The 700 Club - January 14, 2025

January 31, 2025 | S25:E23

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  • - [narrator] the following program
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  • Is sponsored by cbn.
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  • - [narrator] coming up, hit by a bus.
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  • - they never told us that she would live.
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  • - [narrator] thrown 80 feet.
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  • - we just knew we had a long battle ahead of us.
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  • - [narrator] a young woman
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  • With multiple broken bones
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  • And a brain injury.
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  • - it just didn't even look like maggie.
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  • - [narrator] the fight to save her life.
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  • - i know that that was the holy spirit
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  • That was guiding me.
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  • - [narrator] and how she emerged
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  • Stronger than ever.
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  • - it was just the most beautiful thing.
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  • - [narrator] on today's 700 club.
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  • (gentle music)
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  • - well, welcome to the 700 club.
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  • Victims of sex trafficking suffer
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  • From trauma long after
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  • They're set free from the industry.
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  • - in tennessee, trafficking increased
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  • More than 30% in recent years,
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  • So now there are a growing number
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  • Of victims who need help.
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  • Charlene aaron visited one ministry
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  • That's providing much needed healing
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  • For a fresh start.
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  • - rest stop ministries
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  • Here in lebanon, tennessee is dedicated
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  • To restoring women who have been trafficked.
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  • It offers a long-term trauma recovery program,
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  • As well as, educational
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  • And job training opportunities in an effort
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  • To help victims heal.
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  • - it started when i was three actually.
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  • - [narrator] galia ahava meira's own grandfather
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  • Took that step by selling her for sex
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  • To his fellow members of the kkk.
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  • - that went on up until he passed away
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  • When i was almost seven.
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  • - [narrator] that trauma then led
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  • To a lonely life of drug and alcohol abuse.
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  • - actually, i had been on life support
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  • For nine days due to an overdose,
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  • And no one came to the hospital to see me.
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  • No one in my family at all.
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  • When i woke up
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  • After they had taken the machines off,
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  • There was a social worker there from cps,
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  • And that is how i got out.
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  • I got put in foster care.
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  • - [narrator] after aging out of foster care,
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  • Galia hoped marriage might provide a new start.
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  • Sadly, her husband continued the exploitation
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  • And even became her pimp.
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  • - he actually would sleep
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  • With a pistol under my pillow,
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  • With his finger on the trigger.
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  • For me to just be able to reach out to someone
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  • And say, this is happening wasn't possible.
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  • - [narrator] her breakthrough
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  • Came during a secret skype call
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  • With a trauma counselor
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  • Who told galia about rest stop ministries,
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  • Tennessee's first long-term program
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  • For female sex trafficking victims.
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  • - they partnered with another agency
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  • And sent a rescue team to ohio
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  • To get me out of that situation.
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  • - these women come to us broken body,
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  • Mind, soul, and spirit.
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  • We have, you know, a trauma-focused therapist,
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  • And we have clinical case managers
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  • Creating comprehensive healing plans
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  • That help these women deal
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  • With whatever they need to deal
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  • With to be completely rehabilitated.
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  • Made whole in christ.
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  • - [narrator] founder and executive director,
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  • Rondy smith explains
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  • The ministry's holistic approach.
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  • - we tell these women
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  • When they come through the door,
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  • "your life has been hard,
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  • But the bravest thing you've ever done is walk
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  • Through these doors.
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  • And the healing journey
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  • Is going to be just as hard.
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  • And if you'll come
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  • And just focus on doing
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  • The very hard work of healing,
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  • We're gonna take care of your every need."
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  • - [narrator] part of that healing includes
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  • A nine month curriculum called,
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  • Good hope farms that provides education
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  • And employment opportunities.
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  • - they are learning job skills,
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  • Paid hands-on, they're being paid to learn
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  • Because they need to be ready
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  • When they transition
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  • And when they start working and earning
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  • And it boosts their self-esteem
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  • And they realize there is hope for me
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  • To transform my life.
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  • - [narrator] hope came in the form
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  • Of the opportunity to purchase a 25 acre property
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  • That would allow the growing ministry
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  • To turn evil into good.
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  • - we have seen in our eight
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  • And a half years being open,
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  • 57 souls who have come through
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  • And you might say, "well,
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  • That doesn't sound a like a lot for eight years."
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  • Remember, they can stay here two full years.
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  • So many of them now are living independently
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  • For the very first time.
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  • They get their driver's license
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  • For the first time when they're here.
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  • We had a resident who came here
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  • With no teeth because her pimp
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  • Had knocked them out with a bat
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  • And she got a new smile.
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  • - [narrator] due to this type of trauma,
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  • The ministry must take care in its approach
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  • To sharing the gospel.
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  • And smith says, testimonies
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  • Of lives changed are especially gratifying.
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  • - we have a group of women right now,
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  • They've claimed a church here in town.
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  • They go together as a community,
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  • They love it, they are on fire.
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  • They would all testify to you,
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  • If you could talk to each one of them today
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  • That they know that god has been their answer.
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  • - [narrator] that includes galia,
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  • Whose name in hebrew means,
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  • Beloved, redeemed, shining light.
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  • Since completing the program,
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  • She helps others at a short-term
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  • Rehab facility in nashville.
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  • - everyone at rest stop has walked beside me.
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  • When i was struggling,
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  • They were my legs so i could stand
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  • And they would hold me up
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  • Till i could walk on my own.
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  • Watching my clients come in broken,
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  • And hopeless, and helpless to the day they leave
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  • And watching that transformation is one
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  • Of the greatest blessings.
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  • - [narrator] a transformation
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  • She hopes to provide to other survivors.
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  • - there is love out there,
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  • The love of jesus
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  • And those people he put in the path.
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  • You don't have to do it alone.
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  • There's hope, there's healing, there's freedom.
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  • - [narrator] charlene aaron,
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  • Cbn news, lebanon, tennessee.
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  • - let me echo what was on that slide
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  • Above her head, let us stop shooting the wounded.
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  • In sex trafficking, there are absolute victims
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  • And anyone who has been trafficked is a victim.
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  • As a culture, as christians,
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  • We should reach out with love
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  • And compassion to let 'em know god
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  • Has a much different plan for you.
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  • You can be delivered from this
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  • And you can have a life once again.
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  • We'll be back with more
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  • Of the 700 club right after this.
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  • (gentle music)
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  • - [narrator] cbn news.
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  • - trans activists are challenging
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  • State bans on gender affirming care.
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  • - [narrator] watch breaking news in-depth,
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  • Exclusive stories, and programs.
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  • - banking has become weaponized.
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  • Christian and conservative groups
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  • Are labeled high-risk.
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  • From around the world.
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  • With their damaged home.
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  • - hallelujah!
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  • - [narrator] all in one place.
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  • From a christian perspective,
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  • The cbn news channel.
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  • - the un says more than a million people
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  • So far have escaped from the central
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  • And eastern parts of ukraine.
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  • - [narrator] discover the stories
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  • No one else is talking about.
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  • A perspective you can trust.
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  • - when i was a young girl,
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  • I went to fetch water for my mother.
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  • The weight of the water made my neck hurt so bad,
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  • I just poured the water out
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  • And went home with an empty container.
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  • The stream is very far
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  • And i go four times a day, i get home exhausted.
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  • I feel terrible drinking that water
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  • And giving it to my family.
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  • We often get intense stomachaches
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  • And vomit, when my son was three,
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  • He got very sick from the water.
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  • Thank you, impression blessing
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  • For giving us a new life.
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  • When you came, we were all
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  • So grateful we could not hold back our joy.
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  • I've never had this kind of water before.
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  • Every time i drink it,
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  • I feel good and healthy.
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  • With the well this close,
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  • Even my daughter can easily fetch water.
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  • We are healthy and we are happy.
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  • Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  • - [narrator] partner with cbn for $20 a month
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  • And be part of the miracle
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  • For people all around the world.
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  • - you considered yourself an atheist.
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  • - yeah. - what did you
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  • Specifically have against christianity?
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  • - my dad was a former music minister.
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  • You know, i saw a lot of hurt in that church.
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  • - in 2015, walker lost his record deal
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  • And had their family van
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  • Repossessed by the label.
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  • That's when craig
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  • Decided to give their family van to walker.
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  • - their unconditional love,
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  • It was so different from what we were used to.
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  • I went and got a bible
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  • And just started reading,
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  • And reading, and reading.
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  • - it was amazing to watch, the transformation
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  • And just the power of the holy spirit.
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  • - [narrator] walker had given his life to christ
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  • And couldn't wait to share the news with craig.
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  • I said, "i believe."
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  • - are you telling me that you believe
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  • That jesus is the son of god
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  • And that you wanna live your life for him?
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  • He said, "that's exactly what i'm saying."
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  • - giving to the 700 club is giving to the world.
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  • 700 club are my feet.
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  • They're walking it there.
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  • All i'm doing is helping write the check.
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  • - it's just like planting a seed in the ground
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  • And the water comes
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  • And the sun hits it and it grows.
  • 00:10:14.689 --> 00:10:17.659
  • - you can trust cbn,
  • 00:10:17.659 --> 00:10:18.893
  • They're going to take your money
  • 00:10:18.893 --> 00:10:20.361
  • And invest it wisely.
  • 00:10:20.361 --> 00:10:22.097
  • You are saving souls through your giving.
  • 00:10:22.097 --> 00:10:28.636
  • - the only way i can describe it is,
  • 00:10:29.637 --> 00:10:31.072
  • I was supernaturally delivered
  • 00:10:31.072 --> 00:10:32.707
  • From a nine year cocaine addiction.
  • 00:10:32.707 --> 00:10:35.944
  • I loved jesus.
  • 00:10:35.944 --> 00:10:37.278
  • I was a christian, but i was deeply in pain.
  • 00:10:37.278 --> 00:10:40.048
  • I was physically addicted,
  • 00:10:40.048 --> 00:10:41.583
  • I was mentally addicted.
  • 00:10:41.583 --> 00:10:42.617
  • I was all of those things.
  • 00:10:42.617 --> 00:10:43.718
  • I knew how bad off i was
  • 00:10:43.718 --> 00:10:46.554
  • And what i felt him saying was,
  • 00:10:46.554 --> 00:10:49.491
  • "i created you for more than this, my girl."
  • 00:10:49.491 --> 00:10:52.193
  • God filled those holes
  • 00:10:52.193 --> 00:10:53.795
  • With a beautiful message to say,
  • 00:10:53.795 --> 00:10:55.764
  • "you are enough in me."
  • 00:10:55.764 --> 00:10:58.466
  • - i didn't even give it a second thought
  • 00:10:59.634 --> 00:11:02.737
  • That there could be a miscarriage.
  • 00:11:02.737 --> 00:11:05.573
  • I don't think i really processed it
  • 00:11:05.573 --> 00:11:07.442
  • Until we were driving home.
  • 00:11:07.442 --> 00:11:08.977
  • That's when i finally cried about it.
  • 00:11:08.977 --> 00:11:11.279
  • - god, if this doesn't happen, i still love you.
  • 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:14.716
  • - i was mad in the way
  • 00:11:14.716 --> 00:11:17.585
  • Where you are boiling on the inside.
  • 00:11:17.585 --> 00:11:26.561
  • I was surrendering myself,
  • 00:11:27.328 --> 00:11:30.732
  • I felt held.
  • 00:11:30.732 --> 00:11:35.403
  • - when we saw the heartbeat
  • 00:11:36.204 --> 00:11:37.372
  • And that was like, okay.
  • 00:11:37.372 --> 00:11:39.240
  • - we've never been this far.
  • 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:41.109
  • - eight years of wanting that moment.
  • 00:11:41.109 --> 00:11:43.878
  • - my little girl is in my arms, finally.
  • 00:11:43.878 --> 00:11:49.317
  • Have the guts to let go.
  • 00:11:49.984 --> 00:11:52.787
  • That allows the lord to move in a way
  • 00:11:52.787 --> 00:11:56.457
  • That we can't even imagine.
  • 00:11:56.457 --> 00:11:59.727
  • - chicago has long been one of the worst examples
  • 00:12:00.995 --> 00:12:03.531
  • Of gun violence in american cities.
  • 00:12:03.531 --> 00:12:06.034
  • Much of it has taken place
  • 00:12:06.034 --> 00:12:07.535
  • On the city's south side.
  • 00:12:07.535 --> 00:12:09.337
  • A christian couple is now working in that area
  • 00:12:09.337 --> 00:12:11.773
  • To build relationships with young people.
  • 00:12:11.773 --> 00:12:14.709
  • Cbns, paul petitte shows how their ministry
  • 00:12:14.709 --> 00:12:17.145
  • Is using flowers to bring hope to at-risk youth.
  • 00:12:17.145 --> 00:12:22.083
  • - [paul petitte] in 2023,
  • 00:12:22.851 --> 00:12:24.018
  • The city's 617 homicides led the nation
  • 00:12:24.018 --> 00:12:27.155
  • For the 12th straight year,
  • 00:12:27.155 --> 00:12:29.190
  • Often caught on the crossfire,
  • 00:12:29.190 --> 00:12:31.025
  • Younger chicagoans.
  • 00:12:31.025 --> 00:12:32.727
  • - so what you have are youth
  • 00:12:32.727 --> 00:12:34.996
  • Who might not be seen past their 18th birthday,
  • 00:12:34.996 --> 00:12:39.167
  • Might be struggling,
  • 00:12:39.167 --> 00:12:40.435
  • Staying engaged in a school or work program.
