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Speaker 1: Hey guys, it's spilled 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 Paul and Carry Moore. Right after these brief messages

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Speaker 1: from our Genner sponsors.

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Speaker 2: So so Can and I where the co presence our

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Speaker 2: chapter with Tommy. They had asked us because our chapter

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Speaker 2: has grown fairly big. Now we're ruled, so we cover

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Speaker 2: a very large geographical area in.

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Speaker 3: Nine nine counties and seventy two.

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Speaker 2: ZIP, so we cover a large area. So we split

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Speaker 2: our delivery. It's one chapter, but we split our delivery areas.

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Speaker 4: Up into two groups. So Can and I head up.

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Speaker 2: You know, I guess it would be the South region

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Speaker 2: of our chapter, and they handle the North region, and

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Speaker 2: so we get to go. When I got to go

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Speaker 2: out with them the first time, and I met this

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Speaker 2: little kid, Like I said, it was just something.

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Speaker 1: I was prepared for.

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Speaker 2: And I'm just I'm not. I just feel something grab

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Speaker 2: my hand and you look down. There's just a little kid.

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Speaker 2: You just have to picture you standing there, little kid

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Speaker 2: just looking up and all his innocence and sincerity and

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Speaker 2: just just tells you thank you for my bead, and

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Speaker 2: he grabs your hand and he's just looking at you

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Speaker 2: in the eyes says thank you.

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Speaker 1: For my bed.

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Speaker 2: I was done, So I was done. I was just like,

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Speaker 2: this is this is a feeling. You know, people, I

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Speaker 2: think I was speaking earlier. People say, you know, we're volunteers.

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Speaker 2: We don't get paid. We do get paid. We get

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Speaker 2: paid more than anything that money could ever buy. Just

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Speaker 2: the gratitude and the sincerity of the children, and most

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Speaker 2: of the time the parents h and again getting into

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Speaker 2: the parents is some parents and tell I tell our team,

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Speaker 2: we huddle every time we meet. We'll have we got

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Speaker 2: up to fifty volunteers pretty much in our delivery area

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Speaker 2: that meet every Tuesday and every Thursday deliver beds, and

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Speaker 2: we always try to do a quick devotional and just

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Speaker 2: a little inspirational, little encouragement. I always tell our volunteers, look,

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Speaker 2: when you go out there, first of all, I said,

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Speaker 2: while you're there. I said, but here's the thing. These

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Speaker 2: kids when you get there, and they may forget what

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Speaker 2: your name is. After you leave, they may forget some

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Speaker 2: of the things that you talked about about the bed

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Speaker 2: and you know, going over what you do and why

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Speaker 2: never ever forget is the way you made them feel while.

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Speaker 1: You was there.

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Speaker 2: They will always remember that. And we want to leave

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Speaker 2: there with that kid, planting the seed in that kid's

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Speaker 2: do care about them and they're not alone and there's hope.

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Speaker 2: You just got to really just be open to receiving

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Speaker 2: it sometimes. And I know I heard on when a

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Speaker 2: back to what I said earlier. You don't you've never

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Speaker 2: walked in their shoes. They're that way for a reason,

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Speaker 2: and we don't know that reason. You better just be

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Speaker 2: just try to show them loving and the mercy and

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Speaker 2: We try to show it to them.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna say this. I know this isn't you know.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't hear about the preaching, but but there's one

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Speaker 2: for us where we were yet sinners, so we wasn't

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Speaker 4: Go above and beyond to help them. I can't do that.

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Speaker 2: Christ didn't make me clean myself up before he was

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Speaker 3: See a lot time. I mean, when we go into

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Speaker 3: Back and she didn't even think she was going to

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Speaker 3: So but the little girl, you know, she was being

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Speaker 3: And it's because that beds to sleep it. So we

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Speaker 3: walk into homestead are horrible conditions. There was a delivery

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Speaker 3: where they said they turned the room that looked like

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Speaker 3: The very first delivery I went.

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Speaker 1: On with us, That's what I was going to ask,

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Speaker 1: I want to hear your first the very.

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Speaker 3: First one we went on that I went on and

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Speaker 3: Paul kept telling me, you just wait till you see this.

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Speaker 3: here we go, my heart. So we get these beds

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Speaker 3: It's my bed, it's my bed. And then we had

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Speaker 3: I mean, it melted my heart to know that all

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Speaker 3: Some of them were laying in a recliner, the couch,

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Speaker 1: And that was an twenty twenty one, yes.

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Speaker 2: I had been going a little while before that, but

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Speaker 1: So since that, first of all, don't you like construct

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Speaker 2: Oh, we call build days. We have build days. We

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Speaker 2: do generally about two a month. Sometimes if the needs

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Speaker 2: there would do three a month. But we're build anywhere

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Speaker 2: from sixty to one hundred beds every build day. And

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Speaker 2: do a minimum of sixty beds. Our chapter, So.

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Speaker 1: Where do you get? First of all, when we say beds,

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Speaker 1: you've got the structure, yep. But then you also have

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Speaker 1: linens of mattress, pillows, all that is that all part.

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Speaker 4: Of the do a part of it.

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Speaker 1: So when this kid gets a bed, they're getting every maid. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I'll tell the parents because they asked those questions all

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Speaker 2: the time. I said, when we leave, all you gotta

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Speaker 3: He said that.

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Speaker 3: He called a lady one time and she said, do

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Speaker 3: I need to do anything And he said no, ma'am.

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Speaker 3: All you have to do is provide the child. And

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Speaker 1: So where does the how? That's money?

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Speaker 2: It's money and the community. We are a praying chapter.

