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Jay Schierloh, CoFounder of Orpahn Shade · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: All right, friends, it's the second hour The Morning Show
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  Speaker 1: with Preston Scott.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Preston. He is Jose.
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  Speaker 1: December first. It just it just sounds good, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know the year has gone by way.
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  Speaker 2: Too fast, but just feels right.
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  Speaker 1: And so we transition now from Operation Thanksgiving to Spirit
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  Speaker 1: of Christmas and I am joined on the program by
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  Speaker 1: the co founder of Orphan Shade. He is our friend,
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  Speaker 1: Jay Shirlow.
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  Speaker 2: Jay, how are you good morning?
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  Speaker 3: How are you sir?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing terrific all things considered. And I shared the
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  Speaker 1: news with everybody kind of where we are. But for
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  Speaker 1: those that don't know much about Orphan Shade, they've heard
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  Speaker 1: me talk about it a little bit. I thought it
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  Speaker 1: would be useful to kind of reset where this all
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  Speaker 1: began for you and how this program and ministry started.
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  Speaker 3: Sure well, in two thousand and fifteen, I live in Houston, Texas.
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  Speaker 3: I had an interesting character come across my path. The
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  Speaker 3: gentleman was a pastor from the country of Malawi. Malawi's
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  Speaker 3: in Sub Saharan Africa, and I got to know him
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  Speaker 3: and over about a year and a half, we developed
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  Speaker 3: a relationship and as part of that relationship, the Lord
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  Speaker 3: started speaking to both of us about a ministry to
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  Speaker 3: orphans that live in Malawi, and so he when he
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  Speaker 3: departed to go back to his country, he invited me
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  Speaker 3: for a visit and I said, yes, Sir, I'm coming.
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  Speaker 3: And so I had my eyes opened about what life
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  Speaker 3: is like for people in Malawi. It's one of the
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  Speaker 3: poorest countries in the world, has a population of about
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  Speaker 3: twenty million people and about one million orphans, both single
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  Speaker 3: and double orphans. And so what the Lord spoke to
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  Speaker 3: us about was serving young orphan girls who've lost both
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  Speaker 3: of their parents, who live in a rural tribal village,
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  Speaker 3: again very poor. And we would work with our partner,
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  Speaker 3: his name is Prince Kompomo, and we would in a
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  Speaker 3: village where he has a church plant, we would build
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  Speaker 3: a home and the home would be used as a
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  Speaker 3: permanent foster home for little girls between the ages of
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  Speaker 3: five and ten who lost both their parents and their guardian,
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  Speaker 3: usually a grandmother or an aunt, cannot care for them
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  Speaker 3: or will not care for them. And so these are
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  Speaker 3: children who have to usually beg for food to survive
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  Speaker 3: and they have a very rough life at a young age.
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  Speaker 3: So we will bring in eight of these girls from
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  Speaker 3: one village and we will our partner will supply a couple,
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  Speaker 3: a husband and wife, so be the parents. And so
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  Speaker 3: we raised them in this home in the village under
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  Speaker 3: the leadership of the pastor from the local church. So
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  Speaker 3: it's an all Malaalian effort. There are no Americans involved
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  Speaker 3: except my wife, and so it becomes a ministry of
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  Speaker 3: the local church rather than a ministry of ourselves. And
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  Speaker 3: so we've been at that for nine years now. We
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  Speaker 3: have three foster homes operating with a total of twenty
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  Speaker 3: four girls and the first the first home, we opened
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  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty one, and those girls are now mostly teenagers.
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  Speaker 3: And so the Lord has been with us the entire way.
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  Speaker 3: He is supplied in miraculous ways, have many stories, and
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  Speaker 3: so we're very thankful for what God has done through
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  Speaker 3: us and in us through this ministry.
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  Speaker 1: Jay, before we take a quick break here, just real quickly,
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  Speaker 1: the girls come in between the ages of five and ten.
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  Speaker 1: How late how long do they stay till they're eighteen?
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  Speaker 3: So it could be less, could be more. So it
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  Speaker 3: depends on their education path. Okay, so for those girls
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  Speaker 3: who who are academically strong, we will stay with them
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  Speaker 3: throughout their academic pursuits. For those girls who are less academic,
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  Speaker 3: we probably when their age is sort of a teenager
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  Speaker 3: thirteen to fifteen, we will get them trained on a
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  Speaker 3: specific capability through a partner of ours so that they
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  Speaker 3: can earn a living. So that's our role in the process.
