>> as you're well aware, >> AS YOU ARE WELL AWARE WE ARE 00:00:02.83\00:00:07.40 JOIN US NOW FOR TODAY'S SPECIAL ¤ 00:00:07.40\00:00:41.54 ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ 00:00:43.51\00:01:15.87 >> hello and >> HELLO AND WELCOME 3 ABN TODAY 00:01:15.87\00:01:21.98 YOU DECIDED TO JOIN US WHETHER YOU ARE WATCHING ON TELL VICKS 00:01:21.98\00:01:28.62 THE RADIO. be a power packed 2 hours. 00:01:28.62\00:01:31.39 AND HERE WITH MY SPIRITUAL here 00:01:31.39\00:01:33.29 BROTHERS AND GOING TO BE TAKING THIS IS THE SEASON OF SALT. 00:01:33.29\00:01:42.36 THE SEASON OF SALT. salt. And I've got the president of 00:01:42.36\00:01:48.77 HERE. YEAH. 00:01:48.77\00:01:57.75 WOE GO TASTER WILL HERE. YEAH. 00:01:57.75\00:02:09.32 LOOKING FORWARD TO JUMPING IN OF THAT AND DIVE salt and 00:02:09.32\00:02:14.23 WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND ALL OF TO A SONG AND DIVE INTO THAT. 00:02:14.23\00:02:35.22 FATHER AND INHERIT THE prepared 00:02:35.22\00:02:37.85 PREPARED FOR FOR THE FOUNDATION was naked and you clothed me. 00:02:37.85\00:02:51.77 IT WAS IN PRISON AND C I: 00:02:51.77\00:02:54.90 ANSWER HIM answer h+ 00:02:54.90\00:02:57.51 WE SEE YOU HUNGRY, FEED YOU, your thirst and give you drink? 00:02:57.51\00:03:02.04 WHEN DID WE SEE YOU A STRANGER YOU AND SEE YOU SICK OR IN 00:03:02.04\00:03:10.12 KING WILL ANSWER. LEAST OF THESE MY BROTHERN YOU 00:03:10.12\00:03:19.46 EVERY TIME I THINK ABOUT THE VERSES COME TO MIN AND FIND OUT 00:03:19.46\00:03:27.77 ARE BLESSED IN SONG BY PASTOR MOSES BROWN AND HE WILL BE 00:03:27.77\00:03:34.68 ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ 00:03:34.68\00:04:24.03 >> just >> to prove. >> My 00:04:24.03\00:04:35.44 >> I >> can face. >> Coles 00:04:35.44\00:04:48.78 >> All ¤ >> Call 00:04:48.78\00:05:13.04 >> And >> my >> ward with 00:05:13.04\00:05:40.00 >> Is >> a way >> I. 00:05:40.00\00:05:50.25 >> I'll that my >> can face >> The 00:05:50.25\00:06:05.26 >> Coles, my >> is >> knoll. I know all. 00:06:05.26\00:06:22.41 >> all love >> word. >> to us. 00:06:22.41\00:06:35.99 >> God, is. >> You roll calls >> all the time, you 00:06:35.99\00:07:04.05 >> called a >> can't war. >> We were. 00:07:04.05\00:07:27.94 ¤ ¤ >> And 00:07:27.94\00:07:39.29 >> then because he lives and that's why salt 00:07:39.29\00:07:42.32 SALT DOES WHAT SALT DOES. BECAUSE HE LIVES THEN THAT IS 00:07:42.32\00:07:49.13 that's LIVES AND A PASSION FOR PEOPLE because he lives and have 00:07:49.13\00:07:51.10 a passion AND ERIC, I WANTED TO DIVE INTO YOUR BACKGROUND. 00:07:51.10\00:07:56.81 SALT GOT STARTED. know, the force all got started. Who 00:07:56.81\00:08:00.31 >> YEAH. CATHOLIC HOME, OK. My mom and 00:08:00.31\00:08:09.02 CATHOLIC ROOTS FOR GENERATIONS UP GOING TO CHURCH ONCE IN 00:08:09.02\00:08:18.39 THROUGH THE of going through the didn't really 00:08:18.39\00:08:22.56 HAVE ANY RELATIONSHIP WITH GOOD UNTIL I PICKED UP A BIBLE AND I 00:08:22.56\00:08:33.54 DOWNTOWN IN MAY LIFE AND FLIPPED down t 00:08:33.54\00:08:35.08 LOOING THREE BIBLE AND THE WORDS THAT MEANT. 00:08:35.08\00:08:41.08 BIBLE AND SO I AM FLIPPING flipping through and I see a ton of read in Matthew 5, 00:08:41.08\00:08:47.46 MATTHEW 56:00 AND 7. STARTED TO READ MATTHEW 56 AND 7 00:08:47.46\00:08:56.60 IT DID SOMETHING IN ME. THAT THERE WAS HIGHER PURPOSE 00:08:56.60\00:09:07.28 LAV WAS MORE THAN JUST ABOUT MONEY AND RELATIONSHIPS AND YOU 00:09:07.28\00:09:14.48 THERE IS MORE TO IT AND THEN I STOP AND COULDN'T PUT THE BIBLE I couldn't stop reading 00:09:14.48\00:09:22.09 DOESN'T AND REMEMBER HEARING-I EVE AND THE STORY OF DAVID AND a 00:09:22.09\00:09:29.26 THROUGH THE BIBLE READING THOSE the Bible, reading all of those 00:09:29.26\00:09:32.40 stories STORIES AND TO SEE WHAT IT SAID them. 00:09:32.40\00:09:37.51 AND THAT IS WHEN EVERYTHING EATING MY MOM HAD TO BRING FOOD 00:09:37.51\00:09:46.21 I JUST KEPT. engulfed in. And I know is 00:09:46.21\00:09:49.98 SPIRIT THAT TOOK spirit. The kind 00:09:49.98\00:09:53.22 and I just was so YEAH. 00:09:53.42\00:09:58.43 WORD AND YOU WERE STUDYING THE GROWING AT THAT POINT. 00:09:58.43\00:10:07.47 TRANSPIRING OR HAP PEG IN YOUR your life during 00:10:07.47\00:10:10.67 >> WELL, YOU KNOW, IT WAS, IT YOU KNOW, LOOK I MENTIONED I like I mentioned, I see It's 00:10:10.67\00:10:19.68 FAMILY HAS BEEN CATHOLIC IN BOTH STARTED TO READ THE BIBLE AND IT 00:10:19.68\00:10:29.56 NECESSARY FOR KNOW DO THAT BUT not necessary for me to do 00:10:29.56\00:10:32.09 KEPT DOING IT. MY MOTHER ACTUALLY MADE ME SIT I ke 00:10:32.09\00:10:35.40 DOWN BE WITH A PRIEST AND SAT the 00:10:35.40\00:10:37.70 APPOINTMENT TO SIT WI for me to sit with the priest and 00:10:37.70\00:10:39.63 AND SHARE ALL THE QUESTIONS I have 00:10:39.63\00:10:45.31 QUESTIONS EVERY DAY AND THEY ARE MEETING WITH THE PRIEST A 00:10:45.31\00:10:52.81 THEN I GOT TO SHARE WITH HIM ALL things, 00:10:52.81\00:10:56.95 HIM ABOUT CONFESSION AND I ASKED PRAY TO other people and 00:10:56.95\00:11:07.36 GOD AND I ASK ASKED ABOUT THE SABBATH ACTUALLY. Sabbath. I was 00:11:07.36\00:11:14.37 starting SABBATH AT THAT TIME. time 00:11:14.37\00:11:17.04 AND YEAH THAT WAS WHOLE THAT IS A WHOLE STORY AT IN THE OF IT I 00:11:17.04\00:11:24.85 DISAPPOINTED AND AT THE that. The priest the way he 00:11:24.85\00:11:28.25 THE WAY HE WAS ANSWERING MY REPHONE ARE ENFORCED THE BELIEF 00:11:28.25\00:11:33.39 reinforced I WAS GOING IN THE RIGHT SOLIDIFIED ME AND STARTED 00:11:33.39\00:11:41.63 TO-I CHRISTIANS TO TEACH ME THE BIBLE TO L When you are 00:11:41.63\00:11:44.07 Christian QUESTIONS AND THIS PERSON COULDN'T ANSWER IT. 00:11:44.07\00:11:50.54 ANSWER THOSE QUESTION AND YEAH. questions. And and 00:11:50.54\00:11:52.74 BEGINNING OF 2010 THAT ALL OF YEAH. with the 00:11:52.74\00:12:01.05 CHURCH AND WAS ADVENTIST CHURCH his church I was baptized May o 00:12:01.05\00:12:07.29 2019 YEAH. DISCOVERING THIS SABBATH. 