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April 29, 2025

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The following program is sponsored by cbn.
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>> coming a mother who tried to protect her son.
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>> they were just calling my son all sorts of names and
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Couldn't. and there were other adults
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Listening to it and nobody said anything.
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I'm his mother. how did i not see it?
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How did i not stop it? her agonizing story.
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I don't think i've ever cried like that.
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And her fight to save others life is so precious.
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>> it's so important. please give up.
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Today on the 700 club everyone ,welcome to the 700 club.
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>> it's been 100 days since president trump took the oath
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Of office. he promised to lead america in
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A new golden age of prosperity.
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>> the president has pursued his agenda at a dizzying pace.
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Cbn news white house correspondent kelly wright
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Reports on his accomplishments challenges.
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>> the white house says president trump's first 100
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Days has been marked by a series of winning polls
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Indicate, however, that for a growing number people
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Experiencing economic uncertainty due to tariffs
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Winning feels more like losing to.
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I support what trump did which is an arbitrary on virtually
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Every country on earth which will raise prices substantially
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For ordinary americans.
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>> no i don't. an abc washington post ipsos
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Poll finds his approval ratings sinking on the economy.
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A majority of americans think things are worse now than when
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He took.
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>> 73 percent say it's in bad shape.
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As for other moves, 64% say he's going too far in trying to
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Expand presidential powers.
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>> 62% said they don't think his administration respects the
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Rule of law.
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>> the president also facing backlash over its immigration
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Actions including the deportation of multiple with
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U.s. born children.
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>> the president's touting, however, along the us-mexico
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Border as the number one accomplishment in his first
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100 days figures the once massive influx of migrants into
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The united states is now down to nearly zero.
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Borders tom homan says the president's plan is working.
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President trump was able to do in seven or eight weeks with
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The biden administration couldn't or wouldn't do in four
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Years right? so the borders locked down at
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The highest level.
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>> another promise kept. deals with faith as in creating
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The white house faith office and putting it in the west.
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>> trump also launched the task force on anti christian bias.
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I talked to paula white cain senior for the faith office
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About the attention paid to religious.
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There will be muslims. there will be jewish.
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There will be christians there will be sikh.
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There will be people all faiths.
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We here to help people to defend people and to protect
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People of faith.
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>> in foreign affairs the president continues work toward
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Bringing peace to the middle east including talks with iran
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To stop its nuclear program. one promise that remains
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Unfulfilled is brokering an end to the war between ukraine and
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Russia. the president met with
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President zelensky in rome where both men attended the
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Funeral of pope francis. secretary of state marco rubio
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Says president trump is hopeful russia's president vladimir
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Putin and ukraine's zelensky will agree to a for peace.
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>> he's trying to end a three year war that has no military
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Where everyday people are dying especially on the ukrainian
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Side in many cases civilians and children as we've seen the
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Images over the last few weeks.
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>> president trump will celebrate his 100 days in
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Office during a celebratory event in warren, michigan, a
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Swing state that he won decisively on his path to
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Becoming the nation's 47th president.
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At the white house kelly right cbn news thank you so much
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Kelly news chief political analyst david brody joins us
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Now for more. david, the president has been
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Nonstop. he's getting this
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Administration off to a stronger faster start than his
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First term although chuck schumer just recently called
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100 days from.
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>> what's with this dizzying of these first 100 days?
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>> well, dizzying pace president trump run in the same
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Sentence. andrew so we start from that
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Standpoint but look when i say he's running out of time it's a
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Second term president who has this thing the midterm
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Elections believe it or not coming up in about a year and a
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Half. and so he's got to get things
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Done because after the midterms you typically become a lame
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Duck. he's going to be lame duck
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Anyhow. so i think there's this there's
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Growing need to do it quickly and you know, this time around
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Compared to the first time is very different, you know, with
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The first administration in those first 100 days president
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Trump came in and he was trying to take on the government
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Bureaucracy this time around he really is kind of providing a
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Masterclass on how to do it. what do i mean by master?
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He's been disciplined. i mean this this administration
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Has been extremely disappointing in the first
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Hundred days.
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>> they know what they want to do.
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They're not having to deal with russia, russia as he likes to
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Say. remember jeff sessions in that
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First 100 days in the first administration recused himself
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From the russia investigation and trump was how do i say it?
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>> oh, i don't know ticked at that and from there it just
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Kind of spiraled a little bit into kind of a negativity or a
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Negative atmosphere. it's different this a lot of
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Positive vibes inside the white house despite the polls.
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All right. so the economy we know is a
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Major reason many americans voted for trump and now polls
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Are showing depending if you believe these polls or not i'm
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Hearing mixed things about a more than half of the people
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Believe the economy is worse than when he took over and the
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Tariff policies are hurting. are there some concerns in the
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White house over this polling?
