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00:04 [MUSIC] 00:09 [MUSIC] 00:11 >> Sometimes the 2 minute break is even more exciting than what 00:13 you get to watch. One of these days. We do a behind the scenes 00:17 behind the scenes were keeps rolling and you can see what 00:19 happens truly behind the scenes. I'm Jill Morricone. 00:23 We're so delighted that you joined us for this Thursday 00:25 night live program as we talk with Rich Aguilar and the 00:29 president of one mustard seed. And he is a creative printing 00:34 can say this, a creative genius, which is, as I would 00:36 say so because he thinks outside the box. And I mean, 00:40 I can't fathom how he puts it all together and is able to 00:43 produce what he does. It's amazing. I mean, God is 00:47 definitely 00:49 with you. And we see that he's learned given you. 00:53 >> It's a privilege that I can channel all that for something 00:55 that is so meaningful as serving on. 00:57 >> In him. And so we talked about one mustard seat and 01:01 we've been referencing the website, the whole program. 01:03 And that is where you can find the links to all the different 01:05 things that we're talking about here tonight. It's a one-stop 01:08 shop and it will lead you on a travel adventure to many 01:11 different websites. One mustard seed dot com. Where did you 01:15 come up with a name? One must unsafe. 01:17 >> Well, it had to do with our beginnings, which as I 01:20 mentioned earlier on the show, I did architecture for 16 years 01:24 as the first part of my career. 01:26 I'm hoping that it would fulfill my creative needs, 01:29 but then 01:30 and then I, you know, through a whole nother episode of talking 01:34 and what happened they did, it was compelled to start the 01:37 ministry, 01:38 which then meant I had to come up with a name. Yeah. And the 01:41 first thing I thought of was I'm really shutting down my 01:45 architecture practice to take a massive leap of faith because 01:48 it's not like somebody offered me a job or had clarity on what 01:51 I was gonna do. It was a totally but faith to just say, 01:54 I'm going to serve God now with all my time with all my energy, 01:58 what I call this thing. And so I thought mustard seed, which 02:02 is a symbol of faith. But then I thought, I mean, zoom in on 02:06 this a little bit more because really to get that big must 02:09 urge tree to grow. You just need one 02:14 mustard seen. Yeah. And that's what I felt. Myself could be 02:18 one tiny. Most are sued for God that can hopefully do a big 02:21 giant thing for God. 02:23 >> One Western Sea. He's blessed you because of that and 02:27 learn why men? Absolutely. So one must concede. RU 501. 02:32 C 3 organization should ask you this before now. No, not a 02:35 nonprofit that okay. But people can donate. They can definitely 02:39 support and help us do the work perfect. So if you want to 02:43 donate if you want to support, we believe in one God is doing 02:46 in and through rich and one mustard seed for young people 02:50 in for evangelism for young people, get them into the word 02:53 and into nature and into travel and adventure. You're 02:57 three-pronged approach. I love that. So you can support one 03:01 mustard seed by going online to one mustard C dot com. And you 03:06 can donate that way in support the ministry there. Let's talk 03:11 a little bit about another prong, I guess we can say. 03:14 And this is week of prayer. So talk to us about week a 03:17 prayer and what even led to this in the impetus for that. 03:19 >> Yeah, so obviously when you're working with kids, 03:22 that also means you have a certain amount of engagement 03:24 with schools, especially our church schools. And so I would 03:28 get a lot of invitations to engage the to the schools and 03:31 events and all sorts of things. 03:33 And in the process of that, I discovered it was only a few 03:37 years ago that a great amount of our schools are what I would 03:42 call medium to small. 03:45 And when I also discovered in the process was that there are 03:48 all encouraged to have these week of prayer events, usually 03:52 one at the beginning of the year, one towards the end of 03:54 the year 03:55 and that this is part of what's expected out of the church 03:58 schools. 03:59 And as I talk to people, I found out that the that the 04:02 great majority of the schools being small and medium, they 04:05 had a challenge of providing a meaningful speaker for their 04:10 kids because somebody schools are very remote locations, 04:13 hard and expensive to be bringing in no speakers and and 04:17 people that would be dynamic and exciting for the kids and 04:20 engaging the kids. So what would often happen is the they 04:24 would just ask a local person, the retired pastor, somebody 04:27 else to just come in and speak to the kids. 04:29 And I was getting a lot of feedback saying while we would 04:34 just love to have rich come out for a week, a prayer. But, 04:37 you know, he's not going to come all the way over here is 04:39 too complicated to cull their whatever. 04:42 >> You know, I think everyone's UK at exactly. 04:45 >> But then around the time of the pandemic, when it became a 04:49 lot more acceptable to appear, virtually I decided, hey, 04:54 what if I could appear virtually for the schools? 04:58 So I came up with the idea of creating a week of prayer. 05:01 >> Experience where I would produce 5 distinct events which 05:06 would be played Monday Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 05:09 at the schools. There are some this I say that graphic week 05:12 uproar online dot com. I love that. And so basically they 05:15 would go on this on our website. 05:17 >> And be able to have access to the 5 episodes. And it's not 05:21 just the 5 episodes that they're watching. It's also a 05:25 content so that they could prepare the rest of the 05:27 program. So with the kids that are there in person I provide 05:31 this is the Bible verse that we're featuring today that were 05:34 stories talking about today. This is our prayer group that 05:37 we're going to be focusing our prayers on today. So every day 05:39 that would be something different. So it's it's the 05:41 video plus the material that they need around it to create a 05:44 meaningful, we compare experience virtually at least 05:48 my part being able to engage and tell stories and have them 05:51 since virtually. And so the idea that we have is that we're 05:55 going to produce one every single year. Wow. So, you know, 05:59 the feedback that we've got from the schools is that we 06:02 would love 06:03 to have at least one of them be virtual and the other one can 06:05 still be an in-person human that would come in. And haha. 06:12 But then the other one that, you know, I found out a lot of 06:15 the churches, schools are very open to the idea of having one 06:18 virtual event where it's, you know, I get to be there with 06:21 the kids to be exciting. And in some cases, I've 06:23 actually even done a quick zoom with the with the kids lives 06:27 are or sent them a custom little video just to their 06:29 school. So if I can do something like that, also to 06:32 kind of customize the experience that we can prayer 06:34 experience for them. I am happy to do that. I would love that. 06:38 >> I would have loved that as a teacher because I was a teacher 06:41 for 8 years in a one-room classroom in and they're in 06:43 Michigan. There is a lot of schools that are just small 06:47 schools. And I know around the United States, we have a lot of 06:50 small schools and this is vital. I mean, it brings it 06:54 alive again. And I know my daughter enjoyed having it here 06:58 in Thompsonville. They did a series and she really liked how 07:01 he had to stories also that tied into a novel. I think a 07:05 lot of people are unaware that literally there hundreds of 07:07 most small schools and it's just under $100 say yeah, 07:11 but something was really affordable for the schools, 07:15 the small schools to be able to 07:17 >> incorporate that in their program that so as as the years 07:20 pass, hopefully then obviously there would be more series to 07:23 make from the for the first one that we did last year was 07:26 called the greatest adventure. So we we we're behalf done 07:30 shooting the one that we're going planning on releasing 07:32 here in the fall. So what's that went on? 07:34 >> So they pick something the last one, the first with the 07:37 with the one now that you're doing? I can say no, but I do 07:42 feature a story. Yes, story a story. And it has to do with my 07:47 visit. 