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The 700 Club

January 22, 2026

January 22, 2026 | 57:59

January 22, 2026
The 700 Club features a distinctive blend of news from a biblical perspective, inspirational interviews and biblical teaching for everyday life.
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The 700 Club | January 22, 2026 | January 22, 2026
  • - [announcer] the following program 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 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 that was guiding me.
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  • - [narrator] and how she emerged 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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  • (lively dramatic music)
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  • - well, welcome to "the 700 club".
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  • Victims of sex trafficking suffer from trauma
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  • Long after they're set free from the industry.
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  • - in tennessee, trafficking increased more than 30%
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  • In recent years.
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  • So now there are a growing number of victims who need help.
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  • Charlene aaron visited one ministry
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  • That's providing much needed healing for a fresh start.
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  • - rest stop ministries here in lebanon, tennessee,
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  • Is dedicated 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 and job training opportunities
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  • In an effort to help victims heal.
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  • - it started when i was three actually.
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  • - [charlene] 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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  • - [charlene] that trauma then led to a lonely life
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  • Of drug and alcohol abuse.
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  • - actually had been on life support for nine days
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  • 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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  • - [charlene] 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 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 and say,
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  • This is happening wasn't possible.
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  • - [charlene] her breakthrough came
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  • During a secret skype call 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,
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  • Body, mind, soul, and spirit.
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  • We have a, 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 with
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  • Whatever they need to deal with
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  • To be completely rehabilitated,
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  • Made whole in christ.
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  • - [charlene] founder and executive director rondy smith
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  • Explains the ministry's holistic approach.
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  • - we tell these women 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
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  • Is walk through these doors
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  • And the healing journey is going to be just as hard.
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  • And if you'll come and just focus
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  • On doing the very hard work of healing,
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  • We're gonna take care of your every need.
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  • - [charlene] part of that healing
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  • Includes a nine month curriculum called good hope farms,
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  • That provides education and employment opportunities.
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  • - they are learning job skills, paid hands-on,
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  • They're being paid to learn
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  • Because they need to be ready 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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  • - [charlene] hope came in the form of the opportunity
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  • 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 and a half years being open,
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  • 57 souls who have come through and you might say,
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  • Well, that doesn't sound 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 with no teeth
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  • Because her pimp had knocked them out with a bat
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  • And she got a new smile.
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  • - [charlene] due to this type of trauma,
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  • The ministry must take care
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  • In its approach to sharing the gospel.
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  • And smith says, testimonies of lives changed
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  • 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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  • - [charlene] that includes galia,
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  • Whose name in hebrew means beloved, redeemed, shining light.
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  • Since completing the program,
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  • She helps others at a short-term rehab facility
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  • In nashville.
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  • - everyone at rest stop has walked beside me.
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  • When i was struggling, they were my legs so i could stand
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  • And they would hold me up till i could walk on my own.
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  • Watching my clients come in
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  • Broken and hopeless and helpless
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  • To the day they leave
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  • And watching that transformation
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  • Is one of the greatest blessings.
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  • - [charlene] a transformation she hopes to provide
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  • To other survivors.
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  • - there is love out there, 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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  • - [charlene] charlene aaron, "cbn news", lebanon, tennessee.
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  • - let me echo what was on that slide above her head,
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  • Let us stop shooting the wounded.
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  • In sex trafficking, they 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 and compassion to let 'em know
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  • God 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 of "the 700 club" right after this.
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  • (lively music)
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  • - the thing we really like about cbn
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  • Is we know that our money is going to a good cause.
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  • We know that the money is well spent,
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  • We know that they're good stewards of our money,
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  • We know that they take really good care
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  • To make sure that they aren't wasting our resources.
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  • - when you are putting together
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  • The things that you want to happen in your legacy,
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  • In your will and testament,
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  • And your thought is to leave things
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  • That you work very hard for for your family.
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  • Cbn's part of the family.
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  • And so we included cbn for that very reason.
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  • - but cbn is in the soul business, just like the lord is.
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  • - the whole point is to bring people into the kingdom.
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  • That's what we want to do.
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  • That's what cbn does.
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  • - if you want to give to a good cause
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  • And make sure your money's well taken care of,
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  • Give it to cbn.
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  • - [narrator] find out how you can leave a legacy.
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  • Call cbn planned giving today.
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  • (gentle music)
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  • - [speaker] 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 pour the water out
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  • And went home with an empty container.
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  • The stream is very far and i go four times a day.
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  • 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 stomachache and vomit.
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  • When my son was three, he got very sick from the water.
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  • Thank you operation blessing for giving us a new life.
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  • When you came, we were all so grateful.
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  • 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, 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 for people all around the world.
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  • - [interviewer] you considered yourself an atheist.
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  • - yeah. - what did you specifically
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  • 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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  • - [interviewer] in 2015, walker lost his record deal
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  • And had their family van repossessed by the label.
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  • That's when craig decided
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  • 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 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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  • - [interviewer] 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, 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 and the sun hits it and it grows.
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  • - you can trust cbn, they're going to take your money
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  • And invest it wisely.
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  • - [speaker] you are saving souls through your giving.
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  • - the only way i can describe it
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  • Is i was supernaturally delivered
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  • From a nine year cocaine addiction.
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  • I loved jesus, i was a christian,
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  • But i was deeply in pain.
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  • I was physically addicted, i was mentally addicted,
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  • I was all of those things.
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  • I knew how bad off i was
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  • And what i felt him saying was,
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  • I created you for more than this, my girl.
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  • God filled those holes with a beautiful message to say,
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  • You are enough in me.
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  • - i didn't even give it a second thought
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  • That there could be a miscarriage.
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  • I don't think i really processed it
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  • Until we were driving home.
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  • That's when i finally cried about it.
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  • - [husband] god, if this doesn't happen, i still love you.
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  • - i was mad in the way where you are boiling on the inside.
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  • (gentle music)
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  • I was surrendering myself.
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  • I felt held.
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  • (gentle music)
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  • - well, we saw the heartbeat and that was like, okay.
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  • - we've never been this far.
  • 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:40.309
  • - eight years of wanting that moment.
  • 00:11:40.309 --> 00:11:43.078
  • - my little girl is in my arms, finally.
  • 00:11:43.078 --> 00:11:48.517
  • Have the guts to let go.
  • 00:11:49.185 --> 00:11:51.987
  • That allows the lord to move in a way
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  • That we can't even imagine.
  • 00:11:55.658 --> 00:11:58.928
  • - chicago has long been one of the worst examples
  • 00:12:00.196 --> 00:12:02.665
  • Of gun violence in american cities.
  • 00:12:02.665 --> 00:12:05.167
  • Much of it has taken place on the city's south side.
  • 00:12:05.167 --> 00:12:08.470
  • A christian couple is now working in that area
  • 00:12:08.470 --> 00:12:10.906
  • To build relationships with young people.
  • 00:12:10.906 --> 00:12:13.843
  • Cbns paul petitte shows how their ministry
  • 00:12:13.843 --> 00:12:16.278
  • Is using flowers to bring hope to at-risk youth.
  • 00:12:16.278 --> 00:12:20.816
  • - [paul] in 2023, the city's 617 homicides
  • 00:12:21.984 --> 00:12:25.454
  • Led the nation for the 12th straight year,
  • 00:12:25.454 --> 00:12:28.324
  • Often caught on the crossfire, younger chicagoans.
  • 00:12:28.324 --> 00:12:31.861
  • - so what you have are youth
  • 00:12:31.861 --> 00:12:34.129
  • Who might not be seen past their 18th birthday,
  • 00:12:34.129 --> 00:12:38.300
  • Might be struggling staying engaged in a school
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  • Or work program.
  • 00:12:41.036 --> 00:12:42.571
  • - [paul] in one of the more violent poverty stricken areas,
  • 00:12:42.571 --> 00:12:44.773
  • Something is being cultivated to change that.
  • 00:12:44.773 --> 00:12:47.676
  • A flower shop called southside blooms.
  • 00:12:47.676 --> 00:12:50.746
  • - so this is a faith inspired project.
  • 00:12:50.746 --> 00:12:53.482
  • You know, when i came to chicago,
  • 00:12:53.482 --> 00:12:56.352
  • It was a moment of me basically taking up my cross
  • 00:12:56.352 --> 00:12:58.554
  • And following him.
  • 00:12:58.554 --> 00:13:00.022
  • - [paul] that journey led quilen and his wife hannah
  • 00:13:00.022 --> 00:13:02.091
  • To open their shop
  • 00:13:02.091 --> 00:13:03.525
  • And hire a neighborhood at risk youth like rashod.
  • 00:13:03.525 --> 00:13:06.662
  • - i do a lot of bad stuff in the world.
  • 00:13:06.662 --> 00:13:08.163
  • So it make me feel like i do stuff good,
  • 00:13:08.163 --> 00:13:11.700
  • You know what i'm saying?
  • 00:13:11.700 --> 00:13:12.668
  • We could just balance it out,
  • 00:13:12.668 --> 00:13:13.969
  • Make me feel like i'm a good person, you know?
  • 00:13:13.969 --> 00:13:15.104
  • I help other people, save myself.
  • 00:13:15.104 --> 00:13:17.573
  • (water rumbles)
  • 00:13:17.573 --> 00:13:19.275
  • - [paul] southside blooms is a nonprofit
  • 00:13:19.275 --> 00:13:21.010
  • Supported by the county's gun violence and prevention grant.
  • 00:13:21.010 --> 00:13:24.380
  • Many of the staff here grew up
  • 00:13:24.380 --> 00:13:26.248
  • Around the worst society has to offer.
