Stay tuned to meet
two guys that are making
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a huge difference
in their community.
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My name is Jason Bradley,
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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 Eric Camarillo,
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president of Salt Outreach,
and Lo-Ammi Richardson,
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evangelist and harvest
director for Salt Outreach.
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Welcome back to the program.
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You guys have been
here on Urban Report before.
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It's been a little while.
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I think it's
been about two years.
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Yeah, it's been a minute.
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We also had what we did?
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We did a ministry update at ASI.
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And, you know,
the interesting thing
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is to see the development
of the ministry overtime,
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you know, you've
come on the program,
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you've talked about
things that you needed,
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and God's just been
fulfilling those things.
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Yeah.
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But since it has been a while,
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I want to
reintroduce you to our viewers.
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Eric, tell me a little
bit about your background?
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My background, okay.
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Well, I, as you
mentioned, president of Salt,
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I just got my masters
in non-profit management.
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Okay.
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And certification
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as a certified
non-profit professional.
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I grew up in Chicago, you know,
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so I kind of in
that city element,
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you know, moved to
Orlando and Salt started
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about a year after
I became a Christian.
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It was probably, it
was 2011, September.
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Nice. And what
is Salt stand for?
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So Salt, an acronym for
Service and Love Together.
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So the whole concept was,
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you know, there's so
many churches in Orlando,
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we wanted to create a
vehicle for the churches,
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especially the young
people to get together
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to make an
impact in the community,
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kind of combine
all of that together.
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You know, a lot of young
people are leaving the church.
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But we wanted to
create a community you know,
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there might be two
young adults at this church,
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three at this
church, five at this church,
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but when you have
a vehicle to give,
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bring them all together.
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Now it becomes a community
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that fosters
growth for young adults.
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So that's kind of, you
know, why it started so.
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Got you.
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And, Lo-Ammi,
tell us a little bit
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about your background,
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and what a harvest director is?
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Predominantly
evangelist and harvest director
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for the ministry, Service
And Love Together for Salt
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and my
upbringing, I kind of grew up
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in the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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or, you know,
family, both mom and dad
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were both Adventist.
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So I understood what it
meant to be an Adventist
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and go to church
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and participate in
all the church programs
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and eventually I left the church
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and, you know, pursued
the things of the world,
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and maybe about, so
it's about nine years ago
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that God called
me back into the fold
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and been in full
time ministry ever since.
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And about three years ago,
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I moved back to
Orlando and Eric and I met
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and he kind of
shared the vision of Salt
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and to component my
strengths of evangelism
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and his idea of
wanting to do street ministry
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kind of blended together.
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And so I've been with Salt
for the last three years now
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kind of being there,
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you know, promoter, evangelist,
and speaking for them
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on behalf of
their, of the ministry
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and the harvest
director, simply,
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we plant the seeds
throughout the year,
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and then my job is to kind
of harvest them into the church,
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harvest them
into the fold of God.
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And so that's kind of
a summary of what I'm,
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my current responsibilities
in my background.
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Nice.
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Now there's a cycle,
if you will, what is this?
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What is this cycle?
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Are there four
steps in the cycle?
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Are there five steps?
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I know, it ends in evangelism,
but what is the cycle?
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Yeah, so there's
different components
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in which we plant seeds,
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you know, we have the outreaches
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which are kind of
the more obvious ways
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that we plant seeds, you know,
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creating those
relationships with them,
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then we have our
growth groups or small groups,
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to kind of bring young adults
and even people that we meet,
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just, you know, even co-workers,
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whoever, you know,
classmates, to small groups
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to kind of study
the Bible together.
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And then after that,
we also have our events,
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where we kind of
invite people to come,
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some of those
are harvest events.
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You know, we'll talk a
little bit about that later.
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And, you know, those
are kind of the key ways
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that we really engage
people and plant seeds.
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And it all ends
with our evangelism
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because at the end
of the day, you know,
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we want to win souls for Christ,
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you know,
there's different avenues
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in which we want to get there.
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You know, but
that's the bottom line, so.
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Nice.
