Stay tuned to meet a couple
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that is dedicated to impacting
the outcome of our youth
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in the Orlando area.
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My name is Yvonne Lewis-Shelton
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and you're
watching Urban Report.
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Hello and
welcome to Urban Report,
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you caught us
having a little fun here.
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Our guests today
are Jacquelyn Ross,
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president of the Orlando
Chapter of Operation Reachback,
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and Pastor Dennis
Ross, consultant and advisor
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to the Orlando
Operation Reachback.
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Welcome to Urban Report.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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We are delighted to
be here. Oh, thank you.
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It's so great to
have both of you.
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Good to be here. Thank you.
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So I've had the privilege
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of really knowing
you guys for years.
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I think I knew you
before you got married.
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That's right. Right?
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That's right. At Oakwood.
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And my dad had
gone back to college.
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Yes.
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He was considerably
older than you guys,
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but he went back to
college later in life.
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Steven Nida. Yes, indeed.
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He sang on. He did. He did.
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And then my
grandmother impacted your life.
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Tremendously.
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Very much. Praise the Lord.
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Rosely Jones Yes.
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She was quite
the Bible instructor.
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Right.
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My husband
talked often about her
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and her
commitment to the people,
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the new believers.
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Yes. Right.
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And...
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What a blessing she has
been, and particularly to me,
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I thank God. Oh.
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We praise the Lord.
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I can't wait for
Resurrection Day.
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Oh, hallelujah.
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To be with her, my
dad, my mom, everybody.
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All of our family that...
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Yes.
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Our family, both
biological and spiritual.
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Yes. Right.
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So we look forward to that.
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She'd be so pleased to
see you sitting in this chair.
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Oh, she would, she would.
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Praise the Lord
for that. Praise God.
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And she would be
happy with the work
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that you all are doing
with Operation Reachback.
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She would reach not.
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Now why is that, Pastor Dennis?
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Well, if I can
just take a few moments,
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I joined the
Adventist Church in 1959,
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18 years of age
as a young person.
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And I came from a
very, very volatile
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and difficult neighborhood
in Harlem in New York.
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She understood that
and she would not allow me
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to go home by myself.
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She would drive me home.
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First of all, she invited me
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to be a part of the
New Believers choir.
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Yes.
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And then she would
drive me home after this,
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after the rehearsal.
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And so very encouraging
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and so she would be shocked.
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She would be pleasantly shocked.
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Pleasantly, pleasantly.
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Praise God. That's great.
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The work that you two
are doing is so incredible
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with Operation Reachback.
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Give us a foundation
about Operation Reachback,
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what is it?
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Well, historically,
pastor is more prepared
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for the historical part.
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But it's an outreach
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to boys of color
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that are
marginalized to the inst degree
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that have devalued themselves
and society has devalued them
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because of the way they
behave or what they look like,
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you know, the draggy
pants, to whatever, whatever.
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And we have found that
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those boys are
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diamonds in the rough.
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Unpack that a little bit for us?
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Well, you know,
when I think of the boys
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that we first started with,
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they were not,
you know, people say,
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well, you start
when they're little
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and you have more impact.
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It just so happens
that we started with kids
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that that were 16,
17, 18, 19 years of age.
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And they had formed a
lot of bad habits already
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when we met them.
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We would meet with
them in the home of a lady
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that would help me sometimes,
and she had these three boys
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and I fell in love with them.
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And they were in high school,
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they were smoking weed,
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they were doing what
guys in the streets do.
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So a part of
Operation Reachback,
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we had a curriculum
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where we would do
health and wellness,
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all kinds of stuff, life.
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Is it a school? What is it?
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It's not a school.
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Well, that's one of
the reasons that we...
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I'm glad you asked.
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Because we need
a home. Okay, okay.
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Okay.
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But we go from pillar to post,
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we go from community center
to community center in areas
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that need a lot of help.
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The city of Orlando
has partnered with us
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because they
see what we're doing
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and they see results, evidence.
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And you've won awards.
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We won awards,
yes. Praise the Lord.
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We won awards.
