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BASIC BLAQUE AFTER DARK, 11/29/24 · DA CREW Podcast

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Speaker 1: And you're listening to Esig Black after Dark, it should.
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Speaker 1: It meets you where you are and gives you what
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Speaker 1: you ask for. Tonight, we're diving into something truly transformative
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Speaker 1: with none other than Apostle Kimberly Thomas. She's here to
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Speaker 1: share all about the color outside the Lines Women's Retreat.
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Speaker 1: And I'm excited because I'm person that's going to be
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Speaker 1: on that retreat, so you can just imagine how everybody
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Speaker 1: else is going to feel. It's an empowering experience designed
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Speaker 1: to inspire, uplift and renew. That's one of the reasons
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Speaker 1: why I'm going, because I want to red. She's no stranger,
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Speaker 1: the basic Black app the dog. So please join me
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Speaker 1: and welcoming Apostle Kimberly Thomas.
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Speaker 2: Hi, good evening, good evening, good evening.
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Speaker 1: Hi, thank you, thank you, thank you a thousand times.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for coming in tonight. I appreciate it.
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Speaker 3: And I appreciate the opportunity to be on with you tonight.
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Speaker 1: Now, my producer showed me, sent me a flyer about
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Speaker 1: a woman's retreat. She first explained it to me and
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Speaker 1: told me about the women's retreat, and this was what
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Speaker 1: I think just yesterday, And at first I was saying, Oh,
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Speaker 1: I got to find somebody to watch the case. But
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Speaker 1: forget that I'm in. I am in a women's retreat
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Speaker 1: to get away and to renew. Yes a man. But
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Speaker 1: what ispyed the creation of the color outside the lines
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Speaker 1: women's retreat.
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Speaker 3: This women's retreat is totally inspired by God. In twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty two, I just happened to be sitting at my
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Speaker 3: desk just thinking about some things that women go through,
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Speaker 3: different things that we experience, and the Lord just dropped
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Speaker 3: color outside the lines in my spirit. And after that
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Speaker 3: he began to just put all the pieces together. So
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Speaker 3: the inception of color outside the lines began really just
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Speaker 3: from a thought of women and the fact that there
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Speaker 3: are many times that we as women, we don't really
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Speaker 3: know our true identity. We kind of walk in the
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Speaker 3: and the shadows of others. So as color outside the
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Speaker 3: lines began to developed, it was really for us to
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Speaker 3: understand our uniqueness as women as individuals. And so this
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Speaker 3: is something that the Lord inspired and it's been going
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Speaker 3: on since twenty twenty two, and we are continuing to
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Speaker 3: move forward in everything that the Lord has for his daughters.
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Speaker 1: Wow, I'm I'm just so excited. What is the vision
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Speaker 1: and the mission behind behind.
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Speaker 3: The retreating The actual vision and mission behind the retreat
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Speaker 3: are is the fact that we are individuals, and as individuals,
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Speaker 3: we need to understand that we were fearfully and wonderfully
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Speaker 3: made by the Lord. So we are all unique and
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Speaker 3: it is okay for us to be different. We're not
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Speaker 3: cookie cutters. Our lives are different, but even our lives
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Speaker 3: still tend to blend. So there are many of us
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Speaker 3: as women that have gone through many of the same issues.
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Speaker 3: We've experienced many different things such as molestation, abuse, domestic violence.
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Speaker 2: We have been in families where we have had.
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Speaker 3: Absent fathers, and so color outside the Lines is an
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Speaker 3: opportunity for us to come together, for the Lord to
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Speaker 3: really deal with us as women, to make us whole.
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Speaker 3: You know, we get healed in some areas, but once
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Speaker 3: we are whole, then we are truly able to walk
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Speaker 3: out our purpose.
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Speaker 2: And destiny that God has intended for us to have.
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Speaker 1: So you could have came up with any other name.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about this, just so many of them. Why
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Speaker 1: colors outside the lines and what does it signify?
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Speaker 3: Color outside the lines signify the fact that we don't
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Speaker 3: have to hold on to the idea of making sure
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Speaker 3: that our picture is perfect when we were growing up,
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Speaker 3: and the only way that I can really kind of
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Speaker 3: explain it is, you know, when you were growing up
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Speaker 3: in school.
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Speaker 2: Coming up in kindergarten in primary school, you would always have, you.
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Speaker 3: Know, your art classes and different things, and they would
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Speaker 3: give you a piece of paper.
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Speaker 2: They would give you a drawing, and this drawing may
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Speaker 2: have had lines, and in.
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Speaker 3: Order for your picture to be considered a perfect picture,
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Speaker 3: you had to stay within those lines. But in life,
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Speaker 3: our life is going to go outside the lines, so
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Speaker 3: we're not bound by the lines. If I want to
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Speaker 3: color outside the lines or the boundaries of my picture,
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Speaker 3: it's still a beautiful picture because it individually recognizes me
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Speaker 3: as an individual, as a person of my own uniqueness.
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Speaker 3: I may want to make my hair green, or make
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Speaker 3: my hair purple or blue. That still does not mean
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Speaker 3: that because my hair is purple, blue, or green, that
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Speaker 3: I'm not unique, or that I'm not.
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Speaker 2: Walking in what God has called for me to walk in.