  • 00:12:40.435 --> 00:12:42.971
  • - [paul petitte] and one of the more
  • 00:12:42.971 --> 00:12:44.072
  • Violent of poverty stricken areas,
  • 00:12:44.072 --> 00:12:45.640
  • Something is being cultivated to change that,
  • 00:12:45.640 --> 00:12:48.543
  • A flower shop called, southside blooms.
  • 00:12:48.543 --> 00:12:51.613
  • - so this is a faith inspired project.
  • 00:12:51.613 --> 00:12:53.514
  • You know, when i came to chicago,
  • 00:12:53.514 --> 00:12:56.417
  • It was a moment of me basically
  • 00:12:56.417 --> 00:12:58.419
  • Taking up my cross and following him.
  • 00:12:58.419 --> 00:13:00.889
  • - [paul petitte] that journey led quilen
  • 00:13:00.889 --> 00:13:01.856
  • And his wife hannah,
  • 00:13:01.856 --> 00:13:03.224
  • To open their shop and hire a neighborhood
  • 00:13:03.224 --> 00:13:05.426
  • At-risk youth like rashod.
  • 00:13:05.426 --> 00:13:07.595
  • - i do a lot of bad stuff in the world, so
  • 00:13:07.595 --> 00:13:10.231
  • It make me feel like i do stuff good.
  • 00:13:10.231 --> 00:13:12.433
  • You know what i'm saying?
  • 00:13:12.433 --> 00:13:13.401
  • We could just balance it out,
  • 00:13:13.401 --> 00:13:14.702
  • Make me feel like i'm a good person, you know.
  • 00:13:14.702 --> 00:13:15.937
  • I help other people instead of myself.
  • 00:13:15.937 --> 00:13:18.606
  • (water running)
  • 00:13:18.606 --> 00:13:20.208
  • - [paul petitte] southside blooms
  • 00:13:20.208 --> 00:13:21.342
  • Is a nonprofit supported by the county's
  • 00:13:21.342 --> 00:13:22.977
  • Gun violence and prevention grant.
  • 00:13:22.977 --> 00:13:25.313
  • Many of the staff here grew up
  • 00:13:25.313 --> 00:13:27.181
  • Around the worst society has to offer.
  • 00:13:27.181 --> 00:13:29.751
  • - there's high violence, high crime,
  • 00:13:29.751 --> 00:13:32.186
  • A lot of urban blight, a lot of gang activity.
  • 00:13:32.186 --> 00:13:35.023
  • You know, just trying to get to school
  • 00:13:35.023 --> 00:13:37.125
  • Can be a dangerous endeavor
  • 00:13:37.125 --> 00:13:39.127
  • - [paul petitte] through their efforts,
  • 00:13:39.127 --> 00:13:40.028
  • Not only are quilen
  • 00:13:40.028 --> 00:13:41.162
  • And hannah training future florists,
  • 00:13:41.162 --> 00:13:43.331
  • They're planting seeds of hope
  • 00:13:43.331 --> 00:13:45.066
  • And accomplishment.
  • 00:13:45.066 --> 00:13:46.301
  • - i go on events
  • 00:13:46.301 --> 00:13:47.468
  • And then i see some i made, i say,
  • 00:13:47.468 --> 00:13:49.637
  • "oh, i made that."
  • 00:13:49.637 --> 00:13:51.105
  • - they're competing against the best.
  • 00:13:51.105 --> 00:13:52.206
  • Like this isn't just, you know,
  • 00:13:52.206 --> 00:13:53.708
  • Doing flowers, you know,
  • 00:13:53.708 --> 00:13:54.943
  • For you know, your grandma or for prom.
  • 00:13:54.943 --> 00:13:58.146
  • We are at some of the most exclusive venues
  • 00:13:58.146 --> 00:14:00.114
  • In chicago, at the field museum,
  • 00:14:00.114 --> 00:14:01.582
  • We're at mccormick,
  • 00:14:01.582 --> 00:14:02.917
  • We're at the hyatt, the hilton.
  • 00:14:02.917 --> 00:14:04.619
  • - and southside blooms
  • 00:14:04.619 --> 00:14:05.787
  • Doesn't just arrange flowers here,
  • 00:14:05.787 --> 00:14:07.355
  • They grow flowers here.
  • 00:14:07.355 --> 00:14:08.957
  • In fact, they have six flower farms
  • 00:14:08.957 --> 00:14:10.925
  • Just like this spread
  • 00:14:10.925 --> 00:14:11.859
  • Out all over southwest chicago,
  • 00:14:11.859 --> 00:14:14.128
  • Turning an empty lot into a field of beauty,
  • 00:14:14.128 --> 00:14:16.998
  • Which often turns into a field of dreams.
  • 00:14:16.998 --> 00:14:20.568
  • - it's a dream man.
  • 00:14:20.568 --> 00:14:21.836
  • It's a dream, you know, it's meaningful.
  • 00:14:21.836 --> 00:14:23.972
  • It's community
  • 00:14:23.972 --> 00:14:26.507
  • And it's helping people.
  • 00:14:26.507 --> 00:14:28.376
  • You know, you couldn't ask for more.
  • 00:14:28.376 --> 00:14:30.144
  • - it's really the reason that we're here
  • 00:14:30.144 --> 00:14:31.546
  • And the reason that we, you know,
  • 00:14:31.546 --> 00:14:33.781
  • Are, you know, wanting to create opportunities
  • 00:14:33.781 --> 00:14:36.184
  • For them is really because we believe that god
  • 00:14:36.184 --> 00:14:38.553
  • Loves them and we want them
  • 00:14:38.553 --> 00:14:40.421
  • To experience it in a real way
  • 00:14:40.421 --> 00:14:42.890
  • And know that god is real
  • 00:14:42.890 --> 00:14:44.058
  • And he is with them.
  • 00:14:44.058 --> 00:14:45.026
  • - many of our youth, you know,
  • 00:14:45.026 --> 00:14:46.694
  • People outside our community have written them
  • 00:14:46.694 --> 00:14:48.730
  • Off and wouldn't expect you know,
  • 00:14:48.730 --> 00:14:50.365
  • That much from them, but you know,
  • 00:14:50.365 --> 00:14:52.300
  • Like our ministry
  • 00:14:52.300 --> 00:14:53.401
  • And our work is really an example
  • 00:14:53.401 --> 00:14:54.702
  • That no life is unimportant.
  • 00:14:54.702 --> 00:14:57.505
  • No life is trash.
  • 00:14:57.505 --> 00:14:59.407
  • - [paul petitte] although numbers remain high,
  • 00:14:59.407 --> 00:15:00.908
  • Homicides here have been declining
  • 00:15:00.908 --> 00:15:02.777
  • Since the pandemic, many city
  • 00:15:02.777 --> 00:15:04.712
  • And county authorities credit programs
  • 00:15:04.712 --> 00:15:06.681
  • Like southside blooms as one of the reasons.
  • 00:15:06.681 --> 00:15:09.684
  • - and what you have with quilen
  • 00:15:09.684 --> 00:15:11.452
  • And southside blooms is an organization
  • 00:15:11.452 --> 00:15:15.757
  • Specifically committed to neighborhoods
  • 00:15:15.757 --> 00:15:18.393
  • Where young people who have
  • 00:15:18.393 --> 00:15:19.794
  • All sorts of potential just need the opportunity.
  • 00:15:19.794 --> 00:15:22.764
  • They need the positive adults around them.
  • 00:15:22.764 --> 00:15:25.099
  • - [paul petitte] whether it's sharing a timely
  • 00:15:25.099 --> 00:15:26.334
  • Scripture or encouraging an employee
  • 00:15:26.334 --> 00:15:28.403
  • With dreams of medical school.
  • 00:15:28.403 --> 00:15:30.238
  • Hannah and quilen arranged southside blooms
  • 00:15:30.238 --> 00:15:33.141
  • To grow inspiration
  • 00:15:33.141 --> 00:15:34.642
  • And a part of chicago steeped in desperation.
  • 00:15:34.642 --> 00:15:37.712
  • That's why their slogan is,
  • 00:15:37.712 --> 00:15:38.846
  • "empowering lives with flowers."
  • 00:15:38.846 --> 00:15:41.416
  • - the reason why we picked that slogan
  • 00:15:41.416 --> 00:15:43.151
  • Is because you know, of all the problems
  • 00:15:43.151 --> 00:15:45.319
  • That we're facing in chicago,
  • 00:15:45.319 --> 00:15:46.788
  • You wouldn't have think that something
  • 00:15:46.788 --> 00:15:48.723
  • As humble as a flower could be the key
  • 00:15:48.723 --> 00:15:50.458
  • To empowering people to change that.
  • 00:15:50.458 --> 00:15:53.394
  • And i really just think it's a great way
  • 00:15:53.394 --> 00:15:55.797
  • To really show how god can use literally anything
  • 00:15:55.797 --> 00:15:58.666
  • And the most unlikely things to solve
  • 00:15:58.666 --> 00:16:00.968
  • Some of the greatest problems of our time.
  • 00:16:00.968 --> 00:16:03.071
  • - [paul petitte] in chicago,
  • 00:16:03.071 --> 00:16:04.072
  • Paul petite, cbn news.
  • 00:16:04.072 --> 00:16:06.307
  • - well, let the lilies bloom.
  • 00:16:07.141 --> 00:16:09.077
  • I like to remind people
  • 00:16:09.077 --> 00:16:10.878
  • We were created for gardens
  • 00:16:10.878 --> 00:16:13.414
  • And when you get in nature,
  • 00:16:13.414 --> 00:16:16.150
  • When you get into blooming nature
  • 00:16:16.150 --> 00:16:19.987
  • It just is so restful for your soul.
  • 00:16:19.987 --> 00:16:22.690
  • What a wonderful thing to do.
  • 00:16:22.690 --> 00:16:24.025
  • What a wonderful way to bring hope
  • 00:16:24.025 --> 00:16:26.561
  • To a desperate and hurting neighborhood.
  • 00:16:26.561 --> 00:16:29.664
  • Congratulations, that's a god idea.
  • 00:16:29.664 --> 00:16:32.800
  • Let's create a garden.
  • 00:16:32.800 --> 00:16:34.969
  • - yeah, don't you love hearing
  • 00:16:34.969 --> 00:16:36.270
  • Those young people themselves able
  • 00:16:36.270 --> 00:16:38.439
  • To express how this has changed
  • 00:16:38.439 --> 00:16:40.241
  • The way they self-perceive, you know?
  • 00:16:40.241 --> 00:16:42.610
  • - yeah, yeah, i want to be a good guy.
  • 00:16:42.610 --> 00:16:44.545
  • - yes, i can do this. - yeah.
  • 00:16:44.545 --> 00:16:47.048
  • - love it.
  • 00:16:47.048 --> 00:16:48.382
  • - what a great message for the entire world.
  • 00:16:48.382 --> 00:16:51.152
  • - absolutely.
  • 00:16:51.152 --> 00:16:52.620
  • Well, still ahead, meet the policeman
  • 00:16:52.620 --> 00:16:55.189
  • Known as the undercover pastor.
  • 00:16:55.189 --> 00:16:58.359
  • And then up next, the prayers heard
  • 00:16:58.359 --> 00:17:00.928
  • Halfway across the world,
  • 00:17:00.928 --> 00:17:02.597
  • A young woman was overseas
  • 00:17:02.597 --> 00:17:04.332
  • When she got into a terrible accident,
  • 00:17:04.332 --> 00:17:06.968
  • Her parents hopped on a plane
  • 00:17:06.968 --> 00:17:08.536
  • Praying the whole way,
  • 00:17:08.536 --> 00:17:10.338
  • Hear why they say the holy spirit
  • 00:17:10.338 --> 00:17:12.306
  • Was guiding them through the ordeal
  • 00:17:12.306 --> 00:17:14.709
  • And see what saved their daughter's life.
  • 00:17:14.709 --> 00:17:16.911
  • That's coming up.
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  • - melissa and her husband, rick
  • 00:17:55.283 --> 00:17:56.751
  • Have come a long way from when they met.
  • 00:17:56.751 --> 00:17:58.819
  • Melissa was in real estate.
  • 00:17:58.819 --> 00:18:00.521
  • Rick had been living on credit cards
  • 00:18:00.521 --> 00:18:02.757
  • Trying to start a number of businesses
  • 00:18:02.757 --> 00:18:04.992
  • And was $80,000 in debt.
  • 00:18:04.992 --> 00:18:07.461
  • All the while, the hinnant's were tithing
  • 00:18:07.461 --> 00:18:10.198
  • And the newly married couple
  • 00:18:10.198 --> 00:18:11.499
  • Started working their way out of the red.
  • 00:18:11.499 --> 00:18:13.601
  • - i think i had bought into society saying,
  • 00:18:13.601 --> 00:18:16.971
  • "here's what you should have."
  • 00:18:16.971 --> 00:18:18.406
  • I simply asked god, "do i have money before you?"
  • 00:18:18.406 --> 00:18:21.709
  • I asked god to forgive me instantly.
  • 00:18:21.709 --> 00:18:24.712
  • I told god whether i make a lot of money
  • 00:18:24.712 --> 00:18:27.648
  • Or not, i'm done striving.
