Speaker 2: 0:02

Welcome to the Saints that Serve, podcast where, each week, your hosts dive into the crossroads of faith, culture and the unknown.

Speaker 1: 0:14

Christ is Lord and the kingdom is now. We are the Saints that Serve, and welcome everybody to the Saints that Serve podcast. That is what the Saints that Serve podcast. That is what the Saints that Serve podcast. Wow, I'm your host, jairus, and with me is drinking water Johnny. Yeah, I caught him off guard there and thank you so much for listening to episode 18. 18.

Speaker 1: 1:02

When you whisper, it actually cuts it out because of the EQing. Really, yeah, so when you whisper, that's when, if you listen to it, there's a weird somebody's talking and then just kind of cuts hard. That usually cuts out for whispers. That's so weird, it really is. So if anybody heard that, congratulations, I figured it out. Is it specifically my whisper? It's any whisper. It cuts out a certain threshold in the audio. All right, I feel less judged now. No, it happens to everybody. Okay, good, I feel like it's a natural response because you don't want to always stay like we want. We want us people to whisper and to get loud. We, we don't really stay at that same. Come on, crowd, let's get loud.

Speaker 1: 1:44

Ah, but anyways, this is our. We're calling it Ministry Mission Month. Now right, mm, mm, or did we switch? Did I switch those two?

Speaker 2: 1:54

No, you got it. Ministry Missions Month yeah, Ministry Missions Month.

Speaker 1: 2:03

So welcome everybody to Ministry Missions Month, the month of guests, where we have a guest come in every episode. Yep, except this one, I'll get to that. Oh, okay, so we do have guests come in who have experienced the missions field, particularly people who have come through and done YWAM. Correct, is that a good way to put it? Yeah, yeah, so typically we would have a guest, and we do. We have a guest who's been to ywam. It's you, john, that's right, it's me. So on this one, how about that last week's episode? That last week's episode with sam and jennifer?

Speaker 1: 2:34

mint mint, you can't see me, but I'm doing like a perfect little I think that's a shirt right there just just the okay sign.

Speaker 2: 2:42

It's just a silhouette of you with the okay signs and then above it just says mint, just mint. But even better, it's just, I have mints in my hand you see, guys, and just so you guys know, on that note, we are looking into merch, we're trying, we are we?

Speaker 1: 3:00

me and john sat down quite recently and just really prayed and hammered out what we want for this upcoming year of 2025. Yeah, and what does that mean for the STS podcast, mm-hmm? I think we have figured it out and I'm seriously very, very excited, yeah, for what's to come this year. For sure, but one thing just peek behind the curtain, as as always is we are working on some merch. Yeah, so we got to find a good provider and just have somebody design stuff, but we're working on that merch. That's one of the big things we're trying to hit this year.

Speaker 2: 3:35

Heck yeah.

Speaker 1: 3:36

So, but of other one of many things. So yeah, but yeah, sam and Jennifer, that episode is pretty great and a little tease. We also filmed a bonus episode, well recorded. We audio filmed an episode, uh, and that is coming out friday. Heck yeah, and we have a little guest. We have a little guest. That's all you're getting right now, yep, and he's funny and tells jokes. That's what you're getting right now. Yep, and he's funny and tells jokes. That's what you're getting there you go Awesome.

Speaker 2: 4:06

Well, hey, Jers, how can people keep up to date with?

Speaker 1: 4:09

us. So if you want to keep up to date with us, we have a Facebook, that's right. We have a Twitter that's right. We have an Instagram. Heck yeah, we even have threads, yeah, though.

Speaker 2: 4:22

I've never seen it. Oh sorry, Fact check we have an X account, not a Twitter account.

Speaker 1: 4:28

Oh sorry, we have an X account. Heck yeah, and you can also reach out to us if you are so inclined. You can reach out to us via email.

Speaker 2: 4:40

Yep.

Speaker 1: 4:41

And you can reach out to us via the comment section. If you're on Spotify Like seriously, I know I'm going into detail on each one, but if it exists we are probably on it, and if you don't see that we're on it, email us at saintsthatserve at gmailcom to let us know where you want us to communicate with you at. Yeah, so with that, do we have any other announcements? If you need prayer for anything, Pray for you Friday.

Speaker 2: 5:12

Pray for you Friday. Every Friday, we're going to be praying for you.

Speaker 1: 5:16

I guess I jumped the gun a little bit on that bonus episode announcement. Should have saved that for the announcements section. There you go, but you know what I did it. I just want to shout out to Bryce. I saw that comment.

Speaker 2: 5:29

Thanks for commenting on last week's episode. And you know what, bryce, we're glad you love those guests, but equally importantly, maybe even more importantly, we love you, bryce.

Speaker 1: 5:39

Right, I thought you were going to say, more importantly, you need to love us.

Speaker 2: 5:42

Forget about the guests. Bryce, it's oh no, yeah, no, bryce, we love you and thank you for listening.

Speaker 1: 5:49

Thank, you so much for listening. Number one fan. Number one fan. Should we have a shirt with borat on it that says number one fan?

Speaker 2: 5:57

no, we just need to get in big trouble with bryce and just have a picture of bryce just bryce and it just just number one fan.

Speaker 1: 6:06

I love that. I can't wait till merch starts coming out so we can start bouncing ideas like that more yeah and this is, and merch is going to happen this year.

Speaker 2: 6:16

You guys, like we said, we're just trying to find the right fit for us as far as a manufacturer manufacturer, distributor for the merchandise.

Speaker 1: 6:25

So so if you have any merch ideas, holler at us, because realistically, I you know, I I feel like merch takes a while for a lot of companies to really hammer out and get it out. Yeah, I feel like that once we have an idea, we could probably have a merch related to it fairly quickly. Yeah, so, holler at us, and if that's what you want, let us know. Heck, yeah so, 100%, 100% so. But hey, I got this piece of paper here and it's got questions on it, so let's go ahead and hop into it right now. Let's hop in like a bunny bunny, that's right. So why don't you give us a quick introduction to who you are, even though, if people have been listening to this podcast, they know who you are? But just in case, because this is part two of ministry month, missions ministry month, so maybe somebody doesn't know, tell us who you are, but roll the D20. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding.

Speaker 2: 7:21

Okay, I'm kidding, no, okay. So for those who do not know me, my name is Johnny and I was a missionary for three to four years. I did like kind of it's technically not international or it's not international missions, because I was in the United States but I was in Hawaii, as they alluded to last week in last week's episode.

Speaker 1: 7:47

So if you haven't listened to that, pop on into episode 17.

Speaker 2: 7:52

Yeah, yeah, go back and listen to last week's episode where we talked with Jennifer and Sam and we kind of bring up a little bit about how I am in their story.

Speaker 1: 8:01

But I got a feeling that a lot of the people we're going to be talking to is in your story. No, I'm in their story, but I got a feeling that a lot of the people we're going to be talking to is in your story. No, I'm in their story. That's what I meant, but I said it wrong.