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Speaker 3: So it's helping us to get outside of the cooker
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Speaker 3: cutter mentality that we're all. You know, we have to
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Speaker 3: be prim and proper, and we have to do it
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Speaker 3: this way because we can be unique in color outside
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Speaker 3: the lines. We don't have to stay inside the lines
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Speaker 3: to feel that we're beautiful, to feel that you know,
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Speaker 3: we are the creation, the creation that God has purpose
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Speaker 3: and predestined for us to be from the foundation of
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Speaker 3: the world.
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Speaker 1: Nicely said, nicely said, So, how how does this retreat
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Speaker 1: different from other women's events or conferences.
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Speaker 3: Well, first, color outside of the lines is not a conference,
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Speaker 3: and that is That was one of the hardest things
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Speaker 3: to get people to understand. When color outside the lines
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Speaker 3: was actually when God put it into play, that was
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Speaker 3: one of the first things that he gave me. And
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Speaker 3: he dropped in my spirit. This is not a this
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Speaker 3: is not a women's conference, This is not.
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Speaker 2: This is not.
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Speaker 3: Your ordinary retreat. We do things by the leading of
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Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit. God is totally in charge. He will
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Speaker 3: give me parts of whatever He wants me to facilitate
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Speaker 3: within our gathering, but the rest of it is totally
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Speaker 3: all him.
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Speaker 2: It is totally God. And so I move under the
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Speaker 2: option of the Holy Spirit.
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Speaker 3: Whatever, whatever the Holy Spirit has set aside and designed
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Speaker 3: for us, that is how we move.
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Speaker 2: We're not We're not so.
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Speaker 3: Structure to there is a step by step program and
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Speaker 3: if the Holy Spirit wants to come in and take control,
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Speaker 3: we're don't. We're not allowing him because we're bound by
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Speaker 3: you know what we have on this program.
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Speaker 2: We do have structures.
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Speaker 3: But the structure is still the leading of the Holy Spirit.
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Speaker 3: So we we are totally all in and it's totally God.
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Speaker 1: I got my mouth shut and make me ready to
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Speaker 1: pack up. What can participatepect from during the retreat? You
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Speaker 1: know what what's special? If you can tell us what
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Speaker 1: can they expect during their retreat?
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Speaker 3: I think every participant can expect to have to find
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Speaker 3: some sense of healing, healing, wholeness, deliverance. If you come
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Speaker 3: with an expectation. There have been As I stated, we
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Speaker 3: started this in twenty twenty two, and in twenty twenty two,
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Speaker 3: God absolutely blew my mind with the first color outside
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Speaker 3: the lines. But every year he just tends to do
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Speaker 3: more and more and more. So it's really up to
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Speaker 3: the participant. When you come with an open mind, with
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Speaker 3: an open heart to receive. When you come with an expectation,
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Speaker 3: you are able to get whatever it is that you
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Speaker 3: desire or you're seeking from the Lord. Now, if you come,
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Speaker 3: and I've had many people. We have done color outside
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Speaker 3: the line one day intensives or two day intensives in
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Speaker 3: different cities where God will break it down into various
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Speaker 3: parts of color outside the lines. But for the most part,
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Speaker 3: when people hear color outside the lines, they're like, what
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Speaker 3: does that mean? What do you mean color outside the lines?
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Speaker 3: You know a lot of people think, oh, well that's
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Speaker 3: very elementary. You know what is color outside the lines?
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Speaker 3: And they have this total they have their own view
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Speaker 3: of what they really think color outside the lines is,
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Speaker 3: and a lot of times it will cause them to
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Speaker 3: have a closed mind because they're looking at Okay, well this,
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Speaker 3: first of all, this is something that I have not
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Speaker 3: heard of. Second of all, it sounds elementary. So the
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Speaker 3: Bible tells us that God will take the foolish things
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Speaker 3: to confound the wise. And so if you really and
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Speaker 3: truly believe that, and you really and truly understand what
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Speaker 3: that scripture says, what we think is foolish, God will
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Speaker 3: take that and he will he will turn that into
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Speaker 3: something that will absolutely be mind blowing.
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Speaker 2: It will be something that would be life changing.
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Speaker 3: So I think anyone who attends color outside the lines,
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Speaker 3: who is open to receive from God. They will receive
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Speaker 3: what they come expecting.
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at the flyer there and I'm just seeing
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Speaker 1: so many beautiful colors. And to be honest, when I
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Speaker 1: first looked at it, I didn't understand. You know, the colors,
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Speaker 1: I said, you know, everybody do they fly away? They
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Speaker 1: want to do it. But now it's starting to resonate
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Speaker 1: with me when you're mentioning color outside of the lines
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Speaker 1: and it is all outside of the lines, but it's
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Speaker 1: still a beautiful color, and that the colors are beautiful,
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Speaker 1: and again I didn't understand what. And it brings you
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Speaker 1: back where the focus is not on you, the focus
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Speaker 1: is more so on the colors. So I'm getting it
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Speaker 1: more and more. I'm not sure what other people may
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Speaker 1: be thinking, but I'm getting it more and more. Are
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Speaker 1: there specific workshops or sessions that you're most excited about,
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Speaker 1: because I know, you know the whole program. Is anything
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Speaker 1: that you're more excited about besides everybody coming, you know,
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Speaker 1: like maybe a specific workshop or a specific session or something.
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Speaker 3: There is there is one part of color outside the
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Speaker 3: lines where God just does his thing. And I don't
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Speaker 3: know how to explain it other than that he gives.
