As you're well aware,
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we're living in
unprecedented times.
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Join us now for
today's 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 Live.
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I'm so glad that you decided
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to spend time
with us this evening
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as you do each and every week.
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I'm Jason Bradley and
my co-host this evening
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is Pastor John Lomacang.
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Good to be on the ship with you.
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Oh, it's great to have you.
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Yes, yes.
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Pastor of the Thompsonville
Seventh-Day Adventist Church.
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And then we have Eric Camarillo,
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President of SALT
Outreach Incorporated.
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Eric, you're no
stranger to 3ABN.
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Not a stranger. No.
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Thank you, guys,
for having me again.
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It's great to have you here.
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And I'm glad
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that you could
be here in person.
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This has been a
very interesting year,
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to say the least.
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Yes, no, I'm glad
I could be here, too.
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Yes.
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So I don't want to
spend a whole lot of time
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previewing what we're
going to be discussing
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and what we're
going to be talking about,
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because we have
some music to go to.
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Oh, we do, we have.
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And, you know,
this is going to be
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interesting program SALT.
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We'll find out what
that means in a moment.
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But we know that the
Bible says the SALT loses
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its usefulness
when it loses its savor.
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And we have been watching
Eric's ministry growing.
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We'll talk about the ministry
and what it all entails.
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But going strong, it
hasn't lost its savor.
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And it's still
flavoring the lives
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of many, many individuals.
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And there are many more people
that are going to be flavored
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by this ministry.
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And tonight, Jason, I'm excited,
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it's going to give us
a chance to introduce it
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to maybe some
new audience members,
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some new family members of 3ABN
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or maybe somebody that
has never tuned in before.
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So do stay tuned.
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But as you
mentioned, we do have music.
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Absolutely.
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And I think we also going to let
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our audience know
we're going to be taking
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questions and
comments in the second hour.
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Because you
cannot have a program
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as detailed as
yours without questions.
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So if you want to
send in questions,
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one of the first things
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we like to encourage
people to do is text.
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That's been the
immediate right hand
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or left hand of everybody.
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And to send those questions
by text is (618) 627...
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Oh, that's the calling number.
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You want to text (618) 228-3975.
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There you go.
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(618) 228-3975
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or they can call (618) 627-4651.
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Follow the prompts
to the call center.
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They're waiting to talk to you,
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waiting to take your
questions and all of that
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or you can send an
email to Live@3abn.tv.
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That's right. That's right.
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So who's going
to bless us in song?
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Well, we have a young man
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that is no
stranger to this ministry.
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His name is Layke Jones.
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And I think the
song is very appropriate,
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"How deep the
Father's love for us."
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After that, we'll be right back.
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How deep the
Father's love for us
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How vast beyond all measure
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That He should give His only Son
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To make a wretch His treasure
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How great the
pain of searing loss
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The Father turns His face away
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As wounds which
mar the Chosen One
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Bring many sons to glory
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Behold the man upon a cross
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My sin upon His shoulders
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Ashamed, I hear my mocking voice
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Call out among the scoffers
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It was my sin
that held Him there
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Until it was accomplished
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His dying breath
has brought me life
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I know that it is finished
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I will not boast in anything
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No gifts, no power, no wisdom
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But I will boast in Jesus Christ
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His death and resurrection
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Why should I
gain from His reward?
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I cannot give an answer
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But this I know
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With all my heart
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His wounds have paid my ransom
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Why should I
gain from His reward?
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I cannot give an answer
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But this I know
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With all my heart
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His wounds have paid
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My ransom
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Thank you so much,
Layke and Tim Parton,
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for accompanying him.
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What a combination.
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That's a song
that really catapults
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the program into the direction
of what SALT is all about.
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The Father's love is
so deep that He sent us
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to be the salt of the earth.
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Amen.
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And we're so glad
that Eric is here tonight.
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Eric Camarillo,
trying to be all flavorful.
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That's right.
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Yes, a lot of
flavor coming from you.
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I feel it.
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Good. Yeah, that's good.
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Yeah, that's right.
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And this ministry, we
want to first talk about
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because we have
viewers and listeners.
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I have to remember
my wife works for radio,
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she always says don't just
say thank you for watching,
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we say thank you for listening.
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But, Eric, start
out by telling us
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what does SALT mean?
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And then where did
you get the inspiration
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to just get
something going that is,
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we'll talk
about when it started.
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But just what is SALT?
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And where did the inspiration
to get it started come from?
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Yeah, so SALT is an acronym
for Service and Love Together.
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I had become an
Adventist in 2010.
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I was baptized
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in the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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And about a year later,
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you know, as I'm
looking around in the area,
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I'm seeing that,
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that churches
aren't really working
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closely together.
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I noticed that young adults
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were not very,
were leaving the church.
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And there wasn't
really like a strong community
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of young adults in
the area at that time.
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And so, I believed at that time
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that part of that
reason, major reason
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was because they might have felt
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like the church was
not doing consistent,
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impactful,
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you know, outreach that
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that produces
measurable incomes,
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you know, and outcomes.
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And so we came up with the idea,
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you know, me and two
friends, we prayed all night,
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and we came up
with the name SALT,
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Matthew 5:13.
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It exemplified perfectly
what we are trying to do,
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as well as the acronym
Service and Love Together,
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you know.
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A lot of the time, you
know, there are churches
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that do once a year
outreach, once a quarter,
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but we need to be consistent
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because we need to
create relationships
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because that is what
leads people to Christ,
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you know, so that's kind
of what I guess helped inspire
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in the beginning.
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Amen.
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You know, what I love about SALT
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is you're not
just out there saying,
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"Hey, you know,
I'll pray for you,
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go stay warm, or
I'll pray for you,
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hopefully you get a meal,
or I'll pray for you alone."
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Your actions are
behind those prayers.
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So you're praying for them,
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and you're acting on it
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with the
practical Christianity of,
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"Hey, I'm going to pray
for you that you can stay warm.
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Here's a coat.
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'I'm going to pray for you
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that you have
something in your stomach.
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Here's some food."
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You know, so
all of those things.
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I love the Ministry of SALT.
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And something you mentioned
that I want our audience
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to not miss.
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He said about a year
after you got baptized.
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So you didn't sit and allow
spider webs to grow on you.
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It's like the
Lord had this vision.
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Jeremiah 29:11.
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He knew the plans He had for you
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and He brought
you into a community
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that needed that
spark to get that going.
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So just becoming an
Adventist Christian,
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looking at a
situation and saying,
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"Okay, Lord, here I am send me."
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And what year was
that, you said 2011?
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That was in 2010
when I was baptized.
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I was baptized in May of 2010.
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And SALT,
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the idea for SALT
didn't really start
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until August of 2011.
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And then in September 2011,
when we had our first event,
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kind of pitching the idea
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to the young
adults in the community,
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and just going
from there, you know.
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You know, the
whole when you mentioned
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that I didn't sit
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and let cobwebs
kind of form on me.
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I actually and
I felt like I did,
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you know, I felt like,
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you know, I was slowly
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because I didn't feel like
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I was really
fulfilling my purpose,
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or doing, or working
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to the maximum
potential for God.
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I kind of did feel
like there were some cobwebs
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kind of building up.
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And so, SALT was just
something that really, you know,
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instead of,
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there's so many people
that will sit around and say,
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oh, the church needs to do this,
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the church needs to do that.
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But you know,
God had spoken to me,
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you know, through
His Word and was like,
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Eric, you, you
can't just sit around,
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do something, you know,
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and, and that's, yeah,
that's what happened, so.
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So you saw that need,
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and you decided
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that you were
going to fill that need?
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Right, exactly.
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And that's, we should
all, should all do that.
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You know, I think we've
started to become spectators
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a lot of the time.
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And really, God wants
to use us as instruments
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for change within our church.
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Yes.
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So, you know,
that's, that's what I think.
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Now having a vision
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and actually doing
something with that vision
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is not the same thing
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because you felt and
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I like that how
you brought that in,
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because sitting,
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for some people
sitting around for one year
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is not a long time.
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Some people can sit
around for 15 years or 20 years
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still saying,
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"When is the church
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or when is the conference
going to do this and that."
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But Danny wasn't one.
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That's why we're
sitting here tonight.
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And he realized
that God had a vision.
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He said, "Here I am, send me."
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And you did the same thing.
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So talking to the young people,
then looking at the next step,
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because getting started,
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starting an
organization starting a 501 C3,
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and recognizing that,
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as Danny said,
there are resources,
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but how do we get
access to those resources?
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How do we define our goal?
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How do we calibrate our mission?
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And what was the
first thing you did?
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If you could
remember that first outreach,
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that kind of scared you
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but confirmed that
God was leading you?
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You know, it was an
outreach, it was even,
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it was right
before SALT started,
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actually helped inspire SALT.
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Okay.
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Where we would go
out in downtown Orlando,
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me and three friends of mine.
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And literally, we would,
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we went out like
maybe 10 at night.
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And we would just see where God,
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who God has
called us to talk to,
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and we just walk
around there and there'd be,
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you know,
people, you know, like,
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you know, the
nightlife, right, in the town.
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But we would see someone crying.
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So me and my friend
would go and sit next to her
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and kind of ask, you know,
hey, what's wrong, you know,
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and then she
shared her spiritual life,
00:13:49.39\00:13:51.09
that she was an agnostic,
00:13:51.13\00:13:52.96
and we pray and we asked
if we could pray for her.
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And she said, yes.
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And like, just
kind of plant seeds,
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you know, and it was that
night that God confirmed to me,
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Eric, I need
you to do something.
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And, you know,
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because that was just
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that outreach is not
an easy outreach to do.
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No, no, it's
not a perfect night.
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Yeah, yeah.
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We didn't end that night
till like three in the morning,
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I think, you know.
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There was, there was,
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I remember that
night so vividly.
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There was a
pastor son out there.
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And we just were going around
and he was really friendly.
00:14:22.82\00:14:26.33
We start talking to
him, and he started crying.
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He's like, "Guys, I
shouldn't be out here.
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You know, my dad's a pastor.
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And, you know, I just
came up for my birthday,
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but I shouldn't have come
like, look what I'm doing."
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And, you know,
it's just, it's crazy.
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You know, just moments like that
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that happened.
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And then a homeless
woman really was the thing
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that kind of,
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where that God
used to speak through me
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or speak to me, I'm sorry.
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And so,
00:14:52.12\00:14:53.46
and then the rest
is history after that,
00:14:53.49\00:14:55.46
you know, then SALT
00:14:55.49\00:14:56.93
the idea sparked
shortly after so.
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Wow.
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So after the idea sparked,
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and you said you
presented it to young people,
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did they catch the vision?
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Or was it like,
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did you have to
keep approaching them
00:15:08.50\00:15:10.27
or did they catch it right then?
00:15:10.31\00:15:12.01
They caught it.
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They were all, they
were all wanting it.
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You know, they all
want it to be involved.
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They all want it.
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It was something
young adults are organic.
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It was grassroots.
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We had our
first event September,
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had like 150 young adults come.
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The next one was in
November, had about 250.
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We did it a year,
our one-year anniversary,
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we had 850 young
adults come fill up a...
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It's Patmos Chapel.
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Yeah, I know Patmos.
00:15:36.36\00:15:37.70
You know Patmos? Oh, yeah.
00:15:37.73\00:15:39.07
It was packed with young adults.