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>> well, look, no, i think the bottom line is no, there.
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Now having said that, there's always an asterisk with that
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Which is of course they're keeping an eye on the polls and
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The the views of the american electorate, that's for sure.
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>> but this white house is determined and purposeful this
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Time around kind of as i was mentioning just previously, we
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Also have to remember the polls and this is an important fact
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You know, the media research center just came out with this
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Astonishing statistic 92% 92% of the coverage against
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President in the first 100 days in his administration was
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Negative that compares to 59% that was positive during joe
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Biden's first term. so look if you keep telling
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Someone you're no good, you're no good, you're no good, you're
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No good, you're going to believe guess what that you're
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No good. and i think that that's a lot
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Of it is. media perception.
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Here's a quick example from the media.
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Look they said they talked about they the media the
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Liberal media talked about how the stock market plunge was the
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Worst april ever, the great depression.
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Well, guess what? now the nasdaq actually up in
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April but that's not being reported by the liberal media
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All about spin.
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>> let's talk about immigration.
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The administration's highlighting we just heard that
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In kelly story on illegal immigration there is growing
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Concern about deportations and due process even from some
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Supporters. could that change the
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Administration's methods this?
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>> no, i don't think it's going to change their methods at all.
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I think they're going to double that's what we've seen from
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This white house and i think where this is all going
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Ultimately, andrew, is the supreme court.
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>> i mean we know it's been at the supreme court already on
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Certain due process issues as it relates to kilgore abrego
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Garcia, the guy from maryland the illegal alien from maryland
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Who was deported to el salvador .
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. but beyond all of that you've
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Got birthright citizenship and you've got other due process
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Issues especially as it relates to the alien enemies act of
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1798.
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>> so the supreme court's going to have to weigh in in a much
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More detailed way going forward .
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. so this is going to be this is
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Why we were talking about this judicial i shouldn't say
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Judicial crisis but this constitutional potential
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Constitutional crisis because what happens when the supreme
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Court says you must this white house and the white house says
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We're not going to do it, i don't it's going to come to
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That.
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>> the white house says it's not going to come to that.
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We'll see. all right.
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Final question what do you think is next for the
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Administration? we seem to be hearing a little
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Less about doge nowadays.
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>> what do you think's coming up?
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Well, andrew, thanks for asking me that because i got to tell
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You i got enough to deal with in the short term let alone
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Look into the long term.
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>> but i will say this it's all about budget reconciliation.
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>> we've heard those two words before just to kind of make it
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In layman's you know, what budget reconciliation really
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Means.
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>> it's congress's way of passing president trump's
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Agenda.
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>> that's what it is codifying it all into law and that's
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What's next on the horizon. and i see as it relates to the
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100 days i see it as kind of pre vr and post vr standing for
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Of course budget reconciliation.
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What is our what is this approval numbers before free vr
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And what will his numbers be and what will the american
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Outlook look house speaker after budget reconciliation
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Which could come early as july possibly into august then we go
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To 203 days and we see what happens from there.
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>> all right.
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>> thanks so much. appreciate you joining us.
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You bet. thanks.
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In other news, easter sunday is usually the biggest service of
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The year for most churches this year.
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Pastors report they saw more than the normal easter bump in
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Attendance. it's part of a larger trend of
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Younger men filling the and saying yes to jesus.
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>> wendy griffith has the story .
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.
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>> easter was the death of death.
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Senior pastor greg lowery tells cbn news harvest in california
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Saw a great turn out easter sunday.
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Caught him by surprise however happened at the end when a
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Large number of people gave their lives to christ.
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We saw 500 people make a profession of being we called
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Them forward in public invitations.
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It was fantastic. i can't remember an easter
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Where we had a response like that.
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>> let's talk about gen z. let's talk about this.
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The under thirties are you also seeing a lot more young people
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Attend harvest.
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>> yeah without.
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>> i was just talking with the teacher yesterday who teaches
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In a public school and she has a little bible club on campus
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Where the christian kids meet. she said i've never seen
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Anything like this in all my years of teaching.
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>> 28 out of 30 of them were boys and that's so unusual and
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Because usually hey you know girl power you girls lead the
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Way in spiritual things and guys are you know sometimes
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Parts of the best are resisting .
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. but but there's been a complete
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Shift. even the new times is reporting
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That more young men are returning to church.
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Laurie calls it an exciting sign and i think one of the
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Reasons for it is just men have been so down in the last oh,
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You know, decade or so. they're tired of being
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Browbeaten and in young specifically being told it's
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Bad to be a man, it's bad to be masculine.
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And there's been a reaction and i think it's a good reaction.
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>> a new study supports these findings among young men shows
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An overall increase of nearly 30 million americans who say
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They've committed their lives to christ compared to five
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Years ago.