Speaker 2: 8:09

Yeah, you're good. Hey, that's just because I know them. Yeah, I guess I should have tried to get people that I didn't really know. I just knew about and seen if they could come on an interview, but I didn't. I just knew about and seen if they could come on an interview, but I didn't.

Speaker 1: 8:24

So hey, dude, like this month already is going great in my opinion, yeah, so like maybe next year's ministry mission month, but this year we're doing it and like, seriously, like I know we keep getting off topic. So sorry about that, tyler. So sorry about that, tyler, but listening and editing the podcast for Jennifer and Sam's episode really was like a nice treat to be listening to it again. Yeah, like it's just so nice hearing that story. Yeah, and I'm looking forward to this one, so let's get into it. All right, for the umpteenth time.

Speaker 2: 8:58

All right. So yeah, I did mission work, training and work in Hawaii for about a little over three years, and then I came back to Georgia where I did local ministry for about two years.

Speaker 2: 9:13

So when you say local ministry, so you were a part of that process. But we ran a youth group and we connected the youth, our youth ministry, with other local ministries. So it wasn't just like a hey, bring your kids here and we're going to have fun for an hour and a half and we'll we'll get some Bible in there. We we actively took them to like food banks, to pray with people. We took them to homeless ministries. We did do the fun stuff like capture the flag with nerf guns and video game nights, and we did the fun stuff to retreat. We would do retreats with the kids and focus on Bible topics rather than just like what's Jesus putting on your heart right now? You know, so we would do. The goal was to just. It was discipleship, but we wanted to disciple the students and get them to understand hey, this is your faith, this is not something that you just tag along with your parents, this is something you believe on your own. So we did that for about two years a year and a half to two years.

Speaker 1: 10:15

And a lot of that, how you ran. That I feel like you learned while in YWAM. Because, again, like you said, it wasn't just let's just bring the kids and have a place for them to hang out. We dove deep with them into the Bible.

Speaker 2: 10:31

Yeah. So yeah, the formal Bible stuff that we did that was my YWAM training and then the other kind of lighter stuff, but was still like ministry focused. I got that from local ministry training in Hawaii, but also here in Georgia from doing other things with youth programs, so I've had my feet in it for a little while. Right now we do the podcast and then I help out a little bit at our church, but I'm not like what you would consider ministry besides the podcast, and I think this will be a bit of a spoiler for every story being told during this month.

Speaker 2: 11:09

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 11:10

But I feel like everybody that we will speak with within this month who's gone to YWAM whether they are still in YWAM or not is still doing some sort of work for God.

Speaker 2: 11:24

Yeah, well, for the people that we're talking with, yes, there is that disclaimer. There are people that they go and they have the YWAM experience and then they go home and they I mean it's like the parable that Jesus gives with the sower and the seeds Some people get caught up in the world and the pressures of the world and they lose focus on what they learned. So you know, unfortunately that does happen, but it does not change just the radical experience and transformation that happens in a yom training course where people just get sold out for christ and and go to make known. So it's really cool. But yeah, so I did ministry for about five years a focus on five years and then we've just kind of been helping out with ministry on the side while we raise our kids. And now we started the podcast which will eventually evolve into more of the podcast, which will eventually evolve into more.

Speaker 2: 12:30

Yep, we have big plans and we'll do a. We'll do an official announcement on that later this year, probably at the end of ministry month. I think that'll be the perfect time to announce it. But we are looking to start a ministry under the saints that serve. So that'll be fun, but fun, but anyways. Yeah, so did that answer the question?

Speaker 1: 12:47

really answer, ask a question. I don't remember, I didn't. I just asked you to tell me about you. Oh, okay, well there you go.

Speaker 2: 12:52

That's me, uh. I like long walks on the beach. My favorite color is, uh, whatever my wife's wearing. That's pretty gross, yeah, okay go ahead.

Speaker 1: 13:06

So first question on this list that you handed to me and said hey, ask me these questions.

Speaker 1: 13:11

I wrote actually those are the questions from last week, and I think we'll just use them all month because I mean, they're really seriously all joking aside, they're really good questions, because last week, when we got into it with Jennifer and Sam there's 10 here we asked like three. Right, we asked like three or four, yeah, yeah. And so it's just because, with Jennifer and Sam, the Lord just led them in that episode and they just started telling their story and they got into it. So let's get into it. There we go. So how did you hear slash learn about YWAM?

Speaker 2: 13:46

So very similar. Well, exactly the same as Jennifer. One of my older sisters was the first of our family to do a YWAM course. So that's how we found out about it, through her researching and figuring out and going and doing it and having the YWAM experience. So she went and did her DTS in Orlando, florida, and then after that she went back and served and did like a summer program with them and kind of did like a staffing position for a season and then she came back home and just got back into life and went to school and all that stuff. Came back home and just got back into life and went to school and all that stuff. And then after her, well, okay, so as Jennifer said on the last episode, our parents were very big on once you graduate high school, go and have a year of service or ministry on your own to figure out what you believe, so that it's not just mommy and daddy's faith that you have, like you're figuring out your relationship with God. So you know, I have a multitude of siblings, as you know.

Speaker 1: 14:55

But some would say a lot, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 14:58

So I had two older siblings that actually did YWAM before me, the first sister who found it. And then I had a brother who went to Argentina and he did a bilingual discipleship training school in Argentina and I believe that their mission trip was to Chile. So he was in Argentina for three-ish months and then he went to Chile for like two and a half months, dude I go to Chili's all the time.

Speaker 1: 15:22

I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, but you're not there for two and a half months, Dude.

Speaker 2: 15:24

I go to Chili's all the time. I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, but you're not there for two and a half months.

Speaker 1: 15:25

Man, I stayed in that building for two months. Yeah, spread the word of the.

Speaker 2: 15:29

Lord. There were no more nachos but Christ was made known, so anyway. So they did that and I think God worked through that in their lives. And then it got around to me. I graduated high school. By the time that I was a senior in high school I was kind of done with the God thing. I was like I don't really want to, I just want to like. It's not that I didn't believe in God anymore. I always believed in, I've never doubted the existence of God. I've always believed in God. But you didn't want to, but I didn't want to participate in the pursuit of God anymore. It was I just want to live my life and do my thing. So I did all the stupid stuff with you know the substances. I never got too crazy, but substances and women chasing and traffic.

Speaker 1: 16:24

Violations.

Speaker 2: 16:25

Violations Some people call them hit and runs and traffic violations Some people call them hit and runs. I have one of those. Some people call it manslaughter.

Speaker 2: 16:33

No, I never did that. Don't you put words in my mouth, don't you put that on me, ricky Bobby. But I was very self-centered and it about getting having fun and living in the moment and getting satisfaction wherever I could get it. So very worldly. And I got out of high school. When I graduated high school, you know, my mom was kind of putting the pressure on to like, hey, you need to go do some sort of ministry thing and I was like I don't want it, I don't want, I don't want to, don't want to do that.

