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Speaker 1: Everybody. It's Bill Fortney with an army and normal folks.

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Speaker 1: And we continue now with part two of our conversation

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Speaker 1: with Bishop W. C. Martin, right after these brief messages

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Speaker 1: from our general sponsors. So Donna was struggling, and you

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Speaker 1: said God put it on her mind to adopt or fault.

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Speaker 1: At the first we didn't know what he meant give back.

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Speaker 1: So what we've done.

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Speaker 2: When I got home that evening, she went to telling

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Speaker 3: I told her, you're gonna lost your mind.

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Speaker 2: You have lost your last mind because see the even

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Speaker 2: while I felt like that, because of my biological son,

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Speaker 2: my biological son, Princeton was born with severe brain damage.

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Speaker 2: have brain damage. And he's forty some years old now

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Speaker 2: she was lost her mind because she was. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: And one you already got chands full with a special

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Speaker 2: See, because when you start, like when you was in

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Speaker 2: We don't have no room for nobody else, but you

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Speaker 2: come on and bring your sister, because she called her

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Speaker 2: Neglect, abuse, hungry? See what happened? Mercedes mother got killed

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Speaker 3: But I promise you one thing, Hold it, hold it,

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Speaker 2: That what was told of us. So I really don't

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Speaker 1: Oh so then they go to foster home, right, but

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Speaker 2: And the thing of it is, you see, they present

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Speaker 2: He demonstrated to us, you looking at the church, demonstrating

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Speaker 2: It don't make no sense that you have four hundred

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Speaker 2: What is one church? Every church in America will take

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Speaker 2: But we got to understand right now that we got

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Speaker 1: So you heard him say it, and we'll just go

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Speaker 3: Two hundred people.

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Speaker 1: At Bennet's Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Little Possum, Tron

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Speaker 1: figuring it out. And you said, what you think I

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Speaker 1: And you took him.

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Speaker 2: See right where you are now when it said we

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Speaker 3: Well, go look in the mirror. You'll see why look

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Speaker 3: But I wouldn't stop.

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Speaker 3: You love Jesus. Because adoption. I love what you said

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Speaker 2: And let me tell you one that a lot of

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Speaker 2: He said, Look, he said, don't be afraid to take

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Speaker 1: But train him and teach him. Right, Joseph was not Jesus,

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Speaker 3: That's the way they expressed by Jesus.

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Speaker 2: So that's why they couldn't believe then a hard time

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Speaker 3: They didn't understand.

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Speaker 2: And see, when you look at the adoption, y'all help me, now,

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Speaker 3: Now bring that home.

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Speaker 2: On the spiritual level, I can preach that when you

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Speaker 1: Now you're one of the king kids, so you're saying,

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Speaker 1: Ain't no other way, Okay, So I gotta believe you

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you. It's got the people help to know.

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Speaker 2: Now they got to know. They got to understand. Why

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Speaker 2: Why would he do that I mean.

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Speaker 3: I'm lost. I'm in a world of lostness.

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Speaker 2: And there's a man that leave his heavenly home and

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Speaker 2: The the Congress can't fix this problem. The president can't

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Speaker 2: fix this problem. They cannot your your representatives, your senator,

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00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 2: they can't fix this problem.

437
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:18,400
Speaker 3: They can't fix this problem.

438
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:22,119
Speaker 2: But the Church help me, holy ghost, Ah, thank you Lord,

439
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 2: the Church. You about to make me feel something in here. Church,

440
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 2: one other entity on this earth that you know that

441
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:35,520
Speaker 2: God ordained other than the church on the day of

442
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:40,960
Speaker 2: p intercost, when the Church was ordain and established to

443
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 2: be able to take care of God's business. And that

444
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 2: when God ordained that church. Remember what what what he said?

445
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:49,800
Speaker 2: If you keep on reading in the Book of Act,

446
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 2: you're gonna say and as if they went out, as

447
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 2: the apostles went out, thousands of soul was added to

448
00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 2: the church. It was the lame, It was the halt,

449
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,440
Speaker 2: it was it was the one. And you know what,

450
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,919
Speaker 2: Jesus was always concerned about those that didn't have a

451
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,879
Speaker 2: way out. When when when he he he had a

452
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 2: feast one time, said a man had a feast one time.

453
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:15,879
Speaker 2: And in this feast this man had you know, he

454
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 2: invited the leak folks. All of them couldn't come because

455
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 2: they had excuses. I got to feed my cow, I

456
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,160
Speaker 2: just got married, I just got this, and I get them.

457
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 3: So he that the man theself, we'll.

458
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 2: Go out, go down in the hedges and in the

459
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,360
Speaker 2: bout and invite the lame, the halter, the the one

460
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 2: that's less fortunate, invite them all to the feast. And

461
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 2: this is what Jesus is doing to us, and inviting

462
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:41,919
Speaker 2: all of us to the feast.

463
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 3: But in the midst.

464
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,640
Speaker 2: Of that, we got children that need to be invited

465
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 2: to the feast. They in a system that if somebody

466
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,480
Speaker 2: don't like myself, don't get up and tone the bell

467
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,439
Speaker 2: and let this world know that this is not the

468
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 2: will of God. It is God's will. He came here

469
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 2: freedom to set all of us free. He came, he said,

470
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 2: I came to accept and kept it free. Now where

471
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,919
Speaker 2: are those children? They're in a system that they didn't calls.

472
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,919
Speaker 2: They in a system that they know nothing about, they

473
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,480
Speaker 2: didn't ask to be in it, but yet instilled there

474
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 2: in it. So we as a church, what are we

475
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 2: gonna do? Are we gonna consider sit down and continue

476
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 2: to let this problem go on? Are we gonna change

477
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,879
Speaker 2: the dynamics of it? And said, look, if the Lord

478
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,199
Speaker 2: needs somebody here, I send me. I go out there

479
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 2: and do some nobody.

480
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 3: And so your church did we? Did we not? We

481
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 3: not just talk us, we walk us. We'll be right back.

482
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 3: So what did your church do? We?

483
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 2: When I started breathing, then I had numbers. They come

484
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 2: to me and say, look what how can we We

485
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 2: want to do this?

486
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 3: What can we do? But we can ain't drive? But

487
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 3: we ain't talking about wealthy folks here.

488
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 2: No, no, no, we talk about people. That about people

489
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 2: in the wood in coming. That's like in top Possum

490
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 2: Trock even the name of itself. You ought to know

491
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 2: that they ain't doing wealth down there.

492
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 3: I mean what you know?

493
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 2: It kind of like what what the Bible saying? Can

494
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 2: anything any good thing come out of Nazareth? Can any

495
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 2: good thing come out of possum truck, you know. So

496
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 2: we showed them that something good is in possum trump.