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Speaker 2: And again I'm speaking from the heart.

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Speaker 4: I'm not censored.

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Speaker 2: So uh, you know, I'm not sure I always want

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Speaker 2: to be in a line of such a great thing

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Speaker 2: that sleeping heavenly peace is unless I never want to

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Speaker 2: overstep these boundaries. But I'm gonna tell you, for us,

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Speaker 2: we're a praying chapter. Uh, God has really blessed us.

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Speaker 2: Our chapter is financially strong. We don't have problems with

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Speaker 2: any funds needed to to build these beds. Everywhere, we

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Speaker 2: wanted to build one hundred and.

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Speaker 3: It was like one hundred and ten because they were

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Speaker 2: One hundred and tenth anniversary. So they want to build

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Speaker 2: one hundred and ten beds. So that's one hundred and

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Speaker 2: ten beds. So if you look at the costs, that's

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Speaker 2: because it's just it takes us worse set up. We

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Speaker 1: How could it.

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Speaker 3: On the Lows land, Yes, we love loads even besides that,

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Speaker 2: So the funds that that's donated from the from the churches,

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Speaker 4: The hard work on mattresses.

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Speaker 2: We have our funds for our chapter and then we'll

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Speaker 2: But they warehouse and get all a light, all this

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Speaker 2: So the mattresses actually have a little banner that goes

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Speaker 3: And they're Inner Spring mattresses. They're really they're very nice mattresses.

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Speaker 3: They're in a box. So I like the kid with

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Speaker 3: Do you think you can fit on it? Because it's

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's crazy.

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Speaker 3: They always look at it like that's the mattress. But

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back. How many in the last three

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Speaker 2: So for our we got specific numbers. We keep up

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Speaker 4: So we keep everything to a t our.

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Speaker 3: Hold chapter, including the Gadsden delivery teams. Plus us has

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Speaker 3: delivered four thousand, three hundred and sixty nine beds and

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Speaker 3: twenty nineteen. Since twenty nineteen, four three and sixty nine

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Speaker 3: six hundred and fifty six beds.

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Speaker 1: That's un believable one that you've made that many. But

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Speaker 1: You just told me.

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Speaker 2: So the biggest thing is is that's what That was

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's my fault. I mean he did. He's like,

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Speaker 2: Like, you'll see. But the thing I didn't think through

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Speaker 2: is there's turnover. You know, three to seventeen, that's who

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Speaker 2: growing out of those beds too, But those beds don't

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Speaker 2: come back to us. We that's theirs forever. That's that

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Speaker 2: child's bed. They choose to donate and somebody else whatever

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Speaker 2: they want to do. If they don't need any more,

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Speaker 2: that's up to them. But there's just always that turnover

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Speaker 2: ending thing. It's just always there's always gonna be kids

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Speaker 2: in these beds, just like there's always gonna be kids

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Speaker 1: And we're not talking about Memphis or Birmingham or Phoenix

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Speaker 1: where there's millions of people. We're talking about a population

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually had the populations for all of them

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Speaker 2: it's probably a tip one hundred thousand for our our whole.

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Speaker 1: Area or so if there's that need there, what kind

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Speaker 2: So I had I think it was Tommy our Tommy Goodman,

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Speaker 2: like us, we're liable to travel an hour to deliver

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Speaker 1: Remote seven counties or whatever you say, in.

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Speaker 2: Nine counties, so we may travel over an hour. We

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Speaker 2: traveled about an hour and ten minutes to one a

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Speaker 1: And still never run out of need.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that need is so great because you got

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Speaker 1: I guarantee you in this town you could sun up,

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Speaker 3: When are you going to start a chapter?

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Speaker 4: Well, he's doing his part.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm trying to find somebody on this thing that

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Speaker 3: That's awesome. So we deal with a lot of poverty

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Speaker 3: stricken areas. Do you want to share the first time

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, we have our areas, just like every city

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Speaker 2: Actually, at one time we're Oxford and Anniston, Alabama argist together.

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Speaker 2: You never know when you're in one out the other.

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Speaker 2: The line's kind of crazy. You could be in Oxford,

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Speaker 2: pass into Aniston, and be right back into Oxford. But

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Speaker 2: areas that all my lives like, you stay away from

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Speaker 2: that area. You stay away from that area.

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Speaker 4: Don't go over there.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's just and Aniston at one time, you

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Speaker 2: don't want to have the fly car, Yes, exactly, and

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Speaker 2: West Aniston at one time it actually was one of

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Speaker 1: Uh her capita.

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Speaker 2: And but anyway, there's there's a couple of apartments.

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Speaker 4: I'm not going to.

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Speaker 2: Call out the apartments because I don't want anybody that

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Speaker 2: But we were stole. You know, well you have to

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Speaker 2: And so first time I went, it was me, Carrie

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Speaker 4: So I don't. I can't find the apartment.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, say, this is one, two, three, four.

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Speaker 2: I'm just using it.

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Speaker 4: For I'm looking for apartment three A.

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Speaker 2: I said, here to deliver some beds for some kids.

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Speaker 2: I said, you know where three ads and one of

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Speaker 2: I can't find it. I'm walking back and I have

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Speaker 2: if there's a kid over here don't have a bed,

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Speaker 2: that's all right. He said two buildings down, third door

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Speaker 4: I said, thank you. So anyway, I win got them.

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Speaker 4: We delivered a bed.

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Speaker 2: From that time on, not only was we accepted there,

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Speaker 4: And they come. We have people coming out, we've had.

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Speaker 2: We had a man that his son. He was so happy.

