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Here's Ed Taylor with today's 
episode of lead to serve a 

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leadership podcast. 
He welcome to a very special 

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edition of the lead to serve 
podcast, typically were talking 

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about leadership and servanthood
and we are today, but in a very 

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special way. 
We have a team right now On the 

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Border in Ukraine. 
This is being recorded on Friday

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March 4th. 
So even if you listen to it at a

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later date, and we're going to 
be learning about Ministry, 

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firsthand what it means to step 
out, go across the world into a 

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war zone and be open and ready 
to be used of. 

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Ward. 
So, be ready for what you're 

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about to hear. 
You're going to have our small 

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team that's there. 
And a few of the refugees share 

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a little bit of their story. 
Let's get right into it. 

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Byron. 
Is the leader of the team. 

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Welcome. 
Thank you. 

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You guys are finishing your 
second day on the ground. 

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Yeah, so we landed traveled and 
got to the Border yesterday 

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afternoon. 
And today was a second like a 

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day's been simple so far. 
I know that looking at some of 

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the some of the videos you're 
posting on your Instagram so you

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can connect for updates on 
Byron's Instagram, it's Byron A 

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Johnson or we're also reposting 
those On the Calvary Church 

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Instagram you can they'll give 
videos when they can. 

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But so far the big question for 
for many that have been asking 

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that that maybe you can ask 
answer for us today. 

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Is that why go and why goes so 
quickly physically? 

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And why not? 
Wait, that's been a question. 

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Why not? 
Wait and see how things go out 

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and then Go. 
What was it about? 

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How did God stir up the urgency 
and what brought you and Emily 

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to a place of obedience that JJ 
and Randy also came to Yeah. 

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Just, you know, we lived in 
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was pastoring Calvary is a 
Persia there for a number of 

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years and so the the country and
the people will be paying our 

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super dear to my heart and still
as the news just watching the 

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news and really not even the 
news but communicating with with

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our friends and Ukraine and see 
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just started to get that. 
First of all, just that 

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compassion, in that the heart, 
Break over my church. 

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There was there and the people 
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admitted to our hearts. 
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worshiping the Lord in our, in 
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The Lord just started to like 
release their, some things up in

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that. 
And we talked a little earlier 

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that day just or DeVos, just 
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something for the people that we
love dearly and so, The decision

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came quickly. 
But it came at a point where we 

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had a specific vision of just 
doing whatever he could 

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specifically for the people of 
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And zaporozhye knowing that they
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Border, many of them that we 
just had this desire to meet 

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them at the border, to give them
a hug and a friendly face. 

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Emily. 
How did you? 

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I'm sorry, go ahead. 
No, go ahead. 

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I would just add to that Emily. 
What were you? 

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You weren't at DeVos that 
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You were probably at home or you
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Byron is as the Holy Spirit was 
speaking. 

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How did God speak to you in that
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Yeah. 
So I'd also just been talking to

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my friends and Ukraine deterring
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their stories. 
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usually in the morning and we do
R&D go separately, and then we 

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pray together before we go to 
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And so he was, he did his Devo 
separately, went off to to work 

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and then I did my DeVos later 
and so the Lord without a 

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communicating really struggles 
of our hearts. 

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And as I was reading, I was just
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I have half a mind to just get 
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them. 
And I knew that my my one of my 

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closest friends ER was getting 
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And I just I just thought to 
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go get her and I thought this is
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I'm not going to tell anyone 
about this and then Byron came 

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home for lunch that day and he 
was like, you know, I was doing 

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my DeVos and I have half a half 
a mind to just go and just go 

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get Get our people and go to the
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And so the fact that we had the 
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that kind of burning in our 
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After reading his word, it 
really United us and so we were 

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ready to move quickly because we
both have the same stirring and 

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total Unity. 
So really all we needed was your

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blessing because we felt like a 
best to do it but your like our 

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spiritual dad and we just wanted
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us. 
Yeah, it happened very quickly 

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but my Spirit like the Holy 
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that even though I didn't and 
maybe you didn't, I'm not 

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entirely. 
Sure have have all of it put 

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together. 
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I like things to be put 
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I kind of like a plan or at 
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didn't have that completely. 
But my spirit was like, yes, I 

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know that you guys have a 
connection there. 

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I know that we have a connection
there because part of the team 

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here, it we visited in 2019 and 
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Worshipping with the, we were 
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there with the families, we were
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the streets, having that hot 
chocolate, that was just like 

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pure chocolate. 
Although I didn't have any, I 

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did see it. 
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you know, going into the 
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among those the ukrainians. 
And and it's, it was really neat

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to see how things came together,
Pastor Jay Jay, you know, you're

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in a different position, a 
different place. 

