Effective Sidewalk Strategy

WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:04.320 Number Thirteen, number thirteen, Gospel Center doom. Yeah, this is a 2 00:00:04.440 --> 00:00:07.879 big one. Yeah, and it's number thirteen to say that. Yes, 3 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:10.759 true, we could, we could add on the bonus. I do think 4 00:00:10.839 --> 00:00:15.119 this one sanctifies the number thirteen. If you're superstitious, this will take care 5 00:00:15.119 --> 00:00:20.760 of that. I Am Yours, I am yours, I am yours, 6 00:00:21.079 --> 00:00:27.039 and me Lord, I am yours, I am yours. I'm welcome to 7 00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:32.560 the Gospel Center Pro Life Podcast, a podcast designed to equip, encourage and 8 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:36.640 challenge you in pro life ministry and always were the focus on the Gospel. 9 00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:47.759 Stay tuned. I felt show passish, touch your heart. Use Me. 10 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:54.759 Welcome back to the Gospel centered pro life podcast. 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We'll give your email addresses at the end of this podcast episode. 20 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:34.280 And so we're going to hop into our subject. So we're going to 21 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:38.439 talk about the essential things that you need to know for sidewalk outreach. Over 22 00:01:38.519 --> 00:01:44.680 the course of our over two years of doing podcasts. Yeah, we have 23 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:49.959 probably touched on all of these, but as separate podcast I thought it would 24 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:55.359 be a good idea to just for especially for a new sidewalk outreach team, 25 00:01:55.560 --> 00:02:00.120 to have a list of what are the things that we feel are critical for 26 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:04.400 a sidewalk team to know and to do? Okay, so that's what kind 27 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:08.000 of sparked the list. Yeah, and I started off with the desire for 28 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:13.080 ten, okay, essentials, but it didn't quite work out. Yeah, 29 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:16.360 but not now. Now, I can't have like forty seven, forty seven 30 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:20.560 essential things to know. No, it's right, it's not. Hundreds and 31 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:23.199 thousands of me sensions, a lot of essentials. Are are a lot of 32 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:27.919 essentials, but we did try to pair it down to at least the top. 33 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:31.000 I don't know, twenty. You have. You have thirteen on one 34 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:35.919 page here, right, and then I turned to the next page and it's 35 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:42.879 bonus ideas. That's keeping a ten. Couldn't keep it the thirteen. You 36 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:46.199 have two, have some. So there's some bonus right features. He said 37 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:50.240 this was yeah, and then there's the less see cential, but they're still 38 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:53.319 essentials. Yeah, we call those the bonus I. So we're going to 39 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:58.520 try to keep this the thirty minutes or less, and so we'll try to 40 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:00.960 go through these pretty quickly and then if we can get to some of the 41 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:05.479 bonus ones, will get to some of the bonus ones, but if not, 42 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:08.759 you guys will have to check out the article. So let's start with 43 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:15.319 number one. Essential thing to know in sidewalk out reach. What is that? 44 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:19.240 To honor and glorify God. Yeah, how that we think can do 45 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:23.800 and say, yeah, that is the absolute primary goal of every sidewalk outreach. 46 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:28.000 Yeah, yeah, it should be the goal of any ministry, if 47 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:30.800 we're going to call it ministry, the focus has to be the Lord, 48 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:36.080 honoring glorifying him, the way that we act, the way that we talk 49 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:40.319 and even the motives of our heart, as best we can, discerning the 50 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:45.240 motives of our heart. If our motives are just to glorify ourselves or to 51 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:49.960 make ourselves feel like better Christians or whatever, we need to bring those motives 52 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:53.280 to the Lord. We need to come with pure motives if we're going to 53 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:59.120 serve in this ministry. So that's absolutely essential. God is number one. 54 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:02.080 Yep, Yep. So, yeah, no particular order of the other ones, 55 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:06.280 by the way they go just we're all what I thought were very important. 56 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:10.680 So so the next two to know the facility. Yeah, I mean 57 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:13.360 you got to know. When are they open? Yeah, when do they 58 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:17.160 do abortions? You want to know when, what hours you're going to reach 59 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:19.800 the most women. Yeah, before you go there, it'd be good to 60 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:23.959 try and find well, you might have to go there to scope that right, 61 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:27.160 but sometimes you can find that online or whatever. Yeah, you can, 62 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:30.560 and I can give some tips to be able to figure this stuff out. 63 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:33.879 It's important to know. I mean, there's only so much information you 64 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:38.879 can know. We know a lot of information about our local abortion centers here 65 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:42.160 because we got people that are out there every day they're open and a lot 66 00:04:42.199 --> 00:04:45.199 of observation going on. A lot of people that have been out here for 67 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:49.199 years. We've had a lot of conversations with former abortion workers, and so 68 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:55.439 information has been gathered over the years about these abortion clinics in Charlotte, because 69 00:04:55.439 --> 00:05:00.639 we've been out here for some years. But when there's a new abortionist or 70 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:05.199 something, it does sometimes present itself as a challenge to figure out who that 71 00:05:05.319 --> 00:05:08.240 is. And while we want to know that well, we want to know 72 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:11.879 what their track record is so we can warn people that are going to go 73 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:19.079 in and and be subjected, subjected to their their horrible practices often times. 