout a month ago, there's been other buildings and other people, other employees from other companies that's been willing to speak up on this matter. So what I decided to do was form an alliance between all these companies, all these entities because we all have one common goal. We put aside who we work for because we all have one common goal to protect our health and our safety. So I've been orchestrating these conference calls every week, formulating a plan to that led to May 1, which is tomorrow's walkout. And that's what we've been doing. We're just mobilizing to our voices are heard and our demands are met. Our demands are simple. We just want to be retro paid for all the unpaid time that we were forced to use the entire month of March. We want every building that has a case and it to be shut down and professionally sanitized. We want the companies to be honest and transparent at all times, how many cases are in these buildings. And most importantly, we want to have our PPE provided at all times and sanitation items provided at all times by the company and for the company to make sure that they're doing they follow through with this. So that's pretty much that. And Chris, let's talk a bit about Amazon itself. So you've been working, you were working with Amazon from 2015 and you were actually supervising quite a few employees as well. So could you take us to what happened when you raised some of these concerns and what was the response of the management? Yeah, when I started to raise concerns, it was pretty much no response, you know, it was business as usual. At the time, when I first started, there was no confirmed cases in the building where I worked. So they were really nonchalant about it. That forced me to send out emails to the health department, to the CDC department, to the state government of New York department. When I didn't receive responses, that's when I started to mobilize a walkout. But what led up to that is the fact that I sat in a building for an entire week starting on March 24 off the clock on my own free will, raising my concerns to the general manager's office every single day. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, March 28, that's Saturday, the day they quarantine me. I sat in the cafeteria for eight hours a day with a number of associates every single day, voicing my concerns, because we were working or exposed to somebody who tested positive. When we didn't get any answers and they kept giving us a bunch of excuses, that's when I started to take further action. In the interim period, there have been many more cases of people resigning as well of Amazon taking further action. And I think the latest numbers collected by independent sources show that there are over 600 cases in various Amazon facilities. You have put out a tweet today regarding that. So could you talk a bit about, at the national level, what has been the company's response also? Because we do know that Amazon executive discussed your case, and they prepared points to assassinate your character, to talk ill about you, and said that we'll go for a standard response. Right. Yeah, that's the thing. If I wasn't telling the truth, that meeting that they were talking about me would have never existed. But we all know what type of people they are now. They've been exposed, and it's not good. It looks bad on the end, and it's a shame. They don't care about employees' health and safety. They rather worry about me, Christian Smalls. But it's never going to be Amazon versus Christian Smalls. It's going to be Amazon versus the people. That's why more people are starting to speak up. That's why there's been more strikes and walkouts over the past couple of weeks. In response to companies, they've been retaliating against everybody that speak up, and they've been terminating them. But that's not the right response, and that's why we continue to mobilize, and we're going to do that again tomorrow on May 1st. And I also understand that the leave that was being granted over the past two months during the pandemic, it is being closed. That policy is being ended on April 30th. So could you talk a bit about that? Yeah, I think that's just a way of them getting people to come to work tomorrow because they probably caught wind of what we were doing. But that's just another thing that makes them look bad because we're still in the middle of a pandemic over here. A lot of people don't have any options to result to. So you're putting more people at risk by forcing them to come back to work, and you're not giving them a solution as far as safety. So yeah, all we're doing is beating the demands of Jeff Bezos and his pockets. They're putting a price on people's heads, and that's not fair to us. And that's the reason why we continue to mobilize. Right. And also in terms of, could you talk a bit about what your experience has been with Amazon organizing in other parts of the country, other parts of the world, because there has been a long history of workers across the country mobilizing. For instance, on Amazon, Friday sales days in Europe, for instance, there's been a lot of examples of mobilizing. So have you been in touch with any of these organizers? I spoke to people from all over the world. I lost count of how many people that reached out to me. The love and support I receive every day, so it's been very uplifting and empowering. But I spoke to a lot of people from all over the world regarding this matter. I'm not really, I haven't been an organizer prior to my firing, but I'm kind of learning and I'm being guided by people that have been doing this for a very long time. And I'm just trying to continue to do the right thing by the employees, stick by the employees, whether it be a union or organization or a coalition or even a rank and file committee ran by the employees that benefits the employees. That's what I'm aiming for. And I'm just taking the knowledge in as I can day to day. Right. And one of the aspects you've been also advocating is that consumers and customers also adopt a very aware approach to this. So could you talk a bit more about this? Yeah, as a consumer, you know, what they could do and support is they could boycott the companies, stop buying Amazon products right now until these companies, not just Amazon, all the companies involved boycott them until they protect the employees. If we're not safe and healthy and we're bringing these virus back home to the communities and our families, then we're no good. We're not essential. So they got to think about that as well, take that all into consideration. Right. And finally, Chris, any message for Mayday for the workers around the world? Join us.  Join us in solidarity. Thank you so much, Chris, for talking to us. Absolutely. Anytime.