  • 00:13:26.248 --> 00:13:28.817
  • - there's high violence, high crime,
  • 00:13:28.817 --> 00:13:31.253
  • A lot of urban blight, a lot of gang activity.
  • 00:13:31.253 --> 00:13:34.723
  • You know, just trying to get to school
  • 00:13:34.723 --> 00:13:36.191
  • Can be a dangerous endeavor.
  • 00:13:36.191 --> 00:13:38.193
  • - [paul] through their efforts,
  • 00:13:38.193 --> 00:13:39.728
  • Not only are quilen and hannah training future florists,
  • 00:13:39.728 --> 00:13:42.398
  • They're planting seeds of hope and accomplishment.
  • 00:13:42.398 --> 00:13:45.367
  • - i go on events and then i see something i made.
  • 00:13:45.367 --> 00:13:48.337
  • I say, oh, i made that.
  • 00:13:48.337 --> 00:13:50.172
  • - they're competing against the best.
  • 00:13:50.172 --> 00:13:51.707
  • Like this isn't just, you know, doing flowers, you know,
  • 00:13:51.707 --> 00:13:53.909
  • For you know, your grandma or for prom.
  • 00:13:53.909 --> 00:13:57.346
  • We are at some of the most exclusive venues in chicago,
  • 00:13:57.346 --> 00:13:59.782
  • At the field museum or at (indistinct),
  • 00:13:59.782 --> 00:14:01.550
  • We're at the hyatt, the hilton.
  • 00:14:01.550 --> 00:14:03.619
  • - and southside blooms doesn't just arrange flowers here,
  • 00:14:03.619 --> 00:14:06.355
  • They grow flowers here.
  • 00:14:06.355 --> 00:14:07.957
  • In fact, they have six flower farms just like this
  • 00:14:07.957 --> 00:14:10.559
  • Spread out all over southwest chicago,
  • 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:13.128
  • Turning an empty lot into a field of beauty,
  • 00:14:13.128 --> 00:14:15.998
  • Which often turns into a field of dreams.
  • 00:14:15.998 --> 00:14:19.568
  • - it's a dream, man.
  • 00:14:19.568 --> 00:14:20.436
  • It's a dream, you know?
  • 00:14:20.436 --> 00:14:21.370
  • It's meaningful, it's community,
  • 00:14:21.370 --> 00:14:25.507
  • And it's helping people.
  • 00:14:25.507 --> 00:14:27.376
  • You know, you couldn't ask for more.
  • 00:14:27.376 --> 00:14:29.144
  • - it's really the reason that we're here
  • 00:14:29.144 --> 00:14:30.546
  • And the reason that we, you know, are,
  • 00:14:30.546 --> 00:14:33.415
  • You know, wanting to create opportunities for them
  • 00:14:33.415 --> 00:14:35.517
  • Is really because we believe that god loves them
  • 00:14:35.517 --> 00:14:37.920
  • And we want them to experience it in a real way
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  • And know that god is real and he is with them.
  • 00:14:41.890 --> 00:14:43.792
  • - many of our youth, you know,
  • 00:14:43.792 --> 00:14:45.694
  • People outside our community have written them off
  • 00:14:45.694 --> 00:14:48.097
  • And wouldn't expect you know that much from them.
  • 00:14:48.097 --> 00:14:50.933
  • But you know, like our ministry and our work
  • 00:14:50.933 --> 00:14:52.801
  • Is really an example that no life is unimportant.
  • 00:14:52.801 --> 00:14:56.505
  • No life is trash.
  • 00:14:56.505 --> 00:14:58.407
  • - [paul] although numbers remain high,
  • 00:14:58.407 --> 00:14:59.908
  • Homicides here have been declining since the pandemic.
  • 00:14:59.908 --> 00:15:03.078
  • Many city and county authorities credit programs
  • 00:15:03.078 --> 00:15:05.614
  • Like southside blooms as one of the reasons.
  • 00:15:05.614 --> 00:15:08.617
  • - and what you have with quilen and southside blooms
  • 00:15:08.617 --> 00:15:12.321
  • Is an organization specifically committed
  • 00:15:12.321 --> 00:15:16.425
  • To neighborhoods where young people
  • 00:15:16.425 --> 00:15:18.527
  • Who have all sorts of potential just need the opportunity.
  • 00:15:18.527 --> 00:15:21.697
  • They need the positive adults around them.
  • 00:15:21.697 --> 00:15:24.033
  • - [paul] whether it's sharing a timely scripture
  • 00:15:24.033 --> 00:15:25.968
  • Or encouraging an employee with dreams of medical school,
  • 00:15:25.968 --> 00:15:29.171
  • Hannah and quilen arranged southside blooms
  • 00:15:29.171 --> 00:15:32.074
  • To grow inspiration
  • 00:15:32.074 --> 00:15:33.575
  • In a part of chicago steeped in desperation,
  • 00:15:33.575 --> 00:15:36.645
  • That's why their slogan is empowering lives with flowers.
  • 00:15:36.645 --> 00:15:40.349
  • - the reason why we picked that slogan
  • 00:15:40.349 --> 00:15:42.084
  • Is because you know, of all the problems
  • 00:15:42.084 --> 00:15:44.253
  • That we're facing in chicago, you wouldn't have think
  • 00:15:44.253 --> 00:15:46.388
  • That something as humble as a flower
  • 00:15:46.388 --> 00:15:48.791
  • Could be the key to empowering people to change that.
  • 00:15:48.791 --> 00:15:52.327
  • And i really just think it's a great way
  • 00:15:52.327 --> 00:15:54.730
  • To really show how god can use literally anything
  • 00:15:54.730 --> 00:15:57.599
  • And the most unlikely things to solve
  • 00:15:57.599 --> 00:15:59.902
  • Some of the greatest problems of our time.
  • 00:15:59.902 --> 00:16:01.937
  • - [paul] in chicago, paul petite, "cbn news".
  • 00:16:01.937 --> 00:16:05.207
  • - well let the lilies bloom.
  • 00:16:06.008 --> 00:16:07.943
  • I like to remind people we were created for gardens
  • 00:16:07.943 --> 00:16:12.281
  • And when you get in nature,
  • 00:16:12.281 --> 00:16:15.017
  • When you get into blooming nature
  • 00:16:15.017 --> 00:16:18.420
  • And it just is so restful for your soul.
  • 00:16:18.420 --> 00:16:21.557
  • What a wonderful thing to do.
  • 00:16:21.557 --> 00:16:22.891
  • What a wonderful way to bring hope
  • 00:16:22.891 --> 00:16:25.427
  • To a desperate and hurting neighborhood.
  • 00:16:25.427 --> 00:16:28.530
  • Congratulations, that's a god idea.
  • 00:16:28.530 --> 00:16:31.767
  • Let's create a garden.
  • 00:16:31.767 --> 00:16:33.836
  • - yeah, don't you love hearing those young people
  • 00:16:33.836 --> 00:16:36.271
  • Themselves able to express
  • 00:16:36.271 --> 00:16:38.107
  • How this has changed the way they self perceive,
  • 00:16:38.107 --> 00:16:41.009
  • You know? - yeah and yeah,
  • 00:16:41.009 --> 00:16:42.077
  • I wanna be a good guy.
  • 00:16:42.077 --> 00:16:43.412
  • - yes, i can do this.
  • 00:16:43.412 --> 00:16:45.314
  • - yeah. - love it.
  • 00:16:45.314 --> 00:16:46.748
  • - what a great message for the entire world.
  • 00:16:46.748 --> 00:16:50.018
  • - absolutely.
  • 00:16:50.018 --> 00:16:51.487
  • Well still ahead, meet the policeman
  • 00:16:51.487 --> 00:16:54.056
  • Known as the undercover pastor
  • 00:16:54.056 --> 00:16:57.226
  • And then up next the prayers heard halfway across the world,
  • 00:16:57.226 --> 00:17:01.396
  • A young woman was overseas
  • 00:17:01.396 --> 00:17:03.132
  • When she got into a terrible accident.
  • 00:17:03.132 --> 00:17:05.767
  • Her parents hopped on a plane praying the whole way.
  • 00:17:05.767 --> 00:17:09.138
  • Hear why they say the holy spirit was guiding them
  • 00:17:09.138 --> 00:17:12.007
  • Through the ordeal
  • 00:17:12.007 --> 00:17:13.509
  • And see what saved their daughter's life.
  • 00:17:13.509 --> 00:17:15.711
  • That's coming up.
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  • (gentle music)
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  • - [narrator] melissa and her husband rick
  • 00:17:54.082 --> 00:17:55.551
  • Have come a long way from when they met.
  • 00:17:55.551 --> 00:17:57.619
  • Melissa was in real estate,
  • 00:17:57.619 --> 00:17:59.321
  • Rick had been living on credit cards
  • 00:17:59.321 --> 00:18:01.557
  • Trying to start a number of businesses
  • 00:18:01.557 --> 00:18:03.792
  • And was $80,000 in debt.
  • 00:18:03.792 --> 00:18:06.261
  • All the while, the henon's were tithing
  • 00:18:06.261 --> 00:18:08.997
  • And the newly married couples started
  • 00:18:08.997 --> 00:18:10.499
  • Working their way out of the red.
  • 00:18:10.499 --> 00:18:12.401
  • - i think i had bought into society saying,
  • 00:18:12.401 --> 00:18:15.871
  • Here's what you should have.
  • 00:18:15.871 --> 00:18:17.206
  • I simply asked god, do i have money before you?
  • 00:18:17.206 --> 00:18:20.509
  • I asked god to forgive me instantly.
  • 00:18:20.509 --> 00:18:23.512
  • I told god whether i make a lot of money or not,
  • 00:18:23.512 --> 00:18:27.549
  • I'm done striving.