Speaker 2: 17:06

So I kept on putting it off and instead, you made internet videos with your buddy no, because we started doing that after I started wire room really yeah, yeah, because I went and did my DTS and I came home and that's when we started doing regal shenanigans when I came back the first time.

Speaker 1: 17:23

Man, my timeline's all kinds of scary yeah buddy.

Speaker 2: 17:27

So anyways. So I got out of high school, definitely living for myself. I was just working and spending my money, not even being good with it, and then I started dating this girl who lived in another state and got real serious with her, and then she broke up with me and I took it very poorly.

Speaker 1: 17:46

Insert any sad emo song here, yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 17:50

Any dashboard confessional song will do no but praise the Lord. It didn't work out because the woman that I'm married to now is the greatest woman in existence and my wife is truly a blessing from the Lord in my life every day. So you know all my past stuff like it was heartaches in the moment, but it was definitely working towards a better thing.

Speaker 1: 18:14

So I feel like that is just typical, right, when we, as humans say this is what I want, I want this, this is what I want in my life, and then when God takes that from you because that's not what's best for you, it just messes us up. Yeah, not realizing that this is better for you.

Speaker 2: 18:31

You know what I mean Like yeah, yeah, and so I got it. So I was fed up and I was like, okay, I'm going to do this stupid mission thing, but I'm going gonna go as far away as I can go without a visa and I'm not gonna come back. And I was like what's a good place to go? That's far away, that it's okay if I'm stuck there. And hawaii was hawaii, was what I drummed up.

Speaker 1: 18:59

I know this is a weird question, but is hawaii further away than, like, the furthest point in Alaska? I guess?

Speaker 2: 19:11

I don't know. I want to say that they would be very close to the same distance, but it would also be a very cold YWAM base. Well, the furthest point in Alaska probably doesn't even have like an actual settlement on it. You know what I mean. Like all the big cities are on the mainland portion of Alaska.

Speaker 1: 19:33

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 19:34

So that's most likely where the bases would be. I could be wrong. You know, I haven't really looked into it for a while now, but that's what I found. I found a base in Honolulu, hawaii, and so I applied there. They accepted me and I was like, well, okay, I guess I'm doing this.

Speaker 1: 19:53

So last week y'all talked about it is actually a pretty strenuous approval process, a good amount of paperwork that you have to fill out as an application.

Speaker 2: 20:06

You send that over and then there's a wait process where they pray over and decide if they're going to accept you or not. Okay, if you get accepted, then you know you pay your initial tuition fee and and you go out there and and then there's deadlines for you know, because they break up the fees Like, you have to pay this amount by this time and then this amount by this time.

Speaker 1: 20:31

So now are those payments having to come in while you're there or leading up to going.

Speaker 2: 20:36

While you're there, so you pay a deposit, but then the rest of it as you're there you pay. So, which is in my experience, it was crazy because I didn't have all the money when I went out there. The Lord blessed me with friends and family back home who decided, out of the kindness of their heart, to give, and there were some. That the money could not be traced. It just appeared and was put towards my school so that I could complete it, gotcha, and that happened with my DTS and my SBS.

Speaker 1: 21:11

So you, you know you apply and then are you expecting, like are you kind of hoping in the at this point that I hope they don't answer.

Speaker 2: 21:21

No Cause I did. I did truly want to leave, okay. So I was like man, I hope I get in. I don't know. It was less of like I hope I get into the program and more of a I hope I get away. Yeah, I hope I have the excuse of getting away. So, once again, my mindset and my heart was not in a good place, very self-centered. So it's like people are donating money for me to go to this school and my mindset and heart is like I just want to get out there and I'm not coming back. So it was like these people are investing in me and I'm not even looking at it that way. So it it truly was like wow, what a sinner, what a self-centered, narcissistic person. And as I go, and then, so now we get into, I went to to the program and we'll get into that.

Speaker 2: 22:08

But, that's how I heard about YWAM.

Speaker 1: 22:11

It was my family and I don't want to sound like I am drudging up and bring up bad things when I'm asking these questions, because I do want to prove the point of how great God works and how much God can change somebody.

Speaker 2: 22:27

Yeah, because people were hurt. I mean, people were hurt through my actions and I wasn't truly aware of that until God met me, or until I met God in Hawaii, and that's when God started breaking down all these barriers in my heart, started exposing things and started healing things, and then started the sanctification process of me repenting to people. So truly, truly an awesome experience, but we'll get into it. So go ahead, yeah.

Speaker 1: 23:03

So why did you go to the base you did for your DTS and I think you covered that already.

Speaker 2: 23:09

I covered that already, baby, because I was a narcissist, gotta get away. I guess that wouldn't be narcissism, it would be Isolationists, isolationism.

Speaker 1: 23:21

I don't want to just use any words because I feel like I've already been a little mean to you. Salation, I don't want to just use any words because I feel like I've already been a little mean to you and I want to reiterate I'm not trying to be mean, I just want God's glory to be shown. Praise the Lord. So you answered that one already. You went so you could get away. Selfish reasons, yep, yep. So what was the DTS lecture phase like and what is your biggest takeaway from that?

Speaker 2: 23:49

biggest takeaway from that. So my lecture phase, I was confronted every single week with what do you believe? And you know the topics were different in each area, but it was like in the lectures. It was like, you know, I grew up in the church, so I grew up with Christianese, right, I knew the right words to say and the right way to present myself. But as far as the heart issue went, I was very immature and God started exposing like hey, this is something, this faith is of the heart, it's not of the external actions. And so, you know, all my barriers were I mean all my everything. I thought, all of my preconceived ideas and my thoughts and my emotions were all being challenged every single week. And in between lectures, you know, I was being challenged with how do I act around people, how do I treat people, what's my motivation? And as far as it comes to loving and serving, am I really doing that for the glory of God or am I doing it for alternative reasons, you know? And so God really broke me down during the lecture phase and got me down to zero and was like this is who you are. Without me, you're nothing. Truly, you've built up these lies about who you are and who you think you are and who you want to pretend that you are, but it's not true. The reality is you are dead without me, and that's where God got me.

Speaker 2: 25:17

And so, towards the intellectual phase, there was an opportunity to get baptized. And so I was like, okay, I get me in that water. Yeah, I was baptized, you know, when I was 13, and I thought, you know, my mindset was if I get baptized, I won't sin anymore. You know that? That's what baptism is. It makes me, it makes me holy. It was not in my mind that baptism is a declaration of my faith to fellow believers. It was very self-centered. And so, after I got baptized as a kid and I kept on sinning, I was like, what was the point of that? I just, you know, I took a weird bath. Yeah, exactly, and so.