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You weren't pastoring in 
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But you are our missions pastor.
And how is it that God was 

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leading? 
You, you know, you have a very 

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full life, you run a very 
successful business, you are 

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also serving in a high-capacity,
you have young kids. 

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You really like all of that? 
How did it work with you to put 

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on your heart to join the team? 
I would say really it started at

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Wednesday before at that meeting
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Really Byron was praying for the
ukrainians and in his prayer he 

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teared up and just in my own 
prayer in that you know that 

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meeting, I just you know just 
what it is to pray before the 

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Lord and sometimes not even have
words but just that groaning in 

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the spirit, you know, just what 
his tears represented and Didn't

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that weekend. 
Saturday night, you had 

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mentioned to a pastor friend 
from Hawaii, potentially going 

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to Ukrainian sitting there, you 
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I was just and I want to go with
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And says, then I got a text from
bar in the next morning for 

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Saturday night. 
I rationalize it all the way, 

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all the way with everything that
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attacked from Bayern the next 
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talk to Pastor Greg has a 
blessing you know, you told me 

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to ask you if you want to go and
I was in a media. 

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Yes. 
You don't know. 

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I would say, you know, to just 
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United, it's very right and it's
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here and you know, just with 
these ladies coming across and 

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and just seeing immediate 
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seeing a death, you know, just a
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all, you know, is he, you know, 
didn't want to be away from, you

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know, the different churches and
just seeing by earning them only

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operate, just such a special 
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been quite the blessing and the 
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and just with where we're 
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connections and the people that 
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up on everything. 
Randy, do you have a similar 

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story and you have a full life 
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And it came very, very quickly. 
I mean, from from Sunday to 

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Wednesday, you guys are on a 
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What how did it come about for 
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team. 
I was there on Saturday night as

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well listening and having some 
of the same thoughts that JJ was

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having about has really, I'd 
like to go and then I was 

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listening To service at home on 
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And I heard you talk about it. 
And I thought came over to me 

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and said, hey, you should text 
and that's going to need a 

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fourth person. 
And, and I was like, no, that's,

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that's silly antenna. 
And and they're numb. 

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I told my wife, I said, hey, you
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and JJ are going in Ukraine. 
She goes, so you're going to 

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text him. 
So am I still wrestled with it 

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for about another hour or two? 
And then I texted and when you 

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guys know pretty much what I do 
and who you are. 

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So another question that that's 
coming up, Byron Pastor Byron is

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is what what are we doing and 
you know, to keep everything 

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safe and we know that they'll be
some generalities. 

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But what are we? 
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I believe the Lord just put 
really specific mission on my 

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heart or is there's, there's 
great need in all of the 

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countries surrounding thousands 
of people that we could we could

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meet their needs and physical 
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But the Lord could adjust the 
specific Vision on my heart just

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to to meet anyone from from the 
zaporozhye to church who wanted 

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to cross. 
That we would meet them and help

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them get onto their. 
Their next place I'm going to In

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a safe way. 
And so that's what we're doing, 

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where we ended up once. 
Once we booked our tickets, I 

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sent out a message to our whole 
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Hey, if you are planning on 
leaving, we will be at this 

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location and we will meet you 
and help you get further into a 

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more stable place. 
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before, it's really a blessing 
it we Received a family last 

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night, right? 
When we got in and we made a 

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couple more border runs today 
and so we have 12 12 people with

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us with nine or so coming 
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And so that we know of but it's 
just you know, one of those 

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things that's just really on my 
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Like I wanted to take in the 
midst of just tragedy and Chaos 

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something something familiar 
something comforting, something 

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for me to serve the the guys and
the husband's in the church that

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I love dearly can't be there 
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Do something for their family. 
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The the, the principle that I 
keep reminding our church and I 

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think you guys are living out 
and it's super hard. 

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It's a super hard principle to 
to live out, but it's it's 

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factual, it's biblical, it's 
spiritual and it's it's 

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something like this, we can't do
everything. 

