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Ep #182 - Meet Danielle Norwood · Our Community, Our Mission

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day and your blessings and provisions.
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: God, thank you for this time to record this podcast and, lord, just thank you for our special friend who's on today.
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: Pray that you'd bless this time, bless this conversation and Lord, we just pray the ears that would hear it would be blessed and encouraged to action.
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: Father, in your holy name, we pray.
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: Hello everyone, this is Lamanda Broyles, the executive director here at the Topeka Rescue Mission, and welcome to our community.
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: Our mission on this Wednesday, july 19th 2023, podcast episode Miriam, oh no.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: Just look down, it's on the paper.
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: It's on the paper 182.
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: I'm so glad I remember that.
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: I am not going to be mean like Barry Miriam.
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: There are no quizzes.
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to do that.
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: We're in this together, sister, so it's all going to be right there on that sheet, thank goodness.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: Thank goodness Because you know I'm so.
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: It's a trauma kind of thing.
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: It is it's PTSD from what Barry used to do.
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: If you are a, first-time listener, Barry Feaker, who was the past executive director, who hosts a lot of our community, our mission podcast.
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: For some reason he thinks it's great to quiz Miriam and I.
• 1:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and to the point where I think we've cried, we have.
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think that we've thrown up because we were so nervous yeah, pretty sure.
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: We've thrown things.
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I think we hit under the table.
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: If we know that he's not on here, then we just make sure it's a real positive podcast and that there's no fear, exactly.
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: And now we have to make sure he listens, because I love when we get to bash him.
• 1:32
  Speaker 2: I know and we'll know, because he'll send us a text message after he listens to it.
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: So, yes, he's not joining us today.
• 1:39
  Speaker 2: He is out in our community doing amazing things, and so we always miss him when he is not here.
• 1:44
  Speaker 2: But we have such an exciting guest this morning, we do, and before we get to her, who is very well known in our community, is just a source of encouragement and inspiration Joy, joy, and her smile just radiates from the joy in her heart.
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: But we also get to call her friend.
• 2:04
  Speaker 2: Yes, we do, and so we're excited about that.
• 2:06
  Speaker 2: But before we talk to her, a couple of fun facts.
• 2:09
  Speaker 2: Okay, the first one is today is National Hot Dog Day.
• 2:15
  Speaker 2: So I'm not sure if you and I have ever talked about this, but are you a hot?
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: dog person.
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: You know, it depends on the situation.
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: Okay, I don't really like them on the inside of the building, but I do like the way they taste outside.
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: I'm going to have to explain that a little bit further, because then they've usually been on the grill and so I can get them a little burnt, okay, because, see, I have bad memories about boiled hot dogs, oh yeah me too.
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: That's a bad thing.
• 2:41
  Speaker 2: My great-grandmother boiled hot dogs all the time, so I don't eat them in the house.
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: Sure, they're all on the outside when they've been on the grill.
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: That makes sense.
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: They have a different flavor, maybe at a ball game.
• 2:50
  Speaker 3: Okay, Sure, but only with mustard and relish.
• 2:53
  Speaker 2: You know, I think everything tastes different at a ball game.
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of does I mean from the chili cheese nachos to the popcorn.
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: It just all does.
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, give me a brat.
• 3:02
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's high dollar Okay.
• 3:07
  Speaker 2: So do you do ketchup or mustard on your brat?
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, don't say it.
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: If it's a good brat, you don't need that's true, I don't think you need stuff if it's a good brat, that's true.
• 3:16
  Speaker 2: No step at all.
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like the ones with the cheese and oh yeah.
• 3:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, so you like the stuff to be on the inside?
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: I like the fancy one.
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like the fancy one Okay.
• 3:25
  Speaker 2: Well, that's actually funny that you say that, because, josh, I think in my house everything is off-brand, like I am totally fine with that.
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: I'm a Kroger girl and I always save great value whatever.
• 3:36
  Speaker 2: However, my splurge is on Nathan Hot Dogs.
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: Like I'm going to spend $5 and I'm going to use my coupon and I'm going to use whatever Dylan's discount there is, but it has to be a Nathan's Hot Dog with mustard and onions.
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, white onions With mustard and onions and maybe relish, never, never, I can't.
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: Never ketchup.
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: No, I feel like relish is like a fake pickle.
• 4:03
  Speaker 2: It just, it's just not there.
• 4:07
  Speaker 2: I need a normal pickle.
• 4:08
  Speaker 2: Bless your heart.
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: So, speaking of foods, now that we're all going to have our stomachs growling, it's been that kind of morning, it has been.
• 4:16
  Speaker 2: It is also ice cream month.
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, now I know you like ice cream.
• 4:21
  Speaker 2: I do like ice cream.
• 4:22
  Speaker 2: Yes, what's your favorite kind Vanilla.
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: And you know why I'm surprised by that.
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: I know, don't give me that look.
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: Because, miriam Crabel, there is nothing in your life that is plain, I know.
• 4:32
  Speaker 2: So I'm shocked.
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: But here's the beauty.