Speaker 2: 25:58

But you know, going through the lecture phase, it hit me and I realized like, okay, my profession of faith is something that I step out in every single day. I believe in Christ, I repent of my sins and I receive the grace that's only found in Christ. Baptism is something that I do to declare to other people that faith, and there can be debate on that because there are other denominations. I know Catholics. They have a different opinion on baptism and all these things, but when I was doing everything I realized, okay, baptism for me is declaring to these people I believe this and I'm committing and devoting my life to it.

Speaker 2: 26:42

So so yeah, I got baptized. And I think that was my biggest takeaway from lecture phase was I am nothing without Christ. I I built up my own kingdom and then Christ demolished it and exposed the fact that I was walking in death and I was dead and there was no life without him. And so I embraced Christ and decided to walk in life with him. So that was the biggest takeaway for me, for lecture phase was what life is.

Speaker 1: 27:16

Dope, dope, dope and Hagen, dope and Hagen. So what was DTS outreach like and what was your biggest takeaway? So, instead of like last week, because they're very similar questions yeah, instead of the lecture phase, the outreach. And if you want to give a quick summary of what the lecture phase is versus the outreach, just real quick.

Speaker 2: 27:38

Sure, so the lecture phase to curriculum. Well, for the DTS it's not like a heavy curriculum. There's things like you journal, like they've got Bible reading that you need to do. It's normally about like three-ish months and so maybe a little over three. I want to say there was like 12 weeks, that would be four. No, that would be four months, that would be three. 12 weeks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, three months, because there's four weeks in a month.

Speaker 2: 28:07

Do you need a calculator? I need Jesus. So you've got Bible reading, you've got quiet times that you do. There will be like questionnaires for each lecture phase that you need, a little like tests that you take, and there's some extra reading like other books outside of the Bible that you have to read. So it is curriculum and there is like actual work you have to put into. That would be considered academic.

Speaker 2: 28:36

But lecture phase, the focus of it is they go through different topics each week that target who you are in Christ and it really focuses on your relationship with Christ. And then it turns around and asks okay, so how can you apply that to making disciples? This is who you are in Christ. You are getting to know God. Now how can you make God known? Those are the first two points, for YWAM is know God, make God known. So that's the focus of Lecture Phase. Outreach is application To what you learned in Lecture Phase. What you learned of Lecture Phase Outreach is application To what you learn in Lecture Phase. What you learn in Lecture Phase, you are applying it in a long-term mission environment. We're not just going for a week or two weeks to do ministry, we're gone for eight to ten weeks and we're living among the people that we're discipling and we're helping local contacts and things. So it's very much so apply what you learned during your lecture phase. So that's the difference.

Speaker 2: 29:44

So what was outreach phase like for me and what was my biggest takeaway? I went to Nepal for my outreach and the Lord blessed me because he knew, he knew what I needed. So as a young man, I had a problem with women. Not that I had a problem with women, but I'm just saying I was. I was bad. You didn't abuse women. I did not abuse women, but I would get distracted by wanting to have relations and, you know, flirt and all that other stuff. So I got put on a team with two married couples. There were three girls on the team. There were three girls on the team and then there was six other guys, but all the guys, like we were all like tight, like we were all.

Speaker 2: 30:41

Really we ended up getting really close to the point to where it was like we were going and doing our, like we were in our own world. You know what I mean? Like we would. We'd be spending long times praying together, worshiping together. We even like we would do, we would exercise together when we were in nepal. We play a card game where you flip the card over and whatever suit it was was the style of push-up you did, and then whatever it was was how many you would do. So that was our exercise. We got to the point where we were doing an entire deck of cards per person, but it worked out.

Speaker 2: 31:15

If there was a lot of girls on my team, if there was variety in these things, I would have been distracted and God knew that. So God really helped me focus in my fledgling Christianity. But outreach we would go out and just help the local contacts. So one week we did a kids program for a conference that was going on. For a couple of weeks we were far West and did I say where we're at? You said Nepal. Yeah.

Speaker 1: 31:42

Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2: 31:43

So we were in Nepal, so we went to the far West of Nepal and we just we would do open air programs. We'd go to local villages and we would pray for the people there, evangelize and share the gospel with them. We had one trip where we took a bus to the next, or maybe it was like two valleys over. It was a little bit of a drive, but the valley didn't have any medical or electricity or anything like that. It was totally isolated.

Speaker 2: 32:09

So we went with a group of doctors on a medical mission to this valley and we were there to just pray for people. So we did a little bit of like our open air program where we'd share the gospel and put on a show, like put on a little show with some dancing and a song and stuff. But mostly we were just there as people were waiting to see the doctors or right after they would sell the doctors, we would pray for them, and so we did that for two days. But dude, like that was, a lot of people came to see the doctors, like maybe a hundred or a little over a hundred people.

Speaker 1: 32:49

Was this a free? I'm assuming it was free. It was free, Not Medicare? Medical'm assuming it was free. It was free Not.

Speaker 2: 32:54

Medicare uh, medical, yeah, it was free. But a large portion of people came and saw the doctors, got medication or got medicine. We prayed for them and they came back the next day and they gave all the medicine back to the doctors because they ended up getting healed from the prayer and so they didn't need the medicine anymore. And there were a couple of people that they showed up getting healed from the prayer and so they didn't need the medicine anymore. And there were a couple of people that they showed up and they got healed and left because they didn't you know their problems they didn't even need to see the doctor because of the prayer.

Speaker 2: 33:25

You know, one that was very like crazy was this guy couldn't hear out of his ear. It was not that he was like born that way. Something happened and it closed up his ear and he could not hear out of his ear. It was not that he was like born that way. Something happened and it closed up his ear and he could not hear out of it. And so one of my friends from our team was praying with him. Our leader jumped over there and helped pray with him and then the guy started shouting. He was like I can hear, I can hear, and it was crazy and he could hear out of his ear again and there was nothing done, it was just the declaration of Christ's name over this guy's life. It was like your ear will be healed in the name of Jesus Christ, so he could hear people's pain from their bodies, left just by people declaring the name of Jesus.

Speaker 1: 34:10

Are these people coming in speaking some English, no English, and you have translators no English, and we had some translators helping us. So to me, that's even a better, even greater testament of like you know, yeah, there's some communication. They don't know what you're saying, though, when you're praying for them, exactly, yeah.

Speaker 2: 34:27

These people are totally isolated and cut off. They don't know English. Most of most of them probably never seen a white person before. So it's you know, it definitely was a crazy experience for them and for us.

Speaker 1: 34:41

So if you're praying for them in English and they don't know exactly what you're praying for and they still get healed you know what I mean. That is incredible, cause they're. It's not like they can fake it, they're like oh yeah, you healed my ear or whatever. You know what I mean.

Speaker 2: 34:54

They can't time it. They can't be like, oh, he just said healed, now, okay, now I'm supposed to act like I'm healed. Yeah, no, it's real. When it happens, it happened and there's no motivation. It's not like they're doing it for a video. It's not like they're doing it for social network likes it was these people work hard and they've got nothing and anything to help helps, right? So, yeah, them getting healing was looked at like thank you, you care enough to help us get a little better.

