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00:07 JOIN US NOW FOR TODAY'S SPECIAL ♪ 00:43 ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ 01:15 >> hello and >> HELLO AND WELCOME 3 ABN TODAY 01:21 YOU DECIDED TO JOIN US WHETHER YOU ARE WATCHING ON TELL VICKS 01:28 THE RADIO. be a power packed 2 hours. 01:31 AND HERE WITH MY SPIRITUAL here 01:33 BROTHERS AND GOING TO BE TAKING THIS IS THE SEASON OF SALT. 01:42 THE SEASON OF SALT. salt. And I've got the president of 01:48 HERE. YEAH. 01:57 WOE GO TASTER WILL HERE. YEAH. 02:09 LOOKING FORWARD TO JUMPING IN OF THAT AND DIVE salt and 02:14 WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND ALL OF TO A SONG AND DIVE INTO THAT. 02:35 FATHER AND INHERIT THE prepared 02:37 PREPARED FOR FOR THE FOUNDATION was naked and you clothed me. 02:51 IT WAS IN PRISON AND C I: 02:54 ANSWER HIM answer h+ 02:57 WE SEE YOU HUNGRY, FEED YOU, your thirst and give you drink? 03:02 WHEN DID WE SEE YOU A STRANGER YOU AND SEE YOU SICK OR IN 03:10 KING WILL ANSWER. LEAST OF THESE MY BROTHERN YOU 03:19 EVERY TIME I THINK ABOUT THE VERSES COME TO MIN AND FIND OUT 03:27 ARE BLESSED IN SONG BY PASTOR MOSES BROWN AND HE WILL BE 03:34 ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ 04:24 >> just >> to prove. >> My 04:35 >> I >> can face. >> Coles 04:48 >> All ♪ >> Call 05:13 >> And >> my >> ward with 05:40 >> Is >> a way >> I. 05:50 >> I'll that my >> can face >> The 06:05 >> Coles, my >> is >> knoll. I know all. 06:22 >> all love >> word. >> to us. 06:35 >> God, is. >> You roll calls >> all the time, you 07:04 >> called a >> can't war. >> We were. 07:27 ♪ ♪ >> And 07:39 >> then because he lives and that's why salt 07:42 SALT DOES WHAT SALT DOES. BECAUSE HE LIVES THEN THAT IS that's 07:49 LIVES AND A PASSION FOR PEOPLE because he lives and have a passion 07:51 AND ERIC, I WANTED TO DIVE INTO YOUR BACKGROUND. 07:56 SALT GOT STARTED. know, the force all got started. Who 08:00 >> YEAH. CATHOLIC HOME, OK. My mom and 08:09 CATHOLIC ROOTS FOR GENERATIONS UP GOING TO CHURCH ONCE IN 08:18 THROUGH THE of going through the didn't really 08:22 HAVE ANY RELATIONSHIP WITH GOOD UNTIL I PICKED UP A BIBLE AND I 08:33 DOWNTOWN IN MAY LIFE AND FLIPPED down t 08:35 LOOING THREE BIBLE AND THE WORDS THAT MEANT. 08:41 BIBLE AND SO I AM FLIPPING flipping through and I see a ton of read in Matthew 5, 08:47 MATTHEW 56:00 AND 7. STARTED TO READ MATTHEW 56 AND 7 08:56 IT DID SOMETHING IN ME. THAT THERE WAS HIGHER PURPOSE 09:07 LAV WAS MORE THAN JUST ABOUT MONEY AND RELATIONSHIPS AND YOU 09:14 THERE IS MORE TO IT AND THEN I STOP AND COULDN'T PUT THE BIBLE I couldn't stop reading 09:22 DOESN'T AND REMEMBER HEARING-I EVE AND THE STORY OF DAVID AND a 09:29 THROUGH THE BIBLE READING THOSE the Bible, reading all of those stories 09:32 STORIES AND TO SEE WHAT IT SAID them. 09:37 AND THAT IS WHEN EVERYTHING EATING MY MOM HAD TO BRING FOOD 09:46 I JUST KEPT. engulfed in. And I know is 09:49 SPIRIT THAT TOOK spirit. The kind 09:53 and I just was so YEAH. 09:58 WORD AND YOU WERE STUDYING THE GROWING AT THAT POINT. 10:07 TRANSPIRING OR HAP PEG IN YOUR your life during 10:10 >> WELL, YOU KNOW, IT WAS, IT YOU KNOW, LOOK I MENTIONED I like I mentioned, I see It's 10:19 FAMILY HAS BEEN CATHOLIC IN BOTH STARTED TO READ THE BIBLE AND IT 10:29 NECESSARY FOR KNOW DO THAT BUT not necessary for me to do 10:32 KEPT DOING IT. MY MOTHER ACTUALLY MADE ME SIT I ke 10:35 DOWN BE WITH A PRIEST AND SAT the 10:37 APPOINTMENT TO SIT WI for me to sit with the priest and 10:39 AND SHARE ALL THE QUESTIONS I have 10:45 QUESTIONS EVERY DAY AND THEY ARE MEETING WITH THE PRIEST A 10:52 THEN I GOT TO SHARE WITH HIM ALL things, 10:56 HIM ABOUT CONFESSION AND I ASKED PRAY TO other people and 11:07 GOD AND I ASK ASKED ABOUT THE SABBATH ACTUALLY. Sabbath. I was starting 11:14 SABBATH AT THAT TIME. time 11:17 AND YEAH THAT WAS WHOLE THAT IS A WHOLE STORY AT IN THE OF IT I 11:24 DISAPPOINTED AND AT THE that. The priest the way he 11:28 THE WAY HE WAS ANSWERING MY REPHONE ARE ENFORCED THE BELIEF reinforced 11:33 I WAS GOING IN THE RIGHT SOLIDIFIED ME AND STARTED TO-I 11:41 CHRISTIANS TO TEACH ME THE BIBLE TO L When you are Christian 11:44 QUESTIONS AND THIS PERSON COULDN'T ANSWER IT. 11:50 ANSWER THOSE QUESTION AND YEAH. questions. And and 11:52 BEGINNING OF 2010 THAT ALL OF YEAH. with the 12:01 CHURCH AND WAS ADVENTIST CHURCH his church I was baptized May o 12:07 2019 YEAH. DISCOVERING THIS SABBATH. 