74 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:25.879 Yeah, yeah, and so a few tips in this realm. The first 75 00:05:25.959 --> 00:05:31.879 thing is there's a website, abortion finder dot org. It's a pro abortion 76 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:35.639 website. Actually, it was put together by some pro abortion people to help 77 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:42.040 women, and I'm doing air quotes, navigate through the landscape of reproductive healthcare. 78 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:47.279 Okay, so what their goal is to show women where they can go 79 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:51.000 to have abortions instead of going to pregnancy centers, because a lot of pregnancy 80 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:59.000 centers compete in search engine optimization on Google with abortion centers, and so women 81 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:01.120 end up at pregn to see centers rather than an abortion centers. Of course, 82 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:05.279 you and I think that's great plan. Parenthood. Abortion providers don't think 83 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:12.879 it's great because it diverts people from them. And so this website, abortion 84 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:16.560 finder dot org, has actually been a really helpful tool for me as I'm 85 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:21.240 looking across the nation and seeking to try to raise up teams and certain areas. 86 00:06:21.240 --> 00:06:25.079 As we as an organization or trying to do that, we could find 87 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:30.240 where these abortion centers are by using that pro abortion website. All you do 88 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:35.560 is put your city in city and state and then ask a few little other 89 00:06:35.639 --> 00:06:39.959 questions that you can answer, push search and it will show you all the 90 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:45.160 abortion centers in a particular area. It will tell you how far long they 91 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:47.360 do abortions, what type of abortions they do that. Do they do just 92 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:53.920 the abortion peel or do they do abortion peel and surgical abortions? It'll give 93 00:06:53.959 --> 00:06:57.240 you all that information. That's US actually. I mean it's not awesome, 94 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:00.199 but right, it's useful. It's very yes, and it's using the enemies 95 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:03.199 tool, yeah, I mean the Devil's tool, yeah, against him. 96 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:08.680 Yeah. And then another thing to do to be able to figure out information 97 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:14.519 that many people might not think of is read the reviews on Google. Once 98 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:16.360 you go an abortion finder dot org, you find out where the abortion centers 99 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:20.120 at just copy the name and the address of it, throw it in Google 100 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:24.959 and you'll see reviews there. Read those reviews, because a lot of those 101 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:28.800 reviews will they'll tell you a lot of things. If you pick up on 102 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:31.399 patterns, you can see people saying they showed up at a particular time and 103 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:34.160 they had to wait a particular amount of time, and so some of them 104 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:39.920 are angry at that. I'm kind of giving all this stuff away. So 105 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:45.120 these are like these are like top secret tips. Hopefully this will bless you, 106 00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:49.480 guys and encourage you. But you can also find the abortionist names a 107 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:55.000 lot of times, yeah, on the reviews, and these are positive reviews. 108 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:58.639 A lot of times so and so Dr so and so was such a 109 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:01.600 great doctor. And then you know the abortionist name. You can google search 110 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:05.439 them, find citations that are on their medical record and things like that. 111 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:09.759 Again, we're not we're not creeping on these people as far as like going 112 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:13.480 to their houses and stuff. I don't encourage you to do that at all, 113 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:16.519 but it's good to know who these people are. Yeah, because these 114 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:20.720 people first of all, like we need to be praying for these people specifically 115 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:22.560 by name, that they come to know the Lord. There have been abortionists 116 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:26.079 that have repented of abortions and come to the Lord. So we need to 117 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:28.959 be praying for them by name, but also we need to know their track 118 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:35.120 record so we can warn people about what they have done in their past and 119 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:37.600 the danger that they're putting themselves in. Right, and and you know any 120 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:41.799 other doctor you would go to. That's public records. You can jined it. 121 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:46.039 You cannot find it unless you dig it's very right. Coult