Welcome back to the second
hour, and we've got a salt
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shaker with a
lot more salt in it.
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We should have
had a salt shaker.
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Yeah, I know, right?
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You need to get
yourself a salt shaker.
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Should have did
some salt water in here.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Eric is not about to
lose any flavor anytime soon.
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No, no, no.
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If you missed the first
hour, you missed a lot, but
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fortunately, there's a replay
of this program later on that
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you'll get a
chance to peek in on it.
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But salt, if somebody's just
joining us, boom, summarize, S
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-A -L-T, first of
all, what does that mean?
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Salt is an acronym for
service and love together.
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We act as a front door
for people experiencing
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homelessness.
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Not just a front door,
but a mobile front door.
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So anyone that's experiencing
homelessness can come to us
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first, get their basic needs
met through things like our
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trailers, our case managers,
counselors, and be led toward
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navigating ending
their homelessness.
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And doing it in a Christ-like
way, you know, alongside our
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spiritual care team to help
make sure that they also know
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who Christ is too, you know,
and that's, you know, we don't
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force anyone, we don't believe
God would force anyone to
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worship here, but we make
it optional for our guests and
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many of our guests, you know,
have taken advantage of that.
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So you connect them with the
church also, with an Adventist
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church.
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comfortable while they're
experiencing homelessness
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because, you know, but if they
do want to be connected to a
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church, we will
connect them to a church.
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So our spiritual care team
will usually, what they'll do is
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they'll, you know, they might
connect them with Bible studies
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and other things, but after
in those Bible studies, if they
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request being a part of a
church or we notice that they
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want that kind of community,
then they'll actually go with
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them to the church.
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really just kind of, you know,
it's, anyway, it's real special
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what happened here.
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church, right?
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And so that our client, our
client that was with him was
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still experiencing
homelessness at the time.
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He didn't fully
feel comfortable.
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He's like, don't worry about it.
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Just calm, you know,
whatever, it'll be fine.
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So, you know, he goes to pick
him up to go to church and our,
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you know, our spiritual
care team member that's that's
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taking him, he's wearing a tie
-dye shorts, flip-flops, has a
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hole in his shirt, you
know, and the guy he's taking to
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church is like, man, I thought
they were going to be looking
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at me, but they're going to
be looking at you, you know, and
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he's like, you know, but he
did that intentionally, right?
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Because then now, now, you
know, maybe he will get, you
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know, more of the
looks or whatever.
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And and, you know, they won't,
you know, notice our guests as
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much.
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needs help.
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Yeah, right, right.
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They're going to him and asking
if he needs assistance, you
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know, but that's that's the
spirit that they they come with
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with that.
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Remove that fear.
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Yep.
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Remove that fear.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So we, you know, at Salt,
you know, and like I mentioned
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before, you know, Central
Florida is one of the highest
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concentrations of youth and
young adult homelessness, you
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know, 16 to 24 year olds.
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And so we applied for a
grant to specialize in youth and
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young adult homelessness.
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And so we have actually a
dedicated team of people that
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focus on just
16 to 24 year olds.
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So this team, you know, I
actually have a picture here of
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our trailer that is
this trailer right here is
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completely dedicated to
youth, youth and young adults
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experiencing homelessness.
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It has three bathrooms
with, you know, showers like the
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other one.
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Yeah.
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Has the 88 in the back there.
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And in the middle, there's
actually two washers and two
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dryers in it, too.
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So it's an all in
one kind of trailer.
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And so that was sponsored
by an insurance company.
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They paid for that.
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And the truck that goes along
with it, they gave us about one
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hundred fifty thousand to to
build that trailer and to get
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that truck.
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But that that trailer goes
across Central Florida engage
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in youth and young adults
experiencing homelessness.
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And so how do
you know where to go?
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You know, it's yeah,
that's a good question.
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A lot of the time
they go to other agencies.
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So a lot of agencies
kind of give give us tips.
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Hey, we have a young person
here, you know, that kind of
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thing.
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reviewed studies on youth
and young adult homelessness.
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And the the the by far, the way
that gets the centers out the
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most is word of mouth.
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Once you get one or two
youth there, see, I mean, you're
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you're I mean, that
that's going to spread.
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Yeah.
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set up, where we go.
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So so that youth and
young adults know where to go.
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And so we actually are going to
be we had a grant to renovate a
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property to be a youth and
young adult center for unhoused
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youth, young adults.
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Yes.
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So you'll see here at the top
right, we're building eight in
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eighty a bathroom with a shower.
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OK.
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shower there.
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You'll see there at the front
at the bottom of the picture
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there, there's the
front reception area.
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You can walk in and you'll
see those tables with seats.
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Those those tables with seats
can be actually removed and
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that could be an open
like maybe lounge area.
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But when we're doing classes
or something like that or
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someone's presenting, we could
set that up for them to be able
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to get those classes in
the back right behind that.
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We have kind of a library, kind
of a library lounge area, you
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know, place for
them to do homework.
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On the right,
you'll see a kitchen.
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They'll have two refrigerators,
two microwaves, places they can
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eat and get food and not
have to worry about food.
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And the top left there, you'll
see, you know, we have some
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office spaces below that and
kind of a lounge area as well
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for them to be able to
just be out of the elements.
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And in the back of this center,
there's like a little grassy
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area.
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This is meant to be a refuge
for youth and young adults
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experiencing
homelessness to come.
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They there's
case managers there.
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There's going to we're
going to have a counselor there.
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I mean, they can get all of
their basic needs met and be
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navigated through the system
into housing from the center.
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So we're really
excited about this project.
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That's that's phenomenal.
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So the impact is is something
that's really targeting
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specific groups.
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Yeah, yeah.
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talking about this, but we
would like to, you know, yeah,
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we're growing and we're setting
up these different centers for
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all everyone.
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No, it doesn't
matter who you are.
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We we will take you.
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But we've been talking
about maybe creating specialized
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teams for specific
demographics, you know, because
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youth, young adult needs are
very different than than older
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adults or, you know, maybe a
veteran's needs are different
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than maybe someone
escaping domestic violence.
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You know, these are these are
all little teams that we want
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to develop in and in lines
to getting people into housing,
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because if we can have
dedicated teams that are pros
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at getting youth, young adults
housed, then any time we see a
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youth, young adult, any of our
other centers, we'll say, hey,
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go here.
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There's a team for you.
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There's resources here.
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There's, you know, and
so that's kind of what we're
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thinking.
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We're applying for a
grant to focus on on veteran
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homelessness as well.
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I should about veterans.
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Yeah.
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It's a three year grant where
we can, you know, hire veterans
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with lived experience.
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So they're veterans.
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They've also
experienced homelessness.
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We hire them and they minister
to other veterans that are
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experiencing homelessness.
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And so because with veteran
homelessness, you know, there's
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a lot of trust that
needs to get built there in the
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beginning.
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like a big wedge there
that you need to get past.
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But when it's another veteran,
and not only that, when it's
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another veteran that has
experienced homelessness, I
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mean, it's just the
yeah, the bridge is there.
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So it's a much
easier transition.
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So we're we're
applying for that.
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We might not get that.
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It's a very competitive grant.
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But we're where we kind of
have thought a lot about that.
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So we're hoping we can
raise some funds to maybe get
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something like
that going eventually.
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But, you know,
we'll see what God does.
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We'll see what God does.
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about, hey, here's
our veteran trailer.
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Here's our
veteran, our veteran staff.
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Right.
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Right.
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that is not even
there, they're not there.
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Thank you, honey.
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There's a world on the streets
that is often overlooked.
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It's like it reminds me of
the story of the Good Samaritan.
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There are people
walking by every day.
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There are people on the street.
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And because they don't look
the part, because sometimes they
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may look threatening or
they may look like the best they
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could look.
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They might be asking for a
handout and somebody say, I
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don't need a handout.
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These are real circumstances.
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These are real situations.
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People that you might
see a guy with his dog.
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You talk about the 72 year old
lady who couldn't carry on what
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her husband was in charge of.
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And she's now homeless.
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And sometimes you'll see a
person on the on the corner
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say, veteran, homeless,
need food, can you help?
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And he has his dog with him.
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You know, it's going to give
a different attitude to many
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people.
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Just drive and buy them.
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We've got to think, wow, do we
need a salt chapter here, too?
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That's why I like the
idea that salt is expanding.
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Talk about some of the
statistical aspects of salt,
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too, because you you
know, there's so many different
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things that have happened
as you have continued to grow.
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Yeah, yeah, definitely.
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You know, you spark something
when you were talking just now.
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And, you know, kind of like
that world of homelessness that
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sometimes, you know, us
as house people, us as house
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people, it's
invisible to us, right?
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We don't we don't know
like, you know, the how the mail
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services that might not be
something someone might think
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about right away as a need,
you know, but something that we
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realized was a need that we're
where we've been implementing
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is storage services.
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And I want to talk about that
a little bit because, you know,
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when we have people in
encampments, you know, a lot of
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times there's cities where
there's people in tents and
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they're maybe out in in
different areas and and, you
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know, a lot of the time people
are like, well, why don't they
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just go and get help or go?
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You know, now, see, the
challenge is, is when they
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leave their tent with all their
stuff, many times their stuff
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will get stolen.
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And when they get stolen, they
have to start at ground zero
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again.
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You know, and so what what
we're doing now is we're having
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a storage service where they
can come to us, they can bring
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their important things.
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Leave their tent,
bring their important things.
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We'll store it for them.
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Keep it safe.
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And then they can go off
to their medical appointment.
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They can go off to see a
case manager and go see their
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counselor without having to
worry about their stuff getting
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stolen.
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about until we get in there
and we start interacting with
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people and realize that's a
huge barrier to getting someone
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to go and seek services
and get the help they need.
