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Raising Warriors: Faith, Fitness, and the Fight for Our Youth · Faithful Fitness With Coach Alex VanHouten

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Faithful Fitness Podcast for my Dad. Coach
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  Speaker 1: Alex Van Houghton helps you get stronger and mind, body,
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  Speaker 1: and spirit. He believes that your body is a temple,
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  Speaker 1: so taking good care of it is an actual worship.
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  Speaker 2: I should know.
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  Speaker 1: I live with him every week. He brings truth from
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  Speaker 1: the Bible, tool from science, and stories that will set
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  Speaker 1: your heart on fire. May God bless you to become
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  Speaker 1: everything He made you to be, just one percent better
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  Speaker 1: every single day.
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  Speaker 2: What's up, guys, This is coach Alex van Houghton on
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  Speaker 2: the Faithful Fitness Podcast. I'm super excited about my guests today.
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  Speaker 2: I usually only have one guest, so now I have
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  Speaker 2: two guests, which means double or even triple the fun.
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  Speaker 2: Melanie and Nate. Good to see you guys. How are
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  Speaker 2: y'all doing this morning?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, doing great? Thank you for having me
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  Speaker 3: doing well?
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  Speaker 4: Thanks?
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  Speaker 2: Awesome, awesome. I'm super excited about this conversation because we
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  Speaker 2: are talking about some powerful things with regard to faith
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  Speaker 2: and fitness. But we're also going to get into counseling
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  Speaker 2: and healing. We're going to get into testimonies and a
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  Speaker 2: very important event that I want to make sure everybody
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  Speaker 2: checks out. If you don't want to listen to me
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  Speaker 2: talk for the next hour, then you just need to
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  Speaker 2: jump into the show notes and get your ticket to
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  Speaker 2: the Warrior Course. That's what we're going to be talking
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  Speaker 2: about today, the Warrior Course. So we've got Melanie turn Hour,
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  Speaker 2: we have Nate Remily, and you guys. Thank you so
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  Speaker 2: much by the way for being here, because the conversation
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  Speaker 2: we're going to have today is about our youth, and
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  Speaker 2: it's about the next generation of individuals that God put
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  Speaker 2: on this earth. As I pray over them, I think Lord,
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  Speaker 2: teach them to be the young men and women that
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  Speaker 2: you created them to be. And they have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of obstacles and a lot of challenges to face that
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be talking about today. So I just
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  Speaker 2: want to say, from the bottom of my heart, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for being willing to hop on here today and
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  Speaker 2: talk about some really important topics that affect our youth.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely kind of an honor. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: So Melanie, I actually want to start with you. You
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  Speaker 2: are the founder of the Power in Me nonprofit that
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  Speaker 2: puts on the Warrior Course that I just mentioned. I
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  Speaker 2: had the opportunity and the privilege and honor last year
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  Speaker 2: to be a speaker there. I got to run with
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  Speaker 2: the kids and do all the obstacles. I got to
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  Speaker 2: tell you, it's like a faith based, tough mutter. Like
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  Speaker 2: everything that was cool about obstacle course races I've done
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  Speaker 2: in the past was cool here, but also even better
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  Speaker 2: because it was all centered around Christ, and not only
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  Speaker 2: centered around Christ, but also accessible to children ages ten
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  Speaker 2: and up, and if they're accompanied by an adult, even younger.
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  Speaker 2: So I just it's such a cool event. It's such
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  Speaker 2: a cool event. I got to ask Melanie, what brought
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  Speaker 2: you to the place in your journey where you're orchestrating
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  Speaker 2: an obstacle course race, Because that's not what you do
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  Speaker 2: for a living. Can you tell us a little bit
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  Speaker 2: about who you are and how you came to be
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  Speaker 2: to build this thing and put it together?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely well, I'm a lover of Christ, and I'm a wife,
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  Speaker 5: I'm a mom, I'm a homesteader, and I also love
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  Speaker 5: to play music and I do that for my congregation.
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  Speaker 5: But that's a little bit about briefly who I am.
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  Speaker 5: But many years ago, I did grow up in the church,
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  Speaker 5: and then I went off to college and was pursuing
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  Speaker 5: that made some really unfortunate decisions.
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  Speaker 3: Those decisions made life a whole lot.
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  Speaker 5: Harder, and I went through a period of a long
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  Speaker 5: term depression, came out of that, went through some refining
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  Speaker 5: and had to navigate, you know, the.
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  Speaker 3: Results of those decisions.
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  Speaker 5: I was struggling with the kingdom, being a part of
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  Speaker 5: the Kingdom and listening to the culture and listening to
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  Speaker 5: the lies of the culture, and that, you know, that
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  Speaker 5: put me in a pickle of a spot because I, again,
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  Speaker 5: I didn't make the right choices and I wasn't putting
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  Speaker 5: myself in the right positions. But God was there the
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  Speaker 5: whole time, and through that journey, just growing in Christ.
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  Speaker 5: Eventually things got better, but they weren't healed.
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  Speaker 3: And so my husband said to me, Hey, why.
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  Speaker 5: Don't you start this nonprofit called the Power in Me Conference?
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  Speaker 5: And it was geared towards giving young ladies the proper
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  Speaker 5: view on true empowerment, true power and all based in Christ.
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  Speaker 5: And then as that morphed along and came along and
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  Speaker 5: God inspired us and gave us a season after season there,
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  Speaker 5: we realized that we needed something for young men. And
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  Speaker 5: that was when the idea about the Warrior Course came about.
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  Speaker 5: Because We really believe that an Obstacle course is as
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  Speaker 5: as a mirror image of what life is like. It
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  Speaker 5: can be hard, it can be messy, We're gonna have
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  Speaker 5: to flex our muscles, our spiritual muscles from time to time.
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  Speaker 5: And we just really thought that that was a great
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  Speaker 5: platform for Christians because we looked around us and that
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  Speaker 5: has really something something that has hit and impacted our
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  Speaker 5: our minds is that, hey, we can do more things
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  Speaker 5: in christ with a christ and faith based theme here locally.
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  Speaker 3: And around us. So we said, why not do this?
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  Speaker 5: So we did that for the gentlemen in twenty nineteen,
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  Speaker 5: and then the ladies and being you know, very active
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  Speaker 5: ladies that we have these days in our society right
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  Speaker 5: which it's ladies have always been hard workers and such,
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  Speaker 5: you know, proverbs start to win, women have it all
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  Speaker 5: together kind of things sort of, and they wanted to
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  Speaker 5: be a part of it too, so we added them
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  Speaker 5: in twenty twenty one, and then that just continued on.
