As you're well aware,
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we're living in
unprecedented times.
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Join us now for
Today special program.
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello and welcome to
another 3ABN Today program.
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Thank you for joining us
as you do each and every day.
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Thank you for your
love and your prayers
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and financial support of 3ABN.
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As we, I like to
say this every day,
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as we endeavor to take
this great gospel of the kingdom
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into all the world.
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Now, there are many ways
to support the ministries
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on this earth, on planet earth.
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3ABN is one of those.
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We're so
thankful, nearly 37 years
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since the idea came to
build a television station,
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to reach the
world with an undiluted
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three angels' messages,
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one that would
counteract the counterfeit,
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but there's all kinds of ways.
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So people send tax
deductible donations to us
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through finances,
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but there's also
other ways to support 3ABN.
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And so that's why I
have my sister Tammy,
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and brother-in-law Bruce
Chance with us here today.
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We're gonna talk about
our Donations Department.
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And so, you may have
something in your hand
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that you say, I
don't really need it,
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but maybe it'll
help the work of God.
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Maybe you don't have the cash,
but you say, you know what?
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I've got this. We'll
talk about what it is.
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Tammy and Bruce are here,
but maybe you have something.
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They always
say, Tammy and Bruce,
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somebody's junk is
somebody else's treasure.
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Sometimes. Right?
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So you never know
somebody as always
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we're looking for something
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that you're
willing to throw away
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or maybe have.
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I've seen that myself.
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So today we're
actually they're in charge
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of the Donations
Department at 3ABN.
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So glad to have
you guys here today.
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Thank you. Thank
you. Glad to be here.
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Since you're
looking pretty good for 'em.
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Oh, just looking pretty good.
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I'm not going to bring
up her age or anything,
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or she's a baby compared
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to the rest of her
four older brothers.
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Yeah.
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And, but anyway,
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we're glad that
you're here along with Bruce.
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Thank you.
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And so the donations apartment,
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how long has that
been going on Bruce about?
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It's going on 19
years now, Danny.
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Nineteen? Yes, 19 years.
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That's amazing. That's amazing.
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So you're gonna...
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Today, we're
gonna talk to folk about
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what they can do.
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And we actually
have some items here
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that people have
donated and you can go to...
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We'll talk about how we can go
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to our website
and what have you.
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But before we get
into that too much,
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we have some music today.
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We have Tim Parton
and we also have Ginger.
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And I always call
her Ginger Lester,
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but I have to look
at her actual name here,
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it's Pitchers.
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So I've always known her
as Ginger, Ginger Lester,
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incredible woman of
God, great singer, musician.
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So I think she and Tim Parton
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are gonna bless us
right now with some music.
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His name is wonderful
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His name is wonderful
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His name is wonderful
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Jesus my Lord
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He is the mighty King
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Master of everything
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His name is wonderful
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Jesus my Lord
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For He's the great Shepherd
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The Rock of all ages
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Almighty God is He
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Bow down before Him
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Love and adore Him
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His name is wonderful
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Jesus my Lord
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For He's the great shepherd
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He's the Rock of all ages
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Almighty God is He
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Bow down before Him
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Love and adore Him
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His name is wonderful
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Jesus my Lord
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He is wonderful
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Jesus my Lord
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Amen.
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Well, if that doesn't put you
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in a mood for a
praise and worship,
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I don't know what it
does. Thank you, Ginger.
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Thank you, Tim.
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And we've been knowing
Ginger for a long time,
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and she's
incredible musician as well,
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plays instruments.
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And her brother, Brian,
of course the Lester family,
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a lot of you know them,
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they are known pretty well
around the world, but what...
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She just has such an
anointing, doesn't she?
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Yes, such a
smooth, just mellow voice.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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And it's just
when you can sit back
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and just praise the Lord on.
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So thank you so much.
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Of course, Tim Parton,
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he doesn't hurt the
pity thing at all, does he?
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Playing the piano.
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What an
incredible musician also.
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We're so blessed to have
Tim as apart of our family here.
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What we're talking today
about how you can support 3ABN.
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There are number
of ways to do it,
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and it's been 18,
19 years, close to 20.
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I remember that
we got in the mail.
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Someone sent us,
was it a toaster?
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And I think it was
an electric toaster,
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but it was one of
the first toasters,
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electric toasters ever made.
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This lady wrote in and said,
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and this has been
nearly 20 years ago.
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She was, I think, in
her 90s then and said,
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when I was a little girl,
10, 11 years old, we got this.
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So that would have been,
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we'd figured its
time early 1900s.
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I don't know if
that'd be 10 to 20,
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somewhere in there around 1920.
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And so, when electricity
was brand new and so she said,
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my mother used to
make toast on this.
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And it means so much to me,
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but I was
watching 3ABN and said,
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boy, if I just had something
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and the Lord
basically said to her,
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what is this you
have in your hand?
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So she said, well,
maybe this can be useful.
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She sent it.
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And that really, I think,
kind of catapulted us into,
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you know what?
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So many of us have
things that we give away,
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we throw away
and yet they can be
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very valuable
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because there's always somebody
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wanting to buy
something like that.
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Right.
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And I think that brought
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quite a bit of
money, didn't Bruce?
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Yes, it did. I think it did.
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Yeah, it would
have because it's rare.
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Now talk about
some of the things
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I know it's been many years,
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but some of the things
that people donate to us
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or they can donate that would...
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That is tax deductible.
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And again, maybe
it's, you askthe Lord,
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what is this, you know?
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He says, what is this
you have in your hand?
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So Lord, what is that I
have that maybe I don't need,
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and I'm willing
to send it to 3ABN
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and whatever their
praise of value is,
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you will get a tax receipt.
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Is that right? That's correct.
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And many of the
items that we use is...
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I mean that we
can really use is,
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of course,
anything with gold in it,
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silver items,
sterling silver items,
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like dinnerware
and that kind of thing.
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Platinum, diamonds, jewelry.
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I think there's
a ring on up here,
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I got wedding and
it's a diamond ring
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and people as they come
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into the church
and a lot of newcomers
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come to the church,
they get rid of their jewelry
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and they send it
to us and we turn it
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into money for Lord's work.
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Okay.
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And there's many
items that, you know,
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I don't have time to
mention all the items
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that we get and use,
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but there's
some of the top items
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that we can really do well with.
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Other things is vehicles,
RVs, china, real estate,
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musical
instruments like we have here.
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That's just a few of the
items that we can really use.
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I remember probably
been about 10 years ago,
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somebody sent this old fan
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and it was just a
like on a pedestal fan
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and it was
rusted and everything.
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And I'm like, what
are we gonna do here
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with this old rusted fan?
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And it ended up
being like from 1930s
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or something like that.
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And I think we got several
thousand dollars out of it.
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Wow.
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Yeah, it was something,
but you know, a lot of...
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Because of the internet now,
so many things that were rare
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is now easy to find
because of the internet.
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But so you got to have
stuff that's pretty special,
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just like the toaster
and just like this fan
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things like that that
are really hard to come by.
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You can't just find
anywhere on the internet.
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Yeah. They're rare.
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And so that's the things
we can really do well with.
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Everything old is
rare, including people.
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Yeah. I'm rare, yeah.
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We're getting more,
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me getting more rare
all the time, my age.
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So I understand that.
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Does that make you worth more?
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You know, depends who is to,
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who you're talking about,
your kids and grandkids maybe.
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Are you saying you
might be an antique?
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I am an antique.
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Anytime you hit that 70,
you're definitely an antique,
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but hey, still going
for the Lord so far, right?
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That's right.
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And we're not willing
to give up yet and quit.
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We're willing to
keep going. That's right.
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Now, some of the
things over the years,
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you mentioned people
who've had motor homes.
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They've donated to us
vehicles, all different kinds.
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We've had some
really old vehicles,
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but like musical instruments,
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there's been several
of, especially ladies
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who maybe their
husbands have passed away.
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And they had...
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He had an old guitar,
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whether it's an
old Sears guitar,
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whether it be a
Martin or a Gibson,
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and it's just sat
there, sitting there for years
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and they don't have heirs
and the kids don't want them.
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And they say, hey,
let's send those to you.
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And a lot of those
times, and a lot of those things
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are worth many
thousands of dollars.
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Absolutely.
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I don't know
what you have there,
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is that a little
clarinet or something?
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No, it's a little flute. Flute.
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Yeah. Yeah. A German made flute.
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And, but we get
saxophones, we get dobros.
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I mean, we get everything
you can imagine musically.
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And, of course,
most all of the guitars
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that we get comes to
you, the expert with guitars.
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You know a lot more
about them than I do.
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And so we have you to
market those for us if we can.
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Yeah.
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We sometimes take them
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to Gruhn Music
down in Nashville,
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'cause they're the
foremost experts in the world
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and we get appraisals on them.
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Exactly.
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And then we're
able to sell them,
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but tell us how
that internet works,
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because a lot of
people don't understand.
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In other words, let's
say this item right here,
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you've got the silverware.
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Yeah.
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Now, how do you find out
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what it's worth and
how do you reach people?
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So you have a big audience for.
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In other words, years
ago, we would have put this
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in West Frankfort
Daily American 101,
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and people around West Frankfort
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would have seen it.
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Now you literally can
show it to the world, right?
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Right now we put it
on... How does that work?
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On eBay.
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That's where we
put most stuff that
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we have buyers
that come that know,
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he's got certain
things that will come here,
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but for the internet
right now, it's eBay.
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And that goes
to the whole world.
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And so... So you do what?
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You take pictures.
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You take pictures, you put it...
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You list it, you put
either an auction price
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and it's gonna auction or
you put a buy it now price
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and that's the price it is.
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And then that way
people can bid on it
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or they can do a buy it now
00:13:47.69\00:13:49.29
where they can just pay
the full price right then,
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and we ship it to them.
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Okay.
00:13:53.43\00:13:54.76
And the one thing
about the internet
00:13:54.80\00:13:56.13
I might add is
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it's a great
research tool for us.
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Of course, we
can't know everything
00:14:00.47\00:14:02.47
about everything that comes in.
00:14:02.50\00:14:04.24
So we, you know, lean
back on eBay a lot and...
00:14:04.27\00:14:08.61
Tammy said you knew everything.
00:14:08.64\00:14:10.15
Well, I hate to
disappoint her, but...
00:14:10.18\00:14:14.02
He knows a lot.
You know, it's...
00:14:14.05\00:14:16.55
There's a lot to know
just with the coins alone,
00:14:16.58\00:14:19.15
you know, and keeping up
00:14:19.19\00:14:20.52
with gold and
silver bullion prices.