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That's so true, because
you don't think about it.
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They have no
walls, no doors, no locks.
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Sometimes just something as
simple as the beer necessities
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or a blanket they've laid on
for the longest time and just
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something all their belongings
right there in their knapsack.
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Yeah, yeah, that's gone.
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And shopping
carts, shopping carts.
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Yeah, yeah.
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A risk to that what, you know,
and there's some times where,
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you know, maybe it's maybe
there's there's a pet or maybe
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there's there's
something of sentimental value.
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Maybe some of their clothes.
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We meet people that, hey, you
know, this these these clothes
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right here was passed down to
me from my dad who passed away.
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You know, and it might
look like it's just a shirt and
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pants to someone else,
but there's sentimental value
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there.
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get lost or
stolen, you know, so.
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But, you know, when it comes to
the the numbers, you know, and,
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you know, our data team
kind of puts this together.
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And we always are trying
to break records every year
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because the need
is growing every year.
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The first graphic here shows
a bar graph of some of the needs
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that that we met.
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So you'll see
here, you know, showers.
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We provide over
16000 showers last year.
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You know, over 50000 hygiene
products, over 80000 loads of
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laundry, over 80000
articles of clothing.
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And and, you know, these
are things that help meet basic
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need.
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Right.
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And then the next
slide there is actually that.
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So each dot there is the amount
of people that were housed
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after services with salt.
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So that's that's each dot
is a quarter is a three month
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period.
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people
transitioned into housing.
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Forty four percent of that
number was directly housed by
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our case management team.
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The rest were housed in
collaboration with other case
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management teams.
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So so those, you know, we're
we're very, you know, housing
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focused.
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the showers.
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trust, you know, show them who
Christ is, get them linked to
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housing.
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Yeah, one of the first things
he did was put him in shelter.
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Right.
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Exactly.
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So he was good.
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You know, he could
whatever he needs is covered.
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I'll take care when I get back.
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Right.
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Right.
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that just that
just are paralyzed.
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Because how do you when you're
in fight or flight mode 24 7,
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when you're not sleeping at
night, every 15 minutes you're
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waking up, bug
crawls on you on you.
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Car lights pass by
and it wakes you up.
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You feel like someone's pulling
on your bag and you wake up
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scared.
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You know, I mean,
you're not sleeping at night.
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You're not I mean,
it's it's the uncertainty.
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It's yeah.
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How do you how do you do that?
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And so so, you know, sometimes
there are people out there that
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they need to be
in housing first.
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Many really everyone needs to
be in housing first before they
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can start thinking about,
you know, just these other like
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getting a job,
you know what I mean?
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Some people can do it.
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Richie was one of the people
we talked about last hour.
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He got a job.
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place.
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know, we we have a guy.
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I'll share this
story with you guys.
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We have a guy.
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He's in his 70s.
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He's in a walker.
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Barely can barely, you know,
get around and stuff like that.
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And, you know, we we we
serve him pretty much every day.
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We're open.
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He's there.
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He doesn't talk much.
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Very quiet.
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No family or friends
or anything like that.
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And every night, there's only
two porta potties in downtown
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Orlando for hundreds and
hundreds and hundreds of people
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to use overnight, too.
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And and so overnight,
that's that's all they have.
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Right.
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border body.
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So there's two choices.
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You defecate yourself at night.
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Or you you you risk going
on the sidewalk and getting
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arrested and losing all
your stuff, because you would be
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surprised how many people
unsheltered get arrested for
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using the bathroom outside.
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And I mean, I get it.
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But, you know, yeah, it's
a it's a crime to defecate in
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public.
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You know, like, so what
ends up happening for him?
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He defecates himself
every day, every night.
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He comes to us for a shower.
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Our staff help clean him up.
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He gets new clothes sometimes.
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And the same thing happens
the next day, the next day, the
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next day.
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He can't get a job.
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He he he has social security.
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He's barely getting
anything on social security.
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He's not enough
to pay rent anywhere.
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He has he's on a waiting
list for permanent supportive
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housing, which will take two
and a half years for him to get
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in.
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Yep.
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It's it's unfortunate, but
there are some, you know, some
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people that, you know, I a lot
of time we hear, oh, get a job
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first.
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They just need to get a job.
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Some people can't hold a job.
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They can't get a job, you
know, and he's one of them.
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And so it's it's heartbreaking.
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And so, you know, if we weren't
around, he wouldn't even be
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able to get a shower.
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He wouldn't be able to get
his laundry done or get his mail
00:17:04.15\00:17:06.89
anywhere or or even see a
case manager that's helping him
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through some things
that he's going through.
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And, you know, and helping
to get him on that permanent
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supportive housing
list and doing all that.
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I mean, you know, so it
unfortunately, there's there's
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a good number of people
out there that just they can't
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work, you know, and
we're helping to support them.
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We're into everything we
can to get them off the street.
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Nationwide, we're peeling
back the onion skin tonight.
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I really appreciate that,
because sometimes we see salt
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as, hey, everything is working.
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But sometimes you could
look at situations like you just
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described here where, you
know, you're you just showered.
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You just got new clothes
and you're singing your mind.
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He'll be back tomorrow.
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Same situation.
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And it's a cycle.
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And so it almost behooves the
government, the local officials
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to recognize this hidden world.
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Yeah.
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What do they do about it?
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Are they embarrassed?
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You know, you want to
ask yourself the question.
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This is not
something you could ask.
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But sometimes it
might be the locals.
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The city doing?
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Yeah.
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You know, good
people at the city.
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They they they give us, you
know, some grant funding and do
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some some of what we're doing.
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And initially, when we first
were kind of ramping up, they
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were big and
getting us funded to do it.
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And, you know, that's why
nonprofits exist, because the
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city can't, I guess, is unable
or, I mean, they might be able
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to, but aren't aren't
doing everything they can do for
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their citizens.
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So so they give us money and
other agencies money to try and
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do something.
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You know, I will say that the.
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How do I say this?
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The attitude toward
homelessness right now.
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Yeah.
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More than any other time that
we've been doing this ministry
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has been just unhinged and
and and the city, you know, is
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trying to build a
shelter right now.
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Yeah.
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each time the community pushes
back and says, we don't want to
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hear.
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Yes.
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see, you know, they don't
want to tell the shelter next to
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them, whatever.
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But then where
is it going to go?
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Where are you going?
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Where where is it going?
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It has to go
somewhere to go somewhere.
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And and and, you know, and
so right now, the next shelter,
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the shelters have been full for
years, four years, four or five
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years.
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And for a new shelter to get
built, we're talking like three
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years at the soonest.
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There'll be a new
shelter in Orlando.
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What's going to
happen in three years?
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And so in the meantime, in the
meantime, God has called us to
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a certain
mission, a certain purpose.
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We are here to help.
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I mean, there are people
that are surviving because we're
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there.
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I'll share this story, too,
because I and we'll go on to
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some testimonies.
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We have some other
things to talk about.
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Yeah.
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So we man.
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This is tough.
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So we we were
serving in an area.
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We were taking our
shower trailer out there.
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It was a wooded area where
we knew some people experiencing
00:20:19.35\00:20:22.05
homelessness were there.
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Yes.
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They were eager for help.
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I mean, they I mean, there was
a young person there crying, I
00:20:25.49\00:20:27.89
just want to see a case manager.
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You know, I've
walked over to this place.
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I've waited in line,
can never see a case.
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I just need to
see a case manager.
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I need help.
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You know, and they're there.
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And they were when we got there
and we started bringing case
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management
showers, clothing, hygiene.
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We had some food meals.
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I mean, they were all grateful
and they started to work with
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our case manager.
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in particular that I
want to talk about today.
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He he was he's getting a job.
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He was applying for jobs.
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He was really excited to get
to the next stage and get out of
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his situation.
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And so one day where they're
serving and, you know, in order
00:21:02.22\00:21:06.70
to get to this wooded
area, we have to cross a private
00:21:06.70\00:21:11.07
business owner's driveway.
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So we're not we're not
they don't even have a place of
00:21:13.90\00:21:17.04
business there.
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It's just an empty lot.
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We drive over this little
sidewalk, probably as big as
00:21:18.84\00:21:22.78
this table, and get to the
other side and we get to the
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wooded area.
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They came with a forklift and
cement blocks to block us in.
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They said, leave right now.
00:21:32.72\00:21:34.09
Leave right now or
you're getting locked in here.
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What?
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And and so we were like our
team was like, OK, you know,
00:21:38.16\00:21:41.96
we're going to go,
you know, please don't.
00:21:42.03\00:21:44.77
You know, and at one point,
they almost rammed that truck
00:21:44.97\00:21:48.30
with that cement
block into one of our staff.
00:21:48.30\00:21:50.41
We had it on camera.
00:21:50.61\00:21:51.77
We're recording it the whole
time because we want to make
00:21:51.77\00:21:54.01
sure you know, we were covered
and and just that that the
00:21:54.01\00:21:58.31
hate.
00:21:58.31\00:21:59.91
It was the hate toward people
experiencing homelessness.
00:22:00.22\00:22:03.39
There's no there's nothing
holding anyone back anymore.
00:22:04.19\00:22:07.02
You know, they're
just going all out.
00:22:07.26\00:22:08.86
So we ended up leaving that
place and it was and we weren't
00:22:09.09\00:22:12.46
able to serve in
that area anymore.
00:22:12.46\00:22:14.86
Two weeks later, the guy that
was that I was working with our
00:22:15.50\00:22:19.37
case manager that was looking
for a job, we found out he
00:22:19.37\00:22:22.74
passed away.
00:22:22.74\00:22:23.27
He got a cut, simple cut,
opening wound, became septic,
00:22:24.34\00:22:30.95
and he passed away in that camp.