Speaker 2: 35:32

And this is the East. So, like miracles, it's not like a um, like spiritual miracle happening is not a taboo thing. They're very spiritual in the East, or especially in Nepal. It's the birthplace of Buddhism, it's the birthplace of Buddhism, so spirituality is a very big deal to them, and spiritual, miraculous wonders it's a part of their culture.

Speaker 2: 36:00

But personal, relational God coming into their life and having an interest in their personal hurts and needs and healing them because he loves them that's new, that's different. And so you know that was the big home run, if you will, for us was coming into these people's lives and saying, hey, you believe in all these gods. We're here to tell you there's one God and he's real and he's present and he loves you and he wants to have a relationship with you and he wants to heal you of your sins yes, your physical ailments, but your sins so that you can be alive. And so when you bring that good news of, hey, you're in the darkness, but there's someone here to shine the light in your life so you can live in the light, they'll jump on it. And so there was a lot of people that came to know Christ in that time just because they have nothing and they know what the darkness is because they've lived in it their whole life. And so now you bring something new that's encouraging and that has to do 100% with love. They were very receptive while we were there.

Speaker 2: 37:09

So, yeah, my biggest takeaway was that is, that these people had nothing and so the light of Christ coming into their life, they received that and they were filled with excitement and joy because they had Christ. Now my biggest takeaway was I saw God move so much in the, I think, eight to 10 weeks that we were in Nepal. I was like I've got to do this. I can't just sit on my hands as a Christian and not make God known to people. I see him move. He is an active, living God who moves among his people. So I'm not going to sit on the sidelines. I've got to do this for real. So that was my biggest takeaway was no matter what I'm doing in life, I need to make sure that I'm bringing Christ into it and that God is being made known, and so that's.

Speaker 2: 38:00

I've taken that throughout my whole life, every job that I've worked at since we came back to Georgia, every relationship that I've cultivated. You know I try to be a very loving and discipling person where I'm just pushing you closer to Christ. I don't care about your hardships or your past. I care about you growing with the Lord, because that's what's important. So, yeah, that's that.

Speaker 1: 38:26

Wow on this time. Oh sorry, thank you. So this isn't on the paper, but the few things that came into my mind. I want to kind of ask. Okay, so between you know, we talked about the lecture phase and the outreach. For you personally, which one was harder?

Speaker 2: 38:49

I think the lecture phase was harder because my identity was being challenged. So not only was I dealing with the you know, like where's the money going to come from for me to do this stuff? I was also dealing with that Like who really am I, who is this John guy? And what am I going to do with my life? Going to do with my life? Because up until this point I did not care what I did with my life, I had no concerns because all I wanted to do was hang out and have fun. And now I was being confronted with the reality of eternity and that life in Christ calls us to action, to move and do, Calls us to action, to move and do. So, yeah, I would say that. I mean, we're in Hawaii. It's beautiful, you know, even though our schedules were pretty packed, there was still some freedom to go and go to the beaches and hang out in downtown Honolulu, and Elvis was there. Elvis was there. Elvis was there, yeah, no, but so there was still. Satan still had distractions that he tried to put into my life. So I had to battle with the distractions and I had to figure out who I was and all of it.

Speaker 2: 40:09

Outreach was easy because I was in a tight space with a bunch of people which I was used to growing up with, a big family meeting. I don't have like homesickness or what's it called Homesickness yeah, homesickness. I'm not tied down to any one place and so moving about from place to place is not hard for me. So us traveling around not a big deal. I'm not a picky eater. So us traveling around not a big deal. I'm not a picky eater. So trying different foods not a big deal. Eating the same food every single day not a big deal.

Speaker 2: 40:43

And God was working on my heart to be sincere and genuine about my walking with people and shining the light of Christ in their lives. One of the biggest things that I loved when we were in outreach was I memorized half of the book of Proverbs. So I would sit on, you know, any of our long walks or, like one of you know, a six mile hike that we would have to take to a village, or a two hour car drive somewhere. I would just be sitting there with my Bible and I would just, you know, recite everything I had remembered up to that point, and then I'd work on the next verse until I had it memorized and I'd recite everything again and then I get the next verse and so, yeah, it was. It was really cool, but yeah, lecture phase was harder for me.

Speaker 1: 41:28

Another question. So last week Sam talked about a little bit how they had to preach the word of God in a city a little more low-key about it because of the legal reasons. Yeah, Did they have anything like that in Nepal?

Speaker 2: 41:44

Not while we were there. So while we were there, there was actually no president at the time. Okay, was actually no president at the time. Okay, they were trying to do more. They were trying to be more of a democracy kind of deal freedom from religion, government style but there was like two major parties and basically they were filibustering each other and kept on putting off presidential elections, so they didn't have an actual leader of their country at the time while we were there. But in that time there was that religious freedom Religious freedom because the country was not controlled by a Hindu government and so we had the ability to move about and openly share the gospel and we didn't have to worry about our local contacts facing any kind of repercussions. So it's not always that way in Nepal. There is ups and downs and there are isolated areas where there are radical Hindus who will kill Christians for sharing the gospel.

Speaker 1: 42:47

Did you ever feel like you were in danger of that Somebody attacking you, anything like that?

Speaker 2: 42:51

No, and, to be honest, normally white people don't have to worry about anything in Nepal, because Nepal doesn't really have an economy. They solely rely on tourism. So you being there, so just being there the only thing people wanted from us was money. They didn't care about what we were doing or anything like that, they just wanted to get money out of us somehow. So when we bring the gospel into it, then it kind of like catches them off guard and they get so but yeah, yeah, we didn't really have to worry about any of that stuff.

Speaker 1: 43:26

Cool, while we were there cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. So did you go back for a secondary school?

Speaker 2: 43:36

Yes, I did Wow. So I, after our lecture phase or towards the end of our outreach, my very dear brother in Christ, jesse. We were on outreach together. Him and I were sitting on this like little hill at night I can't remember where I was at, but we were sitting and we were just, you know, watching the stars and stuff. When we're talking we're like, what are we going to do after this?

Speaker 2: 44:07

You know, our outreach is coming to an end and I was like, jesse, I think that you're supposed to do an SBS, which is a school of biblical studies, which the Honolulu based did they had they hosted that. And he was like maybe, and so he was praying about it. It wasn't in my mind. I was like, dude, studying the Bible, I'm not a reader, I'm not good at reading, so I'm probably not going to do that. I'm not a reader, I'm not good at reading, so I'm probably not going to do that.