07:49 How much distance and with that point there. But I'll tell you 07:51 this much. Okay. I was in West Berlin when the wall came down. 07:56 You were really I climb the wall. 07:58 >> Rely now just a fluke accident as the year that I was 08:03 studying in France and the timing just worked out 08:06 perfectly that I was in West Berlin. One experience that 08:09 firsthand. All the amazing this second series is revolving 08:14 around that experience. 08:16 >> I like how you tie in because it's supposed to be a 08:18 week of prayer and you focusing on what we should pray for 08:21 these different days. And I think that's powerful because 08:24 we want to get the kids again focus on praying for others. 08:28 Yeah. 08:30 >> And that's that's the powerful thing of prayer is, 08:32 you know, we call it week of prayer. But sometimes we forget 08:34 about the prayer element. So one of the things that I try 08:37 to do as part of the week, a prayer resources left hone in 08:40 very specifically on these 5 groups of people, groups, 08:45 whether it's, you know, pastors and teachers or, you know, 08:48 first responders and fire, you know, people and nurses and 08:51 doctors are, you know, the missionaries. And, you know, 08:53 so every day there's a special group that we're really 08:55 focusing in on to pray for him to pay him. 08:58 That's powerful. 09:00 >> This just came in from Florida. What is your most 09:03 favorite country that you visited and why? 09:05 >> Hahaha, maybe pick a couple top. Yeah, that's warfare. 09:11 That guard question. But there are some standouts, I guess. 09:17 And I think for me. 09:19 >> If I had to pick pick 3, I have to say a New Zealand 09:23 and Iceland and probably about one. 09:26 >> Why? Why? Why those to find a standout? 09:29 >> In New Zealand, the nature is just amazing, at least from 09:33 my particular taste with mountains and glaciers and snow 09:36 and fjords and this whole thing, Iceland very similar. 09:39 I for some reason really drawn to this whole volcanic, OK and 09:44 the landscape there are so different. The mountains, 09:46 the, you know, hot springs and just just amazing. So 09:50 different. 09:51 And then but one, I think it which impressed press me a lot 09:54 was that we spent pretty much most of our time on safari. 09:56 Also seeing the animals in their natural habitat is so 10:00 different than seeing them first, for example, in the zoo 10:03 we feel like elephants. Yeah, that's exactly so everything 10:06 just running around and it and is now a one or 2 without 10:10 telling friends in earlier and let you go to the zoo in UCL 10:13 fun, too. But then out there, you're driving around suddenly. 10:16 >> 40 go by that. And they're engaging totally different 10:20 because they're this. 10:22 >> Family of elephants that's moving through the savannah. 10:24 And you can literally see personalities. And it's just 10:27 amazing, easy to to be able to discern which was the 10:30 matriarch. And it's so cool to see them in their natural 10:33 habitat is so different. 10:35 >> I love that. Here's another question. How big is your 10:38 production crew? 10:39 >> Recording? Do I do? It varies from. 10:43 >> Show to show or whatever it is that I'm doing will require. 10:46 I think the most I've ever had was 10:49 me plus 4, OK? And the smallest has been 0. I have a set up 10:54 where I shoot myself and record, you know, self Mike, 10:58 myself and I I do the whole thing myself. So. 11:00 >> It means Iran most of time. A lot of that is going to have. 11:04 And of course, when you're going to some of these places 11:06 that are so remote and so hard to get to. 11:09 >> The idea of of coming out and bring in a full crew is is 11:13 not possible and a lot of the stuff is as can be spontaneous 11:16 to. So you've got to be ready at all times. A player Cameron 11:20 Start filming. 11:21 >> Capture that moment. That's right. Yeah. I got to be 11:23 instant in season. So we're going back to the week. A 11:26 prayer for just one moment. He said the first this week a 11:29 prayer was the greatest adventure. What stories that 11:32 focus on. 11:33 >> So I had this very unique adventure. The first time I 11:37 went to Egypt. And so it's basically what happened to me 11:42 and all the different pieces of that episode. 11:45 Each one with a distinct, unique lesson that I learned 11:49 and things that happened on that trip, 11:51 an eye-opening experience. I assure obviously the details 11:55 and if you haven't figured it out already, the central part 11:58 of the week, a prayer is using stories. And I think stories 12:04 powerful, just as I mentioned earlier with the books, you 12:07 know, then, you know, we're going to talk a little bit 12:09 about movies. It's all the same thing. It's stories and why so 12:13 many stories and I totally stole that from Jesus who take 12:18 care of Jesus favorite way of teaching fence. So I'm 12:23 borrowing from him. One of, you know, from his playbook is 12:27 stories telling everybody love stories. Everybody engages with 12:30 the story. So if I can tell stories, get their attention 12:34 and then apply lesson. That's that's the way we try to teach 12:38 and engage people. 12:40 >> Powerful. Why do you think stories are? I know people 12:43 identify with that, but why do you think? 12:47 >> I think just because they relate to them that something 12:49 that happened to them. So it's like, yeah, that happened to me 12:52 or yeah, I went to that exact same spot cause. My stories 12:55 aren't always from some wild, crazy place. It could be. 12:58 You know, when I ran into a bison on some national park. 13:02 >> I had a wild and crazy when I say a place and they've been 13:07 there. You know, that's always a big thing when. 13:10 >> When the motion book first came out, I had a lot of people 13:13 that told me that they were like that put the map on the 13:16 wall and they were tracked the places that I was. And then 13:19 when it was a place that they had been to, that was extra 13:21 special because they're like, have I saw the exact same thing 13:24 and against the excited because they have this connection 13:27 point. And it's all because of story. The story of when I went 13:31 there is similar to the story of when they went there. 