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And just people in
general, not just young adults.
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So many people that
that just wanted to learn
00:15:43.97\00:15:46.71
about what SALT had
done in that past year
00:15:46.74\00:15:48.31
and what SALT's looking to do.
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So the vision just kept,
kept catching on, you know.
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And that's, that's
the beautiful thing.
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I mean, God used so many people
to get SALT to where it is now.
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And it's exciting to
see all that come together.
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Yes.
00:16:04.36\00:16:05.69
Yeah, just
before we show the video
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that kind of gives us an
overview of SALT in action,
00:16:07.10\00:16:10.23
just name a few things
00:16:10.27\00:16:11.77
and we'll go into more
detail later on in the program
00:16:11.80\00:16:14.14
of what we might
see in this video
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that to kind of helps people
00:16:15.77\00:16:18.21
because there's some
people that are listening,
00:16:18.24\00:16:20.64
and we want to
be able to identify
00:16:20.68\00:16:22.24
with those who may
be driving their cars,
00:16:22.28\00:16:23.75
what we're about to watch?
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Yeah, so the video was
made in May of this year.
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We had just
created a relationship,
00:16:29.25\00:16:32.25
partnership with
the city of Orlando,
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where they were,
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they basically helped to
00:16:35.86\00:16:37.69
when the pandemic hit
in mid-March in Florida.
00:16:37.73\00:16:41.00
The homeless organizations,
the shelters, the food shares
00:16:41.03\00:16:44.73
where hundreds of people
experiencing homelessness
00:16:44.77\00:16:46.97
would go and get
food, they shut down.
00:16:47.00\00:16:49.57
So those
experiencing homelessness,
00:16:49.60\00:16:51.64
they didn't really
have anywhere to go,
00:16:51.67\00:16:54.28
they have anyone to
look to or they were lost,
00:16:54.31\00:16:57.25
you know, those
that had just gotten jobs
00:16:57.28\00:16:58.61
got laid off,
00:16:58.65\00:16:59.98
those that were looking for jobs
00:17:00.02\00:17:01.35
had to stop,
00:17:01.38\00:17:02.72
the businesses were closing.
00:17:02.75\00:17:04.09
So we had a relationship
with the city of Orlando,
00:17:04.12\00:17:07.22
and you know, her name is Lisa,
she called me and she's like,
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Eric, you guys are outside.
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You guys can keep going.
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We were operating
once a week at that,
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during that time.
00:17:16.23\00:17:17.57
It's like let's, let
the city help fund you
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to operate more often.
00:17:19.53\00:17:21.14
So we started
operating three days a week,
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we hired staff.
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I mean, it was an amazing,
00:17:24.41\00:17:26.81
just an amazing testimony
to see God grow the ministry
00:17:26.84\00:17:29.88
just like that in
just one instance.
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Unfortunately,
00:17:32.31\00:17:33.65
it was an
unfortunate circumstance
00:17:33.68\00:17:35.02
that led to that.
00:17:35.05\00:17:36.38
But, you know,
God was setting us up
00:17:36.42\00:17:39.02
for that moment
00:17:39.05\00:17:40.39
to help those people
00:17:40.42\00:17:41.76
that were
literally in a black hole
00:17:41.79\00:17:43.46
during that time.
00:17:43.49\00:17:44.83
So this video was made
00:17:44.86\00:17:46.36
right about two months of us
operating during the pandemic.
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Okay, well, let's go
to that video right now
00:17:50.13\00:17:51.73
and check it out.
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My name is Eric Camarillo.
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I'm the
President of SALT Outreach.
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So our homeless outreach started
00:18:05.18\00:18:06.51
actually with two young women,
00:18:06.55\00:18:08.72
they would cook food
in their individual homes,
00:18:08.75\00:18:10.99
and then they would
go and offer that food
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to those
experiencing homelessness.
00:18:12.79\00:18:14.19
We fundraised for
a clothing trailer
00:18:14.22\00:18:16.02
which we call Change.
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There were some
homeless individuals
00:18:17.56\00:18:19.29
that were
actively looking for work
00:18:19.33\00:18:21.63
that hadn't showered
and up to three months.
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Living in Florida
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with the kind of
heat that we live in,
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that's not acceptable.
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How can you want to even feel
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like you want to better yourself
00:18:30.37\00:18:31.97
if you feel dirty,
if you feel rejected?
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They are a
wonderful group of people.
00:18:35.08\00:18:37.91
And, you know, they help
us, they give us resources.
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They don't leave us out.
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Get you a hot
shower. It feel good.
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We fundraised about
$40,000 for a shower trailer
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that we launched
at the end of 2018.
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Free showers are
available in downtown Orlando.
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This mobile shower trailer
00:18:53.76\00:18:55.60
is part of the latest effort now
00:18:55.63\00:18:56.97
to help the homeless.
00:18:57.00\00:18:58.33
I'm the Homeless
Outreach Director
00:18:58.37\00:18:59.70
so that you know
entails a lot of things.
00:18:59.73\00:19:01.74
One of the things is
we have our shower trailer
00:19:01.77\00:19:04.21
just making sure
that we have the supplies
00:19:04.24\00:19:05.57
that we need.
00:19:05.61\00:19:06.94
Just the shower alone
00:19:06.98\00:19:08.61
could put a whole
brand-new perspective
00:19:08.64\00:19:11.48
on what your day
is going to look like.
00:19:11.51\00:19:13.18
When you come out of that,
00:19:13.21\00:19:14.78
you can know that
your hair is shampooed
00:19:14.82\00:19:17.12
and conditioned well.
00:19:17.15\00:19:19.25
You know what I'm saying
00:19:19.29\00:19:20.62
like you actually have some time
00:19:20.66\00:19:21.99
to really need
everything in there
00:19:22.02\00:19:23.93
and let it marinate your hair.
00:19:23.96\00:19:25.59
Brand new man or woman.
00:19:25.63\00:19:27.03
I heard about the shower,
00:19:27.06\00:19:28.40
got involved with SALT
00:19:28.43\00:19:29.76
and then got me off the streets.
00:19:29.80\00:19:31.43
Now I'm no longer homeless.
00:19:31.47\00:19:33.90
Today I pretty much
take care of the shower,
00:19:33.94\00:19:37.07
me and my partner Oscar.
00:19:37.11\00:19:39.37
We put people in the
shower and then we sterilize
00:19:39.41\00:19:43.95
and clean it real
good for the next person.
00:19:43.98\00:19:46.51
And sometimes you in
the amongst into a group
00:19:46.55\00:19:49.18
need to see you as homeless
00:19:49.22\00:19:50.55
and mentioned
different issues and different
00:19:50.59\00:19:53.05
but, you know,
and then being on here
00:19:53.09\00:19:54.79
and giving me
opportunity to volunteer.
00:19:54.82\00:19:57.03
You know people
able to see more of
00:19:57.06\00:19:59.09
you know what I am as a person
what they just wanted to be.
00:19:59.13\00:20:03.03
The start of 2020, OUC,
00:20:03.06\00:20:05.23
the Orlando Utilities Commission
00:20:05.27\00:20:06.90
donated solar panels
00:20:06.94\00:20:08.27
to put on top of
our shower trailer.
00:20:08.30\00:20:10.34
So we can be completely
mobile with our shower trailer.
00:20:10.37\00:20:12.87
We don't need to
plug in anywhere.
00:20:12.91\00:20:14.24
We can fill our water tank
00:20:14.28\00:20:15.61
and literally do
showers at any location.
00:20:15.64\00:20:18.38
When this COVID-19
pandemic broke out,
00:20:18.41\00:20:20.95
we went ahead and hired
00:20:20.98\00:20:22.65
two more additional people.
00:20:22.68\00:20:24.42
And thanks to
the city of Orlando,
00:20:24.45\00:20:26.86
they have hired us
to be able to provide
00:20:26.89\00:20:28.82
these emergency services.
00:20:28.86\00:20:30.23
We've gone from
operating three times a month
00:20:30.26\00:20:33.63
to operating three times a week
00:20:33.66\00:20:35.40
to be able to provide services
00:20:35.43\00:20:38.10
that are supposed
to curb the spread.
00:20:38.13\00:20:40.44
We are needing things
like gloves, hand sanitizers,
00:20:40.47\00:20:44.44
especially the hand sanitizer
00:20:44.47\00:20:45.81
so we can give to
our homeless friends.
00:20:45.84\00:20:47.21
So after they take a shower,
00:20:47.24\00:20:48.64
they can take that with them
00:20:48.68\00:20:50.01
and still maintain
that, that hygiene.
00:20:50.05\00:20:52.48
I believe we're just
at the beginning stages
00:20:52.51\00:20:55.02
of where God wants us to be.
00:20:55.05\00:20:56.65
We have a big vision,
00:20:56.69\00:20:58.22
we want to duplicate
this in every major city.
00:20:58.25\00:21:01.32
We're going to have to partner
with those in the community
00:21:01.36\00:21:03.73
to actually make this a reality.
00:21:03.76\00:21:05.63
I was homeless myself.
00:21:05.66\00:21:07.00
When I look back
at that experience,
00:21:07.03\00:21:08.36
I believe that's what drives me.
00:21:08.40\00:21:09.73
That's what gives me the passion
00:21:09.76\00:21:11.37
and desire to do
00:21:11.40\00:21:12.73
what we're doing here with SALT.
00:21:12.77\00:21:14.60
When you get a
feeling out of someone
00:21:14.64\00:21:16.17
what somebody's doing
00:21:16.20\00:21:17.54
you get a good
feeling like that.
00:21:17.57\00:21:18.91
That's called love.
00:21:18.94\00:21:20.28
And that's what
SALT brings to the table.
00:21:20.31\00:21:21.64
Wow! What an inspiring video.
00:21:31.29\00:21:33.32
You know, you
don't realize the things
00:21:33.36\00:21:35.89
that we take for
granted on the daily basis,
00:21:35.92\00:21:38.73
showers
transforming people's lives
00:21:38.76\00:21:40.93
like making their
day that much better.
00:21:40.96\00:21:44.87
The gentleman was
talking about shampooing
00:21:44.90\00:21:46.77
and conditioning his hair.
00:21:46.80\00:21:49.00
And that made his day like
00:21:49.04\00:21:50.87
but the things that
we take for granted.
00:21:50.91\00:21:53.01
Tell us about
your beginnings, Eric?
00:21:53.04\00:21:54.74
Yeah.
00:21:54.78\00:21:56.11
So my beginnings as...
00:21:56.14\00:21:58.35
When you are
facing that homelessness?
00:21:58.38\00:22:00.95
I didn't even know that
you were homeless before.
00:22:00.98\00:22:02.32
Yeah.
00:22:02.35\00:22:03.69
So I actually, it was
when I was 20 years old,
00:22:03.72\00:22:06.39
it was BC, Before Christ,
00:22:06.42\00:22:08.89
you know, and my
whole mindset was all about,
00:22:08.92\00:22:11.66
like making money,
00:22:11.69\00:22:13.03
and how can I
make the most money?
00:22:13.06\00:22:14.40
And what do I need to do?
00:22:14.43\00:22:15.76
And I remember I went to Chicago
00:22:15.80\00:22:17.87
to try and start a business.
00:22:17.90\00:22:19.50
And it, I had enough money,
00:22:19.53\00:22:23.51
I totally underestimated
the amount of time
00:22:23.54\00:22:26.88
that I would need
to be out there, right?