00:14:20.56\00:14:22.09
That a lot right there, but no,
00:14:22.12\00:14:24.29
I don't know
everything I wished I did,
00:14:24.33\00:14:26.59
but there are so many things
00:14:26.63\00:14:29.06
that we get in
that we do lean back to,
00:14:29.10\00:14:32.73
you know, to eBay or
the internet and research.
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And we can find usually
unless it's a very rare item,
00:14:35.64\00:14:38.91
we can find
several just like it.
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And then we can average
00:14:41.48\00:14:42.81
those prices at
what they sold for.
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And that's what we call a
current market value price.
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Okay.
00:14:47.05\00:14:48.38
Now, like this,
is this the coins?
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It is, that's a...
00:14:49.88\00:14:51.22
See if I can reach
over and grab this thing.
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That's a book.
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And I think the
top row there is...
00:14:54.69\00:14:58.49
I don't know if we...
Yeah. I think, I think.
00:14:58.53\00:15:01.13
Each one of these are
different kinds of coins
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and it tells you what they are.
00:15:03.93\00:15:05.27
Yeah. What years? Yeah.
00:15:05.30\00:15:06.63
That's a flying
eagle at the top.
00:15:06.67\00:15:08.40
Okay. So somebody donated this?
00:15:08.44\00:15:09.94
Yeah.
00:15:09.97\00:15:11.31
That book and,
I'm sorting those out
00:15:11.34\00:15:13.07
and selling those individually
00:15:13.11\00:15:14.74
to get the most
we can out of them.
00:15:14.78\00:15:16.41
Okay. Wow. That's amazing.
00:15:16.44\00:15:17.78
Yeah.
00:15:17.81\00:15:19.15
And people have
something like this.
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Those are the old
Indian Head cents.
00:15:20.55\00:15:22.25
Yeah, that's what it
is, Indian Head cents.
00:15:22.28\00:15:24.19
Indian Head cent.
That's really neat.
00:15:24.22\00:15:25.75
Now this
happens to be a picture.
00:15:25.79\00:15:27.56
We don't know if
we can certify it yet,
00:15:27.59\00:15:29.39
the actual
signatures, but who's on here.
00:15:29.42\00:15:31.66
Let's say Mickey
Mantle. Is that Bill Martin Ted?
00:15:31.69\00:15:35.16
That's Billy Martin.
Billy Martin, over here is...
00:15:35.20\00:15:38.73
DiMaggio. Joe DiMaggio.
00:15:38.77\00:15:40.37
And that's Whitey Ford
in the center of that...
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Whitey Ford in the
middle, he didn't sign it.
00:15:41.80\00:15:43.14
He didn't sign it.
00:15:43.17\00:15:44.51
But we think this could
be, we don't know, right?
00:15:44.54\00:15:46.11
But we haven't been
able to certify this.
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That's correct.
00:15:47.51\00:15:48.84
So we'd have to get
this one certified to know...
00:15:48.88\00:15:50.55
Yeah.
00:15:50.58\00:15:51.91
If it's really,
because of course
00:15:51.95\00:15:53.28
it would make it
worth a lot more money.
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I'm sure. Absolutely.
00:15:54.68\00:15:56.02
Getting those
guys to baseball fans
00:15:56.05\00:15:57.42
and all of that.
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Now also you have some coins.
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If people...
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I might add too. Yeah.
00:16:02.12\00:16:03.46
If people send in memorabilia
like that, that's signed.
00:16:03.49\00:16:06.56
If it has a COI
certificate of authenticity,
00:16:06.59\00:16:09.76
that will
command what it's worth
00:16:09.80\00:16:13.30
if they have that with it.
00:16:13.34\00:16:14.80
Okay. So... All right.
00:16:14.84\00:16:16.27
Okay, go ahead. Okay.
00:16:16.30\00:16:17.64
Now, the coins like here on top,
00:16:17.67\00:16:19.74
I see in these
plastic bags on top of them.
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Are those old coins
00:16:22.28\00:16:23.61
or are they just
rare coins or both?
00:16:23.65\00:16:25.38
They're both, both.
00:16:25.41\00:16:27.58
In some instances
00:16:27.62\00:16:29.68
the Kennedy half
dollar is not rare,
00:16:29.72\00:16:32.25
but it's uncirculated,
but that's some old,
00:16:32.29\00:16:36.12
once again there's a
Liberty nickel there,
00:16:36.16\00:16:38.53
I think on the end.
00:16:38.56\00:16:39.89
And there's a couple
of Indian Head pennies.
00:16:39.93\00:16:43.67
And there's a Seated dime there.
00:16:43.70\00:16:46.57
1877 Seated dime
that that is a stamp CC,
00:16:46.60\00:16:51.51
which is the mint mark
that stands for Carson City,
00:16:51.54\00:16:54.31
which is why it makes it rare.
00:16:54.34\00:16:55.91
Okay.
00:16:55.94\00:16:57.28
That boggles my
mind that there are...
00:16:57.31\00:16:58.88
We got coins from 1870 and 1800.
00:16:58.91\00:17:02.45
You think, how could
they still be around?
00:17:02.48\00:17:04.35
And look good.
Yeah and look good.
00:17:04.39\00:17:06.15
So, looking really
good, basically unused.
00:17:06.19\00:17:09.89
Yeah. You know. Right.
00:17:09.92\00:17:11.36
But I mean,
these are all from you.
00:17:11.39\00:17:13.13
These are from you folks.
00:17:13.16\00:17:14.50
You're sending things in,
and this helps us tremendously.
00:17:14.53\00:17:18.13
And again, maybe it's something
00:17:18.17\00:17:20.04
you don't want to sell
00:17:20.07\00:17:21.40
or you don't have
the market to sell.
00:17:21.44\00:17:23.14
You don't know how to do it.
00:17:23.17\00:17:24.51
Maybe you don't
know very many people.
00:17:24.54\00:17:26.54
When you send it to 3ABN,
00:17:26.57\00:17:28.31
you not only get a
tax receipt for it.
00:17:28.34\00:17:30.98
But then we make sure that
00:17:31.01\00:17:32.88
they put it on the
internet on eBay she says,
00:17:32.91\00:17:36.38
and Bruce has people
who come with it has to do
00:17:36.42\00:17:39.25
with coins that he
works with professionals.
00:17:39.29\00:17:41.62
And so we're able to make sure
00:17:41.66\00:17:44.59
we get the most for
the value of the gift
00:17:44.63\00:17:48.36
that you give.
00:17:48.40\00:17:49.73
One interesting story is,
I don't know all the details,
00:17:49.76\00:17:53.20
but he's been...
00:17:53.23\00:17:54.87
We have a Red Skelton painting
00:17:54.90\00:17:56.57
that was supposed
to have been painted
00:17:56.60\00:17:58.04
by Red Skeleton and
that's a clown painting.
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And he's been working
on trying to authenticate
00:18:00.48\00:18:02.81
it with the Red
Skeleton Foundation.
00:18:02.84\00:18:05.21
And he's been
dealing with Mrs. Skelton
00:18:05.25\00:18:07.82
with she's still
alive, yeah, in her 90s.
00:18:07.85\00:18:10.89
And he's going through
her manager or whatever it is.
00:18:10.92\00:18:14.39
Yeah.
00:18:14.42\00:18:15.76
But anyway,
yeah, she's still alive
00:18:15.79\00:18:17.69
and she's still in
charge of that foundation.
00:18:17.73\00:18:19.66
Good. Yeah.
00:18:19.69\00:18:21.33
Actually, I don't know.
00:18:21.36\00:18:22.70
I guess I didn't tell Tammy,
but it has been authenticated.
00:18:22.73\00:18:25.50
Okay. It is authentic.
00:18:25.53\00:18:27.04
And we have a COA on it,
certificate of authentication.
00:18:27.07\00:18:30.37
Really? On the
Red Skeleton painting?
00:18:30.41\00:18:32.04
On the Red
Skeleton painting. Yeah.
00:18:32.07\00:18:33.41
He was actually
pretty good, wasn't he?
00:18:33.44\00:18:34.78
He was great. He
was one of my favorites.
00:18:34.81\00:18:36.24
Yeah.
00:18:36.28\00:18:37.61
Well, I mean, a
good painter too.
00:18:37.65\00:18:39.11
Oh, yeah, actually
he turned out to be,
00:18:39.15\00:18:43.25
well, actually a
well-known painter.
00:18:43.28\00:18:44.75
Yeah.
00:18:44.79\00:18:46.12
You know, of course
he did all the clowns
00:18:46.15\00:18:47.52
that he portrayed
in his skits, but...
00:18:47.56\00:18:48.89
Yeah.
00:18:48.92\00:18:50.26
Because she is the
one that authenticated it.
00:18:50.29\00:18:51.79
Okay, all right.
00:18:51.83\00:18:53.33
So we thought
that was kind of neat.
00:18:53.36\00:18:54.70
Yeah. That was very...
00:18:54.73\00:18:56.06
You know, growing up, of
course in the 50s and 60s,
00:18:56.10\00:18:58.23
Red Skeleton was on, you know,
00:18:58.27\00:18:59.60
as Clem
Kadiddlehopper and all that.
00:18:59.63\00:19:00.97
Yeah.
00:19:01.00\00:19:02.34
Well in the 70s,
00:19:02.37\00:19:03.71
I'll take time out
for a little story.
00:19:03.74\00:19:05.67
I don't know if I told you guys,
00:19:05.71\00:19:07.04
but in the 70s, I
think it's like 75 or 6.
00:19:07.08\00:19:10.78
I was in Berrien
Springs, Michigan.
00:19:10.81\00:19:12.75
Melody was about, I don't know,
00:19:12.78\00:19:14.28
six, seven years old.
00:19:14.32\00:19:15.98
She had watched him on TV
and they said Red Skeleton
00:19:16.02\00:19:19.35
is going to be at Notre Dame.
00:19:19.39\00:19:20.79
And so from Berrien
Springs that's 30 minute drive
00:19:20.82\00:19:23.43
or something, it's not that far.
00:19:23.46\00:19:25.23
So I said, well,
we're gonna go down there.
00:19:25.26\00:19:27.00
I was shocked.
00:19:27.03\00:19:28.36
I mean, people came
out by the thousands...
00:19:28.40\00:19:29.76
Oh, yeah.
00:19:29.80\00:19:31.13
You know, because by then
00:19:31.17\00:19:32.50
he was probably off the air
far as his regular TV shows,
00:19:32.53\00:19:35.44
but everybody just loved him.
00:19:35.47\00:19:36.81
He was the kind of guy
that you love, very patriotic.
00:19:36.84\00:19:39.41
If you ever listened to him,
do the pledge of allegiance.
