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Episode 20 - Missions Ministry Month Part 4
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What happens when you mix a cold and a sprinkle of identity theft humor? You get another lively episode of The Saints That Serve Podcast! Episode 20 is part of our Mission Ministry Month series, and we're thrilled to welcome back Janelle and introduce our new guest, Julie. Expect plenty of playful banter and behind-the-scenes stories as we respond to a heartfelt message from our previous guest, Sam. The camaraderie among us sets the stage for an engaging exploration of mission stories and the joy of community in faith discussions.
This time around, we're sharing transformative experiences with Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and the University of the Nations. Find out what it's like to participate in a Discipleship Training School (DTS) and how it challenges individuals to grow spiritually. We recount memorable outreach adventures in Togo, England, and South Korea, where cultural exchanges and the power of small acts of love serve as meaningful expressions of faith. Our guests offer unique insights into their journeys, emphasizing community, obedience, and cultural understanding.
For those who love a nerdy twist, we continue with lighter conversations about nerdy passions and creative pursuits, including the fascinating world of diamond dot painting and our travel experiences across Asia. We wrap up with a teaser for an upcoming bonus episode dedicated to listener comments, celebrating our podcast community's growth with humor and gratitude. Join us for laughter, inspiration, and a shared mission to connect with different cultures through faith.
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Welcome to the Saints that Serve, podcast where, each week, your hosts dive into the crossroads of faith, culture and the unknown.
Speaker 1:Christ is Lord and the kingdom is now. We are the Saints that Serve.
Speaker 2:Welcome to the Saints that Serve podcast with your host, Johnny and.
Speaker 1:Johnny.
Speaker 2:I've made that joke before. Okay, identity theft is not a joke, Jairus. Thousands of people have been doing it over here.
Speaker 1:Anyways, yeah, welcome to the Saints of Sympathia. In the comment section, tell us what he is quoting and you will win a thumbs up.
Speaker 2:That's right. I will thumbs up your comment if you comment I'm Jairus. Yes, you are. Yeah, so we are in the tail end of our month mission ministry month.
Speaker 1:This is episode four of that episode four of that.
Speaker 2:And we have a special guest tonight, well, one, we have a reoccurring guest. Calm down, janelle.
Speaker 3:I'm not special too.
Speaker 2:But we have a new guest. Her name is Julie.
Speaker 1:She's also related to me who isn't related to you?
Speaker 3:Because her name starts with J.
Speaker 1:And you have the same last name.
Speaker 3:For now.
Speaker 1:Ooh, you got any world premieres here for the podcast?
Speaker 2:No, I'm legally changing my last name. Oh, anyway. So before we, you get to announce what episode this is, but you've got to roll the D20 dice. So go ahead and roll that dice for me and tell me what you get. It's a two. Okay, you've got to announce episode, but you've got to do it with a very slurred, slurry cough. You know what I mean. Like that.
Speaker 4:This should be easy, because I'm still very congested from being sick, that's fine, just pretend that you're David Attenborough who is sick.
Speaker 2:Okay, and go.
Speaker 4:Episode 20. Hey.
Speaker 1:Episode 20.
Speaker 2:Episode 20. We did it. If you have not listened to the other three episodes for mission month, go back and check out. We've got episodes from Sam and Tyler last week. Awesome, awesome story from those guys guy and girl, husband and wife, some might say tell death, do they?
Speaker 3:part only some jeez.
Speaker 2:And then I, humbly, humbly, I say that I also it was such a good episode I stepped out of being host I hosted and it felt good yeah and then our very first episode was with another married couple, jennifer and sam. So make sure you go and check out those episodes to hear the mission stories. Our very first episode was with another married couple, jennifer and Sam. So make sure you go and check out those episodes to hear the mission stories. And then we're going to get into episode with Janelle and Julie. Now, that's right, so let's do it so before we do that.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, so speaking of Sam and Jennifer, hold on.
Speaker 2:Just for our listeners here. I have no idea what's about to happen. Just so we're clear. Jer said, hey, I've got something that I want to do as a mini bit or segment. And I was like okay, what do you want to do? And he's like I'll announce it. Just make sure you say this before I do it.
Speaker 1:I was like okay, I love how you're hyping it up. It's not that great, but I think it'd be funny. Okay, all right, here we go. Like four days ago, sam texted me and he said this is long overdue, but thanks again for having us on the podcast and making us sound good. I listened to the next episode too. You're doing an incredible job. So that was last Thursday. I haven't responded yet. Oh, okay, so I want every-.
Speaker 3:We'll respond to him right now on air.
Speaker 1:So I'm going to hand everybody the phone and y'all just type whatever you want.
Speaker 2:I thought you were going to say. My response was I compiled an edit of all his different mouth noises.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I'm still working on that.
Speaker 3:All his inhales Mm-hmm and his mm.
Speaker 1:He goes mm and um and, but you've never heard the, because I've edited them all out.
Speaker 4:Sounds like something from Star Wars. He's just. Are we saying what we're texting?
Speaker 1:No, what I'll do is, John, when you're done, click send, and then I'll read it out loud.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:Oh, so it's a surprise for Jairus.
Speaker 1:Yeah, why not? It's funny.
Speaker 3:We're clicking send and he doesn't know.
Speaker 1:I don't like that smirk on John's face right now.
Speaker 3:Oh Sam, what a prank.
Speaker 2:Okay, so I hit send yeah. All right, so I hit send yeah.
Speaker 1:All right, now I'm going to read it out loud. It says thanks, bucko, you're my favorite. Sam Poopy pee, pee, poo, poo, poo, poo pee.
Speaker 3:That's classic, he'll know. He'll know what it means.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's code, so no one tell him he has to know by listening to this episode.
Speaker 4:That's right, that's genius.
Speaker 2:Which we don't know if he will, or not which won't come out until a few days, right yeah?
Speaker 1:a couple of days from now. After this message so who did so? You said thanks Bucko, julie, and then Janelle. You said you're my favorite, sam, and then I obviously said poopy, peepee poopy pee-pee. But yeah, that was my bit. Mini bit over Ta-da I don't have a thing.
Speaker 4:Mini bit over.
Speaker 3:Hey Charlie, no, you should do the wow one. I like the wow one.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, the people like the wow one, I like the wow one.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, the people like the wow.
Speaker 1:So like that's supposed to be, like the anime? Wow, yes, and I did research of what it's from. It's not from an anime, it's from like a 1980s anime sound effect album, like a package of anime sound effects. So it's not in any actual anime like originated from any anime, meanwhile, but that's from SpongeBob.
Speaker 2:All right, we're going to go ahead and get into y'all's stories. So, just for context for everyone, julie and Janelle have both gone and done their DTS Discipleship Training School with YWAM. However, julie has gone to Africa and Janelle has gone to Hawaii, so there's going to be differences in culture. Actually, julie is the first guest on here to to be a international DTSer. Everyone else has done their DTS in the States and then gone on a mission internationally. Why are you doing that?
Speaker 3:She'll get into it, she'll explain.
Speaker 1:Okay, I was going to say, because I thought you were going to say that everybody here, so far as guests, did their DTS, their schooling in Hawaii.
Speaker 2:But no because Jennifer did hers in Utah.
Speaker 4:Idaho, idaho, right yeah.
Speaker 2:They all eat potatoes and look weird. You know, yeah, it's all the same. No offense to anyone in Idaho or Utah. It's okay, we don't have anyone listening there.
Speaker 3:She did her DTS in Colorado.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I technically did my lecture phase in Colorado, why?
Speaker 2:did I forget about that? But?
Speaker 4:I also staffed internationally.
Speaker 2:There we go.
Speaker 4:So I think, that's what you meant.
Speaker 2:Alright, so I've already got a correction there. Julie has done her DTS lecture phase in the States. Totally forgot about that, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4:It's okay. Honestly, I kind of forgot until you asked me to do the podcast.
Speaker 2:All right. So what we're going to do is we've been kind of going through questions all the way down with people, but I think we're going to mix it around with you guys so you both won't get asked the exact same question.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm going to throw a curveball question out there right now. Same question okay, I'm gonna throw a curveball question out there right now because a lot of our guests have like did their dts like 10 years ago? Most of them type situation or quite a while back, yeah, so how long ago was it for you, julie? It was seven years really that's crazy no, and then janelle's was like mine.
Speaker 3:Mine was two years ago.
Speaker 1:I was about to say it was like last year, right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was like exactly two years ago I left.
Speaker 2:You did yours in 2018?. Yep, why is 2018? So it does not feel like it was that long ago. But it was that long ago.
Speaker 4:That's how I feel about 2019. It feels like it was last year, but I was like, oh, shoot that was a long time ago.
Speaker 1:It is closer to 2029 than it is now to 2019.
Speaker 2:That's disgusting. What if last year was 2019 and we've all been in a simulation in these past six years?