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So like, ever
since I met you guys,
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I think it was actually
at an ASI where I met you,
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either ASI or GYC
or something like that.
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I was just blown
away by what I saw,
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like the cycle and how
it ended in evangelism,
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and how it's really
practical Christianity
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and Christ method that
you guys are implementing.
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And it was just
amazing to see that
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and then to see young people
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so heavily involved in that.
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What are some of the challenges
that you guys have faced?
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So challenges in just,
in running the organization?
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Just in running
the organization.
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So, you know, we
primarily, you know,
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when we're dealing
with people on the street,
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I mean, there's
always a challenge, you know,
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I mean, we're dealing with,
you know, homeless individuals,
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for example, they come
from all different backgrounds,
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I mean like all
different experiences.
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So it's always a
challenge to kind of adapt
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to each
personality, each person,
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you know, to show
them that we care,
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you know, what Paul
says, you know, I became,
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you know, all
things to all people,
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if it would
further the gospel, right?
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So that's kind
of one aspect of it.
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I think another challenge,
as well is, is young adults,
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you know,
comprise our leadership,
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I think our average age is 26,
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or some around that
range right there, 26-27.
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And so, you know, young
adults, they get married,
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you know, or
they go off to school,
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or, you know,
they move off somewhere
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or something like
that and when that happens,
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now, we have a hole
that we have to fill.
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So we're constantly
recruiting young adults
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to take on leadership positions.
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So that's another challenge
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to any of that
you may be challenged.
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Yeah, it does kind of,
you know, life happens,
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and people, you know,
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kind of had to
transition out of that,
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you know, out of that specific
responsibility that they had.
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And so for us to try to plug
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that in is always been
one of the hardest volunteers,
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to try to get
volunteers to come out and,
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you know, take ownership
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with some of
the responsibilities
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that we have at hand, so.
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Yeah.
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So what's new with Salt?
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Well, there's a lot new.
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Well, last time we
were here on this show,
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we were talking about
the idea of a shower trailer
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for the homeless.
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We realized that
was the next step
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in meeting the
needs for the homeless.
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You were at ASI,
and some of the viewers
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probably saw as
well, the shower trailer,
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we were able to display there,
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we had just gotten
it a few days before.
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There's videos we have
on social media bus like,
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trying to push
that thing in there,
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into the convention center
and all that 'cause there was,
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you know, it's difficult,
but yeah, we since August,
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we've been operating it,
alongside we have our showers.
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So just to give
you kind of an idea
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of how the homeless
outreach works right now
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is we have the homeless come,
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they go to our clothing trailer,
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which we have a picture
of our clothing trailer.
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And once they go to
the clothing trailer,
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they get their
clothes, they get the towel,
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their hygiene product.
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Then after that, they
go over to get a haircut.
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So we also have a
picture of you know,
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some of our homeless friends
getting haircuts as well.
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And then after that's
a change trailer there
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in the background.
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After the shot...
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after that, the haircut,
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they go and they take a shower.
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We have a picture
of some of the home,
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our homeless friends
lined up sitting down,
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about to go into the
shower trailer there.
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And it's, you know,
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the shower
trailer has four showers,
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so we're able to really
get in a lot of showers there.
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You know, and as a result,
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we've been
getting a lot of notice
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from the community,
you know, before then,
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you know, we were
kind of known more
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in the kind of the
Adventist circles and churches.
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But now we have, I
kind of have a picture
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to some news
stories on Channel 9
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in August of 2018
covered a story on us.
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That's the Orlando Sentinel,
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local newspaper did
a story on us as well.
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Channel 13 did a story on us.
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We had the
University of Central Florida
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do an article and a
story on us they got out there.
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And we're getting
more and more volunteers
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that come from that aren't
just Adventist volunteers.
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Yes.
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We're getting
more and more people
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that maybe even don't even
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have like a
religious background,
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but they're
wanting to volunteer,
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which is another avenue,
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you know, that we can
kind of reach people as well.
