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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 Brandon and Ashley Status right after these brief messages

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Speaker 1: from our general sponsors. All Right, so you saddle up.

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Speaker 1: You did the whole cool proposal, you get married, you're

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Speaker 1: living on Ramen noodles, You're paying every extra penny you

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Speaker 1: got toward this debt. And this is when you own

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Speaker 1: your own army of normal folks. Your personal army of

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Speaker 1: normal folks makes a huge play in your life. And

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Speaker 1: today's story, guys, is not about some Mengo or five

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Speaker 1: oh one c three that you founded. The twist of

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Speaker 1: this particular show is you're here to tell us what

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Speaker 1: it's like to receive a blessing from an army of

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Speaker 1: normal folks. I watched a video about it this morning

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Speaker 1: and it's just so sweet, really, So tell me about

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Speaker 1: the day that it was revealed to you that you

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Speaker 1: had an army of normal folks willing to support and

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Speaker 1: love you because they saw the hard work you guys

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Speaker 1: were doing as a young married couple to do things

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Speaker 1: the right way.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we got tricked into thinking we were going out

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Speaker 2: to eat with a friend, which.

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Speaker 1: On forty bucks.

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Speaker 2: Well, he said he was pained because he's like, you

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Speaker 2: never get to eat out and you're eating wrong.

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Speaker 1: What does this friend do for a living.

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Speaker 2: Chris, I guess, Oh yeah, he's in commercial development. Okay,

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Speaker 2: So it's to your point.

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Speaker 1: About one of the ten guys in the house.

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Speaker 2: He was older.

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Speaker 1: He's a little older, all right, but a buddy.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, close buddy.

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Speaker 1: How'd you meet him.

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Speaker 2: Through young life? Yeah, he's he moved to the city.

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Speaker 2: He was a F sixteen pilot in the Air Force.

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Speaker 2: Moved to Austin.

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Speaker 1: That's cool.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he wanted to care for college guys. He

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Speaker 2: got my number. We started caring for college guys together.

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Speaker 2: We became close.

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Speaker 1: Okay. Just a buddy, just a bro, yeah, just just

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Speaker 1: just guys. And he's in commercial development, probably make it

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Speaker 1: a really good living, going on a track that you

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Speaker 1: almost went down in financial whatever. But he loves y'all, yep, okay,

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Speaker 1: And he knows that y'all are saddling up not going

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Speaker 1: out to eat, paying off this dut so that you

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Speaker 1: can one day maybe have a kid or two. And

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Speaker 1: he offers to take you to dinner and spring for it.

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Speaker 1: Because he loves you. Yep, good enough, Yep, friends do friends.

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Speaker 1: That's what that is. That's what that must have felt

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Speaker 1: like to y'all.

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Speaker 2: Right, yeah, for sure, we didn't sniff it out at all.

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Speaker 1: So were you going to ride your bike to dinner?

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Speaker 2: Or he had to pick up? He picks us up

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Speaker 2: and we are going away that I'm like, what restaurant

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Speaker 2: are we going to? She's like, I'm a surprise, y'all

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Speaker 2: for a great restaurant. Take y'all out. We pull up

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Speaker 2: to my old house what was her old house that

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Speaker 2: she lived in before we got married, and he said

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Speaker 2: something like, I got to pick up a shirt from

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Speaker 2: another friend of ours. Totally didn't think.

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Speaker 1: The family that you lived with this was this.

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Speaker 3: So I moved away with the moved from the family's

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Speaker 3: the stack of the ten guys the rack of the

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Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? So you pull up to that to.

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Speaker 3: My old house with all my friends still ye?

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Speaker 1: All right? So what why is he picking up a

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Speaker 2: The worst idea And why didn't we sniff that out?

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Speaker 3: We just because those past didn't necessarily crossed so y'all are.

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Speaker 1: Just blindly in the back happy you're going out to

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Speaker 2: But we don't care.

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Speaker 4: And then he was like, y'all come in with me,

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Speaker 1: Like, hold it, you need to pick a shirt up.

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Speaker 1: Is he married at this point he is not married. Okay,

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Speaker 1: well maybe there was a shirt to come up with,

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Speaker 1: but anyway, it's not made. He's pulling up to a

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Speaker 1: I mean, whatever he says, come on in. You're not

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Speaker 1: as financial advisors. You got to get neck and change shirts.

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Speaker 2: I had no clue. We were down for anything, just

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Speaker 4: Surprise, and we were like, what a surprise?

