Stay tuned to meet
three women that almost had
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me been shouting out
loud about God's goodness.
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My name is Yvonne Lewis
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and you're
watching Urban Report.
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Hello and
welcome to Urban Report.
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My guests today are
Belinda Smith, Purette Mills
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and Maxine Bethea.
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They are the impetus behind
"Women Working With Women"
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an organization that
will thrill your socks off.
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We were at the 60th
Annual General Conference
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in San Antonio, Texas,
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wait till you see what
God is doing through them.
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You know at GC,
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we get to meet and greet
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people who are doing
great things for God.
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I have some dear
friends with me here
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that have an amazing ministry
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and I know you're going to
want to know more about it.
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They are: Maxine Bethea,
Purette Mills and Belinda Smith
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and they are with
Women Working With Women.
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Yeah... Thank you for having us.
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Oh, what a blessing.
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I knew you two
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when you were little girls
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running around
Victory Lake Camp right?
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And you were friends
with my sister Binkey
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dear friends of hers.
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Best if friends with her.
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Yes, yes and
now to see you doing
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these great things
for God, it is just so...
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it's so
heartwarming, tell us about
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Women Working With
Women, what is that?
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Women Working is so
diverse, it's an Organization,
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it's Non-profit, 501C3,
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we provide different
programs in our Organization
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we deal with the spiritual,
the physical, the educational,
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and we empower women
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to be much more
than they want to be
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whatever they think
they should be, I should say,
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spiritually, we deal with them
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by first taking
care of their needs,
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we make sure
that they have food,
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we have a Community Service
Building in Gainesville, Florida
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where we provide food and
clothing for the Community.
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That building was
given to us by the City
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and they allowed us to
move into that Facility
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and use our ministry,
we don't pay any rent,
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any electricity, but we
were given that Facility
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we were given two of them,
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and we actually
named it after my mother,
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Maxine's Place, one
of her dreams is to have
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a Community Service Building
where she can help people
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as much as she
can until Jesus comes.
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So, we have that Facility there
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and what we do there is we
make sure that they have food,
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we make sure
that they have clothes
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and then we deal
with their spirit
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and also give them counseling.
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We have two
pastors that work with us,
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Pastor Callwood, Dr.
Sherwin Callwood from
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Bethel Seventh-day
Adventist Church in Gainesville
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and Pastor Joseph P.
Louis, Ingle, California
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and where are you located?
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We're located in
Gainesville, Florida
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approximately 22 or so
miles from the Campground
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for Southeastern Conference.
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That is wonderful, so
you have two buildings
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that have been
donated for this work.
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Yes. Look at God.
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God is good
isn't He? Look at God.
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I say the same thing.
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And look at how the
Lord has structured this.
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First, you meet
people at their place of need
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people don't want to
hear about the 2300 days
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if their stomachs are
touching their backs, right?
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They're hungry, so you
feed them that's what Jesus did,
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Yes. you feed them,
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and then you give
them spiritual mentoring.
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Absolutely, and what's
really critical is that
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it's an
Organization run by women
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Adventist women, the
Board is fully Adventist
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the speakers are all Adventists,
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everyone is Adventist
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and we're leading
out in the Community
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not only do we
have the two duplexes
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but we're getting another
Community Service Building
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on the other side of town
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to provide and
duplicate that building,
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their services
That's interesting...
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So now, what do
each of you do there
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what's your position there?
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My position there is
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the President of
Women Working With Women
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I establish
connections with the City.
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The one important
thing that I do is
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I connect with the Community,
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I get involved
with the Community
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I get on Boards in the Community
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that allow me to again
be offered a free building
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getting involved with
the Community lets me know
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exactly what the
policies are in the city
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and what their need is
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and as
Christians, that's our goal
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it's to take care of
that need like Jesus did
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and then feed them,
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and then give them
the love of Christ.
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Incredible, incredible,
what do you do Purette?
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My background is in Education,
this is my 41st year teaching
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and being in Administration
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so we are trying to
move children and adults,
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the parents, the mothers,
out of one city lifestyle
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to a better
lifestyle from the inner city
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to maybe getting a job
and getting off of the System
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so we educate
them professionally
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there is a
Certification Program we have
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so that the women are
trained how to dress for success
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for which we provide clothes,
after we provide the food,
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new clothes,
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and we teach them
how to write a resume
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we try our best
to get them involved
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in Interviewing Practices
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so that their skills
are sharp when they're ready
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there are so many professional
courses that they can take
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through the
Certification Program
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and we have
volunteers and people
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from the University of Florida
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that come in to
help us train them.