  • 00:18:27.549 --> 00:18:29.284
  • - [narrator] today, rick and melissa have three children
  • 00:18:29.284 --> 00:18:31.887
  • And choose to live way below their means
  • 00:18:31.887 --> 00:18:34.056
  • So they can help the poor.
  • 00:18:34.056 --> 00:18:35.857
  • They've already built 13 orphanages
  • 00:18:35.857 --> 00:18:38.260
  • And a freedom house in india.
  • 00:18:38.260 --> 00:18:40.095
  • - what i loved about operation blessing
  • 00:18:40.095 --> 00:18:41.863
  • Is that we were really able to see the fruit of that gift.
  • 00:18:41.863 --> 00:18:45.867
  • - now i have the hunger to make more money
  • 00:18:45.867 --> 00:18:48.337
  • So we truly can give to all of these places
  • 00:18:48.337 --> 00:18:51.607
  • 'cause there's a lot of need out there.
  • 00:18:51.607 --> 00:18:54.209
  • - i just turned, an excruciating pain,
  • 00:18:54.209 --> 00:18:57.446
  • Came in my knee on the inside
  • 00:18:57.446 --> 00:19:01.149
  • And it was like a jabbing knife.
  • 00:19:01.149 --> 00:19:03.385
  • I made it to the doctor, found out it was a torn meniscus.
  • 00:19:03.385 --> 00:19:07.055
  • So having the knee injury,
  • 00:19:07.055 --> 00:19:09.891
  • Having to slow down was depressing.
  • 00:19:09.891 --> 00:19:13.228
  • I was like, lord, heal this.
  • 00:19:13.228 --> 00:19:15.464
  • Sitting on the couch and "700 club" came on
  • 00:19:15.464 --> 00:19:18.000
  • And that's when i saw gordon on.
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  • - we say out loud to it,
  • 00:19:22.204 --> 00:19:24.606
  • Be healed and be made whole.
  • 00:19:24.606 --> 00:19:28.677
  • May all pain leave me, in jesus' name.
  • 00:19:28.677 --> 00:19:34.283
  • I receive it now.
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  • Now what you couldn't do before, do now.
  • 00:19:36.918 --> 00:19:39.888
  • - by faith, i'm going to do this.
  • 00:19:39.888 --> 00:19:41.423
  • I'm by faith, i'm gonna walk and i was walking,
  • 00:19:41.423 --> 00:19:44.393
  • It wasn't hurting.
  • 00:19:44.393 --> 00:19:45.827
  • I know that god heal me beyond a shadow of a doubt.
  • 00:19:45.827 --> 00:19:53.302
  • - [kathy] we've always been tithers.
  • 00:19:54.336 --> 00:19:55.871
  • We teach our children to tithe.
  • 00:19:55.871 --> 00:19:57.539
  • - i can't explain to you how the bills would be here maybe
  • 00:19:57.539 --> 00:20:00.709
  • In the income here, but at the end of the month,
  • 00:20:00.709 --> 00:20:02.811
  • It seemed that they would meet every single time.
  • 00:20:02.811 --> 00:20:06.448
  • My stepfather is a farmer,
  • 00:20:06.448 --> 00:20:07.949
  • Had three or 400 acres of melons he grew.
  • 00:20:07.949 --> 00:20:10.852
  • And so i took a old toyota pickup truck that i had
  • 00:20:10.852 --> 00:20:14.022
  • And a trailer and would pick up 100 to 200 watermelons
  • 00:20:14.022 --> 00:20:17.926
  • And i started pedaling them out.
  • 00:20:17.926 --> 00:20:19.761
  • Food line was our first corporate client.
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  • Remember one year sitting down working on my taxes
  • 00:20:21.663 --> 00:20:24.499
  • And my giving that year exceeded my adjusted gross income
  • 00:20:24.499 --> 00:20:28.503
  • Just a few years before.
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  • As we've watched the program
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  • And seen 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 a financial blessing
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  • Bless and be blessed.
  • 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:54.463
  • - i started drinking alcohol
  • 00:20:54.463 --> 00:20:56.398
  • Under the pretense of i'm celebrating.
  • 00:20:56.398 --> 00:20:59.067
  • I wasn't celebrating, i was medicating myself.
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  • I felt completely defeated and broken.
  • 00:21:02.404 --> 00:21:04.940
  • I was weak in my relationship with god
  • 00:21:05.974 --> 00:21:08.143
  • And i was just a weak human being
  • 00:21:08.143 --> 00:21:10.879
  • And god got further and further away.
  • 00:21:10.879 --> 00:21:13.048
  • When you feel his presence and you walk away from it,
  • 00:21:14.383 --> 00:21:17.152
  • There's guilt, there's shame,
  • 00:21:17.152 --> 00:21:18.954
  • But there's also a sort of a sense
  • 00:21:18.954 --> 00:21:20.756
  • That it'll never happen for you again.
  • 00:21:20.756 --> 00:21:23.859
  • My daughter, who was 12 at the time, she said,
  • 00:21:23.859 --> 00:21:26.561
  • "daddy, i want you to be happy.
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  • I want you to know jesus."
  • 00:21:28.830 --> 00:21:31.032
  • God started to reveal himself to me again
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  • And he started to melt away the ice that was my heart.
  • 00:21:35.270 --> 00:21:39.875
  • I'm trying to talk people into this life
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  • That is second to none.
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  • This life of feeling christ's presence in your life.
  • 00:21:46.281 --> 00:21:50.519
  • (gentle music)
  • 00:21:51.086 --> 00:21:54.322
  • - i just couldn't keep anything down.
  • 00:21:54.322 --> 00:21:56.958
  • The nausea and the fatigue, shortness of breath.
  • 00:21:56.958 --> 00:22:00.495
  • As a nurse, i knew it wasn't just a flu.
  • 00:22:00.495 --> 00:22:02.764
  • My prayer was, lord, give me a diagnosis
  • 00:22:02.764 --> 00:22:06.368
  • And give me a treatment plan
  • 00:22:06.368 --> 00:22:07.636
  • And gimme a doctor who knows me
  • 00:22:07.636 --> 00:22:09.137
  • And understands what's going on.
  • 00:22:09.137 --> 00:22:10.839
  • And gordon said, "if you wanna be healed right now",
  • 00:22:10.839 --> 00:22:14.009
  • He said, "you just put your hand on that body part."
  • 00:22:14.009 --> 00:22:16.244
  • So i did, i put my hand,
  • 00:22:16.244 --> 00:22:17.746
  • I said, lord, i'm believing you that you can heal me.
  • 00:22:17.746 --> 00:22:21.383
  • And at that moment, gordon said.
  • 00:22:21.383 --> 00:22:23.852
  • - there's someone, you're saying,
  • 00:22:23.852 --> 00:22:24.820
  • Please say crohn's disease.
  • 00:22:24.820 --> 00:22:27.289
  • And so we're saying crohn's disease for you.
  • 00:22:27.289 --> 00:22:30.225
  • Let your body no longer fight against itself,
  • 00:22:30.225 --> 00:22:33.562
  • But be restored now in jesus' name.
  • 00:22:33.562 --> 00:22:37.732
  • - and i've had no issues since that time
  • 00:22:37.732 --> 00:22:41.203
  • And i just give god the glory for that.
  • 00:22:41.203 --> 00:22:44.673
  • What i know is that jesus touched me
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  • And that i've been healed.
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  • (lively music)
  • 00:22:48.743 --> 00:22:54.950
  • - maggie swanson is an iron woman.
  • 00:22:55.917 --> 00:22:58.286
  • She's a top finisher of three grueling triathlons.
  • 00:22:58.286 --> 00:23:02.457
  • It's an incredible feat for anyone.
  • 00:23:02.457 --> 00:23:04.759
  • For maggie, downright miraculous
  • 00:23:04.759 --> 00:23:07.596
  • Because a few years ago, maggie was in a coma in the icu
  • 00:23:07.596 --> 00:23:11.967
  • Fighting for her life.
  • 00:23:11.967 --> 00:23:14.269
  • - [narrator] exchange student, maggie swanson,
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  • Always loved her morning runs
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  • Through the streets of seville, spain.
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  • This one almost cost her her life.
  • 00:23:21.877 --> 00:23:24.980
  • Maggie was crossing a street when a bus
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  • Traveling 37 miles per hour hit her,
  • 00:23:27.315 --> 00:23:30.952
  • Throwing her 80 feet.
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  • Seven hours later and over 4,000 miles away in minnesota,
  • 00:23:32.854 --> 00:23:36.958
  • Tad weese got the phone call at work
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  • That his 19-year-old daughter was in the hospital
  • 00:23:38.860 --> 00:23:42.030
  • Fighting for her life.
  • 00:23:42.030 --> 00:23:43.365
  • - our life just got turned upside down
  • 00:23:43.365 --> 00:23:46.034
  • In a matter of moments with one phone call.
  • 00:23:46.034 --> 00:23:49.304
  • - [narrator] tad immediately called his wife, wendy.
  • 00:23:49.304 --> 00:23:52.173
  • - it was almost like an out of body experience.
  • 00:23:52.173 --> 00:23:54.409
  • Packed the bags, grabbed the passports,
  • 00:23:54.409 --> 00:23:56.511
  • Made my way to tad's office, picked him up,
  • 00:23:56.511 --> 00:23:59.080
  • Got to the airport and i know that that was the holy spirit
  • 00:23:59.080 --> 00:24:02.117
  • That was guiding me.
  • 00:24:02.117 --> 00:24:03.585
  • - [narrator] wendy and tad say despite full flights,
  • 00:24:03.585 --> 00:24:06.254
  • God paved the way for them
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  • To get last minute tickets to spain.