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  Speaker 2: With me on the program.
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  Speaker 1: For a couple more segments is Jay Sherlow, co founder
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  Speaker 1: of orphan Shade website Orphanshade dot com. Jay talk about
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  Speaker 1: the three homes that are up and operational kind of
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  Speaker 1: give us a sense of local and give us a
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  Speaker 1: sense of the type of homes that we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: being built and the need to build them the way
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  Speaker 1: that you build them.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, so the first home was our I would say,
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  Speaker 3: complete experiment. We didn't know what we were doing, to
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  Speaker 3: be honest, and so we God delivered a builder that
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  Speaker 3: was in a very unconventional way and they built our home.
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  Speaker 3: That first home in twenty twenty and it was opened
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  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty one, and it's a four bedroom home.
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  Speaker 3: It's about thirteen to fourteen hundred square feet and so
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  Speaker 3: it's oriented to a big family and has an extra
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  Speaker 3: bedroom for visitors. We have people coming from the city
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  Speaker 3: of Blantyre that will come and support the family now
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  Speaker 3: and again. And so over time we built the second
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  Speaker 3: home in another village called Chipolo Polo which means bullet,
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  Speaker 3: interestingly enough, and we started to tweak the house design
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  Speaker 3: and we've made quite a few changes over time, and
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  Speaker 3: that home opened in twenty twenty three. The home that
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  Speaker 3: your listeners will know about is the home in in
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  Speaker 3: Decca and that's north of Blantyre. Blantyre is sort of
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  Speaker 3: the center park, biggest city in the southern region of Malawi,
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  Speaker 3: and so your listeners were extremely generous in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: two and twenty twenty three. That home opened in the
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  Speaker 3: summer of twenty twenty four to eight beautiful girls and
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  Speaker 3: a couple who love them very much. That that family
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  Speaker 3: has been very successful. The children are doing very well.
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  Speaker 3: We haven't lost anyone and the girls attend a local
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  Speaker 3: school and are performing very well academically.
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  Speaker 1: The type of homes that are built, I want to
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  Speaker 1: put a kind of paint a picture for everybody. We're
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  Speaker 1: not talking opulence. We're talking about something that is stable
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  Speaker 1: and withstands the elements. Because most of the homes in
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  Speaker 1: these tribal villages are literally homes at last one season, right.
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  Speaker 3: That's correct. So there's there is very challenging weather during
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  Speaker 3: the rainy season, and so so often there are cyclones
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  Speaker 3: that that that come from the Indian Ocean and sort
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  Speaker 3: of stand over Malawi, and it just causes thousands of
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  Speaker 3: thousands of homes that are that are built with UH
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  Speaker 3: with poor materials just to float away. So we we
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  Speaker 3: build a home that's a bit of a tank, I
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  Speaker 3: call it. It is made to last. It has a
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  Speaker 3: very deep foundation UH and it has a very strong
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  Speaker 3: roof made of steel and so but it is not
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  Speaker 3: a fancy home as you as you say it is.
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  Speaker 3: We don't have water service. The water comes from a
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  Speaker 3: local well. We don't have power, so it is it
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  Speaker 3: is built to accommodate that family as best we can.
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  Speaker 3: We're trying to avoid being using the word you use
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  Speaker 3: opulent to the neighbors. We want to be part of
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  Speaker 3: the community, and so so we build that home UH
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  Speaker 3: to last, but it is not always the best home
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  Speaker 3: in the village.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty two minutes past final segment here with Jay Sherlow,
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  Speaker 1: co founder. Orphanshade dot com is the website. This is
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  Speaker 1: not an orphanage it is a home for orphans, and
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  Speaker 1: there is a difference jay very much.
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  Speaker 3: So we have created a family rather than sort of
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  Speaker 3: an institutional orphanage. Orphanages that I have observed do a
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  Speaker 3: really bad job of raising children and there are many
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  Speaker 3: bad effects that the child carries with them when they
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  Speaker 3: enter society at age eighteen. We're creating a family that
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  Speaker 3: stays with that child through their completion of schooling, and
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  Speaker 3: so we want them to experience what it's like to
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  Speaker 3: have a mom and a dad, to experience was like
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  Speaker 3: to have siblings and in their own home have an
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  Speaker 3: environment where they're cared for like a family.
