Traden Karch, a teenage golfer known as "Big Shot," survives a devastating car crash that leaves him with a crushed skull. Given less than a day to live, his family and friends rally together to pray for a miracle. Against all odds, Traden defies medical expectations, waking up from a coma and beginning a remarkable recovery. With the power of faith and the support of his loved ones, Traden regains his speech, memory, and ability to walk, returning to the golf course and inspiring those around him with his incredible journey of healing and resilience.
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The 700 Club | January 28, 2025 | January 28, 2025
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- - [announcer] the following program is sponsored by cbn.
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- - [gordon] coming up, a terrible accident.
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- - [manda] he was unconscious,
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- And he said there was just blood everywhere.
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- - [gordon] and a teenager's skull is crushed.
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- - [manda] the doctors came in and said
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- That there's nothing more medically that we can do for him.
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- - [gordon] see a fight for life.
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- - [manda] they thought he would live for maybe 24 hours
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- - [gordon] and a prayer call heard around the world.
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- - [manda] every doctor would come in
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- To say how he was a miracle.
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- - on today's 700 club.
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- Welcome to the 700 club.
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- Can you imagine being thrown in prison
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- For a crime you didn't commit?
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- It's estimated 20,000 innocent people
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- Are behind bars in america.
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- - jonathan fleming used to be among them.
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- As charlene aaron tells us,
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- He spent a quarter of a century in prison,
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- Wrongly convicted of murder.
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- - jonathan fleming spent nearly 25 years in prison
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- For a crime he didn't commit.
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- Thanks to attorneys taking a closer look at his case,
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- Fleming was released, and now wants to help others
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- Who have also been wrongfully convicted.
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- In 1989, jurors convicted fleming of second degree murder
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- In the death of a new york drug dealer.
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- Fleming, who also sold drugs and knew the man,
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- Says he had a solid alibi.
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- - i happened to be in florida with my family
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- At the time when my friend was killed.
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- I took my son, my oldest son to orlando, florida
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- For his ninth birthday.
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- - [charlene] prosecutors argued fleming
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- Could have returned to brooklyn to commit the crime.
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- They also produced a witness
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- Who testified seeing fleming pull the trigger.
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- - she said that she actually seen me do this murder.
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- And i know for a fact, i was telling myself
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- That it's not true
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- Because i wasn't even in new york on that day.
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- - [charlene] fleming, however, was found guilty,
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- And spent the next 24 years of his life behind bars.
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- - prison was really rough.
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- I was in prison for something i didn't do.
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- So i did start getting in a lot of trouble.
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- But i was very angry
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- - [charlene] and that anger consumed him
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- Until an experience at a church service.
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- - and i don't remember what the word that day was,
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- But i found myself standing up and i walked forward
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- And i turned my life over to god.
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- - [charlene] a spiritual transformation
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- That answered longtime prayers for his ex-wife.
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- - and i just listened to him go on and on and on
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- About what the pastor had preached
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- And how he's found himself getting up
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- And going towards the altar,
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- "and yeah, this just feels so good.
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- And i don't know what i'm feeling,
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- But i'm excited, trish, i'm excited."
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- And i was like, god is just awesome.
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- - [charlene] fleming spent years
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- Trying to prove his innocence,
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- And a break finally came
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- When brooklyn's conviction review unit took his case.
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- Attorneys found evidence proving fleming
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- Could not have been in new york at the time of the murder,
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- Information authorities never turned over
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- To his defense team.
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- - we were able to discover a document,
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- A receipt which had been taken from mr. fleming
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- At the time of his arrest.
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- That of course, meant that the eyewitness testimony
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- That had been produced in that case,
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- To the effect of an eyewitness saying
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- That they saw mr. fleming commit the shooting homicide
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- Was false.
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- - [charlene] these investigative teams,
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- Also known as integrity review units,
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- Are spreading across the country.
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- And in 2018 alone, statistics show,
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- They helped free 58 wrongfully convicted people.
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- - there were probably less than 20 such units
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- Around the country.
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- Since that time, and the success that we had initially,
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- And continue to have with regard
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- To our conviction review unit,
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- That number has more than doubled,
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- To the point where we have
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- More than 40 such units around the country.
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- - [charlene] a new team in georgia helped free darryl hall,
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- Sentenced to life for possessing two grams of cocaine
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- In 1991.
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- Media mogul, tyler perry recently gave him a job
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- At his atlanta studios.
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- - he said he was having trouble getting a job.
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- I'm like, well, look around,
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- We got lots of room around here.
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- Come on, let's go to work.
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- And it just shows you the level of how if you're poor,
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- Black and disenfranchised,
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- How you don't even have a chance at justice, in most cases.
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- - [charlene] in fleming's case,
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- Justice arrived on april 8th, 2014.
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- - it was like my life started all over again.
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- I was so happy.
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- And the judge said, "your case is dismissed."
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- And the first thing i did,
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- I turned around and i went right to my mother.
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- - while fleming is grateful for the work of attorneys
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- And investigators, he says, the real credit goes to god.
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- - and he released me and delivered me
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- When he felt that i was ready.
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- But it wasn't until i turned my life over to him
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- That things started happening.
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- - [charlene] that includes letting go of anger
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- Towards those responsible for robbing him
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- Of nearly 25 years of his life.
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- - i was able to forgive,
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- Because he forgave me for the things that i've done.
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- - [charlene] meanwhile, the state of new york
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- Awarded fleming $6 million for his wrongful incarceration,
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- Something he hopes to use to help others
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- Through the jonathan fleming foundation.
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- - when i came home, i had no housing.
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- I had to stay with my cousin for the first eight months.
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- When i came home, i didn't have nothing.
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- I wanna help people when they come home,
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- Try to provide them with homes, places to stay,
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- Places that they could go to when they are released.
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- Because a lot of times, we are just pushed out
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- With nowhere to go.
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- - charlene, aaron, cbn, news, raleigh, north carolina.
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- - well, the bible's real specific
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- That the whole land comes under a curse
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- When the innocent or wrongfully convicted.
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- We need to take this seriously.
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- And whether it's review of that 1994 criminal act
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- That had mandatory minimums, and three strikes, you're out,
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- Or the mere fact that our conviction rates
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- Are falsely inflated and prosecutors are rewarded
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- On convictions, not on justice.
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- We need to change, and we need to do it now.
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- We'll be back with more of the 700 club right after this.
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- (upbeat music)
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- ♪ and where there's joy there's action ♪
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- ♪ it's like a great attraction ♪
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- ♪ that starts a chain reaction ♪
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- ♪ with an almost satisfaction ♪
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- ♪ i love the way that joy makes me move ♪
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- ♪ i got the joy ♪
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- ♪ i dance around because i know ♪
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- ♪ joy ♪
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- ♪ i move around because i got it ♪
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- ♪ joy ♪
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- ♪ joy's in the heart ♪
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- ♪ joy ♪
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- ♪ i dance around because i know ♪
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- ♪ joy ♪
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- ♪ i move around because i got it ♪
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- ♪ joy ♪
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- ♪ joy's in the heart ♪
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- ♪ joy ♪
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- ♪ joy's in the heart ♪
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- ♪ joy ♪
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- - i had a drug test that was coming up.
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- I had the drugs in my hand and i was thinking
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- That if i use this today, i'm going to lose my kids.
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- So i got on my knees and i went down a list
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- Of everything that i could think of that i had done wrong,
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- Both outwardly and inside.
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- I just told him, i'm sorry that i did these things,
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- And, jesus, i want you to come into my heart
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- And be the lord of my life, and it was real.
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- - i was muslim for four years.
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- I had spells cast on me,
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- And just everything you can think of.
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- I never got what i was looking for.
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- There was no real power to change my life.
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- I had tried everything.
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- It just came to a point where it was like, you know what,
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- I don't wanna do this anymore.
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- The little old lady at the church, she'd come and get me.
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- She prayed for me,
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- And all i know is i felt the love of god.
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- We would read from genesis to revelation,
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- And we just went deep in the word of god.
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- Everything about me, even my very continents
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- Began to change after that point.
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- And now i just have a desire to see them experience,
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- The loving kindness of god that i have experienced,
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- To see that true change is possible,
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- And that what you thought that you were looking for
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- Can only be found in christ.
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- - i remember just walking through the wilderness
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- And just mesmerized by the nature, the beauty, the silence.
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- But in the midst of that silence,
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- God began to reveal himself to me.
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- God showed me what i had become.
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- - beaten and tortured, that's what an attorney suffered
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- Who fought for christians in communist romania.
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- Then after she personally humiliated the dictator,
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- She thought it was the end of the line.
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- An assassin came to her office
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- And pointed a gun at her head.
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- Abigail robertson tells us what happened next.
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- - virginia prodan doesn't hide the fact
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- That she should be dead.
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- In her book, "saving my assassin,"
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- She tells the incredible story
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- Of death staring her in the face,
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- And how she fought back with nothing but the word of god.
- 00:11:49.585 --> 00:11:53.155
- - i am not a hero.
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- God gave me this mission, and i was a tool in god's hands.
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- - why did the romanian government want you killed?
- 00:11:59.161 --> 00:12:02.131
- - because i defended christian and human rights cases.
- 00:12:02.131 --> 00:12:06.635
- And socialist government, it's a government
- 00:12:06.635 --> 00:12:11.607
- Who will establish a system
- 00:12:11.607 --> 00:12:16.478
- Where the government is your god, not christ.