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Now, when they finish
their Certification Program
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there's a full
Graduation Service
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they are placed in a job
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upon finishing the
Certification Program
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so the educational
piece is very, very important
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I also am involved
in Children's Ministries
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but our Children's Ministries
and our Women's Ministries
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are another arm of Women's
Ministries in the church,
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we go out into the Community
and we do serve the church
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but as the Vice President,
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my job centers
around making sure
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we meet the needs of
parents and parents' children.
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I do Parenting Seminars,
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I'll do seminars that deal with
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moving children in
a different direction
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who have been in
special discipline situations,
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I partner with my mother
with the Singles Ministry
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that she will tell you about
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but our main
thing with the parents
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is to let them know
that they're not alone
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and to help them to know that
they can move in a new direction
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so covering all the
bases with parents and children
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is something that I
totally, totally focus on.
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Isn't it... it's so true
that people can get stuck
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they feel like,
"I have no options,
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I don't have any
other... what can I do?"
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You... this is so incredible,
you are offering them training
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so that they can
be self-sufficient
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Absolutely.
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so that you're not
just giving them clothing,
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you're giving them clothing,
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you're giving them food
but you're training them
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so that they can provide for
themselves and their children
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that is amazing,
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and Certification... so
that they can feel accomplished
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I mean, that's an
amazing thing that you do
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I'm loving this.
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What about you Sister Maxine?
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I am a Bible
Instructor, and I do what I can
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to help those to
know more about Christ
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and I Counsel, I'm
a Marriage Counselor,
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and I love going in and out of
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the doors of the
prisons and the jails.
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So you get women that
are coming out from jail
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and you bring
them into this Program
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and help them to
get self-sufficient,
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you know I'm loving this.
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So we get the aspects of
so many besides the Education,
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and working with
women in the Community,
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we go behind bars,
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because that's where
women are, behind bars,
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we deal with women
behind bars on a weekly basis
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and those women that
come out of the jails
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and the prisoners that
need a new step in life
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and they come out
with low self-esteem,
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well, we go in to
build up their self-esteem
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we go in and with seminars
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from our Conferences,
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from what we get
through our own women
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we provide them with
Self-Esteem Workshops,
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how to deal with
difficult people,
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things that they need
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so that when they
come out of the jail,
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and go through our Program
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they go to a job
with a certification
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whether it's in
Customer Service,
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whether it's in Computer,
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but we give them
something tangible
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so that they can
feel good about themselves
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and also, being added
value to the Community.
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We have... I already
have been working about
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60 years in the business
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from Sing
Sing... all the way down,
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and I have seen
the miracles of God
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we've gotten
them off of Death Row
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and put them in the Pulpit.
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Come on now, tell
us about one of them,
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tell us Sister
Maxine, come on now,
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oh, we're getting ready to
have some Church in here now.
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Yes, I've seen
mothers come out of jail
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and actually go get their
mother and bring their children
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as they're being
dismissed out of jail
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nothing but joy to see
how God works behind bars.
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Yes, yes. It's a miracle.
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And people on Death Row, Yes.
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and people who would never have
known about Jesus otherwise.
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That's right, because they
can't pay for their lawyers
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they don't have
funds and need somebody
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but we started
teaching this one man
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he really fell
in love with Jesus
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and became a teacher himself,
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then the
authorities looked into his case
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because he did not kill
his wife it was self-defense,
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but he couldn't prove it,
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so God made a
preacher out of him
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now he's preaching in
New York City right now
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Elder Salvridge.
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So he got released from prison,
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because they found out
he really didn't do it.
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Yes, a lot of men are innocent,
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they can't prove themselves
because they have no money.
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Can't prove themselves.
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Praise God.
