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Hope Farm 2 -- A Retired Executive Learns God Is Not Done · Welcome Home. Here, Us, Now.

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_02: Welcome home, Hear Us Now, a podcast of the Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County, a space for all of us seeking what's real and sacred in a world that rushes past the soul.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_02: I'm Eric Engelman, a volunteer at UGMTC, and your co-host, President and CEO of UGMTC, Charles Wolford.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_02: This is the second part of an interview with the executive director of Hope Farm, Satcher Dawson.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_02: We'll hear about his first encounters with Hope Farm and a story about his becoming the director.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_01: Let's do this.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_01: I want to uh our listening audience always love to hear of success stories.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_01: And um I I know that you could probably chat with us the rest of the day with so many amazing success stories.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_01: But would you do us a favor and bless us uh with one of your success stories of a young man that you all have had a chance to work with?
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_01: But then uh as we hear that story, uh uh our audience need to hear your story.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_01: What led you to Hope Farm?
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_01: And then uh Eric is gonna close us with a good word of prayer.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_01: But let's did you mind blessing us with a story.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_01: From what what what lights Hope Farm up and what's one of your success experiences?
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so very good.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_00: So we just had well, so we just had our gala not too long ago.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, and um and so one of the um men on the uh the gala was we had a fireside chat with one of our alumni.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: And so he came into the program um and he was about seven or eight years old.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: And we found out that you know he had a learning difference.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: And so he was getting bullied at school, um, grades weren't going good.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and and he had lost both of his parents.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: Oh man.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_00: So he has no recollection or his mom or his dad.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_00: So he was being raised by his 80-year-old grandmother.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_00: And so she brought him to Hope Farm.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: We found out he had learning differences, we got him over to the Hill School, which is a school for learning differences.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: And by the time he graduated, he was A B honor roll, he was captain of the basketball team on SGA student government, and uh two years ago he graduated from uh UTA, criminal justice.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_00: He joined the Arletton Police Department.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_00: And so now he is an Arletton police officer.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_01: Oh man.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: And he just don't know how it all happened.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: Praise God.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we know that that that deserves an applause.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_01: God sets people in places, yeah.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_01: Well, thank God for you all and your leadership.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_01: But how did you end up at Hope Farm?
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's that's a great story.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_00: So so I started volunteering at Hope Farm back in 1997, and all they had was the two-old crackhouse.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_00: And so, and it was amazing how I got there.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_00: So I was working for a company called the Associates then, and the president of the company was Mr.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_00: Tom Sloan.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_00: He was a philanthropist, but he was big on United Way.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: And so he had met Gary, Mr.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_00: Randall, at one of the Galas, and Mr.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: Randall was telling his vision about Hope Farm, and it was growing.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_00: And so Sloan, a visionary, never forgets anything.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: So the next day he came to work and he called me.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_00: He says, I met this guy about Hope Farms.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_00: He said, Hope farms, yeah, and that's on.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_00: He said, It sounds pretty interesting.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_00: He said, You should go out there and check it out.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_00: So, right, the president of the company tell you to do so.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_00: You gotta go.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_00: So the next day I get in my car, I drove out, uh, and I met Mr.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_00: Randall and Mr.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_00: Crawford.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_00: And man, both of them gave you just these big old bear hugs.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, and it was genuine.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: And so it was 12 boys in the program at the time.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_00: So at three o'clock, they came down from Morningside Elementary.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: And each one of them lined up, man, they gave me a firm handshake, and he looked me in the eyes and said, My name is Jeremiah.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_00: Pleased to meet you, sir.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: What's your name?
