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Update - Orphan Shade Builds Homes For Orphans In Malawi · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: And so we begin the third hour here of the
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  Speaker 1: Morning Show with Preston Scott. Great to be with you
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  Speaker 1: this morning, and as promised, let's just jump right to it.
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  Speaker 1: Joining Jose and me on the program today is the
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  Speaker 1: co founder of Orphan Shade. If you want to learn
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  Speaker 1: more as we talk, Orphanshade dot Com is the website
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  Speaker 1: and it's Jay Shirlow back with us. Jay, how are you.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, It's good to chat with you.
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  Speaker 1: Are in Malawi. This is just surreal that you're there.
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  Speaker 2: It is. It's it's been an interesting trip at a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things going on here government wise, and we've
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  Speaker 2: had some challenges, but God's been with us and we're
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  Speaker 2: seeing some really mighty and powerful things that God has done.
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  Speaker 1: Jay, let's set the stage real quickly. Tell everybody give
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  Speaker 1: the elevator, pitch on Orphan Shade first and foremot for
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  Speaker 1: those that might not be aware of the program.
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  Speaker 2: Sure. We are partnered with a local church here in
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  Speaker 2: Malawi that has about one hundred and fifty church plans
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  Speaker 2: all in the southern region of Malawi, and so we
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  Speaker 2: have partnered together to serve orphan girls who had lost
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  Speaker 2: both parents as well as being in a situation where
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  Speaker 2: they might have been abuse, they have come through difficult circumstances,
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  Speaker 2: and so we build a home in a village where
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  Speaker 2: our partner has a church plant. Typical church is about
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  Speaker 2: twenty to fifty people that meets underneath a mango tree,
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  Speaker 2: and so we build a home. We recruit eight girls
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  Speaker 2: from that community and between the ages of five and
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  Speaker 2: ten that meet our criteria, and then our church partner
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  Speaker 2: provides a couple to be the parents of those children,
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  Speaker 2: and so we are raising those children typically beyond we're
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  Speaker 2: targeting the eighteen year old range. But our objectives just
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  Speaker 2: to see them see advanced education and to be successful
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  Speaker 2: in their own country.
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  Speaker 1: This is not an orphanage. This is a home for
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  Speaker 1: orphan girls.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we call it a permanent foster home.
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  Speaker 1: As a result, how many homes have you had an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to build in Malawi thus far?
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  Speaker 2: So we have built three homes and have three families
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  Speaker 2: that are operating. The one that your listeners might remember
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  Speaker 2: because you guys helped us raise money to build that home.
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  Speaker 2: It's in the village called Mdcca and that's our third home.
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  Speaker 2: I had the opportunity to visit that family yesterday. We
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  Speaker 2: can talk about that later. However, we're in the process
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  Speaker 2: of building our fourth home, and we have plans to
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  Speaker 2: build homes five and six this year. Number six is
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  Speaker 2: the one that your listeners provided all the funds to construct,
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  Speaker 2: and we're very thankful.
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  Speaker 1: So nice with the noise of the news to push
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  Speaker 1: away and talk about other things that are infinitely more
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  Speaker 1: eternally important, the work of Orphanshade again Orphanshade dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Jay tell us about homes one, two and three and
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  Speaker 1: just kind of update us on the progress the status
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  Speaker 1: you've observed now years later after seeing them uprate, well, I.
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  Speaker 2: Can speak to the home that you're used that your
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  Speaker 2: listeners supported in then Decca home number three. I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: able to go to the other two on this trip.
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  Speaker 2: I got to see the family. Yesterday. I went to
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  Speaker 2: the village and worshiped in the local church with our
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  Speaker 2: friends and had the opportunity to preach the eight girls
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  Speaker 2: who are all there with their parents, and I got
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  Speaker 2: to witness them sing worship music to the audience and
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  Speaker 2: there they are a great choir without any music, which
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  Speaker 2: is very African. Then we went to the home and
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  Speaker 2: when I first sat down with the girls, they were
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  Speaker 2: a little bit stand office, because they haven't seen me
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  Speaker 2: in twenty four months, and even that was sort of
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  Speaker 2: a fast event, and so I just spent time through
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  Speaker 2: a translator, just asking questions and praising them for the
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  Speaker 2: work they've done at school, for all of their hard
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  Speaker 2: work that we're seeing the fruits of now. As an example,
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  Speaker 2: the girls when they first started school this is a
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  Speaker 2: local Malawi school, they failed. Every one of them failed
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  Speaker 2: the first period and they were kind of dejected. But
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  Speaker 2: we hired a tutor and that tutor is still there
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  Speaker 2: working with our girls, and as of the last grading period,
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  Speaker 2: four of the eight girls were ranked number one in
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  Speaker 2: their school year, and that's out of hundreds of students,
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  Speaker 2: and so we're seeing results, which is really encouraging for me.