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What I like most about the
Program that we run right now
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is our food giveaways,
and clothes giveaways,
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we just had a grand opening
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of the new
building she talked about
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with Maxine's place,
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and we had food
displayed on tables
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sacks and sacks of food,
where people could come and get
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whatever they would need,
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what they do
first in Gainesville,
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because I'm in Alabama,
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they go out
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before such a big event,
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it's called
Community Service Day
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and other churches
join us and come in
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and become a part... but
what's so exciting about it
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is that they have
already surveyed the land,
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people had to register
and let us know they live
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in the Community, and
we would knock on doors,
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get all the information we
need about their physical needs,
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their emotional
needs, their social needs,
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and their spiritual needs,
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and they check
what they need help with
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and once they
check spiritual needs,
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the Bible Instructor,
now has permission to come in
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and give them Bible Studies,
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how many people do you have Mom,
now working with Bible Studies?
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Our first Community Service Day,
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I believe it was 49
families that checked
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"I want Bible Studies"
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this particular day we
have over 70 or so families
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that check Bible
Studies, so you do the math
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and this is the blessing,
God is so good and so smart
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He's using this
ministry indirectly
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to minister the Bible
Studies to the local church
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which now, we give
those ministries to
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because it's either,
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you can pick a
Pentecostal Church
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or Catholic Church,
whatever Church you want,
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but God has
blessed us to be able to
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use the Community,
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to assign Bethel
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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the church in
Gainesville, Florida,
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to provide all
these Bible Studies.
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Oh, I'm loving it.
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So, that's how
great and smart God is
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you never would
have thought of that
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but He's
directing the church always,
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He gets the glory. Amen.
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The best thing is going
out and finding the lost sheep
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those who were once in
the church and strayed away
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and to find out who we are.
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There are many
Ex-Seventh-day Adventists
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they come and help, many...
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Look at how God has
brought you to this place
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at this time to do this work
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Yes. I want to come back to
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Women Working With Women
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but I want our
Viewers to know a bit more
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about your journeys
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because, why
would this interest you,
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why did you get involved
with this in the first place.
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Well, for one reason,
when I moved to Florida
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approximately 13 years
ago, almost 14 years ago,
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I met a women in
Southeastern Conference
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named Nicole Brise,
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she actually had
joined her team of women
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and she assigned me
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to 22 churches in District
One, Gainesville, Florida,
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I got involved
with Women's ministry
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through Southeastern Conference,
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that's where God said now,
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"I've only
taught you what to do,
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now, I'm putting you
where I want you to see,
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this is where you need to go"
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so I've been doing
motivational speaking
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and I've been doing seminars
for instinctual disease,
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for dialysis, for 23 years,
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and then when I came to Florida
God gave me all the tools there
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to come here and now do
the seminars and conferences
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for His glory,
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so when I met Sister Brise,
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she mentored me, and
literally molded me into
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this passion for
women's ministries,
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and I have to thank Her for that
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because of her, that's
how I got involved with
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Women's ministry, but
the other things I found out
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is that most of the
women were just like me
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they were raised in
Seventh-day Adventist families
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and in their struggle,
they went away on the side
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like me, I started out,
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grew up in a
Seventh-day Adventist family
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but when I got on my own
and started working on my own,
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I got involved with individuals
that were not Adventists
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so what happened to me was that
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I ended up
having drinks at the bar
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with Corporate America,
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trying to stay
in that Ivy League
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I'm making good money so
I got to hold up the plate
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so I am having
drinks with friends,
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"I don't drink, I'm an
Adventist" yeah you do,
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and then you're impressing,
you have peer pressure
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you don't want to
seem like you're different
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than other people, so we
begin to make bad choices
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but this is the blessing of God,
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when you're raising a family
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like God has
raised us and our family,
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He said that He will
never depart, He doesn't lie,
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we may go through
the struggle as I did
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drinking alcohol, doing drugs,
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having sex before marriage,
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what God is doing
is, He's showing us,
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no matter how we stray
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it is instilled in us
and we will not depart,
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there was going to come
a point and my point was
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"Gainesville Florida"
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that point came there
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when you either choose
Christ or you choose the devil
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there are only two options
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and of course,
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when you're born and
raised in a Christian family,
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you're going to
always end up choosing Christ
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and this is the indirect result
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so when I go to
women behind bars
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who've had sex before marriage,
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who drank, who
smoked cigarettes like I did
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who drank alcohol,
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who did all the
things that I did
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before coming back to
Christ 40 years later,
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I can relate to them,
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I know you can do it
because I've done it.
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see the one thing
about powerful ministry
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is sin and your
testimonies, it's not for you
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Come on... it's for them...
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that's right, that's right.
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and that's why I'm
in the ministry for,
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because they begin to see
that you can come from that
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and you can do this. Yes.
