Training: Necessary Materials

WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:06.440 I Am Yours, I am yours, I am yours and me Lord, 2 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:11.230 I am yours. Welcome to the Gospel Center pro life podcast. In this 3 00:00:11.349 --> 00:00:14.949 episode we're going to continue to do some training and we're going to talk about 4 00:00:15.109 --> 00:00:19.149 some of the necessary materials and things to have in your outreach at the abortion 5 00:00:19.230 --> 00:00:29.059 center. Stay with us, I felt show passish, touch your heart. 6 00:00:31.460 --> 00:00:38.649 Use Welcome to the Gospel Center pro life podcasts. Appreciate you guys tuning in 7 00:00:39.329 --> 00:00:43.409 and we'd appreciate, as always, if you guys would share this podcast episode 8 00:00:43.409 --> 00:00:47.009 with others to help encourage other folks that want to get involved in sidewalk out 9 00:00:47.049 --> 00:00:51.200 reach at their abortion center or just get involved in speaking for the unborn. 10 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:55.159 There's a lot of ways to do that. Our course, our particular focus 11 00:00:55.359 --> 00:01:00.039 is on the sidewalk and trying to encourage people and raise up people to get 12 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:03.079 involved on the sidewalks at their local abortion center. I would encourage you guys 13 00:01:03.120 --> 00:01:07.829 just mentioned something that I've mentioned the past couple of episodes is that we do, 14 00:01:07.030 --> 00:01:11.629 on a monthly basis, Vickie and I, a sidewalk out reach training, 15 00:01:11.670 --> 00:01:14.510 what we call sidewalk out reach one hundred and one, and we do 16 00:01:14.670 --> 00:01:19.019 that online. It's via zoom, and so folks who want to get involved 17 00:01:19.060 --> 00:01:21.980 with that, if you want to just reach out to me, Daniel at 18 00:01:22.060 --> 00:01:26.659 Love Life Dot Org, you can. I'll send you over the application that 19 00:01:26.739 --> 00:01:29.060 you'd have to fill out to do that. We just want to a little 20 00:01:29.060 --> 00:01:30.859 bit of information from you. One of the things we want to make sure 21 00:01:30.859 --> 00:01:34.969 that you're a believer in Jesus, because it won't folks on board that believe 22 00:01:34.010 --> 00:01:38.609 in Jesus and to believe the Gospel is is what we need to be bringing 23 00:01:38.650 --> 00:01:41.129 to these abortion centers. And also want to make sure you're connected to a 24 00:01:41.209 --> 00:01:46.409 local church. We believe it's very important to have the accountability and the encouragement 25 00:01:46.409 --> 00:01:49.879 that comes from a local church. There's a few other things that we ask 26 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:52.920 of that application. Not to in depth, but in depth enough, I 27 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:56.120 think. So. If you guys want to get just some sidewalk out reach 28 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:59.640 training, you can reach out to me and I'll get you the information getting 29 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:04.549 in the right avenues. If you want more of a larger overview of love 30 00:02:04.709 --> 00:02:07.349 life and what God is doing through love life, and we really feel like 31 00:02:07.430 --> 00:02:15.710 God is doing and raising up sidewalk missionaries, we have a biweekly online it's 32 00:02:15.740 --> 00:02:20.979 not. I guess kind of a Webinar format called discovered love life America. 33 00:02:21.379 --> 00:02:24.939 We do that bi weekly and kind of gives you an overview of the sidewalk 34 00:02:24.979 --> 00:02:31.569 outreach ministry, Sidewalk Missionary Ministry, Church engagement, all the different components of 35 00:02:31.650 --> 00:02:36.449 love life. So that's discovered love life America and you can just go to 36 00:02:36.530 --> 00:02:40.330 love life dot Org America and there's a sign up at the bottom of the 37 00:02:40.810 --> 00:02:45.840 page there and you can sign up to be a part of that and then 38 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:49.639 they're at the end of that. There's a there's a survey that will come 39 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:53.400 to you and that's another way you can get connected with our sidewalk out reach 40 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:59.469 or potentially get connected to become a sidewalk missionary. So anyway, that's all 41 00:02:59.550 --> 00:03:02.389 I'm going to say about that. Any clarity on that, please shoot me 42 00:03:02.469 --> 00:03:07.229 over to email Daniel a love life dot org. And with that we're going 43 00:03:07.349 --> 00:03:12.750 to get into our episode. We've been doing some training episodes. We've thought 44 00:03:12.830 --> 00:03:15.300 to take our sidewalk out reach training that we do on a monthly basis and 45 00:03:15.460 --> 00:03:20.860 go more in depth than we're able to do in a zoom training and to 46 00:03:20.979 --> 00:03:24.180 dig into some of these topics the last topic that we talked about is preparation 47 00:03:24.740 --> 00:03:30.409 and the information that's necessary for you to gather information. What information do you 48 00:03:30.490 --> 00:03:32.289 need to have? If you didn't check out that episode yet, please go 49 00:03:32.409 --> 00:03:36.770 back listen to that episode. Very important. There's information that we need. 50 00:03:37.449 --> 00:03:42.840 This time we're going to talk about the necessities. These last two episodes, 51 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:46.360 this episode, in the episode before and believe the episode before that. Pretty 52 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:50.439 practical? Yeah, not, not really. I guess I want to say 53 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:54.199 spiritual. Everything we do for Christians is spiritual, but really just in the 54 00:03:54.439 --> 00:03:59.189 the practical, the nitty gritty stuff, the basics of what you need to 55 00:03:59.349 --> 00:04:00.870 be able to go out there. Yeah, we talked about information. We 56 00:04:00.990 --> 00:04:04.550 talked about what some of the stuff you need to know. So, anyway, 57 00:04:04.629 --> 00:04:09.870 check that episode out and stick with us. In this episode we're going 58 00:04:09.909 --> 00:04:15.459 to talk about gathering necessities and some of the things we're talking about in necessities, 59 00:04:15.579 --> 00:04:17.459 I mean we even get down to, and I think we shared this 60 00:04:17.579 --> 00:04:21.379 in the last episode a little bit, is wearing some good shoes right, 61 00:04:21.500 --> 00:04:27.769 being prepared, just practically being prepared with, you know, being warm enough 62 00:04:27.769 --> 00:04:31.410 right, having warm enough clothing. Yep, all of that stuff we're probably 63 00:04:31.569 --> 00:04:38.410 gonna maybe in a little bit repeat a few of the points that we made 64 00:04:38.449 --> 00:04:42.759 last time around, but not really maybe more expound on those points. Right. 65 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:46.240 Yeah, but one of the first things we want to encourage you, 66 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:51.480 guys and just gathering necessities is something that we've talked about before and that's having 67 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:57.230 a list of local and national resources. What are we talking about, Vicky, 68 00:04:57.269 --> 00:05:00.310 when we're talking about a list of local and national resources? It's one 69 00:05:00.310 --> 00:05:04.069 of our three talking points, which will get into, hopefully in a couple 70 00:05:04.069 --> 00:05:06.980 more episodes. We'll talk about the three talking points and break that down a 71 00:05:06.980 --> 00:05:11.660 little more. Right. But resources is one of our three talking points. 72 00:05:11.779 --> 00:05:15.339 What do we mean by the yeah, yeah, resources is just, quite 73 00:05:15.339 --> 00:05:19.540 simply, what will help them in whatever obstacle they faced. What? What 74 00:05:19.899 --> 00:05:27.170 is the most helpful things that they need, services, whatever. And I 75 00:05:27.250 --> 00:05:30.449 think we've mentioned in the past that we have pulled the women that we work 76 00:05:30.529 --> 00:05:34.879 with who have chosen life and we've asked them what the single most important word 77 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:39.519 they heard that help them make a choice for life, and it was overwhelmingly 78 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:46.560 the word help. They want help. oftentimes they think that's the most important 79 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:50.629 thing and really, when you boil it all down, it's not that they 80 00:05:50.709 --> 00:05:54.949 need help as much as they need a heart change. They need a heart 81 00:05:54.949 --> 00:05:58.790 change towards God and the sanctity of that of that precious life that they carry 82 00:05:58.790 --> 00:06:02.029 in the womb. But what the reasons? So the resources do two things 83 00:06:02.110 --> 00:06:04.660 really. First of all, it says, okay, you want help, 84 00:06:04.860 --> 00:06:09.379 we got help and and you list off the resources. But also what it 85 00:06:09.459 --> 00:06:15.980 can do is expose the their heart. And when you've listed all the help 86 00:06:15.540 --> 00:06:23.490 that they have identified as needing and they're still wavering, they're still thinking abortion 87 00:06:23.689 --> 00:06:29.449 is the answer, you've just shown them it's not your circumstances, it's not 88 00:06:29.730 --> 00:06:35.800 the help that you need, it's the heart that is deceived and rebellious against 89 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:42.839 God. So local and national resources. National because we are expanding. Love 90 00:06:42.920 --> 00:06:46.519 life is expanding throughout the nation. The goal is, of course, to 91 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:49.509 be a Christian presence at every