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  Speaker 5: This is our sixth year that we're going to be
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  Speaker 5: doing what you're going to be talking about a little
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  Speaker 5: later at the Warrior Course, and people, we encourage people
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  Speaker 5: to come alongside each other and to help each other
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  Speaker 5: and there it is not a race per se, a
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  Speaker 5: timed race. It is something that we want people to
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  Speaker 5: finish and to come alongside each other and help each other.
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  Speaker 5: So hopefully that was brief enough. We can dig into
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  Speaker 5: this a little deeper. If there's something I touched and missed,
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  Speaker 5: please feel free to ask me.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's awesome, that's awesome, and so correct me if
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  Speaker 2: I'm wrong. But but the the painful road you walked
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  Speaker 2: from some of the mistakes that you made, that that
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  Speaker 2: you felt God pulling you back to him from, that
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  Speaker 2: was the foundation, it sounds like for something powerful and
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  Speaker 2: good for for other individuals. And if I'm right about that, that, Nate,
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  Speaker 2: how often do you see that in counseling, that that
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  Speaker 2: the painful road that you walk, whether it's the choices
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  Speaker 2: you've made or choices of other people around you affecting you,
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  Speaker 2: that that God can use that in a powerful way
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  Speaker 2: for his kingdom and also also for for your own
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  Speaker 2: healing too. How how often do you see that in
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  Speaker 2: your line of work?
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  Speaker 4: Well? I see that all the time.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 6: It's uh, you know, I think of the scripture where
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  Speaker 6: it talks about where what what Satan meant? For for evil,
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  Speaker 6: you know God, and God turns forth for our good
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  Speaker 6: and for the good of those around us. And and
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  Speaker 6: that's what's I guess that's what's so exciting about everybody's
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  Speaker 6: personal journey is that we all have we all have
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  Speaker 6: a story like Melanie just shared there where there are
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  Speaker 6: some ups and downs, and it's you know, none of
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  Speaker 6: us enjoyed going through the hard times, but it's through
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  Speaker 6: those times where we grow, we come out the other
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  Speaker 6: side stronger. I was just talking just this last weekend
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  Speaker 6: with ours, with my steenty school class about, you know,
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  Speaker 6: the the examples that I've looked to in my life
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  Speaker 6: of people that have have traversed some very difficult life circumstances,
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  Speaker 6: sometimes of their own doing, from their own bad choices,
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  Speaker 6: sometimes just lived in a fallen world with the with
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  Speaker 6: the you know, with the sickness and things around us,
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  Speaker 6: and and being encouraged by you know, how they have
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  Speaker 6: been resilient and and leaned on God. And so it's
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  Speaker 6: I think sometimes we lose that perspective, you know, when
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  Speaker 6: we're hurting, we we tend to focus inward, and that's
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  Speaker 6: a natural response and we need to to some degree,
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  Speaker 6: but we also you know, just like Melie's story has
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  Speaker 6: shown she's used that and it blesses a lot of
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  Speaker 6: others through our pain. You know, God wants to use
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  Speaker 6: that in some mighty ways. So see it quite often.
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  Speaker 2: It's exciting from a biblical perspective to two examples come
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  Speaker 2: to mind. I think of Joseph right, the Code of
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  Speaker 2: Many Colors. Right, brothers throw them in a well and
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  Speaker 2: then sell them as a slave. They're pretty jealous of him,
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  Speaker 2: and so and so he never he never separates from
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  Speaker 2: from God's will for his life. He maintains the faith,
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  Speaker 2: He avoids Potiphar's wife, he gets thrown in jail, but
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  Speaker 2: he's still you know, interpreting dreams and whatnot. And so
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  Speaker 2: he actually says to his brothers when he finally gets
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  Speaker 2: to make peace, what you intended for evil, God intended
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  Speaker 2: for good for me. So that's an example of the
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  Speaker 2: external forces that can affect us negatively, but but that
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  Speaker 2: God can make good things come out of. But also
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  Speaker 2: there's there's the example in my mind and heart of
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  Speaker 2: somebody who made the wrong choice knowingly, Jonah, and and
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  Speaker 2: he's actively running from God, like he's like, you want
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  Speaker 2: me to go wear it? No, I'm good. Thanks, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to go exactly in the opposite direction. And you
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  Speaker 2: know he has to pay a price for that. He
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  Speaker 2: hangs out in the belly of a whale. Jonah chapter
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  Speaker 2: two is one of the most I think one of
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  Speaker 2: the most heart wrenching prayers for repentance is like, look, hey,
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  Speaker 2: if I have to die for what I've done, bring
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  Speaker 2: it on. But if you give me another chance, I
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  Speaker 2: will turn towards you. I will do this the right way.
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  Speaker 2: And so the fish spits him out, and then God
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  Speaker 2: repeats his request, go to nineve yes, sir, and so
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  Speaker 2: Jonah goes. And in both cases, both cases, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: the external things affecting somebody negatively or the choices that
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  Speaker 2: we make bringing us down a road that God never
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  Speaker 2: intended for us, then God can make good out of
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  Speaker 2: both of those things. And Melanie, I want to ask
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  Speaker 2: you why, kids, because it sounds to me, and correct
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  Speaker 2: me if I'm wrong, but it sounds to me a
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  Speaker 2: big part of your healing journey didn't happen until later
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  Speaker 2: in life, until after some of the choices that you
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  Speaker 2: made as a youth. Why why center your your your
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  Speaker 2: What am I trying to say, your obstacle course race.
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  Speaker 2: Why center your your nonprofit organization, why center that on
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  Speaker 2: youth ministry specifically?
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  Speaker 3: Sure?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely, well, because when I was young, my my story
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  Speaker 5: is is that I was ostracized as a child from
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  Speaker 5: where I was in life going to school, et cetera,
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  Speaker 5: and growing up and I lived. I lived on a farm,
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  Speaker 5: and so you don't have a lot of friends, and
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  Speaker 5: then when you go to school, you're looking to make
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  Speaker 5: those connections, et cetera, but they just weren't there. And
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  Speaker 5: so that's that's just a reality for my for my story,
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  Speaker 5: which is maybe not everybody's story.
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  Speaker 3: But it's a lot of people's story.
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  Speaker 5: And so connecting with youth early on to show them
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  Speaker 5: the hope of Jesus Christ and his love and that
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  Speaker 5: salvation and getting that power inside them via the Holy
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  Speaker 5: Spirit the Gospel message, then maybe we can save more
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  Speaker 5: who are going down a path of self harm and
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  Speaker 5: ultimate terminal self harm and trying to help them avoid
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  Speaker 5: that and help them to not look in the wrong places.
