WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.900 --> 00:00:12.100 Hello! Apa kabar Ira? 2 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:16.000 Apa yang kita bisa belih? 3 00:00:17.400 --> 00:00:19.949 Ngga, santenya ngga. Kita ada. 4 00:00:20.900 --> 00:00:23.500 Language is power. 5 00:00:23.500 --> 00:00:27.100 Language is what lets you control the conversation, the dialogue. 6 00:00:27.100 --> 00:00:30.100 It lets you control the lines of communication. 7 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:36.200 I grew up in an ethnic church where we were bilingual. 8 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:37.200 My family was heavily invested in it. 9 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:39.753 My dad was one of its early founders. 10 00:00:39.753 --> 00:00:42.800 We're the kids who filled out the Sunday school in its early days. 11 00:00:42.800 --> 00:00:44.500 We were like the only Sunday school kids basically. 12 00:00:44.500 --> 00:00:48.160 We had a growing second generation that was born in America, 13 00:00:48.160 --> 00:00:52.800 spoke English and so we decided to create a separate worship service. 14 00:00:55.899 --> 00:00:59.116 But eventually that kind of became two churches in one building. 15 00:00:59.116 --> 00:01:00.900 And language was the fault line. 16 00:01:00.900 --> 00:01:02.831 It was exactly where the division happened. 17 00:01:02.831 --> 00:01:04.600 The English service became its own church 18 00:01:04.600 --> 00:01:07.100 and the Indonesian service became its own church. 19 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:13.800 One of the things that was difficult for us is that I have a grandma. 20 00:01:13.800 --> 00:01:15.200 She can speak five languages. 21 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:18.800 She could speak various dialects of Chinese, Indonesian and also some English. 22 00:01:18.800 --> 00:01:22.300 But the truth is that the English that we use in our worship services 23 00:01:22.300 --> 00:01:25.000 is pretty difficult for her to understand. 24 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:33.219 Wouldn't it be great if someone like my grandma 25 00:01:33.219 --> 00:01:36.370 could go to any worship gathering on a Sunday? 26 00:01:36.370 --> 00:01:37.600 Just like walk up right to the door. 27 00:01:37.600 --> 00:01:40.400 She's welcomed by the greeters who may not speak her language. 28 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:43.000 And instead of giving her a paper bulletin and asking her sit somewhere, 29 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:44.800 they basically give her like a tablet. 30 00:01:44.800 --> 00:01:48.000 And as it begins she's seeing everything that's being said in her language. 31 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:50.500 And she's able to like understand and praise and worship 32 00:01:50.500 --> 00:01:54.000 and feel joy and all the other emotions that happen in the service. 33 00:01:55.700 --> 00:01:58.500 With our technology you can also flip the script. 34 00:01:58.500 --> 00:02:01.600 You can let these other guests who speak other languages 35 00:02:01.600 --> 00:02:03.700 be the ones even speaking up front. 36 00:02:03.700 --> 00:02:06.700 We really believe that the vision in Revelation 7 was that 37 00:02:06.700 --> 00:02:10.800 people from every tribe and language would be worshiping God together 38 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:12.400 before the throne. 39 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:25.500 If I were to be frank, I feel like even with our technology-- 40 00:02:25.500 --> 00:02:28.400 my grandma, it helps her to understand, 41 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:30.200 but it's not enough. 42 00:02:30.200 --> 00:02:33.400 Because what's missing? Relationship. 43 00:02:33.400 --> 00:02:36.400 People still view her as the outsider, which she is, 44 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:39.300 but because of the language barrier in the personal conversation, 45 00:02:39.300 --> 00:02:42.300 she's not gonna be able to really make a lot of friends. 46 00:02:42.300 --> 00:02:45.200 And so we want our technology to get to that level 47 00:02:45.200 --> 00:02:48.000 where you can actually make friends with people in other languages. 48 00:02:51.900 --> 00:02:54.400 I first started TheoTech to invent the products that can deliver 49 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:57.180 the outcomes that God desires. 50 00:02:57.180 --> 00:02:59.700 That mindset shift enables you now to experiment, 51 00:02:59.700 --> 00:03:00.880 to try out new technology, 52 00:03:00.880 --> 00:03:05.860 and then to keep iterating on it until it actually solves the problem. 53 00:03:05.860 --> 00:03:07.500 If you really want to welcome the stranger, 54 00:03:07.500 --> 00:03:09.000 the people who don't have access, 55 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:10.836 the people who don't have voice, 56 00:03:10.836 --> 00:03:13.100 it's not by making them conform to your language. 57 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:18.300 It's by in some ways incarnating and welcoming them in their language. 58 00:03:18.300 --> 00:03:21.114 If we go for the harder problem of dealing with language 59 00:03:21.114 --> 00:03:23.900 and trying to integrate it fully into our worship and our community 60 00:03:23.900 --> 00:03:27.100 we end up having to address a lot of the other hard problems 61 00:03:27.100 --> 00:03:30.300 of culture, of race, 62 00:03:30.300 --> 00:03:31.800 of all the ways that we have to 63 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:37.200 lay down our lives for one another, really.