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One of the cool things is that
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when they actually
connect with young adults,
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having the same
purpose and mission,
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and they realize
that we're Christian,
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they're like, oh, man,
you guys are so chilled
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and easy to talk to.
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And it kind of gives
them a fresh perspective
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of what they
think Christianity is
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that we're actually
wanting to make an impact
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and trying to change lives
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and not necessarily push
religion down people's throat,
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like we want to serve
the needs of the community.
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And as we do that, they can see,
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man, you guys really care.
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So whatever we
share outside of that,
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they're more inclined to listen.
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And so that's been one
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of the huge
blessings of actually,
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you know, having volunteers
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from outside of our denomination
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and our faith, to actually see
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that we're wanting to
put our faith into action.
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So that's been an
actually big blessing.
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Yeah.
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I mean, one thing I
just want to mention too is,
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you know,
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the Adventist Church is
so populated in that area,
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there's so many
people in that area.
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And so, for
Adventist to be in the news,
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you know what I'm saying?
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That's, I mean, you know,
you don't see that every day.
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You know, may be
Florida Hospital,
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you know, maybe there
are, you know, advent out now.
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But when you have
Seventh-day Adventists
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on all these news
stations and all that,
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it really puts us on the map.
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You know what I'm
saying? Absolutely.
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So yeah, that's,
that's an exciting part too.
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Yeah, that's huge.
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And I can only
imagine that, you know,
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how many lives
are being transformed,
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not even just, you know,
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the homeless individuals
that you guys are helping,
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but the people
that are helping them
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that don't go to the
church, because like you said,
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they're, you know,
they're volunteering,
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and they see that
you guys genuinely
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care about other people
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and you're doing
something, you see a need,
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and you're doing
something about it.
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You're not just saying,
okay, I'll pray for you.
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Yeah.
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You know, which
prayer is excellent.
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Don't get me
wrong. Prayer is powerful.
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We're connecting to God,
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you know, we're
communing with God.
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But prayer without works,
it's like faith without works.
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Right.
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It's there, you know,
it's like, you have a coat
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and somebody's cold,
you have an extra coat
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and you're just like,
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I'll pray for
you that you warm up.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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You know, and you're
able to provide these things.
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And so that is
absolutely amazing.
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To me, the shower trailer,
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the change
trailer, the haircuts,
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you also help with people
preparing resumes, correct?
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Yeah.
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So, you know,
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there's one individual
in particular right now
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that we're working with that,
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yeah, I mean, if they
need help with resumes,
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we're there to help,
you know, we, right now
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we're operating,
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we don't have the
funds to operate regularly
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throughout the week.
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That would be our goal.
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If we can operate
regularly throughout the week,
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we can really
implement a strong program.
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But as we're working on
building capacity for that,
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we're providing needs to
our friends to the community
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and then once when
we're providing those needs,
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we find people that
have that need help further
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than what we're offering.
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And then that's when, you know,
leadership, maybe volunteers,
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we go and we kind of go
that extra mile with them.
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You know, one guy in
particular just got a job
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six months ago, saved up $3,000.
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Now we're helping them
find a place to move into,
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you know, so there's
cases like that little,
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you know, that
that we're working with.
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One of the things we
actually did was partner up
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with another organization,
a lot of our homeless friends,
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they didn't have
IDs, identifications.
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Yeah. So we
help them to get IDs.
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And so, yeah,
everything is usually on a case
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to case basis, we
offer a general help, like,
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if you want to closet showers,
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we're able to provide that,
but anything outside of that,
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you know, if they need extra,
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then we're
willing to try to put them
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with the right people
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who have those
strengths that we can help them,
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you know, provide
that supply that need
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that they're desiring to have.
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Right and, you know,
ultimately, the whole program
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what is gonna be designed
to do is to help a homeless
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individual that wants to work.
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Yes. Obtain employment.
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You know, and so things
like the IDs, the showers,
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I mean, there was a
homeless friend of ours
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before the shower trailer.
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I don't know if I
mentioned in last show or not,
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but he had been
looking for a job.
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But he hadn't
showered in three months.
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You know, I'd see
him, he'd be like, "Eric,
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I got another
job, job interview."