one of those seven hundred abortion centers that currently 92 00:06:49.550 --> 00:06:57.949 don't have Christian presence at them. And so knowing the national resources helps because, 93 00:06:58.069 --> 00:07:00.230 first of all you can help each other and and be able to recommend 94 00:07:00.269 --> 00:07:04.939 resources that would apply no matter where you are. But also people that come 95 00:07:05.019 --> 00:07:11.939 to abortion centers often come from very far away. For sure that happens here. 96 00:07:12.379 --> 00:07:15.970 We're one of the largest abortion centers in the southeast. We get people 97 00:07:15.970 --> 00:07:19.769 from Florida, Georgia, Tennessee all the surrounding states, and part of that 98 00:07:19.970 --> 00:07:24.569 is because people don't want to go necessarily to an abortion center in their own 99 00:07:24.610 --> 00:07:28.649 community because they'll be seen. Yeah, and they're ashamed. Yeah, absolutely, 100 00:07:28.689 --> 00:07:31.199 they don't want people to recognize them. But so we touched on local 101 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:35.279 resources in the in the last podcast, but one of the things that we 102 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:40.759 thought would be valuable in this one was going into a little bit more depth 103 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:46.949 about that list of resources. And so we have an article accompanying this, 104 00:07:46.149 --> 00:07:50.389 as we often do, so you can all read through what we wrote out. 105 00:07:51.110 --> 00:07:56.990 But we wanted to go over just some of those local resources that you 106 00:07:56.990 --> 00:08:01.579 might not necessarily think about as being valued. About valuable to find out. 107 00:08:01.579 --> 00:08:05.779 So where can we first of all go for resources? We talked about that 108 00:08:05.779 --> 00:08:09.540 at least. We always tell for people to go is to Google. That's 109 00:08:09.579 --> 00:08:13.129 where we go. That's where we found the resources, right, right, 110 00:08:13.490 --> 00:08:18.930 and there's there's things within Google. I know you have here written at Berthacom, 111 00:08:18.449 --> 00:08:24.529 which is a it has resources by Zip Code. That's really valuable. 112 00:08:24.730 --> 00:08:31.199 Free things by ZIP code. So and they have a whole wealth of free 113 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:35.559 things, not just for a pregnant mom. But when when MOM's list, 114 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:39.360 one of the top things we hear is finances. Yeah, that that they 115 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:43.230 need help with finances. We don't give money and we don't recommend that anyone 116 00:08:43.269 --> 00:08:48.509 gives money because you just never know what that's going to go towards. But 117 00:08:48.870 --> 00:08:52.149 if you can list and come up with resources that normally people would have to 118 00:08:52.269 --> 00:08:56.899 be spending money on, that helps with their finances. And so aunt Bertha 119 00:08:58.100 --> 00:09:03.379 has all of these. It's wwwacom. Yes, and it's not like it's 120 00:09:03.419 --> 00:09:07.019 a Christian website or anything. It's just a website that's compiled free resources, 121 00:09:07.139 --> 00:09:11.450 frees stuff, avenues, right people to go and things for people to take 122 00:09:11.450 --> 00:09:16.610 advantage of across the nation. Well, so google is a great, great 123 00:09:16.649 --> 00:09:18.769 resource. And another thing are the churches themselves. Yeah, if you go 124 00:09:18.850 --> 00:09:22.809 to the churches and say that, Hey, what, what are you already 125 00:09:22.889 --> 00:09:26.759 offering? Like child care is one of those things that maybe you could offer 126 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:33.440 for free to to a pregnant mom. So let's see. So I'm going 127 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:37.519 to talk real quick because we're talking about having this stuff, having this compiled. 128 00:09:39.909 --> 00:09:43.830 What format now. I think we've shared this also, that we have 129 00:09:43.950 --> 00:09:48.110 a particular format that we're sharing their resources in. But let's talk a little 130 00:09:48.110 --> 00:09:52.379 bit about what format we're talking about. So what we did was, as 131 00:09:52.460 --> 00:09:56.179 we're compiling the resources, as soon as it was more than four or five 132 00:09:56.500 --> 00:10:00.940 you got to organize it. Sure, so we have a table of contents 133 00:10:01.019 --> 00:10:05.940 organized alphabetically. I think I'm not even positive about that. I think it 134 00:10:05.059 --> 00:10:09.330 is so that it's easier for them to find that. And we have one 135 00:10:09.450 --> 00:10:13.769 that is for our counselors because there's a lot of confidential information on there. 136 00:10:13.809 --> 00:10:18.889 There might be personal cell phone numbers on there that you don't want to give 137 00:10:18.929 --> 00:10:20.440 out, for like the doctors that will see him for you, the doctors 138 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:24.759 like that. That's right. We don't share that information with anybody and everybody. 139 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:26.279 That's right. You only want it, you want your counselors. There 140 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:30.879 are some resources that have said they do not want the mom's calling them. 141 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:35.279 They want only a counselor calling them for the referral. Sure so we have 142 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:41.590 a general resource guide, you know, organized alphabetically, the the different resources 143 00:10:41.750 --> 00:10:46.950 that we put out on our frontline team group. That only are our councilor 144 00:10:46.029 --> 00:10:52.220 see. And then out of that we've developed a pamphlet, general resource pamphlet, 145 00:10:52.740 --> 00:10:56.620 which is smaller, again, organized by you know, with a table 146 00:10:56.700 --> 00:11:01.860 of contents organized alphabetically, and that's what we hand out to the MOMS, 147 00:11:01.899 --> 00:11:05.090 where we've already checked everything that's on there and made sure that this is something 148 00:11:05.090 --> 00:11:09.690 that's okay to go out to the general public. So is that? Does 149 00:11:09.730 --> 00:11:13.370 that answer your question about how you know it can be as so the booklet 150 00:11:13.450 --> 00:11:16.649 we have, it's basically a booklet and right just necessarily, even a pamphlet 151 00:11:16.690 --> 00:11:20.279 that we can give and we don't just hand those out to anybody and everybody. 152 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:24.039 But if we get into an indepth conversation with the mom, with the 153 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:28.039 dad or whatever, right and we start hearing about the needs for resources, 154 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:31.519 we have that booklet that we can give them. We can go through and 155 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:35.870 either highlight or underline the certain places that they can call. We want to 156 00:11:35.909 --> 00:11:39.230 kind of put some of that burden off on them as far as digging for 157 00:11:39.309 --> 00:11:43.269 those resources. Right, we've compiled them for them, but here's the numbers 158 00:11:43.309 --> 00:11:46.659 you need to call. And there are some of those resources, like maternity 159 00:11:46.700 --> 00:11:50.820 homes and things like that, that they would have to call anyway. We 160 00:11:50.860 --> 00:11:52.580 could call and we could say, Hey, we have a person here, 161 00:11:52.620 --> 00:11:54.179 but they'd ultimately need to talk to them anyway. Right. So that's a 162 00:11:54.220 --> 00:11:58.860 booklet that we have, but maybe you've just got a short list of resources. 163 00:11:58.019 --> 00:12:01.100 Mean, one of the things that we do on the back of our 164 00:12:01.289 --> 00:12:05.210 brochures that we give to the women going in, and this is everybody gets 165 00:12:05.250 --> 00:12:07.049 this, everybody that will stop and take it right on the back of that, 166 00:12:07.250 --> 00:12:11.250 we've actually made up a sticker that has our local pregnancy centers in the 167 00:12:11.289 --> 00:12:16.919 maternity homes and adoption agencies and things like that on the back of that sticker 168 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:20.799 we just kind of slap on there. It's a quick one glance. They 169 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:26.279 can look as each city that they might be from. So Charlotte, don't 170 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:30.429 have the pregnancy center in Charlotte. In Greenville, South Carolina, have a 171 00:12:30.470 --> 00:12:33.750 pregnancy center there to have the phone number so they can call, and then 172 00:12:33.789 --> 00:12:37.029 again the different maternity homes, pregnancy centers, things like that. It's a 173 00:12:37.149 --> 00:12:41.149 real short list, yeah, of some of the most pressing needs that people 174 00:12:41.190 --> 00:12:46.059 come and I think on that also is where the national sorts of things would 175 00:12:46.059 --> 00:12:50.700 be, like a national domestic hot line, domestic abuse hotl right, if 176 00:12:50.779 --> 00:12:56.340 you've been harmed in an abortion the legal aid or whatever hot line, or 177 00:12:56.740 --> 00:13:03.370 abortion workercom again, a national, yeah, site that will help abortion workers. 