to find 122 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:50.279 it. On who's going to be doing the abortion? Yeah, maybe women 123 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:54.000 are showing up to yeah, so I spent a little little longer on that 124 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:56.360 one then probably most of the other ones of but let's go ahead and go 125 00:08:56.399 --> 00:09:00.000 through the rest as much as we can. Yeah, the three talking points 126 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:05.639 is the third point that focus on. Organize your speech at the abortion center, 127 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:07.639 depending on no matter how much time you have, you should always try 128 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:11.320 and get in the three main talking points. We have done that to be 129 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:16.720 very effective. Yeah, and those are well, they are what God says, 130 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:22.679 the humanity of the baby and the resources that are available. Right, 131 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:26.600 right, practice them, practice in front of a mirror. Yeah, practice 132 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:31.159 what you would say in fifteen seconds, a minute, five minutes. It's 133 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:33.879 and longer. Yeah. Yeah, and we did a whole part, a 134 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:39.799 whole podcast about the three talking points. Yeah, talk about those in probably 135 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:43.480 every other podcast, if not every podcast. So yeah, I mean this 136 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:48.840 is just a framework for speaking to people at the abortion center. Three main 137 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:52.120 subjects to be covering. Yeah, as you're reaching out of the abortion centers. 138 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:58.799 Yeah, the fourth one is to have literature ready and figure out where 139 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:01.080 you're going to set up your team members, where it's where they can hand 140 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:05.399 out that literature. Yeah, optimally. Yeah, whatever literature you have, 141 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:11.440 we have some that we put out. Yeah, there is even some on 142 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:13.159 our website, right sidebox for life. Isn't there? It right. But 143 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:18.000 yeah, so if you're not part of love life and you're looking for literature 144 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:20.159 to hand out, we do have a template, sort of like a generic 145 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:24.679 version of what we use under love life that you can print out. You 146 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:28.759 can have it printed at a local printer or some printer print shops online can 147 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:33.159 do that for you for fairly cheap. But I mean there's other things out 148 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:37.559 there that you can get a hold of. Tiny hands that hold my heart 149 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:41.720 is a brochure that we used to use for a long time. I think 150 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:45.919 you can go on tiny hands bookcom or dot org, one of the two. 151 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:48.679 Yeah, and you can order those. So that's a that's a good 152 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:52.120 one as well. Yeah, and as far as this team placement thing, 153 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:58.679 you've got to be thinking in terms of where are people likely to stop to 154 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:03.080 take literature? If it's a busy road, you're not going to get people 155 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:07.720 to stop. If it's a busy and fast traveled road, people are likely 156 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:11.000 not going to stop to take it your information on that road. You don't 157 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:13.840 really want them to. That's dangerous, right. And so you want to 158 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:18.320 position yourself at the driveway after they pull in, if you're able to do 159 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:22.279 that. Now we every scenario so different we can't tell you exactly what you 160 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:26.120 can do. Definitely pray through, think through, figure out where the boundaries 161 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:30.519 are, the property lines and all that stuff, and put your your team 162 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:35.000 and yourself in an optimal position. I'll give an example. Here at Latrobe 163 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:39.440 they're actually two driveways that people will pull into. The first driveway, which 164 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:43.039 is the main driveway, which is where we always have someone plays, is 165 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:46.320 the driveway to the abortion center, but there's also a call center driveway just 166 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:52.039 down from it and often times people miss the primary driveway and go and that 167 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:56.440 driveway to either park or to turn around, and so we want to have 168 00:11:56.480 --> 00:11:58.799 someone there because they're able to get people going in and coming back out, 169 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:01.720 if they're turning around and coming back out, good to the main parking lot. 170 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:07.759 So thinking through things like that, I've used Google maps and Google maps 171 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:11.799 will show you if you want to know, because we're on a loop here. 172 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:16.039 So latrobe drive is a big loop and people could come around either side 173 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:20.480 of the loop. If I only have two people and I need somebody out 174 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:22.879 in front of you abortion center and I need someone handed out literature, I 175 00:12:22.919 --> 00:12:26.759 want to figure out, okay, where most people coming from so I can 176 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:31.759 know where to place that one other person that I have. Where's my