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: Here's the beauty about vanilla you can turn vanilla ice cream into anything I knew there was going to be some kind of chocolate sauce.
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: You can add caramel, you can add peaches, so it is really just the canvas for which to make sure loveliness Okay.
• 4:52
  Speaker 2: I understand that it's vanilla.
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: Do you like homemade ice cream?
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: Oh yes, I do.
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: Me too Very much, Me too.
• 4:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm kind of sad I haven't had that for a while I know I made my first batch About yeah, oh, first part of June.
• 5:06
  Speaker 2: I must have been gone.
• 5:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's say it was.
• 5:09
  Speaker 2: We won't talk about how.
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: I think I'm a whole thing myself.
• 5:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, but we have a recipe that shared in my family you know, all of my family is in Arkansas and it was my grandmother's and you separate the egg yolks from the whites and all of that, and then you beat it and you do, and so every time I make it, I think the Making of it and the prep of it to me is just as fun as enjoying it because of the memories.
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: So yeah, it was good.
• 5:36
  Speaker 2: It's also picnic month.
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, I haven't been on a picnic in Probably decades.
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: Be neither want to go.
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, when I saw that I was like now I will say the girls and I, we like to go up to Isle of Commons.
• 5:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, and I wouldn't say it's necessarily like a full picnic with a picnic basket, but a lot of times they like to pack snacks.
• 5:59
  Speaker 2: Oh you can count those kind of things and so we do that and it's it's fun to see them love that and it's kind of like the hot dog thing when we take Like we'll take a sandwich out there or we'll take pepperonis and cheese and stuff like that, it tastes so much better out there, I'm telling you, there's something about outside, it is you made fun of me, but it's better outside.
• 6:20
  Speaker 2: Well, now that we're all hungry and need to function the rest of the day, we do talk to us about updates.
• 6:27
  Speaker 2: We know we've got a lot going on at the rescue mission.
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: We did, and you're involved in a lot of it because you wear many hats here.
• 6:33
  Speaker 2: I do, I do which is wonderful, yes, so talk to us about that.
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: I'm so excited to be able to talk about this because we have said so many times to folks hey, if you know anybody or if you want to come work at the mission, we are just so in need.
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: But here's this wonderful thing about how God has blessed us.
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: For the first time in the six years that I've been here at TRM, our shelters are fully staffed.
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: Our desk staff is fully there now, and that is just so wonderful.
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: It's such an absolute praise right.
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: Plus, we've hired a new strategic development director yes, to replace Scott when he left.
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: We have a new HR director.
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: We have employees like Courtney who's being promoted.
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: There is just so much wonderful, so many wonderful blessings that are really coming down upon us right now, and that's that just feels good.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: And we have a team that is truly Exceptional and I know we say that all the time, but it really is very, very true.
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: Yes, you know, to be able to work with the folks that we do, who just love Jesus and just so definitely want to Serve the folks that are out on the street.
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: This is the people that come and stay with us, people who are hungry to watch their hearts and to watch their desire To just make a difference, even if it's just for today.
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: Yes, it's so inspiring and I just feel like we, we are just blessed, we are just blessed and God has just done amazing things.
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: What that comes some other stuff, though right is that we now if, when we're so fully staffed now, we get to really do different things.
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm, and so I know you've got some real excitement, amanda, about all of the different things that we're going to be able to do for our guests now, mm-hmm, as well as even with staff training.
• 8:22
  Speaker 2: Yes, and you know I think I agree with everything that you said, miriam and there is just a sense of authentic camaraderie amongst our team.
• 8:32
  Speaker 2: You know of the 70 plus staff members that we have here and there.
• 8:37
  Speaker 2: You know we have faced some opposition, yes, here lately, um publicly on some social media sites, and that just happens sometimes.
• 8:46
  Speaker 2: It happens Just because sometimes there's just not unity, sometimes there's misinformation out there, and sometimes it's just the opposition or conflict is the first step of us actually coming together right, and so what I have seen, though, is staff just rally around each other and Our mission of the mission, yes, and so it's just beautiful that, in this time of Kind of trials out there and maybe what some intend for harm, I just see God bringing good.
• 9:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's encouraging emails being sent, there's text messages, people getting sending each other flowers, and just this teamwork of like.
• 9:28
  Speaker 2: We know we're doing what God's wanting us to do Absolutely, and we're showing up every day to say yes, and there's joyful shenanigans.
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, oh right, we are a team that loves to have fun.
• 9:38
  Speaker 2: Yes, a lot of we deal with.
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: We deal with heavy stuff.
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: Yes and so we need to be able to you know, in a very appropriate way, yes, almost all the time, in very appropriate ways just have fun with each other.
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: Yes, and enjoy each other's company and enjoy hearing each other's laughter yes, and knowing that we can encourage each other through just being able to have fun, yes, and that means we're close.
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: It is, and through those times of trials and tribulations and when we're fighting against principalities and things like that, there's also time for what you just said this serious love for each other, but then also this Lightheartedness and teasing and those kinds of things.