12:14 SO YOU KNOW, I CAN'T REALLY PUT I REMEMBER IT REALLY BEING 12:25 TO CALL FRIENDS WHO when I started to 12:27 CHRISTIANS, IT who were it just so 12:29 OF THE GROUPS AND THREE GROUPS NOW AND TWO GROUPS WERE 12:39 AND THE OTHER GROUP WAS STUDYING BOTH SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT 12:50 THE SABBATH FOR ME AND SOME OF AND PRINCIPLE BECAUSE THE 12:59 WITH WENT TO THE CORE AND TAUGHT Greek, 13:08 WAS JUST MADE SENSE TO ME YOU KN it just made sense 13:10 THAT IS WHY GOOGLED A VEIN TIST WELL, WHAT ABOUT YOU? 13:17 WHAT? FROM ORLANDO, I AM IN FLORIDA. 13:27 FAMILY WAS CONTRARY TO ERIC BE A ADVENTIST AND MY GRANDFATHER WAS 13:34 AND I THINK THE THING WAS, BUT I WAS NOT RAISED IN CHRIST. raised in And so 13:47 >> UNPACK THAT. >> I WAS NOT RAISED AROUND THE 13:55 THE CHURCH. HAD THAT. 13:59 MY FAMILY WAS LIKE IN AND OUT OF RAISED IN the 14:06 >> GOT YOU. ONE IS ANSWERING MY QUESTIONS toñstep out because no one 14:14 DOESN'T SEEM APPEALING TO ME YOU AND SOME OF IT WAS FORCED YOU 14:21 REMEMBER SOMETIMES LIKE, I WANT ANOTHER WEEKEND. 14:29 4 hours means like a whole weekend. But 14:31 AND ONE OF THOSE THINGS AND YEAH. 14:36 AND THE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP BEING A PART OF IS CHURCH AND 14:44 FOR ME TO LIKE, AS I GOT OLDER. rebound and one to the world. Whatever high when time you 14:53 want put it. AND YEAH, MAN. 15:00 LIKE THE WHOLE LIFESTYLE OF DID YOU WANT yeah, but you want to call 15:05 right party. AndñI mean dropped out of 15:06 OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL AND YEAH. THING YOU KNOW? 15:14 SOMETHING TO SATISFY LIKE WHAT I ADDRESS OR DEFINE kind of like a dress or define 15:20 many SAY THERE IS A GOOD SHAPED HOLE 15:25 AND SO I THINK THAT HOLE IS IT THINGS AND YOU KNOW, YOU 15:34 DRINKING OR I MEAN JUST ALL 15:36 OTHER KIND AND AT THE END OF THE TO BED AND LAY DOWN AND I AM THE 15:44 IS THIS ALL I HAD TO OFFER? IT SUCKS. is just like a repeat kind of 15:52 You and THEN, I REMEMBER I MOVED TO 16:00 PURSUING SOMETHING AND DIDN'T SINK DEEPER AND THEN, MAYBE I 16:08 IT IS FAMILY, IT IS WHAT AM THE WHOLE FAMILY DOES family does 16:18 YEAH. YOU WOULD DIE. 16:26 HE DOES THAN WORKING WINDY AND THIS ALSO LIKE MOMENT OF I WOULD 16:33 SAY LIKE CLARITY AND WHERE YOU LIFESTYLE WHAT IS IT REALLY 16:41 SO HE ASKED really So he just asked me he's like he's a do you think 16:45 heaven is real? THINK HEAVEN IS REAL. to heaven? And I 16:51 YEAH. COULD ASK IF ANSWER IT IF IF IT 16:56 IS REAL AND THESE THINGS I KNOW WOW. 17:04 SPARKED A NEWSPAPER INTEREST REALLY SAY. 17:13 AND MY MOTHER GIFTED ME A BIBLE. AND SHE WROTE ON IT. 17:22 MUCH PROPHESIED REALLY. really like I'm giving this you because I know that's 17:27 going bring you back. YOU BACK. 17:31 I HAVE THAT BILL TO THIS DAY. DIGGING. You 17:39 LEARNED ABOUT CHRIST THROUGH THE SO HA DOES THE BIBLE SAY YOU and and kind of 17:49 VAUSE SY THEORIES SO ALWAYS CONSPIRACY THEORY AND THEN 18:00 BACK AWAY THIS YOU KNOW. this. Yes think 18:04 NEWS AND THE GOOD NEWS. WHAT DOES THE GOSPEL SAY. there 18:14 FROM THERE ON, MAN. ME, MAN. 18:23 I GOT GED WHICHS WITH A MIRACLE LORD I PASS THIS. in itself was a Lord. And I -passed 18:28 I WANT YOU TO SEEK HIGH IF NOT, THEN, THEN, do something morning. If not, 18:33 then. SPEAK. 18:36 PREACH. THE DOORS FOR KNOW GO AND STUDY 18:50 TODAY. huge blessing 18:54 THINK THAT WHAT HAD TO HAVE TOO, YOUR MOTHER MUST HAVE BEEN 19:00 SERIOUS. I everything that my 19:06 PRAYING YOU KNOW AND I and my we are definitely praying, you and I 19:10 I AM HERE AND I THINK MOST OF US AND I CAN THINK RIGHT NOW, I 19:24 I SHOULD KNOB HERE. PRAYERS OF PEOPLE I AM HERE. 19:35 I AM GLAD, TOO. FOR SURE. 19:39 MOMENT. STARTED AND WALK US THROUGH 19:46 PROCESS. IN MAY. 19:59 ATTEND CHURCH REGULARLY, AND I BIBLE AND SERVICE AND ALL OF 20:08 UNTIL ABOUT A YEAR LATER I HAD BAPTIZED THEN SUMMARIZE THIS UáIes on another. I'm 20:17 going to summarize the story, but I got a job after 20:19 WAS BAPTIZED THE THEN THE JOB AFTER TWO TO THREE MONTHS THEY 20:23 SABBATH. to 3 months to start to make me work on the Sabbath. And 20:25 and AND I WAS I WAS SCHEDULED TO 20:32 GOING TO THE MANAGER AND I TOLD told 20:36 THAT IS AGAINST THE CONVICTIONS, THOUSANDS WORK ON THE SABBATH. 