497
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 1: So so your parishioners came to you inside. All right,

498
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 1: we hear you. What do we do?

499
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 3: What do we do? I went to the state.

500
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 2: They said, we can't drive one hundred and twenty miles

501
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 2: round trub That's what my wife out had to do.

502
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 3: They're taking no classes, not at night.

503
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 2: Cause we when we came to them, I'm wondering what

504
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 2: they be willing to do.

505
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 3: The classes here. I went to the state.

506
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 2: I said, look, I got some people who want our dogs,

507
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 2: but they can't drive. The woman said, if you can

508
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 2: find me eight families, I think with five families, we'll

509
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 2: come to y'all church. I found thirteen families that were

510
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 2: willing you a doubt. That started it right there.

511
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: So the classes you had to go to the state

512
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: actually came to your church and taught. Their families came

513
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: to church and they taught the classes impossible tried. That's

514
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 1: right at the church. Holy I thought, the state and

515
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 1: the church can't work together. Well, that's a lie, okay,

516
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 1: the devil is a lie.

517
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 2: See, And this is what I told them. I said,

518
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 2: your rules is on paper. You can revise them or

519
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 2: do anything you want to do with those rules. I

520
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 2: got sixty six here. I can't do nothing right. I'm

521
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,200
Speaker 2: not the author and I'm not the finisher of it,

522
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 2: so I can't change it. It's not in my hand.

523
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 2: The Congress is the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost.

524
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 2: They are the want to make the changes. So if

525
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 2: any changes to be done, they got to make it.

526
00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,239
Speaker 2: So I got to abide by what it says. And

527
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,760
Speaker 2: this is the thing of them, the state and church.

528
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 2: And see this is what see. We got to understand

529
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 2: now that the enemy will do anything he can to

530
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 2: keep us from coming together. That's his elbow separation. He

531
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 2: loves separating and he'll use any little clue he can

532
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 2: to do that.

533
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 3: Do you mean he might craft narratives that would divide us?

534
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 3: That's his job. Uh? So you're saying, Satan's job is

535
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 3: to conquer us and divide us, is to.

536
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: Craft narratives and tell stories about one another so that

537
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 1: we can be divided, divide it. I just wonder, so

538
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: you're saying that's Satanic, Yeah, that's Stena.

539
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 3: Hmm, that's it.

540
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 2: That's not God, because you know why. That's okay? Now

541
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 2: just look at him. Jesus came and died for what

542
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 2: the sins of the world, so that included all of us.

543
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,479
Speaker 2: I don't care what color you are. I don't care

544
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 2: if you can't talk good. I don't care if you

545
00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 2: got napping hair, straight hair, blue, health, gray. He died

546
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 2: for the sins of the world. And because he died

547
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 2: for all of us, it means that he given us

548
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 2: an opportunity to come in. So he said when they

549
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 2: went to asking Jesus one day, well, why at the father,

550
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 2: he said, when you see me, you see the fathers,

551
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 2: because we are one. This is what he wanted the

552
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 2: church to be one. His church ought to be one.

553
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 2: All this other stuff that we're just doing, but we're

554
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 2: gonna help to get back to basics, and that is

555
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 2: the word of God, because it's the only surety that

556
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 2: we have is believing in the word of God, because

557
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 2: the Bible said he standing watch over his.

558
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 3: Word to perform it.

559
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: So you shared this little bit of information with the

560
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 1: lady from the state and said, I got thirteen families,

561
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: and you got kids of these homes. But you're gonna

562
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 1: have to come teach my families in my church because

563
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 1: we can't be driving all them the place at night

564
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 1: that far.

565
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 2: And so they did, they did, but only they cut

566
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 2: the classes down. It wasn't on sixteen classes no more. Okay,

567
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 2: I think it was ten classes. Okay, yeah, but they did,

568
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 2: they did, they did, And now you got you.

569
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 1: You've got your sister in law, Donna's sister Dan and

570
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 1: thirteen more families and you'all go to taking kids.

571
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 3: We started taking kids and not just taking them.

572
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: Not thosshing, adopting them, making them my heart and our

573
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 1: family and family.

574
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 2: That's right, cause why did set it up? We was

575
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 2: in there. We had to keep up. I think of

576
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 2: like six months. After six months, you were standing in

577
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 2: front of Jurdge, he was hitting that gaple and seeing

578
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:50,239
Speaker 2: they're yours now, and see we didn't even know, we

579
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 2: didn't even know that that's what they wanted to do.

580
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 2: But they said that was the greetment that we signed.

581
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 2: After six months, they become our children. So all the

582
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 2: children that we'd gotten name has been changed, every left

583
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 2: one of them along the lines.

584
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:10,920
Speaker 1: You got a really if you thought Tyler Mercedes were challenging,

585
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: you brought in another girl in your family, your new daughter.

586
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:23,320
Speaker 3: Her name Terry Terry.

587
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:26,839
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm supposed to put Well, it's

588
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 1: in the movie, so I'm not putting her business on

589
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 1: the street. She comes from an extraordinarily abusive situation sexually, physically, mentally, spiritually.

590
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:41,319
Speaker 3: She'd been in.

591
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: Foster homes and were horrible, and when she got to you,

592
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 1: she was one tore up little.

593
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:53,479
Speaker 2: Girl, messed up. I mean how she was nine years

594
00:34:53,480 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 2: old and terry life was so so traumatized because what

595
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 2: happened was the state said if we was able to

596
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 2: handle Tyler, and my stated so. Then they came up

597
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 2: with the slogan, all the problem children that we have,

598
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 2: we're gonna send on the possum trot. That's what we

599
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 2: ended up with. All of them the worstest children that

600
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 2: was in the system. But Terry was one of those.

601
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 2: Her mind was just completely wopped. She used to stay

602
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 2: her foster Pam was a professor at a college, and

603
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:43,879
Speaker 2: because Terry was so messed up, the woman couldn't deal

604
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:47,879
Speaker 2: with her no more. So we got in Ry as

605
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:52,360
Speaker 2: respite for this woman go on vacation. Two weeks later

606
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 2: they came back to state, came back and told us

607
00:35:55,560 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 2: that the woman don't want Terry back, So got to

608
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 2: break that news to her.

609
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 3: She's already messed up. Got to break that news to her.

610
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 2: So when they called in the house that evening and

611
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 2: told her about him, I mean, she must have cried

612
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 2: for a while because she felt like.

613
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:14,359
Speaker 3: That this is it.