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_00: And so as I got in my car and driving away, I said, Man, there's something special about this place.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_00: I can't put my finger on it.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: So I went back, I told the president of the company, I said, Man, there's something special out there.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_00: And so he said, okay.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_00: He said, write him a check.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: And so we made a donation, and then we just started pouring in.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_00: We come down for basketball clinics, summer camp, uh, Christmas parties.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we donate gifts, and it was just so amazing just to see the boys tear into that Christmas paper.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_00: And so and so fast forward, uh, 2017, June 30th, 2017.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_00: I thought I was retired.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_01: So that's how that story starts.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_01: We all think we're gonna do when God says something different.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_00: So I got I have 500,000 sky miles.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm debt-free, you know.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_00: Ready to go.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_00: I got all these beats, like every beats in the world.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_00: And so um, and the first year, that's all I did, you know.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_00: And in June.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_01: Did any of that include golf?
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_00: It did.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_00: All right, okay.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_00: And and so 2018, and um it was May, and so my wife said, Yeah, you know, you got some time on your hand.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_00: You ought to go and see if Gary and him need some help with something.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_00: I said, you know, that's a good idea.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_00: I get in my car, I drive out, I said, Hey, Mr.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_00: Randall, I'm early retired, I got some time on my hand, I've done pretty well.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: Uh-uh.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: I was wondering if you had a project that you need some help with.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh-huh.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_00: He said, Man, do I have a project for you?
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: He said, Noble, come over here.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_00: Mr.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_00: Crawford was right next door.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_00: And he came in and he said, repeat what you just said.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_00: And so I did.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: He said, The reason why I brought Mr.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_00: Crawford over here, he said, we had just prayed about this earlier this week, about getting uh transitioning executive director, he says, because of my health.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um see at the time he had been diagnosed with MS and he it wasn't public, but he knew.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_00: And uh and I said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_00: Mr.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_00: Randall, you you you got it all wrong.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_00: He said, Well, what do you mean?
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_00: I said, I mean like a volunteer or or you know a project, not a end.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_00: And Mr.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_00: Randall, Mr.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_00: Randall's about six, seven foot tall.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_00: He just reared back in his chair.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_00: And I've known Gary for a long time.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_00: He said, Satch, man, let me tell you.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_00: He said, if the Lord's got something for you to do, you don't even get a choice.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_00: Look at that.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_00: He said, you can forget about God calling you to do something in the mortgage industry, something you've already mastered.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_00: He said, if the Lord calls you to do something, it's gonna be hard and it's gonna be challenging because when you're successful at it, you have to give him the glory.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, sir.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm driving home.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, man, Gary is crazy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I waited all my life for this, man.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_00: I'm you know.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_00: And so two weeks later, Pastor Evans preached a sermon.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_00: And his sermon says, The Lord is never gonna call you to do something you've already mastered.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_00: He said, if the Lord calls you to do something, it's gonna be hard, it's gonna be challenging.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_00: And he said, and when you're successful at it, you gotta get it up because it couldn't have been you.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Man, I've heard this twice in two weeks.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_00: And so a couple days later, the executive search firm called.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: He said, Um, I've been hired to find an executive director for Hope Farm, and your name has come up a couple times.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Yeah, I talked to Gary.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_00: I told him, you know, I'm I'm not really interested in right now, you know.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_00: He said, Well, just come on over and talk to us anyway.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_00: He said, You got plenty of time, right?
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, Like, yeah, I got nothing but time right now.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_00: And so I did.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_00: I came over and I talked to him, and he knew that the board was already meeting that day.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_00: And so he talked to me and he he asked me some questions, and then finally he said, Well, what are you passionate about?
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_00: I said, You know, I'm passionate about giving back, helping youth.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_00: I said, I've been successful along the way and I've had a lot of help.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_00: I said, I'm really passionate about helping young kids.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um, in fact, I thought about being an elementary basketball coach or YMCA coach to catch them when they're young.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: And he said, That's it.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_00: He said, That's it.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_00: The central thing between you and Hope Farm is they're all coaching young minds.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, sir.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_00: And he said, the boarders over there meeting right now, they like to talk to you.