• 10:21
  Speaker 2: And what happens when you mix all of that is its beauty, yes, and it is trusting Foundations that are built, and then, when we have those things in place, beautiful things come right, and that's what I'm seeing right now.
• 10:33
  Speaker 2: We have mixed so many employees and teams to now form new programming for our guests.
• 10:41
  Speaker 2: Yes, and Not once has there been a well, that's not really my job, or Well, I can't work with so-and-so or well, that's something someone else needs to do.
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: We are really utilizing multiple staff members, multiple volunteers, partners, and, because everybody has come together to really form a team, we are now continually offering care, which is our career and job readiness.
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: It's a program that we've had that has been very successful, but we've needed to Add to it, and so the focus of care is really Rehabilitating individuals into the workforce, meaning we're going to help them with resumes, we're gonna help them complete job applications, we're gonna do mock interviews.
• 11:23
  Speaker 2: Well, we still have these classes going and they go for eight weeks at a time and then we do a big Graduation for them, and it's one of my favorite things.
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: Then the other side of this is we've now implemented for additional tracks, and so we have classes in relation to mental health, trauma, basic life skills and financial literacy, and so now we literally have Five different, when you include care options for our guests, which is great, yes, and so it doesn't matter if IQ is lower, it doesn't matter if it's someone who is aging and they're not needing in the workforce, but maybe They've not successfully lived on their own.
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: Now they're going to be learning skills to help them.
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: That right now we have just this full gamut of Offerings, with the exception of drug and alcohol.
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: That's our missing link, and we know God is gonna show us what curriculum he's gonna send us, the resources, the people to do that, and so we have these offerings and now every week, guests are able to come and they're finding purpose, they're finding redemption, they're finding Answers to questions that they've wrestled with, and we see healing happening Right.
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: And so, most recently, our trauma class.
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: We had 48 guests.
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: Isn't that remarkable?
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: Yes, and 48 signed up, and it was either 50 signed up and 48 came, or 48 signed up and 46 came, but only two weren't present.
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: Yes, and we've had to find different locations for them.
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: I know the hunger is there and we're just really looking at people saying it doesn't matter where you're at Right, we're going to take you as you are and then we're gonna help you get to the next place you feel like you need to get absolutely, and you know we just I just finished up a report, actually Christian and I just finished up a report and most of it was Christian just finished up a report.
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: I'm with our United Way grant and the care program right, and he was sharing with me that two of the graduates two of the graduates who are homeless, who were homeless, still are homeless but went through the care program graduated are now making 1865 an hour praise, that is almost $38,000 a year.
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: Yes, they went from zero Mm-hmm to 38,000 because they were willing to commit and we had volunteers and staff that were willing to walk through, help them find.
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: Help them find jobs and help them get those jobs.
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: Yes, and now we'll support them in those positions, knowing that they will maybe get discouraged and that kind of thing, but really be able to help them do that, but isn't that incredible, I mean that is transformation that is absolutely life transforming, and just think how much Encouragement that gave them they have hope for a different future, and that really is what we need to do.
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: Yes, and those stories are not anomalies here.
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: That is happening every single day.
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: Thanks to your support of the rescue mission, your donations, your prayers and just the kind words, even as we're facing opposition, we have so many dedicated people to the rescue mission that know the truth right and know that life transformation is happening every day, has for 70 years and, lord willing, will continue for another 70, and that's what we're all about.
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: Speaking of life Transformation, you know we have a special guest here this morning who I know is doing some things to transform her life, and you can see it.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: But also she is instrumental and I have seen it time and time again of her giving people, particularly women, encouragement to transform their own lives, and she does it through not only being a morning show co-host, she does it in just the way she is a friend and her loyal friendships, and she does it through encouraging text messages and emails and let's not forget her social media.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: And so we are so blessed this morning to have Miss Danielle Norwood with us.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, we're so glad you're here.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: It is a little intimidating, though.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: Because you're really the professional and Maryam and I are really just fakers.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: We would fake it.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: Oh, it sounds so smooth.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: I said they're just proud and cheese and I'm like look at my people.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, so, yes, so we have you here.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: You are the morning host with Sean Knight on Magic 107.7.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Yes, and you have just had such a healthy career and so much of it is because of your personality, but I know so much of it is to just your upbringing and some special people that you had in your life and from Salina right.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: So talk to us a little bit about I know you especially have one special lady in your life that formed Just kind of who you are.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: I've heard you talk about her.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Talk to us just a little bit about who was Danielle Norwood before you were really Danielle Norwood.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, I'm still trying to figure out who Danielle Norwood is.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: We all are.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: We all are.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: It's a daily journey.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: Danielle Norwood is the result of two old Pentecostal ladies from Salina, Kansas, and I am a fifth generation PK.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: For those who don't know what PK is preacher's kid or Ecclesiastical offspring theological offspring, however you would like to say it and these women were strong, like strong in their faith, and my father was a bishop and we I mean it just God was center, like there was nothing else in the house except for God.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: Sometimes it nauseam for me as a kid, but at the same time it's like training up a child in the way they should go, and when they're old they will not depart from it and even though there've been moments of wandering away from time to time, you always go home.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: You always go home.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: And so Granny and great granny both were just rock stars to me and I didn't realize the influence and the impact that I had in my house, literally day in, day out, just pouring into me and their example, that they didn't even have to say anything, I could just sit there and watch them and they were modeling literally Jesus all the time.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: And great granny died when I was 14.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: So I was glad to have that example for so long.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: And then my granny died when I was 36.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: And we were like two old ladies, you know two old ladies and they were like I'm gonna take a backer for a.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: I don't know what you're telling people.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: But it's funny because I hear granny coming out of my mouth, especially at 51.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Now it's like Jesus.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Let me stop.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: This is off.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: But I mean, it's just, it's so embedded and that faith is just so embedded, and Granny would be quick to say God does not have grandchildren.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: You better figure this out on your own.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Better get your own faith, better figure out your own walk, cause you can't be off of your great-grand, you can't be off of mine.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: You gotta go and get it for yourself.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: And so the journey.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Sometimes it's me falling on my knees, and sometimes it's a pause, like I don't even know what I'm doing.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Lord, can you help me up?