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Speaker 2: He shared the story with us. Now we didn't deliver

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Speaker 2: He just got a scholarship for Alabama.

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Speaker 4: We're so excited.

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Speaker 2: So he he was an Aniston football player. He got

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Speaker 2: we would get stories from all the different people. They're

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Speaker 1: So how service can break down so many society conceived notions? Yes,

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Speaker 1: and how quickly are humanity and shine through? Absolutely we

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Speaker 2: When people really see your heart for what it is,

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Speaker 2: can say it to your blue in the face that

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00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,560
Speaker 2: it's not saying it, it's living it and proving it

441
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,439
Speaker 2: by your actions. And we always say this, it's like

442
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:21,960
Speaker 2: it's easy to serve people that's had something to give

443
00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:26,760
Speaker 2: you back, but that's not service. True service is when

444
00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:29,959
Speaker 2: you go and do something for somebody has nothing to

445
00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:34,840
Speaker 2: give you excepteveral love, appreciation, gratitude.

446
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:38,400
Speaker 1: So there was a time in the middle of all

447
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:44,680
Speaker 1: this where Carrie filled something to you that you didn't

448
00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:52,119
Speaker 1: even know, yes, which ties up a whole lot in

449
00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:57,280
Speaker 1: this story. And when I read it, Carrie, I paused,

450
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,360
Speaker 1: because if there's such a thing as a god thing,

451
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 1: this is it. You want to share the story with us?

452
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:09,639
Speaker 3: Sure, Tommy and Val Goodman had asked us if we

453
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:14,560
Speaker 3: would be the co president, so we said that we would,

454
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,960
Speaker 3: and we had to go to Utah for some training.

455
00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:23,360
Speaker 1: And which is Luke Micholson's Yes, very very beginning, Yes,

456
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:27,399
Speaker 1: n Dakota now East, but that's where it all started.

457
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,560
Speaker 1: It in his garage with his kids because he didn't

458
00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 1: like them playing Game Boy.

459
00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 3: That's right, that's right, right.

460
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:36,639
Speaker 1: So they still do that. If you wanted to start

461
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:38,639
Speaker 1: a chapter, they bring you to Utah and teach you

462
00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:40,399
Speaker 1: the new Yes, So y'all.

463
00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:43,600
Speaker 3: Were there, correct, got it. So we're there and next

464
00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 3: thing you know, Tommy comes and gets us and says, hey,

465
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,200
Speaker 3: they want to talk to you all upstairs. And we're

466
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,800
Speaker 3: at a police station doing this by the way, and

467
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:58,680
Speaker 3: we're thinking what did we do? So we go up

468
00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:03,440
Speaker 3: there and they have a little production set up, lights,

469
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:05,440
Speaker 3: camera action, and we're like, wait a minute, what's going

470
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 3: on here? And they just wanted to talk to us

471
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,639
Speaker 3: about why we wanted to be involved, and they were

472
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 3: interviewing multiple people, but in that moment when they were

473
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:21,439
Speaker 3: talking to us, they asked what it meant to me,

474
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 3: and so the video that they were producing was our

475
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:28,360
Speaker 3: why you know, why we do this? And when they

476
00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 3: said that, it hit me like a ton of bricks,

477
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 3: and it was something that I had never shared with

478
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:42,240
Speaker 3: Paul or really anybody. When things happened to you in

479
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:47,040
Speaker 3: your younger life that are not favorable, it's not something

480
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 3: you usually go around talking about. So I never really

481
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 3: mentioned it. But when they asked my why, it's because

482
00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:01,359
Speaker 3: growing up with my mom, who was a a single parent.

483
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:06,720
Speaker 3: My dad left when I was two years old, and

484
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Speaker 3: then my mom turned to alcohol when I was about seven,

485
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:15,720
Speaker 3: and times were tough, very tough. I didn't have a bed,

486
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Speaker 3: and so that's my why I want to make sure

487
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,440
Speaker 3: kids have a bed. I grew up in the very

488
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,200
Speaker 3: poor circumstances. Not only did I not have a bed,

489
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 3: I didn't have clothes. I barely had food to eat.

490
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:34,440
Speaker 3: I slept on that pile of clothes that I wore

491
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Speaker 3: the next day to school. And not only that, my

492
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 3: mom was an animal lover, which I am too, but

493
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:47,240
Speaker 3: I even had feces on the floor beside me that

494
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Speaker 3: I was sleeping next to.

495
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Speaker 5: It was really hard going to school, dirty, no sleep,

496
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Speaker 5: trying to focus.

497
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 3: And kids are mean. I had a kid in class

498
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 3: one time that said do you wear those jeans every

499
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 3: single day? And I said no, And they took their pencil,

500
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 3: their pen and they rode on it and they said,

501
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:20,680
Speaker 3: we'll see tomorrow. So I had to search for something

502
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,920
Speaker 3: else to wear the next day. And then on top

503
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 3: of it, I was a really tall kid, so all

504
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,920
Speaker 3: my pants were high waters, and so I didn't even

505
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 3: look good in the few clothes that I did have,

506
00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 3: and so it was just really, really hard. My mom

507
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 3: was a great person, but the alcohol just kind of

508
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 3: had a stronghold on her life, and it was difficult,

509
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 3: very difficult. So it's it is my personal mission to

510
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:58,919
Speaker 3: make sure kids have a bed to sleep and they

511
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 3: can feel safe.

512
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:02,440
Speaker 1: Did you feel unsafe?

513
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 3: I did. I didn't feel safe at all. There were

514
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:10,640
Speaker 3: lots of things that happened during my childhood.