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>> i think it represents the idea that a commitment to
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Christ spiritual openness it's bubbling over unexpected places
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Of our society today.
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>> there was a master of house who planted a vineyard.
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>> laurie also cites the success of recent christian
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Films in influencing young people including the chosen and
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Something called house of david that a friend of mine john
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Irwin has done on the life of king david on amazon.
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It hit the number one spot of all the things they offer on
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The amazon. so all of these things are
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Indicators that people are looking for spiritual answers.
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People looking for truth.
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>> although laurie believes we're definitely signs of
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Revival, he says what the church really needs to focus on
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Right now is the great commission in the great
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Commission of course is calling to all the world preach the
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Gospel, make disciples all nations and i just urged
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Everyone that these are effectively the final words of
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Jesus, if you will, before he ascended to heaven.
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And so this is important to jesus it should be important to
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Us.
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>> wendy griffith, cbn news.
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>> thank you, wendy and appreciate pastor laurie
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Sharing his insights and the good news with us.
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This is wonderful. it's not too much of a surprise
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Because on this program just about every week we're showing
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Of revival in this country and especially on college campuses
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With a lot of young people and young men.
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And i think one thing also aiding this movement besides
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Just the holy spirit moving the lives of people and on college
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Campuses is i know social media gets a bad rap from an awful
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Lot of people understandably, but there are many christian
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Influencers, male and female who are boldly sharing their
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Faith in on social media online and it's making a tremendous
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Difference. so the ultimate mover of this
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Is the holy spirit and we just rejoice in what god is doing
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And bringing people. and yes, pastor laurie is
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Correct. now it's on to the great
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Commission continuing terri, what's next is very exciting.
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>> well, up next the birth of a city on a hill that became a
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Nation lighting the world. we'll take you to cape henry
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For the real story of america's first settlers and a courageous
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Account from a mother who tragically lost teenager to
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Suicide.
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>> hear why she's speaking out and her message to parents.
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>> that's later on today's show .
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. hi, mike huckabee here having
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Review call 800 9014684 800
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9014684 to tomorrow a conversation with terry
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Myerson. i mean come on come on.
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The founder of orphans promise we need these children to
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Belong here. bringing families together
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Worldwide isn't that with dignity is a heart to heart
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With the host of the 700 club.
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>> i want one for my i would never cry and this is the
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Aftermath of that. tomorrow on the 700 club stay
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Connected with cbn news all day across our platforms.
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>> today marks a day in american history.
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Many history books don't cover it.
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April 29th 16 07a brave group of settlers landed at a place
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In virginia now called cape henry.
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They planted a wooden cross the shores and claimed the land for
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The glory of jesus christ.
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>> april 2916 07a nation was born.
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Travel weary englishmen landed at cape henry on the shores of
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Virginia and laid the foundation for what would
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Become the most powerful country the world has ever seen
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. .
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>> at one scene one of the drama that was to be the united
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States unfolded that day at cape henry and sparked the
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Legacy of godliness on american shores.
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>> almighty god, by your great mercy we have reached this land
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Which we now claim and establish for thy eternal
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Purposes.
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>> we asked thee to open hearts and enlighten the understand of
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The peoples of these shores to comprehend the glorious gospel
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Of jesus christ.
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>> america's destiny and purpose were sealed that cross
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At cape henry all that would follow in our nation's growth
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Hinged on the single proclamation that this land
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Belonged to jesus christ in the mayflower compact of 1620.
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The pilgrims reaffirmed the mission set forth by the
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Original virginia settlers.
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>> they said we have come first of all for the glory of god.
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Secondly, the advancement of the christian faith.
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We could say they were missionaries.
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They weren't just running from something that was a vision
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Pulling them forward to advance the christian faith in this new
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World.
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>> later the puritans carried the cape legacy further on the
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Deck of the arabella halfway england and cape cod.
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Leader john winthrop declared we shall be as a city upon a
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Hill. the of all people are upon us
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So that if we shall deal falsely with our god in this
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Work we have undertaken and so cause him to his present help
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From us we shall be made a story and a byword throughout
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The world.
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>> they were going to america to live out a new kind of
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Government and christianity where people govern themselves
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They don't depend on an outward government.
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They would depend primarily on governing themselves according
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To christian principles.
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>> we ask now that your kingdom come to us and will be done as
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It is in heaven. and to that end we claim this
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Land for that great purpose. amen.
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>> more than 100 years later as america set off on her own
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Cause towards independence, the godly foundations laid in
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Virginia established the character of our revolution.
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John adams boldly proclaimed before god i believe the hour
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Has come. my judgment approves this
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Measure and my whole heart is it all that i have, all that i
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Am and all that i hope in this life.
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I am now ready to stake upon it and i leave off as i began that
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Live or die survive or perish. i am for the declaration.
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It is my living sentiment and by the blessing of god it shall
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Be my dying sentiment. independence now and
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Independence forever.