00:22:31.61\00:22:33.38
What?
00:22:33.92\00:22:34.12
We were pushed away from that
encampment and that ended up
00:22:35.68\00:22:39.19
happening.
00:22:39.19\00:22:43.12
if we were not there, they they
they wouldn't they wouldn't be
00:22:43.12\00:22:47.96
alive.
00:22:47.96\00:22:50.57
out there.
00:22:50.57\00:22:51.07
And and, you know, we you know,
I had the privilege of speaking
00:22:52.23\00:22:56.71
at the Homeless
Memorial Service in Orlando.
00:22:56.71\00:22:59.41
I did the Homeless Memorial,
Homeless Memorial Service.
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It's where every year
we get together a bunch of
00:23:05.31\00:23:08.42
organizations and we honor the
lives of those that passed away
00:23:08.42\00:23:12.19
experiencing homelessness.
00:23:12.19\00:23:13.32
There were one hundred and
sixteen people that we knew of
00:23:13.39\00:23:15.79
that passed away in last year.
00:23:15.79\00:23:17.69
And there was we had a John Doe
that was for everyone else that
00:23:17.69\00:23:21.46
passed away that we
didn't know of know about.
00:23:21.46\00:23:23.37
And they asked me to do
the the eulogy at that service.
00:23:23.77\00:23:29.64
And and I talked
about that client.
00:23:30.31\00:23:32.21
I'm like, we we we need
to we need to keep pushing.
00:23:32.61\00:23:36.54
We need to keep going.
00:23:36.61\00:23:37.45
We need to go harder.
00:23:37.65\00:23:38.68
There are people that are dying
because we are not out there
00:23:38.85\00:23:41.92
doing what we need to
do to serve these people.
00:23:41.92\00:23:43.99
And they're dying without
knowing Christ, you know, like
00:23:44.35\00:23:47.39
we we need to we
need to get out there.
00:23:47.99\00:23:50.06
There's a sense of urgency.
00:23:50.06\00:23:51.06
There is a sense of urgency.
00:23:51.19\00:23:52.46
And so we have
that sense of urgency.
00:23:52.56\00:23:54.03
And that's that's what that's
what keeps pushing us, you
00:23:54.03\00:23:56.50
know.
00:23:56.50\00:24:00.60
Well, but you know, really,
Eric, you're bringing us to the
00:24:00.60\00:24:04.54
reality of the, you know,
it's no longer black and white.
00:24:04.54\00:24:06.78
This is full color of what
we're seeing, what's happening
00:24:06.84\00:24:09.81
there.
00:24:09.81\00:24:13.38
You don't know what you're
going to deal with when you
00:24:13.38\00:24:16.42
pull up at a location.
00:24:16.42\00:24:17.62
And to think about that,
it's just somebody with feel the
00:24:17.62\00:24:22.56
disparaging attitude
to just block it off.
00:24:22.56\00:24:24.66
So I don't really care whether
they die and I just get off of
00:24:24.66\00:24:27.23
my property.
00:24:27.23\00:24:27.83
That's just a sad reality.
00:24:28.16\00:24:29.63
Yeah.
00:24:30.00\00:24:30.13
Yeah.
00:24:30.30\00:24:33.54
you almost had to hold
up your camp, so to speak.
00:24:33.54\00:24:37.31
We did.
00:24:37.34\00:24:37.81
We did.
00:24:37.91\00:24:38.31
And, you know, I, you know, I.
00:24:38.71\00:24:43.78
So we we were on
a live last year.
00:24:47.08\00:24:49.88
Some people might be watching
now that we're on that, that
00:24:49.92\00:24:52.29
they were watching that live
and there were people that, you
00:24:52.29\00:24:59.19
know, they so so I'll
start from the beginning.
00:24:59.19\00:25:01.53
Let me let me start there.
00:25:01.70\00:25:02.50
So basically.
00:25:02.50\00:25:03.33
In June of last year, we were
promised a very large donation
00:25:05.10\00:25:08.94
from a corporation, one that's
given us more money in the
00:25:08.94\00:25:12.94
past, you know, MOU
signed, everything was set up.
00:25:12.94\00:25:16.21
Right.
00:25:17.21\00:25:18.85
Right.
00:25:19.05\00:25:19.45
So that's a lot of money.
00:25:19.81\00:25:21.05
So so we were we were really
counting on that check to come
00:25:21.22\00:25:25.15
in and everything was planned.
00:25:25.15\00:25:26.82
And then I get a text from that
corporation saying that they
00:25:26.82\00:25:31.96
don't there's
some internal issues.
00:25:31.96\00:25:33.90
They don't know if
they can get us that money.
00:25:34.03\00:25:35.76
They don't know when
they will get us that money.
00:25:35.80\00:25:37.70
And so I go to our finance guy,
I'm like, look, let's take our
00:25:38.63\00:25:42.77
cash flow projection here.
00:25:42.77\00:25:43.77
Let's take off one
hundred and thirty thousand.
00:25:43.77\00:25:45.57
Just just delete it.
00:25:45.64\00:25:46.88
How does that
affect us moving forward?
00:25:47.28\00:25:49.04
And he's like, Eric, we will
have to shut down our services
00:25:49.78\00:25:53.42
by 80 percent for three months,
move our staff to other grant
00:25:53.42\00:26:00.26
funded positions.
00:26:00.26\00:26:00.89
So no one's losing their job.
00:26:00.96\00:26:02.12
But for our main operation,
our busiest operation, the one
00:26:02.72\00:26:06.63
where we serve that gentleman
that has to, you know, that 70
00:26:06.63\00:26:10.97
year old and with a walker.
00:26:10.97\00:26:12.43
We had to shut we have
to shut down by 80 percent.
00:26:13.00\00:26:15.14
That means 80 people a day,
five days a week, not getting
00:26:15.24\00:26:17.74
their basic needs met.
00:26:17.74\00:26:18.77
That meant, you know, that
that cutting down on our case
00:26:19.44\00:26:22.94
management capacity, too.
00:26:22.94\00:26:24.25
And, you know, that was that
was really hard to stomach, you
00:26:25.95\00:26:28.95
know, and so we did
everything we could.
00:26:28.95\00:26:31.05
We looked and we we looked
at every possible avenue of how
00:26:31.22\00:26:35.09
can we how can we
recoup this, you know?
00:26:35.09\00:26:38.26
And there was nothing that we
could do, nothing we could do.
00:26:38.96\00:26:41.70
So we ended up about a
week later, we brought our whole
00:26:41.70\00:26:46.57
team into into
the room, into a room.
00:26:46.57\00:26:48.97
We did like a town
hall with our team.
00:26:49.14\00:26:50.71
And I told them, hey,
this is what's happening.
00:26:51.14\00:26:55.04
Wow.
00:26:55.28\00:26:55.68
There was a dry eye in
that room, of course, you know,
00:26:57.38\00:27:00.22
because, yeah, they weren't
losing their jobs, but but they
00:27:00.22\00:27:02.75
knew how this would
affect the people we're serving.
00:27:02.75\00:27:04.89
So right after that meeting,
it just so happened a reporter
00:27:07.66\00:27:10.69
came by and it was about
something totally different.
00:27:10.69\00:27:13.60
And she could tell I
was a little emotional.
00:27:14.36\00:27:15.70
She's like, what's going on?
00:27:15.73\00:27:16.73
And, you know, I tell
her what's going on, what's
00:27:16.93\00:27:19.50
happening.
00:27:19.50\00:27:19.77
And she's like, you know what?
00:27:20.74\00:27:21.87
Forget that story.
00:27:21.90\00:27:22.64
Let's talk about this.
00:27:22.84\00:27:23.87
So I share what's
happening on the news.
00:27:25.21\00:27:26.94
After that story, six other
news stations reached out and
00:27:27.18\00:27:30.78
started, you know, they were
like, oh, it's all can't shut
00:27:30.78\00:27:32.91
down.
00:27:32.91\00:27:35.85
open, popped up.
00:27:35.85\00:27:36.92
You know, salt can't shut down.
00:27:38.09\00:27:39.19
We need to we need to get
it out there to try and get
00:27:39.19\00:27:41.26
support for you guys.
00:27:41.26\00:27:42.29
And so seven total seven news
stories, Channel six, Channel
00:27:42.82\00:27:45.36
13, Channel two.
00:27:45.36\00:27:46.43
I mean, everybody
was talking about it.
00:27:46.59\00:27:48.56
And we we ended up
after that news story.
00:27:48.76\00:27:52.23
I you know, our team, a few
days later, they end up going
00:27:53.10\00:27:56.84
to our clients now to
our guests and they go in the
00:27:56.84\00:28:00.64
courtyard where they are and
they tell them what's going on.
00:28:00.64\00:28:05.11
It was it was, you know,
in in this in this really just
00:28:05.25\00:28:09.35
emotional, heartbreaking time.
00:28:09.35\00:28:11.32
There was a there was a moment
of beauty there because we
00:28:12.12\00:28:14.86
shared what's
happening with our clients.
00:28:14.86\00:28:16.32
And someone in a wheelchair
raised their hand and said,
00:28:16.46\00:28:18.43
I'll volunteer
to keep this going.
00:28:19.49\00:28:21.16
You know, someone else, you
know, with a disability, I'll
00:28:21.83\00:28:25.20
volunteer.
00:28:25.20\00:28:29.20
for everyone else.
00:28:29.20\00:28:30.51
And so, you know, we we.
00:28:30.94\00:28:33.74
So, you know, that happens.
00:28:33.81\00:28:35.04
And you know, while this is
happening, I get an email about
00:28:35.21\00:28:38.75
someone that, you know,
they see our shower trailer in
00:28:38.75\00:28:41.12
Sanford, you know, 30
minutes north of Orlando.