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I'm like, "Okay,
great," you know,
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but I know he
wasn't able to shower.
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How is he going to get that job?
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You know, so, you
know, ultimately, that's,
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that's what we're driving to
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'cause there's a lot of programs
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in Orlando right now.
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They're helping
the chronic homeless,
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they target the worst homeless
of the homeless population.
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But there are those
that don't have to enter
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chronic homelessness,
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though they're
right in the verge
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of entering homelessness,
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that we can
help kind of get out.
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And that's the target
that we're really shooting for.
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Got you. Got you.
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That's a crucial component too
because a lot of times people
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just simply lack resources,
they don't know where to go.
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So even by you guys
facilitating that connection.
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That's powerful, too.
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I'd like to shift gears
and transition a little bit
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into the
evangelism aspect of it.
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You know, what does that look?
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How do you prepare your sermons?
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Yeah, so one of my major
responsibilities, as you know,
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my home base is
in Orlando, Florida,
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but I get a lot of
speaking appointments to travel,
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you know, across the
country and around the world.
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And so, I want
to share this vision
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to as many churches as possible,
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because I've seen
that this vision works,
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it's actually jumpstarted
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a lot of our
volunteers and our leaders
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who didn't have a
relationship with God.
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It jumpstarted for them to have
a deeper relationship with God.
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And so, you know,
we're talking about
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to why are the youth
leaving, they're leaving it
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because they don't
have a sense of purpose.
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They don't have a vision
or mission to be a part of.
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And so, when they see
that there's young people
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in our community that says,
"Okay, let's stop complaining,
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let's actually do something."
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They get inspired, they
want to actually do something.
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And so for me, a lot of
the main responsibilities
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is to try to coordinate
harvest events, week of prayers,
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evangelistic series,
that all of the connections,
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we just purchased
a 15 passenger van.
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So the idea is that,
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you know, we can transport
them to these churches,
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where we're
having these meetings,
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where they see, you know,
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just the last event that we had,
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you know, they
realized I was a preacher,
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they're like,
man, I'd like to hear
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you preach the Word.
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And so, you know, those
kind of type of connections
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where now they're
seeing me serving them,
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or they're seeing
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our volunteers
serving and helping,
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that they're willing to
allow, listen to a Word because,
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you know, the
words are going to have
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far more impact
than what we're doing.
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And so, earlier this year
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we actually did
a week of prayer,
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entitled, "The
Struggle is Real."
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We kind of just walked
on practical godliness.
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My intention wasn't to
dress up in a suit and tie.
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I was gonna wear a
hat and just, you know,
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and let people feel
comfortable coming in,
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but they were
hearing the message.
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We had a couple
of people of interest
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who want to
continue on Bible studies,
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there's a picture
there, "Not Today Satan."
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So actually, it was
an interesting story,
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one of the friends of
mine who I connected with,
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he hasn't been
in church in years.
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And he said, "Man,
what do I need to wear."
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I was like, "Bro, I'm
wearing a fitted hat."
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He was like, "Bad,
I'm coming in my jeans."
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So he, he showed
up, he sat in the back,
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he said, there's a
message I needed to hear.
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And we've been, you
know, connecting ever since
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and doing Bible
studies on the side and so...
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I like that
shirt too by the way.
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It's just a theme
of life, you know.
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But those type of
events that we're coordinating,
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we had one with
college pack live in February,
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another harvest event
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that we wanna be able
to bring in guest speakers.
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And a lot of
people are volunteers
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and people that we ministered,
had an opportunity now
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to come and plug
into the local churches.
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That's the vision of
Salt that we want to create.
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Every month, we're doing
some sort of harvest event,
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at least on a Friday
night or week of prayer
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or an evangelistic
series that everyone
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that we're helping serve,
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they can plug into
the local churches,
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and then make that connection
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that if they want
to have Bible studies,
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and they want to get baptized,
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they have a church
that they're plugged into.
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And so, that's
what's very unique
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about our organization,
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we're all different volunteers
from different churches.