515
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 1: So when you go on a bed delivery.

516
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 3: I see my circumstances a lot.

517
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, and you feel what those skits feel.

518
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 3: I do.

519
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:34,479
Speaker 1: What would somebody have meant to you showing up in

520
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 1: your life with a bed back in those days?

521
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. If my mom would have been able

522
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,120
Speaker 3: to find something like this to provide me a bed,

523
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:43,639
Speaker 3: I would have felt like I was on top of

524
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 3: the world. I could have slept on the couch, but

525
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:55,440
Speaker 3: it was itchy. Was that old woven?

526
00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 1: Yes?

527
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:02,479
Speaker 3: Even the checkered looked one you know, M So I

528
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,680
Speaker 3: just long Did you like that? Until I was fifteen?

529
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,680
Speaker 1: You went to high school with this stuff going on. Yeah,

530
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:20,159
Speaker 1: thus not so good marriage as to start because you

531
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 1: were looking for any way.

532
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 3: Yeah. I actually left home at fifteen. That's the only

533
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 3: reason I ended up with a bed.

534
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 2: Wow.

535
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 3: Carry I look back now and I think, you know,

536
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,720
Speaker 3: my youngest son is getting ready to be twenty one.

537
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 3: But I look back at when he was fifteen and

538
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:45,959
Speaker 3: thinking to myself, I could never imagine him leaving and

539
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 3: living on his own at that age. And that was

540
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 3: what I did because in my mind it was a

541
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 3: better choice than my current living situation, and still was

542
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 3: it was. It wasn't much better. I mean, I moved

543
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 3: in with an older man that it didn't turn out well.

544
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 3: He ended up being abusive, and I won't even get

545
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 3: into that story because that's a whole nother thing. And

546
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 3: I had to go back my mom's after that, when

547
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 3: I was seventeen, I had to go back.

548
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 1: It is not at all lost on me that that

549
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: is your reality. And you come full circle on your faith. Yeah,

550
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: find a purpose and are filling the void for children

551
00:29:55,280 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: that you yourself experienced. Yes, all because your husband happened

552
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: to be driving down the road one day and heard

553
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 1: something about build a bunk whenever it's called. Yes, I

554
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: don't know about visions. That's a god thing. Sure it

555
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 1: didn't make you feel like when you heard that, because

556
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 1: you didn't know when you're her husband.

557
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 4: And I said, that's how come I didn't know this?

558
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 1: It had to afflord you.

559
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 4: And she's said the same thing.

560
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 2: She said well, it's not something I'm proud of and

561
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 2: not something I really wanted people to know, but it's

562
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 2: a story that needs to be told. So I'm glad

563
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 2: she did tell it. I'm glad after all those years

564
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 2: had come out because not only does it say hey,

565
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 2: this can happen to anybody, it also says, look, there's hope.

566
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 2: I mean, she's came a long way even before I

567
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 2: met her. So I was really excited when I met

568
00:30:55,480 --> 00:31:00,239
Speaker 2: her because I went through some bad dating experiences that

569
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 2: Carrie was a self sufficient woman when I met her.

570
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 4: She didn't need a man.

571
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: Any woman, Yeah, they can be single one hand on

572
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: five boys.

573
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 2: Is strong, strong, She is doing good for herself as

574
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 2: far as what I could see anyway, And that was

575
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 2: very attractive to me as well, that that she didn't

576
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 2: need me, she wanted me so so that was that

577
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 2: was something I had a lot of trust issues through

578
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 2: my life from previous marriages.

579
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 1: Uh.

580
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 2: And anyway, like I said, when I got gave my

581
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 2: life back to God and he started working my life

582
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 2: and I saw how in love with God she was,

583
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 2: that trust issues went away. Not because I used to

584
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 2: base a relationship on me. How much do you love me? Well,

585
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 2: I'm a human, I'm a man. I'm gonna do stupid

586
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 2: things and I'm gonna let people down, and that always

587
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 2: gives that your partner chance, like, well, she's gonna stick

588
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 2: with me when I do stupid things. But I quit

589
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 2: viewing things like that and saw how much she loves God.

590
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 4: God will never let her down.

591
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,719
Speaker 2: And she loves God so much she's not gonna do

592
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,959
Speaker 2: the wrong thing, you know when it comes to our marriage.

593
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 2: So that's what got rid of my trust issues, is

594
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 2: really the relationship I have with God, but more so

595
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 2: seeing how much she loved God and I wanted that

596
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 2: and anyway, that's kind of goes back to what we

597
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 2: was talking about earlier. But just to hear that story

598
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 2: and know where she came from and know that all

599
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 2: these kids we go visit again goes back to what

600
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 2: we said earlier. We don't know where they've been. We

601
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 2: don't know, we've not been in their shoes. And that

602
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 2: goes for the parents too, goes for everybody. It's easy

603
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 2: to make a preconceived notion on view and something from

604
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 2: your point of view, but you just don't know. And

605
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 2: that's in God's lay that on my heart that I

606
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 2: don't know, so I'm not there to judge. I'm there

607
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 2: just to love on people and say, hey, there's hope.

608
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 4: We're going to help you, how we can help you.

609
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 2: There's other people out there just like us that want

610
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 2: to help as well.

611
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 4: Keep praying you, keep doing the right thing.

612
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 2: We encourage people, hey, to find a local church, find

613
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 2: you a church family, you know, for nothing else, for

614
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 2: the mental support they can offer you, to know someone

615
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 2: cares about you, to offer advice and different things like that.

616
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: We'll be right back.