00:28:41.12\00:28:42.85
They say, hey, you
know, we I just want to talk.
00:28:42.85\00:28:44.75
You know, I have some ideas for
Sanford and love to meet with
00:28:44.92\00:28:48.22
you.
00:28:48.22\00:28:48.62
I'm like, OK.
00:28:48.66\00:28:49.39
So we schedule
something for a week later.
00:28:49.62\00:28:51.29
Now, this is four
days before the shutdown.
00:28:51.46\00:28:53.86
I meet with this woman.
00:28:54.63\00:28:56.06
And it was actually the the the
day I was going to be here on
00:28:57.13\00:29:01.87
three and live with
Danny Yvonne Shelton.
00:29:01.87\00:29:05.61
I meet with her and she, you
know, she's like, hey, I want
00:29:06.91\00:29:11.21
to talk about Sanford,
but I saw this new story.
00:29:11.21\00:29:14.18
I want to talk about that.
00:29:14.65\00:29:15.65
What was that about?
00:29:15.75\00:29:16.58
And I'm like, yeah,
well, this is what's going on.
00:29:16.85\00:29:19.09
So, OK, well, you know what?
00:29:19.15\00:29:20.49
You know, let me see
what me and my family can do.
00:29:20.59\00:29:23.09
Maybe we can help in some way.
00:29:23.39\00:29:24.79
I don't know.
00:29:24.86\00:29:25.46
You know, we'll we'll see.
00:29:25.49\00:29:26.49
I'll send you a text about an
hour before I come on this live
00:29:26.73\00:29:30.53
show.
00:29:30.53\00:29:33.74
thousand dollars to
salt to keep salt going.
00:29:33.74\00:29:37.67
So the next slide here shows.
00:29:38.21\00:29:39.84
So now all the journalists
that did the whole story on us
00:29:40.31\00:29:44.25
shutting down, they ended
up having as good journalists.
00:29:44.25\00:29:48.28
They're like, we
can't have this out there.
00:29:48.32\00:29:49.75
They're not
shutting down anymore.
00:29:49.78\00:29:50.85
So there were seven more news
stories that had to come around
00:29:51.22\00:29:55.29
and share the miracle of what
happened because they had to.
00:29:55.29\00:29:58.43
They couldn't keep the shutting
down story out by itself.
00:29:58.43\00:29:58.46
Right.
00:30:00.86\00:30:07.07
with me the most.
00:30:07.07\00:30:08.17
You know, I and it was because,
you know, sometimes when they
00:30:08.30\00:30:10.91
do stories, you talk about
God and they don't include it in
00:30:10.91\00:30:14.54
the news story to that
particular news story in the
00:30:14.54\00:30:16.88
middle.
00:30:16.88\00:30:19.85
So and because that's
what we told our team.
00:30:21.55\00:30:23.89
We're like, look, we
did everything we could.
00:30:23.92\00:30:26.19
All we can do is pray right now.
00:30:26.22\00:30:27.66
That's right.
00:30:27.82\00:30:29.69
We're in that room, you know,
in tears, all praying for this
00:30:29.69\00:30:32.76
miracle.
00:30:32.76\00:30:33.16
And and so, you know, I what
I do is I take, you know, we're
00:30:35.06\00:30:38.93
praying, you know, we pray that
God can get the glory for all
00:30:38.93\00:30:42.27
this.
00:30:42.27\00:30:46.01
You know, we'll share how you
deliver it, how you try to try
00:30:46.11\00:30:49.01
it.
00:30:49.01\00:30:55.12
media sometimes of salt.
00:30:55.12\00:30:56.35
You know, we have an Instagram.
00:30:56.45\00:30:57.69
And so I I, you know, sometimes
I spend hours and hours putting
00:30:57.69\00:31:03.56
together a social media
post and it gets like two likes.
00:31:03.56\00:31:07.00
And I'm like in my head,
I'm like, yeah, it's going to go
00:31:07.96\00:31:10.20
viral.
00:31:10.20\00:31:10.83
Everyone's going to love that.
00:31:10.90\00:31:11.40
And no one likes it.
00:31:11.40\00:31:11.43
So but but in this case, I
took a screenshot of that news
00:31:13.27\00:31:16.74
story, the same screenshot
you saw in that previous slide
00:31:16.74\00:31:18.91
there, the middle news
story, took a screenshot.
00:31:18.91\00:31:21.18
I posted on
Instagram and it went viral.
00:31:21.54\00:31:25.01
Wow.
00:31:25.01\00:31:25.68
Three point eight million
people saw this news story.
00:31:26.28\00:31:29.68
And so God got the glory.
00:31:30.85\00:31:32.49
Man, he got the glory.
00:31:32.82\00:31:33.99
He made this.
00:31:34.06\00:31:35.02
We don't have viral
posts like that on our page.
00:31:35.12\00:31:37.46
We're not that big.
00:31:37.59\00:31:38.63
But for some reason, and I know
it was God, he made that news
00:31:38.83\00:31:43.63
story viral.
00:31:43.63\00:31:44.47
And and so it was just, you
know, had twenty four thousand
00:31:44.87\00:31:48.40
likes, you know,
so many people saw it.
00:31:48.40\00:31:51.37
And and now I get to
share it in places like here.
00:31:52.01\00:31:54.91
And share what the
greatness that God did.
00:31:54.98\00:31:57.98
And, you know, it's it's
it's it's so being a part of
00:31:58.31\00:32:02.18
ministry and, you know, we're
all in it, you know, we're all
00:32:02.18\00:32:04.99
in ministry and stuff like that.
00:32:04.99\00:32:06.32
And, you know, every year, the
challenges don't necessarily at
00:32:06.32\00:32:06.35
the core.
00:32:12.16\00:32:12.76
The challenges are all the same.
00:32:13.33\00:32:14.76
But but the difference is, is
they get bigger and bigger and
00:32:15.06\00:32:18.43
bigger.
00:32:18.43\00:32:18.60
Yeah.
00:32:19.07\00:32:24.01
donation would have been like,
oh, man, what are we going to
00:32:24.01\00:32:26.94
do?
00:32:26.94\00:32:27.58
Oh, what's what's
what's going to happen?
00:32:27.88\00:32:29.84
Yeah.
00:32:30.08\00:32:34.28
thirty thousand dollar gap.
00:32:34.28\00:32:35.68
We're like, oh, no, what's you
know, God, what are you going
00:32:35.68\00:32:37.69
to do?
00:32:37.69\00:32:37.99
And and you know what?
00:32:38.25\00:32:39.32
Well, we came on
here and three being live.
00:32:39.72\00:32:41.56
Yeah.
00:32:41.69\00:32:44.73
Yvonne in the in the live.
00:32:44.73\00:32:46.06
And they didn't know
they didn't actually know.
00:32:46.19\00:32:48.13
I didn't tell them before.
00:32:48.16\00:32:49.73
Right.
00:32:50.17\00:32:50.43
Right.
00:32:50.43\00:32:52.47
and you know, that
that live 3ABN viewers.
00:32:52.47\00:32:58.01
Yes.
00:32:58.17\00:32:58.67
They stepped up.
00:32:58.81\00:32:59.87
Amen.
00:32:59.91\00:33:00.38
They were donating.
00:33:00.51\00:33:01.48
We got so many donations
that that day from 3ABN viewers
00:33:01.81\00:33:05.65
wanting to help and make sure
that we can hit our goal to to
00:33:05.65\00:33:11.25
to keep things going.
00:33:11.25\00:33:12.55
And, you know, honestly, I just
I almost feel like I need to
00:33:12.65\00:33:16.02
take a second just to talk
to the 3ABN viewers because sure
00:33:16.02\00:33:19.66
you know, from the beginning,
like 2016, you know, we had
00:33:19.66\00:33:26.67
this dream and 3ABN viewers
have walked alongside us.
00:33:26.67\00:33:30.61
They're they they're
donating on a regular basis.
00:33:30.94\00:33:33.01
They're being a
part of these miracles.
00:33:33.51\00:33:35.08
They're part of these miracles.
00:33:35.21\00:33:36.21
You know, they're
part of this mission.
00:33:36.78\00:33:38.28
And it couldn't happen
without all the support we get.
00:33:38.35\00:33:42.12
And we're so thankful.
00:33:42.12\00:33:43.28
And, you know, I'm almost
in tears now because it's like
00:33:43.75\00:33:46.45
we're just we're just so we're
so thankful for your support.
00:33:46.45\00:33:49.36
Your support
goes such a long way.
00:33:49.36\00:33:52.36
And so we're just
so grateful for you.
00:33:53.93\00:33:55.53
Thank you for your support.
00:33:55.60\00:33:56.73
I'm glad you put that out there
because we definitely want to
00:33:57.07\00:33:59.27
reach out to the audience
and I'm I know I'm just kind of
00:33:59.27\00:34:03.17
sniffling here to keep it
from becoming teary because in
00:34:03.17\00:34:06.47
reality, when you think about
what God does, he's looking for
00:34:06.47\00:34:09.98
people to stand in the gap.
00:34:09.98\00:34:11.05
There is an unseen world
that remains unseen to so many
00:34:11.18\00:34:15.42
people.
00:34:15.42\00:34:18.59
We pass them by, you know,
the song, People Need the Lord.
00:34:19.15\00:34:22.36
It's so fitting there.
00:34:22.76\00:34:23.79
I could see it in their eyes
and you see it in their eyes.
00:34:23.99\00:34:26.46
Empty people filled with care.
00:34:27.03\00:34:28.53
I remember once years ago when
we were new in ministry, there
00:34:29.06\00:34:33.70
was a man and his
son that was homeless.
