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00:03 I want to spend my life mending broken people.
00:15 I want to spend my life, 00:36 I want to spend my life, mending broken people. 00:47 I want to spend my life, mending broken people. 01:06 Hello, family. 01:07 I'm Jill Morricone. 01:08 We just welcome you to our 3ABN Today Live. 01:12 I love this program because we are coming to you live and we get to 01:15 showcase and feature what God is doing in ministries all around the 01:21 world. 01:22 Now normally I'd be hosting with Greg. 01:24 I feel just a little empty here without him. 01:27 But he sends his love to you. 01:28 He's not able to be here tonight. 01:31 Tonight. 01:36 human trafficking. 01:38 We're coming up in just a few days. 01:40 July 30 is the World Day Against Trafficking. 01:45 And if I think of ministries whose focus or part of their focus is 01:51 specifically helping children who are trafficked all over the world, 01:56 raising awareness, rescuing those children and bringing healing and 02:02 hope, the ministry that I think first and foremost, the ministry 02:06 that's on the front lines, you could say, cutting edge with 02:10 bringing this hope and healing as Child Impact International. 02:14 Here at 3ABN, we believe in their ministry. 02:17 Personally, Greg and I believe in what God is doing in and through 02:20 them. 02:25 what God is doing through this ministry. 02:27 If you have young children in the home, I want to encourage you. 02:32 Maybe you could engage them in something else for the next couple 02:36 hours because this is a serious topic. 02:38 They will handle it, of course, sensitively, but it's a serious 02:43 topic and it's a dark topic. 02:45 But the truth of God's Word and the light of Jesus needs to be shined 02:52 into those dark places. 02:54 It's my privilege right now to introduce my family, your family. 02:57 Dr. Tom Evans is the CEO of Child Impact International. 03:03 And we're so glad to have you here tonight. 03:05 We're glad to be here. 03:08 children from Ethiopia. 03:10 It's a real blessing. 03:12 Absolutely. 03:12 It's a privilege to do that. 03:14 And we get their little pictures and get to see what's happening. 03:17 Coming around the table here, we have Jason Churchwell. 03:20 It's a privilege to have you here as well. 03:22 And you are the Vice President for Field Operations. 03:26 Thanks for having us, Jill. 03:27 It's a pleasure to be here. 03:29 Wonderful to have you. 03:32 And last but not least, we saved Nicole for last year. 03:36 Nicole Bertelli, I hope I'm pronouncing your name right. 03:38 And you are the Director of Child Impact Brazil. 03:41 And we're so glad to have you here tonight. 03:42 Thank you, Jill. 03:43 It's a pleasure to be here. 03:45 This is your first time, I think, right? 03:46 Yes, with you guys. 03:47 Yes, that's wonderful. 03:49 I know for sure we've had Dr. Tom many times as well as Jason many 03:53 times. 03:54 But maybe someone's watching for the first time. 03:56 Dr. Tom, what is Child Impact International? 03:59 And I know tonight we're focused specifically on trafficking, but 04:02 you have a whole other arm of Child Impact. 04:04 So talk to us a little bit about the minute. 04:06 So Child Impact has existed a little longer than I've been alive. 04:10 So 57 years and started with child sponsorship and so began in India, 04:17 Bangladesh, Myanmar. 04:19 And so basically that's how Child Impact began as Asian Aid out of 04:23 Australia, transitioned to the United States as Child Impact, 04:27 well, Asian Aid USA. 04:29 But a number of years ago, changed the name, became international in 04:33 focus. 04:37 through what we call Operation Child Rescue. 04:39 Yes. 04:40 Now, what was the impetus for Operation Child Rescue? 04:43 That's our focus for tonight's topic is Operation Child Rescue. 04:47 What was the impetus for that? 04:49 I think really just recognizing that there's an underground crime 04:52 called human trafficking. 04:54 And I like to just have individuals complete this phrase out of sight. 04:59 Out of mind. 04:59 Right. 05:03 see it. 05:04 But yet it impacts 50 million individuals globally. 05:08 And so this is an area we think we really need to pay some serious 05:12 attention to. 05:13 Wow. 05:16 And when you say trafficked, what does that mean? 05:18 Well, there are many different kinds of trafficking. 05:21 The most familiar one would be sex trafficking. 05:23 Anytime a young person under the age of 18 is engaged in sex work, 05:28 it's considered to be human trafficking. 05:30 But there's also labor trafficking. 05:33 There's a child marriage. 05:34 So there's some different forms of trafficking. 05:37 It's such a heavy topic. 05:39 Before we go further, let's just open up in prayer. 05:42 As we talk about this topic, as we engage and hear the stories, but 05:46 maybe we should just go to the Lord in prayer for his anointing over 05:50 this program. 05:51 Nicole, would you pray for us? 05:52 Yes, I'd love to. 05:53 Sure. 05:56 raise awareness to such a huge issue that affects your children 06:00 all over the world every day. 06:02 We pray that as we talk about this, that your Holy Spirit will be among 06:05 us and among the audience and that your word will be conveyed in 06:09 Jesus' name. 06:10 Amen. 06:11 Amen. 06:12 Thank you so much. 06:13 So there's 50 million people that are globally trafficked. 06:17 What's the mission statement or objective of Child Impact? 06:20 So we want to eradicate exploitation. 06:23 That's part of our mission statement. 06:24 And so our focus is with children. 06:27 So the majority of our projects, the 24 projects that we have now 06:31 fighting human trafficking are focused on children. 06:34 We do have a couple that also help with adults, but those adults have 06:38 children. 06:39 So that's the goal. 06:41 Really, I think the biggest and most important step for someone who 06:47 is being trafficked is to be in a safe place. 06:51 Healing cannot begin until someone is safe. 06:53 And so our goal is really to rescue the victims. 06:57 We haven't been so much focused on catching the perpetrators. 07:00 That's a whole nother area of work. 07:02 We do have an amazing story about that later. 07:04 But our main focus is to find those victims and allow them to 07:09 experience freedom in their lives in a safe place. 07:12 That's so important. 07:13 Can we put up that graphic one more time that you put it up, but we 07:16 didn't get to reference that. 07:17 It says we empower vulnerable children through education and 07:21 fight to eradicate exploitation. 07:23 I love that. 07:24 Praise the Lord. 07:25 Wow, that's powerful. 07:28 So you have 24 projects now with Operation Child Rescue. 07:33 Yeah, that's in addition to 4,500 children that are sponsored. 07:36 There are education programs, but we've been growing in this area 10 07:41 years ago was the first project. 07:43 And so from that time, there's been a lot of growth, especially over 07:47 the last couple of years. 07:48 And before I know we're going to talk specifically about the 07:51 different projects and the stories from that, but what leads a young 07:54 person into even being trafficked? 07:57 Well, I would say what we think of here in America is very different 08:03 than the reality. 