13:34 And of course, by having variety of stories, I can 13:38 relate to the kids at an Australia are the kids that are 13:40 in the UK, whatever, because I was there was there and I was 13:43 there. So they each have 13:45 connection points where we can relate on. 13:47 >> And it gives that mental picture. I think also, as you 13:50 envision a little bet you you put yourself or identify like 13:54 you said and the stories. And so in your mind, you must 13:57 picture a similar situation. And I think that's why it's so 14:01 powerful that storytelling parables are very important, 14:05 even to young people and adults like him, too. 14:07 >> Yahoo Lou. So this week, a prayer online, you can just go 14:14 to one must earn C dot com and you can get the information 14:18 about the week. A prayer online. If your school may be 14:20 homeschool groups can do it as well. Absolutely. I even had 14:23 touches. 14:24 >> Use the resource parallel to look at Angeles to me or 14:27 something. So we've seen a whole bunch of different uses 14:29 it as long as they can figure out how to put 5 different 14:33 episodes are days into an event that we can use for a variety 14:38 of different things. 14:39 >> And works a lot that can. Let's switch gears. We've been 14:41 talking video. We've been talking virtual. What about 14:44 podcast? Talk about your podcast in what got you into 14:48 podcast? 14:49 >> Well, you know, from the very beginning when we started 14:51 one mustard seed, my idea and when I proposed a guy does I 14:56 want to reach as many people as possible and all walk through 14:59 whatever door you open. And so as we've kind of progress with 15:02 our ministry work, we've tried, you know, doing video. We've 15:05 tried doing writing, we've tried doing events. So at some 15:08 point you start asking like what other spaces exist, 15:12 where I can also reach people. And so it's been 2 years ago or 15:17 something. This idea was born of what if we do a radio show 15:20 or podcast, which nowadays are parallel and so is like, 15:24 okay, the audio space, the listening space, you know, 15:28 you can reach different. Now there's, you know, devices 15:31 where people can listen on demand not just waiting for the 15:34 show at 07:30PM. I have to be a, you know, bright. So we 15:38 decided to experiment into that space. And then of course, 15:41 the challenge was 15:42 and what to do because typically a lot of the kids, 15:48 religious programming is stories. Yeah, which again, 15:52 I'm a huge fan of and supporter of 15:55 but I was trying to think, okay, what can I do? That's 15:57 different. That they got enough stories may be different 16:01 approach. So our podcast, which is called God's Green Earth 16:05 takes on a totally different approach. It's a variety 16:08 program. So we have all a whole bunch of segments. There's 16:11 probably I think, 16:12 12, 13, 14 different segments within the half-hour time slot 16:17 a lot. And we have are nature saying that we have our history 16:21 segment and I have my travel adventure story and then we 16:23 have our silly minute and then there's game show and we have a 16:27 brain teaser and we have this thing called the What's it 16:30 and the centerpiece had to say what of? 16:33 >> What you have to guess. Yeah. What is it? So basically 16:40 for that segment, I play a sound of something that got me 16:43 or animal or something in nature that I may. 16:46 >> And the kids I give it to the beginning of the episode 16:49 and the kids have to listen to it and try to figure out what 16:51 the sound came from the fun. So then at the end of the 16:54 episode, I reveal the answer. What was it was a fruit bat and 16:58 you know, whatever it was making the noise. So that the 17:00 what I just. 17:01 >> When you're mowing the lawn. Haha. 17:06 >> What the centerpiece of the show is what I call the pretend 17:09 I'm attic. 17:10 And that was my excuse to use my imagination and pretend 17:14 world which kids love to protect. Yeah. Make believe 17:17 that they believe that I have this pretend time machine that 17:19 I go back and I talked to Bible characters. And so I I 17:23 literally go into my pretend time machine and I go back and 17:26 talk to a Bible character. And I asked him questions and, 17:30 you know, hearing a Bible story from the point of view of 17:35 literally talking to the Bible character, tell their own story 17:39 is a very different way to hear a Bible story versus we always 17:43 are told about a Bible story. And he did this and she did 17:46 that. And this happened to them when I was like, what happens 17:49 if we actually hear it straight from them. So that's the kind 17:53 of the centerpiece. The meat and potatoes of of each episode 17:56 is our pretend a matter of when I go back to our potential 17:58 magic and a talk to the Bible here that is featured in that a 18:01 person. 18:03 >> I like how you can do it on podcast because when you're 18:05 traveling, that's easier to do. When you just load up your 18:10 phone in could hook it up to your car, for example, on your 18:14 family can listen to a podcast whenever you want to. So, 18:17 yeah, I really like that. 18:19 >> I know it. And, you know, they can listen to an anywhere 18:21 on a road trip before going to bed on the way to school. 18:25 And that's it everywhere. I mean, we've gotten some 18:28 incredible feedback of some of the places using some of the 18:31 analytics that's available now 18:33 where people are listening to and Indonesia and United Arab 18:36 Emirates. And, you know, I've been on and just amazing plays. 18:40 I'm like, wow, 18:42 which to me is an inspiration because you can do whatever you 18:44 want. And there's ways to connect with people everywhere. 18:47 If you're just willing to try an experiment, the creative 18:50 then get the word out there. So many tools available now to 18:53 reach people on anybody can do this. 18:55 >> And your world has changed so much because the technology, 18:58 so because a podcast or, you know, our Instagram or Facebook 19:02 or YouTube or this so many ways that you can just live stream. 19:06 I mean, who even knew that you can do that or you can connect 19:08 with people around the world. So that is amazing. We have you 19:12 brought an audio clip, you know, from 19:15 >> God's Great Earth, which particular episode is this clip 19:18 from. So in this particular episode, I'm going my potential 19:22 Matic to talk to Gideon. 19:24 >> And so I'm about to that for the 2nd half of the show, 19:28 I because I do 2 segments with the potential Matic. So in this 19:31 particular segment that I brought is a going back to talk 19:35 to give you a little bit more. 19:36 >> All right. So we're going to listen to that right now and go 19:38 back in the pretend nomadic. I like to work and talk to get 19:43 in. 19:44 [MUSIC] 19:46 >> Okay. Let's get back to the potential Matic and our talk 19:49 with Gideon. I'm really confused about this 19:54 disappearing Army. 19:58 >> OK, get in. I'm really confused. You're you're you're 20:00 telling me that a couple of days ago you had 32,000 20:04 soldiers here. That's right. 20:06 And clearly there gun, please to tell me what happened to 20:10 them 20:12 once the entire army was assembled and what a huge honor 20:16 me it was. Yeah, wow. I mean, right. 32,000 that that is a 20:20 huge army. I agree 20:23 when the army was assembled, God talk to me. Oh, boy, 20:28 what what did he say this time? He said the army was too big. 20:33 2 bigs. Yeah. 20:38 How can that be? I mean, don't you want as many soldiers as 20:41 possible in order to defeat the enemy? 20:44 That seems a gonna be the way to win a battle. I would say. 20:48 All right. I agree. That is how you win a bottle. If you don't 20:53 have God with you, I see OK, well, what did he say? 20:59 He said if we go into battle with so many. So, Josh, 21:03 the people of Israel are going to think that the so just one 21:08 because they what I want to flood, right. And that's not 21:12 the goal. No, 21:14 God wanted. The people of isn't up to write on them to got so 21:19 got really wanted to make a point yet. And what was that 21:22 that it was God would deliver us from media. 