While there's still no
word on the cure for the virus,
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government officials
proved the virus is not airborne
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but can be transferred
through contact on airplane.
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It's there in our
hands, end of our contact.
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It's not what I do.
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It's who I am.
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I am a missionary.
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Where the darkness is
thick and the valley is deep,
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lift me up to overcome.
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The battle is the Lord's.
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Souls are perishing for
Christ they need me to bring.
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I can do all
things through Christ
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who strengthens me.
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On December 10,
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I was looking at
the weather reports
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because there are
severe weather threats
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and possible tornadoes
going to be in the area.
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Right now, I'm standing
in St. Jacobs, Illinois,
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about 20 miles from
Belleville, Illinois.
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I'm at St. Louis
Metro-East Airport,
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at the airport identifier IL48.
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Behind me is AWA's
aircraft, 8764 X-ray.
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I was concerned
about the aircraft
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because you can see out here
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there's not many
hangar opportunities,
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they're all full.
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I was really
concerned about the tornadoes
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and the high winds.
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So I was tracking
it pretty closely.
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I saw the weather.
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I was really concerned
about it, really concerned.
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I was up right
tracking the weather movements,
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but just 10 to 15 miles
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to the north of
us in Edwardsville.
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I mean tornadoes
hit the Amazon factory,
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you may have heard about that.
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We had Joe Bertie
is one of our pilots.
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He's also worked with
a search and rescue team
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and they got
deployed with their dogs
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to that building.
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So I knew that was happening
the Sabbath morning at church.
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I was tracking our
sister rescue company
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which is Gideon Rescue Company
out of Ardmore, Oklahoma.
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We responded to Haiti with
them as well as to Hurricane Ida
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and they were going to
send a team of 15 people,
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four search dog teams.
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Some chainsaw crews,
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a skid-steer with a
grappling hook on it,
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and some other assets
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mainly they're gonna bring also
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GLOW tracts literature
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because they knew
that devastated area means
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there were people
will be not physically,
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only physically in distress
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but there'll be people that
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needed to hear the
Word of God in some fashion.
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And so, I left the church
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as soon as it was
over and ran home.
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Got my bag, packed
my bags really quickly,
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headed out for
Mayfield, Kentucky.
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And got there about 6
o'clock just after sunset.
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AWA was going to be
sending out an airplane
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with two guys in
it, Doug and Steven.
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We got those towers right there.
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We'll get out there.
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We all gathered
out there and we chose,
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I guess we chose
their neighborhood
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than of all places
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because with the
federal government
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playing politics
with the category four
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and category five.
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Focus on the big cities only.
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They aren't getting any help.
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You were in a
community that clearly
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wasn't being
serviced by our government
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or by anybody
else for that matter.
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Now you had local
sheriff's office there.
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Local.
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Yeah, but they
got their resources
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have to be
stretched to the matters.
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Absolutely they were.
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Everybody, they're
sleeping at the jail there,
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they were pulling
long shifts, I mean...
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One of their sheriffs
passed away in the tornado.
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Describe the
destruction that you saw?
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It's indescribable.
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It truly is.
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You served in the Middle East?
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It was worse destruction
than dropping a bomb.
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I mean, a bomb at
least you're concentrated
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in the area of the explosion.
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What do you guys
think about this?
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We saw balls and kid's toys
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while we're
walking around in an area
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that hadn't been
searched very well.
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Yeah.
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We have two dogs up here search,
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I think maybe two
more in a different area.
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It's heartbreaking to see this,
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how much suffering is
going on right around us
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and we're ready to help.
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Seeing all these
toys, and knowing that
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under this rubble
there potentially be a kid,
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a child is.
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Anyway, this is close to him
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but we can't do anything
is little disheartening.
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Yes.
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Thank you, guys,
thanks for what you're doing.
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But one of our
teammates from Gideon Rescue,
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but he met an individual
that was in the candle factory,
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the night of the tornado.
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And as the storm was
coming, he was getting alerts
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and he was freaking out
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because he has
a newborn daughter
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at his house.