00:12:07.29\00:12:14.56 SO YOU KNOW, I CAN'T REALLY PUT I REMEMBER IT REALLY BEING 00:12:14.56\00:12:25.51 TO CALL FRIENDS WHO when I started to 00:12:25.51\00:12:27.88 CHRISTIANS, IT who were it just so 00:12:27.88\00:12:29.91 OF THE GROUPS AND THREE GROUPS NOW AND TWO GROUPS WERE 00:12:29.91\00:12:39.59 AND THE OTHER GROUP WAS STUDYING BOTH SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT 00:12:39.59\00:12:50.97 THE SABBATH FOR ME AND SOME OF AND PRINCIPLE BECAUSE THE 00:12:50.97\00:12:59.74 WITH WENT TO THE CORE AND TAUGHT Greek, 00:12:59.74\00:13:08.02 WAS JUST MADE SENSE TO ME YOU KN it just made sense 00:13:08.02\00:13:10.85 THAT IS WHY GOOGLED A VEIN TIST WELL, WHAT ABOUT YOU? 00:13:10.85\00:13:17.13 WHAT? FROM ORLANDO, I AM IN FLORIDA. 00:13:17.13\00:13:27.30 FAMILY WAS CONTRARY TO ERIC BE A ADVENTIST AND MY GRANDFATHER WAS 00:13:27.30\00:13:34.88 AND I THINK THE THING WAS, BUT I WAS NOT RAISED IN CHRIST. raised 00:13:34.88\00:13:47.39 in And so >> UNPACK THAT. >> I WAS NOT RAISED AROUND THE 00:13:47.39\00:13:55.33 THE CHURCH. HAD THAT. 00:13:55.33\00:13:59.63 MY FAMILY WAS LIKE IN AND OUT OF RAISED IN the 00:13:59.63\00:14:06.91 >> GOT YOU. ONE IS ANSWERING MY QUESTIONS toñstep out because no 00:14:06.91\00:14:14.42 one DOESN'T SEEM APPEALING TO ME YOU AND SOME OF IT WAS FORCED 00:14:14.42\00:14:21.09 YOU REMEMBER SOMETIMES LIKE, I WANT ANOTHER WEEKEND. 00:14:21.09\00:14:29.36 4 hours means like a whole weekend. But 00:14:29.50\00:14:31.17 AND ONE OF THOSE THINGS AND YEAH. 00:14:31.17\00:14:36.97 AND THE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP BEING A PART OF IS CHURCH AND 00:14:36.97\00:14:44.81 FOR ME TO LIKE, AS I GOT OLDER. rebound and one to the world. Whatever high when time you 00:14:44.81\00:14:53.15 want put it. AND YEAH, MAN. 00:14:53.15\00:15:00.83 LIKE THE WHOLE LIFESTYLE OF DID YOU WANT yeah, but you want to 00:15:00.83\00:15:05.00 call right party. AndñI mean dropped out of 00:15:05.00\00:15:06.07 OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL AND YEAH. THING YOU KNOW? 00:15:06.07\00:15:14.71 SOMETHING TO SATISFY LIKE WHAT I ADDRESS OR DEFINE kind of like a 00:15:14.71\00:15:20.78 dress or define many SAY THERE IS A GOOD SHAPED HOLE 00:15:20.78\00:15:25.55 AND SO I THINK THAT HOLE IS IT THINGS AND YOU KNOW, YOU 00:15:25.55\00:15:34.10 DRINKING OR I MEAN JUST ALL 00:15:34.10\00:15:36.80 OTHER KIND AND AT THE END OF THE TO BED AND LAY DOWN AND I AM THE 00:15:36.80\00:15:44.87 IS THIS ALL I HAD TO OFFER? IT SUCKS. is just like a repeat 00:15:44.87\00:15:52.75 kind of You and THEN, I REMEMBER I MOVED TO 00:15:52.75\00:16:00.82 PURSUING SOMETHING AND DIDN'T SINK DEEPER AND THEN, MAYBE I 00:16:00.82\00:16:08.36 IT IS FAMILY, IT IS WHAT AM THE WHOLE FAMILY DOES family does 00:16:08.36\00:16:18.14 YEAH. YOU WOULD DIE. 00:16:18.14\00:16:26.15 HE DOES THAN WORKING WINDY AND THIS ALSO LIKE MOMENT OF I WOULD 00:16:26.15\00:16:33.09 SAY LIKE CLARITY AND WHERE YOU LIFESTYLE WHAT IS IT REALLY 00:16:33.09\00:16:41.76 SO HE ASKED really So he just asked me he's like he's a do you 00:16:41.76\00:16:45.43 think heaven is real? THINK HEAVEN IS REAL. to heaven? And I 00:16:45.43\00:16:51.77 YEAH. COULD ASK IF ANSWER IT IF IF IT 00:16:51.77\00:16:56.75 IS REAL AND THESE THINGS I KNOW WOW. 00:16:56.75\00:17:04.52 SPARKED A NEWSPAPER INTEREST REALLY SAY. 00:17:04.52\00:17:13.09 AND MY MOTHER GIFTED ME A BIBLE. AND SHE WROTE ON IT. 00:17:13.09\00:17:22.37 MUCH PROPHESIED REALLY. really like I'm giving this you because 00:17:22.37\00:17:27.04 I know that's going bring you back. YOU BACK. 00:17:27.04\00:17:31.98 I HAVE THAT BILL TO THIS DAY. DIGGING. You 00:17:31.98\00:17:39.62 LEARNED ABOUT CHRIST THROUGH THE SO HA DOES THE BIBLE SAY YOU and 00:17:39.62\00:17:49.83 and kind of VAUSE SY THEORIES SO ALWAYS CONSPIRACY THEORY AND 00:17:49.83\00:18:00.08 THEN BACK AWAY THIS YOU KNOW. this. Yes think 00:18:00.08\00:18:04.21 NEWS AND THE GOOD NEWS. WHAT DOES THE GOSPEL SAY. there 00:18:04.21\00:18:14.79 FROM THERE ON, MAN. ME, MAN. 00:18:14.79\00:18:23.06 I GOT GED WHICHS WITH A MIRACLE LORD I PASS THIS. in itself was a Lord. And I -passed 00:18:23.06\00:18:28.60 I WANT YOU TO SEEK HIGH IF NOT, THEN, THEN, do something 00:18:28.60\00:18:33.04 morning. If not, then. SPEAK. 00:18:33.04\00:18:36.78 PREACH. THE DOORS FOR KNOW GO AND STUDY 00:18:36.78\00:18:50.43 TODAY. huge blessing 00:18:50.43\00:18:54.00 THINK THAT WHAT HAD TO HAVE TOO, YOUR MOTHER MUST HAVE BEEN 00:18:54.00\00:19:00.34 SERIOUS. I everything that my 00:19:00.34\00:19:06.84 PRAYING YOU KNOW AND I and my we are definitely praying, you and 00:19:06.84\00:19:10.08 I I AM HERE AND I THINK MOST OF US AND I CAN THINK RIGHT NOW, I 00:19:10.08\00:19:24.36 I SHOULD KNOB HERE. PRAYERS OF PEOPLE I AM HERE. 00:19:24.36\00:19:35.60 I AM GLAD, TOO. FOR SURE. 00:19:35.60\00:19:39.67 MOMENT. STARTED AND WALK US THROUGH 00:19:39.67\00:19:46.65 PROCESS. IN MAY. 00:19:46.65\00:19:59.79 ATTEND CHURCH REGULARLY, AND I BIBLE AND SERVICE AND ALL OF 00:19:59.79\00:20:08.17 UNTIL ABOUT A YEAR LATER I HAD BAPTIZED THEN SUMMARIZE THIS UáIes on another. I'm 00:20:08.17\00:20:17.48 going to summarize the story, but I got a job after 00:20:17.48\00:20:19.05 WAS BAPTIZED THE THEN THE JOB AFTER TWO TO THREE MONTHS THEY 00:20:19.05\00:20:23.59 SABBATH. to 3 months to start to make me work on the Sabbath. And 00:20:23.59\00:20:25.72 and AND I WAS I WAS SCHEDULED TO 00:20:25.72\00:20:32.16 GOING TO THE MANAGER AND I TOLD told 00:20:32.16\00:20:36.83 THAT IS AGAINST THE CONVICTIONS, THOUSANDS WORK ON THE SABBATH. 