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00:21 what God is doing through salt. But before we transition into that, I want to go to a
00:29 song with a pastor. Moses Brown. He hi to my soul.
00:31 >> LET'S GET TO PASTOR MOSES BROWN WITH HE HIDE IT'S MY SOUL.
00:40 [MUSIC PLAYING].
04:25 >> TELL US Tell us that the actions getting a little bit
04:32 EVERY DAY. >> TELL US MORE ABOUT WHAT.
04:39 >> IN MY POSITION THEN THE FIRST IT'S ACTUALLY LET'S TALK ABOUT
04:45 HOW IT STARTED. AND THE FIRST THREE MONTHS I
04:51 BELIEVE IT WAS MOSTLY JUST OUTREACH AND SO FIRST FEW MONTHS
04:56 I WAS CLEANING THE SHOWERS DOING THE LAUNDRY AND GETTING THAT
05:03 GOING AND JUST BEING OUT THERE EVERY DAY.
05:06 THE FIRST TIME I ARRIVED TO SALT I LITERALLY DROVE IN FROM SALT
05:12 LAKE CITY LITERALLY I TRAVELED FOR LIKE THREE DAYS.
05:18 >> THAT'S INTERESTING, YOU WENT FROM SALT LAKE CITY AND THEN YOU
05:21 ENDED UP GOING TO SELL. DASH OF SALT.
05:37 >> I DRIVE FOR THREE DAYS AND I REMEMBER GETTING THERE SATURDAY
05:44 AT 2:20 AND MY START DATE WAS SUNDAY AT 8:00 A.M. AND SO WHEN
05:51 I GET ALL SETTLED IN IT'S
05:54 PROBABLY 3:00 TO 4:00 IN THE MORNING AND YOU GO SLEEP AND YOU
05:57 GET UP AND I HAD TO PREACH THAT DAY. like,
06:03 >> IF A FEW HOURS OF SLEEP AND YOU HAD TO PREACH THAT DAY.
06:07 >> YES WHEN I PREACHED TO THE ONE THING NO ONE HAD ANY
06:13 ENGAGEMENT AT ALL, THERE WAS NO ENGAGEMENT AT ALL ON ME
06:15 COMPLETELY AT ALL like it. There is. He like me. Speak is is the kind like
06:19 this. like to engage in KIND OF LIKE THIS I LIKE TO
06:22 ENGAGE IN CONVERSATION LIKE LET'S TALK LET'S WORK THROUGH
06:24 THIS AND NOTHING THERE WAS JUST LOOKING AT ME BLANK STARES AND
06:31 SO FOR THE NEXT FEW MONTHS WE DID WAS JUST OUTREACH AND SO
06:37 EVERY DAY I WAS OUT THERE AND I THOUGHT IF I WAS OUT THERE
06:44 NATURALLY SPENDING TIME WITH PEOPLE I COULD GET TO KNOW THEIR
06:47 NAMES AND THEIR STORIES AND SIT DOWN AND LISTEN TO THEIR STORIES
06:50 AND THEY SEE ME WORKING AND BEING OF SERVICE AND SO WHAT
06:55 HAPPENS IS I BUILD THOSE RELATIONSHIPS ALONG THE WAY SO
06:59 THAT THE NEXT MONTH WHEN I PREACHED AGAIN THEN IT WAS
07:05 COMPLETELY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE. were talking
07:07 COMPLETELY PEOPLE WERE TALKING TO ME AND I THINK THE SERMON WAS
07:09 ABOUT A FRIEND ZONING JESUS, DO YOU AND ONE WAS LIKE PASTOR pack a little bit of that
07:18 message because people UNPACK THAT MESSAGE BECAUSE WHAT
07:20 ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? >> THIS REVOLVES AROUND >> 21, okay. Where do this
07:26 just WHERE JESUS IS TALKING TO PETER
07:27 AND HE SAYS DO YOU LOVE ME AND THEN PETER IS LIKE YOU KNOW I
07:32 LOVE YOU AND HE SAID IT THREE TIMES BUT THE THING IS IN the Greek.
07:37 BIT BECAUSE IN GREEK WHEN JESUS IS DO YOU LOVE ME HE SAYS DO YOU
07:43 LOVE ME WHICH IS PREFERENCE IT'S NOT JUST UNCONDITIONAL LOVE IS
07:47 DO YOU PREFER ME MANY TIMES WE DEFINE LVE IS UNCONDITIONAL BUT
07:51 THE WORD IS NOT A CHRISTIAN WORD.
07:53 IT'S A SECULAR WORD. AND THAT DOUBLES HER PREFERENCE
07:59 AND IT'S MUCH DEEPER THAN UNCONDITIONAL IT'S DO YOU PREFER
08:02 TO LOVE PEOPLE AS GOD LOVES PEOPLE AND SO WHEN JESUS SAYS DO
08:07 YOU PREFER ME THEN YOU WOULD THINK BECAUSE OF THE TRANSLATION
08:11 IN ENGLISH SAY MORE LOVE AND LOVE YOU WOULD THINK THAT PETER
08:14 RESPONDS BY SAYING saying I've got you, but he doesn't. He uses another word
08:18 YOU BUT HE DOESN'T HE USES ANOTHER WORD FOR LOVE WHICH IS
08:21 BROTHERLY LOVE BECAUSE IT'S LIKE FRIENDSHIP AND IF SO WHAT
08:26 HAPPENS IS EVERY TIME HE ASKS HIM DO YOU LOVE ME PETER IS LIKE
08:30 YOU KNOW I DO AND WHAT'S INTERESTING IS the last time you
08:35 WOULD THINK HE WOULD SAY TO YOU LOVE ME AS A FRIEND AND THAT IS
08:41 WHEN PETER BEGINS TO CRY AND BREAK DOWN AND HE IS JUST LIKE
08:46 YOU KNOW THAT I DO AND HE'S LIKE okay. So the message itself was like.
08:49 OKAY SO THE MESSAGE ITSELF WAS LIKE GOD CHRIST HIMSELF WANTS TO
08:54 HAVE A AND I HAVE BEEN FRIEND IS I KNOW HOW THAT FEELS NO SHAME
09:00 I'LL SAY IT I HAVE BEEN FRIEND ZONED.
09:05 NO SHAME. AND IF YOU HAVEN'T YET YOU WILL.
09:09 IT'S NOT A GOOD EXPERIENCE BUT THE THING IS I KNOW MY REACTION
09:13 WAS YOU KNOW LIKE JUST CUT AWAY. WHAT IS JESUS DO WHEN WE FRIEND
09:21 IS IN HIM? WHAT HE DOES IS HE IS LIKE OKAY
09:26 LET'S START WHERE YOU ARE AT AND WE CAN GO FROM THERE AND THEY
09:34 WERE VERY ENGAGED IN THE SERMON AND SO FOR THE NEXT FEW MONTHS
09:38 THAT'S ALL I DID AND TO THIS DAY I STILL GO OUT FOR THREE showers laundry
09:44 AND DO SHOWERS AND LAUNDRY AND REGISTRATION YOU CAN STILL SEE
09:48 ME AND AS WE KEPT PROGRESSING IN THIS THING THE LAST TIME I WAS
09:52 HERE ONLY A FEW MONTHS AGO DIDN'T EVEN START A BIBLE STUDY
09:56 YET AND I WAS FRESHLY ON SO WE STARTED DOING BIBLE STUDY ONCE A
10:00 WEEK WE KEPT HAVING THE SERVICES AND TRYING TO PLUG IN CHURCHES
10:05 AND REACHING OUT AND CREATING churches to have outreach.