00:22:26.91\00:22:28.24
So I had enough money
for hotel for two weeks.
00:22:28.28\00:22:31.21
But I was out
there for six months.
00:22:31.25\00:22:32.85
So I ended up living in my car
00:22:32.88\00:22:36.42
for about five months.
00:22:36.45\00:22:38.72
You know, once in a while
00:22:38.75\00:22:40.09
I'd be able to get
00:22:40.12\00:22:41.46
into a friend's house and shower
00:22:41.49\00:22:43.06
or someone that I was meeting
00:22:43.09\00:22:44.43
or it was just
weird kind of instances
00:22:44.46\00:22:47.00
where I'd be able to get shower,
00:22:47.03\00:22:48.36
but a lot of the time
I go to the gas station,
00:22:48.40\00:22:51.23
go into the bathroom,
try and clean myself up.
00:22:51.27\00:22:54.67
And I'd still
put on a suit and tie
00:22:54.70\00:22:56.77
and go into Panera
and have my meetings
00:22:56.81\00:22:58.71
and try and get
this business going.
00:22:58.74\00:23:01.64
I was a...
00:23:01.68\00:23:03.01
Yeah, I was a little crazy.
00:23:03.04\00:23:04.68
But I remember eating, to eat,
00:23:04.71\00:23:07.88
I would go into a
Mexican restaurant.
00:23:07.92\00:23:09.88
And you know how they give
those chips in the beginning?
00:23:09.92\00:23:12.32
I'd eat the chips.
00:23:12.35\00:23:13.69
And I just, I wait a little bit,
00:23:13.72\00:23:15.06
you know, look around,
00:23:15.09\00:23:16.42
had to walk out
after I eat the chips.
00:23:16.46\00:23:18.43
If I had $1, I get a
piece of bread at Panera,
00:23:18.46\00:23:20.96
I'd rip it in half.
00:23:21.00\00:23:22.33
And that'd be my
breakfast and my dinner.
00:23:22.36\00:23:25.40
It was rough, it was rough.
00:23:25.43\00:23:27.84
And I was stubborn.
00:23:27.87\00:23:29.97
You know, looking back if I,
if I had known God back then,
00:23:30.01\00:23:33.11
I would have known
00:23:33.14\00:23:34.48
that God would
not have wanted me
00:23:34.51\00:23:35.91
to go that route.
00:23:35.94\00:23:37.28
I really would have known that.
00:23:37.31\00:23:38.65
But I remember though, though,
00:23:38.68\00:23:40.42
during those
times of feeling that
00:23:40.45\00:23:43.28
that loneliness, you
know, that emptiness,
00:23:43.32\00:23:46.25
you know, I wasn't succeeding.
00:23:46.29\00:23:49.12
I remember
reaching out to something.
00:23:49.16\00:23:51.83
And I didn't know
what it was, I didn't know.
00:23:51.86\00:23:54.33
You know, I didn't
know God at that time.
00:23:54.36\00:23:55.90
But I would just scream
out to something, you know.
00:23:55.93\00:23:59.10
And I think that,
that might have even been
00:23:59.13\00:24:00.47
the beginnings
00:24:00.50\00:24:01.84
of when I maybe started to be
00:24:01.87\00:24:03.20
a little more
less reliant on myself
00:24:03.24\00:24:08.51
and more thinking
about other things.
00:24:08.54\00:24:11.71
You know what I mean,
00:24:11.75\00:24:13.08
and kind of opening
my mind a little bit.
00:24:13.11\00:24:15.72
But yeah, I was,
00:24:15.75\00:24:17.12
it was a really
interesting experience, yeah.
00:24:17.15\00:24:20.16
Yeah, that's powerful.
00:24:20.19\00:24:21.99
But look what God
did with that experience.
00:24:22.02\00:24:24.96
So, you know,
that's an important lesson
00:24:24.99\00:24:28.46
for people at home.
00:24:28.50\00:24:29.93
You know, whatever
you might be going through
00:24:29.96\00:24:32.10
at this moment
00:24:32.13\00:24:33.47
doesn't mean that that
has to be your tomorrow.
00:24:33.50\00:24:35.97
And, you know, whatever struggle
00:24:36.00\00:24:38.27
you're dealing with could end up
00:24:38.31\00:24:40.28
being somebody
else's blessing tomorrow.
00:24:40.31\00:24:43.21
I mean, think about the
lives that SALT has touched.
00:24:43.24\00:24:46.38
You know, you went
through that process,
00:24:46.41\00:24:48.55
but now you're giving back
00:24:48.58\00:24:49.92
and you're helping
the homeless community
00:24:49.95\00:24:52.35
and all of that stuff.
00:24:52.39\00:24:53.72
It's really
helped me to understand
00:24:53.76\00:24:55.42
where they're coming from,
00:24:55.46\00:24:56.79
you know, can't find
a job, you can't shower.
00:24:56.83\00:24:59.13
You know, I
tried to make it work.
00:24:59.16\00:25:00.53
But I mean, they, the
gas stations in Orlando,
00:25:00.56\00:25:02.56
they won't even,
00:25:02.60\00:25:03.93
they won't let someone
come in there and clean up.
00:25:03.97\00:25:06.17
You know what I mean?
00:25:06.20\00:25:07.54
They're rarely any bathroom
especially now in COVID,
00:25:07.57\00:25:10.11
rarely any bathrooms
they could go in to try
00:25:10.14\00:25:12.14
and prepare
themselves for an interview.
00:25:12.17\00:25:14.04
I was talking about one
of our volunteers today.
00:25:14.08\00:25:16.71
She said that
someone came on Tuesday,
00:25:16.75\00:25:19.45
said they were looking
for a job, need to shower,
00:25:19.48\00:25:21.55
needed some clothes.
00:25:21.58\00:25:23.65
He came back today,
Thursday, this morning.
00:25:23.69\00:25:26.42
And he said, "I got a job."
00:25:26.45\00:25:28.32
He's going to be
working at SeaWorld now.
00:25:28.36\00:25:30.53
And we're going
to try and help him
00:25:30.56\00:25:32.03
to maintain that job.
00:25:32.06\00:25:33.40
But just seeing
00:25:33.43\00:25:34.76
just within a few days
of having access to that,
00:25:34.80\00:25:37.90
how that could change
someone's life, you know, so...
00:25:37.93\00:25:42.14
Providing them with resources.
00:25:42.17\00:25:44.04
Right.
00:25:44.07\00:25:45.41
You know, I think
about that, when...
00:25:45.44\00:25:47.31
Now, I know when
you look at that video
00:25:47.34\00:25:48.88
and see people getting a shower,
00:25:48.91\00:25:51.18
does it ever take you back?
00:25:51.21\00:25:53.55
And you think,
well, if they will say,
00:25:53.58\00:25:54.98
well, if there was
something like this,
00:25:55.02\00:25:56.35
I would have known where to
go every day to get a shower
00:25:56.38\00:25:58.79
while I was going
through my difficulty.
00:25:58.82\00:26:00.16
So you're actually
reaching back to, Eric,
00:26:00.19\00:26:02.62
and saying there are
a lot of guys out there
00:26:02.66\00:26:04.03
like me that have value
00:26:04.06\00:26:06.26
that are not
just another statistic
00:26:06.29\00:26:07.63
on the street.
00:26:07.66\00:26:09.00
And I want to talk,
will you talk to that,
00:26:09.03\00:26:10.37
because a lot of times people
00:26:10.40\00:26:11.90
you know, Jason,
we live in a world
00:26:11.93\00:26:13.27
where people see
people that are down and out.
00:26:13.30\00:26:15.64
I was listening
recently to a statistic
00:26:15.67\00:26:17.77
that is true in Silicon Valley.
00:26:17.81\00:26:20.28
There's many of the
guys that are out there
00:26:20.31\00:26:21.64
smoking crack and doing drugs
00:26:21.68\00:26:24.21
were formerly
making six figure incomes.
00:26:24.25\00:26:28.58
And the demand on
programming these video games
00:26:28.62\00:26:31.72
and computer programming,
00:26:31.75\00:26:33.19
the demand was so great
00:26:33.22\00:26:34.82
that the companies
didn't even mind for them
00:26:34.86\00:26:36.19
to smoke it
00:26:36.22\00:26:37.56
because they don't want
them to sleep within 24 hours
00:26:37.59\00:26:39.49
because the deadlines
00:26:39.53\00:26:41.13
of getting that
videogame out there
00:26:41.16\00:26:42.56
was more
important than their sleep
00:26:42.60\00:26:43.97
and their health.
00:26:44.00\00:26:45.33
So they knew they were
doing crack on the job,
00:26:45.37\00:26:47.94
but they did it so much
that they lost their job
00:26:47.97\00:26:50.04
and you have this debt,
00:26:50.07\00:26:51.41
they have this whole community
of people living in tents
00:26:51.44\00:26:53.74
and on mattresses and in boxes.
00:26:53.78\00:26:57.45
And I saw that video
00:26:57.48\00:26:59.31
and there was one
guy they showed him
00:26:59.35\00:27:01.58
and he introduced
himself and he told what he has.
00:27:01.62\00:27:03.65
I got a master's degree in this,
00:27:03.69\00:27:05.02
in computer engineering and all,
00:27:05.05\00:27:06.39
and I worked for,
00:27:06.42\00:27:07.76
he mentioned the
company and I lost it
00:27:07.79\00:27:09.12
because of crack and
they followed his story.
00:27:09.16\00:27:12.06
And at the end of that,
00:27:12.09\00:27:13.80
he went to a
place got little shower
00:27:13.83\00:27:16.87
and was in
shower but got a shower,
00:27:16.90\00:27:20.50
got as clean as he
could and he got hired.
00:27:20.54\00:27:23.44
And he said, "I start on Monday
00:27:23.47\00:27:25.64
and might get back to
my six-figure income."
00:27:25.67\00:27:29.04
So this is something
more and I want you to
00:27:29.08\00:27:30.71
those who are
listening, watching.
00:27:30.75\00:27:32.08
I want you to think
00:27:32.11\00:27:33.45
that when you see
people on the street,
00:27:33.48\00:27:35.05
they may be a statistic to you.
00:27:35.08\00:27:37.75
That's somebody's son
or somebody's daughter,
00:27:37.79\00:27:40.22
who may be just in a
valley of their lives
00:27:40.26\00:27:42.82
that is on their way
00:27:42.86\00:27:44.46
to the ministry to change lives.
00:27:44.49\00:27:47.13
So here we are.
00:27:47.16\00:27:48.50
SALT began in 2011.
00:27:48.53\00:27:51.37
And take us
00:27:51.40\00:27:52.83
through some of
those grand moments
00:27:52.87\00:27:54.64
because we talked
about that shower truck.
00:27:54.67\00:27:57.04
I want to, I want
our audience to kind of,
00:27:57.07\00:27:59.14
we want to catapult here
00:27:59.17\00:28:00.51
and go on to
some of the pictures.
00:28:00.54\00:28:02.54
Because one truck,
00:28:02.58\00:28:04.61
I don't want to go
to that what you are now
00:28:04.65\00:28:06.28
or one trailer,
00:28:06.31\00:28:07.65
but let's walk us through that?
00:28:07.68\00:28:09.58
Give us some more
of that background?