00:19:39.44\00:19:43.71
It'll bring tears
to your eyes. Oh, yeah.
00:19:43.75\00:19:45.61
This guy was what's
called a real patriot,
00:19:45.65\00:19:48.48
loved his country.
00:19:48.52\00:19:50.02
And so we...
Melody wanted to see.
00:19:50.05\00:19:52.65
So I took her.
00:19:52.69\00:19:54.02
And so we watched him
00:19:54.06\00:19:55.39
and I remember one
of the first things
00:19:55.42\00:19:56.76
he said, he said, boy,
the people in South Bend,
00:19:56.79\00:19:59.36
Indiana, they're so friendly.
00:19:59.39\00:20:01.20
He said, I got off the airport.
00:20:01.23\00:20:03.00
I went to the park and he said,
somebody yelled Red Skeleton.
00:20:03.03\00:20:07.70
And he said, people just started
00:20:07.74\00:20:10.24
crowding around me
wanting autographs.
00:20:10.27\00:20:12.84
He said they were so nice.
00:20:12.87\00:20:14.21
I kind of felt
bad I had yelled at.
00:20:14.24\00:20:17.88
That's Red Skeleton. Yeah.
00:20:17.91\00:20:20.32
He had brought
attention to his own name.
00:20:20.35\00:20:22.52
So then the crowd were leaving,
there's thousands of people.
00:20:22.55\00:20:27.62
So I tell Melody, if
we go out this front door,
00:20:27.66\00:20:29.92
we're gonna be as
all, let's just go around.
00:20:29.96\00:20:32.46
So I went like down,
00:20:32.49\00:20:34.10
went down almost
into the locker room area,
00:20:34.13\00:20:37.47
trying to do a
shortcut to get out.
00:20:37.50\00:20:40.04
And just as I was going,
the door opened in the basement
00:20:40.07\00:20:43.14
and guess who was there?
00:20:43.17\00:20:44.54
Red Skeleton, and nobody
knew he was gonna be there.
00:20:44.57\00:20:47.68
We didn't know he
was gonna be there.
00:20:47.71\00:20:49.14
So there were
several other people.
00:20:49.18\00:20:51.11
So probably 10 or 15 people.
00:20:51.15\00:20:53.15
So they all jumped
in front and he said,
00:20:53.18\00:20:54.98
oh, Red, can we get autograph?
00:20:55.02\00:20:57.72
And he said, sure.
00:20:57.75\00:21:00.16
So he...
00:21:00.19\00:21:01.52
You know, again,
there's 10, 15 of us.
00:21:01.56\00:21:03.43
So Melody is like,
dad get his autograph.
00:21:03.46\00:21:05.13
I want his autograph.
00:21:05.16\00:21:06.49
I said, honey, I don't
have any paper whatsoever.
00:21:06.53\00:21:09.76
'Cause he said, if
you've got the paper,
00:21:09.80\00:21:11.43
so people would hand it.
00:21:11.47\00:21:13.00
So I reached in my pocket,
all I had was a dollar bill.
00:21:13.03\00:21:16.17
So I tapped the
guy in front of me.
00:21:16.20\00:21:17.67
I said, would
you hand this up to
00:21:17.71\00:21:19.57
Mr. Skeleton to Red Skeleton?
00:21:19.61\00:21:21.81
And he said, sure.
00:21:21.84\00:21:23.18
So Red Skeleton,
00:21:23.21\00:21:24.55
he took the paper
and he signed it too.
00:21:24.58\00:21:26.35
You know, people
need to say here,
00:21:26.38\00:21:27.72
thank you very much.
00:21:27.75\00:21:29.08
And you know, here, thank you.
00:21:29.12\00:21:30.45
So he looked at, he
said "Whose dollar is this?"
00:21:30.49\00:21:33.22
I said, "That's mine."
00:21:33.25\00:21:34.59
I says, "For my little girl."
00:21:34.62\00:21:35.96
He said, "Thank
you, I appreciate it."
00:21:35.99\00:21:37.33
And he put it in the pocket.
00:21:37.36\00:21:39.86
And then he went on side
00:21:39.89\00:21:41.36
and Melody was
looking at him like,
00:21:41.40\00:21:43.16
what is he going to
keep that dollar bill?
00:21:43.20\00:21:45.27
So then he pulled
it out and he said,
00:21:45.30\00:21:46.77
"Oh, I guess
you want this back."
00:21:46.80\00:21:48.80
I said, "Well, I think
she would appreciate this."
00:21:48.84\00:21:50.81
So then he signed it
and gave it back to us.
00:21:50.84\00:21:53.01
But what a great, great guy.
00:21:53.04\00:21:55.14
And there's paintings,
so we actually have that.
00:21:55.18\00:21:57.55
We have a real
painting. We have it.
00:21:57.58\00:21:58.91
Okay.
00:21:58.95\00:22:00.28
So if you're interested
in Red Skelton paintings,
00:22:00.32\00:22:01.65
there you go.
00:22:01.68\00:22:03.02
So...
00:22:03.05\00:22:04.39
You know, there's one thing
00:22:04.42\00:22:05.75
you were
talking about, you know,
00:22:05.79\00:22:07.12
maybe if a widow has a...
00:22:07.16\00:22:08.99
Their husband's a
guitar, this and that,
00:22:09.02\00:22:11.46
it's very
sentimental and it's something
00:22:11.49\00:22:14.03
you want to hang on to.
00:22:14.06\00:22:16.06
But, and I understand that I
have some of my dad's things,
00:22:16.10\00:22:19.30
but in the end,
00:22:19.33\00:22:20.67
this old
world's gonna pass away.
00:22:20.70\00:22:22.04
That's right.
00:22:22.07\00:22:23.41
And if you can turn it
in and let us make money
00:22:23.44\00:22:25.84
to support the
ministry, to support spreading
00:22:25.87\00:22:28.84
the Gospel of Jesus
Christ to the world.
00:22:28.88\00:22:31.41
It's great. Absolutely.
00:22:31.45\00:22:32.78
Yeah. Yeah.
00:22:32.81\00:22:34.15
We're gonna have to
let go of everything.
00:22:34.18\00:22:35.52
Absolutely.
00:22:35.55\00:22:36.89
Now there are some things,
00:22:36.92\00:22:38.25
and I think of
point you said for me to,
00:22:38.29\00:22:40.72
we wanted to make was, if
you have something in doubt,
00:22:40.76\00:22:44.06
you're not sure.
00:22:44.09\00:22:45.93
Call first, call, ask for Bruce,
00:22:45.96\00:22:48.43
call donation department,
00:22:48.46\00:22:50.33
because there are
things such as like clothes
00:22:50.37\00:22:52.93
that we really don't
want to be sending clothes.
00:22:52.97\00:22:55.74
We're not in a
position to handle clothes.
00:22:55.77\00:22:58.17
There's some
other things I'm sure.
00:22:58.21\00:23:00.08
Yeah.
00:23:00.11\00:23:01.44
But you definitely,
00:23:01.48\00:23:02.81
if you're in doubt
call, like in general,
00:23:02.84\00:23:05.88
people have sent maybe
a few thousand records,
00:23:05.91\00:23:08.58
like older records.
00:23:08.62\00:23:09.98
Most of those
wouldn't be valuable,
00:23:10.02\00:23:11.49
but if they were signed,
00:23:11.52\00:23:12.85
it was an Elvis Presley record
00:23:12.89\00:23:14.39
and it's signed
by Elvis Presley.
00:23:14.42\00:23:16.02
It's worth some money. Right.
00:23:16.06\00:23:17.43
You know, if
it's an old softball,
00:23:17.46\00:23:18.79
it's not worth much.
00:23:18.83\00:23:20.16
But if it's signed by the king
00:23:20.20\00:23:21.53
and his court,
then authenticated,
00:23:21.56\00:23:24.60
then it's
definitely worth something.
00:23:24.63\00:23:27.10
So other words,
00:23:27.14\00:23:28.77
there are things
that we can't use.
00:23:28.80\00:23:30.34
Anything else in
general that jumps out that
00:23:30.37\00:23:32.37
maybe people send a lot that
00:23:32.41\00:23:34.44
we're not able to use
00:23:34.48\00:23:35.94
or should they just call in out.
00:23:35.98\00:23:38.81
Yeah. The best thing...
00:23:38.85\00:23:40.55
The best case
scenario is to just call
00:23:40.58\00:23:43.25
and let's talk about it
and see if we can use it
00:23:43.28\00:23:45.65
or if we can't
and then spare them
00:23:45.69\00:23:47.92
the cost of sending the item,
you know, just in the item.
00:23:47.96\00:23:52.26
So, you know, we
can talk about it
00:23:52.29\00:23:54.33
and they can get a
hold of me through email
00:23:54.36\00:23:56.77
or call on the phone, area code
00:23:56.80\00:24:00.20
(618) 627-4651,
00:24:00.24\00:24:05.01
ext. 3078.
00:24:05.04\00:24:08.18
And that will bring you
00:24:08.21\00:24:09.54
right to me, and
I'll talk to you.
00:24:09.58\00:24:10.91
Okay.
00:24:10.95\00:24:12.28
We've also mentioned this
in the past several times,
00:24:12.31\00:24:14.08
but it always,
it's good to repeat.
00:24:14.12\00:24:17.62
Sometimes when
people send something.
00:24:17.65\00:24:19.32
it's been appraised, jewelry,
whatever, it's been appraised,
00:24:19.35\00:24:22.19
and they say, well,
00:24:22.22\00:24:23.56
the appraisal's worth, you know,
00:24:23.59\00:24:24.93
says it's worth this much.
00:24:24.96\00:24:26.29
Well, what the appraisal
00:24:26.33\00:24:27.66
is for replacement
value, like for fire or theft.
00:24:27.70\00:24:30.40
Insurance? Yeah.
00:24:30.43\00:24:31.77
And for insurance,
00:24:31.80\00:24:33.13
that's not the
fair market value.
00:24:33.17\00:24:34.84
The fair market
value is going to be
00:24:34.87\00:24:36.94
quite a bit lower
than what the appraisal is.
00:24:36.97\00:24:39.84
And we like people
to know that upfront.
00:24:39.87\00:24:42.14
No, that's a very good point
because I remember years ago,
00:24:42.18\00:24:45.68
somebody sent a ring that
00:24:45.71\00:24:47.05
they said, oh,
it's worth 25,000.
00:24:47.08\00:24:49.12
Really when we really
had people look at it,
00:24:49.15\00:24:51.99
put up for sale, I
think 5,000 was the most.
00:24:52.02\00:24:54.32
And they're like,
but it appraised that
00:24:54.36\00:24:56.19
this jewelry is
one of those things
00:24:56.22\00:24:58.69
that has a huge markup.
