Episode 74

#74. Human Trafficking: There IS Something You and Your Family Can Do: Part 2 | An Interview with Rescue1 Global

Christian parents wanting to be the hands and feet of Jesus will find such hope and direction in this powerful interview with Daniel and Lacy Tolar of Rescue 1 Global. These stories are truly difficult to hear, but the church is needed to "be who she was called to be".

Biblical motherhood requires that we honor the "least of these" and have eyes to see those in need. It is our prayer that listeners come alongside to support Rescue 1's efforts in prayer and in deed, and that we all gain eyes to see how we can serve in this area.

In the future episodes, parents will also gain valuable insight in ways to prevent their own children from becoming victims.

Listen. Break for them. Then move as God leads. Let's look back and be able to say we were a part of stopping slavery, not standing by while evil was rampant.

Rescue 1 Global

Verses Referenced:

Acts 1:8

Matthew 10:33

Transcript
Stephanie:

They're the joyful agains our children.

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Shout on the swings, the exhausting

agains of cooking and laundry and

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the difficult agains of discipline.

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So much of what we do

as mothers is on repeat.

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So what if we woke up with clarity,

knowing which agains we were called to.

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And went to bed believing we are

faithful in what matters most.

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We believe God's word is

the key to untangle from the

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confusion and overwhelm we feel.

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Let's look up together to embrace a

motherhood full of freedom and joy.

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Welcome to the Again podcast from

Entrusted Ministries, where we

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want you to know that what Moms do

over and over truly matters to God.

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I'm Stephanie Hickox, and I'm your host.

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And today I have the privilege of

sharing part two of an interview

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in which entrusted with a child's

heart author Betsy Corning.

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And I sat down with Daniel and

Lacey Toller of Rescue One Global.

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If you listen to part one of

the interview, then we know you

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already love Daniel and Lacey.

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You respect and admire their faith,

and now you want to learn what you can

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do about the horrific problem of human

trafficking, and that's going to be

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covered in this portion of the interview.

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If you didn't have an opportunity to

listen to part one, we highly recommend

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you go back and hear how the Lord has

moved in their hearts to bring them

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to the position they're in today of

rescuing one after one after one.

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As I mentioned last week, this will be

sensitive for young listeners, so you

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should listen first and then determine

which portions would be appropriate to

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share with your older children as some of

the interview would be highly effective

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for them as well.

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You may be wondering, what does all

of this have to do with again, but we

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believe that a godly mother has eyes to

see those whose Jesus's heart is breaking

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for, and she teaches her children to have

compassion and see the needs of others.

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Just as Matthew 25 tells us how

you treated these, you treated me.

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So here are Daniel and Lacey

Toler again of Rescue One Global.

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Betsy/Daniel/Lacy: And so we, God

just opened up opportunities for

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us to share the reality of that.

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And then of course we came back home and

that one, the acts one eight, we felt a

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push and pull between two countries, and

we weren't sure, are we supposed to stay

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in America and do this, or are we supposed

to, again, go back to Thailand, and like

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Lacey said, we knew God just said, Acts 1.

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8, I want you to do it in both.

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And that was very difficult for

us, and so from probably:

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when Rescue One became its own

organization in October of:

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It, of course, it was under another

organization for two and a half

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years, and so we were functioning

alongside of that other organization.

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And so it took six, seven

months for the process of that

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organization to come about.

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So October 25th of 2013 is when

we became our own organization.

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So from 2010 to 2013, we had

operated about two and a half.

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Almost three years with a parent

organization and that parent

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organization said, this is

becoming a consuming thing for you.

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And this is where God

called you and gifted you.

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You need to go do it on your own.

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So that's what we did.

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But from 2010 to today, this

is what we've been doing.

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I would say Lacey would say

every day, which is true.

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It is an everyday thing.

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And through that process, we learned three

very key things that need to happen for

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churches to be mobilized into a community

is you have to have prevention efforts

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to create opportunities to eliminate

the vulnerabilities so no one could take

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advantage of people and exploit them.

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And there needs to be opportunities where

healthy rescues, not the kick in the doors

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like taken occur, but healthy rescues of.