20:45 THEY SAID. SAID, so 20:49 WELL, GOD SENT ME TO THIS JOB. that for a fact. So 20:52 I AM MEANT TO WORK ON THE SABBATH. 20:56 SAYING I AM DONATING THE MONEY CHURCH AND RATIONALIZE IT BUY the people that sit on 21:04 DESK I AM GOING TO GO AHEAD AND and sare Christ with 21:10 EVANGELISTIC ON SATURDAY AT MY JOB. was it was it was 22 years 21:16 old. Had a good AND LIVING ON MY OWN AND HAD 21:23 MAKE MEG RATIONALIZE IT. CONVICTION AND WENT TO THE 21:30 NOTHING THEY COULD DO. THE REGIONAL AND NOTHING THEY are regional. Nothi 21:35 do. said, you know why? God, I guess this 21:39 AS I WAS RATIONALIZING IT. I was 21:43 I WAS THROW SLOWLY DRIFTING AWAY AND I WOULD GO HOME AFTER w 21:48 WORKING AND PRAY FOR FORGIVENESS IT BECAME LESS AND LESS 21:55 FREEQUENT OVER TIME AND WHY AM I NOW ON THE 22:00 w on WHY PRENNING HERE WHEN MY SINS 22:05 YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? RIGHT. 22:15 BROUGHT SOME FRIENDS INTO MY went to my job 2 days later, quit my job. 22:24 LATE EARN QUIT MY JOB. YOU WENT TO THE JOB TWO DAYS 22:29 EXPERIENCE. YEAH. Yeah. Had 2 friends 22:37 WITH TWO FRIENDS THAT SNAPPED ME YEAH. 22:46 WETthWITH MY JOB. j 22:53 THE BOSS AND HAD RESIGNATION LET anymore. 22:58 ANY MORE. WITH GOD. want 23:09 I CRIED I IN W WENT TO THE I cried for good 10, 15 minutes in the bathroom 23:14 because BATHROOM BECAUSE IT WAS HARD. 23:19 AND OVER $2,000 TO PAY EVERY I IT DID. for the next 23:31 GOD PROVIDE. just kind of an 23:38 USED THAT TO MOLD ME THE END OF >> THINKING BACK TO THAT TIME, 23:50 WHAT IT it would be what itis today? >> I I 23:53 OI DOING NOT.be a place that hike that 24:11 THAT WOULD CREATE JOBS FOR full time. I did. I 24:15 FULL-TIME. WOULD HAPPEN AND BUT, BUT IT 24:24 AND SO THIS IS, SALT STARTED IN SEPTEMBER OF 2011 AND THIS IS 24:31 AND BUT IT IS BECAUSE later, but it's because 24:35 THAT GOD HAD CALLED KNOW DO THIS to do this work as if 24:39 YOU KNOW GOD HAS SOMETHING FOR THERE IS NO there is no looking back. 24:44 There THERE KNOWS GIG UP. 24:47 THAT IS NOT OPTION. on the table. You 24:50 AT IN THE OF THE SIX MONTH the end of that 6 month period after quitting my got 24:56 CLEARLY SAID IF HE CAME DOWN DO AND IT WAS SO CLEAR AND I I never looked back and just 25:04 kept moving forward and MOPPING FOR WE'RE AND IT HAS 25:10 DOING A LOT W I 25:11 YEAH. FRUITION CAME LIKE 15 YEARS what were 25:20 SALT SO OK NOW YOU ARE of sauce? Okay. Now you're you're impressed. 25:25 TO START AMOUNT BUT THEN WHAT? YES. 25:32 FRIENDS AND I SAID, ALL RIGHT I REMEMBER WE PRAYED ALL NIGHT. prayed 25:39 AND CAME UP WITH A BUNCH OF WE KNEW WERE CONNECTED TO GOD 25:45 AND WE ASKED HEY, BE WHAT WHICH ARE TRYING TO DOG HERE, YOU 25:57 IT IS WHAT WAS CHOSEN YOU KNOW. THEN WEED OUR FIRST with that. And then we had 26:03 first event September of 2011 had about 26:07 ADULTS COME OU come out and re 26:08 VISION OF SALT AND THINGS IT WAS ALL VOLUNTEER FOR LIKE 26:18 VOLUNTEER. >> SO, THE VISION FOR SALT? for salt was too 26:30 >> create CREATE IN A PLACE WHERE YOUNG 26:36 ALL DIFFERENT CHURCHES TO NOT SERVICE ON CONSISTENT BUSIES 26:47 TIME WAS THERE WAS COMMUNITY BUT WAITS NOT CONSIST TEN. 26:55 AND I MEAN, IT WAS NOT MEASURE THE IMPACT OF WHAT WAS what was happening and 27:04 therefore. WERE NOT BOEING LED TO CHRIST ON 27:09 AND SO, WE WANTED TO START KNOW? 27:18 THE SAME MISSION ANN THAT IS HOW the same mission. and that's how I mean 27:24 THE OUTREACH WE HAVE FOR THE WHAT unsheltered 27:29 YEAH. YOU KNOW YOU IDENTIFIED started. So, yeah. So that's 27:33 that's incredibly identified FILLED THAT NEED. 27:36 FOAM CHRIST. YEAH. Pastor mom, 27:45 AM WORK ON. SO TELL ME HOW YOU ENDED UP AT 27:56 INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH. THEAR I GOT BAPTIZED. April 14th 28:03 AND I KNOW THAT WHEN I GOT BAPTIZED I KNEW LIKE WUT A 28:09 WANT TO WORK FOR YOU. DON'T KNOW HOW. 28:13 I DON'T KNOW. YEAH. 28:18 AFTER MY first few after my baptism 28:19 IT WAS LITERALLY THROUGH DREAMS INDIVIDUALS AN also like through individuals, 28:25 I became. Super INVESTED IN JUST KNOWING 28:33 LIKE I WAS BEHIND AND EVERYBODY BOOKS AND READ LOOK THE GREAT 28:40 STORIES AND I NEED TO controversy series like I just need to 28:42 LIKE DEVOURING THE BOOKS ALONG IT, I BEGAN TO GIVE A LOT OF I just began to give a lot of 28:48 CONTAIN IT. YOU CANNOT HOLD. 28:52 IN THE, T can hold it. So, yeah, 28:53 IT. YEAH YEAH YEAH. 29:03 STUDIES THEN GIVE THEM BUT I YOU KNOW? 29:07 AND IT JUST, IT JUST, THEY GOT GO TO CHURCH AND I GOT ASKED TO got asked to be a speaker at 29:14 churches. ands MEAN, THEY ASK KNOW SPEAK. 