- 00:12:16.478 --> 00:12:20.716
- - during dictator nicolae ceausescu's rule in the 1980s,
- 00:12:20.716 --> 00:12:25.321
- Christians found with bibles or sharing christ with others
- 00:12:25.321 --> 00:12:28.958
- Were thrown in jail,
- 00:12:28.958 --> 00:12:30.659
- Even though the country had religious freedom laws.
- 00:12:30.659 --> 00:12:33.896
- - i was told in the interrogation room
- 00:12:33.896 --> 00:12:36.832
- That those laws were in protect freedom of religion,
- 00:12:38.100 --> 00:12:42.171
- Freedom of speech,
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- They were in the law books of romania
- 00:12:43.305 --> 00:12:47.276
- For the western civilization
- 00:12:47.276 --> 00:12:50.813
- To believe that we have freedom.
- 00:12:50.813 --> 00:12:53.115
- - [abigail] but virginia used those laws
- 00:12:53.115 --> 00:12:55.050
- To fight the government anyway.
- 00:12:55.050 --> 00:12:57.319
- - later on, i found out that when i was in the courtroom
- 00:12:57.319 --> 00:13:01.523
- Facing the judge and the persecutors, behind me,
- 00:13:01.523 --> 00:13:05.928
- They were representative from america, from france, italy,
- 00:13:05.928 --> 00:13:10.633
- Jewish, israel, all over the western europe
- 00:13:10.633 --> 00:13:14.103
- Who will take notes and send it to their government.
- 00:13:14.103 --> 00:13:17.740
- So for that reason, i'm alive and i'm not dead,
- 00:13:17.740 --> 00:13:21.677
- Because god protected me.
- 00:13:21.677 --> 00:13:23.646
- - virginia caught the attention of western journalists
- 00:13:23.646 --> 00:13:26.682
- From places like free europe and voice of america.
- 00:13:26.682 --> 00:13:30.085
- - the government had to let me be present at this,
- 00:13:30.085 --> 00:13:34.490
- Otherwise they had to respond, where is she,
- 00:13:34.490 --> 00:13:37.359
- What is the situation, and so forth.
- 00:13:37.359 --> 00:13:39.428
- - but outside the courtroom, the government took its revenge
- 00:13:39.428 --> 00:13:42.731
- By beating and torturing her.
- 00:13:42.731 --> 00:13:44.967
- - i remember full of blood, full of pain.
- 00:13:44.967 --> 00:13:48.137
- As many of them were hitting me and so forth,
- 00:13:48.137 --> 00:13:51.707
- I look straight up to them and i said,
- 00:13:51.707 --> 00:13:54.710
- I don't like what you're doing,
- 00:13:54.710 --> 00:13:56.946
- But god loves you, and i choose to love you.
- 00:13:56.946 --> 00:14:00.816
- And they had to turn their faces because they were crying.
- 00:14:00.816 --> 00:14:05.120
- - [abigail] through it all,
- 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:06.388
- Virginia was winning her religious liberty cases.
- 00:14:06.388 --> 00:14:09.491
- Then came her biggest test.
- 00:14:09.491 --> 00:14:11.760
- - it was so risky that when i received that assignment,
- 00:14:11.760 --> 00:14:16.532
- I said, lord, you give them a chance
- 00:14:16.532 --> 00:14:19.435
- To actually pick up the gun and kill me.
- 00:14:19.435 --> 00:14:22.671
- I received documents that will prove
- 00:14:22.671 --> 00:14:27.743
- That the dictator was lying, continuing to lie to america.
- 00:14:29.178 --> 00:14:32.481
- - [abigail] trusting in the lord, she accepted.
- 00:14:32.481 --> 00:14:35.351
- - i took the job, and later on at night,
- 00:14:35.351 --> 00:14:39.455
- I created her pocket in my suit
- 00:14:39.455 --> 00:14:42.491
- And i put my documents there,
- 00:14:42.491 --> 00:14:45.160
- With the intention to give it to the american embassy
- 00:14:46.495 --> 00:14:51.066
- The next day, because i had a case
- 00:14:51.066 --> 00:14:53.002
- And i knew that they will be in the courtroom.
- 00:14:53.002 --> 00:14:56.338
- - [abigail] miraculously, her plan worked.
- 00:14:56.338 --> 00:14:59.108
- - they took me, interrogated me.
- 00:14:59.108 --> 00:15:01.543
- But that day, they forgot to search me.
- 00:15:02.711 --> 00:15:05.014
- - the documents made it to president ronald reagan,
- 00:15:05.014 --> 00:15:08.183
- Infuriating the romanian dictator.
- 00:15:08.183 --> 00:15:11.320
- - he decided to send a client to my office, the assassin.
- 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:16.392
- Said to me, "i'm not your client, i'm here to kill you."
- 00:15:17.793 --> 00:15:19.428
- And he pointed the gun to me,
- 00:15:19.428 --> 00:15:21.897
- And i thought that i'm gonna die.
- 00:15:21.897 --> 00:15:24.066
- - [abigail] as the assassin screamed at her,
- 00:15:24.066 --> 00:15:26.268
- Virginia fought back the only way she knew how.
- 00:15:26.268 --> 00:15:29.905
- I look at the man and i started to share the gospel.
- 00:15:29.905 --> 00:15:34.376
- He was just a human being like me,
- 00:15:34.376 --> 00:15:37.246
- Looking for the truth like i used to look many years ago.
- 00:15:37.246 --> 00:15:40.816
- And as i shared the gospel with him, i notice,
- 00:15:40.816 --> 00:15:44.620
- I look at the man who scream few seconds ago,
- 00:15:44.620 --> 00:15:49.458
- Melting under god's power.
- 00:15:49.458 --> 00:15:52.961
- - [abigail] instead of taking her life, he accepted christ.
- 00:15:52.961 --> 00:15:56.432
- - he left my office as a free man indeed,
- 00:15:56.432 --> 00:16:00.569
- As a brother in christ,
- 00:16:00.569 --> 00:16:02.137
- And our lives will never be the same.
- 00:16:02.137 --> 00:16:04.873
- - virginia's book includes a chapter
- 00:16:04.873 --> 00:16:06.842
- From her would be assassin on how god transformed his life
- 00:16:06.842 --> 00:16:10.779
- After their divine encounter,
- 00:16:10.779 --> 00:16:12.614
- Even leading him into ministry.
- 00:16:12.614 --> 00:16:15.050
- Reporting from washington, abigail robertson, cbn news.
- 00:16:15.050 --> 00:16:19.555
- - that's an incredible story.
- 00:16:20.389 --> 00:16:22.024
- Incredible bravery, but more importantly, incredible love.
- 00:16:22.024 --> 00:16:26.562
- If you wanna get a copy of the book,
- 00:16:26.562 --> 00:16:28.097
- It's available nationwide.
- 00:16:28.097 --> 00:16:29.998
- Terry?
- 00:16:29.998 --> 00:16:30.966
- - what an incredible story.
- 00:16:30.966 --> 00:16:32.734
- Well, up next, words that parents
- 00:16:32.734 --> 00:16:34.703
- Never wanna hear from the doctors,
- 00:16:34.703 --> 00:16:36.839
- "there's nothing more we can do for your son."
- 00:16:36.839 --> 00:16:40.109
- How did this young teen survive
- 00:16:40.109 --> 00:16:42.478
- After being given less than a day to live?
- 00:16:42.478 --> 00:16:47.916
- - i was told for so many years by my dad
- 00:16:49.051 --> 00:16:51.920
- That i was worthless, that i was no good.
- 00:16:51.920 --> 00:16:54.690
- I did not like myself very much at all.
- 00:16:54.690 --> 00:16:56.725
- And i started asking god to help me.
- 00:16:57.726 --> 00:17:01.430
- I heard this voice say to me, can you forgive?
- 00:17:01.430 --> 00:17:06.301
- And then i said, i can forgive.
- 00:17:06.301 --> 00:17:08.837
- In that moment, i found everything i was looking for.
- 00:17:10.139 --> 00:17:13.642
- He will transform your life like you wouldn't believe.
- 00:17:13.642 --> 00:17:17.846
- - [announcer] melissa and her husband rick
- 00:17:19.014 --> 00:17:20.449
- Have come a long way from when they met.
- 00:17:20.449 --> 00:17:22.551
- Melissa was in real estate.
- 00:17:22.551 --> 00:17:24.253
- Rick had been living on credit cards,
- 00:17:24.253 --> 00:17:26.455
- Trying to start a number of businesses,
- 00:17:26.455 --> 00:17:28.724
- And was $80,000 in debt.
- 00:17:28.724 --> 00:17:31.193
- All the while, the hennens were tithing,
- 00:17:31.193 --> 00:17:33.862
- And the newly married couples
- 00:17:33.862 --> 00:17:35.164
- Started working their way out of the red.
- 00:17:35.164 --> 00:17:37.332
- - i think i had bought into society saying,
- 00:17:37.332 --> 00:17:40.769
- Here's what you should have.
- 00:17:40.769 --> 00:17:42.104
- I simply asked god, do i have money before you?
- 00:17:42.104 --> 00:17:45.440
- I asked god to forgive me instantly.
- 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:48.377
- I told god, whether i make a lot of money or not,
- 00:17:48.377 --> 00:17:52.481
- I'm done striving.