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Because of relationships, loving

relationships, people say.

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I need your help.

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And then we're, or my family

member, my granddaughter,

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my, somebody needs your help.

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And so then we're able to rescue out

of that situation, just like Christ

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reached down and rescued us out

of our mire and then restoration.

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A lot of people say across the

movement of anti trafficking that

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when you get somebody into a program,

that's when restoration starts.

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And we disagree with that.

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We think that restoration starts the

first time you meet somebody because

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they have elements of trauma and elements

of abuse and elements of trafficking

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that only the gospel can address.

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And if you're going to that person

to address just the results of abuse

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and sin, then you don't actually

get to the heart of the matter.

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And so we tell people all

the time, we fight slavery.

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And what that means is before

Christ, everyone's enslaved to

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something and or a lot, especially

to sin and sin often blinds you to

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the reality of you need a savior.

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And so that rescue opportunity

occurs, but it also allows you to have

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restoration, full restoration in Christ.

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And that's actually not easy because

you've got people who come in with

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trauma and all they think about is.

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Somebody else did this to me and

down deep inside they think God is

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the reason why this happened and

we have to teach people that no, he

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didn't do this, yet he has allowed

it for your good and for his glory.

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And so how do you teach that to somebody

who has experienced so much trauma?

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And so I think over the years we've.

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Like Lacey said, genetically encoded we

don't know why God chose us two unlikely

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individuals to be able to penetrate

the hearts of individuals and find that

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dark space in their heart and convince

them or invite them to reveal that to

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even us and others and to seek Christ.

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And so I think over the years it has been.

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I don't think I want to be anywhere else.

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That's awesome.

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And well said.

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And I love that it's gospel centric.

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Daniel, would you please restate

the three pronged approach?

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Yes.

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Rescue One focuses in the area efforts

to prevent to rescue and restore.

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And there are underlying efforts

inside of that or initiative

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that create opportunities for us

to prevent rescue and restore.

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And that gets more detail,

especially on the website.

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You can get some of that information.

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But also part of that is the mission

is we realized that God didn't

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just call Daniel and Lacey to this.

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God actually called Daniel and

Lacey to call the church to

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be who she was created to be.

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There's no government program out there.

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There's no, things that you can do

programmatically to change this,

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but the church is the army of God.

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And sometimes she sits on her laurels and

she's comfortable and she's complacent.

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And often, churches dying

around the country all the time.

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It's because they don't have a purpose.

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They're so inward focused

that they've lost.

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And sure.

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They'll send somebody around

the world, but will they send

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somebody to their own backyard?

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And so our heart and mission began

to be God said, call my bride church

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that you come in contact with to

be who I created her to be and show

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her that she can impact the world

for Christ in this very dark area.

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And again, there are more mission

fields than just going and planting a

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church on the other side of the world.

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The first time I sat in legislative plaza

in downtown Nashville, the commissioner,

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the head of human services for the state

of Tennessee looked at me and said, Lacey.

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This was when we, the state back

in:

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out what to do in this landscape.

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And I didn't even know

that they knew us by name.

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But we're one of the very first

organizations to be birthed

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in the state of Tennessee.

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And they looked at me and they said,

Lacey, what makes your program that

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you are proposing here to build any

different than if I just threw a

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lot of money and made a government

program to help these kids?

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And in that st Still small moment.

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I was a little terrified.

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Just probably not a little, maybe

completely panicked, but I had that

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still small voice in my ear that

said, don't deny me before men.

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But you know, I grew up in

a very conservative separate

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the church and the state.

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Don't talk about, if you want

to do this, be careful about

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putting too much faith in there.

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They may push you out, that kind of thing.

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And I just looked at Daniel

and it's almost like he just

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looked at me like you got to.

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And I was like, maybe God was telling

us both the same thing at the same time.

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And I remember I was sitting back in

my chair and I sat up with my hands,

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forward on the table in front of me and

lean forward with almost a boldness.

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And I said, ma'am, there's not much

programmatically that's going to be

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different about what I might do, but

the hope that Jesus Christ brings in.