00:20:36.83\00:20:45.27 THEY SAID. SAID, so 00:20:45.27\00:20:49.38 WELL, GOD SENT ME TO THIS JOB. that for a fact. So 00:20:49.38\00:20:52.51 I AM MEANT TO WORK ON THE SABBATH. 00:20:52.51\00:20:56.82 SAYING I AM DONATING THE MONEY CHURCH AND RATIONALIZE IT BUY the people that sit on 00:20:56.82\00:21:04.49 DESK I AM GOING TO GO AHEAD AND and sare Christ with 00:21:04.49\00:21:10.07 EVANGELISTIC ON SATURDAY AT MY JOB. was it was it was 22 years 00:21:10.07\00:21:16.30 old. Had a good AND LIVING ON MY OWN AND HAD 00:21:16.30\00:21:23.75 MAKE MEG RATIONALIZE IT. CONVICTION AND WENT TO THE 00:21:23.75\00:21:30.22 NOTHING THEY COULD DO. THE REGIONAL AND NOTHING THEY are 00:21:30.22\00:21:35.99 regional. Nothi do. said, you know why? God, I guess this 00:21:35.99\00:21:39.56 AS I WAS RATIONALIZING IT. I was 00:21:39.56\00:21:43.47 I WAS THROW SLOWLY DRIFTING AWAY AND I WOULD GO HOME AFTER w 00:21:43.47\00:21:48.87 WORKING AND PRAY FOR FORGIVENESS IT BECAME LESS AND LESS 00:21:48.87\00:21:55.74 FREEQUENT OVER TIME AND WHY AM I NOW ON THE 00:21:55.74\00:22:00.35 w on WHY PRENNING HERE WHEN MY SINS 00:22:00.48\00:22:05.19 YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? RIGHT. 00:22:05.19\00:22:15.10 BROUGHT SOME FRIENDS INTO MY went to my job 2 days later, 00:22:15.10\00:22:24.27 quit my job. LATE EARN QUIT MY JOB. YOU WENT TO THE JOB TWO 00:22:24.27\00:22:29.14 DAYS EXPERIENCE. YEAH. Yeah. Had 2 friends 00:22:29.14\00:22:37.79 WITH TWO FRIENDS THAT SNAPPED ME YEAH. 00:22:37.79\00:22:46.90 WETthWITH MY JOB. j 00:22:46.90\00:22:53.50 THE BOSS AND HAD RESIGNATION LET anymore. 00:22:53.50\00:22:58.91 ANY MORE. WITH GOD. want 00:22:58.91\00:23:09.48 I CRIED I IN W WENT TO THE I cried for good 10, 15 minutes in 00:23:09.48\00:23:14.26 the bathroom because BATHROOM BECAUSE IT WAS HARD. 00:23:14.26\00:23:19.49 AND OVER $2,000 TO PAY EVERY I IT DID. for the next 00:23:19.49\00:23:31.51 GOD PROVIDE. just kind of an 00:23:31.51\00:23:38.95 USED THAT TO MOLD ME THE END OF >> THINKING BACK TO THAT TIME, 00:23:38.95\00:23:50.43 WHAT IT it would be what itis today? >> I I 00:23:50.43\00:23:53.80 OI DOING NOT.be a place that hike that 00:23:53.80\00:24:11.58 THAT WOULD CREATE JOBS FOR full time. I did. I 00:24:11.58\00:24:15.38 FULL-TIME. WOULD HAPPEN AND BUT, BUT IT 00:24:15.38\00:24:24.56 AND SO THIS IS, SALT STARTED IN SEPTEMBER OF 2011 AND THIS IS 00:24:24.56\00:24:31.53 AND BUT IT IS BECAUSE later, but it's because 00:24:31.53\00:24:35.30 THAT GOD HAD CALLED KNOW DO THIS to do this work as if 00:24:35.30\00:24:39.67 YOU KNOW GOD HAS SOMETHING FOR THERE IS NO there is no looking 00:24:39.67\00:24:44.95 back. There THERE KNOWS GIG UP. 00:24:44.95\00:24:47.45 THAT IS NOT OPTION. on the table. You 00:24:47.45\00:24:50.52 AT IN THE OF THE SIX MONTH the end of that 6 month period after 00:24:50.52\00:24:56.59 quitting my got CLEARLY SAID IF HE CAME DOWN DO AND IT WAS SO CLEAR AND I I never looked back 00:24:56.59\00:25:04.43 and just kept moving forward and MOPPING FOR WE'RE AND IT HAS 00:25:04.43\00:25:10.17 DOING A LOT W I 00:25:10.17\00:25:11.31 YEAH. FRUITION CAME LIKE 15 YEARS what were 00:25:11.31\00:25:20.92 SALT SO OK NOW YOU ARE of sauce? Okay. Now you're you're 00:25:20.92\00:25:25.09 impressed. TO START AMOUNT BUT THEN WHAT? YES. 00:25:25.09\00:25:32.49 FRIENDS AND I SAID, ALL RIGHT I REMEMBER WE PRAYED ALL NIGHT. 00:25:32.49\00:25:39.07 prayed AND CAME UP WITH A BUNCH OF WE KNEW WERE CONNECTED TO GOD 00:25:39.07\00:25:45.24 AND WE ASKED HEY, BE WHAT WHICH ARE TRYING TO DOG HERE, YOU 00:25:45.24\00:25:57.55 IT IS WHAT WAS CHOSEN YOU KNOW. THEN WEED OUR FIRST with that. 00:25:57.55\00:26:03.29 And then we had first event September of 2011 had about 00:26:03.43\00:26:07.23 ADULTS COME OU come out and re 00:26:07.23\00:26:08.36 VISION OF SALT AND THINGS IT WAS ALL VOLUNTEER FOR LIKE 00:26:08.36\00:26:18.67 VOLUNTEER. >> SO, THE VISION FOR SALT? for salt was too 00:26:18.67\00:26:30.15 >> create CREATE IN A PLACE WHERE YOUNG 00:26:30.15\00:26:36.46 ALL DIFFERENT CHURCHES TO NOT SERVICE ON CONSISTENT BUSIES 00:26:36.46\00:26:47.47 TIME WAS THERE WAS COMMUNITY BUT WAITS NOT CONSIST TEN. 00:26:47.47\00:26:55.98 AND I MEAN, IT WAS NOT MEASURE THE IMPACT OF WHAT WAS what was 00:26:55.98\00:27:04.22 happening and therefore. WERE NOT BOEING LED TO CHRIST ON 00:27:04.22\00:27:09.76 AND SO, WE WANTED TO START KNOW? 00:27:09.76\00:27:18.73 THE SAME MISSION ANN THAT IS HOW the same mission. and that's how 00:27:18.73\00:27:24.07 I mean THE OUTREACH WE HAVE FOR THE WHAT unsheltered 00:27:24.07\00:27:29.64 YEAH. YOU KNOW YOU IDENTIFIED started. So, yeah. So that's 00:27:29.64\00:27:33.18 that's incredibly identified FILLED THAT NEED. 00:27:33.18\00:27:36.69 FOAM CHRIST. YEAH. Pastor mom, 00:27:36.69\00:27:45.39 AM WORK ON. SO TELL ME HOW YOU ENDED UP AT 00:27:45.39\00:27:56.60 INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH. THEAR I GOT BAPTIZED. April 14th 00:27:56.60\00:28:03.11 