617
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 3: So when I was eleven years old, it was the

618
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 3: day after Christmas and my mom had gotten a new car,

619
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 3: so it was my first ride in our new car.

620
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 3: And I always fell asleep and i'm car rides. I

621
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 3: guess maybe it was more comfortable than sleeping on a floor.

622
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I really did. I still do.

623
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 3: But anyhow, we were driving down the road and we

624
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 3: ended up getting hit by a drunk driver and it

625
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 3: was on the side my head was on. He hit

626
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,320
Speaker 3: the door where my head was laying when I was sleeping,

627
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:24,800
Speaker 3: and I had a my skull was cracked halfway around.

628
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,359
Speaker 3: I had a blood clot on my brain and when

629
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 3: they opened the back door, my nose was laying flat

630
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 3: on my chest. All the blood rushed to the front

631
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 3: of my face, so there was blood coming out of

632
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:41,879
Speaker 3: my eyes, my nose, my mouth, my ears. And they

633
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 3: initially thought my neck was broke, because I mean, imagine

634
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 3: if you just try to be even just been hard

635
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 3: to get your chin to touch. So they took me

636
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 3: to the hospital. Believe it or not, my neck was

637
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 3: not broken. The doctor said I was so relaxed because

638
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 3: of sleeping that it did not break. But what I

639
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 3: remember the most about that accident that, you know, growing

640
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 3: up through life, I would tell people about the car accident,

641
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 3: you know, how I was in a car accident, how

642
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 3: bad it was, and everything that went along with the accident.

643
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 3: But what I never told them, because again it's one

644
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 3: of those things you don't talk about, was that I

645
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 3: was in the hospital for two weeks, intensive care for

646
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 3: one week and then a regular room for the second week.

647
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 3: And I I had a bed to sleep in for

648
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 3: those two weeks that I was in the hospital. So

649
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 3: that was the best part about the whole accident was

650
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:45,320
Speaker 3: being able to get some rest.

651
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 1: To think that you can go through a near death

652
00:35:54,960 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 1: experience and somehow it'd be better than home destraumatic.

653
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 3: I was ready to go though, I mean I was

654
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 3: doing cartwells down the hallway and they were just telling me,

655
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 3: I'm sure.

656
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: You're ready to get out. But the point is, yes,

657
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 1: you're sitting there with your head cracked open and you're thinking, hmm,

658
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 1: this is comfortable.

659
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:20,240
Speaker 3: Yeah.

660
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 5: Wow.

661
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 1: So tell me about your most recent one.

662
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 3: Okay, we went. We had some new volunteers with us

663
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 3: for the very first time, but we were going to

664
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 3: a home and we were delivering three beds and she

665
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 3: did mention that she had a special needs child. I

666
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 3: didn't know what it was, but she said that she

667
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 3: already had a bed, but the other three children needed

668
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 3: a bed. And we get there and it's just like

669
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 3: the majority of them. You open the door. Those kids

670
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 3: have been sitting there waiting all day long for you

671
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 3: to bring a bed. Their mom is probably telling them,

672
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,399
Speaker 3: y'all be good. Now they're bringing your beds. We got

673
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 3: to clean the room up and all of this. But

674
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 3: open the door and they're squealing and jumping up and

675
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 3: down and running up to us and hugging us. And

676
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 3: then her one little girl, which you can tell, you know,

677
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:18,920
Speaker 3: you could tell by looking at her that, you know,

678
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 3: she walked a little different and bent over a little different.

679
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:25,280
Speaker 3: Really didn't know what it was, but the brightest, cutest smile.

680
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 3: And she comes up and hugs me, and she's hugging everybody.

681
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 3: And I said, well, what is your name? And she

682
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 3: said Heaven, no kid. I said, ah, and she starts,

683
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 3: we're getting all the kids' names. For some reason, all

684
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 3: the rest of them started with the J. I can't

685
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 3: remember them all, but I just know they all started

686
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 3: with the J. But anyhow, we are putting the beds

687
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:55,720
Speaker 3: together and we're talking and it turns out the little

688
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 3: girl has Luke Walker's disease, and the mom starts sharing

689
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 3: with us that the doctors told her get rid of

690
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 3: the baby. You don't need to have this baby. It

691
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 3: won't make it ten minutes outside of the womb. And

692
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 3: she refused. And so little Heaven is seven years old now,

693
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 3: and she's had a few surgeries on her hamstring. She's

694
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 3: had brain surgery, several different surgeries. But when we were

695
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 3: all done, we were getting ready to leave, we asked

696
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 3: the mom if there was anything that we could pray

697
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 3: for her about, and she became extremely emotional and she said,

698
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 3: please pray for my heaven, because she's about to have

699
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,759
Speaker 3: to have back surgery now and some upcoming things with

700
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 3: her health issues. She said, But the other thing is

701
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:51,360
Speaker 3: we had to sell one of our cars so that

702
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:56,319
Speaker 3: we can make ends meet and get the other one. Yeah,

703
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 3: we had to sell one car to fix the other car.

704
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:02,879
Speaker 3: And her husband was out cutting grass while we were

705
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 3: there and said to tell us thank you, but he

706
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 3: was trying to make some extra money. But she's like,

707
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 3: we don't even know how we're gonna get by day

708
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 3: by day through this. It was everything in me to

709
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,280
Speaker 3: not lose it right there. And I do my best

710
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:24,320
Speaker 3: because there are there are deliveries that just they stay

711
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 3: with me for weeks when we leave. And as soon

712
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 3: as we walked out of the door and in the

713
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 3: driveway and we're meeting with the delivery team that it

714
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 3: was their first time and talking about and my eyes

715
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 3: just filled with tears just standing there and I didn't

716
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 3: say anything, and I know they were looking at me,

717
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 3: but I just had to let some of it out.