178 00:13:03.370 --> 00:13:07.009 Sex Trafficking. There's sex traffic contract there for a sex trafficking organization, 179 00:13:07.049 --> 00:13:11.490 right, if they're being trafficked. There's a little bright blurb kind of on 180 00:13:11.570 --> 00:13:13.240 the back of our pamphlet that talks about out that as well. Yeah, 181 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:16.399 yeah, so those are kind of the national ones that everybody. Those are 182 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:20.120 going to be needs that you're going to find at every abortion center and and 183 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:26.879 their nationwide those that those resources and help its nationwide. Yeah, but you 184 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:31.190 could do something as simple as making up on your printer at home, right, 185 00:13:31.309 --> 00:13:37.149 just a quick little bullet pointed categorized like maybe say pregnancy centers as a 186 00:13:37.950 --> 00:13:41.820 title there, and then under that list your local pregnancy centers than maternity homes 187 00:13:41.860 --> 00:13:46.100 as a kind of a title or subject topic there, sub title, and 188 00:13:46.179 --> 00:13:48.820 then list those up underneath and just slip it in the brochures that you hand 189 00:13:48.860 --> 00:13:52.059 out. You don't have to make up a sticker and put on the back. 190 00:13:52.139 --> 00:13:56.169 You can do that. Yeah, be maybe better and less problems. 191 00:13:56.490 --> 00:13:58.769 You know, I know one of the things being at the abortion center. 192 00:13:58.889 --> 00:14:01.929 Being on the sidewalk there and trying to hand out literature, you can drop 193 00:14:01.049 --> 00:14:05.169 stuff. I see people dropping brochures. One of the reasons why we use 194 00:14:05.210 --> 00:14:09.330 everything as a sticker. We kind of stick it into the brochure if we 195 00:14:09.370 --> 00:14:13.879 add additional things right, because things just get dropped and you know, I've 196 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:20.039 seen people have the tracks, Gospel tracks, but in also have a prolife 197 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:22.200 brochure or whatever, and then they'll have something about, I don't know, 198 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:26.669 stds or something like that, and they'll have the brochures will just all be 199 00:14:26.710 --> 00:14:30.629 laying on the ground because they're they're not compiled in such a way where they 200 00:14:30.669 --> 00:14:33.470 stay together. So we make all that kind of a sticker form just so 201 00:14:33.549 --> 00:14:35.429 we can be real quick and hand that brochure to they get them the most 202 00:14:35.470 --> 00:14:39.259 information that we can into their hands. Yeah, but if you're just starting 203 00:14:39.299 --> 00:14:41.740 out, you may not yet have that kind of resources available to you and 204 00:14:43.179 --> 00:14:48.379 just sticking it's having that list. And one of the complaints I've heard from 205 00:14:48.539 --> 00:14:54.049 the pro socalled choice people is all you've done is is put in resources that 206 00:14:54.129 --> 00:14:58.090 they could have found themselves. That's often true, sure, but they don't 207 00:14:58.370 --> 00:15:03.769 their women in crisis. They may or may not know that these resources are 208 00:15:03.809 --> 00:15:09.919 available, and when you've got help that outlines every area all in one neatly 209 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:15.360 compiled place, it really can instantly calm their fears and I've seen that over 210 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:18.799 and over again. That and I hear over and over again. I had 211 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:22.990 no idea that there were all these resources, so I wanted to list just 212 00:15:22.110 --> 00:15:26.590 some of them just so that you know some of the things you can google 213 00:15:26.870 --> 00:15:30.830 in in your area and find. But Housing, yeah, both Christian and 214 00:15:30.990 --> 00:15:35.019 Public Christian housing. You're going to have to dig. Churches are good source 215 00:15:35.100 --> 00:15:39.500 for that. PRC's pregnancy resource centers are a good choice for that. In 216 00:15:39.620 --> 00:15:43.659 terms of secular government housing, you can just google. You'll find that right 217 00:15:43.740 --> 00:15:48.700 away. Child Care, big deal. Contacting the local churches, finding out 218 00:15:48.740 --> 00:15:54.129 if they already have childcare programs. Most communities do have some sort of already 219 00:15:54.250 --> 00:15:58.330 low cost child care programs. Finding out about them, calling them, finding 220 00:15:58.370 --> 00:16:03.409 out if they would even be maybe offer a free child care for mom who 221 00:16:03.409 --> 00:16:07.440 has chosen life. We talked about Ambertha. That's a great one. Free, 222 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:11.440 free resources by ZIP code, Food Pantries by ZIP code. You can 223 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:17.159 find that if you google again. They probably know that there are such a 224 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:19.389 thing as food pantries. Most of them do. But if you've got it 225 00:16:19.549 --> 00:16:25.230 organized, especially Church Food Pantries, which is often times where they are. 226 00:16:25.269 --> 00:16:30.509 There's also some secular ones, but you've got that by ZIP code and the 227 00:16:30.710 --> 00:16:34.620 hours of operation, maybe the phone numbers, you just simplifying that process for 228 00:16:34.740 --> 00:16:38.419 them and that's money they don't need to be spending your groceries. So it 229 00:16:38.539 --> 00:16:42.700 deals with the you know, financial issue. Pregnancy resource centers, we just 230 00:16:42.899 --> 00:16:48.490 we've spent other podcast talking a lot about them really important. One of them 231 00:16:48.570 --> 00:16:52.129 that we have is option, adoption, but if that is I believe they 232 00:16:52.129 --> 00:16:56.330 are national, but they began in this area. But any kind of adoption 233 00:16:56.450 --> 00:17:00.720 resources that you might have in your area. So you never know, if 234 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:04.519 you've got the number right there, maybe they will call and make that an 235 00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:10.519 option other than just abortion. One that I didn't think of until I'd been 236 00:17:10.519 --> 00:17:15.549 out there a while jobs for felons. Many of the abortion workers are felons 237 00:17:17.069 --> 00:17:21.269 and they can't find work, but abortion centers will hire them. Yeah, 238 00:17:21.309 --> 00:17:25.829 so if you can have a list of companies and industries, again it's a 239 00:17:25.829 --> 00:17:32.619 nationalist the one that we have of industries that will hire felons, then that's 240 00:17:32.940 --> 00:17:37.539 a way to and enties abortion workers to leave. Yeah, emergency help with 241 00:17:37.740 --> 00:17:42.500 utilities and rent. Most communities have that. And having that number their clothing 242 00:17:42.579 --> 00:17:48.809 ministries. A lot of churches and PRC, pregnancy resource centers, will provide 243 00:17:48.890 --> 00:17:53.569 clothing. Yeah, for not only the pregnant the baby in the womb when 244 00:17:53.730 --> 00:18:00.400 once that baby's born, but for other siblings. Addiction ministries and Rehab Programs. 245 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:03.599 That's really come in handy. Yeah, for us, I know we 246 00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:08.119 shared some months ago a testimony of a young lady who came who was drug 247 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:11.759 addicted, as we were going through and sharing some of these testimonies and doing 248 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:15.509 these case studies. Yeah, and that was an important resource to be able 249 00:18:15.509 --> 00:18:19.109 to connect her with a drug rehab place that actually would would take in a 250 00:18:19.190 --> 00:18:22.190 mom who was pregnant, right, and we doug for that. Found that 251 00:18:22.309 --> 00:18:26.069 resource, yeah, from Google, I believe it was. Yeah, and 252 00:18:26.150 --> 00:18:30.059 I think it's important to know that most of these addiction and Rehab centers and 253 00:18:30.180 --> 00:18:36.059 maternity centers, especially if it's for long term, will take out a state 254 00:18:36.180 --> 00:18:41.210 people and they will switch over the Medicaid, pregnancy Medicaid, to the new 255 00:18:41.329 --> 00:18:45.130 state. They will do all of that. So you just because you're in 256 00:18:45.289 --> 00:18:51.170 one state and maybe your community doesn't have one of these resource centers. Keep 257 00:18:51.210 --> 00:18:53.809 googling because they that's how we found it. This one was in Kentucky and 258 00:18:55.009 --> 00:18:59.160 we're here in North Carolina and I didn't realize that at the time that you 259 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:03.319 can. You don't have to live in the state to be able to use 260 00:19:03.559 --> 00:19:08.920 the facilities in another state necessarily. So that's important to know. Embrace grace 261 00:19:10.589 --> 00:19:15.509 is an organization I didn't know about. Again, their national with local chapters 262 00:19:15.549 --> 00:19:21.430 all over the nation and they provide nationwide mentorship from plan pregnancies. What we 263 00:19:21.630 --> 00:19:29.539 do here through Love Life America. There embrace grace does. It's already in 264 00:19:29.660 --> 00:19:34.779 place in many communities. Yeah, now I would say it is not connected 265 00:19:34.940 --> 00:19:40.369 to the church the way I think love life is, but they're Christians. 266 00:19:40.410 --> 00:19:44.529 Yeah, and for those of you who maybe you have not yet been able 267 00:19:44.569 --> 00:19:47.930 to get a love life chapter in your area or House of a church, 268 00:19:48.089 --> 00:19:51.130 what do they call them? Church of refuge? Hows Rift House of Refuge 269 00:19:51.250 --> 00:19:53.880 Church that's going to back up the mentors, which is what we have with 270 00:19:55.039 --> 00:20:00.799 Love Life America. Well, you can maybe contact embrace grace. They're wonderful. 