Speaker 3:So my DTS didn't happen. It didn't.
Speaker 1:Get out of here, I was going to say don't listen to a word. Janelle says she a liar.
Speaker 4:She's a product of the matrix. She's a part of the system.
Speaker 1:Um okay, so first question for, excuse me, I just asked my question. Second question, second question for julie.
Speaker 2:How did you hear slash? Learn it well everyone knows the answer to this one is the same as jennifer and myself. We had siblings who did it, so there we go all right.
Speaker 1:So what was the question? You didn't actually finish the question.
Speaker 2:Yeah, uh, I why how did you hear slash? Learn about why I am siblings right, right. Previous podcast episodes though the ywam family yeah, maybe we should start a reality YouTube show the YWAM family.
Speaker 3:No, okay, it's already been done, all right so.
Speaker 2:I'll ask you this question why did you go to the base you did your DTS at?
Speaker 4:So I did my DTS in Cimarron, colorado and it's a really small mountain base it's 10,000 feet elevation and you think, oh, she went there because she loves the mountains and loves hiking. No, that's not the answer at all. I, for some reason, was just obsessed with the YWAM website and finding different bases and so I, religiously, was on that website like every week just looking at different bases and for some reason I came across Cimarron, colorado, and their tagline said Are you called to missions? Are you not sure what you're called to? Come and find out. And so it was a really kind of catchy tagline.
Speaker 4:But it really spoke to me because I felt the call to go do missions but I didn't feel like I was good enough to be a missionary like. I didn't feel like I was like oh yeah, I'm gonna go and save the world, like I'm. I'm the one. I didn't believe in myself. So it was kind of a cool tagline that they had that was like hey, just come and see what God's going to do. And so that's what I did. I went and I saw what God was going to do and he did a lot.
Speaker 2:Okay, Awesome. I'll go ahead and ask the same one of you Janelle why did you go to the base you did your DTS at?
Speaker 3:So I am the only one in our family to go to the big Kona YWAM base.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 3:This is the University of the Nations base. One of, yeah, one of, but it's like a really really. It's like a really large campus, the original University of the Nations base.
Speaker 2:I thought that that was in Germany.
Speaker 1:She said one of them Now.
Speaker 2:So okay For those who are not in Are we getting into a YWAM debate? For those who are not in YWAM, ywam has bases all over the world, but they have several hubs that they call the University of the Nations, and that's where they do all of their curriculum, archive and grading.
Speaker 2:Dispatching of credentials and all that stuff. Because when you complete, no matter what base you're at, if you complete a DTS program you do get a certificate and it does apply credits to yourself as a student of University of the Nations. So any wireline base you go to you can get those credits of the nations. So any wireline base you go to you can get those credits. But there are several hubs around the world where they host the university of the nations quick.
Speaker 1:How many credits does all you have?
Speaker 2:I am. I don't know how many I have, but I'm like one credit short of a associate's degree. Ooh, maybe I should go back and do it.
Speaker 3:Ooh, I have a lot of online stuff. You could do it online.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 3:I like my current title, anyway. So I knew I wanted to go to Hawaii because you went to Hawaii, john. So I was like, oh, I'm going to go to Hawaii because, because you went to Hawaii, john. So I was like, oh, I'm gonna go to Hawaii too.
Speaker 3:I remember it was like cool that you guys mentioned the youth group that you guys led in your episode, johnny, because I was in youth group. I was in that youth group and I remember it was on one of those retreats in Florida for some reason. I just then, I think I was like 14 or like 13 or something, and I was like, yeah, I'm going to do my DTS in Hawaii too. And then, once I got closer to me actually applying, I found out about a specific school that was being done in Kona, that actually the missionary family that Julie was connected with it was the mom that told me like she was staying with us for a little bit and so, or, the whole family was, and so she was like, hey, you should do this school because it's perfect for you, it's performing arts, it's. It was called Heartbridge, and so she told me about that and I was like, oh, you're right, that is perfect for me Okay, I'll do that, and so that's why I chose to go to Kona.
Speaker 2:Awesome, that reminded me I totally forgot to include this when I was doing my story, but I actually meant to go to Kona. Oh, really, Because they had a worship focused.
Speaker 1:DTS. But then on the paperwork he just again. John doesn't know how to read, so he checked the wrong box. Yeah.
Speaker 2:No, but it was a DTS with the focus on worship, so like music and stuff which I was into at the time, and I guess I just clicked the wrong link, Ended up on the wrong island. But I still applied for the DTS and everything got approved and all that stuff and the approval was for YWAM, Honolulu and I was like sweet, sweet and then I got there and it was just the regular DTS. I was like I feel like I was supposed to be doing something.
Speaker 1:I was about to make the joke that John didn't realize he did something wrong until he got there and then he confirmed it's not a joke yeah, no.
Speaker 2:so very minor, very minor detail in the overall story. But I was like, oh yeah, musical DTS would be cool Because, once again, if you go back and listen to the episode, you'll hear that I wasn't really going to become a missionary or to get closer to the Lord, I was going for very selfish reasons. So there we have it. So, julie, what was your DTS lecture phase like and what was your biggest takeaway from it?
Speaker 4:phase like and what was your biggest takeaway from it? So my lecture phase was very different than the typical DTS. So typical DTS you are, it's all a unit package. You have three months of you know lecture and then you immediately go into your outreach. Mine was set up to be like a gap year, so one summer you would go and do your lecture phase, You'd go back, do a full year of college and come back the next summer to do your outreach. So it was definitely different. It was a very small school too there was only seven of us and so it was definitely different than all my other siblings' experiences with YWAM. But I loved the base I was at. I loved the staff. Everyone was just such like a family and they took really good care of us.
Speaker 4:And it was a really transformative time of just digging into the Bible and really wrestling and making my faith my own and not just my parents' faith. And really wrestling and making my faith my own and not just my parents' faith. And yeah, I think just kind of being challenged by different theological beliefs was huge for me, because I never really interacted with people who were Calvinist or people who, yeah, like, believe different theological views than myself. I even met someone who didn't believe in the inerrancy of the Bible. So it was like I was kind of being challenged to really know what I believed because I was being met with so many different types of beliefs. So that was really good for me to just really nail down what I believe and what I know to be true and why, and give it a defense for that. So that was probably the best part of the lecture phase was just wrestling with what do I believe and how can I communicate that to other people.
Speaker 2:Awesome. I feel like I need to throw this shout out out there, since you brought that up. Some people are Christians but they don't believe in the inerrancy of Scripture. Praise God for using Wes Huff on the Internet the past couple of weeks to just remind us like hey, it's God's word and you know what. It doesn't need evidence, but God has given plenty of evidence for us to have evidence. But God has given plenty of evidence for us to have, because there's been a lot of speculation from the past couple of years of people that can just they can be like well, I can get on and say a couple of things that sound smart and I can get away with it. And God has decided to use several individuals, one of them being Wes Huff, to bring back the truth of like hey no, god's word is perfect and it is the truth, so praise God for that.
Speaker 1:Praise God for that. Hypothetically. If you didn't know who Wes Huff is, why don't you tell everybody who Wes Huff is?
Speaker 2:So he actually is a part of a ministry in Canada and they do a pretty good podcast. It's called Canada apologetics the CA podcast, I think is what they call it. But he is a linguist and a Bible scholar and he does like he works with ancient texts. So he works on translating and interpreting ancient texts. But he went on and did a debate with this guy named Billy Carson Is that his last name, billy? The guy who was all about like aliens came down to earth and that's how we got these different tablets and ancient texts and stuff.
Speaker 2:Basically, this guy was like he was attacking the validity of the Bible and all of his online content and he got pretty big. He went on the Joe Rogan podcast and a validity of the Bible and all of his online content and he got pretty big. He went on the Joe Rogan podcast and a couple of the big podcasts. Well, westhoff debates him and everyone realizes that this guy, billy, has not been honest or accurate and that led Westhoff to going on to Joe Rogan and a couple other big podcasts and just sharing the truth of God's word.
Speaker 2:There is documentation archaeological discovery and textual documentation that supports the validity of the Bible, but he brings it back to his faith of I do believe in Jesus and I do believe that Jesus is who he says he is, and you can't really get there 100% with irrefutable evidence. There has to be some faith to believe that Jesus died and rose again from the grave. There is evidence for it, but there's some faith. So Wes Huff yeah, guy's been using him on the internet for the past couple of weeks to just bring the word.
Speaker 2:And it's been refreshing, 100%, 100%. So I don't think that joe rogan intentionally did it, but he did a interview with wes huff and then, like right after that, he did one with mel gibson, and they both just brought christ hard that's so in those interviews that's so awesome yeah, so it was good anyways, I'd say that's providence some might say it was due to passion. Some may say, if you were a Calvinist, it was God's divine.
Speaker 4:Sovereign will.
Speaker 2:Sovereign will Mel.