Thank you for connecting back on this call. We've been talking about the prophetic in the Old Testament and We saw you know different ways in which it was expressed and also the fact that It was only a few people Who were anointed by the Holy Spirit who moved in the prophetic in the Old Testament? But then you know, we will see that in the New Testament Every believer has this opportunity to be baptized in the Holy Spirit and also to Manifest the gifts of the Spirit. So now we're at chapter 3 where we will see experiences and You know different themes that have to do with the prophetic ministry in the New Testament so the first person Who is talked about is John the Baptist? Okay now with regard to the prophetic, you know, there are a couple of things that we can learn from John the Baptist so It is said that John the Baptist came in the spirit and power of Elijah So there is a Connection that John the Baptist had with Elijah. Now, what is this connection? We are told when Jesus spoke about John the Baptist Know that he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just to make ready People prepared for the Lord Luke 1 verse 17 So what is this? Spirit and power of Elijah. So basically it has to do with the anointing that Elijah carried Remember, we said that though there is a transference of the anointing That we can experience that anointing does not look Exactly like like how it is on a certain person's life So though the anointing of Elijah was upon John the Baptist It was not necessarily you see Elijah all those miraculous incidents took place In his ministry. So you cannot see something like that Spoken off about John the Baptist, you know, John the Baptist was bringing people to repentance but here's here's the thing we see that There was something like a way preparer or For runner anointing, you know that Elijah carried so he prepared the way for Elisha so after Elijah came Elisha with a double portion, but who was before Elisha? Elijah he made the path ready for that ministry of the miraculous now John the Baptist His anointing that comparable anointing or similar anointing has to do with this for runner or a pioneering You know anointing of God similar to that of Elisha So that is the reason why we are told that John the Baptist will come in the spirit and the power of Elisha So that is our Forerunner anointing of Elijah, which was upon John the Baptist There's a reference to that in the Gospels and as I said even Jesus spoke very very highly of John the Baptist In Matthew 11 versus 7 through 15. I'll just read one portion of it. Maybe the last Portion there for it says Okay Okay, I Matthew 11 versus 7 through 15 I don't know exactly which verse this is but the part where it says assuredly I say to you among those born of women There has not risen one greater than John the Baptist So you see Jesus is affirmation of John the Baptist But he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he so, you know, Jesus goes on to talk many different things about Him and Towards the end for all the prophets and the law prophesied until John and if you are willing to receive it He is Elijah. See that comparison. Why is Jesus even comparing John the Baptist to Elijah? It's not so much because John is a Prophet the way we understand prophets, but there is a profiting Anointing on John the Baptist life. So Elijah who is to come So Jesus also makes a comparison. He He highly regards John the Baptist. Okay, right. So that's a little bit about John the Baptist Let's move on to Jesus Jesus we know that He he carried The power of God that he carried the spirit without measure. That's how we read About Jesus. So what is it's the spirit without measure? Many interpretations say that Spirit without measure is talking about all the anointing Upon the life of Jesus. So all the five-fold Anointing and that Jesus was in all the five-fold offices So Jesus is an apostle. We know that because Hebrews chapter three verse one He says he's the apostle and high priest of our confession So Jesus is a teacher. We obviously see that in his life We we know that he was somebody who drew people to himself So he was in the ministry of an evangelist, but he was also in the ministry of the Prophet we know that Jesus, you know caring for the people good shepherd He was also in the office of a pastor. So in this section, we're going to look at Jesus as a Prophet he walked as a prophet.  He's the chief prophet So Moses many decades many centuries before Jesus said something like the Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me From your midst from your brethren him you shall hear who was Moses prophesying about he was talking about the Lord Jesus now in the book of acts, you know You see a reference to these statements talking about Jesus once again But even the first century believers knew that Moses was talking about the Lord Jesus Jesus is in the prophetic office and he is the one who is the chief of all Prophets and talking about himself, you know, remember the time when people were opposing Jesus and they were not valuing him He made a statement. He said no prophet is accepted in his own country Who is he talking about himself and what is he saying? He's saying I'm a prophet No prophet is accepted in his own country. So even Jesus affirmed it and said that I am a prophet and People also recognized him as a prophet. There are statements