00:24:58.73\00:25:00.06
Absolutely.
00:25:00.10\00:25:01.43
As soon as you
walk out of the stores,
00:25:01.46\00:25:02.80
it's worse than
cars, automobiles.
00:25:02.83\00:25:04.17
It's worse.
00:25:04.20\00:25:05.53
You get a new one, you walk out,
00:25:05.57\00:25:06.90
then it's worth very little.
00:25:06.94\00:25:08.27
If you try it,
try to give it back.
00:25:08.30\00:25:10.11
So again, those
are types of things
00:25:10.14\00:25:11.71
you need to talk to Bruce.
00:25:11.74\00:25:13.17
If you got an
appraisal on it says, he can...
00:25:13.21\00:25:15.34
You send him a picture of
it or give him information.
00:25:15.38\00:25:17.98
He probably can get an idea
00:25:18.01\00:25:20.35
what it would be worth at least,
00:25:20.38\00:25:21.75
but you can pretty
well be assured that
00:25:21.78\00:25:24.05
it's not gonna be anywhere near
00:25:24.09\00:25:25.62
what your appraisal
for insurance might be.
00:25:25.65\00:25:27.16
Right.
00:25:27.19\00:25:28.52
And one thing
people can be assured of,
00:25:28.56\00:25:31.29
we're gonna get the most
that we possibly can out of it.
00:25:31.33\00:25:34.00
We're gonna do the research
00:25:34.03\00:25:35.70
and we're gonna do the
legwork to make sure that
00:25:35.73\00:25:37.60
we get, and we pray
over each one of these items
00:25:37.63\00:25:40.24
that comes in.
00:25:40.27\00:25:41.60
So do the best we can...
What I really like is we had...
00:25:41.64\00:25:44.67
One time we had somebody
00:25:44.71\00:25:46.04
that pulled a
trailer truck up here,
00:25:46.07\00:25:48.41
and it was full
of every kind of doll
00:25:48.44\00:25:50.31
that you can imagine.
00:25:50.35\00:25:51.68
I remember.
00:25:51.71\00:25:53.05
A lot of them
was not worth much,
00:25:53.08\00:25:54.68
but there was old Barbies galore
00:25:54.72\00:25:57.29
and old Barbie clothes.
00:25:57.32\00:25:58.65
Some of them still
in their packages from
00:25:58.69\00:26:01.06
1959, 1960, 59
00:26:01.09\00:26:03.46
was when the
first Barbie came out.
00:26:03.49\00:26:05.29
And I know that
because I loved Barbies.
00:26:05.33\00:26:07.76
I know.
00:26:07.80\00:26:09.36
And Chatty Cathy,
with a bunch of boys,
00:26:09.40\00:26:12.47
we weren't used to anything
but baseballs, bats and gloves.
00:26:12.50\00:26:15.70
And then Tammy comes along.
00:26:15.74\00:26:17.37
There's Chatty
Cathy. I don't know.
00:26:17.41\00:26:19.67
Mrs. Beasley,
maybe was after you.
00:26:19.71\00:26:21.58
That was after me, yeah.
00:26:21.61\00:26:23.01
That was after you,
but at least Barbies.
00:26:23.04\00:26:25.65
But we had these Barbie,
00:26:25.68\00:26:27.02
some still in the
box, the 1959 box.
00:26:27.05\00:26:30.05
Wow. And just never touched.
00:26:30.09\00:26:32.65
And we had hundreds
of them and we ended up,
00:26:32.69\00:26:36.02
I don't know, I want
to say around 17, 18,000
00:26:36.06\00:26:39.39
that we got out
00:26:39.43\00:26:40.76
a lot of these
Barbies and their clothes.
00:26:40.80\00:26:42.13
I mean, their little
clothes still in the package.
00:26:42.16\00:26:44.17
Their outfits would go for
$150, $160 on the internet.
00:26:44.20\00:26:48.07
Wow. Isn't that amazing?
00:26:48.10\00:26:49.60
It is.
00:26:49.64\00:26:51.11
So I love to get old Barbies
and her friends, Midge and Ken
00:26:51.14\00:26:55.64
and all that when
they're from the 60s.
00:26:55.68\00:26:59.38
Yeah. Well, that's the thing.
00:26:59.41\00:27:00.92
So many people
keep that, like you say,
00:27:00.95\00:27:02.62
after a while you start looking,
00:27:02.65\00:27:04.65
you revaluate life and
things, and that's the...
00:27:04.69\00:27:08.46
I mean, I'm talking honestly,
00:27:08.49\00:27:10.13
Yvonne and I was
talking about the other day,
00:27:10.16\00:27:12.29
since we just few weeks
ago, you know, I turned...
00:27:12.33\00:27:14.86
Hit the 70, you look at
00:27:14.90\00:27:16.56
your future
different than you did before.
00:27:16.60\00:27:18.07
Sure.
00:27:18.10\00:27:19.43
'Cause before, well,
I'm planning on what,
00:27:19.47\00:27:21.67
now you look and
say, I'm planning on what.
00:27:21.70\00:27:23.77
I was thinking about,
00:27:23.81\00:27:25.14
I should replace the
siding on the back of my house.
00:27:25.17\00:27:27.44
It's decent, but I
thought I should replace it.
00:27:27.48\00:27:29.18
And then I said, for what?
00:27:29.21\00:27:30.81
You know, it's probably going to
00:27:30.85\00:27:32.18
last longer than I am.
00:27:32.21\00:27:34.45
So why bother with it.
00:27:34.48\00:27:35.82
You know, you think,
00:27:35.85\00:27:37.19
I remember my brother
once said he went to...
00:27:37.22\00:27:39.32
After he hit 70,
he went to get...
00:27:39.35\00:27:41.72
He needed new
shingles on his roof.
00:27:41.76\00:27:44.43
So the guy said
00:27:44.46\00:27:45.89
now here we have
the 30 year warranty
00:27:45.93\00:27:48.40
and said we have the 20.
00:27:48.43\00:27:50.23
And he said, was
that all my choices.
00:27:50.27\00:27:52.60
Well, I have a
10 year, you know,
00:27:52.63\00:27:54.24
he said, that's all I need.
00:27:54.27\00:27:55.80
I'm 70 plus years old.
00:27:55.84\00:27:57.37
Well, actually he asked Bruce,
00:27:57.41\00:27:59.64
he said, what do you think
00:27:59.67\00:28:01.01
this needs to be
replaced, and Bruce said,
00:28:01.04\00:28:02.38
you don't need the 20 or 30.
00:28:02.41\00:28:06.48
He said, well, you know what?
00:28:06.51\00:28:07.85
You're right. Yeah.
00:28:07.88\00:28:09.22
And I don't. Yeah. Absolutely.
00:28:09.25\00:28:10.59
So you do think differently.
00:28:10.62\00:28:12.32
So some of you at
home, maybe you've had things
00:28:12.35\00:28:14.76
for many years,
00:28:14.79\00:28:16.12
but really what
good is it gonna do?
00:28:16.16\00:28:17.93
And so we were just
saying, you pray about it.
00:28:17.96\00:28:21.16
You ask the Lord, you say,
00:28:21.20\00:28:22.53
what is this I have in my hand
00:28:22.56\00:28:24.70
and takes us
back to Fonda Summers,
00:28:24.73\00:28:26.97
Fonda summers I think
she was about 77 years old
00:28:27.00\00:28:30.41
in her 70s, mid
70s in 1984, November.
00:28:30.44\00:28:35.68
And right after I was impressed
00:28:35.71\00:28:37.51
to build a television
station to reach the world.
00:28:37.55\00:28:40.68
I think Larry Welch at the time
was a literature evangelist.
00:28:40.72\00:28:44.05
He had come in as someone
00:28:44.09\00:28:46.15
from the area that
Kenny metat lumberyard.
00:28:46.19\00:28:48.72
And so he took Bible studies
and Larry joined the church.
00:28:48.76\00:28:51.29
So he became
literature evangelist,
00:28:51.33\00:28:53.63
and a card filled
out by Fonda Summers
00:28:53.66\00:28:55.96
that lived out
East or West Frankfort
00:28:56.00\00:28:58.03
out towards Thompsonville area.
00:28:58.07\00:29:00.07
So he went to visit her,
00:29:00.10\00:29:01.44
then introduced
her to my mother.
00:29:01.47\00:29:03.20
My mother invited
her to prayer meeting.
00:29:03.24\00:29:05.97
And so the very week after
00:29:06.01\00:29:07.64
I'm impressed to
build a television station
00:29:07.68\00:29:10.28
to reach the world, we go to...
00:29:10.31\00:29:12.51
I go to prayer meeting,
which we didn't always do.
00:29:12.55\00:29:14.88
Still don't always, I'm sorry,
00:29:14.92\00:29:16.58
but we try when we can.
00:29:16.62\00:29:19.25
But, so I went to prayer meeting
00:29:19.29\00:29:21.22
and there was only a handful
of people there at the time.
00:29:21.26\00:29:23.63
I don't know if there's a
dozen and I was so excited.
00:29:23.66\00:29:26.46
I said, "The
Lord has impressed me
00:29:26.49\00:29:27.83
to build a television
station to reach the world,
00:29:27.86\00:29:29.96
blah, blah, blah."
00:29:30.00\00:29:31.33
Fonda Summers
was there first time
00:29:31.37\00:29:32.70
she'd ever been in
an Adventist Church,
00:29:32.73\00:29:34.24
Methodist Christian
lady, wonderful lady.
00:29:34.27\00:29:36.77
So two nights later,
00:29:36.81\00:29:38.34
my mother calls me Friday night.
00:29:38.37\00:29:39.71
And she said, "You
remember Fonda Summers
00:29:39.74\00:29:41.88
that came to
church Wednesday night?"
00:29:41.91\00:29:43.75
I said, "Yes." She
said, she called me.
00:29:43.78\00:29:46.55
And she said, she
went home and she prayed.
00:29:46.58\00:29:49.05
She said, "Lord, I'd like to
do something for those people.
00:29:49.08\00:29:52.72
And, but I don't have anything.
00:29:52.75\00:29:54.36
I don't have any money.
00:29:54.39\00:29:55.86
And I think it's your will that,
00:29:55.89\00:29:57.63
you know,
Christian television station
00:29:57.66\00:29:59.49
sounds like a great idea.
00:29:59.53\00:30:01.36
I really wanna do something,
00:30:01.40\00:30:03.06
but I just don't have anything."
00:30:03.10\00:30:04.57
And she said, I'll never forget
00:30:04.60\00:30:06.77
the Lord impressed me,
00:30:06.80\00:30:08.40
"What is this you
have in your hand?"