08:09 countries. 08:14 trafficking. 08:15 That's poverty. 08:20 who are in impoverished situations. 08:23 Meaning the parents don't have money, so they might sell their 08:26 children or? 08:28 There's a couple of different things that could happen and that's 08:31 certainly one of them. 08:32 We've heard stories of kids all sitting around the table like this 08:36 for dinner. 08:40 can all sit here and go hungry or I can go sell myself to put food on 08:44 the table here. 08:45 And so in some instances, it is parents encouraging their kids to 08:49 go out and make money in these different ways. 08:51 In some instances, it's kids volunteering themselves. 08:54 And we've heard one of our girls say, can I be a sacrifice to 08:58 provide for the rest of my siblings? 09:00 And so really a number of factors, but all very sad and many times 09:04 related to poverty, as Tom said. 09:07 And I know you said most of it's overseas, but it also happens here 09:10 in the U.S. 09:12 Yeah, different kinds of factors in the U.S. 09:14 The number one resource for trafficked kids is the foster care 09:19 system. 09:25 system. 09:26 Oh, wow, because they're so vulnerable. 09:27 Yeah. 09:29 They got nobody to look after them. 09:30 Yeah, so I always encourage, you know, we want to know what can we 09:33 do here in America if there's individuals that have a calling to 09:37 be a great foster family. 09:39 I mean, this is a way directly to impact children and keep them out 09:44 of trafficking scenarios. 09:46 The other, probably the other feeder here in America is 09:49 pornography. 09:50 And so a site like OnlyFans where someone can be a porn star, this is 09:55 where you'll find individuals that are trafficked because about a one 09:58 -third of the individuals on that site are underage. 10:02 So that's also human trafficking. 10:05 And does the United States drive the trafficking overseas? 10:10 In other words, is it United States people who go overseas who actually 10:13 engage in this trafficking or not? 10:16 There's certainly some of that that's happening, but I think our 10:20 criminal activity in this is our addiction to pornography in America 10:24 because these underage children, boys or girls that get put onto 10:28 these sites, we think maybe this is something that they're voluntarily 10:32 they're doing, but many of these young people are actually 10:35 trafficked into those situations. 10:38 And the difference in somebody buying drugs, for example, is the 10:41 drugs are used up, but when someone is trafficked, they're used over 10:45 and over again on a daily basis for years. 10:48 But the average lifespan is about seven years for someone that's been 10:51 trafficked. 10:52 So it's really a death sentence. 10:54 And we have one of our projects where a high percentage of the 10:59 girls have contracted HIV as a result of having been trafficked. 11:05 Seven years. 11:06 That's really heavy. 11:08 Seven years once you're trafficked, your life expectancy. 11:11 And less than one in 100 will ever escape. 11:14 And so it's really a very, very challenging work to be in. 11:18 And so we want to be as much in that preventative side as we can. 11:22 There's some types of trafficking that might be a little easier to 11:25 prevent, like child marriage, very challenging, lots of cultural 11:29 pressures with that, but that's a little more straightforward to go 11:32 in and kind of try to prevent that. 11:34 Okay. 11:35 Well, we heard some heavy stuff already tonight, but what we're 11:39 going to hear moving forward is the stories of hope and healing, what's 11:43 taking place through the Ministry of Child Impact International. 11:48 I think you have a video with SAF 58. 11:50 We want to go to that. 11:50 Let's go to that video right now. 12:20 Give naked people clothes to wear and provide for the needs of your 12:25 own family. 12:26 Then the light of my blessing will shine on you like the rising sun. 12:30 I will heal you quickly. 12:32 I will march out ahead of you. 12:35 And my glory will follow behind you and guard you. 12:55 Praise the Lord. 13:02 Child Impact International. 13:03 Now those students are from your schools? 13:06 In India, yeah. 13:08 So the blind school, deaf school, and one of our orphanages. 13:12 I love when the video goes silent, really. 13:15 There's just music, and you see the signing taking place. 13:19 I've met these kids, and it's very emotional to see the video. 13:23 But we're super excited because the International Camperee is happening 13:27 in just a couple weeks. 13:28 That's right, Gillette. 13:33 So the entire school, they're all pathfinders, and they're called the 13:37 silent warriors. 13:41 ground that they feel that helps them know how to march. 13:46 Anyway, we're super excited about that. 13:48 Praise the Lord. 13:49 That's wonderful. 13:51 Now we're moving to Brazil, I think. 13:53 So let's go to the video for that, and then we'll talk to Nicole and 13:57 how she got involved with Child Impact. 13:59 But let's go to the video for Brazil. 14:06 Child Impact Brazil is an organization that exists to serve 14:10 the most vulnerable children in the city of São Paulo. 14:13 We have kids from Bolivia, kids from Haiti, and kids that have 14:16 migrated to São Paulo. 14:17 Some of them are coming from living in the streets with their families. 14:21 Some of them are just coming for, looking for a better future for 14:24 their families, but yet they find themselves living in a factory 14:27 invasion. 14:31 Eight years ago, a few people broke into an abandoned factory 14:35 warehouse. 14:36 It was first a factory warehouse turned into a nightclub. 14:39 The government shut it down, and the place was shut down for years. 14:42 So a few people that needed a place to live broke into it. 14:46 Fast forward eight years, and today there's 1,500 families, around 7 14:51 ,000 people living in that community. 14:53 So now imagine 7,000 people. 14:56 It's one factory warehouse. 14:58 It's equivalent to one block. 15:00 And there are 7,000 people squeezed on top of each other there. 15:05 We occupied this building seven years ago, and this building is 15:09 already transforming into a state. 15:11 We have a significant number of refugees, and we are home to 15:15 approximately six different ethnicities from diverse 15:18 backgrounds. 15:19 In our community, being a very needy community, the majority of 15:23 mothers are extremely afraid that these children will go back to a 15:27 life of crime, resort to an environment that is not 15:30 sustainable. 15:34 One of the main issues that we're having with the children in our 15:37 community is that at a very young age, they're involved with crime, 15:41 they're doing drugs, they are using their bodies to get money. 15:46 So it's important for the kids to have a place like this, where 15:49 they're involved in constructive, productive activities, a place let 15:53 out by people that have a different mindset than that which they see 15:57 every day. 16:02 better future is attainable. 16:04 And we sow, through our examples, our education and culture, a work 16:09 practically of Jesus here inside. 16:11 So we are Christians for them, so we teach respect, education, 16:16 cordiality, and hope for a better future. 