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And so it's all
about serving other people
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and glorifying God
in the midst of it.
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Amen, the bad
choices that we've made
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and we've all made bad choices
and we've all made bad decisions
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but those bad choices can be
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turned into something
that can give God glory.
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I'm glad you said that
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because the whole
point of our ministry
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especially the prison ministry
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is that I had a very good
friend named Binkey Hodges
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who I spoke with many
times before she passed away
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but one of the blessings
of having relationships
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with Adventist
sisters as we grow up is
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we can always connect,
no matter how far we go
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when we see each
other... it's like yesterday
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Yes.
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and she was telling
me about her ministry
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and she really
empowered me and said,
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"Why aren't you doing it?"
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I'm going to start my ministry
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and you might as well
implement the prison ministry
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but because of Binkey
and because of her influence
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and how God
just flipped her life
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into something fantastic,
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and I'm trying
to stay at my seat.
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Come on, I know, I know, I know,
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because I want
our Viewers to know
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that Binkey was my sister,
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that was my sister that
I've talked about before
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on Dare to Dream that
had gone away from the Lord
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and came back
and so I'm just so...
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Binkey's
turnaround was a miracle
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what He has done
for Binkey and for me
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He can do for
you, I know that He can
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because I've seen it,
and God is so powerful
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and we are so quick
to think we're not worthy
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oh my Lord!
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Well, that's what the
enemy wants us to think
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because if we think
that we're not worthy
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we won't come before God
because we feel like we can't
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but God invites us,
"Come let us reason together
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Come to me, I will
in no wise cast you out"
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Absolutely, absolutely.
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so there's nothing...
there's nothing that you've done
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that's too bad for God,
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there's no distance that
you have forged away from Him
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that is too great for
Him, God is omnipotent
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and He wants you, He
invites you to come to Him.
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Sister Maxine. Yes,
that's the relationship
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you must have with Him
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once you get a relationship
and fall in love with Jesus,
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"people" become your business
we have no choice in that.
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That's true, you know, if
we hear about a good sale,
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we're going to call
somebody up and say,
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"Girl, I got this top
over at wherever for whatever"
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how much more
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the great, loving
God of the universe
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He loves us, in spite of us,
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how much more should we
be telling people about Him?
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And that's why it's important
to have women working with women
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out there because we
all can't do it alone
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we have to have a Center,
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and that's why I
thank Women's Ministry
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because, our Women's Ministry,
we're taking the information
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that we get from our General
Conference Women's Ministry
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and our local
regional Women's Ministry
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and we are
applying it, we're doing it
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we're living it
and we're showing you
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that you too can take the
ministry that God gave you
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rightfully gave you
and ordained you to do,
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and take it and
make your ministry
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and make a
difference in your Community,
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don't just wait for your retreat
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start working in the Community
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and the Lord will do the
rest that's what I can share.
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Amen and amen, and you
know, when you're doing
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what God has ordained you to do
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when you're walking
in your divine destiny
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there is
nothing better than that
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because you know, I
was created to do this.
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Amen, amen. That's right.
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Right? Oh I have a chill
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this gives me a chill, the
Holy Spirit, thank you God.
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This is her passion,
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this is her passion and
she pulled us into her passion
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my mother's passion
was to have a food pantry
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and a clothes closet
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and to do prison ministry
for the rest of her life,
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she quit working and
retired early just to do that
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tied into her ministry
my passion has always been
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children... children's ministry
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and working
with Ministers' wives
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that's another
branch of the business
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that we love doing
when she has a conference,
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or whether it's in the church or
if it's for First-Day Churches
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we've had
Conferences and we invite
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the First-Day Churches to come,
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she has a section,
separate, just for women
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who are ministers'
wives that need direction
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or need a
Company to come together
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where they can
feel comfortable with
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and it's totally separate
from the Women's Conference
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it's a Ministers' Wives
Conference at the same time.
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So, you work
for the First Ladies
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because who can they talk to.
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Not only First Ladies
of the Adventist Church
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this is where we turn
the corner because we go to
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other denominational churches,
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preaching the
gospel with our message,
00:20:09.74\00:20:11.57
every Speaker is a
Seventh-day Adventist,
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if you want me and
I've been asked in our City
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to do a Women's Day Program,
00:20:16.28\00:20:17.61
absolutely, I'll
be happy to do it
00:20:17.65\00:20:19.25
but I'm going to
have a Keynote Speaker
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it's going to be an Adventist.