  • 00:24:07.589 --> 00:24:09.991
  • They spent most of the journey praying.
  • 00:24:09.991 --> 00:24:13.028
  • - praying to god during that time
  • 00:24:13.028 --> 00:24:15.630
  • Was probably the only thing that we felt we could do
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  • That made a difference.
  • 00:24:21.670 --> 00:24:22.804
  • - maggie was a believer in jesus christ
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  • And if the lord chose not to save her life,
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  • We knew that she would go to heaven.
  • 00:24:29.444 --> 00:24:33.381
  • - [narrator] in seville, they rushed to the hospital
  • 00:24:33.381 --> 00:24:36.084
  • Where they found maggie in the icu
  • 00:24:36.084 --> 00:24:38.086
  • In a medically induced coma.
  • 00:24:38.086 --> 00:24:40.088
  • It had been 25 hours since the accident.
  • 00:24:40.088 --> 00:24:42.657
  • - we were in shock.
  • 00:24:42.657 --> 00:24:44.726
  • Due to all the swelling from the accident,
  • 00:24:44.726 --> 00:24:47.662
  • It just didn't even look like maggie.
  • 00:24:47.662 --> 00:24:49.998
  • - those first moments of seeing maggie,
  • 00:24:49.998 --> 00:24:53.501
  • We just knew we had a long battle ahead of us.
  • 00:24:53.501 --> 00:24:56.738
  • - [narrator] through translators,
  • 00:24:56.738 --> 00:24:58.406
  • They learned that maggie suffered a traumatic brain injury,
  • 00:24:58.406 --> 00:25:00.709
  • Pelvic fracture and broken ribs.
  • 00:25:00.709 --> 00:25:03.578
  • Their main concern was the possibility
  • 00:25:03.578 --> 00:25:05.680
  • Of her brain swelling.
  • 00:25:05.680 --> 00:25:07.248
  • The first 72 hours were critical.
  • 00:25:07.248 --> 00:25:09.718
  • - they never told us that she would live
  • 00:25:09.718 --> 00:25:11.987
  • Or that they had assurance that she would live.
  • 00:25:11.987 --> 00:25:14.456
  • And so we went through the first four days wondering
  • 00:25:14.456 --> 00:25:18.727
  • At any moment whether or not we would hear from the hospital
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  • That she had taken a turn for the worse
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  • And we would be called in to say goodbye to her.
  • 00:25:26.668 --> 00:25:29.104
  • - [narrator] now it was a waiting game.
  • 00:25:29.104 --> 00:25:31.206
  • Tad and wendy spent every moment they could
  • 00:25:31.206 --> 00:25:33.875
  • At maggie's bedside.
  • 00:25:33.875 --> 00:25:35.810
  • After a week, maggie was stable enough for surgery
  • 00:25:35.810 --> 00:25:38.613
  • To repair her fractured pelvis.
  • 00:25:38.613 --> 00:25:40.615
  • While doctors assured them maggie would live,
  • 00:25:40.615 --> 00:25:42.851
  • They couldn't predict what her future would hold.
  • 00:25:42.851 --> 00:25:45.153
  • - what if she is no longer able to speak clearly
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  • Or hold a job
  • 00:25:52.127 --> 00:25:54.295
  • Or would she be able to be an adult
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  • Who is able to earn an income
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  • And get married and have a family?
  • 00:25:59.868 --> 00:26:02.237
  • All of those, all of those thoughts race through your mind.
  • 00:26:02.237 --> 00:26:05.740
  • - [narrator] by then, tad had set up a caringbridge page
  • 00:26:05.740 --> 00:26:08.443
  • To post updates on maggie.
  • 00:26:08.443 --> 00:26:10.412
  • Prayers and encouragement came pouring in.
  • 00:26:10.412 --> 00:26:12.947
  • - people that came alongside of us
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  • Were such a part of this story
  • 00:26:14.883 --> 00:26:17.485
  • And such a big part of maggie's recovery
  • 00:26:17.485 --> 00:26:20.121
  • And we just can't thank them enough.
  • 00:26:20.121 --> 00:26:22.524
  • - [narrator] by the end of three weeks,
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  • Maggie had been brought out of her coma
  • 00:26:23.725 --> 00:26:25.694
  • And was stable enough to fly home.
  • 00:26:25.694 --> 00:26:27.896
  • Psychiatrist and brain trauma specialist, dr. bob sevenich,
  • 00:26:27.896 --> 00:26:32.000
  • Was on the team that took over maggie's care in minneapolis.
  • 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:35.403
  • - when i first saw her, she was quite cognitively impaired.
  • 00:26:35.403 --> 00:26:38.373
  • She was semi-awake
  • 00:26:38.373 --> 00:26:41.476
  • And she was answering yes, no questions inconsistently,
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  • Even fairly simple questions.
  • 00:26:45.046 --> 00:26:46.881
  • People that have traumatic brain injuries
  • 00:26:46.881 --> 00:26:49.184
  • Often have ongoing difficulties with walking,
  • 00:26:49.184 --> 00:26:52.153
  • With moving, with coordination,
  • 00:26:52.153 --> 00:26:55.123
  • All those sorts of things.
  • 00:26:55.123 --> 00:26:56.691
  • - [narrator] however, maggie would begin defying the odds,
  • 00:26:56.691 --> 00:26:59.360
  • Making great strides in physical therapy
  • 00:26:59.360 --> 00:27:01.730
  • And on august 7th, she was up and walking.
  • 00:27:01.730 --> 00:27:04.099
  • - she stood up out of that wheelchair
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  • And we walked her out of the hospital
  • 00:27:05.767 --> 00:27:07.535
  • And it was just the most beautiful thing.
  • 00:27:07.535 --> 00:27:10.538
  • - it felt so freeing to walk
  • 00:27:10.538 --> 00:27:12.907
  • After i've been sitting around for months.
  • 00:27:12.907 --> 00:27:16.144
  • - [narrator] although she was improving physically,
  • 00:27:16.144 --> 00:27:18.046
  • Maggie's emotional and mental healing took longer.
  • 00:27:18.046 --> 00:27:20.915
  • - i just couldn't join my friends with a lot of things
  • 00:27:20.915 --> 00:27:23.618
  • And i found that that was very isolating and very confusing.
  • 00:27:23.618 --> 00:27:28.690
  • That led to me asking god a lot of questions
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  • Of why is this happening to me?
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  • Why am i alone?
  • 00:27:33.094 --> 00:27:34.429
  • It was a very isolating time.
  • 00:27:34.429 --> 00:27:36.264
  • I was wondering why god had taken my running,
  • 00:27:36.264 --> 00:27:38.533
  • My academics, my social life,
  • 00:27:38.533 --> 00:27:41.536
  • My ability to really do anything, to be a normal,
  • 00:27:41.536 --> 00:27:45.206
  • To be a normal student.
  • 00:27:45.206 --> 00:27:47.709
  • Romans 8:28 was a real encouragement during this time.
  • 00:27:47.709 --> 00:27:51.746
  • "god works all things for the good of those who love him,
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  • Who are called according to his will."
  • 00:27:54.215 --> 00:27:56.284
  • - [narrator] those words would come true.
  • 00:27:56.284 --> 00:27:58.653
  • That fall with therapy, hard work and a lot of prayer,
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  • Maggie returned to college
  • 00:28:02.223 --> 00:28:03.825
  • And was soon running again.
  • 00:28:03.825 --> 00:28:05.794
  • A year after the accident,
  • 00:28:05.794 --> 00:28:07.395
  • Maggie was back in spain as an exchange student.
  • 00:28:07.395 --> 00:28:10.665
  • In may of 2016, she graduated from college on time.
  • 00:28:10.665 --> 00:28:15.003
  • - the accident was quite severe
  • 00:28:15.003 --> 00:28:16.504
  • And i think it surprised a lot of the providers,
  • 00:28:16.504 --> 00:28:19.541
  • The medical professionals both in spain and here,
  • 00:28:19.541 --> 00:28:23.278
  • How rapid her recovery was and how well she did
  • 00:28:23.278 --> 00:28:27.916
  • Considering the injuries that she sustained.
  • 00:28:27.916 --> 00:28:30.285
  • - [narrator] married in 2019,
  • 00:28:30.285 --> 00:28:32.220
  • Maggie went on to accomplish even more.
  • 00:28:32.220 --> 00:28:34.522
  • Since then, she has competed in three ironman triathlons.
  • 00:28:34.522 --> 00:28:38.660
  • 2023, she placed 100 out of 2,000 women.
  • 00:28:38.660 --> 00:28:43.198
  • As in everything, she gives god the glory.
  • 00:28:43.198 --> 00:28:45.934
  • - it's just amazing what god has done in her life.
  • 00:28:45.934 --> 00:28:49.971
  • How she can use her story to help others
  • 00:28:49.971 --> 00:28:54.275
  • Learn about jesus and about god
  • 00:28:54.275 --> 00:28:57.745
  • And how he can take the worst of events
  • 00:28:57.745 --> 00:28:59.948
  • And turn them into incredible blessings.
  • 00:28:59.948 --> 00:29:03.685
  • - be in the word, know the lord jesus in such a way
  • 00:29:03.685 --> 00:29:08.690
  • That you can stand on his foundation of truth
  • 00:29:08.690 --> 00:29:12.760
  • When the storm comes.
  • 00:29:12.760 --> 00:29:14.329
  • - i'm grateful that the accident happened
  • 00:29:14.329 --> 00:29:16.064
  • And that he did,
  • 00:29:16.064 --> 00:29:19.467
  • He did turn what was initially meant for evil
  • 00:29:19.467 --> 00:29:23.037
  • To something beautiful
  • 00:29:23.037 --> 00:29:24.272
  • And all the things that happened to me,
  • 00:29:24.272 --> 00:29:26.641
  • God did mean it for good
  • 00:29:26.641 --> 00:29:28.076
  • And god brought so much good from it.