00:28:09.62\00:28:10.95
Yeah, yeah.
00:28:10.99\00:28:12.32
So in, in, really,
we started with food,
00:28:12.35\00:28:15.89
you know, and that was
just kind of the main thing
00:28:15.92\00:28:19.73
that was needed at that time,
00:28:19.76\00:28:21.73
a certain day of the week.
00:28:21.76\00:28:23.10
So we fill that gap.
00:28:23.13\00:28:24.73
We're feeding,
00:28:24.77\00:28:26.10
started to feed
about 200-300 individuals,
00:28:26.13\00:28:28.87
you know, with
hundreds of different volunteers
00:28:28.90\00:28:31.04
that come through and help.
00:28:31.07\00:28:32.77
In 2016 is when we fundraised
for a clothing trailer.
00:28:32.81\00:28:37.11
And the clothing
trailer was something
00:28:37.15\00:28:39.71
that we used to
hand our clothing.
00:28:39.75\00:28:42.18
You know, we would
hand our hygiene products
00:28:42.22\00:28:43.82
from that trailer.
00:28:43.85\00:28:45.19
2018 was the shower trailer.
00:28:45.22\00:28:47.26
Now, I want to say
00:28:47.29\00:28:48.89
that 3ABN viewers and listeners,
00:28:48.92\00:28:51.43
you have been a
part of this impact,
00:28:51.46\00:28:53.93
because they paid
for half of that trailer.
00:28:53.96\00:28:57.50
You know, we came
on here two years ago,
00:28:57.53\00:29:00.04
three years ago
00:29:00.07\00:29:01.40
and we mentioned the
vision of that shower trailer.
00:29:01.44\00:29:04.97
And 3ABN viewers responded,
00:29:05.01\00:29:07.64
you know, some and some of
them $25 checks, $50 checks.
00:29:07.68\00:29:11.91
It added up, you know,
one person gave over 10,000.
00:29:11.95\00:29:16.45
You know, it was just
a huge, huge blessing.
00:29:16.48\00:29:19.85
So that was monumental for us.
00:29:19.89\00:29:21.36
And that's when we
really started to realize
00:29:21.39\00:29:23.73
that we were becoming
this mobile service center
00:29:23.76\00:29:27.63
for the homeless,
00:29:27.66\00:29:29.00
you know, because
we had haircuts too.
00:29:29.03\00:29:30.77
So showers, clothes,
haircuts, hygiene product, food.
00:29:30.80\00:29:34.67
And then in 2020,
00:29:34.70\00:29:37.31
you know, we started
operating three days a week,
00:29:37.34\00:29:41.64
you know,
00:29:41.68\00:29:43.01
and things have just
been continuing to grow.
00:29:43.04\00:29:45.41
We got some new
things on the horizon
00:29:45.45\00:29:47.15
that we're excited about.
00:29:47.18\00:29:48.52
We'll talk about that
later. Yeah, yeah, but...
00:29:48.55\00:29:50.35
Now, how do you
pick your locations?
00:29:50.39\00:29:52.55
And then I've got a
question that just came in.
00:29:52.59\00:29:54.89
So I'll ask you
that in just a minute
00:29:54.92\00:29:56.62
and we want to remind
our viewers and listeners
00:29:56.66\00:29:59.29
to send in your questions.
00:29:59.33\00:30:01.80
We're going to be
answering questions
00:30:01.83\00:30:03.50
pertaining to
the Ministry of SALT.
00:30:03.53\00:30:05.40
You can text
them to (618) 228-3975
00:30:05.43\00:30:10.51
or call and speak to
someone in our call center
00:30:10.54\00:30:13.27
at (618) 627-4651
00:30:13.31\00:30:16.51
or if you want to
get on the computer,
00:30:16.54\00:30:17.95
you can email
us at Live@3abn.tv.
00:30:17.98\00:30:22.52
So how do you pick
your locations, Eric?
00:30:22.55\00:30:25.32
So we started in
2018-2019, rotating locations.
00:30:25.35\00:30:31.69
Some of them, the
main element that we needed
00:30:31.73\00:30:34.56
was a place where we
can hook up to water,
00:30:34.60\00:30:37.57
we used to have
to hook up the power,
00:30:37.60\00:30:39.30
but that's changed this
year, which we'll go into later.
00:30:39.33\00:30:42.37
But, and then also a place
where we can dump black water,
00:30:42.40\00:30:45.61
you know, place
that the city allows us
00:30:45.64\00:30:47.64
to dump black water.
00:30:47.68\00:30:49.01
Just so happened that
00:30:49.04\00:30:50.38
two of those places
were Adventist churches,
00:30:50.41\00:30:52.58
which was perfect.
00:30:52.61\00:30:54.82
And then the other two
places where other churches
00:30:54.85\00:30:58.49
that we could just
rotate out and go to.
00:30:58.52\00:31:00.36
Right now we're at
a singular location,
00:31:00.39\00:31:03.49
especially during COVID,
00:31:03.53\00:31:04.86
we want to make sure
that everyone knows exactly
00:31:04.89\00:31:06.66
where we are.
00:31:06.70\00:31:08.03
And then the site
we're working at right now,
00:31:08.06\00:31:09.80
which is the
Christian Service Center
00:31:09.83\00:31:11.33
has been so
supportive of this ministry,
00:31:11.37\00:31:14.04
and has helped in
so many other ways,
00:31:14.07\00:31:15.77
which, you know, I
can go into later as well.
00:31:15.80\00:31:18.01
But, but yes, so right now
00:31:18.04\00:31:19.81
we're just at that one location.
00:31:19.84\00:31:21.24
That's awesome.
00:31:21.28\00:31:22.61
Let me ask you
this question here.
00:31:22.64\00:31:25.21
It says, "How can my teens
00:31:25.25\00:31:27.42
and I get involved with
SALT in the Seattle area?
00:31:27.45\00:31:32.29
Okay, so...
00:31:32.32\00:31:36.09
So we're only
operating in Orlando right now.
00:31:36.12\00:31:39.73
For people that are
remote in other areas,
00:31:39.76\00:31:43.16
we have done remote
leadership positions,
00:31:43.20\00:31:46.60
depending if
there's special skills
00:31:46.63\00:31:47.97
in certain areas
00:31:48.00\00:31:49.34
that can assist
with the outreach.
00:31:49.37\00:31:52.64
And then the obvious also is,
00:31:52.67\00:31:55.01
is to support the organization
financially as well.
00:31:55.04\00:31:58.28
becoming a monthly donor.
00:31:58.31\00:32:00.95
You know, those
are kind of the main,
00:32:00.98\00:32:02.72
two main things
that kind of pop out
00:32:02.75\00:32:04.22
as ways for people to
get involved that are so,
00:32:04.25\00:32:06.25
I mean, that's the opposite side
00:32:06.29\00:32:07.62
of the country.
00:32:07.66\00:32:08.99
But who knows Seattle,
00:32:09.02\00:32:10.43
maybe we'll be
there soon, you know.
00:32:10.46\00:32:12.99
What if somebody wanted to
do what you're doing and said,
00:32:13.03\00:32:16.30
"Okay, I want
to partner with you
00:32:16.33\00:32:17.67
under your name,
00:32:17.70\00:32:19.03
but make that another chapter,
00:32:19.07\00:32:20.70
and raise funds to
get a shower truck...
00:32:20.74\00:32:24.91
Change trailer.
00:32:24.94\00:32:26.27
Change trailer, clothing
00:32:26.31\00:32:28.44
and then that'll be a chapter
00:32:28.48\00:32:29.81
that comes all
under that 501 C3.
00:32:29.84\00:32:32.01
I think you mentioned,
00:32:32.05\00:32:33.38
you'd like to maybe ought
to stretch than you already,
00:32:33.42\00:32:35.88
because you said earlier,
00:32:35.92\00:32:37.52
I like to start operating
in different locations.
00:32:37.55\00:32:40.32
And God is
calling on you right now.
00:32:40.36\00:32:42.09
But I think there's
somebody you could follow up on
00:32:42.12\00:32:44.26
and just maybe.
00:32:44.29\00:32:45.63
Yeah, for sure.
00:32:45.66\00:32:47.00
Yeah, I would say
go on our website,
00:32:47.03\00:32:48.76
go on the contact us and ask,
you know, whatever questions,
00:32:48.80\00:32:51.93
I'll make sure to email
back me or my, my assistant.
00:32:51.97\00:32:55.70
Sounds good. Sounds good.
00:32:55.74\00:32:57.57
So, okay, so we've got
how you pick your locations.
00:32:57.61\00:33:02.51
What have you been
hearing from people,
00:33:02.54\00:33:05.45
you know, when they
come to the trailers?
00:33:05.48\00:33:07.02
Like what are some of the things
00:33:07.05\00:33:08.38
that you've been hearing about,
let's say the change trailer?
00:33:08.42\00:33:11.15
Yeah.
00:33:11.19\00:33:12.52
So you mean, when someone
comes to get services from us?
00:33:12.55\00:33:14.06
Yes, yes.
00:33:14.09\00:33:15.42
What are some
things that they say?
00:33:15.46\00:33:16.79
Yes.
00:33:16.83\00:33:18.16
So, you know, we
actually have a person that,
00:33:18.19\00:33:21.96
that came to us, and they were,
00:33:22.00\00:33:26.03
they were almost in tears,
00:33:26.07\00:33:27.40
you know, and
they came up to us and,
00:33:27.44\00:33:29.57
and said, "Hey,
00:33:29.60\00:33:31.51
everything I'm wearing right now
00:33:31.54\00:33:32.87
is from you guys.
00:33:32.91\00:33:34.24
And I'm not here to get served,
00:33:34.28\00:33:35.78
you know, but
because of you guys,
00:33:35.81\00:33:39.18
I've been able to get a
job and get off the street."
00:33:39.21\00:33:41.95
So we hear things
like that, you know.
00:33:41.98\00:33:44.99
We recently heard from someone
00:33:45.02\00:33:47.22
that was able to
get moving into housing
00:33:47.26\00:33:50.19
after services
with us and stuff.
00:33:50.23\00:33:52.66
That that we are,
00:33:52.69\00:33:56.36
the talk on the street about us
is that we care which is huge.
00:33:56.40\00:34:01.97
They're like, you
know, we come to you guys
00:34:02.00\00:34:04.11
because we know
that you care about us.
00:34:04.14\00:34:05.61
Not saying
00:34:05.64\00:34:06.98
that the other
organizations don't care
00:34:07.01\00:34:09.38
but for that to
stand out to them is,
00:34:09.41\00:34:12.95
was huge for us
00:34:12.98\00:34:14.32
because that's what we
want to show, you know.
00:34:14.35\00:34:16.18
This is service
and love together
00:34:16.22\00:34:18.45
with the salt of
the earth, you know.
00:34:18.49\00:34:19.82
We want them to
know that we love them,
00:34:19.85\00:34:22.06
that we care
about them, you know.
00:34:22.09\00:34:24.59
So that's been exciting to hear
some of those things you know.
00:34:24.63\00:34:28.63
Absolutely.
00:34:28.66\00:34:30.00
I think we should
check out some pictures,
00:34:30.03\00:34:31.37
what do you think?
00:34:31.40\00:34:32.73
I think we should and
as we go through those
00:34:32.77\00:34:34.10
describe it
00:34:34.14\00:34:35.47
and so that those
who are not watching
00:34:35.50\00:34:36.84
could understand what it is.