Speaker 4:Gibson was predestined to go on the Joe.
Speaker 3:Rogan.
Speaker 1:Maybe I don't know Mel Gibson's just like, have you heard of a little film? I made it Passion of the Christ.
Speaker 2:Passion of the Christ.
Speaker 1:Yes, Mel Gibson sounds just like that he does.
Speaker 4:That was spot on he does not?
Speaker 1:I saw the look on y'all's face. You're like is Mel Gibson here?
Speaker 2:He sounds like somebody saturated a sponge in liquor and then got it stuck in their throat. That's what he sounds like. He's got like a really raspy voice.
Speaker 4:Basically how I sounded introducing the podcast.
Speaker 3:So it was Mel Gibson introducing the podcast. Wow, he's here in the room.
Speaker 4:He's been here all along.
Speaker 2:All right, janelle.
Speaker 3:Yes, that's my name. What?
Speaker 2:What's your name?
Speaker 3:again, I'm the only reoccurring guest on the podcast, not a big deal.
Speaker 2:What's up with that? Your soundboard's messed up.
Speaker 1:It is. It keeps messing up. I'm not pressing any more buttons on this thing.
Speaker 2:What was your DTS lecture phase like and what is your biggest takeaway?
Speaker 3:Oh, my DTS lecture phase like and what is your biggest takeaway? Oh, my DTS lecture phase was crazy. Whenever I think back to it, I was either in class, like our morning lectures, or I was in rehearsal because I was in a performing arts DTS, so we had rehearsal for our show like every single day. Or I was just back at my dorm staring at the wall because I was so overwhelmed I think Sam said it in one of the episodes where he was like it's like drinking from a fire hydrant, like it's so much information that was being poured at me. Mine was interesting because we didn't have any homework Like every DTS I've heard of.
Speaker 1:Wow, sounds like my kind of school Every.
Speaker 3:DTS I've heard of. They're like, yeah, and then I had my journal and like I had my homework that I had to like turn in to my staff. We did not do that. Multiple books I had to read and do book reports on. I read books because I wanted to. Most people in my school did not.
Speaker 1:I really think that I passed because there was no homework.
Speaker 3:Right? Well, because we had a show we were putting on, so we always had rehearsal. We had every single day we had rehearsal. So I guess our staff didn't want to spend time grading homework.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure why we did so. What you're saying is the show must go on the show really needs to go on, I imagine.
Speaker 1:So I don't know if you had said this before, but you're very passionate about the theater and the arts. Yes, it's the theater the theater it's like I don't. It's like if I went to own a DTS and my homework was go home and play video games. That's how I equate that.
Speaker 2:All right, guys. We're done with the lecture for today. You all need to log three hours of online gaming.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh, that would be hilarious.
Speaker 4:Gamer DTS. Gamer DTS, we should call Esports DTS.
Speaker 1:Esports DTS.
Speaker 4:Call David Gamer DTS. Gamer DTS. We should call E-sports DTS, e-sports DTS. Oh, david Hamilton, I've had him.
Speaker 1:I've had him In the name of the Lord.
Speaker 2:Oh, glory be unto God. You'd almost be like a troll, Like you'd be speaking through the mic to all these people. Through my righteousness you will be redeemed. Your sacrifice will pave the way for many to come to know the Lord.
Speaker 1:And then just boom, boom, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:Praise God for your sacrifice, brother.
Speaker 4:Hey, we need more online gamers sharing the gospel Amen In a few years, I bet they'll have it.
Speaker 3:They'll have it. Esports DTS.
Speaker 1:Esports DTS.
Speaker 3:Yes, you are right, I love theater. I've been doing performing arts pretty much my whole life, and so it was really cool being in a school where it had pretty much everyone in the school was that way as well, or like they were in dance for years or they had done theater or they were musicians. We had lots of different ranges of like professional to. Oh yeah, in high school I took like some theater classes and it was really fun. So now I'm here, but lecture was very difficult.
Speaker 3:It was kind of hard for me. Living on an island. I wonder why, I don't know. It's just it's very strange. Like you look out and everywhere you look it's just ocean for miles. So it's like so isolating and it was like I couldn't leave this place if I wanted to like it, unless I got on the plane, you know, and I don't. I don't know. It's not like I think about leaving any like location I'm at, but for some reason, just like living there was pretty hard. But I had a really school. I had a lot of good friends that I made. I was on a big base, so it was really important for me to have a tight group of people that I stuck with.
Speaker 2:How many times did you find yourself singing the Cabin Fever song from the Muppets Treasure Island?
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh, I lost count. I've got it too.
Speaker 2:I've got Cabin Fever. I've got it too. I've got cabin fever. I've got it too.
Speaker 1:Never saw that. What, what yeah.
Speaker 2:You've never seen Muppets Treasure Island.
Speaker 1:I've seen Muppets Christmas Carol.
Speaker 2:Now, that is a classic.
Speaker 4:But Muppets Treasure Island's like the best.
Speaker 1:I know Tim Curry's in it. He is yeah, he plays.
Speaker 3:Long John Silver you took a page out of the holy book to give an old pirate the black spot. Oh I'm sorry, Satan is hating.
Speaker 1:So I was never like I was always a treasure planet kind of guy. Pretty good, Pretty good. So that was always my definitive go-to version of Treasure Island.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, you need to watch Muppets Treasure.
Speaker 1:Island. I will, I will. I'll go home right now. Okay, I will stop the podcast. See you later. Bye, jairus, bye. What if I just don't say anything for the rep? Wow, inside joke there. Wow, inside joke there. Janelle's played Kingdom Hearts with me. She knows that song.
Speaker 2:Inside joke for everyone who listens to the podcast, Because every time I play that, you're like oh, why did you give me this sad song?
Speaker 1:It's funny because it's not actually a sad song, but you do. That's how you say it every time.
Speaker 2:It's a sad song. All right, julie, what was DTS Outreach like and what was your biggest?
Speaker 4:So, like I said, I went home, I did a semester of college and dropped out for mental health reasons, sadly and then was just working the rest of the school year, my lecture phase and my outreach. And I don't recommend that. If you're going to do a DTS, I would recommend the traditional structure of just staying in one location, growing in your community and then going straight into your outreach, because my school completely fell apart. We had a lot of division and so I ended up going on outreach with just one other girl and two days into outreach she sent home. She was sent home because she was extremely ill. So I was kind of left in this foreign country by myself. I didn't have any of my school leaders, I didn't have any of my fellow students, and it was very scary, to say the least. But I knew that God was with me and he was going to take care of me. And so I was kind of just like all right, god like it's you, and me Like that's it, we're the team, that's all I have is you, father, son, holy Spirit, so, and so my outreach was kind of just kind of a mix of door-to-door evangelism. We did some hospital like waiting room ministry where we were praying with people as they're waiting to receive health care, just cleaning around the base, cooking meals, serving the missionaries on the YWAM base.
Speaker 4:I ended up going to Togo, west Africa, and so a lot of my time was just serving the missionaries there on the base really and just helping with whatever they needed. And so when I actually did go out and do evangelism or preaching in churches, I was faced with I'm not good at this. Every time I went out, I was just met with so much inadequacy of who am I to share the gospel, who am I to pour into these people's lives? Like, what do I have to give them? Because I see a need, I see so much poverty, I see so much hunger and thirst for miracles and the word of God and just comfort, and I feel like I didn't have anything to give. And so it was a really really hard time.
Speaker 4:My outreach was very challenging and I cried a lot, to say the least, but it was just God demanding obedience, and that's what I had to learn is I don't have to do things perfectly, because I'm a perfectionist. I wanted to do it perfectly, I wanted to do it miraculously, I wanted it to be like this great experience, but really God just wanted my obedience. He just wanted me to keep getting out of bed each day and doing what he's told me to do, and so that was a formative time of just learning that discipline of obedience and realizing it's not about me At the end of the day if I make a fool of myself in front of a bunch of African people. That's okay.
Speaker 2:That is okay because and I'll become even more undignified than this.
Speaker 4:Literally, I was like God, this is my humble sacrifice to you of me stumbling over my words in front of these people who could probably share the gospel to me better than I could share to them. Let's be honest, I think a lot of the people I was sharing the gospel with probably could, and they did. They blessed me more than I ever could have blessed them. They were very generous, hospitable, just so kind and welcoming. So I say all that to say.
Speaker 4:I ended up staffing at that base for the next two years because I loved the culture, I loved the people. I just fell in love with the country and I felt like they just welcomed me home. It felt like I was coming home even though I'd never been there before. So it's kind of crazy how I was wrestling with so much inadequacy and so much insecurity and yet I was just falling in love with this country and this culture. And it was crazy how, on paper, if anyone was reading it, they'd be like, wow, she's miserable, like she hates this, and yet I was just coming alive and I loved being there and I loved just washing dishes for people.