- 00:17:52.481 --> 00:17:54.216
- - [narrator] today, rick and melissa have three children
- 00:17:54.216 --> 00:17:56.785
- And choose to live way below their means
- 00:17:56.785 --> 00:17:58.987
- So they can help the poor.
- 00:17:58.987 --> 00:18:00.722
- They've already built 13 orphanages
- 00:18:00.722 --> 00:18:03.091
- And a freedom house in india.
- 00:18:03.091 --> 00:18:04.960
- - what i loved about operation blessing
- 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:06.728
- Is that we were really able to see the fruit of that gift.
- 00:18:06.728 --> 00:18:10.766
- - now i have the hunger to make more money
- 00:18:10.766 --> 00:18:13.202
- So we truly can give to all of these places,
- 00:18:13.202 --> 00:18:16.471
- 'cause there's a lot of need out there.
- 00:18:16.471 --> 00:18:19.074
- - for me as a musician in my identity,
- 00:18:19.074 --> 00:18:21.109
- That was like the ultimate validation,
- 00:18:21.109 --> 00:18:22.911
- Just literally going out and living the rockstar life.
- 00:18:22.911 --> 00:18:25.647
- It was a darkness that started to wear on me.
- 00:18:25.647 --> 00:18:28.116
- I realized how fake it was,
- 00:18:28.116 --> 00:18:29.751
- So without talking to anybody, i silently left hollywood
- 00:18:29.751 --> 00:18:32.988
- With my dreams shattered, because that was the epitome.
- 00:18:32.988 --> 00:18:36.425
- And i said, god, i need help.
- 00:18:36.425 --> 00:18:38.894
- And at that moment i knew
- 00:18:38.894 --> 00:18:40.829
- I needed to figure out who jesus is.
- 00:18:40.829 --> 00:18:43.265
- I found that acceptance i was looking for.
- 00:18:43.265 --> 00:18:45.334
- The only thing that can fill that hole is jesus christ.
- 00:18:45.334 --> 00:18:48.403
- - the international outreach of cbn is simply amazing.
- 00:18:49.805 --> 00:18:53.609
- I think cbn ends up touching many of the areas of the world
- 00:18:53.609 --> 00:18:57.045
- That you as an individual cannot touch.
- 00:18:57.045 --> 00:18:59.948
- - it allows me to be a part
- 00:18:59.948 --> 00:19:01.383
- Of such an amazing body of christ.
- 00:19:01.383 --> 00:19:04.753
- - i mean, this thrilled us. we love to give.
- 00:19:04.753 --> 00:19:07.756
- - it's a blessing to be able to be a part of this,
- 00:19:07.756 --> 00:19:10.292
- To be able to speak about an amazing community that cbn is.
- 00:19:10.292 --> 00:19:14.663
- (uplifting music)
- 00:19:14.663 --> 00:19:18.166
- - it was so intense with the sinus pressure
- 00:19:19.301 --> 00:19:22.371
- That it was to the point where my jaws were even hurting
- 00:19:22.371 --> 00:19:26.275
- From coughing so intensely.
- 00:19:26.275 --> 00:19:28.143
- It was a battle, it really was.
- 00:19:28.143 --> 00:19:29.978
- He kept saying to me, this too will pass.
- 00:19:29.978 --> 00:19:32.314
- So i just stand up and say, i'm waiting on you, lord.
- 00:19:32.314 --> 00:19:35.317
- I just kept confessing, god is my healer, he is my healer.
- 00:19:35.317 --> 00:19:39.788
- They were to the section where they were talking about
- 00:19:39.788 --> 00:19:43.392
- People receiving healings,
- 00:19:43.392 --> 00:19:44.826
- They were gonna pray for anyone who was sick.
- 00:19:44.826 --> 00:19:46.928
- - someone, you heard the report about sinus conditions,
- 00:19:46.928 --> 00:19:49.398
- And you're saying, please say sinus conditions.
- 00:19:49.398 --> 00:19:51.300
- So for you, i'm saying sinus condition.
- 00:19:51.300 --> 00:19:54.202
- All of that inflammation,
- 00:19:54.202 --> 00:19:56.071
- Everything that seems to be swollen and closed up,
- 00:19:56.071 --> 00:19:59.274
- Open now, in jesus' name.
- 00:19:59.274 --> 00:20:01.710
- - i jumped up and my spirit just kind of leaped
- 00:20:01.710 --> 00:20:04.346
- And i said, that's for me, lord, that's it.
- 00:20:04.346 --> 00:20:06.248
- You think maybe he's not mindful of those things,
- 00:20:06.248 --> 00:20:08.350
- But he's mindful of everything.
- 00:20:08.350 --> 00:20:09.918
- He's just faithful, and he is our healer.
- 00:20:09.918 --> 00:20:18.226
- - [interviewer] you considered yourself an atheist.
- 00:20:19.528 --> 00:20:21.930
- - [walker] yeah.
- 00:20:21.930 --> 00:20:23.432
- - what did you specifically have against christianity?
- 00:20:23.432 --> 00:20:25.367
- - my dad was a former music minister.
- 00:20:25.367 --> 00:20:28.403
- I saw a lot of hurt in that church.
- 00:20:28.403 --> 00:20:31.239
- - [interviewer] in 2015, walker lost his record deal,
- 00:20:31.239 --> 00:20:34.176
- And had their family van repossessed by the label.
- 00:20:34.176 --> 00:20:37.446
- That's when craig decided
- 00:20:37.446 --> 00:20:38.980
- To give their family van to walker.
- 00:20:38.980 --> 00:20:41.983
- - their unconditional love,
- 00:20:41.983 --> 00:20:43.618
- It was so different from what we were used to.
- 00:20:43.618 --> 00:20:47.856
- I went and got a bible and just started reading,
- 00:20:47.856 --> 00:20:50.359
- And reading, and reading.
- 00:20:50.359 --> 00:20:51.660
- - it was amazing to watch the transformation
- 00:20:51.660 --> 00:20:54.996
- And just the power of the holy spirit.
- 00:20:54.996 --> 00:20:58.600
- - [interviewer] walker had given his life to christ
- 00:20:58.600 --> 00:21:00.702
- And couldn't wait to share the news with craig.
- 00:21:00.702 --> 00:21:03.538
- - i said, i believe.
- 00:21:03.538 --> 00:21:05.207
- - are you telling me that you believe
- 00:21:05.207 --> 00:21:06.908
- That jesus is the son of god
- 00:21:06.908 --> 00:21:09.611
- And that you wanna live your life for him?
- 00:21:09.611 --> 00:21:13.448
- He said, that's exactly what i'm saying.
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- (uplifting music)
- 00:21:35.170 --> 00:21:39.241
- - traden karch's nickname was big shot.
- 00:21:40.275 --> 00:21:42.944
- His golf coach started calling him that
- 00:21:42.944 --> 00:21:45.247
- Because of his knack for coming through in the clutch.
- 00:21:45.247 --> 00:21:48.283
- After a terrible car crash
- 00:21:48.283 --> 00:21:50.318
- Left traden with a crushed skull,
- 00:21:50.318 --> 00:21:52.721
- Big shot was going to have to beat the odds one more time.
- 00:21:52.721 --> 00:21:57.426
- (sirens wailing)
- 00:21:57.426 --> 00:21:59.127
- - [announcer] the impact was deafening.
- 00:21:59.127 --> 00:22:01.296
- A truck failing to yield the right of way
- 00:22:01.296 --> 00:22:03.665
- Broadsided the van carrying jerry higgins,
- 00:22:03.665 --> 00:22:06.334
- And his two grandchildren cey and traden karch.
- 00:22:06.334 --> 00:22:10.205
- - i heard cey say, "traden, wake up.
- 00:22:10.205 --> 00:22:12.474
- Traden, and wake up."
- 00:22:12.474 --> 00:22:14.309
- - [announcer] jerry and his granddaughter were okay.
- 00:22:15.577 --> 00:22:17.779
- 13-year-old traden however.
- 00:22:17.779 --> 00:22:20.749
- - his skull had been crushed,
- 00:22:20.749 --> 00:22:24.653
- And then it wasn't very long and the paramedics were there.
- 00:22:24.653 --> 00:22:28.957
- That's when i called manda.
- 00:22:28.957 --> 00:22:30.625
- - he was unconscious,
- 00:22:30.625 --> 00:22:31.960
- And he said there was just blood everywhere,
- 00:22:31.960 --> 00:22:34.162
- And that he kind of had a few seizures.
- 00:22:34.162 --> 00:22:37.432
- I just cried out to god and i said, god,
- 00:22:37.432 --> 00:22:41.069
- You knew this was gonna happen,
- 00:22:41.069 --> 00:22:43.271
- It didn't catch you by surprise.
- 00:22:43.271 --> 00:22:45.974
- And so, i trust you.
- 00:22:45.974 --> 00:22:49.044
- I know that he's in your hands,
- 00:22:49.044 --> 00:22:51.379
- And you're in complete control.
- 00:22:51.379 --> 00:22:53.715
- - [narrator] manda arrived at st. francis hospital
- 00:22:54.950 --> 00:22:57.219
- In tulsa, oklahoma shortly after traden.
- 00:22:57.219 --> 00:23:00.021
- He was barely alive.
- 00:23:00.689 --> 00:23:02.390
- - and then i just started texting everyone i knew
- 00:23:03.692 --> 00:23:06.027
- And just saying, we need you to pray.
- 00:23:06.027 --> 00:23:08.497
- - traden's dad, chris, got to the er
- 00:23:08.497 --> 00:23:10.899
- Moments before his son was taken to surgery.