21:27 >> That's powerful. It is a love that. I'm always amazed 21:31 how he doesn't get confused between the character. Haha. 21:34 >> All the different. How do you know like? Oh no. 21:40 >> I'm doing this point. No one doing this for us. 21:42 Those production secrets. 21:44 >> Haha. 21:47 >> It is kind of confusing. Of course, you're trying to 21:49 figure out every time I introduce a new character now, 21:51 for example, Gideon, and it's not just one episode. So it'll 21:55 probably take that took me because we're already finished 21:57 getting story. But it took I think, 9, 9, different episodes 22:01 of this of God's green Earth to to get his story fully out. 22:04 All right. So we keep coming back and we get a little 22:06 farther along in this story and literally when I'm writing and 22:09 I'm just got the Bible right next to me. And we're just 22:11 going piece by piece 22:13 picking apart every single little detail, the story so 22:15 that the kids don't miss a single thing. And we're like I 22:17 said, hearing it straight from it in himself for whoever the 22:21 bottom characters that particular day. 22:23 >> That's really powerful. Did so how it can people listen 22:27 to the podcast and I know Most podcast, which is always 22:30 available on podcast platform. 22:32 >> Yes, so there's a every podcast platform out there as 22:36 it is hosting itself so they can go to whatever device they 22:39 want to use whatever podcast platform they want. 22:42 There's also a handful of radio stations little by little more 22:45 and more radio stations are picking up the show and putting 22:47 on their network. So there's a handful out there probably the 22:51 best way to to find the list of networks we've listed on the 22:54 Web page. So because there are several interactive elements. 22:58 So when I mentioned the silly minute, so the minute is 23:01 basically were kids get to cement their squeaky clean 23:04 jokes. And so, you know, I call it the halftime of the episode 23:08 where we take a break and we get to be silly. So the kids 23:11 are the ones literally sending me the jokes and I share their 23:14 jokes. The brain teasers also something that the kids sent to 23:18 me. So there's several interactive elements where I'm 23:21 trying to get them to engage me. 23:23 And all that is accessible through the website, which is 23:26 God's green Earth dot com, which of course can be accessed 23:28 from. 23:30 >> Unless you've got cars that not all evenings. Yeah. 23:33 >> So that's kind of the site where you can go and check and 23:36 see the networks that are picking it up and playing it. 23:38 And then, of course, there's links to the podcast platforms 23:42 that are plant every week. One upset how many podcast 23:46 again. So we've we've done. 22 episodes so far Klaus now. 23:51 Now we can all about 25 minutes longer. So yeah. 23:55 >> That's super exciting. OK? Another question came in. 23:57 This came from Janice from Canada. Have you ever visited 24:01 National Park and Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada? 24:06 >> Oh, yeah. Loved it. And bam, bam. And the rocky part of of 24:11 of in Canada. Absolutely stunning and gorgeous. The some 24:15 can't meetings. There are no bird a so I got to sneak out. 24:19 >> And see that. So they have hot springs there, too. Yeah, 24:23 haha lot of Colorado today at Colorado's Mountains and then 24:27 the other half planes and numbers. 24:29 >> Almost the same. And so, you know, a lot of the plane, 24:32 the cow is the whole thing. And and then the amazing 24:35 mountain ranges. Yeah. So a lot of tennis. 24:38 >> Wonderful. Highlight the mountains myself. So if I could 24:42 stay in the mountains, I'd be happy there, too. Who are 24:45 saying they are all it reminds me how Jesus would often go to 24:49 h*** tops and pray. And so 24:52 I think that in my husband always talks about how the sky 24:56 seems blue or when you're up high. And so I don't know 24:59 there's something about the mountains in the fresh air out 25:01 there that it was beautiful. 25:03 >> They are absolutely. I think just time in nature's healing 25:07 and rejuvenating and draws us closer to God and reminds us of 25:11 God's yes, that's powerful. Let's talk about speaking of 25:14 nature. This is going Middle East. Let's talk about the Holy 25:17 Land, the Israel. You're going to a holy land tours sometimes 25:22 about. Well, you know, as you. 25:24 >> Pretty observe. They do a lot of traveling. And so a lot 25:27 of the kids are like 25:28 we love the adventures that you go on. And then 25:32 every once in awhile I get a parent, her kids are like, 25:35 can I go on the adventure with Yahoo. Just jump into your 25:38 suitcase. Haha. So I've been thinking for a long time like 25:42 how to how how could this work, where kids could go on an 25:46 adventure with me. So came up with video finally trying to 25:51 lead out on a tour. 25:53 And so the idea is that I would design a tour 25:57 and it would be unique. It would be catering towards 26:02 active families. So we're trying to appeal to families 26:05 that want to go on an adventure and the first place that I kind 26:08 of pick so trying to do. This is the Holy Land 26:10 adventure. And the whole point is because the idea of bringing 26:14 the Bible to life. Yeah. So parents that want to you 26:17 know, they do make a very big priority in teaching the Bible. 26:21 But what if we can also go there and see the places and 26:24 see where Jesus walked and be baptized in the Jordan River 26:27 where Jesus was baptized and and do these adventures. 26:30 So no kids were going to go swimming has kinds tunnel. 26:33 We can talk about the story and then we're going to climb and 26:36 the walls of Jerusalem and we're going to, you know, 26:38 do all these different things to do. Climb out of that super 26:42 excited down in float in the dead sea and see where the 26:44 scrolls were found. And, you know, so you know what created 26:47 this tour active again and is open for anybody. Anybody can 26:51 come, but we're really trying to cater to active kids that 26:55 probably maybe won't do so well going for 4 hours in a museum 26:59 are, you know, staring at a theater for 3 years very now. 27:04 So it's a little faster pace, a lot more exciting. You know, 27:08 every kid that comes along would get a Happ so they can 27:11 have on the adventure and they get their own journal to go on 27:14 the adventure. 27:15 And probably one of the other exciting parts of of this tour 27:18 that we're planning, which, by the way, is a next March 2024. 27:23 is to have some recordings done, which would basically 27:28 give the kids the opportunity to also not just be on the 27:31 event with the go on the show. Yeah, which would be cool. 27:35 And, you know, we we hope that this is something that you guys 27:39 will obviously also be able to share with your viewers. 