614
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 2: But she didn't realize that this was one of the

615
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 2: best things that ever could happen to her, because now

616
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,840
Speaker 2: she's getting in a spiritual home. But the problem that

617
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 2: Terry had was adapted to our lifestyle. We weren't these

618
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,839
Speaker 2: people that you know, go out do all this kind

619
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 2: of stuff. She didn't have that to worry about it

620
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 2: because my home was clean, you know, because that lord

621
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 2: looking at her our household, and I had to kind

622
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 2: of walk up right before him. But then Terry had

623
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 2: a hard time of a depth.

624
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 3: Example.

625
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:51,319
Speaker 2: She would she was use to this old I don't

626
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 2: know what kind of lifestyle you would call him, but

627
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 2: she would leave home dressed one way because she knew

628
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,439
Speaker 2: I had her. I was very particular about it because

629
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 2: she was a big girl, and she was a good

630
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 2: looking girl. And because my wife got in there and

631
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 2: got that head straightened out, she was ready. You ain't

632
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 2: looking at her looking like no little ghettold child. You know,

633
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 2: not finna go out and look a little whocha mama

634
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 2: on the street. That ain't gonna happen. You finna put

635
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 2: some clothes on and you're gonna go. But what she did,

636
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 2: she had to change the clothes in her backpack. She

637
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 2: would go out there to that school teob If she

638
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:30,359
Speaker 2: get there, she would go in the bathroom and change.

639
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 2: And I decided one day, I said, I'm just gonna

640
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 2: go out here and see what's going on there.

641
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:37,920
Speaker 3: She was sitting.

642
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 2: Outside the door in the hallway in some little daisy

643
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 2: duke bridges.

644
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:43,439
Speaker 1: Man.

645
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 3: I must have blowed the roof off of that building.

646
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 3: I was so upset with her.

647
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 2: Looked at her backpack and then the luck she had

648
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 2: all kind of little short, tight outfits in there that

649
00:37:56,200 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 2: she was changing clothes. She said she did that because

650
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 2: she didn't think that people were noticing her enough.

651
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:05,360
Speaker 3: She wanted to be seen.

652
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 2: I said, Terry, as big as you are, you mean

653
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 2: to tell me folks can't see you. And she was

654
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 2: not no ugly girl. She was a very attracted young lady.

655
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 2: But she just wasn't getting all the attention that she wanted.

656
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 2: But we finally got it.

657
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 1: Well, don't you think that comes from a childhood of

658
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 1: being starved from attention?

659
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,319
Speaker 2: I think if it had to be because she she

660
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 2: felt that was in her mind that she wasn't getting

661
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 2: attention from where she had come from. So now she

662
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 2: had to do something to put that focus on her

663
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 2: and make people look at her.

664
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 1: The other thing that she when you first got her,

665
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 1: she had an interesting coping mechanism. She thought she was

666
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: a cat.

667
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 3: She did. And the reason, look, does she really tell

668
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 3: you I'm a cat? I don't.

669
00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 1: She didn't say, hey, I think I might be a cat.

670
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 1: She looked at you, I'm a cat. I'm a cat,

671
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 1: she said. And it either why it happened like that.

672
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 2: Her pride family that she had, they didn't deal with

673
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 2: her with the issues that she had. So what they

674
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 2: did that brought her this big tom cat. And she

675
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,880
Speaker 2: spent so much time with that cat. And when a

676
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 2: man was already weak in the beginning she was beginning,

677
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 2: that was the only friend, and she began to take

678
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:29,359
Speaker 2: the mentality of a cat.

679
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 3: So she thought she was a cat. Did she walk

680
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 3: around acting like a cat? Yes, she did it me hours, yeah,

681
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 3: she did that. She didn't crawl around man what you

682
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:43,840
Speaker 3: talking about? Are you for real? Is Jesus in heaven? Now? Now,

683
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 3: let me ask you something.

684
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 1: If people came by your house and you had all

685
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:49,839
Speaker 1: these kids and what of them crawling around by the cat,

686
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: they must thought you were crazy.

687
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:54,919
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, you know I had.

688
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 2: It wasn't nothing I can do about it. Had to

689
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:58,359
Speaker 2: do something to try to help out.

690
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 3: But we did. We did well. One day we got

691
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:04,399
Speaker 3: ready to eat.

692
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, I told her, I said, tell her, I said,

693
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,360
Speaker 2: And my wife called, said, come on with and eat y'all,

694
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 2: and tear Joe in there, y'all go wash up. She

695
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 2: came walking up in there, and I looked at him.

696
00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:26,320
Speaker 2: I didn't say anything, But then the Lord quickened my spirit.

697
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 2: That's a cat now. And that food was looking so

698
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 2: good on that table, all that greens and things up there,

699
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 2: and candy yem, sweet potatoes and all that stuff looking good,

700
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:39,280
Speaker 2: all that mother chicken and corn bread and rice lambon.

701
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 2: And I said, she went to pull that chall where

702
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 2: are you going? I can eat? I eat what she said.

703
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 2: I mean eat what I said. Oh baby, you a cat.

704
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 2: This is for adult. You can't you can't do that here.

705
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 2: So what you gonna have to do y'all go out

706
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 2: there and y'all find me some of them. It was

707
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 2: mold in the freezer. Hear what you can eat here?

708
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,839
Speaker 2: And said, I can't eat that stuff. I said, well,

709
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 2: if I know what to feed you, I'll probably do better.

710
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:14,879
Speaker 3: Boy. She got hot, She got hot, she got mad,

711
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 3: She stormed out. See what it want?

712
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 2: She wanted to eat, But then again she wanted to

713
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 2: keep her same attitude.

714
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 3: And I just told her that ain't finna help in here, honey.

715
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 2: So you going out there and you're gonna stay out

716
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 2: there on that porch, and you're gonna sleep out there,

717
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:31,880
Speaker 2: and you're gonna eat out there, because that's what cats,

718
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,399
Speaker 2: that's what cats do. I don't allow catching my house.

719
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 2: Some people do, but I don't. They got too much

720
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 2: hair falling all over the place. And I find some

721
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 2: cat hair in my food. I'm gonna have somebody got

722
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 2: to go home, you know. So I broke She she

723
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 2: finally realized, because when that when I'm hungry pain, When

724
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:50,799
Speaker 2: that big intensa started whooping on that little one and

725
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:54,319
Speaker 2: she got hungry, she decided then that that cat day

726
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 2: was over, cause we fixed that problem human. She became

727
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 2: a human then, and we and we hadn't had to

728
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 2: deal it. One time she came back up and said,

729
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 2: what's wrong. Oh, I don't know what you're doing.

730
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 3: I don't know. Her mind started regressing back in it

731
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 3: old man.

732
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 2: I said, all right, now you'll be back out on

733
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 2: that porch again, eating dead Alma's and food like that,

734
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 2: so you better straighten up here.

735
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:19,799
Speaker 3: And she broke. We broke that stuff. Tyr, stop doing that.