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Is the only difference in what

we're going to do and what you could

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do with your government program.

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But Jesus Christ is the one

who came to rescue and save.

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And he's the one who can

repair a broken heart.

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And your government psychology

programs can only do so much repair.

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That they'll never would find

wholeness until they find Jesus.

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And I took a deep breath.

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I took a deep breath and I leaned

back and I actually slumped down

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in my chair and I looked at you

and I was like, grab your bag.

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We probably got to get

out of here really fast.

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They're never going to ask us back.

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They're never going to want

us to participate in anything.

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And I was really, I was actually afraid.

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Maybe I just ruined our chance to

minister to this group of people because.

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I brought God into politics and,

obviously today we know that God needs

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to be in the middle of our politics,

but 15 years ago, that was not normal

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and not always done and talked about.

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So that was us.

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And what I realized though, was that.

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I looked around the room and Daniel

tapped me back after I said, let's go.

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He goes, look, and I saw

smiles around that room.

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And what I realized is there was

allies in that room who, because of

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their government positions could not

say with boldness, what I just said,

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But they needed somebody else to say it.

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And what God taught us that day is that

if you will be faithful and obedient

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to me, there is no one who can stop me.

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And since that day we are the, one

of the number one phone calls for the

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Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

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And, these are all mainly non believers

in these places and these police.

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different precincts around middle

Tennessee and around the country.

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People were calling us left and right.

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And we're like, who are we?

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God we have no training.

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We have no education.

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I'm just a little pastor's kid, grew

up in a conservative Baptist church,

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like who am I God, to do this.

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And yet God said, I will equip, I will.

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Give you what you need and when you

need it and I tell people when we first

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started, you know There was books on

how to do foster care ministry all

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over the place there's books on how

to go and Be a missionary and do dig

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wells and create an orphanage and all

of those kinds of things Those were

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prevalent in our Christian society of

how to's there wasn't a single book out

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there There was nothing that said, Hey,

Daniel Lacey, go grab this material or

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go get this education to help you learn

how to do what I've called you to do.

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And so we wrote our own script.

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We didn't write it.

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God wrote it.

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Because what we're doing today,

15 years later is the same thing

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that God imparted to us then.

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And we have not actually changed any

mode of what God called us to do.

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We haven't changed it hardly at all.

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And we, and people are like,

how did you know what to do?

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And we're like, I don't know how we knew

what to do when we picked up someone

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on the side of the road and put them

in our car and drove them across the

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country to get them to a safe house

because we didn't have a safe house for

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four or five years here in the States.

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And we would just call for 24 hours

and find somebody that would take them.

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And we'd put them in our

little minivan with our kids.

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And our mission was driving these

girls across the country to get to

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a safe house that would take them.

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And we would drive to Birmingham,

Alabama, or we drive to Florida or.

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You know, Ohio or somewhere else.

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And that's just what we did because

we didn't know any better either.

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I wouldn't recommend

anybody doing that today.

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Please don't do anything.

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I just said.

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I'm sure you've gotten

it all worked out now.

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So you don't not breaking any laws in

your, I don't think that we broke any laws

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that then I'm not that we were caught for.

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but for what Lacey said, though, it

was really the doctrine of yes, Lord.

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Yeah.

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And we knew that if we continue to say yes

to God, that he would provide and he would

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protect and he taught us along the way.

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And that's what was modeled before us.

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And that's what we

model with our team now.

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And even with our girls we were able to,

recently we were able to go visit the with

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the governor's wife here in Tennessee.

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And The same thing, our girls are learning

to just say yes to opportunities that they

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would never have the opportunity for, and

we're teaching that, and part of that was

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the governor's wife the first lady gave

gifts to our girls, and what she didn't

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know was what our girls had already asked,

we're going to go visit, they're going

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to teach us, give us food, you already

told us that they're going to give us

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gifts, what are we going to give her?

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And I said, what do you want to give her?

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And they're like, I don't know.

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I said, why don't you

like, we have no money.

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We don't have anything.

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Why don't you paint a picture?

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Why don't you write a poem or

something, give your testimony.

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And they all did something on

canvas and present it to her.

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And she was just in tears.