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  Speaker 5: Show that there are Christian outlets for things. There's Christian music,
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  Speaker 5: there's more Christian centered news or faith based where you
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  Speaker 5: can get news and articles about the culture going on
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  Speaker 5: around you, or what is the situation, getting information to them,
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  Speaker 5: godly resources and godly tools. Example, our connection and our
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  Speaker 5: partnership with Nathan Rimiley and two other counselors in our area,
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  Speaker 5: and so getting in with the youth first, because a
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  Speaker 5: lot of times they aren't aware or don't have acts
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  Speaker 5: says to the proper information and the proper tools. And
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  Speaker 5: so we are looking to save lives and to help
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  Speaker 5: change lives through the power of Jesus Christ. And we
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  Speaker 5: believe in doing that as young as we can because
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  Speaker 5: those are experiences that the Lord brought me through. And
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  Speaker 5: so I'm just that's the basis upon which I have
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  Speaker 5: built my inspiration MMM.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think of this as a dad. This
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  Speaker 2: is the U I have two sons of a six
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  Speaker 2: year old and a ten year old, and I often
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  Speaker 2: will say to them, son, you can either learn this
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  Speaker 2: the easy way or the hard way. Yes, And by
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  Speaker 2: the hard way, I don't mean I'm going to take
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  Speaker 2: him up back and whip him at the woodshed. I
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  Speaker 2: mean I mean that if you learn this lesson now,
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  Speaker 2: if you embody this lesson, whatever it is, it could
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  Speaker 2: be setting aside money from what you've from what you've
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  Speaker 2: earned to save it and tie it if you can
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  Speaker 2: learn to live on less as opposed to spending everything
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  Speaker 2: you make. If you learn this lesson now, it won't
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  Speaker 2: be so painful in the future when you have to
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  Speaker 2: learn this lesson the hard way. Right, I'll say things
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  Speaker 2: like that to my sons all the time, but there's
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  Speaker 2: deep truth to that. Right In the Old Testament Deuteronomy
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  Speaker 2: and Exodus, the Lord says to the Israelites via Moses,
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  Speaker 2: teach your children about all of the things that God
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  Speaker 2: has done, so that they will follow my laws, so
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  Speaker 2: that they will walk in the way that I've intended
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  Speaker 2: you Israelites to walk in, Because if you don't, it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a painful road. It's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a bad things are going to happen that you don't
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  Speaker 2: want to happen. That actually happen all throughout the Old Testament,
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  Speaker 2: which really stinks for the Israelites. But there's this really
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  Speaker 2: heartbreaking verse in Judges, and I wanted to talk to
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  Speaker 2: you about this, Nate. Is this heartbreaking verse and it
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  Speaker 2: says in Judges chapter two, it says, in another generation
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  Speaker 2: arose that did not know of the goodness of God,
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  Speaker 2: or another translation says that did not know of the
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  Speaker 2: good works of the Lord, Right. And I imagine as
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  Speaker 2: a counselor, this is a this is a pain point
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  Speaker 2: for you. And I want to talk about this because
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  Speaker 2: in counseling, have you have elements of counseling that are preventative,
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  Speaker 2: like I want to I want to work with this
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  Speaker 2: person to help them before this thing becomes a bigger
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  Speaker 2: problem in their life. Right. And then you have things
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  Speaker 2: that you work with as a counselor that's like the
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  Speaker 2: damage has already been done and we're trying to we're
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  Speaker 2: trying to well not undo it, but to heal and
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  Speaker 2: learn and grow so that this damage that's been done
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  Speaker 2: doesn't follow you for the rest of your life. Right.
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  Speaker 2: And so I wandered from your your counselor's perspective, and
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  Speaker 2: maybe even from the perspective of the father when when
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  Speaker 2: you are in support of something like the Power of
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  Speaker 2: Me conference or the Warrior Course, what is your heart
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  Speaker 2: toward working with the youth before certain things become a
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  Speaker 2: problem for them later in life.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, no, that's a great question. And I I think, uh,
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  Speaker 6: the Power of Me focus is just right. It's at
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  Speaker 6: the perfect age, you know, because there's nothing more sad
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  Speaker 6: to me than to be sitting across from someone in
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  Speaker 6: their seventies.
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  Speaker 4: And it's been interesting the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 6: I've seen a lot of the may More senior generation
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  Speaker 6: uh in office, which is which is great that they're
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  Speaker 6: feeling more open to do that.
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  Speaker 4: But uh and this and this is in all their stories.
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  Speaker 6: But sometimes there's are often actually there's that story of
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  Speaker 6: of what you're talking about of they have there's these regrets,
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  Speaker 6: you know, and and a lot of my work there
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  Speaker 6: is is trying to get get through that and realize, hey,
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  Speaker 6: you know, you're still breathing. God has purpose for you.
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  Speaker 6: There is still a future for you as well. But
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  Speaker 6: but my heart aches for them at times because so
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  Speaker 6: much life has been lived and there's so many mistakes,
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  Speaker 6: and there's the generation that has you know, that that
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  Speaker 6: that's come through there that that they maybe haven't shared
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  Speaker 6: like they would have hoped at this point and where
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  Speaker 6: they're at now and so uh so, yeah, I think
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  Speaker 6: that you know, if if we can if we can
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  Speaker 6: catch these youth at at a younger age. And what's
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  Speaker 6: fascinating to me as a counselor is that I lived
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  Speaker 6: in Springfield for for a while, and I worked a
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  Speaker 6: lot with inner city youth and kids there, and and
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  Speaker 6: there are times that I would see a kid that
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  Speaker 6: was just that was way above where they should be
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  Speaker 6: given their living condition. Right, I'm meeting with the usually
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  Speaker 6: a single single mom typically and and maybe she's pulled
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  Speaker 6: lots of different directions, has a lot, way too much
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  Speaker 6: on her plate, and and and things are chaotic. And
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  Speaker 6: then I meet this kid and they're just you know,
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  Speaker 6: they're honestly seem more mature than the than the parent.
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  Speaker 6: And almost every time I would say I would, I would,
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  Speaker 6: I have to say every time, there is one person
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  Speaker 6: somewhere that has invested in that child in some way.
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  Speaker 6: There's there's a couple, there's you know, someone has has
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  Speaker 6: taken time to uh, you know, to pour into them
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  Speaker 6: and typically with the gospel message, helping them understand who
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  Speaker 6: they are in Christ.
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  Speaker 4: Uh And and so you know that's what's exciting.