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We've won two or
three major awards,
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the city just,
September proclaimed
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Operation Reachback
day, the mayor's office,
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we were honored,
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I didn't know
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we were being
honored at City Hall
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as an operation that helps kids
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that are really
out in the streets
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doing nothing with their lives
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and bringing them into a place
of actualization, understanding
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how important they are.
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And so we got this
award down at City Hall
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and they called
Operation Reachback name
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and we were
shocked, they didn't prep us,
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they didn't tell
us what was going on.
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You didn't even know
you were getting the award.
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We didn't know that
we were getting award.
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Oh, nice.
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And someone called Miss
Ross, why aren't you downtown,
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they're giving
you guys an award.
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Lisa Early who
is a friend of ours
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and she's over the
recreation department
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for the city of Orlando.
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I think that she forgot
to get in touch with me.
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Oh.
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But she,
nonetheless they recognized us
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and you know we take it
like almost like a grain of salt
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because we know that
if God is not with us,
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we know that anything that we do
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has got to reflect His goodness,
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His greatness, His power.
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And so we don't get
too excited about that,
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we get excited when the
boys show an upward climb.
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Yes, look at what
God is doing though.
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He's acknowledging
through human means, your work.
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And so what you're
doing is you're, yes,
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you're placing value
on lives on these boys
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and this particularly boys.
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Particularly boys,
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we are letting the girls come in
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because they're
good with robotics.
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So, but you know
what, Sister Yvonne,
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we must go to the
history a little bit.
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Pastor needs to tell us
how this good thing started.
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It's phenomenal.
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And if you would, honey, please.
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Sure.
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Operation Reachback as
far as Orlando is concerned
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is just one area of
a larger organization,
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Operation Reachback
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was really started
by Dr. Calvin Rock.
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Yes.
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Who was a former
president of Oakwood University
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and vice president of
the General Conference.
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It was Dr. Rock's vision
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for Operation Reachback.
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And the purpose was simply
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to reach young men of color
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who did not have a
father in the home.
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As you know, 70% of black homes
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are without a father.
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And so it was his
burden and his vision
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that these young men
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could still be inspired
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and could still be
focused on what they,
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with the help of God.
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Once they get an idea,
concept of God in their lives
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then they would be
motivated for excellence.
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Then so that was
Dr. Rock's concept.
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And as a result of that,
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the Operation Reachback chapters
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have exploded one
time for the six chapters.
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And with one arm
Operation Reachback
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would reach internationally.
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And with the other arm
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it would reach
nationally in America.
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And so we are a part
of the larger organization
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of Operation Reachback
and have function to reach out
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to young men of
color and have been blessed
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as the result to see
these young men develop
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and have a better
concept of themselves.
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Once were on the wrong track
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and now they are
productive young men.
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So we thank God
for Dr. Rock's vision,
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and thank God that we are a pot.
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Thank you, God. Yes.
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Yes, yes.
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So again, again,
this is, this is so,
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so much a part of what
Dare to Dream is about.
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Yes.
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It's about placing
value where people feel like
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they don't have value
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and showing them
they're loved by God,
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and that there is a
divine plan for their lives.
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And God has a better way.
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That's right.
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And so what you're doing is,
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it sounds to me as
though you're taking,
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you know, young people
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who would ordinarily feel
as though they have nothing
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and showing that they
are somebody in Christ.
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Absolutely.
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And in many cases,
society has given up on them.
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Many of these young men,
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the teachers and
people in society
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did not see the
value of these young men
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and they
themselves did not see it.
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Tell us about a specific case?
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Well, we have a young
man that we have worked with.
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As a matter of
fact, his teachers
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have given or
had given up on him
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and counseled other students
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not to associate with
this kind of young man
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because he was not only
a troublemaker in school
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but he was very
heavily influence
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with the wrong crowd
as far as a weed smoker,
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a very heavy weed smoker,
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and God opened a door for us
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to be able to
communicate with him
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that there is something better
that God has for your life.
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And he cannot tell
the rest of the story.
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Sorry.
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In this same
home with this lady,
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he started coming, he
was a friend of her sons.