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>> george washington's christian heart benjamin
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Franklin's call to prayer and john adams reverence for the
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Will of god symbolized the undying of our founding fathers
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To the creation of a nation which would glorify.
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The american character was born in scripture and nurtured by
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The holy spirit. yet today our national is under
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Siege. the moment that religion the
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Pure religion loses its influence over our hearts.
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From that fateful moment farewell to public and private
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Happiness. farewell a long farewell to
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Virtue.
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>> to patriotism. to liberty.
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Bishop james madison 1795. more than 400 years have passed
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Since america was first conceived at cape henry.
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And respect for our roots is growing cold yet one undeniable
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Fact still remains at its core the united states of america is
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A christian nation. when those settlers landed at
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Cape henry just a few miles from the studio we sit in
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Today. they brought a cross with them
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On that ship. they didn't here they brought a
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Cross to dedicate the land to jesus christ and the
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Proclamation of his gospel. and again it was just a few
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Miles from this studio we sit in with that cross was erected
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And terry and i just want to pray today you know that and
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Second chronicles. scripture says if my people
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Will humble themselves and seek my face and pray the lord heal
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Our land and there's a lot to pray for in this country.
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>> we're here. we hear from people from
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Viewers of the 700 club who say we pray for nation and so on
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This anniversary date of 1607 it's our honor to do so.
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Would you join with us in praying for this country father
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God we come before you in the name of jesus and we think of
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Those settlers who landed here over 400 years ago with a cross
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This land to jesus christ and lord god you know what we are
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Challenged with in this nation and we just pray for the glory
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God you see our sin as a nation and as individuals and we pray
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Lord god that you will help us love each other and love you in
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A new and magnificent way as we humble ourselves before you and
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Lord you are a covenant making god that was a covenant we made
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With you on the shore that day. lord, i just pray that you
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Restore unto us the joy of our salvation the appreciation of
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That covenant and also setting our face a flint toward the
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Future, toward you, towards your kingdom purposes that we
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Would be a city on a hill filled with virtue and for your
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Kingdom sake lord we lift our country up to you and we ask
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All of this in the mighty name of jesus.
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Amen. amen.
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Amen. you know, it's quite a
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Remarkable history that we have and it's to be reminded of it
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From time to time, isn't it? well up, next we have an
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Emotional story from a mother shattered by death of her son.
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>> and it's about faith. god really does hear us when we
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>> kelli tried to protect her son thomas but she saw other
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Kids bullying him. she pulled him out of school
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And took him to counseling. but day thomas lost his battle
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With his mental health. and now kelly to share their
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Story hoping that the tragic death of her son can be used to
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Save the lives of others.
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>> thomas always had the biggest smile in the room.
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He would always make sure that everyone was included.
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He was brilliant. he was just always looking out
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For other people. i was born with a bilateral
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Cleft lip, a pallet and no nose.
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So i had 21 operations on my face.
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>> people don't have a whole lot of sympathy for facial
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Defects. i was ugly.
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So i was picked on. it heightened my awareness of
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And the effects that it could have.
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So fast forward and i'm married to my husband chris and we
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Three boys chris, ben thomas and daniel.
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My husband chris served 27 years active duty navy.
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We were moving every 18 months. i felt that it was a good to
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Homeschool for that reason wanted to keep consistency in
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Education but i also wanted to sure that they were not exposed
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To the bullying that i was while stationed overseas.
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My youngest daniel suddenly became very sick leaving my
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Husband to finish his tour in the philippines.
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I moved back to the states with the boys to get daniel the
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Medical help he needed. daniel had very low platelets
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And very low white blood cells. and nobody knew why so
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Dangerously low he would brush his teeth and he would bleed.
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He had bruises all over him like.
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Somebody was beating him up. the doctors couldn't figure
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What was wrong with daniel. they tried several different
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Medicines and he just kept getting sicker.
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I was constantly at the hospital and i had the other
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Two my older two thomas and chris ben and so it was the
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First time that they were sent to public school.
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>> thomas started withdrawing and not being his fun smiley
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Happy self. but i don't i don't think i
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Picked up on it early enough. i was so focused on daniel.
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My older son told me that he, you know, he didn't have any
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Friends at school. i asked him if he wanted to
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Come back and homeschool again but he kept saying that it
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Would be too hard for me so he was thinking about other people
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And that's just the way thomas was.
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I did not know he was being bullied now.
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He started getting really angry ,having outbursts.
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We tried to get him counseling. we got him into counseling.
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He just kept getting angrier and angrier.
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I had gone to pick his older brother from school and i was
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Standing the attendance office waiting for my older son to
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Come and there were a group of students in between classes
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They were switching classes and they were walking by and they
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Were just calling my son all sorts of names and thomas know
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You're a loser and and they walked right by the attendance
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Right by the security guard and there were other adults in the
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Hallway listening to it and nobody said anything.