AND I KNOW THAT WHEN I GOT BAPTIZED I KNEW LIKE WUT A 00:28:03.11\00:28:09.05 WANT TO WORK FOR YOU. DON'T KNOW HOW. 00:28:09.05\00:28:13.76 I DON'T KNOW. YEAH. 00:28:13.76\00:28:18.69 AFTER MY first few after my baptism 00:28:18.69\00:28:19.93 IT WAS LITERALLY THROUGH DREAMS INDIVIDUALS AN also like through 00:28:19.93\00:28:25.30 individuals, I became. Super INVESTED IN JUST KNOWING 00:28:25.30\00:28:33.74 LIKE I WAS BEHIND AND EVERYBODY BOOKS AND READ LOOK THE GREAT 00:28:33.74\00:28:40.28 STORIES AND I NEED TO controversy series like I just 00:28:40.28\00:28:42.05 need to LIKE DEVOURING THE BOOKS ALONG IT, I BEGAN TO GIVE A LOT OF I just began to give a lot of 00:28:42.05\00:28:48.89 CONTAIN IT. YOU CANNOT HOLD. 00:28:48.89\00:28:52.09 IN THE, T can hold it. So, yeah, 00:28:52.09\00:28:53.56 IT. YEAH YEAH YEAH. 00:28:53.56\00:29:03.87 STUDIES THEN GIVE THEM BUT I YOU KNOW? 00:29:03.87\00:29:07.64 AND IT JUST, IT JUST, THEY GOT GO TO CHURCH AND I GOT ASKED TO got asked to be a speaker at 00:29:07.64\00:29:14.82 churches. ands MEAN, THEY ASK KNOW SPEAK. 00:29:14.82\00:29:20.46 AND THE DOOR OPENED I WENT. GOT IN TOUCH WITH ERIC I got in 00:29:20.46\00:29:27.83 touch with Eric. KNOW, WE BECAME FRIENDS THEN FOR THE EVENT AT 00:29:27.83\00:29:35.10 SALT AND ONE OF THE EVENTS YOU DID IN THE QUARTERLY THINGS. 00:29:35.10\00:29:39.34 YEAH. 12 DIFFERENT MACHINE INDUSTRIES 00:29:39.34\00:29:46.11 YEAH. H just 00:29:46.11\00:29:51.52 A BUNCH THING IS SO REMEMBER I remem 00:29:51.52\00:29:54.32 BEEM BEING INVITED TO BOEING A EVERYBODY ELSE AND AND I WAS 00:29:54.32\00:30:04.97 WAS LIKE A PART OF THE GROUP. But 00:30:04.97\00:30:10.57 AND I JUST REMEMBER REALLY BEING THEOLOGY. miles. W 00:30:10.57\00:30:25.25 HIM. UNIT. 00:30:25.25\00:30:31.43 I ALREADY GOT AND PROVING I AM WILDERNESS I DON'T NEED TO GOZ the wilderness. I don't need 00:30:31.43\00:30:37.57 IS. YEAH. 00:30:38.60\00:30:47.21 BEEN OUT OF FLOOR DAND COME BACK come back and visit and what And we just always stayed in 00:30:47.21\00:30:52.51 touch. reckon I and maybe like 3 years ago. 00:30:52.51\00:30:56.52 WE STAYED IN TOUCH. come. And every %5u'd 00:30:56.52\00:31:03.59 call an acting like, hey, as we good, you know, 00:31:03.59\00:31:08.33 ME. I was in last time 00:31:08.33\00:31:12.10 WOW. Haha. 00:31:12.10\00:31:17.21 RUNNING. YEAH. mean, you have a Nebraska I 00:31:17.21\00:31:23.28 know, you know, because again, HVAC. 00:31:23.28\00:31:27.42 I WAS AT THE AIRPORT. NEBRASKA WAS MILITARY BASE. I 00:31:27.42\00:31:37.46 YOU PRIN UTAH. the 00:31:37.46\00:31:38.66 YEAH. YEAH. 00:31:38.66\00:31:44.13 I HAD MOVED TO moved to Utah. 00:31:44.13\00:31:46.90 FOR FAR BRIEF TIME AS RECRUITER open for a brief time as a 00:31:46.90\00:31:50.34 recruiter. Okay. WITH CANCER AND SO I MOVED TO YOU GO TO SALT LAKE CITY THE I'm working. So 00:31:50.34\00:31:58.71 anytime you go into Salt Lake AIRPORT, YEAH MY FINGERPRINTS 00:31:58.71\00:32:03.22 FOR THAT PLACE. >> WOW. 00:32:03.22\00:32:07.69 YEAH. PASTOR IN CALIFORNIA THIS FER 00:32:07.69\00:32:16.03 YEAH. WHERE THIS IS GUY GOING NEXT. 00:32:16.03\00:32:21.37 >> SINGAPORE. LIKE CALIFORNIA. 00:32:21.37\00:32:29.04 MY FLIGHT, MY FIRST EXPERIENCE for like my my first experience 00:32:29.04\00:32:32.65 and FULLY IS you know, I fully. 2020. And that's when everything 00:32:32.65\00:32:40.89 GOES DOWNHILL BECAUSE OF THE CAN SR. AGAIN. 00:32:40.89\00:33:03.28 MAN. WE ARE IN COMMUNICATION. Grateful for Eric not in 00:33:03.28\00:33:18.49 praying and stuff like that. January. 26 mother passes. It was one of those things where 00:33:18.49\00:33:24.73 just like. LIFE, I MEAN, IT GETS TURNED 00:33:24.73\00:33:30.94 YOU KNOW. KNOW? 00:33:30.94\00:33:37.65 OPPORTUNITIES IN CALIFORNIA THAT California just ther me. 00:33:37.65\00:33:41.65 THAT WERE PRETTY MUCH SET ME UP, YOU KNOW, IN THE PASTORAL 00:33:41.65\00:33:49.66 THIS JOB IS GOING TO GIVE IS. 00:33:49.66\00:33:57.47 THIS. YEAH. 00:33:57.47\00:34:09.98 BACK TO ORLANDO. THAT I KNOW IN THE MOMENT OF 00:34:09.98\00:34:16.72 GRIEVING OR HEALING AND WHAT IT THERE IS A JOB HER AND 00:34:16.72\00:34:33.23 OBVIOUSLY YOU CANNOT COMPARE. compare. Yeah, security wise to what was being offered to 00:34:33.23\00:34:36.14 me. But I was just like. LORD I DON'T GO THIS ROUTE. 00:34:36.14\00:34:47.02 WHAT ARE YOU DOING? What are you doing like you're going to hold? 00:34:47.02\00:34:49.52 You know, we understand that. And them and I took a leap of faith. Yeah. Coming back home 00:34:49.52\00:34:55.59 AND COMING BACK TO ORLANDO AND I HAVE BEEN ARE HAVE BEEN AROUND 00:34:55.59\00:35:06.13 MARCH. INDIVIDUAL AND SALT AND 00:35:06.13\00:35:18.25 IN SALT. TOOK PLACE. I've seen you come on 00:35:18.25\00:35:23.65 DARE TO DREM AND SET DOESN'T AND TALKED ABOUT THAT STUFF. 00:35:23.65\00:35:29.29 THEN THE NEXT THING I SEE I SEE CHANGE TRAILER AND SEE THESE 00:35:29.29\00:35:36.33 GROWTH? this by. >> I truly believe that 00:35:36.33\00:35:45.04 BELIEVE GOD IS THE ONE WHO HAS GROWN THIS BECAUSE HE SEES do 00:35:45.04\00:35:51.55 what, WHAT WHAT WHAT WE ARE CALLED TO to do it 00:35:51.55\00:35:54.85 TO HELP THOSE THAT ARE HURTING STARTED had like. 10 differ 00:35:54.85\00:36:07.30 DIFFERENT OUTREACH PROJECTSES IN REALIZED HAVING OUR ENERGY SPLIT 00:36:07.30\00:36:15.40 NOT FEABLE YOU KNOW. between 10 projects just wasn't it wasn't 00:36:15.40\00:36:18.04 feasible. You know, WE WERE GOT ARE GOOD AT 00:36:18.04\00:36:20.64 BUT NOT GREAT AT ANYTHING. THAT MAKE SENSE. 