Speaker 4:I loved changing diapers uh, for the missionary kids and, you know, going on walks and and and, keeping it simple and just realizing that you don't have to do big miraculous things to please God. You just have to be obedient. So it's like you washing dishes for someone, or you watching their kids, or you just giving someone a hug and a smile when they need it. It's like those are the things that I think heaven's going to be made up of and I think that's what really can affect someone's eternity. It's like, yes, to see miracles and to see healings, like those are amazing things, but I think just simple acts of love are profoundly impactful for someone's eternity. That's beautiful.
Speaker 2:Awesome, your outreach phase, kind of like a Henrietta Hall. The lady who went to China she was like all by herself. Yeah, she was a lady missionary and she went to China, but she ended up in rural China during the middle of a I think it was a civil war that they had going on, but she was just all by herself.
Speaker 4:Her story is crazy because she had to travel through the Soviet Union.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:And she almost got trafficked through the Soviet Union, Jeez. So yeah, her story is crazy.
Speaker 2:All right, janelle, same question what was your DTS outreach like? What was your DTS outreach like and what is your biggest takeaway? Sorry, I was trying to read it and then something came on the screen.
Speaker 3:So my DTS outreach was very interesting because I had two separate outreach locations and I unlike a lot of YWAM schools they usually go to developing countries that usually struggle with a lot of poverty and things like that. I went to two first world nations and so we were often evangelizing to an upper class people like to, yeah, more comfortable people that you can't really say hey, let's feed you, let's help you out with this, because they already have everything they need. So I went to England and South Korea Sorry, that was a really weird.
Speaker 1:South Korean theme. Yeah, annyeonghaseyo to everyone out there from South Korea. Yes, ann was a really weird South.
Speaker 2:Korean theme yeah, annyeonghaseyo to everyone out there from South Korea.
Speaker 3:Yes, annyeonghaseyo. So yeah, I was in.
Speaker 2:To all you Brits.
Speaker 3:G'day chap. Hello governor.
Speaker 2:Hello governor, spot a tea with me. Biscuits, eh, what a bottle.
Speaker 1:What a bottle Cheris being.
Speaker 4:British is crazy.
Speaker 1:That's all I just know, just a bunch of noises and it, and it.
Speaker 2:It and it Beans and me toast.
Speaker 3:Okay, yeah, I ate nothing in England. Their food has no substance at all. That was like five weeks long of just sandwiches, but really bad sandwiches. One of my friend's moms brought us in Hawaii a tin of Chick-fil-A sauce and I asked my friend, can I have these? Because it was like taste of home, and she was like, yeah, sure, I don't really want them. So I took those with me everywhere in England because every meal I had I just needed some flavor so.
Speaker 3:I would put the Chick-fil-A sauce on my sandwich, just to get it down.
Speaker 2:I've been, uh, I've been watching these videos, these taste videos from these British guys. They come over to America and they're like I'm about to try a Twinkie for the first time. It's just total random stuff that we just have all the time Right, and they try it for the first time and they're like my mouth has never experienced such an explosion of flavor and love. Is this? What flavor is? Yeah, so much sugar in this. It's so funny because it's just like oh yeah, it's a barbecue sandwich. It's pretty good, you know, Right. And they're like oh, darling, gone to heaven.
Speaker 1:I love your British accent because it's actually Australian yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm so anti Britain that even my British accents have to be colonies that they develop.
Speaker 4:Down with the colonizers, yeah.
Speaker 3:Actually, we love them and we go to evangelize to them. Anyway, yeah, we want them and we go to evangelize to them Anyway.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, we want to save them, but we also want to overthrow them From themselves Wow, and we've already overthrew them.
Speaker 4:Some of them.
Speaker 2:Done Some of them.
Speaker 3:Which one of them are left. We got to take them out.
Speaker 4:So Janelle's outreach?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I feel like whenever I answer, it's always like A derailment like oh, let's go somewhere.
Speaker 1:Well, the problem is and it's not a problem but we all have known each other for many, many years, and this is just a normal conversation that we always are having. This isn't like an interview, we're just talking.
Speaker 2:Well, but and also everyone that is friends with you has already heard your story, so they're not going to know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's not. It just happened, so it's not like.
Speaker 2:And actually this episode is probably going to become the top like fourth most listened to episode, because apparently everyone wants to hear Janelle when she's on the podcast.
Speaker 3:Anyways, it's my melodious voice.
Speaker 3:Tell us about the two first world nations you went yes, so I went to england and we mainly were in the city of luton, which is south of london, and then we spent about one week in london and then went back to luton. So I was in england for about five weeks and then I went to my team, went to south to South Korea and we spent about four weeks there. So we had two very different months of outreach and ministry. It was all performing arts based, so we would go out, we would perform in London, we spent a lot of time doing street performances and so we would go out into the street. We would bring a speaker, we would start performing, usually dances, and then, once we drew a crowd, we would go out into the crowd. We would pray for people, have spiritual conversations, asking people about what they believed, and then usually someone would get on a microphone and they would like share their testimony and preach the gospel.
Speaker 3:We also would go to a lot of churches to perform there for the people at the church. We partnered with local churches to do door-to-door ministry, inviting them to church events and things like that, and we also went to a few schools to perform in those schools. One of my favorite memories was in this tiny little primary school, this like random village in England, and we got to perform for maybe around like 50 kids and they had never seen a performance like that in their life and they probably will never see another performance like that because it's such like just a tiny town in this random city in England and they were so adorable Like I got to MC the event. So I was kind of saying like okay, now we're going to show you some dances from South Korea and we're going to show you some dances from Hawaii and stuff like that, and at the very end for the kids to say thank you to us.
Speaker 4:They said three cheers and would go hip hip hooray.
Speaker 3:And then they were like and one more for good measure. Hip, hip hooray.
Speaker 2:And that was in South Korea.
Speaker 3:No, that was in England.
Speaker 2:Okay, I was going to say I thought you were talking about South Korea.
Speaker 3:No, you're using a British accent. No, it was like a village in England.
Speaker 1:Okay, koreans are surprisingly British.
Speaker 3:Yeah, very British Anyway so Isn't it?
Speaker 2:Annyeonghaseyo innit Lock me beans, on me cabbage.
Speaker 4:That is Korean Englishman right there. That was a direct yes.
Speaker 3:Shout out to Korean Englishman a YouTube channel I've been watching since I was in high school and they're british guys who do a bunch of videos about korea. And then that became my life on dts it was.
Speaker 3:It was awesome the lord works in mysterious, he really does so. Then when we went to korea, we did so much ministry every single day we were driving out to Seoul because we lived about an hour out from Seoul, so we would drive in the city. We would usually go to a school and we would perform at the school at like an all student assembly. So we performed for like hundreds of people every single day and the schedule was so packed. Sometimes we performed more than once a day, like it was. It was a lot, and we had about like a 40 minute full stage production that we put on. Sometimes if we had time, we would go out into the student body and pray for them or talk with them. Most Koreans know some English. They're not usually very confident about it, but a lot of the schools we went to were like international schools or something like that, and so we'd be able to have some conversations. I know some Korean and so that was really fun to be able to practice and try to communicate with people. But yeah, and then we mainly did school ministry. But yeah, and then we mainly did school ministry.
Speaker 3:But my biggest takeaway from all of outreach was this one time where we went to it was a tiny, tiny team of us, because pretty much my whole team of like 30 people was sick.
Speaker 3:They were all sick because the air quality in Korea is really really bad, and so most people were like coughing really bad or they just were so exhausted from our schedule. And so we had a team of about six people go out to this small church that they had connections with from past school. So the church really really wanted us to come, and so I was on that team and it was like a ragtag, but most of us were like kind of healthy, like healthy enough to go, and they were like, okay, figure out what you're going to do. And so we're like, well, we had all day with, like this youth group it was like a youth and college group and so we were like, well, I guess we can like play some games and teach them, like our dance and like some music, and then you know, lead worship, and then like close out, well, the girl on my team who was gonna lead worship, who's like a professional guitarist, she got sick the day before so she couldn't go. So I grabbed the guitar, thinking like, well, somebody will play it.
Speaker 1:Like one of us? Is it that like that moment where you grab, like you're gonna go hand it to somebody and nobody's around? Yeah, now you're center stage with a guitar in your hand.
Speaker 3:I literally was looking at the monitor that they had and I was like who is that person in the middle of the stage with the guitar? Oh, it's me. And it was so terrifying because I had never led worship as like the worship leader. You know, I had done like vocals or like ukulele on the youth group band and so all of a sudden I had a full band of Koreans looking to me like, okay, so what are we gonna play? Had there was like two people on piano, a person on guitar, a person on drums, three vocalists, and they're like we want to lead worship with you guys. And they're like tell us what to do. And I'm like, who gave me this?
Speaker 1:guitar. Why did?
