A center of influence
helps children in Trinidad,
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a prayer map that
looks like a subway map,
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and the beginnings of
Adventist work in the city
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of San
Francisco, coming up next.
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Hello and
welcome to Mission 360.
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I'm Gary Krause.
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Today's program is
coming to you from the city
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of San Francisco in California.
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And I'm standing
on Market Street,
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which is one of the busy
thoroughfares of the city.
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Now Market Street
is a fascinating hub
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for the city.
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And I'd like to
take you back in time,
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back to 1906 to April, 14.
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And here you can see
that it was a very different
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world back then.
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And in the early
1900s, and the late 1800s,
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the Seventh-day Adventist Church
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ran several urban centers
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of influence right
here in San Francisco.
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In fact, a couple of them
are right here on Market Street,
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a restaurant called the
Vegetarian that was opened
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in 1899,
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and also a branch of
St. Helena Sanitarium,
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urban centers of
influence are centers
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that put into practice
Christ's method of ministry.
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And around the
world today, we need many,
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many more to show
the love of Jesus.
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We're going to be looking at
mission around the world today.
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But first up,
let's travel to Trinidad
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and there we will see a
center of influence in action.
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A ray of hope beams in
the Brickfieldcommunity
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on the island of Trinidad.
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Through a Life Hope Center,
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people's lives are
changed in an incredible way.
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One of the largest
Hindu temples in the country
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is just a few short
blocks from this center.
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As visitors
passed by on the street,
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their curiosity is
piqued by this sign,
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and they go in to
see what is happening.
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Many people who come inside
find a variety of services
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aimed at meeting the
needs of this community.
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At the Life Hope Center,
before we started any course,
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we did a needs assessment.
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And we found out
that the children here
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are not good readers.
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And so we targeted the children,
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and we also targeted the parents
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because the children
will come soon with them.
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So we have the math
class, we have homework class,
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and we have pre-school
going here every week.
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And then we had people
who were sick and needed
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a new lifestyle, and we
started a health-fitness class.
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So basically every day,
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four times of
the week we are here
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with all those
classes that I just mentioned.
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Some children in this
community are not able
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to attend public schools
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because they don't have
the proper documentation.
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For them, the Life Hope
Center is their only hope
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to receive something
similar to a formal education.
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Children, ages 6 to 15,
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come to learn to read and write,
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to develop math skills,
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and to receive
physical and spiritual training.
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For adults, fitness
and healthy living classes
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are offered to
increase longevity
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and to fight off disease.
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Many have
benefited from the courses.
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And as they leave,
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they display a new and
positive outlook on life.
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I was feeling sick,
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and with exercise and
the control of the diet,
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I stopped my tablet,
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and I am feeling
happy to do things
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I couldn't do
before, I am doing now.
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You know, at the age of 55.
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I thought it was impossible.
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And I want to say
thanks to all the members
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of the Life Hope
Center for this opportunity
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because I have learned a lot.
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I have learned to
become a nicer person too.
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I have a lot more patience,
which I didn't have before.
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It helped me in
more ways than I know.
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In addition to intellectual
and physical training,
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some people have
found hope in Jesus
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at the
Brickfield Life Hope Center.
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Now it's quite
normal for the staff
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to receive requests
for spiritual counseling
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and Bible lessons.
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In this community,
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the center's holistic
approach has proven priceless.
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And we believe in
mingling with the people mixing
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with them, befriending them
by offering different courses,
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things that they need.
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Well, some of the
changes I have seen is that
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some of these
people who are here,
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they ask us to pray for them.
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We are having
Bible studies with them.
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And we even raised a
church because of this center.
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We now have 25 people.
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Please pray for the
Brickfield Life Hope Center
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in Trinidad as they
work to befriend, serve,
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and win the confidence
of people in the region.
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My guest here in Oakland,
California is Chef Chew.
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And, Chef Chew,
thank you for joining us.
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Absolutely.
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And we're on
your territory here.
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Behind us is the Veg Hub.
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What is the Veg Hub?
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Oh, the Veg Hub is
actually a vegan restaurant.
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We actually are urban sort
of influence right at Oakland.
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Wonderful.
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Where we do amazing,
delicious vegan food.
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And we also do a lot
of community education,
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cooking classes.
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And most importantly, we
are an example for Christ.
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Fantastic. You know, it's there.
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Yeah. So describe where we are.
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We're on a street
here. Where are we?
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Well, this is a
center area to Oakland.
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It's actually
called MacArthur Boulevard,
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it's actually pretty much
one of the original streets
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in Oakland.
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It's actually in
the heart of Oakland
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where you have more rural,
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I guess the more
affluent areas of Oakland,
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as well as you can say,
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the more low-income
neighborhoods as well.
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So right in the mix
of both neighborhood
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or economical groups.
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And so we're actually the
place where it's very diverse,
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very many different types
of ethnic groups out here,
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a lot of millennials
also live close by as well.
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So it's a very
great location in Oakland,
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where we can serve great food.
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Terrific.
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Well, why don't you
show us into the restaurant?
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Absolutely. Yeah.
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Thank you.
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So I love the
design of the Veg Hub.