29:20 AND THE DOOR OPENED I WENT. GOT IN TOUCH WITH ERIC I got in touch with Eric. 29:27 KNOW, WE BECAME FRIENDS THEN FOR THE EVENT AT SALT AND ONE OF 29:35 THE EVENTS YOU DID IN THE QUARTERLY THINGS. 29:39 YEAH. 12 DIFFERENT MACHINE INDUSTRIES 29:46 YEAH. H just 29:51 A BUNCH THING IS SO REMEMBER I remem 29:54 BEEM BEING INVITED TO BOEING A EVERYBODY ELSE AND AND I WAS 30:04 WAS LIKE A PART OF THE GROUP. But 30:10 AND I JUST REMEMBER REALLY BEING THEOLOGY. miles. W 30:25 HIM. UNIT. 30:31 I ALREADY GOT AND PROVING I AM WILDERNESS I DON'T NEED TO GOZ the wilderness. I don't need 30:38 IS. YEAH. 30:47 BEEN OUT OF FLOOR DAND COME BACK come back and visit and what And we just always stayed in 30:52 touch. reckon I and maybe like 3 years ago. 30:56 WE STAYED IN TOUCH. come. And every %5u'd 31:03 call an acting like, hey, as we good, you know, 31:08 ME. I was in last time 31:12 WOW. Haha. 31:17 RUNNING. YEAH. mean, you have a Nebraska I 31:23 know, you know, because again, HVAC. 31:27 I WAS AT THE AIRPORT. NEBRASKA WAS MILITARY BASE. I 31:37 YOU PRIN UTAH. the 31:38 YEAH. YEAH. 31:44 I HAD MOVED TO moved to Utah. 31:46 FOR FAR BRIEF TIME AS RECRUITER open for a brief time as a recruiter. Okay. 31:50 WITH CANCER AND SO I MOVED TO YOU GO TO SALT LAKE CITY THE I'm working. So anytime you go 31:58 into Salt Lake AIRPORT, YEAH MY FINGERPRINTS 32:03 FOR THAT PLACE. >> WOW. 32:07 YEAH. PASTOR IN CALIFORNIA THIS FER 32:16 YEAH. WHERE THIS IS GUY GOING NEXT. 32:21 >> SINGAPORE. LIKE CALIFORNIA. 32:29 MY FLIGHT, MY FIRST EXPERIENCE for like my my first experience and 32:32 FULLY IS you know, I fully. 2020. And that's when everything 32:40 GOES DOWNHILL BECAUSE OF THE CAN SR. AGAIN. 33:03 MAN. WE ARE IN COMMUNICATION. Grateful for Eric not in 33:18 praying and stuff like that. January. 26 mother passes. It was one of those things where 33:24 just like. LIFE, I MEAN, IT GETS TURNED 33:30 YOU KNOW. KNOW? 33:37 OPPORTUNITIES IN CALIFORNIA THAT California just ther me. 33:41 THAT WERE PRETTY MUCH SET ME UP, YOU KNOW, IN THE PASTORAL 33:49 THIS JOB IS GOING TO GIVE IS. 33:57 THIS. YEAH. 34:09 BACK TO ORLANDO. THAT I KNOW IN THE MOMENT OF 34:16 GRIEVING OR HEALING AND WHAT IT THERE IS A JOB HER AND 34:33 OBVIOUSLY YOU CANNOT COMPARE. compare. Yeah, security wise to what was being offered to 34:36 me. But I was just like. LORD I DON'T GO THIS ROUTE. 34:47 WHAT ARE YOU DOING? What are you doing like you're going to hold? You know, we 34:49 understand that. And them and I took a leap of faith. Yeah. Coming back home 34:55 AND COMING BACK TO ORLANDO AND I HAVE BEEN ARE HAVE BEEN AROUND 35:06 MARCH. INDIVIDUAL AND SALT AND 35:18 IN SALT. TOOK PLACE. I've seen you come on 35:23 DARE TO DREM AND SET DOESN'T AND TALKED ABOUT THAT STUFF. 35:29 THEN THE NEXT THING I SEE I SEE CHANGE TRAILER AND SEE THESE 35:36 GROWTH? this by. >> I truly believe that 35:45 BELIEVE GOD IS THE ONE WHO HAS GROWN THIS BECAUSE HE SEES do what, 35:51 WHAT WHAT WHAT WE ARE CALLED TO to do it 35:54 TO HELP THOSE THAT ARE HURTING STARTED had like. 10 differ 36:07 DIFFERENT OUTREACH PROJECTSES IN REALIZED HAVING OUR ENERGY SPLIT 36:15 NOT FEABLE YOU KNOW. between 10 projects just wasn't it wasn't feasible. You 36:18 know, WE WERE GOT ARE GOOD AT 36:20 BUT NOT GREAT AT ANYTHING. THAT MAKE SENSE. 36:27 OVER TIME expense. S 36:29 RUNNING THE UTREAM right now we're just running our outreach for the 36:31 UNSHELTERED BUN BUT WHEN THAT FEEDING 15 PEOPLE AND 36:39 THEY WOULD COOK THE FAD AND ONE DRIVE DOWNTOWN. 