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's fifty people there, maybe in the backyard

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Speaker 3: I was leading at ut the staff that he was

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Speaker 4: Our community was pretty robust at that point. Everyone was there,

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Speaker 4: Just wasn't there no shirt?

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Speaker 1: But fifty people in the backyard of the house, yep,

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Speaker 1: and you have to be thinking, hold it, it's not

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Speaker 1: Lord's green earth are we doing in the backyard? And

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Speaker 1: does this mean we don't get to go out to eat?

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Speaker 2: Where's the food?

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Speaker 1: Food?

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Speaker 2: Lot thickens because they tell us to sit.

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Speaker 3: Down, and these two rocking chairs in front of the

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Speaker 3: crowd were two rocking chairs, and they're like, sit down.

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Speaker 1: There is a gotta be surreal, right.

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Speaker 4: It was very thin, no clue, no clue. We were like,

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Speaker 2: We have no clue, really honestly true.

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Speaker 4: Zero clue. There was a sound system with the mic, and.

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Speaker 1: There's a sound system in the girl, and then.

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Speaker 3: One after the next people would get up and basically

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Speaker 1: Another doing the husband wife look at each other like

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Speaker 1: what you were communicating with? I was only going, why

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Speaker 1: is this twilight zone happening?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Planning on getting the link winging.

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Speaker 4: Truly, person after person went up like this is what

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Speaker 2: Na. No, I just was like, thank you for saying that,

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Speaker 2: And then the next person, Wow, thank you for saying

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Speaker 1: Think you were going to have to stand up and

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Speaker 4: It was like we don't even know what to think.

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Speaker 1: Right now, even after having watched this video, hearing you

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Speaker 1: And why? I mean, why us?

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Speaker 4: Why are y'all bless Why do y'all feel like y'all

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Speaker 2: And what for?

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Speaker 3: And what for?

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Speaker 1: What are we doing? Totally I would I'm telling you.

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Speaker 1: I know me, I would have been uncomfortable. I've been like,

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Speaker 4: I mean, there were tears. People are telling us like

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Speaker 4: what we mean to them, So there was like.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if one of your boys, if you if

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Speaker 2: you went out into this backyard, your family would be there,

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Speaker 2: your friends would be there, and then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: to me. And when you've done this that meant a lot.

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Speaker 2: You just be like, thank you. I mean, you're just

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Speaker 2: what is going on? Surreal, very surreal, even without the money,

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Speaker 2: Like the money has not been shown yet, the check

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Speaker 1: You don't even know a right, So now you didn't

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Speaker 1: go for it. At the end of all these people

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Speaker 1: having their mutual admiration society conversation about you, you two

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Speaker 1: guys look at each other, going, well, we're not going

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Speaker 1: out to eat now. The shirt was a lie.

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Speaker 2: I'm hungry.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure what's going on in the backyard. The

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Speaker 1: reveal happens, and the reveal is Lucy.

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Speaker 2: She stands up. Lucy's a friend of ours, was also

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Speaker 2: on staff with me in Young Life at ut the

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Speaker 2: Shirt house. She gets on the mic and she says,

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Speaker 2: we wanted a night to bless y'all, but really what

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Speaker 2: we're here for is for the last year, we've seen

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Speaker 2: y'all fight and tooth and nail and grind to pay

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Speaker 2: off your student loan debt and just as much as

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Speaker 2: Jesus has paid the debt of your sins. We want

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Speaker 2: you to know that your debt free tonight. And we're like, what,

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Speaker 2: she goes, we've paid off all of us here have

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Speaker 2: paid off the rest of your debt. And then she

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Speaker 2: kind of notions to someone and they one of those

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Speaker 2: big fat golf checks. Doesn't have an amount, it just

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Speaker 2: cardboard and they put it here and all it says

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Speaker 2: is to Yeah, to Brandon and Ashley's staff, it just says, debt.

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Speaker 4: Free from debt the bank.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I'll start kind of just thinking about It's just like

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Speaker 2: the weight of like I think what we had been

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Speaker 2: doing those days, and you know, the the unseen moments

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Speaker 2: where we're like, Okay, it's November, and let's keep paying,

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Speaker 2: you know, hundreds and thousands of dollars to this debt.