00:34:36.87\00:34:38.21
Walk through some of those
00:34:38.24\00:34:39.57
because this
ministry is amazing.
00:34:39.61\00:34:40.94
We had so many way,
00:34:40.98\00:34:42.31
we had to kind of narrow it down
00:34:42.34\00:34:43.68
but what an amazing thing
00:34:43.71\00:34:45.05
that people could
find out more about it.
00:34:45.08\00:34:46.41
Let's bring one of
those pictures here.
00:34:46.45\00:34:47.78
Yeah, so basically the concept
00:34:47.82\00:34:49.85
is three vehicles
and three trailers.
00:34:49.88\00:34:52.32
Each vehicle pulling a
trailer, you have the van,
00:34:52.35\00:34:55.56
the 15-passenger van
which we also use for shuttling
00:34:55.59\00:34:58.09
that can pull
our clothing trailer.
00:34:58.13\00:34:59.49
A truck that can
pull the shower trailer.
00:34:59.53\00:35:02.86
And then we'd
have a laundry trailer
00:35:02.90\00:35:04.33
that can get
pulled by a box truck
00:35:04.37\00:35:05.93
or another truck as well,
00:35:05.97\00:35:08.07
the box truck being
used for storage services.
00:35:08.10\00:35:11.37
So that's the concept.
00:35:11.41\00:35:12.84
And those are the
services that we would,
00:35:12.87\00:35:15.41
we aim to provide
through these vehicles, right?
00:35:15.44\00:35:18.75
So you have the showers,
00:35:18.78\00:35:20.25
the haircuts, the
clothes, food, hygiene product,
00:35:20.28\00:35:24.02
you have laundry storage,
00:35:24.05\00:35:26.82
you have shuttle
services, mail services,
00:35:26.86\00:35:28.99
they don't have an address.
00:35:29.02\00:35:30.36
So we got a PO Box
00:35:30.39\00:35:31.76
so that they can get
their stuff mailed to us.
00:35:31.79\00:35:33.63
And we bring it to
them whenever we get it.
00:35:33.66\00:35:36.90
And then diversion services.
00:35:36.93\00:35:38.27
So that's basically
case management services,
00:35:38.30\00:35:40.84
you know, because we
don't want to just end it at,
00:35:40.87\00:35:44.17
you know, here's some
services, see you later.
00:35:44.21\00:35:46.64
We want to be
able to connect them
00:35:46.68\00:35:48.01
with the other organizations
00:35:48.04\00:35:49.38
that could take
them on to that next step
00:35:49.41\00:35:51.48
to end their homelessness.
00:35:51.51\00:35:54.32
Wait, how did you grab that?
00:35:54.35\00:35:56.12
Because that's, the two things
that just shocked me was, okay,
00:35:56.15\00:35:59.89
you allow people
that don't have an address
00:35:59.92\00:36:02.92
to use your PO Box, so
they could get corresponded.
00:36:02.96\00:36:05.53
So you become the
mail service also.
00:36:05.56\00:36:07.26
Right, right.
00:36:07.30\00:36:08.63
And the other
part, reiterate that,
00:36:08.66\00:36:12.23
getting people
connected to resources.
00:36:12.27\00:36:13.60
Yeah, it's case management.
00:36:13.64\00:36:14.97
So basically, when
someone comes to us,
00:36:15.00\00:36:18.41
they might get a
shower, might get clothes,
00:36:18.44\00:36:20.64
might get a haircut,
00:36:20.68\00:36:22.01
but they might
need something more,
00:36:22.04\00:36:23.38
like, for example, that
guy that came on Tuesday,
00:36:23.41\00:36:25.85
was looking for a job,
got showered, got the clothes,
00:36:25.88\00:36:28.72
got the job.
00:36:28.75\00:36:30.09
Now is going to be
working with our case manager
00:36:30.12\00:36:32.49
to help them maintain that job.
00:36:32.52\00:36:33.96
Do they need transportation?
00:36:33.99\00:36:35.32
Maybe they need a bus ticket.
00:36:35.36\00:36:37.03
You know, there's other people
00:36:37.06\00:36:38.39
that just don't know
the services out there.
00:36:38.43\00:36:40.10
Maybe they need identification.
00:36:40.13\00:36:42.00
We can, our case
manager can refer them,
00:36:42.03\00:36:44.27
warm transfer them in,
00:36:44.30\00:36:46.13
you can say to that organization
00:36:46.17\00:36:48.14
that can help them with those.
00:36:48.17\00:36:50.27
There's an
organization that's starting up
00:36:50.31\00:36:51.74
right next to us
called First Steps,
00:36:51.77\00:36:53.71
which helps those
00:36:53.74\00:36:55.08
that are
experiencing homelessness,
00:36:55.11\00:36:56.64
find employment and
break those barriers
00:36:56.68\00:36:58.78
that prevent them
from being employed.
00:36:58.81\00:37:00.72
So that case manager is
key in helping to connect us
00:37:00.75\00:37:05.42
and the people we
serve to the next level
00:37:05.45\00:37:09.76
to get them to
where they need to be.
00:37:09.79\00:37:11.49
So do you
organize the case manager
00:37:11.53\00:37:13.93
to be at the locations,
you synchronize their service?
00:37:13.96\00:37:16.23
We do.
00:37:16.26\00:37:17.60
We just hired our
first case manager
00:37:17.63\00:37:20.27
in November,
00:37:20.30\00:37:21.90
hiring another one in January.
00:37:21.94\00:37:23.54
And we have four
social work interns
00:37:23.57\00:37:25.74
starting with us
in January as well.
00:37:25.77\00:37:27.74
So we'll have six
case managers on site.
00:37:27.78\00:37:29.71
This is literally, I
mean, I'm just excited
00:37:29.74\00:37:32.41
because you are
changing lives on wheels.
00:37:32.45\00:37:35.32
You're not even in a building.
00:37:35.35\00:37:36.79
And how
appropriate is that, Jason,
00:37:36.82\00:37:38.62
in this COVID
environment where people say,
00:37:38.65\00:37:40.66
let's get social distance.
00:37:40.69\00:37:42.02
We don't want to
go on the inside.
00:37:42.06\00:37:43.39
Even if they
close the inside down,
00:37:43.43\00:37:45.79
SALT is still open.
00:37:45.83\00:37:47.16
We can still operate, yep. Yes.
00:37:47.20\00:37:48.66
And that's huge.
00:37:48.70\00:37:50.03
Because you're dealing
with every facet, right?
00:37:50.07\00:37:53.57
So tell us about the other
part of the evangelism effort,
00:37:53.60\00:37:58.41
like do you
have church services?
00:37:58.44\00:37:59.94
Yes.
00:37:59.97\00:38:01.31
So we do have a mobile church
00:38:01.34\00:38:06.55
that comes out to us.
00:38:06.58\00:38:08.25
And it's actually Lighthouse
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
00:38:08.28\00:38:10.99
So SALT and Light,
00:38:11.02\00:38:12.35
you know, kind of
funny how that works out.
00:38:12.39\00:38:14.06
It didn't put, we
didn't plan it that way,
00:38:14.09\00:38:15.56
it just stood out that way.
00:38:15.59\00:38:17.16
Yeah, God planned that. Yes.
00:38:17.19\00:38:19.06
So they actually
got a box truck, right?
00:38:19.09\00:38:21.40
They cut out the
side of the box truck,
00:38:21.43\00:38:23.03
so it can come down
and be like a stage.
00:38:23.06\00:38:26.47
So they actually
come to the outreach
00:38:26.50\00:38:28.57
in that box truck
00:38:28.60\00:38:29.94
and they do service
00:38:29.97\00:38:31.31
for those experiencing
homelessness once a month.
00:38:31.34\00:38:33.38
They can't, most of them
00:38:33.41\00:38:34.74
can't even get
into a church right now.
00:38:34.78\00:38:37.31
So being able to bring
service to them outside
00:38:37.35\00:38:39.48
is a way that we can help
00:38:39.51\00:38:40.85
kind of bring that
spiritual element to them.
00:38:40.88\00:38:44.12
So we are looking to hire
Bible worker too next year
00:38:44.15\00:38:47.99
to help really
foster that growth.
00:38:48.02\00:38:50.33
There is one
thing I want to mention
00:38:50.36\00:38:52.63
and, you know,
we've come to realize
00:38:52.66\00:38:55.90
that when someone is
experiencing homelessness,
00:38:55.93\00:38:59.10
it's hard for
them to be consistent
00:38:59.13\00:39:01.37
in that spiritual walk,
00:39:01.40\00:39:02.77
you know, they fear
for their safety every day,
00:39:02.80\00:39:05.47
you know, and so how
can they be consistent
00:39:05.51\00:39:08.18
in studying the
Bible and getting
00:39:08.21\00:39:09.88
but in the video, you
know, we mentioned Pat
00:39:09.91\00:39:12.75
who was homeless, who we hired.
00:39:12.78\00:39:14.32
Yes.
00:39:14.35\00:39:15.68
Once he got, when we hired him,
00:39:15.72\00:39:17.19
we also moved him into a shelter
00:39:17.22\00:39:19.32
into a place where
he has a bed, nice bed,
00:39:19.35\00:39:21.19
roof over his head.
00:39:21.22\00:39:22.56
And that's when
00:39:22.59\00:39:23.93
he started
doing daily devotions.
00:39:23.96\00:39:25.29
You look to his Facebook now,
00:39:25.33\00:39:26.66
you can see all
his daily devotions
00:39:26.70\00:39:28.03
on his Facebook,
00:39:28.06\00:39:29.40
of all the things
he's studying and learning,
00:39:29.43\00:39:30.87
that's when he had sheltered
that's when it really took off.
00:39:30.90\00:39:33.97
So we're really kind
of working on focusing
00:39:34.00\00:39:37.41
that evangelistic effort
00:39:37.44\00:39:39.31
to kind of, you
know, plant that,
00:39:39.34\00:39:40.98
sow seeds in the beginning,
00:39:41.01\00:39:42.34
you know, through a
mobile service prayer,
00:39:42.38\00:39:44.78
through a Bible
worker kind of coming out
00:39:44.81\00:39:46.61
doing group studies or whatever.
00:39:46.65\00:39:48.88
And then when
they move into housing
00:39:48.92\00:39:50.92
really taking it
to that next level,
00:39:50.95\00:39:52.52
that's kind of
the thought process
00:39:52.55\00:39:53.89
behind it.
00:39:53.92\00:39:55.26
Yeah, that's huge.
00:39:55.29\00:39:56.62
One plants another waters,
but God gives the increase.
00:39:56.66\00:39:59.06
Amen. That's right.
00:39:59.09\00:40:00.43
SALT, I mean,
that's just powerful.
00:40:00.46\00:40:02.43
Do you see Christ
method being implemented there?
00:40:02.46\00:40:04.97
Go to the people. That's right.
00:40:05.00\00:40:06.37
Take care of their needs.
00:40:06.40\00:40:07.74
People are more willing
to believe what you teach,
00:40:07.77\00:40:10.31
when they see
00:40:10.34\00:40:11.67
that you're more
than just what you say.
00:40:11.71\00:40:13.94
I like that we care.
00:40:13.98\00:40:15.31
Let's go, do some more pictures,
00:40:15.34\00:40:16.68
just kind of get a flavor
00:40:16.71\00:40:18.21
of what is going
on with this ministry.