10:08 SPACE FOR CHURCHES TO HAVE OUTREACH LIKE TO COME UP AND
10:11 ACTUALLY BE A PART OF EITHER VOLUNTEERING, SHOWERS, LAUNDRY,
10:18 OR EVEN VOLUNTEERING TO WORSHIP AND SO IF THERE ANY CHURCHES trying t
10:22 THAT ARE TRYING TO DO WORSHIP HOLLER AT ME BECAUSE WE NEED
10:28 THAT INTERACTION AND SO WOULD CHURCHES BEGIN TO COME OUT AND
10:32 WHITE HOUSE HAS BEEN ONE CHURCH THAT HAS BEEN WITH US DOING THIS
10:36 WORSHIP AND WE'VE HAD SPEAKERS AND THE WORSHIP TEAM COMES OUT
10:41 AND WE WORSHIP AND WE BRING CHURCH TO THEM AND WE MEET THEM
10:46 WHERE THEY ARE LITERALLY. >> YOU LITERALLY BEAT And so we
10:49 THEY ARE. HE SET UP SHOP AND THEN IT'S ONE
10:54 OF THOSE THINGS WHERE WE BRING IT UP AND WE BRING CHURCH TO YOU
10:59 AND THEY ENJOY IT SO MUCH. AND THEY TELL ME LIKE THAT WAS
11:07 BEAUTIFUL WORSHIP THINK YOU AND THEN WE HAVE the service and I know
11:12 PREACH AND BUT WHAT'S CRAZY IS THAT AS WE HAVE BEEN GOING
11:17 THROUGH THESE MONTHS from one Bible study.
11:19 FROM ONE BIBLE STUDY TO ONE DAY I'M DOING A BIBLE STUDY AND
11:24 THEY'RE LIKE LET'S DO THIS EVERY DAY.
11:31 THE AND I'M LIKE WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT SURE AND SO WE WENT
11:36 FROM ONE BIBLE STUDY TO TWO BIBLE STUDIES A WEEK a
11:40 SERVICES REGULARLY EVERY DAY AND BEING ASKED ABOUT THE SERVICES.
11:52 >> THEY ARE HUNGRY. >> THEY ARE HUNGRY.
11:55 >> IT HAS BEEN AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE SEEING THIS them
12:00 THE POINT WHERE LIKE I KNOW THIS I GO TO DOWNTOWN ORLANDO AND
12:04 IT'S LIKE I KNOW THIS PERSON THIS PERSON THIS PERSON AND THEY
12:07 KNOW ME THE LONGER GUY WITH THE BEARD AND THEY'RE LIKE PASTOR
12:12 YOU KNOW OUR PREACHER YOU KNOW PLASTER OR PREACHER AND IT HAS
12:19 BEEN SUCH A BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCE JUST BEING FRIENDS AND BUILDING
12:25 THIS RELATIONSHIP AND YOU KNOW. >> YOU SAID ABOUT me this story. Yeah.
12:34 WHERE THEY ARE AND YOU TOLD US ABOUT A WOMAN WHO YOU KNOW YOU
12:40 SEE HERE CAN EXPLAIN THAT. >> IN THE BIBLE STUDIES THAT I
12:44 GET, IT REALLY IS MEETING THEM WHERE THEY ARE really meeting them where
12:47 they're at. Yes, you know, and that's the part
12:48 AND THAT AS POINT OF LIVING BECAUSE NOT ONLY AM I SITTING
12:52 DOWN GIVING THE LESSON BUT IT'S LIKE HEY WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS
12:56 ON THIS, TELL ME WHAT YOU LET YOU SPEAK AND YOU NEVER KNOW
13:02 WHAT YOU WILL know what's going to get when they speak it. Yeah,
13:04 IN THIS BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE THIS IS REAL.
13:09 >> ONE TIME I WAS TALKING ABOUT THE SABBATH AND THE GUY SAID HE
13:14 NEVER HEARD OF IT AND HE FINALLY FOUND EXCUSES FOR HIS LIFESTYLE
13:21 LIKE WHAT ABOUT HIS DRINKING BEFORE THE SABBATH AND HE WAS
13:24 LIKE HIM ALREADY DRUNK ALREADY AND HE'S LIKE COULD YOU BE
13:30 DRINKING AT ALL? AND THE HUNGER IS hunger is And I just remember
13:34 this happened this REMEMBER THIS HAPPEN THIS PASS
13:36 WEEK WHERE I'M SITTING DOWN AND SOMETIMES IT VARIES.
13:42 IT VARIES IN A VERY INTERESTING COMBINATION YOU ASK WHERE MY
13:47 CHURCH OUGHT, I'M HERE. THIS IS YOUR CHURCH, BUT THE
13:53 BIBLE STUDIES ARE VERY FLUID. I'M SITTING DOWN A LADY COMES IN That's all
14:04 AND SHE ONLY SPEAKS SPANISH OR ENGLISH IS VERY ROUGH AND SHE
14:09 APOLOGIZES AND I AND LUCKILY I SPEAK TO HER IN ENGLISH AND
14:14 SPANISH AND SHE IS BILINGUAL AND IS THEN I'M OVER HERE
14:18 TRANSLATING FOR HER. >> WE GO BACK AND FORTH THEN SHE
14:27 SHARES man. She at the end of it. I was like.
14:30 IT I WAS LIKE WHAT YOU GUYS WANT TO PRAY FOR WHAT YOU THINK.
14:40 SHE SAID SHE'S THANKFUL FOR WHAT YOU GUYS DO I CAME IN I AM AND
14:45 SHE SAID TO BE COMPLETELY being completely honest. Yes, just like that. I know.
14:48 SHE SAID I KNOW I MAY NOT BE DRESSED WELL I MAYBE DON'T SMELL
14:52 THE BEST I do this is I can you help
14:55 AND DO ALL THIS AND KNEW HELP PEOPLE AS THEY ARE AND IT'S
15:04 CRAZY BECAUSE SHE WAS ONLY THERE THIS ONE DAY AND SHE IS LIKE YOU
15:09 HELP US MEANING THAT MAY BE HER EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN GOING TO
15:15 CHURCHES AND NOT BEEN SO WELCOMED BECAUSE OF THE
15:19 APPEARANCE AND HYGIENE ON WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THAT MANY TIMES
15:26 IT COULD BE DIFFICULT BECAUSE OF THE HYGIENE BUT IN REALITY,
15:34 SPIRITUALLY, THE SAME HYGIENE ISSUE IS WHAT IS IN SOME
15:39 CHURCHES FOR SOME PEOPLE. >> THAT IS DEEP.
15:41 >> LIKE MAYBE YOU DON'T WANT TO HELP BECAUSE you think you look th
15:50 LOOK THIS WAY BUT I WANT TO REVEAL TO YOU SPIRITUALLY HOW
15:56 YOU ACTUALLY ARE AND THAT'S WHY IT MAY BE DIFFICULT FOR YOU TO
15:58 OPEN UP. >> AND THEY ARE HIS CHILDREN AS
16:02 WELL. >> so.
16:08 AND SO IT DOES SHELL BECAUSE THEY ARE HUNGRY AND SO WE DO
16:13 THESE SERVICES AND I REMEMBER THIS PASS MONTH WE HAD THIS
16:17 INITIATIVE OF LIKE LET'S OPEN UP AND MAKE AN APPEAL AND SEE WHAT
16:21 HAPPENS AND SO THEN WE DID THE SERVICE AND PUT THE SPEAKERS UP
16:30 TO THE A SERVICE AND THEN I MADE THE APPEAL appeal. You know, it's just
16:35 like, hey, just like Philip, if be in? It was just a here's water. What hand is me? I was
16:42 like we've got water. Yes. So what Hindus? And it's not just like, hey, we're going
16:48 LIKE HABER AND I BAPTIZE YOU IN THAT'S ENOUGH.
16:54 IF YOU GET BAPTIZED KNOW I'M WALKING WITH YOU.