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One of the girls is a beautiful

artist and part of her healing

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has been the art therapy.

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And she pulled out what she drew

and she had found a picture of the

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governor's mansion here in Tennessee.

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And she.

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She painted her own portrait of that.

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And she said, this is going up

in my, in the governor's mansion.

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And when I leave it's going with me.

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And so the ability I, one of the

girls who told me yesterday, she

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said, I was the lowest of people.

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That's who I was.

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And today I was a princess.

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In the highest.

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office of our state and she said Only God

could take me from the lowest of low and

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bring me to the highest of high and I told

her I said yes We've always told you are

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a priceless treasure The world does not

get to tell you who you are no matter what

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is done to you because they've been part

of the brainwashing that happens inside

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trafficking is That trafficker devalues

them so much and brainwashes them to

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think they could never be loved again.

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They could never get

married and have a family.

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No one would ever want them like that.

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They're just gonna be, a prostitute

or whatever the rest of their life

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is always gonna look like this.

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So if you stay with me, at

least I'll protect you in this.

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And it's that fight or flight

that they end up staying in.

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So sometimes they run away from

us even after we rescued them.

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Because this new life is

more scary because they don't

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actually know what to do.

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We have girls who've never

used a washing machine.

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We had to teach a 40 year old one time

how to use a washing machine because

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she had been on the streets for so long.

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And just the basics of life.

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And taking our girls to the governor's

mansion and sitting there with

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all the formal place settings and

the Multiple forks and spoons.

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They all looked at us like, what do we do?

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And we said, you got this.

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We can, you can do, you are this special.

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And the beautiful first lady

said, you can use whatever utensil

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you want, whenever you want.

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And it's not a big deal.

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And but it was just that way

of these girls feel valued.

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And we get to be Jesus with

skin on is what we say.

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We're the hands and feet of Jesus.

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That's who the church is.

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But I think she forgets who she is.

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And we get to be that and teach

the church how to love people.

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So every multiple nights a week,

we've been doing this since:

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We go to the hotels and motels

around middle Tennessee and

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then in our other country.

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So we're in Thailand and the

Philippines and here in the U.

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S.

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And our Filipinos do this same thing.

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What did Jesus teach us to do when

people say, how do you do what you do?

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We say, Jesus already modeled it for us.

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So when Jesus said, when we said, Jesus,

how do we get into hotels and motels?

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He said, go feed them, meet their

physical need, and then I'll help

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you address their spiritual needs

and their, their needs of rescue.

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So we taught the church

how to make food and said.

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Let's take it out in a strategic

way to very strategic places.

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So we take hot food and

it's our ticket in the door.

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And then we teach the church to

build relationships with people.

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They would have never got out

of the comfort of their pews.

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And in doing so we feed the men,

the women, the homeless, the

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traffic, the, all of it together.

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But then we're able to target very

specific ones and we give them our

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helpline and eventually it's like

Daniel said, God did this for us.

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The cross was the bridge.

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It was the relationship building tool.

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It's the model.

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Jesus modeled every bit of this for us.

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And he said, just follow me.

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I already showed you.

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So our bridge is food, just

like the feeding of the 5, 000.

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He fed them because they couldn't hear

him until he met their physical needs.

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So God said, go meet their physical need,

and then I'm going to help you meet their

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spiritual need and their actual location

need of getting out of where they're at.

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And that has happened over

and over year after year.

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So it's been about 12 years that we've

been doing that on a weekly basis.

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If I understand you correctly, churches

get involved by putting these meals

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together and then let's give an example.

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How many meals would a church put

together and how often would they do that?

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We have two locations here

in Nashville that we do that,

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Monday night and Thursday night.

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And you've got a couple different churches

that come together and they rotate on

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who is responsible for cooking the meals.

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So like on the first Sunday first week of

the month, one church is involved or maybe

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it's a small group or a group of ladies.

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It's just, it varies on the church.

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And so the each location, it's

about 125 to about 150 meals

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at each of those locations.

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And we load those foods in

clamshells, just like you would

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take away from a restaurant.

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Thank you.

