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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's Bill Courtney with an army of 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 Steve tiber. Right after these brief messages from our

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Speaker 1: general sponsors.

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Speaker 2: We drove back to Tuplo. We did all the registration

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Speaker 2: to become a nonprofit, a religious organization, and in the

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Speaker 2: spring of two thousand and six became legit. People could

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Speaker 2: give money and get a donation. We're the first trip.

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Speaker 2: I hope they didn't declare any of that, because that

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Speaker 2: wasn't the plan. I told everyone, please, now remember we're

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Speaker 2: not a nonprofit, so you know, don't declare this on.

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Speaker 1: Your texcess yet. Now we are.

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Speaker 2: Now we are, and so the ministry was launched. You know,

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Speaker 2: the number eight in the Bible means new beginnings. And

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Speaker 2: for eight days we've now done twenty rebuilt trips all

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Speaker 2: across the country, twenty times for eight days. The largest

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Speaker 2: trip who ever took was to Harvey Houston. We brought

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Speaker 2: in four thousand, six hundred ninety two people.

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Speaker 1: All right, stop, how do you find four thousand, six

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Speaker 1: how did they hear?

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Speaker 2: Well? We started to grow you know you're on Fox News,

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Speaker 2: You're on CNN, the weather channel USATA. That is a

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Speaker 2: big story. You know you're on American Family Radio every week.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, we are for the last six years. You know,

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Speaker 2: Rains every Saturday morning. So word starts skating out and

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Speaker 2: trust is being built. And we were all voluntary organization

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Speaker 2: up till five years ago. More on that in a minute.

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Speaker 2: But we took four six hundred ninety two people to Houston.

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Speaker 2: We fed them and lodge them in thirty two churches.

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Speaker 2: Our feeding bill to feed those volunteers for eight days

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Speaker 1: But check this out.

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Speaker 2: Our budget for that eight days was two point one

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Speaker 1: And even that number, that's probably low to a retail

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Speaker 2: Call sure, well, we hear some of the things that

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Speaker 2: So we did fifteen point one million dollars of work,

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Speaker 2: Fox News caught win and you know, of course Governor

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Speaker 2: I know, but I have seen God show up, you know,

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Speaker 2: You know. We've had now sixty thousand volunteers travel the country.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing. You know. We have two NY seventy one

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is growing. We have four arms, so we

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Speaker 2: I will, I will so thank you. So a rapid response.

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Speaker 1: Just we take better care of our pets than our children.

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Speaker 2: And that was my point. Nothing. I've had a pet

435
00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,359
Speaker 2: for thirty some years because I want to be married

436
00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:35,760
Speaker 2: and I want my kids to love me, because I'm

437
00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:36,879
Speaker 2: not a pet guy. But I've had a bet for

438
00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,200
Speaker 2: thirty three years or thirty five years. When you say

439
00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:42,320
Speaker 2: the six hundred that's in the whole country, like I

440
00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:43,720
Speaker 2: wants experiences in Chicago.

441
00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:45,720
Speaker 1: I was talking to these prostitutes and there was nowhere

442
00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:46,960
Speaker 1: to get them in Chicago.

443
00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:51,119
Speaker 2: So you have Chicago, right, So you have six hundred

444
00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:53,920
Speaker 2: beds across America. And so we start doing our due diligence.

445
00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:57,120
Speaker 2: And so remember at that time we had fifty thousand volunteers.

446
00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:01,800
Speaker 2: Half of our volunteers are skilled contractors, handy men, handy women.

447
00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,000
Speaker 2: Maybe somebody who's never been a contractor, but they know

448
00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,400
Speaker 2: new flooring. They want to paint, they get set a toilet,

449
00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,360
Speaker 2: and I thought, wait a minute. We go somewhere once

450
00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:11,200
Speaker 2: or twice a year for eight days and build things.