736
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 1: That is so funny. I gotta tell you something. I

737
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 1: hate bad table manners. And one time my daughter she

738
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 1: just had the worst worst habit of smacking and carrying

739
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 1: on and she wouldn't sit up at the table and

740
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:37,239
Speaker 1: she'd lean on her elbows and scoop food like she

741
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,600
Speaker 1: was a caveman or something. And one time I just

742
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:42,840
Speaker 1: had enough and I said, you act like a dog,

743
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 1: and I took her her utensils from her and put

744
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 1: on the floor and I made her get on her

745
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: hands and knees and eat from that plate like a

746
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 1: dog dog bomb. And you know, all the kids were

747
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 1: laughing and stuff, and she was down there crying. I said,

748
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 1: and you're gonna finish your food. I'm gonna car for

749
00:42:57,280 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: that food. You know what.

750
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 3: The next day, and from then on share great table manners.

751
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 3: It only took one time. One time. See, if you're

752
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:06,919
Speaker 3: gonna act like a dog, like a dog, you're gonna

753
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 3: be like a cat.

754
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:11,760
Speaker 1: There it is. When I read that and then saw

755
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:15,359
Speaker 1: that in the movie, I recollected about when when I

756
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 1: did that with my daughter, and I just I started

757
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: dying laughing. I was like, you get her, brother, you

758
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: get her. Because sometimes love looks hard, doesn't it. Look

759
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something.

760
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 2: My mama taught me tough love A lot of a

761
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:31,319
Speaker 2: lot of a lot of love like this. I mean,

762
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:34,440
Speaker 2: you don't understand tough love because they're so used to

763
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 2: getting their ways and doing what they want to do.

764
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 2: But you got to have some sense now there. You

765
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 2: just can't do things till going on. You got to

766
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 2: come up with a plan. And see all of this

767
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 2: is not a textbook idea. This is just old playing

768
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 2: mother with something that my mama would have done us.

769
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 2: If we just start acting like that, yeah, PhDs, don't

770
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 2: even it, don't even, but no way care. You know,

771
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:56,239
Speaker 2: in sense trumps it when it comes to stuff like that,

772
00:43:57,239 --> 00:43:59,319
Speaker 2: they're not gonna get it. And see that's the thing

773
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:03,320
Speaker 2: that bothers me. About this system. The system is broken

774
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 2: all over this country. It's a broken system, and they

775
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:11,319
Speaker 2: gonna have to do something to fix this system. And

776
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,879
Speaker 2: instead of getting a guy that who's costs he done

777
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:17,440
Speaker 2: wrote a book, ain't never done anything. I told I

778
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:20,439
Speaker 2: told his senator, this represented that came down a church.

779
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:22,439
Speaker 2: I said, you know what need to happen, I said,

780
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:25,400
Speaker 2: each one of them congressmen and their senators and represented

781
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 2: them need to get two or three THEMB children and

782
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:29,799
Speaker 2: take them home with them for one weekend. Then you

783
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 2: can talk some stuff then. But right now, getting a

784
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 2: guy that ain't never been there, done there, or done

785
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:35,640
Speaker 2: anything else, they're gonna.

786
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:37,759
Speaker 3: Write a PhD Green book, what's wrong with you?

787
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 1: Man?

788
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 2: That book ain't no good because you need to talk

789
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 2: to someone who done got down in the grime, who

790
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 2: done dirty their hand and you know what's going on.

791
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 2: This would changed them. So this guy said, look, I

792
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 2: need to come down there and talk with you. And

793
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 2: they brought a cool down there and we met and

794
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:55,440
Speaker 2: we told them the system is broken. It need to

795
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 2: be fixed. And going up that Congress can't fix it.

796
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 2: But you need to talk to the little your folks

797
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 2: like me that doesn't been there done that and got

798
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:04,480
Speaker 2: a T shirt and a cap to prove it. They

799
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 2: show y'all what y'all need to do.

800
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 1: You mean, when just average normal folks see areas of

801
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 1: edn't fill it?

802
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:21,479
Speaker 3: That's it, is it. We'll be right back.

803
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: So now you got terror, you got Mercedes, you got Tyler.

804
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:40,759
Speaker 3: Everybody thinks you're crazy your daughter. Now you get thirteen

805
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:45,280
Speaker 3: people to get trained up. And they started adopting from.

806
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:52,760
Speaker 2: They started adopting, and we ended up singer parents adopting children. Wow,

807
00:45:53,320 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 2: grandmothers and grandparents. Everybody that wanted training got the training.

808
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 2: But at the same token, there was adopting children. And

809
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:07,440
Speaker 2: was it easy?

810
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:12,240
Speaker 3: Own't know? It wasn't did your church in the throes

811
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:14,759
Speaker 3: of it? Could you?

812
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:19,239
Speaker 1: Could you sense the stress and anxiety as people were

813
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 1: bringing kids in and the difficulties both financially and socially.

814
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess what I don't understand is what

815
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 1: was the timeline from when you guys really started doing

816
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 1: this work until you felt like you had persevered through

817
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:48,359
Speaker 1: it and it was really working for everybody? How long

818
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 1: did that take?

819
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 3: It took.

820
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 2: It took some years. It took a few years for

821
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 2: us to get that point because it's hard work. It's hard.

822
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:02,360
Speaker 2: It's a out of work that would make you or

823
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 2: would keep you up at night. You had to patrol

824
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:10,719
Speaker 2: your own home. You got to watch everything, and sometimes

825
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 2: they wasn't used to that. So over a period of

826
00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:20,239
Speaker 2: time it went that way. H In the movie two

827
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:24,760
Speaker 2: to My, My, My, My, My, two of My top

828
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 2: pit peas, when Tyler was afraid of hot water, he

829
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:42,400
Speaker 2: was just start screaming, Wow. I think he was burned

830
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 2: as a child and had to the water was too

831
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 2: hot for him. But then when the bishop went back

832
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 2: to church and began to tell the church that you

833
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 2: try to bathe, the little boy went screaming and hollering

834
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 2: because you're afraid of water. And when like things, that

835
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 2: was just going crazy or crazy or crazy just down here,

836
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 2: down here, down here. When he stood up and said

837
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 2: the children can't take the noise anymore, he hit on

838
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 2: the drummer about three or four times. They can't take

839
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 2: the noise anymore, he said, So, I know you all

840
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:25,879
Speaker 2: are feeling bad, because I feel it too. But it's

841
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 2: time for us to rise up. All of you are

842
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 2: that's going through all this trauma. I want you to

843
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 2: come and stand around across and left began to pray.

844
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 2: That moment, it kind of flipped things over. Well, people

845
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 2: began to do this and come together in our church

846
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 2: and work together to help out what was going on.