- 00:23:10.899 --> 00:23:14.002
- - there was a lot of blood,
- 00:23:14.002 --> 00:23:15.403
- And i definitely was not expecting to see all the blood.
- 00:23:15.403 --> 00:23:19.941
- It made it very real, the severity of the situation.
- 00:23:19.941 --> 00:23:25.013
- - [manda] the doctors and the nurses had all told us
- 00:23:26.348 --> 00:23:28.183
- That they thought he would live for maybe 24 hours.
- 00:23:28.183 --> 00:23:31.987
- - [narrator] as the hours passed,
- 00:23:32.954 --> 00:23:34.322
- The waiting room filled up with family and friends
- 00:23:34.322 --> 00:23:36.892
- Praying for the teenager.
- 00:23:36.892 --> 00:23:39.227
- - so that was a blessing,
- 00:23:39.995 --> 00:23:41.863
- To have just so many people automatically praying for him.
- 00:23:41.863 --> 00:23:46.768
- - [announcer] as for chris and manda,
- 00:23:47.769 --> 00:23:49.304
- Memories flooded in of the fun-loving seventh grader,
- 00:23:49.304 --> 00:23:52.274
- Who less than a year earlier,
- 00:23:52.274 --> 00:23:53.842
- Sunk the winning putt for his team
- 00:23:53.842 --> 00:23:55.944
- At the junior pga regional final.
- 00:23:55.944 --> 00:23:58.380
- (spectators applauding)
- 00:23:58.380 --> 00:23:59.614
- - [chris] that was really exciting for him,
- 00:23:59.614 --> 00:24:01.383
- Because he wasn't the best by a long shot on their team.
- 00:24:01.383 --> 00:24:05.720
- - i said, but look at what god did for you.
- 00:24:06.922 --> 00:24:08.957
- I said, how he let you make that winning put.
- 00:24:08.957 --> 00:24:13.528
- - [announcer] traden karch.
- 00:24:13.528 --> 00:24:15.130
- (spectators applauding)
- 00:24:15.130 --> 00:24:16.865
- - [announcer] now they were begging god
- 00:24:16.865 --> 00:24:18.333
- For their son's life.
- 00:24:18.333 --> 00:24:20.302
- (spectators applauding)
- 00:24:20.969 --> 00:24:21.870
- - ball. - go, traden.
- 00:24:21.870 --> 00:24:23.371
- - [announcer] they also reached out through social media.
- 00:24:23.371 --> 00:24:25.373
- - [chris] it was a desperate plea basically just saying,
- 00:24:25.373 --> 00:24:28.443
- If you're a praying person, please pray.
- 00:24:28.443 --> 00:24:30.779
- I need as many people praying to god as i possibly can.
- 00:24:30.779 --> 00:24:34.215
- - [supporter] lord, be with amanda and chris.
- 00:24:34.215 --> 00:24:36.284
- - [announcer] traden survived the six hour surgery,
- 00:24:36.284 --> 00:24:38.587
- And was placed in a medically induced coma.
- 00:24:38.587 --> 00:24:41.122
- - [supporter] lord, my heart aches for them.
- 00:24:41.122 --> 00:24:42.624
- - [manda] the doctors came in and said,
- 00:24:42.624 --> 00:24:44.159
- "we have done everything we can possibly do for traden.
- 00:24:44.159 --> 00:24:47.929
- There's nothing more medically that we can do for him.
- 00:24:47.929 --> 00:24:51.333
- The rest is up to traden.
- 00:24:51.333 --> 00:24:52.934
- - [chris] we really had no idea what was gonna happen,
- 00:24:52.934 --> 00:24:55.804
- Or if he was gonna wake up.
- 00:24:55.804 --> 00:24:57.639
- - [manda] well, he'll never talk or walk.
- 00:24:57.639 --> 00:24:59.374
- He'll be kind of in a vegetative state.
- 00:24:59.374 --> 00:25:01.643
- - [narrator] prayers and encouragement
- 00:25:02.811 --> 00:25:04.312
- Came in from everywhere on social media, including the pga.
- 00:25:04.312 --> 00:25:08.683
- In fact, one of traden's favorite golfers, rory mcelroy,
- 00:25:08.683 --> 00:25:12.087
- Sent him a personal message.
- 00:25:12.087 --> 00:25:14.055
- - and i wish you a really speedy recovery.
- 00:25:14.055 --> 00:25:16.591
- Golf and the pga junior league really need you.
- 00:25:16.591 --> 00:25:19.094
- And when you're feeling better,
- 00:25:19.094 --> 00:25:20.428
- I want you to come to a tournament and meet me,
- 00:25:20.428 --> 00:25:23.632
- And we can hang out, and hopefully we'll see you soon.
- 00:25:23.632 --> 00:25:27.535
- - [announcer] with traden still in a coma,
- 00:25:27.535 --> 00:25:29.237
- The family clung to the outpouring of love
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- And their faith in god.
- 00:25:32.107 --> 00:25:33.975
- Then three weeks after surgery,
- 00:25:33.975 --> 00:25:35.677
- The swelling in his brain had gone down and he woke up.
- 00:25:35.677 --> 00:25:40.148
- - [manda] he starts sitting up on his own,
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- And then only a week later
- 00:25:42.384 --> 00:25:45.787
- Does he start walking around the hospital with assistance.
- 00:25:45.787 --> 00:25:49.891
- Each day they would see his progress,
- 00:25:49.891 --> 00:25:52.460
- Every doctor would come in
- 00:25:52.460 --> 00:25:53.561
- And just say how he was a miracle.
- 00:25:53.561 --> 00:25:55.697
- - [announcer] after only five weeks in the hospital,
- 00:25:56.965 --> 00:25:59.334
- Traden was released to go to rehab.
- 00:25:59.334 --> 00:26:02.370
- - [manda] traden actually walked out of the hospital
- 00:26:02.370 --> 00:26:06.207
- On his own.
- 00:26:06.207 --> 00:26:07.676
- - [announcer] still traden faced major hurdles.
- 00:26:08.910 --> 00:26:11.146
- He couldn't speak, and had lost his memory.
- 00:26:11.146 --> 00:26:13.882
- As he worked with the rehab staff just to form sounds,
- 00:26:13.882 --> 00:26:17.118
- The family again turned to prayer.
- 00:26:17.118 --> 00:26:19.788
- Within a week, they saw more signs of god's healing.
- 00:26:19.788 --> 00:26:23.758
- - traden had spoke my name for the very first time.
- 00:26:23.758 --> 00:26:28.363
- - mom.
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- - [manda] yes, thank you.
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- He couldn't actually say words,
- 00:26:32.367 --> 00:26:34.069
- And so he was sounding out each letter to my name,
- 00:26:34.069 --> 00:26:37.839
- Just to mom.
- 00:26:37.839 --> 00:26:39.708
- - [announcer] and when chris brought traden's putter to him.
- 00:26:41.109 --> 00:26:44.879
- - [chris] that's when i knew,
- 00:26:44.879 --> 00:26:45.880
- I was like, that part has stayed,
- 00:26:45.880 --> 00:26:48.083
- Because he gripped it the exact same way,
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- And we were excited about that.
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- That's six in a row.
- 00:26:53.021 --> 00:26:55.190
- - [announcer] two months after the accident,
- 00:26:56.324 --> 00:26:58.159
- Traden went home.
- 00:26:58.159 --> 00:26:59.494
- His speech and memory continued to improve
- 00:26:59.494 --> 00:27:02.097
- As he had to relearn everything
- 00:27:02.097 --> 00:27:03.531
- He had learned since kindergarten.
- 00:27:03.531 --> 00:27:05.433
- By fall, he was back in school
- 00:27:05.433 --> 00:27:07.068
- And finished the seventh grade that year.
- 00:27:07.068 --> 00:27:09.904
- By then, he had watched rory mcelroy's message
- 00:27:09.904 --> 00:27:12.207
- Dozens of times.
- 00:27:12.207 --> 00:27:13.575
- - [rory] traden, how are you?
- 00:27:13.575 --> 00:27:14.809
- - [announcer] he also got to meet him.
- 00:27:14.809 --> 00:27:17.178
- - i remember he walked in and in my mind really saying,
- 00:27:17.178 --> 00:27:20.715
- Huh, is this really him?
- 00:27:20.715 --> 00:27:24.219
- And sure enough, it was.
- 00:27:24.886 --> 00:27:26.955
- - [announcer] at 17 traden shows little sign
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- Of speech or memory impairment,
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- And he looks forward to graduating in 2022.
- 00:27:32.894 --> 00:27:36.231
- He's also back on the golf course,
- 00:27:36.231 --> 00:27:38.199
- And challenging his dad whenever he can.
- 00:27:38.199 --> 00:27:41.736
- - [chris] i was there.
- 00:27:42.437 --> 00:27:44.005
- I heard the prognosis and i knew what we were looking at.
- 00:27:44.005 --> 00:27:47.976
- God healed traden, there's no doubt.
- 00:27:47.976 --> 00:27:50.712
- - in my opinion, the only reason why i'm still alive
- 00:27:50.712 --> 00:27:53.348
- Is people praying.
- 00:27:53.348 --> 00:27:55.483
- - there is so much power in prayer.
- 00:27:55.483 --> 00:27:57.585
- I mean, i believe that we have the same power,
- 00:27:57.585 --> 00:27:59.721
- We can call upon the same power
- 00:27:59.721 --> 00:28:01.222
- That raised christ from the dead.