  • 00:18:27.648 --> 00:18:30.484
  • - [narrator] today, rick and melissa
  • 00:18:30.484 --> 00:18:31.886
  • Have three children
  • 00:18:31.886 --> 00:18:33.154
  • And choose to live way below their means
  • 00:18:33.154 --> 00:18:35.256
  • So they can help the poor.
  • 00:18:35.256 --> 00:18:37.058
  • They've already built 13 orphanages
  • 00:18:37.058 --> 00:18:39.460
  • And a freedom house in india.
  • 00:18:39.460 --> 00:18:41.295
  • - what i loved about operation blessing
  • 00:18:41.295 --> 00:18:43.064
  • Is that we were really able to see
  • 00:18:43.064 --> 00:18:44.999
  • The fruit of that gift.
  • 00:18:44.999 --> 00:18:47.068
  • - now, i have the hunger to make more money
  • 00:18:47.068 --> 00:18:49.537
  • So we truly can give to all of these places
  • 00:18:49.537 --> 00:18:52.807
  • 'cause there's a lot of need out there.
  • 00:18:52.807 --> 00:18:55.409
  • - i just turned,
  • 00:18:55.409 --> 00:18:56.244
  • And an excruciating pain
  • 00:18:56.244 --> 00:18:58.646
  • Came in my knee on the inside
  • 00:18:58.646 --> 00:19:02.416
  • And it was like a jabbing knife.
  • 00:19:02.416 --> 00:19:04.652
  • I made it to the doctor,
  • 00:19:04.652 --> 00:19:06.387
  • Found out it was a torn meniscus.
  • 00:19:06.387 --> 00:19:08.322
  • So having the knee injury,
  • 00:19:08.322 --> 00:19:11.158
  • Having to slow down was depressing.
  • 00:19:11.158 --> 00:19:14.462
  • I was like, "lord, heal this."
  • 00:19:14.462 --> 00:19:16.731
  • Sitting on the couch,
  • 00:19:16.731 --> 00:19:17.832
  • The 700 club came on
  • 00:19:17.832 --> 00:19:19.267
  • And that's when i saw gordon on.
  • 00:19:19.267 --> 00:19:23.471
  • - we say out loud to it, be healed
  • 00:19:23.471 --> 00:19:27.775
  • And be made whole.
  • 00:19:27.775 --> 00:19:29.944
  • May all pain leave me
  • 00:19:29.944 --> 00:19:33.080
  • In jesus' name.
  • 00:19:33.614 --> 00:19:35.549
  • I receive it now.
  • 00:19:36.183 --> 00:19:38.185
  • Now what you couldn't do before, do now.
  • 00:19:38.185 --> 00:19:41.155
  • - by faith i'm going to do this.
  • 00:19:41.155 --> 00:19:42.857
  • By faith, i'm gonna walk
  • 00:19:42.857 --> 00:19:44.692
  • And i was walking, it wasn't hurting.
  • 00:19:44.692 --> 00:19:46.794
  • I know that god healed me
  • 00:19:46.794 --> 00:19:48.729
  • Beyond a shadow of a doubt.
  • 00:19:48.729 --> 00:19:54.568
  • - [kathy] we've always been tithers.
  • 00:19:55.603 --> 00:19:57.171
  • We teach our children to tithe.
  • 00:19:57.171 --> 00:19:58.806
  • - i can't explain to you
  • 00:19:58.806 --> 00:20:00.041
  • How the bills would be here maybe,
  • 00:20:00.041 --> 00:20:01.976
  • And the income here,
  • 00:20:01.976 --> 00:20:03.010
  • But at the end of the month,
  • 00:20:03.010 --> 00:20:04.378
  • It seemed that they would meet every single time.
  • 00:20:04.378 --> 00:20:07.782
  • My stepfather who was a farmer
  • 00:20:07.782 --> 00:20:09.283
  • Had 300 or 400 acres of melons he grew
  • 00:20:09.283 --> 00:20:12.186
  • And so i took a old toyota pickup truck
  • 00:20:12.186 --> 00:20:14.889
  • That i had and a trailer
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  • And would pick up a 100 to 200 watermelons
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  • And i started pedaling them out.
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  • Foodline was our first corporate client.
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  • Remember one year of sitting down
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  • Working on my taxes
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  • And my giving that year exceeded my adjusted
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  • Gross income just a few years before.
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  • Cbn has really meant a lot to us
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  • Over the years as we've watched the program
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  • And see and how god has blessed people.
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  • - we found that you just can't outgive god.
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  • - [narrator] if you have experienced
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  • A financial blessing as a result
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  • Call 1-800-265-0793
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  • Or email us at tellusyourstory@cbn.org.
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  • Bless and be blessed.
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  • - i started drinking alcohol
  • 00:20:55.763 --> 00:20:57.732
  • Under the pretense of i'm celebrating.
  • 00:20:57.732 --> 00:21:00.401
  • I wasn't celebrating, i was medicating myself.
  • 00:21:00.401 --> 00:21:03.804
  • I felt completely defeated and broken.
  • 00:21:03.804 --> 00:21:06.340
  • I was weak in my relationship with god
  • 00:21:07.375 --> 00:21:09.543
  • And i was just a weak human being
  • 00:21:09.543 --> 00:21:12.279
  • And god got further and further away.
  • 00:21:12.279 --> 00:21:14.615
  • When you feel his presence
  • 00:21:15.383 --> 00:21:16.584
  • And you walk away from it,
  • 00:21:16.584 --> 00:21:18.552
  • There's guilt, there's shame,
  • 00:21:18.552 --> 00:21:20.354
  • But there's also a sort of a sense
  • 00:21:20.354 --> 00:21:22.156
  • That it'll never happen for you again.
  • 00:21:22.156 --> 00:21:25.259
  • My daughter, who was 12 at the time,
  • 00:21:25.259 --> 00:21:27.628
  • She said, "daddy, i want you to be happy.
  • 00:21:27.628 --> 00:21:30.231
  • I want you to know jesus."
  • 00:21:30.231 --> 00:21:32.433
  • God started to reveal himself to me again
  • 00:21:33.601 --> 00:21:36.670
  • And he started to melt away
  • 00:21:36.670 --> 00:21:39.807
  • The ice that was my heart.
  • 00:21:39.807 --> 00:21:41.308
  • I'm trying to talk people into
  • 00:21:42.143 --> 00:21:44.612
  • This life that is second to none.
  • 00:21:44.612 --> 00:21:47.681
  • This life of feeling
  • 00:21:47.681 --> 00:21:49.784
  • Christ's presence in your life.
  • 00:21:49.784 --> 00:21:54.622
  • - i just couldn't keep anything down.
  • 00:21:55.723 --> 00:21:58.359
  • The nausea and the fatigue, shortness of breath.
  • 00:21:58.359 --> 00:22:01.896
  • As a nurse, i knew it wasn't just a flu.
  • 00:22:01.896 --> 00:22:04.231
  • My prayer was, "lord,
  • 00:22:04.231 --> 00:22:05.766
  • Give me a diagnosis
  • 00:22:06.434 --> 00:22:07.835
  • And give me a treatment plan
  • 00:22:07.835 --> 00:22:09.103
  • And gimme a doctor who knows me
  • 00:22:09.103 --> 00:22:10.604
  • And understands what's going on."
  • 00:22:10.604 --> 00:22:12.306
  • And gordon said,
  • 00:22:12.306 --> 00:22:13.574
  • "if you wanna be healed right now," he said,
  • 00:22:13.574 --> 00:22:15.643
  • "you just put your hand on that body part."
  • 00:22:15.643 --> 00:22:17.711
  • So i did, i put my hand, i said,
  • 00:22:17.711 --> 00:22:19.113
  • "lord, i'm believe in you that you can heal me."
  • 00:22:19.113 --> 00:22:22.850
  • And at that moment gordon said.
  • 00:22:22.850 --> 00:22:25.319
  • - there's someone you're saying,
  • 00:22:25.319 --> 00:22:26.287
  • Please say, crohn's disease.
  • 00:22:26.287 --> 00:22:28.756
  • And so we're saying crohn's disease for you.
  • 00:22:28.756 --> 00:22:31.692
  • Let your body no longer fight against itself,
  • 00:22:31.692 --> 00:22:35.029
  • But be restored now in jesus' name.
  • 00:22:35.029 --> 00:22:39.200
  • - and i've had no issues since that time
  • 00:22:39.200 --> 00:22:42.670
  • And i just give god the glory for that.
  • 00:22:42.670 --> 00:22:46.140
  • What i know is that jesus touched
  • 00:22:46.140 --> 00:22:47.875
  • Me and that i've been healed.
  • 00:22:47.875 --> 00:22:50.411
  • (gentle music)
  • 00:22:50.978 --> 00:22:56.417
  • - maggie swanson is an iron woman.
  • 00:22:57.384 --> 00:22:59.787
  • She's a top finisher
  • 00:22:59.787 --> 00:23:01.188
  • Of three grueling triathlons.
  • 00:23:01.188 --> 00:23:03.991
  • It's an incredible feat for anyone,
  • 00:23:03.991 --> 00:23:06.293
  • For maggie, downright miraculous
  • 00:23:06.293 --> 00:23:09.129
  • Because a few years ago, maggie was in a coma
  • 00:23:09.129 --> 00:23:12.233
  • In the icu fighting for her life.
  • 00:23:12.233 --> 00:23:15.803
  • - [narrator] exchange student, maggie swanson
  • 00:23:16.971 --> 00:23:19.306
  • Always loved her morning
  • 00:23:19.306 --> 00:23:20.541
  • Runs through the streets of seville, spain.
  • 00:23:20.541 --> 00:23:23.410
  • This one almost cost her her life.
  • 00:23:23.410 --> 00:23:26.514
  • Maggie was crossing a street
  • 00:23:26.514 --> 00:23:28.082
  • When a bus traveling 37 miles per hour
  • 00:23:28.082 --> 00:23:31.418
  • Hit her, throwing her 80 feet.
  • 00:23:31.418 --> 00:23:34.388
  • Seven hours later
  • 00:23:34.388 --> 00:23:35.623
  • And over 4,000 miles away in minnesota,
  • 00:23:35.623 --> 00:23:38.492
  • Tad weese got the phone call at work
  • 00:23:38.492 --> 00:23:40.394
  • That his 19-year-old daughter was in the hospital
  • 00:23:40.394 --> 00:23:43.564
  • Fighting for her life.
  • 00:23:43.564 --> 00:23:44.899
  • - our life just got turned upside down
  • 00:23:44.899 --> 00:23:47.568
  • In a matter of moments with one phone call.
  • 00:23:47.568 --> 00:23:50.838
  • - [narrator] tad immediately
  • 00:23:50.838 --> 00:23:51.705
  • Called his wife, wendy.
  • 00:23:51.705 --> 00:23:53.707
  • - it was almost like an out of body experience.
  • 00:23:53.707 --> 00:23:55.943
  • Packed the bags, grabbed the passports,
  • 00:23:55.943 --> 00:23:58.045
  • Made my way to tad's office,
  • 00:23:58.045 --> 00:23:59.547
  • Picked him up, got to the airport
  • 00:23:59.547 --> 00:24:01.549
  • And i know that that was the holy spirit
  • 00:24:01.549 --> 00:24:03.717
  • That was guiding me.
  • 00:24:03.717 --> 00:24:05.052
  • - [narrator] wendy and tad say,
  • 00:24:05.052 --> 00:24:06.320
  • Despite full flights, god paved the way
  • 00:24:06.320 --> 00:24:08.856
  • For them to get last minute tickets to spain.
  • 00:24:08.856 --> 00:24:11.592
  • They spent most of the journey praying.
  • 00:24:11.592 --> 00:24:14.795
  • - praying to god during that time was
  • 00:24:14.795 --> 00:24:18.933
  • Probably the only thing that we felt
  • 00:24:18.933 --> 00:24:21.635
  • We could do that made a difference.
  • 00:24:21.635 --> 00:24:24.405
  • - maggie was a believer in jesus christ
  • 00:24:24.405 --> 00:24:27.408
  • And if the lord chose not to save her life,
  • 00:24:27.408 --> 00:24:31.045
  • We knew that she would go to heaven.
  • 00:24:31.045 --> 00:24:34.982
  • - [narrator] in seville,
  • 00:24:34.982 --> 00:24:36.050
  • They rushed to the hospital
  • 00:24:36.050 --> 00:24:37.685
  • Where they found maggie in the icu
  • 00:24:37.685 --> 00:24:39.687
  • In a medically induced coma.
  • 00:24:39.687 --> 00:24:41.689
  • It had been 25 hours since the accident
  • 00:24:41.689 --> 00:24:44.258
  • - we were in shock.
  • 00:24:44.258 --> 00:24:46.327
  • Due to all the swelling from the accident,
  • 00:24:46.327 --> 00:24:49.263
  • It just didn't even look like maggie.
  • 00:24:49.263 --> 00:24:51.599
  • - those first moments of seeing maggie,
  • 00:24:51.599 --> 00:24:55.102
  • We just knew we had a long battle ahead of us.
  • 00:24:55.102 --> 00:24:58.339
  • - [narrator] through translators,
  • 00:24:58.339 --> 00:24:59.306
  • They learned that maggie
  • 00:24:59.306 --> 00:25:00.474
  • Suffered a traumatic brain injury,
  • 00:25:00.474 --> 00:25:02.309
  • Pelvic fracture, and broken ribs.