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Speaker 2: Let's get it out. What else can we do? Can

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Speaker 2: we babysit business? What else can Let's just keep going,

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Speaker 2: keep going. You can kind of get that grind. I

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Speaker 2: think that's what they were seeing. The sacrifices and for

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Speaker 2: them to be like it's done, it was so powerful,

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Speaker 2: and they'd all just gassed you up. You'd been juiced up,

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Speaker 2: by just all that, I mean it would have been

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Speaker 2: I blew the thing, but like it would have been

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Speaker 2: a fine, an amazing night without the check. It was

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Speaker 2: who who does that? Who gets to receive that? Who

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Speaker 2: gets to hear that? We long to hear that stuff

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Speaker 2: of like what people really mean, what we really mean

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Speaker 2: to people? And then on top of that, they're just like, hey,

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Speaker 2: it's finished.

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Speaker 1: What did it mean to you? It feels like now

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Speaker 1: you can start talking about children. It feels like now

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Speaker 1: you can start talking about actually exhaling, you can live

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Speaker 1: your young married life together.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because we really couldn't see past.

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Speaker 4: Past that first year. It was like such a head

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Speaker 4: down gazelle like intensity. Dave quoting Dave.

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Speaker 3: That we literally were like, it was such a weight

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Speaker 2: We were like, and they didn't have to do that.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back. How many people do you think

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Speaker 1: this was? Fifty?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, fifty to somewhere between fifty and.

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Speaker 3: Somewhere gave than those specific people, but I think that Okay.

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Speaker 1: The point is, though this is not a five O,

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Speaker 1: But I'm going to read this. Alex sent me that

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Speaker 2: When I used to read that, I always thought, if

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Speaker 1: That's exactly I'm so glad you said that. That's exactly

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Speaker 4: Solve all the problems.

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Speaker 1: that's a lesson of that scripture. I think it's also

443
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Speaker 1: the lesson of the blessings that you guys have received

444
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Speaker 1: and what you've shared with us. So do you teach

445
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 1: that young life?

446
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,440
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they crave it. They crave to be a

447
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 2: part of something like that. You know, Christianity gets kind

448
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:12,480
Speaker 2: of boring if you just dim it down to going

449
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,119
Speaker 2: to church and not sinning. But when you put the

450
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:18,119
Speaker 2: offensive playbook on somebody and go we could bless people

451
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,399
Speaker 2: and love people together and didn't have to be some

452
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Speaker 2: far fetched idea. It's actually that guy.

453
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Speaker 1: We'll be right back. I think there's been a number

454
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Speaker 1: of generations, even more than decades, of Christianity being its

455
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:46,679
Speaker 1: own worst enemy, floating the sales pitch that believe like me,

456
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Speaker 1: or you're doomed to hell. It's not a very hopeful narrative.

457
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Speaker 1: That's not a.

458
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Speaker 4: Very attractive what's up attractive?

459
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Speaker 1: It's not. It's not it's like me or it actually,

460
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 1: in my opinion, almost Illicits paternalism. You know, I know

461
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 1: better than you, and if you think like me, you're good.

462
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:13,040
Speaker 1: If you don't, you're a piece of crap and you're doomed.

463
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Speaker 1: And I think for many years, especially in the American

464
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Speaker 1: and European church, guilt and fear drove the narrative rather

465
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Speaker 1: than hope and love and compassion. What do you think

466
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Speaker 1: about that?

467
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Speaker 2: I agree. I think we have a generation of people

468
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Speaker 2: and I think I kind of grew up in this

469
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Speaker 2: where I just that's what I thought Christianity was about.

470
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Speaker 2: I mean, if you go to church for X amount

471
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Speaker 2: of years and then you and after you come out

472
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Speaker 2: of there, you think, Okay, I just need to be

473
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Speaker 2: really good and try not and sin less. It's like

474
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Speaker 2: that is not the gospel. In fact, even when you

475
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Speaker 2: think about that, the famous verse the tim teebovers of

476
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Speaker 2: John three sixteen, generosity is actually hit the core of it.

477
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Speaker 2: For God's love the world that he gave, so you

478
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 2: can almost it's a great litmus test to be like,

479
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 2: if we are loving, if we are full of love,

480
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Speaker 2: we should see generosity kind of over oozing out of

481
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Speaker 2: our skin. And it's hard. It's hard to do. We

482
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Speaker 2: want to protect ourselves, you know, take care of ourselves.

483
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Speaker 2: But I do think it's about much more than kind

484
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Speaker 2: of what you're talking about. It's people want to be

485
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Speaker 2: a part of that movement of blessing someone. It puts

486
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Speaker 2: skin on all the theory of love your neighbor and

487
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Speaker 2: love the Lord, your God, and all of those kinds

488
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Speaker 2: of things. So to keep it grassroots and to keep it,

489
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Speaker 2: you know, kind of in the alleyways and on the

490
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Speaker 2: front lines. What we would do at ut is we

491
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Speaker 2: just would rally people to spend less time thinking about

492
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Speaker 2: whether they send less or was good and wasn't good,

493
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Speaker 2: and goes to this church and argue about destination whatever.