451
00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:14,040
Speaker 2: Other times we're just tarp and roofs. All these building

452
00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:17,360
Speaker 2: people that want to build something like my dad. Maybe

453
00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,200
Speaker 2: they're looking for another way to use their gifts. And

454
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,720
Speaker 2: so I did the research. I presented to the board

455
00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:24,000
Speaker 2: and said, hey, I think God's calling us to build

456
00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,720
Speaker 2: safe places for women and children rescue from trafficking. And

457
00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:30,399
Speaker 2: so our first one was in two thousand and eighteen

458
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Speaker 2: or nineteen. It was Elijah Rising in Houston. We helped

459
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Speaker 2: Micah and the team there take two ranches and totally

460
00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,320
Speaker 2: gutted them and renovate them so they can house eight

461
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:44,359
Speaker 2: adult women, including one home that was handicapped accessible, And

462
00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:46,520
Speaker 2: so we did that for them at no charge. Then

463
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:48,920
Speaker 2: we went to the refuge in Austin, Texas. Then we

464
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,080
Speaker 2: went to a place in Tennessee. Then my friend Frank

465
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:55,440
Speaker 2: Reich and Linda, he was coaching the colts. They got it,

466
00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:57,520
Speaker 2: showed them that they were supposed to come alongside children

467
00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:00,359
Speaker 2: rescued from trafficking, not knowing that we were watching a

468
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,720
Speaker 2: new arm. So we renovated a seventeen thousand square building

469
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,080
Speaker 2: for them in Indiapolis. It sits there today. It's called

470
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Speaker 2: Not Today Knot Not Today dot org. So we renovated that.

471
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Speaker 2: We worked with Tim Tebow in.

472
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Speaker 1: Tennessee seventeen thousand. How many people could.

473
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,640
Speaker 2: Then seventeen thousand square feet, So that was a place.

474
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:19,960
Speaker 2: So that wasn't a place they would live. They would

475
00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 2: get counseling. So some of the places we've built people live,

476
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:28,280
Speaker 2: some are counseling. So we worked with Tim Tebow in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

477
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,119
Speaker 2: We did three in Memphis, and we've done so.

478
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Speaker 1: We've done what Tebow doing in chattanoog.

479
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:36,280
Speaker 2: So Tim has a ministry he supports called Her Song,

480
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 2: and Her Song offers a safe place for women, and

481
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:46,280
Speaker 2: so does counseling aftercare, helps them, teaches them, you know,

482
00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,920
Speaker 2: financial responsibility, helps them get their identification back, get the

483
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,240
Speaker 2: counsel and they need. We renovated their facility for free

484
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:52,600
Speaker 2: as well.

485
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:54,360
Speaker 1: So what do you call this fourth arm?

486
00:23:54,520 --> 00:24:01,560
Speaker 2: The Traffics Safehouse Ministry. So we've done now thirteen thirteen projects.

487
00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:06,680
Speaker 2: But the project we just finished just opened six weeks ago.

488
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:12,200
Speaker 2: We built a campus, a campus in Millersburg, Ohio. That's

489
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 2: the city they tell the world, So I'm not sharing

490
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:18,359
Speaker 2: a secret. We built three cottages. Each cottage can house

491
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:22,160
Speaker 2: eight girls. We built an administration building, a medical wing,

492
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:26,480
Speaker 2: We built a school that's accredited, a chapel, and we

493
00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,440
Speaker 2: cleared and did all the infrastructure on thirty acres of

494
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,359
Speaker 2: donated land. It's four and a half million dollars. We

495
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 2: built it for free, and we built it in sixteen weeks.

496
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Speaker 2: Holy sixteen weeks. It's the largest facility in the world

497
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:44,119
Speaker 2: for girls who've been rescued from trafficking between the ages

498
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:48,000
Speaker 2: of fourteen and eighteen. We just finished it. We just

499
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 2: cut the ribbon in June. And as of this moment,

500
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 2: while you're are speaking, three young ladies are there getting

501
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:58,119
Speaker 2: the emotional, physical, spiritual hope they need. They're going to school,

502
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,920
Speaker 2: they're getting the medical care, they're getting the counseling. Their

503
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:05,160
Speaker 2: family is getting free counseling, and all this at no charge.

504
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 2: And so just to be a small part of the

505
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,680
Speaker 2: healing process. I don't know about you, the thought of

506
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 2: a child being trafficked. I'm telling you to us. You

507
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:18,480
Speaker 2: don't have to be a woman or man of faith.

508
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 1: You don't have to be you just have to be human.

509
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:22,920
Speaker 2: I meet people on the plane they say, oh, I

510
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 2: see that logan on your shirt. What do you do?

511
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:27,200
Speaker 2: And when I get to that, they're like, that is disgusting.

512
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:31,119
Speaker 2: The average age of a child trafficked in America is

513
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 2: twelve and a half. Seventeen percent of kids trafficked are

514
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:39,840
Speaker 2: trafficked by a family member. Eighty one percent of kids

515
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:43,200
Speaker 2: trafficked in America. Is not what I thought. Oh, illegal immigrants,

516
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 2: they're American citizens. It's happening everywhere. It's happening in the

517
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:51,879
Speaker 2: malls these it's because of these phones and pornography we

518
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 2: can with you these smartphones. You know, a young lady,

519
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 2: you know, maybe her parents split up, one parent at home.