00:36:20.64\00:36:27.18 OVER TIME expense. S 00:36:27.18\00:36:29.02 RUNNING THE UTREAM right now we're just running our outreach 00:36:29.02\00:36:31.99 for the UNSHELTERED BUN BUT WHEN THAT FEEDING 15 PEOPLE AND 00:36:31.99\00:36:39.46 THEY WOULD COOK THE FAD AND ONE DRIVE DOWNTOWN. 00:36:39.46\00:36:46.00 COMMUTE TO GET TO DOWNTOWN. to downtown driving d 00:36:46.00\00:36:49.34 PUT UP TABLE AND LITERALLY FOOD. 00:36:49.34\00:36:56.58 IT IS GETTING GOING. know, salt i.RUMQ going. We love for this 00:36:56.58\00:36:58.91 to be a part of SALT ORG MAYZATION AND GROW IT 00:36:58.91\00:37:01.35 TOGETHER THEN THAT IS WHAT WE that's what we did. We partner 00:37:01.35\00:37:05.15 HELPED THE MINISTRY GROW AND from 2 pe 00:37:05.15\00:37:10.93 FEEDING 15 TO NOW HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS 00:37:10.93\00:37:16.63 2 to ON BYE WEEKLY BASIS. WAS, IT JUST WAS FIVE YEARS WE 00:37:16.63\00:37:28.44 WERE ABLE TO ADD BARBERS THAT WE HAD CLOTHING ON that were volunteering on the 00:37:28.44\00:37:32.71 We HYGIENE PRODUCTS WOULD GIVE OT 00:37:32.71\00:37:35.98 BUT WE DIDN'T WANT TO STOP THIS comes to 00:37:35.98\00:37:42.52 OUR VISION AND WHAT GOD CALLED NATURE PUTS THE CEILING ON WHAT 00:37:42.52\00:37:47.60 GOD IS CAPABLE OF YOU KNOW. CREELING. We don't 00:37:47.60\00:37:53.40 A CREAL ON VUGS OR SOMETHING GOD BUT BUT HE SAYS HE says the 00:37:53.40\00:37:59.74 whole ABOVE, RATING, ABOVE AND BEYOND RIGHT. 00:37:59.74\00:38:06.08 WE STARTED THE SURVEY THE unsheltered, right? 00:38:06.08\00:38:10.95 WHAT NEEDS COULD BE needs could 00:38:10.95\00:38:12.55 CLOTH AND HIGH GEAN WAS OBVIOUST"pobvious need that need to AND WHAT WE ENDED UP DOING 00:38:12.55\00:38:19.43 WAS TRAILER THAT WE CALLED CHANGE. CLOTHING IN THERE, 00:38:19.43\00:38:31.21 UNDERWEAR, ACCEPT SOMEONE THAT IS PIECE,ING WE CONTINUED TO 00:38:31.21\00:38:38.55 SURVEY THEM AND HOPING TO SERVE ANYBODY BECAUSE HAPPENING IS WE 00:38:38.55\00:38:45.99 ASSUME WHAT TO ASSUME. RIGHT. 00:38:45.99\00:38:52.46 HAVE ANG WE FIND OUT SHOWER IS A NOW WE ARE A BUNCH OF YOUNG 20 00:38:52.46\00:38:59.47 HOW TO DO THESE THINGS. know. And and so we realized, okay, a 00:38:59.47\00:39:05.61 building that we renovate with showers, probably not realistic, right? So what something else we 00:39:05.61\00:39:10.71 can do. And so we came together and decided to fund raise for a shower trailer. Actually BN 00:39:10.71\00:39:18.75 what played a huge part in helping us launch the shower trailer. We had a matching 00:39:18.75\00:39:22.69 grant for 17,000, 500 and there are viewers that watched that episode and we just 00:39:22.69\00:39:28.53 shared the vision of the shower trailer with one viewer that donated 16,000, $500 00:39:28.53\00:39:37.07 raise. And the other viewers, you know, 20 bucks here, 50 bucks here, you know, it added 00:39:37.07\00:39:41.11 up to 17,000, 500. We access the matching grant and were able to purchase the shower 00:39:41.11\00:39:46.72 trailer in 2018 has 4 bathrooms, each bathroom. What they sink, 00:39:46.72\00:39:53.36 shower and toilet. Right now we're doing about 80 showers a 00:39:53.36\00:39:59.66 day showers a day. AND YOU NEED IT DOWNTOWN. FIGURING OUT WHAT 00:39:59.66\00:40:06.63 THE NEED WAS AND WE ADDED A LAUNDRY TRAILER FOR SHELTER AND 00:40:06.63\00:40:14.44 ADDED A CASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM THAT CREATES PIECE,ING HOMELESSNESS TO GET 00:40:14.44\00:40:20.82 TO HOUSING AND SHELTER AND WE HELP MEET NEED FOR THE 00:40:20.82\00:40:28.92 JUST, IT IS AMAZING AND NOW WE FIVE DAYS A WEEK AND PENSIONED 00:40:28.92\00:40:36.10 city to new cities and THINGS ARE GROWING YOU KNOW. are growin 00:40:36.23\00:40:43.34 THIS. GROWTH AND BUT IT IS ALSO 00:40:43.34\00:40:50.28 THOUGHT, WELL, MAYBE A BUILD 00:40:50.28\00:40:54.05 TRAILER IN MIND AND THEN, THEN, MOB that's perfY, 00:40:54.05\00:40:58.42 it's mobile. So wher 00:40:58.42\00:41:01.96 IS HOW DO question for 00:41:01.96\00:41:03.59 ARE? GOING TO BE YEAH. 00:41:03.59\00:41:07.03 YEAH. YEAH. 00:41:07.03\00:41:13.00 BE to 00:41:13.00\00:41:15.87 AND HAVE FLYER AND GO OUT TO to people. 00:41:15.87\00:41:19.21 WORD OF THOUGHT. HANDLE ALL OF THE PEOPLE THAT 00:41:19.21\00:41:25.28 KEEPS WITH COVID I MEAN, IT IS OPERATING YOU KNOW FOUR TIMES A 00:41:25.28\00:41:38.79 month I MEAN, IT IS, IT IS REALLY children sleep in their 00:41:38.79\00:41:45.93 CRAZY. THAT DIME hat came to our window 00:41:45.93\00:41:49.57 AND SLEEPING IN THE CAR AND SHE SHOULD BACK TO THE THE CAR THE 00:41:49.57\00:41:59.68 HER FOUR KIDS SLEEPING ON said, because we're mo%1 we can go anywhere. And I think 00:41:59.68\00:42:10.83 that's that's being able to meet people where they are 00:42:10.83\00:42:17.00 >> A HUGE ASSET. IT IS A HUGE ASSET. 