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And he's just like, I
need to leave but if he left,
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you know, he would
probably get in trouble
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with the boss and whatnot.
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And so he kept going
to his manager saying,
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Look, I'm sorry,
but I need to leave.
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And the people were
like, no, no, you're fine.
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You're fine.
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You can't
leave, you got to work.
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He's like, no, no, I'm sorry.
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I have a
newborn. I have to leave.
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And then he was
going around to his friends
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telling his friends.
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Hey, let's leave
this isn't worth it.
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You know, let's leave.
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No, you're fine. You're fine.
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You're fine,
whatever. Anyways, so he left.
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We zeroed the spot.
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The only one that survived.
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And so, yeah.
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And so, we were talking
about that during worship,
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while we were at the church
and we were thinking, man,
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one of the biggest
things is never skip a person,
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never skip a house,
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because if we have not gone down
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to that corner house,
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the guy at that
house, the veteran,
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that we had been circling,
he wasn't outside of his house.
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He wasn't asking for help.
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We went to him.
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We could have skipped them
but we didn't, you know that.
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There were times
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when I was literally
looking at the Heritage Kids
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and there were vehicles
driving by and that like,
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there was that like
split-second hesitation
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of should I go, should I not?
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And then they would just
like make up their decision
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and run out to the vehicle.
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Catch them, stop them.
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People would roll
down their windows,
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can I pray with you?
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And here's the GLOW tract.
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Those kids are courageous.
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It's just not
skipping an individual.
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And we were thinking, you know,
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if this was in
a spiritual sense,
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we are living in the tornadoes
not over in a spiritual sense.
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We're living in a
day and age in a world
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where this tornado is
raging and moving around,
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and some people
just don't know it.
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You know, and we
know it's coming.
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So what are we going to do?
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Are we just going
to sit there and leave
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or are we going to run
around and tell our friends
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and all the
people that we know, hey,
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we got to go?
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And so, that was...
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Yeah, we...
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We choked up.
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I mean, Doug and I
just flying on the way back.
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We broke down
crying a couple of times
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'cause it was just...
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The flight is surreal.
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Everything is
surreal, the moments.
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The news is not
doing any justice
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I mean, it's not capturing.
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Just these people, you know,
they pulled up to this truck
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and they like hey,
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are you guys
giving supplies out?
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And we were
like, "Yeah, we are."
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And they just broke down
crying right in front of us.
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And we pray with them.
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And man that
just touched my heart.
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I'm really emotional right now.
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I'm trying to hold it back.
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I'm so happy
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I'm at Adventist World Aviation.
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I have not made a
difference like this in years.
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Touching lives, get
to pray with people,
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give them literature,
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and touch them like
their spiritual need,
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build their spiritual
need as well as their physical
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and that's what we're all about
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and it's filling my heart.
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It's ministering
to me just as much
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as I'm ministering to them.
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So, yeah.
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And so, Brock, Cory, and Wills,
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and Doug, all of us,
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we said, you know what?
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We need to get
together and pray,
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refocus, and
find the next place.
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And so we prayed, you
know, I was able to pray.
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And it's like,
Lord, please help us
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find that next big need.
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Because we need
to, we need to make as,
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have as much
influence in these areas,
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much as possible
to spread the Word
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and spread the gospel
and also the literature.
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Yeah.
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And so we prayed.
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And that's when news arrived,
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that there was a lot of help
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towards a lot
closer to the lake.
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So further down the road...
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That was needed.
That was needed. Yeah.
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All of us are going
in that direction now.
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And so, we get to
the top of this hill,
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basically where
the end of the road is
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and we're looking around,
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and this is disaster everywhere.
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Can't leave their houses,
there are trees everywhere.
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They can't, they
couldn't get out.
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So Brock and Michael,
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I believe, and a couple of them,
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they were going
kind of door to door
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to see how they
could fill needs,
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you know, and I was
working with the Heritage Kids.
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I told to
Heritage Kids, hey, guys,
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let's remove all this rubble
from the front of this house
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and help these people out.
