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Crossroad World Outreach Ministries · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Greeting salutations of welcome my friends to another edition of
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  Speaker 1: The Power Hour on six ten WTV in a Thursday edition,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Chuck Douglas. You know who you are. We take
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  Speaker 1: it from there. We get one hour together, which means
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  Speaker 1: I talk really really fast and you must listen even faster.
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  Speaker 1: My number eight two one nine eight eighty six eight
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  Speaker 1: two one dou WTV in or one eight hundred six'
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  Speaker 1: TEN wtv. In, however Today i'm not going to be
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  Speaker 1: talking about politics or taxes or the legislature Or Donald
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  Speaker 1: trump or interest rates or blah blah blah blah blah blah,
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  Speaker 1: blah because a few weeks AGO i ask you to
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  Speaker 1: help me. OUT i asked you to send me emails
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  Speaker 1: for SOMETHING i Call Difference, day WHERE i want to
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  Speaker 1: just take you, know one of my shows every now and,
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  Speaker 1: then probably On, thursdays and highlight, groups, organizations individuals that
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  Speaker 1: are doing things in my hometown Of columbus and all
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  Speaker 1: over Central ohio to make things. Better today is a Difference.
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  Speaker 1: Day let's do. IT i have been known to call
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  Speaker 1: it the ugly little blue building in the. Bottoms the
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  Speaker 1: address is actually one sixty Five South, Cyprus. Avenue that's
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  Speaker 1: the location of a place Called Crossroads World Outreach, ministries
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  Speaker 1: our feature at this time around On Difference. Day this,
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  Speaker 1: PLACE i say ugly little building as a, joke because,
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  Speaker 1: well there's two. Reasons first of, all because so many
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  Speaker 1: beautiful things happen there because of the work that the people,
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  Speaker 1: do because of all of the volunteer efforts and the
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  Speaker 1: donation efforts and so. Forth and the other reason is
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  Speaker 1: because it is an ugly. Building but that's no reflection
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  Speaker 1: on the man sitting across from you right, Now Pastor
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  Speaker 1: Corey paraso From Crossroads World Outreach. Ministries we've known each
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  Speaker 1: other FOR i think about six years, now AND i
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  Speaker 1: have continued to be supportive and impressed by what happens.
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  Speaker 1: There we got together because of A christmas toy drive
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  Speaker 1: when one of the big organizations that was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be helpful called up and, said, hey we're not going
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  Speaker 1: to be able to honor our. Commitment AND i got
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  Speaker 1: a call asking to help them collect toys FOR i
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  Speaker 1: think it was one hundred and twenty three kids If
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  Speaker 1: i'm not, mistaken that had registered for This christmas toy
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  Speaker 1: giveaway in The franklinton area and folks came through In Central,
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  Speaker 1: ohio and from that moment, FORWARD i, WAS i don't,
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  Speaker 1: know just kind of connected to the. Place it's WHERE
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  Speaker 1: i met The, Queen it's where it's WHERE i go
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  Speaker 1: to see things that make me feel better and useful and,
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  Speaker 1: needed and we can always use more of those down
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  Speaker 1: there as. Well So, corey first of, all thank. You
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  Speaker 1: don't be, nervous it's just me. Absolutely how long ago
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  Speaker 1: did you start with The Christmas toy? Drive when was
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  Speaker 1: it Beginning.
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  Speaker 2: Christmas Toy we actually started that right when we begin
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  Speaker 2: the ministry in twenty, fifteen so twenty, FIFTEEN i think we.
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  Speaker 2: Started we had our first service at one sixty Five
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  Speaker 2: South Cyprus avenue In, may and then it just each
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  Speaker 2: each day each week that we started doing different, things you,
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  Speaker 2: know we could really be. Able we started the FOOD
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  Speaker 2: i think we started that out with just with one,
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  Speaker 2: table started With Love Thy neighbor event you know that
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  Speaker 2: year as, well and then it just came to pass
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  Speaker 2: to be able to do The christmas program that. Year
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  Speaker 2: so since twenty, fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: All the stuff that you do down there probably the most,
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  Speaker 1: impressive AND i you, Know i'm On facebook pretty much
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  Speaker 1: every week when you post at the. CHURCH i will
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  Speaker 1: then share the post need, food get. Food And i'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about free Food. FRIDAY i don't know what to Call.
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  Speaker 1: Saturday that's like free Food friday part, TWO i. Guess
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  Speaker 1: but Every, friday people start gathering about one o'clock in the,
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  Speaker 1: afternoon and there's no government, forms there's NO dna, samples
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  Speaker 1: none of that. Crap there's a sign up, sheet put
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  Speaker 1: down your, name how many people you need to, feed
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  Speaker 1: and then about four point thirty the food giveaway actually.
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  Speaker 1: Begins AND i, mean how many there's always so? Many
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  Speaker 1: how many people do you have any idea how many
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  Speaker 1: numbers wise you are serving with free Food. Fridays now we're.
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  Speaker 2: Serving over twenty five hundred people pretty much by the
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  Speaker 2: end of the, month we're serving over twenty five hundred.
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  Speaker 2: PEOPLE i, know like last Last, saturday we had over
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  Speaker 2: one hundred people one hundred families show, up which was
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  Speaker 2: about three hundred and fifty people that was. Served so
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  Speaker 2: we can definitely tell from the time that we first
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  Speaker 2: started in twenty, fifteen which was just with one table
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  Speaker 2: with one table and just one vendor giving to US
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  Speaker 2: uh to now over you, know eleven tables that either.