520
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 2: She's unhappy. She befriends boy from the next town over.

521
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 2: But it's not really a boy, it's a grown man.

522
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,920
Speaker 2: He grooms her, he buys her nice things. They finally meet,

523
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 2: you know, she's the one guy that she can trust.

524
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 2: He tricks her. I mean, it's not like the movie Taken,

525
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:14,159
Speaker 2: but there's a lot of grooming and there's a lot

526
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 2: of games being played. There's black meiling going on. Foster

527
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 2: kids do run away a lot of foster kids on

528
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 2: up in this as well.

529
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 1: We have had a guest, a previous guest who that

530
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 1: is exactly her story. Oh yeah, she had a bad situation.

531
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,560
Speaker 1: She was looking to get out. She found a guy online,

532
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,639
Speaker 1: she was going to go do a job and she

533
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 1: ended up a sex slave. Yeah, and she finally got

534
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:49,439
Speaker 1: out after the cops came twice and ignored her because

535
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 1: the guy just said, oh, she's just a drug addict.

536
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 1: Don't pay any attention to her. You know what she

537
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 1: does now? Very interesting thing is she runs in on

538
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:05,439
Speaker 1: profit because these guys that traffic these girls often brand them. Yes,

539
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 1: they tattooed them, Yeah, with their initials and stuff. We

540
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 1: know about it. She helps girls that have gotten out

541
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 1: of traffick and get their tattoos removed so they do

542
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,479
Speaker 1: have to look in the mirror and be remember minded

543
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: of their trauma.

544
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 2: Yes, so please have your producer send of her information.

545
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,639
Speaker 2: So we we we don't publicize us a lot we

546
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:25,400
Speaker 2: do the same thing.

547
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 1: So we have a gentleman we really need to talk to.

548
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 1: She is phenomenal and she is doing it on her own. Okay,

549
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:41,640
Speaker 1: was cool. She's got a network of like six she's

550
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: got six network of sixty tattooers that donate their time

551
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:53,959
Speaker 1: formally trafficked women remove the fiscal reminder of their trauma.

552
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:55,639
Speaker 1: You know, so you should team up.

553
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have. We have thirteen partners and we have

554
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:01,399
Speaker 2: one organization of Chicago. It's called Ink one eighty, and

555
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 2: we fly him around to our partners and he'll go

556
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,880
Speaker 2: in once a quarter and remove tattoos or do cover ups.

557
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:10,680
Speaker 2: And you know, you don't want a young lady who's

558
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,440
Speaker 2: been rescued, who's gotten her ID back. You know, she's

559
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 2: off of the drugs that the trafficker got are hooked on.

560
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:18,919
Speaker 2: She's turning her life around. She's you know, she can,

561
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 2: she can put her resume together. She's ready to take

562
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:22,880
Speaker 2: a step forward. And then she looks in the mirror

563
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 2: and she sees a number on her neck or she's

564
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 2: a symbol you know, on her upper arm orun on

565
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 2: the upper part of her chest. And so you know,

566
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,119
Speaker 2: to me, that's part of the healing process. And so

567
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 2: we've yeah, we've been doing that pretty much in Stay

568
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,439
Speaker 2: one two. But I'm so Alex what she called thankful

569
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:37,159
Speaker 2: to hear about her.

570
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: Do you remember love It Atlanta Redemption A Yeah, that's right.

571
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, you need to give me her contact information, love

572
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 2: to talk to her.

573
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 1: You would not believe how many times over the course

574
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: of the fifteen months that we have had this show

575
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 1: that we have connected different people. I love it from

576
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 1: different things. That's common interest that end up doing work

577
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 1: together and love it. I really do you reach Yeah, yeah,

578
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 1: so because she's phenomenal. Didn't expect to go there, and

579
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 1: you said it. The thing about her is she does

580
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: this work, but she was that girl. The very story

581
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 1: you told was her story. She sat right here and

582
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 1: told me the story, and I teared up. I couldn't

583
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 1: believe that people could just be used that way.

584
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 2: You know, Drugs you sell and they're used and you

585
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 2: have to go make more or get more to sell

586
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 2: them again. A person you can sell time into over

587
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 2: and over and again. This is the fastest growing crime

588
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 2: in the world five years ago.