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Yeah.
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Very nice.
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Well, this is,
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we like to say become
a style of restaurant.
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Our first thing
that we always say is,
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welcome family.
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Okay.
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We have an open kitchen,
which we believe is almost like
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eating at your
kitchen in home, you know?
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At the kitchen table.
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And so we come here,
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we got a really
amazing chalkboard wall.
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You can notice here,
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we have a local
artist that came in here
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and actually gave a vision
what we want to do in the city.
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Right here we have something
called Bridges 2 Oakland,
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and Bridges 2 Oakland
is really why we're here.
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We wanted to set up a model.
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We can really be a
bridge to the community
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through using healthy food,
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education in the love of Christ.
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And so, that was our mission
and obviously the Veg Hub
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and it's kind of
the bridge of Oakland
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is going right to the heart
of Oakland to the community.
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And it's really cool because
right in the midst of it,
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we kind of have our
ultimate vision is right here.
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It's a little small cross,
it truly represents a church,
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which in our vision is to
use the Veg Hub as a pretty much
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the beginning of a church plan.
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Wonderful.
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So that's kind of our ultimate
aim that we're seeking to do
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with this mission.
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So I see that there's gonna
be hub church here one day, huh?
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That hub church, man.
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That's exactly
right, the hub church.
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That's the vision.
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Starting right here,
we're going to be starting
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small groups,
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pretty much gonna be
started in about a month or two.
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We're going to be having
Friday night social events,
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and then all
community service projects,
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and we're going
to build community,
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and we're hoping
for a launch in 2020.
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Fantastic. That's the goal.
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Yeah. Fantastic.
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And the menu? Yeah,
we got the menu here.
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Delicious menu.
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We got our gourmet sandwiches,
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we make everything from scratch.
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We have our
different types of breads,
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but then we feature
some meats that I actually
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manufacture myself
called the better chew proteins.
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So we like to actually
have Phillycheese steaks,
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so it looks like
steak, tastes like steak,
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but guess what, it ain't steak.
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We got our chicken
melts, spinach mushroom melts,
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different flavors,
delicious, you know,
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simple things like French fries.
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We got our cheese
fries, cheese steak fries.
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And in the evening time,
we have our silken plates,
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where we have our
vegan fried chicken.
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It's really amazing,
great texture, great taste,
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mac and cheese, three
cheese mac and cheese.
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People love the mac and cheese.
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And then we have
some other simple stuff.
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And we also have doughnuts.
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One of the things people
really love and come to get
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is our vegan doughnuts.
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You can kind of see them here.
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We got different
flavors that we kind of do.
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And so, it's really,
really delicious products, man,
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just comfort foods.
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Many people will come
back over and over again.
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We have customers
that come here every day.
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I mean, they love it so much.
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Right, so you can be vegan,
but you don't have to suffer.
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You don't have to suffer. No.
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You don't want to be
vegan that suffers now.
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It can be delicious
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and nutritious
and at the same time.
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You know, all of our products
made with non-GMO ingredients,
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you know, whole
food ingredients,
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everything
ingredient you can pronounce.
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So, you know, we try to
make a very delicious thing
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that people are transitioning
into eating plant-based.
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Our products are
perfect for people
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that are flexitarians,
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eating vegan for the first time.
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A lot of my friends who
are, maybe not, you know,
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who wanted to eat vegan
for the first time that comes
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to this restaurant,
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and they recommend their friends
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to come here as well
because the flavors are amazing,
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the taste is really good.
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Terrific.
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Now I noticed over
on this board here,
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you're
advertising cooking classes.
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What's this? Absolutely.
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We believe that the
key to change is education.
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Right.
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So we have a room where
we do our cooking classes
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on a regular basis.
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So we do classes myself
and one of our team members.
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We have classes for kids.
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So we have the Auntie
Sarah's cooking class,
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she does classes
for, you know, kids,
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young people in
elementary school
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and middle school.
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But then we also do
classes for adults the Chop
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and Chewclasses.
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And back here,
you can kind of see
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our production area/classroom.
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So we actually have a classroom
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that we actually
do cooking classes
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as well for the community.
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And you know, sometimes
you see us with 8 or 10 kids
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in here, doing
hands-on instruction.
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You know, we had
this whole room filled up
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with kids or
adults and teach them
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how to eat
healthy and cook healthy.
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Fantastic.
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Yeah, and this is, you
know, the cooking classes
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is amazing because it really
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helps us to build relationships.
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It kind of goes
deeper into this food
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because now they see
that we care about them.
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So we're more than
just a restaurant, you know,
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we are a restaurant
that actually educates
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and loves them as well.
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So it makes a big
difference. Terrific.
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Now, obviously,
you got nutrition,
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you've got more
healthful living,
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you're building connections.
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I heard you mentioned once that
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this is also a
social justice issue
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for particularly
inner-city neighborhoods.
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Can you tell us a
little bit about that?
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Absolutely.
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You know, we're
super close right here,
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we're not too far from a
place called East Oakland,
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and then you
have Deep East Oakland
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about three miles
from Deep East Oakland.
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It's pretty much a food desert.
