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I would love to invite up pretty to come and speak to us and interview. So pretty has been helping me with training of Christian school teachers and it's an amazing ministry and I'm really blessed to have her joining me. We've been training together this year and hopefully pretty we'll take on all the schools

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training next year and following. So it's wonderful for you to join us pretty and excited for the way that God is going to continue to use you in the future. But before we get into that, tell us a bit about yourself, you're married, your church,

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etc. Yeah, so my name's pretty, I feel like everyone got to share their full name before. Before I was married I was Chevy, Nearage Nelson, Jad of but now I'm just pretty Riley. I'm married to none of those names are the same.

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I'm married to Josh, we're at Minter Anglican in South West Sydney where Josh is the family's minister, so together we look after kids, youth families, we get to partner with parents in discipling their children, it's a really exciting ministry to be a part of there.

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But you did do the Indian thing and take your husband's name as one of your middle names, right? Yeah, that's pretty cool. So pretty Josh Riley now, that's pretty cool.

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So what is your culture and family background pretty? So I was born in Gujarat, in like the Northwest area of India, we moved here when I was really young with my parents, so all my extended families still live overseas, but I lived with my parents, my older sister and my two younger brothers who still live in Campbelltown

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so nice and close to me. So how did you first come to put your trust in the Lord Jesus? So both my parents were raised in Christian families and so that meant that they carried on the tradition of teaching your children the gospel and Bible stories, making sure they

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knew the Bible really well. And so I've been privileged to say that I'm never known a day without Jesus in my life. But I was more Christian in name and that didn't really impact my life and I didn't think it had to.

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By God's grace I knew in my head that I loved Jesus and that I needed to trust Him to get into heaven. I had this distinct memory of when I was about six years old in Sunday school and the leader had taught the story of the wise and foolish builders and then asked pretty do you think you're

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a wise or a foolish builder? And I was like I think I'm building on the stone but I don't know what that means and so she had said do you trust that Jesus died and came back to life and do you love Him as your Lord?

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And I said yeah of course I do. Before that to say I think I've been a Christian my whole life but it wasn't until I saw my youth leaders living Jesus's love in their everyday lives and it really clicked for me that being a Christian impacts every part of your life not just the things you know and say you believe.

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So I still have to make sure I don't fall into the trap of saying I love Jesus and then not letting it impact my life. One big thing I did was I dropped out of uni much to my parents dismay to study theology at youthworks college because I was convinced that people need to hear the gospel and people where I grew up in South West Sydney really need to

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hear the gospel and that was worth giving up my time and my life plans for. All right you started volunteering with Satya to train staff or professional development of staff in Christian schools. Why is Satya doing that I mean it's Christian schools tell us a bit about that.

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Yeah so some Christian schools have told us that 70% of their students are Hindu or Sikh. That's huge. But then when you look around most Christian teachers are Anglo and they don't really realize the cultural baggage that comes with someone from a South Asian family

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and so we together get to train them to broaden their cultural understanding and give them tips on how to show Jesus's love not in just what they say but in how they treat their students but also I'm really scared for the day this backfires on me but raise your hand if you would say you became a Christian before the age of 18.

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Great look around you I did too 90% of people come to faith before the age of 18 and so children are exploring they're curious they're asking questions like it's just such a huge mission field for people to know the gospel and to learn about it and schools are seeing this mission field an exciting opportunity that has come up recently is that the Anglican

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schools corporation has contacted us to help them write a new biblical studies curriculum which addresses the concerns of their Hindu or Sikh students directly and so we've been able to sit down and write this curriculum with them and so that's been really exciting for us.

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It's not amazing that they're actually realising that our culture is so much more diverse and they need to rewrite the curriculum to reach people from different backgrounds. So we're going to be starting to do that on the 18th of November and continue to work with them so praise God finally what are some things that we can be praying for you?

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Yeah first of all thank God that's so many non Christians are choosing to put their kids in non in Christian schools so this is a mission field that has emerged only from God's grace we didn't control them or advertise to non Christians they just came and so we need to thank God for his grace and mercy in that area pray for me and the such a network

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as we navigate my new role pray that God would equip me to be supporting and training teachers in evangelism and give me lots of creativity to work in our very diverse education system and pray for Christian teachers who are in this mission field every day pray that God would fill them with his spirit speaking his word into everything that they do and

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say and the way that they love their students. Praise God let's pray together for this ministry as well Father thank you so much that non Christians are coming to Christian schools particularly thank you for the amazing way that mission in India has impacted Christian schooling and even as Indians come to here they

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know that Christians do education well thank you for the huge mission field of students who are coming here to study in Christian schools. Father please equip and train pretty help it to keep growing in her knowledge and love of people and please raise up more leaders in this space and Father we pray that you

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would use her to equip Christian teachers to share Christ with students from many cultures that they would do this not just with their words but as well as the way they love kids the way they shape their curriculum through Bible stories and testimonies and many engaging ways to share Christ and particularly to live a godly life to show your love and your

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light in the Christian schools Lord please bring many South Asian students to come and worship and love and trust the Lord Jesus bless this new initiative we pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Thanks guys we're going to actually pray the Lord's Prayer together now we'll invite up a few people to help say this in different languages so please come up and help us and we'll all stand up and say the Lord's Prayer together in English after we've done that.

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Okay so we've got to help us here we're going to pray in Hindi in Tamil in Singhala in Punjabi and in Nepal so please pray with us. Okay. Okay.

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Let's pray our Father in heaven hello be your name your kingdom come your will be done on earth as in heaven give us today our daily bread forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for the kingdom the power and the glory are yours now and forever.

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Amen. Friends please take a seat what a beautiful reminder different languages different cultures different backgrounds but one father one Lord and one hope in Christ and after everything we've heard today about the power of Christ there is really only one appropriate response

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to him be all glory.