589
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 1: Trafficking is it is.

590
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:38,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fast. It's a second behind drugs. It was

591
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty billion dollar year industry. Four years ago.

592
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 2: The latest numbers came out, it's grown to two hundred

593
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 2: and twenty two billion, and so it's a worldwide issue.

594
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 2: It's happening everywhere. If you're listening to this today and

595
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 2: you think you live in the suburb, I live in

596
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 2: a suburb of the city of Buffalo. A lot of

597
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 2: ex Buffalo Bills live there. It's a little nicer community.

598
00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 2: Trafficking happens everywhere. I don't care where you live. And

599
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 2: so we have a brochure on our website at eight

600
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 2: Days of Hope dot com. You can download it's digitals. Yeah,

601
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 2: you no problem. It's eight Days of Hope dot com.

602
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 2: And you just like who we are and you go

603
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 2: to the safe House Ministry digitally. We have a brochure

604
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 2: that you can share with others, but we'll even mal

605
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 2: you free copies if you want to give it to

606
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 2: your family members. But every grandparent and parent needs to

607
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 2: look at this brochure because it will even tell you

608
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 2: some of the apps that traffickers are using that your

609
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 2: kids might have on your phone. There's an app that

610
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 2: looks like a calculator. It's a way to share private

611
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 2: videos with people. There's so much going on through these smartphones,

612
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 2: you know. And I love what you said before we

613
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 2: got in the air. Maybe said it very in the beginning.

614
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 2: You know, I want to be I want to be

615
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 2: a great parent. I want to be a friend, but

616
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 2: I need to be a parent more than I'm a

617
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 2: friend of my kids. And I've always told my kids.

618
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 2: Even now, I've got a freshman in college, I pay

619
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 2: for her phone. She's nineteen, very responsible, great kid. But

620
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 2: there's times that we'll sit down and we'll just talk

621
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 2: about what's on our phone and how she's using it.

622
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 2: And we live in a different world than maybe when

623
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 2: you and I grew up, and we have to protect

624
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 2: our kids.

625
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:07,479
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something we talked earlier about how

626
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 1: you and I grew up. We would go out and

627
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 1: play kickball. When the sun started coming down. The mothers

628
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 1: would stand on the porch scream your name, You run

629
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:15,959
Speaker 1: home for dinner? Right?

630
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 2: Sure?

631
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: What would your mother have done if while your kids

632
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: were out playing hide and go seek in the front

633
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 1: lawns and those moms would always walk by the door

634
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: of the window and just peek out they kept watch. Sure,

635
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: what if a guy pulled up amongst you kids in

636
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: a white van and got out of the van and

637
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: walked over and tried to coerce one of those children

638
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: in the van? Would she sit in the house and

639
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: watch TV?

640
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, if there's any baseball bats laying around,

641
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 2: maybe in somebody's hands. Secondly, the neighborhood, you took care

642
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 2: of each other and you were aware of each other.

643
00:31:58,520 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 2: We live in a different world.

644
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 1: Well that's exactly what any mother would have done. But

645
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: here's the thing that's happening every day virtually now, and

646
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: we sit on the couch and ignore it. It's a

647
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 1: good point. By not looking at what's going on in

648
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 1: your kid's phone, by not looking what's going on on

649
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: those game consoles, yeah, absolutely, By not looking at anything

650
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: that some creep can contact your kid, you are virtually

651
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 1: and in effect doing what a nineteen seventies an eighty

652
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 1: mother would have done. If if a creep rolled up

653
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: in a white rape van, right and you saw kids

654
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: walk up to it, would you have gotten off the

655
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 1: couch and done something? Just sit there and like that? Yeah?

656
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 2: Right.

657
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 1: We are doing that today by not minding our children's stuff.

658
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 2: That's our responsibility. I mean you you know, before we

659
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 2: start recording, you know, we were talking about raising our

660
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 2: kids and you said, you know, I'm not here to

661
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 2: be their friend. I mean you're not. You're the parent,

662
00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:00,120
Speaker 2: be the parent. I get it. You're not, and I

663
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 2: could always be welcomed with open arms. But that's okay.

664
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 2: Sometimes parentsing's tough. But their minds haven't fully developed, and

665
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 2: they think one way and they think, you know, and

666
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 2: that's what's the problem is that's why these crimes are

667
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 2: out of control. The pornography is going through the roof.