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  Speaker 2: Another aspect that is really important to us is mental health.
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  Speaker 2: These these are children who have been through so much
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  Speaker 2: trauma that they have experienced the result of their brain
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  Speaker 2: being wired in a dysfunctional way. And so we've been
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  Speaker 2: able to apply some principles that we've been learning to
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  Speaker 2: help these girls unwind from these experiences and really form
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  Speaker 2: attachment relationships with both their parents and with an individual
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  Speaker 2: adult lady from the church who is discipling them, and
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  Speaker 2: so we're really encouraged as to what we're seeing.
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  Speaker 1: The conditions in Malawi generally speaking, what are they very difficult?
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  Speaker 2: Just just this week, the government ran out of hard
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  Speaker 2: currency and did not have the ability to buy fuel
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  Speaker 2: on the open market outside of of mallowing and no
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  Speaker 2: one will give them credit. And so they've gone through
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  Speaker 2: a period of no gas and no diesel for quite
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  Speaker 2: a while, and so that affects everything. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: cars aren't moving, trucks aren't moving, and the whole country
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  Speaker 2: slows down. And this even affected us. We did not
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  Speaker 2: have a full gas tank when we left yesterday to
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  Speaker 2: go to and Becca, and so we decided to go
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  Speaker 2: on faith, and we had less than a quarter of
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  Speaker 2: a tank. We started driving and my friend Elijah noticed
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  Speaker 2: there was a gas station with no line and the
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  Speaker 2: hat fuel and we said, thank you God. It was
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  Speaker 2: a miracle, and so we had just enough gas to
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  Speaker 2: get some of them back and back last night.
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  Speaker 1: The ministry is called Orphan Shade, and it's an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for you to make a difference. A little goes a
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  Speaker 1: very long way in Malawi, a very long way. In
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  Speaker 1: joining US, co founder of Orphan shade Jay Shearlow Jay.
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  Speaker 1: We've got home number four. It's now open or about
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  Speaker 1: to be.
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  Speaker 2: It's under construction. I would say it's about halfway.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Home number five has an amazing story because of
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  Speaker 1: how you came about the property. Please share that.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, we have been looking at a variety of villages
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  Speaker 2: again where our partner has a church, and so our
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  Speaker 2: co founder, Pastor Kompomo, we had him looking around and
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  Speaker 2: sitting down with various pastors and village had been where
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  Speaker 2: they operate. And so one day he is driving along
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  Speaker 2: in our very small with a lot of kilometers on it,
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  Speaker 2: Honda and obviously two wheel drive, and it had been
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  Speaker 2: raining torrentially, and so he's driving along and he gets
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  Speaker 2: stuck in a big slice of mud, and so people
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  Speaker 2: come to try to help him, and it no joy.
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  Speaker 2: He's stuck until things dry out. And so he's sitting
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  Speaker 2: there and he starts talking with the neighbors that are
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  Speaker 2: right there on the road, and eventually he starts talking
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  Speaker 2: to the owner of the property, and so they're chit
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  Speaker 2: chatting and he tells them what we're doing and what
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  Speaker 2: we're looking for, and the guy says, well, that's very interesting.
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  Speaker 2: He says, I've already sold this property. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: close tomorrow and the funds will be transferred. And he said,
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  Speaker 2: but I would like you to have it. And so
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  Speaker 2: he negotiated a price which is lower than what he
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  Speaker 2: sold the land previously. And so we purchased that land,
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  Speaker 2: a beautiful piece of land that is very conveniently located,
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  Speaker 2: and we got it at a below market price. So
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  Speaker 2: we keep having these kinds of things happen, God showing
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  Speaker 2: up in dramatic ways that we cannot explain in the natural.