718
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 3: I had to release some of it because I can't

719
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,359
Speaker 3: even imagine how hard it has to be for her

720
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 3: and the pain that she is going through, seeing her

721
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:52,320
Speaker 3: baby having to go through all of this, but happy

722
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 3: with the decisions she made at the end of the

723
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 3: day and the fact that she is she's going to

724
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,320
Speaker 3: be taking care of and now her kids have beds,

725
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 3: her other three children, and it was just a beautiful thing.

726
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:09,360
Speaker 1: And when you have a family like that. And I

727
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,760
Speaker 1: remember thinking this back when we talked to Luke Micholson,

728
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 1: but when you have a family like that, the guy

729
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:18,360
Speaker 1: that the man's out trying to provide, he's cutting grass.

730
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 1: The mom clearly loves her children because they are going

731
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 1: through enormous hardship, but made the decision to love their

732
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 1: children no matter what, regardless of what God gave them.

733
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: Can you imagine the guilt they must feel knowing their

734
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 1: children are sleeping on the floor.

735
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah. She was so appreciative. I mean, she

736
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 3: said a hundred times, thank y'all for doing this, thank you.

737
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 3: And the little boy he couldn't he could barely wait

738
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 3: to get on the bed. He had the hammer. Well

739
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 3: it's not a hammer, it's a little mallet, you know,

740
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 3: if there's anything tight. He was so proud to be

741
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,799
Speaker 3: carrying that around and we needed it. And I said, hey,

742
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 3: where is that? And he said, my Mama took it.

743
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 3: She said, he walked in there with a hammer like this,

744
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 3: and she was like.

745
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:11,760
Speaker 1: Oh, no, give me that. Guys, do you know about

746
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: the Haitian story?

747
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 4: Think so?

748
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 1: So a pastor in Florida was listening to an army

749
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:25,280
Speaker 1: normal folks and heard the Luke Michelson story. This church

750
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 1: in Florida supports and his friends with the founder of

751
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 1: an orphanage in Haiti. Oh wow, This orphanage in Haiti

752
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 1: has been built from a man's dream over twenty years

753
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 1: who we had on the show Believe It or Not.

754
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: And the orphanage is situated for I think ninety kids

755
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 1: and it's got a school, and then they wanted to

756
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 1: teach kids clod abilities, so they put in it seems

757
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 1: to stop and all kinds of things. And then a

758
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 1: few years ago they built a woodworking shop. And so

759
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 1: the founder of the orphanage was connected to sleep in

760
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:18,280
Speaker 1: heavenly peace through the pastor in Florida who is listening

761
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 1: to Luke Michelson's star. And now the orphans and the

762
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:28,040
Speaker 1: orphanage with their wood shop are making beds for non

763
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 1: orphan children and Haiti.

764
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 3: That's a beautiful thing.

765
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: That's what you are part of you. That's the fabric

766
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 1: of the organization you're part of. And there was a

767
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 1: reason You're the only story that we've done that's connected

768
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:53,239
Speaker 1: twice because Alex and I believe so deeply in the

769
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:57,319
Speaker 1: power of what this is. It's not about just making beds.

770
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 1: It's about improving lives, and it's about reaching coactly and

771
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 1: it's about having kids have a data feel good, and

772
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:09,840
Speaker 1: it's about riding parents who are under enormous financial stress,

773
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 1: usually to at least read one piece of guilt and

774
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 1: anxiety from their life on behalf of their children. I

775
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: can't think of a better, better thing than sleeping heavenly peace.

776
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 3: There's something that is wired in me that I believe

777
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 3: is a gift from God that I am like drawn

778
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,479
Speaker 3: to people that are hurting. Where a lot of people

779
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 3: would turn from that they don't want to get involved

780
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 3: with somebody else's problems, pains or hurts. I am like

781
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 3: physically mentally, and I mean drawn to them. If I

782
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 3: see somebody hurting, I want to help them, even if

783
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 3: it's nothing to do with the bed. I just I

784
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 3: don't know what it is, but I'm always.

785
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 2: We first started, we first started this, we'd go to

786
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 2: liver bed and then I'd have a laundry list of

787
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 2: other things we need to provide that family.

788
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:12,399
Speaker 3: Yes, the nets, they.

789
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 2: Need a recliner, and they didn't have any furniture in

790
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 2: their living room. So we so we started another thing

791
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 2: that kind of run. We used Sleeping Heavenly Peace was

792
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 2: our data collection agents, I guess, because we go to

793
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 2: deliver beds and see the other needs they had, and

794
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 2: we called it our Connected Dot Ministry. We always had

795
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 2: people trying to give us stuff because they knew it

796
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:38,279
Speaker 2: was out helping in the community. So when someone say,

797
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 2: hey I have a dresser or hey I have an

798
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:42,720
Speaker 2: over different places.

799
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 3: Every single time that happens, it was the delivery we

800
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 3: just went to within the last week or so where

801
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 3: we saw the exact.

802
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 2: Need, maybe crib.

803
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:54,719
Speaker 3: One of them was a lady was seven months or

804
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:58,839
Speaker 3: she was eight months pregnant. We delivered beds and we

805
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 3: went back I don't even know. Oh, we went back

806
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:06,439
Speaker 3: to take some recliners to her and somebody had given

807
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 3: us some recliners a mattress and they were like, we

808
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 3: don't know if you can use this, but here's a

809
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:13,919
Speaker 3: crib mattress. And so she is about to give birth.