668
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 2: It's a valuable everywhere and these kids they stumble on it,

669
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 2: they hit a link thinking it's one thing and it's not,

670
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 2: and it just sucks them right in and it starts

671
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 2: to develop their minds.

672
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 1: It doesn't make the kid bad because I'm telling you,

673
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: I'm thinking back when I was thirteen years old. If

674
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: a nicked picture rolled across in front of me, I'm

675
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 1: googling at it. Well, I'm a thirteen fourteen year old boy,

676
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: of course.

677
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 2: And probably showing it to the other boys in the

678
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 2: neighborhood too. They've just done to covered something kids.

679
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: So what we have to do is not expect our

680
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: kids to run from something that they're not going to

681
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 1: run from. We have to protect them from it ourselves.

682
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 1: And that is where you end up with a need

683
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 1: for a place called safe house ministries because people get

684
00:33:58,720 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 1: baled up in it, you know.

685
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 2: I've done thirteen. We've got number fourteen on the docket

686
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 2: for next month in Texas. We're looking at a campus

687
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 2: right now in upstate New York to maybe offer a

688
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 2: care to women who've graduated programs. They've gone through the healing,

689
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 2: their life is moving forward, but they don't even any cash,

690
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 2: you don't have a car, and we want to give

691
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 2: them a chance to maybe relaunch their journey. So you know,

692
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:20,720
Speaker 2: I still think there's a lot more coming around the corner.

693
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 2: I love where the ministry's at today. I'm blown away

694
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 2: that God allows me to be a part of it.

695
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 2: I always introduce myself as one of two hundred and

696
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,439
Speaker 2: seventy one leaders because I'm so thankful that so many

697
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 2: people are passionate about serving those in need. And it's contagious.

698
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, if you ever come on one of

699
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 2: our trips, it's free. We provide the food and lodging.

700
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:41,359
Speaker 2: We'll pick up at the airport. We have all the tools.

701
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:43,760
Speaker 2: You don't have to have any skill sets on rapid

702
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 2: response events. You do need to be sixteen and older,

703
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 2: but everything else any age, and we have kids and families. Come,

704
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,919
Speaker 2: but you're gonna leave exhausted, but your heart's gonna be full,

705
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 2: and you will never forget those families you met. I

706
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 2: mean never, They'll be lifelong friends. Because if a stranger

707
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 2: shows up your door and says, I'm here to help

708
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 2: you fix your house and leaves eight days later, and

709
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:06,439
Speaker 2: you look around and get brand new cabinets, a brand

710
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 2: new roof, it has been painted. And those guys were

711
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 2: from Oklahoma, Mississippi, New York. Those guys from New Jersey.

712
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,320
Speaker 2: I couldn't understand them, but they were nice too. And

713
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:18,280
Speaker 2: everyone gets change in that process.

714
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: And I guarantee you nobody cares how anybody votes. That's

715
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 1: come on, you know, I am breaks all that down.

716
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. So I've said it twice, I'll

717
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 1: say it with ten thousand and three and Family Serve

718
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:47,880
Speaker 1: fourteen nine hundred eighty meals served, fifty one twenty some volunteers,

719
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 1: and eight three twenty eight million dollars work and growing.

720
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 2: You have to have.

721
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: I don't think there's such a thing as a favorite

722
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 1: with the scope of work you've done, but you have to.

723
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 1: I want our I want our listeners to hear just

724
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 1: a story, Oh my gosh, you know, just one that's

725
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: gonna let him really understand the depth on a personal level.

726
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 2: Let me do two real quick ones because I know,

727
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 2: you know, I want to be a sense of a time.

728
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 2: We were, We were, We were Base Saint Louis, Mississippi.

729
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 2: Miss anime.

730
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,359
Speaker 1: Anime, anime anime from Bay Saint Louis.

731
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, eighty four years young and her sister the Katrina.

732
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 2: The water came in so fast. She lived in a ranch,

733
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 2: and her son came across the street, took a knife

734
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 2: and start cutting through the drywall to try to get

735
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 2: his mom and his aunt up in the rafters.

736
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, and there was using a knife to cut

737
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:46,840
Speaker 1: the drywall. So he just lift her up so they

738
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 1: could just get above the water.

739
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:52,359
Speaker 2: Yes, hoping that it was high enough. He couldn't get

740
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,760
Speaker 2: to his aunt. He got his mom up in the rafters,

741
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 2: he stayed in the rafters. Eight feet of water came

742
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 2: in a couple hours, eight feet of water went out.

743
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 2: He lost his aunt, she lost her sister. They lived together.