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Nobody stopped it. nobody even looked surprised
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That it was going on. couple of days later he came
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Home with bruises on him because he had been physically
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Assaulted at school. and that's when i pulled him
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Out of public school. he was so upset that i pulled
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Him out of school and he did not to go to this new school.
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He was just throwing a fit and .
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. i i dropped him off the first
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Day and i picked him up and he got in the car and the first
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Thing he said was mom, they were nice to me.
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I don't know why i didn't pull him out earlier.
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He was smiling again. he back to being social and fun
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Comeback was devastating thomas .
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. he had not had friends.
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He had been bullied for several years and now he finally was
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With a group of people who were kind to him and he felt
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Connected with and calvin took that away.
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Didn't have their ring dance and they didn't have prom and
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They didn't have graduation and it was like just the lights
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Went off in his eyes and he just hung out in his room
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Waiting and i saw him cry on multiple occasions and he was
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Supposed to start school college in.
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Government said that the colleges weren't going to open
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Up and that this was a new normal.
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>> it was really devastating and there was no outlet there.
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He had been going to counseling before when we found out about
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The bullying but the counseling stopped because of covid.
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The whole family was so excited.
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Everyone got up. we had spent night before
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Cleaning and playing games and getting ready and talking about
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All the fun things we were going to do and he was smiling
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Asked asked if we wanted to play pool later and we start
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Cooking had to cook thanksgiving dinner.
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I went upstairs and i saw him coming out of the bathroom and
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I caught him with a vaping thing and i was thomas what are
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You doing with this?
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>> i took it away and i gave him i'm like, you know, to talk
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About it and he's like no, i don't want to talk about it.
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So he went into his room like i we all started taking looks
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Through the house looking for him.
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My husband went upstairs and he came and he looked like frantic
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Was like this is really bad. this is really bad.
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Kelly any talk to you? he pulled me the other room.
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You guys thomas shot himself. i drop everything doing and i.
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>> i ran upstairs and he's lying there in the attic and i
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Crawl in there. i'm holding him and i'm talking
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To him like hold on. you know the amount blood that
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Was there there was no way he could survive.
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But i kept talking to him telling him to hold on.
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I don't think i've ever cried like that.
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It's it's it's a pain you just can't describe.
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I'm his mother. how did i not see it?
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How did i not stop it? i wanted my pastor so they came
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Over i got him over. i remember him coming up to the
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Door and my husband said we can do all things through christ
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Strengthens us. that was the only way we got
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Through to have god strengthen us.
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He used our church as his hands and feet.
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He showed up. it gave time with our families
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And it came into a horrible situation that wants to be in.
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People underestimate how big a deal that is just to show up.
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It's not something that you can survive without the presence of
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God actually. they're physically there seeing
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Us at our absolute worst not expecting anything from just
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Giving and to love enough to be in horrible situation then two
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And a half years and i.
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>> i feel like a whole different person.
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There's piece of you missing. i know the lord is good.
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I know. could have saved thomas.
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I know our god could do anything.
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I don't know why he didn't. i know our god is good and
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That's all i rested. i could the lord here.
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I don't know how anyone could survive something like this
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Without god physically being there.
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I would like to stop the upward trend suicide i i'd like to try
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To get the word out and i want to help like this precious it's
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So important. i want to use thomas story to
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Bring change. if you are struggling please
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Reach out to someone you are loved.
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>> you are worth fighting for and your life means something.
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>> please don't give up.
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>> kelly i want to thank you for sharing story your family's
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Story and about thomas his life and his struggle.
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I see now you are trying to help others and we thank you
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For your courage. you know, terry, on this
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Program we often cover miracles of healing and breakthrough
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People being delivered from drugs and alcohol, finding lord
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And salvation and certainly we want to discuss how these are
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Real issues for people jesus said in this world you will
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Have trouble and what kelly and her family went through i can't
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Think of of a more excruciating pain than bearing your child.
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This is what happens to people people who love jesus is no and
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You know, sometimes we get off track i think of how how
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Important relationships were to kelly as she, you know, found
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Some place of healing.
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>> she started it and i think of you know, it's so hard to
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Understand what goes on in the life of our kids.
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They leave the house in the morning.
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I mean even if you know kids she did all right things she
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Took him out of school. he was seeing a counselor.
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You know, hindsight is the kind of 2020 that we sometimes beat
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Ourselves up with, you know, and you can't you cannot
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Because we are not perfect. you know her her son was a
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Perfect one. we got us perfect.
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And so we have to turn to him in these moments of.
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Tremendous grief. you're right.
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I can't imagine having deal with something like that and i
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Can't this a parent not feeling what just what she said.
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Why didn't i see it? why didn't they do more?