  • 00:25:02.309 --> 00:25:05.245
  • Their main concern was
  • 00:25:05.245 --> 00:25:06.480
  • The possibility of her brain swelling.
  • 00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:08.916
  • The first 72 hours were critical.
  • 00:25:08.916 --> 00:25:11.385
  • - they never told us that she would live
  • 00:25:11.385 --> 00:25:13.654
  • Or that they had assurance that she would live
  • 00:25:13.654 --> 00:25:16.123
  • And so we went through the first four days
  • 00:25:16.123 --> 00:25:18.792
  • Wondering at any moment whether
  • 00:25:18.792 --> 00:25:22.396
  • Or not we would hear from the hospital
  • 00:25:22.396 --> 00:25:25.099
  • That she had taken a turn for the worse
  • 00:25:25.099 --> 00:25:28.335
  • And we would be called in to say goodbye to her.
  • 00:25:28.335 --> 00:25:30.771
  • - [narrator] now it was a waiting game.
  • 00:25:30.771 --> 00:25:32.873
  • Tad and wendy spent every moment
  • 00:25:32.873 --> 00:25:34.742
  • They could at maggie's bedside.
  • 00:25:34.742 --> 00:25:37.478
  • After a week,
  • 00:25:37.478 --> 00:25:38.679
  • Maggie was stable enough for surgery
  • 00:25:38.679 --> 00:25:40.280
  • To repair her fractured pelvis.
  • 00:25:40.280 --> 00:25:42.282
  • While doctors assured them maggie would live,
  • 00:25:42.282 --> 00:25:44.518
  • They couldn't predict what her future would hold.
  • 00:25:44.518 --> 00:25:46.820
  • - what if she is no longer able to
  • 00:25:46.820 --> 00:25:51.158
  • Speak clearly or hold a job
  • 00:25:51.959 --> 00:25:55.963
  • Or would she be able to be an adult
  • 00:25:55.963 --> 00:25:59.667
  • Who is able to earn an income
  • 00:25:59.667 --> 00:26:01.535
  • And get married and have a family?
  • 00:26:01.535 --> 00:26:03.971
  • All of those thoughts raced through your mind.
  • 00:26:03.971 --> 00:26:07.474
  • - [narrator] by then,
  • 00:26:07.474 --> 00:26:08.575
  • Tad had set up a caringbridge page
  • 00:26:08.575 --> 00:26:10.177
  • To post updates on maggie.
  • 00:26:10.177 --> 00:26:12.146
  • Prayers and encouragement came pouring in.
  • 00:26:12.146 --> 00:26:14.682
  • - people that came alongside of us
  • 00:26:14.682 --> 00:26:16.617
  • Were such a part of this story
  • 00:26:16.617 --> 00:26:19.219
  • And such a big part of maggie's recovery
  • 00:26:19.219 --> 00:26:21.855
  • And we just can't thank them enough.
  • 00:26:21.855 --> 00:26:24.258
  • - [narrator] by the end of three weeks,
  • 00:26:24.258 --> 00:26:25.459
  • Maggie had been brought out of her coma
  • 00:26:25.459 --> 00:26:27.428
  • And was stable enough to fly home.
  • 00:26:27.428 --> 00:26:29.630
  • Psychiatrist and brain trauma specialist,
  • 00:26:29.630 --> 00:26:32.366
  • Dr. bob sevenich was on the team
  • 00:26:32.366 --> 00:26:34.468
  • That took over maggie's care in minneapolis.
  • 00:26:34.468 --> 00:26:37.137
  • - when i first saw her,
  • 00:26:37.137 --> 00:26:38.338
  • She was quite cognitively impaired,
  • 00:26:38.338 --> 00:26:40.107
  • She was semi-awake
  • 00:26:40.107 --> 00:26:43.210
  • And she was answering yes, no questions
  • 00:26:43.210 --> 00:26:45.879
  • Inconsistently, even fairly simple questions.
  • 00:26:45.879 --> 00:26:48.615
  • People that have traumatic brain injuries
  • 00:26:48.615 --> 00:26:50.918
  • Often have ongoing difficulties with walking,
  • 00:26:50.918 --> 00:26:53.821
  • With moving, with coordination,
  • 00:26:53.821 --> 00:26:56.857
  • All those sorts of things.
  • 00:26:56.857 --> 00:26:58.292
  • - [narrator] however, maggie would begin
  • 00:26:58.292 --> 00:26:59.793
  • Defying the odds,
  • 00:26:59.793 --> 00:27:01.095
  • Making great strides in physical therapy
  • 00:27:01.095 --> 00:27:03.530
  • And on august 7th, she was up and walking.
  • 00:27:03.530 --> 00:27:05.899
  • - she stood up out of that wheelchair
  • 00:27:05.899 --> 00:27:07.568
  • And we walked her out of the hospital
  • 00:27:07.568 --> 00:27:09.336
  • And it was just the most beautiful thing.
  • 00:27:09.336 --> 00:27:12.339
  • - it felt so freeing to walk
  • 00:27:12.339 --> 00:27:14.708
  • After i've been sitting around for months.
  • 00:27:14.708 --> 00:27:17.945
  • - [narrator] although, she was improving
  • 00:27:17.945 --> 00:27:19.146
  • Physically, maggie's emotional
  • 00:27:19.146 --> 00:27:20.748
  • And mental healing took longer.
  • 00:27:20.748 --> 00:27:22.716
  • - i just couldn't join my friends
  • 00:27:22.716 --> 00:27:23.817
  • With a lot of things
  • 00:27:23.817 --> 00:27:25.419
  • And i found that that was very isolating
  • 00:27:25.419 --> 00:27:27.888
  • And very confusing.
  • 00:27:27.888 --> 00:27:30.591
  • That led to me asking god a lot of questions
  • 00:27:30.591 --> 00:27:33.127
  • Of why is this happening to me?
  • 00:27:33.127 --> 00:27:34.895
  • Why am i alone?
  • 00:27:34.895 --> 00:27:36.230
  • It was a very isolating time.
  • 00:27:36.230 --> 00:27:38.065
  • I was wondering why god had taken my running,
  • 00:27:38.065 --> 00:27:40.334
  • My academics, my social life,
  • 00:27:40.334 --> 00:27:43.337
  • My ability to really do anything,
  • 00:27:43.337 --> 00:27:46.707
  • To be a normal student.
  • 00:27:46.707 --> 00:27:49.510
  • Romans 8:28 was a real encouragement
  • 00:27:49.510 --> 00:27:52.246
  • During this time, god works all things
  • 00:27:52.246 --> 00:27:54.648
  • For the good of those who love him,
  • 00:27:54.648 --> 00:27:56.016
  • Who are called according to his will.
  • 00:27:56.016 --> 00:27:58.085
  • - [narrator] those words would come true.
  • 00:27:58.085 --> 00:28:00.454
  • That fall with therapy,
  • 00:28:00.454 --> 00:28:02.055
  • Hard work and a lot of prayer,
  • 00:28:02.055 --> 00:28:04.024
  • Maggie returned to college
  • 00:28:04.024 --> 00:28:05.626
  • And was soon running again.
  • 00:28:05.626 --> 00:28:07.594
  • A year after the accident,
  • 00:28:07.594 --> 00:28:09.196
  • Maggie was back in spain as an exchange student.
  • 00:28:09.196 --> 00:28:12.466
  • In may of 2016,
  • 00:28:12.466 --> 00:28:14.301
  • She graduated from college on time.
  • 00:28:14.301 --> 00:28:16.804
  • - the accident was quite severe
  • 00:28:16.804 --> 00:28:18.305
  • And i think it surprised a lot of the providers,
  • 00:28:18.305 --> 00:28:21.341
  • The medical professionals both in spain
  • 00:28:21.341 --> 00:28:24.278
  • And here, how rapid her recovery
  • 00:28:24.278 --> 00:28:27.614
  • Was and how well she did
  • 00:28:27.614 --> 00:28:29.716
  • Considering the injuries that she sustained.
  • 00:28:29.716 --> 00:28:32.085
  • - [narrator] married in 2019,
  • 00:28:32.085 --> 00:28:34.021
  • Maggie went on to accomplish even more.
  • 00:28:34.021 --> 00:28:36.323
  • Since then, she has competed
  • 00:28:36.323 --> 00:28:37.825
  • In three ironman triathlons.
  • 00:28:37.825 --> 00:28:40.460
  • 2023, she placed 100 out of 2,000 women.
  • 00:28:40.460 --> 00:28:44.998
  • As in everything, she gives god the glory.
  • 00:28:44.998 --> 00:28:47.734
  • - it's just amazing what god
  • 00:28:47.734 --> 00:28:49.803
  • Has done in her life.
  • 00:28:49.803 --> 00:28:51.772
  • How she can use her story to help others
  • 00:28:51.772 --> 00:28:56.076
  • Learn about jesus
  • 00:28:56.076 --> 00:28:57.344
  • And about god and and how he can take
  • 00:28:57.344 --> 00:29:00.714
  • The worst of events
  • 00:29:00.714 --> 00:29:02.015
  • And turn them into incredible blessings.
  • 00:29:02.015 --> 00:29:05.552
  • - be in the word, know the lord jesus
  • 00:29:05.552 --> 00:29:08.589
  • In such a way that you can stand on his
  • 00:29:08.589 --> 00:29:12.960
  • Foundation of truth when the storm comes.
  • 00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:16.196
  • - i'm grateful that the accident happened
  • 00:29:16.196 --> 00:29:18.599
  • And that he did turn what was initially
  • 00:29:19.700 --> 00:29:24.171
  • Meant for evil to something beautiful
  • 00:29:24.171 --> 00:29:26.073
  • And all the things that happened to me,
  • 00:29:26.073 --> 00:29:28.508
  • God did mean it for good
  • 00:29:28.508 --> 00:29:29.943
  • And god brought so much good from it.
  • 00:29:29.943 --> 00:29:32.613
  • Keep the faith that god is with you
  • 00:29:32.613 --> 00:29:34.681
  • And that god wants the best for you.
  • 00:29:34.681 --> 00:29:38.018
  • - all things work together for good,
  • 00:29:39.086 --> 00:29:41.288
  • For those who are called
  • 00:29:41.288 --> 00:29:42.522
  • According to his purposes.
  • 00:29:42.522 --> 00:29:44.591
  • Those are not just words on a page,
  • 00:29:44.591 --> 00:29:46.994
  • That's a promise.
  • 00:29:46.994 --> 00:29:48.528
  • That's a promise from god to us.
  • 00:29:48.528 --> 00:29:51.298
  • A promise from god to you.
  • 00:29:51.298 --> 00:29:52.966
  • He takes the worst of things
  • 00:29:52.966 --> 00:29:55.736
  • And if we'll give them to him,
  • 00:29:55.736 --> 00:29:57.471
  • He turns them around.
  • 00:29:57.471 --> 00:29:58.772
  • The bible says, he gives us beauty for ashes.
  • 00:29:58.772 --> 00:30:01.108
  • The oil of joy for mourning,
  • 00:30:01.108 --> 00:30:02.709
  • A garment of praise for a spirit of heaviness.
  • 00:30:02.709 --> 00:30:06.046
  • In this scenario, i mean,
  • 00:30:06.046 --> 00:30:07.781
  • I think you could say maggie got her life back.
  • 00:30:07.781 --> 00:30:10.584
  • Maggie got her life back
  • 00:30:10.584 --> 00:30:12.119
  • Under the most extreme conditions that would
  • 00:30:12.119 --> 00:30:15.289
  • Have robbed her of everything she knew,
  • 00:30:15.289 --> 00:30:17.524
  • Everything that made life legit for her.
  • 00:30:17.524 --> 00:30:20.928
  • God knows your need right now.
  • 00:30:20.928 --> 00:30:22.896
  • You know, one of the things that her parents did
  • 00:30:22.896 --> 00:30:25.132
  • That i think is so important is they didn't wait
  • 00:30:25.132 --> 00:30:28.735
  • For signs of things to turn around.
  • 00:30:28.735 --> 00:30:31.438
  • They got into the word,
  • 00:30:31.438 --> 00:30:32.873
  • They declared they were the word,
  • 00:30:32.873 --> 00:30:34.741
  • They prayed the word over her.
  • 00:30:34.741 --> 00:30:36.510
  • They spent every moment they could
  • 00:30:36.510 --> 00:30:38.278
  • With her reaffirming who god is,
  • 00:30:38.278 --> 00:30:41.181
  • What he said and who we are in him.
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  • We're his kids.
  • 00:30:43.684 --> 00:30:45.085
  • We have legacy with him.
  • 00:30:45.085 --> 00:30:47.087
  • We have connection with him.
  • 00:30:47.087 --> 00:30:48.822
  • He sees us, he knows us
  • 00:30:48.822 --> 00:30:50.157
  • And we wanna take some time
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  • To pray for you today.
  • 00:30:51.358 --> 00:30:53.193
  • Everybody has something that they would like
  • 00:30:53.193 --> 00:30:56.330
  • Or are even asking god to do for them.
  • 00:30:56.330 --> 00:30:59.166
  • God knows what's best for you.
  • 00:30:59.166 --> 00:31:00.934
  • That's the crux in the whole thing is,
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  • Are you willing to surrender it to him,
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  • If the outcome isn't what you want it to be,
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  • Because he knows you, he loves you.
