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Allen Jackson: January 20, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now

January 20, 2025 | S25:E120

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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: January 20, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now | January 20, 2025

Well.
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Good evening. i'm alan jackson.
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Welcome to nashville.
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The story of the good samaritan gives a clear picture
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Of god's desire for us to have mercy on people.
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People in need, no matter who they are or where we find them.
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After describing how the samaritan
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Rescued a hurting man whom others had passed by jesus told
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His hearers, that would be you and me to go and do likewise.
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Well, it never ceases to amaze me how samaritan's purse
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Always seems to show up in times of need all over the world.
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Not long after the ukraine war began,
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They arrived with an army of church volunteers.
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When hamas and hezbollah attacked israel,
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Samaritan first was there in israel.
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Franklin graham, the president of samaritan's
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Purse, dedicated new ambulances to the israeli people.
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I was on the ground in israel, and i know how appreciative of
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The people were,
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Not only of the ambulances,
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But of the resources that samari
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When the floodwaters ruined parts of north carolina
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And tennessee,
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It truly hit home for samaritan's purse as boone,
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The town where they are headquartered, flooded,
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And they found their neighbors in need of help.
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There's also a lot of work they do that's not in the news.
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Medical help in sudan, a new hospital dedicated in kenya.
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Which brings us to our guest, edward graham.
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He's the chief operating officer of samaritan's purse.
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Welcome to our show, sir.
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Hey, pastor.
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Thanks for having me, i appreciate it.
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Well, let's start with the fires and the devastation
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In california.
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The area is still off limits to everyone but rescue personnel.
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And before your
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Organization can go in, all of those who have perished
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Have to be located and their bodies removed.
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That all has to happen before
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You can get in to help the survivors.
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I'm sure you'll send chaplains.
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Tell us how you stayed.
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Your relief for something that covers such a vast area.
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Yeah, it's a great question.
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God's given us some great resources, and
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I want the people in california to know we're praying for them.
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I know there's a lot of hurt. there's a lot of pain.
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We have a lot of friends
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With churches out there that lost, loved ones.
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And they've lost homes.
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So we're praying for those those, family members.
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But we have equipment that we actually keep in california.
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We have a warehouse, and we have an operation
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Christmas child processing center there.
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But we keep equipment there
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Because we've responded to many fires in the past,
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Flooding in california.
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But you need anywhere along the west coast.
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Our equipment comes out of fort in california there
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And we're ready to respond.
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We've actually taken more equipment
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That we keep in dallas, texas.
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And we've shipped it there.
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And so we're ready to surge.
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And like you said, the fires are not contained.
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The state and the local officials
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Are not ready for homeowners to go back to their homes,
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But when they are, samaritan's purse
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Has already been approved to do what we call sifting.
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And you're like, well, what's sifting?
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That's where we go back.
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And we look, we go to the ashes and we try to find memories.
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Maybe it's a wedding ring, earrings,
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Something that helps provide closure.
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And some people may think
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This is silly or a waste of resources.
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We we see more resorts, results for the gospel
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And be able to help those that are hurting
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And provide closure than any other disaster
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When it comes to fires and simply doing safety.
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It's amazing what a ring or trinket
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Finding something that brings back a memory.
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It gets that homeowner talking for the first time,
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And so there's not much you can do after a fire.
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There's complete loss.
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People are talking about this is a rich area.
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It is.
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There are some there are some nice homes,
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Some mansions that have been lost.
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But there's also people
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That don't have insurance, those that are uninsured.
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Lower income homes have been destroyed.
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And so we will go in and we want to serve
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Those communities, but we also want to serve
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And love on the rich. they need jesus, too.
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They need to know that
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Jesus has not forsaken them, has not forgotten them.
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And that's why we go.
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We want them to know that they're loved.
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And so we're ready.
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We're just waiting on the all clear.
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And we'll we'll need volunteers.
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We, i'll need volunteers for a while out there
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To come out and do some hard work of sifting.
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But it's a great ministry.
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You know, disaster is no respecter of persons.
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It comes to all of us.
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But let's move to israel for a moment.
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Or a ceasefire between hamas and israel is taking shape.
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That said, there's always a good chance
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That hamas is hardly ready to give up.
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Historically, these terror groups
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Only stop attacking when they need to rearm.
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Can you tell us what samaritan's purse has already accomplished
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In israel, in both the south and the north.
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And samaritan's purse?
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We immediately responded
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And started working with the government.
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Israel.
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We weren't registered there at the time,
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But they allowed us to come in and start working.
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And, we even been allowed to even do operation
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Christmas child in that country,
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Which is, not normally something you would think of.