  • 00:29:28.076 --> 00:29:30.745
  • Keep the faith that god is with you
  • 00:29:30.745 --> 00:29:32.814
  • And that god wants the best for you.
  • 00:29:32.814 --> 00:29:35.550
  • (gentle music)
  • 00:29:35.550 --> 00:29:37.218
  • - all things work together for good,
  • 00:29:37.218 --> 00:29:39.420
  • For those who are called according to his purposes.
  • 00:29:39.420 --> 00:29:42.724
  • Those are not just words on a page, that's a promise.
  • 00:29:42.724 --> 00:29:46.661
  • That's a promise from god to us,
  • 00:29:46.661 --> 00:29:49.430
  • A promise from god to you.
  • 00:29:49.430 --> 00:29:51.099
  • He takes the worst of things
  • 00:29:51.099 --> 00:29:53.868
  • And if we'll give them to him, he turns them around.
  • 00:29:53.868 --> 00:29:56.871
  • The bible says he gives us beauty for ashes.
  • 00:29:56.871 --> 00:29:59.240
  • The oil of joy for mourning,
  • 00:29:59.240 --> 00:30:00.842
  • A garment of praise for a spirit of heaviness.
  • 00:30:00.842 --> 00:30:04.112
  • In this scenario, i mean i think you could say
  • 00:30:04.112 --> 00:30:06.714
  • Maggie got her life back.
  • 00:30:06.714 --> 00:30:08.650
  • Maggie got her life back under the most extreme conditions
  • 00:30:08.650 --> 00:30:12.754
  • That would have robbed her of everything she knew,
  • 00:30:12.754 --> 00:30:15.590
  • Everything that made life legit for her.
  • 00:30:15.590 --> 00:30:18.993
  • God knows your need right now.
  • 00:30:18.993 --> 00:30:20.962
  • You know, one of the things that her parents did
  • 00:30:20.962 --> 00:30:23.197
  • That i think is so important
  • 00:30:23.197 --> 00:30:25.566
  • Is they didn't wait for signs of things to turn around.
  • 00:30:25.566 --> 00:30:29.504
  • They got into the word, they declared they were the word,
  • 00:30:29.504 --> 00:30:32.807
  • They prayed the word over her,
  • 00:30:32.807 --> 00:30:34.575
  • They spent every moment they could with her
  • 00:30:34.575 --> 00:30:37.245
  • Reaffirming who god is, what he said and who we are in him.
  • 00:30:37.245 --> 00:30:41.749
  • We're his kids, we have legacy with him.
  • 00:30:41.749 --> 00:30:45.153
  • We have connection with him,
  • 00:30:45.153 --> 00:30:46.888
  • He sees us, he knows us and we wanna take some time
  • 00:30:46.888 --> 00:30:49.424
  • To pray for you today.
  • 00:30:49.424 --> 00:30:51.259
  • Everybody has something that they would like
  • 00:30:51.259 --> 00:30:54.395
  • Or even asking god to do for them.
  • 00:30:54.395 --> 00:30:57.231
  • God knows what's best for you.
  • 00:30:57.231 --> 00:30:59.000
  • That's the crux in the whole thing
  • 00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:01.836
  • Is are you willing to surrender it to him
  • 00:31:01.836 --> 00:31:04.372
  • If the outcome isn't what you want it to be?
  • 00:31:04.372 --> 00:31:07.075
  • Because he knows you, he loves you.
  • 00:31:07.075 --> 00:31:09.744
  • He sees your tomorrow even when you cannot.
  • 00:31:09.744 --> 00:31:13.047
  • We wanna pray together for god's kingdom purposes today,
  • 00:31:14.449 --> 00:31:17.752
  • For all of us.
  • 00:31:17.752 --> 00:31:19.220
  • This is first of all a answer to prayer from angela.
  • 00:31:19.220 --> 00:31:22.357
  • She had inflammation and pain in her knee
  • 00:31:22.357 --> 00:31:24.325
  • For an entire year.
  • 00:31:24.325 --> 00:31:25.893
  • Nothing she tried brought relief
  • 00:31:25.893 --> 00:31:27.996
  • And then gordon, you prayed,
  • 00:31:27.996 --> 00:31:29.497
  • "someone's laying your hands on your right knee.
  • 00:31:29.497 --> 00:31:31.666
  • God has heard your cry.
  • 00:31:31.666 --> 00:31:33.101
  • He's able to take away all the pain right now.
  • 00:31:33.101 --> 00:31:35.970
  • Just receive it in jesus' name."
  • 00:31:35.970 --> 00:31:38.373
  • Angela exercised her faith in god
  • 00:31:38.373 --> 00:31:41.209
  • And she was totally healed.
  • 00:31:41.209 --> 00:31:43.177
  • - well, here's a tremendous miracle from susan,
  • 00:31:43.177 --> 00:31:45.179
  • "in the late 1980s", so a long time ago,
  • 00:31:45.179 --> 00:31:48.783
  • "i was in a car accident.
  • 00:31:48.783 --> 00:31:50.885
  • Since then, i've struggled with chronic back pain."
  • 00:31:50.885 --> 00:31:54.589
  • If you know anyone with chronic back pain,
  • 00:31:54.589 --> 00:31:56.691
  • You know how horrible that is.
  • 00:31:56.691 --> 00:31:59.027
  • "the doctor said he was surprised i was even able to walk.
  • 00:31:59.027 --> 00:32:03.998
  • Well watching 'the 700 club;,
  • 00:32:04.832 --> 00:32:07.035
  • Terry prayed for someone injured in a car accident.
  • 00:32:07.035 --> 00:32:10.571
  • I immediately knew the prayers were for me.
  • 00:32:10.571 --> 00:32:13.908
  • The pain left my spine, all i could feel was love.
  • 00:32:13.908 --> 00:32:20.014
  • Thank you, jesus."
  • 00:32:20.648 --> 00:32:22.750
  • Isn't that wonderful?
  • 00:32:22.750 --> 00:32:24.085
  • All you can feel is love.
  • 00:32:24.085 --> 00:32:26.320
  • For anyone you know, like maggie,
  • 00:32:26.320 --> 00:32:28.589
  • You've been in an accident
  • 00:32:28.589 --> 00:32:30.291
  • And it's okay to pour out your complaint before the lord,
  • 00:32:30.291 --> 00:32:34.195
  • But you know in that realize,
  • 00:32:34.195 --> 00:32:36.831
  • All things do work together for good.
  • 00:32:36.831 --> 00:32:40.068
  • Now, for maggie,
  • 00:32:40.068 --> 00:32:41.502
  • I would say god didn't take those things from you,
  • 00:32:41.502 --> 00:32:44.405
  • The bus did.
  • 00:32:44.405 --> 00:32:46.174
  • In god's creation, time, chance happened to us all.
  • 00:32:46.174 --> 00:32:51.579
  • So there was a decision to run,
  • 00:32:52.380 --> 00:32:54.449
  • There was a decision to drive the bus,
  • 00:32:54.449 --> 00:32:56.617
  • There were all these decisions that god didn't make,
  • 00:32:56.617 --> 00:33:00.421
  • People made and accidents happen
  • 00:33:00.421 --> 00:33:04.659
  • In god's universe.
  • 00:33:04.659 --> 00:33:06.627
  • But here's the great news,
  • 00:33:06.627 --> 00:33:08.763
  • In that accident, he is able to work all things together
  • 00:33:08.763 --> 00:33:13.634
  • For your good.
  • 00:33:13.634 --> 00:33:14.535
  • Isn't that wonderful?
  • 00:33:14.535 --> 00:33:16.270
  • That's the great promise.
  • 00:33:16.270 --> 00:33:20.174
  • Don't blame the healer,
  • 00:33:18.306 --> 00:33:22.310
  • Look to the healer for the answer.
  • 00:33:22.310 --> 00:33:25.046
  • Look to how he's working all things together for your good.
  • 00:33:25.046 --> 00:33:28.883
  • And for maggie, what a great persevering story.
  • 00:33:28.883 --> 00:33:32.353
  • You say, it was so great to get up and walk.
  • 00:33:32.353 --> 00:33:34.889
  • You know, okay, it's so great to get up and run,
  • 00:33:34.889 --> 00:33:37.091
  • It's so great to get up and ride a bike,
  • 00:33:37.091 --> 00:33:39.160
  • It's so great to do all these things
  • 00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:40.962
  • Because god is working all things together for my good.
  • 00:33:40.962 --> 00:33:44.799
  • Let that same resolution be deep within you right now.
  • 00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:49.303
  • That we are going to look to him,
  • 00:33:49.303 --> 00:33:51.405
  • The author and the finisher of our faith.
  • 00:33:51.405 --> 00:33:53.808
  • We're gonna look to the healer,
  • 00:33:53.808 --> 00:33:55.476
  • Not the causer of the problem,
  • 00:33:55.476 --> 00:33:56.978
  • He's not that,
  • 00:33:56.978 --> 00:33:58.412
  • He is the solution, the answer to every human problem.
  • 00:33:58.412 --> 00:34:03.084
  • When we look to him with that attitude,
  • 00:34:04.218 --> 00:34:06.220
  • We get everything that he's promised.
  • 00:34:06.220 --> 00:34:09.490
  • So let's pray right now.
  • 00:34:09.490 --> 00:34:11.926
  • Lord god almighty,
  • 00:34:11.926 --> 00:34:13.161
  • We come to you and we come to you know
  • 00:34:13.161 --> 00:34:15.329
  • That you want to shower us with your love.
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  • You want to just baptize us in that.