36:46 COMMUTE TO GET TO DOWNTOWN. to downtown driving d 36:49 PUT UP TABLE AND LITERALLY FOOD. 36:56 IT IS GETTING GOING. know, salt i.RUMQ going. We love for this to be 36:58 a part of SALT ORG MAYZATION AND GROW IT 37:01 TOGETHER THEN THAT IS WHAT WE that's what we did. We partner 37:05 HELPED THE MINISTRY GROW AND from 2 pe 37:10 FEEDING 15 TO NOW HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS 2 to 37:16 ON BYE WEEKLY BASIS. WAS, IT JUST WAS FIVE YEARS WE 37:28 WERE ABLE TO ADD BARBERS THAT WE HAD CLOTHING ON that were volunteering on the 37:32 We HYGIENE PRODUCTS WOULD GIVE OT 37:35 BUT WE DIDN'T WANT TO STOP THIS comes to 37:42 OUR VISION AND WHAT GOD CALLED NATURE PUTS THE CEILING ON WHAT 37:47 GOD IS CAPABLE OF YOU KNOW. CREELING. We don't 37:53 A CREAL ON VUGS OR SOMETHING GOD BUT BUT HE SAYS HE says the whole 37:59 ABOVE, RATING, ABOVE AND BEYOND RIGHT. 38:06 WE STARTED THE SURVEY THE unsheltered, right? 38:10 WHAT NEEDS COULD BE needs could 38:12 CLOTH AND HIGH GEAN WAS OBVIOUST"pobvious need that need to AND WHAT WE ENDED UP DOING WAS 38:19 TRAILER THAT WE CALLED CHANGE. CLOTHING IN THERE, UNDERWEAR, 38:31 ACCEPT SOMEONE THAT IS PIECE,ING WE CONTINUED TO SURVEY THEM AND 38:38 HOPING TO SERVE ANYBODY BECAUSE HAPPENING IS WE ASSUME WHAT 38:45 TO ASSUME. RIGHT. 38:52 HAVE ANG WE FIND OUT SHOWER IS A NOW WE ARE A BUNCH OF YOUNG 20 38:59 HOW TO DO THESE THINGS. know. And and so we realized, okay, a building that we 39:05 renovate with showers, probably not realistic, right? So what something else we can 39:10 do. And so we came together and decided to fund raise for a shower trailer. Actually BN 39:18 what played a huge part in helping us launch the shower trailer. We had a matching 39:22 grant for 17,000, 500 and there are viewers that watched that episode and we just 39:28 shared the vision of the shower trailer with one viewer that donated 16,000, $500 39:37 raise. And the other viewers, you know, 20 bucks here, 50 bucks here, you know, it added 39:41 up to 17,000, 500. We access the matching grant and were able to purchase the shower 39:46 trailer in 2018 has 4 bathrooms, each bathroom. What they sink, shower and toilet. 39:53 Right now we're doing about 80 showers a day showers a day. 39:59 AND YOU NEED IT DOWNTOWN. FIGURING OUT WHAT THE NEED WAS 40:06 AND WE ADDED A LAUNDRY TRAILER FOR SHELTER AND ADDED A CASE 40:14 MANAGEMENT PROGRAM THAT CREATES PIECE,ING HOMELESSNESS TO GET 40:20 TO HOUSING AND SHELTER AND WE HELP MEET NEED FOR THE 40:28 JUST, IT IS AMAZING AND NOW WE FIVE DAYS A WEEK AND PENSIONED 40:36 city to new cities and THINGS ARE GROWING YOU KNOW. are growin 40:43 THIS. GROWTH AND BUT IT IS ALSO 40:50 THOUGHT, WELL, MAYBE A BUILD 40:54 TRAILER IN MIND AND THEN, THEN, MOB that's perfY, 40:58 it's mobile. So wher 41:01 IS HOW DO question for 41:03 ARE? GOING TO BE YEAH. 41:07 YEAH. YEAH. 41:13 BE to 41:15 AND HAVE FLYER AND GO OUT TO to people. 41:19 WORD OF THOUGHT. HANDLE ALL OF THE PEOPLE THAT 41:25 KEEPS WITH COVID I MEAN, IT IS OPERATING YOU KNOW FOUR TIMES A month 41:38 I MEAN, IT IS, IT IS REALLY children sleep in their 41:45 CRAZY. THAT DIME hat came to our window 41:49 AND SLEEPING IN THE CAR AND SHE SHOULD BACK TO THE THE CAR THE 41:59 HER FOUR KIDS SLEEPING ON said, because we're mo%1 we can go anywhere. And I think 42:10 that's that's being able to meet people where they are 42:17 >> A HUGE ASSET. IT IS A HUGE ASSET. 42:30 UNSHELTERED. us to to take a look at and te1 42:33 AND TELL US WHAT I GOING ON IN AND SO OUR STREET OUTREACH TEAM 42:42 PROGRAM AND WE HAVE THREE CASE MANAGERS THAT ARE ON THE SITE. 42:47 RIGHT. WORKERS SON THE BACK GROUND 42:54 RENEE AND THEN YOU HAVE THE WORKERS AND THESE TALL GLY OUT street 43:00 TO THE CALMS ANTE OF TO THE CAR THE STREET AND street and they 43:07 TRY CONNECT PEOPLE TO SERVICES. WHERE THEY GOON FOR HELP. setting the need and getting 43:16 them or they need AND A GREAT PROGRAM OUR CASE 75% that sit with them. 43:34 They've been able to help take the next step toward ending their homelessness. It's it's 43:39 they've been, you know, and God's really been using them in a big And so that's been 43:43 that's been exciting Yeah. >> Pastor Montalvo, what have you noticed as the outreach, a 43:51 pastor? What what have you noticed was you're interac with? 43:53 >> The unsheltered man. >> The thing that I from