00:20:21.55\00:20:22.88
Why? because
that's our creative way
00:20:22.92\00:20:24.72
of getting the
gospel out. Absolutely.
00:20:24.75\00:20:26.72
All of our seminars
come out of the GC Website
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we're giving our
material to other denominations
00:20:29.16\00:20:31.49
because it's not
our will to change them
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God will do that,
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we're just planting the seed
with the Women's Day Program
00:20:35.23\00:20:37.73
we're planting a
seed with "End It Now,"
00:20:37.77\00:20:39.70
we're planting a see
with "Prevention and Abuse,"
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we're planting the seed
00:20:41.60\00:20:42.94
for these
non-Denominational Churches
00:20:42.97\00:20:44.61
so that's another
branch that we do,
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we promote it in every church
for all women... franchise.
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That is incredible,
praise God, so how many arms
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of Women Working
With Women do you have,
00:20:55.38\00:20:57.32
like... what are
all the departments
00:20:57.35\00:20:59.19
because it sounds like
you're doing Women's Day,
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you're
certifying, you're feeding,
00:21:01.59\00:21:03.53
you're giving Bible Studies
00:21:03.56\00:21:04.99
I mean, this is
like... wooo... we love it.
00:21:05.03\00:21:07.00
Yes, it is the sweetness
of it all, are you ready?
00:21:07.03\00:21:09.20
You haven't told her
all the major projects.
00:21:09.26\00:21:10.67
Okay, come on, tell me.
00:21:10.73\00:21:12.53
I'm sitting in my office
00:21:12.57\00:21:14.30
and seven women are calling
for me outside to meet me,
00:21:14.34\00:21:18.67
I have no appointment with them
00:21:18.71\00:21:20.04
they're Chinese,
they're from Philippines,
00:21:20.08\00:21:21.68
they're White, they're Spanish,
00:21:21.71\00:21:23.51
they're different
cultural group of students
00:21:23.55\00:21:25.48
and they came to my office
00:21:25.51\00:21:27.08
while I'd just got done
doing my worship at my desk,
00:21:27.12\00:21:29.45
asking the Lord, "This
is my third year Father,
00:21:29.48\00:21:32.09
no salary, help me Lord... "
00:21:32.12\00:21:33.46
this is my fourth year
with no salary as of yet
00:21:33.52\00:21:36.26
God is working at it,
00:21:36.32\00:21:37.66
these students
come to the office
00:21:37.69\00:21:39.39
they ask for me, I go out there,
00:21:39.43\00:21:41.16
I said, "Yes, may I help
you, my name is Belinda Smith"
00:21:41.20\00:21:43.60
"Hi, we are the Enactors Group
from the University of Florida
00:21:43.63\00:21:45.93
our Director
asked us to come to you
00:21:45.97\00:21:47.64
because we have several grants
that we'd like to give you
00:21:47.67\00:21:49.54
if you'd let us partner with you
and do all of your marketing. "
00:21:49.57\00:21:52.24
Who does that? It
happened after worship.
00:21:52.27\00:21:55.04
Wait, wait,
wait, oh come on now,
00:21:55.08\00:21:57.61
I can't control myself.
00:21:57.65\00:21:59.78
I know, let it go,
let it go, let it go,
00:21:59.81\00:22:02.78
so, they came to you, Yes.
00:22:02.82\00:22:06.96
saying they said they
want to partner with you.
00:22:06.99\00:22:08.76
They couldn't even remember,
00:22:08.79\00:22:10.23
"Someone told us
about your Organization
00:22:10.26\00:22:12.23
and we want to give you
our grants to market your... "
00:22:12.26\00:22:15.86
what you see today is done
by the University of Florida,
00:22:15.90\00:22:19.77
banners, these shirts,
the hats, the pants, the shoes
00:22:19.83\00:22:23.77
the University of
Florida saw the vision
00:22:23.81\00:22:26.94
in this Adventist Organization
and they invested in us
00:22:26.98\00:22:31.91
and so, because they invested,
00:22:31.95\00:22:33.88
they partnered with us,
00:22:33.98\00:22:35.32
the University of
Florida in Gainesville
00:22:35.35\00:22:37.49
and they made a
certification program called,
00:22:37.55\00:22:39.79
"Personal and
Professional Development"
00:22:39.82\00:22:41.62
of my Organization that
we give to the Community
00:22:41.66\00:22:44.79
and they paid the tuition
00:22:44.83\00:22:46.16
for the first
several amount of students.