810
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:15,879
Speaker 3: And I said, do you have everything? You all good?

811
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 3: You got everything set up? And she said, yes, I

812
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:19,920
Speaker 3: have the crib set up, she said, but I went

813
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:22,320
Speaker 3: to order a mattress and I couldn't afford it.

814
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 4: And I and it was with us vehicle, that.

815
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 3: Is right, And I said, are you serious? And I said, baby,

816
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:35,719
Speaker 3: go get it. And she just started crying. She just

817
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 3: started crying because at that moment she knew.

818
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 1: An army of normal folks is about a lot of things.

819
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 1: But the thing that I've said the most is this,

820
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 1: when you can employ your passion and your discipline. When

821
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:51,359
Speaker 1: I mean discipline, I don't mean being disciplined to do

822
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 1: the right thing your abilities. You employ your passion and

823
00:45:54,600 --> 00:46:00,800
Speaker 1: you're discipline and a place of opportunity. Phenomenal, earth changing,

824
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 1: life changing things can happen.

825
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:02,920
Speaker 3: Yes, they do.

826
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,400
Speaker 1: And that's what you guys have done. You have a

827
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: passion for serving, you have an ability to do this,

828
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 1: and you saw an opportunity and you fill it in

829
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 1: doing so. Not only are the parents and children lives

830
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:22,400
Speaker 1: that you serve changed, but I think so are your

831
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 1: own and those of your volunteers.

832
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:30,360
Speaker 3: Definitely well, speaking of volunteers, we have a great group

833
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 3: of people that are very passionate about what they do too,

834
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 3: and so it makes it easy for us to be

835
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:42,280
Speaker 3: able to identify team leaders, someone who has a truck

836
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:45,239
Speaker 3: that's willing to lead a team their self. That we

837
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 3: were able to reach more kids because this past Tuesday night,

838
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:50,840
Speaker 3: we had thirty two volunteers show up on a Tuesday

839
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:54,240
Speaker 3: night after work to build buds, to go build beds,

840
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:57,440
Speaker 3: and we were able to yes to deliver them in

841
00:46:57,480 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 3: the homes.

842
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:01,879
Speaker 1: Oh tuesdays delivered to y. Yeah, what's built.

843
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 3: That's always on Saturday.

844
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,360
Speaker 1: Saturday, built day, Tuesday delivery. I see, you had thirty

845
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 1: two show up to deliver beds.

846
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 3: To deliver beds, so we were able to get eighteen

847
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:12,359
Speaker 3: kids off of the floor on Tuesday night.

848
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 1: Nobody in my town. No child in my town sleeps

849
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 1: on the floor. And not the moniker I'm missing.

850
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:22,840
Speaker 3: No kid sleeps on the floor in our town.

851
00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: No kid sleeps on the floor in our town. I

852
00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:31,080
Speaker 1: am praying that there are a handful of people listening

853
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:36,720
Speaker 1: to us that think, Okay, enough's enough. I've heard these stories.

854
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:39,760
Speaker 1: This is something I can do that I see changes lives.

855
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 1: But they just need that extra little bit of encouragement,

856
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:48,440
Speaker 1: push over the edge. I gotta believe you would take

857
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:51,839
Speaker 1: any calls from anybody that wanted to hear about it.

858
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 3: Absolutely.

859
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:56,880
Speaker 1: How do any listeners hearing now being moved by your story?

860
00:47:57,520 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 1: How do they reach you? What's the best way to

861
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 1: get in touch if they want to understand more, learn more,

862
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: and maybe hopefully start a chapter in a city that

863
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: doesn't have one.

864
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 3: I mean, we have our phone numbers, and we have

865
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:15,799
Speaker 3: our email addresses. Email address, so the main one is

866
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 3: s h P beds dot org. Mine is Carrie c

867
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 3: A R r I E dot More m O O

868
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 3: R E s A Carrie dot More at s h

869
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 3: P beds dot org. And then Paul's is the same,

870
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:37,839
Speaker 3: Paul dot More at s h P beds dot org.

871
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 1: And I bet if people reach out to you from

872
00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 1: Topeka and say I heard it, Yeah, you want to

873
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:46,399
Speaker 1: do it? Walk me through it?

874
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:48,719
Speaker 2: We would would be honored to. We would love to

875
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 2: so much for us.

876
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 4: You know.

877
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 2: The thing is a lot of people may may come

878
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Speaker 2: and say, look, you know we've done.

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Speaker 4: This, We've done that.

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Speaker 2: Our story is more about what it's done for us.

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Speaker 1: Right, So I got to tell you something, Paul, do

882
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Speaker 1: you know every single person we interview, and we've been

883
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Speaker 1: doing this now for a year, I'll say the same thing.

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Speaker 1: You get exponentially more out of it than you put

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Speaker 1: into it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the true.

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Speaker 1: It's the payoff.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's fuel that keeps you going.

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Speaker 1: And people like you or the field that keeps me

890
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Speaker 1: in Alex tell me stories. It's absolutely true.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate what you're doing and getting the word out

892
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:31,359
Speaker 2: there just for sleeping here in the face, but all

893
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Speaker 2: the other things. That's so encouraging and brings hope to

894
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Speaker 2: people because you'll hear it and you'll say, like, that's me,

895
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Speaker 2: you know, and then you all of a sudden you

896
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Speaker 2: see a rail of hope that you didn't see before.

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Speaker 1: So we believe that the people in DC and the

898
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Speaker 1: pundance on Fox and CNN are never going to fix anything.