16:20 We plant this idea with them in a manner that they believe the 16:24 present circumstances are not indicative of their future 16:26 circumstances and that a more promising future awaits them. 16:31 We strive to demonstrate that the current situation they reside in, 16:35 the conditions they face, the reality they encounter, and the 16:39 circumstances they find themselves in do not dictate their future 16:42 outcomes. 17:01 Amen. 17:06 block, that's incredible. 17:08 Yeah, I like to be conservative with the number. 17:10 I've heard it as high as 12,000 people. 17:13 Wow, that's amazing. 17:15 So before we talk really about the project and what's taking place, 17:18 Nicole, how did you get involved with Child Impact? 17:21 Oh, Jill, God is so good. 17:23 I was serving as a missionary in a close country in Southeast Asia. 17:26 I had been there for a year and a half, had been a missionary for 17:29 nine years, not once thought about going back to Brazil. 17:31 I was born and raised in Brazil, left to become a missionary. 17:35 And somehow early last year, God put in my heart, hey, I think it's 17:39 time to go home. 17:40 I think it's time to be near your family. 17:42 But in my whole time as a missionary, I never moved other 17:45 than for following a calling. 17:48 But there was no calling. 17:49 There was just this desire to be home. 17:50 So I started to pray and I said, Lord, I know ministry and mission 17:54 isn't a phase of my life, is your calling for my life. 17:57 So please open doors for me to be able to come back home and continue 18:00 to serve you there. 18:04 you. 18:07 And a friend of mine who had served with me in this country, had moved 18:11 back to the United States and started working with Child Impact. 18:14 And she had nothing but incredible things to say about the ministry. 18:17 She was so in love with it, the work that they were doing, the 18:20 team. 18:21 And she overheard Jason walking down the hallway, talking to 18:24 himself saying, I really want Brazil. 18:28 And she was like, wait a minute. 18:31 They had a conversation about it. 18:33 And she told me, she's like, hey, they're trying to start a project 18:37 in Brazil. 18:38 Wow. 18:40 And fast forward to a few months later, I started serving with Child 18:43 Impact. 18:44 Wow. 18:44 So when was that? 18:45 When did you begin serving? 18:47 I began serving from a distance in June last year, moved back in 18:51 October of 2023 to start the project. 18:54 Okay. 18:54 So this is just brand new. 18:55 This is less than a year it's been going. 18:57 Yeah. 19:00 Okay. 19:03 all those people live in? 19:04 Yeah. 19:05 It's 400 meters. 19:06 Wow. 19:07 So it's a couple of blocks down. 19:09 Okay. 19:10 Wow. 19:12 Wow. 19:12 That's incredible. 19:13 Dr. Tom, your wife's Brazilian, right? 19:15 She is. 19:15 I remember that. 19:16 Yeah. 19:20 Brazil. 19:20 I had seen the favelas there. 19:22 And really, this is an unusual favela. 19:24 Yeah. 19:27 hillsides, just shacks. 19:29 But this one's inside of a, kind of a broken down warehouse. 19:32 So I think I heard it referred to as a hidden favela. 19:34 This is what actually spiked our interest in this community. 19:37 When I first went on a trip in June to look for a community to serve, I 19:41 went to the second largest favela in the city. 19:44 And visiting back with my family, my aunt said, no, no, no, that's 19:46 not the place for you. 19:47 I got to tell you about this place that nobody knows about. 19:51 And it's exactly what it is, a hidden favela. 19:53 And as Tom said, out of sight, out of mind. 19:55 So much so that our neighbors, the people that live next to our 19:59 project, who have lived there, 400 meters from them for 20 years, did 20:03 not know that 7,000 people lived there. 20:05 How could you not know that? 20:07 I mean, I don't mean to be rude, but how could you not know all 20:09 those people are there? 20:10 Do they never come out? 20:11 They do come out, but they're in a major avenue, but they're behind a 20:16 brick wall. 20:20 for warehouses. 20:21 It has a ton of warehouses. 20:23 From the outside, it looks like just another warehouse. 20:26 Wow. 20:27 That's incredible. 20:28 So what's the vision for the project there? 20:31 The vision for the project is to continue to grow. 20:34 We're currently serving 60 children. 20:37 Do they stay there or they just come during the day or they spend 20:40 the night there? 20:40 They come during the day. 20:41 So school's part-time in Brazil. 20:43 So they go to school in the morning and come in the afternoon or vice 20:46 versa. 20:47 They stay with us. 20:48 We have recreation. 20:49 We have physical activities. 20:51 We have tutoring. 20:57 activities to develop them culturally. 20:59 We just got a donation for 20 computers. 21:01 We're going to start computer lessons. 21:03 That was actually a donation from the conference. 21:04 God has been very good. 21:06 And the vision is to be able to provide them with opportunities for 21:13 a different future. 21:14 Yeah. 21:16 If Child Impact were not there, what would be the future for the 21:20 young people growing up in this hidden favela? 21:23 It would probably be a repetition of the cycle that their parents 21:25 find themselves in, right? 21:27 So a lot of people come to this community because they don't have 21:29 to pay rent. 21:30 They don't have to pay water. 21:31 They don't have to pay electricity. 21:33 They don't make any money. 21:34 Majority of my kids' parents live off of the government. 21:37 Majority of my kids' parents have not graduated middle school. 21:40 Oh, wow. 21:41 Let's not mention high school. 21:43 Literacy level is very low amongst the parents. 21:47 The day that we recorded that video that you watched, another person 21:51 was supposed to give us an interview, the mother of another 21:53 one of our kids. 21:57 drugs again. 21:58 So she was afraid to see her face on camera. 22:02 Crime is rampant. 22:04 I have 13-year-olds that are already committing petty crimes. 22:07 Going and stealing on subways, I have 14-year-olds that are selling 22:10 drugs. 22:14 happens there. 22:15 And he said, Oh, yeah, and some kids sell drugs. 22:18 I'm like, Wait a minute, you're in primary school. 22:20 You're telling me kids sell drugs in your primary school? 22:22 He said, Yes. 22:24 So that's the reality of drunk parents, parents that are high very 22:29 often. 22:31 That would likely be the future for a lot of my children. 22:34 You know, we were there in April, and I asked that same question as 22:37 we were going around interviewing some of the parents in this favela 22:40 community. 22:45 mom, and we asked her mom, Hey, you know, what changes have you seen in 22:48 your daughter? 22:49 How valuable do you find the center? 22:51 What was your daughter into before she was coming to all the programs 22:53 at our center? 22:58 She was setting fire to them. 22:59 She was robbing people in the subway. 23:01 Throwing rocks on the neighbors, breaking windows. 23:04 A beautiful little girl. 23:04 She was so cute and lovely. 23:06 So innocent, yeah. 23:07 And I just couldn't believe what she was saying. 