00:30:08.44\00:30:11.01
She said, "What? I
don't have anything.
00:30:11.04\00:30:12.81
I mean, I got a
few acres of property.
00:30:12.84\00:30:15.41
She said, I don't use
property towards the back end.
00:30:15.44\00:30:19.48
Maybe I could give a
couple acres of property."
00:30:19.51\00:30:22.62
So my mother
said, Fonda Summer said,
00:30:22.65\00:30:24.82
and I'm like,
"Well, where is it?"
00:30:24.85\00:30:26.79
I had been talking
to Clarence Larson,
00:30:26.82\00:30:28.82
who was an engineer
down at Marion TV station,
00:30:28.86\00:30:31.66
who's at
Arizona's back then I think
00:30:31.69\00:30:34.66
they were new apple Commodore 64
00:30:34.70\00:30:37.03
or something computer.
00:30:37.07\00:30:38.47
And he was looking
for ways to do uplinking,
00:30:38.50\00:30:41.30
which no one in the area did,
00:30:41.34\00:30:42.94
which means you
could send signals
00:30:42.97\00:30:44.67
from earth to
satellite 22,300 miles to space,
00:30:44.71\00:30:48.71
then back down into big
00:30:48.74\00:30:50.71
10 and 12 foot satellite dishes.
00:30:50.75\00:30:52.91
And he said, there's so many
microwave interferences from...
00:30:52.95\00:30:56.48
He called at Mobil, Illinois,
00:30:56.52\00:30:57.95
like phone companies and others.
00:30:57.99\00:31:00.19
There are so many interferences.
00:31:00.22\00:31:01.82
There's very few spots.
00:31:01.86\00:31:03.22
But he said, "Out
towards Thompsonville
00:31:03.26\00:31:06.43
he said about six, eight miles,
00:31:06.46\00:31:08.26
there's an area out
there that looks like
00:31:08.30\00:31:09.86
it would be free."
00:31:09.90\00:31:11.23
So I asked my mom,
"Where's this property?"
00:31:11.27\00:31:13.10
She said, "Well, it's out
by north of Thompsonville."
00:31:13.13\00:31:15.77
And I said,
"Really?" So we go out there.
00:31:15.80\00:31:17.91
And, of course,
the long story short,
00:31:17.94\00:31:19.34
many of you know,
she Fonda Summers gave us
00:31:19.37\00:31:22.24
two acres in the
back of her property.
00:31:22.28\00:31:24.48
That two acres, when
we got scientific Atlanta
00:31:24.51\00:31:27.12
from Georgia to come
up, to see if it would work
00:31:27.15\00:31:29.98
where we could uplink
and send microwave signals,
00:31:30.02\00:31:33.62
22,300 miles of space,
they said it will work.
00:31:33.66\00:31:38.29
But at that two acres,
you even had to move it.
00:31:38.33\00:31:40.63
We had to move it
00:31:40.66\00:31:42.00
to the east
side of the property,
00:31:42.03\00:31:44.07
'cause it wouldn't
have worked another...
00:31:44.10\00:31:45.50
There would have
been interferences.
00:31:45.53\00:31:46.87
So that two acres, she
said, Lord, He said to her,
00:31:46.90\00:31:50.47
"What is this you
have in your hand?"
00:31:50.51\00:31:52.24
And she said, "Well,
00:31:52.27\00:31:53.61
I don't have it,
just as two acres."
00:31:53.64\00:31:55.11
Look what that two
acres of property turned into?
00:31:55.14\00:31:57.01
Exactly.
00:31:57.05\00:31:58.38
Then turned into
a beacon on a hill,
00:31:58.41\00:32:00.48
out in a little bean
field, former bean field
00:32:00.52\00:32:03.02
out in the community
of less than 600 people.
00:32:03.05\00:32:05.82
And here mile or two
out of town from that
00:32:05.85\00:32:08.46
and was able to literally
send signals up to satellite
00:32:08.49\00:32:12.09
all across North America.
00:32:12.13\00:32:13.86
And then eventually
from that same spot in '95,
00:32:13.90\00:32:16.63
I think it was,
00:32:16.67\00:32:18.00
we put in our
first dish KU band dish
00:32:18.03\00:32:21.80
that would go to Europe.
00:32:21.84\00:32:23.17
So when Mark Finley did
the 1990, Net 95 and 96.
00:32:23.20\00:32:27.28
We at 3ABN, we
brought people translators
00:32:27.31\00:32:30.01
from all around the world,
00:32:30.05\00:32:32.38
different
countries around the world
00:32:32.41\00:32:34.72
and built little booths
for them in our buildings.
00:32:34.75\00:32:38.29
And they
translated as this went live
00:32:38.32\00:32:40.72
all the way across to Europe,
00:32:40.76\00:32:42.22
down in Romania and to
Russia, you know, Bosnia,
00:32:42.26\00:32:45.59
Herzegovina, Germany,
00:32:45.63\00:32:47.53
all of these places
from this little spot.
00:32:47.56\00:32:50.07
What is this you
have in your hand?
00:32:50.10\00:32:51.67
Happened to be the
exact spot the Lord wanted
00:32:51.70\00:32:54.30
and designed and
for this to go up.
00:32:54.34\00:32:56.94
So you may be the same thing.
00:32:56.97\00:32:58.67
What is this you
have in your hand?
00:32:58.71\00:33:00.38
Maybe it's
something you don't feel
00:33:00.41\00:33:01.81
it's worth anything,
00:33:01.84\00:33:03.21
but I will
guarantee you that it is.
00:33:03.24\00:33:04.85
You pray about it and say,
00:33:04.88\00:33:06.21
"Lord, what would
You have me to do?"
00:33:06.25\00:33:07.92
And then be sure
you give us a call,
00:33:07.95\00:33:09.95
email us, text us, call Bruce,
and we'll find out what it is.
00:33:09.98\00:33:14.39
And if we can use it for
the Lord's honor and glory,
00:33:14.42\00:33:17.23
we definitely will do it.
00:33:17.26\00:33:18.59
That was such a
miracle in itself that
00:33:18.63\00:33:20.40
this woman who
visited the church
00:33:20.43\00:33:22.33
for the first
time was convinced of
00:33:22.36\00:33:25.37
what you were saying
00:33:25.40\00:33:26.74
and what could
she do to help when,
00:33:26.77\00:33:29.07
I'm sorry, some of
our own denomination
00:33:29.10\00:33:31.81
was against it
all the way around.
00:33:31.84\00:33:34.68
And here's this woman
who doesn't know any of us,
00:33:34.71\00:33:37.15
but she was
impressed immediately
00:33:37.18\00:33:38.91
that she wanted to help.
00:33:38.95\00:33:40.28
That was a miracle.
00:33:40.32\00:33:41.65
And it was, and she said later,
00:33:41.68\00:33:43.55
she said, you know,
I'd forgotten about it.
00:33:43.59\00:33:45.25
But my husband and I had
00:33:45.29\00:33:46.76
owned this property for years.
00:33:46.79\00:33:48.79
And we thought about selling it.
00:33:48.82\00:33:50.16
She said, "I thought about
00:33:50.19\00:33:51.53
selling it
after he passed away."
00:33:51.56\00:33:53.40
But she said, "I
remember years ago
00:33:53.43\00:33:56.13
that I had a
dream and I dreamed that
00:33:56.16\00:33:58.33
the back acreage,"
00:33:58.37\00:33:59.70
which is what she
ended up giving us.
00:33:59.73\00:34:01.40
She said, "Had
a fence around it,
00:34:01.44\00:34:03.67
and the gate was open.
00:34:03.71\00:34:05.04
The most beautiful fatted cattle
00:34:05.07\00:34:07.18
came from all directions
and filled up that property.
00:34:07.21\00:34:10.68
And all these years,
00:34:10.71\00:34:12.05
I've never known
what that meant."
00:34:12.08\00:34:13.42
Now she said, "I
know what that means.
00:34:13.45\00:34:15.42
That represents people
00:34:15.45\00:34:17.05
coming in from all walks of life
00:34:17.09\00:34:19.55
to find the good news
of salvation through 3ABN."
00:34:19.59\00:34:24.89
And so here all
these years later,
00:34:24.93\00:34:26.83
you know, Fonda
Summers asleep in Jesus,
00:34:26.86\00:34:29.33
but how many people
will have come to know
00:34:29.36\00:34:32.10
Jesus and the truth by
what she was able to do,
00:34:32.13\00:34:35.07
by simply listening to the Lord.
00:34:35.10\00:34:37.41
What is this you
have in your hand?
00:34:37.44\00:34:39.24
That gives me
goosebumps to recite that dream.
00:34:39.27\00:34:41.88
But yeah, it was all
meant to be for sure.
00:34:41.91\00:34:44.41
Yeah, absolutely. Okay.
00:34:44.45\00:34:46.55
Bruce, some of the
things you mentioned that,
00:34:46.58\00:34:48.58
that we do accept
and work out good,
00:34:48.62\00:34:53.36
as you mentioned,
00:34:53.39\00:34:54.72
coins or gold
or silver platinum,
00:34:54.76\00:34:57.53
many things like that,
jewelry, silverware like this.
00:34:57.56\00:35:03.50
Now, is that
china over there? Yeah.
00:35:03.53\00:35:05.20
It's beautiful,
whatever. So quite a few.
00:35:05.23\00:35:08.04
Tell me about
that? We get quite a few.
00:35:08.07\00:35:10.44
Actually, Tammy does the china,
so I'll let her talk about it.
00:35:10.47\00:35:13.78
Yeah, we get a
lot of sets of china.
00:35:13.81\00:35:16.88
And if it's, I can't remember
00:35:16.91\00:35:19.25
all the names
right off top of my head,
00:35:19.28\00:35:20.78
'cause I'm getting
old too, but Mikasa.
00:35:20.82\00:35:24.15
Noritake. Yeah,
Noritake, Mikasa, China.
00:35:24.19\00:35:26.69
England.
00:35:26.72\00:35:28.06
We do good with
that and old china
00:35:28.09\00:35:31.43
that's in really good condition,
00:35:31.46\00:35:32.89
not chipped or anything.
00:35:32.93\00:35:34.56
That's you know,
maybe from the 40s or 50s,
00:35:34.60\00:35:37.07
you have a lot of older people
00:35:37.10\00:35:38.77
that got it when
they got married,
00:35:38.80\00:35:40.14
you know, back in 40.
00:35:40.17\00:35:41.67
And if they're not
chipped in good condition,
00:35:41.70\00:35:44.41
that can be worth
quite a bit of money.