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But we started working and supplying ambulances for the,
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The subversion of the red cross,
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And they had to actually go out
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And get funding, for their equipment.
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But they lost a lot of staff members and team members
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That were killed in the response.
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And so samaritan's purse went and bought ambulances
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To include up armored ambulances.
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So in the future, they could go to these areas
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And be safer where they didn't have that capability before.
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And, their, their government officials
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Name the ambulances after those that were lost.
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And we dedicated them. we had two family members there.
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But then dad agreed to actually build more.
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So it takes a while to actually build.
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There's not too many companies that build up armored ambulances
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And resources coming out of covid have been in short supply,
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But we're building them and we'll deliver those as well.
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We want to make sure
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Israel has the resources it needs to safeguard its people
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And care for those that are hurting.
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But we're also starting my something
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My dad has never agreed to before,
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But we're doing, horse equine therapy for young children.
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And those that are hurting,
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That sold is the torturing, the soul, the murdering.
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That's all these horrible images.
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And these little kids are struggling
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Trying to get those images out of their mind.
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And we want them to know how to surrender
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That and help them put it at the foot of the cross.
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And so we've been asked to do this.
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We're starting that program as well.
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There's also some medical, work
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That we've been doing with some clinics
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And some parts of, of israel.
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But also being there has helped us
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And give us some opportunities.
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And where we're looking,
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Especially with the fallout of what we see in syria.
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And, we're looking at work to where
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We've already been working in parts of syria
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On the eastern side.
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But even what can be done there
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In damascus with the fall of the government,
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We've got some great relationships
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There with the current government.
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And, there's some open door, so pray about that.
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My father was a veterinarian.
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He had an equine practice.
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And i know that equine therapy can make an enormous difference.
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I'm excited to hear about that happening in israel.
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Yeah, now we are too.
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We're excited. my dad, we grew up with horses.
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I don't think my dad ever liked them,
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But i grew up on oh, not quarter horses.
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My mom was a big horse person, so us boys
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And my sister are a little bit more used to.
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And then my father is.
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Well, let's go back to this country
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Now, tell us how
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Things are going
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In the southern part of the country
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Where the hurricane created
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Some epic flooding, wiped out homes and whole towns.
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How are your efforts going there?
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Especially with the cold days of winter upon us?
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It's been very cold.
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We've had a lot of snow.
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We've had snow on the ground
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For the really the last week and a half here in boone.
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We got up to about six,
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Eight inches in some areas with high drifting.
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The winds have picked up and it hasn't really melted.
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So everything from where i live really in boone,
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North carolina, which is up really
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In the northwestern part of the state,
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And then everywhere down to where my father was
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Born and raised in asheville, north carolina, buncombe county.
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That's just been decimated and destroyed and a lot of work.
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So samaritan's purse were closing down
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What we call our work orders.
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And that's where we first immediate responded
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Cleaning up homes, mucking up homes,
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Getting the mud out, drying them in,
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Taking chainsaws and cutting the trees back,
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Bringing the debris and the wet stuff to the roads
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And letting the the state and the county pick them up.
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But now we've already begun what we call
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The rebuild the assessment process.
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And this is where we build homes
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For the uninsured and uninsured.
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In this case,
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There is no flood insurance in western north carolina.
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And so we've we budgeted for over a thousand homes.
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Those are traditional stick built homes
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But also mobile homes.
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We do mobile
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Because if you were in a mobile home before
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And we built you
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A stick built on taxes
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Would probably take that home from you later on.
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So we do case management.
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We have case managers figure out the right home
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And get those people in there.
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But in the meantime, like you said, it's cold.
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We had people living in tents, people living in shacks.
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My wife was just interviewing a family this week
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Or for a few weeks.
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They were living in a non powered shack and taking water
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With cold water, with buckets of water, and they had children.
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Now that has some health challenges.
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And so it breaks your heart to see people living like this.
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But some person has been
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Taking campers and these are, campers.
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They can survive cold weather that are winterized.
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And we're taking them in there
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Until we can build them a home
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And give them a safe home, because
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You have to go to the paperwork.
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We have to figure out the new flood zones.
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Unfortunately, that takes time before we can build.
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So we're giving them campers, those that lost their cars.
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We're giving them, cars and insurance didn't
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Cover brand new cars.
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We're delivering those.
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There's also people, if you think about it,
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You lost your home. you lost your car.
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You didn't have insurance.
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You're a teacher.
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Your husband's a sheriff deputy.
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How are you ever going to pay off that mortgage,
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Your car, painting? you're underwater.
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And so we're canceling mortgages,
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And we've been canceling car payments
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To get people back on their feet.