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Why didn't they understand the pain and the grief that he was
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Feeling and i love that she's taking her loss and doing
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Something to make a difference in the lives of other people
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With and you alluded to it a moment ago the power of the
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Presence people from her church just being around her and,
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Helping her her get through and of course as you said, she may
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Have regrets but as we as we look at our children and if we
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See them becoming isolated or different things, that's good
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To look out for things. but i think the number
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One thing we can do for our children pray and you know,
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Sometimes we will you know, we read like john seven and jesus
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Says if any of you were thirsty, come to me i will give
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You living water inside. and sometimes we may say jesus
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I'm not feeling this fresh spring inside.
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>> well to quench your thirst we need to drink every day each
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And every day so let's stay in the word pray for our children
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. .
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And as kelly talked about, just being there for people was so
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Huge for her. truly wants you to know if you
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Or a loved one is struggling help is available.
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We have people standing by to pray with you.
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You can call us at 1-800-700-7000.
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They are prayer warriors also and you know you can also call
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Or text 988 for the suicide and crisis lifeline and someone is
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Available there 24 hours a day.
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>> absolutely.
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>> well, still ahead, the boy who was supposed to live only a
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Year at most. see how you came to his rescue
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. .
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>> and then later on a popular online game is now turned into
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A middle grade book step into the world of the brand new
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Light glider series.
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>> that's coming up.
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>> i'm murphy.
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>> and i'm abigail robertson and we are so excited to tell
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You about a new podcast we're launching called heaven meets
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Earth.
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>> each week from the museum of the bible we're going to bring
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You incredible and amazing stories of answered and divine
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Miracles just like the decades of stories you've grown to love
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From the hundred club.
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>> suffering opens up for god to come and move you know we
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Can be used by the holy spirit just touch people's lives is
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Amazing.
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>> i love telling that story. go to heaven meets there dot
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Com to learn more and tune in.
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Brochure call 800 650 1947 800 650 1947 that's 800 650 1947.
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Welcome back to the 700 club for the cbn newsbreak.
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Canada's prime minister is warning of threats from america
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After after his party won at the polls.
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Mark carney's liberal party triumphed in nationwide
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Elections despite trailing just a few months ago.
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Liberals are expected to take more of parliament's 343 seats
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Than conservatives. they credit president trump's
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Policies and statements that canada should become america's
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51st state. for the turnaround in his
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Victory speech, carney warned quote trump is trying to break
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Us end quote. well, the power is back on in
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Most parts of spain and after a massive power outage.
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The cause of monday's that put millions of people in the dark
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Is under investigation. trains, trolleys and subway
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Systems came to a halt while. a lack of traffic lights caused
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Snarls snarls rather. also grounded flights disrupted
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Mobile communications and shut down atms.
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So far there is no indication of a cyberattack.
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Well, you can always get the latest from cbn news by our
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Website at cbsnews.com. andrew and terry will be back
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Deserves your thoughts and appreciation.
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>> terri, over to you. enjoying moment and almost well
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Touching was only supposed to live for a year.
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He was born with a cleft lip and palate.
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His dad walked out and his mom's family refused to help.
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Thankfully for chang paid for the life saving surgery that he
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Needed after years of multiple miscarriages.
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Mrs. lee started losing hope she'd ever have a baby.
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Finally chang was his upper jaw was severely damaged and he
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Didn't have a tooth socket. this wasn't what i expected.
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I was really scared. chang a cleft lip and palate.
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>> i didn't think he'd be able to drink milk since his mouth
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Was cracked.
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>> and if i couldn't feed him, how would he survive?
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A said without nutrients he may live a year at most.
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>> cheng's dad abandoned the family so.
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>> he couldn't accept that his son was like this.
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My heart broken. my baby and i were going to
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Have a difficult. i didn't know how we were going
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To make it. hammer mrs. lee's own family
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Refused to help. there were all sorts of rumors
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Going around. i was very angry because i
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Didn't want people saying bad things about my baby.
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>> chang choked a lot and ended in the hospital with pneumonia.
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A doctor said he was malnourished and anemic.
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>> he said he would get worse each time because it would
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Damage his lines. he said the only way to solve
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Chen's problem was cleft lip and a palate surgery.
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>> mrs. lee prayed to the local gods for.
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She worked two jobs to try to save for surgery.
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Yet made $3 a day.
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>> then a in a support group told mrs. lee about jesus.
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Every time we met we read the bible together.
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I didn't feel alone anymore. i saw the true and had hope for
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The first time.
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>> this woman also told mrs. lee about operation blessing
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And you helped chang get cleft lip surgery.
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>> chen has recovered very well.
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He's a different person. he's handsome and now he can
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Drink without choking through all this.
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I that jesus is not like our local gods.
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You don't have to bring him something before you ask him
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For help. jesus is just there.