optimal 177 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:33.759 position going to be? So I'll put it in Google maps and I find 178 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:37.120 that most people come around one side of the loop and so I'm going to 179 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:41.879 position somebody that side first and then, if I had an extra person, 180 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:43.960 to position them on the other side of the loop. Yeah, and so 181 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:48.159 just you know, of course, using some some of these tools like Google 182 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:52.440 maps, like apple maps and things like that, but you figure out what 183 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:54.840 to do. Is your teach it can and where you know what we could 184 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:58.039 have whittled it down one more because actually the next one is very similar to 185 00:12:58.039 --> 00:13:03.320 to strategically set team members in an optimal desition, not only to pass out 186 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:07.759 literature, which was the point before, but where they're going to reach the 187 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:11.720 MOM's most effective. Yeah, so where they had the moms can hear us, 188 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:18.440 you know, don't clump together in the in the in the team. 189 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:22.600 Where you set up your team? Yeah, try to make sure that people 190 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:26.159 are spread out, not not chit chatting with each other. So that it's 191 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:28.840 very important to be strategic and how you set up your teams. We've only 192 00:13:30.039 --> 00:13:33.480 had to team members the past couple of days and honestly, we've had a 193 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:37.840 lot of interactions, which is kind of surprising and counterintuitive, but sometimes when 194 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:43.000 you have fewer people or people spread really far out, you're just less threatening. 195 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:46.720 Yeah, and sometimes you do have more interactions. People are more willing 196 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:50.480 to come and talk with you. So if you have a large team, 197 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:54.000 be sure to spread them out. Yeah, that is an absolute must, 198 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:56.799 because people do gravitate toward each other. YEA, and we have to remember 199 00:13:56.799 --> 00:14:01.600 we're not out there to protest against a calls or something like that. We're 200 00:14:01.639 --> 00:14:03.720 out there to reach the women and the men going into the bortion center. 201 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:07.279 So if we spread out more and we get more strategic about the way we 202 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:11.799 place people rather than, I mean, if you want to use signs, 203 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:16.559 sign ministries really powerful, but having ten people come together with ten different signs 204 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:22.200 all on the same spot, no one's reading those signs. Yeah, it's 205 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:24.600 like they miss the forest for the trees. If you spread people out up 206 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:30.440 the road or you know, however, however the layout is, those messages 207 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:33.000 can kind of be trickled as the women are coming, although I would say 208 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:37.720 upon each other that the message is is is building. Yeah, so that 209 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:41.600 by the time you get to the person with the literature, people maybe have 210 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:45.759 kind of been are more inclined to stop. Yeah, yeah, I do 211 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:48.720 think, though, it's good to have a consistent message. Obviously, yes, 212 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:52.159 and what you're displaying on your signs, but that's not really one of 213 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:56.000 the essentials here, right, right. But an essential is to begin an 214 00:14:56.120 --> 00:15:01.720 end in team prayer is so easy, honestly, to we love prayer, 215 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:05.360 but it's just so busy out there. Every moment is kind of a crisis 216 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:09.080 moment. It's really sometimes hard, but it be very intentional. Yeah, 217 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:15.480 to begin and end in prayer because you're calling God into this battle. It 218 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:20.960 is right battle anyway. So for us to remind ourselves of that, I 219 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:24.759 think is is real yeah, and mordant. This really dedicating the time to 220 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:31.360 the Lord. I really think that praying together before and after helps continue that 221 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:35.639 unity and just acknowledge that unity that we have because we're the body of Christ, 222 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:39.159 but also again acknowledge our reliance on the Lord. We need him, 223 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:43.320 we don't have the stuff figured out ourselves. I think that's really important. 224 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:46.519 I think it's also a witnessed all the other people out there, the pro 225 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:50.159 abortion people, the the MOM's, even if they see you bowing your head 226 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:54.200 and being in prayer. Yeah, this one is the next one. Keeping 227 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:58.120 the priority of ministry focus in mind, I think is a really important one. 228 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:02.960 It is so easy to get distracted, but just remember our main ministry 229 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:06.720 focus are those moms. Yeah, and and the unborn child. Yeah, 230 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:11.679 always glorifying God, but but the ministry is to the UNBOARD babies. And 231 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:15.799 it is easy to just get mad at the pro abortion crowd and right screaming 232 