271 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:04.119 They do baby showers. They do discipleship. So they are a really 272 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:08.910 important resource that I didn't know about until I had been out here for a 273 00:20:08.990 --> 00:20:15.309 while. Job Assistants. That's one of our resources and we found that by 274 00:20:15.430 --> 00:20:21.029 just finding volunteers willing to help moms find jobs. They don't even have any 275 00:20:21.029 --> 00:20:25.619 special training. These foundeers that we found, but they become very good at 276 00:20:25.700 --> 00:20:30.420 helping the MOMS to look for work. Just knowing there's someone that's willing to 277 00:20:30.539 --> 00:20:36.690 help them look for work if they're out of work can often calm their frantic 278 00:20:36.849 --> 00:20:41.410 fears. Financial Counseling. It's another one. Budgeting and financial counseling has been 279 00:20:41.450 --> 00:20:48.529 a really and we have financial counselors from from financial counseling industries that are willing 280 00:20:48.569 --> 00:20:55.119 to do that for free for MOMS who choose life. Grants and scholarships for 281 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:57.880 single MOMS. I found that through just googling and there's lots of them. 282 00:20:59.319 --> 00:21:03.000 Grants and scholarships back to college, they pay tuition whatever. There are even 283 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:08.430 colleges that have special programs for single MOMS, and knowing that and putting that 284 00:21:08.549 --> 00:21:15.309 on a list is really valuable. Pro Life Doctors. That's really it's important 285 00:21:15.309 --> 00:21:19.140 resource there and it's really hard to find, it is. Yeah, surprisingly. 286 00:21:19.339 --> 00:21:23.940 So that's a challenge for you in your area. Then definitely put it 287 00:21:25.059 --> 00:21:27.220 to prayer, because there are their doctors in your area, I can guarantee 288 00:21:27.220 --> 00:21:30.859 you, that are believers in Jesus and that would be willing to use their 289 00:21:30.900 --> 00:21:36.730 skills to minister to a mom and they may not even know about, for 290 00:21:36.849 --> 00:21:40.289 whatever reason, the ministry at the abortion centers or the fact that there's their 291 00:21:40.329 --> 00:21:42.730 skills could be used in this way. Yeah, so be praying for that. 292 00:21:44.210 --> 00:21:47.519 Be You know, be digging for that information if you can. I 293 00:21:47.640 --> 00:21:52.680 believe there's a Oh gosh, it's a website and you maybe can just google 294 00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:56.480 search. It's been a while since I looked on it. But prolife doctors, 295 00:21:56.519 --> 00:21:59.920 I think there's actually a whole network of pro life doctors. Yeah, 296 00:21:59.920 --> 00:22:03.549 or pro life maybe specifically her life would be Gui in maybe it'd be good 297 00:22:03.630 --> 00:22:07.910 to look on that, yeah, and and try to find out if there's 298 00:22:07.910 --> 00:22:12.109 one in your area. And the wonderful thing that happens when you find one 299 00:22:14.029 --> 00:22:18.059 and then you tell them the need and they get hooked, because they do 300 00:22:18.299 --> 00:22:22.339 get hooked. They find out. Wow, I mean I'm already a doctor, 301 00:22:22.420 --> 00:22:27.460 already committed to life. I'm already saving lives in my practice. But 302 00:22:27.779 --> 00:22:37.730 look at this whole group of people that are choosing death and my influence in 303 00:22:37.930 --> 00:22:45.119 input and help can actually save a baby's life when they they really become invested 304 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:48.720 and they have friends and they start to talk to your friends. And we 305 00:22:48.880 --> 00:22:52.880 have seen that here in Charlotte. There's been, there's a couple of just 306 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:59.430 really on fire pro life doctors here in Charlotte. One of them who pioneered 307 00:22:59.430 --> 00:23:02.789 the abortion pill, Dr Matt Harrison's Bill Reverse. No, I'm sorry, 308 00:23:02.829 --> 00:23:06.349 the abortion. I'm very sorry, the abortion for reversal. Right, and 309 00:23:06.589 --> 00:23:11.549 he has pro life friends that that then he contacts on our behalf. And 310 00:23:11.630 --> 00:23:15.859 then someone who came to council with us on the sidewalk, edith, who 311 00:23:15.900 --> 00:23:21.339 we did a podcast with, and she has just been a wealth of information 312 00:23:21.420 --> 00:23:26.980 about connecting us with other doctors. So once you find one, you tend 313 00:23:26.019 --> 00:23:29.890 to be able to find others. Yeah, absolutely. I just did a 314 00:23:29.890 --> 00:23:33.809 quick little google search myself. Okay, again, we've got a good network 315 00:23:33.849 --> 00:23:37.890 of pro life doctors here in Charlotte's we haven't needed this resource really for quite 316 00:23:37.930 --> 00:23:44.480 some time, but it's aaplog Dot Org. Yeah, yeah, so that's 317 00:23:44.640 --> 00:23:51.880 the American Association of Pro Life Obstetricians and gynecologists. Again, it's www dot 318 00:23:52.519 --> 00:23:59.710 aapl og dot org and you can search on there and find local pro life 319 00:23:59.789 --> 00:24:03.390 doctors. So that's a good resource. That's an awesome resource. Something I 320 00:24:03.470 --> 00:24:07.269 didn't think about until, honestly, till I was counseling a terrified eighteen year 321 00:24:07.309 --> 00:24:12.900 old and her terror is childbirth. It's leading her to keep waffling back and 322 00:24:12.980 --> 00:24:18.259 forth between life and abortion. She is so afraid of having a baby. 323 00:24:18.019 --> 00:24:26.930 Doulas. There are Dulas that now, sadly, there is this new upsurge 324 00:24:26.170 --> 00:24:30.529 of Du Lah's that will be with moms while they're aboarding. Yeah, this 325 00:24:30.769 --> 00:24:34.809 to me just breaks my heart. So you need to be sure what kind 326 00:24:34.809 --> 00:24:40.039 of Duela you're talking to, but Doula's are the women that will walk alongside 327 00:24:40.079 --> 00:24:45.640 a woman through childbirth, actually through the pregnancy and and childbirth, and help 328 00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:48.079 them through that experience. So a pro life Dula's. We have found a 329 00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:52.039 couple that are willing to do it for free. They're on our resource list 330 00:24:52.119 --> 00:24:56.589 and that's been a huge, huge help, legal help a lot of these 331 00:24:56.710 --> 00:25:00.789 MOMS. I have heard this countless times they want to abort because they don't 332 00:25:00.789 --> 00:25:06.670 want to be tied down for eighteen years to either an abusive man or the 333 00:25:06.750 --> 00:25:11.059 man who told them to abort their child or whatever. Yeah, and child 334 00:25:11.259 --> 00:25:18.019 custody becomes an issue. Yeah, it's so sad. Very few these MOMS 335 00:25:18.059 --> 00:25:22.690 can afford legal help. So if you've got someone willing to help them for 336 00:25:22.849 --> 00:25:27.049 free, there's a couple of organizations we've worked with right yet it that have 337 00:25:27.170 --> 00:25:33.329 provided free legal help. Yeah, absolutely, and it's not like that's available 338 00:25:33.369 --> 00:25:37.240 in every area that lawyers can just jump on that. You may have some 339 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:41.480 lawyers. I mean I think the first place to be looking for things like 340 00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:45.519 this, for doctors and lawyers that can help in this area, would be 341 00:25:45.559 --> 00:25:48.359 in your own congregations. Yes, ask us around if they are doctors that 342 00:25:49.029 --> 00:25:52.269 that are part of the the church that you fellowship in, or their lawyers 343 00:25:52.309 --> 00:25:56.670 that are there other people that can help out with these different things? Be 344 00:25:56.829 --> 00:25:59.349 asking. Yeah, you have not, because you ask not. Yeah, 345 00:25:59.430 --> 00:26:03.579 there's a lawyer in your congregation where you were, you worship and you fellowship 346 00:26:04.339 --> 00:26:07.619 instead of a meeting with him. Yeah, and I ask, Hey, 347 00:26:07.700 --> 00:26:10.579 would you be willing to offer your legal services to a mom that we get 348 00:26:10.619 --> 00:26:15.019 in some pretty hairy situations from time to time where we have a guy who 349 00:26:15.019 --> 00:26:18.690 wants to maybe once or two, abort but when she has the baby, 350 00:26:18.769 --> 00:26:22.970 wants to kind of try to sue for custody or for visitation rights with the 351 00:26:22.009 --> 00:26:27.569 baby. And maybe he's none of these. Many of these men, these 352 00:26:27.609 --> 00:26:32.769 young men, are not very good good if they're not taking responsibility for their 353 00:26:32.809 --> 00:26:34.799 children. So there needs to be some pushback legally and if we have a 354 00:26:36.319 --> 00:26:37.839 lawyer they can do that. It can help us share that mom that Yep, 355 00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:41.440 you know that she's she's safe and all. Yeah, yeah, and 356 00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:48.190 we've found our financial if we did find a lawyer who would see someone for 357 00:26:48.390 --> 00:26:53.470 free, just by asking our network of churches and and followers, and same 358 00:26:53.549 --> 00:26:57.630 with our financial counselor they were both there. Are Their trained professional. Same 359 00:26:57.710 --> 00:27:02.819 with counseling. Yeah, that's another thing. Go to go to Christian counselors 360 00:27:02.859 --> 00:27:07.460 in the area of which most communities have them. If you can't find them, 361 00:27:07.500 --> 00:27:11.420 I know focus on the family will help you find Christian counselors in your 362 00:27:11.460 --> 00:27:15.420 area and go talk to them see if one would be willing to take on 363 00:27:15.700 --> 00:27:18.890 for free, even by phone. Some of the MOM's that you work with. 364 00:27:18.289 --> 00:27:22.609 Yeah, so I'm going to jump in because, like Vicki mentioned, 365 00:27:22.650 --> 00:27:26.369 and like we always talk about, we have this article on our sidewalks for 366 00:27:26.450 --> 00:27:30.759 life website. You can go to sidewalks for lifecom just click equipping articles. 