Speaker 3:I pick this guitar up. This is terrifying. So, by the grace of God, we were able to get through the day. We were able to get through that worship set, which hadn't been rehearsed, by the way. We rehearsed like three songs and then they were like, okay, we gotta start, like we're over time. So we did seven songs total, only rehearsed three of them.
Speaker 1:Did you just like pretend to play like?
Speaker 3:Yes, there were moments because there was another guy playing guitar who could actually play guitar. So sometimes I would stop playing, but I would keep my hand moving to make it look like I was playing.
Speaker 4:That's a life hack right there.
Speaker 3:It was horrible because, as a performer, you know what sounds good and you know what doesn't sound good, and so I was like it has to be by the power of the Holy Spirit that this worship is moving and impactful for these students, because how I'm doing it and how I'm leading it is so awkward, it's so choppy. After we got through the songs, my leader was like okay, janelle, you're going to share your testimony, so. But then she was like put the guitar down. Like I was just going to like sling it on my back and look cool. And she was like no, put it down. Gonna like sling it on my back and look cool. And she was like no put it down.
Speaker 3:So then I had to like unplug it and it was that awful noise when you unplug your car and I was like, oh, this is horrible anyway. So I share my testimony in like five minutes and I you know it was awkward because of the pausing to be able to be translated. So by the time I sat down, I was Lord. You have to use that because there's no way that that was like good at all in my own strength. Yeah, and we had students coming up giving testimonies, like in tears, about how moved they were and how they just wanted to know the Lord deeper and really, really dedicate their lives to him, and we had, I think, one or two students who ended up like dedicating their lives to the Lord that night and so by the time we were leaving, it was like whoa, our hearts were just bonded and I felt like I was sisters with some of these Korean girls that I spent the day with.
Speaker 3:So that was the most impactful thing from outreach was just giving control up to the Lord and trusting him to really move people's hearts and just like worshiping him in my discomfort and like stepping out into things that I didn't feel like I was equipped for and just letting him move. That day was like the most impactful day out of my whole outreach because it was it taught me like I don't need to be perfect to be obedient kind of similar to Julie's story. As a performer, I felt like no, it needs to be good quality. And the Lord was like no. If anything, in your weakness, my strength is made perfect. Amen, that's right.
Speaker 4:Amen, that was. And really that's what DTS stands for. Is die to self. Oh, come on, girl, at the end of the day, when I tell people about DTS stands for is die to self. Oh, come on, girl, at the end of the day, when I tell people about DTS, I always recommend it because you have to learn to die to yourself and live for the Lord and know that you are going to serve him in fumbling and in awkwardness. And that's what he wants. He wants your obedience and he wants you to die to yourself and live to his will and know that he's going to use it. The outcome is his. It's not up to us to know. Like, okay, I said these things and I don't know if it's landing. You walk with hands wide open and that's really what ministering is around the globe is just lifting it up to the Lord hands wide open. And that's really what ministering is around the globe is just is lifting it up to the lord, hands wide open, knowing that he has the outcome and he's gonna cover it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yep, that's true. I really like that die to self dts, but just so everyone knows, officially it stands for discipleship training, but die to self is really like the experience you'll have.
Speaker 3:As soon as you join YWAM, you learn it's a world of acronyms, yeah.
Speaker 1:So, if y'all have been paying attention, I'm still struggling with them, like, even though we're right here at the tail end of mm month I still struggle.
Speaker 4:So YWAM stands for youth without a mattress.
Speaker 3:No. A mattress, no, no, it actually stands for young women after men young. What is it? Oh, there is one that hayden told me.
Speaker 4:Shout out to hayden something about young missionaries, I don'ters. We're teaching you the acronym.
Speaker 2:We're moving on now. Thank you.
Speaker 3:Youth without any money. That's what it is YWAM youth without any money.
Speaker 1:So before we move on, I got a response from Sam.
Speaker 4:That was quick.
Speaker 1:He said back at ya.
Speaker 4:Classic Sam.
Speaker 2:How dare he Wait?
Speaker 4:so you're his favorite, sam Ooh, and you're pee-pee-poo-poo-pee.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Poo-poo pee-pee, poo-poo, poo-poo, pee-pee.
Speaker 1:So round two. Here we go, Handing the phone off to Julie.
Speaker 2:And for the audience who can't participate because it's not video.
Speaker 1:Here's Sam's phone number. You can text him too. It it.
Speaker 2:Julie just wrote her part and now the phone is being passed off to Janelle who's trying to type it out, while Trash Cat is trying to get into her lap to be cuddled Because it's a little chilly. Lap to be cuddled because it's a little chilly.
Speaker 4:Shout out to Trash Cat because my lap is so warm, because he's been there all night and it's so nice.
Speaker 3:Because it's so chilly. Yay Kitty Cat, You're my favorite Trash Cat.
Speaker 2:Alright, there's the scent. Alright, here we go.
Speaker 1:Read what he said again. He said back at ya, and then I quote unquote I responded with so I'm your favorite, sam. That's so offensive. I can't believe you said that, door Door.
Speaker 2:It auto-corrected. I put dope Door. Door is better.
Speaker 4:Door is so good Door, you know what we need. More door we need so good Door, you know what we need.
Speaker 1:More door, more door.
Speaker 2:We need less door.
Speaker 4:We need more door.
Speaker 2:No, we don't.
Speaker 4:I'm looking at one right now More door, more door.
Speaker 2:Okay, next question.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so, by the way, we're going to just keep us updated. Keep y'all updated with our little conversation with Sam. Little Sam talk updated. Keep y'all updated with, uh, our little little conversation with sam little sam talk our public relations with sam. So how has your ywam experience affected your life today, or has it affected your life today?
Speaker 4:I definitely say it's affected my life today because in ywam we learned about the spheres um, that's something they talk about in lecture phase of you're a missionary because of the call that God's placed on you through the Great Commission. So, whether you are on the foreign mission field or you are in the realm of politics, education, media, no matter where you are in the different spheres of society, you are called to make disciples and to go and proclaim the gospel. And so, learning that I didn't feel like I was, oh, I'm going to be this great missionary, but I did feel that I could go into the spheres of society and make disciples and preach the gospel and so, through doing YWAM, I really that was very distracting oh, there's some popcorn crumbs in the oh no.
Speaker 1:so for those who are not watching the, the non-recorded, non-existent video version of this John took a popcorn bucket hammer and put it over Trash Cat's head.
Speaker 4:He looks so sad now which teaser to next week's episode.
Speaker 2:We're going to be talking about our review opinion of War of the Royal Heron.
Speaker 4:Good to know. Stay tuned.
Speaker 4:Okay, go back to your question, if you can remember so basically, in all my fumbling of evangelism, I learned that I'm not an evangelist.
Speaker 4:I probably won't go out on the weekends and convert people because I don't have the personality and the skill to make that work. But what I did learn is my gift of teaching. Being able to teach in churches on Sunday morning and be able to lead Bible studies was something I came alive doing and I really felt like I was called to work in the realm of the church minister, in a church context and use my gifts of teaching to teach the Bible. And so YWAM really impacted me in building myself up in my giftings and knowing my personality and how I can further the gospel. And it doesn't have to look like other people, because comparison stole my joy for so long, because I didn't think I was good enough, because I wasn't a certain personality type and I didn't have certain spiritual giftings. And I didn't have certain spiritual giftings but realizing my giftings are what God gave me to use in my community, in the sphere he's placed me in, and so just trying to be faithful in that realm that he's placed me in with the giftings he's given me.
Speaker 1:Sweet Janelle was doing like a little poetry snap.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was doing like poetry slam snap. I'm like, come on. I received a lot of training in my school specifically for those pursuing careers in performing arts or just lives deeply surrounded with the performing arts world, arts world, and so we had really unique weeks in lecture that was all about creating with God, learning to create with the Holy Spirit in collaboration, collaborating with the Lord, and so that has deeply affected my life and has really made me realize just how unreached the people group of performing artists is. Like a lot of believers go into the entertainment world and they lose their faith or they just they for the sake of getting in with the right people, will forsake the Lord and so realizing that no, like, those are people that need to be reached in that sphere and the Lord has equipped me and given me a heart for them to be able to do that.
Speaker 3:And so, as I've been pursuing that job, I learned so much in YWAM about how to perform in prayer, like to be in prayer while I was dancing and while I was performing, as well as how to teach Like we had a lot of moments where we had young kids that we were teaching dances to, or like leading workshops. I got a lot of experience with that and even just the spiritual power of dance and of art, of poetry, of of things like that. I learned a lot about that and just my day-to-day life of living with a team of 30 people. Like it's hard to live in close quarters with so many people, especially performing artists who have very big personalities usually. So I learned so much about how to just give grace to the people around me and how to work well with other people and how to just have fun in stressful situations where you're not sure really where you're going to go next or where you're going to sleep that night, or you know moments like that.