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So we move in there, you
know, and within minutes,
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we were getting rubble out
and the guys who own the house,
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they were just dumbfounded,
just staring at us like...
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Why are you guys?
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I found an American flag
just laying there on the floor.
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And immediately
I ran to go get it.
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And then these two girls
from Heritage beat me to it,
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and they grabbed the flag.
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And they didn't
know how to fold it.
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But they were trying to,
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I think this is how
you fold it, you know?
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And Doug showed up and I,
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you know, I was there
with my phone recording it
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as they tried to and
then we folded the flag up,
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you know, and I was
able to give that flag
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back to the owner of the house
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and he just broke down crying.
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He's like, thank
you so much, you know.
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And... Meanwhile...
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Yeah, meanwhile.
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Michael was like, hey, man,
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they need you
because I stepped away
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and to go get Mike on the Ranger
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and there Mike's opinions
like, hey, man, we need you.
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There's a drunk veteran.
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Not yet.
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So basically, as they were going
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door to door, Brock.
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So while this is
happening with me
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over here and the
flag and everything,
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Brock is going door to
door and someone says, hey,
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you should check
out that one house,
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there's a really
old lady out there.
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See if she's okay, so
they head down to that house
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and no one's home.
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So you know, I guess
she wasn't at the tornado
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or the site or anything.
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So she's fine.
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But then they look and
they see this one-house
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driveway is
completely blocked off
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by these bisect like trees,
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six-foot round trees
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on probably a seven to 10-degree
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incline, just down
and, you know, nothing.
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And there's a truck down there.
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Obviously, it can't get up.
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And there's smoke coming out
of the chimney of this house.
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But you know they
didn't see anybody
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but they decided,
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you know, let's go
down there and check it out.
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And so they go,
they knock on the door.
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And this, this vet comes out,
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you know, drunk,
completely drunk.
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Just looks like he's
given up on life completely.
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Later on, we find out that
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he actually had a
rope hanging like,
00:13:34.58\00:13:37.95
because he was
going to end his life.
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So this happens, Brock
comes and gets me and says,
00:13:41.75\00:13:45.69
"Hey, man, we have a
job that needs to get done.
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We need to clear this driveway."
00:13:49.22\00:13:50.56
This guy didn't want our help
00:13:50.59\00:13:52.06
but we convinced him,
hey, let us help you with,
00:13:52.09\00:13:54.10
at least clear the driveway
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so you can get out and
so the guy said, "Okay."
00:13:55.53\00:13:57.50
So I grabbed a chainsaw,
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a couple of us grabbed chainsaws
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and we get down there
00:14:00.30\00:14:01.64
and we start working on
cutting up all those trees
00:14:01.67\00:14:03.77
while the
skid-steer is on its way.
00:14:03.81\00:14:06.31
And then that's
when Doug got called
00:14:06.34\00:14:09.01
and Mike and
Doug started working.
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Called me, and
while they called Mike
00:14:10.41\00:14:11.98
and they said, "Hey,
can you get Doug up here,"
00:14:12.01\00:14:13.98
because he was
with Special Forces
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in the army.
00:14:16.45\00:14:20.16
He was drunk and he...
00:14:20.19\00:14:23.83
You know when we
started talking, he's like,
00:14:23.86\00:14:25.26
there's no, look at
this, he's like this is just,
00:14:25.29\00:14:27.83
he's like taken back.
00:14:27.86\00:14:30.90
The alcohol did help him,
00:14:30.93\00:14:32.27
he has some medical issues
from his time in the military.
00:14:32.30\00:14:37.07
He was just pounding them back.
00:14:37.11\00:14:40.18
I just let him talk
and as he's talking,
00:14:40.21\00:14:43.85
he's, obviously he's very upset,
00:14:43.88\00:14:45.95
I was trying to get him away
00:14:45.98\00:14:47.68
from the alcohol
00:14:47.72\00:14:49.58
and keep him
away from the alcohol
00:14:49.62\00:14:51.45
and he had the music blaring.