00:42:17.00\00:42:30.91 UNSHELTERED. us to to take a look at and te1 00:42:30.91\00:42:33.25 AND TELL US WHAT I GOING ON IN AND SO OUR STREET OUTREACH TEAM 00:42:33.25\00:42:42.26 PROGRAM AND WE HAVE THREE CASE MANAGERS THAT ARE ON THE SITE. 00:42:42.26\00:42:47.86 RIGHT. WORKERS SON THE BACK GROUND 00:42:47.86\00:42:54.34 RENEE AND THEN YOU HAVE THE WORKERS AND THESE TALL GLY OUT 00:42:54.34\00:43:00.81 street TO THE CALMS ANTE OF TO THE CAR THE STREET AND street 00:43:00.81\00:43:07.88 and they TRY CONNECT PEOPLE TO SERVICES. WHERE THEY GOON FOR HELP. setting the need and 00:43:07.88\00:43:16.12 getting them or they need AND A GREAT PROGRAM OUR CASE 75% that 00:43:16.12\00:43:34.44 sit with them. They've been able to help take the next step toward ending their 00:43:34.44\00:43:39.48 homelessness. It's it's they've been, you know, and God's really been using them in a big And so 00:43:39.48\00:43:43.69 that's been that's been exciting Yeah. >> Pastor Montalvo, what have you noticed as the 00:43:43.69\00:43:51.79 outreach, a pastor? What what have you noticed was you're 00:43:51.79\00:43:53.86 interac with? >> The unsheltered man. >> The thing that I from the very beginning. Number one. 00:43:53.86\00:44:05.91 Literally like 2 paychecks away. getting services from Seoul. I just eat. It's it's 00:44:05.91\00:44:13.58 not so much and everyone's a drug addict or every now it's not like somebody like I. You 00:44:13.58\00:44:19.52 know, they come to the registering window and just like, hey, is my first time 00:44:19.52\00:44:22.22 here. And I asked my hair like, you know, everything was going, oh, yeah. Letting them 00:44:22.22\00:44:26.36 just like as lost my job. I lost my job. I was like man. That's 00:44:26.36\00:44:32.13 yeah. It's crazy because when you look at it so easy to almost like population, right? you 00:44:32.13\00:44:40.58 know, we naturally tend to look at as whereas we hear it's all we try to like really just shift 00:44:40.58\00:44:46.05 the narrative the language, right. And homes are homebound bound get a home. big things 00:44:46.05\00:44:51.75 off tonight. We're trying to restore into people that are overlooked. You know, let them 00:44:51.75\00:44:59.43 know likely you're seen, you know, you're You're a human have I mean, aspirations and 00:44:59.43\00:45:04.13 goals. He didn't wake up one day. What led you here? Yeah, I know. And how can we help 00:45:04.13\00:45:09.70 you get out of So the things that I've noticed just being there. How? How intelligent 00:45:09.70\00:45:16.48 people are man, other circumstances. You think I've had some conversations where 00:45:16.48\00:45:23.85 where say there's another another place. But if I can had a conversation with 00:45:23.85\00:45:27.89 someone that I swore side the lotion. like you're breaking down the Greek to me, you 00:45:27.89\00:45:32.93 know, and I would be totally lost about it Greek. Yeah, I understand. Keeping up with 00:45:32.93\00:45:38.07 you, you know, and you know, is just how intelligent you know, how like is this is a 00:45:38.07\00:45:43.94 little just circumstances >> IT REALLY IS CIRCUMSTANCES 00:45:43.94\00:45:46.34 THAT'S WHAT IT IS. AND SO MANY HAVE THE Bible. Like and they 00:45:46.34\00:45:52.85 know AND THEY KNEW THE WORD LIKE YOU THINK YOU'RE TRYING TO TEACH 00:45:52.85\00:45:57.45 THEM THAT TIME I PURCHASED A BIBLE STUDY IS NOT SO MUCH HAT 00:45:57.45\00:46:00.12 I AM HIGH AND HATE THAT HIGH AND MIGHTY AND I'M TEACHING YOU 00:46:00.12\00:46:03.49 SOMETHING BUT YOU HAVE SOMETHING AND SO WE'RE LEARNING TOGETHER 00:46:03.49\00:46:07.60 IN THAT'S HOW I WANT THEM TO BE VIEWED. 00:46:07.60\00:46:11.47 AND SO IT IS AMAZING HOW MUCH KNOWLEDGE IS THERE. 00:46:11.47\00:46:23.65 >> WOULD YOU SAY A LOT OF WHAT TAKES PLACE you let your lis 00:46:23.65\00:46:25.88 YOU LISTENING TO THE UNSHELTERED? 00:46:25.88\00:46:31.29 YES I AM DOING A LOT OF LISTENING AND IT'S CRAZY BECAUSE 00:46:31.29\00:46:38.33 IT'S IN LISTENING LIKE was talking about many times you want to assume this person 00:46:38.33\00:46:40.46 needs -- LIKE WHAT EVER TALKS ABOUT 00:46:40.46\00:46:44.53 BUT TRUTHFULLY SPEAKING JUST LISTEN BECAUSE IN LISTENING THEY 00:46:44.53\00:46:50.01 TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING ON IN LIFE AND I BELIEVE THAT MANY 00:46:50.01\00:46:53.98 nothing in TIMES THE LORD PREPARES YOU THERE IS NOTHING IN 00:46:53.98\00:46:56.34 YOUR LIFE THAT YOU HAVE GONE THROUGH IN CHRIST, OUT OF 00:46:56.34\00:47:03.28 CHRIST, IS OF USE USELESS VALUE LIKE THE EXPERIENCES THAT YOU 00:47:03.28\00:47:05.32 GAIN IN THOSE THINGS LIKE GOD CAN USE THAT AND IN ANY KIND OF 00:47:05.32\00:47:10.96 CIRCUMSTANCE AND ONE EXAMPLE WAS grie 00:47:10.96\00:47:13.29 THAT I AM READING AND ONE DAY I WORK CLOSELY WITH CASE 00:47:13.29\00:47:19.63 MANAGEMENT AND EVERYBODY REALLY THE CASE MANAGEMENT THEY ARE 00:47:19.63\00:47:21.77 ALWAYS REACHING OUT LIKE HEY LET'S GO JORGE LET'S TALK THIS 00:47:21.77\00:47:29.04 PERSON THEY WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT GOD BUT WE ALL WORK 00:47:29.04\00:47:31.91 TOGETHER. ONE PARTICULAR TIME WHERE WE GO 00:47:31.91\00:47:41.06 OUT AND THE GUY SITS DOWN AND HE SHARES A LITTLE BIT BUT listen 00:47:41.06\00:47:45.96 to him. WHEN I SIT DOWN AND JUST LISTEN TO HIM HE LOST HIS 00:47:45.96\00:47:52.67 MOTHER, HIS FATHER, AND GRANDMOTHER AND HIS RELATIONSHIP 00:47:52.67\00:48:01.88 IN ONE MONTH. >> TH devastating. The fire. This guy 00:48:01.88\00:48:03.48 HE COMPLETELY DEVASTATING. YOU CAN HEAR AMONG THE LIVING 00:48:03.48\00:48:06.88 IT'S LIKE OKAY BRO I AM HERE AND QUICKLY THE ONE THING quickly. 