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Bishop Jakes discusses fatherlessness on Oprah's Lifeclass at MegaFest - The Potter’s House of Dallas · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: America has an epidemic of fatherlessness. 40% of prison inmates
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  Speaker 1: are fatherless. 71% of high school dropouts are fatherless. 75%
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  Speaker 1: of teens in substance abuse programs are fatherless. Bishop Jakes
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  Speaker 1: believes in providing healing and help to communities torn apart
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  Speaker 1: by the lack of fathers. So he's partnering with Oprah
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  Speaker 1: Winfrey to address the fatherless epidemic in a new way
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  Speaker 1: at Megafest.
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  Speaker 2: You know that Megafest is not just a conference, it's
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  Speaker 2: a festival. It's a festival where not only do we
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  Speaker 2: have preaching, but we have entertainment, we have empowerment seminars,
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  Speaker 2: and now we have a life class. Oprah Winfrey is
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  Speaker 2: bringing her life class to Megafest. And I'm excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody said she's not a preacher. I said it's not
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  Speaker 2: a Bible class either. I didn't ask her to preach.
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  Speaker 2: I asked her to bring the life class.
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  Speaker 1: At Megafest, Bishop Jakes is talking to Oprah Winfrey about
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  Speaker 1: the fatherless epidemic in America and what we can do
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 2: She and I are going to be talking and discussing
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  Speaker 2: ways that we can deal with fatherhood fatherlessness those of
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  Speaker 2: us who were raised with and without them and those
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  Speaker 2: of us that are fathers and those of us that
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  Speaker 2: wish we had fathers we're going to have a life
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  Speaker 2: class at Megafest.
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  Speaker 1: Let's join Bishop at Megafest because one in three children
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  Speaker 1: are fatherless but together we can find solutions and we
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  Speaker 1: can find hope.
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  Speaker 2: We're global thinkers we're global thinkers people who are not
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  Speaker 2: global thinkers don't understand global thinkers We know that life
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  Speaker 2: doesn't end at the church door. We have other issues
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  Speaker 2: that have to be confronted. Everything is not about theology.
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  Speaker 2: Some things about family. You're only in church one day
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  Speaker 2: or two days out the week. You got to live
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  Speaker 2: in your house the rest of the week. When we
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  Speaker 2: come together, we got to solve some problems. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Bishop Jakes and Oprah Winfrey coming together to find solutions
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  Speaker 1: at Megafest.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord has entrusted us with this vision. Can we
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  Speaker 2: do it? I said, can we do it? I said,
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  Speaker 2: can we do it?