367 00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:34.240 A lot of times I like to link it in the description of the podcast, 368 00:27:34.359 --> 00:27:37.279 but sometimes the article doesn't come out the same time the podcast does. 369 00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:41.599 So if you don't see it, then look for in a couple of days 370 00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:45.589 if you listen to this podcast and looking for this article, because we have 371 00:27:45.710 --> 00:27:48.710 this kind of listed out for you guys to dig into. But let's talk 372 00:27:48.990 --> 00:27:52.829 real quick, because this is this is really important. Yes, we talk 373 00:27:52.869 --> 00:27:56.670 about brochures and tracks that we give out at the abortion centers. Yeah, 374 00:27:56.750 --> 00:28:00.339 now, I don't want to say this, I've been to places. I've 375 00:28:00.339 --> 00:28:03.539 been to a lot of abortion centers, especially over the past six months or 376 00:28:03.579 --> 00:28:07.539 so, just helping encourage folks all across a nation. I see different people 377 00:28:07.779 --> 00:28:11.380 in from different ministries and things like that. I'm not knocking anybody, I'm 378 00:28:11.380 --> 00:28:15.289 not judging anybody or anything like that, so to speak, but I do 379 00:28:15.410 --> 00:28:19.529 have a little bit of experience in this in this realm and sometimes. What 380 00:28:19.650 --> 00:28:26.170 I see when I go to observe people at the abortion center reaching ails, 381 00:28:26.170 --> 00:28:30.880 I'll see them trying to give a mom stopping it in, coming into the 382 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:34.599 abortion clinner clinic, stopping into the driveway a whole packet of stuff. I'm 383 00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:38.960 talking like some places. I've seen them give like a bag with all kinds 384 00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:41.910 of stuff. It'll have a Bible in there, it'll have a brochure about 385 00:28:41.950 --> 00:28:45.309 everything you can think of in there, it'll have directions to their church and 386 00:28:45.430 --> 00:28:51.069 man has all this stuff and obviously that's all well intended, right, but 387 00:28:51.190 --> 00:28:55.740 we have to remember that we live in a bullet point society. We live 388 00:28:55.859 --> 00:29:00.859 in a billboard society, YEA, and what I'm discovered is in this scenario, 389 00:29:00.900 --> 00:29:06.259 less is more. Right. If you give someone a whole handful of 390 00:29:06.380 --> 00:29:10.769 literature, they are going to read none of it. Yep, and your 391 00:29:10.809 --> 00:29:12.930 intention is, of course you want to cover every subject you possibly can, 392 00:29:14.410 --> 00:29:18.890 and I get that, but just think about in our modern age the attention 393 00:29:18.009 --> 00:29:22.930 span of people. Right a post on facebook, if it's more than a 394 00:29:22.970 --> 00:29:26.880 couple of sentences, people keep scrolling. I do it. I don't know 395 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:29.720 if you do that, but if I, if I'm scrolling O death. 396 00:29:29.799 --> 00:29:32.720 I'm a writer. I'd like to read. I mean your less shallow than 397 00:29:32.720 --> 00:29:34.880 I am, I'm sure, probably, but if you guys are honest, 398 00:29:34.960 --> 00:29:38.990 I would I would bet about half of you at least. As you're scrolling 399 00:29:40.069 --> 00:29:44.990 through facebook or whatever and you see a post and someone says long post warning, 400 00:29:45.349 --> 00:29:48.990 can you go and right say thanks for the warning and you keep going 401 00:29:48.069 --> 00:29:52.269 right, because we have a limited amount of time we have. Personally, 402 00:29:52.509 --> 00:29:56.819 I have a limited attention span. So if you were to give me a 403 00:29:56.940 --> 00:30:00.740 brochure and then give me another brochure and then give me another brochure and then 404 00:30:00.779 --> 00:30:04.539 give me another one on every subject under the Sun, I'm probably not going 405 00:30:04.539 --> 00:30:07.049 to read any of I'm just going to be overwhelmed. Right, right, 406 00:30:07.089 --> 00:30:12.009 yeah, that's what happens as you're driving down the road and there's a billboard 407 00:30:12.089 --> 00:30:15.849 with a bunch of information on you ever seen a billboard with like that's really 408 00:30:17.009 --> 00:30:19.369 wordy. Yeah, you just ignore it because you don't have the time to 409 00:30:19.450 --> 00:30:22.640 take it in. And you got to think in the mindset of a young 410 00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:26.599 mother coming into an abortion center, not not just the attention span thing, 411 00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:30.720 but there's the factor of fear that she's dealing with. There's anxiety that she's 412 00:30:30.759 --> 00:30:33.680 dealing with. There's a lot of stuff that's going through her mind. So, 413 00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:37.470 yeah, I really think we have to be careful and not overloading them 414 00:30:37.549 --> 00:30:41.670 with the bunch of information and in the information that we do give them, 415 00:30:41.950 --> 00:30:45.470 that it gets right to the point, and I think it brochure, the 416 00:30:45.750 --> 00:30:48.190 brochure that we give out does that. Yeah, I think it touches on 417 00:30:48.349 --> 00:30:52.980 the different aspects that I think to be touched on without going too far in 418 00:30:52.059 --> 00:30:56.619 depth. And obviously the Gospel is shared their their scripture that shared. Yep. 419 00:30:56.859 --> 00:31:00.059 So that's what I'll say just a preface. Yeah, we're talking about 420 00:31:00.059 --> 00:31:06.369 brochures and tracks that cover various subjects. I think we should have at our 421 00:31:06.450 --> 00:31:11.930 fingertips brochures that do cover these different subjects, but I don't think we should 422 00:31:11.930 --> 00:31:15.690 give it all to them at one time. Exactly good point, and in 423 00:31:15.769 --> 00:31:19.160 fact they can find these pressures right the ones that we have on sidebox life. 424 00:31:19.359 --> 00:31:23.519 Yeah, sidewalks for livecom. There's a section there in the drop down 425 00:31:23.559 --> 00:31:29.000 menu. I think it's digital resources, and they are are they're all free. 426 00:31:29.160 --> 00:31:33.029 But to Daniels Point, we have two main pamphlets that we hand out 427 00:31:33.069 --> 00:31:37.069 to the women brochures. There are a trifold and they've got so they've got 428 00:31:37.150 --> 00:31:42.349 six panels and we've spent a lot of time honing those panels to have bullet 429 00:31:42.390 --> 00:31:48.259 points that we think are the absolute most critical things and they've saved lives. 430 00:31:48.420 --> 00:31:52.220 We know that. We know people have looked at these and chosen life just 431 00:31:52.380 --> 00:31:56.140 based on what they've read in those pressures. But the first one that we 432 00:31:56.339 --> 00:32:00.099 hand out is to women coming in, so women who are clearly there for 433 00:32:00.180 --> 00:32:06.650 an abortion, and it's really targeted to preventing that abortion the information that we 434 00:32:06.849 --> 00:32:10.769 think will be most effective in helping them to choose life. Yeah, not, 435 00:32:12.009 --> 00:32:15.720 not abortion. So that's our first pamphlet. We're very careful, by 436 00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:20.519 the way, on every pamphlet to give them our low coill contact, your 437 00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:22.880 name and number. Always make sure it's on there. Yeah, there's there's 438 00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:27.039 a box, even on the ones that we have for you guys to print 439 00:32:27.079 --> 00:32:30.230 out. It says call or text me anytime, where you can put your 440 00:32:30.430 --> 00:32:34.990 private cell phone number in there. And then that sounds uncomfortable. You don't 441 00:32:34.990 --> 00:32:37.990 necessarily have to put your private cell phone number in there. You can get 442 00:32:37.990 --> 00:32:39.069 a google voice number. That's what we encourage people to do. If you 443 00:32:39.069 --> 00:32:42.829 don't want to give your cell phone now, Vicky does and I do. 444 00:32:42.990 --> 00:32:45.900 I'll put my cell phone on the back of those. Thankfully we've haven't had 445 00:32:45.940 --> 00:32:49.980 a whole lot of fallout from that from the pro abortion people. But you 446 00:32:50.059 --> 00:32:53.180 can set up a google voice number if you just want to have not have 447 00:32:53.380 --> 00:32:57.579 your cell phone number connected to these brochures. But we do feel like it's 448 00:32:57.619 --> 00:33:00.289 really important that you have a personal contact number. Yeah, you've got a 449 00:33:00.410 --> 00:33:05.130 lift of resources on the back and pregnancy centers and things that they can call, 450 00:33:05.849 --> 00:33:09.250 but it's important to make that personal connection, that personal touch, especially 451 00:33:09.250 --> 00:33:13.519 if you have an indepth conversation with a mom, so that you can just 452 00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:15.000 point to the backup say here's my phone number right here, so they know 453 00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:19.400 how to get in touch with you. That's like I think we mentioned maybe 454 00:33:19.400 --> 00:33:22.920 even the last podcast. It's almost like blasphemy if you hand out a piece 455 00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:27.509 of literature and there's not a personal number on it, there's not a handwritten 456 00:33:27.549 --> 00:33:30.910 personal number. We might whip you, yeah, we might. We make 457 00:33:30.990 --> 00:33:34.630 fire you. Yeah, might fire Dr Pay, doctor pays a volunteer. 