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Speaker 3: He gives us a task and in that task, he
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Speaker 3: just he does his thing. And that is that's the
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Speaker 3: most powerful part of Color Outside of the Lines to me,
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Speaker 3: because not only does God do what he does, and
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Speaker 3: what he does he does well, the fact that he
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Speaker 3: utilizes little O Me to help to facilitate what he does,
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Speaker 3: that is that's the most rewarding part for me with
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Speaker 3: the whole retreat is to see how God just does
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Speaker 3: what he does and to be a part of what
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Speaker 3: he's doing.
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Speaker 1: Wow, it sounds like there's gonna be so many activities
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Speaker 1: and things to do, special presentations. How do the activities
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Speaker 1: align with the overall theme of empowerment and renewal?
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Speaker 3: As far as the activities we when we first come
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Speaker 3: to Color Outside of the Lines, we have a session
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Speaker 3: where is our opening session, where we come together and
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Speaker 3: we begin to bond as sisters. We God will just
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Speaker 3: open up we have. It's kind of like a slumber party,
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Speaker 3: so to speak. You know how you used to get
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Speaker 3: with your girls and you would have some slumber parties
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Speaker 3: and no topic was off limits. So when we come together,
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Speaker 3: our initial session is just a huge slumber party among women.
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Speaker 2: And there are women that come from various states.
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Speaker 3: We have many women that come from different states and
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Speaker 3: we gather and a lot of times they don't know
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Speaker 3: each other.
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Speaker 2: So this is our time of bonding.
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Speaker 3: This is our time of seeing how our colors intertwine
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Speaker 3: at some point in our stories, that our lives come
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Speaker 3: together as being really sisters and being connected just from
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Speaker 3: the various things that we have experienced as children, as
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Speaker 3: young adults, as adults even experience in our current life.
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Speaker 3: We see the similarities that we have, but we also
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Speaker 3: begin to understand our uniqueness.
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Speaker 1: From what I'm feeling, you're gonna be There's gonna be
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Speaker 1: so many women there that's probably gonna mirror each other
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Speaker 1: and not even realize it until after they start to
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Speaker 1: engage and and see that they're not alone. You know,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have different types of speakers. Is there a
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Speaker 1: keynote speaker or a special guest? We should be looking
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Speaker 1: forward to a hand from.
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Speaker 3: The Holy Spirit. That's our keynote speaker. We don't we do.
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Speaker 1: We don't have to say anything else. That was enough.
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Speaker 1: That is the best speaker. Wow, you just thank you
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Speaker 1: for that, Thank you for that. Yes, see, the Holy
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Speaker 1: Spirit is a keynote speaker. That I'm going to try
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Speaker 1: to muscle my way to the front to get up there,
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Speaker 1: to to listen, just to listen and and to take
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Speaker 1: it all in. So will there be an opportunity for
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Speaker 1: networking and building lasting relationships because you're saying that it's
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Speaker 1: like a sisterhood, and I think that some people are
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Speaker 1: going to be networking anyway, but is there going to
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Speaker 1: be a set time or opportunity for them to relationship.
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Speaker 3: I think the throughout the whole retreat there's networking going on,
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Speaker 3: and there are so much relationship building. During our last
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Speaker 3: session in July of last year, when we were in Gatlinburg,
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Speaker 3: there was we formed an actual chat group. So now
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Speaker 3: where the attendees that were there, they all have built
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Speaker 3: their own bonds. They all have connected with one another.
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Speaker 3: So now they have sisters. They have sisters in different states.
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Speaker 3: For those that did not have sisters, or don't have
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Speaker 3: a natural sister, or don't have that bond with their
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Speaker 3: their biological sisters or what have you, they have formed
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Speaker 3: a sisterhood. And so I believe that every every year
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Speaker 3: there is a relationship building that takes place among the attendees.
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Speaker 3: We have a private Facebook page where everyone who has attended,
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Speaker 3: whether it has been one of the one or two
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Speaker 3: day intensives or if it has been one of the
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Speaker 3: weekend retreats, they are all included in our private group.
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Speaker 2: And so this is a time.
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Speaker 3: Where we share stories, we encourage each other, we send
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Speaker 3: out little messages, and we incorporate different things of parts
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Speaker 3: of our lives and stay connected. So there's always that
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Speaker 3: opportunity for networking. I had to come to the realization
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna be transparent right now to the point to
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Speaker 3: really realize that I'm just the conduit for God. And
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Speaker 3: I truly believe that God uses me to bring others together,
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Speaker 3: to work together, to network because just there used to not.
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Speaker 2: Be a time. There used to be a time in
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Speaker 2: my life where that would bother.
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Speaker 3: Me when I would bring people and you know, they
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Speaker 3: would connect and then disconnect from me and you know,
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Speaker 3: go their separate ways once they have come in and
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Speaker 3: gathered information and did all of these things. But I
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Speaker 3: had to realize that I'm annoying to do what I do.
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Speaker 3: So every other individual that God has anoyan to do
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Speaker 3: a certain thing, that's what they're.
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Speaker 2: Annoyinged to do.
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Speaker 3: And my thing is I'm anoyan to bring people together.
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Speaker 3: I'm anoyan to facilitate healing and deliverance.
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Speaker 2: I'm annoying for that.