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: And sometimes it's a crawl, but as long as you're crawling forward, that's all that matters, cause you always have to keep moving.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: And then, day after day, god blesses with something different, and even yesterday, cause I've been in a season of just like oh Jesus, can we get out of the season?
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: And you and I have talked about it.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: I was like, oh sweet Lord.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: But I know the area that Satan has fight me on is the area where I'm going to be most blessed, I know that.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: And then also to be recognized as a finalist once again for best radio personality for four years in a row yes, that's so wonderful.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: And to be I've won it three years in a row.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: So I'm like, oh, people don't be like I don't want to see her up there again.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: I'm a lord, yeah, but I appreciate it every time.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: I don't take it for granted Because, again, when I came to Topeka I really didn't know anybody.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: So, coming from someplace like Salina, where everybody knew me, to this, like lost land, like it's the big city of Topeka, I don't know anybody and oh Lord Jesus.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: I don't know what I'm going to do to where now.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: It's like what's up there?
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean being in the grocery store.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: I was at Prairie Bank Casino for a concert.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: All I did was laugh.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: My friend and I were laughing.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Woman comes around the corner you're dead, you're a normal and I'm like woo, I cannot get in trouble in this town.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Somebody's coming.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: I mean it's like somebody's been like that's Danielle.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: So I mean it's just nice to know that, six and a half some years later, that there's this connection and that we're all together in this.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: I mean we're family and I feel like Topeka is not just an adopted home.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: It really is home, because I got to be who I am, as opposed to what people thought I should be or boxed me in to be.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: I actually got to be free to be who I wanted, to be authentic, and so I've loved this whole experience and I told somebody no matter where I end up in life in terms of professionally, I'm always coming back to Topeka.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: This is my roots.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Now, yeah, so careful.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: And I just absolutely love it.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: So, yeah, this is my home and so I'm grateful that everybody accepted me.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: And I remember the first time I met you.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: And the first time I met you, I remember Barry, you bringing you in and I'm like who's she?
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Because we had the talk show and I botched up your name.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: I'm like okay, how do you say that?
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: And he's like she's getting ready to take my place and first of all I was like why are you leaving?
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: So I was having that moment and then I'm like, oh, okay, I think she'll be okay.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: And then we ended up talking.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: I'm like I love her and it's become a friendship.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: That's been awesome.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: And then being with you at the Christmas store and I'm like I love her, too Awesome.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: So I mean, you all feel like family too and I've shared.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: You're not getting to ask questions, but I want to say this real quick.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: I've shared with Amanda that I feel like in the second part of my life because I'm 51 now, so the sands are going through pretty quickly that I want to be a philanthropist.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: And again, satan hears, but he's not nearly as powerful as God.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Let's just say that Absolutely so one of the things that I know is that I'm going to be able to bless people with my resources and I've talked to Barry about this too, even back in the day that there is going to be a way that God is going to pour resources through me so I can bless other people.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: And you all are at the top of the list, because my commitment is to seeing you all succeed.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: What you're doing for this community is amazing, and so when the social media thing happened and I learned about that, it's like, oh, I have no problem being on that, because I know firsthand that you all are doing an amazing job.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: And people just kind of take it for granted Like, well, the rescue mission is going to happen.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: I handle that Well, yeah, they are, but it's not just their problem.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: It's all of our problem, and I wish more people would buy into that that we are our brother's keeper and just really take the initiative to do what we can to make sure that everybody is taken care of, instead of being divisive Like I wish they moved to another part of the city, or I wish we just didn't have homeless people out.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Well, I wish we didn't have homeless people at all, as do we.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: However, in comma, the numbers are growing all the time.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: So there needs to be some kind of strategy so we can actually help people to not be in those situations.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Don't just give them a sandwich and say go with God, but to actually do some training and walk alongside people so they know that they are taken care of, they are loved in the same way that we are Jesus's hands and feet.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: They need to be surrounded and supported.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: So I'm just I'm passionate about what you all do, so I'll shut up now.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: You're doing great.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: You're doing great.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: You know, one of the things that I well.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: There's so many things that I love about you, and I do consider you one of my closest friends, absolutely On a professional level, on a personal level.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: One of the things that I love about you, though and you mentioned this a little bit is you have no qualms about sharing just the joy of the Lord that's in your heart.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: You also don't hold back to share, like your love of life, like every day, I hear you talk about how you are blessed to be able to get to do the job that you do, the friends that you have, just the opportunities, and so I love all of that, but I've got to say the biggest thing of what I want people to hear right now is Danielle is the real deal, because she will also be so transparent when you are crawling, yes, or when you feel like you've just been knocked down, regardless of the why, and several months ago, you did a video, and it was real early in the morning and you were just talking about how you were kind of going through some dark times and especially being a radio personality, someone of faith.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: I think there's these stigmas, yes, I know, I face it sometimes that because of my position or because I'm a Christian, I'm not entitled to have dark seasons right, and I'm really feeling called in these past couple of weeks and I think moving forward of saying that just because we are Christian or just because we do have the joy of the Lord or just because we are a public figure, does not mean we are exempt from sadness or trials or struggles, and that I think there's beauty in being able to say you know what?