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And the funny thing about
it when we would go there,
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we did it on Friday nights,
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that was our
character building time
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because as I said, we
did, we did have a curriculum
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and when we go to
the community centers,
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we would do a
multi plethora of stuff,
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trying to teach them
about life and hygiene.
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And with just
basics stuff, you know.
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Yes, life skills.
Life skills, precisely.
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We've taught them how to drive,
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put them in our car and
taught them how to drive.
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Pray, pray,
pray, Lord, have mercy.
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But he came, he would
come and, Sister Yvonne,
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there were times when
he came, he was stoned.
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He didn't know
he was in the world.
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And many of the boys were.
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Pastor would, we
would get the Bible
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and because we've
been in evangelism
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for lo these many years,
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and we've seen
what God has done.
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It didn't fazed us, you know,
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I mean, if the
enemy thought that
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we were going to be side tracked
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or you know, scared.
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Yeah, yeah. No.
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And so we would keep
on talking about Jesus
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and teaching them how to
find the books of the Bible
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and teaching them about,
you know, main subjects like,
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for God so loved the world
and how much God loves them
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and yada, yada, yeah.
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They were excited.
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They...
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Now where is that
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our main verse
was Philippians...
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4:13. 4:13.
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Oh, yes.
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"I can do all
things through Christ
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who strengthens us."
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And so when we pray at
night and we, you know,
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put our hands on top of
each other and we would say,
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I can do all things
through Christ with strength.
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We just kept
pounding into their heads.
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And well, of all the guys,
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one of the boys
and I get so excited.
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I'm trying to stay
calm. No, no, let it go.
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Let it go. Our viewers love it.
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Let it go.
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But one night,
it seems as though
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the Holy Spirit
got through to him.
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And so we started
taking them to church.
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And one of these Sabbaths,
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Joel took the
walk down the aisle.
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Oh, come on. His
name is Joel Joseph.
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Okay.
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And Joel was
baptized. Praise the Lord.
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Hallelujah. Yes.
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And then he went to...
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We sent him to Oakwood.
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We've picture of
him up on the screen.
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Yes, that's Joel. That's Joel.
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Hey, Joel.
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That's Joel.
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Now that's the two of
us taking him to Oakwood.
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Okay.
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We stopped, we got a free
night at my daughter's place
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and we took him from
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Oakwood to
Atlanta, to Huntsville.
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We did not allow him
to go there by himself.
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And so another
of the board members
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there were three of us,
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we took him and
we introduced him
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to a lot of people
in yada, yada, yada.
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But he had some
bumps in that first year.
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Lots of bumps.
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The same young man
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that the teachers did
not have confidence in
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and he was failing,
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we took him to Oakwood
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and his first semester
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his GPA was 4.3.
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The first
semester? First semester.
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Wow.
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He himself did not know
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how brilliant
mathematically he was.
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He's a math
genius. He's a math genius.
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Wow.
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And the Lord just
blessed him. Look at God.
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The same weed smoking,
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the same person that
the teacher shied away from,
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that was out on
the street corners.
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God said, I have a plan for you.
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Yes, yes. Praise the Lord.
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Praise God.
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And this same young
man, he's in his second year.
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But prior to the
start of the second year,
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he decided to go colporteuring.
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And his first week, he
didn't think he could last.
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He wanted to come
home. He wanted to come home.
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But by the end of the
summer, he was a top seller.
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Wow. Ain't that amazing?
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What God does.
Look at how God works.
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Yeah, what God does.
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You know, it's
so interesting to me
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because the enemy's plan is to,
of course, you know, destroy.
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That's right. Right?
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Kill, steal and
destroy. That's right.
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But God's plan
is to give us life
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and to give it more abundantly.
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And that's what He's
done for this young man.
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That's right. Thank you, God.
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And it sounds like
the kids in this program,
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it's like they're on a journey.
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Yeah.
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This is not just
to give them skills.
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This is really to
introduce them to Christ
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with the selections.
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And that is wonderful.
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Landing them on
the sea of glass,
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submit to God.