744
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:07,720
Speaker 2: She had no insurance, didn't have any flood insurance. Eighty

745
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:12,759
Speaker 2: four a widow, one son lived across the street. His

746
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:16,280
Speaker 2: house of course totally destroyed as well. And then strangers

747
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 2: showed up and a bunch of college girls from Michigan

748
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 2: came down and.

749
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:26,320
Speaker 1: They had a college girls from Michigan, so they were part.

750
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 2: Of the six hundred and eighty four. They were going

751
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 2: to go skiing in Colorado for the winter trip, but

752
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 2: they said this year, let's do something for somebody else.

753
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 1: Are you kidding?

754
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 2: Oh?

755
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:35,879
Speaker 1: No, college kids.

756
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, So they came down. They said, Steve, we're not

757
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 2: very good. We think we can paint, but we're not

758
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 2: very good. We don't know why we're here. By the

759
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 2: eighth day, Miss Anime had a brand new house. And

760
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 2: to this day now Miss Anime's been gone now for

761
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 2: a couple of years, but to this day, those college

762
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:54,720
Speaker 2: girls will send me a thank you note for allowing

763
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 2: them to be on a trip that has changed your

764
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,919
Speaker 2: life forever. Some of them are married, they have kids.

765
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,760
Speaker 2: Some of them have traveled with us with their family

766
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,439
Speaker 2: since then. Their life was changed because they met Miss

767
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 2: Anime and Miss Anime eighty four young. She just fell

768
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 2: in love with these strangers. They became part of her family.

769
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 2: I think a couple years later, a couple of them

770
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 2: came down on spring break and you know, they hung

771
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,320
Speaker 2: out for a day with her and just it was

772
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 2: really neat on how strangers came together to do something

773
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 2: just so much bigger that what one person can do.

774
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 2: So miss Anime and this other story is our trafficking air.

775
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,479
Speaker 2: And I'll be careful here. But I met a lady

776
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 2: and she said, thank you, thank you for building this

777
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 2: a facility. She was, I have somewhere I can live now.

778
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 2: And when you work on these things, we are taught

779
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,959
Speaker 2: as men. We don't talk to the women. We don't

780
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 2: like not look at you know. Look, we are very respectful.

781
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 2: If they come and talk to you, you can have

782
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 2: a conversation. But right right, and there's always leadership there

783
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 2: for both organizations. But she said, mister Steves, she said,

784
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 2: you just gave me a brand new bedroom. I have

785
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 2: my own bathroom, I have a kitchen. I love to

786
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:12,320
Speaker 2: make food. And she says, you don't know this, but literally,

787
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 2: for three years I was chained to a bed and

788
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 2: every night the door knob would turn multiple times, and

789
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 2: I knew what was happening was about to happen, and

790
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,320
Speaker 2: I couldn't do anything. And she said, you know, I

791
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 2: would take myself out of my body, and she said,

792
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 2: I often wondered what it would be like to be

793
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:37,359
Speaker 2: in a bedroom and be able to shut the door

794
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,399
Speaker 2: and sleep through the night. And I'd hear that door

795
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:46,319
Speaker 2: turn and she's with tears, and I'm a tears She says,

796
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:48,359
Speaker 2: I don't know you, you're just meeting me. I might

797
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 2: never see you again, but just know that you and

798
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 2: your organization just change the rest of my life and

799
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 2: my kids' lives and their kids lives. Because what you

800
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 2: just did is you showed me that you can trust people,

801
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 2: and there are good people in the world, and that

802
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 2: not every man is looking for something from every female.

803
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:12,959
Speaker 2: And it made trafficking real to me because she showed

804
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 2: me your wrist. She had a scar from where she

805
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 2: was hand coming. And we're talking in America. This happens

806
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 2: in America. And so maybe you're listening today, man, come

807
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 2: join us. Maybe you're an electrician, you're a plumber. Maybe

808
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 2: you're a handy woman. You're really good with your hands right.

809
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 2: Maybe you've never been a contractor, but you're not how

810
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 2: a new flooring, or maybe know a little bit about plumbing,

811
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 2: or maybe you could change out a fan and change

812
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 2: out some outlets. Man, go to the website eight Days

813
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 2: of Hope dot com submit your email address. Come join

814
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 2: us and use your gifts and see what happens. You're

815
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:52,840
Speaker 2: gonna meet people like some of these people I described.

816
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 2: You'll never forget that. My kids have met people they'll

817
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:59,760
Speaker 2: never forget. And we're a better family.