• 9:00
  unknown: Wow.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: They set you up.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_00: I could I I wasn't gonna get out alive.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_00: I was not.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_00: And so I go over and and there's five or six board members and they firing questions, and and then finally the the executive search firm guy says, so tell them what you're passionate about.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_00: And I told him, I said, I'm really passionate about helping youth and giving back.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: And I thought about being a a young basketball coach or or YMCA coach.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_00: And um and then the the chairman of the board says, Look, we we know who you are.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_00: You've been a uh volunteer for 20 years.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um we've seen your some of your work.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_00: He says, We're but we're interested for two reasons.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_00: He says, a lot of nonprofits start out as mom and pop shops, and then over a period of time they evolved into an organization like Hope Farm, but there's no infrastructure.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_00: He said, You got over 30 years of corporate management.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um and your major is finance, and we're looking for somebody with financial savvy.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_00: And so here's a contract right here.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_01: They had the contract already.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_00: He said, um think about it for two weeks and and and call me back.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I went home and I never mind the contract is about half of what I used to make here, but it wasn't about the money, right?
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um I went home at night, I couldn't sleep.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_00: I just tossed and turned.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_00: The second night I couldn't sleep.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_00: I just tossed and turned.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_00: So then I told my wife, I said, I'm gonna do it.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_00: I signed it, I scanned it, emailed it, and that third night I slept like a baby.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't wake up till 10 a.m.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_00: the next morning.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_01: Had a good night's sleep.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_00: And it's been it's been peaceful ever since.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_00: Now it's hard, but you can say that it's peaceful.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, man.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we are grateful that God was calling you and you answered and said, Yes, I know that Hope Farm is the better for your leadership and your guidance.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_01: We're so grateful uh for your leadership and your ministry.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: What God would you do us a favor before we sign off?
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_01: Would you let our listening audience, if they wanted to find out more information about Hope Farm, if they want to send a gift, what would be the best way to then find information also to send a gift to you?
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, thank you, George.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_00: So you can go to our website, that's number one, and it's hopefarm.org.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_00: H-O-P-E-F-A-R-M.org.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, great.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_00: And and click on the donate.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_01: Hopefarm.org.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_00: You can also do it the old-fashioned way.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_00: You can mail it 865 East Ramsey Avenue, Fort Worth, Texas, 76104.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, or they can call our office at 817-926-9116, and our admin will answer and they'll take she'll take the information over the phone or give you any other information that you may need.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_00: But there's one thing I wanted to say before I left.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_00: And this is so we just closed up our school year and we had our end of the year awards at Hope Farm.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_00: And we I got a note from a grandmother.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_00: And the grandmother said that, hey, I am so glad that my son got into the Hope Farm program this year.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_00: She said, um, in the past, he had suffered with a lot of imperfection, anger being the main one.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_00: And she said, I thank God for each one of you guys who have poured into him.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_00: She said, I don't even recognize my grandson.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_00: She says, now he has so much composure.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_00: He's learned music, um, his his reading level has improved, his attitude overall has improved, and it's just amazing the transformation.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_00: And she said, the most important thing is that he understands the Bible valid.