such as a great prophet has risen up among us God has visited his people, you know things like this where spoken about the Lord Jesus Okay, now, how did this prophetic anointing manifest in the life of Jesus? We can see that there were times when Jesus knew the hearts of the people remember it it says in Portions of scripture that he already knew what they were thinking So, how did he know through the prophetic anointing? Okay? He was fully God. He was fully man We know right that he left behind his his attribute of omniscience knowing everything when he became a man He was limited in his in his knowledge. That is why he had to grow in wisdom in stature and in favor with man and God but at the same time Because of the operation of the anointing There are portions of scripture that say that he already knew what they were thinking in their hearts So that is the prophetic in operation There were times when Jesus could reveal the true character of people Like Nathaniel, you know, here is a man without Guile. How does Jesus know what the character of an individual is? Jesus was saying he's a good man or Peter. He looked at Peter and said you are the rock whereas we know that if Jesus were to talk about Peter based on his His behavior He was very unstable But Jesus said you are the rock because he knew what was coming how Peter would end up being one of those Key leaders in the early church. So the character of people through the prophetic anointing Jesus was able to Release or proclaim it He even exposed, you know, secret thoughts and sins of People's hearts. So how did he know all this through the prophetic anointing? So such were the manifestations that we see in the life of Jesus But not just limited to that. There's also passages like Matthew chapter 24 and 25 Where he talks about the end of the age. So what is that? Isn't it speaking? Isn't it prophetic words about what is going to happen, you know, to to the world and the world events There will be earthquakes. There will be famines So as a prophet the Lord Jesus released all these words and you know, we see the ministry through his life Okay, what else is there in the New Testament the early church and the day of Pentecost which was Very crucial day in the life of the church, you know, many believe that the birth of the church was on that day of Pentecost so Acts chapter 2 Over there we had 12 Apostles 120 You know in you know rest 120 who are waiting upon the Lord at the church in Jerusalem And you know, the Holy Spirit was pulled out on them. So once This happened the ministry of the church began and we read about Many different people in the early church volunteers There were witnesses like Stephen there were evangelists like Philip. There were also prophets, so the earliest reference to prophets is in Acts chapter 11 where we see an established church in Antioch of Syria and over there There was a prophetic team that was sent by the Jerusalem church. Now these prophets they came from Jerusalem to Antioch And among them was a man called Agabus now Agabus when you read about Agabus in the book of Acts He is a prophet. He's referred to as a prophet and he was the one who predicted The days of famine the great famine throughout all the world which Happened in the days of Claudius Caesar and when he gave this prophetic word about The the calamity Okay, it was helpful because we know that the church started Some initiative they started collecting money and they started, you know, working on sending aid to Different places. So remember earlier when I think jeffina brought that question. Can the prophetic word Have something unpleasant in it. Yes, it can. So imagine Agabus saying that there's going to be famine It's not at all nice to hear a prophetic word like that But you see God's goodness in that prophetic word is that God is telling us beforehand What is going to happen so that we can prepare for it? It's helpful. Isn't it? So God is a Restorer redeemer. We shouldn't forget that Okay, so Agabus was a notable prophet and once, uh, you know, uh, these prophets came from Jerusalem we read in the in, uh The book of Acts that many teachers and prophets developed in the church See when there is the anointing that came to the Antioch church Okay, it's a it's another growing church like a sister church in in What do you say in the region But once the prophetic anointing came there soon we read that Many teachers and prophets were raised up in the church in a period of about two to three years so we can only we can only Understand this as you know, maybe an impartation took place once the prophets came That many other prophets started to rise up in the church and then you you see the flow of the prophetic in Acts chapter 13 When the leaders of the Antioch church, they are praying and they're ministering unto God God gives them a word and he says okay set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work for which I have called them So what's happening? You know, there are ministries that people are being called to even this is prophetic Isn't it God speaking to them and telling them the direction of the ministry for that Antioch church from that point onwards So something is stirred up in the church of Antioch Once the prophets came there. Uh, so we can learn from this. Oh, there is value There is impartation when when we have uh, you know, the the prophetic anointing come in to the Congregation so Then the word of the Lord Came to them and uh, there was this new ministry if you want to call it, which is a more like a missionary apostolic ministry that was uh, that started from acts chapter 13 And then you know, you had Barnabas and Saul who they start a journey. They start going to new places. So All of this is seen In the book of acts in the early church. So a couple of other things that we can We can see is Yeah, there was an issue in acts chapter 15 where The people were asking the question if Gentiles become believers. Should they also be circumcised? Okay, so this was a question which Which created contention Among the people because if you look at