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He's just telling me like,
00:14:52.92\00:14:54.26
there's just no
reason to live anymore
00:14:54.29\00:14:56.52
and he's like everything's gone.
00:14:56.56\00:14:58.43
You know everything around.
00:14:58.46\00:14:59.96
His house was damaged,
00:15:00.00\00:15:01.36
and he had a
lot of damage to it,
00:15:01.40\00:15:02.86
but it was still standing.
00:15:02.90\00:15:04.23
I said, "Listen,
Brother," I say, "You're lucky."
00:15:04.27\00:15:07.40
I said, "God had
His hand on you."
00:15:07.44\00:15:09.60
And I said,
"You're here for a reason."
00:15:09.64\00:15:11.91
So he started talking about
his girlfriend who put herself,
00:15:11.94\00:15:15.64
throw herself over
six kids and saved them
00:15:15.68\00:15:18.31
because everything
had come down on them
00:15:18.35\00:15:22.12
in Mayfield.
00:15:22.15\00:15:24.32
So as I listen
to him, he started,
00:15:24.35\00:15:25.92
you know, he's
getting choked up,
00:15:25.95\00:15:27.32
he's really mad,
then he starts to look...
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Did he lose his
girlfriend? Is she gone?
00:15:29.56\00:15:30.89
No, they survived.
00:15:30.93\00:15:33.29
He was telling me
she deserves an award
00:15:33.33\00:15:35.60
because of what she did like,
00:15:35.63\00:15:37.43
these kids are only
here because of her.
00:15:37.47\00:15:41.57
And then he goes
into some personal stuff
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I didn't want to,
00:15:44.07\00:15:45.41
you know, was trying
to steer him away from
00:15:45.44\00:15:46.78
because he kept getting
angrier and angrier and angrier
00:15:46.81\00:15:49.28
and like the
alcohol wasn't helping.
00:15:49.31\00:15:50.88
So, but he was
doing a lot of GDs around,
00:15:50.91\00:15:55.88
and it was making me
feel about talking about
00:15:55.92\00:15:58.25
like the cases and
sat down next to him,
00:15:58.29\00:16:00.82
I asked him to sit down with me.
00:16:00.86\00:16:02.39
And he sat down just
kind of, while he was talking,
00:16:02.42\00:16:05.83
I was praying and I was like,
00:16:05.86\00:16:07.76
Father, I don't know
how to handle this situation
00:16:07.80\00:16:11.47
right now.
00:16:11.50\00:16:12.83
I said, I know
I've been in his shoes,
00:16:12.87\00:16:14.37
and just give me
the strength to kind of,
00:16:14.40\00:16:17.51
I don't know, just
figure out a way to help him.
00:16:17.54\00:16:20.41
In the meantime, our entire team
00:16:20.44\00:16:22.88
saw what was going on
and we stopped to pray.
00:16:22.91\00:16:25.55
And we all circled up and
we're praying specifically
00:16:25.58\00:16:27.78
for Doug and this conversation.
00:16:27.82\00:16:29.48
So Mike comes
down and had him quiet,
00:16:29.52\00:16:34.69
eventually got him calm
down, it wasn't Mike, nothing.
00:16:34.72\00:16:40.03
He just started refocusing.
00:16:40.06\00:16:41.40
He went and
grabbed another beer.
00:16:41.43\00:16:42.76
And I'm like,
so I was trying to,
00:16:42.80\00:16:45.33
he started hashing
out the same things
00:16:45.37\00:16:47.14
he talked to me
about not just like I said,
00:16:47.17\00:16:50.14
divert his attention.
00:16:50.17\00:16:51.81
I saw he made a really
nice, outdoor in-table.
00:16:51.84\00:16:57.35
I said, "Man,
that's really good."
00:16:57.38\00:16:59.65
I said, "Have you
considered making more of those
00:16:59.68\00:17:01.35
and kind of making
a business out of that
00:17:01.38\00:17:02.82
and selling them?"
00:17:02.85\00:17:04.19
I said, "People would buy that."