Speaker 1:Youth without a mattress.
Speaker 3:Youth without a mattress so true. Youth without a mattress, Youth without a mattress so true. So yeah, I'd say that's really impacted my life today being able to learn so much about the performing arts.
Speaker 2:Awesome.
Speaker 1:Awesome, some, some, awesome, only some, some A little bit A few.
Speaker 2:A couple of awesome. So we're going to start winding down and we've got a couple of bonus questions. We're going to ask you guys oh, Actually, I guess we should ask what they're doing ministry wise now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what are y'all doing ministry wise now?
Speaker 4:So I am getting my ministry leadership degree at Toccoa Falls and I am very active in my local church community doing young adult ministry and I lead a women's Bible study.
Speaker 1:Dope and Hagen. Dope and Hagen. Not a lot of Hagen, just a-.
Speaker 3:Dope amount A door amount.
Speaker 1:A door amount.
Speaker 3:Oh, more door Callback. So I am currently involved with my local church I'm a small group leader for the high school girls as well, as I am currently working with my old theater group to go on a mission trip to Guatemala. So we're taking a group of students to perform the gospel pretty much in different villages and schools in Guatemala and I've been given the opportunity to write and direct that performance and teach it to the students and go with them on the trip. So that's my upcoming ministry with a local theater group.
Speaker 2:Cool, awesome, all right. Well, we got a couple bonus questions for y'all.
Speaker 1:So pick a number one through three. Two, three, only one number one through three, two, three, only one. We're supposed to do it.
Speaker 4:Rock paper, scissors.
Speaker 3:Rock paper scissors shoot Julie wins.
Speaker 2:Tom was just sitting up there like ah ah Tres.
Speaker 1:Three. So what are you nerdy about?
Speaker 4:Oh, what am I not nerdy about?
Speaker 1:By the way. By the way, didn't transition really well, Sorry, Tyler. We're transitioning into our bonus questions now.
Speaker 2:This is your transition, Tyler. We're moving out of serious questions into fun questions.
Speaker 4:Hey, tyler, I really liked your podcast episode. By the way. You did a great job. You listened Wow.
Speaker 3:That only came out yesterday. You transitioned really well, tyler, wow that only came out yesterday.
Speaker 2:You transitioned really well, Tyler, you did. We just want everyone to know we love Tyler. Sam's great too.
Speaker 4:Yeah, sam's, great, but.
Speaker 2:Tyler.
Speaker 4:He who finds a good wife. Let me just say it.
Speaker 2:There we go.
Speaker 4:Too true.
Speaker 2:But Tyler is transition Tyler, so he will always be special in our hearts. Anyways, what are you the most nerdy about? You're nerdy about a lot, but what is the you?
Speaker 1:know what I mean.
Speaker 3:You know what I'm saying. We are divulging so much In high school. Trash Cat left.
Speaker 1:Trash Cat can take that. So when we're talking about nerdy stuff, you know like can I get a?
Speaker 4:yeah, that's what we're talking about okay, so yeah I definitely first off shout out to all my yes yeah, yeah, I definitely was a marvel you know superhero comic book nerd in high school. But Marvel movies just aren't the same.
Speaker 2:They're not Shout out to original Marvel.
Speaker 4:Yeah, the TV shows.
Speaker 1:I get so mad because it's like these trailers Paris is about to rant. A little rant. It's just like wow, that Captain America movie trailer looks really great, but I know they're going to screw it up.
Speaker 4:That's the expectation. It's like okay, okay, so I'm gonna watch this, but I'm gonna hate it, like like watch it in anger like I've been conditioned, that like I can't just give up on marvel, but at the same time it is a waste maybe you should give up on marvel I should like, I just should like they dropped that new trailer for the daredevil show and it's like we started watching the old one to lead up to and I'm like, is this even worth my time?
Speaker 1:Because I'm going to be disappointed.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so now I don't really have time for a lot of that, but I am pretty nerdy about the Bible and its original languages.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Talking about papyrus.
Speaker 4:That Greek nerd that.
Speaker 2:Koinonia, greekreek baby. Okay to know. What are you nerdy about?
Speaker 3:oh, which hyper focus do I mention?
Speaker 2:the, the one that you are currently hyper focused on didn't you hear our like two minutes of divulging into just mouth sounds a second ago?
Speaker 3:I was too locked into the mouth. How?
Speaker 2:more clear do we have to be? There's only one true nerdy thing that you nerd out about All the rest of them you use to mask that one thing.
Speaker 3:Uh, oh, yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, come on.
Speaker 3:Probably probably Asian countries.
Speaker 1:I know, that sounds so strange how many asian countries have you been? To?
Speaker 3:one one for now, how many you've been to?
Speaker 2:I've been to one different one than me, though how many have you been to, john? Oh, thanks for asking You're asking One. Four.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:What I've been to Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, Nepal.
Speaker 3:When do?
Speaker 1:airports count. I was about to say do airports count? Airports don't count.
Speaker 2:International airports count because the culture is there.
Speaker 4:That's true. So I've been to France. Booyah, there you go. I've been to Canada. I've been to Germany.
Speaker 1:Thatoyah, there you go. I've been to Canada.
Speaker 3:I've been to Germany. That German airport is so terrifying, oh my.
Speaker 2:God, you can say airports don't count. When you're talking about states, the American states and the different states you're going to, it's like ah, whatever, you haven't experienced the state. But there is culture shock within the airports.
Speaker 1:How is Korea's public transit? I know that's a weird question to ask.
Speaker 3:No, it's so nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So I took a lot of bus rides and a lot of train rides in Korea. That's how we got around mostly.
Speaker 1:I think that Asians just know how to get places.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because Japan's public transit is just top. Mint the best, mint the best.
Speaker 2:Like seriously, I will say that Nepal's public transit is awful. I love the Nepali people, but one stoplight in your entire country is not enough. Jeez yeah.
Speaker 3:I think also in South Korea, everyone is really, really respectful and so public transit works because you don't have, like in Atlanta, nobody wants to take public transit because you got the like terrifying people in the corner like mumbling to themselves. And then when you go to Korea or Japan, you're the one in the corner mumbling yeah, no, there was such like a culture of silence on the bus and on the train, so I, literally I, tried so hard to not be the loud American.
Speaker 1:It's impossible, it is, but I couldn't help it. It really is. Oh say, can you see?
Speaker 3:I had to try to get the Colombians to be quiet Because they had no understanding of. Hey when we're on the bus, you can't talk.
Speaker 2:You think North Americans are rowdy, you get them South Americans in public South.
Speaker 3:Americans are like yelling at each other and like laughing so loud, and I'm like God and that's a normal volume for them.
Speaker 1:The thing is and it's true is, until you're there and experience a train full of stuff packed full of people and it's completely silent, you don't understand what that is. It's so weird to be in it, especially for being an American.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and Koreans are really good about falling asleep anywhere. And so one of my friends, one of my teammates, is Korean and I looked over and as soon as she sat down she was out, like she was just asleep, like against the side of the train. It was so funny.
Speaker 1:So Korea? Is it so? For me, when I was in Japan, it's just like back alleys where you would get murdered in the States. Right, it's just a normal street and it's completely safe everywhere. Is it like that in Korea as well?
Speaker 3:Does murder exist in South Korea, so, interestingly enough, there isn't theft in South Korea. So one of my friends went out on one of our off days. She went out to go to a few cafes and there's a lot of picture studios, studios that you can go to and you literally it's just like self-serve, uh photo booths. And so, anyway, she left her credit card in one of the booths, went to dinner, went to dessert and then on her way home realized, and so they went back there, her card was laying there. Like people don't steal things in korea that much. If they take it it's because they're like taking it to be returned or like taking it to like a lost and found.
Speaker 3:So that's really interesting it's just like a cultural expectation to be a decent person yeah, although there's a lot of littering in seoul because there are no trash cans anywhere, like there are no public trash cans, it.
Speaker 1:It's the same way in Japan, but the expectation is is you will take care of your trash like somewhere.
Speaker 3:I would find like I would find just like as if someone sat down to like eat some food and their drinks were still there and I would just see it left there, because there's no public trash cans anywhere. So that was my favorite thing Returning to America. All of my friends too. We got there and we were like a trash can. We were so happy like I threw away my trash in the airport with such delight, because when I was in korea I just always had trash like in my purse and in my pocket because I couldn't throw it away anywhere.
Speaker 1:So that was the biggest, biggest shock all right, so the asian talk is over now. What was my? What are you nerdy?
Speaker 3:what are you nerdy about?
Speaker 2:well, south korea, that's for sure I would like to point out that the south, specifically in georgia, it used to be that you could leave your wallet on the counter somewhere and come back and it would be there. Like the restaurant would be like oh yeah, you left your wallet and everything would be in there and all that stuff. It used to be that way, like you could be very comfortable in your community. It's changed and I don't want to say why I have my own personal opinions, but I don't really know why but it has changed a little bit. Like it is a little bit harder to say there's low crime, but apparently Woodstock is the second safest city in Georgia.