the very beginning. Number one. 44:05 Literally like 2 paychecks away. getting services from Seoul. I just eat. It's it's 44:13 not so much and everyone's a drug addict or every now it's not like somebody like I. You 44:19 know, they come to the registering window and just like, hey, is my first time 44:22 here. And I asked my hair like, you know, everything was going, oh, yeah. Letting them 44:26 just like as lost my job. I lost my job. I was like man. That's yeah. It's crazy 44:32 because when you look at it so easy to almost like population, right? you know, 44:40 we naturally tend to look at as whereas we hear it's all we try to like really just shift 44:46 the narrative the language, right. And homes are homebound bound get a home. big things 44:51 off tonight. We're trying to restore into people that are overlooked. You know, let them 44:59 know likely you're seen, you know, you're You're a human have I mean, aspirations and 45:04 goals. He didn't wake up one day. What led you here? Yeah, I know. And how can we help 45:09 you get out of So the things that I've noticed just being there. How? How intelligent 45:16 people are man, other circumstances. You think I've had some conversations where 45:23 where say there's another another place. But if I can had a conversation with 45:27 someone that I swore side the lotion. like you're breaking down the Greek to me, you 45:32 know, and I would be totally lost about it Greek. Yeah, I understand. Keeping up with 45:38 you, you know, and you know, is just how intelligent you know, how like is this is a 45:43 little just circumstances >> IT REALLY IS CIRCUMSTANCES 45:46 THAT'S WHAT IT IS. AND SO MANY HAVE THE Bible. Like and they know 45:52 AND THEY KNEW THE WORD LIKE YOU THINK YOU'RE TRYING TO TEACH 45:57 THEM THAT TIME I PURCHASED A BIBLE STUDY IS NOT SO MUCH HAT 46:00 I AM HIGH AND HATE THAT HIGH AND MIGHTY AND I'M TEACHING YOU 46:03 SOMETHING BUT YOU HAVE SOMETHING AND SO WE'RE LEARNING TOGETHER 46:07 IN THAT'S HOW I WANT THEM TO BE VIEWED. 46:11 AND SO IT IS AMAZING HOW MUCH KNOWLEDGE IS THERE. 46:23 >> WOULD YOU SAY A LOT OF WHAT TAKES PLACE you let your lis 46:25 YOU LISTENING TO THE UNSHELTERED? 46:31 YES I AM DOING A LOT OF LISTENING AND IT'S CRAZY BECAUSE 46:38 IT'S IN LISTENING LIKE was talking about many times you want to assume this person 46:40 needs -- LIKE WHAT EVER TALKS ABOUT 46:44 BUT TRUTHFULLY SPEAKING JUST LISTEN BECAUSE IN LISTENING THEY 46:50 TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING ON IN LIFE AND I BELIEVE THAT MANY nothing in 46:53 TIMES THE LORD PREPARES YOU THERE IS NOTHING IN YOUR LIFE 46:56 THAT YOU HAVE GONE THROUGH IN CHRIST, OUT OF CHRIST, IS OF USE 47:03 USELESS VALUE LIKE THE EXPERIENCES THAT YOU GAIN IN 47:05 THOSE THINGS LIKE GOD CAN USE THAT AND IN ANY KIND OF 47:10 CIRCUMSTANCE AND ONE EXAMPLE WAS grie 47:13 THAT I AM READING AND ONE DAY I WORK CLOSELY WITH CASE 47:19 MANAGEMENT AND EVERYBODY REALLY THE CASE MANAGEMENT THEY ARE 47:21 ALWAYS REACHING OUT LIKE HEY LET'S GO JORGE LET'S TALK THIS 47:29 PERSON THEY WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT GOD BUT WE ALL WORK 47:31 TOGETHER. ONE PARTICULAR TIME WHERE WE GO 47:41 OUT AND THE GUY SITS DOWN AND HE SHARES A LITTLE BIT BUT listen to him. 47:45 WHEN I SIT DOWN AND JUST LISTEN TO HIM HE LOST HIS MOTHER, HIS 47:52 FATHER, AND GRANDMOTHER AND HIS RELATIONSHIP IN ONE MONTH. 48:01 >> TH devastating. The fire. This guy 48:03 HE COMPLETELY DEVASTATING. YOU CAN HEAR AMONG THE LIVING 48:06 IT'S LIKE OKAY BRO I AM HERE AND QUICKLY THE ONE THING quickly. Some the one thing 48:14 I've realizes that m REALIZED IS THAT MANY TIMES 48:16 PEOPLE DON'T NEED A BIBLE VERSE THEY JUST NEED YOU TO BE PRESENT 48:21 PRESENT. YOU JUST I just sat down 48:23 SO I SAT DOWN WITH HIM AND HE SHARED WITH ME AND I LET HIM 48:28 KNOW THAT I UNDERSTAND THE PAIN AND WE SAT THERE AND WE CRIED 48:34 TOGETHER THAT'S ALL WE DID JUST CRY. 48:41 WE SHED TEARS AND THEN AT THE END I LET HIM KNOW HE WAS NOT 48:43 ALONE. NOT ONLY ARE YOU NOT ALONE 48:48 PROXIMITY WISE BUT YOU NOT ALONE AND HOW YOU FEEL EITHER LIKE YOU 48:54 KNOW BECAUSE THE PAIN IS THERE AND SO IT IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS 48:59 WHERE