27:41 Have the kids be on the show? Be on the episode here. They 27:44 are visiting all these amazing places in the Holy Land. 27:48 >> That's something that I've always wanted to do it some 27:50 time go to to Silliman in visit that because that does make it 27:55 I live because I've heard so many people that have gone and 27:59 they say now I understand why Jesus was talking about this 28:03 and it just makes it come alive when you understand where you 28:07 know where Jesus was baptize, maybe or how you reach the 28:12 people. So I that is something on my I have to say bucket list 28:18 is I've never been to Israel. So, yeah, that's something that 28:22 through that. 28:23 >> Special that you're doing. It's it's very powerful to be 28:26 there. It is the exact Weiss was only years. I was only 28:30 there once sorry in 2014. I guess it was. But 28:33 >> he's only once. But it was amazing. And just when I came 28:37 back and open up, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and you 28:40 read it and it was like, oh, yeah, that's what the Sea of 28:43 Galilee and the like. And that's what the Jordan River so 28:46 I can this is I think the party and was one of my favorite 28:49 place right away. But that really spoke to me. 28:51 >> And imagine capturing that all 28:55 giving to kids as well. Yeah, 28:57 so that kids can grow up having been to the places that we 29:00 spend so much time learning about and experience the same 29:03 places. Again, the the concept is that does bring the Bible to 29:06 life and let them be able to experience these places as if 29:10 they're not just some distant Bible story. 29:12 I was there. 29:14 What was your favorite place near? 29:17 I have real favorite. I had a funny experience at the Wailing 29:21 Wall. So and then I also had an of an interesting experience 29:25 because at the time that I went because I've only been there 29:27 once I was spending a summer in Jordan on a dig. 29:31 And so one of the weekend's I was able to sneak over to 29:34 Israel and crossing the border had a little adventure. You 29:38 know, it's in the book to feed. Haha. So getting over was a bit 29:47 of an adventure into into Jerusalem and up and Israel. 29:50 Yeah, I'm but a very impressive to see these places firsthand 29:54 and in person. 29:56 >> And what happened at the wailing Wall? 29:57 He said the willingly. Yeah. So so when you go to the 30:01 wailing Wall to separate the men in the separate the men and 30:03 the women, I met him. I wasn't prepared for that like, oh, 30:06 wow, I can't go with Greinke. Haha, right. And when we go 30:09 here tonight here, yeah. But for the men. 30:13 >> You're also when you approach to all you're required 30:15 to wear. Yeah, a little a little. I forget what it's 30:19 called the little cap. And but I I didn't have one. So they 30:23 have, but they had him there. 30:24 >> Well, paper ones. Haha. And it was a windy day. 30:29 >> Haha. 30:32 >> So I was trying to be as respectful and river unholy as 30:35 possible. So I put my little hat on, but it flew off. 30:39 And so here's rich and one of the most sacred holy places. 30:42 And here's me running after my little had I'm a step on it so 30:48 that it wouldn't go farther. So I just felt really awkward 30:52 because it is such a holy setting and bears rich in the 30:54 background chasing a little paper hat, trying to step on it 30:58 and step on. It keeps getting away. I finally stepped on it. 31:01 He's like, oh, you know, everybody's looking at the and 31:05 as you know, Western or chasing his at. 31:09 >> See, again, all of vision. And yeah, and we can all 31:12 identify because I'm thinking of all these crazy things that 31:15 I've done in my husband can tell many stories like that. 31:18 Just, you know, everybody's like staring at you've really 31:22 done what, what? 31:24 >> And this is natural when you travel around and you're in new 31:27 settings and of course, is an important part of traveling. 31:29 You have to be adaptable and flexible and ready for anything 31:34 because people think that it's, you know, you thrive on 31:36 predictability and, you know, the safety of knowing what's 31:39 coming, go out there. And it's an event, you have to be ready 31:43 for anything and you have to roll with it. A lot of people 31:46 just shut down if it's not the way that they wanted or what 31:48 they expected. Unlike no got embrace it and roll with it. 31:51 >> That's good. Fun and creativity being willing to be 31:55 flexible. Turn it into an event or yeah. 31:58 >> And with with kids, you always have to be flexible. 32:01 You can be too structured because you would sound them 32:04 out in a heartbeat. So yes. 32:07 >> So let's go to vet first ever trailer that we're going 32:12 to launch tonight right there. And by the way, to get us 32:15 going, sorry, I forgot to mention, I think there's a 32:17 slide or at least the lower 3rd, if I don't get put on 32:19 there already. So if people are interested in coming on our 32:23 Holy Land inventor, there is a place that they can go 32:26 and in some information where they can get, there's a you can 32:30 text. I'm rich Israel to a number that will be on the 32:33 screen there. And if they just want to get some information, 32:37 techs that to there, and they will just get some free 32:39 information back so that they can get details and the Web 32:42 site and information, registration foreman, anything 32:45 they they need to get. I think we're even preparing here 32:48 pretty soon. I'm like a zoom call so that a lot of questions 32:52 can be answered and plans of what we're planning on doing. 32:56 So there is a limited amount of of space as well in the torso. 33:00 And since it is, families were hoping, you know, it's groups 33:03 of 4, 3, 7, and whatever that will come. So if you're 33:07 interested in coming out and joining us on this adventure, 33:09 please text rich Israel to that number. He's at it again. 33:13 >> Absent, thank you so much for bringing that out. We're 33:15 supposed to do some. Thank you. I'm going to mention the number 33:19 here just because some people might be listening on them 33:21 radio, OK? And they wouldn't have seen that number. So you 33:24 can text rich Israel. That's R I C h and then just the word 33:28 Israel. I as our a E L and the number you text it to is 9, 33:33 1, 4, 8, 0, 4, 33:36 5, 6, 9, 9, That number again is 9, 1, 4, 8, 0, 4, 5, 6, 33:43 9, 9, So you just text the word rich Israel to that number and 33:48 the connect. You can also get information on one mustard C 33:51 dot com. 33:52 >> I think I need to update to that particular link. But 33:56 >> within hours, no, it's not there that it's not there 33:59 tonight, but it will be soon. So you can always get that. 34:02 They have to OK, perfect. So now let's go. You've already 34:04 produced one movie. Is that correct? Yes, tell us about the 34:07 first movie. And then we're going to talk about the second, 34:09 the brand new one coming to you. 34:10 >> So about the I think is about 5 years ago has produced 34:13 a movie called the mysterious note and came out. It was a a 34:18 challenging project is I never produced a movie before. 34:20 And I was also the screenwriter and the director. So, you know, 34:25 we have to kind of where a lot of hats and figure things out. 34:29 I felt like this was an important space to enter and to 34:34 have an offering because, again, this concept of 34:36 storytelling 34:37 and our culture, there is probably no more powerful 34:40 setting. Then a movie to tell a story. Movies are wildly 34:44 popular. Think the statistic I last heard was and just North 34:47 America alone. 