  • 00:31:09.076 --> 00:31:11.745
  • He sees your tomorrow even when you cannot.
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  • We wanna pray together for god's kingdom
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  • Purposes, today, for all of us.
  • 00:31:17.918 --> 00:31:21.021
  • This is first of all,
  • 00:31:21.021 --> 00:31:22.189
  • A answer to prayer from angela.
  • 00:31:22.189 --> 00:31:24.358
  • She had inflammation
  • 00:31:24.358 --> 00:31:25.625
  • And pain in her knee for an entire year.
  • 00:31:25.625 --> 00:31:27.894
  • Nothing she tried brought relief
  • 00:31:27.894 --> 00:31:29.997
  • And then gordon, you prayed,
  • 00:31:29.997 --> 00:31:31.565
  • Someone's laying your hands on your right knee,
  • 00:31:31.565 --> 00:31:33.667
  • God has heard your cry,
  • 00:31:33.667 --> 00:31:35.102
  • He's able to take away all the pain right now.
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  • Just receive it in jesus' name.
  • 00:31:37.971 --> 00:31:40.374
  • Angela exercised her faith in god
  • 00:31:40.374 --> 00:31:43.210
  • And she was totally healed.
  • 00:31:43.210 --> 00:31:45.178
  • - [gordon] well, here's a tremendous miracle
  • 00:31:45.178 --> 00:31:46.446
  • From susan, in the late 1980s,
  • 00:31:46.446 --> 00:31:49.249
  • So a long time ago, i was in a car accident.
  • 00:31:49.249 --> 00:31:52.886
  • Since then, i've struggled with chronic back
  • 00:31:52.886 --> 00:31:56.056
  • Pain, if you know anyone with chronic back pain,
  • 00:31:56.056 --> 00:31:58.692
  • You know how horrible that is.
  • 00:31:58.692 --> 00:32:01.094
  • The doctor said,
  • 00:32:01.094 --> 00:32:02.763
  • He was surprised i was even able to walk.
  • 00:32:02.763 --> 00:32:06.733
  • Well, watching the 700 club, terry prayed
  • 00:32:06.733 --> 00:32:09.903
  • For someone injured in a car accident,
  • 00:32:09.903 --> 00:32:12.639
  • I immediately knew the prayers were for me.
  • 00:32:12.639 --> 00:32:15.976
  • The pain left my spine.
  • 00:32:15.976 --> 00:32:18.912
  • All i could feel was love.
  • 00:32:18.912 --> 00:32:22.716
  • Thank you, jesus.
  • 00:32:22.716 --> 00:32:24.818
  • Isn't that wonderful? - [terry] yeah.
  • 00:32:24.818 --> 00:32:26.186
  • - all you can feel is love.
  • 00:32:26.186 --> 00:32:28.388
  • For anyone, you know, like maggie,
  • 00:32:28.388 --> 00:32:30.657
  • You've been in an accident
  • 00:32:30.657 --> 00:32:32.359
  • And it's okay to pour out your complaint
  • 00:32:32.359 --> 00:32:34.728
  • Before the lord, but you know,
  • 00:32:34.728 --> 00:32:37.097
  • In that, realize all things
  • 00:32:37.097 --> 00:32:39.866
  • Do work together for good.
  • 00:32:39.866 --> 00:32:42.135
  • Now, for maggie, i would say,
  • 00:32:42.135 --> 00:32:44.137
  • God didn't take those things from you,
  • 00:32:44.137 --> 00:32:46.473
  • The bus did.
  • 00:32:46.473 --> 00:32:48.241
  • In god's creation,
  • 00:32:48.241 --> 00:32:50.277
  • Time, chance happened to us all.
  • 00:32:50.277 --> 00:32:54.448
  • So there was a decision to run.
  • 00:32:54.448 --> 00:32:56.516
  • There was a decision to drive the bus.
  • 00:32:56.516 --> 00:32:58.685
  • There were all these decisions
  • 00:32:58.685 --> 00:33:00.587
  • That god didn't make, people made
  • 00:33:00.587 --> 00:33:03.824
  • And accidents happen in god's universe,
  • 00:33:03.824 --> 00:33:08.762
  • But here's the great news.
  • 00:33:08.762 --> 00:33:10.897
  • In that accident, he is able to
  • 00:33:10.897 --> 00:33:14.034
  • Work all things together for your good.
  • 00:33:14.034 --> 00:33:16.670
  • Isn't that wonderful?
  • 00:33:16.670 --> 00:33:18.405
  • That's the great promise.
  • 00:33:18.405 --> 00:33:22.309
  • Don't blame the healer.
  • 00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:24.444
  • Look to the healer for the answer.
  • 00:33:24.444 --> 00:33:27.180
  • Look to how he's working all things
  • 00:33:27.180 --> 00:33:29.249
  • Together for your good.
  • 00:33:29.249 --> 00:33:31.017
  • And for maggie, what a great persevering story.
  • 00:33:31.017 --> 00:33:34.488
  • You say, it was so great to get up and walk.
  • 00:33:34.488 --> 00:33:37.023
  • You know, okay, it's so great to get up and run.
  • 00:33:37.023 --> 00:33:39.226
  • It's so great to get up and ride a bike.
  • 00:33:39.226 --> 00:33:41.294
  • It's so great to do all these things
  • 00:33:41.294 --> 00:33:43.096
  • Because god is working all things together
  • 00:33:43.096 --> 00:33:45.532
  • For my good.
  • 00:33:45.532 --> 00:33:46.933
  • Let that same resolution be deep within you
  • 00:33:46.933 --> 00:33:50.070
  • Right now, that we are going to look to him,
  • 00:33:50.070 --> 00:33:53.540
  • The author and the finisher of our faith.
  • 00:33:53.540 --> 00:33:55.942
  • We're gonna look to the healer,
  • 00:33:55.942 --> 00:33:57.611
  • Not the causer of the problem,
  • 00:33:57.611 --> 00:33:59.112
  • He's not that.
  • 00:33:59.112 --> 00:34:00.213
  • He is the solution,
  • 00:34:00.213 --> 00:34:02.182
  • The answer to every human problem.
  • 00:34:02.182 --> 00:34:05.785
  • When we look to him with that attitude,
  • 00:34:05.785 --> 00:34:08.421
  • We get everything that he's promised.
  • 00:34:08.421 --> 00:34:11.691
  • So let's pray right now.
  • 00:34:11.691 --> 00:34:14.127
  • Lord god almighty, we come to you
  • 00:34:14.127 --> 00:34:16.029
  • And we come to you, know that you want
  • 00:34:16.029 --> 00:34:18.398
  • To shower us with your love.
  • 00:34:18.398 --> 00:34:21.067
  • You want to just baptize us in that.
  • 00:34:21.067 --> 00:34:24.771
  • And so lord, we just turn now from every
  • 00:34:24.771 --> 00:34:28.675
  • Complaint, we turn now from every pain,
  • 00:34:28.675 --> 00:34:32.879
  • Every disease, every symptoms,
  • 00:34:32.879 --> 00:34:35.415
  • We turn from all of that
  • 00:34:35.415 --> 00:34:37.417
  • And we look to you for you are the answer.
  • 00:34:37.417 --> 00:34:41.721
  • You are the author
  • 00:34:41.721 --> 00:34:43.523
  • And the finisher of our faith.
  • 00:34:43.523 --> 00:34:46.059
  • We look to you and we look to heaven
  • 00:34:46.059 --> 00:34:48.962
  • And the finished work of the cross
  • 00:34:48.962 --> 00:34:51.798
  • And we say, may your will be done
  • 00:34:51.798 --> 00:34:54.701
  • In our bodies as it is in heaven.
  • 00:34:54.701 --> 00:34:57.971
  • Stretch forth your hand to heal now
  • 00:34:57.971 --> 00:35:01.775
  • For we ask it in jesus' name.
  • 00:35:01.775 --> 00:35:04.778
  • There's someone, you've had a fall,
  • 00:35:04.778 --> 00:35:06.646
  • You've got deep pain in your right shoulder.
  • 00:35:06.646 --> 00:35:10.116
  • God is reknitting that together.
  • 00:35:10.116 --> 00:35:14.154
  • He's able to take all of that trauma off of you.
  • 00:35:14.154 --> 00:35:17.357
  • Take all of that pain,
  • 00:35:17.357 --> 00:35:18.825
  • It is lifting off of you right now.
  • 00:35:18.825 --> 00:35:21.361
  • In the name of jesus,
  • 00:35:21.361 --> 00:35:22.996
  • Do what you couldn't do before
  • 00:35:22.996 --> 00:35:25.232
  • And receive your healing, terry.
  • 00:35:25.232 --> 00:35:28.902
  • - there's someone, you have an arthritic
  • 00:35:28.902 --> 00:35:31.538
  • Condition in not just your foot,
  • 00:35:32.339 --> 00:35:34.407
  • But your ankle as well.
  • 00:35:34.407 --> 00:35:35.508
  • It's not from an accident,
  • 00:35:35.508 --> 00:35:37.010
  • It's just begun in your life,
  • 00:35:37.010 --> 00:35:39.179
  • But it's actually deforming your foot
  • 00:35:39.179 --> 00:35:42.849
  • And the way you walk
  • 00:35:42.849 --> 00:35:43.950
  • And it's quite painful as well.
  • 00:35:43.950 --> 00:35:46.019
  • God's healing you from that right now,
  • 00:35:46.019 --> 00:35:47.954
  • You're just gonna see it slowly revert back
  • 00:35:47.954 --> 00:35:50.357
  • To its normal state in jesus' name.
  • 00:35:50.357 --> 00:35:53.994
  • - there's somebody who've got pain
  • 00:35:53.994 --> 00:35:55.362
  • In your right jaw
  • 00:35:55.362 --> 00:35:56.496
  • And it's an inflammation in the gums
  • 00:35:56.496 --> 00:35:58.465
  • And you're not even praying for it
  • 00:35:58.465 --> 00:36:00.267
  • And you're saying,
  • 00:36:00.267 --> 00:36:01.234
  • "what, he's saying that?"
  • 00:36:01.234 --> 00:36:03.336
  • In jesus' name, may that infection,
  • 00:36:03.336 --> 00:36:05.538
  • All of that gum irritation,
  • 00:36:05.538 --> 00:36:07.440
  • All of the pressure in your right jaw,
  • 00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:09.776
  • May it leave you right now
  • 00:36:09.776 --> 00:36:11.678
  • And be healed in jesus' name.
  • 00:36:11.678 --> 00:36:14.080
  • - and there's a young woman,
  • 00:36:14.080 --> 00:36:15.315
  • You're watching this program.
  • 00:36:15.315 --> 00:36:16.449
  • You have a chronic acne problem
  • 00:36:16.449 --> 00:36:18.485
  • And it's not just frustrating to you,
  • 00:36:18.485 --> 00:36:20.854
  • It's embarrassing.
  • 00:36:20.854 --> 00:36:22.289
  • God is clearing that for you,
  • 00:36:22.289 --> 00:36:24.157
  • Just like changing the chemistry
  • 00:36:24.157 --> 00:36:26.459
  • And the makeup of what's causing that
  • 00:36:26.459 --> 00:36:29.362
  • And it's gonna clear up in jesus' name.
  • 00:36:29.362 --> 00:36:31.731
  • - someone, you've got a torn retina
  • 00:36:31.731 --> 00:36:33.300
  • In your left eye
  • 00:36:33.300 --> 00:36:34.701
  • And the treatment program that's been prescribed
  • 00:36:34.701 --> 00:36:39.439
  • For you is just terrifying for you
  • 00:36:40.407 --> 00:36:41.341
  • And god has heard your cry,
  • 00:36:41.341 --> 00:36:43.910
  • He's able to restore your retina.
  • 00:36:43.910 --> 00:36:45.879
  • He is able to heal that tear.
  • 00:36:45.879 --> 00:36:47.947
  • Go back and get rechecked.
  • 00:36:47.947 --> 00:36:49.616
  • God has done an amazing miracle
  • 00:36:49.616 --> 00:36:52.218
  • For you right now in jesus name.
  • 00:36:52.218 --> 00:36:54.888
  • Lord, we thank you for you are the healer,
  • 00:36:56.056 --> 00:36:58.291
  • You are the answer, you are the solution
  • 00:36:58.291 --> 00:37:01.227
  • To every one of our problems.
  • 00:37:01.227 --> 00:37:03.296
  • We look to you
  • 00:37:03.296 --> 00:37:04.898
  • And we thank you for your promise
  • 00:37:04.898 --> 00:37:08.068
  • And your love towards us.
  • 00:37:08.068 --> 00:37:10.070
  • Be with us now for we ask it in jesus name,
  • 00:37:10.070 --> 00:37:13.940
  • Amen and amen. - [terry] amen.
  • 00:37:13.940 --> 00:37:15.809
  • - if you've been healed, let us know.
  • 00:37:15.809 --> 00:37:17.744
  • Let us share in your good rapport
  • 00:37:17.744 --> 00:37:19.412
  • And if you need prayer, we're here for you.
  • 00:37:19.412 --> 00:37:21.414
  • We are here 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
  • 00:37:21.414 --> 00:37:24.317
  • It's our honor, our privilege to pray with you.
  • 00:37:24.317 --> 00:37:27.087
  • So call us, 1-800-700-7000, terry.