17:07 NOW I'M HERE I CAN WALK BUT THEY.
17:09 >> IS NOT JUST ESTABLISHING THE RELATIONSHIP AND NURTURING THE
17:12 RELATIONSHIP AS WELL AND GROWING THE RELATIONSHIP THAT'S
17:14 BEAUTIFUL HERE WE ACTUALLY HAVE SOME took place.
17:19 THAT TOOK PLACE. >> YEP, SO, THAT INDIVIDUAL THAT
17:27 BROTHER RIGHT THERE IT WAS AMAZING BECAUSE the service and
17:30 SERVICE AND I MADE THE APPEAL AND HE WALKED UP TO ME AND HE
17:34 WALKED UP TO ME AND HE COULDN'T BELIEVE THAT HE WAS That he was
17:42 OPPORTUNITY FOR THIS. WHEN I TELL YOU HE COULDN'T
17:45 BELIEVE IT I'M SAYING LIKE HE'S LIKE SO YOU'RE SAYING I COULD
17:50 GET BACK TYPES? AND I'M LIKE YES BUT NOT THAT
17:52 THAT I'M GONNA WALK WITH YOU ALONG THE WAY UNDERSTANDING THIS
17:58 AND HIS EYES GOT WATERY AND IMMEDIATELY WHEN I TELL YOU THIS
18:04 GROWN MAN WAS CRYING IT'S AN UNDERSTATEMENT BECAUSE HE SAT
18:11 THERE AND IT WAS LIKE THE BAPTISMAL TUB I WAS LIKE OKAY
18:17 AND IT WAS LIKE PRAISED FOR THE OPPORTUNITY BUT THIS IS
18:26 SOMETHING I CAME ACROSS AN OUTREACH BUT I TOLD HIM I WAS A But I told them I'm a They
18:30 PASTOR I DON'T WALK AROUND LIKE I guess they don't believe it.
18:34 THAT BUT THEY DON'T BELIEVE IT. LIKE SUIT AND TIE literally just between
18:44 YOU'RE JUST GOOD CLEAN THE TOILET AND I'M LIKE YEAH.
18:48 AND THEY DON'T BELIEVE IT AND IT'S ALMOST LIKE THEY NEVER HAD
18:52 ACCESS. IT'S ALMOST LIKE WHAT ARE YOU
18:57 DOING HERE. >> THIS IS WHAT A PASTOR
19:02 SUPPOSED TO DO when he was
19:07 SO THAT INDIVIDUAL, OUR BROTHER NOW IN CHRIST IS LIKE THE GAIL
19:13 BECAUSE HE GOT TO LIVE. HE DIDN'T LEAVE THE WORLD
19:21 WITHOUT IT REALLY IS POWERFUL AND IT IS A REMINDER OF WHAT WE
19:27 NEED TO DO. >> us those stories as
19:32 PEOPLE BEING BAPTIZED. >> THE GUY THAT'S IN THE MEETING
19:40 BEING BURIED IN CHRIST ABOUT THE RESURRECTED CHRIST HE WAS ONE OF
19:43 THE ONE THAT COMMENTS BEFORE. HE WOULD ALWAYS COME AND IT'S
19:52 INTERESTING BECAUSE IT'S CRAZY HOW THE ENEMY IS BECAUSE YOU
19:58 HAVE THEM BAPTIZED AND I REMEMBER AFTER THE BAPTISM THAT OT. He's always. Always shows
20:07 up. And then I see HE ALWAYS SHOWS UP AND THEN
20:10 THURSDAY HIS EYES WERE SWOLLEN AND I WOULD LIKE WHAT HAPPENED
20:15 IN THE CRAZIEST THING HAPPENED LIKE RIGHT AFTER I GOT BAPTIZED
20:23 THE VERY NEXT DAY I GET MY BIKE STOLEN I GET SUCKER PUNCHED ON actually
20:31 MY AND HE IS JUST LIKE THIS IS A LOT BETTER AND I AM LIKE OKAY
20:37 BRO THE RIGHTEOUS ANGER YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO MAKE THE BLOOD BOIL,
20:42 IT WAS BOILING LIKE MAN LIKE FOR THE THING IT WAS I HOPE THIS IS
20:48 A DISCOURAGE HIM AND I'M LIKE EVEN HAVE TO SAY IT pastor.
20:56 FASTER AND I WAS HAPPY THIS DOES NOT DETER ME FROM MY DECISION moment. I decide to do
21:06 something with my Make this decision.
21:08 I WANT TO DO THIS WITH MY LIFE I WANTED TO MAKE THIS DECISION.
21:13 >> HE'S LIKE anywhere.
21:15 NOT GOING ANYWHERE. >> HE SAW THE CONFIRMATION HE
21:17 MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE. >> THAT'S >> AND THERE ARE SO
21:22 MANY EXPERIENCES LIKE THAT BEING ABLE TO JUST WALK WITH THEM.
21:29 DOING WHAT JESUS DID. HE DIDN'T STAY IN HEAVEN AND
21:34 COME DOWN THE WEEKEND. HE PITCHED HIS TENT INHUMANITY
22:00 THIS IS A CRUCIAL PART OF CELL -- SAUL.
22:19 >> THERE WAS A WHILE WHERE THINGS WERE STAGNANT FOR ANY OF
22:23 THIS WE ARE GETTING GOING THE FIRST COUPLE couple years, there were
22:26 DAYS WHEN THERE WERE ONLY ONE OR TWO OR THREE VOLUNTEERS MEETING
22:29 200 PEOPLE BECAUSE PEOPLE BECAUSE THERE WAS WORTH IT FOR
22:38 JUST ONE reflect on that when you see a baptism, we see someone give
22:41 their l GIVE THEIR LIFE TO CHRIST AND
22:43 OTHER PEOPLE HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIFE TO CHRIST BEFORE THIS THAT of them before like Patric
22:53 PATRICK WAS ONE WE HAVE HAD ONE TIME A BARBER CUTTING SOMEONE'S
23:04 HAIR AND WILL SPOKE TO then he goes and gets a
23:07 GIVES TO GET HIS HAIRCUT AND A BARBER IS THERE WAS ONE OF THEM
23:12 HE WAS CUTTING HIS HAVING THIS CONVERSATION AND THE GUY WAS
23:16 ASKING WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COMMIT MY LIFE TO CHRIST AND SO
23:20 HE EXPLAINED IT AND HE GOES DOWN AND SAYS HE WANTS TO COMMIT HIS
23:24 LIFE RIGHT THERE AND HE DID THE PRAYER WITH HIM AND HE WANTED TO
23:29 COMMIT HIS LIFE TO CHRIST IN THAT MOMENT AND THERE ARE SO
23:32 MANY THINGS here. And and that's what
23:34 WANT TO REPRESENT WE WANT TO REPRESENT AN ORGANIZATION THAT
23:38 ISN'T JUST ABOUT GIVING -- THAT ISN'T -- WE DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO
23:47 LOOK AT look at us and glorify us or the organization for what's
23:51 going on. We want THE ORGANIZATION FOR WHAT'S
23:52 GOING ON WE WANT PEOPLE TO LOOK AT THIS AND SAY THIS IS GOD'S
23:58 WORK. >> ONE OF THE THINGS I DO IS
24:05 ALSO SPEAKING AND PREACHING BUT WE WENT TO ONE CHURCH IN
24:09 PARTICULAR WHERE THEY SHARED A PACKAGE WITH ME AND IT FELT LIKE
24:15 THE HOLY SPIRIT GOT ME. LIKE IT WAS SO POWERFUL AND
24:21 SINCE THEN WHEN EVER I DO SPEAK AND I GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO
24:29 SHARE THIS QUOTE REALLY HITS ON THE HEAD EXACTLY WHAT WE DO.