23:09 They said, Oh, no, the bank manager thought she was the leader of a 23:12 little gang. 23:13 And this, you know, cute little girl. 23:15 And we just, you know, can't understand what these little kids 23:19 are dealing with back in their homes. 23:21 Yeah. 23:23 And the ones that are not involved in crime are often involved in 23:25 bagging or selling things on the street to make money because the 23:29 parents don't have enough money to support the families. 23:32 Now, I think you have some pictures, as well as, I don't know 23:34 if they're stories connected with the pictures, so I'll let you go 23:37 ahead with... 23:39 Let's go ahead and put those up. 23:41 What are we seeing here? 23:42 So we're seeing the entrance of the community. 23:43 There are seven different ethnicities that currently live 23:47 together there, but the three primary ones are Haitians, 23:51 Brazilians, and Bolivians. 23:52 There are lots and lots of immigrants in that community. 23:56 Now, the Brazilians receive government assistance. 23:58 The foreigners don't. 23:59 So they're in an even more challenging situation financially 24:02 oftentimes, especially when they just come into the country. 24:06 And it's very interesting. 24:07 We're just now starting to get more Bolivian children, which we're very 24:11 grateful for, because the Brazilian children come in like little 24:15 Tasmanian devils, right? 24:17 And the Bolivians have a very different culture. 24:20 They don't have the financial resources, but they raise their 24:22 children very well. 24:23 So they're just now trusting us enough to allow their children to 24:27 spend the afternoons with the rest of the Brazilian kids in the 24:29 project. 24:30 Yes, that makes sense. 24:32 Let's go to the next picture. 24:35 So, this is the mother of one of our children. 24:40 It's their apartment, if I could call it that. 24:44 It's about as large as your rug, Joe. 24:48 There are no windows. 24:50 Their little home is inside the roof of the factory warehouse. 24:54 They have no direct sunlight. 24:57 There's no kitchen, there's no bathroom. 24:58 It's just a room for the four of them. 25:01 And that's the reality of so many of the people in that community. 25:06 I think they've lived there for seven years in that room. 25:09 In that room the size of this rug right here. 25:11 Exactly. 25:13 That's incredible. 25:15 More pictures? 25:16 More pictures. 25:19 I want to talk about these two little girls because they're very 25:21 special to me. 25:26 her hair. 25:27 Let me run you through a day in her life. 25:31 picture this, Joe. 25:32 You wake up in the morning, probably you run and brush your 25:35 teeth on your sink. 25:37 She has no sink. 25:39 Then the next thing you'll probably do is go make her breakfast in your 25:41 kitchen. 25:42 There's no running water. 25:43 There's a stove, but there's no running water for the kitchen. 25:46 Naturally there's no bathroom. 25:48 There's no picking up your clean clothes before going to school. 25:52 Sometimes there's breakfast, sometimes there isn't. 25:55 So she goes to school, comes back. 25:56 By the time she comes back, 95% of the time that I've seen her mom, 26:00 she's drunk. 26:01 In the middle of the day. 26:03 Comes back to a drunk mother. 26:05 May or may not eat lunch at home. 26:08 In Brazil, the school serves a meal. 26:09 So that's very helpful for a lot of our families. 26:14 Sometimes her mom beats her up bad enough that other community members 26:19 have wanted to beat up her mother. 26:21 And she has had to interject and protect her mother. 26:25 That was the average day of this girl's life. 26:28 She's a child that's often playing on the street. 26:31 She's one of the children that was going to street corners to ask for 26:35 money from adults. 26:36 So when we talk about vulnerability and poverty bringing about 26:40 vulnerability, how hard would it be for a stranger to just grab that 26:43 little girl and throw her into their car? 26:44 Mom isn't around watching her. 26:47 None of the neighbors are around watching. 26:49 People just don't care. 26:51 She's a child that was in extreme vulnerability. 26:54 And thanks to sponsorships, she's the first child that we're going to 26:57 put in a Seventh-day Adventist school through our project. 27:00 She's getting a full-ride scholarship to one of our schools. 27:05 She's a lovely girl. 27:07 She's so polite. 27:08 She's so kind and well-mannered. 27:10 You never know the amount of trauma and abuse that that girl goes 27:13 through regularly. 27:17 When you're faced with so much pain and so much need, how do you keep 27:26 going? 27:28 I think for me, how do you not keep going? 27:31 Right? 27:36 So the need drives you. 27:38 Like, I've got to do more. 27:39 It keeps you awake at night, for sure. 27:41 And you're always asking, can we do more? 27:44 What more can we do? 27:45 But you have to do it one child at a time. 27:48 It's beautiful. 27:50 What about for you, Jason? 27:52 I would say the same thing. 27:53 It's those numbers that kind of go through my head. 27:56 When you think about 50 million people in modern-day slavery, that 28:00 number, we just can't even imagine how big it is. 28:02 But if it was my child, I would go after one more child. 28:05 I would keep going after my child. 28:08 And so they're all God's children. 28:10 And so I feel like we've got to keep going. 28:11 Like we said, just one at a time. 28:13 One more. 28:14 And in this case, this precious girl, she's rescued. 28:17 You know this is one who's taken out, who's safe now. 28:20 That's incredible. 28:21 It's going to have opportunities, a different future. 28:24 I always say that they live in an alternative reality. 28:27 That seems like, that's all that they know. 28:29 That's their world. 28:30 But it's so different from everything outside. 28:33 You know, if I can only expose them, if I can only show them all 28:37 the opportunities that are out there for them, show them the love 28:40 of Jesus, help them understand how precious they are. 28:43 And Jill, I think it matters what's happening halfway around the world. 28:46 I think it should matter to us in North America. 28:49 We're blessed to be a blessing. 28:51 And I always think of Acts 1-8 that talks about we have a mission to 28:54 Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, but it ends by saying all of this. 28:59 Every disciple has a mission to the ends of the earth. 29:02 That's right. 29:02 I love that. 29:03 Any more pictures before we move on to the next part? 29:05 I believe we do. 29:06 Let's double check. 29:08 Yeah, so one thing that we love doing with our kids is arts. 29:12 Arts are extremely helpful with children that suffer abuse, suffer 29:15 trauma. 29:16 So I have this rowdy boy that cannot sit for five minutes for 29:20 tutoring, but I put a coloring page in front of them and they'll sit 29:24 and color for a whole hour. 29:26 It's therapy for them every day to engage in activities with their 29:29 hands. 29:33 their lives. 29:34 Can I please help? 29:35 I would love to help. 29:36 I would love to cook. 29:37 So we see these children that have amazing hearts. 29:39 They're still so moldable. 29:40 We can still shape them so much. 29:42 And I see that every day, the love that my team puts into them, I see 29:46 the effect that it has on them. 29:49 Amen, amen. 29:50 I think we have one more picture. 