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  Speaker 6: Sometimes we can get that attitude that you know, hey,
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  Speaker 6: this is just a maybe we say we can invent
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  Speaker 6: we can event you know, how how powerful can this be?
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  Speaker 6: Or you know, it's it's this you know, I'm just
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  Speaker 6: one person, but you know, I want to encourage those
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  Speaker 6: listening that you know, if if God places something on
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  Speaker 6: your heart, places a kid on your heart, a team
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  Speaker 6: on your heart, don't ignore that. It's amazing what God
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  Speaker 6: can do with one person that's that's devoted to to
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  Speaker 6: share Christ with with kids.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you for that. I was that kid.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: I was that kid. One of the reasons I have
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: such a heart for what you guys are doing is
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: is I grew up in a single parent home with
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: three younger siblings. And and there was a guy who
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: ran a kickboxing school across the street. And he saw
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: his school as a ministry. And I know you like
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: kickboxing and Jesus don't seem to mix. We used to
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: joke that we beat the hades out of you, that's
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: how we made you hold it wah wah. But but
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: the we didn't We couldn't afford this. We couldn't go
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: across the street and pay for kickboxing lessons. But he
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: had a big heart for for kids who are growing
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: up in broken homes. And so he told my mom
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: send him over, like he doesn't have to pay. Send
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: him over. Is often he's willing to come work out,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: let's do it. And so so that was a huge part.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Excuse me, it was a huge part of my story
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: was to be introduced to Christ in with a with
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: a group of guys who loved me, who were willing
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: to let me beat on them. You know, I didn't
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: have a father figure in the homes, so so I
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: was connected to them and they you might ask, how
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: how do you make kickboxing a Christian thing? We would
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: stop in the middle of the workout and there was
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: a verse, and he would teach the verse and take
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: prayer requests and and there were so many people who
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: came to know Christ out of this kickboxing school that
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: it might as well have been a church. It wasn't,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: but it might as well have been, right, And I'm
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: one of them. And I know when I came to
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: the the event last year, to the Warrior Course, I
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: know that many of the individuals who came, parents, children,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: et cetera. I know that that many of them wouldn't
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: feel confident connected or or even ministered to in a
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: traditional church setting. It's it's an event. I'm going to
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: come to this event, and I'm gonna I'm going to
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: run the course and and whatnot, and and the way
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: the way it's a Christian Obstacle Course race is there's
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: a well, actually, Melanie, I'd like you to tell us
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: more about that, because because the way that you guys
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: have iterated this over the past few years is obvious
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: that it gets better every year, and and to me
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: getting to participate in that, getting to be a speaker
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: in that, and then getting to go with the kids
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: through the course, that it was very obvious to me
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: that this was Christ centered in a lot of ways
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: that the kids might not have noticed, but it was
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: obvious that Christ was apart sure, not just a part
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: of this thing, but in the middle of it. Can
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: you talk through that with me?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely?
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  Speaker 5: So we do the course. The guys run separately from
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: the girls. They run in two different segments, and real briefly.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: And why do we do that.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: There's specific reasons that we can get into a little
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: bit later. But then when they go through the course,
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: at every station, there's a Bible verse.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: One Bible verse.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: It's the same one throughout the entire course, but we
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: put it on a board and it's there and they
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: are to look at it, read it, and say it
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: at each station. And then once they get to their
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: last station, which is approximately the twenty second twenty second station.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: We have about twenty two and then once they go
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: to that last station, they have to recite it from
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: memory and then go through and if they don't recite
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: it from memory, they have to go through that last
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: obstacle station again. And the last one is technically the hardest.
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: And it's a very chilling experience. That's all I'll say,
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: unless you want to spoil the spill the beans later,
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: but it's a very chilling, Okay, it's a very chilling experience.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: So yes, we want people to walk away with something permanent,
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: and we believe that writing the scriptures of the Lord
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: on your heart is the best way to walk through life,
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: and so that's how we center that. Plus we have
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: a speaker, which is why we're connected today. We were
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: connected to you through a gentleman who is on our
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: team and serves on our team and said, hey, have
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: you heard about coach Alex vn Houghten And we were like,
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: I haven't, but I want to research teams. So we
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: ended up connecting with you. We asked for a faith
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: based message. You gave that connected to real life, real
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: time in a godly way, with God's design and God's perspective,
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: and because we believe that we have gotten so far
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: away from remembering that everything is God's. Everything is about God,
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: and we are his and we are here to glorify
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: Him with what we have in everything and to touch
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: on something that you said a little bit earlier. And
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: our organization is about sharing truth John eight thirty two.
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  Speaker 5: Then you shall know the truth, and the truth shall
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  Speaker 5: set you free. The truth shall set your truth. Knowing
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: it will set you free. And we want to see
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: these youth and potentially their parents, their chaperones, whomever it
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: comes with them, see them set free to And I
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: just believe from my own personal testimony that I have
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: been set free and it has actually been through the
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: journey of producing and putting on this nonprofit and this
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: event that I myself have continued to be set free
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: just in the things and the people that I have
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: come in contact with. What God meant for me to do,
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: He also meant for me to experience and to continue
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: to heal through.
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  Speaker 7: So do you have anything to add to that, Nate, Well,
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: I my mind, I'm a I'm a man, you know,
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: so I think in one, one box at a time.
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: Right, But Melanie, you said, you mentioned the verse John
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: eight thirty two, and and I actually have those on
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: all my business. That's kind of my my my verse
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: for my counsel, which I I hadn't I didn't make that,
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: hadn't made that connection yet, which is really really neat, right.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: But I think that's absolutely absolutely the case.
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: You know, when we know the truth you know, which
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: which is Christ, but also begin to learn and know
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: the truth of of of who we are uh in Christ,
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: who we are, who God's greatest to be it that's
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: that's a powerful thing. That's that's so foundational for these kids.