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  Speaker 2: Inside mostly we tried to do it. Outside that, way
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  Speaker 2: it's more like a farmer's, market more, inviting and more
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  Speaker 2: people are able to be able to. Come they can
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  Speaker 2: be able to, choose you, know what type of food
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  Speaker 2: and vegetables.
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  Speaker 1: That they would.
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  Speaker 2: Like plus, suites you, know we got we got, suites
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  Speaker 2: we got you, know freshly made. Bread very thankful to
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  Speaker 2: all the vendors that do give to. Us but it
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  Speaker 2: just started off with that one little table and uh
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  Speaker 2: and just the people that, come and it gets we
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  Speaker 2: just have more and more and more people that are being,
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  Speaker 2: SERVED i, think and especially in this year of, transitions
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  Speaker 2: you know as, uh you, Know President trump is doing his,
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  Speaker 2: thing you know to get things back jump. Start you,
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  Speaker 2: know things are going to get worse before they get.
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  Speaker 2: Better and that's the one thing that we're. Seeing we're
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  Speaker 2: seeing a lot more younger people out on the, streets
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  Speaker 2: which was really hard to. See but we want to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that we're. There you, know anytime that anybody's
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  Speaker 2: going to need, help we're going to be there for.
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  Speaker 1: Them the idea that you, know people, say, oh free,
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  Speaker 1: food you probably cheetos and, stuff that is something THAT
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  Speaker 1: i think impresses me a great. Deal the food that
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  Speaker 1: is given. Away there's always just a just a popourri
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  Speaker 1: of fresh produce out. There at, summertime you get the
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  Speaker 1: corn and the tomatoes, especially but there's always oranges and candle,
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  Speaker 1: loope And i've seen sometimes we've got a good selection
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  Speaker 1: watermelon is brought. In and the breads are are not
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  Speaker 1: just you, know your basic white. Bread there's all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of artists and breads out there and things like. That
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  Speaker 1: meat not as free equally or as large as as
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  Speaker 1: we might like it to, be but there's there's usually you,
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  Speaker 1: know plenty of meat involved in free Food fridays as,
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  Speaker 1: well canned, goods prepackaged, stuff, milk. Eggs it's it's good wholesome.
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  Speaker 1: Food and you mentioned young people and people on the
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  Speaker 1: streets and so. Forth the people that come to, this,
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  Speaker 1: yeah some of them are living on the, street under,
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  Speaker 1: bridges behind a car or. Whatever there are also some
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  Speaker 1: people that will roll up after working their job and you,
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  Speaker 1: know they've got bills to, pay and they got more
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  Speaker 1: bills than they got, money and they got to feed the.
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  Speaker 1: Kids and it's it's so wonderful to see this mix
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  Speaker 1: of humanity all together and all being served by this
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  Speaker 1: one common, element which is to help. People and that's
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  Speaker 1: THAT'S i think the beauty of what happens a, crossroads.
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  Speaker 2: Yep and that's one of the things that THAT i
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  Speaker 2: truly enjoy it is seeing the diverse city that does
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  Speaker 2: come to to the. Crossroads and and one of the
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  Speaker 2: things is it's it's not it's not by, age because
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  Speaker 2: we have we have you, know seniors that come to.
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  Speaker 2: Crossroads some of them are coming in, wheelchairs some of
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  Speaker 2: them are coming with, canes and you, know and and
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  Speaker 2: they have to. Pick they have to pick Either, hey
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  Speaker 2: DO i want to eat today or DO i want
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  Speaker 2: to be able to take my medication? Today and that's
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  Speaker 2: something that you, know we don't want any of our you,
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  Speaker 2: know order folks to be able to choose over. That.
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  Speaker 2: Uh and then we got younger folks that are coming
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  Speaker 2: in that we we, know we don't know why why they're,
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  Speaker 2: here but we know we want to be there for.
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  Speaker 2: Them all different types and nationalities are coming. Here. Uh
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  Speaker 2: AND i truly believe it's just because of the love
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  Speaker 2: that we show, them the respect that we give them
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  Speaker 2: and not judging. Them of, course you know that there's
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  Speaker 2: there's people that are hooked on, drugs chucked on. Alcohol
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  Speaker 2: but the one thing that we have to do is
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  Speaker 2: we have to treat them with the. Humanity got a
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  Speaker 2: love on him as much as, possible because you never
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  Speaker 2: know how you're going to affect their, life to maybe
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  Speaker 2: watch them be able to make the. Change and that's
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  Speaker 2: one THING i really can be able to testify About.
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  Speaker 2: Chuck we have seen, that we have seen people make that.
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  Speaker 2: Change and we've seen people that was hooked on, drugs
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  Speaker 2: hooked on and they came To crossroads And crossroads made
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  Speaker 2: such a difference in their life that they're literally coming
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  Speaker 2: back To crossroads and lending us a hand saying, hey
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  Speaker 2: you know by a young man by the name Of
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  Speaker 2: albert just started donating and helping us. Out and he
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  Speaker 2: was in that situation and he started coming To crossroads
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  Speaker 2: and that became a light to him and then he
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  Speaker 2: was able to get hisself better and he's been clean
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  Speaker 2: for over eleven years now and now he gets back To.
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  Speaker 2: Crossroads he's one of Our he, drives he he, volunteers
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  Speaker 2: he gives and it's just amazing to be able to
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  Speaker 2: see that when you're able to make a difference in
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  Speaker 2: somebody Else's.
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  Speaker 1: Life this is a Power Hour Difference day on six'
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  Speaker 1: ten wtv In With Pastor corey Parasol From Crossroads World.
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  Speaker 1: Outreach ministries if you would like to suggest, a group,
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  Speaker 1: an organization or an individual that might fit the bill
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