00:17:04.22\00:17:05.55
Kind of as I'm doing that
00:17:05.59\00:17:10.63
everybody came down,
00:17:10.66\00:17:12.53
and they started singing.
00:17:12.56\00:17:15.80
Yeah, we finally
able to clear out
00:17:15.83\00:17:18.93
the entire driveway, you know.
00:17:18.97\00:17:21.37
And once that was all clear,
00:17:21.40\00:17:25.31
it was starting to
get a little later,
00:17:25.34\00:17:26.78
you know, the sun
was starting to get down,
00:17:26.81\00:17:28.34
and all the Heritage Kids,
00:17:28.38\00:17:30.31
myself, all the Brock
00:17:30.35\00:17:32.75
and all of the Gideon
Rescue crew and all that,
00:17:32.78\00:17:36.72
we kind of all just kind
of came down to that area
00:17:36.75\00:17:40.32
and we circled him.
00:17:40.36\00:17:44.13
So he's still
angry, told, he's like,
00:17:44.16\00:17:45.93
you know, nobody's
coming out here to help us.
00:17:45.96\00:17:49.90
I said, "Listen, sir," I
said, I told him who you are
00:17:49.93\00:17:52.50
and I said, "Let me
show you something."
00:17:52.53\00:17:56.00
So I showed him the
video of us circling around,
00:17:56.04\00:17:58.71
his house is in that video.
00:17:58.74\00:18:00.08
Yeah.
00:18:00.11\00:18:01.44
When we were flying,
00:18:01.48\00:18:02.81
it was his house
we were circling.
00:18:02.84\00:18:04.18
And would all of
three of us meet there.
00:18:04.21\00:18:05.71
We were like that's
where we need to go.
00:18:05.75\00:18:07.42
That was your
turn around the point?
00:18:07.45\00:18:08.78
No. Wow!
00:18:08.82\00:18:10.15
We did turn around a
point over his house.
00:18:10.19\00:18:12.65
That was the
turn around the point.
00:18:12.69\00:18:14.02
Yeah. Wow!
00:18:14.06\00:18:15.39
It was in the video that he did.
00:18:15.42\00:18:16.86
Yes, the video
that I put on Instagram,
00:18:16.89\00:18:19.46
that video, his house was in it.
00:18:19.49\00:18:21.70
All three of us were like...
00:18:21.73\00:18:23.23
That's where we need to go
00:18:23.26\00:18:25.20
and that's where we all ended.
00:18:25.23\00:18:26.67
And so...
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How do you find that
needle in the haystack
00:18:28.40\00:18:30.74
after going in the
air and then getting back
00:18:30.77\00:18:32.11
on the ground again?
00:18:32.14\00:18:33.48
That's amazing.
Well, yeah, exactly.
00:18:33.51\00:18:35.58
With all that
rubble and destruction.
00:18:35.61\00:18:37.11
I showed him the
video, he's like that was you?
00:18:37.15\00:18:39.11
And I was like that was us.
00:18:39.15\00:18:41.05
I said we knew
you guys needed help.
00:18:41.08\00:18:42.75
We saw that you
guys needed help.
00:18:42.78\00:18:44.82
We're here to help you.
00:18:44.85\00:18:46.39
He said, "I just
want to help people."
00:18:46.42\00:18:48.19
And I said, "Brother,
there's a time to help
00:18:48.22\00:18:50.19
and there's time to be helped."
00:18:50.23\00:18:51.69
I said, "Right now is
your time for us to help you."
00:18:51.73\00:18:55.60
We kept thanking
him for his service.
00:18:55.63\00:18:57.53
And then everybody
from here just came down.
00:18:57.57\00:19:01.30
And I didn't even
know I can't recall.
00:19:01.34\00:19:03.84
These kids are singing. Yeah.
00:19:03.87\00:19:05.31
When we all got around
them, he just started singing.
00:19:05.34\00:19:09.94
He started recording us singing
00:19:09.98\00:19:11.78
and we did like two
or three songs for him.
00:19:11.81\00:19:14.82
I love that.