818
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:03,320
Speaker 1: For Steve.

819
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 2: It is.

820
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:10,399
Speaker 1: I could sit and hear these stories over and over

821
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: and over again, because not only is the organization itself

822
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:19,840
Speaker 1: born of a normal guy, your dad calling you and

823
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: you getting together and doing something.

824
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 2: Wait, color guy, you know, helping rebuild ten thousand homes?

825
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 1: How does that work? Does that work? It's also the

826
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 1: story though a fifty seven normal folks who are just

827
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: volunteering their time and making things better. And if you

828
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:45,760
Speaker 1: took fifty five, how many people fit in Buffalo football Stadium?

829
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, about sixty thousand.

830
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:52,359
Speaker 1: If you took those sixty thousand screaming fans, I bet

831
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: we could get us nine or ten categories. I bet

832
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 1: there'd be some gay folks in there. There'd be some Jews,

833
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:03,839
Speaker 1: some Agnostics, maybe a couple of Muslims, some Christians. Sure,

834
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 1: there'd be some black folks and some white folks, and

835
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 1: some Asians, some Hispanic we could easily get. We could

836
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 1: take that stadium. I bet we get us fifteen different

837
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 1: categories easy that our contemporary world says, you know, you

838
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 1: guys just really don't need to get along because the

839
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:25,279
Speaker 1: way you think invots you feel and look and love. Sure,

840
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 1: So I think about these fifty twenty seven volunteers that

841
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 1: are about enough to fill up Buffalo States. Yeah, I

842
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 1: bet if we mix them, if we unmix them in

843
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 1: the categories, the world would tell us that these folks

844
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:41,720
Speaker 1: shouldn't be working together.

845
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 2: Do you know what's interesting is some of these volunteers

846
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 2: we have a missionary program. Thirty of these people have

847
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:52,359
Speaker 2: of those numbers, have sold their homes, bought our v's

848
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 2: and wherever we.

849
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 1: Go, they go with us.

850
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:57,480
Speaker 2: There that is phenomenal, fifty two weeks a year, NonStop.

851
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 2: I mean right now, twelve of them are in Pennsylvania,

852
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:02,880
Speaker 2: and six are down in two Plow and two are

853
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 2: in Ohio and and you know summer in Iowa, our

854
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:10,360
Speaker 2: Midwest satellite. You know, January, I made a commitment at

855
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 2: that altar. I'm not perfect, I'm tempted like everybody else. Man,

856
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 2: I blow it sometimes, but I made a promise that

857
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 2: I would serve him to the day I die. He

858
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 2: rescued me I'm telling you, man, I was done. My

859
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 2: life was over. I didn't want to live anymore. But

860
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 2: he met me at my lowest point and all I

861
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 2: had to do laying in my back, just lifted my

862
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 2: arms and he picked me up and Steven Charmaine forty

863
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:43,320
Speaker 2: years later were still together and five kids, and he

864
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 2: allows me to be a part of something way bigger.

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Speaker 2: I'm not this smart, but I get it. There's got

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Speaker 2: to be a founder, and there's got to be a board,

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Speaker 2: and there's got to be this and that. I'm one

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Speaker 2: of fifty five thousand people, but I am one, and

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Speaker 2: until the day I die, I'm gonna do all like

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Speaker 2: cand to see where I can bring any of the

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00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 2: gifts that he's busted me with top this organization and

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Speaker 2: continue to grow to help people in need, because that's

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Speaker 2: what this country needs right now.

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Speaker 1: Folks, we've talked about an army of normal folks for

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Speaker 1: fourteen months. Steve has built it. Fifty and twenty seven

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Speaker 1: normal folks and army of them changing lives with a

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Speaker 1: rapid response, chasing lives, rebuilding homes, chasing changing lives with

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Speaker 1: mass feeding, and changing lives now with safe house ministries,

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00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 1: all born from just a person with a passion and

880
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:39,360
Speaker 1: a discipline seeing a need and want to fill it

881
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: and look what comes from that work. And I will

882
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: bet you, Steve, you will say what every guest has

883
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:50,759
Speaker 1: is that as amazing as all of this is, your

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00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: life has been enriched fifty times more than anybody you've

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Speaker 1: touched so far.