1.6 billion tickets sold to go see a movie 34:51 while people paying to go see a movie. They want the story 34:55 and I thought, wow, why can't the church used this the space 34:59 more to tell stories that give God glory and give got honor 35:04 and help people build their faith and especially in my 35:08 particular case because of my passion for for ministering to 35:11 kids, it would be stories that are family friendly. Yeah, 35:15 because even in the Christian film World, it is 35:18 the challenging it in most. If not all of the Christian 35:22 films being made today are really geared towards an adult 35:25 or at best a youth viewer. And a lot of them are probably 35:29 acceptable enough for kids to watch, but they're not 35:31 targeting kids by any means. And a lot of the topics are 35:34 really heavy, very dramatic and people dying and people in a 35:38 suicide and this now, whatever I'm like, this is not family 35:40 friendly. I guess they can watch it, but it's not for 35:43 kids. 35:44 So my idea was to serve that particular niche when Christian 35:49 stories that could target kids and family. I grew up in the 35:53 70's when Disney used to make different kind of movies, 35:56 right, that we're more fun and slapstick and a lot more 35:59 innocent. And so I was trying to grow. They've changed a lot. 36:02 So I was trying to figure out how do we capture? That's fun, 36:06 silly adventure, but with a distinct clear, spiritual 36:09 point. So that's kind of what we're trying to do with the 36:11 mysterious note. And 36:14 we're happy how it turned out. It won some awards. And so 36:17 we're super happy with what we learned from there. 36:20 And then, of course, the big question was, are you going to 36:23 do another Yahoo? 36:25 >> That's always a question of people like it. When they find 36:28 something they connect with one thing I like, is there another 36:30 one coming? 36:32 >> Yeah. And so that was a question that 36:33 went unanswered for several years because 36:37 for me, I I took a massive leap of faith and it ended up being 36:41 a giant volunteer job to create this because, you know, it 36:46 never, you know, financially speaking pays itself off its 36:50 very complicated to do that. So since I'm a a for-profit, 36:54 technically, I'm trying to figure out, OK, I want to do 36:57 these things that give gun glory, but I need to find a 36:59 financial mechanism to do it. 37:02 So even though the mysterious note was was a a great project 37:06 and everything it it was not able to fulfill that part of of 37:09 the things. So and I have no regrets. I'm not complaining 37:13 that I had to work for 2 years for free, but I was happy to 37:17 show what could be done. And that was probably more 37:20 important to me than anything is to see. Hey, can we use the 37:23 movie platform to teach kids to engage kids to bring up 37:27 conversations and topics that parents and kids can then 37:29 afterwards they were talking about or what he said? That's 37:32 what do you think? So the idea of wanting to do another movie 37:37 was there immediately. But how to create a mechanism to make 37:40 it feasible was what took me years to wrestle with 37:45 until about a year and a half ago. When I go through lots of 37:48 prayer for these last 5 years, I had an idea of a way to try 37:53 to to do a second project and that so adventure that I've 37:57 been on here for the last 18 months beginning of last year 38:00 to 22, I started writing another movie 38:04 and then we shot it in the middle of last year. And then 38:08 in the fall, I started post-production on it and 38:10 editing. And we're just about done editing. We're about to 38:14 create our rough cut and send it off to the composer. So 38:17 we're getting really close to the end music score, the 38:20 musical skorea. And so we're getting really close to the end 38:23 with the hopes of releasing it here in the fall. Again, 38:26 a leap of faith, a huge leap of faith. Now, speaking of the of 38:31 the model that we're trying to do and who are trying to serve. 38:33 The interesting thing about this movie is that we really 38:36 wanted to target 38:37 Pathfinders and adventures because I decided first of all 38:42 to feature them in the movie pay. So they have a distinctive 38:46 appearance in the movie. And the second thing that's 38:49 really a interesting about the movie is that it 38:52 teaches the honor 38:54 for dinosaurs. 38:55 >> It has a really both clubs. We rode into the screenplay. 39:01 All the requirements are Taha. 39:04 >> Haha. 39:07 >> Honor or yeah. That's exactly. It is so for clubs. 39:11 Very handy because they can literally have a movie night 39:15 and get him on it and watch a movie and get an honor and 39:18 understand and have fun. Engage with the story. Bring a 39:21 friend. Use it as an evangelistic tool. Wow. The 39:24 other thing that we're excited about, especially in this lead 39:28 up to the camper in Gillette is that if we can release on time, 39:32 which is our plan to release here in September, is that the 39:35 movie would be able to license it for fundraising. 39:39 And that's another big thing that we wanted to help the club 39:42 to do because coming into this year, fundraising for our club 39:45 is huge. And I just I'm a massive fan of clubs, always 39:48 trying to figure out how to help them with love going to 39:50 camp reason speaking. 39:52 But how could I help them with this movie 39:55 to raise funds? So that's why I came up with this idea. Okay. 39:57 The honor is built in the movie can be used for fundraising. 40:02 Could be used for vandalism. Schools can use it move. 40:06 Churches can use it for a movie night because that's another 40:08 thing that I get a lot of from pastors are like. We want to 40:11 have a movie night, but there's nothing to watch. We're not 40:14 going tell us we're not going to show that this Christian 40:16 movie is not family friendly. So I wasn't like I could help 40:20 them with that too. And create a movie 40:22 that would be family friendly church, appropriate, squeaky, 40:25 clean fun and adventurous with a very clear and distinct 40:28 message, a spiritual message. So those are all the things 40:31 that we're trying to do with the movie. And, of course, 40:34 the financial model that will hopefully 40:37 help us to to keep this sustainable is the licensing 40:40 fee. So again, to clubs and paid a little licensing fee, 40:44 you can sell tickets. You can sell burritos and pizza. 40:48 You can do whatever you want. That's all years. I'm I'm just 40:52 trying to help pay for the movie with a little like recoup 40:54 the cost of the licensing fee and then whatever you can 40:57 fundraise because usually when you have a movie, if you 40:59 license a normal movie, they're taking a percentage of your 41:03 anything concessions. You know, whatever show I'm like, no, 41:06 I want to support the club's. You just help us 41:09 do a little bit to help us pay this thing off. And then 41:12 whatever you guys can use to fundraise, whether it's a 41:14 school clubs, churches. 41:16 >> You know, groups, you know, knock yourself out and 41:19 hopefully can be a blessing for anybody watching. So these 41:21 Pathfinder leaders can use that financing for it to help fund 41:25 the trip to the Camper E for. Yeah, you know, my goal would 41:28 be to encourage churches the same. 41:31 >> Support your path running club by just paying for this. 41:33 The licensing fee and no go to town, inviting people selling 41:37 tickets. We're making very toes making brownies, you know, 41:39 whatever they want. Just follow on Yahoo as big as you can. 41:43 And so as much as you can, we did a little bit of that when 41:46 we the mysterious note, but only for just a couple of 41:49 months. But we've got some great feedback from clubs 41:52 there. Ali, thank you so much for that. We raise $2000. 41:55 Why her movie night? So again, the great opportunity for 41:59 clubs, churches, schools anywhere in the world because 42:03 the movie will be available on our site and then you get 42:06 access to right there and 42:07 plan a movie night will provide the posters and everything they 42:09 need to promote it. The trailers, you know, everything 42:12 that they need to ramp up and get ready to to have a 42:15 screening of their movie. 