24:36 IT'S NOT A TESTIMONY TO THE CHURCH VOLUME SIX THE CHAPTER IS
24:41 CALLED THE CHURCH WHICH IS VERY FITTING AND SO I DO WANT TO READ
24:48 THIS FIRST TWO PARAGRAPHS I want to read to really just get it
24:51 WANT TO GET IT RIGHT. WHEN THE WORLD NEEDS SYMPATHY
24:55 THE PRAYERS OF GOD PEOPLE THEY NEED TO SEE CHRIST IN FOLLOWERS
25:03 EQUAL YOU NEED OF OPPORTUNITY DRAW THEIR SYMPATHY DEVELOP IN
25:07 THEM A CHARACTER OF DIVINE PATTERN.
25:13 LIKE A TUG AND PULL BETWEEN THE CHURCH AND THE PEOPLE IN THIS IS
25:17 THE PART. BEFORE I SHARE of the word legacy.
25:26 FACT THAT WE ALL WANT TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS WITH OUR KIDS,
25:34 BUSINESS want to leave something that we were here.
25:36 SOMETHING THAT WE WERE HERE. LEAVES SOMETHING BEHIND.
25:44 THAT MINDED SAYS IT IS TO PROVIDE THESE OPPORTUNITIES THAT
25:47 GOD IS PLACED AMONG US FOR THE UNFORTUNATE, SICK, AND SUFFERING
25:54 THEY ARE CHRIST'S LEGACY TO HIS CHURCH THEY ARE
25:58 AS HE WOULD CARE FOR THEM IN THIS WAY GOD TAKES AWAY THE
26:04 PROUD AND PURIFIES THE WORLD AND GIVES US THE CULTURE OF HEART
26:07 AND CHARACTER. >> IT DEFINITELY DID SOMETHING
26:17 TO MY MINDSET WHERE IT the question is whose legacy? Much all about? And I just
26:22 that how my treating the legacy
26:23 HOW MUCH READING MY LEGACY? IS IT A NICE TEMPLE?
26:31 ACTUALLY MANY TIMES IS OVERLOOKED poor, unfortunate those
26:36 imprison those that are their see, those are
26:38 UNFORTUNATE IN PRISON THURSDAY. >> QUARTERLY WE DO IN THAT
26:44 LEGACY? >> EXCELLENT POINT.
26:45 >> I THINK WE HAD TWO MORE PICTURE.
26:49 >> WE CAN LOOK AT THOSE. >> YEP.
26:54 LITERALLY TALKING ABOUT THE LEGACY THIS IS US PRAYING AND
27:01 THANKING GOD FOR OPPORTUNITY AND I LET THEM PRAY there. This
27:05 THIS INDIVIDUAL ACTUALLY MY BROTHER IN CHRIST AS WELL CAME
27:09 THE NEXT DAY, FROM CASE MANAGEMENT, SOMEONE
27:16 FROM OUTSIDE THEY WANTED TO TALK TO ME AND I SAID COOL LET'S DO
27:22 IT. I WENT TO SPEAK WITH HIM WE SAT
27:27 DOWN AND HE OPENED like. It
27:29 TO SHARE. IT'S ALMOST LIKE THAT MOMENT OF
27:34 ROCK-BOTTOM AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED.
27:40 EVERYTHING WAS TAKEN FROM ME AND HE WAS TIRED OF IT.
27:44 HE NEEDED THE CHANGE AND I REALIZED THAT I NEEDED GOD IN MY
27:47 LIFE. >> IN THE RIGHT PLACE.
27:55 >> YES. I AM TRYING I'm trying to point you to
28:00 Christ and then walk CHRIST AND WALK NEXT TO YOU.
28:06 >> AND HE WAS JUST LIKE I WANT TO CHANGE, I WANT TO GET
28:10 BAPTIZED AND WE HIT UP OUR FRIEND RICHARD WHO WAS A STUDENT
28:21 SO ME AND ERIC AND THE GUY IN THE TRUCK WE GOT BAPTIZED Studies you So it's been a
28:30 huge blessing. Has been a huge not
28:31 IT HAS BEEN A HUGE BLESSING NOT JUST WITH HER HOMEBOUND FRIENDS
28:37 BUT ALSO FRIENDS THAT WE MAKE. ONE OF HER FRIENDS JUST GOT
28:46 ADDED TO THE TEAM AND IT'S CRAZY
28:49 BECAUSE HE IS SO INVOLVED IN THE MINISTRY SO HE IS OUTREACH TEAM
28:57 ALONG WITH US AND WAS PRAYING WITH US AND HE PARTICIPATES IN
29:03 IT BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN WHERE THEY ARE AND SO HE HAS THAT
29:07 PERSPECTIVE OF KNOWING WHERE YOU ARE AND HAVING BEEN THERE AND
29:10 IT'S BEAUTIFUL SEEING HOW GOD COUNTS FOR PUTTING THESE PEOPLE
29:17 INTO THESE POSITIONS AND SO THE THING IS BEING AWARE AND
29:21 SPIRITUALLY IN TEN LIKE OKAY YOU HAVE BEEN WORKING I DON'T KNOW
29:25 FOR HOW LONG BUT I WILL STEP IN AND HELP ALONG THE WAY.
29:31 I LOVE THE FACT THAT AS YOU ARE SPREADING THE GOSPEL AND THEY
29:35 ARE SOAKING IT UP AND EATING IT UP THAT THEY ARE GOING AND
29:40 TELLING THEIR FRIENDS ABOUT IT AND TELLING THEIR HOMEBOUND
29:43 COMMUNITY ABOUT IT AND THEY ARE TELLING THEIR THEIR COMMUNITY
29:47 ABOUT JESUS. THAT IS HUGE.
29:52 >> LET'S TRANSITION A LITTLE BIT AND TALK ABOUT THIS PROGRAM
29:57 APPEARED >> YES THIS IS A PROGRAM WHERE WE HAVE GOTTEN SO
30:00 MANY REQUESTS FROM CHURCHES ORGANIZATIONS PEOPLE THAT WANT
30:05 TO START SALT WHERE THEY ARE AND WE DECIDED TO CREATE A PROGRAM
30:12 CALLED SALT OUTPOST PROGRAM FOR CHURCH OR ORGANIZATION CAN
30:15 BECOME A outpost, which is basically putting them to a program
30:20 where we POINTING THEM TO A PROGRAM WHERE
30:22 WE CAN COACH THEM TO DUPLICATE WHAT WE'RE DOING IN.
30:30 AND SO WE HAVE JUST STARTED GETTING SOME CHURCHES INVOLVED
30:34 WITH IN STATE OF FLORIDA. WE HAVE ONE IN TAMPA, AND WE HAD
30:42 OUR FIRST ART WHICH WITH THEM LAST MONTH AND SURPRISINGLY WHEN
30:49 EVER YOU DO THE EVENT know, like maybe 2040 people. We're doing
30:53 ALWAYS BE MAYBE 20 TO 40 PEOPLE BUT IT WAS 139 MEALS THAT WE
30:58 SERVE THIS FIRST DAY. IT WAS HUGE I HAVE SOME PICTURE
31:04 OF THAT OUTREACH THAT YOU CAN SEE A FEW PICTURE THERE THAT
31:06 THEY SET UP A PLACE CALLED PORTICO AND THEY WERE THE TEAM
31:14 OF PEOPLE GOING OUT TELLING bringing them back so they can get
31:16 ABOUT THIS SO THEY CAN GET A MEAL.