even the church of Antioch there were it it was a Gentile church Okay Many people were coming from the Gentile background and accepting Christ now Should we put put a rule and and say that the Gentile believers should also Follow the uh, Jewish traditions or not? Okay, so these questions arose but we see a very beautiful account of how Uh, this was dealt with so we have Paul And some folks go to the church in Jerusalem meet with the leaders of the Jerusalem church Regarding this question and you know, they have what is known as the Jerusalem council They all discuss and when they discuss, right? Uh, even there We we see that you know when they discuss after that Sort of God gives all of them the peace About the decision that they make that no Gentiles don't have to be circumcised But then there are some other uh, you know Some other uh guidelines which we can give the Gentiles like don't worship Like you know, don't do certain sacrifices and all because uh now the Jewish and the Gentile communities had to uh had to Live in a cordial way now that everyone people were becoming believers from both the community So that was the final decision But the Holy Spirit gave them peace regarding this matter and in Acts chapter 15 We also read about people like Judas and Silas They were prophets and they exorted and strengthened the brethren with many words So there were more prophets now, you know, we read about agabas But now you have Judas Silas all these people And later, uh, we we find that uh, some of them even Go ahead and they start traveling with apostle Paul. So, um, these are, you know, prophets because we are looking at the prophetic, right? In the early church, who else is there? We've read about agabas Judas Silas. Now another interesting Uh thing is that in Acts chapter two, we know, uh, the scripture said that your sons and daughters shall prophesy Okay, sons and daughters shall prophesy And in Acts chapter 21 remember this evangelist Philip who went to Samaria and uh, he did the work of God in Samaria He had four daughters and it is said that Philip's daughters prophesied. So obviously Um, seems like they had some sort of a Prophetic ministry, they could have been believers of prophesied, but since it is mentioned they prophesied It's likely they had some sort of a prophetic ministry. So even women Were prophesying in the early church So these are all accounts of the prophetic in the in the early church Yes, so in Acts 21 again agabas makes another very important prophecy where He tells Paul don't go to Jerusalem Okay, look at this He says that whoever, you know, the man who's built this is so he takes Paul's belt and He sort of, you know binds himself with that belt and His own hands and feet and he says thus says the Holy Spirit So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the gentiles So that is the prophetic word Okay, that Paul If you go to Jerusalem, you are going to be caught You will be taken into custody. That's what agabas is saying Now did Paul know about this? Even Paul knew that this is what is going to happen However, in addition to the prophetic word Agabas and the others were telling him Paul don't go Now Paul don't go was not a prophetic word You are going to be caught is a prophetic word But Paul don't go is something that came out of their own hearts because they did not want Paul to face difficulties So you see there Not everything is prophecy There was prophecy but there was something that came out of people's hearts Out of their love for Paul and they were saying hey, we don't want you to go through all this Paul So don't go to Jerusalem and Paul said no no I have to go. This is what God is calling me to so I'm going to go to Jerusalem So these are things that we see in the New Testament now as we move ahead No, we see Paul's explanation about the gift of prophecy. Okay, and I I'm not gonna touch on this At least some of the points because it'll be a repetition Many of us asked a lot of questions. So by now you probably have an idea already So we'll see, you know, how much should be covered here So in 1 Corinthians chapter 12 as we've already said, you know, there are there are the gifts of this spirit Which are listed out for us. I think it's very important for us to read this passage So could somebody read it 1 Corinthians chapter 12 versus 1 through 11 Huh? Yeah, you could read 12 1 Corinthians 12 1 to 11 1 Corinthians chapter 12 was 1 to 11 now about spiritual gifts brothers I do not want you to be ignorant. You know that when you were pagans Somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols Therefore, I tell you that no one who is speaking by the spirit of God says Jesus be cursed and no one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit There are different kinds of gifts, but the same spirit. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men Now to each one the manifestation of the spirit is given For the common good to one there is given through the spirit the message of wisdom to another the message of knowledge By means of the same spirit to another faith by the same spirit to another gifts of healing by that one spirit To another miraculous powers to another prophecy To another distinguishing between kinds of tongues and to still another the interpretation of tongues All these are the work of one and the same spirit and he gives them to each one just as he determines Okay, thank you. So here we've seen that the Holy Spirit manifests himself through these diverse gifts And we also noted that the manifestation of the spirit is given to each one for the profit of also What are the gifts of the spirit supposed to do? They are supposed to benefit They are supposed to help. They are supposed to profit Every believer or the body of believers Now there is a list of the gifts. So there is the word of wisdom There is the word of knowledge. There is faith There is gifts of healings There is working of miracles prophecy discerning of spirits and different kinds of tongues Interpretation of tongues. So this is the list of at least nine things that