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So, you know, he
goes to the one church,
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I go to another and so,
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I'm very
strategic to try to plan,
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you know, events at the churches
00:17:18.90\00:17:20.24
that we attend,
and plug in the people
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that we ministered to,
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and hopefully
allow the church to grow
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based on the efforts
that we're putting in.
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So that's kind of in
summary what we're doing,
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all of the
service that we're doing
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within the community of Orlando.
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We're trying to connect
them with the local churches
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and show them that,
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you know, at the end of the day,
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we're practicing a
message that we're, you know,
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not just preaching the message,
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we're actually
practicing the message
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that we're preaching, so.
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That is awesome.
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How do you prepare
your sermons for that?
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Man, you know, it all
depends, I've realized that
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all of the issues that we deal
with the issues of the heart,
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and once you can
connect with people,
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you know, dealing with people
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with anxiety and depression and,
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and just hope, you
know, all of my sermons
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are kind of geared towards that.
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So I realized that I've kind of,
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haven't really got
outside of the message
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of dealing with
the issues of the heart
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and how we can have
victory over our sins
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and how we can have
me complete in Jesus
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and I spoke this in, you
know, doesn't matter where,
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what aspect of
your Christian life is,
00:18:16.59\00:18:19.29
that message
resonates with everyone whether,
00:18:19.33\00:18:21.36
you know, the
labels that you use,
00:18:21.40\00:18:22.73
whether you're a
liberal, or conservative,
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or you're, you
know, non-Christian.
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Yep.
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When you speak about the
heart, and that you can see
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that there's
actually hope in Jesus,
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and that there's,
there's something better
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than what I'm experiencing.
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All of my sermons have kind
of been geared towards that.
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And then always, at the appeal,
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or at least in one
of my presentations,
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I always kind of talk about
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what we're doing is actually
a part of the Great Commission.
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It's not just about a
relationship with Christ,
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but what do you do
with that connection
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with Christ in that relationship
00:18:50.66\00:18:52.13
is to actually go and
actually serve other people.
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Yes.
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So by the time
that we, you know,
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done with the week
of prayer, or that,
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that harvest event,
they understand, man,
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God spoke to me,
but now He wants me
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to go out and do something,
00:19:03.47\00:19:04.81
because as I'm
serving somebody else,
00:19:04.84\00:19:06.54
is actually beneficial
for my Christian experience,
00:19:06.57\00:19:08.81
it's not about
what I received this,
00:19:08.84\00:19:10.18
what I, what I'm receiving,
00:19:10.21\00:19:11.55
and how I can give to
the other people around me.
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So that's kind of
how I kind of geared
00:19:13.42\00:19:15.18
all of my sermons
and been intentional in,
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in delivering that message.
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Amen.
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Eric, what stories
00:19:20.92\00:19:23.06
or testimonies
do you have of lives
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that have been
transformed as a result of Salt?
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Yeah.
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So, you know, one
of the kind of one
00:19:28.90\00:19:31.87
that we're living
right now, that is,
00:19:31.90\00:19:34.67
we have a homeless
friend that we took in.
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And, you know, he was, you know,
00:19:38.17\00:19:41.54
he's actually
sleeping on our couch.
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You know, in the apartment,
me and him are roommates.
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But he became homeless
00:19:45.85\00:19:47.55
because he was
diagnosed with cancer.
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Once he was
diagnosed with cancer,
00:19:50.12\00:19:51.99
girlfriend left him.
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He couldn't continue
his job as an MMA fighter
00:19:53.72\00:19:56.29
because of, he physically
just couldn't do it anymore.
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So he started living in the car.
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That's when one of
our other roommates,
00:20:01.60\00:20:03.03
you know, had a
discussion with him.
00:20:03.06\00:20:04.97
And we decided to take him in.
00:20:05.00\00:20:06.33
And since then, he's
going to his treatments,
00:20:06.37\00:20:10.24
he obtained the job,
and he's getting paid
00:20:10.27\00:20:13.11
some pretty good money.
00:20:13.14\00:20:14.88
And in IT, that was
another background of his.