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Today was a hard day and I know I try to do it and it's risky sometimes because then people will use that against me.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Or most recently I've had people accuse of that.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: My tears aren't real, that they're fake, what?
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Yes, but when that happens it is.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: God has made me tender.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: It's not like I like to cry every time something's wrong but, it's happy or sad.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: But, all that being said, I want to be honest with people and not just say, oh, I'm doing good or this, that and the other, I'm trusting the Lord and I have that.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: But I also need people to know don't look at me and think, oh, she has it all together and she never struggles, Exactly Because I want people to know that's part of a beautiful relationship with Christ.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: So will you just talk a little bit about how it is OK if you struggle, and that even sometimes, danielle Norwood, to get a smile and you have the most beautiful smile, I think, in Topeka.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: I believe that I've said that so many times, but sometimes it's hard for you to smile.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Can you just talk about that as kind of real and raw as you have before?
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Well, the fact that you said that as Christians, people think that we really don't go through seasons, here is what I'm going to say to counter that.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: I think, as a Christian, we go through even more stuff.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: And I also want to say, on a platform, I think we go through even more stuff Because of our visibility.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: I think God uses all of that to work through us so we can actually use whatever stage we're on to say look, I have gone through some stuff and there have been some intense and ugly times where I've been on the phone or text like oh Amanda, where are you?
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: I need to talk to you, and I've been able to do the same.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: And it is.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: It's real, it's raw.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: There are some times that you're like, ok, I know you're real God, but you're not in this moment with me.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: He is in the moment, it's just that I can't sense him because of all the opposition that's around me or all the internal thoughts that I'm feeling.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: And so you were talking about a video that I did a couple of months ago.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: I just did a video Friday.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Oh well, see, I'm not on social media.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: You are not on social media, but something I've gotten back into the dating scene and one of the things that was said to me by a potential suitor and I use that in quotes was that I'm not Halle Berry, and it just irked me.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: I'm like well, who are you?
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: You're not Peter Bergman either from Y and R.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: So I'm having this whole literally talking to him.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: It's probably a good idea.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Berry's not on here.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: As protective as he is of you, you might want to tell him when he doesn't have a mic in his face, because he's going to come to your rescue.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: I mean it just so bothered me in that moment, and then what I should have done is to just like quash it and keep moving.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: But I marinated on it for like days, like OK, well, you know, halle Berry, I know I'm not Halle.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Berry, I don't want to be Halle Berry, and so I was so fired up by Friday morning at 5.30 when I got to the station like, ok, sean, I need you to take a picture of me.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: So Sean took a picture and then I went into my office I'm going to do a video now and I did a whole moment on talking about not being Halle Berry.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: I don't want to be Halle Berry.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: I am the dang finest Danielle Norwood there is, and it is your loss that you're not experiencing that.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: And so by me doing that, other people were like, yes, girl, I'm feeling this too, and I think in our brokenness people connect with us.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: They don't want to just see like lifestyles of the rich and famous.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: They want to see what's real, because we have all had days where we didn't want to shower and get out a bit, where we just felt like so low about ourselves and a story that I've told other people, and I think I told you that at 19, I attempted suicide and it's almost like having a heart attack.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: When you've had a heart attack, your heart is even more susceptible to having another one because it's damaged.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: When you've been in a suicidal situation, those thoughts are not that far behind and I've had other people that I'm like OK, if you don't hear from me for days, I need you to call me, I need you to talk or figure out where I am, because I don't want to be so in my head that I'm thinking whatever.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: And thank God for those people, because a couple of them were like ringing up my phone.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: I'm like girl, I just had to phone on mute, I'm sorry.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: I mean it's OK, but it's nice to put those things in place.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: But I'm telling you, there are some dark moments.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: But on the other side, scripture says weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning, absolutely.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: And we don't know when the joy is coming.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: The Lord gave me a word not that long ago that says there is an expiration date, and so that gives me joy, like whatever I'm dealing with now.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: Don't have a dime in my pocket, but I know that there is an expiration date to all of this and I know that where Satan is fighting me, god is going to bring overcoming joy and I'm going to be able to do those things, because Satan doesn't want me to do it.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: He doesn't want other people to be blessed.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: He's going to fight me as hard as he can, but he is not the equal to God.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Right and we serve it.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: We serve an impossibly big God and impossibly big God and Satan is an imp just trying to bark as loud as he can, but he has no power.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: So when I think about that, it's like you know what God?