AS I GO AROUND THE THING I AM LEARNING IS TO LISTEN JUST 49:05 LISTEN That's important is that, you know, God blessed us with 2 49:07 ears and IMPORTANT GOD BLESSED US WITH 49:09 TWO EARS AND ONE MOUTH YET SOMETIMES WE DO TOO MUCH OF THIS 49:13 AND NOT ENOUGH OF THE >> I WAS COULDN'T SAY THAT AS YOU ARE 49:19 TALKING THAT I THINK THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THE 49:22 SOLUTION AND ENDING HOMELESSNESS IS JUST ADDING MORE HOUSING AND 49:27 THAT'S NOT THE SOLUTION I THINK THE COURT TO ENDING HOMELESSNESS 49:32 IS RELATIONSHIP, COMMUNITY, WHEN YOU LOOK AT -- THERE WAS A STUDY 49:37 I WAS LOOKING AT ON THIS PROGRAM CALLED HOUSING FIRST FOR 49:41 BASICALLY THEY PUT SOMEONE INTO A with services right? 49:46 THAT AND THE TOP THREE REASONS OR FOR REASONS THAT PEOPLE -- 49:52 SOME PEOPLE WERE GOING INTO HOUSING AND THEN LEAVING AND 49:54 THEY WERE LIKE WHY ARE THEY LEAVING TO GO BACK TO GO THE 49:57 HOMELESS WHEN THERE'S HOUSING HERE IN THE TOP FOUR PEOPLE 50:00 REASONS WITH THE LEAD HAD TO BE THEY WOULD RATHER BE ON THE 50:06 STREET WITH FRIENDS THAN IN A HOME BY THEMSELVES AND SO Wow. And so so they're helping 50:10 to IS THE TO END HOMELESSNESS IS 50:13 ABOUT RELATIONSHIP HERE WE HAVE TESTIMONIES WE COULD SHARE ON 50:19 THAT OF PEOPLE WHOSE HOMELESSNESS WAS ENDED AND IT 50:22 STARTED WITH A RELATIONSHIP WITH PEOPLE SALT THE STAFF AND OUR 50:29 VOLUNTEERS AND IT ENDS WITH THEM BEING IN A. 50:34 AND, SO, THAT IS SOMETHING something I 50:35 I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT BECAUSE I THINK THAT IS 50:38 SOMETHING THAT WE MISS. >> THIS GOES BACK TO THE PASSAGE 50:47 WE OPENED UP WITH CHRIST CHRIST TALKING SAYING HEY ADDRESS THE 50:52 NEEDS, I FEEL LIKE MY in church. I 50:58 EXPERIENCES GOING CHURCH THAT'S WHERE WE START AND END. 51:04 WE FED THEM AND WE GIVE THEM WATER BUT THAT YOU READ THE REST 51:07 OF IT IS RELATIONSHIP. I'M NOT DISCLOSING YOU -- I'M 51:14 NOT JUST CLOTHING YOU I'M SHOWING YOU THAT YOU MATTER AND 51:16 THAT I CARE AND IT GOES BACK DOWN TO RELATION. 51:22 >> IT STARTED WITH BASIC NEED FOOD OR DRINK SHELTER CLOTHES 51:26 BUT THEN YOU SEE THAT RELATIONSHIP THAT IS ADDED IN 51:30 THE END, VISITING WHILE YOU'RE SICK OR WHILE YOU'RE IN PRISON. 51:34 >> CRATES -- CHRIST'S METHOD OF OF EVANGELISM IS PRACTICAL 51:38 CHRISTIANITY AND OFTEN TIMES IT'S EASY TO SAY I WILL PRAY FOR 51:41 YOU BUT IF HE ONLY PRAY FOR SOMEONE AND YOU HAVE THE MEANS 51:44 TO HELP THEM IF SOMEONE IS COLD AND YOU SAY I WILL PRAY THAT YOU 51:48 WARM UP AND YOU HAVE COATS THAT YOU COULD GET THIS YOUNG MAN 51:51 THIS YOUNG WOMAN AND YOU'RE JUST LIKE GO THAT IS LIKE THE FACE IF 51:58 THAT DOESN'T WORK IT'S A DEAD ACTION. 52:00 >> IT MEANS SOMEONE -- SHOULD MEAN SOMETHING. And I remember 52:07 I HAVE HAD FRIENDS IN PRISON AND I REMEMBER VISITING THEM AND 52:10 SEEING THE FACE LIKE JUST IT WAS SO MEANINGFUL NOT JUST YEP I'LL 52:14 SEE WHEN YOU GET OUT BUT WRITING AND THEN ALSO NOW also known I'm taking nothing. 52:19 The issue may be. I think just not taking 52:24 TAKING TIME OUT OF MY LIFE. YOU KNOW, >> AND YOU ARE THERE 52:28 BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BE THERE AND BECAUSE YOU CARE ABOUT THIS 52:32 INDIVIDUAL. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 52:34 THAT'S POWERFUL. ERIC, TALK TO US ABOUT THE 52:38 GENERAL IMPACT OF SALT. >> OKAY SO WE OFFER A BUNCH OF 52:44 DIFFERENT SERVICES THEY ARE ALL IN THE MOBILE FORM AND THERE IS 52:48 THE VIDEO LATER because, again, see a video of all this stuff 52:52 VIEWING NOW KEEP WATCHING BECAUSE THESE ARE ALL THE 52:55 SERVICES WE OFFER WE HAVE SHOWERS, LAUNDRY, MAIL SERVICES, 52:59 HAIRCUT, hair cuts. We we have food, clothing, hygiene products, 53:06 case HYGIENE PRODUCTS CASE MANAGEMENT 53:08 LIKE I MENTIONED AND, SINCE THE START OF THE PANDEMIC BEFORE THE 53:14 PANDEMIC WE WERE OPERATING FOUR TIMES A MONTH, THREE TO FOUR 53:16 TIMES A MONTH AND WHEN THE PANDEMIC BEGAN WE JUMPED TO 53:19 THREE DAYS A WEEK AND HAVE GRADUALLY GROWN BUT FROM THE 53:22 START OF THE PANDEMIC WE HAVE SERVED OVER 3,200 DIFFERENT 53:27 PEOPLE ABOUT 100 AND, SO, WE HAVE SEEN ABOUT 20 PERCENT OF 53:38 THE PEOPLE THAT WE SERVE LIKE 17 TO 20 PERCENT OF PEOPLE THAT WE 53:42 SERVE WE