00:20:14.91\00:20:18.01
And so, soon he's
going to be moving out.
00:20:18.05\00:20:19.98
I anticipate, we anticipate
like another few weeks,
00:20:20.02\00:20:22.08
he'll be out of there.
00:20:22.12\00:20:23.45
But the craziest,
I'm sorry to cut you off.
00:20:23.49\00:20:25.52
The crazy story about that
is that he was a former atheist,
00:20:25.55\00:20:27.52
so he never
believed in God or anything.
00:20:27.56\00:20:30.16
And so, now he's
actually studying to be baptized
00:20:30.19\00:20:32.76
with one of the local pastors.
00:20:32.79\00:20:34.13
Yes.
00:20:34.16\00:20:35.50
And so, seeing it's a difference
00:20:35.53\00:20:37.00
from being outside
and serving people.
00:20:37.03\00:20:38.70
But now he
actually lives with us.
00:20:38.73\00:20:40.67
He sees how we
talk, he see how we eat,
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what we watch, what
we do, our conversations.
00:20:42.94\00:20:44.41
Yeah. Right.
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And it's how to
start, you know, is it easy?
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Absolutely not, you know,
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'cause you're
living with somebody
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you don't really know.
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So there's kind of
rules and guidelines.
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But overall, they see that
there's a tensionality like,
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listen, we want to help you.
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Yes.
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And sometimes it's tough
love, sometimes is, you know,
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grace extended however
that relationship calls for,
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but at the end of
the day, he said, man,
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I have a
relationship with God like
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he labels himself
as a Christian now,
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which is kind of crazy.
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If you were to talk
to him six months ago,
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he would be like, yeah,
I am a complete atheist.
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Now it's like, oh,
bro, I'm a Christian.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And so he's studying,
he's taking his treatments,
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he's studying to
be baptized and so,
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we don't know how severe
this cancer is going, you know.
00:21:20.78\00:21:24.75
Yeah, we don't know.
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It's brain cancer.
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Yeah. So it could be.
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We don't know what
the outcome will be.
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But he's, you know,
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he's growing in
his relationship...
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And he has peace about
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whether I die or not, I got God.
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And that's like
has been his emphasis.
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That's what we've
been trying to emphasize.
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It has been up
and downs with him.
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But that's been the testimony.
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So I tell people, it is not.
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God doesn't call us to say,
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go serve for
the sake of serving.
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He's actually teaching us stuff
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about ourselves
that we didn't know.
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Because trust me,
in this situation,
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I learned so much
about myself that I'm like,
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man, Lord, I'm really selfish.
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I'm really self-centered. Yeah.
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Like I got to give
when I don't want to give.
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But then when
you do and you obey
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what God asks you
to do, you see, man,
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somebody is
actually being impacted,
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somebody is actually
seeing the character of God
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and His love for them.
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And I removed
myself, my inconvenience
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out of the way for a moment
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to see how the Lord blessed him.
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And so that's been
the testimony where...
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Yeah. This is not ideal.
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We don't have much
space or money or anything.
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But this was a
situation that is to say,
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hey, let's try to
help our brother out,
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he was homeless,
living in the car,
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and now went from atheist
to now being a Christian,
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from not having a job
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to now getting
paid very good money,
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you know, now, you know,
on the process of, you know,
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getting back on his
feet in the next week or so.
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That is huge. Yeah It's crazy.
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God really was
orchestrating all that.
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I remember it,
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because he also
struggles with depression,
00:22:46.29\00:22:47.76
obviously, with
everything going on.
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I mean, and I
remember looking up some,
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some counseling things.
00:22:52.77\00:22:54.10
I'm like, maybe we can find
some free counseling for you
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and I thought, I
saw free counseling.
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I'm like, "Hey, I think
I found some, call him."
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He said, "Okay, I'll call him."
00:23:01.71\00:23:03.04
He called and he started going.
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The person actually charges,
I think, it's 200 an hour
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or something like that,
something crazy like that.
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And the thing is though,
as he sat there with her,
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supposed to be an hour
session, three hours, and said,
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"Don't worry about paying me.