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  • And so lord, we just turn now from every complaint.
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  • We turn now from every pain,
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  • Every disease, every symptoms,
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  • We turn from all of that
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  • And we look to you for you are the answer,
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  • You are the author and the finisher of our faith.
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  • We look to you and we look to heaven
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  • And the finished work of the cross
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  • And we say, may your will be done in our bodies
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  • As it is in heaven.
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  • Stretch forth your hand to heal now
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  • For we ask it in jesus' name.
  • 00:34:59.574 --> 00:35:02.510
  • There's someone, you've had a fall,
  • 00:35:02.510 --> 00:35:04.378
  • You've got deep pain in your right shoulder.
  • 00:35:04.378 --> 00:35:07.848
  • God is reknitting that together.
  • 00:35:07.848 --> 00:35:11.886
  • He's able to take all of that trauma off of you,
  • 00:35:11.886 --> 00:35:15.089
  • Take all of that pain is lifting off of you right now.
  • 00:35:15.089 --> 00:35:19.093
  • In the name of jesus, do what you couldn't do before
  • 00:35:19.093 --> 00:35:22.964
  • And receive your healing.
  • 00:35:22.964 --> 00:35:25.366
  • Terry.
  • 00:35:25.366 --> 00:35:26.801
  • - there's someone, you have an arthritic condition
  • 00:35:26.801 --> 00:35:30.838
  • In not just your foot but your ankle as well.
  • 00:35:30.838 --> 00:35:33.241
  • It's not from an accident, it's just begun in your life,
  • 00:35:33.241 --> 00:35:36.911
  • But it's actually deforming your foot
  • 00:35:36.911 --> 00:35:40.581
  • And the way you walk and it's quite painful as well.
  • 00:35:40.581 --> 00:35:43.751
  • God's healing you from that right now.
  • 00:35:43.751 --> 00:35:45.686
  • You're just gonna see it slowly revert back
  • 00:35:45.686 --> 00:35:48.089
  • To its normal state, in jesus' name.
  • 00:35:48.089 --> 00:35:51.726
  • - there's somebody who've got pain in your right jaw
  • 00:35:51.726 --> 00:35:54.161
  • And it's an inflammation in the gums
  • 00:35:54.161 --> 00:35:56.197
  • And you're not even praying for it
  • 00:35:56.197 --> 00:35:57.999
  • And you're saying what, he's saying that?
  • 00:35:57.999 --> 00:36:01.002
  • In jesus' name, may that infection,
  • 00:36:01.002 --> 00:36:03.204
  • All of that gum irritation,
  • 00:36:03.204 --> 00:36:05.106
  • All of the pressure in your right jaw,
  • 00:36:05.106 --> 00:36:07.441
  • May it leave you right now and be healed in jesus' name.
  • 00:36:07.441 --> 00:36:11.946
  • - yeah, there's a young woman, you're watching this program.
  • 00:36:11.946 --> 00:36:14.115
  • You have a chronic acne problem
  • 00:36:14.115 --> 00:36:16.150
  • And it's not just frustrating to you, it's embarrassing.
  • 00:36:16.150 --> 00:36:19.954
  • God is clearing that for you,
  • 00:36:19.954 --> 00:36:21.822
  • Just like changing the chemistry
  • 00:36:21.822 --> 00:36:24.125
  • And the makeup of what's causing that
  • 00:36:24.125 --> 00:36:27.028
  • And it's gonna clear up in jesus' name.
  • 00:36:27.028 --> 00:36:29.397
  • - someone, you've got a torn retina in your left eye
  • 00:36:29.397 --> 00:36:32.033
  • And the treatment program that's prescribed for you
  • 00:36:32.033 --> 00:36:37.104
  • Is just terrifying for you
  • 00:36:37.872 --> 00:36:39.006
  • And god has heard your cry.
  • 00:36:39.006 --> 00:36:41.575
  • He's able to restore your retina.
  • 00:36:41.575 --> 00:36:43.544
  • He is able to heal that tear, go back and get rechecked.
  • 00:36:43.544 --> 00:36:47.281
  • God has done an amazing miracle for you right now
  • 00:36:47.281 --> 00:36:51.352
  • In jesus name.
  • 00:36:51.352 --> 00:36:52.553
  • Lord, we thank you for you are the healer,
  • 00:36:53.721 --> 00:36:55.956
  • You are the answer.
  • 00:36:55.956 --> 00:36:57.491
  • You are the solution to every one of our problems.
  • 00:36:57.491 --> 00:37:00.961
  • We look to you and we thank you for your promise
  • 00:37:00.961 --> 00:37:05.666
  • And your love towards us.
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  • Be with us now for we ask it in jesus name,
  • 00:37:07.668 --> 00:37:11.539
  • Amen and amen. - amen.
  • 00:37:11.539 --> 00:37:13.407
  • - if you've been healed, let us know.
  • 00:37:13.407 --> 00:37:15.343
  • Let us share in your good report
  • 00:37:15.343 --> 00:37:17.044
  • And if you need prayer, we're here for you.
  • 00:37:17.044 --> 00:37:19.013
  • We are here 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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  • It's our honor, our privilege to pray with you.
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  • So call us, 1-800-700-7000.
  • 00:37:24.685 --> 00:37:28.522
  • Terry?
  • 00:37:28.522 --> 00:37:29.824
  • - well still ahead, he used to lock him up,
  • 00:37:29.824 --> 00:37:31.759
  • Now he's setting them free.
  • 00:37:31.759 --> 00:37:33.794
  • The undercover pastor reveals his secret identity,
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  • That's coming up.
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  • (lively music)
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  • - it was alarming how much i was vomiting.
  • 00:37:42.970 --> 00:37:45.973
  • - it was a condition called acute tubular necrosis.
  • 00:37:45.973 --> 00:37:48.709
  • - [speaker] they kept saying septic, septic.
  • 00:37:48.709 --> 00:37:50.411
  • I think she's getting septic.
  • 00:37:50.411 --> 00:37:51.579
  • - they sent this lady in to prepare us
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  • For a lifetime of dialysis
  • 00:37:54.382 --> 00:37:56.650
  • And this medicine was going to destroy
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  • Every dream my girl could possibly have.
  • 00:37:58.285 --> 00:38:00.454
  • - thousands and thousands, literally around the world
  • 00:38:00.454 --> 00:38:03.357
  • Were praying for her.
  • 00:38:03.357 --> 00:38:04.625
  • - mom runs out into the hallway and she's like,
  • 00:38:04.625 --> 00:38:07.094
  • He just told me he canceled your surgery.
  • 00:38:07.094 --> 00:38:10.831
  • He was like, your kidney biopsy came back completely clean.
  • 00:38:10.831 --> 00:38:14.769
  • I stood up on my hospital bed with my iv bag,
  • 00:38:14.769 --> 00:38:17.304
  • Just we were hugging and screaming.
  • 00:38:17.304 --> 00:38:19.140
  • It was like just the biggest celebration.
  • 00:38:19.140 --> 00:38:21.675
  • - i know there were a lot of people praying for her.
  • 00:38:21.675 --> 00:38:24.044
  • I think those prayers were answered.
  • 00:38:24.044 --> 00:38:25.980
  • - hi, yay.
  • 00:38:25.980 --> 00:38:28.949
  • I am beyond thankful that i have been singing nonstop.
  • 00:38:30.317 --> 00:38:34.321
  • Prayers work, they work.
  • 00:38:34.321 --> 00:38:36.123
  • Ask people to pray for you and like really believe,
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  • Really believe that anything is possible.
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  • (gentle triumphant music)
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  • - i wanted to be a boy one week,
  • 00:39:17.131 --> 00:39:18.399
  • I wanted to be a girl next week.
  • 00:39:18.399 --> 00:39:19.967
  • It was constantly like that,
  • 00:39:19.967 --> 00:39:21.202
  • Confusion always in my mind,
  • 00:39:21.202 --> 00:39:22.736
  • But i always felt like i was more in tune to femininity.
  • 00:39:22.736 --> 00:39:26.073
  • - [narrator] at 16, tommy decided it was time
  • 00:39:26.073 --> 00:39:28.275
  • To give in to those desires.
  • 00:39:28.275 --> 00:39:30.544
  • Now addicted to meth, he dropped out of school
  • 00:39:30.544 --> 00:39:33.380
  • And began frequenting gay chat rooms and nightclubs.
  • 00:39:33.380 --> 00:39:36.150
  • - [tommy] i had an internal knowing that it was just wrong.
  • 00:39:36.150 --> 00:39:39.053
  • - [narrator] despite his doubts,
  • 00:39:39.053 --> 00:39:40.221
  • Tommy started taking female hormones
  • 00:39:40.221 --> 00:39:42.957
  • And making plans to have a sex change operation.
  • 00:39:42.957 --> 00:39:46.060
  • Tommy was doing drugs with his brother and sister
  • 00:39:46.060 --> 00:39:49.363
  • When he felt an oppressive, paralyzing fear.
  • 00:39:49.363 --> 00:39:52.700
  • Terrified, tommy left the house and went to his mom
  • 00:39:52.700 --> 00:39:55.970
  • Who had recently committed her life to christ.
  • 00:39:55.970 --> 00:39:58.572
  • - i had to cry out to god
  • 00:39:58.572 --> 00:39:59.740
  • Because i just knew in that moment,
  • 00:39:59.740 --> 00:40:01.141
  • That he was the only one that was able to help me.
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  • So i remember just telling him,
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  • I'm sorry of the lifestyle that i was living.
  • 00:40:04.278 --> 00:40:06.514
  • I just went into this deep place of repenting
  • 00:40:06.514 --> 00:40:09.550
  • And asking for forgiveness.