00:35:44.44\00:35:46.94
Now when people
come here to visit,
00:35:46.98\00:35:48.31
can they look at
00:35:48.34\00:35:49.68
some of this
stuff that you have?
00:35:49.71\00:35:51.05
Sure, absolutely.
00:35:51.08\00:35:52.41
We usually open our store.
00:35:52.45\00:35:55.58
Actually we call it a store
outside of our offices there,
00:35:55.62\00:35:59.39
but we usually open it
during camp meeting time.
00:35:59.42\00:36:01.86
Of course, during the COVID
we haven't had a camp meeting.
00:36:01.89\00:36:04.39
So with the people
that come to camp meeting
00:36:04.43\00:36:06.46
get a chance to come.
00:36:06.49\00:36:08.16
Lord willing this fall,
00:36:08.20\00:36:10.07
we hope to have
camp meeting here
00:36:10.10\00:36:11.67
and we want you all
to come and join us.
00:36:11.70\00:36:14.10
We're praying on it.
00:36:14.14\00:36:15.47
So, some of you,
you can bring things
00:36:15.50\00:36:16.84
you wanna get rid of.
00:36:16.87\00:36:18.21
And some of you
can take things back
00:36:18.24\00:36:19.67
that you've been looking for.
00:36:19.71\00:36:21.04
We've had people...
00:36:21.08\00:36:22.41
We've had beautiful
people come and they donated
00:36:22.44\00:36:24.98
something maybe
six months before
00:36:25.01\00:36:26.61
and they come and
they buy it again.
00:36:26.65\00:36:29.78
Well, now that's
good, I like that.
00:36:29.82\00:36:31.49
And they say, when
we get done with it,
00:36:31.52\00:36:33.12
we'll send it again.
00:36:33.15\00:36:35.32
A lot of people buy things
00:36:35.36\00:36:36.69
from the store
and say, you know,
00:36:36.73\00:36:38.56
this is just
gonna be returned to you
00:36:38.59\00:36:40.56
in just a short period of time.
00:36:40.60\00:36:41.93
We just want to help,
you know, just wanna help.
00:36:41.96\00:36:43.93
Now, that's great.
00:36:43.97\00:36:45.30
It's just a great way
to support the ministry.
00:36:45.33\00:36:46.77
Yeah. You know.
00:36:46.80\00:36:48.14
Okay. Absolutely.
00:36:48.17\00:36:49.80
Tammy, you have
a little testimony.
00:36:49.84\00:36:52.04
You've been going through
00:36:52.07\00:36:53.41
some things
yourself physical things.
00:36:53.44\00:36:55.78
Tell us a little about that?
00:36:55.81\00:36:58.25
Back in November, I
went to the dermatologist
00:36:58.28\00:37:01.52
about something
completely different
00:37:01.55\00:37:03.59
and I had this
little thing on my leg
00:37:03.62\00:37:06.92
and it didn't look anything like
00:37:06.96\00:37:08.32
what you would think
skin cancer would look like.
00:37:08.36\00:37:10.49
It looked like
maybe eczema or something,
00:37:10.53\00:37:12.26
just little spot like this.
00:37:12.29\00:37:14.53
And it had been
years I'd had it.
00:37:14.56\00:37:16.87
I hadn't paid
any attention to it.
00:37:16.90\00:37:18.23
He kept telling me the
doctor need to look at it.
00:37:18.27\00:37:20.00
And I said, "It's not
enough, and it's eczema."
00:37:20.04\00:37:22.30
And so, I knew the doctor
00:37:22.34\00:37:25.24
'cause I had
sold a puppy to him.
00:37:25.27\00:37:27.11
And so we were just talking
00:37:27.14\00:37:28.98
and I just
happened to look down.
00:37:29.01\00:37:30.98
He was looking at
something on my face
00:37:31.01\00:37:32.65
and I just
happened to look down.
00:37:32.68\00:37:34.02
I said, oh, by the way
I said, "Is this eczema?"
00:37:34.05\00:37:36.05
I said, "I've had it
for four or five years."
00:37:36.08\00:37:37.65
I said, "I can't,
I've put stuff on it.
00:37:37.69\00:37:39.02
It doesn't go away."
00:37:39.05\00:37:40.39
And he took one look
00:37:40.42\00:37:41.76
and he said that is skin cancer.
00:37:41.79\00:37:43.22
And I said, "What?"
00:37:43.26\00:37:44.99
I was just so taken back.
00:37:45.03\00:37:46.59
And I said, "You're kidding me?"
00:37:46.63\00:37:48.00
And he said,
"I'm not kidding you."
00:37:48.03\00:37:49.36
And he said, "We are
gonna do a biopsy right now."
00:37:49.40\00:37:52.27
And he also
spotted one on my face
00:37:52.30\00:37:54.70
that he thought was,
00:37:54.74\00:37:56.07
and he did a
biopsy on both places.
00:37:56.10\00:37:58.04
This one was fine.
00:37:58.07\00:37:59.41
The leg came back skin cancer.
00:37:59.44\00:38:01.91
And it was a
very, very large tumor.
00:38:01.94\00:38:04.98
And so he...
00:38:05.01\00:38:07.72
When he told me, he called
me and he said, "It is cancer."
00:38:07.75\00:38:10.39
And he said, "We've
got to take it out."
00:38:10.42\00:38:12.59
And like you said,
things change as you get older.
00:38:12.62\00:38:15.62
And it was...
00:38:15.66\00:38:16.99
I don't feel like I
panicked in any kind of way
00:38:17.03\00:38:19.86
or, oh no, what am I gonna do?
00:38:19.89\00:38:21.43
I just said,
"Lord, Your will be done."
00:38:21.46\00:38:23.03
I mean, whatever happens
00:38:23.06\00:38:24.87
'cause it had
been there a long time.
00:38:24.90\00:38:26.70
And so, you know, that's,
00:38:26.74\00:38:28.07
I'm not one who go
to the doctor too much.
00:38:28.10\00:38:29.90
And so I didn't know if
it had spread or whatever,
00:38:29.94\00:38:33.84
but I just felt, I
felt good about it.
00:38:33.88\00:38:37.25
I knew the doctor personally,
00:38:37.28\00:38:38.61
I felt good about his abilities.
00:38:38.65\00:38:40.55
And he said, "I
promise you, I will get it.
00:38:40.58\00:38:43.28
I promise you." And I
said, "Okay," you know?
00:38:43.32\00:38:45.22
And so we...
00:38:45.25\00:38:46.59
I just kind of
turned it over to God
00:38:46.62\00:38:48.22
and he operated and
he took the tumor out.
00:38:48.26\00:38:51.96
They sent it
downstairs to the pathology
00:38:51.99\00:38:54.36
and he looks at
it and determines
00:38:54.40\00:38:56.16
if they've got all the
edges of it to make sure
00:38:56.20\00:38:59.33
you might have to
go back in and do more.
00:38:59.37\00:39:01.94
But it came back that
00:39:01.97\00:39:03.30
he had gotten it
all in some plus.
00:39:03.34\00:39:05.31
And so they sewed me back up
and I've got a bit ugly scar,
00:39:05.34\00:39:10.95
but I don't care.
00:39:10.98\00:39:13.31
I'm too old to
worry about a scar.
00:39:13.35\00:39:15.32
But I just thank the Lord for it
00:39:15.35\00:39:18.42
because shortly
after I went back,
00:39:18.45\00:39:20.69
for him to check
my leg and the doctor,
00:39:20.72\00:39:23.79
that was another
doctor, and she said,
00:39:23.83\00:39:26.23
we just dealt with
somebody that had exactly
00:39:26.26\00:39:29.33
what you had,
except it was on her face.
00:39:29.36\00:39:31.77
And she said, she
brought her daughter in to,
00:39:31.80\00:39:34.60
for some acne or something.
00:39:34.64\00:39:36.04
And she said, I kept looking
at that thing on her face.
00:39:36.07\00:39:38.47
And she said, it was
just little scratch, like,
00:39:38.51\00:39:41.34
and she said, I
didn't like the looks of it.
00:39:41.38\00:39:43.18
And she said,
can we do a biopsy?
00:39:43.21\00:39:44.91
And the lady said yes.
00:39:44.95\00:39:46.28
And she said, it came back
exactly the kind that you had.
00:39:46.31\00:39:49.18
And she said it
had already spread.
00:39:49.22\00:39:51.25
She had had it like five years
00:39:51.29\00:39:52.92
and she said it had
spread to her bones.
00:39:52.95\00:39:54.82
And she said, we took it out.
00:39:54.86\00:39:56.19
She took chemo.
00:39:56.22\00:39:57.63
She only lived long
enough to see her daughter
00:39:57.66\00:39:59.23
graduate from high school.
00:39:59.26\00:40:00.60
Wow.
00:40:00.63\00:40:01.96
And so I would just
said, thank you, Lord.
00:40:02.00\00:40:03.63
Now, I was just
very, very thankful.
00:40:03.67\00:40:05.70
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
00:40:05.73\00:40:07.07
Yeah.
00:40:07.10\00:40:08.44
I can't take anything
for granted nowadays, right?
00:40:08.47\00:40:10.57
Yeah. Every day is a gift.
00:40:10.61\00:40:11.94
Every day is a gift.
00:40:11.97\00:40:13.31
Today the Lord
gives us, it's a gift,
00:40:13.34\00:40:15.21
so we need to
make the best of it.
00:40:15.24\00:40:16.98
And remember,
we're here for a reason
00:40:17.01\00:40:19.61
and that's to serve the Lord.
00:40:19.65\00:40:21.35
And people say,
well, what can I do?
00:40:21.38\00:40:23.18
I'm not a
preacher. I'm not a teacher.
00:40:23.22\00:40:25.29
I don't sing. I
don't do whatever.
00:40:25.32\00:40:27.39
It's your own
personal testimony.
00:40:27.42\00:40:29.42
Ellen White says
is your greatest asset
00:40:29.46\00:40:31.83
is your own personal testimony
of what God has done for you.
00:40:31.86\00:40:35.40
Nobody can talk you out of that.
00:40:35.43\00:40:37.03
Nobody can tell
you it's not true
00:40:37.07\00:40:39.33
because that's
between you and the Lord.
00:40:39.37\00:40:41.40
So the devil didn't give it.
00:40:41.44\00:40:43.14
And the devil didn't take it.
00:40:43.17\00:40:44.51
Can't take it away.
00:40:44.54\00:40:45.87
So for us, it's a matter of
evangelism serving the Lord.
00:40:45.91\00:40:50.11
Many of you do it many
ways, others who can't go,
00:40:50.15\00:40:52.95
you help financially
thank you for your love,
00:40:52.98\00:40:55.98
for your prayers
and financial support.