00:22:46.19\00:22:48.16
We do appreciate donations,
this group started it,
00:22:48.23\00:22:51.73
our banners, our business cards,
our marketing, our website,
00:22:51.77\00:22:55.14
our marketing logo, everything,
00:22:55.17\00:22:56.74
even the logo they designed,
00:22:56.77\00:22:58.27
they hired a
company to design it
00:22:58.31\00:23:01.18
what's really,
really amazing to me
00:23:01.21\00:23:03.95
is that, everything we need
comes right when we need it,
00:23:03.98\00:23:06.55
not ahead of time, That's right.
00:23:06.58\00:23:07.92
you know, we get
donations from everywhere,
00:23:07.95\00:23:11.19
Landers McLarty
Dealership gave us a huge van
00:23:11.22\00:23:14.62
luxury van to drive here,
00:23:14.66\00:23:16.93
a Town and
Country Van to drive here
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and they said, "How
long do you need it,
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how long would
you like to have it?"
00:23:21.60\00:23:23.53
and whenever we have to
travel, they're there for us.
00:23:23.57\00:23:26.70
The Company that
gives us our shirts,
00:23:26.74\00:23:29.07
he donates... oh we have
hats, he donates these magnets
00:23:29.10\00:23:32.44
just so that we
can have what we need
00:23:32.51\00:23:34.78
for whatever we're trying to do
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you know, it's
strange that a lot of times
00:23:36.18\00:23:38.15
others believe in our ministry,
00:23:38.18\00:23:40.22
sometimes more than our family
you know and even our churches
00:23:40.28\00:23:44.42
and we get more
response out in the Community
00:23:44.45\00:23:46.82
but to me it's
whatever God allows
00:23:46.86\00:23:49.92
to feed into that
ministry, we accept.
00:23:49.99\00:23:53.06
When Jesus says,
"Go" you just go,
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you don't
question Him. Absolutely.
00:23:55.73\00:23:58.27
Danny's latest book is,
"The Blessing is on the Go"
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Faith, that's right.
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You got to get it,
right around there.
00:24:03.91\00:24:06.07
"The Blessing is on the Go,"
00:24:06.14\00:24:07.58
because it's all
about stepping out
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in faith and believing
that God's going to provide
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every level of
your need, every level.
00:24:14.68\00:24:17.92
This is totally faith based,
four years... no salary...
00:24:17.95\00:24:22.52
of course I can stop,
00:24:22.56\00:24:24.13
of course I can go
back to Corporate America
00:24:24.16\00:24:26.43
I don't have to
have that $79,000 a year,
00:24:26.46\00:24:28.63
I got real comfortable
with my 401K, trust me,
00:24:28.66\00:24:31.13
it was a
difficult choice to make
00:24:31.17\00:24:33.60
but when I made it,
00:24:33.64\00:24:34.97
I haven't needed
a cent since then
00:24:35.00\00:24:37.41
everything He has supplied,
00:24:37.47\00:24:38.91
Listen, I'm in an
office with the staff
00:24:38.97\00:24:41.21
out of Santa Fe College
00:24:41.24\00:24:42.74
why? because God
put someone in my path
00:24:42.78\00:24:44.91
I was eating lunch next to the
President of this Organization
00:24:44.95\00:24:47.72
it turned out that he said,
00:24:47.75\00:24:49.08
"Come to my office tomorrow,
let me see what we can do"
00:24:49.12\00:24:50.65
Just so you know,
I'm in a building,
00:24:50.69\00:24:53.36
I have a staff,
I have an office,
00:24:53.42\00:24:55.06
give it to Jesus,
00:24:55.09\00:24:56.42
step out on faith and He will...
00:24:56.46\00:24:58.09
You have a staff and an
office. and I don't pay...
00:24:58.13\00:25:00.73
and that you're not
paying... come on now,
00:25:00.76\00:25:03.13
Jesus... Jesus... Look at God,
00:25:03.16\00:25:05.10
see, all God needs is
for us to be available
00:25:05.13\00:25:09.87
Yes.
00:25:09.90\00:25:11.34
and believe and
He takes care of it.