847
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:56,920
Speaker 1: So you mean like other church members when they knew, right,

848
00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 1: So when one couple or single mother, when somebody had

849
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:05,280
Speaker 1: adopted a child and they were struggling, other church members

850
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:08,840
Speaker 1: recognized it and then they came and help.

851
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 3: That's what helpened.

852
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 2: And see in my home, my wife and I if

853
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:19,319
Speaker 2: there was a mother or father who was dealing, who

854
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 2: had a child that they couldn't handle. Now I got tired,

855
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 2: I got Mercedes, I got Terror and got Josh, then

856
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 2: I got Prince. But then again, well just get we're

857
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 2: bringing the child to my house and keep them of

858
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 2: them a few weeks. We done more risk in anybody else,

859
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 2: because every time you turned around, we just turned to

860
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 2: bringing them in, keeping them, helping them, and sending them

861
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 2: back home. So we got together and began to pray

862
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:54,960
Speaker 2: like never before. And the Lord who had to pray us,

863
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 2: I need to turn that thing around. Then family began

864
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:04,319
Speaker 2: to share one another burdens. Family began to understand what

865
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 2: can we do and help? And this is something that

866
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 2: I want to share with everybody. All of us may

867
00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:14,799
Speaker 2: not be able to foster and may not be able

868
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 2: to adopt, but in the process of it, all all

869
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:23,160
Speaker 2: of us can do something. If you can't do anything

870
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 2: but just cook a meal. If you can't do anything,

871
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:28,839
Speaker 2: but just go pick up the kids and take them

872
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:33,720
Speaker 2: and buy my hamburger a coke somewhere, give the family

873
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:36,640
Speaker 2: a break. If that's all you can do, do it,

874
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 2: but do it. Don't talk about it, do it. That

875
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 2: means that God doesn't leave anybody out. And I said

876
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 2: last night that anything God is involved in it, I

877
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 2: want to be involved in it. And I feel that

878
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:53,640
Speaker 2: so necessary, that this is so important that we all

879
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:56,879
Speaker 2: can be how you may say, we can share in

880
00:50:56,920 --> 00:51:01,160
Speaker 2: this process together. And that's what happened down there. All

881
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:05,000
Speaker 2: of us got involved and shared in the process together.

882
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 2: The other part that I love about the movie. At

883
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 2: the very end of the movie, it shows all the

884
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:17,920
Speaker 2: real families. They showed who played who they showed the

885
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:23,879
Speaker 2: real person, but it also shows something else. It shows togetherness.

886
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:28,719
Speaker 2: It shows that the family helped reached that plateau, that

887
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 2: the children are happy and they got their own families

888
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:33,400
Speaker 2: and they are happy.

889
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 3: And we're gathering at this big.

890
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:44,719
Speaker 2: Feast down there, barbecueing and music playing and riding horses

891
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 2: and just enjoying ourselves. That let anybody know, whatever storm

892
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 2: you are going through, with whatever problem that you are having,

893
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:58,799
Speaker 2: the sun is gonna shine. If you just stay in

894
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:01,959
Speaker 2: the process and give up on the process, the sun

895
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:04,960
Speaker 2: is gonna shine. The sun will shining bright and pretty

896
00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:07,920
Speaker 2: that day and all of the families and all of

897
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 2: the families had adopted, had all their children there, and

898
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 2: it was a beautiful occasion. That's when people put something

899
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 2: in a child's life, and when they came out of

900
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:24,000
Speaker 2: their comfort zone and put something in child life. I

901
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:28,000
Speaker 2: know for a fact, I know for a fact, even

902
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 2: here right now, everybody can do something to help to

903
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:35,520
Speaker 2: say this generation of children.

904
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 1: There was another scene in the movie you just talked

905
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:46,520
Speaker 1: about two. There's a third where you call the state

906
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:55,320
Speaker 1: and you say, okay, we we can We've got another family,

907
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:58,200
Speaker 1: or our church has another group that can take on

908
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:03,400
Speaker 1: another child. Were told it ain't no more there's no

909
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:04,799
Speaker 1: more children than need a home.

910
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:05,919
Speaker 3: That's right.

911
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 1: Your church eradicated children's needs from home within like a

912
00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:17,280
Speaker 1: one hundred mile radius in every direction of Fosso tromp,

913
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 1: your little church, your little struggling financially not wealthy, but

914
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:32,560
Speaker 1: rich in spirit. Group of two hundred people shut down

915
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:35,880
Speaker 1: the foster care system and the need for it than

916
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:36,759
Speaker 1: a one hundred mile radio.

917
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 2: See this is why I say, I'm sorry to rupt you,

918
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:47,320
Speaker 2: but that math you not the math gonna add up well.

919
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:57,560
Speaker 1: So I have interviewed over the last fourteen months all

920
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:01,759
Speaker 1: manner of people that do walk things, but we have

921
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 1: had four or five or six guests who do work

922
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:11,440
Speaker 1: in and around foster care systems adoption, trying to figure

923
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:15,360
Speaker 1: out better ways, better policy because like you say, the

924
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:17,280
Speaker 1: system is absolutely broken.

925
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:21,600
Speaker 3: I've interviewed.

926
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:28,000
Speaker 1: Women who have organizations because they were once trafficked, and

927
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:33,120
Speaker 1: the traffickers stamp their girls with tattoos. And when these

928
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:37,200
Speaker 1: girls get rescued from that trafficking and they try to

929
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:40,440
Speaker 1: move on from their life, every time they see themselves

930
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:42,920
Speaker 1: in a mirror, they hate themselves because they see the

931
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:46,800
Speaker 1: evidence of their trauma. And so she removes their tattoos

932
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:50,960
Speaker 1: from I've seen just over and over again. But the

933
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 1: thing that I've learned, probably the most profound lesson I've

934
00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:00,600
Speaker 1: had since doing this work of an army in folks,

935
00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 1: and all the amazing people have interviewed, is this the

936
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 1: vast majority of people that are homeless, the vast majority

937
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:12,280
Speaker 1: of people that are trafficked, the vast majority of people

938
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:17,280
Speaker 1: that fill or overfilled jails, the vast majority of people

939
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:20,719
Speaker 1: that are on the streets, the vast majority of people that.

940
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:21,800
Speaker 3: Are that are.

941
00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:27,520
Speaker 1: Part of the systematic issues in and around our society

942
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:32,759
Speaker 1: and culture today. We're once lost children and they came

943
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 1: through this broken foster system and never found somebody to

944
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 1: love them and care for them and be part of

945
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:43,400
Speaker 1: what you said, the process of fixing them and long term,

946
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:47,440
Speaker 1: And it is so clear to me we could solve

947
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:51,840
Speaker 1: seventy five percent of our country's issues if we just

948
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:54,680
Speaker 1: didn't have the need for a foster care system and

949
00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:58,440
Speaker 1: all these unwanted, unloved children that end up being the

950
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:01,720
Speaker 1: very demographics and the data points that we talk about.