00:34:33.70\00:34:37.44
And we took him in
our home to live with us.
00:34:37.64\00:34:40.74
He had nowhere to go.
00:34:41.48\00:34:42.48
Right, honey?
00:34:43.45\00:34:44.08
Yeah, I'll tell you about this.
00:34:44.15\00:34:49.32
never published it yet.
00:34:49.32\00:34:50.39
But it's, you know, I might
even dedicate this to what you
00:34:50.55\00:34:53.52
guys do because we were living
up in the Northern California
00:34:53.52\00:34:57.06
mountains at the time,
our first church we pastored.
00:34:57.06\00:35:01.00
Actually the second one,
but the first solo church.
00:35:01.26\00:35:03.90
And a van pulled
up in the parking lot.
00:35:05.77\00:35:07.30
It was a lot of older people.
00:35:07.97\00:35:09.07
So we had our prayer meeting
early in the day, like two o
00:35:09.17\00:35:12.44
'clock because they couldn't
drive at night through the
00:35:12.44\00:35:14.18
mountains.
00:35:14.18\00:35:18.28
up a man and his son, Caucasian
guy and his young son, I'd say
00:35:18.28\00:35:24.09
about 15 at the time.
00:35:24.09\00:35:25.52
And he said, we asked him his
name, he told us his name and
00:35:26.15\00:35:29.29
we said, where are you going?
00:35:29.29\00:35:30.23
He said, nowhere.
00:35:30.26\00:35:31.39
So we says, so
how can we help you?
00:35:35.46\00:35:37.57
He says, I just have 47 cents.
00:35:37.60\00:35:41.17
Can you help me with something?
00:35:42.27\00:35:43.57
So as I tell the story, the
lyrics were just so powerful
00:35:43.57\00:35:50.25
that I'm going to just look
it up here as I tell the story,
00:35:51.18\00:35:54.28
actually it's in my head.
00:35:54.28\00:35:55.45
So our church members, most
of them older, they said, where
00:35:57.49\00:36:01.02
are you going?
00:36:01.02\00:36:01.49
He said, nowhere.
00:36:01.52\00:36:02.69
They said, well, why
don't you stay for a while?
00:36:03.53\00:36:05.63
So we took him in.
00:36:06.43\00:36:07.86
To live with us.
00:36:08.26\00:36:09.36
So we put him in a hotel
for the week, right in town.
00:36:09.40\00:36:12.50
And what do you need?
00:36:12.50\00:36:15.17
We provided it for him.
00:36:15.50\00:36:16.94
They said, so
where's your destination?
00:36:17.57\00:36:19.27
We really don't have one.
00:36:19.67\00:36:21.04
We're just driving.
00:36:21.44\00:36:22.48
And I said, okay.
00:36:23.48\00:36:27.68
there at the gas station
and said, hey, how you doing?
00:36:27.68\00:36:30.72
He says, I'm just
getting some fuel for my van.
00:36:30.75\00:36:33.05
And he was there when I got
there and I was filling up and
00:36:33.46\00:36:37.09
I bought the lead,
but he's still there.
00:36:37.09\00:36:38.33
I said, is
there something wrong?
00:36:38.43\00:36:40.03
Are you guys still in the hotel?
00:36:40.40\00:36:41.46
Actually, no, we're
not still in the hotel.
00:36:43.00\00:36:44.80
What happened?
00:36:45.07\00:36:45.73
Well, my son got really angry
one evening and they put us
00:36:46.30\00:36:49.07
out.
00:36:49.07\00:36:49.40
How long ago was that?
00:36:49.84\00:36:50.64
It's our second night.
00:36:51.81\00:36:52.61
So where are you
sleeping in our van?
00:36:52.67\00:36:54.71
And he said, we're having
battery problems and so how do
00:36:56.61\00:36:59.18
you get your battery started?
00:36:59.18\00:37:00.22
Well, we kind of drive up the
hill in the morning, we put it
00:37:00.52\00:37:03.18
in neutral and push it
down the hill so it starts up.
00:37:03.18\00:37:06.32
I said, I called, but actually
I just brought, I said, come to
00:37:07.06\00:37:11.09
our house.
00:37:11.09\00:37:11.69
There was no cell phones.
00:37:11.69\00:37:13.83
I said, why
don't you stay with us?
00:37:14.30\00:37:16.56
So we had them come in and it
was not too far from Christmas.
00:37:16.80\00:37:21.90
Just shorten it.
00:37:23.00\00:37:23.84
Shorten.
00:37:23.94\00:37:27.54
is interesting.
00:37:27.54\00:37:28.38
We helped them fill out paper.
00:37:30.15\00:37:31.71
The church pulled together.
00:37:32.05\00:37:33.08
So this
evening, I get the story.
00:37:33.42\00:37:35.15
So talking about going
from one place to the next.
00:37:35.48\00:37:37.79
So quickly on the story.
00:37:38.65\00:37:39.82
So this evening, the father
says to his son, go outside the
00:37:39.82\00:37:44.06
play, I got to talk to.
00:37:44.06\00:37:44.89
And he said, now we can
tell the story because it's been
00:37:45.26\00:37:48.23
many years.
00:37:48.23\00:37:52.13
I won't tell you, I
won't say from where.
00:37:52.60\00:37:54.84
I've been on the run.
00:37:55.57\00:37:56.54
There's probably a
warrant out for my arrest.
00:37:57.87\00:37:59.44
And he explained the situation.
00:37:59.51\00:38:00.88
He says, if you want to verify
that, here's my mom, call her.
00:38:00.94\00:38:03.55
He had not done anything
illegal, but he found a very
00:38:03.85\00:38:07.18
uncompromising situation.
00:38:07.18\00:38:09.35
He reacted to it.
00:38:09.35\00:38:10.49
And my son and I just...
00:38:10.79\00:38:13.42
So he said, what we're going
to do is we're going to return
00:38:13.42\00:38:14.99
back home, face
our consequences.
00:38:14.99\00:38:17.09
And that was toward
the end of the story.
00:38:19.66\00:38:21.63
But we bought
them gifts and all.
00:38:21.73\00:38:23.20
They went back
home, faced their time.
00:38:24.57\00:38:27.17
And years later, we
came through the town.
00:38:27.60\00:38:29.34
This is shortened in the story.
00:38:29.44\00:38:30.44
And they were
living in that town.
00:38:30.94\00:38:32.47
And so the words of the man
and the son were out on the run,
00:38:33.64\00:38:36.41
heading nowhere.
00:38:36.44\00:38:40.88
They saw a small steeple,
and then they found people right
00:38:41.58\00:38:45.12
there.
00:38:45.12\00:38:45.35
Man, I need to hear that.
00:38:47.46\00:38:48.69
I need to hear that.
00:38:48.96\00:38:49.82
What they didn't know, as
we would come to show them, you
00:38:50.43\00:38:54.36
care.
00:38:54.36\00:38:54.63
They were out on the go.
00:38:55.00\00:38:56.10
What they did not know, there's
no place you can't find it.
00:38:56.97\00:38:59.63
So I don't get emotional like
this, but this is what salt is
00:39:01.04\00:39:04.77
all about.
00:39:04.77\00:39:09.54
There's no place
that God can't find them.
00:39:10.41\00:39:12.31
I've never gotten emotional
on this story before like this,
00:39:12.75\00:39:15.75
but I'm listening to the whole
story of salt, and it's really
00:39:15.75\00:39:19.35
impressing me that there are so
many people that are listening
00:39:19.35\00:39:21.86
to the program,
watching the program.
00:39:21.86\00:39:24.59
I mean, we've had people come
through here, and we've called
00:39:25.03\00:39:27.50
their families and
said, your mother is here.
00:39:27.50\00:39:30.37
And they say, we
don't really care.
00:39:30.37\00:39:31.80
We don't care
what happens to her.
00:39:32.33\00:39:34.14
And I'm thinking,
this is your mother.
00:39:34.14\00:39:35.84
She gave you birth.
00:39:35.87\00:39:36.57
I don't care.
00:39:36.77\00:39:37.47
You want to take care of
her fine, but we don't care.
00:39:37.91\00:39:40.08
They hang up the phone, and
we've had many instances like
00:39:40.08\00:39:42.94
that.
00:39:42.94\00:39:45.58
around the world that
are having to deal with this.
00:39:45.58\00:39:47.78
I mean, when I say chapters
around the world, people around
00:39:47.88\00:39:50.42
the world dealing with that.
00:39:50.42\00:39:51.42
Now take us down
the Mount Sinai route.
00:39:51.92\00:39:57.09
So, you know, I just want
to say, I mean, that's such a
00:39:57.16\00:40:02.66
beautiful story.
00:40:02.66\00:40:08.64
Before I leave, before I leave.
00:40:09.54\00:40:11.44
I'll let you hear it.
00:40:11.44\00:40:12.31
Yeah, I'd love to hear it.
00:40:12.31\00:40:12.34
It's a beautiful song.
00:40:13.71\00:40:14.84
So we, you know, so the
Mount Sinai route, right?
00:40:16.48\00:40:21.85
Yeah.
00:40:21.85\00:40:25.59
It's our busiest operation.
00:40:25.92\00:40:27.39
It's at downtown Orlando.
00:40:27.52\00:40:28.39
We, you know, we did
our mission well there.
00:40:30.06\00:40:32.53
It's led to our vision.
00:40:32.53\00:40:34.36
And what's happening is
that organization that we're
00:40:34.76\00:40:37.63
operating on their property,
we're transforming that
00:40:37.63\00:40:40.40
property into a
drop-in center campus.