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: And I you know, I, I uh, this this course,
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: I think.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: It all.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: It feels good, you know, Alex.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: I can tell you that you know, you're a you're
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: a great man, strong, buff all those things you know,
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: and and that that would feel good to you, right,
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: I mean it's nice, good compliments. Uh, But it's not
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: until you actually do things. It's not until you actually
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: out there doing it that you really that you really
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: take it in and believe it for yourself. You No, yes,
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: we can believe those messages, but it's doing it's the
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: experience of doing it.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: And that's why I love.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: I had two girls that my youngest two went through
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: the course last year and we had some cousins come
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: with them, and and uh, I've got this picture actually
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: a little video of them right after the course. They're
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: all in a little huddle and they're kind of just
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: bouncing together and you know, and shaking each other and
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: and uh, you know, they were just you could just
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: see the confidence level rise in them, you know, as
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: they had accomplished this this thing and and with with
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: the biblical truth as a foundation.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: And yeah, I think that's it's it's a great thing.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Well this guys, you Melanie, just hats off to you
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: and in the community. I want to talk a bit
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: about how how this thing comes together in a moment.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: But but this is a this is a world class
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: obstacle course that you guys have put together. I'm saying
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: that you don't you don't market that, but I'm saying
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: it because I've experienced obstacle course races that I've paid
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: money for and flown, you know, across the country to
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: be a part of and ran clients through them and
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: train them for it and whatnot. What you guys have
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: put together is is very unique. It's very unique for
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: children to have the opportunity to go through something like this,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: to face heights and to face water, and to face
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: zip lines, and to like like it's real. It's real
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: experiences that they will not forget. And I you know,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: it's it's something that it's not so what's the word.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: It's not so advanced that they can't do it and
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: they have, you know, there's not like the ridiculous pressure
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: that you you know, you have to do it whether
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: you like it or not. There's not like you guys
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: just strike a really good spirit for kids that that
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: you know a lot of their friends are doing it.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: They've got coaches at every obstacle to kind of to
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: coax you through that and keep it safe, but also
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: also to encourage, you know. I remember the very first
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: the very first thing, we got right into the water,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: the very first thing in the tough mutter. That's what
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: they do to you, by the way. The very first
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: obstacle is like, I know you were you weren't going
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: to get wet and muddy, but you're gonna get wet
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: and undy very first thing, and then run this whole
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: thing wet and muddy, and so I remember there was
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: a there's a little boy. I don't remember his name,
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: but I remember his face because he was super excited
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: about this until he got to the water's edge and
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: was like, I'm not gonna make this one. I'm not
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: gonna be okay. And I had just finished speaking to
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: him and say, hey, man, I'll do this with you,
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: like it's gonna be cold to me too, I'll make
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: sure you don't drown, like, let's do this thing. And
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: and what was crazy is is for me, that's the
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: spirit of the Father. The spirit of the Father is
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: encouraging through love. The spirit of Father is disciplined, because
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: we can't grow unless we're disciplined. The spirit of the
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Father looks at you and says, I know what you're
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: capable of, and I'm not gonna I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: let you do less than that.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: And so so like he went through this, and then
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: he seems so confident after that. He was he was
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: ready to do all this stuff. But I remember thinking, like,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: we're less than three minutes into this, this obstacle course,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: and this is what it's about. This is the opportunity
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: for young men and young women to address something very physical,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: very very real, and in your face not on the iPad,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: and no offense to pastors, not from the pole pit,
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: to see this actually come alive and embody it, and Nate,
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: I wanted to ask you for me in my journey
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: obviously from a physical fitness perspective, movement and exercise and
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: embodiment of the Word of God. I even I wrote
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: a devotional about it. It's coming out very soon called
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Faithful Fitness Forty Days of Stewardship for the Christian Mind
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  Speaker 2: and Body. I know that there's something here about the
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: experience of embodying God's word, his truth, but also how
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: He made us to be. Can you talk a little
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: bit about what you think is the connection in your
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: counseling practice between movement which doesn't seem connected at all,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: and and that that like inner strength or healing that occurs.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: What how does how did those two things play together
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: in your mind? If at all?
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: Well, they absolutely are connected.
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: I don't know that I know all the ins and
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: outs of of of why they work and how it works,
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: but I will say, and you know, study after study
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: will confirm this. I mean that you know there's there's
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: not a there's really a mental health struggle that I
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: that I see that isn't helped by getting out and
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: doing some exercise or you know, and you know, it's
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: it's relative, right, It's relative to where you're at, who
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: you are, you know, your makeup, and what exercise looks
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: like for you. But but I absolutely believe that, uh,
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: you know, there's something special about seeing someone that's I
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: think we all can see it when when someone's doing
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: what they're created to do, there's just a there's a
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: there's a glow there, there's there's just it's.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: Just working right.
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: And so when it and I agree one hundred percent,
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: I mean, we are created to be to be active,
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: you know, that's when we're we're so connected that the
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: more healthy that we are physically, you know, I find that,
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: you know, we're healthier, we're in a much better mental state.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: Emotionally, we're much better. We've got, you know, a much
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: wider bandwidth. We're much more resilient. That's something else I'd
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: like to talk about as the resilience.
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: We don't have to get to it right now, but
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: I think that's an important that's that's something that we're
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: I feel like we're.
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: Losing a little bit as a culture in America is.
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: That is that resilience of being able to Obviously I'm
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: a counselor. I want to be open to as many
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: people as I can. But I think sometimes you know,
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: it's it's I like to see it where people didn't fight.
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: Everyone doesn't have to have a counselor. You know what
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: I'm saying. You know, I mean, I want to be available.
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: I don't want there to be a stigma there. But
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: I also want to build, you know, help build you know,
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: resiliency into youth to where they can to where they're networking.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: With with others and and you know.
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: Uh and being able to be leaders themselves. You know,
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: I was talking about this to a GEST group last
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: night of you know, you guys, you know, there's a
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: lot of potential maturity in this room, and you guys
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: are leaders, whether you realize they or not, you know,
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: and so so yeah, I don't know if I answer
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: that that too thoroughly, but yeah, exercise, I think is
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: a vital and the discipline it takes, I think that's
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: the other thing that I see really lacking. Uh And
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: and hey, I'll be the first to say there's times
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: I'm not as disciplined as I need.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: To be but discipline. You know, show me someone.
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: With an addition struggle and across the board, and I'll
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: typically show you someone that lacks discipline in other areas
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: as well.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: It's not as simple as that.
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: I don't want to oversimplify or minimize you know, pain
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: and struggles and the things that someone's going through. But
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: discipline is a huge key element to us being able
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: to really.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: Either stay on track or get on track. And you
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: know what God's intended for us.
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: And I think that that is Could I speak to that, Alex,
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: just real quick. It is about discipline. Self discipline is
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: a major factor in how quickly we recover or how
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: slowly we recover. Our theme verse for the organization is
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: two Timothy one seven. For I have not given you
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: a spirit of fear intimidity, but a spirit of power
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: and of love and of self control. And circling back
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: to original conversation about the faith is that that is
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: what we're trying to get these youth to see, is
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: that we are not victims. We are victors, and we
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: can be victors when we have the spirit.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: How do we have the power.
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: We get the Holy Spirit through God's salvation and his
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: gospel message, you know, repent, confess, believe, be baptized, receive
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: the gift of the Holy Spirit, be sealed into salvation,
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: and then know the course itself again is the mirror image,
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: because this walk is not going to be all a
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: bed of roses.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: It's going to be ugly and it's going to be hard.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: But we were all given into what.