29:51 Yes, so every month we get to celebrate their birthdays with the 29:55 team. 29:56 I love that. 30:01 We do as much recreation as we can. 30:04 We do as much to help them have a normal life as we can. 30:08 Nicole, how many of these kids actually have someone that 30:10 celebrates their birthday? 30:13 Not that many. 30:16 I've been in situations where this is the first kick I've had. 30:21 It resonated with me when I saw that because we're adopting two 30:25 girls that are orphans. 30:28 When the phone connected for the birthday, we said, Chesdit, happy 30:32 birthday, and started singing. 30:34 Immediate tears. 30:36 And you just know and begin to ask, when was the last time somebody 30:38 celebrated a birthday? 30:40 Everybody should have their birthday celebrated. 30:41 That's right. 30:44 Every kid should have their birthday celebrated. 30:47 Absolutely, and what an impact that makes with the young people and 30:51 celebrating them. 30:52 Jason, let's go to Bangladesh. 30:54 Sure. 30:56 I just want to say on this project in Brazil, this is really our first 31:00 international office. 31:02 So this is Child Impact Brazil office and an NGO that Nicole has 31:06 really spearheaded and set up in that country. 31:09 We traditionally support lots of ministries around the world, and 31:11 we're going to continue to do that. 31:13 But this is really kind of a next phase of Child Impact, opening up 31:16 our own country offices. 31:18 And so we're really excited to see how that project continues to grow 31:20 and progress. 31:21 Thank you for bringing that out. 31:22 That's exciting. 31:26 Praise the Lord. 31:27 So we're really excited. 31:28 Bangladesh is one of our newest projects this year. 31:31 In Bangladesh, we have our largest sponsorship program right now. 31:35 There are over 1,200 kids that we sponsor in the country of 31:38 Bangladesh. 31:39 And through our sponsorship program, we start to identify needs 31:43 that these kids have. 31:44 They're coming to school, they're talking to teachers, they're 31:47 talking to other students, and we really get to know the kids. 31:50 And so as we travel and we visit, our partner there also shares with 31:53 us needs that they are finding. 31:55 And they identified a community in a town called Dalat Dia. 31:59 And Dalat Dia has one of the largest brothels in the world. 32:04 In this city. 32:05 It's like the whole city is a brothel. 32:08 And so they said, what can we do to help the kids here who are growing 32:12 up in a brothel town? 32:14 And so we really started brainstorming, discussing options, 32:18 and with our partner there, we've just started a safe house inside 32:23 the brothel. 32:24 And so we challenged the team. 32:26 How was that even possible? 32:27 No offense, but I mean, I don't really know how that works. 32:30 It's a whole city. 32:31 And so it's at a major kind of like a center of transportation through 32:35 the country. 32:36 So lots of truck drivers, ships, everyone stops here. 32:39 1600 prostitutes. 32:42 In this area. 32:42 And how many underage or you don't know? 32:45 The average arrival age is 14. 32:47 But it's illegal. 32:50 And so we said, what can we do for these kids? 32:54 Can you get some of the kids who are currently being trafficked out 32:58 of that situation? 32:59 So they went, they surveyed, and the whole thing is run by, I 33:02 believe it's seven or eight, what they call madams. 33:05 And it's these ladies who control everything in the brothel. 33:09 And we said, hey, can we get some of these younger girls out of here, 33:13 give them an educational opportunity? 33:15 And they refused to let us. 33:16 The parents refused to let them be taken out. 33:18 And we're talking about 13, 14, 15 -year-old girls. 33:22 They said, but you can take their younger siblings and we'll let you 33:26 take them out. 33:27 And so we've just started a safe house. 33:29 We've got ten girls ages 7 to 12 who have grown up their entire 33:33 lives cleaning up after their mom is working, their sister's working, 33:37 these rooms where they're working. 33:39 And now we've gotten them out. 33:41 We've got them into school. 33:42 They're in a safe place. 33:44 And then they just requested this week for us to take ten more girls 33:48 out. 33:52 wanting to give their kids an opportunity to get out this 33:54 lifestyle. 33:55 And so we immediately said yes. 33:57 We haven't budgeted for that. 33:59 But we said we've got to get these kids out because if we wait another 34:02 day, we don't know if the next day they're going to go into this type 34:06 of work. 34:10 And so we've just accepted another ten this week. 34:13 And we're excited about getting them out. 34:15 And then kind of phase two of this is we're going to transfer them to 34:18 one of our Adventist boarding schools to give them an Adventist 34:22 education. 34:25 And we're going to really put them on a whole new path for their 34:28 lives. 34:31 us there in Bangladesh. 34:32 Wow. 34:34 You said you're stepping out by faith obviously because we need 34:37 funds for this project. 34:39 So, Dr. Tom, if people want to support, if they say I want to get 34:42 involved, and we'll talk about this throughout the program, but they 34:44 want to get involved in supporting Operation Child Rescue, can you 34:48 both sponsor a specific project like I want to give for Bangladesh 34:51 or is it just Operation Child Rescue as a whole? 34:54 So we have an umbrella for all of what we do, but there's a budget 34:58 for that. 35:02 And so Jason's literally speaking the truth here when he says we're 35:06 stepping out of faith. 35:09 dollars for ten more girls for the year. 35:12 So we said we have to say yes. 35:14 And so we believe that God will provide that. 35:16 So if someone wants to sponsor right now, I believe our 3 ABN 35:20 viewers are movers and shakers and they you want, you're part of the 35:23 family, but you want to become involved in projects. 35:25 So if the Lord is just putting on your heart right now, you're 35:29 touched by what the Lord is doing through the Ministry of Child 35:32 Impact International. 35:34 You can donate online. 35:36 Can they donate online at childimpact.org. 35:40 Just go to childimpact.org and what would they click on that website? 35:45 Rescue. 35:46 Rescue. 35:50 trafficked worldwide with the projects. 35:52 OK, rescue. 35:58 six six seven. 36:00 That's four two three nine one zero zero six six seven. 36:05 So I'm sorry, Jason, back to your project. 36:07 You're just stepping out by faith and reaching and rescuing even more 36:12 girls. 36:12 Yes. 36:13 No, thank you for that. 36:14 We really appreciate that. 36:15 So we've got ten. 36:16 Now we're going to have twenty. 36:18 They've rented a home large enough to have forty. 36:21 And so our ultimate dream is to keep finding more workers, finding 36:24 more help and fill this thing up as fast as we can. 36:28 We have a picture, right? 36:30 I believe so. 36:31 Yes, we do have some pictures there. 36:33 Yep. 36:34 Let's put that picture up here. 36:35 So these are the first ten girls we have. 36:37 The ones on the top? 36:38 Yes. 36:39 And Bangladesh is a Muslim majority country. 