951
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:04,400
Speaker 1: We could think so much of what els is if

952
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 1: we just take care of our children. An impossum trot.

953
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:14,880
Speaker 1: There's a church of two hundred people from a low

954
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:23,440
Speaker 1: income area and I would assume are all black, that

955
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:28,440
Speaker 1: eradicate with one hundred mile radius of their little spot.

956
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:33,040
Speaker 1: Like you say, off in the trees, the need for

957
00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 1: foster care and thusly for a generation have had to

958
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:40,640
Speaker 1: have had a lasting impact on the culture and society

959
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:43,400
Speaker 1: in that area because you've eradicated so much of what

960
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:50,040
Speaker 1: becomes the issues, the thing that we need to understand.

961
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:54,440
Speaker 1: And this is why I feel that God has an

962
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:59,880
Speaker 1: indictment against the church because of the the empowerment of

963
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:04,919
Speaker 1: the church. If you come to Possum trip and come

964
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 1: to our church, it's nothing out there. We got we

965
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 1: got a we got the church.

966
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:17,120
Speaker 2: Here on this side, you see a base, a basketball

967
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 2: court that Malabada Lutheran Church in southern California. Send a

968
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:25,560
Speaker 2: mission team up there and put a basketball court up there,

969
00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:27,800
Speaker 2: nothing over it to the little golds sitting there. On

970
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 2: each end you got the church. Then on the other

971
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:33,520
Speaker 2: side you got a cemetery. That's all out there. You

972
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:39,960
Speaker 2: see dirt, that's that's even today. There's so many needs

973
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 2: at that church. It's unreal. But we never stop to

974
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:50,480
Speaker 2: look at needs that we have. We look at needs

975
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 2: of others. If you look at this whole thing, we

976
00:57:56,280 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 2: should should have the same attitude that Jesus. Jesus left

977
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 2: his home in Glory and came here to save us.

978
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:08,640
Speaker 3: So what he is looking at?

979
00:58:10,040 --> 00:58:12,919
Speaker 2: And I told him last night that the first law

980
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:17,520
Speaker 2: of nature is self first, but the first law of

981
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:26,080
Speaker 2: grace is others first service. Service. Jesus was about service.

982
00:58:26,880 --> 00:58:32,000
Speaker 2: He was about we so busy. The church is nowadays

983
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:37,200
Speaker 2: is about church work. But Jesus was about ministry work,

984
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:40,560
Speaker 2: and he left this for the church to take care of.

985
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:46,920
Speaker 3: You don't have to have X, Y and Z to

986
00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 3: get up and preach about there's a need here.

987
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:56,720
Speaker 2: There should not be a child waiting on a home,

988
00:58:57,360 --> 00:59:00,000
Speaker 2: but it should be a home waiting on a child.

989
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:03,400
Speaker 3: Because while we don't have.

990
00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:07,760
Speaker 2: To this system, what we had, we'd done the best

991
00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:10,360
Speaker 2: we could. But what we had and the Lord was

992
00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:13,919
Speaker 2: with us. We never did lose any children. We kept

993
00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:14,360
Speaker 2: them home.

994
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:22,080
Speaker 3: That's amazing. We'll be right back.

995
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:35,400
Speaker 2: The thing that I don't understand a lot of people

996
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:38,120
Speaker 2: hear me talk and they they said, well, that guy

997
00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:39,120
Speaker 2: man maybe out of this.

998
00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:42,680
Speaker 3: I'm not out of my mind. I'm in my mind.

999
00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:47,960
Speaker 1: Because I sit there across from you now for almost

1000
00:59:48,080 --> 00:59:49,040
Speaker 1: of us two hours.

1001
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:51,920
Speaker 3: You ain't nothing about you out of your mind, you know.

1002
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:54,080
Speaker 2: But the thing of it is how they expect us

1003
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:57,360
Speaker 2: to do this and do that. Well, I don't expect

1004
00:59:57,400 --> 01:00:00,320
Speaker 2: you to do anything. Just do it. It's not how,

1005
01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:03,080
Speaker 2: just do it, and somebody well, how did you do that?

1006
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:06,040
Speaker 2: It ain't no how. We just did it. It wasn't

1007
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:10,160
Speaker 2: about what we had or what we didn't have. This

1008
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:14,280
Speaker 2: was a job that we had to do because God

1009
01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:18,080
Speaker 2: was letting his country know if I can show up

1010
01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:21,400
Speaker 2: in them bushes, I should and show up right here

1011
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:25,200
Speaker 2: in Memphis if they did it in the bushes with nothing,

1012
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:28,280
Speaker 2: and right now, and let me tell you something else too.

1013
01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:35,320
Speaker 2: The resources that's out there now, it's crazy. We had

1014
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:37,960
Speaker 2: it with no resources. We did it with no resource.

1015
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:41,720
Speaker 2: There are so many different resources out there now that

1016
01:00:42,040 --> 01:00:43,960
Speaker 2: can strengthen families and helping family.

1017
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:46,760
Speaker 3: You know, I'm a part of Careportal.

1018
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:51,120
Speaker 2: Care port is a powerful organization and it does things

1019
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:54,200
Speaker 2: seem and there's others out there that's doing things to

1020
01:00:54,320 --> 01:00:57,600
Speaker 2: help you. We did not have all of that. What

1021
01:00:57,640 --> 01:01:03,160
Speaker 2: we had was love, togetherness and the love of God,

1022
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:06,760
Speaker 2: and we worked together to do what we've done. I

1023
01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:11,280
Speaker 2: got one little girl, I think it was ABC came

1024
01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:14,360
Speaker 2: down and did a story and they did about three

1025
01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:16,160
Speaker 2: families up there, and this little girl was in this family.

1026
01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:17,200
Speaker 3: One of the Minnesota's church.

1027
01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:20,960
Speaker 2: She jumped up and say she was just crying out

1028
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:24,400
Speaker 2: one day the interview and she said, I don't know

1029
01:01:24,440 --> 01:01:29,360
Speaker 2: why my mama gave me up. And every day I

1030
01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:33,200
Speaker 2: cried about why did she give me up? If she

1031
01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:36,080
Speaker 2: didn't love me, why did she bring me in this world?