we see here But one and the same spirit works all these things distributing to each one Individually as he wills. So Holy Spirit is the same But he brings these There are nine manifestations That are listed why these manifestations for the profit of all so that the body of believers will be Blessed that is the reason God has given us all these gifts So here we read about the gift of prophecy In first Corinthians chapter 14 and verse 3 It says he who prophesies edify he uh, sorry it says Brings edification exhortation and comfort to men. So the purpose of the gift of prophecy No, we've understood edification exhortation and comfort to men and we've seen this earlier and that the prophecy or profiting gift in verse 4 it says that it edifies the church edifies is strengthen So it will strengthen the church This is why God has given Prophecy and we will look at it in a deeper way later Now this what we have talked about is the simple gift of prophecy and I've explained about it earlier Or you know, sometimes they say basic gift of prophecy. Okay. What is the next progression next level in the progression here Grace gift of prophecy grace gift of prophecy. I think they also call it membership Gifts so in roman chapter 12 Verses four through eight It says for as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same functions So we being many are one body in christ and individually members of one another Having then gifts membership gifts having then gifts Deferring according to the grace that is given to us. Let us use them. See here membership gift Grace gift of prophecy. So God gives the grace for a prophetic ministry Let us use them and there first in the list if prophecy Let us prophesy in proportion to our faith or ministry Let us use it in our ministering. He who teaches in teaching he who exalts in exhortation He who gives with liberality. He who leads with diligence. He who shows mercy with So a couple of things that we can understand here Prophecy is one of the membership gifts as well Earlier, what did we see gift of the holy spirit prophecy, which is simple gift of prophecy now membership gift of prophecy or we can also say Grace because this is according to the grace which is given to us And what other what other information can we get here? It says he who if prophecy Let us prophesy in proportion to our faith So our level of operating in the prophetic depends on our level of faith So the greater faith we have or the greater faith we develop For the prophetic gift we can keep going higher and higher and higher in releasing or manifesting this gift of prophecy So what does this membership gift or grace gift mean? We understand that some people have that that grace to Move in a greater measure in the prophetic gift. So they have a prophetic ministry We also use the term prophetic ministry. So prophetic ministry is different from a believer prophesying believers can prophesy But we will not say that they have a prophetic ministry. See I can release Few hundred prophecies through my life or 200 or even a thousand prophecies But that doesn't make me a person with a prophetic ministry You get it. So believers can move in the prophetic. They can release prophecies But there is a grace given to some people who have this membership gift of prophetic ministry So their ministry is prophetic Okay, so that's how we would look at this now moving on to the next level in the progression is the office of a prophet Or you would also say ministry gift of prophet. Now. What gift is this? Okay, let's see Jesus himself gave it in Ephesians chapter 4 verses 11 through 13 Let me read it because all these passages are very important We should know what they say and he himself gave some to be apostles Some prophets some evangelists and some pastors and teachers for the equipping of the saints for the work of the ministry For the edifying of the body of christ till we all come to the unity of the faith And of the knowledge of the son of god to a perfect man to the measure Of the stature of the fullness of christ. So for a certain outcome. What is that? The equipping of the saints for the edifying of the body for the unity of faith and knowledge of the son of god And also the maturing of the believer Helping them Become that perfect man We talked about we're talking about perfect man to the measure of the stature of the fullness of christ So these things have to be achieved equipping of the saints edifying of the body all these things have to be achieved How are we going to achieve this? What Jesus has done is he has given gifts Who are these gifts? We are told that he gives the five fold Uh people in the five fold ministry offices and their job Is to work on all these outcomes So as they do what they're anointing calls them to do function as an apostle function as a prophet function as a teacher function as a pastor What's happening these outcomes will be seen in the body of christ, but notice here That he himself gave Some to be apostles. So here it very clearly says Earlier we said gift of prophecy all can move in it, right? But Here God is already chosen Jesus has appointed. So there are people who are appointed. He himself gave Some to be apostles some Prophets so there are people who are called in by God into these offices So this is not something that we can desire and get it from God No, unless God has appointed us in these ministry offices It's not possible for us to uh step into the office or have the ministry gift of You know an apostle prophet or anything like that again first Corinthians 12 28. It sort of uh strengthens what we just read And God has appointed these in the church First apostles second prophets third teachers after that miracles and gifts of healings Helps administrations variety of tongues. Okay, uh, right. So We have an idea now about the levels of progression and this is all in the new testament and that is why No, we we are trying to get a Grip of these truths Okay, so one thing is clear that god has appointed apostles and prophets in the old testament You know, we've seen the work of the