- 00:28:01.222 --> 00:28:02.524
- And so, you have to call upon that power.
- 00:28:02.524 --> 00:28:07.562
- - you can call upon the same power
- 00:28:08.596 --> 00:28:11.299
- That raised christ from the dead.
- 00:28:11.299 --> 00:28:14.636
- What traden's mother is quoting,
- 00:28:14.636 --> 00:28:16.070
- She's quoting from the bible,
- 00:28:16.070 --> 00:28:17.906
- That that same resurrection power
- 00:28:17.906 --> 00:28:21.109
- Is not some far away place.
- 00:28:21.109 --> 00:28:23.511
- The apostle paul said that same resurrection power
- 00:28:23.511 --> 00:28:26.781
- Is in you.
- 00:28:26.781 --> 00:28:28.883
- Now, paul was talking from personal experience.
- 00:28:28.883 --> 00:28:32.287
- In the book of acts, it talks about him being
- 00:28:32.287 --> 00:28:35.557
- Taken outside the city and stoned to death.
- 00:28:35.557 --> 00:28:40.628
- So they're throwing heavy rocks at him.
- 00:28:41.796 --> 00:28:43.598
- And the disciples come out, the christians come out
- 00:28:44.899 --> 00:28:48.770
- After the crowd was finished,
- 00:28:48.770 --> 00:28:51.773
- And they pray over paul, and he rises back up,
- 00:28:51.773 --> 00:28:56.444
- And he does something unusual.
- 00:28:57.312 --> 00:28:58.746
- He walks back into the city.
- 00:28:58.746 --> 00:29:00.582
- Paul knew what that resurrection power,
- 00:29:01.749 --> 00:29:03.418
- 'cause he had experienced it.
- 00:29:03.418 --> 00:29:06.287
- Here traden, he knows that resurrection power
- 00:29:06.287 --> 00:29:09.657
- Because he's experienced it,
- 00:29:09.657 --> 00:29:12.427
- He's experienced a complete recovery.
- 00:29:12.427 --> 00:29:15.730
- Realize that same resurrection power is available to you,
- 00:29:15.730 --> 00:29:20.802
- And it's not in some far off place, it's right within you.
- 00:29:22.237 --> 00:29:25.907
- If you have received jesus into your heart,
- 00:29:27.075 --> 00:29:30.311
- You have the resurrected one inside you.
- 00:29:30.311 --> 00:29:34.716
- His power is the same yesterday, today and forever.
- 00:29:34.716 --> 00:29:39.787
- All we have to do is believe it, and release it,
- 00:29:41.055 --> 00:29:44.893
- And have faith to believe for that.
- 00:29:44.893 --> 00:29:48.196
- The eyes of the lord go to and fro over the whole earth
- 00:29:48.196 --> 00:29:51.032
- To show himself strong.
- 00:29:51.032 --> 00:29:53.034
- He showed himself strong for traden.
- 00:29:53.034 --> 00:29:55.403
- He responded to the prayer of faith.
- 00:29:55.403 --> 00:29:58.473
- Even though the doctor said it was impossible,
- 00:29:58.473 --> 00:30:00.842
- With god all things are possible.
- 00:30:00.842 --> 00:30:03.378
- So we're going to pray, and we're going to believe for you,
- 00:30:03.378 --> 00:30:07.515
- And we're gonna believe for that resurrection power
- 00:30:07.515 --> 00:30:10.418
- To be released.
- 00:30:10.418 --> 00:30:11.886
- Before we pray, we want to encourage you,
- 00:30:11.886 --> 00:30:14.022
- Because here's some other miracles.
- 00:30:14.022 --> 00:30:16.491
- Here's eileen from new york.
- 00:30:16.491 --> 00:30:18.760
- She suffered with achilles tendonitis, an achilles heel.
- 00:30:18.760 --> 00:30:23.064
- She finally made an appointment to see a podiatrist.
- 00:30:23.064 --> 00:30:26.434
- And then, while she was waiting,
- 00:30:26.434 --> 00:30:28.369
- She was watching the 700 club
- 00:30:28.369 --> 00:30:30.872
- And terry had a word of knowledge
- 00:30:30.872 --> 00:30:32.440
- For someone with her exact condition.
- 00:30:32.440 --> 00:30:34.876
- Eileen shouted to her husband,
- 00:30:34.876 --> 00:30:36.411
- "she's talking about an achilles heel."
- 00:30:36.411 --> 00:30:39.914
- Well the next day, eileen absolutely no pain.
- 00:30:39.914 --> 00:30:44.519
- She canceled her doctor's appointment,
- 00:30:44.519 --> 00:30:46.821
- Called the cbns prayer line
- 00:30:46.821 --> 00:30:48.489
- To tell us she's still pain free.
- 00:30:48.489 --> 00:30:51.025
- And if you ever have had tendonitis or tendinosis,
- 00:30:51.025 --> 00:30:54.662
- Or that kinds of thing, you know that's a miracle.
- 00:30:54.662 --> 00:30:58.099
- God is in the miracle business, and he's in it for you.
- 00:30:58.099 --> 00:31:01.269
- What do you have?
- 00:31:01.269 --> 00:31:02.236
- - well, this is another one.
- 00:31:02.236 --> 00:31:03.538
- It's been well over a year since linda
- 00:31:03.538 --> 00:31:05.173
- Of san marco, texas had had knee surgery,
- 00:31:05.173 --> 00:31:08.009
- But even after the surgery she still suffered from pain,
- 00:31:08.009 --> 00:31:10.578
- Couldn't walk normally.
- 00:31:10.578 --> 00:31:12.246
- She had lost a significant amount of tissue around her knee.
- 00:31:12.246 --> 00:31:15.583
- While watching the 700 club, gordon, she heard you say,
- 00:31:15.583 --> 00:31:18.019
- "god is reconstructing things in that knee.
- 00:31:18.019 --> 00:31:21.489
- You just felt something move within,
- 00:31:21.489 --> 00:31:23.291
- And that is the hand of god
- 00:31:23.291 --> 00:31:25.026
- Touching, healing and restoring the joint.
- 00:31:25.026 --> 00:31:27.729
- Realize now that you can put weight on that joint,
- 00:31:27.729 --> 00:31:29.998
- You can now move that joint.
- 00:31:29.998 --> 00:31:31.432
- You can stand up and have the confidence
- 00:31:31.432 --> 00:31:33.434
- That you are healed.
- 00:31:33.434 --> 00:31:35.136
- In jesus' name, be healed, be made whole."
- 00:31:35.136 --> 00:31:38.473
- Well, by faith, linda claimed god's healing.
- 00:31:38.473 --> 00:31:41.109
- Within three days, her knee was normal.
- 00:31:41.109 --> 00:31:44.078
- This isn't just her opinion.
- 00:31:44.078 --> 00:31:45.346
- Her doctor confirmed the healing via x-rays.
- 00:31:45.346 --> 00:31:48.049
- And now she is walking normally and giving all glory to god.
- 00:31:48.049 --> 00:31:52.120
- - hallelujah.
- 00:31:52.120 --> 00:31:53.087
- God's healing stands up to x-rays.
- 00:31:54.122 --> 00:31:56.290
- God's healing stands up to medical experts
- 00:31:56.290 --> 00:31:59.761
- And say, no you're wrong.
- 00:31:59.761 --> 00:32:01.462
- I'm coming in, i'm making a difference.
- 00:32:01.462 --> 00:32:03.831
- I'm raising this one up.
- 00:32:03.831 --> 00:32:06.467
- Let that be you, and let it be you right now.
- 00:32:06.467 --> 00:32:11.072
- Realize there's nothing you need to do to qualify yourself.
- 00:32:11.072 --> 00:32:14.208
- You are a child of god.
- 00:32:14.208 --> 00:32:16.844
- The breath that god gave to adam is in you,
- 00:32:16.844 --> 00:32:21.816
- And he wants to breathe on you again to give you new life,
- 00:32:21.816 --> 00:32:25.853
- New health, a resurrection today.
- 00:32:25.853 --> 00:32:29.223
- So terry and i are going to agree.
- 00:32:29.223 --> 00:32:31.292
- Now, what we want you to do is show an act of faith.
- 00:32:31.292 --> 00:32:34.595
- In an act of faith, lay your hand on that area of the body
- 00:32:34.595 --> 00:32:37.732
- That needs healing. we'll agree with you.
- 00:32:37.732 --> 00:32:41.169
- And the bible says,
- 00:32:41.169 --> 00:32:42.403
- "when two or more agree touching anything,
- 00:32:42.403 --> 00:32:45.373
- It shall be done."
- 00:32:45.373 --> 00:32:47.075
- So let's just trust that, and let's pray.
- 00:32:47.075 --> 00:32:50.511
- Lord, we come to you,
- 00:32:50.511 --> 00:32:53.214
- And in an act of faith we lay hands
- 00:32:53.214 --> 00:32:55.616
- On that area of the body that needs healing.
- 00:32:55.616 --> 00:32:58.186
- We come into agreement over it.
- 00:32:58.986 --> 00:33:01.255
- We come into agreement that by your stripes, we are healed,
- 00:33:02.690 --> 00:33:06.961
- That you've already accomplished everything we need.