42:17 >> Speaking of the trailer, we've got the trailer here 42:19 tonight. This is the first time this is it for Eyler has ever 42:23 been played. That's right. We're premiering the trailer 42:26 here tonight. Yeah, let's look at that right now. 42:32 [MUSIC] 42:37 [MUSIC] 42:42 >> How far would you go? 42:45 [MUSIC] 42:50 [MUSIC] 42:55 [MUSIC] 43:00 [MUSIC] 43:05 [MUSIC] 43:10 [MUSIC] 43:15 [MUSIC] 43:20 [MUSIC] 43:21 [MUSIC] 43:26 [MUSIC] 43:31 [MUSIC] 43:36 [MUSIC] 43:41 [MUSIC] 43:43 >> Alex, for exciting secret of the fossil. You saw it here 43:48 first on 3, A B and it's the day live. This was the trailer. 43:53 That's exciting. Yeah, it's going to launch. She said in. 43:56 >> I'm hoping that Amber One, if we can get everything all 44:00 lined up and wrapped up in time. 44:01 >> Okay. That was exciting. And people who go to one 44:04 mustard seed dot com to get information yet. 44:06 >> And of course, we're hoping to get the information out 44:08 directly to the clubs. I'm already starting to reach out a 44:11 lot of the youth directors and leaders directly 44:14 because because of our our dinosaur tour, already a lot of 44:18 these contacts already. So we're getting them excited and 44:20 let the club's know what the schools now, let everybody know 44:23 that this will be a resource that they'll have access to 44:26 hopefully here in the fall. How long is it? 44:28 It's looking to be about 75 minutes. So we didn't know the 44:33 good life because it is a kids movie and I resist. 44:37 >> During a two-hour movie, absolute kids. It's a little 44:39 too long adult. Yeah, that's cool. But for kids a little bit 44:42 shorter. I would think adults a lot of times are going to 90 44:44 minutes. You know, it's yeah and shorter than it used to be. 44:47 >> Yeah. I don't think I can do more than 90 South Lake Tahoe. 44:52 >> That is exciting to all of this is available at one 44:55 Mustard C dot com, whether it's the dinosaur encounter, whether 44:59 it's the brand new movie. That's 2 to be released this 45:02 fall, whether it's the Sabbath school lessons, whether any of 45:06 the stuff that we've talked about here tonight, the books, 45:09 all of that is available at one mustard seed dot com. Let's 45:15 shift gears just a little bit. Talk to us about ways that we 45:19 can partner with your ministry. And we've been talking all 45:22 evening about that. But some maybe initiatives to looking 45:28 forward to some dreams for the future, some goals. What are 45:32 some areas you'd like to explore? 45:34 >> Yeah. So a couple different areas. I'd say, you know, 45:38 since we just talked about the movie, one of our the goals 45:41 would be to produce a new movie. Let's say every year and 45:43 a half or 2 as ambitious. Yeah, it's a it's a big 45:47 project, but it's totally doable. If I can rains, the 45:51 talent arranged the financing, arranged the whole thing. 45:54 The mechanism has to work so that it sustains itself. 45:58 So that would be one of the things that we would love to 46:00 try to tackle. And the long-range goal, if if if we 46:04 can just imagine this is let's say 10 years from now, 46:07 here's our website and here are 46:11 10 distinctly have been as movies, one with a family 46:14 friendly audiences that anybody at any time can have access to 46:18 indefinitely. So, you know, there's a church somewhere. 46:22 Hey, we haven't seen this. You know, we saw this with our 46:25 pathfinders 8 years ago. Let's let's watch this again. 46:28 And they can always know that there are the selection of 46:30 movies available that they could have access to. So if we 46:34 can build up a library to that point, but that would mean 46:37 we're producing one every couple years or whatever. 46:40 So that would be a challenge there to see if that can. 46:44 >> Play out. That what I like about that is that I've heard a 46:47 lot of young people that contact me and 46:51 they want to witness to their non Adventist friends and they 46:56 try to find something that's fun and not to religious 47:00 because they feel a little more embarrassed about bringing them 47:02 to stab a school or, you know, church. But some fun activity 47:06 like this. It will get them talking about the Bible. 47:10 >> A little bat without feeling like down going to church. 47:13 And so we're going to do that. Is it just kind of get their 47:15 feet wet? Start slow. Sometimes we just think the first time 47:19 has to be to bring the church doesn't have to be, you know, 47:22 and especially for teenagers that that can be intimidating. 47:25 So this opens the door to him. So that's one of the things 47:28 we'd like to do. Love we have for a couple years now been 47:32 talking about doing a season 2 of the creation case. So that 47:36 would be excited by far been. 47:38 >> The most of them watched and exciting series that that we 47:42 produced a 47:44 almost immediately after I finished the first season. 47:46 I already had ideas for how to do a second season. 47:51 That's a huge project. Yeah. How long the the first season 47:54 take? It took us 2 years. I believe that in just the 47:58 filming alone, we went 40,000, no, 40 days, 10,000 Miles. 48:04 Why it was very intense, shoot the editing. And it was just, 48:10 you know, I had to write 600 pages of script 48:13 and then the, you know, 6 months of research. 48:16 So it was a it was a sidewall project. But I've gotten so 48:20 many people from all over the world that say this is change 48:24 our lives, to be able to have this show that helps us 48:26 understand the stopping of creation and evolution in such 48:29 a fun way that adults and kids can have fun to watch and learn 48:33 and grow and have fun while they're watching my nephews 48:36 love it and they love you. So that's been the kind of a 48:40 dream to to do a season 2. But again, a pretty sizable 48:44 financial challenge looms because unfortunately, 48:50 you do need the money in advance to produce something. 48:53 There's a Linda Tripp. I mean, just the trip alone. I mean, 48:57 that's why you've got to tackle projects that you can kind of 48:59 handle or you can swing. But this would be a large 49:02 project. Yeah, which no way bigger than doing a movie, 49:05 for example, which a lot of people think movie state, 49:07 millions of dollars like not to have to write. You can be 49:09 creative and do it on a shoestring budget and bootstrap 49:12 it but a series like the creation case. I mean, that was 49:16 let's pay down that the content is 10 times more than a movie 49:20 out of filming the thousands of hours that you have to shoot. 49:23 And I mean, it was just a massive undertaking, but 49:27 huge blessing is where they can tell a ball a lot of the work 49:30 that we've done. That's been probably the standout. Yeah, 49:33 a resource that we produce. I think you're right with the 49:36 research to that's. 49:37 >> That makes it relevant. And it's and it's hard because 49:40 it has take a lot of time to do all that researchers to study 49:44 the to build that content. 49:46 >> And that's the problem with a lot of times the topics of 49:49 creation are not addressed early enough. Yes, because I 49:54 don't know how how to bring it up. They don't know how to tee 49:56 time was too complicated. Stew scientific. It's too deep. 49:59 How do we get our kids to understand that? So that's why 50:01 specifically picked on that line. We got we can we can not 50:05 do this. So we've got to figure out how to do that. And that's 50:07 where the whole point of the creation case came out, too. 50:10 Figure out how to get our our young people, 50:14 you know, early on and yet grounded on these topics of 50:17 these discussions of each episode, you know, talk about 50:19 different things and OK, nose and botany and dinosaurs and 50:23 fossils and, you know, all these these things. 