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  • If jesus did it for me, he could do it for you.
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  • - i got into a serious relationship
  • 00:40:43.918 --> 00:40:46.954
  • But his family was like involved in santería.
  • 00:40:46.954 --> 00:40:50.457
  • They would do like ouija boards and like,
  • 00:40:50.457 --> 00:40:52.993
  • I mean everything that you can think of like old cult,
  • 00:40:52.993 --> 00:40:55.162
  • Like they were in it
  • 00:40:55.162 --> 00:40:56.564
  • And i feel like something just like,
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  • Like sit on me.
  • 00:40:59.466 --> 00:41:00.434
  • Like i was like shaking, crying.
  • 00:41:00.434 --> 00:41:02.836
  • I just called out to jesus.
  • 00:41:02.836 --> 00:41:06.106
  • From that moment, i felt like god took it and was like,
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  • I'm gonna heal you.
  • 00:41:11.845 --> 00:41:12.746
  • - for me, it constantly left me in a state of fear.
  • 00:41:14.014 --> 00:41:15.950
  • Am i enough?
  • 00:41:15.950 --> 00:41:17.518
  • Being able to make it all the way there on the world stage
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  • And still come up short,
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  • I think was just devastating for me.
  • 00:41:21.388 --> 00:41:23.791
  • It was reading colossians three flipped a switch for me.
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  • God, you have not failed me.
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  • Even when i lose, i still win because i learn.
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  • The girl who wants to cross the line
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  • And still feel empty inside,
  • 00:41:34.802 --> 00:41:36.904
  • I now have joy, even in the midst of any circumstance.
  • 00:41:36.904 --> 00:41:43.110
  • - hannah and emmaus have been go-getters from an early age.
  • 00:41:44.578 --> 00:41:47.681
  • Both started their own companies
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  • While they were still teenagers.
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  • They work hard and have tons of technical know-how.
  • 00:41:51.485 --> 00:41:54.622
  • Still they're quick to say that's not the reason
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  • For their success.
  • 00:41:57.257 --> 00:41:59.059
  • Instead, they give all the credit to god.
  • 00:41:59.059 --> 00:42:03.664
  • - [narrator] 22-year-old emmaus vanderbilt
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  • Owns silver fox productions,
  • 00:42:06.500 --> 00:42:08.202
  • A video production company located in north carolina.
  • 00:42:08.202 --> 00:42:11.705
  • His wife hannah owns and operates her own cleaning company,
  • 00:42:11.705 --> 00:42:15.009
  • Joyful cleaning.
  • 00:42:15.009 --> 00:42:16.477
  • From the beginning, they made tithing a priority.
  • 00:42:16.477 --> 00:42:19.880
  • - i credit that to my parents.
  • 00:42:19.880 --> 00:42:21.081
  • They've always modeled that for me.
  • 00:42:21.081 --> 00:42:22.549
  • God just gets the first 10%.
  • 00:42:22.549 --> 00:42:24.218
  • - i want to honor god as best as i can
  • 00:42:24.218 --> 00:42:27.054
  • And so from that first job when i was 14,
  • 00:42:27.054 --> 00:42:30.491
  • Ever since, i've just always tied 10% of what i made
  • 00:42:30.491 --> 00:42:33.994
  • And it's just been a habit that i'm joyful to do.
  • 00:42:33.994 --> 00:42:37.498
  • - [narrator] emmaus has learned valuable lessons
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  • About finances.
  • 00:42:40.100 --> 00:42:41.435
  • At 18, his income had grown to six figures
  • 00:42:41.435 --> 00:42:44.738
  • As a startup video business, shooting destination weddings.
  • 00:42:44.738 --> 00:42:48.676
  • - i just believe there were different times in my life
  • 00:42:48.676 --> 00:42:50.144
  • Where i slipped and i said that this is something
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  • That i've been able to do.
  • 00:42:52.146 --> 00:42:53.514
  • Look what i did.
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  • I won't ever say that i totally cut god outta the equation
  • 00:42:55.049 --> 00:42:58.018
  • 'cause i still tithe on it.
  • 00:42:58.018 --> 00:42:59.420
  • I thank the lord for it.
  • 00:42:59.420 --> 00:43:00.721
  • But what i realized was that no,
  • 00:43:00.721 --> 00:43:02.823
  • The lord was the one who put
  • 00:43:02.823 --> 00:43:03.957
  • The breath in my lungs this morning.
  • 00:43:03.957 --> 00:43:05.359
  • The lord was the one who provided these opportunities
  • 00:43:05.359 --> 00:43:08.162
  • And god has just allowed me to manage this money.
  • 00:43:08.162 --> 00:43:10.864
  • God's just allowed me to manage this video project.
  • 00:43:10.864 --> 00:43:13.867
  • - [narrator] when covid hit in 2020,
  • 00:43:13.867 --> 00:43:16.437
  • Emmaus experienced god's faithfulness
  • 00:43:16.437 --> 00:43:18.706
  • As his business weathered the storm.
  • 00:43:18.706 --> 00:43:21.008
  • - some people they were dropping by 50% of their weddings,
  • 00:43:21.008 --> 00:43:24.311
  • 60% of their shoots and just the lord continued providing.
  • 00:43:24.311 --> 00:43:27.314
  • Even whenever a few weddings canceled,
  • 00:43:27.314 --> 00:43:29.183
  • We saw that 85 to 90% of our weddings still hire us
  • 00:43:29.183 --> 00:43:32.152
  • And even for those 10% that had to cancel,
  • 00:43:32.152 --> 00:43:34.288
  • We had local government organizations reach out
  • 00:43:34.288 --> 00:43:36.356
  • And ask us to film videos for them,
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  • Different corporate groups and we never went without.
  • 00:43:38.125 --> 00:43:41.428
  • I totally attribute tithing
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  • To the fact that we stayed safe during that storm.
  • 00:43:42.930 --> 00:43:45.099
  • - [narrator] soon after, he met and married hannah in 2021.
  • 00:43:45.099 --> 00:43:48.836
  • She became co-owner of the production company
  • 00:43:48.836 --> 00:43:51.305
  • And in 2022, she started her in-home cleaning business.
  • 00:43:51.305 --> 00:43:55.375
  • The couple then got serious about debt.
  • 00:43:55.375 --> 00:43:57.778
  • She had school loans and they both had car payments,
  • 00:43:57.778 --> 00:44:00.447
  • Which in all totaled $90,000.
  • 00:44:00.447 --> 00:44:03.050
  • They began paying it off working long hours,
  • 00:44:03.050 --> 00:44:05.586
  • Tithing the whole time and their businesses thrived.
  • 00:44:05.586 --> 00:44:09.022
  • - there's no other answer, but the lord did that.
  • 00:44:09.022 --> 00:44:11.725
  • Having a month where we're having less weddings
  • 00:44:11.725 --> 00:44:13.794
  • But more cleaning clients.
  • 00:44:13.794 --> 00:44:15.062
  • So it all balances out
  • 00:44:15.062 --> 00:44:17.131
  • And the only answer for it is god.
  • 00:44:17.131 --> 00:44:18.832
  • He's the one providing it all
  • 00:44:18.832 --> 00:44:20.601
  • - [narrator] today they are debt free.
  • 00:44:20.601 --> 00:44:22.703
  • Looking back on all god has accomplished this year,
  • 00:44:22.703 --> 00:44:25.506
  • The couple is grateful for their two businesses
  • 00:44:25.506 --> 00:44:27.674
  • Growing at a rate of 40%
  • 00:44:27.674 --> 00:44:29.610
  • And many more opportunities awaiting them.
  • 00:44:29.610 --> 00:44:32.179
  • - and whenever we don't have debt, we don't have payments,
  • 00:44:32.179 --> 00:44:35.115
  • We have more money to invest, save and ultimately give,
  • 00:44:35.115 --> 00:44:38.218
  • We could be more generous.
  • 00:44:38.218 --> 00:44:39.486
  • - [narrator] emmaus and hannah say
  • 00:44:39.486 --> 00:44:40.754
  • It all starts with generosity.
  • 00:44:40.754 --> 00:44:42.990
  • - the lord provided for us.
  • 00:44:42.990 --> 00:44:44.691
  • It says in malachi 3:10,
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  • The only time in the bible that we can test god in something
  • 00:44:46.226 --> 00:44:49.329
  • And it's in tithes and offerings
  • 00:44:49.329 --> 00:44:51.064
  • And god just completely overflowed our storehouses.
  • 00:44:51.064 --> 00:44:54.301
  • - i say when you give 10%, that god's gonna bless you
  • 00:44:54.301 --> 00:44:58.806
  • Because you're obeying him
  • 00:44:58.806 --> 00:45:00.340
  • And you're doing what his word says.
  • 00:45:00.340 --> 00:45:04.044
  • - when you give, he gives back
  • 00:45:04.878 --> 00:45:07.281
  • And that's the word from jesus.
  • 00:45:07.281 --> 00:45:09.349
  • Give and it'll be given unto you.
  • 00:45:09.349 --> 00:45:12.052
  • And then he adds, it'll be heaped up, pressed down,
  • 00:45:12.052 --> 00:45:14.755
  • Running over, will be poured into your lap,
  • 00:45:14.755 --> 00:45:17.658
  • But you have to recognize it's from him
  • 00:45:17.658 --> 00:45:20.394
  • And it is all from him.
  • 00:45:20.394 --> 00:45:22.129
  • Your talent, your ability.
  • 00:45:22.129 --> 00:45:25.098
  • Deuteronomy is quite specific,
  • 00:45:25.098 --> 00:45:27.067
  • It's god who gives you the power to get wealth.