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Yes, yes.
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And to let them know
and to visualize themselves
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as what God can
do in their lives
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if they will connect with Him.
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Oh, that's wonderful.
We have some pictures.
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Let's show some
of those pictures
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and just tell us...
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What we're looking
at. What we're looking at.
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Okay. Who's it?
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Okay, now you're
looking at two young men
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and there the mother
of the one on the left.
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This is our robotics
program that we're running.
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We have a
phenomenal robotics program,
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what we have seen,
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you know, how you
evolve as an organization.
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And you see
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where you're going to
land to see if it really,
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what's going to really
connect with the young people.
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And robotics, there's
a gentleman in Orlando
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that I taught when he
was in the eighth grade
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by the name of Robert Hindley.
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Oh, yes, he's a
friend of ours, too.
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Yes.
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And he was determined
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to get this community group
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Operation
Reachback into robotics
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because of his
own personal testimony
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with his son.
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And a lot of the kids
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that are
problematic in the classroom
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are labeled ADHD, ADD,
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attention deficit students.
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And so what we have
found, Sister Yvonne,
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is that these kids
are shining like stars.
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Oh!
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Now this is a brother and sister
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that comes to us
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at the Forest Lake facility
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because again, we
don't have our own
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but we are
borrowing the facility there.
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And there are
some homeschoolers.
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We're teaching
homeschoolers and that's,
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this is a younger group,
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she is, Jordan is
about eight years old.
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And I'm not sure
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the age of the other young lady.
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But they are
building the Lego robotics
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and explaining them
with expert explanations.
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I mean, it's just amazing.
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Girls are shining with robotics.
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Girls are shining. Great.
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In America,
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we are lacking women engineers.
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Yes.
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And so we're trying
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to not only teach
the students about Jesus
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and His love for them,
00:19:27.20\00:19:28.93
but prepare them
to take their place
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on the world stage in the area
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of engineering
robotics to perform surgeries
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and to deliver goods,
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and robotics are
part of the infrastructure
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now in America.
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But women have been
lacking and black boys
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are almost
non-existent in the area.
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So we're on two fronts.
We're trying to help that.
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Now you have some
pictures of young people
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around the robotics table.
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Okay, here we are with Joel
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at Oakwood University
00:20:08.30\00:20:10.74
with other young people
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that were
having some challenges.
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And this picture is one
of my favorite pictures.
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This is robotics now for
us, we're doing it eight months
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and three times per week.
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But here was part of
our summer robotics class.
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And the kids,
these are little people,
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8, 9, 10, 11, all
up to about 15, 16.
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They were phenomenal.
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As I look at them, their faces,
they were just so excited.
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And I think we have a
picture of their parents
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that came to the
closing ceremony.
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This is back at Forest Lake.
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This is a mother and her son,
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Miss Nerdley and her son Joshua.
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Joshua is so precious.
He is learning robotics.
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In fact, Joshua is able
now to teach other kids,
00:21:05.73\00:21:11.57
peer to peer
tutoring is very important
00:21:11.60\00:21:13.97
because they learn so much.
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And people of color,
00:21:15.94\00:21:17.51
we have got to get our kids
into higher thinking skills.
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Critical thinking?
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Critical thinking, you know,
00:21:24.18\00:21:26.01
when I first met Dare to Dream,
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first of all, the
title is phenomenal.
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Praise the Lord.
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Yeah, the title
is a God given title.
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And when I think of
what Dare to Dream does
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on the 3ABN network,
you fill a phenomenal place.
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Praise God.
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Just, you know,
00:21:46.10\00:21:47.97
as we are trying to
fill with Operation Reachback
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because we're...
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The kids with whom
we work are so needy.
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Yes.
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The families,
00:21:59.01\00:22:00.82
there's a lot of
mental health situations
00:22:00.85\00:22:03.08
going on, lack of it.
00:22:03.12\00:22:05.69
And in Operation Reachback
00:22:05.72\00:22:09.06
we provide certified
00:22:09.09\00:22:12.29
mental health counseling.
00:22:12.33\00:22:15.50
Oh, that's wonderful.