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: You lined all this up before I was even a thought, and I'm just going to sit back and resting you and know that you've got this.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: And so that's where I am, and I think that's how we can always encourage each other, right, because it can feel horrible.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: It can feel horrible and you can kind of and you know, I like those short term dark times.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: Yes, Can I get, like you know maybe the 24 hour dark time Exactly?
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Just move right through.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Then we can move past it.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: You know, and sometimes yet it's just not that right.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: It's going to be longer and sometimes it's here, Right, and really, what will that then allow us to be able to exhibit in terms of how the Lord was faithful?
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Right, so how will that be?
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: What comes out of this?
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: That's a hard thing to remember, though, when you're in the middle of it.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: I also think that God gives us tests Sometimes people you know, like when you go to kindergarten.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: There are certain things that you have to learn before you can pass to the next level and go on the first grade.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Sometimes some of us are sitting in kindergarten.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: We have to pass that particular thing.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: I'm going to teach you patience, danielle, if it kills you, and it might, and it might.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: And then when I finally get like enough, then God moves me on to the next thing.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: But then sometimes he has to bring me back, like what did we learn in kindergarten?
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: Danielle, and so it's like a continual thing that God keeps teaching and re reminding, and that's why he is faithful.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: Yes, that's why he is loving.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Yes, that's why he is gentle.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: Right, you know, and sometimes you know he uses the rod, yes, to correct us and get us back on the path, but it's never meant to be an angry push.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: It's like OK, come on back.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: You know, you know.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: And also like the prodigal son when lived his life had a good time, had a party, did all these things.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: And he's like, ok, if I could just be one of my father's hired hands, like I've seen everything.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: I just want to go back and be with the pigs and the sloth, but because at least I'll have something Be home.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: And then here comes the father running to the prodigal son and I'm so glad that God runs to us Because there are sometimes I'm too weak to get to him and he runs to me to say you know what?
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: We're going to have a party, and sometimes we party quite a bit.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: You know from the standpoint that you run and you keep running and sometimes you forget that you've like said you're not going to run, but you run again.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: And then the Lord continually has a party to bring us back, because he never gets tired of us, isn't?
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: that amazing?
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Do you think that he's running after those that are on the streets right now?
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Why do you think that?
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: Because he loves them especially.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: He said when you've done this to them, you've done it to me and they're the ones that are overlooked, you know, I mean, it used to be on Wanamaker there would be a whole group of people that you would see, like underneath certain bridges and areas and so on and so forth, and people just kind of drive and just divert their attention and it's like you can't.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: These are people who have lives.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: They've got stories.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: They've got names.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: I remember when we did a show over on WIBW, which was my talk show at the time, and we were outside Were you there for that?
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: We were outside, like underneath the oh no, you were over here.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: Yes, I actually did an onsite thing and we had one of the guys that I don't remember what his nickname was, but he was on the show literally with me talking about his experiences and at the end of it he's like by the way, my name is Daniel.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: Nobody knew his name previous to that.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: And I'm like all of these people they're not just numbers, they're not just people that we drive by.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: Everybody's got a story.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: And a name.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: And a name, and everybody wants love, everybody wants to be seen, everybody wants to be heard, everybody wants to feel that they matter, and by just kind of dismissing them, it's like that's not who we are, that's not what God would want.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: And sometimes that takes time.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: The individual that you're talking about just got housed.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Really, he was unsheltered for 16 years.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: And he at that time said he didn't want housing that he was so happy in his cause, it was normal, it was comfortable to him to be on the street.
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: He's like I'll never want to be in a house.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: This is my life, this is what I know.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: And look at the transformation from that time to this time to where you all have gotten to housing and doing well.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: And then the other guy that Barry brought on and I always forget his name, kenny.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, kenny, I love you.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: He made me cry.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: I was so emotional about the stuff that he's gone through.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: And then you look at him now and he's helping out here and such a positive force in this community.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: And the thing is nobody may know him except for you all, but God knows him.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: God knows him and you know he's doing capital M ministry Just like anybody else.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: He's doing ministry and maybe even more potent in this community than a Joel who just comes in and says, hey, how you doing?