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Speaker 1: It's going to take an arm in normal folks. And

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Speaker 1: I cannot think of a better example of what look

901
00:49:56,719 --> 00:49:59,319
Speaker 1: that looks like than a divorced father of three and

902
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Speaker 1: a divorce mother of five living in Midworld, Alabama who

903
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Speaker 1: find a love affair over a live out a Hambrun

904
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Speaker 1: and then decide together as a couple, you're going to

905
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Speaker 1: do some good for your community and army. No normal

906
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:21,719
Speaker 1: folk changing lines where passionate discipline meets opportunity, and you

907
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Speaker 1: guys are the quintessential story that we tell. And even

908
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Speaker 1: though the avenues are always different, and the discipline is

909
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:36,640
Speaker 1: always different, and the area served is always different, the

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Speaker 1: end story is all the same, which is the rewards

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Speaker 1: you get from it is exponentially better. And our society

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Speaker 1: and culture can improve with more and more folks like you.

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Speaker 3: I would like to say anybody that's thinking about something

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Speaker 3: that they could do to help others, this it's easy.

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Speaker 3: It's not a difficult thing to get involved with at all.

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Speaker 3: They do It's very, very easy. The fundraising part, you know,

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Speaker 3: once you get the word out there, people want to help.

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Speaker 3: They really do.

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Speaker 1: And they clearly train you. I mean they have a

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Speaker 1: whole system.

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Speaker 2: Deserved to do.

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Speaker 3: They show you how to build the beds, all of it.

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Speaker 3: So I'll leave us with one last story, and this

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Speaker 3: is one that Tommy shared with us after he came

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Speaker 3: back from a recent training.

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Speaker 1: Good because I was going to say, sign us off

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Speaker 1: with one last I know you can't say a favorite

928
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Speaker 1: because there's so many favorites. Well, sign us off with

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Speaker 1: one that'll leave it on our hearts and heads.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well this will do it. They they were out

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Speaker 3: of training in Utah and they were going around the

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Speaker 3: room and asking people why what their why was like,

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Speaker 3: why are you wanting to get involved with?

934
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Speaker 1: And your what you revealed? Right?

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Speaker 3: Well, they came to one man man and I don't

936
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Speaker 3: even know what area he was from because they bring

937
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Speaker 3: him from all around and he started getting very emotional

938
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Speaker 3: and they said what is your why? And he said, well,

939
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Speaker 3: I me and my wife are We worked for EMS

940
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Speaker 3: and we got a phone call where a family had

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Speaker 3: four children that were sleeping on an air mattress and

942
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Speaker 3: sometime through the night, the air mattress lost its air

943
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Speaker 3: and one of the children suffocated. And when they found

944
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Speaker 3: out he was suffocating, they were the EMS crew that

945
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Speaker 3: went out to this house and the little boy was

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Speaker 3: revived but now has brain damage. And people don't realize

947
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Speaker 3: how serious the need is. But he literally got to

948
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Speaker 3: see it firsthand that here we are trying to help

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Speaker 3: a child live because they didn't have a bed to

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Speaker 3: sleep on. And imagine the family the guilt.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he said, he made a vow exactly what sleeping

952
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Speaker 2: heaven Peace stands far that no child in his town

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Speaker 2: it's gonna.

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Speaker 1: Be without a bed.

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Speaker 2: So it's his mission from that experience of seeing the

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Speaker 2: devastation of a family. Now the child lived, which is

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Speaker 2: a huge blessing, but it's fairly brain damage and it's

958
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Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of complications gonna be with

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Speaker 2: that child the rest of his life because parents couldnot

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Speaker 2: get them the child of bed. They didn't apparently know

961
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Speaker 2: about sleeping heaven peace, so there was no sleeping heaven

962
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Speaker 2: and peace in their area. So that guy, he's going

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Speaker 2: to start the child.

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Speaker 1: Rich guy, hard working guy says.

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Speaker 4: Something about this.

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Speaker 2: I think like you were saying with Luke, you know,

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Speaker 2: crossing over the bridge looking down, he stopped. He stopped

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Speaker 2: because he saw someone in the So it's a big,

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Speaker 2: big shout out to him. And I don't even know,

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Speaker 2: so I hope he listens.

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Speaker 4: He's encouraged.

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Speaker 1: So God bless you guys. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: coming to Memphis and telling the story. It is cut

974
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Speaker 1: riching at times but ultimately uplifting. Thank you for being

975
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Speaker 1: so transparent with us. And I gotta believe there's people

976
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Speaker 1: listens to us right now that are saying I can

977
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Speaker 1: do this and if they want to hear more, just

978
00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 1: reach out to you tell us anytime.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: I want to say thank you to Sleep in Heaven

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Speaker 2: and Peace and Luke and his whole team for providing

982
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Speaker 2: us in Avenue to.

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Speaker 4: Be able to serve and to help others.

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Speaker 3: So I just want to and a shout out to

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Speaker 3: Tommy and Val Goodman, our chapter president, who lead so well.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome. Guys, thanks so much, Thank you, and thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us this week. If Paul and Carry

988
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Speaker 1: or other guests I've inspired you in general, or better yet,

989
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Speaker 1: inspired you to take action by volunteering with Sleep and

990
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:09,160
Speaker 1: Heavenly Peace, donating to them, starting a chapter in your

991
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:13,160
Speaker 1: own community, or something else entirely, please let me know.

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00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:15,719
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear about it. You can write me

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Speaker 1: anytime at Bill at normalfolks dot us, and I promise

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Speaker 1: you I will respond. Guys, if you enjoyed this episode,

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Speaker 1: that will help us grow an army of normal folks

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