31:20 ACTUALLY THEY CREATED A TRAILER TO THE TRAILER SERVING OUT OF the food put in there, keep it
31:30 at the right KEEP IT AT THE RIGHT TEMPERATURE
31:33 THAN SERVED OUTSIDE THE TRAILER. IT'S A MEMBERSHIP. cost involved with us bringing
31:44 a OBVIOUSLY THERE IS COST INVOLVED
31:45 WITH A BRINGING A TRAILER SOMEWHERE THERE IS GAS labor. there's many different
31:49 aspects. And so AND MANY DIFFERENT ASPECTS AND
31:53 THE THEY'RE UPGRADING THIS BECAUSE NOW THEY WANT SALT TO
31:55 BRING THE TRAILER OUT. IN NOVEMBER, THIS MONTH, WE WILL
32:03 TAKE THE SHOWER TRAILER OUT AND HELP WITH SHOWERS NOW AND THE
32:09 ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO HELP THEM GET THEIR OWN TRAILER SO kind of at the administrative
32:14 level helpi CAN BE MORE AT THE
32:15 ADMINISTRATIVE LEVEL TO HELP WITH HUMAN RESOURCES AND
32:19 FUNDRAISING AND GRANT WRITING AND OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT
32:24 VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT WE CAN HELP WITH THOSE THINGS BECAUSE IT'S A
32:28 LOT FOR CHURCH TO HANDLE THESE THINGS IF WE DO IT BUT YOU KNOW
32:33 EVENTUALLY IT WOULD BE FOR THEM TO BE ABLE TO DO IT.
32:37 WE HAVE STARTED A PROGRAM, WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF STARTING A
32:42 PROGRAM CALLED SOS PROGRAM. >> WHAT IS THAT STAND FOR?
32:49 >> SEASON OF SERVICE AND SO SEASON OF SERVICE IS that a little bit. as means
32:58 you need help, right? Yes. So a church can call us to request an S O S right where
33:03 we actually go WHERE WE ACTUALLY GO OUT THERE
33:06 AND THE PASTOR WILL DO A SERIES OF SERMONS MCNITT IN-SERVICE -- bounda
33:31 TO BE PUT BUT MANY PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHERE THE BOUNDARIES ARE
33:36 AND SO WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO CREATE SO MANY RELATIONSHIPS
33:39 FROM HER HOMEBOUND FRIENDS HE WILL DO A QUICK SESSION ON THAT
33:44 AND THEN ON SUNDAY WE DO A FOUR HOUR SESSION OF Q&A AND WE DO.
33:58 THIS IS WHAT WE WANT TO DO SO THEY CAN GO FORWARD AND CHECK IN
34:02 WITH US and get advice, you know, as we as we move forward. So
34:06 that's the S O S THE SOS PROGRAM IS WHERE WE BOOK
34:10 DATES FOR NEXT YEAR SO MANY CHURCHES OUT OF STATE YOU WANT
34:15 TO DUPLICATE WHAT WE'RE DOING CAN REQUEST THAT AND GET IT
34:18 GOING. >> THAT IS HUGE.
34:22 HOW DO WE REQUEST THAT, WHAT your Web site? So
34:27 YOUR WEBSITE? >> WWW. SALT OUTREACH .ORG AND
34:31 THEY CAN GO can go on there and
34:33 MESSAGE AND THEY COULD ALSO email me directly Eric E R I C
34:37 E-MAIL ME. IT'S A NEW PROGRAM WERE JUST
34:44 ROLLING OUT BUT IF THEY REACH OUT WE CAN GET SOMETHING MOVING
34:46 FOR NEXT YEAR. AT THE HEART OF THIS WE BELIEVE
34:51 THAT THE MODEL WE HAVE THERE IS NO ONE ELSE THAT HAS A FULL
34:58 MOBILE DAY SERVICE CENTER FOR THE UNSHELTERED I no and I've tried to research
35:02 RESEARCH I HAVE TRIED TO SEE WHO'S DOING WHAT WE'RE DOING AND
35:05 THERE'S NO ONE. THIS IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE the
35:11 TO DELIVER DAY SERVICES AND SO TO BE ABLE TO DUPLICATE THAT
35:14 WITH SOME OF OUR CHURCHES IS GOING TO BE KEY AND HELP MANY
35:19 PEOPLE. >> AND LEADING SO MANY PEOPLE TO
35:23 CHRIST THEY KEEP THAT EVANGELISM COMPONENT.
35:31 >> YOU'RE WALKING THEM TO CHRIST AND LEADING THEM TO CHRIST then you're walking
35:34 THEN YOU'RE. THAT'S POWERFUL I LOVE THE FACT
35:39 THAT YOU'RE DUPLICATING IT BECAUSE IT WILL REACH SO MANY
35:43 PEOPLE AND SO THAT IS AWESOME. >> I THINK THAT a service for
35:51 SERVICE FOR THE COMMUNITY I KNOW FOR THE STATE OF FLORIDA WE HAVE
35:56 HURRICANES AND SOMETIMES IT DESTROYS.
36:05 THERE'S A LOT OF DESTRUCTION THAT HAPPENS ALONG THE WAY AND
36:07 WHAT HAPPENS has.
36:11 TRAILER AND NOT ONLY DOES IT FUNCTION FOR THE COMMUNITY BUT
36:17 NOW WE CAN HELP AND I believe that even happened once
36:21 THAT ALREADY HAPPENED ONCE ALREADY.
36:24 >> WE HAD A HURRICANE COMES THROUGH AND WE HAVE THE TRAILERS
36:28 SO WE ACTUALLY WENT WHERE THERE WAS A LOT OF DAMAGE devastation there from the
36:33 hurricane. DEVASTATION LAYER FROM HURRICANE
36:34 AND WE TOOK THE SHOWER TRAILER OUT THERE AND WERE ABLE TO FIND
36:41 SHOWERS FOR ALL THE NATIONAL GUARD IN THAT AREA AND IN THE
36:43 HOMES THAT WERE DESTROYED OR THAT HAD NO RUNNING WATER WE HAD
36:48 PEOPLE FROM THE COMMUNITY COMING TO GET SHOWERS AND WERE ABLE TO
36:52 SHARE SOME LITERATURE WITH some literature with steps to Christ
36:55 TO PRAY WITH PEOPLE AND IT WAS AN AMAZING WAY TO MEET THE and so
37:00 COMMUNITY AND THE SALE IMAGINE IF WE HAD CHURCHES ALL OVER THE
37:03 U.S. THAT HAD SHOWER TRAILERS AND LAUNDRY TRAILERS AND WHEN
37:11 THE DISASTERS COME OUR CHURCH SHOULD BE THE LEADERS TO HELP
37:13 COMMUNITIES RECOVER FROM THESE EXACT STORES -- with this with
37:18 DISASTERS SO THAT'S ANOTHER BIG THING WITH THIS.
37:21 >> THAT WOULD PUT US IN AN EXCELLENT EXCELLENT POSITION.
37:26 BUT I WANT TO TRANSITION INTO A STORY ABOUT PATRICK BECAUSE I
37:30 THINK SEEING A CHANGE AND HEARING ABOUT A CHANGED LIFE IS
37:34 SO POWERFUL. >> PATRICK WAS SOMEONE WHO IS
37:41 EXPERIENCING came to
37:43 CAME TO US AT THE END OF 2018 AT THE BEGINNING OF 2019 AND HE WAS
37:49 SO GRATEFUL FOR GETTING TO SHOWER WITH US THAT WANTED TO
37:51 VOLUNTEER WITH US with a swelling operating maybe twice a month in
37:55 OPERATING MAYBE TWICE A MONTH IN 2019 AND SO HE WANTED TO
37:59 VOLUNTEER WITH US TO CLEAN THE SHOWERS AFTER EACH PERSON WHO
38:02 HAD SHOWERED AND WE WERE SO allowed him to do that. He c
38:05 GRATEFUL SO WE ALLOWED HIM TO DO THAT YOU CAN VOLUNTEER AND THEN
38:09 SHOWER AND SO EVENTUALLY IN 2020 WE GOT GRANTS COMING IN FROM THE
38:15 COMMUNITY AND WE able to hire people in. Naturally.