- 00:33:08.229 --> 00:33:11.432
- By faith we say the resurrection power
- 00:33:11.432 --> 00:33:14.735
- That brought you back from the dead is in us,
- 00:33:14.735 --> 00:33:19.507
- And able to resurrect us and do mighty things.
- 00:33:19.507 --> 00:33:23.244
- So in jesus' name, body, be healed now,
- 00:33:24.345 --> 00:33:29.784
- And be restored and be made whole.
- 00:33:30.751 --> 00:33:34.021
- Any infirmity be gone now in jesus name.
- 00:33:35.156 --> 00:33:38.459
- Any disease, any infection, any cancer, remove yourself now.
- 00:33:38.459 --> 00:33:45.833
- You have no place in my body.
- 00:33:46.667 --> 00:33:49.437
- In jesus' name i am healed.
- 00:33:49.437 --> 00:33:52.373
- Now, lord, i thank you for what you are doing,
- 00:33:53.541 --> 00:33:56.844
- What you have done, and what you will do.
- 00:33:56.844 --> 00:33:59.780
- I thank you for it.
- 00:33:59.780 --> 00:34:01.949
- I thank you for what you have already accomplished,
- 00:34:01.949 --> 00:34:05.186
- And i receive it now in jesus' name.
- 00:34:05.186 --> 00:34:09.724
- There's someone, your name is amos
- 00:34:09.724 --> 00:34:11.058
- And you're laying hands on both of your knees
- 00:34:11.058 --> 00:34:13.161
- And you've got tremendous pain in both knees.
- 00:34:13.161 --> 00:34:16.164
- In the name of jesus, be healed and be restored.
- 00:34:16.164 --> 00:34:20.368
- Let all that pain just dissipate away.
- 00:34:20.368 --> 00:34:23.271
- Let all the cartilage
- 00:34:23.271 --> 00:34:27.575
- And the cushioning in the knee be restored.
- 00:34:27.575 --> 00:34:30.378
- Let there be full and complete and pain-free function
- 00:34:30.378 --> 00:34:34.882
- From this moment forward, in jesus' name.
- 00:34:34.882 --> 00:34:38.119
- Terry?
- 00:34:38.119 --> 00:34:39.620
- - there's someone, you have a deformity on your spine.
- 00:34:39.620 --> 00:34:42.890
- Anyway, god's healing that for you.
- 00:34:43.958 --> 00:34:45.693
- He's just correcting it.
- 00:34:45.693 --> 00:34:46.994
- You've had it your whole life,
- 00:34:46.994 --> 00:34:48.496
- And because it's a deformity that's been there so long,
- 00:34:48.496 --> 00:34:51.265
- You haven't even thought to pray about it.
- 00:34:51.265 --> 00:34:52.800
- But today, god's healing your spine for you
- 00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:55.136
- And you're gonna know it.
- 00:34:55.136 --> 00:34:56.704
- Your freedom to move is going to change.
- 00:34:56.704 --> 00:34:58.706
- And there are many of you who have issues with breathing.
- 00:34:58.706 --> 00:35:03.611
- It's not covid-19, but you're fearful of that
- 00:35:03.611 --> 00:35:06.547
- Because of your breathing issues.
- 00:35:06.547 --> 00:35:08.482
- God is healing that for you right now.
- 00:35:08.482 --> 00:35:10.284
- Breath of heaven, blow into lungs right now
- 00:35:10.284 --> 00:35:12.920
- And heal in jesus' name.
- 00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:15.022
- - there's someone,
- 00:35:15.022 --> 00:35:16.324
- You've got a fractured tailbone and coccyx,
- 00:35:16.324 --> 00:35:18.392
- And there's swelling and inflammation,
- 00:35:18.392 --> 00:35:21.762
- And a tremendous amount of pain. you can't sit.
- 00:35:21.762 --> 00:35:25.266
- God is just healing that.
- 00:35:26.033 --> 00:35:27.835
- What the doctors say they can't do,
- 00:35:27.835 --> 00:35:30.238
- God is doing for you right now.
- 00:35:30.238 --> 00:35:32.273
- He's resetting that bone
- 00:35:32.273 --> 00:35:34.709
- And taking that break completely away.
- 00:35:34.709 --> 00:35:37.578
- All of that pain just left you,
- 00:35:37.578 --> 00:35:39.680
- All of the swelling, all of the inflammation.
- 00:35:39.680 --> 00:35:42.583
- In jesus' name, be healed, be made whole.
- 00:35:42.583 --> 00:35:46.921
- Lord god almighty, we thank you.
- 00:35:47.722 --> 00:35:49.557
- We thank you for your many gifts to us.
- 00:35:49.557 --> 00:35:52.994
- We don't deserve any of them, but you love us,
- 00:35:52.994 --> 00:35:56.063
- And you love us so much you want us restored to you.
- 00:35:56.063 --> 00:35:59.600
- We thank you for it.
- 00:35:59.600 --> 00:36:01.035
- In jesus' name, amen and amen.
- 00:36:01.035 --> 00:36:04.739
- If you've been healed, let us know.
- 00:36:04.739 --> 00:36:06.140
- Give us a call, 1-800-700-7000.
- 00:36:06.140 --> 00:36:09.644
- And if you need prayer, we believe in prevailing prayer,
- 00:36:09.644 --> 00:36:12.413
- The prayer that gets an answer.
- 00:36:12.413 --> 00:36:13.948
- So we're here for you 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
- 00:36:13.948 --> 00:36:17.318
- We're a phone call away.
- 00:36:17.318 --> 00:36:18.919
- 1-800-700-7000.
- 00:36:18.919 --> 00:36:21.622
- - well coming up, sent to a psych ward.
- 00:36:22.757 --> 00:36:25.326
- Why was this college student
- 00:36:25.326 --> 00:36:26.994
- Thrown into a mental institution?
- 00:36:26.994 --> 00:36:29.297
- And raising nine kids on one income.
- 00:36:30.298 --> 00:36:33.768
- How does this family do it?
- 00:36:33.768 --> 00:36:36.203
- Hear their secret when we return.
- 00:36:36.203 --> 00:36:38.606
- (uplifting music)
- 00:36:38.606 --> 00:36:46.380
- - in the last five minutes of my labor and delivery
- 00:36:47.615 --> 00:36:50.751
- Was when i noticed something was wrong.
- 00:36:50.751 --> 00:36:53.087
- They put her on my chest, and right away they took her away,
- 00:36:53.087 --> 00:36:56.324
- And she wasn't crying, and she looked sort of gray.
- 00:36:56.324 --> 00:36:59.994
- I didn't know if she was gonna live or die.
- 00:36:59.994 --> 00:37:02.196
- Then they came back in the room and said,
- 00:37:03.431 --> 00:37:04.632
- She's had a brain injury.
- 00:37:04.632 --> 00:37:07.068
- That's when i really started praying,
- 00:37:07.068 --> 00:37:09.337
- God please, please let her mind be okay.
- 00:37:09.337 --> 00:37:12.673
- Turned on the tv,
- 00:37:12.673 --> 00:37:14.141
- And just randomly flipping the channels, here's cbn.
- 00:37:14.141 --> 00:37:16.243
- It really lifted me up.
- 00:37:16.243 --> 00:37:17.778
- It gave me that little bit of hope i needed at the time.
- 00:37:17.778 --> 00:37:20.147
- After that, i really felt like things started
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- - john and amy have enough children
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- - [announcer] as the parents of nine children,
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- - [narrator] years ago when amy was pregnant
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- With her first daughter,
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- Even though the family was struggling financially,
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- The mccues tithed,
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- A practice they learned from their church.
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- - it didn't seem like it was ever gone. you didn't miss it.
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- - [narrator] john was working in construction
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- - mckayla, now in her twenties, recalls those days.
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- - [announcer] amy says that during this time,
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- - [announcer] the mccues continued to tithe.
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- It's the only place in the bible where he says, try me.
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- And we wanna teach the children that.
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- You instill it to 'em young and early,
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- - i'll say it again, tithing works.
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- Jesus laid it out, we call it the law of reciprocity.
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- - a shot of tequila at 8:00 a.m.
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- That's how aaron andrews' bout with alcoholism began.
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- Little did she know the depth of the depression
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- Behind her drinking,
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- And that eventually it would take her somewhere
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- She never dreamed she'd go.
- 00:47:26.787 --> 00:47:29.256
- - i never thought at any point during my growing up
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- That i would end up in a mental institution.
- 00:47:34.761 --> 00:47:38.031
- My whole life has led to this moment,
- 00:47:38.031 --> 00:47:40.667
- Like how disappointing.
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- I always thought of christians
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- As these really emphatic people
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- Who wanted me to basically just turn away
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- From anything that was fun.
- 00:47:52.045 --> 00:47:54.014
- If we're bad, we get punished by god.
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- Because he's good, so he can't stand bad.
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- I had this distant arbitrary view of god.
- 00:47:58.652 --> 00:48:02.889
- I went to a christian college
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- Where you go to chapel three times a week,
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- And you dress up every day, and you're really smart,
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- And you get all as, and you work hard,
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- And everybody likes you,
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- And you're doing all the right things,
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- And you have this bright future.
- 00:48:13.133 --> 00:48:15.035
- So i just thought, i'm gonna believe in god in my head,
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- But i'm just gonna do my own thing.
- 00:48:18.305 --> 00:48:20.507
- The minute i'm out of my house
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- And i have the opportunity to go to this party
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- And drink at 18, i'm like,
- 00:48:25.445 --> 00:48:27.481
- Oh yeah, like i've never done that, that'll be fun.