458 00:33:35.349 --> 00:33:37.589 It is really it is really important to us because we had so many moms 459 00:33:37.630 --> 00:33:42.740 that have chosen life over the years that didn't let us know about that until 460 00:33:42.779 --> 00:33:46.460 they went home. And you like Isy and her testimony that we here on 461 00:33:46.500 --> 00:33:50.779 this podcast. She share on this podcast some months ago. She got a 462 00:33:50.859 --> 00:33:53.460 brochure. She didn't tell us that she chose life until months later. She 463 00:33:53.539 --> 00:33:57.410 still had it. She still had the brochure with your number on it. 464 00:33:57.490 --> 00:33:59.809 Yep, got in touch with us. We were able to get her plugged 465 00:33:59.849 --> 00:34:04.210 in the discipleship and we've had a great relationship with her ever since. We 466 00:34:04.289 --> 00:34:07.130 wouldn't have that's a good friend. If the number hadn't been on if your 467 00:34:07.130 --> 00:34:08.769 number hadn't been on there, we would not have had that contact. That 468 00:34:08.929 --> 00:34:13.079 contact might not even known about her baby. That was sentence right. And 469 00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:17.000 and last just last week someone called me, and I can tell right away 470 00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:22.039 by their voice as this Vicky and it's someone I don't know and and she 471 00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:27.469 said I have I have a brochure with your name on it and I said, 472 00:34:28.150 --> 00:34:30.389 well, tell me your situation. That's where I usually start. She 473 00:34:30.590 --> 00:34:36.269 was she had had the abortion. It was actually her second abortion to within 474 00:34:36.510 --> 00:34:40.219 four months. And and she said, I don't know why, but I'm 475 00:34:40.300 --> 00:34:45.420 just I'm devastated. I don't know what to do. I'm just really grieving. 476 00:34:45.460 --> 00:34:50.699 Yeah, and and I talked with her for a long time and she 477 00:34:51.699 --> 00:34:53.969 she knew she was not right with God, she'd never been right with God, 478 00:34:54.130 --> 00:34:58.849 and she came to the Lord in the that just that discussion, that 479 00:34:58.969 --> 00:35:01.849 what you have in your personal contact number on there, ultimately led to somebody 480 00:35:01.849 --> 00:35:06.090 given their life to Jeesus, right, and there is nothing better there. 481 00:35:06.170 --> 00:35:09.239 I mean that's why we're there, because the way that you prevent future abortions 482 00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:15.440 is through lives that have committed and been convicted by the truth of who Jesus 483 00:35:15.599 --> 00:35:19.960 is and they know they can't kill their baby after that. Yeah, so 484 00:35:20.760 --> 00:35:24.590 kind of two categories, as you mentioned in this article, of really necessary 485 00:35:24.630 --> 00:35:30.670 information. Yeah, is information to give them before the abortion to try to 486 00:35:30.710 --> 00:35:34.230 convince them not to have the abortion, yes, and then information, if 487 00:35:34.269 --> 00:35:36.980 they've had the abortion, to get to them. Those are two crucial pieces 488 00:35:37.059 --> 00:35:40.300 of information. That's right. But also we encourage folks, especially if your 489 00:35:40.340 --> 00:35:44.739 own you know, a public sidewalk, which you always are, but a 490 00:35:44.860 --> 00:35:49.139 public sidewalk this well traveled by other people other than people come to the abortion 491 00:35:49.219 --> 00:35:52.090 clinic like where we're at on the trope drive. Most people that make it 492 00:35:52.170 --> 00:35:54.170 down to we where we are, and it's vehicle traffic, not really foot 493 00:35:54.250 --> 00:35:58.449 traffic. Right. Most people that make it down there they're coming for abortion. 494 00:35:59.090 --> 00:36:00.969 But there's other places, like in Manhattan, our teams that are there, 495 00:36:01.010 --> 00:36:06.199 and some of the other cities where our teams are that there's all kinds 496 00:36:06.199 --> 00:36:08.119 of flip traffic, there's all kinds of people walking by and you want to 497 00:36:08.159 --> 00:36:13.440 hand out all your your literature to reach abortion mind of MOMS to people passing 498 00:36:13.480 --> 00:36:15.760 by. So have some Gospel tracks, Yep, and we love Ray coomforts 499 00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:21.429 Gospel tracks. Living Waterscom. You can order whatever track you want to on 500 00:36:21.510 --> 00:36:27.110 their great tracks and it just gives you the ability to hand somebody Gospel track. 501 00:36:27.230 --> 00:36:30.829 One of the things that can happen, and just to mention this by 502 00:36:30.909 --> 00:36:35.380 the way of warning, is people will come along and I'm not saying you 503 00:36:35.420 --> 00:36:38.340 shouldn't get into an in depth gospel discussion with them. If somebody comes and 504 00:36:38.380 --> 00:36:42.380 they're interested in the Gospel, obviously we're out there to bring the Gospel, 505 00:36:42.420 --> 00:36:45.300 yeah, but if we can put a track in their hand that shares the 506 00:36:45.420 --> 00:36:49.530 Gospel, it keeps US focused on while we're there. You think about it, 507 00:36:49.570 --> 00:36:52.409 because there's a baby about to die. If you're sitting there sharing the 508 00:36:52.449 --> 00:36:57.170 gospel with somebody, and of course we understand that a person's eternal soul is 509 00:36:57.250 --> 00:37:00.289 the most important thing right, but it's literally life and death right there at 510 00:37:00.289 --> 00:37:04.960 the abortion Saye. And if you're, you know, in in depth to 511 00:37:05.159 --> 00:37:08.599 our conversation with somebody about the Gospel and there's women walking into the abortion center 512 00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:13.039 that not are not being addressed, I think you failed in what God has 513 00:37:13.079 --> 00:37:15.909 called you to out there. Yeah, so I say hand them a Gospel 514 00:37:15.989 --> 00:37:19.110 track, have your number on the back of it. Hey will have a 515 00:37:19.150 --> 00:37:22.269 discussion about the Gospel. Let's have lunch or something like that someday. Reach 516 00:37:22.309 --> 00:37:25.429 out to me, you know whatever, but at least you're not failing in 517 00:37:25.590 --> 00:37:30.300 your mission to bring the Gospel. You're handing them a gospel track and and 518 00:37:30.579 --> 00:37:34.699 sending them on their way so you can focus on why you're there. Yeah, 519 00:37:34.699 --> 00:37:37.380 and that's that's kind of the key point, is that all of our 520 00:37:37.460 --> 00:37:39.619 brochures, what they do is they do the talking for us, because you've 521 00:37:39.619 --> 00:37:44.329 got limited time about, so you got to brochure attract something that's going to 522 00:37:44.369 --> 00:37:49.170 be able to tell them all those things that you've been unable to say in 523 00:37:49.250 --> 00:37:52.929 the limited time. Yeah, yeah, another thing that we feel like it's 524 00:37:52.929 --> 00:37:57.449 important. They're not our primary ministry. The abortion workers aren't, right, 525 00:37:58.170 --> 00:38:01.199 but if there's no abortion workers, there's no abortions, and so I do 526 00:38:01.360 --> 00:38:05.320 think that we need to spend some time ministering to them, and we may 527 00:38:05.440 --> 00:38:08.519 end up doing maybe we should do a whole podcast about ministering to abortion workers 528 00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:13.550 and right how to effectively do that. I think. Not Bragging. It's 529 00:38:13.590 --> 00:38:15.429 by the grace of God, and I could be wrong about this, but 530 00:38:15.429 --> 00:38:19.670 I think I'm correct. I think we've seen more abortion workers quit here in 531 00:38:19.670 --> 00:38:22.150 Charlotte than any other abortion center in the United I think think that might be 532 00:38:22.269 --> 00:38:27.030 true, because happy Johnson called us and said what is happening in Charlotte, 533 00:38:27.030 --> 00:38:30.980 because there are so many abortion workers sleeping and I think part of it is 534 00:38:30.139 --> 00:38:36.980 we are very targeted and and when we can, we call out to every 535 00:38:37.019 --> 00:38:39.019 single abortion worker that goes in and out of that place. Yeah, and 536 00:38:39.179 --> 00:38:45.449 we offered them abortion workercom yeah, and we actually do have a little card 537 00:38:45.530 --> 00:38:47.369 that we can give them as well. Yeah, that's a that's a piece 538 00:38:47.409 --> 00:38:51.730 of literature that we have available, and obviously we're not handing this to the 539 00:38:51.809 --> 00:38:54.369 mom's going into the abortion and we have this available. Some of our folks. 540 00:38:54.650 --> 00:38:59.280 You do it, others do it. Have like a belly pack, 541 00:38:59.480 --> 00:39:02.599 Yep, or think some of the folks have like a tool belt or they 542 00:39:02.679 --> 00:39:06.079 had the literature in there. Yeah, and so you know where it's at. 543 00:39:06.199 --> 00:39:08.239 You know what you need to grab when you're talking to a person. 544 00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:12.989 You know, I think there's there's literature out there that talks about down syndrome 545 00:39:13.389 --> 00:39:15.750 and talks about what it is to have a child that has down syndrome and 546 00:39:16.269 --> 00:39:20.550 you know what some of the the things to be concerned about. Obviously you 547 00:39:20.630 --> 00:39:22.389 don't hand that to everybody, but be good to have that at your fingertips 548 00:39:22.429 --> 00:39:25.860 and hand it out. Yeah, there's the tracks out there about domestic abuse 549 00:39:25.940 --> 00:39:29.820 and things like that. Be Good to have that if you encounter that situation. 550 00:39:30.260 --> 00:39:31.619 But again, you're not going to hand that to everybody. I do 551 00:39:31.739 --> 00:39:36.980 think it's important that you have some bibles. Have you have a Bible Ready? 