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The older generation also listen to international preachers on the TV and via other
communication media. John Masih, one of the earliest members of RPC, said that
he wakes up at 2.00 in the morning every Sunday to listen to Joyce Meyer on the
TV. There are others in the same church, who also listen to her regularly. 53 Some
of them, after watching such a large crowd, and the praise and worship and
preaching style, wanted their pastors to perform in a similar way to these
international preachers. As the CDs and DVDs of these preachers and praise and
worship teams are available in India people buy them. Lam Lal, is the choir leader
as well as youth coordinator in the FFCI, Kherwara. He watches the DVDs of
various international preachers, including the south Indian healing evangelist
D.G.S. Dhinakaran. Every week he shows some of these DVDs to the members of
his church after the Sunday service and most are more than willing to watch them
and are interested in international preachers. Lal has a good collection of DVDs of
such messages, and he said that his future plan is to open a Christian studio where
he can produce and reproduce similar DVDs legally. 54
The second area where global Pentecostal connection is felt is theological
education. There are visiting teachers who come on regular as well as occasional
basis from the UK and US to theological schools in the state. The faculty list of
FBC is an example. 55 It has two regular adjunct faculty members, Steven
Lombardo (North America) and Ben Pugh (England), who offer regular courses.
Apart from them, there are pastors like Martin Hannington and Allan Bell
(England), who come regularly to offer other short courses on Christian Ministry
53 For example, Joseph Daniel, interview by author, Udaipur, Rajasthan, 06 May 2006.
54 Lam Lal (pseudonym), interview by author, Udaipur, Rajasthan, 14 May 2006.
55 Filadelfia Bible College, Prospectus 2004, (Udaipur, India: FBC, 2004), 9-11.
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