prophets in the early church We've seen the work of those 12 apostles those 12 apostles when we study about apostolic ministry You will understand this in a deeper way So they were known as the apostles of the lamb and also we know that scriptures tell us that God is building the church on the foundation of Apostles and prophets so they there was a certain kind of apostolic and prophetic ministry which they were functioning in On which you know, the church has been established But today today the apostolic and the prophetic is very much alive But the way the anointing plays out or manifests itself can be different as compared to the early church You know apostles and prophets So it can be similar in in some ways, but then There can also be a certain differences So why does god want apostles and prophets to continue to strengthen, you know The foundations of the church to rebuild sometimes foundations of local churches by bringing the word of the lord to confirm to Clarify a god given vision or even to provide direction to a local church Which is progressing in the in the purpose of god. Sometimes they You know come and restore order if order is is You know instead of order there is chaos. They come and restore it So these are all the key things that god wants done through the apostolic and the prophetic offices So even today, you know, we might ask the question. What does the ministry gift of the prophet do? So the ministry gift of the prophet it will as I said something to do with strengthening foundation. So They will continue to lay a strong doctrinal foundation For the people they will hear from god and they will announce You know certain moves of god or they they will guide on what the holy spirit wants right now And what the holy spirit wants in the ministry remember acts 13 till that time Yes, people were traveling but not in a way that barnabas and paul started doing after acts 13 But the holy spirit came and the holy spirit spoke to them and said come on Now is the next season go You know till now you were just here around here close to jerusalem now go on, you know spread to different parts So that's what we mean when we say Moves of god Directives of god Also announcing, you know the the mind of god to the larger larger body of christ To the cities and nations. So these are all things that The the prophets would do remember agabus how he spoke and he said hey There's going to be a time when there will be a famine and all so The prophets will continue to do things like this and there could be issues within the church Okay, which need a revelation from god to solve So if we recall in acts 15, it was a very critical phase when they had to make a decision should or Should the gentiles not get circumcised but thank god with the work of the spirit You know there they were able to address this matter by hearing from god and they established order in church government or The way the church should function. That's what we call church government And that was a blessing to the wider body of christ. So throughout the region You know it was declared. It was decreed. It was announced that look if gentiles are coming to christ Then they don't have to get circumcised. They simply have to stay away from certain Certain practices so this is this is what you know We we have seen in the progression and the functions of these three levels so What is the distinguishing feature of these three levels in the prophetic progression? Well, you know, we've said that we've said that they are three realms of influence, isn't it? So the realm of influence is very different in the basic Gift of prophecy our influence is there But it's not as much as somebody who carries the grace gift of prophecy or the person who is in the prophetic ministry Their influence is not as much as the one who is in the prophetic office. So the realms of influence vary We could also say that the measure of the anointing varies. Okay, obviously When we are saying progression, there's a greater anointing when somebody is in the prophetic office And yeah, so these things are what are different, you know, the boundaries of operation of these gifts I think we've covered most of what we needed to I believe Yeah, so we've talked about everything else earlier So if there's any specific question you have, you know, you can stop me and we can Talk about it for a little while. Otherwise, I will continue Yes, is Divya Thank you. Thank you pastor my question is about the so The second one that you told was membership Gift and the third is ministry gifts Yeah, so uh, uh, what what is the uh, like, I don't know whether you'll be covering it in the next section but uh, like what is the essential difference between like membership and ministry because uh Isn't it both of them are like, you know are for The purpose of the church edification So what Jen? What is the real difference between these two? And yes So Divya as I said, uh, it is the The boundaries of operation the influence. So somebody who has the membership gift or the grace gift of prophecy Um, they are operating At a greater level than a prophesying believer But not as much as the one who's in the office So that influence level of influence varies Okay, and we we also see that the measures of the anointing varies So somebody who's in the prophetic office is functioning at a way greater Measure of anointing as compared to somebody who's in the prophetic ministry So it's mainly Uh, the influence levels of influence and the measure of anointing which is different Okay, okay, so uh I think this is like a follow-up on a question that I had asked earlier Uh, so in the old testament, uh Is there like a distinction like this? Uh, like a ministry like a person in office of the prophet operating in the membership gift Any distinction like that? Yeah, so that's what I uh clarified earlier divya In the old testament you see direct office of a prophet sort of ministry only Isn't it all the gad the nathan samuel elijah elijah? um as a kill so the the The prophetic anointing comes upon them and generally, you know, they