Speaker 2: 44:39

But you know, I kind of felt like the Lord was like putting that on my heart to put on his heart, like, hey, I think your next step is doing this year of getting into God's word with no distractions. And so you know, he started praying about that. So he started praying about that and we came back from lecture phase and had a great time seeing everybody and catching up on everyone's different outreaches, because we had four outreach teams from my school. So everyone came together and talked about our experiences and we hung out for a couple days and got to hang out with the next school that was after us. They were in their current lecture phase, so we got to meet them and hang out with all of them and stuff.

Speaker 2: 45:17

And then I went home and then the Lord started putting on my heart to go back and do the SBS, the School of Biblical Studies, and I was like I don't think so, but I ended up submitting to the Lord and went and did it. So, yeah, I did a. It was called the CSPS, the Chronological School of Biblical Studies, where you go through the whole Bible in one year, but you do it chronologically, so they base it off of when the book was written and you read through the Bible that way and you go verse by verse and you just go get into the, the text, and you're trying to see what it says and you're trying to pull the context by using. How would the original reader of this book interpret this?

Speaker 1: 46:04

And because biblically speaking context is incredibly important.

Speaker 2: 46:09

It is in the sense that if you have the context, you can get into the mindset of the original reader and what the essence of the book is trying to display, so that we can draw the timeless truth, because there is application for the people who the book was written to, but there's also application for us today. But we can't read it like it's being written to us because it's not. It's written for us but it's not being written to us. So so often we do in our society we read a verse of the Bible and we read it like it was written to us, and so people take things out of context and then we start getting into weird ideologies that aren't scriptural. So it is very important to have context, and that's kind of what this Bible school focuses on is teaching you how to draw context from the word so you can make those timeless applications.

Speaker 1: 47:06

Hmm, so how has your YWAM experience affected your life today. How has your YWAM experience affected your life today?

Speaker 2: 47:12

I kind of touched on it earlier, but it has affected me in that if it does not involve Christ like if I can't make it about Jesus, then I probably don't need to have it in my life, because everything is Christ. Right Paul says that to live is Christ and to die is gain, and what he's saying is that while I'm here on earth with sinners, in this fallen and broken world, I'm going to make my living days about making Jesus known to people. And if I die, it doesn't. If my fleshly body dies, it only brings me into the presence of God, because we are eternal beings and our spirits live on. And we are anticipating the final day when Christ comes back in his physical body, because he's in his physical body in heaven right now, at the right hand of the father, and he will come back down to earth and he will do the final day of judgment and we will have regenerated physical bodies.

Speaker 2: 48:23

That's what I believe. But right now our bodies are corrupted by sin. Our physical bodies are corrupted by sin because we were born into sin and it's by God's grace that we can be saved. So to die is gained, because our eternal spirits move into the presence of God and we're no longer tattered by our broken, sinful body, fleshly bodies. So that's what the heart of what Paul's getting at, and so that's the posture that I try to have and that's kind of the big takeaway is that my YOM experience helped me realize that if I believe this, I need to live it Right and I don't just need to leave it, live it on Sunday. I don't just need to live it on a Wednesday night. I need to live for on a Wednesday night, I need to live for Christ every single day. Amen.

Speaker 1: 49:19

So yeah, that's yeah. So we're going to kind of wind it down here, but I kind of wished this question was asked last week.

Speaker 2: 49:29

It's not your fault that Sam and Jennifer are just really good at talking and using big words.

Speaker 1: 49:34

They make geez. I can't even say the sentence correctly. They make us look stupid, yeah.

Speaker 2: 49:40

Also for those who didn't. Okay, so you guys don't know this, but the power went out on us. Literally what five minutes into the recording.

Speaker 1: 49:48

We were about 15 minutes into the recording. Last week the power went out on us For an hour. It was long, it was like two hours, yeah. So we had them only because Sam and Jennifer lived out of state. We only had them for a set amount of time and right in the middle of we're in the flow of it, we're recording and jennifer's giving her answer and then just darkness, black, the studio goes black, everything shuts off and we're like, waiting for it.

Speaker 2: 50:17

We're just waiting for it to come back on, like it's just a bleep and it doesn't come back on. So yeah, so the power went out for a couple hours and we got them back in here and we, we like, answered one question and then the pizza came.

Speaker 1: 50:30

Yeah, so we had ordered food. Answered one question pizza showed up, so and we paused it again. Paused it again. We got pizza. Also. Praise God that that 15 minutes we did not lose yeah, it saved the board, thank the Lord.

Speaker 2: 50:44

So, anyways, yeah, so a lot of heartache and struggle with last week's episode, but God preserved what needed to be heard.

Speaker 1: 50:51

And I talked to you on the phone about this yesterday. Yeah, I'm like this is not me bragging, but boy, oh boy, can you not tell that nothing happened in that episode?

Speaker 2: 51:00

Yeah, it was smooth. No recording process.

Speaker 1: 51:02

It was smooth for sure. I'm just so happy it came out and there is so much substance in that episode and I'm so happy with it.

Speaker 2: 51:09

Heck yeah.

Speaker 1: 51:09

All right. So what's the question you wish was asked last week. So if you had an opportunity to encourage a young person to do a DTS school, how would you go about it and relay that information?

Speaker 2: 51:21

So I've actually done this a couple of times and my big thing is like what do you got to lose? I've actually done this a couple of times and my big thing is like what do you got to lose? You've just done 12 years of school and it's not going to set you back very much to take a half a year to a year break and go learn about missions and figure out who you are in Christ, because the discipleship training school it's not heavy, heavy, heavy educational stuff, seminary stuff. It is focused on breaking down your preconceptions or your mommy and daddy's religion and focusing on who are you in Christ? Who is Christ to you? Do you know God? So it is a really good, really good program. I believe.

Speaker 2: 52:11

Like we said last week, there are a good amount of bases that may not have necessarily the best culture or community, but that doesn't mean YWAM as a whole is bad.

Speaker 2: 52:23

There's a lot of good that comes out of YWAM and it's just learning what base to go to and what will fit for who you are and, most importantly, just listening to God. Let God lead you where you need to go. But yeah, I normally just bring that up like, hey, you just finished high school. It might be in your interest to take a break from school for a little bit and learn about your faith and figure out what does God want you to do, because you know you think you want to go to school, or you're being pressured to go to college and get a degree and this, that or the other. You're going to go into a ton of debt and then, statistically speaking, there's a good chance you're not going to even go into the field that you have a degree in. So you're going to spend the next two to 10 years of your life getting a college degree and then not even use it.

Speaker 1: 53:13

So is there like a statistic out there for that Like, oh, this percentage of people go to college for a degree and it ends up not being used?

Speaker 2: 53:20

There is. I just don't know it off the top of my head, but it's surprising like how many people have a college degree but then their profession has nothing to do with their degree. So but that's my point is that you know, college is for my generation, it was forced on us like in order for you to do anything in life, if you want to be able to live, you've got to have a degree in college to be able to survive.

Speaker 1: 53:46

And now you know, how many college degrees do you have?

Speaker 2: 53:50

I have zero college degrees.