494
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Speaker 2: It's like, are you loving?

495
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Speaker 1: Oh, it's funny predetermination? Why don't we kill each other?

496
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Speaker 2: I mean it's just like even the smartest people can't

497
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Speaker 2: figure that out. But I think I can love this

498
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 2: other guy. Take him out to lunch and listen to him.

499
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Speaker 1: So, actually, the debt was paid off and you have

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Speaker 1: this kid, and now you're able to be free and

501
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Speaker 1: you're not locked in your apartment. But you have five kids.

502
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Speaker 1: Why don't you explain all that, young lady? Five children?

503
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Speaker 1: How old are they?

504
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Speaker 4: Kids? Three, five, seven, eight, and eleven?

505
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Speaker 1: Are you do? Homes don't have home school?

506
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Speaker 4: Blessed?

507
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Speaker 3: I did homeschool for a year and it just isn't

508
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Speaker 3: for me. For me either trying to teach curriculum and

509
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Speaker 3: being pregnant and taking care of babies, it just didn't work.

510
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Speaker 4: Out for me.

511
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Speaker 3: No, but that was like during pandemic all the things.

512
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Speaker 3: But we feel so blessed.

513
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Speaker 1: We feel Do you work outside the home?

514
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 3: I do photography. I'm a wedding photographer. I am, and

515
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 3: so I'm a home full time, but I do that

516
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Speaker 3: on weekends and nights when I'm not with kids.

517
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Speaker 1: So you've recently changed from Young Life to.

518
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Speaker 2: Search, which is it's like young life, but to adults,

519
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 2: it's a relational ministry. You pursue the kind of the

520
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Speaker 2: furthest out.

521
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Speaker 1: How do you find the candidates everywhere?

522
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 2: They live next to you, you work with them.

523
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Speaker 1: So are you interacting kind of the same way, just

524
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Speaker 1: with a little bit of an older crowd.

525
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's it's much more during the day

526
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Speaker 2: adults when they're home, they're home with their families and whatnot.

527
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Speaker 2: But you essentially rally an army of people to think.

528
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's just it's so basic. It's just like, oh,

529
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Speaker 2: just being like a Christian just to love other people

530
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Speaker 2: and around you. You don't have to go to Taiwan and

531
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Speaker 2: be a missionary to see God move it. Actually open

532
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 2: your eyes and love that one person in your office

533
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Speaker 2: that you're like, I think I have some favor with them,

534
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 2: or I don't and I want to love them more.

535
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Speaker 2: You raise up an army to do that. And then

536
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 2: but it's really you're not going after churched people. You're

537
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 2: going after people. It's like, oh, yeah, I'm convinced, I'll

538
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 2: never ever believe that I would never ever step from

539
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Speaker 2: a church, or I'm out on God for a x

540
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Speaker 2: X number of reasons. Those are the people that we're

541
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Speaker 2: going after and trying to love.

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Speaker 1: I hope when you leave here you'll look up the

543
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Speaker 1: name Craig Strickland. He was a youth pastor at my

544
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Speaker 1: church forty years ago and he started a satellite church

545
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Speaker 1: that met in a restaurant for its first three years

546
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Speaker 1: on Sundays and became what's called Hope Presbyterian Church, which

547
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Speaker 1: is now Hope Church. And what he wanted to start

548
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Speaker 1: was a church for the unchurched, that's what he called it.

549
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Speaker 1: And he went out specifically to start a church for

550
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Speaker 1: people who had no church, who might lead lives that

551
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Speaker 1: were principally what we would say is right in terms

552
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Speaker 1: of the way they treated people, the way they acted

553
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 1: in the world, were honest and fair, decent people, but

554
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Speaker 1: had no faith because he said, those people align with

555
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Speaker 1: the principles and fundamentals of faith, they just don't have

556
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Speaker 1: the faith component, primarily because either they've walked from it

557
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Speaker 1: because of the narrative we discussed earlier, or they've never

558
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Speaker 1: been introduced to it. And he wanted to start a

559
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Speaker 1: church for the unchurched, where people felt comfortable to come

560
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Speaker 1: in and just say, Okay, what is this whole Jesus

561
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 1: thing all about? It is now a massive church. Wow.