00:48:06.88\00:48:14.26 Some the one thing I've realizes that m REALIZED IS THAT MANY 00:48:14.26\00:48:16.19 TIMES PEOPLE DON'T NEED A BIBLE VERSE THEY JUST NEED YOU TO BE 00:48:16.19\00:48:21.66 PRESENT PRESENT. YOU JUST I just sat down 00:48:21.66\00:48:23.80 SO I SAT DOWN WITH HIM AND HE SHARED WITH ME AND I LET HIM 00:48:23.80\00:48:28.94 KNOW THAT I UNDERSTAND THE PAIN AND WE SAT THERE AND WE CRIED 00:48:28.94\00:48:34.94 TOGETHER THAT'S ALL WE DID JUST CRY. 00:48:34.94\00:48:41.05 WE SHED TEARS AND THEN AT THE END I LET HIM KNOW HE WAS NOT 00:48:41.05\00:48:43.49 ALONE. NOT ONLY ARE YOU NOT ALONE 00:48:43.49\00:48:48.06 PROXIMITY WISE BUT YOU NOT ALONE AND HOW YOU FEEL EITHER LIKE YOU 00:48:48.06\00:48:54.20 KNOW BECAUSE THE PAIN IS THERE AND SO IT IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS 00:48:54.20\00:48:59.53 WHERE AS I GO AROUND THE THING I AM LEARNING IS TO LISTEN JUST 00:48:59.53\00:49:05.54 LISTEN That's important is that, you know, God blessed us with 2 00:49:05.54\00:49:07.88 ears and IMPORTANT GOD BLESSED US WITH 00:49:07.88\00:49:09.41 TWO EARS AND ONE MOUTH YET SOMETIMES WE DO TOO MUCH OF THIS 00:49:09.41\00:49:13.48 AND NOT ENOUGH OF THE >> I WAS COULDN'T SAY THAT AS YOU ARE 00:49:13.48\00:49:19.69 TALKING THAT I THINK THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THE 00:49:19.69\00:49:22.72 SOLUTION AND ENDING HOMELESSNESS IS JUST ADDING MORE HOUSING AND 00:49:22.72\00:49:27.40 THAT'S NOT THE SOLUTION I THINK THE COURT TO ENDING HOMELESSNESS 00:49:27.40\00:49:32.20 IS RELATIONSHIP, COMMUNITY, WHEN YOU LOOK AT -- THERE WAS A STUDY 00:49:32.20\00:49:37.27 I WAS LOOKING AT ON THIS PROGRAM CALLED HOUSING FIRST FOR 00:49:37.27\00:49:41.21 BASICALLY THEY PUT SOMEONE INTO A with services right? 00:49:41.21\00:49:46.45 THAT AND THE TOP THREE REASONS OR FOR REASONS THAT PEOPLE -- 00:49:46.45\00:49:52.05 SOME PEOPLE WERE GOING INTO HOUSING AND THEN LEAVING AND 00:49:52.05\00:49:54.76 THEY WERE LIKE WHY ARE THEY LEAVING TO GO BACK TO GO THE 00:49:54.76\00:49:57.63 HOMELESS WHEN THERE'S HOUSING HERE IN THE TOP FOUR PEOPLE 00:49:57.63\00:50:00.53 REASONS WITH THE LEAD HAD TO BE THEY WOULD RATHER BE ON THE 00:50:00.53\00:50:06.20 STREET WITH FRIENDS THAN IN A HOME BY THEMSELVES AND SO Wow. And so so they're helping 00:50:06.20\00:50:10.24 to IS THE TO END HOMELESSNESS IS 00:50:10.24\00:50:13.11 ABOUT RELATIONSHIP HERE WE HAVE TESTIMONIES WE COULD SHARE ON 00:50:13.11\00:50:19.25 THAT OF PEOPLE WHOSE HOMELESSNESS WAS ENDED AND IT 00:50:19.25\00:50:22.48 STARTED WITH A RELATIONSHIP WITH PEOPLE SALT THE STAFF AND OUR 00:50:22.48\00:50:29.09 VOLUNTEERS AND IT ENDS WITH THEM BEING IN A. 00:50:29.09\00:50:34.36 AND, SO, THAT IS SOMETHING something I 00:50:34.36\00:50:35.90 I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT BECAUSE I THINK THAT IS 00:50:35.90\00:50:38.97 SOMETHING THAT WE MISS. >> THIS GOES BACK TO THE PASSAGE 00:50:38.97\00:50:47.38 WE OPENED UP WITH CHRIST CHRIST TALKING SAYING HEY ADDRESS THE 00:50:47.38\00:50:52.31 NEEDS, I FEEL LIKE MY in church. I 00:50:52.31\00:50:58.79 EXPERIENCES GOING CHURCH THAT'S WHERE WE START AND END. 00:50:58.79\00:51:04.66 WE FED THEM AND WE GIVE THEM WATER BUT THAT YOU READ THE REST 00:51:04.66\00:51:07.96 OF IT IS RELATIONSHIP. I'M NOT DISCLOSING YOU -- I'M 00:51:07.96\00:51:14.27 NOT JUST CLOTHING YOU I'M SHOWING YOU THAT YOU MATTER AND 00:51:14.27\00:51:16.84 THAT I CARE AND IT GOES BACK DOWN TO RELATION. 00:51:16.84\00:51:22.81 >> IT STARTED WITH BASIC NEED FOOD OR DRINK SHELTER CLOTHES 00:51:22.81\00:51:26.38 BUT THEN YOU SEE THAT RELATIONSHIP THAT IS ADDED IN 00:51:26.38\00:51:30.52 THE END, VISITING WHILE YOU'RE SICK OR WHILE YOU'RE IN PRISON. 00:51:30.52\00:51:34.39 >> CRATES -- CHRIST'S METHOD OF OF EVANGELISM IS PRACTICAL 00:51:34.39\00:51:38.56 CHRISTIANITY AND OFTEN TIMES IT'S EASY TO SAY I WILL PRAY FOR 00:51:38.56\00:51:41.26 YOU BUT IF HE ONLY PRAY FOR SOMEONE AND YOU HAVE THE MEANS 00:51:41.26\00:51:44.83 TO HELP THEM IF SOMEONE IS COLD AND YOU SAY I WILL PRAY THAT YOU 00:51:44.83\00:51:48.40 WARM UP AND YOU HAVE COATS THAT YOU COULD GET THIS YOUNG MAN 00:51:48.40\00:51:51.67 THIS YOUNG WOMAN AND YOU'RE JUST LIKE GO THAT IS LIKE THE FACE IF 00:51:51.67\00:51:58.35 THAT DOESN'T WORK IT'S A DEAD ACTION. 00:51:58.35\00:52:00.55 >> IT MEANS SOMEONE -- SHOULD MEAN SOMETHING. And I remember 00:52:00.55\00:52:07.02 I HAVE HAD FRIENDS IN PRISON AND I REMEMBER VISITING THEM AND 00:52:07.02\00:52:10.86 SEEING THE FACE LIKE JUST IT WAS SO MEANINGFUL NOT JUST YEP I'LL 00:52:10.86\00:52:14.20 SEE WHEN YOU GET OUT BUT WRITING AND THEN ALSO NOW also known I'm 00:52:14.20\00:52:19.83 taking nothing. The issue may be. I think just not taking 00:52:19.83\00:52:24.04 TAKING TIME OUT OF MY LIFE. YOU KNOW, >> AND YOU ARE THERE 00:52:24.04\00:52:28.48 BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BE THERE AND BECAUSE YOU CARE ABOUT THIS 00:52:28.48\00:52:32.81 INDIVIDUAL. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:52:32.81\00:52:34.98 THAT'S POWERFUL. ERIC, TALK TO US ABOUT THE 00:52:34.98\00:52:38.39 GENERAL IMPACT OF SALT. >> OKAY SO WE OFFER A BUNCH OF 00:52:38.39\00:52:44.39 DIFFERENT SERVICES THEY ARE ALL IN THE MOBILE FORM AND THERE IS 00:52:44.39\00:52:48.36 THE VIDEO LATER because, again, see a video of all this stuff 00:52:48.36\00:52:52.47 VIEWING NOW KEEP WATCHING BECAUSE THESE ARE ALL THE 00:52:52.47\00:52:55.77 SERVICES WE OFFER WE HAVE SHOWERS, LAUNDRY, MAIL SERVICES, 00:52:55.77\00:52:59.07 HAIRCUT, hair cuts. We we have food, clothing, hygiene 00:52:59.07\00:53:06.05 products, case HYGIENE PRODUCTS CASE MANAGEMENT 00:53:06.05\00:53:08.42 LIKE I MENTIONED AND, SINCE THE START OF THE PANDEMIC BEFORE THE 00:53:08.42\00:53:14.02 PANDEMIC WE WERE OPERATING FOUR TIMES A MONTH, THREE TO FOUR 00:53:14.02\00:53:16.56 TIMES A MONTH AND WHEN THE PANDEMIC BEGAN WE JUMPED TO 00:53:16.56\00:53:19.49 THREE DAYS A WEEK AND HAVE GRADUALLY GROWN BUT FROM THE 00:53:19.49\00:53:22.36 START OF THE PANDEMIC WE HAVE SERVED OVER 3,200 DIFFERENT 00:53:22.36\00:53:27.87 