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: And gives a positive word.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: He's here day in and day out and he's making an impact on people's lives.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: He made an impact on my life that day, so I just and he knows right.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: So for the people that he's interacting with every single day at the shelter on the street, he's got that experience, so he can relate to them in a way that I never will be able to, because I've never lived that experience Exactly.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: I've never been homeless.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Exactly, and like the thing with you know, I love me some, chef Sean.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: I think he you want to talk about dynamo, His testimony.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: If people have not heard it, please have him on or replay it or something, because he gave it on my show and I'm like whoa, but again, to see the 180 that has happened in his life and everything that he's doing.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: Like he put on a father's day, I know, but he wanted to gift fathers and do something special for them.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: I mean that's amazing.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: And if you see his food presentation, it's beautiful, it's gorgeous.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: It's like wow, look at all this gift.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Yes, and it tastes as good as it looks.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Yes, and it tastes as good as it looks it does you know?
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: I could just sit and listen to you all day, just because of your passion and your heart and your wisdom.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: There's just so much, and you are just such a gift to the rescue mission.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: You're a gift to myself as a friend.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: The Tabika community you really are, and people see that and it doesn't matter if you have good days, bad days, you're still seen as someone of excellence, thank you.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: And so, speaking of that, it's lovely little transition.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Yes, did you like that?
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: I've been playing in that all night.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: So talk to us about your most recent nomination.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Oh my Lord.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: YWCA 2023 women's excellence nominee and honoree.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my Lord, really yeah, because you just do what you do every day and you don't do it for other people to watch and be like good job, you know, because half the time you don't hear.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: It's like crickets.
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: You know, even when Sean and I are on the air, it's like we assume somebody's listening, we hope somebody's listening because we like to keep jobs.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: I mean, you don't really get feedback, but then to actually have something like this come along, it's like okay, thank you.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: You know, and I appreciate the validation, but it's one thing to appreciate it, but I don't live for it Because I don't want to just live for the praise of man.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: Ultimately, I want to live for the praise of God, and so this is a beautiful moment and I will soak it up and be like thank you, jesus.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: And then God will be like okay, we can celebrate in the day and next.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, you're on assignment.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: Exactly what's the next thing that we need to be doing.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: And so I want so much more Like when I'm thinking, you know, next year, five years down the line, I see myself doing like capital M ministry on a bigger stage, like a national stage.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: I just feel that calling that I told the Lord I didn't want to be doing.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: That's like the family trade.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: It's like bus man's holiday the man who drives a bus doesn't want to be on a bus for vacation.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: So why would I do that when everybody else did that?
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: But as I get older, it's like Lord, why are you calling me to be?
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: on.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: And so it's like okay, Jesus, I surrender.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: I surrender.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: I love it Last thing.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: Oh, and side note, I didn't get to talk about my foodie stuff because y'all talk about hot dogs and ice cream and I'm like I'm sitting here as the foodie.
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: I would like to contribute to this piece of conversation and I like ketchup on a hot dog and I lived in.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: I lived in Salina, Kansas, and maybe we were a little backwards I don't think we were but I ate boiled hot dogs all the time and you liked them.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Bar-ass hot dogs make me happy.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: No, If they're boiled, yes, oh no, yes, the big old fat ones.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: I'm okay with the bar-ass that probably weren't beef, because they weren't.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: You know, they weren't they weren't, oh well, I don't want to know what was in it.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: I know I know, I'm just saying that they plumped when you cook them, because they were just made with all kinds of interesting stuff and we would put ketchup on it and white bread.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: I've got to grow and white bread, not even buns.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: I think we were too poor to have a bun.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: I did that so we just had some wonder bread or whatever cheap bread was going on at the time.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: So yes, that's my life with the ketchup and I like ice cream and I like chocolate-chipped cookie dough Ice cream.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, good to know.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: But when you were all talking about the crank ice cream, I'm like well, did you cook the custard?
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: Did you cook the cream?
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: See, I don't like raw ice cream, so I had to make a distinction between the raw ice cream and the cooked ice cream that you all actually custard, yes, and custard is so much better.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: But that's me.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: It is, it's smoother, it's creamier, it is, you're right.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: It is because I remember being at Granny's friend's house the only time I got to spend the night in the entire 18 years, because if they weren't baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost, we weren't there.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: Okay, so here I am and they, oh, we made homemade ice cream and I'm all giddy about it and then I tasted it and was like what's wrong with this ice cream?
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: They did not custard the ice cream.
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: It tasted just raw, like milk and sugar and I'm like thank you so much.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: And I just pushed it back.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: I was like, can I have a cookie?
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: Can I have a cookie?
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: Because this was just not the deal.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: It was not the deal, or the cookie dough ice cream from the store right Exactly.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Exactly, you know, I grew up not that far from you, really, because I grew up in a little town south of Salina, in a little town called Moundridge.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: I know Moundridge the mound builders.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: They're there down there, so I understand that whole white bread.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: I grew up on a farm.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: White bread and that hot dog, yes, but I think it ruined me.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: But I think it's joyful.
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: I was eloquently about government cheese.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: Oh, do you?
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: Yes, have you ever had government cheese?
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: No, I have not.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Have you ever had government cheese?