00:40:56.02\00:40:58.49
And some of you do it through
our wills and trust department.
00:40:58.52\00:41:02.26
And so we have that.
00:41:02.29\00:41:03.63
That's helped tremendously
00:41:03.66\00:41:05.29
over the years to keep
3ABN going and growing.
00:41:05.33\00:41:08.43
This Donations
Department, the same thing.
00:41:08.46\00:41:10.87
When you send,
what may be your junk,
00:41:10.90\00:41:13.50
or sometimes you
say, I really liked this.
00:41:13.54\00:41:16.14
It does have great
sentimental value to me,
00:41:16.17\00:41:18.84
but I want to see it
put to the Lord's work.
00:41:18.87\00:41:21.61
So when you do
that as Bruce said,
00:41:21.64\00:41:24.01
he's gonna get the
very most that he can.
00:41:24.05\00:41:26.28
He's had a lot of years
experience doing this now.
00:41:26.31\00:41:28.78
So we're making sure
that everybody knows about it.
00:41:28.82\00:41:31.65
'Cause when you put it on eBay,
you put it on the internet.
00:41:31.69\00:41:34.76
Then people literally
00:41:34.79\00:41:36.12
from around the
world can look at it.
00:41:36.16\00:41:37.86
So if you don't know
what something's worth,
00:41:37.89\00:41:39.69
you put it up long enough
00:41:39.73\00:41:41.06
and you watch
people start bidding.
00:41:41.10\00:41:42.76
And finally somebody
00:41:42.80\00:41:44.20
just wants it
better than somebody else,
00:41:44.23\00:41:46.70
more than somebody else.
00:41:46.74\00:41:48.07
Right.
00:41:48.10\00:41:49.44
But we've seen
that too with old cars.
00:41:49.47\00:41:50.84
A lot of people say, well,
00:41:50.87\00:41:52.21
I've got this old car, you know,
00:41:52.24\00:41:53.68
it's 40 years old, but
it's just been in the barn.
00:41:53.71\00:41:56.28
My husband drove it. I
don't drive it anymore.
00:41:56.31\00:41:58.65
It's in nice shape.
00:41:58.68\00:42:00.52
You know, call Bruce,
let him know about it.
00:42:00.55\00:42:02.58
Again, instruments,
whether it's guitars
00:42:02.62\00:42:04.49
or violins or
mandolins or any kind of dobros,
00:42:04.52\00:42:08.32
as he said, you know,
00:42:08.36\00:42:09.69
any cello, we had a
cello that was donated.
00:42:09.72\00:42:11.83
It was like a hundred years old.
00:42:11.86\00:42:13.43
Yeah. Yeah.
00:42:13.46\00:42:14.80
And I think that
brought a few thousand dollars.
00:42:14.83\00:42:16.97
Kris Wilkinson of
Nashville String Machine,
00:42:17.00\00:42:20.87
and who also has done a
lot of projects with 3ABN.
00:42:20.90\00:42:24.24
I think she put us in
touch with cello player
00:42:24.27\00:42:27.04
and they said, man, this
thing's a great instrument.
00:42:27.08\00:42:28.41
Yeah.
00:42:28.44\00:42:29.78
And so they bought it
and put the money again
00:42:29.81\00:42:32.91
right into the
Lord's work, so...
00:42:32.95\00:42:34.78
Well, this is something
00:42:34.82\00:42:36.15
that's it's kind
of off the subject,
00:42:36.18\00:42:38.09
but it's, it's kinda on my heart
00:42:38.12\00:42:39.52
if you don't mind.
00:42:39.55\00:42:41.92
Sometimes I know
people and as well as myself,
00:42:41.96\00:42:46.09
sometimes you get in,
especially as you get older,
00:42:46.13\00:42:48.36
you think, well,
I'm not much good.
00:42:48.40\00:42:49.80
You know, I can't do
this or I can't help somebody
00:42:49.83\00:42:51.77
like I wanted to or whatever.
00:42:51.80\00:42:53.94
And the Lord can work with
you and use you in all aspects
00:42:53.97\00:42:58.04
and all works of life.
00:42:58.07\00:43:00.01
And I have a small side business
00:43:00.04\00:43:02.31
and I have these
girls that work for me,
00:43:02.34\00:43:04.61
high school age girls.
00:43:04.65\00:43:06.21
And honestly, I
guess we were sheltered.
00:43:06.25\00:43:10.55
I'm naive.
00:43:10.59\00:43:11.92
I never knew the dysfunction
that goes on in families.
00:43:11.95\00:43:16.86
Problems.
00:43:16.89\00:43:18.23
The problems, the divorces,
00:43:18.26\00:43:20.56
the challenges over the children
00:43:20.60\00:43:23.97
and some of these girls
come from those backgrounds
00:43:24.00\00:43:27.07
and it's somehow it
slowly evolved into them
00:43:27.10\00:43:31.07
coming to me
with their problems.
00:43:31.11\00:43:34.34
Some of them have
been verbally abused,
00:43:34.38\00:43:36.95
things like that.
00:43:36.98\00:43:38.31
And they come
and they're crying,
00:43:38.35\00:43:39.68
you know, and they come to me
00:43:39.71\00:43:41.05
and none of them have
been raised in church.
00:43:41.08\00:43:43.39
And so that's my opportunity.
00:43:43.42\00:43:45.65
And, you know,
to talk with them,
00:43:45.69\00:43:47.82
to pray with them.
00:43:47.86\00:43:49.26
And somehow it's just...
It's nothing to do with me.
00:43:49.29\00:43:52.63
It's God working through
me that it has evolved into.
00:43:52.66\00:43:56.13
It's like our house
as my son Trent said,
00:43:56.16\00:43:58.33
our house is a hub
where these kids are coming
00:43:58.37\00:44:00.74
and going and coming
and going all the time,
00:44:00.77\00:44:02.70
you know, and
talking about things.
00:44:02.74\00:44:04.37
And I try to help where I can.
00:44:04.41\00:44:06.94
And I try to talk
to them about the Lord.
00:44:06.98\00:44:09.11
And many times when
these problems come up,
00:44:09.14\00:44:12.81
I say, well, you know,
this is why we have the Bible.
00:44:12.85\00:44:15.28
This is why we have
the Ten Commandments,
00:44:15.32\00:44:17.39
because it's not
for God to be happy.
00:44:17.42\00:44:20.06
It's to make us happy if
we abide by these things.
00:44:20.09\00:44:23.29
If you'd go against this,
00:44:23.32\00:44:25.09
then things
blow up in your face.
00:44:25.13\00:44:26.93
And you know,
this is what happens.
00:44:26.96\00:44:29.23
And so I feel
like that it has turned
00:44:29.26\00:44:31.70
into another sort of
ministry with young people.
00:44:31.73\00:44:35.40
And five years ago, I
could never have them...
00:44:35.44\00:44:38.11
I wouldn't even
thought I'd want to do that,
00:44:38.14\00:44:40.04
you know, with young people,
00:44:40.08\00:44:41.41
but somehow
it's turned into that
00:44:41.44\00:44:42.94
and I love these girls,
00:44:42.98\00:44:44.31
you know, like they're my kids.
00:44:44.35\00:44:46.01
And they know that.
00:44:46.05\00:44:47.72
And they respect
that because, you know,
00:44:47.75\00:44:49.88
I try to show them the love,
00:44:49.92\00:44:51.42
but I talk to them about church.
00:44:51.45\00:44:52.79
I talk to them about the Lord.
00:44:52.82\00:44:54.16
I talk to them about what
God wants with their life.
00:44:54.19\00:44:56.62
And I just wanted to share that
00:44:56.66\00:44:59.36
because there's
many different ways
00:44:59.39\00:45:01.20
that you can do ministry.
00:45:01.23\00:45:03.16
When there's some, a
lot of things you can't do,
00:45:03.20\00:45:05.23
but there's many ways
that you can do much outreach.
00:45:05.27\00:45:08.84
Yeah.
00:45:08.87\00:45:10.21
And that's really good
because so many times folks
00:45:10.24\00:45:12.37
who worked
full-time in ministry,
00:45:12.41\00:45:14.71
you really feel like
you've done your job.
00:45:14.74\00:45:16.08
Right.
00:45:16.11\00:45:17.45
But if we're working in ministry
00:45:17.48\00:45:18.91
and we're getting paid for it.
00:45:18.95\00:45:20.28
Right.
00:45:20.32\00:45:21.65
You know, and then we say,
00:45:21.68\00:45:23.02
oh, well, after 6
o'clock I'm out of ministry,
00:45:23.05\00:45:25.82
you know, I don't need
to do anything for the Lord.
00:45:25.85\00:45:27.96
I work for Him all day long,
00:45:27.99\00:45:29.82
whether I'm running
a camera or directing,
00:45:29.86\00:45:31.99
or whether I'm
in the office work
00:45:32.03\00:45:33.36
or doing finances
00:45:33.40\00:45:34.73
or on air or whatever I'm doing.
00:45:34.76\00:45:37.03
But really this responsibility
is while we're waking,
00:45:37.07\00:45:40.60
it's 24/7 whenever.
00:45:40.64\00:45:42.54
And people that we
meet, it's our privilege
00:45:42.57\00:45:45.04
and our responsibility to
introduce them to the Lord.
00:45:45.07\00:45:48.54
And that's a good thing.
00:45:48.58\00:45:49.91
Things like this
and your side business,
00:45:49.94\00:45:52.21
I won't go into it
for various reasons,
00:45:52.25\00:45:54.58
but the puppies you
decided to get into.
00:45:54.62\00:45:57.55
And so the Lord has
blessed that tremendously,
00:45:57.59\00:46:00.39
but you know, so all of us
have a responsibility to do
00:46:00.42\00:46:04.36
what we can do for the Lord.
00:46:04.39\00:46:06.13
Some of you are saying,
00:46:06.16\00:46:07.50
I'd like to give
some, I don't have anything.
00:46:07.53\00:46:09.46
Why don't you just
remember to pray for 3ABN?
00:46:09.50\00:46:12.80
Because we are
on the front lines
00:46:12.83\00:46:14.90
and people after all these years
00:46:14.94\00:46:17.21
are still
people who resent 3ABN,
00:46:17.24\00:46:20.34
people who are
anti-3ABN, but you know what?
00:46:20.38\00:46:23.51
I'm encouraged by that.
00:46:23.55\00:46:25.15
Because as I've
said for so long,
00:46:25.18\00:46:27.15
if everybody loved me
and everybody loved 3ABN
00:46:27.18\00:46:30.69
and everything I did
and everything you do,
00:46:30.72\00:46:32.89
we must be not
doing something right,
00:46:32.92\00:46:34.92
because the Bible says,
00:46:34.96\00:46:36.29
"All who live godly
shall suffer persecution."