Speaker 1: 53:52

And you know how many I have, how many Zero, yeah, so look at us, we're doing a podcast. We're doing a podcast, yeah.

Speaker 2: 53:59

But that's my point is there's a ton of people now who are like well, I did college and it didn't do anything for me. Now, like, well, I did college and it didn't do anything for me. Now I've got a bunch of debt. What do I do? And it's just because they went into college with no direction and so they just got a degree, because they were just told you have to have a degree.

Speaker 1: 54:16

So go do something. Go do something and it's very much like go go, go, go, go.

Speaker 2: 54:20

They've got a degree.

Speaker 2: 54:21

So they've got a two-year degree in communications or they've got a four-year degree in communications or they've got a four-year degree in political science or whatever, and they're not even going into politics. But it's like it's stuff like that where it's like they just get a degree to have a degree and then they end up never using it. So I tried to get in with that and like, listen, it's okay to not know what you want to do, and maybe this is a good time to really figure out who you are in Christ and learn how to be in a deep personal relationship with God and allow that to blossom and grow so that you can get direction from the Lord and allow him to lead you in what he wants you to do with your life. So that's what I try and push for. Young people is like, hey, you've got your whole life ahead of you. If you really want to go to college, it will be there when you get back, but maybe take some time to focus on you and God first, and here's a great avenue to do that.

Speaker 1: 55:12

So yeah, that's how I do it. So, as this episode is winding down, first off, thank you so much for coming onto the show. It's my pleasure, but is there any questions on here that we kind of skipped over, glossed over anything like that you want to speak on before we get into these bonus questions? We don't have to do the bonus questions, but I want to know, what you do for fun.

Speaker 2: 55:37

Well, I actually do this great podcast startup. It's been going on for about six months and I'd like to say that we're doing well.

Speaker 1: 55:44

So what you're saying is that you should have these people go listen to this podcast.

Speaker 2: 55:48

Yeah, so you can actually go to it. It's on every platform, so if you want to go, listen to my podcast.

Speaker 1: 55:54

Uh-huh, it's called the.

Speaker 2: 55:56

Saints that Serve.

Speaker 1: 55:57

Sucks.

Speaker 2: 55:58

Podcast. No, it's called Saints that Serve Too. Yeah, the Saints who Serve. Saints who Serve yeah, the saints who serve. Saints who serve yeah, no, but anything else to add with YWAM, I will say, after I did my SBS school, I did go back and teach, so I was one of the staff members when Sam went and did his SBS school Also really a game changer for me, because that pushed me into another area I was not comfortable with, which was preaching and teaching and standing up before people and revealing God's word, or being a tool that God would use to relay his word.

Speaker 2: 56:42

And then, yeah, just helping people understand the inductive Bible study method, like teaching people how to study the Bible. And you took that how you learned teaching and brought that back to young students. Yeah, to student ministry. So when we were doing student ministry, I tried to make sure that all of our lessons we were in God's word every single week. So most of the time we were going through a book of the Bible, so we were doing expository teaching, but every now and then we would do like a topical teaching, but it would be like each week it would be okay, flip to this passage, we're going to read about this person, and so it would be like each week it would be okay flip to this passage we're going to read about this person, and so it would be like an entire chapter or two chapters about this individual and it applied to the topic that we were going through this way and stuff. So, yeah, so I really I tried to make it all about God's word while we were doing student ministry.

Speaker 1: 57:43

Which it should be. Yeah, yeah, it should always be about God's word.

Speaker 2: 57:47

If we're gathering together as Christians, as believers in Christ, we should be opening God's word. I agree with that. We should be praising his name, we should be praying and building one another up in the faith, and we should be getting to know who God is.

Speaker 1: 57:58

So yeah, that is why, when you come over to Johnny's house for dinner, you got to bring your Bible, because we're gathering and we're eating and we're reading. That's right.

Speaker 2: 58:09

That's right.

Speaker 1: 58:11

One of my favorite. So I grew up in a Baptist church. One of the funniest things to me was the phrase if we meet, we eat. So it was always, like always, had always wanted an excuse to cook up a huge meal. Yep, for one reason or another. Yeah, I'm all about it. That is that.

Speaker 2: 58:32

Southern living, right there, southern living. God's word is good food, and good food goes with.

Speaker 1: 58:38

God's word, so you don't want to do any of these bonus questions. No, you can. We got time, we got time, we got plenty of time. Just make it fast, okay. So I'm going to ask this one and this one, solely only this one. If you could watch only one movie for the rest of your life, what movie would it be See? It's funny because we know that already.

Speaker 2: 59:00

Yeah, I'm a huge Lord of the Rings fan. I love Lord of the Rings. I love Peter Jackson's adaptation big on it. But when it comes to movies, the mummy with brendan frazier is my number one go-to movie. I love watching that movie not the third one.

Speaker 1: 59:23

The first, not the third one.

Speaker 2: 59:24

Terrible movie, but there is a good line from that. The third one yeah, what's the line? He's talking to his son and he says you need to stay here when it comes to mummy expertise. That's who we are. And he's like you've killed one mummy dad and he's like say mummy Weiss.

Speaker 1: 59:48

But I kind of wish. I feel like it's impossible, because they tried to do the Tom Cruise, mummy, yeah, and it's like I think that that was leading on the heels of the whole MCU thing. So they were trying to start a whole dark universe thing.

Speaker 2: 1:00:02

Yeah, it was very obvious that's what they were doing.

Speaker 1: 1:00:05

Yeah, it was more about all these other characters there and not the mummy, almost, yeah. So and then, like I think that movie ended with tom cruise being the mummy which was weird, the spirit of the dead god, yeah, was resurrected into him that movie was.

Speaker 1: 1:00:27

They tried things. Yeah, I always look, I'm gonna get into this real quick. I like a good movie universe, like I love the mcu yeah, sorry, let me phrase that I love the mcu up to spider-man no way home. Okay, um, those movies have not been good, they really haven't but I love a good movie universe, a lot of movies. I love it so much. So I got really excited to hear that they're making a dark universe which is like the universal monsters. Yeah, yeah, I got really excited about that and was instantly let down, yeah.

Speaker 2: 1:01:03

So I agree. But yeah, no, my go-to would be mummy and I. If anyone who's in the decision making producer groups, types of people listening to this podcast, I think that you could get away with doing the mummy for with Brendan Frazier and making it about South American mummies. I think you could pull it off. I think people would watch.

Speaker 1: 1:01:31

I think what they need to do is bring back Imhotep.

Speaker 2: 1:01:34

No, they can't. They sealed the deal when he fell into the underworld at the end of the second one, didn't he fall into the underworld? In the first one, though, no his spirit was taken out of, out of his. Oh no, no, no, he died because they stabbed him to death, so they killed the mummy. The confusing thing about the second one is that how did all of his body parts get back into the canonic jars? Because it's not like they mummified him again, but when?