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I like you.
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Keep coming. Just keep coming."
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The next session next week,
he tried to counsel with her.
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He's feeling depressed.
I can't do this anymore.
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Sorry.
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She called him over
and over and over again
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until he picked up.
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She said, "I'm not
giving up on you, come in."
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He came in, three more hours.
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Like, it's only God,
you know, it's only God
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that's really helping
to meet all of his needs.
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And there's a level
of sacrifice involved.
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You know, there always is.
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And like he said, it's not easy.
00:23:46.09\00:23:47.92
But we're all
called to this work.
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We don't have the
capacity as an organization
00:23:50.26\00:23:52.73
as a whole to start
housing homeless individuals,
00:23:52.76\00:23:55.00
but once we do, we have
this prototype we're building.
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You know what I'm saying?
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And that's exciting.
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Yeah.
00:24:01.67\00:24:03.00
The beautiful
thing about that story
00:24:03.04\00:24:05.14
and that testimony too
00:24:05.17\00:24:06.78
is the fact that it really shows
00:24:06.81\00:24:08.71
how bad God wants to reach
00:24:08.74\00:24:11.41
everyone that He
can possibly reach.
00:24:11.45\00:24:13.38
I mean, the fact that
he went to a counselor
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that charges $200 an hour,
00:24:16.82\00:24:20.02
this counselor
spent three hours with him
00:24:20.06\00:24:23.12
and said don't
worry, don't worry about it.
00:24:23.16\00:24:25.23
And then wanted
to see him again,
00:24:25.26\00:24:27.10
and wanted to see him
again, like God is so merciful.
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God is amazing. Yes.
00:24:30.27\00:24:32.10
And it's awesome to
see that you guys took him
00:24:32.13\00:24:36.44
in to your home.
00:24:36.47\00:24:40.48
You know, it
allowed him to live with you
00:24:40.51\00:24:42.44
and get back on
his feet like that.
00:24:42.48\00:24:44.98
That's huge in
and of itself too.
00:24:45.01\00:24:47.68
You know, you guys are so
busy helping everybody else.
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How can people help you?
00:24:51.35\00:24:53.39
How can people help
the organization of Salt?
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What do you need?
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Yeah, so a major
need right now is a truck,
00:24:57.43\00:25:01.20
we need an F250
or equivalent truck
00:25:01.23\00:25:04.17
to pull our shower trailer.
00:25:04.20\00:25:06.77
We've had to
rent shower trailer,
00:25:06.80\00:25:08.34
I'm sorry, rent trucks.
00:25:08.37\00:25:09.97
And it's been costing us money.
00:25:10.01\00:25:12.17
You know,
there's some volunteers
00:25:12.21\00:25:13.54
that can pull once in a while,
00:25:13.58\00:25:14.91
but it's not always guaranteed.
00:25:14.94\00:25:16.28
Sometimes they cancel.
So a truck is a huge need.
00:25:16.31\00:25:19.21
Our next project is also...
00:25:19.25\00:25:21.08
Does it need be
four wheel drive or...?
00:25:21.12\00:25:24.62
As long as it can tow up
to 12,000 pounds minimum,
00:25:24.65\00:25:29.06
we're good.
00:25:29.09\00:25:30.69
And then also, we're working
on a kind of like a storage,
00:25:30.73\00:25:35.23
a mobile storage.
00:25:35.26\00:25:36.63
So when a homeless
individual has an interview,
00:25:36.67\00:25:39.97
or a job to go to,
00:25:40.00\00:25:41.34
they can store their
belongings in a truck
00:25:41.37\00:25:43.14
that we put lockers in
00:25:43.17\00:25:45.24
and that they can
go off and do that.
00:25:45.27\00:25:47.11
So that's, like, kind
of like a moving truck.
00:25:47.14\00:25:48.94
Yeah.
00:25:48.98\00:25:50.31
So that's kind
of, those are kind of
00:25:50.35\00:25:51.68
our two major needs right now.
00:25:51.71\00:25:53.42
The wild card is we,
you know, a lot of us,
00:25:53.45\00:25:56.28
all of us is actually
volunteering our time.