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: You were saying earlier, Coach Alex is that everybody who
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: comes there are modifications for the course, because we believe
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: again it's a mirror image of life.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: Not everybody is the head, not everybody is the.
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: Feet, and so we are all going to get through
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: the course of life in different paces and in different ways,
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: and so we don't.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: Expect everybody to complete every obstacle the same.
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: And then also getting back to the most direct question
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: you were just asking, Nathan, was that there's a verse
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: that also says to make it your ambition to lead
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: a quiet life and to work with your hands and
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: mind your own business, mind your own business, and work
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: with your hands.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: And that's what it says.
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: That's not that's a cheery picking of that sort of
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: he doesn't mean to just state, you know, right here
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: and don't pay attention.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: To anything else going around you. That's I don't believe that's.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: What the context of the Scripture is saying. He's saying that,
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: you know, work, be active, do do things, and so
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: and also the.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: Temple of God. Our bodies are the temple of God.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: How do we keep them in shape?
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: Well, we can clearly see through you know, years of
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: observation that sitting still does not do anything for us,
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: and so stay active. I believe we can look towards
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: Scripture on that because God references movement a lot. You know,
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: running the race. A runner runs the race.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: And you know, so.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: You're you're as you guys were speaking, I was thinking
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: through some of the some of the things that we
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: talk through in the devotional, and you, guys, this will
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: be familiar to you because I spoke about it last year,
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: unless you weren't listening, in which case turn your listening
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: ears on. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I I
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: hear when when Nate talks about resilience in the devotion,
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: we call that grit. We call it the discipline of grit.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: And the world's version is, if at first you don't succeed,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: try and try again, right but but we have a
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: we have a Christian version of that, and and you
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: can see several pieces of that throughout scripture. But but
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: one of the verses that comes to mind is is
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: in Galatians where Paul admonishes the church, let us not
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: grow weary of doing good works. In the end, we
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: will read the harvest if we do not give up.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: And there's this, there's this deep idea, and Christ echoes this. Well,
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Christ is the progenitor of this. So I guess it's
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Paul echoing Christ. But but when when he says, no,
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: man who puts his hands to the plow and turns
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: a away from it is fit for the kingdom of heaven.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: And this idea that that there has to be some
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: resilience within the Christian walk, because like you said, Melie,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: it's not going to be easy, right, it's not going
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: to be a primrose path. You're you are going to
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: face trials, says James, Like you will. You will face
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: these things. And but if you have some grit, if
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: you have resilience, which is in my experience born, it
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: has to be embodied. You know, you can't like you know,
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: I didn't give up, how I kept thinking through the problem.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: It doesn't happen that way. I didn't give up when
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: my legs started to burn. I didn't give up when
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: my fingers didn't want to hold on anymore. I didn't
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: give up when I was afraid. I didn't give up
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: when I wasn't sure I could do this right. Grit.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Grit is a discipline that you use the word resilience
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: name I like the word grit. Either way, it's the
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: same idea. It's it's the discipline of saying, no matter what,
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: I'm going to keep putting one foot in front of you,
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: no matter what, I'm going to hold on, no matter what,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give this my best effort, regardless of
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: how I feel about this thing. And then the other
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: thing you guys were talking about, and this is like
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: the discipline self control. We talk about that from the
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: perspective of integrity, not necessarily the value of doing the
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: same thing no matter who's watching or always telling the truth,
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: but integrity coming from the word integer, meaning a whole
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: part put together right. Discipline self control. Discipline is the
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: process of taking all of me, all of my weird,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: all of my weird wants and things that I think
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: I need and bringing them all under one umbrella and
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: an r in the Gospel that is in the service
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: of Christ. So when I think of the body, I'm like,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: what am I going to do with my body today? Well?
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: Better be in service to God's kingdom. And if it's not,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: I need to ask some serious questions about how I'm
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: going to spend my time and energy today. And so
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: that all comes under this, this umbrella of integrity. And
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: I talked last year, and I intend to talk this
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: year about the other two growth in AWE. But if
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: you want to hear those, I guess you'll just have
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: to be there.
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: So we kept covering your acronym last year, and it's
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: coming up a little bit short for me now, but
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: I remember, like for the first two to three weeks
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: after the course, I was quizzing my daughter about the
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: acronym that you taught.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, yeah, Giga Giga grit integrity growth in AWE.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: That's the and I don't know, I don't know why
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: it spells giga. That just makes it easy to remember.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: But I do want to speak about the course specifically
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: as we're coming up toward the end of our conversation here,
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: I want to speak about the course specifically, so if
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: individuals are listening, they're like, hey, okay, I want to
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: be there. I am bringing my family and the individuals
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: from our ministry up from Greenboro, Arkansas. It's going to
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: be like a six or seven hour drive. Where is
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: this thing? When is this thing? How much do it costs?
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: How do people get involved? We'll have links and stuff
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: in the show notes, but I want to allow you
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: to talk through that with us. Is what is the
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Warrior Course and how do people get involved in it?
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: Sure, So on Saturday, September the sixth, it's going to
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: take place. You can show up ten am. It is
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: our registration time. We're starting a little bit later so
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: that people from the big cities, so Saint Louis, Kansas City,
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: Saint Joe from those regions can drive in and get
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: in and don't have to get up so extremely early,
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: and we're looking forward to that power inmeconference dot Com
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: is where all of the information is located as an
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: umbrella statement. We are also on Facebook and Instagram with
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: those details. Then we have you can get your tickets
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: at it tickets dot com and all of the specific
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: pricing is there and due to new pricing awarenesses. I
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: guess you could say all of the everything is listed
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: up front and so just so that you're aware of that.
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: And a minute ago you were talking about how someone
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: invited you into the club across the street. Well, with
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: powermeew conference and Warrior Course, we do have free ticket scholarships.
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: You can get those for free on I tickets dot
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: com as well. There is a selection for that, and
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: so it's very important to us because we are in
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: ministry that there is no roadblock to people getting here.
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: So course modifications and free ticket scholarships, and then you're
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: welcome to call or email. All of that contact information
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: again is on those three social media platforms. And then
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: it's located at Bavir, Missouri, which is about two.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: Hours and forty five minutes. It's maybe from Kansas City
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: and Saint Louis.