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And I think that there's a as 
you're surrounded by need, as 

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you're surrounded by, great 
traumatic need and challenges, 

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we can't do everything. 
And we have to settle in our 

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hearts that we can only do 
what's in front of us and that 

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the Lord would lead us and guide
us because even though we can't 

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do everything, we must do 
something and we want to fulfill

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the mission of this personal 
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We, you know, we're blessed to 
have an eight-year relationship 

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with Ukraine through you and 
Emily and through the ministry 

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that you've had in both of the 
areas that you've served in and 

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the the real relationships that 
you've built and another Isabel 

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that I think is important. 
That's lived out right now, by 

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you being there or wherever we 
might have Ministry is that that

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there's the principle of sending
by going and there's the 

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principle of sending by staying 
but together, we're the team and

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that's sort of why we opened up 
the relief fund where we're 

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receiving resources, primarily 
primarily were only receiving 

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financial support right now 
because we just don't know what 

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the future will hold. 
But already from the relief 

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fund, it is put For people on 
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ground, in a vehicle with 
resources and nine. 

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People already have been settled
and as I did, I get that number 

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right, 99er with 12:12 with you.
Now, nine, perhaps tomorrow. 

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And after you guys get a good 
night's rest and and the the 

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sense that we are with you, we 
as the language of ministry. 

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So we are with you, you're our 
team, this is our church not 

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only our church in Aurora but 
also in Asia that's our church. 

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There are brothers and sisters 
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flock, you know, the Bible 
speaks about serving serving the

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church, you know, most of all to
the household of faith, but 

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while we're serving the church 
were surrounded by so many other

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opportunities. 
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They posted on Calvary 
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I don't know how to say the city
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slit, slit do It. 
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Christianity Today. 
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the bomb shelters, in his City 
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country and just so much 
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It can be overwhelming and 
Emily. 

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You had mentioned a little 
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feeling part of this that you're
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taller, this, what is it making 
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grief. 
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even if even if you don't feel 
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the idea that a war on this 
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lost something, you know, that 
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and so, And you know how the 
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one another's burdens taking on 
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think that that's kind of been 
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to the women that are coming and
trying to let them tell me their

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stories and receiving their 
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as we're talking. 
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It's just It just comes and goes
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All of us, women children crying
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been really able to support me 
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burdens as I can. 
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the Lord. 
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feeling a lot of things and so 
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I just broke down and had to cry
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Yes. 
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myself together and then we got 
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next group we have we have a 
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have with you that no English. 
Could you introduce one of them 

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if they're willing to share what
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how they're feeling what's 
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then maybe how they're feeling 
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minister to them. 
Like, would anyone want to share

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that and firing if they do want 
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introduce them to us if they 
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Okay. 
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So we have your, your she's one 
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Rocha and so we have a great 
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together. 
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Hello. 
Hello. 

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So Eric, can you share with us? 
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as, as much as you can, to give 
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country right now? 
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about this. 
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of the hardest thing about, it's
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Now that for example, we like 
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leave Ukraine and to get to a 
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like, oh, oh, oh man. 
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in Ukraine and they aren't 
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So if the X-ray, the top to 
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size of border and to cross 
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Emily yesterday that maybe in 
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life, Look like God, gave me my 
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help. 
No, I ever need it. 

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Because families here, a little,
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border, because as I said, they 
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they must do it by themselves 
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about this and help from here 
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will like me to you and will 
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your luggage to safe place and 
it just means a lot for us. 

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But as for me, like it's also so
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encouragement like, to be here 
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really complicated when you 
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because us personally for our 
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And my husband, we left our city
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before, and Now in front of our 
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some soldiers and like some we 
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hedgehogs are so and it is hard 
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people don't want to leave. 
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house and My mom in-law also 
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and yeah and we're always 
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them. 
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But also as for me, I saw so 
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leading us through all this way 
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when we left our house, And like
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was absolutely like God's 
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So appreciate all prayers which 
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I understand it's only got ten. 
He just literally is carrying us

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through all these Horrors. 
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absolutely got no mercy and his 
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So, thank you so much for 
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I mean, it's good to hear 
first-hand for us, so many 

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thousands of miles away. 
The only information that we get

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is typically reading the news or
watching the news and to hear 

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your heart and to hear you 
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But So there's a joy and an 
appreciation of grace and mercy 

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and Byron. 
Is there anyone else that would 

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like to share before we move 
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Yeah, we are. 
We have one more person that she

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needs a translator. 
Okay, well that I'm like, that's

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even that's great whenever 
you're ready, this is your 

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sister, Masha, Masha. 
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Oh, okay. 
Hello. 

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Hello. 
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She's taking a second, she's 
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Okay. 
That's okay. 

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Very hard and very overwhelming 
and it's okay if she doesn't 

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want to, She really wants to. 
Okay then it's okay if we wait? 