  • 00:37:27.087 --> 00:37:31.758
  • - well, still ahead,
  • 00:37:31.758 --> 00:37:32.726
  • He used to lock 'em up,
  • 00:37:32.726 --> 00:37:34.160
  • Now he's setting them free.
  • 00:37:34.160 --> 00:37:36.196
  • The undercover pastor
  • 00:37:36.196 --> 00:37:37.764
  • Reveals his secret identity, that's coming up.
  • 00:37:37.764 --> 00:37:41.835
  • (gentle music)
  • 00:37:41.835 --> 00:37:44.471
  • - it was alarming how much i was vomiting.
  • 00:37:45.638 --> 00:37:48.375
  • - it was a condition called,
  • 00:37:48.375 --> 00:37:49.376
  • Acute tubular necrosis.
  • 00:37:49.376 --> 00:37:51.111
  • - they kept saying, "septic, septic,
  • 00:37:51.111 --> 00:37:52.812
  • I think she's getting septic."
  • 00:37:52.812 --> 00:37:53.980
  • - they sent this lady in to prepare us
  • 00:37:53.980 --> 00:37:56.783
  • For a lifetime of dialysis
  • 00:37:56.783 --> 00:37:59.052
  • And this medicine was going to destroy
  • 00:37:59.052 --> 00:38:00.687
  • Every dream my girl could possibly have.
  • 00:38:00.687 --> 00:38:02.856
  • - thousands and thousands,
  • 00:38:02.856 --> 00:38:04.391
  • Literally around the world were praying for her.
  • 00:38:04.391 --> 00:38:06.926
  • - mom runs out into the hallway
  • 00:38:06.926 --> 00:38:07.927
  • And she's like,
  • 00:38:07.927 --> 00:38:09.429
  • "he just told me he canceled your surgery.
  • 00:38:09.429 --> 00:38:13.233
  • He was like,
  • 00:38:13.233 --> 00:38:14.534
  • "your kidney biopsy came back completely clean.
  • 00:38:14.534 --> 00:38:17.170
  • I stood up on my hospital bed with my iv bag,
  • 00:38:17.170 --> 00:38:19.706
  • Just we were hugging and screaming.
  • 00:38:19.706 --> 00:38:21.541
  • It was like just the biggest celebration.
  • 00:38:21.541 --> 00:38:24.244
  • - i know there were a lot of people
  • 00:38:24.244 --> 00:38:25.578
  • Praying for her,
  • 00:38:25.578 --> 00:38:26.780
  • I think those prayers were answered.
  • 00:38:26.780 --> 00:38:28.648
  • - hi, yay.
  • 00:38:28.648 --> 00:38:32.051
  • I am beyond thankful
  • 00:38:32.719 --> 00:38:33.853
  • That i have been singing nonstop,
  • 00:38:33.853 --> 00:38:36.723
  • Prayers work, they work.
  • 00:38:36.723 --> 00:38:38.525
  • Ask people to pray for you
  • 00:38:38.525 --> 00:38:39.926
  • And like really believe,
  • 00:38:39.926 --> 00:38:41.461
  • Really believe that anything is possible.
  • 00:38:41.461 --> 00:38:44.464
  • (gentle music)
  • 00:38:45.064 --> 00:39:14.894
  • - i wanted to be a boy one week.
  • 00:39:15.695 --> 00:39:16.896
  • I wanted to be a girl next week.
  • 00:39:16.896 --> 00:39:18.498
  • It was constantly like that.
  • 00:39:18.498 --> 00:39:19.699
  • Confusion always in my mind.
  • 00:39:19.699 --> 00:39:21.201
  • I always felt like
  • 00:39:21.201 --> 00:39:22.335
  • I was more in tune to femininity.
  • 00:39:22.335 --> 00:39:24.571
  • - [narrator] at 16, tommy decided,
  • 00:39:24.571 --> 00:39:26.139
  • It was time to give in to those desires.
  • 00:39:26.139 --> 00:39:29.008
  • Now addicted to meth, he dropped out of school
  • 00:39:29.008 --> 00:39:31.878
  • And began frequenting
  • 00:39:31.878 --> 00:39:32.979
  • Gay chat rooms and nightclubs.
  • 00:39:32.979 --> 00:39:34.681
  • - [tommy] i had an internal knowing
  • 00:39:34.681 --> 00:39:36.182
  • That it was just wrong.
  • 00:39:36.182 --> 00:39:37.550
  • - [narrator] despite his doubts,
  • 00:39:37.550 --> 00:39:38.718
  • Tommy started taking female hormones
  • 00:39:38.718 --> 00:39:41.421
  • And making plans to have a sex change operation.
  • 00:39:41.421 --> 00:39:44.524
  • Tommy was doing drugs
  • 00:39:44.524 --> 00:39:45.792
  • With his brother and sister
  • 00:39:45.792 --> 00:39:47.861
  • When he felt an oppressive, paralyzing fear.
  • 00:39:47.861 --> 00:39:51.231
  • - [narrator] terrified, tommy left the house
  • 00:39:51.231 --> 00:39:53.066
  • And went to his mom
  • 00:39:53.066 --> 00:39:54.467
  • Who had recently committed her life to christ.
  • 00:39:54.467 --> 00:39:57.036
  • - i had to cry out to god because
  • 00:39:57.036 --> 00:39:58.438
  • I just knew in that moment that
  • 00:39:58.438 --> 00:39:59.739
  • He was the only one that was able to help me.
  • 00:39:59.739 --> 00:40:01.241
  • So i remember just telling him,
  • 00:40:01.241 --> 00:40:02.876
  • I'm sorry of the lifestyle that i was living.
  • 00:40:02.876 --> 00:40:05.044
  • I just went into this deep place
  • 00:40:05.044 --> 00:40:06.880
  • Of repenting and asking for forgiveness.
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  • If jesus did it for me, he could do it for you.
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  • We all need a savior.
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  • We all come from a place of brokenness.
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  • Or the itunes app store.
  • 00:41:14.013 --> 00:41:16.182
  • - for me, it constantly left me
  • 00:41:16.182 --> 00:41:17.650
  • In a state of fear, am i enough?
  • 00:41:17.650 --> 00:41:19.586
  • Being able to make it all the way there
  • 00:41:19.586 --> 00:41:21.554
  • On the world stage
  • 00:41:21.554 --> 00:41:22.689
  • And still come up short,
  • 00:41:22.689 --> 00:41:23.990
  • I think was just devastating for me.
  • 00:41:23.990 --> 00:41:26.392
  • It was reading colossians 3,
  • 00:41:26.392 --> 00:41:28.494
  • Flipped a switch for me.
  • 00:41:28.494 --> 00:41:29.996
  • God, you have not failed me.
  • 00:41:29.996 --> 00:41:32.599
  • Even when i lose, i still win
  • 00:41:32.599 --> 00:41:34.734
  • Because i learn.
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  • The girl who wants to cross the line
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  • And still feel empty inside.
  • 00:41:37.370 --> 00:41:39.505
  • I now have joy,
  • 00:41:39.505 --> 00:41:41.207
  • Even in the midst of any circumstance.
  • 00:41:41.207 --> 00:41:46.045
  • - hannah and emmaus have been go-getters
  • 00:41:47.180 --> 00:41:49.082
  • From an early age, both started their own
  • 00:41:49.082 --> 00:41:51.351
  • Companies while they were still teenagers.
  • 00:41:51.351 --> 00:41:54.087
  • They work hard
  • 00:41:54.087 --> 00:41:55.221
  • And have tons of technical know-how.
  • 00:41:55.221 --> 00:41:57.223
  • Still, they're quick to say,
  • 00:41:57.223 --> 00:41:58.725
  • That's not the reason for their success.
  • 00:41:58.725 --> 00:42:01.661
  • Instead, they give all the credit to god.
  • 00:42:01.661 --> 00:42:06.666
  • - [narrator] 22-year-old,
  • 00:42:07.433 --> 00:42:08.735
  • Emmaus vanderbilt owns silver fox productions,
  • 00:42:08.735 --> 00:42:10.870
  • A video production company
  • 00:42:10.870 --> 00:42:12.338
  • Located in north carolina.
  • 00:42:12.338 --> 00:42:14.374
  • His wife hannah,
  • 00:42:14.374 --> 00:42:15.708
  • Owns and operates her own cleaning company,
  • 00:42:15.708 --> 00:42:17.677
  • Joyful cleaning.
  • 00:42:17.677 --> 00:42:19.145
  • From the beginning, they made tithing a priority.
  • 00:42:19.145 --> 00:42:22.548
  • - i credit that to my parents.
  • 00:42:22.548 --> 00:42:23.750
  • They've always modeled that for me,
  • 00:42:23.750 --> 00:42:25.218
  • God just gets the first 10%.
  • 00:42:25.218 --> 00:42:26.886
  • - i want to honor god as best as i can.
  • 00:42:26.886 --> 00:42:29.722
  • And so from that first job when i was 14,
  • 00:42:29.722 --> 00:42:33.159
  • Ever since, i've just always
  • 00:42:33.159 --> 00:42:34.861
  • Tithed 10% of what i made
  • 00:42:34.861 --> 00:42:36.663
  • And it's just been a habit that i'm joyful to do.
  • 00:42:36.663 --> 00:42:40.166
  • - [narrator] emmaus has learned valuable lessons
  • 00:42:41.300 --> 00:42:42.769
  • About finances, at 18, his income had grown
  • 00:42:42.769 --> 00:42:46.039
  • To six figures as a startup
  • 00:42:46.039 --> 00:42:48.207
  • Video business, shooting destination weddings.
  • 00:42:48.207 --> 00:42:51.344
  • - i just believe there were different times
  • 00:42:51.344 --> 00:42:52.378
  • In my life where i slipped
  • 00:42:52.378 --> 00:42:53.546
  • And i said that this is something
  • 00:42:53.546 --> 00:42:54.814
  • That i've been able to do.
  • 00:42:54.814 --> 00:42:56.182
  • Look what i did.
  • 00:42:56.182 --> 00:42:57.717
  • I won't ever say that i totally cut
  • 00:42:57.717 --> 00:42:59.852
  • God outta the equation 'cause i still
  • 00:42:59.852 --> 00:43:01.120
  • Tithed on it, i thank the lord for it.
  • 00:43:01.120 --> 00:43:03.389
  • But what i realized was that no,
  • 00:43:03.389 --> 00:43:05.558
  • The lord was the one
  • 00:43:05.558 --> 00:43:06.893
  • Who put the breath in my lungs this morning.
  • 00:43:06.893 --> 00:43:08.094
  • The lord was the one
  • 00:43:08.094 --> 00:43:09.028
  • Who provided these opportunities
  • 00:43:09.028 --> 00:43:10.897
  • And god has just allowed me to manage this money.
  • 00:43:10.897 --> 00:43:13.599
  • God's just allowed me
  • 00:43:13.599 --> 00:43:14.567
  • To manage this video project.
  • 00:43:14.567 --> 00:43:16.602
  • - [narrator] when covid hit in 2020,
  • 00:43:16.602 --> 00:43:19.172
  • Emmaus experienced god's faithfulness
  • 00:43:19.172 --> 00:43:21.441
  • As his business weathered the storm.
  • 00:43:21.441 --> 00:43:23.743
  • - some people they were dropping by 50%
  • 00:43:23.743 --> 00:43:26.379
  • Of their weddings, 60% of their shoots
  • 00:43:26.379 --> 00:43:28.414
  • And just the lord continued providing.
  • 00:43:28.414 --> 00:43:30.049
  • Even whenever a few weddings canceled,
  • 00:43:30.049 --> 00:43:31.918
  • We saw that 85% to 90%
  • 00:43:31.918 --> 00:43:33.319
  • Of our weddings still hire us
  • 00:43:33.319 --> 00:43:34.887
  • And even for those 10% that had to cancel,
  • 00:43:34.887 --> 00:43:37.023
  • We had local government organizations
  • 00:43:37.023 --> 00:43:38.691
  • Reach out and ask us to film videos for them,
  • 00:43:38.691 --> 00:43:40.860
  • Different corporate groups
  • 00:43:40.860 --> 00:43:42.228
  • And we never went without.
  • 00:43:42.228 --> 00:43:44.163
  • I totally attribute tithing to the fact
  • 00:43:44.163 --> 00:43:46.065
  • That we stayed safe during that storm.
  • 00:43:46.065 --> 00:43:47.834
  • - [narrator] soon after he met
  • 00:43:47.834 --> 00:43:49.235
  • And married hannah in 2021, she became co-owner
  • 00:43:49.235 --> 00:43:52.672
  • Of the production company.
  • 00:43:52.672 --> 00:43:54.040
  • And in 2022, she started
  • 00:43:54.040 --> 00:43:56.109
  • Her in-home cleaning business.
  • 00:43:56.109 --> 00:43:58.111
  • The couple then got serious about debt.
  • 00:43:58.111 --> 00:44:00.513
  • She had school loans
  • 00:44:00.513 --> 00:44:01.581
  • And they both had car payments,
  • 00:44:01.581 --> 00:44:03.182
  • Which in all totaled $90,000.
  • 00:44:03.182 --> 00:44:05.852
  • They began paying it off,
  • 00:44:05.852 --> 00:44:07.153
  • Working long hours, tithing the whole time
  • 00:44:07.153 --> 00:44:10.056
  • And their businesses thrived.
  • 00:44:10.056 --> 00:44:11.824
  • - there's no other answer, but the lord did that.