00:40:40.40\00:40:43.24
I mean, they're turning all the
buildings focused on this and
00:40:43.57\00:40:47.31
with resources, five million
dollar grant they got to turn
00:40:47.31\00:40:50.35
this campus into a
center for people experiencing
00:40:50.35\00:40:53.21
homelessness.
00:40:53.21\00:40:53.72
So we were able to be that
proof that this is needed here.
00:40:54.38\00:41:01.06
And it's helped
to generate that.
00:41:01.06\00:41:03.09
So we knew we had to move off
the property eventually, right?
00:41:03.22\00:41:06.09
Yes.
00:41:06.33\00:41:14.17
30 -day notice that we need
to be out of here, like in 30
00:41:14.17\00:41:17.37
days, basically.
00:41:17.37\00:41:18.11
And this was at
the end of last year.
00:41:18.34\00:41:20.04
So just get off the property.
00:41:20.38\00:41:22.01
Yep, yep.
00:41:22.14\00:41:24.61
over a hundred people a day
where we're, you know, we have
00:41:24.61\00:41:30.52
our full case
management team there.
00:41:30.52\00:41:32.52
I mean, there's, you know, all
of our services and resources
00:41:32.92\00:41:35.69
are stocked in that building.
00:41:35.69\00:41:36.86
Our administrative
team is in that building.
00:41:37.26\00:41:38.76
I mean, there's a lot of stuff
that's getting uprooted here
00:41:38.83\00:41:41.33
when we have to move.
00:41:41.33\00:41:42.30
And so we looked all over the
place and in that short time,
00:41:43.16\00:41:47.14
Mount Sinai Seventh-day
Adventist Church, they were
00:41:47.44\00:41:49.27
like, you know what?
00:41:49.27\00:41:49.90
We can take you guys here.
00:41:50.44\00:41:51.67
You know, it would have had
to been temporary at that time,
00:41:52.37\00:41:55.74
which we understood, it
was going to be mostly outside.
00:41:55.88\00:41:59.28
It was about two miles
away from where we were.
00:41:59.48\00:42:01.92
But it was on short notice, you
know, for them to take us in.
00:42:02.22\00:42:05.35
We were so grateful for that.
00:42:05.42\00:42:06.82
So we could at least continue
serving while we figure out a
00:42:07.06\00:42:10.39
longer term solution, right?
00:42:10.39\00:42:11.86
So in the middle of all that,
you know, I have a graphic here
00:42:12.43\00:42:14.96
to kind of
illustrate a little bit.
00:42:14.96\00:42:16.60
So, you know, we're in a place
called the Christian Service
00:42:17.67\00:42:20.44
Center.
00:42:20.44\00:42:20.94
And, you know, in the middle of
us looking for a space, right?
00:42:22.80\00:42:27.01
We see a place
called Power House.
00:42:27.01\00:42:29.58
And that place was actually
much better for our clients.
00:42:30.35\00:42:33.28
It was closer to where we were.
00:42:33.38\00:42:35.05
There was more space.
00:42:35.38\00:42:36.38
It could be longer term.
00:42:36.38\00:42:37.42
The challenge was,
is it's $6 ,000 a month.
00:42:37.75\00:42:40.32
So we saw that place and we're
like, oh, wow, this is great.
00:42:41.29\00:42:44.69
We heard the rent price.
00:42:44.76\00:42:45.69
We're like, you know what?
00:42:45.86\00:42:46.63
I don't know if
God wants us here.
00:42:46.83\00:42:48.50
Let's go free.
00:42:48.90\00:42:48.93
Let's go to
Mount Sinai, you know?
00:42:50.43\00:42:52.23
And so we end up going
to that Mount Sinai Church.
00:42:52.77\00:42:56.00
We're about to go there.
00:42:56.00\00:42:57.77
About six days before we get
to that, we officially move to
00:42:58.37\00:43:03.61
that location, open up.
00:43:03.61\00:43:04.75
I get a phone call.
00:43:05.21\00:43:06.21
It's a Thursday.
00:43:06.72\00:43:07.32
The next Wednesday is when
we fully move into Mount Sinai
00:43:08.52\00:43:12.05
Church.
00:43:12.05\00:43:12.45
I get a call and it's
someone yelling at me.
00:43:13.42\00:43:15.72
I don't know if, I can't
remember the last time, like,
00:43:16.19\00:43:19.96
anyone's ever yelled at me like
this, but they were like, we
00:43:20.26\00:43:23.97
don't want you here.
00:43:23.97\00:43:25.13
Keep your
homeless people over there.
00:43:25.90\00:43:28.40
They're going to
break into our homes.
00:43:29.30\00:43:31.04
They're going to,
you know, get our kids.
00:43:31.27\00:43:35.74
They're going to,
you know, do this.
00:43:35.84\00:43:37.08
I mean, it was like, it was a
good 20 minutes and I couldn't
00:43:37.11\00:43:41.12
even get a word in.
00:43:41.12\00:43:42.05
I was just, I just
stood on the phone.
00:43:42.28\00:43:44.09
I'm like, I try and you
know, she keeps cutting me off
00:43:44.29\00:43:47.52
yelling.
00:43:47.52\00:43:47.86
And she's like, you
need to stop, you know?
00:43:48.99\00:43:51.13
And obviously like, I can't
make a decision right there on
00:43:51.13\00:43:56.33
this phone call.
00:43:56.33\00:43:56.97
You know what I mean?
00:43:57.03\00:44:00.17
to be, you know, is
we're not just going to...
00:44:00.17\00:44:01.87
So I tell her, I'm like,
look, you know, I thank you for
00:44:01.87\00:44:04.41
sharing.
00:44:04.41\00:44:04.74
I'll take what you said.
00:44:05.24\00:44:06.21
I'll share it with the team.
00:44:06.41\00:44:07.54
That's all I can say right now.
00:44:07.88\00:44:09.64
But that's my personal cell
number that now gets circulated
00:44:10.81\00:44:13.72
to all the communities
surrounding the church.
00:44:13.72\00:44:16.52
I'm getting calls all
night on Thursday night.
00:44:17.35\00:44:20.22
Friday comes.
00:44:21.66\00:44:22.62
I'm meeting with some people,
some allies that we have trying
00:44:23.26\00:44:27.23
to get some advice.
00:44:27.23\00:44:28.20
You know, I'm meeting with
HOA presidents in that area.
00:44:28.40\00:44:31.90
I'm talking with the church
even, because now the church is
00:44:32.47\00:44:35.00
getting, you know, knocks
on their door and it's the
00:44:35.00\00:44:38.21
pastor's first week.
00:44:38.21\00:44:39.14
God bless him.
00:44:39.34\00:44:39.81
He's...
00:44:39.97\00:44:40.51
It was his first week.
00:44:40.51\00:44:41.31
He's like, what did I get into?
00:44:41.38\00:44:43.21
Yeah, that's my fire.
00:44:43.51\00:44:44.48
And that was his first Saturday.
00:44:44.98\00:44:46.18
He was going to
speak and everything.
00:44:46.25\00:44:47.38
It was just crazy.
00:44:47.65\00:44:48.42
So, you know, I'm talking to
him even because he's like, you
00:44:48.85\00:44:51.49
know, well, who saw it?
00:44:51.49\00:44:52.49
What's going on here?
00:44:52.49\00:44:53.56
You know, he's learning
still and what's going on.
00:44:53.59\00:44:55.66
And so, you know, I'm
talking to the church.
00:44:56.12\00:44:57.59
I'm meeting with
these HOA presidents.
00:44:57.86\00:44:59.26
When I'm in this meeting
with the HOA presidents, there's
00:44:59.33\00:45:01.56
three presidents there.
00:45:01.56\00:45:03.33
They're like,
tomorrow, Saturday.
00:45:04.00\00:45:06.94
If you continue to go forward
with this, we have a protest
00:45:07.37\00:45:10.31
that's rallying right now
that's going to protest during
00:45:10.31\00:45:12.94
your church service at
Mount Sinai Church the next day.
00:45:12.94\00:45:16.58
And on top of that, we're
calling a press conference.
00:45:16.88\00:45:19.81
We're going to
get the news there.
00:45:19.81\00:45:20.92
This is on Sabbath.
00:45:21.92\00:45:22.85
This is on church service time.
00:45:22.98\00:45:24.92
And so, I'm like,
look, I hear your concerns.
00:45:25.62\00:45:32.86
I need time to pray about this,
to talk to our board, talk to
00:45:34.00\00:45:38.70
our leadership team.
00:45:38.70\00:45:39.60
I can't make a decision.
00:45:40.80\00:45:41.90
They were forcing me to
make a decision on the phone.
00:45:41.90\00:45:43.57
I'm like, I can't make
a decision on this call.
00:45:43.64\00:45:45.61
I'm sorry, but please,
please do not organize.
00:45:45.61\00:45:50.75
Please call off your protest.
00:45:51.05\00:45:52.45
Call off your press conference.
00:45:52.88\00:45:54.38
Just give me a day.
00:45:55.42\00:45:56.62
Give me a day to pray on this,
to figure this out, talk to our
00:45:56.65\00:45:59.49
team.
00:45:59.49\00:46:02.32
through in this ministry.
00:46:02.32\00:46:03.49
And one of the challenges
was, Mount Sinai is an amazing
00:46:05.09\00:46:08.40
church, amazing pastor.
00:46:08.40\00:46:09.93
I mean, they're spirit-filled.
00:46:10.60\00:46:12.30
They're wanting to do ministry.
00:46:12.47\00:46:13.74
And they're advocating.
00:46:13.90\00:46:14.97
They want, you know, the
church wants us there, right?
00:46:14.97\00:46:17.61
They feel like
this is a partnership.
00:46:17.67\00:46:19.84
This is something
God, you know, ordained.