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Speaker 3: And I realized that, and so it, like I said,
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Speaker 3: once we find our place and who we really are
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Speaker 3: in God, we can get past the the shadiness.
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Speaker 2: We can get past.
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Speaker 3: All of the you know, I'm gonna be the gatekeeper
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Speaker 3: of this information.
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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna tell you this, I'm not gonna share
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Speaker 2: this with you.
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Speaker 3: When we get past that, we can really move for
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Speaker 3: the kingdom. And that's a great problem for us as
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Speaker 3: a whole. We can't get past the fact that God
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Speaker 3: gives us things to not be gatekeepers, but for us
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Speaker 3: to give the information on It's not minority.
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Speaker 2: It belongs to God. Go outside the lines, belong to God.
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Speaker 3: I'm just the person that He has utilized to facilitate
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Speaker 3: what he desires for his daughters. So networking has never
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Speaker 3: been has not been one of my issues in this
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Speaker 3: It has not been one of my issues in any
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Speaker 3: of the empowerment meetings or empowerment sessions that God has
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Speaker 3: allowed me to do. That's not an issue because of
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Speaker 3: the simple fact that I don't have everything that everybody needs.
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Speaker 2: I'm not one man show. I'm not an island. It
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Speaker 2: takes all of us. And so what I don't have,
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Speaker 2: somebody else that is there may have what another individual needs.
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Speaker 3: And God is so he's so awesome in that because
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Speaker 3: I have seen him even in the midst of color
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Speaker 3: outside the lines. When he begins to do what he does,
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Speaker 3: he will also move others to help to facilitate some
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Speaker 3: of the things that he does.
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Speaker 2: So, like I said, this is all him, This is
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Speaker 2: totally all God.
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Speaker 1: Yes it is. Yes, it is a man. And amen.
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Speaker 1: You have some people that are charming in saying hello,
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Speaker 1: You're having them saying that part. You're having them saying
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Speaker 1: that they can't wait, someone saying yes, yes, just that
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Speaker 1: what collaboration is all about. You have Chinett, Patrese and
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Speaker 1: the crew that they're all chiming in and they're saying
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Speaker 1: they men. So you know, you've just got people already
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Speaker 1: all excited, you know for this. Who is this retreat
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Speaker 1: designed for and what kind of women would benefit the most?
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Speaker 2: Any women?
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Speaker 3: Any woman, any woman, If you are a woman, this
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Speaker 3: retreat is for you.
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Speaker 2: There is no age limit.
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Speaker 3: We have had as young as eighteen nineteen, all the
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Speaker 3: way up to well and seventy years old.
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Speaker 2: So there is no it's not that we cut it off.
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Speaker 3: We want them to at least be of age. But
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Speaker 3: if you're eighteen years old, this retreat is for you.
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Speaker 3: If you're twenty thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, this retreat
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Speaker 3: is for you. For the simple fact that we all
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Speaker 3: are God's daughters and we have all grownd something.
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Speaker 1: So what are some of the biggest transformations that you've
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Speaker 1: witnessed from past retreating?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 3: My God, woo Okay, Like I said, the first retreat,
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Speaker 3: God absolutely blew my mind.
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Speaker 2: That was one that we had.
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Speaker 3: One of our youngest attendees to be in our miss
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Speaker 3: and she was a college student.
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Speaker 2: Her mother was there.
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Speaker 3: She was going to be one of the facilitators. Her
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Speaker 3: mother was one of the facilitators. At the last minute
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Speaker 3: she notified me said can I come, yes, yes, And
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Speaker 3: so this baby drove. We weren't We didn't go to
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Speaker 3: the mountains that year. The first year we were in Bradington, Florida,
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Speaker 3: she drove from to to Brandington. And the way that
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Speaker 3: God moved everything was centered around her and her deliverance. See,
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Speaker 3: this is the thing that I tell you when when
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Speaker 3: I know that it's not me and it's God. God
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Speaker 3: knows who's gonna be there, and he knows what is needed.
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Speaker 1: So it's like the unexpected that expected.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I never know. Every year there's somebody that
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Speaker 3: I'll say this, and I'm saying it for a lack
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Speaker 3: of better words, that need the transformation, the empowerment more
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Speaker 3: than others or more than the in the room.
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Speaker 1: They stepped forward. They were chosen me, me, me, he right, he, yes,
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Speaker 1: I know everybody's then whish did it was them? But
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Speaker 1: if we knew everybody's story, then we would understand that's
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Speaker 1: why that person was chosen. We're chosen too, but not
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Speaker 1: at the time that that person may be chosen. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I definitely get this. So how do you hope participants
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Speaker 1: will feel by the end of the retreat?
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Speaker 2: Oh, my God, like I feel.
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Speaker 3: I really hope that they will be empowered. I hope
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Speaker 3: that they will be free. That's that's my My biggest
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Speaker 3: hope is that women. A lot of the women that
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Speaker 3: come to the retreat, they come down, they come loaded,
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Speaker 3: and at the end of the retreat, I want them
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Speaker 3: to be free.
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Speaker 2: I want them to be light.