PEOPLE ABOUT 100 AND, SO, WE HAVE SEEN ABOUT 20 PERCENT OF 00:53:27.87\00:53:38.98 THE PEOPLE THAT WE SERVE LIKE 17 TO 20 PERCENT OF PEOPLE THAT WE 00:53:38.98\00:53:42.98 SERVE WE HAVE SEEN THEM GO FROM HOMELESS THAT NOW ARE IN 00:53:42.98\00:53:48.39 SHELTERED HOUSING AND, IT HAS BEEN EXCITING TO SEE THAT. 00:53:48.39\00:53:53.66 I THINK WHEN WE HAVE SOMEONE ALL OF US IN THE DIFFERENT 00:53:53.66\00:53:59.33 DEPARTMENTS WE DO OUR OWN THING WE HAVE OUTREACH SERVICE 00:53:59.33\00:54:03.00 DEPARTMENT THAT IS DIRECTING AND WE HAVE THE PASTORAL DEPARTMENT 00:54:03.00\00:54:07.41 WHICH MEETS SPIRITUAL NEEDS AND THE CASE MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT 00:54:07.41\00:54:10.81 THAT HELPS MEET THE PLAN TO GET to go. Yeah, but they all 00:54:10.81\00:54:15.02 THEY ALL WORK TOGETHER TO HELP TO ADD TO SOMEONE'S 00:54:15.02\00:54:20.76 AND IT'S AMAZING BECAUSE WHEN WE HAVE SOMEONE -- JUST TO GIVE A 00:54:20.76\00:54:25.03 STORY BUT WE HAD SOMEONE GETTING OUTREACH SERVICES FROM US FROM 00:54:25.03\00:54:28.73 OCTOBER OF 2020 AND THEY WERE JUST GETTING SHOWERS CLOTHING 00:54:28.73\00:54:33.37 THINGS LIKE THAT AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL MARCH WHERE THEY SAID I 00:54:33.37\00:54:37.17 want to sit WANT TO SIT WITH CASE MANAGEMENT AND SO WE FIND 00:54:37.17\00:54:41.51 OUT AND YOU'RE INVOLVED WORKING WITH THIS PERSON AND WE FIND out they had an addiction. 00:54:41.51\00:54:44.21 The HAD IN ADDICTION THAT THEY 00:54:44.21\00:54:46.98 WANTED TO SO IN MOMENTS LIKE THAT WE HAVE TO ACT QUICKLY AND 00:54:46.98\00:54:54.19 SELL CASE MANAGEMENT AND WE HAVE TO TALK TO THAT PERSON FOR A 00:54:54.19\00:54:57.19 LITTLE BIT AND THEN CASE MANAGEMENT AND THEM them to a 00:54:57.19\00:55:01.40 detox facility for TO A DETOX FACILITY FOR A WEEK AND THEN AFTER THE PERSON WAS 00:55:01.40\00:55:04.30 DETOXED THEY SENT HER TO GO SEE HER FAMILY, HER FAMILY IS KIND 00:55:04.30\00:55:07.90 OF DISOWNED HER BECAUSE OF HER ADDICTION AND EVERYTHING GOING 00:55:07.90\00:55:10.31 ON AND SO THEY GO TAKE HER TO SEE YOUR FAMILY AND SHE IS CLEAN 00:55:10.31\00:55:14.84 NOW AND THEN THEY GO TO ASOBER HOUSE WHERE NOW SHE'S OFF THE 00:55:14.84\00:55:19.85 STREET SHE IS WORKING AND SHE NO LONGER HAS AN ADDICTION BUT UP 00:55:19.85\00:55:23.59 AGAIN WITH HER COMING TO US FOR JUST SHOWERS FOR SIX MONTHS AND 00:55:23.59\00:55:28.59 SO THERE WAS RELATIONSHIP GETTING BUILT THERE THAT FINALLY 00:55:28.59\00:55:31.86 DECIDED TO SIT WITH THE CASE MANAGER AND SO I THINK A LOT OF 00:55:31.86\00:55:35.20 THE TIME WOULD LIKE TO WRITE PEOPLE OFF RIGHT AWAY THEY ARE 00:55:35.20\00:55:38.63 AN ADDICT, THEY JUST NEED TO BUT b 00:55:38.63\00:55:42.17 THIS PERSON WE DON'T WRITE OFF ANYONE CAN COME TO US NO MATTER 00:55:42.17\00:55:45.91 WHAT THE SITUATION IS AND SHE CAME TO US CONSISTENTLY AND WE 00:55:45.91\00:55:51.85 WERE THERE WHEN SHE were there 00:55:51.85\00:55:53.92 SHE WANTED TO MAKE A CHANGE. >> I LOVE THAT YOU SAY THAT 00:55:53.92\00:56:00.22 ANYONE CAN COME TO YOU BASICALLY JUST AS THEY ARE INDIA WILL TRY 00:56:00.22\00:56:05.66 AND HELP THEM GET BETTER. >> YES. 00:56:05.66\00:56:08.60 HE DEFINITELY. I THINK YOU KNOW THE QUESTION 00:56:08.60\00:56:12.80 ACTUALLY IS MORE KEEPS COMING BACK learning. What are you 00:56:12.80\00:56:15.94 ARE YOU SEEING AND ONE OF THEM IS NOT WRITING SOMEONE people 00:56:15.94\00:56:20.81 and, you know, but trying to understand either one a long 00:56:20.81\00:56:22.01 TRYING TO UNDERSTAND. I HEARD SOMEONE SAY A LONG TIME 00:56:22.01\00:56:25.25 AGO BY THE FRUITS YOU SHALL KNOW THEM BUT WHEN YOU GO TO THEIR 00:56:25.25\00:56:28.95 ROOTS YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THEM. >> SAY THAT AGAIN. 00:56:28.95\00:56:32.35 >> BY THEIR FRUITS. YOU SHALL KNOW THEM. 00:56:32.35\00:56:36.42 BUT WHEN YOU GO TO THEIR ROOTS YOU UNDERSTAND THEM AND I THINK 00:56:36.42\00:56:39.59 THAT IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST THING THAT I HAVE SEEN NOT JUST WITH 00:56:39.59\00:56:42.56 MYSELF AND HOW move in salt. Everybody I saw is not like we 00:56:42.56\00:56:46.37 try EVERYBODY. IT'S LIKE WHEN LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, 00:56:46.37\00:56:50.07 THE LADY AND A COUPLE OTHERS ALONG THE WAY IS THE FACT THAT 00:56:50.07\00:56:57.05 LIKE ADDICTION IS FOR SOME OF THEM AND IT'S CRAZY BECAUSE YOU 00:56:57.05\00:57:02.22 THINK OF ADDICTION BECAUSE WE THINK OF OKAY DRUGS AND WHATEVER 00:57:02.22\00:57:05.35 BUT THE TRUTH IS THAT all attics to something. 00:57:05.35\00:57:08.46 ADDICTS TO SOMETHING EVEN IF YOU HAVE A HOME AND ALL THAT STUFF 00:57:08.46\00:57:15.20 AND IT'S JUST LIKE THE THING ABOUT ADDICTION IS SADLY IT'S 00:57:15.20\00:57:18.63 THE MOST STABLE RELATIONSHIP THAT WE HAVE BECAUSE YOU GO BACK 00:57:18.63\00:57:21.67 TO IT BECAUSE WE KNOW HOW IT FEELS AND STUFF LIKE THAT SO 00:57:21.67\00:57:24.67 BREAKING THAT STIGMA OF UNDERSTANDING off. I know. 00:57:24.67\00:57:31.51 Understanding that was like, yes, yes, >> THAT IS CRUCIAL AND 00:57:31.51\00:57:33.35 I WANT TO TALK MORE ABOUT THAT IN second hou 00:57:33.35\00:57:34.78 SECOND HOUR I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS FIRST HOUR HAS GONE BY SO 00:57:34.78\00:57:37.89 QUICKLY I WANT YOU TO STICK AROUND FOR THE SECOND HOUR WE 00:57:37.89\00:57:41.66 HAVE MORE TO COME WE WILL TAKE A short break and we'll be right 00:57:41.66\00:57:43.76 SHORT BREAK AND WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK. 00:57:43.76\00:58:01.14