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And then we put them in these coolers

and you can fit 24 into a cooler.

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And then you take those coolers.

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And you stuff the spaces with swimmies

to hold them from not moving around.

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Like we've got this

thing down to a science.

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Or broken down boxes.

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Or broken down boxes.

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We stuff it in there so

that it doesn't spill.

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And so we take the church, not

only do they prep the meal, but

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many of them go out with us.

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And we create.

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Teams of three to four to go to

each door whether it's downstairs on

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the lower level or the upper level,

and they just go door to door, and

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at first it's really Intimidating.

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Yeah, and awkward.

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And awkward.

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And then after about two months, they

become, those people that we're serving,

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become their people and they belong.

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And again, about nine to fifteen

people go out on a regular outreach

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and it's about a hundred, 125 to 150

meals and you spend about three hours.

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You got an hour prep and then you've

got about two hours out in the field.

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And what's beautiful about that is

some people there are not comfortable,

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especially the older ladies.

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Actually, we have one old lady, she's

83 and she wants to knock on the door.

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We can't even keep her back off the line.

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We're like, Oh my goodness, you should

stay back here, where it's more safe.

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And she's no, I'm knocking on the door.

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83 total white

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hair.

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And she's like,

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Stephanie: to lose.

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Betsy/Daniel/Lacy: nothing.

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So she she helps get

food breads and desserts.

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Cause that's what goes in the meal.

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So somebody might make a casserole and

we'll put some vegetables in there and

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cookies and some type of bread every time.

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That's the kind of the

routine or the menu.

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And we spaghetti.

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Or one church makes Salisbury steak and

mashed potatoes and corn and green beans.

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And that's the one everybody wants.

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They know once a month, they're going to

get that really good home cooked meal.

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So we don't take them a hot dog

or pizza that they could go down

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to the local market and get.

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We make sure to take them food that's

cooked from somebody's home with love.

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building tool to get in the door.

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So you got different groups of the team.

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Is sometimes just the people who prep the

meal and they will stay back and pray for

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us as we go out and some of those can go

with us and they sometimes they do and

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then you've got the team that engages and

then you've got a follow up team as well

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and those are usually our advocates either

at the safe house or rescue advocates

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that also help once the identification

is made for somebody that says I want

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out or I want a different way of living.

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And those case managers help them

either find housing, get them to

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rehab centers, get them to rehab

or detox programs, get them jobs.

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And so that's what we've been

doing for the last 10 years.

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We work with the government to

get them housing, to get them off

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the streets, if that's something.

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So it's a full wraparound

service that we provide because

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that's what Jesus would do.

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He would love them right where they are.

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And these are people who are never

going to dawn the door of our churches.

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They're the church.

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I don't, I think that's what we miss

as the church today is we think, Oh,

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let me have good programs in my church.

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Let me make, fun things at my church.

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So people will come to my church.

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Then we.

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When they come to our church, we

expect them to look like us, smell like

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us, dress like us, and talk like us.

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So they're not going to come

back if they've ever tried to

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come there, they feel condemned

or they feel they don't belong.

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And so Jesus never said built

four walls and a steeple.

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That's not what Jesus said.

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He said, love people.

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Right where they're at and we love them

where they're at and the way that they

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are with their smelly self sometimes and

their bad language and You know their

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lack of everything and that's what a lot

of the girls and women that end up coming

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with us They look at us and say we didn't

know anybody like you existed out there

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I was told nobody would ever love me the

way you've loved me and you know a lot of

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them One day we were rescued a girl with

them the Murfreesboro Police Department

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And she was 19, had a two year old.

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And she was coming off

heroin when we picked her up.

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And so she was, you could clearly

tell she had signs of withdrawals.

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And I said, what can we do?

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What snacks or drinks, high sugar,

whatever things are going to get you to

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help you with these edge that you have.

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And she was just rocking

in our car back and forth.

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And her child smelled so bad.

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Cause you could tell he hadn't

had a bath in a long time.

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And it was February and it was.

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And she was sleeting outside and

she was found under a a hotel

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stairway, trying to keep warm in the

corner of this concrete stairway.