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:21.399 at them, or even the doctor, or socalled doctor, the abortionist or 233 00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:26.559 the workers, and and we'll lose our what should be our priority? Richer 234 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:30.759 the MOM's yeah, yeah, keep keep that in mind. And Yeah, 235 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:33.759 I like this next one. Yeah, and this has this really speaks to 236 00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:37.480 discipleship and, yeah, training others. Yeah, and this is whenever possible, 237 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:41.399 have an experienced counselor guiding and modeling for newer counselors. You've got people 238 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:44.879 who've been out there, we do here in Charlotte, that have been out 239 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:48.600 here on the sidewalk seven, eight years, right, so maybe even more 240 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:51.639 than that. And then, of course you've got brand new people that have 241 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:53.759 come along and some of your cities, you guys, may not have people 242 00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:56.080 that have been out there for years. Maybe you have people that have been 243 00:16:56.080 --> 00:17:00.320 out there for months. They've been out there longer than you're newer people and 244 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:03.440 they can show them the robes. They can. It's just it just helps 245 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:10.039 give people more confidence when they're being an apprentice to someone else, right, 246 00:17:10.039 --> 00:17:12.799 they're coming alongside someone else who's done it before. That's how just help still 247 00:17:12.839 --> 00:17:15.759 confidence, right. That's how yeah, his disciples. Yeah, it was 248 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:21.200 really apprenticeship kind of. They they watch Jesus in action and that's that's how 249 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:26.039 they learned. Yeah, but and if you don't have experienced people, you 250 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:30.039 know contact us. Yeah, we start watch our podcast, watch our mock 251 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:36.440 videos, because that you can learn a lot in that way if you don't 252 00:17:36.440 --> 00:17:40.759 have experienced people on the sidewalk to learn from. Yeah, and that gets 253 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:45.960 into the ninth one. To practice role playing difficult and common situations. You 254 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:49.680 can practice even if you don't have experienced, but if you practice with your 255 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:55.640 team members, what are some of the issues you have faced? And then 256 00:17:55.680 --> 00:17:57.960 you go over what could I have said, what could you have said, 257 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:03.279 and you'll you'll know more the longer you've been out there, where the typical 258 00:18:03.279 --> 00:18:07.160 things you're going to face. But role playing is such a great way. 259 00:18:07.240 --> 00:18:11.799 Yeah, learn. Yeah, absolutely, being in the crisis situation. Yeah. 260 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:17.519 So, yeah, the next one was one that was in place here 261 00:18:17.559 --> 00:18:21.119 in Charlotte before I ever came on board, and I think it's a really 262 00:18:21.160 --> 00:18:26.440 important way to build team unity. Yeah, absolutely. We've talked about this 263 00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:30.599 before, and that's having some kind of central point. You have on here 264 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:34.599 a team landing page, basically a place, a group, whether it be 265 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:38.319 a facebook group. There's all kinds of stuff. Now there's telegram, there's 266 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:44.480 what's APP, there's I don't know, there's all kinds of ways, text 267 00:18:44.599 --> 00:18:48.119 group, email, thread, whatever. I think facebook groups are the best 268 00:18:48.200 --> 00:18:52.559 personally, because there's so much there. You can add to the files section, 269 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:56.359 certain files and certain things that people can download for you know, like 270 00:18:56.440 --> 00:19:00.759 the talking points thing that we did, or kind of like the oneliners that 271 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:04.039 you did, resource guide, stuff like that, we have in the file 272 00:19:04.119 --> 00:19:08.039 section on our facebook group. But either way, some kind of way that 273 00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:11.799 you can encourage each other, some way that you can put a scripture out 274 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:15.240 there, something the Lord put on your heart for that day of Ministry. 275 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:22.160 And also I think it's important that you have somebody heading up the ministry for 276 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:26.960 that day. We call a team lead. That puts out a report so 277 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:30.400 that everybody else on that group can know what's going on. It's it's really 278 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:34.200 helpful for everybody to know. Maybe you're we talked about this before. Your 279 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:38.559 Tuesday team doesn't really know the people on the Monday team, but they see 280 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:44.119 their report every week and they're encouraged by it. And maybe the Wednesday team 281 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:47.519 had a bad week, but they can be encouraged by what God did the 282 00:19:47.519 --> 00:19:51.119 next day on Thursday, and there's some Continui, there's some connection there. 283 00:19:51.160 --> 00:19:56.240 Wednesday team maybe had a challenge with somebody in a particular vehicle and they can 284 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:59.680 say hey, watch out for this vehicle tomorrow because they're going to give you 285 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:03.240 problems. Because we do see today abortions and we see people come back multiple 286 00:20:03.319 --> 00:20:07.119 days for various reasons that are coming to the abortion center. So it's just 287 00:20:07.160 --> 00:20:10.559 a way to keep that continuity, that connection with each other and to know 288 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:15.240 that you're in this battle together with others, not by yourself. Yeah, 289 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:22.240 and it's also great place for people in leadership position to encourage and praise specific 290 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:26.200 things they may have seen out on the sidewalk in specific team members, just 291 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:30.119 to say we notice you. Yeah, we noticed what you've done and this 292 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:37.079 was really good, and to then for the team also to be able to 293 00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:40.119 express when there's been things that have been really hard. Yeah, and and 294 00:20:40.200 --> 00:20:42.880 what you know, ask for advice. How do we deal with this better? 