00:25:56.32\00:25:58.72
What ideally what
would like to do is
00:25:58.75\00:26:01.12
hire on full time workers,
00:26:01.16\00:26:03.39
you know, at least
one or two positions
00:26:03.43\00:26:05.19
that they can focus all
of their energy on Salt,
00:26:05.23\00:26:07.63
because at least this past,
00:26:07.66\00:26:09.33
you know, year,
Eric, full time job,
00:26:09.36\00:26:11.43
full time relationship,
00:26:11.47\00:26:12.80
master's degree, everything,
and so and full time Salt.
00:26:12.83\00:26:16.37
So you know...
00:26:16.40\00:26:17.74
And he still manages
00:26:17.77\00:26:19.11
to look like he got a
good rest or something.
00:26:19.14\00:26:23.14
I graduated on Friday, so
I'm sleeping good, you know.
00:26:23.18\00:26:26.15
But essentially, we want
to be able to play employers
00:26:26.18\00:26:29.58
to focus all of their
energy on so and so that's,
00:26:29.62\00:26:32.19
you know, because once
we exert all of our energy,
00:26:32.22\00:26:33.89
and then that we can,
00:26:33.92\00:26:35.26
everything will
kind of wanting to be.
00:26:35.29\00:26:36.73
We need to build capacity,
and the only way we can do that
00:26:36.76\00:26:39.53
is through
funds, you know, and so.
00:26:39.56\00:26:42.63
Absolutely Yeah.
00:26:42.66\00:26:44.20
I want to put your
contact information up.
00:26:44.23\00:26:46.67
And then, Eric, if
you want to tell us.
00:26:46.70\00:26:49.24
Yeah.
00:26:49.27\00:26:50.61
Oh, that's a testimony itself.
00:26:50.64\00:26:52.17
I'm not going to go into
that how we got that office.
00:26:52.21\00:26:54.11
But that office is 100
East Pine Street, Suite 110.
00:26:54.14\00:26:58.91
Orlando 32801,
00:26:58.95\00:27:01.75
and our number is 866-237-2589.
00:27:01.78\00:27:07.06
And that's 866 B Salty
00:27:07.09\00:27:11.16
and our website
saltoutreach.org.
00:27:11.19\00:27:14.10
Nice.
00:27:14.13\00:27:15.46
And it's Orlando, Florida?
00:27:15.50\00:27:16.93
Orlando, Florida. Yes, yes.
00:27:16.97\00:27:18.40
There's lot of
Orlandos, so it's in Florida.
00:27:18.43\00:27:20.00
Orlando, Florida. That's right.
00:27:20.04\00:27:21.74
And make sure
that it arrived to you.
00:27:21.77\00:27:23.61
Yes.
00:27:23.64\00:27:24.97
I can't believe
our time is almost up.
00:27:25.01\00:27:28.04
I mean, this
interview went by so fast.
00:27:28.08\00:27:30.48
You guys can't stay
away for too long again.
00:27:30.51\00:27:34.08
I mean, it seems like so much
has been going on with Salt.
00:27:34.12\00:27:37.49
And God has just been
using you guys to do amazing,
00:27:37.52\00:27:41.39
amazing things.
00:27:41.42\00:27:42.79
I'm inspired.
00:27:42.82\00:27:44.16
I hope our viewers
at home are inspired.
00:27:44.19\00:27:46.33
I want to thank you
for joining us today.
00:27:46.36\00:27:48.96
Thank you for
having us. Thank you.
00:27:49.00\00:27:50.57
Always. Yeah,
always love coming here.
00:27:50.60\00:27:52.03
Yes.
00:27:52.07\00:27:53.40
It's always great to have you
and thank you for joining us.
00:27:53.44\00:27:56.24
Get involved in your
community, make a difference,
00:27:56.27\00:27:58.97
exude practical
Christianity and remember,
00:27:59.01\00:28:02.81
tune in next time
00:28:02.84\00:28:04.18
because it just wouldn't
be the same without you.
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