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But we do this through all through the local church
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Because we want people know they're not forsaken
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Their loved.
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And this one's been hard.
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I mean, it's,
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You know, get emotional about it because it's my hometown.
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I've got staff that are hurting and it's been a long go,
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But i couldn't be more
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Proud of western north carolina if i could take
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I tell people all the time
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During the election cycle, if you could take dc
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And you could take new york, la
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And just turn down the volume,
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All that we're hearing
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Coming out in new york city, out of washington, dc,
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And just crank up western north carolina. you'd be proud.
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There's the church has done an incredible job,
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And we're so proud of the work they're doing.
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And the volunteers that have showed their volunteers
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And showed up a numbers we've never seen.
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And i'm so thankful.
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Well, there's a lot of us proud of samaritan's purse.
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Before we go to a short break, tell us where we can donate.
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Yeah.
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If people really.
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What i need is volunteers specially
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Come up for these fires.
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If they want to be involved,
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They can go to
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Samaritan's purse.org
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And we'll say how to get involved
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And they'll show the locations we're currently deployed
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To include.
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If you want to help
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With rebuilds
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Here in western north carolina and be part of the
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Construction project, they get 1000 new homes in.
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So sign up and then we look at that.
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Pray for those areas.
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I would really like you praying
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For all these areas we're working in.
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But we'll be right back after this
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Short break.
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Short break.
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Done.
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We're back now with edward graham,
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The grandson of billy graham and the son of franklin graham.
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Let's move to africa.
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You've recently dedicated a new hospital in kenya.
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What are the needs in kenya, and how did you manage
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To get a new hospital built and staffed?
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Well, it's, it's a hospital we've worked with
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For a long time.
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Samaritan's purse
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Has had a relationship with this hospital, really?
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Since i was a born, young child.
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And it's the first hospital i ever visited with my father.
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Mission hospital, and it's called tin work.
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And i was there when i first left the army
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About seven years ago.
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I went and visit this hospital,
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And one of the doctors
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There had a dream
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About being the premier hospital in all of africa,
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And they could bring people from all of africa
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To do the heart surgeries there.
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He's trained an incredible team of kenyans and africans,
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And i was watching a heart surgery on a young child,
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And it was all african that was working on them.
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And so i agreed with that dream.
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We were looking for resources and other donors to come in
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And help build this,
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Because it was going to be a $40 million project.
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My dad looked at me and said, build it.
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And so we stayed committed with them and we built it.
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Just dedicated it is the premier,
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Heart hospital in all of sub-saharan africa.
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Maybe an are you all of africa?
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And when the president of kenya came and visited
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And his staff and cabinet members and different senators,
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They were all amazed.
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A matter of fact, most people there go to india
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To get the heart surgeries, he said.
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India will now come to us and, they've never seen anything in
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Africa like this.
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And so it's all train of staff there locally.
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And ten week is a lease but an hour flight from nairobi
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To drive. it takes about six hours.
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So you're pretty far out there.
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But incredible staff, incredible hospital.
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And they're doing some life saving,
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State of the art surgeries.
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It is a neat facility. it's awesome.
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Beyond kenya, i want to ask
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You about the medical service you provide in the sudan.
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Can you give us some idea of what
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The people there have needed and are getting now
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That civil war has been going on?
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I know two years, but really it's been almost 50.
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Yeah, well people forget it is a long conflict.
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And just recently that was another neo
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Noncombatant extraction that the u.s.
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Government had to do to take the embassy out.
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It collapsed
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There in afghanistan during the last administration.
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And so all these displaced people,
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We found several about a million displaced people.
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But in this one area, there's great medical needs,
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And we've been helping with feeding.
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But the medical needs arose.
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So we sent our hospitals into port sudan.
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Our own cargo plane shipped it down.
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It's about a 12 hour drive to get down there, set it up.
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And what we're doing is we're treating women.
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And when you've got about a million people,
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Those are a lot of babies that need to be delivered.
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There's a lot of need,
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Specially for the ladies and for the women of this world.
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So that's what we've been treating,
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Providing life saving surgeries, and giving birth to children.
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And, we've got an incredible
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Medical team that's being a part of it.
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I believe we've already seen 2000 patients,
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And i think it's 80 babies that have been born already.
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So praise the lord.
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We appreciate the,
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The resources he's entrusted with,
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But we do it in the name of jesus christ.
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Even in sudan, a muslim country.
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Awesome.
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Well, finally, ukraine,
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You and your father were there
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When the bombs were flying overhead.
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The war continues.
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And russia's getting help now from china and north korea.