562
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Speaker 1: It almost sounds like Search has the same fundamental mission.

563
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Speaker 2: Yeah. What's interesting is I think middle school, high school, college,

564
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Speaker 2: really twelve to twenty two. You have organizations like Young Life,

565
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 2: Campus Crusade, FCA, even your local youth group kind of.

566
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Speaker 2: You even have people like me for fifteen years who

567
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Speaker 2: would pursue those people, care for them, pursue them. Once

568
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 2: you become an adult, I haven't heard of an organiza

569
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 2: like who's you Either go to church or you don't.

570
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 2: You're either forty and your life's going well or it's

571
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Speaker 2: not your community. It's very hard to find community outside

572
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Speaker 2: of that. You're kind of you're just trying to keep up,

573
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 2: like being an adult ain't for the feint at heart,

574
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 2: like it's and so Search is essentially trying to go

575
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Speaker 2: out after those people who are like I'm out and

576
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 2: it's like it's not too late. I think God's love

577
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 2: is always pursuing. So it's been. I've been only in

578
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 2: it five months, but it's been. There is such a need.

579
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Speaker 2: There are thirty year old men forty year old men,

580
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Speaker 2: fifty year old men and women who are like, I

581
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Speaker 2: guess this is it, And it's almost even more needed

582
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Speaker 2: because when you're younger, idealism is at its highest peak.

583
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Speaker 2: So even if you've hit rock bottom, you're like, oh,

584
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 2: my life's still ahead of me. I maybe get married,

585
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 2: make some money, have a family. When you hit forty

586
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 2: and you have hit all of those things, and it's.

587
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Speaker 1: Like and you're still going, eh, yeah, so's satisfied or unsatisfied?

588
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: Satisfied yeah, or have everything that you thought was going

589
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 1: to satisfy you and are still dreadfully unsatisfied. That emptiness

590
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: is uh, I think very common for a lot of people. So, actually,

591
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: you got these kids, you got this family.

592
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Speaker 3: Always wanted a big family, Well you got it. I

593
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:14,959
Speaker 3: like to buck this system a little bit.

594
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Speaker 1: What's it like pushing three kids through Walmart and pregnant

595
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 1: Lisa knows, Oh yeah.

596
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Speaker 4: It's it's a challenge. I have grown to My husband

597
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 4: is not love it.

598
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 3: I'm like he's the air and runner because I'm like

599
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 3: it's a little overwhelming sometimes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So do you remember people looking at you like

601
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Speaker 1: you were completely out of your mind?

602
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 4: Still?

603
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: Still?

604
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 4: Yes? Still when I have to take all five to

605
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 4: the grocery store. They're all yours. No, I just because

606
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 4: I just wanted more time, all yours. Do you know

607
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 4: how babies are made? I'm like I do.

608
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 1: Do you know how this happened? Everybody gets it.

609
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 4: I wanted this, okay.

610
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Speaker 1: I mean we used to know. We had a little

611
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Speaker 1: differentt on it, which we lived in the country when

612
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Speaker 1: we first got married, had all the kids, and I've

613
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: always said, you know, we had four kids in four years.

614
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Speaker 1: But we got on city water and it cleared up,

615
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Speaker 1: so we know, maybe maybe it was.

616
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Speaker 4: Exactly.

617
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Speaker 1: I don't know. So the last little story once you

618
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 1: share is you want a house for this big family.

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Speaker 3: M hmm.

620
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Speaker 1: And that's a lot of money. Yeah, the now payment's tough.

621
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Speaker 4: Yeah.

622
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Speaker 3: We were living in this thing Austin has, it's called

623
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Speaker 3: the Affordable Homes program in this one Newish neighborhood. It

624
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Speaker 3: was close to campus at the time. We had one

625
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Speaker 3: kid moving in there. Basically, you have to have no debt,

626
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Speaker 3: which praise God. That provision. You had to make under

627
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 3: a certain amount and I don't have under a certain

628
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 3: amount of assets, and you can.

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Speaker 1: Well because of your friends qualify. You had no doubt

630
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Speaker 1: and because your job, you certainly were not making too

631
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Speaker 1: much and you, uh, yes, I was.

632
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Speaker 4: And I was to stay home mom. So we were

633
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Speaker 4: on one income.

634
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Speaker 3: So we were in this affordable holmes had another kid,

635
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Speaker 3: had another kid, and.

636
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Speaker 4: I was like, I can't have another kid in this house.