552 00:39:36.980 --> 00:39:39.289 If you get in an indepth conversation with a mom, mom, maybe 553 00:39:39.369 --> 00:39:43.730 she surrenders her life to Jesus on the sidewalk. Have a Bible, but 554 00:39:43.809 --> 00:39:45.369 I wouldn't hand a Bible to every mom going in. Right, you'll go 555 00:39:45.489 --> 00:39:49.570 broke. Yeah, you'll go broken. Then a lot of it will be 556 00:39:49.650 --> 00:39:52.960 wasted. So I think it's good to be yeah, be well prepared, 557 00:39:52.400 --> 00:39:55.760 but be strategic about the way that you hand out literature. I have these 558 00:39:55.800 --> 00:40:00.000 booklets there from Red Comfort called save yourself some pain. That's a good one. 559 00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:02.880 Yeah, it's a great little booklet for new believers, people that just 560 00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:06.760 gave their life to Jesus. And I'm not going to give that to everybody, 561 00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:09.150 but I will give it to people that I feel like either maybe just 562 00:40:09.230 --> 00:40:12.869 gave their life Jesus right on the sidewalk or, you know, on the 563 00:40:12.989 --> 00:40:15.309 mobile unit. And there's different things that we can get into people's hands. 564 00:40:15.309 --> 00:40:19.710 I have another book that's from recomfort. It's more and death, not just 565 00:40:19.869 --> 00:40:22.780 a Gospel track. It's called why Christianity? Because we encounter on a regular 566 00:40:22.780 --> 00:40:27.300 basis. I told I've told people who like apologetics and, you know, 567 00:40:27.460 --> 00:40:31.099 debating with people. If you want to encounter people from every persuasion under the 568 00:40:31.219 --> 00:40:35.340 sun, Yep, go to an abortion clinic. I mean, I've encountered 569 00:40:35.380 --> 00:40:42.969 Buddhist Rostafarians, Islamist, Jovahs, witnesses, any is atheist, of course, 570 00:40:44.210 --> 00:40:46.570 every persuasion under the sun. I got that little booklet why Christianity? 571 00:40:46.610 --> 00:40:51.719 So when they're trying to argue with me about, you know, Islam or 572 00:40:51.840 --> 00:40:53.719 whatever, this is a booklet that really kind of gets to that stuff. 573 00:40:53.760 --> 00:40:57.800 So again, I'm not giving that that that out to everybody, but I 574 00:40:57.880 --> 00:41:01.199 am having an available to give right so folks where I think that's appropriate. 575 00:41:01.280 --> 00:41:06.269 Yeah. Yeah, one other piece of literature that has been useful if you're 576 00:41:06.269 --> 00:41:10.030 at a facility that does things other than abortions, like Plant parenthood, is 577 00:41:10.510 --> 00:41:17.349 low cost community resources that can do everything plan parenthood does without killing the baby. 578 00:41:17.469 --> 00:41:22.059 Yeah, those are all good, good things to have. Yeah, 579 00:41:22.179 --> 00:41:24.099 absolutely so. Yeah, and you mentioned the belly pack. That's part of 580 00:41:24.139 --> 00:41:28.380 our last segment. Yeah, of this. Yeah, let's wrap this up 581 00:41:28.420 --> 00:41:30.539 with this kind of practical thing. We mentioned it when we first started, 582 00:41:31.099 --> 00:41:36.570 that there's some really practical stuff that we need to consider. Having good shoes 583 00:41:36.690 --> 00:41:40.170 on as one of those things. You're on a concrete sidewalk for three four 584 00:41:40.289 --> 00:41:45.010 hours, it's good to have a good pair of shoes. Listen, God 585 00:41:45.130 --> 00:41:50.159 is not angry if you span a good hundred hundred fifty on a pair of 586 00:41:50.280 --> 00:41:53.320 shoes. Yeah, because you're going to be on the sidewalk serving the Lore. 587 00:41:53.440 --> 00:41:57.599 We might, some folks might feel a little guilty, you know, 588 00:41:57.800 --> 00:42:00.960 by thirty dollar payer of shoes at Walmart. Wasn't you get what you pay 589 00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:04.269 for and shoes. It's spend some money on some good shoes. I do 590 00:42:04.429 --> 00:42:07.190 that. Yeah, making sure that you know I can stay out there for 591 00:42:07.269 --> 00:42:10.230 a lengthy amount of time. Yeah, and in the wintertime, warm boots, 592 00:42:10.309 --> 00:42:15.670 warm and selected good, sturdy boots, because you're standing at least well, 593 00:42:15.739 --> 00:42:21.260 usually around three hours, and in the cold it's really critical. So 594 00:42:21.380 --> 00:42:24.539 in the winter that's not just your feet that need to stay warm, but 595 00:42:25.460 --> 00:42:29.179 your fingers. Yeah, we have a lot of people don't know this, 596 00:42:30.210 --> 00:42:36.210 that there are heated gloves and heated coats and he did vest and you even 597 00:42:36.210 --> 00:42:43.329 have heated socks. Does so all those things actually can truly make the difference 598 00:42:44.010 --> 00:42:46.719 for whether you will be on the sidewalk or not. Yeah, and whether 599 00:42:46.719 --> 00:42:50.920 or not you stay on the sidewall, whether you stay well, when you're 600 00:42:50.960 --> 00:42:52.880 on the sidewalk, you can actually pay attention to why you're there. That's 601 00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:57.840 right, you're thinking the whole time about how how frozen your toes are. 602 00:42:58.239 --> 00:43:00.550 Yep, and MOMS are walking into the abortion center and you're just in misery 603 00:43:00.909 --> 00:43:04.349 and you want to try to have a smile in your face and make yourself 604 00:43:04.429 --> 00:43:07.909 approachable, but you're in misery and it's conveyed on your face. Yeah, 605 00:43:07.309 --> 00:43:09.309 that's not good. Right. So, if there's things that you can do 606 00:43:09.429 --> 00:43:13.780 practically to keep you from being miserable, yeah, whether it be in the 607 00:43:13.820 --> 00:43:15.659 cold or in the hot. Yeah, do those things. Yeah. So 608 00:43:15.780 --> 00:43:17.940 I've got it down to a science. I want you to know. I 609 00:43:19.579 --> 00:43:23.820 know I have an insulated waterproof skirt that just I can snap on over my 610 00:43:23.940 --> 00:43:28.730 clothes and it goes down to my ankles and it protects everything below my waist 611 00:43:29.050 --> 00:43:31.489 from the water. If you have down, which a lot of people are 612 00:43:31.489 --> 00:43:36.250 smart, down is warm and in the winter you need down, but down, 613 00:43:36.369 --> 00:43:38.849 if it gets wet, no longer insulates. You got to have a 614 00:43:38.929 --> 00:43:44.400 waterproof covering for a Poncho or something that's going to cover your down. So 615 00:43:44.719 --> 00:43:47.679 warm, warm stuff in the winter, in the summer, because that's another 616 00:43:47.679 --> 00:43:52.519 challenge, especially here. This is hot summers. Yeah, here in the 617 00:43:52.639 --> 00:43:55.309 south. So I had or a visor keep the sun off of your face. 618 00:43:55.349 --> 00:44:00.670 Yeah, sunglasses. We wanted to talk about sunglasses. Yes, sunglasses. 619 00:44:00.030 --> 00:44:04.750 To me, I don't really wear sunglasses like ever. Even want to 620 00:44:04.789 --> 00:44:07.469 get to the beach. I don't wear just not something I do. But 621 00:44:07.590 --> 00:44:12.019 there's a problem with sunglasses right. Yeah, there is. Now some folks 622 00:44:12.139 --> 00:44:15.420 they always get to have their sunglasses on whatever reason. If there's a medical 623 00:44:15.460 --> 00:44:17.739 reason, we're not telling you don't sunglasses, but there are reasons why not 624 00:44:19.099 --> 00:44:23.449 to wear sources. And you think about it and think Ray Comfort really touches 625 00:44:23.530 --> 00:44:27.889 on this when he's talking about street witnessing. I remember years ago I watch 626 00:44:27.969 --> 00:44:30.210 some videos from him. He talks about sharing the Gospel, street preaching. 627 00:44:30.210 --> 00:44:34.610 One of the things he said just practical thing, and I think it obviously 628 00:44:34.650 --> 00:44:38.360 it translates into this as well, is don't wear sunglasses because your eyes are 629 00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:42.840 the windows to your soul. Yep, if you're engaging with people and you 630 00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:45.559 want to them to see that you love them, you care about them and 631 00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:47.360 you're trying to speak truth to them, they need to be able to see 632 00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:52.079 your eyes. That's right. And if they don't see your eyes, because 633 00:44:52.280 --> 00:44:54.429 you know you're looking when you're specially when you're doing a one on one conversation 634 00:44:54.590 --> 00:44:58.550 with them. Yeah, when you're looking into their eyes, they can they 635 00:44:58.550 --> 00:45:00.590 can tell, they can tell whether or not you're being genuine and you can 636 00:45:00.630 --> 00:45:04.030 look into their eyes and you can tell whether they're not they're telling you the 637 00:45:04.110 --> 00:45:07.820 truth. You think about secret service people. Why do they wear sunglasses? 638 00:45:07.900 --> 00:45:09.980 Besides keeping the sun out of their eyes, but there's another reason. I 639 00:45:10.059 --> 00:45:15.659 think their eyes are darting all over the place. They're suspicious. That's their 640 00:45:15.739 --> 00:45:19.980 job is to be suspicious. So their eyes are covered so that people don't 641 00:45:19.980 --> 00:45:22.489 identify them and know that they're supposed to be secret. Yeah, so they've 642 00:45:22.530 --> 00:45:27.610 covered the eyes on. I think that that's purposeful. Yeah, absolutely. 643 00:45:27.769 --> 00:45:30.130 Yeah, so, if you wear sunglasses when you're going to engage with people, 644 00:45:30.329 --> 00:45:32.769 take them off, to them off, pop them up on your head, 645 00:45:32.849 --> 00:45:37.320 or whatever you do, because it this is important. This is important 646 00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:39.920 that you're a human being that was to relate to another human being, to 647 00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:43.960 share truths with them. Yeah, you want to be as open and as 648 00:45:44.039 --> 00:45:49.440 transparent as possible in sunglasses. Bother, very nature are not transparent. Right, 649 00:45:49.760 --> 00:45:52.429 that's right. In the summer water we you may forget about that, 650 00:45:52.670 --> 00:45:58.110 but yeah, and water is important, especially when you're sweating a lot. 651 00:45:59.269 --> 00:46:02.670 I found small personal fans that are checking and those can be really helped. 