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How are the ukrainian people
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Doing in the zones where samaritan's purse is assisting?
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And ukraine's been very resilient,
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And we've had over 2300 churches in the past that did operation
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Christmas child.
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So we've always set up our hospitals.
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We've been using that operation
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Christmas child network to feed, and we've sent metric tons
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And over the years of food to get to where it's needed,
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Really on that eastern front.
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And so proud of the church and what they've done.
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But we've also provided other medical needs clinics,
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Warming kits. it's cold in the winter times.
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So providing stoves and do a new roofing programs
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Because these families, after they get bombed out,
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They're not leaving, they're staying there.
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And so it'll be interesting if it comes quickly.
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You know, we saw what just happened in the middle east.
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I think there is possibility that the
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Two sides will come together.
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I think they're tired of war.
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Both sides and both sides are getting desperate for an answer.
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So i'm praying for trump
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To have wisdom as he navigates these conversations.
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But i won't be surprised
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If you do see something coming up shortly.
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And samaritan's purse is already budgeted
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And state money committed to build
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To help rebuild the churches there in ukraine.
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It's the most church country and all of europe,
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So we're ready to partner with these churches
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And help them get rebuilt, especially help
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Those that are suffering from this war.
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Just the war weariness.
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And there's a lot of black trauma that comes out evil
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That's come out of this.
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And we want them to know that jesus loves them.
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Amen.
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Well, one more time, eduard, please tell our viewers
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Where they can give
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Or where they can sign up to be a part of the effort.
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Know if you have want more information and for definitely.
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If you want to know how to pray, go to samaritan's purse.org.
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We thank you for what you're doing all over the earth
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On behalf of the people who are suffering,
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But as a representative of the kingdom of god,
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We're all proud of you.
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Hope you'll come back and check
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With and check in with us a little later in the spring.
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I well, thanks, pastor.
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I appreciate this opportunity. you're great to us.
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All right. keep up the good work.
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I'll be back with some of my own thoughts.
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Just a moment.
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Just a moment.
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For, you know, i was in israel multiple times last year.
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I had the opportunity to visit the site of the music festival
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When that
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Horrible attack from hamas and the people of gaza began.
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I was welcomed into a number of those communities
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That had suffered
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So horribly from that violent terrorist attack.
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And the open door to that had been samaritan's purse,
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Their generosity with the ambulances,
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They provided
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The resources they made available to
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Those families who had lost so much.
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And the communities who had been devastated
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Left an open door for those of us
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Who were christians and visiting the land of israel,
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I got to see firsthand the difference that their hard
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Work, their generosity made in the name of our lord.
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It was not only inspiring, it was humbling to see.
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I hope you heard the invitation today.
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They're looking for volunteers
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To be a part of helping rebuild the
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The flood areas in carolina,
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And then where the fires have been taking place in california.
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If you're schedule permits, go to samaritan's purse.org.
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You can sign up and be a part of the solution.
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If we'll do that, i promise you there's more reason for hope
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Than despair.
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Well, your emails in just a moment.
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Well, your emails in just a moment.
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To. thank you for taking the time to send us
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Your emails, your thoughts, opinions, and perspectives.
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They're important to us.
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This is from ed.
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He said i served in the navy during the vietnam war.
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Thankfully, i didn't end up in combat.
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I watched alan jackson
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Now and the topic was veterans dealing with ptsd.
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Pastor mike hutchins has written a book titled
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Supernatural freedom from the captivity of trauma.
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He's seen many
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Healings from ptsd with veterans and first responders.
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I think you'd find it interesting and insightful.
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I'm a chaplain with the billy graham rapid response team.
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Well, ed, thanks for the tip and thank you for your service.
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We'll share the book title with our friends
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Anna ash from hammonton, new jersey.
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Hi pastor, i watch your show every night.
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What are your thoughts about president trump
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Dissolving the department of education?
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I'm concerned that this will affect
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Programs in public schools.
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My grandson is very smart, but he's on the autism spectrum.
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He needs this program to compete in mainstream schools.
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And he thoughts about this.
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I pray every night
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That this will not affect any child with special needs.
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Well, the reality of
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Of dissolving the department of education seems slim to me.
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That would require 60 votes in the senate,
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And the republicans don't have that many votes.
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Something has to change with our educational system, though.
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It's failing, and it's going to take courage
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For all of us to walk through that season of change.
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And finally, mary from california,
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She said a comment i heard regarding abortion
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That the doctor treating a pregnant
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Woman needs to remember that he has two patients
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To care for the mother and the baby.
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Amen. mary,
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Thanks for your comments.
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Allen Jackson: January 20, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now

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