- 00:48:27.481 --> 00:48:30.050
- I'm gonna try some new thing.
- 00:48:30.050 --> 00:48:31.618
- I kind of felt edgy, 'cause i was like breaking the law,
- 00:48:31.618 --> 00:48:34.321
- And i was breaking the rules there.
- 00:48:34.321 --> 00:48:36.690
- But i just had fun with it.
- 00:48:36.690 --> 00:48:39.259
- And then a long pattern of that,
- 00:48:39.259 --> 00:48:42.396
- Thinking that i could just keep doing it
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- And it would never catch up to me.
- 00:48:44.731 --> 00:48:47.167
- When i was 19 and i was a sophomore in college,
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- I was taking a shot at tequila
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- At 8:00 a.m. on a monday morning,
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- It became a little bit too consistent.
- 00:48:54.908 --> 00:48:57.611
- And i never really thought about the term alcoholism.
- 00:48:57.611 --> 00:49:00.414
- I didn't really think about the term depression.
- 00:49:00.414 --> 00:49:02.883
- That was not the thing that i was thinking of.
- 00:49:02.883 --> 00:49:05.752
- I was just thinking,
- 00:49:05.752 --> 00:49:07.254
- Oh this is something i gotta do to get through the day.
- 00:49:07.254 --> 00:49:10.023
- And then on the outside,
- 00:49:10.690 --> 00:49:11.992
- I'm posting pictures with my friends
- 00:49:11.992 --> 00:49:13.593
- Like i'm so happy and i'm smiling.
- 00:49:13.593 --> 00:49:16.163
- I could almost feel myself, my health,
- 00:49:17.264 --> 00:49:19.499
- My mental health, my physical health deteriorating.
- 00:49:19.499 --> 00:49:22.769
- So as a teenager, i had heard about self-harm
- 00:49:23.937 --> 00:49:27.741
- From my friends and stuff.
- 00:49:27.741 --> 00:49:29.242
- And i thought when i was 17,
- 00:49:30.043 --> 00:49:31.611
- Maybe i'll just try it one time.
- 00:49:31.611 --> 00:49:34.681
- And the minute i saw like the blood,
- 00:49:34.681 --> 00:49:37.417
- It was like, it's hooked.
- 00:49:37.417 --> 00:49:39.352
- It was like this dopamine hit.
- 00:49:39.352 --> 00:49:40.954
- And in a really twisted way,
- 00:49:40.954 --> 00:49:42.322
- I'd almost reward myself with self-harming.
- 00:49:42.322 --> 00:49:45.425
- I looked down at my arms and my legs,
- 00:49:45.425 --> 00:49:47.294
- And i'd realized that's actually not real.
- 00:49:47.294 --> 00:49:49.729
- I actually don't like who i am at all.
- 00:49:49.729 --> 00:49:52.399
- As the alcoholism progressed,
- 00:49:52.399 --> 00:49:53.967
- The urge to self harm got so much stronger.
- 00:49:53.967 --> 00:49:57.504
- And i felt too, even if god loves me,
- 00:49:58.538 --> 00:50:02.109
- He's not gonna wanna associate with me too much
- 00:50:02.109 --> 00:50:04.444
- Because look at where i've ended up.
- 00:50:04.444 --> 00:50:07.013
- So when i go home for christmas break after fall semester,
- 00:50:07.013 --> 00:50:10.584
- All these feelings just started coming out
- 00:50:10.584 --> 00:50:13.019
- And i couldn't control them.
- 00:50:13.019 --> 00:50:14.488
- And i remember my parents asked me for the first time ,
- 00:50:15.889 --> 00:50:18.492
- They said, are you depressed?
- 00:50:18.492 --> 00:50:20.160
- And i told them no.
- 00:50:20.160 --> 00:50:21.394
- I go back spring semester and i couldn't keep it all in.
- 00:50:22.796 --> 00:50:26.299
- It had started to unravel inside of me.
- 00:50:26.299 --> 00:50:30.303
- But this thought kept occurring to me.
- 00:50:30.303 --> 00:50:31.972
- It was just death, death.
- 00:50:31.972 --> 00:50:34.074
- I could just end this, i don't have to do this.
- 00:50:34.074 --> 00:50:36.676
- It's just very strong,
- 00:50:36.676 --> 00:50:38.211
- And i'm thinking about it all the time.
- 00:50:38.211 --> 00:50:40.180
- And i remember one night i decided i just have to try,
- 00:50:40.180 --> 00:50:43.750
- At least have to try one time.
- 00:50:43.750 --> 00:50:45.719
- And so, i remember taking the razor,
- 00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:47.354
- Slitting my wrists, and nothing happened.
- 00:50:47.354 --> 00:50:51.725
- So i just kept going, and i just kept going.
- 00:50:51.725 --> 00:50:54.461
- And finally, i'm surrounded by blood
- 00:50:54.461 --> 00:50:56.396
- But i'm not bleeding out,
- 00:50:56.396 --> 00:50:57.898
- And i realized i don't think this is gonna work.
- 00:50:57.898 --> 00:51:02.068
- I'd broken my razors.
- 00:51:02.068 --> 00:51:03.703
- There was nothing left for me to use.
- 00:51:03.703 --> 00:51:06.540
- My friend kind of came in
- 00:51:07.307 --> 00:51:09.142
- And she put an end to what i was trying to do.
- 00:51:09.142 --> 00:51:12.679
- And i think that that was the first time
- 00:51:12.679 --> 00:51:14.814
- I really cried in a long time.
- 00:51:14.814 --> 00:51:17.450
- So when you try to do something like that,
- 00:51:18.618 --> 00:51:19.853
- You can't just go back to normal life.
- 00:51:19.853 --> 00:51:22.055
- I had to be institutionalized for a week after that.
- 00:51:22.055 --> 00:51:25.158
- And i remember i just cried and i cried,
- 00:51:26.293 --> 00:51:28.261
- And i thought i have ever been this low.
- 00:51:28.261 --> 00:51:32.199
- This is where i've ended up?
- 00:51:32.199 --> 00:51:33.433
- My whole life has led to this moment?
- 00:51:33.433 --> 00:51:36.136
- How disappointing.
- 00:51:36.136 --> 00:51:37.637
- When you're 19 years old and you want your whole future
- 00:51:37.637 --> 00:51:40.373
- To be like gleaming and at 19 you're realizing, oh my gosh,
- 00:51:40.373 --> 00:51:45.445
- I don't really have much going for me.
- 00:51:46.546 --> 00:51:48.048
- I had sort of let go of my stubbornness.
- 00:51:49.182 --> 00:51:51.885
- 'cause i realized my plan actually
- 00:51:51.885 --> 00:51:54.621
- Wasn't better than god's plan.
- 00:51:54.621 --> 00:51:56.256
- Even if god's plan wasn't that good,
- 00:51:56.256 --> 00:51:58.325
- It had to be better than this,
- 00:51:58.325 --> 00:51:59.759
- Because this is really not good.
- 00:51:59.759 --> 00:52:02.229
- And i remember waking up the next day
- 00:52:03.296 --> 00:52:06.032
- And i went into the room where all the patients hang out,
- 00:52:06.032 --> 00:52:09.970
- And there was a group of nursing students there.
- 00:52:09.970 --> 00:52:13.106
- And lo and behold, this guy comes out of the blue
- 00:52:13.106 --> 00:52:16.142
- And he sits down next to me.
- 00:52:16.142 --> 00:52:17.744
- He said immediately to me,
- 00:52:17.744 --> 00:52:20.347
- I feel like god wants me to talk to you.
- 00:52:20.347 --> 00:52:22.682
- And i thought, okay, is this guy crazy? i'm not sure.
- 00:52:22.682 --> 00:52:27.120
- And he said, "i can feel your pain.
- 00:52:27.120 --> 00:52:30.957
- I can feel like what's coming off of you,
- 00:52:30.957 --> 00:52:34.060
- And i want you to know god loves you
- 00:52:34.060 --> 00:52:36.496
- And he hasn't left you."
- 00:52:36.496 --> 00:52:38.098
- And he told me to read my bible every day,
- 00:52:38.098 --> 00:52:41.401
- Which was so weird because that was something
- 00:52:41.401 --> 00:52:43.136
- I used to do when i was a teenager.
- 00:52:43.136 --> 00:52:45.772
- So he told me, "start in psalms,
- 00:52:46.573 --> 00:52:48.842
- Start in the book of psalms, go through psalms.
- 00:52:48.842 --> 00:52:51.044
- And when you're done, go through the gospels,
- 00:52:51.044 --> 00:52:53.113
- Matthew, mark, luke, john."
- 00:52:53.113 --> 00:52:54.881
- I remember feeling like if he can say that,
- 00:52:56.016 --> 00:52:59.419
- That means something good's gonna come out of my life.
- 00:52:59.419 --> 00:53:01.521
- And i don't know what that is,
- 00:53:01.521 --> 00:53:02.756
- But i know that it's better than this.
- 00:53:02.756 --> 00:53:04.958
- And so, what he gave me that day was just a lot of hope.
- 00:53:04.958 --> 00:53:08.161
- This vision of myself getting out of there
- 00:53:08.161 --> 00:53:10.397
- And maybe doing something good with my life,
- 00:53:10.397 --> 00:53:12.465
- It gave me a reason to try to get better,
- 00:53:12.465 --> 00:53:14.234
- It gave me a reason to stop drinking,
- 00:53:14.234 --> 00:53:15.769
- Like finally i had the possibility of something better.