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And a food desert,
something call it food swamps,
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it's pretty much an
area where you don't have
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a lot of access
to healthy foods.
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So pretty much anything,
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but obviously vegan
would be nonexistent,
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but definitely it's
a high concentration
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of everything from liquor stores
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to convenience
stores to hot fatty foods,
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fast food restaurants.
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And then, you know,
the foods when you go
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into places where you eat at,
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typically they're
barred up, you know,
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people think they're
going to have a lot of theft.
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And so it's not
a really good place
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that you just want to go eat.
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Right.
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And so sadly in
those environments,
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you don't have a lot
of these healthy options.
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And so a lot of our
mission as a company,
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as the Veg Hub,
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is really is to democratize
the access to healthy foods,
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to really create a
product that's healthy,
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that's nutritious,
but also affordable.
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You know, I read a
long ago, you know,
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when Ellen White wrote
about in the restaurant work,
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she mentioned that
the health food should be
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affordable for all
people so that all people
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in any neighborhood,
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in any community
can actually be able
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to afford the foods.
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So we want to be able to
make our products affordable
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and also educate, you know,
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groups that
simply don't have access
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to these products, and
they can do it themselves.
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They can actually,
you know, eat healthy,
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and it can be
affordable and nutritious.
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Fantastic. Yeah.
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So there's a real
deep issue of, you know,
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these communities are suffering,
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high rates of
diabetes, heart disease, cancer,
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all these things are running
rampant in these communities.
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And so unless we
have solutions, I mean,
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the consistency of
seeing early premature death
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is what we're gonna
see on a regular basis
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in these communities.
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So, yes, we have
a real big passion
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and a heart for able to
help solve some of those issues
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in our community.
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So because of
where you're located,
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you're getting
quite a diverse clientele.
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Absolutely. Yeah.
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I mean, again, you know,
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we get many
different nationalities,
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obviously, blacks and whites,
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we get
Hispanics, we get Indians,
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we have a big Indian
population because a lot of them
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are actually don't eat
beef and things like that.
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So they look for
vegetarian options.
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We also get a lot of millennials
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of all different nationalities,
which is pretty amazing.
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We also get different
socioeconomic classes.
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And again, since
we're like into segue
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between the
more fluent community
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and also more of, you know,
lower economical communities,
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we actually get both groups
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that come
inside this restaurant,
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which is pretty amazing.
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Because
typically, vegan restaurants
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are not located in a more,
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you know,
low-income neighborhoods.
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So we're kind of
right between the two.
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So we get both groups
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that come
faithfully and support us.
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So it's really,
really a blessing.
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Fantastic.
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What are your
hopes for the future?
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You know, my
vision, man, I want to see
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the Adventist vegan
franchise, you know?
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Ellen White wrote in 1902
that we should have restaurants,
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you know, in different
cities as urban centers.
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Including
Oakland. Including Oakland.
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She mentioned my name in
San Francisco and Oakland.
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So I like to say
we're living the page.
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We've been filling the prophecy.
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And so I just feel like at
certain times I believe God
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is calling us to see
this work go forward,
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but not in a way
this to make money,
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but really in a way that
can give Him all the glory.
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I believe that the time is now,
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we've never seen a
time where veganism
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has grown 600% in
the last few years.
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You find basketball stars
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and sports stars are
becoming vegan, you know?
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You know, Hollywood
stars are becoming vegan.
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So it's becoming very prominent.
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But it's something that
we've known for over 100 years.
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And I believe that we
have to reclaim the message,
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bring it to the communities,
and I want to say revival.
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So young people actually
working in these restaurants,
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creating jobs,
creating employment,
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giving back to the community,
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solving some of the
social justice issues
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that we're finding
in our communities,
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I think we have a voice is like,
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you know, it's
like John the Baptist,
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the voice in the
wilderness crying out,
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let people know
there's something better.
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You know, we don't have
to keep dying prematurely.
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We can be
healthy, we can eat good,
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it can taste delicious.
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And so I dream in 10
years to see this model
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come together become a reality.
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And I think this
is the foundation,
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I think there's people
all around the country,
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all around the world,
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who's getting
excited about seeing
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a restaurant in their community,
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and I just want
to be a part of it.
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I like to say
if I get to heaven,
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I don't mind being
a janitor in heaven.
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All I could do is
sweep the floors in heaven,
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I hope to make some of the meals
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and some of the
food in heaven, but hey,
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if I could just be the
janitor, I'm happy, man.
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So, you know, restaurant
is a lot of work, you know,
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but it's a lot of heart
and it's really rewarding
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when you see the smiles
on the customers' faces.
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You know, somebody's thankful,
God has been really good to us.
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Fantastic.
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Thanks for sharing
with us today, Chef Chew.
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Yeah,
absolutely. It's a pleasure.
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Appreciate it. God bless you.
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Yes, sir.
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Viewers at home,
I believe that God
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wants to see
hundreds of urban centers
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of influence like
Veg Hub around the world,
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in urban areas,
making a difference,
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putting Christ
method into practice.
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Please pray for Chef Chew
and his team and their vision.
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We'll be right
back after this break.
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