00:22:15.53\00:22:17.77
So it's not just robotics
and stem and this or that,
00:22:17.80\00:22:21.44
we try to feed the whole person.
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That's incredible.
00:22:24.37\00:22:25.71
Because there's got to be
a lot of depression or anger
00:22:25.74\00:22:29.41
or it's all the above.
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You're absolutely right.
00:22:31.65\00:22:32.98
Most of the kids
that we work with,
00:22:33.01\00:22:36.79
they are, they have a
tremendous anger deep within
00:22:36.82\00:22:42.52
for the simple reason that they,
00:22:42.56\00:22:45.16
some, most of them have
never seen their father.
00:22:45.19\00:22:48.23
They're mad.
00:22:48.26\00:22:49.60
And we had a session
with about 10 young men
00:22:49.63\00:22:55.17
to just open up
and to listen to them.
00:22:55.20\00:22:59.14
It's just heartbreaking,
00:22:59.17\00:23:00.51
one young man told us
that when he was five,
00:23:00.54\00:23:04.41
Christmas Eve, his father said,
00:23:04.45\00:23:07.08
"I'm going to get you
a gift and I'll be back."
00:23:07.12\00:23:10.59
And he said,
that was 20 years ago.
00:23:10.62\00:23:12.65
Oh.
00:23:12.69\00:23:14.02
And can you imagine
the deep seated anger.
00:23:14.06\00:23:18.09
And so we have to direct
them to the fact that yes,
00:23:18.13\00:23:22.20
your father failed you
00:23:22.23\00:23:23.67
but your heavenly
Father will never fail you.
00:23:23.70\00:23:26.33
That's right.
00:23:26.37\00:23:27.70
And give them a purpose
and value in their lives.
00:23:27.74\00:23:33.07
But you're absolutely right,
00:23:33.11\00:23:34.44
there's a lot of subtle anger
00:23:34.48\00:23:38.48
that has to be dealt with them.
00:23:38.51\00:23:40.95
With our mental
health specialist,
00:23:40.98\00:23:44.05
they're so good.
00:23:44.09\00:23:45.42
They're
non-condemning, no judgment.
00:23:45.45\00:23:48.09
They are wonderful
00:23:48.12\00:23:49.46
how they move through the issues
00:23:49.49\00:23:52.59
with the boys.
00:23:52.63\00:23:53.96
And the boys are not even
aware that they're opening up,
00:23:54.00\00:23:57.33
they're just doing it,
you know, it's not scripted,
00:23:57.37\00:24:00.94
it's just happening.
00:24:00.97\00:24:02.30
Right.
00:24:02.34\00:24:03.67
And that's our
older kids that we,
00:24:03.71\00:24:07.21
that we do the
mental health with.
00:24:07.24\00:24:09.64
It's not that
younger kids don't need it.
00:24:09.68\00:24:11.91
But that first group
of which I spoke earlier,
00:24:11.95\00:24:16.99
when we did that with them,
00:24:17.02\00:24:19.59
it was a
revelation to themselves
00:24:19.62\00:24:22.62
that they had that in them.
00:24:22.66\00:24:23.99
Yes.
00:24:24.03\00:24:25.36
You know, they are not aware.
00:24:25.39\00:24:26.73
So again, I have to say that
00:24:26.76\00:24:31.00
the Dare to Dream opportunity,
00:24:31.03\00:24:34.54
we are asking these boys
dare to dream to be great.
00:24:34.57\00:24:37.97
That's right. That's right.
00:24:38.01\00:24:39.97
Dare to dream to
own your own business.
00:24:40.01\00:24:42.74
That's right. That's right.
00:24:42.78\00:24:44.51
You can do it. You can do it.
00:24:44.55\00:24:46.72
I can do all things in Christ.
00:24:46.75\00:24:48.85
That's right. That's right.
00:24:48.88\00:24:50.65
The thing with
Operation Reachback
00:24:50.69\00:24:53.19
and the robotics
00:24:53.22\00:24:54.56
and seeing them as entrepreneurs
00:24:54.59\00:24:56.46
and doing surgeries
with robotic assistants
00:24:56.49\00:25:00.50
and all of that.