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I experience that in my most difficult time with operation
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Blessing. you helped me find a new life
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And it gave my son a second chance.
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Am truly grateful for your love .
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.
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>> i don't know about you every time i see one of these
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Children that is given new life repairing something so visibly
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Altering their lives. it's a wow.
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This little boy had hope and no future without that surgery and
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He was in this scenario where his mother simply would never
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Have the ability to able to pay for that.
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He couldn't eat well the nutrients needed were not going
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Into his system very often for these children they do develop
00:41:21.904 --> 00:41:25.841
Pneumonia because when they're drinking fluid gets into their
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Lungs. i just want to say thank you.
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If you're a 700 club member if you are this is just of the
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Many things you are doing in the lives of people in need
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Around the world as well as here at home.
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You know, to be a 700 club member is $0.65 a day $20 a
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>> most of us can do that. maybe you've never called
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Before you watch this program. this is a great day to do it.
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You see a little boy like chang wouldn't you like to know that
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You're doing that for children as well?
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Our toll number free 1-800-700-7000 you can call and
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>> do what you can today together.
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>> you know when we're unified we can really have a huge
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Impact on people. so let us hear from you.
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Call the number i mentioned it's right on your screen.
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You can also join with us by going to see bn.com or you can
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Join by texting cbn to 71777 but do it now.
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And by the way, you're calling to join would you use pledge
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Send you power for life teachings every month is our
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Way of saying thank you, andrew.
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>> all right. thank you, terry.
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Coming up next an unlikely in a mystical land.
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The author behind a brand new children's story takes us into
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The world of light gliders when we come back.
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World tomorrow. a conversation with terry
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Myerson. i mean come on.
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Come on. the founder orphan's promise we
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Need these children to belong here.
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Bringing families together worldwide isn't that with
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Dignity is a heart to heart with the host of the 700 club.
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>> i wasn't one for that. i would never cry and this is
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The aftermath of that. tomorrow on the 700 club
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Children spend more than 25% of their time engaged in some
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Activity. that's about 7 hours a day
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Which comes to more than two days a week.
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Well, thanks to content creators, feed children now
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Have an edifying way to spend their screen time.
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>> zach pfeiffer is the creator of gliders, a virtual world of
00:44:12.938 --> 00:44:16.775
Christian faith games and community for kids.
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He's also the coauthor of a new fantasy adventure series based
00:44:20.545 --> 00:44:24.249
On the characters and story found in lake gliders.
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Zach continues kids with positive values and a biblical
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Worldview in race and the lost world.
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The first book in this series well zach fay is with us now
00:44:36.127 --> 00:44:42.801
And we welcome you back to the program really.
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>> thank you so much for having me back.
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>> it's a pleasure to be here. before we talk about the book,
00:44:46.738 --> 00:44:48.240
Let's talk a little bit about light gliders.
00:44:48.240 --> 00:44:51.276
Some people might not know what it is, might have been exposed
00:44:51.276 --> 00:44:54.079
To it yet.
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>> explain. sure.
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Yeah. like gliders is a virtual world
00:44:55.480 --> 00:44:57.649
Of christian faith the games community and story based
00:44:57.649 --> 00:45:01.853
Adventures for kids and it's it's accessible and then the
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App stores and ultimately it's a screen time solution parents
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Can feel good about because its goal is to encourage faith
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Values and conversations in the home.
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>> well as you can imagine at home it's been in process and
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Becoming more and more for quite a while it takes a long
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Time to put something this together.
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What what's the inspiration for it?
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What made start the inspiration?
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>> ultimately it goes back to my father.
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My my my dad led me to christ at a young age and through time
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Together being put to bed at night and talking about lord
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And reading scripture i my imagination was captured with
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With jesus and as i got older i learned that being led to
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Christ by your father is is kind of a unique testimony
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These days.
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>> and so i, i developed a heart for this age group.
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I wanted to find culturally relevant way to impact kids
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Before the teenage like i was and to encourage and equip
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Parents for conversation like the ones my dad had with me.
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>> it's such a vulnerable time ,a young person's life that i
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Mean you say that the book is for younger children but right
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Up to like the middle school.
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>> absolutely. group of kids and kids are just
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Becoming at that time even understanding what their
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Options are.
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>> absolutely. we got anchor kids on the truth
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Of the gospel. we need to help them recognize
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The true story of god's love for them revealed in the bible
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And substantiated by the person of jesus and we got to do that
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During what the research says are the critical years which
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Are before the teenage years and right there.
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>> so zach, you get this inspiration where does somebody
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Start to do something?
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>> this is a big deal. well, thankfully while i was in
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Graduate school i took a couple of courses on on missions which
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Helped you define do you have a heart for?