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  Speaker 2: This is not the only story.
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  Speaker 1: I just you know, it reminds me of an old
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  Speaker 1: expression I don't know who shared it with me said,
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  Speaker 1: There's no such thing as a coincidence in God's economy.
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  Speaker 1: A coincidence is just a miracle where God chooses to
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  Speaker 1: remain anonymous. Amen, and I look at a stuck car
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of who knows where. That leads to
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  Speaker 1: the perfect piece of property. And so once home number
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  Speaker 1: four is finished, you begin work on home number five
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  Speaker 1: on this piece of land.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we've already had the builder out there and we've
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  Speaker 2: picked the spot we're going to build the house. And
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  Speaker 2: so the neighbors are going to clear some land to
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  Speaker 2: help the builder get everything organized, and so everything is
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  Speaker 2: going better than I ever thought, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I every time I talk to somebody that starts a
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  Speaker 1: ministry program, I'm always intrigued by the lessons learned Jay
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  Speaker 1: from Pengetti and Home number one to now hopefully finishing
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  Speaker 1: home numbers five and six this year. What do you
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  Speaker 1: think the ministry you've learned that's most important moving ahead
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  Speaker 1: and forward cast future casting? What's ahead?
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  Speaker 2: I would say that we're now in the stage of
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  Speaker 2: really coning in on our model and making it really
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  Speaker 2: stable and repeatable. But I would say what's more important
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  Speaker 2: than that is that we've really learned from the people
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  Speaker 2: who have been the parents, who are the parents of
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  Speaker 2: our existing homes. We had a great conversation with the
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  Speaker 2: parents in them Deca yesterday, and I got to ask
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  Speaker 2: some really tough questions, uh, and I got quite a
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  Speaker 2: lot of insight from them. They are the experts, not me,
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  Speaker 2: and so we're learning things like how long does it
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  Speaker 2: take for these girls to accept their new mom and dad?
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  Speaker 2: And so we have data now that says it's three months,
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  Speaker 2: and so we have, you know, a process that we're
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  Speaker 2: thinking in our head, but we actually have to use data,
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  Speaker 2: uh and sort of drive our programs so that we
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  Speaker 2: can really hone in on that and teach the parents
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  Speaker 2: of what to expect so that they're not surprised and
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  Speaker 2: that they have the right tools to go through this
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  Speaker 2: process with the children. Another one is that it takes
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  Speaker 2: about six months for things to settle down. And what
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  Speaker 2: I mean by that is when we start a new family,
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  Speaker 2: the community is confused and upset, and so we find
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  Speaker 2: that we are facing the enemy showing up by means
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  Speaker 2: of witchcraft and doing things like that I don't really
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  Speaker 2: want to repeat on the radio, which causes a lot
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  Speaker 2: of problems. And so we now know what to expect
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  Speaker 2: from the community, on the good side and the bad side,
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  Speaker 2: and so we can prepare our families and prepare our
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  Speaker 2: team to really be able to pray into that and
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  Speaker 2: to deal with it as it comes, as opposed to
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  Speaker 2: letting things go by months after months not doing anything
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 1: Well exciting to know that shortly there will be now
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  Speaker 1: thirty two young ladies being served and saved from a
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  Speaker 1: life of great difficulty and having a chance at a
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  Speaker 1: better future thanks to what you Pastor Prince and all
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  Speaker 1: of the people in these churches are doing to help
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  Speaker 1: serve these children. Jay, thank you for sharing time with
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  Speaker 1: us this morning, and godspeed brother my pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Jay Sherlow with us this morning Orphanshade dot Com speaking
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  Speaker 1: to us from Malawi and finishing up home number four.
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  Speaker 1: They've got the land for five and then comes the
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  Speaker 1: home that you people raise the money to build, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's amazing you people. You joined together and
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  Speaker 1: put almost sixty thousand dollars in the bank to build
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  Speaker 1: the second home, almost double what the first one cost.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you and there's an update here on the
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  Speaker 1: Morning Show with Preston Scott