36:42 And we have dedicated Seventh-day Adventist Bible workers having 36:46 morning and evening worship with these girls, introducing them to 36:49 Jesus. 36:50 And so it's a really exciting project for us. 36:52 Praise the Lord. 36:54 That's incredible. 37:00 experiencing that. 37:02 But just to know what God is doing through that, that's incredible. 37:06 Shall we move to Zambia? 37:07 Sure. 37:10 girls. 37:11 And this is in Zambia. 37:13 These are girls that are being trafficked out by the roadside 37:16 selling vegetables. 37:18 Truckers come along and offer, or ask for something else. 37:22 But we initially started this project with 36 girls in a rented 37:26 space. 37:27 And we had a video that we showed here on 3ABN. 37:32 And we had this vision, this dream to build a girls dormitory. 37:36 And one of the listeners to your program here on 3ABN sent in a 37:42 check. 37:44 Oh, praise the Lord. 37:46 And so we wanted to show you a video of the finished dormitory. 37:48 Okay, let's go to that video. 37:49 Made possible by 3ABN. 37:50 Praise the Lord. 37:51 So these are the girls. 37:52 You see they have school uniforms. 37:54 All of them have sponsors. 37:56 And this is the dormitory. 37:57 And that's the dorm right there. 37:59 Wow. 38:01 That's incredible. 38:02 It's beautiful, isn't it? 38:03 It's amazing. 38:03 Praise the Lord. 38:04 Thank you. 38:08 in what God is doing through Child Impact International. 38:11 Thank you for getting involved and sponsoring this. 38:14 So you have a hundred girls. 38:15 Yeah. 38:18 This first one is a silhouette, really. 38:21 It's a screen capture from a video. 38:24 And we were actually, we asked this young lady to reenact what happens 38:28 when they go to the roadside to sell vegetables. 38:31 And as she was reenacting this, she was approached by a truck driver 38:35 and solicited for prostitution. 38:37 Oh. 38:38 So we just kept the camera going. 38:40 And so that reenactment turned out to be a real life situation. 38:44 Solicitation. 38:44 Right. 38:47 And what's the age of the girls? 38:49 They'll be like 13 to 16 year olds. 38:52 Yeah. 38:53 So that's the average age. 38:55 What has been very significant for me in the next photo shows a home 38:58 visit. 39:02 girls come from. 39:03 What is their circumstance? 39:05 And so this young girl that you see in the school uniform grew up 39:10 living in this hut. 39:11 I had to duck quite a bit to get up underneath there. 39:15 And when you get inside you look up and you see holes in the thatch so 39:18 you know that they get wet when it rains. 39:20 And they happen to have a mattress in this particular hut. 39:24 But the springs are popping out. 39:26 And so this mother has, someone has helped her to be able to get a new 39:30 home. 39:32 And also now her daughter is safe and is sponsored. 39:34 And so she literally wanted to show us how to do a happy dance. 39:38 And she was singing and clapping and dancing. 39:41 And I started doing moves I didn't know I could do. 39:43 And I don't know if it'll pass for a 3 ABN video. 39:46 But we'll try. 39:47 Oh yay! 39:47 Do we have a video of this? 39:48 It's coming. 39:49 It's coming. 39:50 Oh! 39:50 Okay. 39:51 I'll let you know when we submit it. 39:53 So you can edit it if you need to. 39:56 That sounds super exciting. 39:57 We had a bit of fun with it. 39:59 But most touching to me, this next picture here. 40:03 There are a couple stories of girls Mary and Sharon. 40:07 Mary there with me in the picture her uncle standing next to me. 40:12 She was orphaned at 4 years old. 40:16 And nobody told her what happened to her parents. 40:18 So all these years she's not known. 40:20 She is number 15 of the children that her uncle and aunt raised. 40:24 But her aunt also passed away. 40:26 So she's the last of 15 children. 40:28 Six biological children. 40:29 But he had to raise children from other relatives. 40:32 And so she sponsoring her, I got to talk with her and she mentioned she 40:37 didn't know what happened to her parents. 40:39 And I said, do you think that you're old enough to know now? 40:42 And she said yes. 40:43 But I think she's afraid to ask. 40:45 She said, can you ask my uncle? 40:47 So we went to her house and I said, uncle, I know that Mary doesn't 40:52 know what happened to her parents and she needs to be a certain age. 40:57 Do you think that's something she can know about now? 40:59 So we immediately shared with her. 41:01 Her dad got her mom pregnant and left. 41:04 They found out that he passed away shortly thereafter. 41:06 But the mom was out cutting brush out in the bush and a tree fell on 41:12 top of her. 41:13 And there was a little girl there was not able to get the tree off 41:16 and her mother passed away. 41:17 And of course when Mary heard this immediately the tears came. 41:20 But I think for her it marks the opportunity to start a journey of 41:24 healing. 41:25 But there's another photo that is one that really caused me quite an 41:30 emotional response in that same slide. 41:34 If we can bring that back up. 41:36 This is on the right there is a girl by the name of Sharon. 41:39 Do you see how happy Sharon looks? 41:41 Look at that smile! 41:43 She literally glows. 41:44 And next to Sharon is her sister. 41:46 One year ago Sharon was one of those first 36 girls that came to 41:51 our school there that we support. 41:53 And she was traumatized. 41:56 She had been trafficked. 41:58 But her mom had tried to intervene on her behalf. 42:02 The father had run up a debt and the creditor wanted Sharon in 42:07 exchange for the debt. 42:08 The mother said no you can't have her. 42:10 I remember that story. 42:11 So the mother was about ready to be put in jail. 42:14 But now the father had taken off and they want both daughters in 42:17 exchange for the debt. 42:19 So child impact intervened. 42:20 We covered the debt. 42:22 We got the mom a bike so she could get to work more rapidly. 42:25 But when I came to the school and I met this young lady I said I 42:29 recognize you. 42:31 What's your name? 42:32 But I didn't realize it was Sharon. 42:34 She said I'm Sharon. 42:35 And I was floored. 42:38 Night and day from where she was one year ago. 42:40 I went back to the vehicle and I cried. 42:43 It just hit me so hard. 42:45 What a difference one year can make. 42:48 When a girl is in a safe place when she knows her family is safe she 42:52 can begin to thrive. 42:55 It's just unbelievable. 42:58 So I was there with Tom when we met her and her mom. 43:02 We brought them outside of town and kind of met under this tree just 43:06 outside of town because we didn't want to cause a big scene. 43:09 We're giving her mom a new bike. 43:11 We didn't want anyone to take it. 43:12 And I can remember when we took the money to her. 43:15 Do you remember how much it was? 43:16 $411. 43:18 $411 is what the price was that this man was going to take these 43:22 two girls for. 43:24 He was going to sell them as child brides and probably try to get a 43:27 lot of goats and cows in exchange to pay off this debt from her 43:31 parents. 43:32 So $411 for us is nothing. 43:34 Of course. 43:35 We want to protect her. 43:36 We want to keep her in school. 43:38 And that's just the price of a life there. 43:41 And immediately I thought of the story of Elisha in the widow with 43:45 the two sons. 43:47 And their dad died. 43:48 He was one of the prophets. 