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And when the police got there, who is

a friend of ours, who, you know, that

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we work with and she told him, she

said, Please don't make me go back.

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She said, just, I'd rather

you take me to jail.

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Because if I go back over to the

other side of that hotel, these

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are the things he's going to make

me do just to stay warm tonight.

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And I just can't do it anymore.

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I can't please help me.

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And so that's when the police called us.

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And again, she's in our car, we're

taking her to our urgent house

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and she's rocking back and forth.

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And I'm asking her, what

can I help her with?

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And she's Oh, I'm sorry.

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I'm sorry.

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I'm sorry.

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Cause she could tell, I could

see that she was agitated.

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I just said, Hey, you're not the

first girl who sat in our car like

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this and you won't be the last.

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And you don't have to be anybody for us.

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We really do want to help you.

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What can we do to help you with this?

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And she was rocking back and

forth and she said, Oh, okay.

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She said, but I'm sorry you

have to see me like this.

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And I'm sorry that I don't have

it all together or whatever.

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And she said, who the heck wants

to do what I had to do sober.

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She used some other explicatives

that I won't say, but that was a

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really big pivotal moment for me

realizing that a lot of us in the

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church looked at her as a drug addict.

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And in reality, when I found out

her story, she had never used drugs

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until she was in being trafficked.

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And then he gave it to

her to numb her pain.

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Now she did that so that

she didn't have to feel.

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So a lot of our girls once they get

into our programs when they start

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to feel when they start going to

trauma therapy and they have to start

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processing it, they run from us again

and they run back to those drugs because

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that's all they know of I don't want

to feel what I'm feeling right now.

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No way there's a God that Loves me

like that guilt and shame that Satan

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puts on people is so overwhelming.

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I'm too dirty, I'm too used that they

tell us and we're like, no, you're not.

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And so those are the

blessing moments that we get.

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And they're not pretty I think people

wanna paint their mission as pretty,

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there's nothing pretty about what we do.

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Other than the redemption that

Jesus brings out the other side,

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which is beautiful and amazing.

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And we can do that sometimes more

rarely than we can do all the things

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that Daniel described on the front

end, but it makes it worth it.

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And that's how God gave us

the name rescue one was.

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It's about that one that he puts

in front of us today because when

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you look at the stats and there's

millions and millions entrapped in

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slavery today as we sit here and talk.

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I can't save millions and you guys can't

save millions, but God said it's okay.

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It's about the one I'm going to put in

front of you and you serve that one.

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And now we've been doing ministry long

enough that when we were sitting at

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the Gover's Mansion, I shared this.

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We had a survivor that we rescued about

seven years ago, and she's now sitting as

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a peer mentor next to another survivor.

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She's out married.

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Life is good for her.

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And she was sitting beside

her and translating because

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she doesn't speak English.

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And I said, what a picture.

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A God's redemptive story in her life.

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And then what can be done when we shared

with the one and now that one is loving

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somebody else because she found Jesus.

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And that's what the gospel is about.

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Yeah.

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And the strategy of outreach does

allow for all those things that

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Lacey was talking about, but it's

not for rescue one to be the expert

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person to do all those things.

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It is to mobilize the church.

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And so even though we're

looking for the trafficked ones.

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And that's specifically

what we take care of, right?

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What do we do with the others?

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The church has to step up

and help take care of those.

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We can't rely on government programs

or organizations because all they're

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going to do is try to numb the symptoms.

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They won't actually

alleviate the problems.

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And that's what Christ does.

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And so you have to have those church

partners and people in the church who are

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passionate about fighting trafficking.

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And again, everybody thinks that if I

fight trafficking, then I'm going to

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have a gun and I'm going to go kick

in doors and I'm rescuing people.

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And that's not true.

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It's very rare.

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Very rare.

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I've never, I've actually done that

one time and it was a rare situation,

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but all the other times it is the

relationships that we've made and

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we actually discover we're actually

preventing more victimization by

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just meeting them where they're at.

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And so that's why you have to

have partnerships with multiple

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churches because every church.

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One local church can't

handle even the load.

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That's right.

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We can't handle the load

as an organization and one

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church can't handle the load.