• 13:22
  unknown: Wow.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_00: And he forces us to look into the Bible even more.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_01: That's a blessing.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: And so, and this is a five-year-old.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_00: And so, Hope Farm is a leadership development program for boys with no fathers in the home, and we also support the single moms.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: And our mission is to transform these underserved youth into Christ-centered men of integrity.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_00: And we do that, we generally use what we call our four-pillar approach.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_00: We call it read, feed, parent, and empower.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_00: The third pillar is parent.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_00: And so it took us about 10 or 15 years to figure out that you can pour into these young men and you can pour into these young men.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_00: But unless you pour into the moms, your message is just going to get lost at home.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_00: So now when the boys join, the single moms have to join as well.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_00: And they go through what we call our program uh Parent University.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_00: And Parent University offers them parenting tips, spiritual tips.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_00: They offer them uh professional development seminars.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_00: They have to meet once a month, the second Tuesday of every month.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_00: They have to do 10 hours of volunteer work each semester.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_00: So they are on campus all the time.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_00: And they have their own building where they can come in.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_00: If they need to fill out an application, they can use our uh laptops and computers and printers and scan and email.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: If they're hungry, we have a kitchen, they can come in and cook themselves a meal.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_00: We have food in the refrigerator, they can do that.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_00: If they just want to come in and decompress, there's a big television, they can sit down and watch television.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_02: Oh no.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_00: You know, there is a a coordinator.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_00: We have a mother's resource coordinator that's in there because sometimes they have to decompress to get to a point where you know they can open up to you.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_00: And so you have to meet some of these mom uh where they are.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: Praise God.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_00: And and that's who we are at Whole Farm.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_00: We sow seeds.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you may not see those that harvest for a long period of time.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_00: But sometimes they pop right up.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, sir.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_02: One of the things that I've I've learned about Jesus is also that he knew how to ask questions.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely he did.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_02: And and I get the idea that in some time alone in these programs, there are chances for kids to ask men a little bit of what life is about.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: That is absolutely right.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_00: So part of our program is mentoring, a big portion of it.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_00: And so um our uh program directors model for these young men every day.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: And they get some of the most unusual questions.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_00: But we also get some responses back.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_00: For example, last December, one of the parents called and said, you know, um, I'm calling to say thank you to Mr.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_00: Drew.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_00: Well, Mr.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_00: Drew is our Bible instructor for the youth, right?
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_00: And she says, the reason why I want to say thank you is because the same Bible verses and biblical applications that Elijah learns at home at uh Hope Farm, he comes back and he shares it with me and his older sister at home.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_00: And because of that, now we're back in church.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_00: So what we've taught an eight-year-old boy is how to have Bible study in the household.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_00: And that's because he was asking all the right questions at at Hope Farm and he got the answers, and so he was able to go back and relay that to his family.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_00: And so sh Iron Sharpens iron.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_00: And so, and our whole program is that when we bring these kids through the program, by the time they become high school students, we want them to be like employees for us.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: We want the older kids coming back, reaching back, mentoring and helping the younger kids because they can reach them much easier and much quicker than we can.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_00: One of the principals and the guidance counselors came to our office one day and said, uh, Mr.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_00: Dawson, you know, we need your help.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_00: We're in a crisis.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: Because at three o'clock in the afternoons, the drug dealers and and and the gang members are lined up on the perimeter of the campus.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: And they're recruiting third and fourth graders as they walk off and go home.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_00: And so that had to change our our conversations with them in our Friday's fireside chat.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_00: Well, because we ask them sometimes, okay, if a guy walks up to you and hands you a water twenties, what are you gonna do?
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_00: And some of them say, I'm gonna take it.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_00: And and and then some will say, No, uh, because you know, if someone is giving you something, they're expecting something in return.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_00: Ding, ding, ding.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: And so, and and and that's and that's real.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_00: Because a lot of these kids, you know, if they're hungry someday, not sure where their next meal is coming from, guy walks up to you and hands you a water 20s, you're probably not gonna turn it down.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have that male influence in your house to say, you don't need nothing from him.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: I can give you everything that you need.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_00: And so, and these young men taking that money, they don't understand what they just signed up for.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_01: That's it.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_00: And so that's what I want the people to know about Hope Farm.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: This is what we do there.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you all have been listening to the president and CEO of Hope Farm, Mr.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_01: Satcher Dawson.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for your leadership, thank you for your ministry.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_01: We're grateful for Hope Farm in the ministry.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: Eric, as always, lead us out with a word of prayer, uh, and we're grateful for our time together.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for listening.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_02: Amen.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_02: Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_02: Send forth your spirit, and they shall be created, and you shall renew the face of the earth.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_02: Oh God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by that same Holy Spirit we all may be truly wise and ever enjoy your consolation through Christ our Lord.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_02: You plant wives in the dirt, thank you, God, that by the blood of Jesus we are in your hope farm.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_02: In Jesus' name.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_02: Amen.