38:17 HIRE PEOPLE AND NATURALLY PATRICK WAS THE PERSON THAT WE
38:21 DECIDED TO HIRE AND NOT ONLY WAS HE GREAT BUT HE WAS A HARD
38:24 WORKER AND WE CREATED A we cre
38:26 RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM OVER A YEAR AND HALF birthday
38:29 CELEBRATED HIS BIRTHDAY WITH HIM AND WE SPENT TIME TALKING TO GET
38:33 TO KNOW EACH OTHER his life. You know.
38:37 AND HE WORKED WITH US IN MARCH OF 2020 WHEN WE HIRED HIM IN
38:43 JUNE OF 2020 AS SOON AS WE HIRED HIM THROUGH PARTNERSHIP WITH THE
38:49 HILTON WE WERE ACTUALLY ABLE TO DO THIS RIGHT THERE.
39:02 OVER THE THREE MONTH PERIOD. HE WAS ABLE TO STAY THERE IT WAS
39:09 NICE. HIM AND OTHER STAFF MEMBER WAS
39:14 ABLE TO STAY THERE BECAUSE OF COVID AND SO THEY DONATED THAT And that's what's so anyway.
39:17 His homelessness was BUT HOMELESSNESS WAS ENDED AND
39:21 NOW HE STARTED TO LIMP we tell him
39:25 WE DON PAT GET IT CHECKED OUT AND HE'S LIKE NO I'M OKAY
39:32 PROBABLY JUST PULLED SOMETHING AND IT GETS gets worse. T
39:38 BECOMES UNBEARABLE AND SELF-AWARE LIKE YOU NEED TO GET
39:42 THIS CHECKED OUT IN AND EVENTUALLY HE WENT TO THE
39:45 HOSPITAL AND WHEN HE GOT THERE THEY ACTUALLY DIAGNOSED HIM stage 4 cancer.
39:49 STAGE IV CANCER. IT WAS LUNG CANCER THAT SPREAD
39:55 TO HIS HIP a
40:01 THE DOCTOR TO HE ONLY HAD A FEW WEEKS TO LIVE.
40:05 I REMEMBER HE WENT AGAINST MEDICAL ADVICE AND COVID
40:11 RESTRICTIONS BECAUSE HE WANT TO SEE US IN ALL HIS FRIENDS BEFORE
40:13 HE PASSED AND WE WERE SAVING THE were
40:17 MONEY TO GET IN HIS OWN PLACE AND WITH WORKING HE WOULD HAVE
40:20 BEEN ABLE TO SUSTAIN IT BUT INSTEAD WE USED FOR HOTEL IN
40:25 DOWNTOWN ORLANDO SO WE COULD BE AROUND US HIS FRIENDS.
40:31 WE WERE IN THAT HOTEL ROOM I REMEMBER TALKING CAME TO VISIT
40:37 HIM. HE CALLED THE PASTOR AND FILLED
40:46 THE BATHTUB AND HE WAS A BETH TIES -- BAPTIZED IN THAT TUB IN
40:54 THE BATHROOM HE COULD BARELY MOVE AT THIS POINT. him.
41:00 AND I WENT TO VISIT HIM AND HE PRAYED WITH HIM AND WATCH TV
41:05 WITH HIM AND THE NEXT MORNING HE PASSED AWAY.
41:16 IT IS really hey, to have. We would love
41:22 WOULD LOVE TO HAVE HIM HERE WITH US BECAUSE HE WAS A GREAT GUY,
41:26 HE WAS A like family to us. but
41:31 GLAD THAT ONE DAY WE WILL SEE HIM AND HEAVEN BECAUSE HE MADE
41:37 THAT DECISION EVEN BEFORE THE BAPTISM OF THE FIRST INTO
41:41 HOUSING HE STARTED DOING DEVOTIONS EVERY DAY AND HE WOULD
41:44 HOST THE DEVOTIONS AND WE WOULD SEE IT AND WE WOULD ALL TALK
41:48 ABOUT just all talk about and stuff, but it was it was a blessing.
41:51 He was a. HE WAS A GREAT SOUL AND WE WILL
41:55 SEE HIM IN A BRAND-NEW BODY the Seas. Yeah.
41:58 NO CANCER AND NO DISEASE AND NO SIN AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS I WILL
42:02 INTRODUCE YOU TO THE VIEWERS HERE WHO ARE WATCHING IF YOU
42:08 WANT TO MEET PAT I WILL INTRODUCE a beautiful person saw. And
42:10 yes, PERSON.
42:14 >> I KNOW THAT YOU PROBABLY ENCOUNTERED A LOT OF DIFFERENT
42:17 SITUATIONS THROUGHOUT THE situations throughout the years with salt of
42:19 BUT HAVE YOU WERE DEALT WITH A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIM?
42:24 >> WE DID. WE HAD SOMEONE RECENTLY WHO WAS
42:31 -- IT WAS A VICTIM OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO
42:36 SHARE SOME OF THAT. >> YOU DO SEE A LOT BEING OUT
42:44 THERE ALMOST AT THE FOREFRONT OF THIS TYPE OF MINISTRY.
42:51 YOU SEE A LOT OF stuff one of them. But really
42:55 OF THEM WAS THAT. SOMEONE WHO IS TRYING TO GET
43:02 AWAY. I WAS HELPING OUT THE SITUATION
43:09 AND WE WERE ABLE TO GET HER OUT AND GET HER SOMEWHERE her out, get or someone else.
43:16 Yes, you know, domestic violence, shelter.
43:19 >> DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER. >> WHEN SHE CAME IN THE DAY SHE
43:23 WAS VERY BRUISED UP. >> SHE WAS DONE.
43:32 >> BEING ABLE TO ACTUALLY BE A PART OF THAT WAS THE GOSPEL.
43:39 YOU LOOK AT LUKE WHEN MAKES A MANIFESTO AND BRINGS LIBERATION
43:49 SO DEFINITELY MAN TO SEE SOMEBODY LIKE OKAY WE ARE PART
43:54 OF THIS. >> MANY PEOPLE WHO EXPERIENCE
44:01 HOMELESSNESS SOME OF THEM HAVE PETS AND SOME OF THEM DON'T WANT
44:06 TO go to shelters because
44:08 THE SHELTER DOES NOT ACCEPT PETS AND SHE WAS ONE OF THEM THAT HAD
44:12 A PET IN THEIR CASE MANAGER WHO IS WORKING WITH HER SHE SAID
44:18 DON'T WORRY ABOUT YOUR DOG WILL TAKE CARE OF IT.
44:21 SHE TOOK THE DOG HOME WITH HER AND HAS BEEN WATCHING THE DOG
44:25 NOW FOR ABOUT A MONTH AND TAKING CARE OF HER DOG WHILE SHE IS IN
44:32 SHELTER RECOVERING. >> GROOMER AND EVERYTHING REALLY
44:35 TAKING CARE Wow. They really go above and beyond our case managers. They
44:40 truly love what they do and they want
44:41 >> THE CASE MANAGERS REALLY LOVE HER AND WANT TO TAKE have will kind
44:47 IN THE VIDEO WE HAVE YOU WILL SEE ABOUT THE CASE MANAGEMENT
44:50 TEAM. >> LET'S LOOK AT THIS VIDEO
44:54 RIGHT NOW. >> EVERYONE OUT THERE WHOSE HOME
45:04 WAS DON'T THAT THEY FIND THEMSELVES ADAPTING TO THEIR
45:10 SURROUNDINGS. >> A FEW WEEKS AGO SAM JOHNSON
45:12 DIDN'T HAVE A HOME TO CALL HIS OWN BUT THEN HE CAME BY SOLD OUT
45:16 REACH THE GROUP PROVIDES experiencing homelessness.