00:46:19.97\00:46:21.94
And, you know, a part of me,
the human nature in me is like,
00:46:22.61\00:46:26.21
I don't care what you guys say.
00:46:26.65\00:46:27.82
We're going to do it.
00:46:27.88\00:46:28.92
You know what I mean?
00:46:28.98\00:46:29.72
You want to protest, fine.
00:46:30.09\00:46:30.99
But you have people's needs.
00:46:31.15\00:46:31.99
Right, you know, because this
is for helping, you know, we
00:46:32.39\00:46:35.12
got to help our people.
00:46:35.12\00:46:35.99
We can't leave
them stranded, you know?
00:46:36.06\00:46:38.26
But you know what?
00:46:39.59\00:46:40.83
I take everything off the table.
00:46:41.33\00:46:42.83
Man, and I just want to shout
out my wife here because I was
00:46:42.83\00:46:46.47
struggling, man.
00:46:46.47\00:46:47.30
I was struggling.
00:46:47.44\00:46:48.24
My wife was there
every step of the way.
00:46:48.30\00:46:50.71
She was with you.
00:46:50.81\00:46:54.58
this.
00:46:54.58\00:46:54.78
She didn't even seem worried.
00:46:55.28\00:46:56.34
She's like, it's
going to work out.
00:46:56.38\00:46:58.38
You're stressing out too much.
00:46:58.55\00:46:59.78
But she was
praying alongside me.
00:47:01.02\00:47:03.05
She was comforting me.
00:47:03.05\00:47:03.99
I mean, it was such a blessing.
00:47:04.09\00:47:05.12
You know, God really, I'm so
glad that she's in my life and
00:47:05.32\00:47:08.59
that God, we're married.
00:47:08.59\00:47:10.19
Yeah, so anyway, so now on
Saturday, I have to go talk to
00:47:10.19\00:47:15.46
the church because Mount Sinai
Church had a business meeting
00:47:15.46\00:47:18.73
that Saturday night.
00:47:18.73\00:47:19.60
And again, this is now four
days until we start operating
00:47:20.40\00:47:23.74
there.
00:47:23.74\00:47:26.68
You know, how is
this going to look here?
00:47:26.88\00:47:28.11
You know, where do we set up?
00:47:28.11\00:47:28.14
Those questions we were
going to answer that night.
00:47:29.54\00:47:31.71
But instead now, I had to
go there and share with them.
00:47:32.21\00:47:35.68
Look, we took everything
off the table and only left our
00:47:35.92\00:47:40.42
clients on the table.
00:47:40.42\00:47:41.49
And we asked ourselves,
what is best for our clients?
00:47:41.49\00:47:44.03
Forget about money.
00:47:44.26\00:47:45.06
Take money out of it.
00:47:45.49\00:47:46.39
What's best for
our clients right now?
00:47:46.76\00:47:48.16
The best thing we determined
for our clients that what God
00:47:48.76\00:47:51.27
led us to was to be at
that powerhouse location.
00:47:51.27\00:47:54.00
$6,000 rent, right?
00:47:54.84\00:47:56.24
And we're like, I don't
know, God, that's pretty steep.
00:47:56.40\00:48:01.01
But you know, maybe
that's where God wanted.
00:48:01.31\00:48:04.01
Because we realized that
we just kind of brushed that
00:48:04.08\00:48:06.75
location off
because of the rent.
00:48:06.75\00:48:08.25
But in reality, God could
meet all the financial needs.
00:48:08.25\00:48:11.82
He's the provider, right?
00:48:12.69\00:48:14.09
He's provided for us before.
00:48:14.09\00:48:15.32
He just provided for us.
00:48:15.39\00:48:16.16
I just shared
that story with you.
00:48:16.22\00:48:17.69
So God can do it.
00:48:18.69\00:48:20.30
At the end of the day,
that location, the powerhouse
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location was much
better for our clients.
00:48:23.83\00:48:26.94
So we said, you know what,
God, I think you're diverting us
00:48:27.00\00:48:30.07
back to this church.
00:48:30.07\00:48:31.81
Even though it's a lot of
money, we then had to develop
00:48:32.07\00:48:35.14
the faith to say,
God's going to provide.
00:48:35.14\00:48:38.28
It's best for our clients.
00:48:38.61\00:48:39.68
God's going to provide.
00:48:39.78\00:48:40.58
So I go and I share that
with the Mount Sinai Church.
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And man, I'm there in this,
you know, and I'm feeling, you
00:48:43.52\00:48:47.06
know, I'm feeling a little...
00:48:47.06\00:48:48.56
It's hard.
00:48:49.62\00:48:50.26
It's hard.
00:48:50.43\00:48:54.50
excited about having
partnering in this way.
00:48:54.50\00:48:57.27
You've been to
the church, you know.
00:48:57.27\00:48:58.47
Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:48:58.47\00:48:59.00
We know Mount Sinai.
00:48:59.27\00:49:05.51
someone came up
to the microphone.
00:49:06.44\00:49:07.71
They're like, I told them
everything, you know, these are
00:49:07.84\00:49:10.51
the reasons why we believe
God's moving us to this new
00:49:10.51\00:49:12.55
location, blah, blah, blah.
00:49:12.55\00:49:13.98
Someone came up to the mic
and they said, so what are you
00:49:14.28\00:49:18.02
asking from us?
00:49:18.02\00:49:18.85
And I'm like, what do you mean?
00:49:19.19\00:49:20.89
I'm not, you know, they're
like, well, ask something.
00:49:21.09\00:49:23.32
And I'm like, well, yeah, I
mean, well, we could use help
00:49:23.63\00:49:27.30
for that rent because we don't
know how we're going to get
00:49:27.30\00:49:29.26
that rent money.
00:49:29.26\00:49:30.03
And then people,
I'll give 400 a month.
00:49:30.27\00:49:32.70
I'll give 200.
00:49:32.97\00:49:34.00
Writing checks right there.
00:49:34.00\00:49:35.47
Giving us checks for the money.
00:49:35.70\00:49:37.14
The pastor on the screen.
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Yeah, the church will make a
formal donation to this and to
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help support this move.
00:49:41.68\00:49:42.98
You know, it was just,
it was really beautiful.
00:49:43.45\00:49:45.81
It was really beautiful.
00:49:46.01\00:49:47.02
You know, beautiful people
there, God-fearing people.
00:49:47.98\00:49:50.52
And then, so, you
know, it was affirmation.
00:49:51.45\00:49:54.22
It was confirmation that
God was going to provide for the
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rent.
00:49:57.29\00:50:04.17
Avon health says, you know what?
00:50:04.20\00:50:06.60
You know, we had
been talking with them.
00:50:07.47\00:50:08.97
We share with them the story.
00:50:09.07\00:50:10.07
They reached out to us
recently a few weeks ago.
00:50:10.24\00:50:12.24
They were like, you know what?
00:50:12.27\00:50:13.17
We're going to cover
the first year of rent.
00:50:13.74\00:50:15.41
Whole year.
00:50:15.91\00:50:16.64
$63,000 they're giving us to
cover the rent of that church.
00:50:17.75\00:50:21.35
God provided the rent.
00:50:21.58\00:50:23.72
God provided the rent.
00:50:23.92\00:50:25.05
Now, now, when, when, in
thinking about, you know, uh,
00:50:25.05\00:50:29.46
uh, you know, some
texts in the Bible, right?
00:50:29.52\00:50:31.63
Okay.
00:50:31.66\00:50:31.96
All right.
00:50:32.16\00:50:34.10
Um, and so I have one last
graphic here I want to show.
00:50:34.73\00:50:36.63
Let's see.
00:50:36.77\00:50:37.27
So, so...
00:50:37.60\00:50:38.33
Here we go.
00:50:38.33\00:50:38.97
Walk us through it.
00:50:39.20\00:50:39.77
In Exodus 13, right?
00:50:39.87\00:50:41.44
The, the, the, the Israelites
come out of Egypt, right?
00:50:41.64\00:50:44.97
Goshen and, and in Exodus 13,
it says, well, they could have
00:50:45.01\00:50:49.28
went the short way.
00:50:49.28\00:50:50.11
Yeah.
00:50:50.11\00:50:54.12
Egypt, right?
00:50:54.12\00:50:54.98
So they were like,
okay, you know what?
00:50:54.98\00:50:56.35
I can't take them the short way.
00:50:56.65\00:50:57.59
Their faith
isn't there yet, right?
00:50:57.69\00:50:58.79
So they said, you know what?
00:50:58.85\00:50:59.59
Let, let me take
them the long way.
00:50:59.69\00:51:01.09
So we took them by
the way of the Red Sea.
00:51:01.22\00:51:02.76
So they had the
Red Sea experience.
00:51:03.19\00:51:04.93
They go and, and one of
the climactic experiences they
00:51:05.36\00:51:08.50
experience on this long way
to their home is the Mount Sinai
00:51:08.50\00:51:14.60
experience.
00:51:14.60\00:51:15.50
And after that Mount Sinai
experience, they eventually
00:51:16.60\00:51:19.14
route their way all the way
to, you know, where Canaan is.
00:51:19.14\00:51:21.91
Now they had to go through a
Mount Sinai experience to build
00:51:24.08\00:51:27.38
the faith they needed to
get home to the rightful home.
00:51:27.38\00:51:30.19
We also had to go through
a Mount Sinai experience.
00:51:31.45\00:51:34.76
All right.
00:51:34.76\00:51:35.36
To be able to get to our
rightful home because God, we
00:51:35.92\00:51:38.96
would not have had
the faith for some reason.
00:51:38.96\00:51:41.53
And it's so crazy because, you
know, and that's how, you know,
00:51:41.56\00:51:44.07
that's how it is, right?