295 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:47.599 Yeah. So, yeah, just a way to stay connected. Yeah, 296 00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:52.480 it is. When moms do choose life, and they will eventually. 297 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:55.200 If your brand new, don't worry, it'll come. Your Day will come. 298 00:20:55.400 --> 00:20:57.680 Yeah, you will choose life and when they do, ask them why 299 00:20:57.759 --> 00:21:02.720 they chose life at some point point in your discussion with them and what I 300 00:21:02.759 --> 00:21:07.599 do is I keep a word doc of the how MOMS have responded to that 301 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:12.640 question, and it becomes such a valuable way to train sidebock counselors. These 302 00:21:12.680 --> 00:21:15.440 are some things that have worked in the past. We should probably use them 303 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:19.079 again. Yeah, yeah, because they they we know that they're effective. 304 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:26.440 So I think that that's helpful. And having that word doc that you can 305 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:30.640 send out, yeah, to new volunteers. In fact, we've got it 306 00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:33.839 printed off of four pages. I think we've shared that on a podcast. 307 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:37.960 Yeah, and and then new counselors can look at these one liners of things 308 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:42.480 that MOMS have said. These were effective things that that they heard. Yeah, 309 00:21:42.480 --> 00:21:45.839 in conjunction with this, what I also do, and I do recommend 310 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:48.640 it, I think it's really a good way to stay in touch with the 311 00:21:48.680 --> 00:21:55.559 MOMS, is to have a group blind copy email list of moms that have 312 00:21:55.640 --> 00:21:59.039 chosen life. Yeah, and then every single morning I will send out a 313 00:21:59.079 --> 00:22:04.119 scripture to this group, which is grown to be quite large now. So 314 00:22:04.119 --> 00:22:10.640 so they're they sometimes are following or I'm following them for years. This, 315 00:22:10.640 --> 00:22:14.799 this list is now nine years old, sir. So I pretty much started 316 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:18.359 it from the beginning of me being on the sidewalk and then you can also 317 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:22.160 pull them if you need, you know, kind of a consensus of MOMS. 318 00:22:22.279 --> 00:22:25.880 You if you get donations, you can put it on the list. 319 00:22:25.960 --> 00:22:30.079 It's really a useful, easy way to stay in touch with the group's yeah, 320 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:34.000 moms that have chosen light. Yeah, so we've had situations where somebody 321 00:22:34.039 --> 00:22:37.039 reaches out to us as a ministry and says, Hey, I have a 322 00:22:37.079 --> 00:22:41.519 refrigerator that I would like to donate to a mom in need. Do you 323 00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:44.960 guys have anybody? You've got a list of a hundred and fifty moms on 324 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:47.680 an email thread. You shoot it out there. Hey, any you guys 325 00:22:47.680 --> 00:22:52.799 in need a refrigerator? And we've had that very thing play out where we 326 00:22:52.839 --> 00:22:56.880 have a volunteer go and deliver the refrigerator. And that's another way to continue 327 00:22:56.920 --> 00:23:00.240 to minister to these ladies show, in the love of Jesus, keep connected. 328 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:06.319 So the lie to the pro abortion claim that we're just pro birth. 329 00:23:06.599 --> 00:23:08.480 Yeah, because some of these women, like I said, I've been following 330 00:23:08.559 --> 00:23:11.680 nine years and some of them from nine years ago I've reached out and said, 331 00:23:11.720 --> 00:23:15.200 hey, I really need a kitchen table. Yeah, I see, 332 00:23:15.200 --> 00:23:18.839 you know something like that and we do we try to have ongoing hell, 333 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:25.480 Yep, but that's just an easy way to do that. Yeah, number 334 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:29.240 twelve you have here on the list, very important and we've talked about this 335 00:23:29.319 --> 00:23:33.000 not too long ago. We talked about I think is the podcast where we 336 00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:36.720 said let the words of our mouth be true. Right, always true, 337 00:23:36.799 --> 00:23:38.960 or something like it. Completely true, maybe like that, something like that. 338 00:23:41.119 --> 00:23:44.920 But this is never make promises you cannot keep. This is important. 339 00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:48.079 Yeah, that we shouldn't say things like will provide for all of your needs, 340 00:23:48.279 --> 00:23:52.599 will take care of everything. That's just not true. We couldn't do 341 00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:56.559 that. It's impossible to take care of every need. Always will say, 342 00:23:56.680 --> 00:24:03.079 I said this on that podcast, that we have resources to help with whatever 343 00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:06.240 needs you have. So we have resources that will help with whatever need you 344 00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:08.920 have, never promising that we're going to take care of every issue, but 345 00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:11.960 promising that we will do our best. I think that's how you word it. 346 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:17.880 We will do our best to help get you connected with resources that meet 347 00:24:17.960 --> 00:24:22.039 whatever needs you have. Right. And and if you have said you're going 348 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:26.119 to do something, another important part of this is followed through. Yeah, 349 00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:32.559 do it right, because these women I have oftentimes faced so much lies. 350 00:24:32.680 --> 00:24:41.640 Yeah, ejection, deceit and and so we