43:50 And there we have the miracle of the oil continually being poured 43:54 out so that she could keep her two sons from being sold to the 43:57 creditor for her husband's debt. 43:59 And so we can see what was happening in Bible times still 44:02 happening around the world today. 44:04 Amen. 44:05 Amen. 44:05 God is the God of miracles. 44:07 See the miracles still take place. 44:08 It's so beautiful to be able to say to these girls, we are so proud of 44:12 you. 44:13 Yes. 44:14 And we are. 44:14 It's amazing. 44:16 Yeah. 44:20 What factors do you think are involved in that healing? 44:23 Because all of these kids, girls, or boys have experienced extreme 44:27 trauma. 44:27 Yeah. 44:28 So what factors into that healing? 44:32 Yeah. 44:35 place where the abuse will not continue to happen. 44:38 You're safe. 44:39 Feeling safe, knowing that you're in a safe environment. 44:42 And I think one thing that we all know that's very healing is love. 44:46 So when these children are placed in a location where they are loved 44:49 and where they can understand their value, understand somebody might 44:54 have sold them for $400. 44:57 But somebody gave so much more for them. 44:59 The blood of Jesus was given for them. 45:01 So when you are able to understand your value in Christ, I believe 45:03 that's also very healing. 45:05 No, and I've heard Jason, you've shared that really full healing 45:09 can't happen without Jesus. 45:11 I agree. 45:12 Yeah. 45:17 services to anyone, no matter their religious background. 45:21 But we really believe that how can someone overcome the trauma that 45:25 these kids have experienced without being introduced to the healer. 45:29 And so we have that as an integrated part in all of our 45:32 projects that kids have the opportunity to learn about Jesus. 45:36 And Jill, while I was there, 31 teenagers were baptized. 45:39 Really? 45:40 Now were they all from the girls in the dormitory? 45:43 Most of them. 45:43 Most of them. 45:44 Yeah, probably 25 of them. 45:46 There were a few boys that got baptized too. 45:49 Yes. 45:49 Praise the Lord. 45:50 That's incredible. 45:52 And that followed 45 that had been baptized a couple months prior. 45:56 So God is working powerfully. 45:58 Saving them both from their physical harm they've been through 46:01 but giving them hope beyond this life. 46:04 And I think one of our partners that says when you have hope you 46:07 have enough. 46:07 That's right. 46:08 That's right. 46:09 And that spiritual healing leads to that emotional healing. 46:12 Absolutely. 46:13 I love that. 46:15 We have some more stories from Zambia. 46:17 So we have an interesting project. 46:19 This next photo is of an aerial view of an island. 46:22 And it looks beautiful from the air, but this is these are shacks. 46:26 Oh really? 46:27 And there is no proper sanitation on this island. 46:31 People just go out in the bush. 46:32 There's no medical care. 46:34 The kids that live on this island have not gone to school one day in 46:36 their life. 46:37 And so this is very remote. 46:39 And so we took a land cruiser a couple hours, a boat for a couple 46:43 hours. 46:45 And so immediately when I stepped on this island over a year ago I 46:48 said you know we need to do something here to make a 46:50 difference. 46:55 And so we discovered that there are 28 islands like this. 46:59 28? 47:00 Yeah, 28. 47:01 And so I want to show you another picture. 47:02 This is how they survive on these islands. 47:05 Everybody has to get used to the water. 47:08 And so the next photo shows how they survive with food. 47:11 That's fish. 47:13 All of that is fish? 47:14 Yeah, they catch a lot of fish. 47:16 I'm not sure how many vegetables they have in their diet, but they 47:18 do catch a lot of fish. 47:19 And so do they sell these or this is just to eat? 47:22 Eat and I'm sure they trade, you know, do some trading with it. 47:25 But there's, I mean, extreme poverty there of course. 47:27 And this is the only life that most of them know. 47:31 And so on this most recent visit I wanted to meet a child bride. 47:39 And so I said take me to the home of somebody that was married at 12 47:43 years old. 47:44 And so that's the next photo here I believe. 47:48 Yep, so that's Christine. 47:50 When she was 12, her fisherman, her 19 year old fisherman boyfriend got 47:54 her pregnant. 47:56 And so one night he came to her parents home and he stole her away 47:59 in the night. 48:01 And she was 12? 48:02 12, and pregnant. 48:04 And so he stole her away. 48:05 They disappear for a couple weeks and then they come back and ask for 48:08 the blessing of the family to get married. 48:11 And so this is kind of standard practice. 48:13 So that's how everybody gets married. 48:14 She's 13 and pregnant now. 48:16 The tragedy of what the conversation went like there with 48:21 her was, you know, what would you like to do? 48:23 What are your goals for your life? 48:25 I want to be a nurse. 48:27 The chance of Christine being a nurse zero. 48:31 Zero chance. 48:33 And so as we look at that we say is there a possibility that we can 48:38 somehow intervene in a scenario like this that is the reality for 48:42 all the kids growing up here on an island like this, so isolated. 48:47 We know that some of these kids are brilliant. 48:50 We also know that every one of them deserves some kind of a chance. 48:54 And so we begin to wonder how do we reach these villages? 48:58 And so one day Jason had a brilliant idea and I laughed at 49:01 him. 49:02 Should have done that. 49:03 I take it back. 49:05 So there are hundreds of people on these islands. 49:07 I think on that island what was there? 49:09 500 or 600 people? 49:10 They told me 622. 49:12 And how many of those are kids? 49:13 Over half of them are kids. 49:14 Again, who've never been to school a day in their life. 49:16 They've never been to church. 49:18 There are no healthcare facilities. 49:20 I mean there's nothing but the water. 49:21 It's like a marshland. 49:23 And so we were like how can we reach these kids? 49:26 It's hours and hours to even get to the island. 49:29 To one island. 49:30 Yeah, to one island. 49:31 Oh wow. 49:35 almost 30 other islands along the Kafui River. 49:38 And so to place missionaries on those islands there's no way that 49:41 we could support them. 49:43 So we were brainstorming all kinds of different ideas. 49:45 And then we said what about a float plane? 49:47 You said. 49:48 And that's when you laughed. 49:51 Yes. 49:53 We thought about a helicopter. 49:54 We thought about a speedboat. 49:56 Is this a float plane? 49:57 Oh look at that. 49:58 That is the float plane. 49:59 This is the child impact float plane. 50:01 See it's blue and white. 50:02 Look at that, even the colors. 50:03 So you got a float plane. 50:05 So we bought a float plane. 50:06 We still owe a little bit of money on it. 50:07 Okay. 50:08 Yeah. 50:12 And everyone said if you want to do planes there's another ministry you 50:16 need to talk to. 50:17 It's called Angel One. 50:18 That's right. 50:19 Angel One is an Adventist aviation ministry. 50:22 They are. 50:23 It's an incredible ministry. 50:24 They said you need to meet these guys. 50:26 I said well I don't know anyone at Angel One. 50:27 They said I was talking to a friend. 