HAVE SEEN THEM GO FROM HOMELESS THAT NOW ARE IN 53:48 SHELTERED HOUSING AND, IT HAS BEEN EXCITING TO SEE THAT. 53:53 I THINK WHEN WE HAVE SOMEONE ALL OF US IN THE DIFFERENT 53:59 DEPARTMENTS WE DO OUR OWN THING WE HAVE OUTREACH SERVICE 54:03 DEPARTMENT THAT IS DIRECTING AND WE HAVE THE PASTORAL DEPARTMENT 54:07 WHICH MEETS SPIRITUAL NEEDS AND THE CASE MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT 54:10 THAT HELPS MEET THE PLAN TO GET to go. Yeah, but they all 54:15 THEY ALL WORK TOGETHER TO HELP TO ADD TO SOMEONE'S 54:20 AND IT'S AMAZING BECAUSE WHEN WE HAVE SOMEONE -- JUST TO GIVE A 54:25 STORY BUT WE HAD SOMEONE GETTING OUTREACH SERVICES FROM US FROM 54:28 OCTOBER OF 2020 AND THEY WERE JUST GETTING SHOWERS CLOTHING 54:33 THINGS LIKE THAT AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL MARCH WHERE THEY SAID I want to sit 54:37 WANT TO SIT WITH CASE MANAGEMENT AND SO WE FIND OUT AND YOU'RE 54:41 INVOLVED WORKING WITH THIS PERSON AND WE FIND out they had an addiction. 54:44 The HAD IN ADDICTION THAT THEY 54:46 WANTED TO SO IN MOMENTS LIKE THAT WE HAVE TO ACT QUICKLY AND 54:54 SELL CASE MANAGEMENT AND WE HAVE TO TALK TO THAT PERSON FOR A 54:57 LITTLE BIT AND THEN CASE MANAGEMENT AND THEM them to a detox facility for 55:01 TO A DETOX FACILITY FOR A WEEK AND THEN AFTER THE PERSON WAS 55:04 DETOXED THEY SENT HER TO GO SEE HER FAMILY, HER FAMILY IS KIND 55:07 OF DISOWNED HER BECAUSE OF HER ADDICTION AND EVERYTHING GOING 55:10 ON AND SO THEY GO TAKE HER TO SEE YOUR FAMILY AND SHE IS CLEAN 55:14 NOW AND THEN THEY GO TO ASOBER HOUSE WHERE NOW SHE'S OFF THE 55:19 STREET SHE IS WORKING AND SHE NO LONGER HAS AN ADDICTION BUT UP 55:23 AGAIN WITH HER COMING TO US FOR JUST SHOWERS FOR SIX MONTHS AND 55:28 SO THERE WAS RELATIONSHIP GETTING BUILT THERE THAT FINALLY 55:31 DECIDED TO SIT WITH THE CASE MANAGER AND SO I THINK A LOT OF 55:35 THE TIME WOULD LIKE TO WRITE PEOPLE OFF RIGHT AWAY THEY ARE 55:38 AN ADDICT, THEY JUST NEED TO BUT b 55:42 THIS PERSON WE DON'T WRITE OFF ANYONE CAN COME TO US NO MATTER 55:45 WHAT THE SITUATION IS AND SHE CAME TO US CONSISTENTLY AND WE 55:51 WERE THERE WHEN SHE were there 55:53 SHE WANTED TO MAKE A CHANGE. >> I LOVE THAT YOU SAY THAT 56:00 ANYONE CAN COME TO YOU BASICALLY JUST AS THEY ARE INDIA WILL TRY 56:05 AND HELP THEM GET BETTER. >> YES. 56:08 HE DEFINITELY. I THINK YOU KNOW THE QUESTION 56:12 ACTUALLY IS MORE KEEPS COMING BACK learning. What are you 56:15 ARE YOU SEEING AND ONE OF THEM IS NOT WRITING SOMEONE people and, you know, but 56:20 trying to understand either one a long 56:22 TRYING TO UNDERSTAND. I HEARD SOMEONE SAY A LONG TIME 56:25 AGO BY THE FRUITS YOU SHALL KNOW THEM BUT WHEN YOU GO TO THEIR 56:28 ROOTS YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THEM. >> SAY THAT AGAIN. 56:32 >> BY THEIR FRUITS. YOU SHALL KNOW THEM. 56:36 BUT WHEN YOU GO TO THEIR ROOTS YOU UNDERSTAND THEM AND I THINK 56:39 THAT IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST THING THAT I HAVE SEEN NOT JUST WITH 56:42 MYSELF AND HOW move in salt. Everybody I saw is not like we try 56:46 EVERYBODY. IT'S LIKE WHEN LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, 56:50 THE LADY AND A COUPLE OTHERS ALONG THE WAY IS THE FACT THAT 56:57 LIKE ADDICTION IS FOR SOME OF THEM AND IT'S CRAZY BECAUSE YOU 57:02 THINK OF ADDICTION BECAUSE WE THINK OF OKAY DRUGS AND WHATEVER 57:05 BUT THE TRUTH IS THAT all attics to something. 57:08 ADDICTS TO SOMETHING EVEN IF YOU HAVE A HOME AND ALL THAT STUFF 57:15 AND IT'S JUST LIKE THE THING ABOUT ADDICTION IS SADLY IT'S 57:18 THE MOST STABLE RELATIONSHIP THAT WE HAVE BECAUSE YOU GO BACK 57:21 TO IT BECAUSE WE KNOW HOW IT FEELS AND STUFF LIKE THAT SO 57:24 BREAKING THAT STIGMA OF UNDERSTANDING off. I know. Understanding 57:31 that was like, yes, yes, >> THAT IS CRUCIAL AND I WANT TO 57:33 TALK MORE ABOUT THAT IN second hou 57:34 SECOND HOUR I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS FIRST HOUR HAS GONE BY SO 57:37 QUICKLY I WANT YOU TO STICK AROUND FOR THE SECOND HOUR WE 57:41 HAVE MORE TO COME WE WILL TAKE A short break and we'll be right 57:43 SHORT BREAK AND WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK. |
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