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: If you do like an average, it can be depending
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: on how fast you drive. It depends major highway all
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: the way highway. We sit on Highway thirty six and
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: then it's just four point one miles north of Highway
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: thirty six. Highway thirty six intersects with Highway sixty three
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: in north central Missouri. We are thirty minutes south of
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: Truman State University, and we are an hour north of
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: the University of Missouri Missoo Tigers, and so that's kind
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: of where we're at. The course itself is actually sits
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: right off of a state paved highway, so it's not
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: going to be hard to get there. Actually, it's very
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: easy to traverse. You can you can even bring a
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: small bus if you want to. We can maneuver you.
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: It's great. This event sets on at least fifteen acres
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: and the course is about a mile and a half long.
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: We've increased the length of the course this year. And
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: then we also have some really cool a really cool
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: upgrade and addition and to the we have lengthened our
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: zip line that is already in progress, and so that's
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: gonna be cool too. And again, yeah, so to give
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: people an idea on pricing, it's like twenty five dollars
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: or less to be here.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: Okay, so what does that get you?
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: That gets you if you go ahead and get a
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: ticket reserved, that's gonna get you a confirmed goodie bag
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: with some really cool things in it. Plus if you
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: finish the course, if you're a participant and you finish
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: the course, I'm gonna go ahead and break the news.
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: Now you're gonna get a really cool forty ounce stainless
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: steel tumbler engraved with the Warrior course and finisher on
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: it and the year. That's gonna be awesome. I think
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: it was something we settled on to try to keep it.
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: You know, you hang a medal on the wall, right,
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: we wanted something you could also use.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: It was very valuable to you.
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: So we wanted the kids to be able to have
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: something to take to school and cele That's exactly right.
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: Stay hydrated, and a big shout out to Redmond Real
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: Salt and Redmond Relight. They are sponsoring some door prices
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: this year for us and all so they are an
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: official There are official hydration drink of electrolytes for the course.
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: And so everybody gets a packet in their goodie bag
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: of Redmond Relight and then some other things in that
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: packet as in that goodie bag as well, and okay,
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: what else is in the ticket? A meal, a catered meal,
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: a delicious, nutritious, pretty pretty naturally based meal, and refreshments to.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: Go along with that.
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: We also provide light breakfast items, healthy breakfast items, fruit,
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: you know things. We also make sure that we pay
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: attention to allergy sensitive items for people let us know.
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: But typically we try to cover every a lot of
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: allergy sensitive situations in advance, so there should be something
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: there for you that you can have if you have
• 42:47
  Speaker 5: that situation going on. And again that's something you know,
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: you coach Alex know that we kind of touch on
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: inside of the Warrior courses. We talk about health and
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: wellness for men and women in those little segments. But yeah,
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: all of those are include in the ticket price. And
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: if you are coming and you need a meal, you
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: just purchase you just purchase a meal ticket for that day.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: And so I think I did want to clarify something.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: So so on the site it says that that the
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: kids are ten and up. Here's the ticket for kids
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: ten and up, and that is specifically for kids running
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: the race without their guardian or parent, right, correct. So
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: so I'm going to go through this with my six
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: year old, and I'm saying that out loud because well,
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: one of the reasons I didn't bring my children last
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: year is you're like, yeah, you know, ten and up
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: and my youngest was or my old excuse me was
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: nine at the time, and I thought, okay, well, you know,
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: I don't want to break any rules. But after going
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: through the course, as long as your parents there with you,
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: like I mean, you could go, you could go a
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: very young age like this is a great So this
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: is the kind of stuff that I would bring my
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: boys to and do you know, one at a time
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: in my backyard. But but it was. It was such
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: a good experience, such well put together course that I
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: can't wait to bring both of my boys through it.
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: Those are extremely kind words. Were just blown away whenever
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: you said that. Our team is just blown away by
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: your feedback, and we're just all glory to God because
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: it's been an incredibly interesting journey to what we're doing.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: And so that it's beautiful.
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: It's honey to the soul to hear good news about
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: something that's kind of you know, life is hard often
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: and so it's honey to the soul to hear good feedback.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Well, I want to talk about that a little bit,
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: and Nate, I like your thoughts on this too. So
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: anytime I've done anything in the world for the glory
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: of God, there's usually a roadblock or twenty seven all
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: the reasons why not to do this thing right? And
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: you know, from a Christian perspective, we understand that our
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: battles not against flesh and blood, like we're going to
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: come up against things that the enemy puts in our
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: path in order to keep us from doing good things
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: that are going to make Christ manifest in the world
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: that's spread his love and his goodness. There there is
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: a lot of things that have likely come against what
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: you're doing. And rather than list these out, I'd actually
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: like to look at the ways that God has helped
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: your your organization, and your community overcome this one thing.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: One thing that keeps obstacle course racist from being a
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: thing everywhere is a space to do it. That looks
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: like God provided an amazing space for you guys. That's
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: that's what we're talking about. Another reason that this is
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: a thing is is it requires a lot of people.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: You know, when I went to the Tough Mutter, they
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: had they had a very well paid, very large staff
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: to make all this stuff happen over you know, a
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: span of time, whether it's people checking people in, whether
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: it's people monitoring obstacles, whether it's people running extra bags
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: of ice. You know, like whatever, there was a large
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: amount of people there to do it, and so that
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: makes it more expensive. The larger the staff required, the
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: more expensive things get. And as you can imagine, also
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: the upkeep upkeep of obstacles like the materials. The zip
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: line you were talking about, that doesn't just put itself up,
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: you know, like people have to people have to ratchet
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: that in and test it. The Lord help them, right.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: So so when I came to this course last year,
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: I was blown away that there was somebody in your
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: community who was willing to just dedicate his entire land
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: area to this event to absolute strangers. He doesn't know. Hey,
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: come on in, come to my place. It's a it's
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: a great piece of property. There's there's this. We're going
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: to tear it up like he tore it up on
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: purpose with a tractor to make muddy pits for people,
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: you know, like like he he did this. And then
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: and then I shook hands with and spoke to a
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: bunch of members I think of your church and surrounding
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: community who were just volunteering, who were just there to
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: make sure this this thing operated well. So so I'd
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: love to hear from from you, Nate and you Melanie,
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: what what is the atmosphere of this warrior course, like
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: with regard to volunteers the place, I don't know, I
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: don't know who all these people are, but I know
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: that they're there for a very powerful reason and because
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: they believe in what's going on. So so either either
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: one of you what's it like, like who's coming and
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: why are they there? And how how did how did
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: that come about?
• 47:21
  Speaker 5: So I can open it up and then Nathan can finish.
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: And so we have quite a few people in our congregation.