50:27 But 50:28 during his second season would be. 50:30 >> That is one town that salute lease Florida's putting on your 50:33 heart tonight to support one a mustard seed and rich angular. 50:38 We just encourage you to go to the website right now. One must 50:41 NC Dot com or just pray about it and say, Lord, what do you 50:44 want me to do? Is there anything that I can do to help 50:46 support the work and bring that message of creation and 50:51 adventure and wible stories and nature in all of that to young 50:56 people around the world. You can get in contact with 50:59 rich and you can support that through one mustard seed dot 51:02 com or coming down to the end of the program almost done 51:05 here. Let's shift gears a little bit. And I just want to 51:09 talk to those young people. 51:12 Can you look in the camera there and talk to someone maybe 51:15 whose 51:16 struggling in their fate may be struggling without maybe not 51:20 really sure. They want to walk with God or what they want to 51:24 do with her life. Always you tell them? 51:26 >> Yeah, you know, it's not wrong to have feelings of 51:30 doubts. It is just kind of a normal thing that everybody 51:33 goes through in their life. There's a moment where 51:36 look inside and you're trying to figure out who you are. 51:38 You're trying to identify where you fit in the world. And 51:42 you know, the worst thing you want to do is feel like you're 51:45 an outsider. You're last. You're not included. You don't 51:48 know what you're doing. You don't know where you're going. 51:50 Like I said it is okay to have those feelings. But it is also 51:54 important to understand that God has a purpose for him. 51:57 God has a point for your life. You're not just some aimless, 52:01 you know, chemicals floating around because that's what the 52:04 enemy wants. You to believe that you're a worthless pile of 52:07 chemicals. I've seen experiments where they add up 52:10 the amount of chemicals that you're worth and it's $7 worth 52:13 of chemical is what makes up the human. 52:16 And that's the enemy trying to knock us down to defeat us. 52:21 I would not like to encourage you to dig deep and explore an 52:25 Ascot hard questions but listen and trust and hear what he 52:29 might have to say for you and offer yourself to be open, 52:33 be willing to experiment, be willing to to try something 52:36 new, be willing to listen where maybe you haven't listened 52:39 before. 52:40 And of course, wait for God to speak. And sometimes, you know, 52:43 we we expect some big giant booming voice, but sometimes is 52:47 not going to come like that. It will be a soft, quiet voice 52:50 or maybe somebody else which bring a message to you on 52:53 behalf of the messenger, but keeping our ears open and being 52:56 willing and available to listen here. And you know what, 53:00 he may even have a calling for you. He may have something that 53:02 he needed to do, someone that you need to talk to as well. 53:05 And sometimes by you sharing what you believe with others 53:09 makes the difference because when you can articulate what 53:12 you believe 53:13 to somebody else that doesn't, that is also an act of faith 53:17 building and trusting God with what you believe. 53:20 >> And that's powerful. What would you say, Francine, 53:22 if you're just I'm just saying what? I almost want to 53:25 piggyback off of that because 53:27 seek and ye shall find. When we really search for a guy with a 53:31 whole heart, 53:33 he will not leave you deserted. He wants to tell you the plans 53:38 that he has for you. And we know that I'm based in 53:41 Jeremiah. 29 to 11 to 13 unity knows exactly what he wants you 53:47 to do. And it's just searching for his word in tuning in. 53:51 And like you said, listening to God's voice, because, again, 53:55 it's not going to be this audio bull big thing. But when we 53:59 really search the scriptures and 54:01 want God's will because he does have a purpose for you. 54:05 >> And then that's powerful students want to encourage you 54:08 getting the word of God and open up your heart to God, 54:11 no matter what age you are. And if you're a parent, 54:14 encourage you to spend time with your kids in nature and in 54:19 the word and teach them and let them talk and ask those 54:22 questions, this is we're going to shift to something more 54:26 light hearted for the very end. This once and has had a 54:30 question came in. Have you ever felt unsafe during a travel? 54:35 Did you ever feel unsafe? 54:36 >> On safe, like a orderly than things like in a scary place. 54:42 You ever go to a place for Erie, scared or you're like, 54:44 wow, this country's a little stressful or you never feel 54:47 that. 54:49 >> I'd say probably one of the more recent experiences I 54:52 recently went to Egypt again. And I first of all, I love it. 54:57 I find the people they're so nice. So friendly, so 55:01 hospitable. 55:02 But my family and I were there and we're trying to find a 55:06 place to eat 55:07 something. And we just heard the wondering and we went down 55:11 some pretty sketchy looking back streets. And I don't I 55:16 wouldn't say we've got a loss, but we have gone deep into the 55:19 areas of the city of Cairo where there's no tourists. 55:23 >> Yeah, Western, think about it. 55:30 >> And we felt so, you know, out of ways. And, you know, 55:33 that was a little scary. And but because our our 55:37 experience is a need to have been so so good and safe so 55:39 far, I think we ever felt like we were in trouble or anything 55:41 like that. But you definitely become aware Li, Oh, this is 55:45 not quite where I would normally be fitting in. 55:48 >> And so that's the one that came to mind the absolutely. 55:51 I know Greg and I were just driving recently in a city here 55:54 in the states and we went into this one section and I thought. 55:58 >> Seriously, can we get out of here quick? 56:02 >> That have been any places that absolutely sure. What a 56:05 great evening unspent. Thank you for coming wrestling for 56:08 your heart for young people and your creativity and passion 56:13 for. 56:15 >> One must had seen, you know, to take that into grow. It won 56:19 an incredible thing. So thank you so much. So we're excited 56:22 to see what else to learn has in mind for this ministry and 56:25 one other work we can continue doing for him. 56:27 >> The man and we're delighted. Francine, are we to partner 56:30 with one of us to eat in programming for kids very much, 56:33 though. I mean, just you and Tuesday as a man and your 56:36 willingness to reach every child for Christ and we 56:41 appreciate your heart said thank you. 56:43 >> A loosely and we look forward to more programming 56:46 coming out because the bridge is going to be mowing his lawn 56:48 a few more times. And we're going to be getting more 56:51 creative ideas that we can share with you on TV. And thank 56:55 you so much for being here. Thank you for joining us. 56:58 And for being part of our 3ABN, family and we'll see you next 57:02 time 57:03 [MUSIC] 57:08 [MUSIC] 57:13 [MUSIC] 57:18 [MUSIC] 57:23 [MUSIC] 57:28 [MUSIC] 57:34 [MUSIC] 57:39 [MUSIC] 57:44 [MUSIC] 57:49 [MUSIC] 57:54 [MUSIC] |
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