- 00:53:15.769 --> 00:53:20.173
- And so, when i went back to school for junior year,
- 00:53:21.408 --> 00:53:23.376
- I finally made a point,
- 00:53:23.376 --> 00:53:24.978
- I'm just gonna read one chapter every day, like he told me.
- 00:53:24.978 --> 00:53:28.081
- The first day, obviously nothing changed too much.
- 00:53:29.316 --> 00:53:31.785
- The second day, nothing changed too much.
- 00:53:31.785 --> 00:53:33.620
- But over time, i saw things in my life
- 00:53:33.620 --> 00:53:37.357
- Started coming together,
- 00:53:37.357 --> 00:53:38.925
- And my eyes started being open to a lot of things.
- 00:53:38.925 --> 00:53:41.361
- I was still self-harming.
- 00:53:41.361 --> 00:53:43.196
- That was still something i struggled with.
- 00:53:43.196 --> 00:53:45.532
- Depression was still something i'd struggled with.
- 00:53:45.532 --> 00:53:47.767
- Those things did not go away immediately.
- 00:53:47.767 --> 00:53:50.770
- But over time, i felt like,
- 00:53:50.770 --> 00:53:53.740
- Oh i'm being led to the right doctor,
- 00:53:53.740 --> 00:53:55.642
- And this medication is probably gonna help me.
- 00:53:55.642 --> 00:53:58.678
- Over that first semester,
- 00:53:59.446 --> 00:54:01.247
- I don't really know when it stopped,
- 00:54:01.247 --> 00:54:02.916
- I don't know when the last time i cut was.
- 00:54:02.916 --> 00:54:06.753
- But i remember looking down at the end of the year
- 00:54:06.753 --> 00:54:08.955
- And realizing i haven't cut in a really long time,
- 00:54:08.955 --> 00:54:11.591
- And i don't even see any scars on my arms anymore,
- 00:54:11.591 --> 00:54:14.794
- Which was incredible to me
- 00:54:14.794 --> 00:54:16.162
- Because i was told that they would never go away.
- 00:54:16.162 --> 00:54:18.098
- And now i'm looking down at my skin
- 00:54:18.098 --> 00:54:19.499
- And there's nothing there.
- 00:54:19.499 --> 00:54:21.434
- I came to this realization that my faith is not something
- 00:54:21.434 --> 00:54:26.506
- That i go to when i'm feeling strong.
- 00:54:27.607 --> 00:54:28.508
- It's when i'm feeling weak
- 00:54:28.508 --> 00:54:29.743
- And it's when i'm feeling vulnerable,
- 00:54:29.743 --> 00:54:31.244
- And it's when i'm feeling like i can't do it anymore.
- 00:54:31.244 --> 00:54:33.346
- And it's just me constantly admitting
- 00:54:33.346 --> 00:54:37.183
- My desperation for jesus,
- 00:54:37.183 --> 00:54:38.985
- 'cause i have nothing else to rely on.
- 00:54:38.985 --> 00:54:41.821
- I still just read one chapter every day.
- 00:54:41.821 --> 00:54:44.057
- I never got fancier than that.
- 00:54:44.057 --> 00:54:46.893
- It's the first thing i do when i get up.
- 00:54:46.893 --> 00:54:48.862
- Because if i don't do that, i don't know who i am.
- 00:54:48.862 --> 00:54:53.032
- I think what i would want people to know
- 00:54:54.167 --> 00:54:55.969
- Is sometimes i think you get to the point where you're like,
- 00:54:55.969 --> 00:54:58.571
- I don't wanna do this anymore, i can't do this anymore,
- 00:54:58.571 --> 00:55:02.509
- And i think that that's where god desires to come in.
- 00:55:02.509 --> 00:55:05.745
- The only thing that can really fix your brokenness is jesus.
- 00:55:07.213 --> 00:55:11.785
- - sometimes when you were young,
- 00:55:12.585 --> 00:55:14.087
- We follow a lot of the rules, a lot of the guidelines,
- 00:55:14.087 --> 00:55:18.825
- A lot of the things we're told by our parents,
- 00:55:18.825 --> 00:55:21.394
- By our church, by our school,
- 00:55:21.394 --> 00:55:23.663
- And after a while, we feel like we're just performing.
- 00:55:23.663 --> 00:55:28.101
- But have you ever heard somebody say
- 00:55:28.101 --> 00:55:29.936
- That they perform for an audience of one?
- 00:55:29.936 --> 00:55:33.673
- It's because they've realized
- 00:55:33.673 --> 00:55:35.108
- That none of that performance for others holds up,
- 00:55:35.108 --> 00:55:38.845
- It just doesn't sustain you.
- 00:55:38.845 --> 00:55:41.314
- But when you come to know christ in a really personal way,
- 00:55:41.314 --> 00:55:44.884
- You begin to live for him and in him,
- 00:55:44.884 --> 00:55:47.754
- And he lives through you and it changes things.
- 00:55:47.754 --> 00:55:50.657
- Aaron said something earlier on that was so interesting
- 00:55:50.657 --> 00:55:53.126
- When she started to branch out from
- 00:55:53.126 --> 00:55:57.263
- The safe rule-keeping life she'd been living.
- 00:55:57.263 --> 00:55:59.999
- She said, i thought, well,
- 00:55:59.999 --> 00:56:01.367
- I'm just gonna keep god in my head and in my heart,
- 00:56:01.367 --> 00:56:03.803
- But i'm gonna explore and expand things out here.
- 00:56:03.803 --> 00:56:07.207
- The bible says you cannot have two masters,
- 00:56:08.308 --> 00:56:11.244
- That you will love one and hate the other.
- 00:56:11.244 --> 00:56:14.681
- And so today, if you're struggling
- 00:56:14.681 --> 00:56:16.583
- In your walk with the lord,
- 00:56:16.583 --> 00:56:17.984
- I just wanna encourage you to do what aaron did,
- 00:56:17.984 --> 00:56:21.087
- Get into the word.
- 00:56:21.087 --> 00:56:23.089
- Feed the part of you that is worth growing,
- 00:56:23.089 --> 00:56:26.526
- That's worth nurturing,
- 00:56:26.526 --> 00:56:28.061
- That is going to take you somewhere that matters.
- 00:56:28.061 --> 00:56:32.332
- But don't let the world feed the other part of you.
- 00:56:32.332 --> 00:56:36.169
- Take control of that. you can.
- 00:56:36.169 --> 00:56:38.972
- Even when you get to the place
- 00:56:39.806 --> 00:56:41.207
- Where you're drinking a shot of tequila,
- 00:56:41.207 --> 00:56:43.142
- Or something at eight in the morning,
- 00:56:43.142 --> 00:56:44.611
- You can say, god, i need you to help me right now.
- 00:56:44.611 --> 00:56:49.315
- I need you to come into my life.
- 00:56:49.315 --> 00:56:51.451
- I need you to touch my mind and my heart,
- 00:56:51.451 --> 00:56:55.388
- And my very being, even my body,
- 00:56:55.388 --> 00:56:58.324
- And teach me how to live for an audience of one.
- 00:56:58.324 --> 00:57:01.661
- I wanna please you.
- 00:57:01.661 --> 00:57:03.563
- I wanna walk in your ways.
- 00:57:03.563 --> 00:57:05.098
- I wanna be set free from myself
- 00:57:05.098 --> 00:57:07.600
- And all of the garbage and the temptation
- 00:57:07.600 --> 00:57:09.736
- That i've allowed to impact my life.
- 00:57:09.736 --> 00:57:12.405
- I want a fresh beginning today.
- 00:57:12.405 --> 00:57:14.440
- I don't know what it is that you're faced with in your life,
- 00:57:15.842 --> 00:57:18.344
- But i do know that when you pray with someone,
- 00:57:18.344 --> 00:57:20.880
- It makes a difference.
- 00:57:20.880 --> 00:57:22.482
- We have a prayer line that's available 24 hours a day,
- 00:57:22.482 --> 00:57:25.785
- And it's toll free.
- 00:57:25.785 --> 00:57:27.153
- It's 1-800-700-7000.
- 00:57:27.153 --> 00:57:29.756
- You can call that number.
- 00:57:29.756 --> 00:57:31.558
- There's a friend who will answer,
- 00:57:32.425 --> 00:57:33.826
- Who's standing by to pray with you today.
- 00:57:33.826 --> 00:57:36.729
- Please do that.
- 00:57:36.729 --> 00:57:37.697
- Let the power of god be set free
- 00:57:37.697 --> 00:57:39.766
- In the midst of your heart and your life.
- 00:57:39.766 --> 00:57:42.335
- We wanna leave you today with this verse,
- 00:57:42.335 --> 00:57:44.270
- It's from acts chapter two.
- 00:57:44.270 --> 00:57:46.406
- "but everyone, everyone who calls on the name of the lord
- 00:57:46.406 --> 00:57:51.477
- Will be saved."
- 00:57:52.011 --> 00:57:52.845
- That's you, my friend.
- 00:57:52.845 --> 00:57:54.080
- It's never too late.
- 00:57:54.080 --> 00:57:55.582
- God loves you right where you're at.
- 00:57:55.582 --> 00:57:57.984
- Call us, we'll pray with you.
- 00:57:57.984 --> 00:57:59.619
- God bless you.
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