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Speaker 2: Dude. Meeting these people that you serve is priceless. You

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00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 2: don't forget, and I'm a better person for it. It

888
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Speaker 2: also makes you much more grateful for some of the

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00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 2: challenges that you go through that sometimes maybe not you,

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00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 2: but you're tempted selfishly to think, oh, my power's out

891
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 2: for twenty minutes, or I got another flat tire, or

892
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 2: my tooth has given me a problem. People lose loved

893
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:23,840
Speaker 2: ones and disasters. People lose their homes, They lose their businesses,

894
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 2: their parks, their memories, their keepsakes. Sometimes just because they

895
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 2: live in a certain part of the country and they're

896
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 2: living there on that day, no fault of their own,

897
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 2: their life gets turned upside down again. If you're listening today,

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Speaker 2: I'd love to invite you to come to eight Days

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Speaker 2: of Hope. Go to eight Days Hoope dot com. Come

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00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 2: hang out with us, bring your family. We have two

901
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 2: rebuilding trips a year. All families are included. Maybe you're

902
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 2: a handyman handywoman, join us as well. I was asking

903
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 2: people to pray for the ministry, pray for me. You know,

904
00:45:56,640 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 2: what we do is hard sometimes, but we're up to it.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of people that listen and end up

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Speaker 1: joining up. But there's other people that have five O

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Speaker 1: one C three's that they see synergies. If somebody wants

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00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 1: to get in touch with you.

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00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, email me. I'll go ahead and just give out

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00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 2: my email address. It's Steve just like it sounds st

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Speaker 2: e ve E. My last name is Tiber, so it's

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00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 2: Steve t At and you have to spell it out

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00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 2: eight days plural eight days of Hope dot com. Steve

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Speaker 2: t At eightis Hope dot com. Infot eightays Hope dot

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Speaker 2: com as well. They'll forward that to me. But if

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Speaker 2: you have any questions, any thoughts, you know, we we

917
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Speaker 2: didn't cover this, but you know, being a business guy,

918
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Speaker 2: we have nineteen partners and they fund all of our

919
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:44,880
Speaker 2: fixed cost every year. And so from banks and large

920
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 2: churches and auto dealers, publicly traded banks, businesses around the country,

921
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 2: they cover, so when you donate, one hundred percent is

922
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 2: passed through. So maybe your business you want to learn

923
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:56,720
Speaker 2: more about that. All of them are on our website

924
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 2: as well. But thanks for having me today. Man. I'm

925
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 2: so that the three trips, the three plane rides wasn't

926
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Speaker 2: meant to be, but it was meant to be that

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Speaker 2: you and I would hang out today. So I'm glad

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Speaker 2: we could do this.

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate you sticking with it and getting here.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you spend the time and telling your story,

931
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Speaker 1: and my friend, it is an absolute inspiration and candidly,

932
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:22,800
Speaker 1: it is an absolute It is a real story that

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Speaker 1: is metaphorically exactly what we talk about and army and

934
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Speaker 1: normal folks can change this country and can change lives,

935
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Speaker 1: and dude, you were heading up an organization doing just that.

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Speaker 1: And I can't tell you how much I appreciate you

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Speaker 1: sharing your story.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, thanks for having me, and invite me

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Speaker 2: again down the road. Maybe there'll be another armor that

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Speaker 2: we'll share about, because yeah, you know, there's a lot

941
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Speaker 2: of people that want to use their gifts and we

942
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Speaker 2: can continue to expand the ministry. We're open to that

943
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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 1: Amen. Thank you brother, and thank you for joining us

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Speaker 1: this week. If Steve Tiber or other guests have inspired

946
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:07,320
Speaker 1: you in general, or better yet, have inspired you to

947
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 1: take action by volunteering with or donating to Eight Days

948
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Speaker 1: of Hope. They're responding to hurricanes Helene and Milton right

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Speaker 1: now as I'm recording this and speaking to you. They're

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00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 1: there right now. So if you're inspired, donate, become involved,

951
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:31,400
Speaker 1: or if you're into something else entirely, please let me know.

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00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear about it. You can write me

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00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 1: anytime at Bill at normalfolks dot us, and I swear

954
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 1: to you I will respond. If you enjoyed this episode,

955
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 1: share it with friends and on social subscribe to the podcast,

956
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 1: rate it, review it, join the Army at normalfolks dot us,

957
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 1: consider becoming a Premium member there. Any and all of

958
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 1: these things will help us grow an army of normal folks.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to our producer, iron Light Labs and Army member

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00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:06,839
Speaker 1: Laurie Wiss, who told us about Eight Days I Hope.

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Speaker 1: I'm Bill Courtney. I'll see you next week.