652 00:46:02.710 --> 00:46:07.420 Yeah, we've had those that missed and they brass, yeah fan, at 653 00:46:07.460 --> 00:46:10.860 the same time they're actually they work pretty good. So remember we are out 654 00:46:10.900 --> 00:46:15.460 there in all weather, which kind of surprises some of our new volunteers. 655 00:46:15.500 --> 00:46:17.340 One asked me today. Are you out there in a rain? Yes, 656 00:46:17.500 --> 00:46:21.489 we were in it. Out there in a Tornado watch last week. We 657 00:46:21.769 --> 00:46:23.730 killing babies. If it were the exactly. If it's open, we are 658 00:46:23.769 --> 00:46:29.369 there. But rain presents a all kinds of issues. One of them is 659 00:46:29.889 --> 00:46:32.559 when you're handing out literature, if it's wet, saggy, gross, no 660 00:46:32.639 --> 00:46:36.440 one's going to take it. Yeah, that just is the truth. So 661 00:46:36.559 --> 00:46:40.079 you need, when you're thinking about the rain, obviously an umbrella. But 662 00:46:40.239 --> 00:46:45.679 what I have found is an umbrella does not usually keep the literature dry because 663 00:46:45.719 --> 00:46:47.269 you got to hold it way up, like under the umbrella, on top 664 00:46:47.309 --> 00:46:50.949 of your head, basically, or it gets wet. So I have a 665 00:46:51.070 --> 00:46:57.269 waterproof belly pack and that's purposeful. I need our literature to stay dry and 666 00:46:57.429 --> 00:47:01.380 presentable. Something water proof that you can put the things you carry and that's 667 00:47:01.420 --> 00:47:05.980 not just for the rain, although waterproof. I mine is waterproof for that 668 00:47:06.059 --> 00:47:09.340 purpose, but some sort of something. I think it's harder for men. 669 00:47:09.420 --> 00:47:15.300 You're probably not going to carry a purse, but something that that you can 670 00:47:15.579 --> 00:47:22.329 keep your information. I have lost women and potentially lost the life of babies 671 00:47:22.809 --> 00:47:25.849 because I've been digging around looking for information I couldn't find. Let me share 672 00:47:25.889 --> 00:47:30.800 something that may people might think I'm weird about, but this is absolutely true. 673 00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:36.119 Yeah, when I go into a store, now I've actually found the 674 00:47:36.280 --> 00:47:39.480 brand and everything that is perfect. When I go into a store, for 675 00:47:39.719 --> 00:47:43.239 to get a new pair of jeans, I bring a piece of literature with 676 00:47:43.360 --> 00:47:45.550 me. Know why? So it goods. I want to make sure it 677 00:47:45.630 --> 00:47:50.190 fits in the back pocket. Now I found pants. I'm not advertising for 678 00:47:50.309 --> 00:47:54.070 this company, but Coles and their urban pipeline, I think, is the 679 00:47:54.070 --> 00:47:58.469 name of the brand. Okay, their jeans. Yeah, the perfect the 680 00:47:59.059 --> 00:48:01.099 back pocket is perfect for a piece of our literature to slip this. Are 681 00:48:01.179 --> 00:48:05.380 Some big pockets, their big pockets and they're perfect. But I've brought a 682 00:48:05.420 --> 00:48:07.659 piece of literature into the store and slip in the pocket and found out this 683 00:48:07.780 --> 00:48:12.300 is perfect. This. So this is a man who is prepared. I 684 00:48:12.699 --> 00:48:15.929 love to hear this, because who would even think on those terms? But 685 00:48:16.050 --> 00:48:19.690 we've been out there so long. You've been out there longer than me. 686 00:48:19.889 --> 00:48:22.610 What, fifteen years, eighteen years or something now, and and to think 687 00:48:22.650 --> 00:48:27.880 in terms of and and I do I buy clothes now based upon will this 688 00:48:28.079 --> 00:48:31.480 work on the sidewalk? Yeah, modesty is one of the things I'm thinking. 689 00:48:31.559 --> 00:48:35.599 Sure, and and then the second thing is I just bought a winter 690 00:48:35.719 --> 00:48:38.320 coat who, just like you, the pockets fit the F litery. Sure, 691 00:48:38.719 --> 00:48:43.389 I'm serious about that. And because I ain't wearing no no Dang Bailey 692 00:48:43.469 --> 00:48:46.230 pack. Okay, well, I am an huge N we're carrying no, 693 00:48:46.550 --> 00:48:52.110 no Dang man purse either. So I got jeans where I can put the 694 00:48:52.190 --> 00:48:53.590 literature there. Yeah, and when I've got my rain Jack at on, 695 00:48:54.030 --> 00:48:59.219 it covers, yeah, covers that that area of my jeans. I can 696 00:48:59.300 --> 00:49:01.659 just kind of slip back there. Now I want to make sure that I'm 697 00:49:01.659 --> 00:49:05.380 pulling that literature out way before the car gets to me, so I don't 698 00:49:05.380 --> 00:49:07.219 look like I'm whipping out a gun, or gun exactly. But yeah, 699 00:49:07.219 --> 00:49:10.210 you know, I've got it. They're pretty well protected and pretty well managed, 700 00:49:10.250 --> 00:49:14.210 so I'm not dropping literature everywhere. Yeah, and I can kind of 701 00:49:14.210 --> 00:49:16.289 whip out a piece of literature. Yeah, and and offer it. Yeah, 702 00:49:16.449 --> 00:49:20.170 that's that's good. That's good. I would recommend you don't stick it 703 00:49:20.250 --> 00:49:22.969 down in your pants. I've seen people do that that. I don't think 704 00:49:22.969 --> 00:49:27.440 it's wouldn't be not a good lay sanitary right now. But so rain, 705 00:49:27.719 --> 00:49:29.880 you're going to kind of rain, you're going to kind of snow. Think 706 00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:32.559 ahead. But for all situations I think it is really important to have extra 707 00:49:32.639 --> 00:49:36.280 closed in your car, and I do. I have extra everything in my 708 00:49:36.400 --> 00:49:39.710 car. Actually, my car is a mess, but I am outfitting not 709 00:49:39.829 --> 00:49:45.110 only myself but off in the other sidewalk cops have not been prepared. Be 710 00:49:45.269 --> 00:49:49.869 prepared for anything, because if you get wet and cold, you need extras. 711 00:49:49.989 --> 00:49:52.349 Yeah, well, this been times out there. I think you shared 712 00:49:52.860 --> 00:49:55.500 when we talked about ministering to people who are not necessarily abortion minded, you 713 00:49:55.699 --> 00:49:59.579 about a young lady that you were ministering to at the plant parenthood. Yeah, 714 00:49:59.860 --> 00:50:02.139 who was there, got dropped off, didn't have a Jack at all. 715 00:50:02.219 --> 00:50:06.900 It was sub it was very close to it was under freezing and she 716 00:50:07.139 --> 00:50:09.530 had an extra. Yeah, you had an extra sweatshirt and you gave it 717 00:50:09.610 --> 00:50:13.329 to it. Yeah, that's a way to minister, to be either practical 718 00:50:13.449 --> 00:50:15.730 needs. Yeah, because I'm leaving them in the car. So they're not 719 00:50:15.889 --> 00:50:19.570 my favorites, they're just things that in an emergency. So you know, 720 00:50:19.650 --> 00:50:22.719 it was nothing for me to give it to her and it meant everything to 721 00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:27.079 her. She was freezing. Yeah. So, yeah, so tail and 722 00:50:27.159 --> 00:50:30.800 all first age supplies good idead. Always through have in there just folding chair. 723 00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:35.789 If you struggle to stand for three hours the way, that ideal with 724 00:50:35.869 --> 00:50:38.230 that as I pace. Yeah, because I can't stand for three hours, 725 00:50:38.269 --> 00:50:42.230 but I can walk for three hours back and forth. But if not, 726 00:50:42.429 --> 00:50:45.750 have a folding chair. Yeah, in your cars you've got you can sit 727 00:50:45.829 --> 00:50:50.539 down and then, of course, any signs they might want to hold or 728 00:50:52.460 --> 00:50:55.900 so that you can again have something else speaking other than your words, especially 729 00:50:55.940 --> 00:51:00.219 if you if you can't call out to the women. Those are just some 730 00:51:00.420 --> 00:51:05.650 really practical things that we have found that are very effective. Yeah, hopefully 731 00:51:05.690 --> 00:51:07.849 that was a blessing to you guys, and it wouldn't just a bunch of 732 00:51:08.449 --> 00:51:14.849 words, right. This is speaking from experience. Yeah, and hopefully it 733 00:51:15.050 --> 00:51:17.570 spurred you guys all just to gather some of these practical necessities, be thinking 734 00:51:17.639 --> 00:51:22.519 through some of just the practical stuff that you need have to be effective out 735 00:51:22.519 --> 00:51:25.039 there on the sidewalk. And as we start it out, we want to 736 00:51:25.039 --> 00:51:29.280 encourage you guys to share this podcast. Would encourage you guys to reach out 737 00:51:29.320 --> 00:51:31.559 to us with questions that you might have. You can reach me Daniel at 738 00:51:31.639 --> 00:51:35.429 Love Life Dot Org. You reach her Vicky at Love Life Dot Org, 739 00:51:36.110 --> 00:51:38.590 and visit our sidewalks for life website. We've talked about that through this. 740 00:51:39.150 --> 00:51:45.110 We've talked about the printable resources section where you can print out the brochures that 741 00:51:45.190 --> 00:51:46.619 we use, or at least one of the brochures that we use. There's 742 00:51:46.619 --> 00:51:50.699 also signs there that you can take the files and you can print those locally. 743 00:51:50.739 --> 00:51:54.500 Also equipping articles on the sidewalks for life website. That website was designed 744 00:51:55.099 --> 00:52:00.900 to encourage, equip train people who want to do sidewalk out reach, and 745 00:52:00.139 --> 00:52:05.449 so we hope that's an encouragement to you guys and we hope you're blessed. 746 00:52:05.530 --> 00:52:17.320 And until next time, God bless our love for love. Give me our 747 00:52:17.639 --> 00:52:30.630 love for gratitude. I know it will cost me my life. Nothing's too 748 00:52:30.909 --> 00:52:32.150 precious in some you