  • 00:44:11.824 --> 00:44:14.527
  • Having a month where we're having less weddings,
  • 00:44:14.527 --> 00:44:16.596
  • But more cleaning clients.
  • 00:44:16.596 --> 00:44:17.864
  • So it all balances out
  • 00:44:17.864 --> 00:44:19.932
  • And the only answer for it is god.
  • 00:44:19.932 --> 00:44:21.634
  • He's the one providing it all.
  • 00:44:21.634 --> 00:44:23.402
  • - [narrator] today, they are debt free.
  • 00:44:23.402 --> 00:44:25.505
  • Looking back on all god has accomplished
  • 00:44:25.505 --> 00:44:27.440
  • This year, the couple is grateful
  • 00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:29.275
  • For their two businesses growing
  • 00:44:29.275 --> 00:44:30.877
  • At a rate of 40%
  • 00:44:30.877 --> 00:44:32.411
  • And many more opportunities awaiting them.
  • 00:44:32.411 --> 00:44:34.981
  • - and whenever we don't have debt,
  • 00:44:34.981 --> 00:44:36.649
  • We don't have payments,
  • 00:44:36.649 --> 00:44:37.917
  • We have more money to invest,
  • 00:44:37.917 --> 00:44:39.452
  • Save, and ultimately give.
  • 00:44:39.452 --> 00:44:41.020
  • We could be more generous.
  • 00:44:41.020 --> 00:44:42.288
  • - emmaus and hannah
  • 00:44:42.288 --> 00:44:43.389
  • Say, it all starts with generosity.
  • 00:44:43.389 --> 00:44:45.792
  • - the lord provided for us.
  • 00:44:45.792 --> 00:44:47.260
  • It says in (indistinct),
  • 00:44:47.260 --> 00:44:48.694
  • The only time in the bible
  • 00:44:48.694 --> 00:44:49.695
  • That we can test god in something
  • 00:44:49.695 --> 00:44:52.131
  • And it's in tithes and offerings
  • 00:44:52.131 --> 00:44:53.866
  • And god just completely
  • 00:44:53.866 --> 00:44:55.101
  • Overflowed our storehouses.
  • 00:44:55.101 --> 00:44:57.103
  • - i say when you give 10%,
  • 00:44:57.103 --> 00:44:59.672
  • That god's gonna bless you
  • 00:44:59.672 --> 00:45:01.607
  • Because you're obeying him
  • 00:45:01.607 --> 00:45:03.142
  • And you're doing what his word says.
  • 00:45:03.142 --> 00:45:06.913
  • - when you give, he gives back
  • 00:45:07.747 --> 00:45:10.149
  • And that's the word from jesus.
  • 00:45:10.149 --> 00:45:12.218
  • Give and it'll be given unto you.
  • 00:45:12.218 --> 00:45:14.921
  • And then he adds,
  • 00:45:14.921 --> 00:45:16.122
  • It'll be heaped up, pressed down,
  • 00:45:16.122 --> 00:45:17.623
  • Running over will be poured into your lap,
  • 00:45:17.623 --> 00:45:20.526
  • But you have to recognize it's from him
  • 00:45:20.526 --> 00:45:23.262
  • And it is all from him.
  • 00:45:23.262 --> 00:45:24.997
  • Your talent, your ability,
  • 00:45:24.997 --> 00:45:27.967
  • Deuteronomy is quite specific,
  • 00:45:27.967 --> 00:45:29.936
  • It's god who gives you the power to get wealth.
  • 00:45:29.936 --> 00:45:33.239
  • So when you honor him with your first fruit,
  • 00:45:33.239 --> 00:45:35.575
  • You honor him with your tithes and offerings,
  • 00:45:35.575 --> 00:45:38.244
  • You get even more wonderful blessings from him.
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  • Just imagine living a life where you know
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  • That god has your future.
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  • He's protecting you, he's watching over you.
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  • He's going to rebuke the devourer for your sake.
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  • But it is a way to live life securely
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  • Knowing you're in the will of god.
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  • - it was so intense with the sinus pressure
  • 00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:30.656
  • That it was to the point where my jaws
  • 00:47:30.656 --> 00:47:33.859
  • Were even hurting from coughing so intensely.
  • 00:47:33.859 --> 00:47:36.429
  • It was a battle, it really was.
  • 00:47:36.429 --> 00:47:38.297
  • He kept saying to me, "this too will pass."
  • 00:47:38.297 --> 00:47:40.599
  • So i just stand up
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  • And say, "i'm waiting on you lord."
  • 00:47:41.801 --> 00:47:43.669
  • I just kept confessing.
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  • God is my healer, he is my healer.
  • 00:47:45.371 --> 00:47:48.074
  • They were to the section
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  • Where they were talking about
  • 00:47:49.475 --> 00:47:51.677
  • People receiving healings.
  • 00:47:51.677 --> 00:47:53.112
  • They were gonna pray for anyone who was sick.
  • 00:47:53.112 --> 00:47:55.114
  • - there's someone, you heard the report
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  • About sinus conditions
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  • And you're saying please say, sinus conditions.
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  • So for you, i'm saying, sinus condition,
  • 00:47:59.552 --> 00:48:02.455
  • All of that inflammation,
  • 00:48:02.455 --> 00:48:04.323
  • Everything that seems to be swollen
  • 00:48:04.323 --> 00:48:06.325
  • And closed up, open now in jesus' name.
  • 00:48:06.325 --> 00:48:09.962
  • - i jumped up
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  • And my spirit just kind of leaped
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  • And i said, "that's for me lord, that's it."
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  • You think maybe, he's not mindful
  • 00:48:14.533 --> 00:48:16.035
  • Of those things, but he's mindful of everything.
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  • He's just faithful
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  • And he is our healer.
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  • (gentle music)
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  • (upbeat music)
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  • ♪ oh, you wear the shoulders action ♪
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  • ♪ it's like a great attraction ♪
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  • ♪ it starts a chain reaction ♪
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  • ♪ almost satisfaction ♪
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  • ♪ i love the way that joy makes me move ♪
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  • ♪ i got the joy ♪
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  • ♪ i'm dancin' around the heels because i love it ♪
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  • ♪ joy, i move around because i got it ♪
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  • ♪ joy, joy to your heart ♪
  • 00:48:54.874 --> 00:49:00.880
  • ♪ joy, i dance around because i love it ♪
  • 00:49:02.081 --> 00:49:05.951
  • ♪ joy, i move around because i got it ♪
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  • ♪ joy, joy to your heart ♪
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  • ♪ joy, joy to your heart ♪
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  • ♪ joy ♪
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  • - [narrator] life, it's meant to be lived fully.
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  • Jesus said it.
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  • I came to give you life.
  • 00:49:36.182 --> 00:49:38.284
  • Life to the fullest.
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  • Life in your family,
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  • Life in your finances,
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  • Life in your body, mind, and spirit,
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  • Life in your everyday.
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  • At cbn.com, we're taking
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  • What jesus said, seriously,
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  • Life,
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  • Live it fully, cbn.com.
  • 00:50:18.524 --> 00:50:27.166
  • - god, i can't stop.
  • 00:50:27.833 --> 00:50:29.101
  • I'm gonna wreck my marriage.
  • 00:50:29.101 --> 00:50:30.569
  • I'm gonna wreck my family.
  • 00:50:30.569 --> 00:50:32.037
  • I had this just lust, this physical dependency
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  • That i had to these drugs.
  • 00:50:34.673 --> 00:50:36.742
  • - i just couldn't be with him
  • 00:50:36.742 --> 00:50:38.043
  • The rest of my life, i decided to leave.
  • 00:50:38.043 --> 00:50:42.381
  • - i just remember him doing the altar call
  • 00:50:43.549 --> 00:50:45.518
  • And if you're not sure
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  • That you're gonna go to heaven,
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  • You've gotta confess with your mouth.
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  • Say that you're a sinner.
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  • You gotta believe that christ died for your sins.
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  • There's only one way.
  • 00:50:54.293 --> 00:50:55.594
  • There's only one hope and that's christ.
  • 00:50:55.594 --> 00:50:58.597
  • - it's all the revolution against christianity.
  • 00:50:59.899 --> 00:51:03.602
  • - once you have the foundation,
  • 00:51:03.602 --> 00:51:04.870
  • Man determines truth, anything goes.
  • 00:51:04.870 --> 00:51:07.840
  • - show me the downside of loving god
  • 00:51:07.840 --> 00:51:11.210
  • And loving each other.
  • 00:51:11.210 --> 00:51:13.078
  • - i wanted to take a step back.
  • 00:51:13.078 --> 00:51:14.146
  • Who is jonathan isaac?
  • 00:51:14.146 --> 00:51:15.214
  • What has changed his life?
  • 00:51:15.214 --> 00:51:16.782
  • - the only one that's going get me
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  • Through this tragedy is jesus.
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  • - [narrator] faith vs culture,
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  • - in the last five minutes of my labor
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  • And delivery was
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  • When i noticed something was wrong.
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  • They put her on my chest
  • 00:51:33.499 --> 00:51:34.934
  • And right away, they took her away
  • 00:51:34.934 --> 00:51:36.702
  • And she wasn't crying
  • 00:51:36.702 --> 00:51:37.803
  • And she looked sort of gray.
  • 00:51:37.803 --> 00:51:39.638
  • I didn't know if she was gonna live or die.
  • 00:51:40.806 --> 00:51:42.775
  • Then they came back in the room
  • 00:51:43.576 --> 00:51:44.710
  • And said, "she's had a brain injury."
  • 00:51:44.710 --> 00:51:47.446
  • That's when i really started praying,
  • 00:51:47.446 --> 00:51:49.615
  • "god, please, please let her mind be okay."
  • 00:51:49.615 --> 00:51:53.085
  • Turned on the tv
  • 00:51:53.085 --> 00:51:54.353
  • And just randomly flipping the channels,
  • 00:51:54.353 --> 00:51:55.588
  • Here's cbn, it really lifted me up.
  • 00:51:55.588 --> 00:51:57.656
  • It gave me that little bit
  • 00:51:57.656 --> 00:51:58.624
  • Of hope i needed at the time.
  • 00:51:58.624 --> 00:52:00.626
  • After that, i really felt
  • 00:52:00.626 --> 00:52:01.894
  • Like things started moving even more.
  • 00:52:01.894 --> 00:52:03.762
  • She went from being
  • 00:52:03.762 --> 00:52:05.097
  • Behind to advanced for her age.
  • 00:52:05.097 --> 00:52:08.100
  • I could never deny the power of prayer.
  • 00:52:08.100 --> 00:52:10.202
  • I would always just say, pray
  • 00:52:10.202 --> 00:52:12.137
  • And pray more and just keep trusting.
  • 00:52:12.137 --> 00:52:17.876
  • I thought would happen to my daughter
  • 00:52:18.911 --> 00:52:20.813
  • And he healed her.
  • 00:52:20.813 --> 00:52:21.947
  • Psalms 34:4, i sought the lord
  • 00:52:21.947 --> 00:52:24.383
  • And he answered me.
  • 00:52:24.383 --> 00:52:25.584
  • He delivered me from all of my fears.
  • 00:52:25.584 --> 00:52:28.420
  • - dale sutherland would go from a drug bust
  • 00:52:29.555 --> 00:52:32.458
  • To a youth group often in the same day.
  • 00:52:32.458 --> 00:52:35.194
  • For years, he put his life on the line
  • 00:52:35.194 --> 00:52:37.296
  • As an undercover narcotics officer
  • 00:52:37.296 --> 00:52:39.999
  • And after he busted the bad guys,
  • 00:52:39.999 --> 00:52:42.201
  • He made sure they knew he was also a pastor.
  • 00:52:42.201 --> 00:52:46.705
  • - [narrator] for 12 years,
  • 00:52:47.473 --> 00:52:48.841
  • Dc native dale sutherland lived a double life.
  • 00:52:48.841 --> 00:52:51.677
  • During the day,
  • 00:52:51.677 --> 00:52:52.878
  • He was a youth pastor at his church.
  • 00:52:52.878 --> 00:52:54.446
  • At night, he was putting his life on the line
  • 00:52:54.446 --> 00:52:57.283
  • As an undercover narcotics police officer.
  • 00:52:57.283 --> 00:53:00.586
  • - so i would be pastoring during the day
  • 00:53:00.586 --> 00:53:02.755
  • And then during the day,
  • 00:53:02.755 --> 00:53:03.922
  • I'd be in the office, counseling,
  • 00:53:03.922 --> 00:53:04.923
  • Working and then in the evening,
  • 00:53:04.923 --> 00:53:06.158
  • I'd go to the police department
  • 00:53:06.158 --> 00:53:07.293
  • And come in and you know, buy drugs
  • 00:53:07.293 --> 00:53:09.461
  • And arrest bad guys.
  • 00:53:09.461 --> 00:53:11.130
  • - [narrator] the job required dale
  • 00:53:11.130 --> 00:53:12.364
  • To immerse himself in the dark,
  • 00:53:12.364 --> 00:53:14.366
  • Dangerous underworld of inner city crime.
  • 00:53:14.366 --> 00:53:17.202
  • He found walking the line between duty
  • 00:53:17.202 --> 00:53:19.471
  • And faith, often challenging.
  • 00:53:19.471 --> 00:53:21.974
  • - it was especially difficult for me
  • 00:53:21.974 --> 00:53:24.543
  • To have both jobs and to walk with the lord.