  • 00:45:27.067 --> 00:45:30.370
  • So when you honor him with your first fruit,
  • 00:45:30.370 --> 00:45:32.706
  • You honor him with your tithes and offerings,
  • 00:45:32.706 --> 00:45:35.375
  • You get even more wonderful blessings from him.
  • 00:45:35.375 --> 00:45:39.713
  • Just imagine living a life
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  • Where you know that god has your future.
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  • - it was so intense with the sinus pressure
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  • That it was to the point where my jaws were even hurting
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  • From coughing so intensely.
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  • It was a battle, it really was.
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  • He kept saying to me, this too will pass.
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  • So i just stand up and say, i'm waiting on you lord.
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  • I just kept confessing, god is my healer.
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  • He is my healer.
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  • They were to the section where they were talking about
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  • People receiving healings.
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  • They were gonna pray for anyone who was sick.
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  • - there's someone, you heard the report
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  • About sinus conditions and you're saying,
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  • Please say sinus conditions.
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  • So for you, i'm saying sinus condition.
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  • All of that inflammation,
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  • Everything that seems to be swollen and closed up,
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  • Open now in jesus' name.
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  • - i jumped up 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 of those things,
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  • But he's mindful of everything.
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  • He's just faithful and he is our healer.
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  • - god, i can't stop.
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  • I'm gonna wreck my marriage, i'm gonna wreck my family.
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  • I had this just lust, this physical dependency
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  • That i had to these drugs.
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  • - i just couldn't be with him the rest of my life.
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  • I decided to leave.
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  • - i just remember him doing the altar call
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  • And if you're not sure 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, there's only one hope
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  • And that's christ.
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  • - it's all the revolution against christianity.
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  • - once you have the foundation, man determines truth,
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  • Anything goes.
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  • - show me the downside of loving god and loving each other.
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  • - i wanted to take a step back.
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  • Who has jonathan isaac?
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  • What has changed his life?
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  • - the only one that's going get me
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  • Through this tragedy is jesus.
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  • - [narrator] "faith versus culture",
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  • - in the last five minutes of my labor and delivery
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  • Was when i noticed something was wrong.
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  • They put her on my chest and right away they took her away
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  • And she wasn't crying and she looked sort of gray.
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  • I didn't know if she was gonna live or die.
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  • Then they came back in the room and said,
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  • "she's had a brain injury."
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  • That's when i really started praying,
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  • God, please, please let her mind be okay.
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  • Turned on the tv and just randomly flipping the channels,
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  • Here's cbn.
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  • It really lifted me up, it gave me that little bit of hope
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  • I needed at the time.
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  • After that, i really felt like
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  • Things started moving even more.
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  • She went from being behind to advanced for her age.
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  • I can never deny the power of prayer,
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  • I would always just say, pray and pray more
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  • And just keep trusting god.
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  • His word is true.
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  • He saw me through all the bad things
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  • I thought would happen to my daughter
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  • And he healed her.
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  • Psalms 34:4, "i sought the lord and he answered me.
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  • He delivered me from all of my fears."
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  • - dale sutherland would go from a drug bust
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  • To a youth group often in the same day.
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  • For years, he put his life on the line
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  • As an undercover narcotics officer.
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  • And after he busted the bad guys,
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  • He made sure they knew he was also a pastor.
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  • - [narrator] for 12 years, dc native dale sutherland
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  • Lived a double life.
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  • During the day, he was a youth pastor at his church,
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  • At night, he was putting his life on the line
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  • As an undercover narcotics police officer.
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  • - so i would be pastoring during the day
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  • And then during the day, i'd be in the office counseling,
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  • Working and then in the evening,
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  • I'd go to the police department and come in and you know,
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  • Buy drugs and arrest bad guys.
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  • - [narrator] the job required dale to immerse himself
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  • In the dark, dangerous underworld of inner city crime.
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  • He found walking the line
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  • Between duty and faith often challenging.
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  • - it was especially difficult for me to have both jobs
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  • And to walk with the lord.
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  • I was a pimp for a while
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  • And i was introduced as a pimp,
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  • So i had these girls around me all the time
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  • And i would be able to try to convince guys to trust me
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  • Because they could sell drugs to me 'cause i was a pimp,
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  • I was in another kind of role.
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  • I was doing that and i was at the same time
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  • Preaching on holiness at church
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  • And trying to keep myself holy at the same time,
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  • Which is always a challenge.
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  • - [narrator] in his early 20s,
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  • Dale felt the call to minister to urban youth.
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  • However, growing in a christian home
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  • Within a safe and secure neighborhood,
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  • Dale didn't have much experience with life on the streets.
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  • So after a few years in bible college,
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  • He enrolled in the washington dc police academy.
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  • - i wanted to be a policeman
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  • 'cause i figured i could get to know the street,
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  • Maybe understand people better
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  • And i'd have a better testimony.
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  • - [narrator] the plan was to work on the force
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  • For a few years, then moving to full-time ministry.
  • 00:54:07.854 --> 00:54:11.157
  • That would change.
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  • Shortly after graduating the police academy,
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  • Dale worked his first undercover case.
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  • Not only did it lead to an arrest,
  • 00:54:17.397 --> 00:54:19.466
  • It gave dale a new perspective on his work
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  • As an officer and his faith.
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  • - i constantly knew this was sin,
  • 00:54:24.704 --> 00:54:26.940
  • It was ruining their life and the lives of others.
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  • And so there was a big picture thing here
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  • And each individual mattered.
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  • So when i got a drug dealer,
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  • I was keeping him from hurting all the families
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  • And everything else that he was selling drugs to.
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  • So i saw it as related to my faith as well.
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  • - [narrator] so he stayed with the force.
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  • In the coming years, dale would arrest hundreds of criminals
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  • And every so often he'd share the gospel with them.
  • 00:54:49.863 --> 00:54:52.465
  • Then in 1993, he and an informant showed up late
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  • To a drug deal.
  • 00:54:57.036 --> 00:54:58.538
  • - one day, i think it was about our seventh purchase
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  • From these guys,
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  • I pulled up and we were supposed to meet
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  • About 45 minutes earlier,
  • 00:55:07.247 --> 00:55:08.548
  • He got outta the car to go find the guys
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  • And then after he got outta the car,
  • 00:55:10.917 --> 00:55:12.786
  • They ended up killing him.
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  • Planned, we later found out,
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  • I mean it was in washington post,
  • 00:55:15.355 --> 00:55:16.956
  • That they had planned to kill both of us had we been on time
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  • Because they thought i was an informant as well.
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  • You realize the mortality and in him
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  • And feeling terrible
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  • And wanting another chance to talk to him about the lord.
  • 00:55:26.466 --> 00:55:29.469
  • - [narrator] dale then decided he wasn't going to miss
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  • Another opportunity to be sure
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  • That he shared the love of christ.
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  • - i could control the body,
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  • You know, i could put 'em in a cell block,
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  • I couldn't change the heart.
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  • The truth is whether it's a drug dealer, prostitute,
  • 00:55:40.280 --> 00:55:43.183
  • A victim, a criminal, a murderer,
  • 00:55:44.217 --> 00:55:46.619
  • I've met 'em all, i've talked to all of 'em
  • 00:55:46.619 --> 00:55:48.621
  • For long periods of time,
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  • And the truth is they need christ
  • 00:55:50.323 --> 00:55:52.425
  • And they are very open to the gospel
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  • If people would just talk to 'em.
  • 00:55:55.161 --> 00:55:57.096
  • - [narrator] while many he arrested would reject
  • 00:55:57.096 --> 00:55:58.898
  • His message of hope, others would ultimately
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  • Find faith in jesus christ.
  • 00:56:01.468 --> 00:56:03.403
  • One was javier, a former drug dealer.
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  • - i wanted to get out of there.
  • 00:56:06.706 --> 00:56:08.041
  • I start, god, i don't wanna do this no more.
  • 00:56:08.041 --> 00:56:10.076
  • I don't want to die selling drugs.
  • 00:56:10.076 --> 00:56:11.978
  • And then like after like three months,
  • 00:56:11.978 --> 00:56:13.813
  • I get arrested and it's how i met dale,
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  • This guy from narcotics.
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  • He started telling me about jesus
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  • And then everything in my life started changing.
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  • We got to be good friends
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  • And we even do ministry together now.
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  • - [narrator] after 12 years of working undercover,
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  • Dale would get the opportunity
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  • To become a full-time youth pastor.
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  • For 12 years, he balanced both jobs.
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  • - it'd be wednesday night i'd go speak at the youth group
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  • And wednesday i'd make an arrest.
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  • And so i'd drive right over to church
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  • And i'd tell him about the arrest,
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  • Tell 'em how it relates to something hopefully in their life
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  • To help 'em understand the word of god better.
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  • - [narrator] after 22 years on the force, dale retired.
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  • Today, he's an associate pastor at his local church
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  • In washington dc where he became known
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  • As the undercover pastor.
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  • He's also the founder of code 3,
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  • A nonprofit organization that provides training and programs
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  • To police and citizens so they can work together
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  • To build safer, more to communities.
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  • His goal of sharing the gospel remains the same.
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  • - i need to preach the gospel is what matters,
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  • Is what really matters.
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  • The only thing that matters is that i can reach more people
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  • For christ, for eternity.
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  • So that's why now i say we used to lock people up
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  • And now we're trying to set people free.
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  • - you know when god calls you to something,
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  • He equips you for whatever it is he's asking you to do.
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  • Trust him with your life and listen
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  • Because he's got purpose in the call.
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  • Gordon.
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  • - well, here's a word from psalm 71,
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  • "my lips will shout for joy when i sing praise to you,
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  • I whom you have delivered."
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  • May your lips sing praise to god today.
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  • God bless you.
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  • (gentle music)
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