637
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 3: It was how many square feet twelve glorified apartment kind

638
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:21,720
Speaker 3: of and so we were like, okay, let's start looking.

639
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 4: And then we started looking.

640
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Speaker 3: We were very discouraged because Austin Market is a little

641
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 3: Craig Cray and.

642
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:30,240
Speaker 4: It's I know, it's very yeah, it's very expensive.

643
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Speaker 3: So we were like, okay, just like everything else in life,

644
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 3: we're going to like kind of put a request in

645
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 3: front of the Lord, and we're going to write kind

646
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:39,879
Speaker 3: of our wish list of like what we would want

647
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:42,320
Speaker 3: a home, what we feel like we need.

648
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Speaker 1: We we're not talking about a ten thousand mansion here

649
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,280
Speaker 1: with a pool. We're just talking.

650
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Speaker 3: About a house house, yeah, yep. And so we were like, okay,

651
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Speaker 3: I guess we're gonna have to move to Wayco.

652
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 1: Yep.

653
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Speaker 3: That really no, no, no, we but it's just far,

654
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Speaker 3: just far, very far away.

655
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Speaker 4: And so we were we were.

656
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Speaker 3: Like, okay, but here's what we kind of need in

657
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,720
Speaker 3: a house our parents never can visit and stay with us.

658
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 4: We know we want to keep having kids.

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Speaker 3: I wanted sick, dreamt of sick my whole life. But

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Speaker 3: we were at three and so we were like, here's

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Speaker 3: our request. We were looking with some of our best friends.

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Speaker 3: They we found a house that we were like, wow,

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Speaker 3: this would be really amazing, like kind of above what we.

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Speaker 4: Deserve and with how much we make.

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Speaker 3: Our friends bought the house next door the day after

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Speaker 3: the house next door went up for sale. After they closed,

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Speaker 3: and every it was everything we wanted on our list.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back. There comes another crazy story, like

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Speaker 1: all my debt gets paid off same day pregnant, and

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Speaker 1: then our best friends boy the house, and the next

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Speaker 1: day the house next door to them just happens coming on.

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Speaker 4: It was a total god thing. We had been searching

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Speaker 4: for a year ish And.

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Speaker 1: What was the down payment on this thing gonna have

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Speaker 1: to be?

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Speaker 2: I don't even know.

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Speaker 1: Uh one, there's a bunch.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a lot, I mean one ten maybe no,

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Speaker 2: I don't remember. Well, then if you wanted to get

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Speaker 2: rid of PMI or not, and.

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Speaker 4: It was more than you had, more than we had, yes,

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Speaker 4: And so.

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Speaker 3: There is a man who was like, if I know

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Speaker 3: Austin housing, uh, you know is very difficult. So if

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Speaker 3: you find a house that you like, let me know,

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Speaker 3: and if you can't afford it, let me know.

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Speaker 4: Maybe we can figure something out.

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Speaker 3: And so we found a house and we were like, wow,

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Speaker 3: this is like everything on a list, everything we've dreamt of, spacious,

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Speaker 3: all that kind of stuff. And so we were like,

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Speaker 3: I think we should call him and say we really

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Speaker 3: want to go for this.

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Speaker 4: This would be the dream.

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Speaker 1: And I guess you thought maybe he'd loan you a

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Speaker 1: little extra money.

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Speaker 3: Well, initially there were some people that were like, we'd

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Speaker 3: love to maybe co invest in the house.

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Speaker 1: Co invest co invest. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: There were a slew of people that were like, we

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Speaker 2: know you're in ministry, we love what you're doing at

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Speaker 2: ut and young life. How can we keep you here?

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Speaker 2: Essentially like the housing market is going to push you

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Speaker 2: and maybe other people like you away, and we got

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Speaker 2: to keep you here. And they they did have means,

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Speaker 2: but they are very not clear on like how they

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Speaker 2: wanted to do it. Was.

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Speaker 1: It was just like, oh, you find a house, let

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Speaker 1: us know, Yeah, may no clue that, maybe we'll talk

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Speaker 1: to the real.

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Speaker 2: Yes, or you maybe he knows a guy that could

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Speaker 2: no clue, no clue, So we we find it. And

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Speaker 2: but really the the undertow of the whole thing was

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Speaker 2: similar to the to the Debt Journey, which was Ash

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Speaker 2: and I in our home being like, this is our reality,

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Speaker 2: and this is what we're looking at, and there is

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Speaker 2: a delta here. There's a gap, Lord, you know the gap.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's like, Lord, what do we do? This

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Speaker 2: is all that you've given us, and this is what

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Speaker 2: we're looking at and you and here are our desires.