00:19:14.85\00:19:16.18
He looked at me and I
said, "You know, I understand
00:19:16.22\00:19:19.35
that you have some
reservations about God."
00:19:19.39\00:19:21.82
I said, "But I want you to know
this is God working right now."
00:19:21.86\00:19:24.39
He said, "I see it now."
00:19:24.43\00:19:26.06
I mean, this guy's
like he was literally
00:19:26.09\00:19:28.76
on the verge of taking his life.
00:19:28.80\00:19:31.33
He wanted to burn the
rest of his house down.
00:19:31.37\00:19:33.67
He had the rope ready.
00:19:33.70\00:19:35.04
And all the while,
there's this other random guy
00:19:35.07\00:19:38.87
who decided to join our team
00:19:38.91\00:19:42.54
in Gideon Rescue and everything.
00:19:42.58\00:19:44.18
What's his?
00:19:44.21\00:19:45.75
Daniel, this random guy
shows up out of nowhere,
00:19:45.78\00:19:48.38
wants to join.
00:19:48.42\00:19:49.75
He sees that we're
making a difference
00:19:49.78\00:19:51.62
and decides that
he's going to join us
00:19:51.65\00:19:53.29
so he's helping
clear the entire driveway
00:19:53.32\00:19:57.49
while all of this
is happening, okay?
00:19:57.53\00:20:00.53
Isn't Christian,
we don't know, but...
00:20:00.56\00:20:02.83
He'd been questioning his faith
00:20:02.86\00:20:05.93
and later when he
walked away, it wasn't good.
00:20:05.97\00:20:11.57
We were praying like... Wills.
00:20:11.61\00:20:13.48
Wills, then who got old stubby.
00:20:13.51\00:20:16.44
Yes, Wills.
00:20:16.48\00:20:18.15
So me and Wills were
sitting there talking,
00:20:18.18\00:20:19.88
Wills was like you
did a very good job.
00:20:19.91\00:20:21.78
I said I appreciate,
well Daniel walked on to us
00:20:21.82\00:20:24.12
and he started talking.
00:20:24.15\00:20:25.75
He was like, you guys
are increasing hope and faith
00:20:25.79\00:20:30.93
and then he started crying.
00:20:30.96\00:20:32.63
He's like, try not to choke up.
00:20:32.66\00:20:34.26
He's like, I'm having a
hard time with this myself
00:20:34.30\00:20:38.37
and my walk with God.
00:20:38.40\00:20:41.44
Yeah, he saw the
singing and he was like...
00:20:41.47\00:20:45.87
Sat there right
with him and yeah,
00:20:45.91\00:20:49.58
it was pretty good.
00:20:49.61\00:20:51.28
I mean, you
could tell in his mind,
00:20:51.31\00:20:54.92
the way he was looking at
everything, looking at us.
00:20:54.95\00:20:58.95
I mean, I sat
there and watched him.
00:20:58.99\00:21:00.32
I didn't know who he
was. I hadn't seen him yet.
00:21:00.36\00:21:02.32
While they were
singing down there I sat,
00:21:02.36\00:21:04.39
he took out his phone,
00:21:04.43\00:21:07.00
and real discreetly,
so he started recording.
00:21:07.03\00:21:11.50
He was just recording, and yeah,
00:21:11.53\00:21:15.40
I mean, he was
touched, was touched.
00:21:15.44\00:21:18.14
And by that
time, we all packed up.
00:21:18.17\00:21:21.78
Yeah, we started,
when we were done there,
00:21:21.81\00:21:23.65
we started packing up,
00:21:23.68\00:21:25.01
and we got ready
to go and so we left.
00:21:25.05\00:21:28.08
And then that
testimony that I told you about
00:21:28.12\00:21:30.52
this morning
happened at the gas station,
00:21:30.55\00:21:34.92
forgetting the receipt.
00:21:34.96\00:21:37.53
Tell me that story again.
00:21:37.56\00:21:38.96
So how did that all happen?