00:46:36.32\00:46:37.86
Right.
00:46:37.89\00:46:39.23
So when you're giving
truth to a lost and dying world,
00:46:39.26\00:46:43.03
you're gonna have
people object to it.
00:46:43.06\00:46:45.30
You're gonna have
people offended by it.
00:46:45.33\00:46:46.80
You're gonna have people
00:46:46.84\00:46:48.17
who become your enemies
because they don't want that.
00:46:48.20\00:46:51.37
They don't want
the truth going out.
00:46:51.41\00:46:52.84
The devil doesn't
want it going out.
00:46:52.87\00:46:55.04
So what I would encourage
you to do for those of you,
00:46:55.08\00:46:57.55
you say, well,
00:46:57.58\00:46:58.91
I don't have
anything I can give.
00:46:58.95\00:47:00.42
We appreciate your
prayers, we covet your prayers,
00:47:00.45\00:47:03.02
because for those
on the front lines,
00:47:03.05\00:47:05.22
you know, Greg and Jill
00:47:05.25\00:47:06.59
and all the others
out on the front lines,
00:47:06.62\00:47:09.19
that the devil really
is out to steal, kill,
00:47:09.22\00:47:12.46
and to destroy and you too.
00:47:12.49\00:47:14.40
He hates all of us
that carry the name,
00:47:14.43\00:47:16.93
Christian, but we
all can work together.
00:47:16.97\00:47:19.57
We all can help.
00:47:19.60\00:47:20.94
Some of you can
give financially,
00:47:20.97\00:47:22.60
some of you can't,
00:47:22.64\00:47:24.01
some of you can
donate things like this.
00:47:24.04\00:47:26.34
That's great too.
00:47:26.37\00:47:27.71
So Bruce, we just
have a few more minutes.
00:47:27.74\00:47:29.78
What else would
you wanna talk about?
00:47:29.81\00:47:31.15
I'd like to mention thanks
to 3ABN CFO, Jason Bergmann.
00:47:31.18\00:47:36.18
We now have a new
updated computer program system
00:47:36.22\00:47:40.16
that state-of-the-art,
00:47:40.19\00:47:41.52
and now what it does for people,
00:47:41.56\00:47:43.83
the donors is now that
we can get those receipts
00:47:43.86\00:47:46.96
back out to them
very quickly at once
00:47:47.00\00:47:49.53
we received their donation,
00:47:49.56\00:47:51.27
whereas before it
was a period of time
00:47:51.30\00:47:53.60
before we could get them back.
00:47:53.64\00:47:54.97
That's good.
00:47:55.00\00:47:56.34
And but, and I'd also
like to add the people
00:47:56.37\00:47:59.04
that do have donated
items that has appraisals.
00:47:59.07\00:48:03.28
They should use those appraisals
00:48:03.31\00:48:05.05
for income tax purposes
00:48:05.08\00:48:06.88
if they have an
appraisal on the item.
00:48:06.92\00:48:08.55
Instead of what we sold for.
00:48:08.58\00:48:09.92
Instead of what we sold for,
00:48:09.95\00:48:12.15
it would be to their
advantage to do it that way.
00:48:12.19\00:48:14.22
Okay. Okay.
00:48:14.26\00:48:15.72
What else?
00:48:15.76\00:48:17.09
Anything you want to,
for folks to know at home?
00:48:17.13\00:48:20.60
How the gold prices
and the silver prices,
00:48:20.63\00:48:23.63
it's spot prices.
00:48:23.67\00:48:25.00
Yeah. So they can change.
00:48:25.03\00:48:26.37
Well, the spot prices
change, you know, all the time.
00:48:26.40\00:48:29.27
Even as we've had this
program, they're changing,
00:48:29.30\00:48:32.21
but gold has been up fairly high
00:48:32.24\00:48:36.24
for the last few months.
00:48:36.28\00:48:37.61
And it actually got up to
$1,900 per ounce last month.
00:48:37.65\00:48:42.68
So you know, and
the silvers went up too.
00:48:42.72\00:48:45.55
Yeah.
00:48:45.59\00:48:46.92
So those items that comes up,
00:48:46.96\00:48:48.42
I think silver's right at about,
00:48:48.46\00:48:50.73
while we're doing this
program about $26 an ounce.
00:48:50.76\00:48:53.23
So... Yeah.
00:48:53.26\00:48:54.60
Silver and gold
items is always welcomed.
00:48:54.63\00:48:56.93
And while it's, you know,
00:48:56.97\00:48:58.87
if you have
these items right now,
00:48:58.90\00:49:00.37
so it's the time
to get rid of them.
00:49:00.40\00:49:01.74
So... Yeah.
00:49:01.77\00:49:03.74
Wow. That's amazing.
00:49:03.77\00:49:05.11
Because also
people have donated stock.
00:49:05.14\00:49:07.94
We have a lot of
people who call us
00:49:07.98\00:49:09.81
and usually talk
to Jason Bergmann,
00:49:09.84\00:49:11.81
their CFO, about stock.
00:49:11.85\00:49:13.98
Maybe they have it
in different companies
00:49:14.02\00:49:16.08
and they say, you know,
00:49:16.12\00:49:17.45
we don't really
want this anymore.
00:49:17.49\00:49:19.09
And so we want
to give it to 3ABN.
00:49:19.12\00:49:21.69
3ABN is able to sell
that at the market values
00:49:21.72\00:49:25.43
and use that.
00:49:25.46\00:49:26.80
I take a lot of those
calls and transform to Jason.
00:49:26.83\00:49:29.96
Yeah. So I...
00:49:30.00\00:49:31.33
There are quite a few
calls that comes in with stock
00:49:31.37\00:49:34.50
and the way
things are now, you know.
00:49:34.54\00:49:35.87
Yeah. Absolutely.
00:49:35.90\00:49:37.74
And also from our
wills and trust department
00:49:37.77\00:49:41.68
and our
charitable gift annuities,
00:49:41.71\00:49:43.55
you can make tax deductible,
you know, gifts to 3ABN.
00:49:43.58\00:49:47.18
Yet you can receive
income from that till you die.
00:49:47.22\00:49:51.09
And so,
depending what your age is,
00:49:51.12\00:49:53.05
how much interest,
but it's more interest
00:49:53.09\00:49:55.22
than you get at a bank by far
00:49:55.26\00:49:56.69
because you aren't
getting anything at a bank.
00:49:56.73\00:49:59.03
So when you hit 70 plus there,
00:49:59.06\00:50:02.43
all of a sudden
your interest is more
00:50:02.46\00:50:04.43
so there's
things that you can do
00:50:04.47\00:50:05.80
and you don't wanna pay
00:50:05.83\00:50:07.17
capital gains on certain things.
00:50:07.20\00:50:08.54
We, of course, we
all going by the laws
00:50:08.57\00:50:11.47
and so abiding by that,
00:50:11.51\00:50:12.84
but there are
certain advantages,
00:50:12.87\00:50:14.21
tax advantages that
00:50:14.24\00:50:15.61
we can take
advantage of that are legal.
00:50:15.64\00:50:17.95
And so we're happy to
talk to you about that.
00:50:17.98\00:50:20.38
So if you call here
00:50:20.42\00:50:21.75
and talk to our
wills and trust department,
00:50:21.78\00:50:23.92
or you want to talk to Bruce
00:50:23.95\00:50:25.29
about some of the other things
00:50:25.32\00:50:26.65
that you have,
we're very happy for that.
00:50:26.69\00:50:28.82
And again, the time is so short.
00:50:28.86\00:50:30.89
We've never seen the world
in the mess that it's in today,
00:50:30.93\00:50:34.23
and eventually this
won't be worth anything,
00:50:34.26\00:50:36.23
any of this stuff.
00:50:36.26\00:50:37.60
Yeah.
00:50:37.63\00:50:38.97
But right now we can turn it
00:50:39.00\00:50:40.34
into money to
support the ministry.
00:50:40.37\00:50:41.87
Yeah.
00:50:41.90\00:50:43.24
This world's gone more haywire
00:50:43.27\00:50:44.67
in the last
five years in my life
00:50:44.71\00:50:46.54
than I have to remember
00:50:46.57\00:50:47.91
all the rest of
my life together.
00:50:47.94\00:50:49.28
Oh, I know.
00:50:49.31\00:50:50.65
My mom used to
say, you might remember
00:50:50.68\00:50:52.01
when things go
beyond her control
00:50:52.05\00:50:54.12
or something shocked her.
00:50:54.15\00:50:55.48
She'd say, you know what?
00:50:55.52\00:50:56.85
I just feel like
everybody in the world is crazy,
00:50:56.89\00:50:59.35
except me and Dee and
sometimes even Dee, okay.
00:50:59.39\00:51:02.86
So we're kind of
getting to that point.
00:51:02.89\00:51:06.66
Now it's like, you turn on news,
00:51:06.70\00:51:08.70
no matter what
channel it's like,
00:51:08.73\00:51:10.13
this is crazy stuff going on.
00:51:10.17\00:51:11.93
I look at him, I
say people's going mad.
00:51:11.97\00:51:14.10
They've gone mad. Absolutely.
00:51:14.14\00:51:16.20
I agree. Yeah.
00:51:16.24\00:51:18.44
That's where we are.
We're towards the end of time.
00:51:18.47\00:51:21.01
And so anyway, once again,
00:51:21.04\00:51:23.61
we thank you for
your love and prayers
00:51:23.65\00:51:25.21
and financial support.
00:51:25.25\00:51:26.92
We're gonna go to a news
break and then we'll be back
00:51:26.95\00:51:30.82
after that for closing talk.
00:51:30.85\00:51:35.09
If you'd like to write
to our 3ABN Donation Center,
00:51:35.12\00:51:38.03
the address is PO Box 220,
West Frankfort, Illinois 62896.
00:51:38.06\00:51:44.10
Again, 3ABN Donation Center,
POBox 220, West Frankfort,
00:51:44.13\00:51:49.20
Illinois 62896.
00:51:49.24\00:51:51.97
You can call (618) 627-4651,
00:51:52.01\00:51:55.58
ext. 3078.
00:51:55.61\00:51:57.95
That's (618) 627-4651,
00:51:57.98\00:52:01.65
ext. 3078.
00:52:01.68\00:52:03.89
You can email
Bruce.Chance@3abn.org
00:52:03.92\00:52:08.66
That's Bruce.Chance@3abn.org
00:52:08.69\00:52:12.09
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00:52:12.13\00:52:15.13