1032
01:01:36,600 --> 01:01:39,360
Speaker 2: And she said that hirsts me. One day she came

1033
01:01:39,440 --> 01:01:43,520
Speaker 2: to church, went home that evening, went in the bathroom

1034
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:47,520
Speaker 2: and got a raisar blade, cut her shelf alder, just

1035
01:01:47,560 --> 01:01:50,720
Speaker 2: cut herself. Holder They rushed to the doctor. He said

1036
01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:52,480
Speaker 2: it they'd have been ten minutes later, she'd have bled

1037
01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:56,320
Speaker 2: to death. They got it there. They stopped the bleeding. Today,

1038
01:01:57,080 --> 01:02:01,560
Speaker 2: that same little girl, it's one of them. She's she

1039
01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:04,400
Speaker 2: gonna she finished end up in the Olympics as a

1040
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:11,360
Speaker 2: track star. She got a bachelor degree in child psychology. Wow,

1041
01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:14,640
Speaker 2: she said she wanted to help other children. This little

1042
01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:18,760
Speaker 2: girl is. You're gonna probably hear her speaking somewhere because

1043
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 2: she's powerful. The first time she saw them moving, she

1044
01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:26,640
Speaker 2: walked up to me and she said, Bijamon, I just

1045
01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:31,960
Speaker 2: want to thank you for saving my life. We got

1046
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:36,280
Speaker 2: to understand, we don't have a clue. That's what it's

1047
01:02:36,360 --> 01:02:40,080
Speaker 2: locked in that system. We got some of the greatest

1048
01:02:40,200 --> 01:02:45,000
Speaker 2: minds and some of the most strongest peoples. It's locked

1049
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:46,040
Speaker 2: in the system.

1050
01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:51,160
Speaker 1: Doctors, president, lawyers, preachers, teachers.

1051
01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:54,520
Speaker 2: I mean, you go home, But they in a system,

1052
01:02:54,720 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 2: and that ain't it't got no way out to be

1053
01:02:56,480 --> 01:02:59,320
Speaker 2: that or they can be part of the demographics we

1054
01:02:59,360 --> 01:03:00,720
Speaker 2: talked about in jail one day.

1055
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:05,160
Speaker 3: That's right. See, the difference is what you're putting in them.

1056
01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:07,440
Speaker 3: What are you putting in them?

1057
01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:11,440
Speaker 2: See, I don't believe that this was no accident. I

1058
01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:13,640
Speaker 2: don't believe me being up here is no accident. I

1059
01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:16,280
Speaker 2: believe I'm here because of the divine will of God

1060
01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:21,400
Speaker 2: to raise this awareness concerning what we need to do.

1061
01:03:21,920 --> 01:03:22,200
Speaker 3: Y'all.

1062
01:03:22,240 --> 01:03:25,080
Speaker 2: This is a problem, and this whole nation need to know.

1063
01:03:25,120 --> 01:03:28,040
Speaker 2: It ain't getting better, it's getting worse. But the thing

1064
01:03:28,080 --> 01:03:31,440
Speaker 2: of it is what are we gonna do. We can't

1065
01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:35,000
Speaker 2: talk how bad they are when we never done anything

1066
01:03:35,040 --> 01:03:36,120
Speaker 2: to try to help them.

1067
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:37,720
Speaker 3: How can you expect for.

1068
01:03:37,720 --> 01:03:40,880
Speaker 2: A child to respond when nobody ever taught them anything?

1069
01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:43,320
Speaker 2: So what they do they act out of the only

1070
01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:46,360
Speaker 2: way they know how and do some stuff I said

1071
01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:48,880
Speaker 2: last night, I went to see a little boy one day,

1072
01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:51,800
Speaker 2: five years old, I said, man, what you want for Christmas?

1073
01:03:51,880 --> 01:03:54,480
Speaker 2: He said, I don't want no toys. I don't want

1074
01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:57,600
Speaker 2: no little ponies. I don't want no clothes. All I

1075
01:03:57,680 --> 01:04:01,600
Speaker 2: want is a mother and a father, somebody to love me.

1076
01:04:02,600 --> 01:04:07,280
Speaker 2: Five years old. It's that too much for a child

1077
01:04:07,480 --> 01:04:08,080
Speaker 2: to ask.

1078
01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:15,040
Speaker 3: For the sound of hope. The possum Trot story, it's

1079
01:04:15,200 --> 01:04:19,240
Speaker 3: not based upon a true story. It is a true story.

1080
01:04:19,960 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 2: And until we, as a people of God rise up

1081
01:04:25,040 --> 01:04:27,640
Speaker 2: and say let's take it by force, we're gonna keep

1082
01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:29,040
Speaker 2: on mushrooming the problem.

1083
01:04:29,480 --> 01:04:30,920
Speaker 3: This is gonna keep on happening.

1084
01:04:31,320 --> 01:04:36,440
Speaker 2: But I believe that there's enough preachers, enough churches in

1085
01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:40,120
Speaker 2: the United States of a miracle to fix this problem

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Speaker 2: and to keep it fixed.

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Speaker 1: All of our guys leave their contact information. Would you

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Speaker 1: please share your email address in case there's people moved

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Speaker 1: and they just have questions about adoption and.

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Speaker 3: All that I can give them the whole nine yard. Okay,

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Speaker 3: go for it. Okay.

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Speaker 2: My My address at Bishop W. C. Mart In the

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Speaker 2: name of the church is Benny Chapel Baptist Church, and

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Speaker 2: my address is p O. Box eleven, forty seven, Central Texas,

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Speaker 2: c E. N. T. E R Texas seven five nine

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Speaker 2: three five. My email address is all like in Rabbit Martin,

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Speaker 2: m A R T I N AT B C B

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Speaker 2: like in Boys C like in Charles Ministry, M I

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Speaker 2: N I S T R O Y dot or my

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Speaker 2: number that you can be reached me at nine three

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Speaker 2: six five nine one seven two nine nine.

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Speaker 1: If any are interested in the work that Bishop Martin's

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Speaker 1: done and involving yourself in the needs of children, there's

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Speaker 1: a man right there who can walk you through the

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Speaker 1: whole thing. Now, I got another question, is your church need?

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Speaker 1: What is your church need?

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Speaker 2: We need right now? We need doors on the church.

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Speaker 2: Our doors on the church. Doesn't that have been there

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Speaker 2: ever since in the nineties that need to be replaced.

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Speaker 3: We got some.

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Speaker 2: Double doors, two double doors on the front, and we

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Speaker 2: got three single doors, one on the on the east

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Speaker 2: side and one.

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Speaker 3: In the back. Are they ridding up and leaking? Well, yeah,

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Speaker 3: the roof is leaking. Uh, real bad.

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Speaker 2: We have dirt for a parking lot. We need to

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Speaker 2: do something about that parking lot for the kid. We

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Speaker 2: don't have no playground nothing like that. Only thing we

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Speaker 2: got out there, that goal that that that that church

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Speaker 2: came down and put up there out there. You know

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Speaker 2: that pad, that concrete pad out there. But we have

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Speaker 2: nothing else out there for the children to do, and

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Speaker 2: we'll try to get something done out there. I had

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Speaker 2: tried to get a grab one time from the state

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Speaker 2: to try to put a playground out there, but that

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Speaker 2: didn't happen either, so I let that go.