Speaker 2:Wow, or the least amount of crime.
Speaker 4:I believe it.
Speaker 2:I watched a video today. I don't remember what number one was there's also the least amount of parking in Woodstock. Yeah, that's true, there is no parking.
Speaker 4:I take crime horrelation.
Speaker 1:I was going to say if you own a car, you're a criminal. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 4:Basically.
Speaker 2:All car owners are criminals.
Speaker 4:I mean, they basically are riding around in I was wondering why you didn't drive yourself here. I'm not a criminal. Wait what?
Speaker 3:I drove here.
Speaker 4:You're a criminal. Criminal, alright Wait.
Speaker 2:Another question for you guys. Okay.
Speaker 3:I don't want to talk about what I'm nerdy about.
Speaker 2:Okay, go ahead and keep on talking.
Speaker 3:Okay, so I love. Ever since I was a kid my gateway was Jackie Chan. I loved the Jackie Chan movies and the Jackie Chan adventures TV show that I watched with Johnny all the time. It was awesome. And then it kept going and through Jairus and some other friends, I was introduced to anime. Loved that. So then Japan became my hyper focus.
Speaker 3:I took Japanese lessons in high school so I became conversational in Japanese oh hi, oh hi, and then we somehow transitioned to K-pop, I'm not sure In high school somewhere, and so then, yeah, I loved Seventeen and BTS and all of those groups.
Speaker 1:Can I tell a quick story, real quick?
Speaker 3:Wait, let me finish.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sorry, sorry.
Speaker 3:And then. So then I started learning so much about Korea and Korean language, korean history, korean culture, and then the Lord literally like fulfilled the desires of my heart to go to Korea and I got to go to Korea and I became friends with so many Koreans and I translated for my team a little bit and so, yeah, I also have dipped into some other like oh, chinese culture and Chinese language and history and Vietnamese things and things like that, but Japan and South Korea were my main obsessions. I don't know Interests. I was really, really intrigued.
Speaker 2:Come something out.
Speaker 3:Come something out.
Speaker 1:So I remember one time being over, you were over at John's house and I was over there and we were watching some sort of award show of some kind.
Speaker 3:Oh, I know what story you're telling. So BTS was like there, they were about to it was the AMAs, it was the American Music Awards, and BTS was performing and they were going to perform and like.
Speaker 1:So you got excited because they were there and every single time they would cut to BTS in the audience at any point.
Speaker 3:BTS no trash can?
Speaker 1:I scared the cat away, but it was just so funny. It's just like they'd show their face for two seconds. You would fangirl and freak out and scream about it.
Speaker 3:And then when they were performing, Jairus went to take the remote and like change the channel or something like that. I have never acted so fast in my life, like my face went blank. I was serious. I was on a mission to like change the channel back and jairus laughed so hard because he was like chanel. I've never seen you look so serious before about five guys you've never met.
Speaker 1:Seven, sorry, seven guys you've never met.
Speaker 2:I don't, I don't know about bt, I don't know okay if you could only watch one movie for the rest of your life, what movie would it be?
Speaker 1:your brother's home video of singing about his teddy.
Speaker 4:Me and my teddy getting all wetty. Getting all wetty for school.
Speaker 2:Okay come on, come on.
Speaker 3:I don't really watch movies that much.
Speaker 2:You just sat here and talked about how watching Jackie Chan and anime inspired you to get nerdy about Asia.
Speaker 4:My neighbor Totoro, I mean, you do love Howl's Moving Castle, I do love.
Speaker 3:Howl's Moving Castle. You answer this first. You're more of a movie buff than I am Movie buff.
Speaker 4:I am pretty buff. Thank you for noticing.
Speaker 1:I've been working out.
Speaker 4:Hitting the gym. If I could only watch one movie over and over and over again for the rest of my life, it would probably be, don't take my answer, because I just thought of a really good one. It would probably be the original Captain America.
Speaker 1:False, it's actually Winter Soldier. It's the best Captain America movie.
Speaker 4:Incorrect. You're incorrect. Agree to disagree your face is incorrect. I don't understand.
Speaker 1:It is by far just a more superior movie. Captain America movie. I'm sorry, okay, nazi calm down.
Speaker 2:Wow, wow, he's over here.
Speaker 3:Hail Hydra, over there Winter.
Speaker 2:Soldier is the best Captain America movie. It's far superior to any Marvel movie.
Speaker 3:It's funny because the first one is the one that has the Germans.
Speaker 2:Yeah, freaking Nazis. God, so glad we put them under real quick.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean? Yeah, real quick, they're a pain. Sorry, sorry. Your answer was a viable answer and I apologize for telling you you're wrong, even though you're wrong, wow.
Speaker 2:Hey, not to be that history nerd or anything, but have you ever noticed, whenever America gets involved in stuff that like Things happen. Our attitude. Like everyone always looks at us as like this rambunctious, crazy person, but still we come out on top every time. You know what I mean. It's like the two wars that we lost. It's because we were just running and we were just like why are we doing this?
Speaker 4:Why are we here?
Speaker 2:Let's just stop. How did I get here? The closest thing people can come up with is the War of 1812. They're like oh, americans got it handed to them.
Speaker 3:That wasn't a real war.
Speaker 2:That was child's play, and that was one battle. Come on.
Speaker 4:Only people who care about that war are Canadians.
Speaker 3:They always bring it up. They're always like, actually, the Battle of 1812.
Speaker 2:Thank you, yeah the battle.
Speaker 4:It wasn't a war, it was just a battle.
Speaker 2:It was more of a battle Like one thing Am I right? All right, what's your answer?
Speaker 3:My answer is the Lego Batman movie. I would watch that movie every day of my life and it would still be funny.
Speaker 4:Okay, I'm changing my answer. I'm changing it to the Lego Batman. That one's so good.
Speaker 2:What's the name of the actor who voices the Lego Batman? I can never remember Will.
Speaker 1:Arnett Will, arnett Hot, take I the Lego Batman. I can never Will.
Speaker 2:Arnett, will Arnett at hot take. I actually think that he's the best Batman. I think he's the best Batman.
Speaker 3:He was an incredible, okay DTS story. I told my friends when we were in England we need to watch the Lego Batman movie, so much that I'm pretty sure I rented it on Amazon for us to be able to watch. And I have never been more angry in my life while watching a movie, because to me the Lego Batman, every detail is important and that's how you enjoy it. And so my friends were like some story about my aunt and I'm like guys, shut up.
Speaker 3:Nobody cares about your aunt. This is important. We're watching Lego Batman. I paid money for you all to watch this with me right now.
Speaker 1:I am out $2 because of you people.
Speaker 3:Oh, literally.
Speaker 2:One of her classmates is over in the corner talking to someone pouring their heart out, like yeah, my dad left me for a gallon of milk and Janelle's like Shut up, shut up, go.
Speaker 1:Batman the Joker is saying something funny.
Speaker 3:Okay we got to rewind because that was a funny line and you guys didn't hear it.
Speaker 2:No one cares about your father abandonment issues. He's eating lobster from the microwave. Focus 20.
Speaker 1:No Stupid.
Speaker 2:He's talking about all the different shades of black. Okay, what do you like to do for fun? Last question what do you like to do for fun, julie? Go ahead and go first, since you're not dying.
Speaker 4:I'm not dying over here. I like to read books, watch movies. Knit with yarn as opposed to knitting with noodles. It's very difficult to knit with noodles. Tried it, it was a slippery time.
Speaker 2:Okay, no. So knitting movies, books Cool. Are you into audiobooks at all?
Speaker 4:Not so much. I'm actually very new to the audio world Podcast being.
Speaker 1:Ah, are we your first podcast.
Speaker 4:I think so.
Speaker 1:To listen to.
Speaker 2:Let's be clear.
Speaker 4:To listen to like regularly Every Monday, when you guys drop, I'm listening.
Speaker 2:What if she said like no, I've been on several podcasts, yeah, kind of.
Speaker 1:I thought you were going to say what if she said I watch it every Thursday?
Speaker 4:That would be pretty awkward.
Speaker 2:Yeah, one of my brothers, jeremy. He was sitting with us playing poker and he was like yeah, I listen to it every Tuesday when it comes out and we're like Tuesday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, apparently he has issues with his phone.
Speaker 2:Apparently his phone's. Apple podcast doesn't release the latest episode until Tuesday.
Speaker 1:That might explain why we get a bunch of people listening on Monday and then a lot of people listening on Tuesdays.
Speaker 2:They didn't just release his ring, Apple do better.
Speaker 4:So basically you're saying I'm more informed than Jeremiah? I didn't say that, you said that that was a direct quote from Johnny.