• 47:30
  Speaker 5: We are from all sorts of towns in our congregation
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: number one, and it's not just one particular town. And
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: so that is the beautiful thing about this is that
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: we're all from different areas. And that's the beautiful thing
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: about the Kingdom, right is that we are not one
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: particular silo. And so it's amazing and so but it
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: did start with about three to four people in our congregation,
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: again we're all from different towns, and then it blossomed
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: into something where our leadership team is composed of individual
• 48:00
  Speaker 5: from about four different congregations in the region, and then
• 48:04
  Speaker 5: we just kind of branch out from there, and then
• 48:06
  Speaker 5: we also include people who have a heart for what
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: we're doing, but maybe don't go to church with any
• 48:12
  Speaker 5: of us, and they are wanting to learn, and so
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: maybe they maybe they want to be at a station,
• 48:17
  Speaker 5: an obstacle station, and they want to help encourage, et cetera,
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: and get involved in that manner. And yes, everybody on
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: the team, everybody is one hundred percent volunteer status. I
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: know that sounds really crazy when you start talking about
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: ministry and organized nonprofits, et cetera. But yes, we are
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: all unpaid everybody. And so but what we try to
• 48:40
  Speaker 5: do as a as an umbrella organization is we try
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: to you know, we try to reward them. So our
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: volunteers they come and they eat free and they get
• 48:48
  Speaker 5: in for free.
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: So we just like we believe that a.
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: Laborer should be rewarded for their work and their efforts, like.
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: Jesus says, and so that's that's.
• 48:57
  Speaker 5: Kind of where we get our people and how get
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: our people, and they just we.
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: Do a lot of praying.
• 49:03
  Speaker 5: We pray so much behind the scenes and throughout the year,
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: days and weeks and months, and we're just continuing to
• 49:11
  Speaker 5: smother everything we do in prayer and say God, if
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: this is what you want us to do, please please
• 49:18
  Speaker 5: just provide, and we will step in faith even when
• 49:21
  Speaker 5: we don't see the answer right in front of us.
• 49:24
  Speaker 5: And God has always provided through thick and through thin,
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: and so but yes, we get we get our volunteers.
• 49:33
  Speaker 5: We call and we ask and they say yes. And
• 49:36
  Speaker 5: sometimes all it takes is just a phone call or
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: a text or an email and say hey, would you
• 49:40
  Speaker 5: be willing.
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: To do this?
• 49:40
  Speaker 5: And they're like, yeah, I'd love to be a part
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: of that. So, Nathan, do you have anything to add
• 49:45
  Speaker 5: to that?
• 49:46
  Speaker 6: Well, I'm not going to pretend like I know anything
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: and what's going on behind the scenes, Melanie definitely those.
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: All of that for sure.
• 49:54
  Speaker 6: But I would just say that what I've seen over
• 49:57
  Speaker 6: and over again in different places we have lived is
• 49:59
  Speaker 6: when God is at work, Uh, that's exciting, I mean,
• 50:02
  Speaker 6: and hopefully I mean it should be right, it should
• 50:05
  Speaker 6: be exciting to other believers and and uh, and so
• 50:08
  Speaker 6: you know, the volunteers I've rubbed shoulders with there have
• 50:11
  Speaker 6: have all been very excited about seeing the kids, you know,
• 50:15
  Speaker 6: helping them through the os. You know some of them,
• 50:17
  Speaker 6: you know they need some help. And so I think
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: there was one older Joe, and I I kind of
• 50:21
  Speaker 6: felt bad. At what obstacle he was at. He was
• 50:23
  Speaker 6: having to use a lot of it upper body street home,
• 50:26
  Speaker 6: some of these some of these kids. But yeah, he
• 50:28
  Speaker 6: was happy to do it right and he was getting
• 50:30
  Speaker 6: in there and being helpful and and so so yeah,
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: it's uh, it's been a volunteers are great there, sure
• 50:38
  Speaker 6: m H.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: Spoken as one who's there.
• 50:42
  Speaker 5: Yes, absolutely, We We so appreciate his partnership and participation
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: because his services and his skill set are just we
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: just believe are so needed. That's why it's so important
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: to us to partner with Christian counselors. Again, back to
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: giving access to youth and adults of godly resources, showing
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: them that they can do things through the Kingdom that
• 51:07
  Speaker 5: and they don't have to go to a worldly resource.
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: They don't because that's not the ultimate answer, and it
• 51:14
  Speaker 5: just leads them down a path of more chaos and
• 51:16
  Speaker 5: confusion and no resolution. And so that's why Nathan and
• 51:21
  Speaker 5: his skill set and resources are so important to us.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: That's oak rings Christian counseling. Is that right, Nate, That's right, yeah, awesome.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: We've got a link for your counseling practice as well
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: in the show notes. So as we wrap up here.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: I want to pray over the warrior course and the
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: power in me and your counseling Nate, and also over
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: your family. So if you would bow your head with me, Father, God,
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: thank you so much for this day. Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to spend time with Melanie and Nate, and
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  Speaker 2: thank you for their heart to minister to our youth,
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  Speaker 2: this generation that you've created for such a time as
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  Speaker 2: the God, I pray that we would be faithful and
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  Speaker 2: the calling we've received to serve them, to minister to
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  Speaker 2: them well and to make this an awesome course. God,
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  Speaker 2: I pray that the kids who are coming that you're
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  Speaker 2: already preparing their hearts and their minds to receive something
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  Speaker 2: from you. There truth, resilience, confidence and assurance, even a
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  Speaker 2: decision to follow your son with their life. God, I
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  Speaker 2: pray that you would bless this event, bless those who
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  Speaker 2: are traveling with safety. I pray Lord that you'll bless
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  Speaker 2: those who are still deciding whether or not to carve
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  Speaker 2: out the time that weekend to come. Lord, I just
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  Speaker 2: pray that you would bless this event and everybody who
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  Speaker 2: needs to be there is there, We have a great time,
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  Speaker 2: and that we also learn something about who you made
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  Speaker 2: us to be. Bless Melanie and her family, give them
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  Speaker 2: favor and protect them. And I pray the same thing
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  Speaker 2: for Nate and his practice as a man counselor who
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  Speaker 2: also glorifies God and his work. There's not many of
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  Speaker 2: those around, and so I pray protection and grace and
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  Speaker 2: peace over him as he does your work in the
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  Speaker 2: lives of his clients and patience. We love you, Lord
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus name. Amen. Amen, guys, thank you so much
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  Speaker 2: for joining me and to our listeners. You had several
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  Speaker 2: I hope you'll join us on September sixth. Me and
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  Speaker 2: my boys will be there running through the obstacles and
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  Speaker 2: having a grand old time. And until next time, you
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