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Speaker 1: You need doors, roof leaks, you need asphalt, and you

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Speaker 1: need a playground.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: Listen up, everybody. These are our people without a whole

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Speaker 1: lot of means, who have eradicated the need for the

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Speaker 1: foster system in Possum Trot, Texas. If you have ever

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Speaker 1: listened to this show and thought about, well, I can't

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Speaker 1: get involved in this. But I can't get involved in this,

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Speaker 1: but I would like to write y'all come on, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I want you to watch the movie. But it's not

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Speaker 1: like they're making millions off loyalties of a movie. Trust

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Speaker 1: me from Undefeated, I can tell you it doesn't work

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Speaker 1: that way. There's fame and there's fortune. Fames easier. Fortune

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Speaker 1: is pretty fleeting, and it's producers and the people who

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Speaker 1: distribute the movies that make the money. These folks are

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Speaker 1: not getting rich off this thing. They're just telling their

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Speaker 1: story because they won't inspire people to do the right things.

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Speaker 3: They have needs. So I don't think I've.

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Speaker 1: Ever pled with our listeners the way I'm pleading now.

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Speaker 1: Guys reach out to a community, not just Special Martin,

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Speaker 1: but this whole church AND's community who have spent everything

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Speaker 1: they had, their emotional spiritual capital as well as what

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Speaker 1: little money they could pull together to really change then

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Speaker 1: entire area of our country, and they have needs. I

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Speaker 1: hope God blesses you with some help here.

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Speaker 3: I praise God that he would, and I believe he will.

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Speaker 2: I I think that it's in God's hand, and I

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Speaker 2: think that he gonna send them in from the north side,

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Speaker 2: east and west and they're gonna do something. I don't

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Speaker 2: know what, but they're gonna do something. You know, we're

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Speaker 2: a type of people that we're not choosing. We just

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Speaker 2: accept whatever God does. And if you can't do anything,

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Speaker 2: just keep us in prayer.

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Speaker 1: Well, keeping your prayers the easy part, everybody. The movie

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Speaker 1: is a Sound of Hope, the story of Possum Trot

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Speaker 1: from Possum Trot, Texas. It's Angel Studios latest film. You

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Speaker 1: go to angel dot com you can download the movie

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Speaker 1: and watch it Lisa and I watched it a couple

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Speaker 1: of nights ago and Bald Bishop w C. Martin w

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Speaker 1: C stands for w C. He is the pastor of

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Speaker 1: Bennett Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Possum Trot, Texas. He

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Speaker 1: is a country boy, grew up on a farm with

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Speaker 1: no water, no electricity. He is a hardworking man from

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Speaker 1: Houston who spent six years in seminary to become a

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Speaker 1: pastor of little Old Bennett Chapel Missionary Baptist Church and

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Speaker 1: poss and pride. But do not mistake this man for

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Speaker 1: any man's fool. He is also a visionary. He's inspirational,

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Speaker 1: he is loving, he is a father to many, and

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Speaker 1: he's an inspiration to me. Crazy Lord and Bishop Bardon,

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Speaker 1: I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you take

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Speaker 1: the time to join us really for a couple of days.

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Speaker 1: I know you spent time down in Oxford, Misissip. We

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Speaker 1: have Alex yesterday talking to some folks, and I know

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Speaker 1: you're going to leave here and go be part of

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Speaker 1: a lunch with a bunch of clergy here in Memphis,

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Speaker 1: and I hope they will listen to you, because so

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Speaker 1: much of what else is in Memphis could be fixed

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Speaker 1: by what you and your church did. And you're gonna

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Speaker 1: have an audience of a bunch of clergy here in Memphis,

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Speaker 1: and I hope you would you say move them, move

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Speaker 1: them up and out and doing something.

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Speaker 3: Amen, Bishop Martin, thank you so much for God, God

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Speaker 3: bless you. Can I just.

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Speaker 2: Close and prayer. Please, Gracious Father, We thank you so

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Speaker 2: much for you, our God. You are a leader, you

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Speaker 2: have a life, giver of a life sustain on And

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Speaker 2: we can't do anything, Lord God until you anoint us

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Speaker 2: and you prepare us for the task that's set before us.

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Speaker 2: We have a problem here, Lord, and you were calling

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Speaker 2: on us to be the arms and feet of Jesus.

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Speaker 2: The problem is we have hundreds and thousands of children

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Speaker 2: who are in a system that need a home. You said,

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Speaker 2: Lord God, that the harvest is plentiful, but the labors

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Speaker 2: are few. To pray that more labels was come in.

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Speaker 2: And we ask you today the center me in from

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Speaker 2: the north, south, east, and west, fix it here just

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Speaker 2: like you did, Impossum. Try call your people's Lord God

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Speaker 2: to stand in attention, Bring healing and deliverance to our children.

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Speaker 3: To this nation.

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Speaker 2: Bring us on one card that we can carry out

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Speaker 2: your will. We praying our Father that somebody listening will

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Speaker 2: come running. What can I do to help? What can

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Speaker 2: I do and get the mental Lord God, and go

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Speaker 2: out and then bring some deliverance to these children.

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Speaker 3: We thank you, Lord God for this.

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Speaker 2: Establishment here, and we pray Lord God, as they continue

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Speaker 2: to go, you will continue to rouse them higher and

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Speaker 2: higher that they are able to accomplish your will.

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Speaker 3: We thank you, Lord God.

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Speaker 2: And all do we fail to ask, don't fail to

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Speaker 2: give In Jesus name, we pray Amen and thank God.

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Speaker 3: Amen. Now where's the chicken? That's a good question. Thank

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Speaker 3: you for being here.

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Speaker 1: God, biss yourself, and thank you for joining us this week.

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Speaker 1: If Bishop Martin or other guests have inspired you in general,

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Speaker 1: or better yet, to take action by adopting a child,

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Speaker 1: rallying your community to adopt all of its orphans, getting

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Speaker 1: involved with care portal, or something else entirely, please let

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Speaker 1: me know. I'd love to hear about it. You can

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Speaker 1: write me anytime at Bill at Normalfolks dot us, and

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Speaker 1: I promise you I will respond. If you enjoyed this episode,

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Speaker 1: please share it with friends that are on social Subscribe

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Speaker 1: all of these things that will help us grow an

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Speaker 1: army of normal folks. Thanks to our producer, Iron Light Labs.

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Speaker 3: I'm Bill Courtney.

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Speaker 1: I'll see you next week.