uh, they and it It sort of repeats Upon the lives of these men and women and so we understand that they are prophets and they were even called as prophets So they were all in the they were all functioning under the office of a prophet kind of an anointing Okay, just that because in the old testament it doesn't talk about the different levels. We don't mention it But that's the comparison Okay, nearly all of them are Prophets we directly call them prophets And one or two as I said, you know sol he was prophesying even the donkey prophesied. So, uh It's not about levels when they came under the influence Like even those 70 elders they came under the influence to some extent as a one-off thing Prophecy came but that's about it. Okay, so invariably in the old testament Our way of thinking is when there was the prophetic anointing It was on the prophets. They were all prophets They were in the office of the prophet Whereas in the new testament you have a progression Right, so not everybody is in the prophets office of a prophet All can prophesy Okay, but there are some who are in the officer. So that whole progression that distinction all that is for the new testament You don't have anything like that in the old testament Yeah, so when when you mentioned anointing came it is just like saying when the Holy Spirit came on them Yeah Okay, okay. Yeah, and also I wanted to ask you like How how how can one identify like how can a believer identify whether they are called into you know, uh, this An office of the prophet or whether it is uh, you know ministry Um, like membership gift. So how how is that a believer can identify that? Okay Um, so the way both ways one can know From the beginning that they are called into a certain office because god has revealed it. Okay to them Uh, so that is a possibility where Let's you know, like for example, uh, Saul Yes, Saul He accepted christ and then you know that whole thing happens He goes blind and then Ananias comes to it. But you see, uh, right around that time It was given to to Saul like what he is going to do So in the beginning itself God can reveal and say hey, I've called you as an apostle I've called you as a teacher to the body. I've called you as a prophet. So people can know but It can also be the other way Where one doesn't know which office they are called into But the manifestation of the prophetic anointing through their lives, you know, as time goes by They are increasing in the measures and at some point Everyone around them recognizes that they are in the prophetic office and they themselves also recognize that they are in the prophetic office So it can happen both ways Can you know with your hand or you learn eventually? I hope that answers your question Yeah, sure sure pastor. I I had one more question It is regarding the this is something that you mentioned earlier like during the initial class classes, uh, so, uh, you mentioned something like A prophecy is always uh, followed by Intercession or a prayer kind of something like that, but a prayer doesn't need to be You know have a prophecy Like prior to that. So, uh, is it always like that because if we look at Some of the old testament We may we may we might have exceptions right where there was there was not an intercession that followed The prophecy. Yeah, so just wanted to clarify that Sure, Divya. So see the meaning of uh, what Or what I implied was one needs a prayer life or, uh, a connect with God to be able to flow in Uh, the prophetic ministry or prophecy. So without prayer, we cannot grow in the prophetic Okay, it's not so much prophetic intercession. I'm just saying when we have a strong prayer life the way Abraham did Uh, he you know, he was flowing in the prophetic now the other way around other way around is, um One can be Prayerful, but they need not be prophetic. So one cannot be prophetic without prayer But one can be prayerful Without being prophetic. Okay. So that's what I implied. I hope it's clear this time Okay, okay. Yeah. Yeah, sure. Yes. I got it. Okay, right. Okay. Thank you Yeah, thank you. Ah, yes So pastor, I just want to know whether I'm understanding, right? So in ax chapter 21, we see, uh, phillips daughters, uh, prophesying So and then agabus comes so agabus is actually in the office of prophecy. I mean, I just want to know whether I'm understanding In my perspective, I think agabus is from the office of prophecy So the doctors whether they were members of the prophecy or or they were just believers who prophesied Good question So over there what you see is we Like, uh, phillips daughters they prophesied it says, okay So nothing more is given to us So we can only interpret it Okay, with with what we have understood Agabus clear cut. He's in the office of a prophet. That's okay. Now the daughters of phillip My understanding is, uh, they were more than Women who prophesied I feel like that because you see, uh, everyone could prophesy So if everyone is prophesying, there's no special mention Now these women must have had a prophetic ministry. That is the only reason especially They are it's being told that phillips four daughters. They prophesied. So that's my understanding jeffina They probably had a prophetic ministry. It's a it's a sort of a calculated guess Okay, pastor. So, uh, we can actually classify like this, right? I mean, when we see someone Prophecy or when the Bible stays we can really think like whether they are believers We have the progression And this whole technical, you know, and progression is for us to understand and gain an understanding. So I would say Yes, we may be able to, uh, look at somebody and classify them in one of the three sections But frankly, enjoy the gift of prophecy.  Where am I? Yeah, thank you best Yeah, sure All right, so I think we've run out of time. We will wrap up with the word of prayer What I encourage Someone to quickly come in and please lead us in a word of prayer That's right. J. Heavenly Father, we come to you under the name of Jesus. We thank you for this beautiful class that we had God, we thank you for the gift of prophecy. God, we thank you that you're a god who speaks with us God, we thank you for you're always there to guide us to edify us and we thank you for your word We thank you for the people who are helping us through this prophecy And we thank you so much for filling us who are just a broken vessel But you have filled us with these gifts filled us with these treasures as we learn more about it Help us to seek your word more seek your kingdom more and to get more deeper about this gift So that we can edify others for your kingdom so that we can encourage others and lift up others To live a life that glorifies you and we ourselves can live a life that glorifies you We thank you and we love you in Jesus name. We pray amen Amen. Thank you. Tefina. Thank you everyone. God bless you Have a wonderful week. We'll meet again next week. God bless Bye for now