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But yeah, just the ripples of outreach

create so many opportunities for

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ministry that one church can't contain

the weight of that, but also churches,

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each church has a different DNA and.

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people fit in other areas and

other churches, other communities.

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And so what we're, what we have learned

is we have a broken culture that

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doesn't understand a heavenly divine

loving culture, and you have to help

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them through the process, like Lacey

said, that bridge, and because of

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those traumas and those experiences,

the background they fit in different.

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I don't like to use the word

tribe, but that's what it's like.

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They fit in a different tribe.

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And so having different church partners

that go out the same, it's not different

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churches get to own the outreach.

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It's the church as one gets to own it.

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And as relationships are built.

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People begin to fit in those

other locations and the church

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does get to respond to meet the

needs of those, especially if

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those who are not trafficked.

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And the reason why we do that is

because trafficking is hidden with

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inside of all those populations.

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And so you have to serve the

other populations to find

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the needle in the haystack.

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That's so interesting and it sounds like

you've really set this up, biblically,

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because You've made the church

involved, the body of Christ involved.

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It's not just two people doing it.

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As you say it's mobilizing churches

and everybody can have a part in this.

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And it's really interesting and I

hope our listeners are listening with

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the intent of how could I be involved?

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How could I pray for this?

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How could I support this?

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How could I?

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Talk to my church leaders and

possibly have them involved.

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How could I, help with the

safe house something like that?

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I think this is such a really heavy

topic a heavy thing in our world

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and I think Talking to you today has

definitely brought that to light.

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The rest of this interview is

truly powerful, so I hope you'll

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be back next week to join us.

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In the meantime, please head

to rescue one global.org

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to find more practical steps that

you can do or how you can support

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the efforts that Daniel and Lacey

are already doing at Rescue One.

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Thanks for listening.

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We'll see you next week.

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Stephanie: We know you're busy, mama.

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So we are truly grateful you joined us for

this episode of again, if you're looking

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for more information about building your

home on the foundation of Jesus Christ,

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head to www.entrustedministries.com

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to learn more about our study for

moms entrusted with a child's Heart.

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This scripture saturated study

has blessed families around the

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world, and we want it for you too.

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Before you go, I want to pray this

benediction over you from Second

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Thessalonians one 11 through 12.

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We're rooting for you to this end.

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We always pray for you that our God

may make you worthy of his calling and

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may fulfill every resolve for good.

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And every work of faith by his power

so that the name of our Lord Jesus

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may be glorified in you and you

and Him according to the grace of

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our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Amen.

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Until we meet again.

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Stephanie has always delighted in God’s Word and in sharing it with others. Whether it is equipping mothers and leaders through Entrusted with a Child’s Heart, inspiring students when teaching at homeschool co-ops or children’s ministry, or homeschooling her own children, Stephanie’s life mission is to encourage others to follow faithfully and joyfully after Jesus—especially if they hold her favorite job title: mom.

Betsy Corning wrote Entrusted with a Child’s Heart in 1999 in response to the needs she saw in families as she and David counseled young parents just a few years behind them. Entrusted has been taught in hundreds of churches nationwide, been translated into several foreign languages, and has made its way around the world. More recently, Betsy received her Masters in Biblical Studies from The Master’s University and is developing a new Bible Study program called Get the Word Out. Her passion for God’s Word, discipleship, and teaching biblical principles as they apply to family life has remained strong to this day. One of the greatest blessings in Betsy’s life are her three grown children, their spouses, and ten grandchildren that keep her constantly in touch with every age and stage.

Jen Freckman Is an incredible wealth of wisdom. She will tell you a natural remedy for just about anything! She is also a voracious reader and she is just overflowing with quotes and guidance that she's encountered through reading and being faithful. She delights in her children and is a devoted mother. She is also an amazingly creative problem solver! Her solutions to manage her home and guide her children are inspiring.

Emily Deyo is such a treasure. She is an incredible encourager and servant-hearted woman. When she has the mic in front of her, so much value comes out! She is a wordsmith and her heart consistently beats for how she can encourage and serve others. She is a truly loving and attentive mother.

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