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Speaker 3: I want them to leave whatever it was on the mountaintop.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 1: My my concern with that is it's wonderful that they
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Speaker 1: would leave that there, but for some they're gonna be
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Speaker 1: walking right back into it because what's at home hasn't
26:19
Speaker 1: been up there, and they may not understand that transition
26:24
Speaker 1: that will be coming through their door. Right. So I'm
26:28
Speaker 1: hoping that that networking in that sisterhood really holds tight
26:32
Speaker 1: with people, yes, because I wouldn't want them to say,
26:36
Speaker 1: you know, I went through all of that for nothing. No,
26:39
Speaker 1: you didn't go through all of that for nothing. There
26:41
Speaker 1: was something that was there for you and you just
26:44
Speaker 1: have to continue to tap into that. Yes, you know,
26:47
Speaker 1: even though you know you may even be able to
26:49
Speaker 1: bring that person along with your transformation. But it doesn't
26:53
Speaker 1: have to be. It could be a male, could be
26:55
Speaker 1: somebody that's a little younger, you know, somebody that didn't
26:58
Speaker 1: go but you can bring them through that transformation because
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Speaker 1: you have a sisterhood that will be there to help
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Speaker 1: you as well. Yes, you know if you feel this though,
27:08
Speaker 1: it's happening. So I don't want anybody to think that
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Speaker 1: what happened up there stays up there. No, carry with you.
27:15
Speaker 1: That's right carry connect with you, because it's going to
27:18
Speaker 1: be so very important for you to do that. How
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Speaker 1: do you address topics like self care, heal and personal
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Speaker 1: growth during the retreat?
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Speaker 3: That is something that we deal with there are God
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Speaker 3: has given me a portion of color outside the line
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Speaker 3: to where he has developed a thirty day self care
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Speaker 3: manual FORGN individuals to take back with them. So we
27:49
Speaker 3: have those. We talk about so many different things, the
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Speaker 3: fact that we need each other, we need that outlet,
27:57
Speaker 3: we need that time, that space. We have to take
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Speaker 3: care of ourselves. So many of us are always taking
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Speaker 3: care of somebody else. You know, it's always somebody else,
28:05
Speaker 3: putting somebody else's needs before hours, making sure everybody else
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Speaker 3: is okay, and neglecting ourselves. And I'll raise my hand
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Speaker 3: because I have been guilty of that. And so it
28:16
Speaker 3: takes a time for us to understand that I I
28:22
Speaker 3: was fifty years old before I said, you know what,
28:27
Speaker 3: I have to do it for me.
28:30
Speaker 2: I have to show up for me.
28:31
Speaker 3: I've been showing up for everybody else, but now I
28:35
Speaker 3: have to do it for me. And I have to
28:37
Speaker 3: understand that Noah is an answer. And so I've come
28:41
Speaker 3: to the realization that if I don't care for me,
28:46
Speaker 3: I'm no good to anybody else. And so that is
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Speaker 3: one of the things that right, that's one of the things.
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Speaker 2: That we try to instill.
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Speaker 3: We want you to understand that you have to be
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Speaker 3: the best verse version of you, the healthiest version of you,
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Speaker 3: before you can actually be that for anybody else, because
29:08
Speaker 3: if you're worn down, drug out, you can you're not
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Speaker 3: doing anything for anybody else because you're not giving them
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Speaker 3: the best part of you. You're not giving them that one.
29:20
Speaker 3: You're just giving them whatever your battery has left. And
29:24
Speaker 3: we have to understand sometimes that we even have to
29:28
Speaker 3: unplug no phone. No, I'm not taking calls, I'm not
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Speaker 3: looking at text, I'm not reading emails today. It's my day,
29:35
Speaker 3: this is my time, this is me time, and whatever
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Speaker 3: I want to do with me time, if it's just
29:40
Speaker 3: sit and watch TV, if it's read a book, if
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Speaker 3: it's going for a walk, if I just don't want to.
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Speaker 2: Do anything, I am entitled to do that.
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Speaker 1: And so that's that and people permission to do that.
29:55
Speaker 1: You have the producer saying yes no is a complete
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Speaker 1: and and it's one of the some of the well
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Speaker 1: one of the shortest words in the dictionary. But it's
30:05
Speaker 1: one of the strongest words in the dictionary, and it
30:08
Speaker 1: can mean so many things. Is just that some people
30:11
Speaker 1: take it always for the negative. Now I ask you earlier,
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Speaker 1: what are some of the biggest transformations you witnessed from
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Speaker 1: the past retreats? But what I wanted to know is,
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Speaker 1: can you share a moment from a past retreat that
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Speaker 1: really embodied this purpose?
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Speaker 3: Oh, let's see a moment from the past retreat that
30:38
Speaker 3: embodies color outside the lines.
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Speaker 2: I would think.
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Speaker 3: Just in sharing just a little bit of our experience
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Speaker 3: last year, because when we color outside the lines, that
30:58
Speaker 3: means sometimes we're going against the odds, we're pushing against
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Speaker 3: the prick, and we're up against opposition and different things
31:08
Speaker 3: when we are really trying to be all that we
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Speaker 3: can be, all that God has called us to be,
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Speaker 3: walking in our uniqueness. So this past year we went
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Speaker 3: through great struggles just even getting to color outside the lines.
31:24
Speaker 3: I experienced so much warfare up until the very night
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Speaker 3: before we were supposed to leave.
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Speaker 2: We had gone through so much.