00:21:38.99\00:21:40.96
So I have filled
up the box truck to,
00:21:41.00\00:21:45.17
it was like, $70,
and in order for me
00:21:45.20\00:21:49.20
to get reimbursed, though,
00:21:49.24\00:21:50.57
I need the receipt
00:21:50.61\00:21:51.94
and I had forgotten the receipt.
00:21:51.97\00:21:53.31
And so I went there, you know,
after the whole day was over,
00:21:53.34\00:21:56.64
I went that night to see
if I could get the receipt,
00:21:56.68\00:22:00.25
but the gas station was closed.
00:22:00.28\00:22:01.92
I was like, okay, whatever,
I'll go in the morning.
00:22:01.95\00:22:04.45
So, right before we were
about to leave to the airport.
00:22:04.49\00:22:09.62
I was like, hey, can we
swing by the gas station again.
00:22:09.66\00:22:12.23
So we swing by the gas station,
00:22:12.26\00:22:14.16
and I go in and talk
to the lady in the front.
00:22:14.20\00:22:17.37
She's like, "Yeah, you
know, this is gonna be rough.
00:22:17.40\00:22:18.93
Go talk to the manager."
00:22:18.97\00:22:20.30
So I was like, okay, so I
go and talk to the manager.
00:22:20.34\00:22:22.47
Oh, so it was the manager?
00:22:22.50\00:22:24.31
She was the one that was upset.
00:22:24.34\00:22:25.84
Yes, and so I walk in,
and I see that she's like,
00:22:25.87\00:22:30.21
like she's been crying.
00:22:30.25\00:22:31.98
And I'm like, you
know, I kind of told her
00:22:32.01\00:22:35.15
why I'm there and everything.
00:22:35.18\00:22:36.52
She's just
like, well, right now,
00:22:36.55\00:22:37.89
I have an issue with the thing,
00:22:37.92\00:22:39.25
and I'm not sure if I
can get you the receipt,
00:22:39.29\00:22:41.02
you know, and
then I just thought,
00:22:41.06\00:22:42.39
I'm like, "Hey, you seem
like you're really stressed out?
00:22:42.42\00:22:44.29
Are you okay?"
00:22:44.33\00:22:46.23
She's just like, "Oh,
00:22:46.26\00:22:48.43
my neighbor, his house is gone,"
00:22:48.46\00:22:51.27
and basically,
00:22:51.30\00:22:52.63
she was just getting
that survivor's guilt.
00:22:52.67\00:22:55.10
Her neighbor didn't make it.
00:22:55.14\00:22:56.47
Her neighbor didn't make it.
00:22:56.50\00:22:57.84
Oh, wow.
00:22:57.87\00:22:59.21
And so she's wondering,
why me, why did I survive,
00:22:59.24\00:23:01.58
and why not my neighbor.
00:23:01.61\00:23:04.58
And I was like, you
know, I believe that
00:23:04.61\00:23:09.32
I came here for a receipt
00:23:09.35\00:23:10.95
but I believe that
God actually sent me here
00:23:10.99\00:23:12.85
to pray for you.
00:23:12.89\00:23:15.12
I said I was like, look,
God doesn't care about...
00:23:15.16\00:23:19.83
I mean, He cares
about this world,
00:23:19.86\00:23:21.20
but it's not
just about this world.
00:23:21.23\00:23:22.56
It's about eternity
00:23:22.60\00:23:24.20
and all the
people who passed away,
00:23:24.23\00:23:27.64
God has done everything
in His power for them.
00:23:27.67\00:23:29.97
You can trust that, but
He's giving you more time
00:23:30.01\00:23:34.24
because He's trying
to reach your heart.
00:23:34.28\00:23:37.01
And she was just like,
she broke down in tears,
00:23:37.05\00:23:40.45
I was able to pray for her,
00:23:40.48\00:23:41.82
I was able to
give her a GLOW tract.
00:23:41.85\00:23:44.42
The only GLOW
tract I had in my pocket,
00:23:44.45\00:23:46.09
I didn't even know it
was kind of like shoot,
00:23:46.12\00:23:50.23
I wish I had a GLOW tract.