50:29 He said I know someone. 50:30 And I think he's in Georgia just down the street from us at a 50:34 convention. 50:35 They called him up and he said I can meet you in an hour. 50:38 Wow. 50:39 And so I jumped in my car. 50:41 Drove like Jehu. 50:44 We went for a walk and he said this is exactly the type of ministry 50:47 that Angel One does. 50:49 If you can find half the money we'll put up the other half as a 50:52 match. 50:53 So we're still finding our half. 50:55 Okay. 50:56 Well we are on 3 ABN. 50:57 So this is another opportunity. 51:00 So what do we still need to find? 51:01 Float planes are expensive. 51:02 Because you have to buy special floats. 51:05 They have to take off and land in short runways. 51:07 And so this started growing and it became a $500,000 project. 51:12 Oh wow. 51:13 Angel One said we'll put up half. 51:14 We guys raised the other half and we praise the Lord we've raised 51:18 $115,000 so far toward this project. 51:22 And so we don't have much left. 51:23 Just a little over $100,000 to get to our half. 51:27 But we've stepped out in faith. 51:29 We've bought the plane. 51:30 It's currently being equipped. 51:31 And you know the miracle of all of this is that at Riverside a new 51:36 missionary family just moved there to begin doing medical work. 51:41 It just so happens that the guy doing medical work is also a pilot. 51:46 That is divine providence. 51:47 It is. 51:48 He's an airplane pilot. 51:49 He's an airplane mechanic. 51:51 And he's a nurse practitioner. 51:53 And so he can support these islands with medical care and then we can 51:56 take missionaries from our education program at Riverside to 52:01 place them on all of these islands. 52:02 So these girls becoming missionaries that are being 52:05 rescued. 52:05 Right. 52:06 That's incredible. 52:08 It's amazing how God has led through the partnership with Angel 52:11 One, through the staff at Riverside, and just opening so many 52:15 doors to get us to this place. 52:16 And we just can't wait to get started on this project. 52:21 What an incredible project. 52:22 I love that. 52:23 That's a God-ordained idea. 52:26 And we hope that churches may want to adopt a whole island and maybe 52:29 we can name that island after the church that adopts it. 52:32 So this is kind of our longer-term vision for it. 52:34 Do one island at a time and see where God opens doors. 52:38 Which island are you starting with? 52:40 The one that we had the aerial view of. 52:41 We'll start with that one. 52:45 So we have a head start because that can also be the literacy 52:47 school. 52:52 And there's lots of people around the bar and there's nobody at the 52:55 church. 52:57 So if we turn that into a literacy school during the week I think it 53:01 will be a real blessing. 53:02 They do have a pathfinder club there. 53:03 But that one island had a little bit of attention but still huge 53:07 neglect in terms of education and health care and so on. 53:10 So this means they have an Adventist presence on that island 53:12 if they're having pathfinders. 53:13 Yeah. 53:14 There but not the other places. 53:16 Not the other islands. 53:17 Okay. 53:20 She was pregnant and they ran away. 53:21 Is she on this island or is she different? 53:23 Oh, she is on this island. 53:25 Okay. 53:29 they want to help donate toward the float plane? 53:33 Sure. 53:35 Okay. 53:35 Yay. 53:36 Hopefully we have that. 53:37 Okay. 53:38 This is on your website? 53:40 It's on our website. 53:40 We have the Zambia Project float plane. 53:43 Okay. 53:47 Or you can call the office of course at 4239-100-667. 53:52 But Jill you should know in that river there are lots of crocodiles. 53:55 And there are hippos. 53:57 So we heard some stories while we were there. 54:01 And so the children are told not to swim. 54:04 Yeah. 54:05 So Are they afraid of the water? 54:07 I think probably that's the reality. 54:09 But the fishermen are very brave. 54:11 They go out. 54:12 One fisherman told me that one night a crocodile flipped his 54:17 canoe. 54:21 over the head of the crocodile. 54:23 And those that were nearby were able to come and rescue them before 54:26 the crocodile got the jacket off. 54:27 I've never heard such a crazy story. 54:28 I've never heard of that. 54:30 They said someone else, a hippo, chased them out of the water. 54:33 And they had to run up a tree to get away from the hippo. 54:36 But hippos are the most dangerous of the African animals. 54:38 They're aggressive then if they're chasing out of the water. 54:42 So we hope our float plane doesn't land on a crocodile or hippo. 54:46 So we need protection and safety for the float plane too. 54:48 We need prayers for that too. 54:51 Absolutely. 54:57 want to donate for any of the projects with Operation Child 55:00 Rescue or specifically for the float plane you go under projects. 55:04 Is that correct? 55:05 And look for Zambia and it's the float plane under that. 55:07 Okay. 55:13 423 -910-0667 That number again is 423-910-0667 We believe in what God 55:26 is doing in and through Child Impact. 55:27 I love these stories. 55:32 bring hope and healing and transformation. 55:36 Recognizing your identity in Christ. 55:38 Recognizing that you can be safe. 55:40 That you are loved and that you can be whole and find healing in Jesus. 55:47 So that is incredible. 55:48 I love that. 55:49 Praise the Lord. 55:55 have a full second hour. 55:57 Tell us what we're going to hear about in the second hour. 55:59 What countries are we going to? 56:01 Well I'm excited about the second hour because every July 30 we pick 56:05 a project. 56:10 Against Human Trafficking. 56:12 And so this is actually the first time for us to announce publicly 56:16 what the project will be for this year. 56:19 We've had it planned for some time. 56:22 But last year's project we'll start with because now that is well 56:26 underway. 56:26 It's a year underway. 56:27 Last year's project I think was Columbia. 56:30 That's right. 56:31 So we'll talk about Columbia first and then we'll move to our new 56:33 project for this year. 56:35 Amen. 56:39 stood up there in Hazareth quoting from Isaiah that the Spirit of the 56:43 Lord is upon me and he has anointed me to bring that deliverance set at 56:49 liberty those who are bound. 56:50 And what an incredible, to me that's the theme of Child Impact. 56:53 I'm not sure if you would say that's your theme, but it is 56:56 indeed. 56:58 And so to me that is the theme of Child Impact because there are 57:00 people everywhere who are broken. 57:03 People who are lost. 57:04 People who are alone. 57:06 People who need Jesus. 57:10 And Jesus came to set us free. 57:12 To open up those blind eyes. 57:15 To relieve those who are oppressed. 57:19 To set the captives free. 57:21 And there's children who are all over the world who are oppressed. 57:26 Who are captive. 57:28 Held against their will and yet Jesus wants to set them free. 57:33 And break those bands of wickedness. 57:34 We know we live in a sin sick world but Jesus is on the throne and he 57:39 is more powerful and he's using ministries like Child Impact to set 57:43 them free. 57:43 Don't go anywhere we'll be right back. |
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