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And i realized i have a heart for young kids and then on
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Strategy and entrepreneurship looking for an idea that could
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Impact kids. and so i started researching
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And found out that they are on screens whether we like it or
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Not they're spending over 7 hours a day in front of a
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Screen. and of this young generation
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Less 5% have a biblical worldview.
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So the thought was let's the screen time, let's use
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Redemptive screen time and storytelling to encourage a
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Biblical worldview, encourage prayer encourage a vision for
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How these kids were uniquely made to shine.
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>> and that's what like ladders is all about.
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What are the challenges because of everything that's available
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On screen is holding their attention.
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Mm hmm. so what's on the like ladders
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Platform that helps you do that.
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>> what kind of activities? well, that's a good way of
00:47:42.981 --> 00:47:44.382
Saying it's a platform. it's not just a game.
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There are hundreds of games. there are events in the game
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Every day we have parties in the game.
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We have virtual bible studies and prayer meetings.
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We have lots of activities going on.
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It's basically a digital ministry where kids log in from
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All over the world, create character, play games, explore
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Attend virtual events and then embedded in like gliders are
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Weekly bible based activities that kids participate in but
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Then also are sent to the parents via email so that
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Conversations happen outside the screen of the screen.
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>> so is it hard to figure how to insert god's love into all
00:48:17.081 --> 00:48:20.385
Of that because you've got you know, you need to grab their
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Attention first, then you need to hold their attention.
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Then you need to bring the element of god's love into it
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And that really is the anchor for child's well-being.
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>> absolutely. and that's why story is so
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Important we've got to capture imagination and games are a way
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To do that. stories are a way to do that.
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Art is a way to do that. music is a way to that.
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And so this is just one of the ways that i've found is
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Effective in reaching kids and sharing with them a story they
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Get to enter into. in fact i think of like gliders
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As an interactive parable.
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>> it's a it's a story that teaches where the kids get to
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Become one of the characters and they learn that their goal
00:48:56.821 --> 00:48:58.289
Is a light glider is to respect rescue and restore and that's
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Built in the game play that's built in the stories and
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Ultimately it points the true story of god's love.
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>> well, speaking of stories we have to get to break the last
00:49:08.867 --> 00:49:12.604
Hurdle because this is a book first book first book and what
00:49:12.604 --> 00:49:15.340
Will be a series, right? talk to me about this.
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>> tell me about the story. so inside of the light gliders
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Virtual world kids meet seven leaders from around the world
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And we decided to turn these seven leaders into seven
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Different books origin stories for how they became light
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Gliders, how they entered into this mystical world called
00:49:32.490 --> 00:49:33.892
Gideon and because our goal isn't actually to just get kids
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On screens, goal is to capture their imagination.
00:49:37.629 --> 00:49:41.199
We wanted to take the like story outside the game and turn
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It into because these young people need to read and so
00:49:44.769 --> 00:49:49.307
Let's give them an opportunity to read something good.
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>> so bryce is the first bryce is the first of seven of seven
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And and he's where is he?
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>> is he from the united states?
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He is from australia and he is he's from australia and he is
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From our time. his story is in 2024 and he is
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Young teenager with a lot of dreams, a lot of hopes and a
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Desire to be great but he always tries to do it on his
00:50:14.766 --> 00:50:16.234
Own so. he learns through a series of
00:50:16.234 --> 00:50:19.437
Sort of failings that he can't we all yeah he's actually and
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So he enters into the world of the mystical world gliding
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Which is where like glider academy is and he meets a
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Couple other teenagers from different parts of the world
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And from different periods in time and they all learn
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Together to collaborate to resurrect the academy and and
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It's a wonderful thing bryce and the lost pearl it's
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Available nationwide and already well into the second
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Book of the series which is on its way.
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>> but that'll be our next interview i'm sure.
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Don't forget check out zach's virtual world.
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>> all you have to do is go to light gliders dot com.
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This is the book bryce and the lost pearl.
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Great book to read with your children when they're younger
00:51:02.347 --> 00:51:05.216
And i think your kids will really be fascinated with it.
00:51:05.216 --> 00:51:08.953
I got into it yesterday and i really enjoyed thank you for
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What you're doing it's an encouragement to parents
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Everywhere but thank you for being with us.
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Here's a word from colossians for you above clothe yourselves
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With love which binds us all together in.
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>> perfect harmony. god bless you.
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We'll see you tomorrow.
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>> we're here then we might leave.
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>> any athlete knows this that if goes for a record if he's
00:51:31.342 --> 00:51:34.779
Going to move into excellence it's hard.
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>> it's difficult but the champions do.
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The vision of region universal is to be a transformational
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Christian university to produce christian leaders to change the
00:51:43.855 --> 00:51:47.191
World. we're planning a new athletic
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Center and this center is an important step and that vision.
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>> in 19 77 dr. robertson had a vision brought to him by god to
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Start a christian university
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