45:18 AND SHOWER TRAILERS ARE PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS BUT
45:21 THAT'S NOT ALL THE GROUP DOES TO HELP PEOPLE LIKE JOHNSON homebound there is, you know,
45:27 shelter your DESCRIBED HIM AS HOMEBOUND, HOME
45:30 LAST BUT HERE WE CALL THEM HOMEBOUND BECAUSE THEY ARE BOUND
45:34 TO GET HOME. >> THAT IS manager. It's all to
45:38 CASE MANAGER HERE. >> YOUR WORDS HAVE A BIG IMPACT
45:42 IN INSPIRING OTHERS AND HELPING THEM POWER THROUGH THEIR ONE
45:47 MONTH THEY DO TEAM BUILDING EXERCISES.
45:54 >> THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS WE SEE THAT CAN IMPACT THE HEART SO
45:58 IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE TEAM BUILDING AND MAKE SURE THAT WE
46:01 ARE OKAY SO WE CAN HELP OTHERS. >> THEY HEAR HOUSING AND HOUSING
46:09 BUT THERE IS JUST NOT HOUSING HOUSING TOGETHER AND IT WEIGHS
46:15 AUDIO. >> ERIC WHO FOUND SOLID SINCE
46:18 COVID IS NOTICED MORE PEOPLE COMING FOR SERVICES WHO ARE NEW
46:21 TO HOMELESSNESS TO TRY TO MEET THE NEEDS ARE THINKING OUTSIDE
46:24 THE BOX. >> RAISED 200,000 TO GET MORE
46:29 NUMB, 40-FOOT CONTAINERS SO WE CAN PROVIDE A LIVING SPACE, A
46:33 PERMANENT SOLUTION FOR THOSE LOOKING FOR A HOUSING.
46:36 >> THE HOPE AT THIS TIME NEXT YEAR SALT HOMEBOUND CLIENTS CAN
46:40 APPLY APPLY TO LIVE IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING SOLUTIONS BUT
46:44 ALREADY THE GROUP IS HELPING HOUSE PEOPLE LIKE JOHNSON BY
46:48 COLLECTING THEM THAT'S CONNECTING THEM TO OTHER
46:52 REGIONAL SERVICE a hotel that are by the week to
46:55 >> AND WENT TO A PERSON RENTING A HOTEL BY THE WEEK TO A PERSON
46:59 WHO IS NOW IN A PAYING $600 A MONTH.
47:02 >> FOR OTHER THE ADVICE I HAVE IS DON'T GIVE UP IF YOU GET OFF
47:09 ON THE WRONG EXIT FOR EVERY EXIT THERE IS ALSO AN ENTRANCE WAY
47:13 BACK ON THE HIGHWAY. GET BACK ON THE HIGHWAY.
47:22 >> SALT IS BUSY. >> IT to
47:27 >> WHAT DO YOU WANT TO ADD THAT ERIC?
47:30 >> I MEAN, ON THAT VIDEO YOU CAN SEE THE NEW PROJECT WE ARE
47:35 FUNDRAISING FOR THE SHIPPING CONTAINERS ARE LITERALLY to be turned into permanent
47:38 homes. I TO BE TURNED IN PERMANENT HOMES
47:39 I MEAN THEY SHOULD CONTAINERS WILL HAVE A FULL BATHROOM,
47:44 SHOWER, A STACKABLE WASHER AND DRYER, SINK, TOILET, IT'S CAN
47:50 HAVE A LIVING AREA, A FULL KITCHEN, not a mini fridge. A full-size
47:55 fridge. they're they're they're going to be real
47:56 ARE GOING TO BE CREATED AS AN EFFICIENCY FOR SOMEONE
48:00 EXPERIENCING And so our goal is to fund raise for 4
48:05 OUR GOAL IS TO FUND RAISE FOR FOUR, 40-FOOT CONTAINERS AT THE
48:10 SET EACH CONTAINER WILL BE A DUPLEX SO THERE WILL BE TWO
48:13 PEOPLE LIVING ON BOTH SIDES on both
48:15 THE CONTAINERS AND WE WILL BE ABLE TO HOUSE EIGHT PEOPLE AND
48:18 SO WERE TRYING TO RAISE 200,000 IN ORDER TO MAKE THESE A REALITY
48:24 THAT'S A PICTURE OF ONE OF THEM the inside on
48:25 THERE AND YOU CAN SEE THE INSIDE ON THE NEXT PICTURE.
48:31 THE FRIDGE GOES ON THE LEFT CORNER.
48:35 IT'S A HUGE PROJECT WE ARE FUNDRAISING FOR RIGHT NOW AND IF
48:40 ANYONE FEELS COMPELLED TO GIVE TO HER THAT PROJECT IT WILL BE A
48:45 GREAT project, I mean,
48:46 REALLY YOU KNOW WHEN YOU PUT MONEY TOWARD THAT PROJECT YOU'RE
48:51 HELPING TO BUILD A HOME FOR SOMEONE.
48:53 >> I WANT TO POINT OUT THAT YOU COME ON THREE ABN BEFORE TODAY
49:01 ON THE you've talked about a change trailer.
49:04 THE CHANGE TRAILER AND THEN YOU GOTTA CHANGE TRAILER YOU TALK
49:08 ABOUT A SHOWER TRAILER AND THEN YOU GOT A SHOWER TRAILER AND I
49:12 MEAN YOU SAY THAT -- I SAY THAT BECAUSE IT IS AMAZING TO SEE
49:16 WHAT GOD IS DOING BECAUSE HE IS SHOWING YOU THE NEED AND THEN HE
49:23 FELL TO THE NEED AND I MEAN IT IS POWERFUL.
49:27 >> IT REALLY IS IT'S LIKE AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT YOU KNOW THERE
49:34 ARE other needs that we have with,
49:38 HAVE LIKE WITH JUST TALKING ABOUT SHOWER TRAILER, WE DO NEED
49:43 A SECOND ONE BECAUSE THERE IS A BUSINESS CALLED SPIDER CONTROL
49:47 THAT HAS PROVIDED A MATCHING RENT OF $15,000 THEY SAY IF YOU
49:51 RAISE 15,000 WE WILL GIVE YOU 15,000 AND WE STILL NEED ABOUT
49:57 10,000 TO ACCESS THIS way that people can give
49:59 ANOTHER WAY PEOPLE CAN GET THEIR SUPPORT BECAUSE WE NEED A SECOND
50:03 TRAILER BECAUSE WE ARE NOW EXPANDING TO WEST ORANGE COUNTY
50:07 WE ARE MOVING INTO ABOUT by
50:09 OTHER PLACES HERE SOON MY NEXT YEAR AND SO WE CANNOT DO IT ALL
50:15 WITH ONE TRAILER IT'S A TO PIGGYBACK ON WHAT YOU'RE SAYING
50:21 IT IS AMAZING BECAUSE WHEN WE ENTER 2021 GOD HAD PUT IT ON OUR
50:26 HEART AS THE LEADERSHIP TEAM TO SAY WE WANT TO RAISE -- WE
50:31 BELIEVE THAT WITH GOD'S HELP WE COULD RAISE $1 MILLION HERE BUT
50:35 COMING TO THE END OF THE YEAR WE ARE PROJECTED TO RAISE A MILLION
50:38 DOLLARS WITH GODS HELP HERE OVER DOUBLE WHAT WE RAISED AND TEN
50:45 TIMES WHAT WE RAISED IN 2019. IT IS A HUGE huge job, but God provided now
50:49 looking at next year. PROVIDED THAT AND NOW LOOKING AT
50:52 NEXT YEAR WE ACTUALLY HAVE A MILLION DOLLARS THAT IS PROMISED
50:56 AS ALREADY WERE NOT EVEN IN 2020 TAIL BUT THERE'S A MILLION
51:00 DOLLARS IN GRANTS our program attic. So they all that all that
51:03 THAT MONEY IS GOING TOWARD OUR PROGRAMS BUT ONE OF THE BIG
51:08 MEANS THAT WE HAVE THAT NO GRANT CAN FULFILL ONLY DONORS CAN IS
51:14 OUR ADMINISTRATIVE OVERHEAD COSTS AND everyone wants to give to
51:18 someone who TO SOMEONE WHO MIGHT BE
51:20 EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS WHICH IS GREAT BUT WE HAVE THAT MONEY
51:24 PROMISED AND WHAT PEOPLE DON'T USUALLY GIVE TILL IT IS TO HELP
51:28 KEEP THE POWER ON YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THE POWER BILL NEEDS TO
51:32 BE PAID IN THE BUILDING WILL BE DON'T USUALLY GIVE TO IS HELPING
51:37 TO PAY THE WATER BELL OR FOR THE INSURANCE THAT WE NEED TO PAY
51:41 FOR THE AUDIT OUT IN THE TRAILER ALL that stuff has to be covered
51:46 by or We BY OUR DONORS, WE NEED TO RAISE
51:49 300,000 NEXT YEAR IN ORDER TO TO O SOME THINGS LIKE OUR GRASS
51:54 ROOT COVER WE NEED DONORS TO HELP COVER IT AND IT DOESN'T
51:59 COVER ME EITHER I QUIT MY JOB been doing this full time since April o
52:01 HAVE BEEN DOING THIS FULL TIME SINCE APRIL OF THIS YEAR AND MY
52:05 SALARY IS NOT COVERED EITHER BY ANY OF THESE GRANTS AND SO WE
52:09 WILL NEED SOME HELP IN ORDER TO MAKE THIS POSSIBLE.