Speaker 1: 1:02:11

but wasn't he kind of mummified in that in this, in the second one, he's mummified no, but didn't they find his body in that weird crystal at the beginning of the second one?

Speaker 2: 1:02:20

yeah, but that's what I'm saying is, it's mummified in the crystal and this is only like a year or two. Well, no, it would be, I guess, 10, because the boy's 10. Yeah, the son. So maybe it makes sense. But my point is in the second one his entire body falls into the underworld. Okay, in the first one he just dies again.

Speaker 1: 1:02:46

You're telling me that they couldn't come up with a plot to why he's back in a third movie.

Speaker 2: 1:02:50

I don't know. I guess they could, they could. You're right they could.

Speaker 2: 1:02:54

They could kill the same mummy three times and then make that joke the only mummy he can kill is but it is important that his story arc heavily relies on the reunification with Anak Sunamun, and at the end of the second one, he finds out that their love is not timeless. Because she's willing to sacrifice him for self-preservation, because she won't come and rescue him, she runs away, and that's why he falls into the underworld, because he's like, oh, I give up. Yeah, she doesn't love me like this rick and yeah, rick and uh, why can't?

Speaker 1: 1:03:36

it's your favorite movie of all time.

Speaker 2: 1:03:37

I can never remember the lady's name. I know she's a librarian yeah, she sure is a librarian anyways, yeah. So I I don't think that they could reprise that, unless it was some like weird. Uh, out of spite, I want to make sure that you guys can't last like I can't. I want to make sure your relationship doesn't last because mine ended up not working out.

Speaker 1: 1:04:07

Is that actor still even alive?

Speaker 2: 1:04:09

Yeah, yeah, I think all of them are still alive.

Speaker 1: 1:04:14

Really we need a Jonathan movie, yeah.

Speaker 2: 1:04:16

Well, that's why I bring up South America, because at the end of the third one yeah, he talks about Going to South America where they haven't found any mummies.

Speaker 1: 1:04:23

And then it's like and then they found mummies, and then found any mummies, and then it's like and then they found them, then they found money. That was like the funniest at the end of that movie. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, we're, I think we're. We're going on a little long on the mummy, so hey again, thank you so much for joining us on this as a guest on this episode and not a host, yeah I.

Speaker 2: 1:04:40

It's good to step out of the co-host role and just participate. You know what I mean. Yeah, wear a different hat for for once, and you never wear hats yeah that's not true your son stole your hat earlier?

Speaker 1: 1:04:55

yeah, he did, because you want to tell that story real quick, uh, with your middle child when I came in. Oh yeah, that was funny and we'll end on that All right.

Speaker 2: 1:05:06

So Jairus comes in to eat dinner before we come down here to record, and in our house normally we're like don't wear your shoes past this point, just to help keep it less dirty, whatever. But Jairus comes in, it's freezing outside so he keeps his shoes on because his feet are cold. He's got his hat on, he's got his jacket on and he's walking in to eat. And my middle child, who we will call Middlefoot no, because he likes T-Rex Ranch, so we'll call him Park Ranger, park Ranger. So Park Ranger sees Jairus walking with his shoes and his jacket on and his hat on, and so he leaves and disappears for a minute and we're like we're trying to eat. So I'm like, hey, where are you, park ranger, park ranger, where are you? And I see him by the front door. He's got his shoes on and he's working to get his jacket on. I'm like, hey, we're not going outside. And he's like, no, jairus. I was like, no, jairus is in here. He's going to eat with us. He's not going outside, he's like no.

Speaker 2: 1:06:13

Jairus. And then he says something else and I'm like what? And then I realized I look over and I see you've got your shoes on and you've got a jacket. I was like oh, jairus just didn't take his shoes off, he's not going back outside. And Park Ranger was like so what? And then you take your shoes off and he's like oh, okay, and then he takes his shoes off.

Speaker 1: 1:06:35

He also is wearing one of your hats, because I'm wearing a beanie.

Speaker 2: 1:06:40

Yeah, so you were wearing a beanie and at this point he didn't have the hat on yet. But we all come in to sit down. He eats for like a second and then he leaves, finds a hat, comes back and is in there hanging out. It took him that time from like leaving the doorway to come and eat. He ate for maybe five minutes and then he looks you up and he realizes, oh, he's got a hat on too. So then he leaves and goes and gets a hat and comes back. So Park Ranger is a very, very funny child. All my boys are funny.

Speaker 1: 1:07:11

Park Ranger. They all have their great qualities for different reasons. There we go.

Speaker 2: 1:07:16

Yep, and we love them all.

Speaker 1: 1:07:18

You know, bigfoot, he's funny, bigfoot's funny.

Speaker 2: 1:07:22

He gets the quips here and there. Park Ranger like just his.

Speaker 1: 1:07:27

He's ready to go, he's ready, he's ready to go. He will fight you, he'll do whatever he's ready.

Speaker 2: 1:07:34

Yep, yep, and then the baby is just along for the ride. We need a nickname for baby. Yeah, we'll be a little more creative with that one, and not baby, I can't think of anything right now. He's baby driver right now. Baby driver. Yeah, I called him maui today.

Speaker 1: 1:07:51

maui because he's got that. Uh, maui hook.

Speaker 2: 1:07:54

Well, he got a hold of a sharpie, oh yeah, and sharpied his entire torso and head and arms oh did he. I saw it on his face marks, yeah, and so we were lit. We were like listening to songs on the Echo Dot and we turned on Shiny from the Moana movie. And I was like hey, you're like Maui, get the Maui hook. He grabbed the Maui hook and he took his shirt off. It's like screaming with the hook and swinging around. I was like, yeah, so it was funny.

Speaker 1: 1:08:25

Okay, well, that's all I've got and that's what I have as well, all right, well, thank you guys for listening. This has been part two of the month. The ministry missions month Ministry missions month, episode 18.

Speaker 2: 1:08:43

And uh, yeah, so.

Speaker 1: 1:08:46

Christ is Lord. Wait, hold on, oh on, oh. I wanted to say one thing. I feel like we never talk about this. We do have a website. We do. It's the saints that serve, podcastcom, I think it's pod, the saints that serve, pod. You know what I'm just gonna let you give all the information I build. I build the website. I didn't, actually I don't even know what I do, though If you go to wwwsaintsthatservepodcom.

Speaker 2: 1:09:11

That is our website. It has links to all the different platforms to listen.

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Speaker 2: 1:09:56

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Speaker 1: 1:10:20

So that's all we got. That's what all I've got as well. All right, we got, that's what all I've got as well. Alright. Well, Christ is Lord and the kingdom is now.

Speaker 2: 1:10:30

We are the Saints that Serve.

Speaker 1: 1:10:53

Sorry, I'm trying to read.

Speaker 2: 1:10:56

My typing is awful I type like a doctor.

Speaker 1: 1:10:59

You do type like a doctor. I hope you don't do surgery like you type, because this patient would be dead.