00:23:50.26\00:23:51.59
And then, oh, hey,
I have a GLOW tract
00:23:51.63\00:23:53.86
and so I gave
her this GLOW tract.
00:23:53.90\00:23:56.13
And she's just like,
you know, she's like,
00:23:56.16\00:23:59.10
you know, let me
get your information.
00:23:59.13\00:24:00.57
If I get this
receipt, I'll get it to you.
00:24:00.60\00:24:02.57
And just now as I landed,
as we landed the aircraft,
00:24:02.60\00:24:07.71
I got this email
from her and it says,
00:24:07.74\00:24:11.01
"I got your receipt for
you for your fuel purchase.
00:24:11.05\00:24:14.38
It was very
nice to have met you.
00:24:14.42\00:24:16.28
The ministry that
you are a part of sounds
00:24:16.32\00:24:18.39
like a blessing.
00:24:18.42\00:24:19.75
It's so refreshing to
hear of the goodness and mercy
00:24:19.79\00:24:22.22
you share with people.
00:24:22.26\00:24:23.59
I am sure you have
seen a lot of things
00:24:23.63\00:24:25.39
doing what you do.
00:24:25.43\00:24:26.76
I pray that you stay safe
00:24:26.80\00:24:28.13
and keep up the
wonderful work that you do.
00:24:28.16\00:24:30.10
What a way to show
God's love and mercy
00:24:30.13\00:24:32.60
for each one of us
through your ministry.
00:24:32.63\00:24:34.77
Yes, everything
in life is temporary
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and with God life is eternal.
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I needed to feel
God's love and be reminded,
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so thank you.
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I feel so
blessed to have met you."
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It breaks your heart to
see the devastation there.
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The sadness of people's
lives completely destroyed
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of their worldly possessions.
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Their homes,
their lives uprooted.
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It's horrific,
but there is hope.
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And God sends people
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from all different
kinds of backgrounds
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and walks of life.
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He sent them there
to help their neighbor
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that's only
motivated by the Holy Spirit,
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I believe and
Gideon Rescue Company,
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Adventist World Aviation,
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we collaborated
together to make this possible.
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We did that
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because the Holy
Spirit's leading us.
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And we want to make a difference
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in people's lives
not just physically,
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but spiritually too.
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I tell you what,
one month from now,
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most of us won't
remember Mayfield,
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Kentucky, or
remember Dawson Springs
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or remember the
other communities
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like Jonesboro, Arkansas,
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other ones that were
hit by the tornadoes.
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So I ask you to think about
how you can be a part of that.
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Keep that always in your prayer
for the next three months.
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It's gonna take six months
or a year to recover from this.
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They're going to need
a massive amount of help.
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Prayers are paramount.
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Adventist World
Aviation is gonna go back
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and continue to
help people there.
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So you can
support us financially,
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you can support us
physically with supplies.
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We want to stage
supplies so it comes back in
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when they start
running out of stuff right now.
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When they start
running out of hope,
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start running out of
people to help them recover.
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So in January, and
February, and March,
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we gonna need more stuff.
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So you want to help pray,
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ask God to open the
doors where you can help.
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Consider helping
through Adventist World Aviation
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because we're
here to serve people
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however we can.
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We want to be the
hands and feet of Jesus,
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however He's leading.
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Thank you for your time.
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Please pray for the
victims of these tornadoes,
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people who've lost their lives.
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Pray that Jesus
went to their hearts
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and they will know how
to help their neighbors
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and friends too.
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Thank you for your time.
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If you could ask
the American population
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one request, what would it be?
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Take care of your neighbors,
take care of your neighbors,
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respect them, respect their land
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and just be grateful
for what you do have.
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I think for what
you have if you have.
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Thank you so much
for taking your time
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to answer some
of these questions
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and we really appreciate it.
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If there's anything
that we could possibly do
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to help you guys further.
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Please for humanity please,
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don't hesitate
to give us a call.
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It's been an honor.
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Thank you so much. Thank you.
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Yeah.
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