00:40:18.25\00:40:20.22
Yeah, that's
just a picture of us
00:40:20.25\00:40:21.72
handing some water
and some snack bags
00:40:21.75\00:40:23.89
out of the
clothing trailer there.
00:40:23.92\00:40:26.59
We got, some of our
volunteers on the left
00:40:26.62\00:40:28.86
is one of our staff members
00:40:28.89\00:40:30.53
cleaning the shower
after someone used it.
00:40:30.56\00:40:34.16
So this right
here is a blueprint
00:40:34.20\00:40:35.60
of our laundry trailer.
00:40:35.63\00:40:36.97
Oh, wow.
00:40:37.00\00:40:38.33
So this is, it was
actually a lot more expensive
00:40:38.37\00:40:40.27
than the shower trailer.
00:40:40.30\00:40:41.64
But this is coming in January,
00:40:41.67\00:40:43.87
we still need to
raise an additional 8,000
00:40:43.91\00:40:45.94
to really kind of break
even with this purchase,
00:40:45.97\00:40:48.04
but we're still working on it,
00:40:48.08\00:40:49.94
still got some
time before we get it.
00:40:49.98\00:40:52.08
But it is
planned to be delivered
00:40:52.11\00:40:54.12
at the end of this
month, beginning of next month.
00:40:54.15\00:40:55.85
It'll have six
washers and dryers
00:40:55.88\00:40:57.85
that can be
accessed from the outside.
00:40:57.89\00:41:00.59
Were those
experiencing homelessness,
00:41:00.62\00:41:02.26
you know, what happens
00:41:02.29\00:41:03.63
is they get
clothing donations, right?
00:41:03.66\00:41:05.99
And when their
clothes get dirty,
00:41:06.03\00:41:07.36
what are they going to do?
00:41:07.40\00:41:08.73
You know, they can't wash them.
00:41:08.76\00:41:10.40
So what they end up doing
is throwing out their clothes.
00:41:10.43\00:41:13.30
Having laundry services
00:41:13.34\00:41:14.97
will enable that
clothing donation
00:41:15.00\00:41:16.77
to go even farther.
00:41:16.81\00:41:18.71
And then for us,
00:41:18.74\00:41:20.08
being able to wash the
towels that we give them,
00:41:20.11\00:41:22.68
you know, it'll help us
save on underwear and socks if
00:41:22.71\00:41:25.91
they're able to wash
their underwear and socks,
00:41:25.95\00:41:28.42
you know,
because we actually give
00:41:28.45\00:41:29.98
a pair of underwear and socks,
00:41:30.02\00:41:31.35
at least to every
person that takes a shower
00:41:31.39\00:41:33.49
at the bare minimum.
00:41:33.52\00:41:34.86
But with this laundry trailer,
00:41:34.89\00:41:36.22
it could really
help kind of curb
00:41:36.26\00:41:39.49
that expense a little bit, so.
00:41:39.53\00:41:41.96
Wow, wow. I'm blown away.
00:41:42.00\00:41:44.00
I mean, we could end
the program right there.
00:41:44.03\00:41:45.87
Let's do a
fundraiser right here.
00:41:45.90\00:41:47.77
Yeah. God has
been so good to us.
00:41:47.80\00:41:50.47
It's amazing. It's crazy.
00:41:50.51\00:41:52.04
It can only be God
00:41:52.07\00:41:53.41
to see this kind
of exponential growth
00:41:53.44\00:41:54.78
this year.
00:41:54.81\00:41:56.14
It's been amazing.
00:41:56.18\00:41:57.51
Let me just plug
some in here right now
00:41:57.55\00:41:58.88
because then we
have some more pictures.
00:41:58.91\00:42:00.25
But I know that people
are watching this program
00:42:00.28\00:42:01.62
and probably
saying, am I hearing right?
00:42:01.65\00:42:03.79
This young man
who was once homeless
00:42:03.82\00:42:05.95
on the streets of Chicago,
God said, "Get out of Chicago.
00:42:05.99\00:42:10.49
Go come on down to Orlando.
00:42:10.53\00:42:11.89
You're going to be homeless,
00:42:11.93\00:42:13.26
at least get some warm weather."
00:42:13.29\00:42:14.96
But God had deep
provision for you.
00:42:15.00\00:42:16.97
I mean, think about it.
00:42:17.00\00:42:18.33
First of all the change,
what was the first truck?
00:42:18.37\00:42:21.50
The change trailer with
the clothing and hygiene.
00:42:21.54\00:42:24.64
Then we got the shower trailer.
00:42:24.67\00:42:26.01
Shower trailer, next one.
00:42:26.04\00:42:27.38
Next is going to be
the laundry trailer.
00:42:27.41\00:42:29.28
Okay. That is huge.
00:42:29.31\00:42:31.25
I mean, can you imagine?
00:42:31.28\00:42:32.61
I have never seen, I
have never seen that,
00:42:32.65\00:42:35.08
but the world now,
00:42:35.12\00:42:36.65
you're
metamorphosizing with the world.
00:42:36.69\00:42:38.02
You're saying, "Okay,
00:42:38.05\00:42:39.39
since you can't go
into the laundromat,
00:42:39.42\00:42:41.36
bring the
laundromat to the streets."
00:42:41.39\00:42:42.86
Absolutely.
There's a song years ago.
00:42:42.89\00:42:45.29
I know, we were
in opposite world,
00:42:45.33\00:42:46.66
so this is in
the back of my mind,
00:42:46.70\00:42:48.03
taking it to the streets.
00:42:48.06\00:42:49.50
You know, this little,
before your time, Jason,
00:42:49.53\00:42:51.30
I don't want to
make you feel too young
00:42:51.33\00:42:53.40
but it was a song years ago
00:42:53.44\00:42:54.77
by group we're
taking it to the streets,
00:42:54.80\00:42:56.57
and you're taking
it to the streets.
00:42:56.60\00:42:58.54
This is not about denomination.
00:42:58.57\00:43:00.88
So you're a
Seventh-day Adventist Christian
00:43:00.91\00:43:02.24
and a lot of your volunteers
00:43:02.28\00:43:03.61
but there are other people
00:43:03.65\00:43:04.98
that are
volunteering that are not.
00:43:05.01\00:43:06.35
They're just people
that care about people.
00:43:06.38\00:43:07.72
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
00:43:07.75\00:43:09.08
We have people
00:43:09.12\00:43:10.45
that don't identify
with the faith at all.
00:43:10.49\00:43:11.82
But they love, they love people,
00:43:11.85\00:43:13.22
you know, they love people.
00:43:13.25\00:43:14.89
And they love helping.
00:43:14.92\00:43:17.13
They have this, this heart,
00:43:17.16\00:43:18.73
especially the
younger the younger people.
00:43:18.76\00:43:20.60
I mean, we're talking,
I'm, I guess I'm still young,
00:43:20.63\00:43:22.93
I guess too.
00:43:22.96\00:43:24.30
I hope 'cause
you're really close
00:43:24.33\00:43:25.83
to my age.
00:43:25.87\00:43:27.20
I'm really hoping you
consider yourself young.
00:43:27.24\00:43:29.80
Yeah, I want...
00:43:29.84\00:43:31.17
You still have
black hair so you're good.
00:43:31.21\00:43:32.54
Okay, cool.
00:43:32.57\00:43:34.08
Getting a few white
hairs now here and then.
00:43:34.11\00:43:36.38
But, you know,
00:43:36.41\00:43:37.75
the younger
people like 20 years old,
00:43:37.78\00:43:39.41
21 years old,
they're volunteering,
00:43:39.45\00:43:41.12
they're coming out.
00:43:41.15\00:43:42.48
And you see that,
00:43:42.52\00:43:43.85
that genuine heart
they have for people.
00:43:43.89\00:43:45.22
And I believe that's,
00:43:45.25\00:43:46.59
that's the Spirit
working through them
00:43:46.62\00:43:47.96
to have that desire
00:43:47.99\00:43:49.66
to want to impact
people's lives, you know,
00:43:49.69\00:43:52.03
and so, so yeah,
00:43:52.06\00:43:54.10
we have people
that don't identify
00:43:54.13\00:43:55.46
with the faith at all,
00:43:55.50\00:43:56.83
people of all denominations
00:43:56.87\00:43:58.20
that come and volunteer with us.
00:43:58.23\00:43:59.73
Yeah, it's been, it's been cool
00:43:59.77\00:44:01.10
to see that kind of
come together you know.
00:44:01.14\00:44:03.74
You know, I'm glad
that you mentioned that
00:44:03.77\00:44:05.34
because you're talking about
00:44:05.37\00:44:06.71
how they want to
impact other people's lives.
00:44:06.74\00:44:08.51
They want to help other people.
00:44:08.54\00:44:09.94
How has SALT impacted your life?
00:44:09.98\00:44:15.08
You know, I,
when I think about it,
00:44:15.12\00:44:20.59
if God did not
give me this idea,
00:44:20.62\00:44:26.03
give this idea to me,
00:44:26.06\00:44:27.53
if He did not work
through me to help this to grow
00:44:27.56\00:44:30.93
and if He did not
continue to motivate me
00:44:30.97\00:44:33.00
to continue going,
00:44:33.03\00:44:34.37
even when things were
getting really rough and tough,
00:44:34.40\00:44:39.41
I don't know where I'd be.
00:44:39.44\00:44:40.81
SALT helps me to be able to use
00:44:40.84\00:44:47.42
the potential basically to use,
00:44:47.45\00:44:51.25
God can use me to
my fullest capacity
00:44:51.29\00:44:53.56
through SALT.
00:44:53.59\00:44:55.02
And because of that,
00:44:55.06\00:44:57.49
it's helping me to stay
you know, just on that path.
00:44:57.53\00:45:03.23
You know, I think with anybody,
if you're in the church, right?
00:45:03.26\00:45:06.50
And you're studying the
Bible and you're praying,
00:45:06.53\00:45:09.74
but you're not serving, right?
00:45:09.77\00:45:11.81
You're not
practicing what you preach.
00:45:11.84\00:45:14.78
Then, you know,
as the Bible says,
00:45:14.81\00:45:16.68
"Faith without works is dead."
00:45:16.71\00:45:18.28
So if you're not
doing those works,
00:45:18.31\00:45:21.12
then your faith
slowly starts to die.
00:45:21.15\00:45:24.12
And I think, I think
my faith would be dead.
00:45:24.15\00:45:26.59
I think I'd be a pew warmer
at a church not doing anything.
00:45:26.62\00:45:31.69
And I don't know
where I'd be to be honest.
00:45:31.73\00:45:34.76
SALT is like your oxygen.
00:45:34.80\00:45:36.40
Yeah, yeah, it does so.
00:45:36.43\00:45:38.03
And I think, I
think with anybody,
00:45:38.07\00:45:39.63
you know, whatever anyone
does, whatever their skills are,
00:45:39.67\00:45:42.60
whatever their
desires are to do,
00:45:42.64\00:45:45.97
God has something for them,
00:45:46.01\00:45:47.58
you know, and it could
look different for everybody.
00:45:47.61\00:45:50.38
But it's important
for us to answer that call
00:45:50.41\00:45:52.05
and to do it
00:45:52.08\00:45:53.42
to our fullest
potential, you know,
00:45:53.45\00:45:55.42
because God will work through us
00:45:55.45\00:45:57.29
to make that a
reality, you know.