31:33
Speaker 3: I normally for the group that travels from Tallahassee, I
31:39
Speaker 3: always our rent a vehicle will drive together as a group,
31:43
Speaker 3: and so I do this well in advance to make
31:47
Speaker 3: sure that we have everything that we need. We leave
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Speaker 3: that Friday morning, early before day, and that Thursday everything
31:57
Speaker 3: began to fall. That Wednesday, excuse me, wind says, when
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Speaker 3: it all started, it began to fall apart. I was
32:03
Speaker 3: supposed to pick the vehicle up on that Thursday. I
32:06
Speaker 3: got a call, Sorry, we don't have your vehicle. So
32:11
Speaker 3: then I went on a two state vehicle chase.
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Speaker 2: I went to Georgia. I was sent to Georgia by
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Speaker 2: the rental car company.
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Speaker 3: Then I was sent to Alabama to get vehicles that
32:30
Speaker 3: were not there. We made reservations. I called the company,
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Speaker 3: gave a company a deposit. They were giving us two
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Speaker 3: vans that were supposed to have drivers. And we get
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Speaker 3: to Thursday, Thursday, here we are. I called to confirm
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Speaker 3: with the company that I made the deposit with, and
32:53
Speaker 3: I'm confirming, Hey, we're leaving tomorrow. Want to make sure
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Speaker 3: your drivers are going to be at the church at
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Speaker 3: no later than three fifteen am. And their response was
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Speaker 3: what I thought, it was three fifteen pm.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, we're not going to be able to do it.
33:12
Speaker 2: So now we have.
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Speaker 3: Money tied up in a contract with a company that
33:18
Speaker 3: was supposed to pick us up take us to the mountains.
33:22
Speaker 3: I had a special reservation for two vehicles. I get
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Speaker 3: a call just before getting ready to go pick them up. Hey, sorry,
33:33
Speaker 3: there's no vehicles. There's a recall now on these vehicles.
33:38
Speaker 3: So now I'm in a pan and this is just
33:41
Speaker 3: this is going on, and we're leaving at three thirty
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Speaker 3: in the morning, and we don't have a vehicle, and
33:48
Speaker 3: so I'm just losing it, and I just begin I
33:51
Speaker 3: had to stop.
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Speaker 2: I began to pray.
33:53
Speaker 3: I called together all of the ladies that were traveling
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Speaker 3: with me, and I told them our dilemma.
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Speaker 2: So and the.
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Speaker 3: Last hour, God provided a vehicle for us. So when
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Speaker 3: the scripture.
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Speaker 2: Says he has a ram in the bush, he literally
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Speaker 2: had a ram in the bush for us.
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Speaker 3: This was a vehicle that we were not supposed to
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Speaker 3: have because nobody had these vehicles anymore, because the military
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Speaker 3: had them on reserve, and so the vehicle was not
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Speaker 3: even supposed to be.
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Speaker 2: Able for us to get. But God had a ram
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Speaker 2: in the bush. We start on our journey.
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Speaker 3: When we get there, when I tell you the deliverance
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Speaker 3: that took place, once we got on the mountain top
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Speaker 3: it was worth it all, and it meant so much because.
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Speaker 2: It showed that even in coloring outside the lines, you
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Speaker 2: have to persevere.
34:54
Speaker 3: Sometimes you're going against all arts because everybody's telling you
34:59
Speaker 3: you got to stay within the You can't go outside
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Speaker 3: of this line. Your sky is not supposed to be green.
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Speaker 3: It's supposed to be blue. Why is your sky green
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Speaker 3: and your grass blue? Why are your animals purple? People
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Speaker 3: are telling us that we have to stay right here
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Speaker 3: in this boundary, but we have to persevere and we
35:21
Speaker 3: have to move beyond what we are being told because
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Speaker 3: we are unique. And so this was the thing that
35:29
Speaker 3: really helped me to see that even in the midst
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Speaker 3: of it.
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Speaker 2: All, we have to persevere.
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Speaker 3: And if nobody else has to persevere, I have to
35:39
Speaker 3: persevere because with color outside the lines, I have to
35:44
Speaker 3: push against all odds and no matter what, no matter
35:49
Speaker 3: what's gonna take. Because my husband, at the point when
35:51
Speaker 3: we were down and had no idea what we were
35:54
Speaker 3: gonna have, he was like, look, we have two SUVs.
35:57
Speaker 3: We're gonna hook the trailer up, throw the luggage on
35:59
Speaker 3: one of the trailers.
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Speaker 2: Drive one, you drive the other.
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Speaker 3: You're gonna go, you know, So this is how crucial
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Speaker 3: it was, because there's no such thing as we're canceling.
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Speaker 2: There's no such thing. And we would have had to to.
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Speaker 3: Get five little cars and put two people in each
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Speaker 3: little car.
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Speaker 2: Somehow we were.
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Speaker 3: Going to get there because there was a mandate. And
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Speaker 3: for me, color outside the lines is a mandate because
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Speaker 3: God has entrusted me with his vision of getting his
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Speaker 3: daughters free.
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Speaker 1: Well, it sounds like he chose the correct person, the
36:39
Speaker 1: right person and at the right time. Where and when
36:42
Speaker 1: will the retreat take place? And how can women register
36:46
Speaker 1: for it?
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Speaker 3: The retreat will take place July the twenty fifth through
36:52
Speaker 3: the twenty seventh, and it will be held in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
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Speaker 2: We have a reserve, We have reserved a hotel there.