Happy anniversary to the Columbia Empowerment Zone. For ten years now, C-E-Z Inc. has worked to efficiently, effectively, and enthusiastically to create and support economic development opportunities in the city of Columbia. It actually started as the Empowerment Zone with Sumter many years ago, and from there, they have just blossomed. I really think of the Columbia Empowerment Zone Inc. as one of our foremost development corporations that we look to for the development of our city. Particularly a lot of that activity that has occurred in North Columbia, you can contribute to their work. With all of the efforts of that board, the staff, their work with the city staff, they have done miraculous things with a little. We were fortunate enough to receive the grant from C-E-Z when we were buying the property and looking at renovating the building. So it was an integral part for us to be able, as a small business, to be able to do something like buy this property and renovate the building for our offices. And I think you see it around what's just happening on North Main right now. That small amounts of money given to help small businesses helps grow a neighborhood and helps grow areas in Columbia. So that's been, I think, instrumental in what's happened down in the North Main corridor. C-E-Z Inc. has been in the forefront in helping with our economic development throughout the city. They have been instrumental in providing small business loans. They've helped to make it different where other resources have not been available. And that's one of the primary purposes of it is to fill those funding gaps and fill those development gaps. I'd really love to thank the Columbia Empowerment Zone. I mean, it's a great, great project. They work on tons of things around Columbia. As I've met with the group and talked to most of the people, it's just phenomenal what they can get accomplished and what they do to help the community. Didn't anticipate some of the expenses that came with opening a place like this. You run into areas where there are just things that you don't think about, even if you've got a great business plan. We are incredibly grateful for that loan from C-E-Z. It just made the difference for us in getting over that hump just to get open. It is certainly an empowering venture to allow folk in our communities to be empowered financially with resources that might help expand the city of ours. The funds to a small business, which ENDA is and Candidly we are too, funds like that are incredibly valuable, probably more so than people realize. I'd like to say thank you for what you have done for us personally but also what you're doing in the area. It's incredibly impactful and don't stop doing it. It was a unique opportunity for us to leverage federal dollars into helping spin off everything from giving business loans out to being able to help with facade grants. It was a great impact in those zones where we really needed some extra help. Not only are they bringing projects to the city of Columbia, but they're reinvesting in the community and they've been sustainable. The one and only in the Empowerment Zone without the country to sustain after the initial 10 years. Collaborative partnerships that were necessary for the growth of our company and the Columbia Empowerment Zone is a critical part of that. Being able to partner with the Empowerment Zone for the funding we needed to secure the building which afforded us the opportunity to hire people from right here in the community and that hiring extend for many, many years and quite honestly, I don't know if we would have realized the success that we've had over the past 28 years had it not been for the partnership with the Empowerment Zone. It has done wonderful projects all over the city of Columbia that has benefited the economic development of the city plus the housing and other things that the Empowerment Zone has tackled over their 10 years. So many CEs across the country watch their Empowerment Zones go away. With the establishment of CEC Inc. a decade ago we were able here in Columbia to have an effective tool to addressing not just blight in our community but to accelerate the development of some of our neighborhoods that wanted it for so long. All up and down the North Main Corridor, Farrow Road, downtown the CEC Inc. has been creative in helping us develop solutions to rehabilitating old buildings, to building new construction, to building new community development facilities. It's been an incredible asset led by not just a fantastic professional team but a wonderful independent board of directors as well. Thank you so much to CEC for helping us obtain a building right across from Richland Hospital so we can service the cancer patients here in South Carolina. We could not have made it this far without you. Congratulations on your 10 years. Congrats guys. Way to go Felicia. Happy 10 year anniversary Columbia Empowerment Zone. Happy 10 year anniversary Columbia Empowerment Zone Inc. Happy anniversary. Thank you for what you've done for us and so many others but more importantly thank you for what you've done for this community. Happy 10 year anniversary Columbia Empowerment Zone Inc. Happy 10 year anniversary CEC Inc.