00:45:57.32\00:46:00.02
Amen.
00:46:00.06\00:46:01.39
Speak a little bit to
the consistency in service.
00:46:01.42\00:46:05.43
How important is consistency?
00:46:05.46\00:46:10.37
Without consistency,
00:46:10.40\00:46:12.60
I believe you can't bring anyone
00:46:12.63\00:46:15.40
into the kingdom.
00:46:15.44\00:46:16.77
And when I say that,
00:46:16.81\00:46:18.14
I say that because
without consistency,
00:46:18.17\00:46:21.84
you can't create relationship.
00:46:21.88\00:46:24.11
Without relationship,
00:46:24.15\00:46:25.58
how are you going to
win souls to the kingdom.
00:46:25.61\00:46:28.85
And that's a key
element in service.
00:46:28.88\00:46:32.02
You know, I know
that a lot of time,
00:46:32.05\00:46:34.06
we like to do these,
00:46:34.09\00:46:35.46
you know, once a year
things, once every quarter.
00:46:35.49\00:46:37.53
And that's, that's our service.
00:46:37.56\00:46:39.19
I remember, I saw post,
I saw a post on Facebook,
00:46:39.23\00:46:42.56
I don't know who it
was, but they were like,
00:46:42.60\00:46:46.33
oh, did Thanksgiving dinner.
00:46:46.37\00:46:49.40
Did my service for the year.
00:46:49.44\00:46:51.27
For the year? Yeah, yeah.
00:46:51.31\00:46:53.48
And, but that's how,
that's how we think nowadays,
00:46:53.51\00:46:58.35
you know, like, I did my,
I did my good deed, I'm good.
00:46:58.38\00:47:02.22
You know, it's like, it's
almost like a little meter
00:47:02.25\00:47:05.82
you have to fill, right?
00:47:05.85\00:47:07.19
And, oh, let me
do it in January,
00:47:07.22\00:47:08.56
and then I'm good
for the rest of the year.
00:47:08.59\00:47:10.56
I mean, I don't know,
00:47:10.59\00:47:11.93
you know, but
that thinking is there,
00:47:11.96\00:47:13.66
you know, and
consistency is important
00:47:13.70\00:47:16.70
to win people to the kingdom.
00:47:16.73\00:47:18.37
Otherwise, you know,
00:47:18.40\00:47:20.37
I believe that maybe
people can be won temporarily.
00:47:20.40\00:47:23.24
But if there's no,
00:47:23.27\00:47:24.61
you know, you hear all the
time people getting baptized.
00:47:24.64\00:47:26.94
Where's the
person that brought them
00:47:26.98\00:47:29.14
into the church?
00:47:29.18\00:47:30.51
You know, are they gone?
00:47:30.55\00:47:31.88
It was that just
they call baptism,
00:47:31.91\00:47:33.25
and then they disappear.
00:47:33.28\00:47:34.72
You know, so
relationship and consistency
00:47:34.75\00:47:36.62
is important in service.
00:47:36.65\00:47:38.25
And what do you
think helps to inspire
00:47:38.29\00:47:41.96
that consistency
00:47:41.99\00:47:43.32
or motivate you
to be consistent?
00:47:43.36\00:47:47.96
It's, I mean,
00:47:48.00\00:47:50.80
when you know
that God has called you
00:47:50.83\00:47:53.74
to do something,
00:47:53.77\00:47:55.40
and you know it for a fact,
00:47:55.44\00:47:56.77
and He's confirmed it to
you time after time after time,
00:47:56.81\00:48:00.88
then it just
becomes a part of you.
00:48:00.91\00:48:03.48
You know, it really does.
00:48:03.51\00:48:04.91
And when you look at, yeah,
00:48:04.95\00:48:10.49
it just, yeah, I mean, that's
00:48:10.52\00:48:12.62
and then when you see
people's lives change,
00:48:12.65\00:48:15.59
when you see
people come to Christ,
00:48:15.62\00:48:16.96
when you see
someone get baptized
00:48:16.99\00:48:18.39
because of God
using you in their life,
00:48:18.43\00:48:24.17
how can you stop?
00:48:24.20\00:48:25.80
How can you give up?
00:48:25.83\00:48:27.17
You know, Peter,
00:48:27.20\00:48:28.54
I remember in
John Chapter 6, right?
00:48:28.57\00:48:32.44
Jesus talked about eating the,
00:48:32.47\00:48:36.38
His flesh and
drinking His blood,
00:48:36.41\00:48:38.41
and they were misinterpreting
00:48:38.45\00:48:40.08
and, you know, a
bunch of people left Him
00:48:40.12\00:48:42.08
and then Peter
said, or Jesus said,
00:48:42.12\00:48:45.25
"Are you going to go too?"
00:48:45.29\00:48:46.62
And Peter's like, "Well,
where else are we going to go?
00:48:46.65\00:48:48.59
You have the
words of eternal life."
00:48:48.62\00:48:50.69
You know, it's,
00:48:50.73\00:48:52.09
once you experience
that, you know, I mean.
00:48:52.13\00:48:55.36
So to break that down,
00:48:55.40\00:48:57.37
God's love is the
motivating factor.
00:48:57.40\00:48:59.87
Yes, amen.
00:48:59.90\00:49:01.64
Yeah, that's the umbrella.
00:49:01.67\00:49:03.20
Everything falls
under that. That's right.
00:49:03.24\00:49:05.37
Let's go to a few more pictures
00:49:05.41\00:49:06.74
before the end
of this first hour
00:49:06.78\00:49:08.11
and just because we have
some tremendous more material
00:49:08.14\00:49:11.01
to cover in the second hour.
00:49:11.05\00:49:12.41
And then we also going to talk
00:49:12.45\00:49:13.78
about some of
your future projects.
00:49:13.82\00:49:16.45
We're going to also give
you some amazing statistics
00:49:16.48\00:49:18.92
about how the Lord
really expanded this ministry
00:49:18.95\00:49:22.72
between last year and this year.
00:49:22.76\00:49:24.99
But let's leave
that for a second hour.
00:49:25.03\00:49:26.36
Let's go to some
more pictures here
00:49:26.39\00:49:27.93
and explain to our
viewers and listeners.
00:49:27.96\00:49:30.53
So God did something here.
00:49:30.57\00:49:33.97
Okay, 'cause...
00:49:34.00\00:49:35.94
This is a bus,
huh? This is a bus.
00:49:35.97\00:49:37.31
Okay.
00:49:37.34\00:49:38.67
So I, it was one night,
00:49:38.71\00:49:41.48
and I saw an
article, news article,
00:49:41.51\00:49:43.35
and it said, this
electric bus company
00:49:43.38\00:49:46.11
is coming to Orlando,
00:49:46.15\00:49:47.48
and they're going
to start transitioning
00:49:47.52\00:49:50.29
all their buses
to electric by 2030.
00:49:50.32\00:49:52.79
And God just put it on my
mind, message that bus company.
00:49:52.82\00:49:55.92
I said, okay. I went on there.
00:49:55.96\00:49:57.53
I went on their website,
00:49:57.56\00:49:59.13
and I went on
their contact us page.
00:49:59.16\00:50:01.66
Hey, guys, this is what we do.
00:50:01.70\00:50:04.07
We'd love if you have
a bus just laying around.
00:50:04.10\00:50:07.44
If you would like
to donate that to us,
00:50:07.47\00:50:09.40
we would like to use
it for storage services
00:50:09.44\00:50:11.51
for the homeless, the homeless,
they don't, they don't have,
00:50:11.54\00:50:15.88
if they go to work,
00:50:15.91\00:50:17.25
they don't have a
place to store their stuff.
00:50:17.28\00:50:18.61
So they have to hide it
00:50:18.65\00:50:19.98
and what happens a lot of
times their stuff gets stolen.
00:50:20.02\00:50:22.02
Some people
00:50:22.05\00:50:23.39
just don't want
to leave their stuff.
00:50:23.42\00:50:24.75
So it's hard for
them to go to an interview
00:50:24.79\00:50:26.12
because they have all
their stuff on their back.
00:50:26.15\00:50:29.16
So then I got an email back
like two or three days later.
00:50:29.19\00:50:32.93
Yeah, let's talk.
00:50:32.96\00:50:34.46
We had a meeting,
00:50:34.50\00:50:35.83
they passed it
through their executives.
00:50:35.86\00:50:38.20
We're good, that's
the design for the new bus
00:50:38.23\00:50:40.24
that we're going to get in
the beginning of next year,
00:50:40.27\00:50:42.27
and we're going to
retrofit it with lockers
00:50:42.30\00:50:43.84
and provide storage
services for the homeless.
00:50:43.87\00:50:45.77
Wow.
00:50:45.81\00:50:47.14
Well, I wish you would draw it.
00:50:47.18\00:50:48.51
For those of you
00:50:48.54\00:50:49.88
that are
listening to the program,
00:50:49.91\00:50:51.25
you should see
Jason's face right now.
00:50:51.28\00:50:52.91
I mean, really, that's amazing.
00:50:52.95\00:50:54.42
That's an act of faith.
00:50:54.45\00:50:56.05
What I'm loving about
what I'm hearing, Eric,
00:50:56.08\00:50:58.29
is, I'm going
to say this, again,
00:50:58.32\00:50:59.65
you are not allowing the dusts
00:50:59.69\00:51:01.89
to gather under your foot,
00:51:01.92\00:51:03.26
you're looking at opportunities,
00:51:03.29\00:51:04.63
God is flashing
things before you
00:51:04.66\00:51:06.63
and He's giving you.
00:51:06.66\00:51:08.50
And I think it was Paul,
who said this to King Agrippa.
00:51:08.53\00:51:12.43
I have not been untrue
to the heavenly vision.
00:51:12.47\00:51:16.87
That's powerful to be
true to the heavenly vision.
00:51:16.91\00:51:19.77
So you actually getting a bus.
00:51:19.81\00:51:21.78
These buses are
about 35 to 40 feet long,
00:51:21.81\00:51:24.21
some of them.
00:51:24.25\00:51:25.58
Yeah, yeah.
00:51:25.61\00:51:26.95
So we would, it
would be stationary
00:51:26.98\00:51:29.98
at a site that we're at.
00:51:30.02\00:51:31.75
But, you know,
the site that we're
00:51:31.79\00:51:33.32
at the Christian service center,
00:51:33.36\00:51:34.76
they actually have
been so supportive,
00:51:34.79\00:51:36.49
they're giving us a
lot of space to operate.
00:51:36.52\00:51:40.50
So there shouldn't
be an issue with space
00:51:40.53\00:51:42.56
to provide the
service to the homeless.
00:51:42.60\00:51:44.07
It's needed.
00:51:44.10\00:51:45.43
There's no place
in downtown Orlando
00:51:45.47\00:51:48.17
that provides storage services
00:51:48.20\00:51:50.01
for those
experiencing homelessness,
00:51:50.04\00:51:51.51
on a level like that.
00:51:51.54\00:51:52.87
Yeah, I mean, that's huge.
00:51:52.91\00:51:55.11
The mobility aspect, as
you brought out earlier,
00:51:55.14\00:51:57.91
is crucial,
00:51:57.95\00:51:59.28
especially for a
time such as this.