37:05
Speaker 3: It is on a Christian retreat campus and we have
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Speaker 3: an exclusive thirty two room hotel. So that weekend it
37:18
Speaker 3: is totally ours. There's no staff, there is nothing, and
37:23
Speaker 3: no one other than the participants of the retreat. It
37:29
Speaker 3: is totally ours. We do everything there. We fellowship, we cook,
37:34
Speaker 3: we eat, we have all of the all of our
37:40
Speaker 3: meetings and everything take place right there. So this is
37:46
Speaker 3: our time. This is truly a time for bonding. This
37:49
Speaker 3: is a time for us to get together and come together.
37:53
Speaker 3: As far as anyone who is interested in in coming
38:00
Speaker 3: to the retreat, You can actually reserve your space. You
38:03
Speaker 3: can send an email to me and I will give
38:09
Speaker 3: you the information to send the deposit. The deposit to
38:12
Speaker 3: hold your room is seventy five dollars, which is a
38:15
Speaker 3: non refundable deposit, but it is seventy five dollars to
38:20
Speaker 3: hold your space. And then the total retreat is two
38:25
Speaker 3: eighty dollars, which includes your three days and two night
38:30
Speaker 3: accommodations and all of your meals and all of the
38:34
Speaker 3: retreat materials.
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Speaker 1: Wow. So for women who want to go that are
38:42
Speaker 1: lack of funds, is there scholarship opportunity for those women
38:46
Speaker 1: one or ten.
38:48
Speaker 3: There is not a certain scholarship. But each year the
38:52
Speaker 3: Lord will lay it upon my heart to where I
38:55
Speaker 3: have been able to at least sponsor two to three women.
38:59
Speaker 2: So if there are women.
39:02
Speaker 3: Who actually are not able, I am always open to
39:08
Speaker 3: working with anybody that is not able to actually afford
39:14
Speaker 3: to attend the retreat. We do have individuals that will
39:18
Speaker 3: sometimes sponsor individuals.
39:21
Speaker 2: I have had one or two people in the past.
39:24
Speaker 3: Our first year that actually sponsored a lady or two
39:28
Speaker 3: to attend.
39:29
Speaker 2: So really and truly, there's a lot.
39:32
Speaker 3: Of times, and like I said, I'm gonna be transparent,
39:36
Speaker 3: there are a lot of times where I'll take care
39:40
Speaker 3: of things.
39:40
Speaker 2: And if I have people.
39:42
Speaker 3: That are there, they may start out okay, here's my deposit,
39:47
Speaker 3: but they may fall off somewhere down the line.
39:52
Speaker 2: I don't ever say sorry, you know, sorry you can't come.
39:57
Speaker 3: Because I don't know what it is individual needs and
40:01
Speaker 3: I don't know what God has intended for that individual.
40:05
Speaker 3: And I will never block or miss my blessing about
40:08
Speaker 3: money because.
40:11
Speaker 2: God is going to take her of his vision. This
40:15
Speaker 2: is his vision, So his vision, he's gonna make provision.
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Speaker 1: To what does expect they expected sides of the group
40:25
Speaker 1: and how does that enhance the experience.
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Speaker 3: I don't have an expectation on how many individuals are
40:35
Speaker 3: going to attend.
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Speaker 2: I have a desire to see the house.
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Speaker 3: Field and and seeing the house field, that's my desire.
40:45
Speaker 3: But if God only sends one person other than myself,
40:49
Speaker 3: I know that it was meant for that individual. So
40:53
Speaker 3: I pray and I'm really moved by what God does
40:58
Speaker 3: because God canntinues to add.
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Speaker 2: Every year to the number.
41:04
Speaker 3: I believe when we first started out there were about
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Speaker 3: thirteen women, and since then we have grown.
41:12
Speaker 2: We have grown a great deal.
41:15
Speaker 3: I think our last our last retreat, we may have
41:19
Speaker 3: had a little over twenty women. So each year God
41:23
Speaker 3: adds and so this is what I like I said,
41:27
Speaker 3: I don't put expectation on who's gonna come. I want
41:31
Speaker 3: whoever will let them come. That's my perspective. And like
41:36
Speaker 3: I said, I would love to see the house feel.
41:38
Speaker 3: Each room can holdle up to four people. So if
41:42
Speaker 3: we pack the house, we can pack the house. If
41:46
Speaker 3: there's two people to a room, there could be two
41:48
Speaker 3: people to a room, if there's only one person in
41:51
Speaker 3: each room.
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Speaker 2: Whatever God has purpose.
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Speaker 3: Predestined and ordain for that moment in time, that's what
41:59
Speaker 3: I'm working.
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Speaker 1: So what should participants bring or prepare before attending.
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Speaker 2: An open heart?
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Speaker 3: An open heart to receive, all you have to do
42:11
Speaker 3: is pack your bags. And if you desire to have
42:15
Speaker 3: your spending money for just your travel and everything, that's fine.
42:21
Speaker 3: There's nothing that's required for anybody to bring.
42:25
Speaker 2: We provide everything.
42:28
Speaker 3: I cook every meal that we have. This is how
42:32
Speaker 3: intimate this experience is.
42:35
Speaker 2: Every meal that is.