Speaker 1:Listen to the episode on Monday and then, on Monday, text him all the details of the episode before he even has a chance to listen to it.
Speaker 2:That's what happened? Spoiler alert yeah.
Speaker 4:I also love listening to music by Dylan oh Hot take or the Alert.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I also love listening to music by Dylan. Oh Hot take or the DLN experience DLN experience.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he has a new song that came out.
Speaker 4:Heart, bumpin' Heart spilled. Go check it out Heart spilled.
Speaker 1:He is DLN on YouTube right and Spotify and Apple Music. I think it's just those three.
Speaker 2:It's not on Amazon Music, I don't think. I don't think so, but we are. We're on Amazon.
Speaker 1:We're everywhere.
Speaker 3:They're in your basement. Yeah, we're actually behind you right now. Turn around.
Speaker 1:Ashley turn around.
Speaker 2:That would be funny if we worked it out to where all four of us were actually behind. Ashley I don't know if she's listening. That would be funny if we worked it out to where all four of us were actually Behind the action. I don't know if she's listening to it. No, okay, janelle, what do you do for fun?
Speaker 3:So I love fun, so I do a lot of things for fun.
Speaker 2:Fun is me, so whatever I'm doing is fun.
Speaker 3:I kind of bring the fun wherever I am.
Speaker 1:The F in fun means me, the U in fun means me.
Speaker 3:But I think something that is so fun that I have to limit myself, doing like I can't just be like, oh, I'll do this because I enjoy it. It's like, no, I enjoy it so much that it becomes my whole personality. So I have to limit myself and only do it sometimes, and that is diamond dot paintings. Basically, you have a painting.
Speaker 2:I thought you were going to say Settlers of Catan, no.
Speaker 3:Diamond dot painting. It's like it comes with a bunch of tiny little jewels and there's like a symbol associated with a numbered bag, associated with a color of jewels, and then you use a little stick and you just one by one, put so many dots on this.
Speaker 2:I'm over here like why is she still talking it?
Speaker 3:is incredible and I get so into it that I like one time when I was doing one, I didn't want to leave to go to work and I was so tempted to like, bring the painting with me to work to do it, and I was like, no, I can't do that, like that's. That would be crazy.
Speaker 2:I've heard of addictions and obsessions to a lot of different things for a lot of different people, but that is by far the most out there.
Speaker 3:I need deliverance from diamond dot painting.
Speaker 1:I'm on your side. I've seen videos of it. It looks interesting, so it's so. It's paint by numbers, but it's a little square and it's not fun. It's paint by numbers, but it's a little square.
Speaker 3:And it's not fun, it's stressful, but I really enjoy it.
Speaker 4:You literally said it's the most fun I've ever had. It's not fun.
Speaker 3:It's stress. Usually you'd think you would do it to relax. Most people want to do something fun, to relax and let off steam. No, my shoulders tense up when I'm doing it because you've got to be so precise, with every single dot. I'm doing it because you got to be so precise, with every single dot.
Speaker 2:Janelle's just at a Celebrate Recovery meeting. My name is Janelle and I've been six hours sober from diamond painting. We need you to empty your pockets.
Speaker 1:Why is there little squares in your pockets? You'll never catch me alive? No, but like so. You're saying that it's stressful, you get it all tense. Are you getting like that high that like workout people who work out get?
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, she's you getting like that high that like workout people who work out get. Oh yeah, she's releasing a bunch of endorphins.
Speaker 3:Maybe I don't know I get something, because I I can't stop doing it. I love those diamond dot paintings. I got two for christmas. I got one for mom and one for my boyfriend, but I haven't started either of them because I need to wait for the right moment all right, so and I have one I'm still working on. That's like the Van Gogh painting, so it's huge.
Speaker 1:I was about to say how big are these?
Speaker 3:Depends on them. One I did was a butterfly. It was actually the butterfly one was supposed to be Julie's, but she didn't want it. I was like heck nah.
Speaker 4:I was like, I choose peace.
Speaker 3:So she gave it to me and that was pretty small, but I did one that was like that big, that big.
Speaker 1:This is a audio podcast.
Speaker 3:Like maybe a foot by like 18 inches.
Speaker 1:Nice.
Speaker 3:Or maybe like 10 by 18.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, All right, we're going to wrap it up Before we do.
Speaker 1:Okay. I got a response from Sam oh no, tyler, this is your transition, so we'll do this one last time. So again we said to Sam so I'm your favorite, sam. That's so offensive, I can't believe. You said that Door and Sam responded with oh no, but you are the favorite, jairus, so one last round.
Speaker 3:Sam's too sweet to prank.
Speaker 2:Would you just get off your high horse and say something funny to?
Speaker 1:Sam Just say something mean and funny to Sam.
Speaker 3:Okay, fine, maybe I'll say pee-pee-poo-poo.
Speaker 2:That was good. Was it not good to end it out with poo-poo, pee-pee?
Speaker 1:poo-poo-poo-pee-pee.
Speaker 4:Well, we started with pee-pee-poo-poo-poo-poo. No, no, the very first one.
Speaker 3:it was, them being all sweet and sentimental and then it ended with a bunch of oh my gosh, julie, that's crazy, that's wild, I don't know.
Speaker 4:Oh, I don't even know how to. I don't even know how to Janelle. I don't know what to add winky face wow, no reaction, whoa he is a rock, he is an island.
Speaker 3:I broke at that.
Speaker 4:I'm the professional and I broke oh, my goodness, no, when you're talking about diamond dots. I took a power nap because that put me right to sleep.
Speaker 3:To each their own.
Speaker 1:I feel like yours is going to be. Have you ever heard of diamond dots, Sam? So did you, Okay, Okay. So it says that's what my wife said last night the CIA is behind the fluoride in the water. Winky face, Sorry. And there's a winky face between those two. Oh my God. Okay, that was fun there we go.
Speaker 3:Thanks Sam for being a good player. Yeah, thanks Sam.
Speaker 2:If you like this episode, you can check out. We've got. This is our 20th episode, so we have 19 other episodes plus bonus content Bonus episode it's all free, it's all anywhere you can get your podcasts.
Speaker 1:If you are paying for this podcast, stop. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And then also if you check us out on YouTube, because we do all of our episode releases there as well, but we have a live stream recording that's left there for you guys to be entertained with Janelle's on that and Janelle is on that. Oh yeah, we do play a couple of mini games in there and do shout out to different nerdy stuff that we like.
Speaker 3:No diamond dot painting.
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Speaker 1:So we've been neglecting comments a little bit for this month, just because we really wanted to focus on the ministry stuff. But I think we should have like we'll have a bonus episode come out where we just address the comments that we've been having coming in. Sure, we can do that, so yeah. So be on the lookout for our bonus comment episode and tune in next week when the episode becomes legal to drink. Ooh what Episode 21.
Speaker 2:Oh, episode 21.
Speaker 3:I got you yours If you've made it this far into the podcast comment pee-pee-poo-poo, poo-pee-pee-poo-pee.
Speaker 2:Poopy pee-pee.
Speaker 1:Poopy, poopy, pee-pee.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 1:And also comment what you want us to say to Sam and we'll text it to him in the next episode. Yeah, we'll do it on air.
Speaker 2:But anyways, yeah, we love you guys. Hope you enjoyed it and if you need prayer for anything, feel free to reach out to us at any of our socials or you can email us at saintsthatserveatgmailcom. Again, you can email us for any questions or prayer requests at saintsthatserveatgmailcom, or there's a direct SMS messaging link at the bottom of the description for this episode. Okay, that's all we got. Thank you, janelle and Julie, for coming on and sharing your stories. We love you guys and we love you viewers. We love you so much.
Speaker 1:Listeners, we love you listeners.
Speaker 3:No if there are viewers out there. How and why Back?
Speaker 4:up, back up. How and why Back up, back up.
Speaker 1:I love how he went for the visual gag on that In the joke talking about. I did it for you guys.
Speaker 2:And whoever's watching. Christ is Lord and the kingdom is now. We are the saints that serve.
Speaker 4:Okay, I need to clear the air since we're still recording. I am the sister that Dylan is dating. Oh my God, because he came on right after Janelle's episode and I'm convinced that everyone thinks that he's Janelle's boyfriend. He's not. Uh-oh, put that out there.
Speaker 1:PSA, you want to start over? We'll put this at the end of the episode.
Speaker 4:My name is Julie and Dylan is my boyfriend, and it is not Janelle.
Speaker 2:So what you're saying is that he spilled his heart out for you?
Speaker 3:Yes, I spilled on the floor oh.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 4:Potatoes my first love. What Potatoes oh Bo potatoes my first love. What potatoes boil them, mash them, put them in a stew hopefully it's jesus christ, so it's potatoes.
Speaker 1:Jesus, then dylan, is that, is that what?
Speaker 2:you're underneath the root bro is higher than you.
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