00:51:59.31\00:52:01.88
I mean, that's that is huge.
00:52:01.92\00:52:03.35
And you're
affecting every single aspect,
00:52:03.39\00:52:06.59
storage, shower, changing, job,
00:52:06.62\00:52:09.72
you guys help with
resume building, too,
00:52:09.76\00:52:11.13
don't you?
00:52:11.16\00:52:12.49
So we, we have an organization
00:52:12.53\00:52:13.93
that's going to
be right next to us
00:52:13.96\00:52:15.30
that's going to help
with all those things,
00:52:15.33\00:52:16.67
but all the job,
all the job barriers
00:52:16.70\00:52:18.83
that that need to
be broken down there,
00:52:18.87\00:52:20.64
they're going to be
there to help with all of that,
00:52:20.67\00:52:22.54
literally, in the next building,
00:52:22.57\00:52:24.11
like a few feet
away from us, so.
00:52:24.14\00:52:25.47
Yes.
00:52:25.51\00:52:26.84
You know, there's another
text that came to my mind
00:52:26.88\00:52:28.44
as the preacher hear,
00:52:28.48\00:52:29.81
go into the highways and hedges
00:52:29.84\00:52:31.45
and compel all men to come,
00:52:31.48\00:52:33.05
all things are now ready.
00:52:33.08\00:52:35.02
You literally, if you were ever,
00:52:35.05\00:52:37.15
and I know you're doing this,
00:52:37.19\00:52:38.52
now you have church
services intermittently,
00:52:38.55\00:52:40.26
or on a consistent basis.
00:52:40.29\00:52:41.89
These are people that would say,
00:52:41.92\00:52:43.26
"Hey, you know,
I believe in SALT.
00:52:43.29\00:52:45.63
They're changing my life.
00:52:45.66\00:52:47.00
I didn't know what life,
00:52:47.03\00:52:48.43
I didn't know that
life could be this good."
00:52:48.46\00:52:51.00
And when, as James says,
00:52:51.03\00:52:52.53
If you see a person
hungry and destitute
00:52:52.57\00:52:54.44
and you just do one
thing and don't do the other,
00:52:54.47\00:52:57.14
but if you take
care of their needs,
00:52:57.17\00:52:58.97
then they're open to the gospel.
00:52:59.01\00:53:00.54
You've seen that happened.
00:53:00.58\00:53:01.91
There was a video
we showed earlier.
00:53:01.94\00:53:03.48
And I want to
just go back to that.
00:53:03.51\00:53:05.68
If those of you are watching,
00:53:05.71\00:53:07.05
there was a gentleman
00:53:07.08\00:53:08.42
that was in charge of the hoses.
00:53:08.45\00:53:09.85
And he said I
help now with the hoses
00:53:09.88\00:53:11.49
just give us an
overview of his life.
00:53:11.52\00:53:13.52
Tall, Caucasian gentleman
wore one of your SALT shirts.
00:53:13.56\00:53:16.93
Yeah, yeah, he was,
when Coronavirus hit,
00:53:16.96\00:53:20.90
He was already
someone volunteering with us.
00:53:20.93\00:53:23.40
I mean, he was homeless himself.
00:53:23.43\00:53:26.33
But when he would, he
would come and get a shower.
00:53:26.37\00:53:28.77
He was so grateful
that he wanted to give back
00:53:28.80\00:53:30.71
by cleaning the shower
00:53:30.74\00:53:32.07
after each other
person that showered.
00:53:32.11\00:53:34.21
And so he was just
volunteering with us, right?
00:53:34.24\00:53:35.94
And we're once a month,
00:53:35.98\00:53:37.31
you know, every
other week in 2019,
00:53:37.35\00:53:41.32
once a month in 2018,
then once a week in 2020.
00:53:41.35\00:53:44.75
And so when we,
when Coronavirus hit,
00:53:44.79\00:53:46.76
the city wanted
to partner with us.
00:53:46.79\00:53:48.12
We decided to hire him
00:53:48.16\00:53:49.49
as one of our people
00:53:49.52\00:53:50.86
to help keep the shower
trailer clean and sanitized.
00:53:50.89\00:53:54.76
And as soon as we hired him,
00:53:54.80\00:53:57.37
we also moved him into shelter
00:53:57.40\00:53:58.73
through a partnership
with the Hilton Orlando.
00:53:58.77\00:54:00.67
Got him into a hotel for
about three and a half months.
00:54:00.70\00:54:04.01
Really nice hotel, $100 a night.
00:54:04.04\00:54:06.57
And what we're planning to do...
00:54:06.61\00:54:09.04
Did they donate that?
00:54:09.08\00:54:10.41
They donated it, yeah.
00:54:10.45\00:54:11.78
They donated over
$100,000 in rooms to SALT.
00:54:11.81\00:54:15.68
Yeah, it's crazy.
00:54:15.72\00:54:17.15
Do you see how God is moving
through this organization,
00:54:17.19\00:54:20.22
through SALT?
00:54:20.26\00:54:21.59
I mean, where He,
where He calls you,
00:54:21.62\00:54:23.83
where He leads He provides.
00:54:23.86\00:54:25.69
That's right.
00:54:25.73\00:54:27.06
That was another late in,
00:54:27.10\00:54:28.43
my wife and I were just sitting
on the couch late at night
00:54:28.46\00:54:31.07
and just got message the Hilton.
00:54:31.10\00:54:34.80
Okay.
00:54:34.84\00:54:36.17
We wanted to have a
safe place where staff can go
00:54:36.20\00:54:38.94
and shower and get cleaned up
00:54:38.97\00:54:40.31
before they go home
00:54:40.34\00:54:41.68
so they don't
bring anything back
00:54:41.71\00:54:43.04
to their families.
00:54:43.08\00:54:44.41
Just so happened
00:54:44.45\00:54:45.78
that same hotel
we reached out to
00:54:45.81\00:54:47.15
was the same
hotel that was housing
00:54:47.18\00:54:48.52
the National
Guard doing testing,
00:54:48.55\00:54:49.88
perfect, the perfect hotel.
00:54:49.92\00:54:51.79
I didn't reach out
to any other hotels.
00:54:51.82\00:54:53.52
It was that hotel.
00:54:53.56\00:54:55.99
And so I just, I know
00:54:56.02\00:54:57.63
God was definitely
leading in that, so.
00:54:57.66\00:55:00.93
Wow, wow.
00:55:00.96\00:55:02.30
This is an exciting program
that I'm listening to here.
00:55:02.33\00:55:04.97
Let's hit about a
couple more pictures
00:55:05.00\00:55:06.37
and see what we could do
before the first hour is done.
00:55:06.40\00:55:08.67
And by the way,
Jason, very quickly
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remind our audience
00:55:10.07\00:55:11.41
about how they
could send questions in.
00:55:11.44\00:55:13.07
Because there may be somebody
00:55:13.11\00:55:14.44
that's going to
take you up on that offer
00:55:14.48\00:55:15.81
to start a ministry
00:55:15.84\00:55:17.18
in a different
chapter of the nation.
00:55:17.21\00:55:18.55
That's right.
00:55:18.58\00:55:19.91
We have a couple ways
you can text your questions,
00:55:19.95\00:55:21.28
we recommend this way,
00:55:21.32\00:55:22.65
text your
questions to (618) 228-3975
00:55:22.68\00:55:27.06
or email Live@3abn.tv.
00:55:27.09\00:55:30.76
Or feel free to call
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00:55:30.79\00:55:34.50
at (618) 627-4651.
00:55:34.53\00:55:38.27
Okay.
00:55:38.30\00:55:39.63
And this is the last
picture in this section here.
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Let's bring that up.
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Oh, no, it's third, the last.
00:55:44.97\00:55:46.61
So that's our staff.
00:55:46.64\00:55:47.98
Some of our staff
that I just want to show
00:55:48.01\00:55:50.35
who's on the front lines.
00:55:50.38\00:55:51.78
Go to the next picture there.
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It's another picture of our,
00:55:53.58\00:55:54.92
of another one
of our staff members
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included there.
00:55:56.62\00:55:57.95
Next picture.
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So this right
here is the impact.
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Now this is just, we
actually went through,
00:56:01.52\00:56:03.73
it took some sleepless nights,
00:56:03.76\00:56:06.19
I went through each individual
00:56:06.23\00:56:07.93
that's got served
with us from mid-March,
00:56:07.96\00:56:10.67
when the pandemic
started to the end of September.
00:56:10.70\00:56:13.37
We found out
that 17% of the people
00:56:13.40\00:56:16.40
that got services from us
00:56:16.44\00:56:17.77
after services got
moved into shelter housing.
00:56:17.81\00:56:20.78
We found out that
30% took the next step
00:56:20.81\00:56:23.85
to end their homelessness
after services with us.
00:56:23.88\00:56:26.15
Now that's getting
ID, getting health care,
00:56:26.18\00:56:28.55
getting case management,
00:56:28.58\00:56:30.32
you know,
whatever that next step
00:56:30.35\00:56:31.69
was for them, they took it.
00:56:31.72\00:56:33.96
We're able to
confirm that through a system
00:56:33.99\00:56:35.59
that the city of Orlando
has that we could look at.
00:56:35.62\00:56:38.29
And so, and then we also found
00:56:38.33\00:56:40.40
that one in five people
that came to us for services
00:56:40.43\00:56:43.67
were new to homelessness.
00:56:43.70\00:56:46.23
And it's, with the
pandemic happening,
00:56:46.27\00:56:48.70
businesses shutting down.
00:56:48.74\00:56:50.07
I mean, it's become a
reality for a lot of people.
00:56:50.11\00:56:53.27
So this, I anticipate
that what we are doing
00:56:53.31\00:56:56.44
is going to be
more and more needed
00:56:56.48\00:56:57.81
as time progresses,
00:56:57.85\00:56:59.18
because the
eviction at least in Florida,
00:56:59.21\00:57:02.12
the eviction notices
00:57:02.15\00:57:03.49
that can't be postponed anymore.
00:57:03.52\00:57:04.85
People are
starting to get evicted, so.
00:57:04.89\00:57:06.69
Yeah, yeah.
00:57:06.72\00:57:08.06
I've been seeing a lot of that.
00:57:08.09\00:57:09.42
Yeah, I mean, it's
huge what's taking place
00:57:09.46\00:57:12.16
because some
people just need help.
00:57:12.19\00:57:14.23
Not everybody is homeless
due to horrible choices.
00:57:14.26\00:57:17.83
Sometimes it's
circumstances that you know,
00:57:17.87\00:57:20.44
lead to that homelessness.
00:57:20.47\00:57:22.27
And so that's
really, really good.
00:57:22.30\00:57:24.34
Well, the first hour
has gone real fast, Jason.
00:57:24.37\00:57:26.54
Take us down to the
zero for the next hour
00:57:26.57\00:57:28.24
what could we look forward to?
00:57:28.28\00:57:29.61
Oh, we've got an
exciting second hour.
00:57:29.64\00:57:31.21
We're going to learn
00:57:31.25\00:57:32.58
more about the Ministry of SALT,
00:57:32.61\00:57:33.95
answer some wonderful questions,
00:57:33.98\00:57:36.25
and talks for
more about Pat as well.
00:57:36.28\00:57:38.62
We will be right back.
00:57:38.65\00:57:40.19
Don't go anywhere.
00:57:40.22\00:57:41.56