00:25:00.53\00:25:02.10
For us that's
just the way we talk.
00:25:02.13\00:25:03.80
We expect it. Yeah.
00:25:03.83\00:25:05.30
That's so good.
You know, we expect it.
00:25:05.33\00:25:07.27
Which is probably
unusual for a lot of these boys
00:25:07.30\00:25:09.77
because the bar
00:25:09.80\00:25:12.77
was probably so
low for them before
00:25:12.81\00:25:15.68
and now you expect
great things from them.
00:25:15.71\00:25:17.65
We expect it.
00:25:17.68\00:25:19.01
All right, two
things because our time
00:25:19.05\00:25:20.38
is almost gone,
I can't believe it.
00:25:20.42\00:25:21.75
Oh, my goodness,
it's almost gone.
00:25:21.78\00:25:23.12
Oh, my goodness.
00:25:23.15\00:25:24.49
But what we have
to do is find out
00:25:24.52\00:25:25.85
what your needs are
and how to reach you.
00:25:25.89\00:25:27.82
Okay.
00:25:27.86\00:25:29.19
Two things. Well,
multiple of things.
00:25:29.22\00:25:31.43
But the two
things that come to mind
00:25:31.46\00:25:34.40
that we spoke of
prior to coming on
00:25:34.43\00:25:37.80
is that we need a
home for expansion.
00:25:37.83\00:25:41.10
Okay.
00:25:41.14\00:25:42.47
When you say a home, you mean...
00:25:42.50\00:25:43.84
A location, a
location that is ours.
00:25:43.87\00:25:47.61
A facility, yes, a facility.
00:25:47.64\00:25:51.68
We have a dream, dare
to dream, we have a dream.
00:25:51.71\00:25:56.69
That's right. That's right.
00:25:56.72\00:25:58.05
And the dream has to do
00:25:58.09\00:26:00.76
with a 7,000
square foot facility
00:26:00.79\00:26:04.86
where we can do robotics,
have a couple of rooms,
00:26:04.89\00:26:08.00
what, you see for
robotics you need a room
00:26:08.03\00:26:10.00
for the computers
where they do cladding.
00:26:10.03\00:26:12.77
The cladding is where
they make their prototype
00:26:12.80\00:26:14.84
on the screen.
00:26:14.87\00:26:17.41
They see what they
wanted to look like,
00:26:17.44\00:26:19.07
what they wanted to do
because I've done cladding.
00:26:19.11\00:26:21.64
Okay. Okay.
00:26:21.68\00:26:24.68
Mr. Hindley talked to
me through the whole thing.
00:26:24.71\00:26:26.82
Okay.
00:26:26.85\00:26:28.18
And then to be able to
take it from the screen
00:26:28.22\00:26:31.19
and make it a real device,
00:26:31.22\00:26:35.12
a real robot and
then programming.
00:26:35.16\00:26:38.03
So you need the
room for the computers.
00:26:38.06\00:26:39.89
And then you need the
room for the actual tables
00:26:39.93\00:26:43.47
where you make
and build the robots.
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So you need funds?
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We need funds, we need funds.
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Funds to cover
facility, equipment...
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Facility, equipment,
computers, all of that.
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And we also want you to know
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our email addresses
and our website addresses
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so that you can
get in touch with us.
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Good. What's your website?
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Our website is
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www.reachbackorlando.com.
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Okay.
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That's www.reachbackorlando.com.
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And then follow us on Facebook,
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on Instagram and Twitter.
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Okay. Three.
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You got your social
platform all way out,
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that's awesome, that's awesome.
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And since this is
such an important project.
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Thank you.
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Because you're
making such a difference
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and you're impacting the city,
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the residents of the
inner city for Christ.
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I mean, this is so important.
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Thank you so much for being.
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Our time is up,
I can't believe it.
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Thank you for
inviting us. God bless you.
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Thank you for joining us.
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Join us next time
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'cause it just wouldn't
be the same without you.
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