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Speaker 2: And so when all of a sudden that house came

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Speaker 2: up and we told this guy, he said, oh, that's

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Speaker 2: really interesting, blah blah blah, didn't say anything. A week

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Speaker 2: later he said, once it takes me out to lunch

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Speaker 2: and says, hey, so what's the delta? And I was like,

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Speaker 2: seventy grand probably is what we would have to figure

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Speaker 2: out to do. And and no chance is anyone going

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Speaker 2: to give seventy gre who does that? I don't think

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Speaker 2: they're that I mean, they're that that wealthy. But he goes, well,

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Speaker 2: it's not just me that wants to help keep you

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Speaker 2: in Austin and keep you here, you know, these other

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Speaker 2: ten families, we're all going to cover that delta. So

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Speaker 2: let's see if we can go get this house. And

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Speaker 2: it was like, and again, you don't even know if

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Speaker 2: you're going to get it. You gotta put you know,

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Speaker 2: fight all the others and all the It was just like, Lord,

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Speaker 2: what's happening. We live in the house.

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Speaker 1: And that's not your home.

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Speaker 3: It's now our home. And I every day walk around

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Speaker 3: and I'm like, I don't deserve.

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Speaker 4: To be here.

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Speaker 3: And it's an answered it is an answered prayer, it's

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Speaker 3: God's provision.

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Speaker 4: We're just like you own the cattle on a thousand.

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Speaker 2: Hills and the hills too, hills.

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Speaker 1: Once again, kind of normal folks seeing an airy need,

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Speaker 1: appreciating the work you do and stepped up. Not a

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Speaker 1: five oh one c three, not an organization, nothing, just

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Speaker 1: people that had the ability seeing a need and fellow it.

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine that in turn. That's not It's a

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Speaker 1: blessing to them, is what I'm saying. It's probably one

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Speaker 1: of the greatest week days of their month to be

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Speaker 1: able to to do that.

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Speaker 2: For Jesus says something that's very countercultural and very upside

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Speaker 2: down when he says that it's better to give than

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Speaker 2: to receive. And I think what's inverted is, you know,

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Speaker 2: when we helped, you know, give those cars away, when

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Speaker 2: we helped rally for some other people that were in debt.

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Speaker 2: We've been on both ends. It's way more exciting to

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Speaker 2: be on the giving end. It means so it changes

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Speaker 2: your life to be on the receiving end. The joy

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Speaker 2: is on the giving end. The like, the momentum, the feel,

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Speaker 2: the zeal like let's go. And so they we walked

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Speaker 2: away from both that night where we got our debt

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Speaker 2: cleared and when we closed on the house, feeling that

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Speaker 2: humility of like, oh my gosh, how did this happen?

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Speaker 2: Everyone who participated in it walked away with that joy

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Speaker 2: of like, let's do it again. And so I think

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Speaker 2: there's a difference there for sure. But it's been fun

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Speaker 2: to now go, oh, let's be on the giving end,

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Speaker 2: because that's where the action's at.

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Speaker 1: And army and normal folks can change lives in so

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Speaker 1: many different ways, and you don't even have to have

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Speaker 1: an organization to do it. You know, Ashley, I want

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Speaker 1: you to close us this way. Tell the people who

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Speaker 1: are listening to us today in the words of a

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Speaker 1: mom of five, what twenty bucks can really.

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Speaker 3: Do change change your world? It it changed the trajectory

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Speaker 3: of our lives for sure. It allowed us to walk

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Speaker 3: into something that we deeply desired and allowed us to

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Speaker 3: start a family with a new flag in the ground.

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Speaker 3: And it's a blessing to any mom.

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Speaker 1: Without Ashley, those blessings in that help if your husband

783
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Speaker 1: probably would have had to have left the ministry with

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Speaker 1: five children and done something else to make for sure,

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Speaker 1: I'll just wonder if it's dawned on anybody yet that

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Speaker 1: the blessings that were given to you are in turn

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Speaker 1: through the work of your husband given to all of

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Speaker 1: the kids at Young Life over fifteen years that he

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Speaker 1: was able to work with because without those blessings, he

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00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:27,479
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been able to do that work.

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Speaker 3: For sure, I very much feel like we stand on

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Speaker 3: the backs of hundreds. We absolutely do our income, our

793
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 3: whole marriage has been on the backs of community.

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Speaker 1: What does that? What does it make you feel?