52:14 >> YOU TOOK THE STEP OF FAITH TIME AND TIME AGAIN BOTH OF YOU
52:18 HAVE TAKEN THE STEP OF FAITH AND GOD HAS REWARDED THAT STEP THAT
52:24 YOU HAVE TAKEN BUT I AM PRAYING THAT THOSE FUNDS WILL BE MATCHED
52:29 YOU SAID HOW MUCH ARE THEY? 15,000 THAT'S PROMISED TO US IT
52:34 WILL BE RAISED BY THE 10,000 more
52:36 15,000 AND SO WE JUST HAVE 10,000 MORE TO BUT YOU KNOW IT
52:43 IS KIND OF ONE OF THOSE like even
52:44 WHERE EVEN ON THE OVERHEAD ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS YOU KNOW
52:49 EVEN THOUGH ALL THESE FUNDS ARE HERE WITH THESE PROGRAMS WE
52:53 DON'T HAVE PEOPLE ADMINISTERING THE PROGRAMS COVERING THE
52:56 OVERHEAD AND THE MILLION DOLLARS WILL ASK TO GO AWAY WE WILL NOT
53:02 AND WE WON'T BE ABLE TO ADMINISTER THIS SO kind of
53:07 ALWAYS COME THROUGH FOR US AND I BELIEVE HE WILL COME THROUGH
53:11 AGAIN. WE ARE EXCITED AND OUR VIEWERS
53:14 HAVE BEEN A PART OF OUR GROWTH SINCE DAY ONE AND THEY STILL
53:19 DONATE. WE GET DONATIONS FROM VIEWERS
53:22 ALL THE TIME AND SOME PEOPLE MIGHT FEEL LIKE doesn't
53:27 DONATION WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE BUT IT DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE WE
53:32 HAVE -- WHEN YOU HAVE 100 PEOPLE GIVING $10 THAT'S A THOUSAND
53:38 DOLLARS AND, SO, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE do. And with God's help, I
53:43 think DO AND WITH GOD'S HELP I THINK
53:46 WE CAN. >> HOW HAS THE MINISTRY OF SALT
53:50 IMPACTED YOU PERSONALLY AND HOW HAS IT STRENGTHEN YOUR FAITH?
53:54 >> HONESTLY, SALT I BELIEVE THAT YOU KNOW WE CAN STUDY THE BIBLE
54:02 ONLY WANT WANT AND PRAY ALL WE WANT BUT IF WE'RE NOT DOING WHAT
54:07 THE BIBLE CALLS US TO DEAL WE ARE ACTING ON OUR FAITH THEN IT
54:14 ALL WORKS TOGETHER, ALL THREE WORK study, we pray we serve.
54:18 THIS IS HOW WE GROW OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD IF IT WAS
54:23 NOT HER SALT I HONESTLY DO NOT KNOW WHERE I WOULD BE I DON'T and
54:28 KNOW WHERE ALL MY ENERGY AND PASSION WILL BE GOING IF IT
54:31 WASN'T FOR SALT I WOULD NOT HAVE MET.
54:37 MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE SHE VOLUNTEERED IN 2016 WE MET WE
54:41 WERE FRIENDS AND THEN DURING COVID WE GOT MARRIED.
54:45 AND SO MY HOLE LIFE WOULD HAVE BEEN TOTALLY DIFFERENT I DON'T
54:48 KNOW WHERE I WOULD BE. THIS IS MADE A HUGE DIFFERENCE
54:51 IN MY LIFE. >> WHAT ABOUT YOU I THINK THE
54:56 IMPACT THAT COVID HAD OF MY LIFE WHERE I AM AT MY THAT WITH THE
55:04 LOSS OF MY MOTHER AND MOVING BACK DEFINITELY IMPACTED MY LIFE
55:08 IN A WAY WHERE I REALLY SAW GOD MOVE THROUGH PEOPLE AND I AM
55:15 REMINDED OF THAT. ONE OF I've learned continually
55:20 learning. HAVE LEARNED AND AM CONTINUALLY
55:23 AND GRACE AND PATIENCE WITH PEOPLE BECAUSE THOSE ATTRIBUTES
55:31 REALLY ARE LIKE THE PRICE IS LIKE -- CHRIST IS LIKE I WANT
55:37 YOU TO BE WITH ME IT'S NOT JUST STUDYING THE BIBLE THAT'S THE
55:41 FIRST PART BUT THEN AND THIS IS HOW IT LOOKS looks and every day I'm
55:47 CONTINUALLY REMINDED OF SEEING SOMEONE WITH PASSION AND GRACE
55:55 AND THAT IS HOW YOU EXPERIENCE GOD.
55:58 YOU APPLY WHAT TOLD YOU TO DO THEN YOU WILL you experience
56:04 REALLY DO EXPERIENCE HIM AND IT BECOMES REAL TO YOU that's what that's what this
56:10 has done. It's WHAT THIS HAS DONE IT REALLY HAS
56:13 CHANGED MY LIFE. >> FAITH HOW IT WORKS IS
56:21 KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT APPLICATION IS DEAD AS WELL.
56:24 YOU SIT THERE AND YOU OBSERVE AND ABSORB THE WORD BUT IF YOU was
56:31 DON'T APPLY. >> THE INFORMATION IS CRUCIAL.
56:37 >> I LOVE WHAT SALT IS DOING AND I LOVE WHAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING
56:40 AND WHAT GOD IS DOING THROUGH YOU AND HOW IS USING YOU TO
56:45 MINISTER TO SO MANY PEOPLE AND A VERY PRACTICAL WAY.
56:50 I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR TAKING THAT LEAP OF FAITH AND STEPPING
56:55 OUT THERE AND SERVING THE COMMUNITY often times forgotten. And I
56:59 want THINK YOU FOR JOINING US I
57:02 CANNOT BELIEVE OUR TIME IS UP UNTIL NEXT TIME.


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