00:25:11.37\00:25:14.48
Obedience pays off.
Obedience pays off...
00:25:14.51\00:25:17.65
It does, it does
Sister Maxine it does.
00:25:17.68\00:25:20.22
If you don't do anything else,
I just want people to know,
00:25:20.25\00:25:21.82
have faith, trust in God,
00:25:21.85\00:25:23.49
and start believing what
you hear... start believing it.
00:25:23.52\00:25:25.65
That's right... that's right
00:25:25.69\00:25:27.36
knowing that God
is going to meet you
00:25:27.39\00:25:29.29
at every juncture,
at every point of need,
00:25:29.32\00:25:33.03
don't worry about
it, God's got you.
00:25:33.06\00:25:36.30
No fears. Yes.
00:25:36.36\00:25:37.70
You guys, I love you all,
00:25:37.73\00:25:39.27
I'm so proud of what
you're allowing God to do
00:25:39.30\00:25:42.87
in you and through you
00:25:42.90\00:25:44.37
because God's got this
great work... continue...
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Viewers, support this
work, Women Working With Women
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what's your website?
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that's
Womenworkingwithwomen. org
00:25:52.35\00:25:54.12
Womenworkingwithwomen. org
00:25:54.18\00:25:55.52
And we will come to your
church, we're all Speakers
00:25:55.55\00:25:57.09
on everything that we've said,
00:25:57.15\00:25:58.49
so we will come to the church.
00:25:58.52\00:25:59.85
God bless you, we
love you. Thank you.
00:25:59.89\00:26:04.19
Those women are
00:26:04.26\00:26:06.76
on fire for God and
it is so wonderful to see
00:26:06.83\00:26:10.57
and such a blessing to
hear what they're doing
00:26:10.60\00:26:14.37
in the lives of
women in the Community
00:26:14.44\00:26:16.64
you know, there are so
many people that are hurting
00:26:16.71\00:26:20.58
all around us and
the Lord would have us
00:26:20.68\00:26:23.48
to be helpful,
00:26:23.55\00:26:26.08
to be there to
show them Christ's love
00:26:26.11\00:26:28.78
through helping them
00:26:28.82\00:26:30.79
and giving them
clothing and food
00:26:30.82\00:26:33.59
and training them
and all of these things
00:26:33.66\00:26:36.76
that Purette and
Belinda and Sister Maxine
00:26:36.83\00:26:40.53
are doing in the Community.
00:26:40.60\00:26:42.50
You too can be of
help in the Community,
00:26:42.53\00:26:45.97
you too can let your
light shine before men
00:26:46.00\00:26:49.34
it is so important that
we show people Christ's love
00:26:49.37\00:26:54.34
not just talk about it
but show people how to love
00:26:54.38\00:26:59.01
and by this do all men
know that we're His disciples
00:26:59.05\00:27:03.72
if we have love one for another
00:27:03.82\00:27:05.82
so we can show love, we
can absolutely give people
00:27:05.85\00:27:12.33
a glimpse of Christ through us.
00:27:12.36\00:27:15.56
Thank you so
much for joining us.
00:27:15.60\00:27:18.77
We really could not
do this without you.
00:27:18.80\00:27:22.14
We need your prayers, we
need your financial support,
00:27:22.17\00:27:26.07
we have some new
Programs coming up
00:27:26.14\00:27:28.11
that are so amazing
00:27:28.14\00:27:30.05
and so we ask
you to stay with us
00:27:30.08\00:27:33.42
to hang in there with us
to stand in the gap for us.
00:27:33.52\00:27:36.82
If you feel
impressed by the Holy Spirit
00:27:36.89\00:27:39.62
to give us a
donation, please send it to:
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Dare to Dream, PO Box
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whatever you give,
00:28:01.14\00:28:04.78
we will so appreciate it,
00:28:04.81\00:28:06.75
we really, really need your help
00:28:06.78\00:28:09.12
we need your
support and most of all
00:28:09.15\00:28:11.29
we need your prayers because
the programming that we're doing
00:28:11.32\00:28:15.19
really, really is innovative
and comes up against the enemy.
00:28:15.22\00:28:19.06
Well, that's the
end of our Program,
00:28:19.09\00:28:21.16
thank you so
much for joining us,
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join us next time
because you know what?
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It just wouldn't be
the same without you.
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