  • 00:53:24.543 --> 00:53:26.945
  • I was a pimp for a while
  • 00:53:26.945 --> 00:53:28.547
  • And i was introduced as a pimp.
  • 00:53:28.547 --> 00:53:29.848
  • So i had these girls around me all the time
  • 00:53:29.848 --> 00:53:31.383
  • And i would be able to try to convince guys
  • 00:53:31.383 --> 00:53:34.019
  • To trust me because if they could sell drugs
  • 00:53:34.019 --> 00:53:36.288
  • To me because i was a pimp,
  • 00:53:36.288 --> 00:53:37.256
  • I was in another kind of role.
  • 00:53:37.256 --> 00:53:38.257
  • I was doing that
  • 00:53:38.257 --> 00:53:39.525
  • And i was at the same time,
  • 00:53:39.525 --> 00:53:40.793
  • Preaching on holiness at church
  • 00:53:40.793 --> 00:53:43.262
  • And trying to keep myself holly
  • 00:53:43.262 --> 00:53:45.464
  • At the same time, which is always a challenge.
  • 00:53:45.464 --> 00:53:47.766
  • - [narrator] in his early 20s,
  • 00:53:47.766 --> 00:53:49.068
  • Dale felt the call to minister to urban youth.
  • 00:53:49.068 --> 00:53:51.403
  • However, growing in a christian home
  • 00:53:51.403 --> 00:53:53.539
  • Within a safe and secure neighborhood,
  • 00:53:53.539 --> 00:53:55.641
  • Dale didn't have much experience
  • 00:53:55.641 --> 00:53:57.142
  • With life on the streets.
  • 00:53:57.142 --> 00:53:58.644
  • So after a few years in bible college,
  • 00:53:58.644 --> 00:54:00.779
  • He enrolled in the washington dc police academy.
  • 00:54:00.779 --> 00:54:04.249
  • - i wanted to be a policeman 'cause i figured,
  • 00:54:04.249 --> 00:54:05.751
  • I could get to know the street,
  • 00:54:05.751 --> 00:54:07.052
  • Maybe understand people better
  • 00:54:07.052 --> 00:54:08.320
  • And i'd have a better testimony.
  • 00:54:08.320 --> 00:54:09.822
  • - the plan was to work on the force
  • 00:54:09.822 --> 00:54:11.256
  • For a few years,
  • 00:54:11.256 --> 00:54:12.491
  • Then move into full-time ministry,
  • 00:54:12.491 --> 00:54:14.259
  • That would change.
  • 00:54:14.259 --> 00:54:15.761
  • Shortly after graduating the police academy,
  • 00:54:15.761 --> 00:54:18.230
  • Dale worked his first undercover case.
  • 00:54:18.230 --> 00:54:20.799
  • Not only did it lead to an arrest,
  • 00:54:20.799 --> 00:54:22.868
  • It gave dale a new perspective
  • 00:54:22.868 --> 00:54:24.570
  • On his work as an officer and his faith.
  • 00:54:24.570 --> 00:54:28.107
  • - i constantly knew this was sin,
  • 00:54:28.107 --> 00:54:30.342
  • It was ruining their life
  • 00:54:30.342 --> 00:54:31.610
  • And the lives of others.
  • 00:54:31.610 --> 00:54:32.911
  • And so there was a big picture thing here
  • 00:54:32.911 --> 00:54:34.780
  • And each individual mattered.
  • 00:54:34.780 --> 00:54:36.515
  • So when i got a drug dealer,
  • 00:54:36.515 --> 00:54:38.350
  • I was keeping him from hurting all the families
  • 00:54:38.350 --> 00:54:42.521
  • And everything else that he was selling drugs to.
  • 00:54:42.521 --> 00:54:44.823
  • So i saw it as related to my faith as well.
  • 00:54:44.823 --> 00:54:48.327
  • - so he stayed with the force.
  • 00:54:48.327 --> 00:54:50.062
  • In the coming years,
  • 00:54:50.062 --> 00:54:51.330
  • Dale would arrest hundreds of criminals
  • 00:54:51.330 --> 00:54:53.265
  • And every so often,
  • 00:54:53.265 --> 00:54:54.199
  • He'd share the gospel with them.
  • 00:54:54.199 --> 00:54:55.868
  • Then in 1993, he and an informant
  • 00:54:55.868 --> 00:54:59.671
  • Showed up late to a drug deal.
  • 00:54:59.671 --> 00:55:01.940
  • - one day,
  • 00:55:01.940 --> 00:55:03.575
  • I think it was about our seventh purchase
  • 00:55:03.575 --> 00:55:05.244
  • From these guys, i pulled up
  • 00:55:05.244 --> 00:55:07.880
  • And we were supposed to meet
  • 00:55:07.880 --> 00:55:10.716
  • About 45 minutes earlier,
  • 00:55:10.716 --> 00:55:12.017
  • He got outta the car to go find the guys
  • 00:55:12.017 --> 00:55:14.386
  • And then after he had got outta the car,
  • 00:55:14.386 --> 00:55:16.255
  • They ended up killing him.
  • 00:55:16.255 --> 00:55:17.623
  • Planned, we later found out,
  • 00:55:17.623 --> 00:55:18.824
  • I mean, it was in washington post,
  • 00:55:18.824 --> 00:55:20.325
  • That they had planned to kill both of us
  • 00:55:20.325 --> 00:55:22.161
  • Had we been on time because they thought,
  • 00:55:22.161 --> 00:55:23.929
  • I was an informant as well.
  • 00:55:23.929 --> 00:55:25.464
  • You realize the mortality
  • 00:55:25.464 --> 00:55:26.932
  • And him feeling terrible
  • 00:55:26.932 --> 00:55:29.435
  • And wanting another chance to talk to him
  • 00:55:29.435 --> 00:55:31.470
  • About the lord.
  • 00:55:31.470 --> 00:55:32.938
  • - [narrator] dale then decided he wasn't going
  • 00:55:32.938 --> 00:55:34.840
  • To miss another opportunity to be sure
  • 00:55:34.840 --> 00:55:37.743
  • That he shared the love of christ.
  • 00:55:37.743 --> 00:55:39.611
  • - i could control the body,
  • 00:55:39.611 --> 00:55:41.013
  • You know, i could put 'em in a cell block.
  • 00:55:41.013 --> 00:55:42.281
  • I couldn't change the heart.
  • 00:55:42.281 --> 00:55:43.515
  • The truth is,
  • 00:55:43.515 --> 00:55:44.817
  • Whether it's a drug dealer, a prostitute,
  • 00:55:44.817 --> 00:55:46.652
  • A victim, a criminal, a murderer,
  • 00:55:47.686 --> 00:55:50.088
  • I've met 'em all.
  • 00:55:50.088 --> 00:55:51.089
  • I've talked to all of 'em
  • 00:55:51.089 --> 00:55:52.090
  • For long periods of time,
  • 00:55:52.090 --> 00:55:53.792
  • And the truth is they need christ
  • 00:55:53.792 --> 00:55:55.894
  • And they are very open to the gospel,
  • 00:55:55.894 --> 00:55:58.630
  • If people would just talk to 'em.
  • 00:55:58.630 --> 00:56:00.566
  • - [narrator] while many he arrested
  • 00:56:00.566 --> 00:56:01.700
  • Would reject his message of hope,
  • 00:56:01.700 --> 00:56:03.669
  • Others would ultimately,
  • 00:56:03.669 --> 00:56:05.003
  • Find faith in jesus christ.
  • 00:56:05.003 --> 00:56:06.939
  • One was javier, a former drug dealer.
  • 00:56:06.939 --> 00:56:10.242
  • - i wanted to get out of there.
  • 00:56:10.242 --> 00:56:11.577
  • I start, "god, i don't wanna do this no more.
  • 00:56:11.577 --> 00:56:13.612
  • I don't want to die selling drugs."
  • 00:56:13.612 --> 00:56:15.514
  • And then like after like three months,
  • 00:56:15.514 --> 00:56:17.349
  • I get arrested and it's how i met dale,
  • 00:56:17.349 --> 00:56:19.685
  • This guy from narcotics.
  • 00:56:19.685 --> 00:56:21.253
  • He started telling me about jesus
  • 00:56:21.253 --> 00:56:23.155
  • And then everything in my life started changing.
  • 00:56:23.155 --> 00:56:25.757
  • We got to be good friends
  • 00:56:25.757 --> 00:56:26.959
  • And we even do ministry together now.
  • 00:56:26.959 --> 00:56:28.961
  • - [narrator] after 12 years
  • 00:56:28.961 --> 00:56:29.828
  • Of working undercover,
  • 00:56:29.828 --> 00:56:31.196
  • Dale would get the opportunity
  • 00:56:31.196 --> 00:56:32.664
  • To become a full-time youth pastor.
  • 00:56:32.664 --> 00:56:35.000
  • For 12 years, he balanced both jobs.
  • 00:56:35.000 --> 00:56:38.470
  • - it'd be wednesday night,
  • 00:56:39.238 --> 00:56:40.172
  • I'd go speak at the youth group
  • 00:56:40.172 --> 00:56:42.174
  • And wednesday, i'd make an arrest.
  • 00:56:42.174 --> 00:56:44.042
  • And so i'd drive right over to church
  • 00:56:44.042 --> 00:56:45.911
  • And i'd tell him about the arrest.
  • 00:56:45.911 --> 00:56:47.045
  • Tell 'em how it relates to something
  • 00:56:47.045 --> 00:56:48.580
  • Hopefully in their life
  • 00:56:48.580 --> 00:56:49.882
  • To help 'em understand the word of god better.
  • 00:56:49.882 --> 00:56:52.017
  • - [narrator] after 22 years
  • 00:56:52.017 --> 00:56:53.285
  • On the force, dale retired.
  • 00:56:53.285 --> 00:56:55.387
  • Today, he's an associate pastor
  • 00:56:55.387 --> 00:56:57.623
  • At his local church in washington dc
  • 00:56:57.623 --> 00:57:00.092
  • Where he became known as the undercover pastor.
  • 00:57:00.092 --> 00:57:02.895
  • He's also the founder of code 3,
  • 00:57:02.895 --> 00:57:05.330
  • A nonprofit organization that provides training
  • 00:57:05.330 --> 00:57:07.966
  • And programs to police
  • 00:57:07.966 --> 00:57:09.635
  • And citizens so they can work together
  • 00:57:09.635 --> 00:57:12.104
  • To build safer more connected communities.
  • 00:57:12.104 --> 00:57:15.474
  • His goal of sharing the gospel remains the same.
  • 00:57:15.474 --> 00:57:19.011
  • - i need to preach the gospel
  • 00:57:19.845 --> 00:57:21.346
  • Is what matters, is what really matters.
  • 00:57:21.346 --> 00:57:23.482
  • The only thing that matters
  • 00:57:23.482 --> 00:57:24.850
  • Is that i can reach more people
  • 00:57:24.850 --> 00:57:26.451
  • For christ, for eternity.
  • 00:57:26.451 --> 00:57:28.287
  • So that's why now i say,
  • 00:57:28.287 --> 00:57:29.454
  • We used to lock people up
  • 00:57:29.454 --> 00:57:30.989
  • And now, we're trying to set people free.
  • 00:57:30.989 --> 00:57:33.692
  • - you know when god calls you to something,
  • 00:57:34.826 --> 00:57:36.628
  • He equips you for whatever it is
  • 00:57:36.628 --> 00:57:38.497
  • He's asking you to do.
  • 00:57:38.497 --> 00:57:39.731
  • Trust him with your life and listen
  • 00:57:39.731 --> 00:57:41.767
  • Because he's got purpose in the call, gordon.
  • 00:57:41.767 --> 00:57:44.770
  • - well, here's a word from psalm 71.
  • 00:57:44.770 --> 00:57:46.738
  • My lips will shout for joy
  • 00:57:46.738 --> 00:57:49.508
  • When i sing praise to you.
  • 00:57:49.508 --> 00:57:51.777
  • I whom you have delivered,
  • 00:57:51.777 --> 00:57:54.112
  • May your lips sing praise to god today.
  • 00:57:54.112 --> 00:57:57.115
  • God bless you.
  • 00:57:57.115 --> 00:57:58.717
  • (gentle music)
  • 00:57:58.717 --> 00:58:03.922
  • - i had a drug test that was coming up.
  • 00:58:05.057 --> 00:58:06.725
  • I had the drugs in my hand
  • 00:58:06.725 --> 00:58:08.226
  • And i was thinking that if i use this today,
  • 00:58:08.226 --> 00:58:11.830
  • I'm going to lose my kids.
  • 00:58:11.830 --> 00:58:14.499
  • So i got on my knees
  • 00:58:15.167 --> 00:58:17.202
  • And i went down a list of everything
  • 00:58:17.202 --> 00:58:18.770
  • That i could think of that i had done wrong
  • 00:58:18.770 --> 00:58:20.572
  • Both outwardly and inside.
  • 00:58:20.572 --> 00:58:23.275
  • I just told him,
  • 00:58:23.275 --> 00:58:24.409
  • "i'm sorry that i did these things
  • 00:58:24.409 --> 00:58:27.079
  • And jesus, i want you to come into my heart
  • 00:58:27.079 --> 00:58:29.848
  • And be the lord of my life."
  • 00:58:29.848 --> 00:58:32.150
  • And it was real.
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