00:51:44.07\00:51:45.13
You know, God does something
amazing and then all of a
00:51:45.23\00:51:47.74
sudden, you know, we're
like, oh man, we're seeing this
00:51:47.74\00:51:50.51
challenge now.
00:51:50.51\00:51:51.04
What are we going to do?
00:51:51.04\00:51:52.11
You know, and, and God, God
used that situation to build
00:51:52.24\00:51:57.25
our faith, to gradually build
our faith to get to the point
00:51:57.25\00:52:01.52
where we said, you know what?
00:52:01.52\00:52:03.35
It doesn't matter the money.
00:52:03.52\00:52:04.82
God's going to
provide the money.
00:52:05.79\00:52:07.02
That's right.
00:52:07.22\00:52:07.69
This is where he wants us.
00:52:07.86\00:52:09.16
Amen.
00:52:09.19\00:52:11.69
I've heard that and so, and,
and he did it and you know what
00:52:11.76\00:52:16.77
I mean?
00:52:16.77\00:52:20.27
God is so good.
00:52:20.27\00:52:21.10
This year, this just happened.
00:52:21.14\00:52:23.84
This literally just happened.
00:52:24.14\00:52:25.31
We just moved
into the new place.
00:52:25.64\00:52:27.58
Yeah.
00:52:28.31\00:52:28.81
About a month ago.
00:52:28.91\00:52:30.65
Yeah.
00:52:31.25\00:52:31.71
Officially, how big is it?
00:52:31.88\00:52:32.91
So it's about, it's about, I
believe it's a combined about 5
00:52:33.38\00:52:38.65
,000 square feet.
00:52:38.65\00:52:39.72
It's huge.
00:52:39.72\00:52:40.59
So we have storage
for all of our location.
00:52:40.72\00:52:42.52
Oh, wonderful.
00:52:42.69\00:52:43.76
Supply chain and all that.
00:52:43.79\00:52:45.26
We have office space.
00:52:45.36\00:52:47.03
We have a break
area for our team.
00:52:47.13\00:52:48.80
You know, we're
signing a three year lease.
00:52:49.13\00:52:50.63
We're going to
be there long -term.
00:52:50.63\00:52:52.53
All of our
services could be there.
00:52:52.83\00:52:54.44
We have a
courtyard for guests to wait.
00:52:54.67\00:52:56.34
We can make it our own.
00:52:56.37\00:52:57.61
You know, our shower and
laundry trailer will be there.
00:52:58.54\00:53:00.68
I mean, we have a case
management dedicated space to
00:53:00.74\00:53:04.58
for our case managers.
00:53:04.58\00:53:05.68
I mean, it is...
00:53:05.98\00:53:07.42
The promised land.
00:53:07.42\00:53:08.22
Yes, it is the promised land.
00:53:08.65\00:53:10.15
It made it to the promised land.
00:53:10.19\00:53:11.45
That's what it is.
00:53:12.09\00:53:12.69
From Egypt to Mount
Sinai to the promised land.
00:53:13.22\00:53:14.82
That's what it was.
00:53:14.82\00:53:15.56
That's what it was for us.
00:53:15.56\00:53:16.76
And I believe that God is just
getting started with you and I
00:53:17.09\00:53:20.60
want to just take a little
time here to reach out to our
00:53:20.60\00:53:23.16
viewers and our listeners
because I know that if you've
00:53:23.16\00:53:25.07
been touched as I have, I mean,
I don't ever get teary-eyed on
00:53:25.07\00:53:28.70
a program and tonight it's
just my heart was moved and
00:53:28.70\00:53:32.91
continues to be stirred in me,
Eric, about what God is doing
00:53:32.91\00:53:35.68
in your life.
00:53:35.68\00:53:36.58
And if you've had a lack of
faith when you started watching
00:53:36.88\00:53:39.58
this program, you cannot end
this program with that lack of
00:53:39.58\00:53:43.05
faith because God may have a
Mount Sinai in your journey and
00:53:43.05\00:53:47.79
it may be on the way
to the promised land.
00:53:47.79\00:53:49.49
You might be a person watching
this program from a homeless
00:53:49.49\00:53:53.26
position.
00:53:53.26\00:53:54.03
And you're
thinking, hey, what about me?
00:53:54.20\00:53:56.33
We're going to be praying for
you tonight that God will lead
00:53:56.56\00:53:58.83
you and guide you.
00:53:58.83\00:53:59.93
And we know that the salt
experience is not something
00:54:00.07\00:54:02.20
limited to Orlando or Southern
California, but they're praying
00:54:02.20\00:54:05.44
for this to be nationwide.
00:54:05.44\00:54:06.61
But tonight, as a viewer, if
you are in the position where
00:54:06.68\00:54:09.74
you can say, I want to
be able to stand in the gap.
00:54:09.74\00:54:12.55
I want to be able to help
build this bridge financially.
00:54:12.61\00:54:15.55
I know that God has blessed me
in ways that only you know and
00:54:16.02\00:54:22.52
you want to reach out to salt.
00:54:22.52\00:54:23.66
Could you put that information
back up on the screen there so
00:54:23.79\00:54:26.26
that they'll
know how to reach out?
00:54:26.26\00:54:27.96
Service and love together.
00:54:28.50\00:54:29.76
That's what S-A-L-T dot org.
00:54:29.96\00:54:32.23
Service, S-E-R-V-I-C-E and
A-N -D-L-O-V-E and the word
00:54:32.50\00:54:37.37
together dot org if
you're listening on the radio.
00:54:37.37\00:54:39.57
And you might say, I want
to reach out to Eric Camarillo.
00:54:39.87\00:54:42.21
I want to partner
with him, his staff.
00:54:42.64\00:54:45.25
They may need more.
00:54:45.98\00:54:47.12
I mean, this
ministry is just growing.
00:54:47.12\00:54:50.02
There's a silent world out
there and God has blessed those
00:54:51.29\00:54:55.82
who are watching the program
and those who are viewers of
00:54:55.82\00:54:57.86
this program, radio,
3ABN radio, 3ABN television.
00:54:57.86\00:55:02.40
And we want you to know that
the blessing is literally, as
00:55:02.96\00:55:05.77
Danny has said, the
blessing is on the go.
00:55:05.77\00:55:07.84
God will provide.
00:55:08.27\00:55:09.57
And as you bless, given
it shall be given unto you.
00:55:09.97\00:55:13.64
There's the phone number.
00:55:13.84\00:55:14.68
You can also call 866-B-SALTY.
00:55:14.68\00:55:21.12
That's 2-3-7-2-5-8-9.
00:55:21.28\00:55:24.99
866-2-3-7-2-5-8-9.
00:55:25.69\00:55:28.06
I love that.
00:55:28.16\00:55:28.72
Want to get
something catchy in there?
00:55:29.92\00:55:31.89
I will say if you call that
number, make sure to leave a
00:55:32.16\00:55:35.83
voicemail.
00:55:35.83\00:55:36.46
That's our main number.
00:55:38.10\00:55:39.20
So we get a lot of
calls on that number.
00:55:39.30\00:55:40.54
Make sure to leave a voicemail
so we can get back to you.
00:55:40.60\00:55:43.20
Email me if so.
00:55:43.84\00:55:45.71
And honestly, if you want
to make a donation, you could
00:55:46.07\00:55:47.94
always text
PASSTHESALT to 44321.
00:55:47.94\00:55:52.75
You could go right on
our website or you could text
00:55:53.45\00:55:55.78
PASSTHESALT to 44321.
00:55:55.78\00:55:58.65
And it's 501-C3?
00:55:58.72\00:56:00.52
501-C3,
tax-deductible donations.
00:56:00.66\00:56:02.99
Yeah, yeah.
00:56:03.36\00:56:04.03
The 3ABN viewers have
helped us to get this far.
00:56:04.36\00:56:06.26
We're excited to see where
we can go and, you know, moving
00:56:06.53\00:56:10.20
forward.
00:56:10.20\00:56:14.90
Many denominations,
but here's the blessing.
00:56:15.27\00:56:17.64
I was hungry.
00:56:18.04\00:56:18.61
You gave me food.
00:56:18.71\00:56:19.27
I was thirsty.
00:56:19.44\00:56:20.04
You gave me drink.
00:56:20.11\00:56:20.71
I was a stranger.
00:56:20.84\00:56:21.54
You took me in.
00:56:21.94\00:56:22.61
I was naked.
00:56:22.68\00:56:23.18
You clothed me.
00:56:23.28\00:56:23.85
I was sick.
00:56:23.88\00:56:24.41
And you visited me.
00:56:24.78\00:56:26.15
I was in prison
and you came to me.
00:56:26.18\00:56:28.18
God bless you, Eric.
00:56:28.38\00:56:29.32
I'm looking at you prospering
in the Lord and the work of the
00:56:29.88\00:56:33.25
Lord.
00:56:33.25\00:56:36.32
difference is going to
be a significant blessing.
00:56:36.32\00:56:38.73
We're looking forward to
the next miracle stories.
00:56:38.73\00:56:40.86
It's blessing others, you know,
the homeless, the ones that
00:56:41.76\00:56:45.30
don't have.
00:56:45.30\00:56:46.00
And so we're grateful
for what you're doing.
00:56:46.40\00:56:48.20
God bless you.
00:56:48.34\00:56:49.37
Not just you, but
your team and your wife.
00:56:49.37\00:56:52.64
You know, it's wonderful.
00:56:53.34\00:56:54.21
Well, there's somebody out
on the run heading nowhere.
00:56:54.51\00:56:56.75
We pray that in your journey,
you will find Jesus as he
00:56:57.18\00:57:00.72
directs you to him
through the ministry of salt.
00:57:00.72\00:57:02.82
Until next time, God bless you.
00:57:02.82\00:57:05.15