42:36
Speaker 3: Prepared regardless to the size of the groups. At this point,
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Speaker 3: these hands have prepared, so everything that is done in
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Speaker 3: color outside the lines, it is an intimate experience because
42:53
Speaker 3: God desires to show us a more excellent way. There
42:59
Speaker 3: are so many of us that don't have the luxury
43:03
Speaker 3: of having someone to serve us. There's so many and
43:08
Speaker 3: and the ladies, they always want to put their hands
43:12
Speaker 3: to it, let us help you, let us do this,
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Speaker 3: let us do that, and a little selfish in that
43:22
Speaker 3: sometimes because that's my blessing, that's my way of giving
43:28
Speaker 3: and showing love to those who are attending.
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Speaker 1: But sometimes people want to do that for you too
43:37
Speaker 1: and want you to sit down and take a break,
43:40
Speaker 1: and you may have to let them do for you
43:43
Speaker 1: just that, even if it's just one day, if it's
43:46
Speaker 1: just one meal, because that's taken from them and they
43:50
Speaker 1: want to give to you to say thank you, and
43:53
Speaker 1: then may be in a small way, but they may
43:57
Speaker 1: want to feel that they need to do that. Some
44:01
Speaker 1: people they may feel they hear what you're saying, but
44:04
Speaker 1: they feel as though they need to do it. It's
44:07
Speaker 1: something in them that needs to do it, and it's
44:09
Speaker 1: not just because you're doing all of that. Maybe they
44:12
Speaker 1: just need to get away from maybe that moment that
44:15
Speaker 1: they're in and they need to change their their way
44:19
Speaker 1: of thinking. And that could be something because they may
44:21
Speaker 1: be transitioning and going through something at that moment, and
44:24
Speaker 1: for them to step up and say that that takes
44:26
Speaker 1: them from that space, so they may want to do that.
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Speaker 2: I receive it, yes, ma'am.
44:34
Speaker 1: So is this I know you said this. You've been
44:36
Speaker 1: doing this since twenty twenty two, yes, and twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: three and twenty four. Do you have plans to make
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Speaker 1: it an ongoing series?
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, ma'am, until the Lord says anything different. We
44:48
Speaker 3: will have color outside the lines until he says there's
44:52
Speaker 3: no more color outside the lines.
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Speaker 2: And so when the when the assignment is back completed, that's.
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Speaker 1: You've taken me back when you explain color outside of
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Speaker 1: the lines, because I'm sitting there remembering elementary school and
45:08
Speaker 1: me going my sister taught me that I would just color,
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Speaker 1: and yes, it was outside of the lines plenty of times.
45:15
Speaker 1: But she showed me how to take the black crown
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Speaker 1: and go around whatever it was. If it was a circle,
45:23
Speaker 1: it was a circle, it was a triangle, it was
45:25
Speaker 1: a triangle, and that's when I would see I could
45:29
Speaker 1: see it better because it was a darker place, and
45:33
Speaker 1: I was able to stay in the lines. And I
45:35
Speaker 1: was so proud of myself that I was able to
45:37
Speaker 1: stay in the lines, because she always wondered how come
45:42
Speaker 1: I was always going out and she kept telling me
45:43
Speaker 1: to stay in. I just didn't stay in. But when
45:46
Speaker 1: she did that one thing, it could be a star
45:50
Speaker 1: and she would trace it with a black crown, and
45:54
Speaker 1: I was able to stay. And I find myself doing
45:57
Speaker 1: that now with my grandchildren and my children doing the
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Speaker 1: same thing by staying inside the line. But what you're
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Speaker 1: saying right now, when you're saying, you know, color inside
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Speaker 1: the lines, it took me back there, but it made
46:12
Speaker 1: me smile at the same time because it took me
46:15
Speaker 1: to a happy place. It took me to a happy place.
46:19
Speaker 1: So I can't wait to be there. And I thank
46:22
Speaker 1: you so much, Apostle can believe Thomas for sharing your
46:26
Speaker 1: heart and the vision behind the color outside the lines
46:30
Speaker 1: of Women's Retreat. It's clear that this event is going
46:33
Speaker 1: to be a life changing experience for so many women,
46:36
Speaker 1: and we're so excited for what's to come. So ladies,
46:39
Speaker 1: don't miss this opportunity to renew, recharge, and step boldly
46:44
Speaker 1: into your purpose. Thank you all for joining us tonight.
46:48
Speaker 1: And please, please please, she's on Facebook, I know because
46:51
Speaker 1: we're friends. Get in touch with her. Give that seventy
46:55
Speaker 1: five dollar deposit. If there's something going on, talk to
46:58
Speaker 1: her or talk to her about it it because we
47:01
Speaker 1: want we want to pack those rooms. She wants to
47:03
Speaker 1: pack those rooms. I want to see everybody there. I
47:05
Speaker 1: want to see people I've never met there as well.
47:09
Speaker 1: And before we go, mark your calendars for Sunday, December first,
47:13
Speaker 1: at eight pm when we'll be talking to Shana Jenkins,
47:17
Speaker 1: author of The Prettiest Woman. She'll share her incredible story
47:21
Speaker 1: and what inspired this powerful book. You won't want to
47:24
Speaker 1: miss it. This is black diamond sign the North, reminding
47:27
Speaker 1: you the color outside the lines. And embrace your perfectly
47:31
Speaker 1: and perfect journey because this is going to be a
47:34
Speaker 1: journey that's going to be something. Good night, everybody, and
47:37
Speaker 1: remember after eighth, after dark