need to build their trust in 351 00:24:41.160 --> 00:24:48.400 God ultimately, by we are God's voice. Yeah, where yes, messengers 352 00:24:48.440 --> 00:24:52.839 and and we need to follow through on anything that we have said we will 353 00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:56.640 do. Yeah, an example, a simple example of that, as I'll 354 00:24:56.640 --> 00:25:00.240 say, you have a mom that chose life and you've connected with her and 355 00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:03.279 you've told her, because this is what we encourage when we train people, 356 00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:07.839 this is what encourage you to do. Tell them that you will follow up 357 00:25:07.079 --> 00:25:11.279 with them later that day. I set a time, get their phone number, 358 00:25:11.319 --> 00:25:15.680 give them your phone number and say can I follow up with you at 359 00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:18.240 three PM Today? Yeah, which I think is important, because the enemy 360 00:25:18.319 --> 00:25:21.799 is going to be speaking lies, going to be tempted them to make another 361 00:25:21.839 --> 00:25:23.680 appointment. Come back. If you say you're going to call them at three 362 00:25:23.680 --> 00:25:27.160 o'clock, call them at three o'clock right, text them at three o'clock. 363 00:25:27.200 --> 00:25:32.200 Whatever you said you were going to do, do it now. Don't always 364 00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:37.079 expect for them to answer. I mean again, they're there's some stuff going 365 00:25:37.160 --> 00:25:40.240 on, some chaos going on in their lives, so don't be offended if 366 00:25:40.279 --> 00:25:44.200 they don't answer. Yeah, but inasmuch as it depends on you, do 367 00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:47.559 what you said you would do. Yeah, and that's just one example of 368 00:25:47.599 --> 00:25:52.880 many others that promises you might make in your zeal to help that mom who's 369 00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:56.960 who's choosing life or who you want to choose life. Yeah, yeah, 370 00:25:56.039 --> 00:26:00.720 so be careful with your zeal. Yeah, careful that. We know you're 371 00:26:00.759 --> 00:26:04.480 excited and you you want to promise this mom in the world, but be 372 00:26:04.680 --> 00:26:08.440 very careful that it. Like, I just had a conversation a couple days 373 00:26:08.480 --> 00:26:12.119 ago with the MOM and I listed off all of the things that I was 374 00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:17.240 going to send her immediately. One of them was an online Bible. She 375 00:26:17.240 --> 00:26:18.519 didn't even have a Bible. Yeah, I was going to send her the 376 00:26:18.519 --> 00:26:22.279 link to an online Bible and I actually said, as soon as I get 377 00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:26.119 off the phone, I'll do that. And I got off the phone and 378 00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:27.960 I forgot. Yeah, so it was like it was like a half an 379 00:26:27.960 --> 00:26:32.279 hour later when I remembered and I was in the middle of other stuff, 380 00:26:32.279 --> 00:26:36.119 but I zipped back and and did that and said I'm so sorry, you 381 00:26:36.160 --> 00:26:38.519 know, I apologized and because I had told her I'd send it right away. 382 00:26:38.599 --> 00:26:41.880 Yeah, she was very grateful to get it, but that was that's 383 00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:45.319 an example of something that maybe didn't seem like such a big deal. Yeah, 384 00:26:45.400 --> 00:26:48.640 but when I said I'm going to get off the phone and send you 385 00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:49.960 this, that's what I should have done. Yeah, and we all need 386 00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:55.319 to be really careful. Yeah, no doubt. Number Thirteen, Number Thirteen, 387 00:26:55.440 --> 00:26:59.240 Gospel Center do. Yeah, this is a big one. Yeah, 388 00:26:59.240 --> 00:27:02.759 and it's or thirteen to say that. That's true. We could, we 389 00:27:02.799 --> 00:27:06.440 could add on the bonus idea. I think this one sanctifies the number thirteen. 390 00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:08.640 If you're superstitious. True, this will take care of that, so 391 00:27:08.720 --> 00:27:15.799 good for it. Okay, never neglect the Gospel. Yeah, we talked 392 00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:19.160 in the past about be careful with the message of forgiveness at the wrong time 393 00:27:19.359 --> 00:27:26.000 because moms might be using it, are using it as justification to abort. 394 00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:30.599 Yeah, but the Gospel is the power of Christ to save, and so 395 00:27:30.680 --> 00:27:36.599 we absolutely cannot neglect the gospel. Right. We need to find a way 396 00:27:36.640 --> 00:27:41.759 to work the Gospel in whenever you have any kind of prolonged interaction with the 397 00:27:41.799 --> 00:27:45.880 MOM's yeah, and even in literature that you hand out. Yeah, we 398 00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:49.000 have in our literature that we use Love Life, the the Gospel. It's 399 00:27:49.039 --> 00:27:55.680 like a one paragraph clear explanation of the Gospel, laying it out right. 400 00:27:56.559 --> 00:27:59.480 There's Gospel tracks out there and now, I do think we talked about this 401 00:27:59.480 --> 00:28:03.160 in another episode a while back about handing out literature. I do think it's 402 00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:06.759 a bad idea to hand them one brochure and then a Gospel Track and then 403 00:28:06.759 --> 00:28:10.680 a gospel of John and then a video about, you know, explaining the 404 00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:15.039 Gospel, like too much stuff. They're going to just throw it aside and 405 00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:19.960 not not even read it at all. One good piece of literature maybe too 406 00:28:21.039 --> 00:28:23.319 if you have brochures at you hand out, maybe the tiny hands brochures they 407 00:28:23.359 --> 00:28:29.759 have scripture woven through them. But maybe you want to add a gospel track 408 00:28:29.839 --> 00:28:33.279 in there. That's great, but you just don't want to glow to it 409 00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:37.880 with too much stuff. But I do think having the Gospel in whatever literature 410 00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:41.319 you hand out is really important. So I really like our literature for that 411 00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:47.680 reason, because I think it has all of the main critical things in one 412 00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:52.400 very succinct pamphlet. Yeah, it's only a trifold pamphlet. It's got the 413 00:28:52.440 --> 00:28:56.519 three talking points, development of the baby, what God says about the baby, 414 00:28:56.559 --> 00:29:03.000 a smallest of resources. It has the Gospel in a like a