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: No, because we had cows.
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: OK, have you had government cheese?
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: Ok, you would know if you had government cheese.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: Ok, so this is when you sow po, not P-O-O-R po Po.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: That's how po you is that you've had government cheese, because it was like a subsidy and this cheese was similar to Velveeta.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was so much better and I wish that they would make it again.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know what happened, do they?
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: not.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: No, there's no government cheese.
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: I would be on that thing, I would do a whole cooking program based on government cheese, because the cheese was just, it was magic, it was.
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: You could eat it like, chunk it off and it was good.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: Grilled cheese, mac and cheese I mean it's almost like Bubba Gump talking about the shrimp All these different ways you could use this cheese, and I mean Velveeta's not even close to what this government cheese was.
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: Now the peanut butter had like this much, like an inch of grease on it, yeah.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: Nobody wanted that but the government cheese.
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: It was a winner.
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: Oh my Lord.
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: It was awesome, so yes.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Sean and I have had moments of government cheese.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: Yes, we've talked about it on the air, like please for just a big chunk of government cheese.
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: That's all I just saw.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: But I mean, all of that has shaped me to where, like now, I can go out to a restaurant and I could talk about crème brûlée and all of that and be just as hip and cool with that.
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: But Bologna sandwich is government cheese.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: Down with all of it.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, I love it.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: That brings great memories back, not the government cheese part, but some of that other stuff.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: So we've talked about everything today.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: We've pretty much solved all the world's problems on this, our community, our mission.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: But no, danielle, you are just such a pivotal person in our community that just stands for good.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: Not perfection, no, and far from it.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: But you know who is the perfect thing in your life, absolutely, and that he makes you new.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: And I also love how that same piece and just salvation that you have, you want others to experience that too, absolutely, if they're needing it and they're ready for that, and so I just love that about you.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: You are such a blessing.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: I'm so thankful for how you advocate for our community, because you care.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: You care about businesses, you care about people, you care about those underserved.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: You just really represent Topeka.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: So thank you for that.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: Speaking of our community, we do have a couple of informational meetings coming up that we are excited about that the Topeka Rescue Mission will be hosting, and we will have more information on our Facebook page and our website, but those dates are July 27.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: That one is coming up from 5 to 7 PM.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: We have another one on August 10, from 9 AM to 11 AM, and then our third one will be August 22, from 11 30 AM to 1 30 PM, and those will all be held at the former North Topeka Baptist Church at 123 Northwest Gordon Street.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: You saw that hesitation.
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: You know that my family used to go there.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: There is so much heritage there.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: I heard aunts and uncles that used to attend there and cousins that would attend there regularly, so I'm so glad that you all are taking this building and using it for God's glory with the rescue mission.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: Absolutely yeah, 154 years it's been an existence.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: So those informational meetings will be hosted by myself and Barry Fieker and the leadership team here at the Topeka Rescue Mission, as we look at just history of homelessness as well as current trends, we will also be giving factual information about what is occurring at the rescue mission and what isn't occurring at the rescue mission.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: It would also be a time of Q&A for our community to ask questions, questions that we will be able to answer or that we really respect and want to know.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: And if we don't know the answer, we're going to find it for you.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: We are in this together.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: We are not just looking at people as problems.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: We are looking at it as a concern for the community and that it is not just about the trash and the tents.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: It's about the life that has accepted that and that's what we are here to do.
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: And if we all do our part, we're going to be able to make a difference.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: We're going to be able to make a difference one life at a time, but also collectively, we can make some big differences as well.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: As we start to wrap up.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: There's a song that just as I think about Danielle sharing her experience at 19.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: That is the experience of so many, in addition to people that are guests in our shelters, that are unsheltered neighbors, and sometimes even us as community leaders, where we're the one, we're the one who is in a state of depression, we're in the one who is facing trials that seem like there's no way out, and that is not easy.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: And so there's a song called Reckless Love by Corey Asbury, and I won't go over it all.
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: But as Josh starts the music, as we go to fade out, he says before I spoke a word, you were singing over me.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: You have been so, so good to me.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: Before I took a breath, you breathed your life in me.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: You have been so kind to me.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: It chases me down, fights till I'm found and leaves the 99.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: I couldn't earn it and we can put our names in there Danielle couldn't earn it, I couldn't earn it, daniel couldn't earn it.
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: We don't deserve it, but you still give yourself away.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: And then it talks about when I was your foe.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: Your love fought for me.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: You have been so, so good to me.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: There's no shadow that you won't light up.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: Mountain you won't climb up, coming after me.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: No wall.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: You won't kick down or lie, you won't tear down coming after me.
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: That's what we get to do in our community every day.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: That's what we get to do here at the Rescue Mission.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: Every day we're walking into tents, we're walking down hills, we're caring about the businesses.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: We're loving our community, just like our guest Danielle Norwood has, just like we've done for 70 years at the Rescue Mission and will continue to do as long as God sees fit.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: You are loved, you are valued and we appreciate you tuning into our community, our mission.
• 49:06
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