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Speaker 4: Thankful? Scene extremely loved and known, known by the father.

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Speaker 3: We feel like in our lives we're like we don't

797
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 3: make as much as mostly all of our friends, but

798
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Speaker 3: we lack nothing because not saying we live this abundant life.

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Speaker 3: But he God knows our needs, he sees, and we're

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Speaker 3: patient enough to go. We submit these to you, Lord,

801
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Speaker 3: and we wait on you.

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Speaker 1: Brandon Nashley, your love affair is so apparent when you

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00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:40,399
Speaker 1: sit across from us with one another. But your love

804
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 1: affair and faith is also amazingly apparent. And I just

805
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 1: gotta believe that's what other people see in you. And

806
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: while they're so eager to continue to support you and

807
00:44:56,080 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 1: your work, and they're so eager to bless you need

808
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Speaker 1: and I think you guys are a beautiful example of

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Speaker 1: what an army of normal folks can do to further

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Speaker 1: support down the road the work that you can do.

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Speaker 1: I'm I wish how how can people watch that video

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Speaker 1: on YouTube? Where do they get that it's generous Giving? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I think it's on generous giving dot org, which is

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Speaker 2: a it's a chalk full of a bunch of.

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Speaker 1: Videos generous giving dot org. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Generous Giving is an organization. It's funded by a foundation

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Speaker 2: and they essentially hosts people. They call it journeys of generosities,

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Speaker 2: like a weekend away or a weekend away where you

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Speaker 2: just talk about money, talk about what would it look

820
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Speaker 2: like to be generous. They're the ones that had generosity. Yeah,

821
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Speaker 2: they had heard about the debt story and they filmed it.

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Speaker 2: They were like, we need to reenact. Doesn't do this.

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Speaker 1: I love it. So anybody wants to see your reactions

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Speaker 1: when you're going in the girl's house for a shirt,

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Speaker 1: which I still can't believe you call that. That's ridiculous,

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Speaker 1: but it's awesome. Yeah, guys, thanks so much coming from Alston.

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Speaker 1: Share the story and thanks for having I hope our

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Speaker 1: listeners will go watch that on YouTube. It's ten minutes.

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Speaker 1: It's worth the watch and the expression on you guys

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Speaker 1: faces is pretty priceless. I loved it. God bless the

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Speaker 1: work you do. Good luck with it. I know you've

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00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 1: been only been in five months, but I gotta believe

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00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:40,239
Speaker 1: you're going to pour yourself into it and be successful

834
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Speaker 1: in it. And what a beautiful, sweet mom you are.

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Speaker 1: And anybody listened to us in the Austin area, if

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Speaker 1: you have a wedding, call this woman. She will absolutely

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Speaker 1: love it. I love I have a website.

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Speaker 4: For just my name, Ashleystathis dot com.

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Speaker 1: You got to spell the last name stat es So

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00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 1: if you're in the Texas area, and you want a

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00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:11,280
Speaker 1: really cute mom and a great couple with five kids

842
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 1: doing great work in Austin who have given and received,

843
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:18,239
Speaker 1: and you want to support her. She can do a

844
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Speaker 1: really good job for your photographs at your wedding and stuff,

845
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 1: right he can. Maybe you get some calls hopefully.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 1: I love it too, guys. Thanks for being here, Thank you,

848
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 1: thank you, and thank you for joining us this week.

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Speaker 1: If Brandon and Ashley Staffus or other guests have inspired

850
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:45,799
Speaker 1: you in general, or better yet, to take action by

851
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 1: catalyzing your own army of normal folks to bless people

852
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 1: in your community, or something else entirely, please let me know.

853
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:57,719
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear about it. You can write me

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00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 1: anytime at Bill at normal Folks dot us, and I

855
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 1: swear to you I will respond. If you enjoyed this episode, guys,

856
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: please share it with friends, share it on social subscribe

857
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:15,799
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Speaker 2: Actually that's not Apple, but well it's okay.

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Speaker 1: Are on Spotify. I'm just gonna keep this in here.

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Speaker 1: It's just kick why I mean, yeah, Well then go

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Speaker 1: on what Apple? Spotify? Go on Spotify? Apple? Can you

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Speaker 1: go on? iHeart I don't know, go on something and

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Speaker 1: actually review the thing and rate it. Puts five stars

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Speaker 1: down there for us if Phil deserves it. Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: Thanks to our producer, Iron Light Labs, I'm Bill Courtney.

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Speaker 1: Until next time, let's do what we can