paragraph, 415 00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:07.319 and and then it has some pertinent scripture yell in one. Yeah, 416 00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:11.079 so I think it's really, really valuable. Yeah, we made it. 417 00:29:11.240 --> 00:29:12.880 We have enough time to give us some of the bonus ideas. We get 418 00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:15.920 just a few minutes. Okay, so let's let's knock out some of the 419 00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:21.400 bonus ideas. Here's the the bonus essentials. You know what I already said. 420 00:29:21.480 --> 00:29:23.559 Number one, so the email is blind copyright. We already sent that 421 00:29:23.599 --> 00:29:27.000 one, so you don't need to worry about that one. Have key numbers 422 00:29:27.039 --> 00:29:32.160 on your phone. Yeah, yeah, so things like pregnancy resource centers, 423 00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:36.039 right, a high risk doctor who would council for free if you can find 424 00:29:36.079 --> 00:29:41.200 one. We have one. We talked about that in our lawst top maternity 425 00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:44.799 centers, the how for housing, correct key issues. So think what the 426 00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:48.720 top issues are going to be. Childcare is another one, and if you 427 00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:52.960 can have a resource speed dial on your phone or, you know, easily 428 00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:59.559 reached on your phone, those are important. Yeah, number three, which 429 00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:03.599 is might seem self serving, but we do these podcasts to serve you guys 430 00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:08.240 who are listening. Listen to our podcasts because we talk on a regular basis 431 00:30:08.279 --> 00:30:14.039 about sidewalk out reach. I think it's probably a rare niche that we cover. 432 00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:17.640 We're involved in this world of ministry, so we're not just talking about 433 00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:22.799 things that are theory to us. Their experiences that we have and I think 434 00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:26.039 these podcasts will continue to encourage you, let you know that there are other 435 00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:30.319 people doing this ministry, if you're involved in this ministry. And, yeah, 436 00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:33.519 I think we have a little bit to offer in this world of ministry. 437 00:30:33.559 --> 00:30:37.480 That will that will equip you. Yeah, yeah, we've had lots 438 00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:41.039 of people tell us, yeah, that it's very quipping. The next one 439 00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:45.200 we kind of went over, but but number six on our bonus ideas was 440 00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:49.240 practice sharing the gospel in five minutes. Yeah, and we talked about you 441 00:30:49.240 --> 00:30:52.519 know, having a paragraph on the literature is good, but but if you 442 00:30:52.599 --> 00:30:56.960 can speak it in if you've only got a limited time and you can do 443 00:30:57.000 --> 00:31:00.920 that in five minutes, I think that's very valuable. Yeah, that you've 444 00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:04.480 planted that seed and the only way you're going to be able to do that, 445 00:31:04.519 --> 00:31:07.400 honestly, is practice it. You really do have to practice it. 446 00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:11.400 Yeah, because most of us will go on and on and on. Right, 447 00:31:11.559 --> 00:31:15.640 yeah, and it'll they'll get bored, they want to leave whatever. 448 00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:18.359 Yeah, yeah, right, right now. And then the last one. 449 00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:22.599 We got through all of them. The last one is social media. Present 450 00:31:22.279 --> 00:31:30.599 presence is very important for attracting volunteers, for letting others know what the ministry 451 00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:33.920 is all about, for letting abortion minded people know that there's a ministry out 452 00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:41.519 there. Yeah, but always keep in mind confidentiality is really important patients of 453 00:31:41.599 --> 00:31:47.039 the MOMS. Yeah, don't post pictures of MOMS, don't videotape MOMS, 454 00:31:47.079 --> 00:31:52.559 don't do any of that without explicit, probably written, permission, because that 455 00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:57.480 will destroy the trust, yea, of those MOMS to come and confide in 456 00:31:57.559 --> 00:32:00.480 you. Yeah. Yeah, so you can post stories, but keep them 457 00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:04.319 general. Yeah, General. So a mom can't be identified, right, 458 00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:07.599 yeah, like we often do. We've been in this podcast. We don't 459 00:32:07.640 --> 00:32:10.640 identified by their name. We give them a fake name or just call them 460 00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:14.359 by the first letter of their name or something like that. But social media 461 00:32:14.440 --> 00:32:16.480 is powerful. Yeah, I could have a pray request. Yeah, and 462 00:32:16.640 --> 00:32:21.440 social media, even while I'm going through it. Sometimes I'll put out a 463 00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:23.640 facebook post. Hey, mom, I'm talking to a mom and she's in 464 00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:27.880 the Valley of the decision with you all. Pray Right, yeah, you 465 00:32:28.039 --> 00:32:30.880 can't. It can be powerful. That's good. We hope this list of 466 00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:36.279 essentials helped you and hope it was an encouragement to you. We'd love for 467 00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:39.680 you to reach out to us. Maybe there's some things that are essential for 468 00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:43.880 your outreach ministry that we wouldn't we didn't talk about. Maybe we do a 469 00:32:43.920 --> 00:32:45.200 whole podcast about it, I don't know. Reach out to us, reach 470 00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:49.720 out to meet Daniel at Love Life Dot Org. You can reach her Vicky 471 00:32:49.720 --> 00:32:52.480 at Love Life Dot Org. We'd love to hear from you, guys, 472 00:32:52.720 --> 00:33:00.519 and until next time, God bless God, bless you all. It out 473 00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:13.160 left for love. Give me our life for gratitude. I know it will 474 00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:22.160 cost me my life. Nothing's too precious since I met you.