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  Speaker 1: You have ambitious plans for twenty twenty six, tell us
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  Speaker 1: about them.
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  Speaker 3: We do. Our board of directors approved a plan that
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  Speaker 3: I pitched about two months ago, so we already had
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  Speaker 3: approval to build our fourth home starting in December, and
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  Speaker 3: I pitched the concept of scaling our ministry so that
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  Speaker 3: we could reach more children. So we have a plan
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  Speaker 3: to build two additional homes in twenty twenty six, and
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  Speaker 3: one of those is already funded. Sorry. The fourth house
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  Speaker 3: and the fifth house are already funded. The sixth house
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  Speaker 3: is the house that we're seeking funding on and that
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  Speaker 3: house will be will start construction probably in May June
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  Speaker 3: next year, that's when the rainy season is over. And
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  Speaker 3: so that house would be built and opened probably in
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  Speaker 3: November twenty twenty six, and that would be in an
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  Speaker 3: area that we have not we have not operated in,
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  Speaker 3: So this would be a new village and new area
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  Speaker 3: where our partner has multiple church plans, and so we
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  Speaker 3: will We're going to build two homes at the same
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  Speaker 3: time in two different villages, and we think we can
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  Speaker 3: get some economies of scale by doing that and get
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  Speaker 3: the advantage of some time. So that that is our
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  Speaker 3: plan for twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: TV five thousand dollars is the stated goal. And with
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  Speaker 1: that money you're able to secure land and build and
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  Speaker 1: put modest furnishings in these homes for that sum of money.
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 3: That's correct?
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  Speaker 1: Now where are we with home number six? We started
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  Speaker 1: this effort a couple weeks into November, and where are
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  Speaker 1: we sitting right now?
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  Speaker 3: Thanks to your listeners, we're sitting at a little over
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  Speaker 3: forty three thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So the goal between now and I've set
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  Speaker 1: the goal at our final day for the season of
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  Speaker 1: broadcasting for US is the seventeenth of December, so we
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  Speaker 1: have thirteen broadcast days including today. So if we can
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  Speaker 1: raise one thousand dollars a day or just knock it
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  Speaker 1: out in a few days, we've got just twelve thousand
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  Speaker 1: left to reach our goal of fifty five thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Do I have the math? Right?
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  Speaker 3: You do?
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  Speaker 1: All?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Tell people the way to give and how to navigate
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  Speaker 1: the website.
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  Speaker 3: So the easiest way to do it is to go
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  Speaker 3: to our website www dot orphanshade dot com and on
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  Speaker 3: the homepage you'll see a donate button in red on
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  Speaker 3: the right hand side on the homepage. You just click
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  Speaker 3: that and then you choose the method that you want
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  Speaker 3: to give. It's very simple.
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  Speaker 1: What is your favorite part of the website that tells
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  Speaker 1: the story the best you think when you go to
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  Speaker 1: orphanshade dot com.
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  Speaker 3: So that there is a video on the homepage that
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  Speaker 3: it's about two and a half minutes long. It's animated
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  Speaker 3: and we did it at pretty low cost, but it
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  Speaker 3: basically tells the story of what we do and how
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  Speaker 3: we do it, and just give the viewer an idea
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  Speaker 3: of how we go about doing this and how we
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  Speaker 3: are melded into the community where we operate.
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  Speaker 1: So the goal here is one little girl at a time,
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  Speaker 1: to raise a generation, to change a nation. That is right, Jay,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for all you and Stacey and Pastor Prince
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  Speaker 1: are doing to help these girls and to help these communities,
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  Speaker 1: these villages, and thanks for letting us be part of it.
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  Speaker 3: And thank you for making this all happen.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we know who to trust with all that and
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  Speaker 1: who to thank for all that. Yep, Jay, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I pray favor over you and Stacy and safe travels.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: Jay Shirlow with us from Orphanshad orphanshade dot com.
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  Speaker 2: You heard it. We're twelve thousand away. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: We started at zero. We're at forty three thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Praise Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: So if you can help take a bite out of that,
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  Speaker 1: if you're a business that's been blessed, orphanshade dot com
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  Speaker 1: build a house in the dropdown menu, select the amount
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  Speaker 1: you want to give and market to house number six.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty eight minutes past the hour,