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Yeah, begin truest. 
I decided that I had to leave my

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city and my family. 
Yep, their color will not do 

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what you can. 
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When whoosh, it wasn't very 
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husband and my two sons behind a
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So they had to stay in the house
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city right now. 
Let me have the bullet, which is

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already an extremely difficult 
decision to leave by myself. 

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Reporter Jung Mi over your 
holiday will Emily and I use it.

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I don't hear 
yourself. 

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Yes, it was knowledge to my been
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Treatises is Nicole mahogany too
quiet. 

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So we really just wouldn't have 
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if we hadn't known that he was 
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because we just don't even know 
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It is not. 
We should go to but you also 

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have our daughter with us and 
our friend, Exposure brings my 

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love. 
You said so much because they 

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also had to leave their husband 
and doubt it behind and 

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I don't know. 
Specifics. 

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Thank you so much for sharing 
and giving us a just you're 

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hearing it directly from you. 
That's very courageous and brave

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of you of everything. 
You guys are doing. 

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I'm very proud of you that you 
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challenges. and I mean, it's 
just Some it's really hard to to

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to imagine in our minds hear 
what you guys are facing and we 

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pray for the Holy Spirit to 
strengthen. 

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You could you translate that 
Emily somehow? 

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Maybe it is. 
We love you very much. 

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For the Creepypasta autonomy has
it made. 

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We love you too and we so 
appreciate because maybe you 

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even like, don't recognize how 
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What are you do? 
Thanks. 

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Well guys you know I know you 
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we've been on together now for 
about a half hour. 

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So there's anything that you 
want to share from where you are

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right now just anything you want
to There's a whole lot of people

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connected to this little trip of
yours. 

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The Lord has shown great favor 
to communicate it in so many 

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different ways. 
So there's a lot of prayer 

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support. 
There's a, there's a lot of 

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folks standing with you eager to
see your success to hear of your

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success. 
But is there anything on your 

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heart that you want to share 
tonight before you go to bed? 

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Anybody, any of you? 
I think for me, I'm just being 

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reminded that good works are 
good, but what are they really 

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work without the inward man 
being cared for without the 

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spiritual, man cared for. 
And so we just feel really 

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honored that the Lord would and 
trust these women to us these 

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children to us that we can, we 
can not just receive them and 

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take them to safety, but that we
can uplift their It and point 

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them to Jesus. 
And when we got Europe from from

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the border with her girls, she 
asked if I would sing a worship 

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song to her notion and it was it
was probably one of the most 

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difficult and beautiful things 
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And so just, we've also, just 
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there's great darkness and there
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There's still no dark. 
Nurse that can stop the light of

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the Lord and he always finds a 
way and he always finds a way to

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live our past as we lean not on 
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trusted him at all, always so 
good. 

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I was looking through the old 
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2019 and one of the, I think it 
was a video came up with you. 

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Practicing worship. 
You were leaning worship that 

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day. 
And the brother next to you was 

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practicing in a singing next to 
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And it was a beautiful reminder 
of the fellowship family. 

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I also have a video of, you 
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video and ask them to say hi to 
our church. 

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So I also have that video as a 
memory. 

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It was just a beautiful, 
beautiful, visit and your right 

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and to think you know what 
sparked that was you, they 

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wanted you to sing because your 
voice. 

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You were leading Worship in 
Russian for goodness sake. 

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It was beautiful. 
Yes, this through it is it was 

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beautiful, it was wonderful. 
Anything else before we before 

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we let you guys rest. 
I didn't want to say one thing, 

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I just really in Philippians 
this morning, you know, always 

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when you're in the midst of the 
trip like this. 

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I mean, well, not that I 
remember is unique and amazing 

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but you know, Paul is reminding 
Us in Philippians 2, just really

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understand what matters. 
You know in this matters. 

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Yeah, that's good. 
Randy, do you have anything yet?

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Sorry, I was going to get, they 
just like you know, just seeing 

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how it's coming together. 
Lied with support for for our 

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little fucking death Rosa. 
The people in the country that 

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were in that the local church 
that we're connected to now that

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we never even met before and 
just like just so thankful for 

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for his church. 
Randy anything. 

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Let's go share a quick story of 
what happened that afternoon. 

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So we pulled up to the location 
away for some folks to ride and 

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JJ and buyers, like, hey, Randy,
you should go get me some 

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coffee, they were just messing 
with me a little bit and they 

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both wanted coffee house, like 
no, and they both got out to get

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some. 
The meet some folks, and, and 

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call Sudden Skies use comes 
walking up out of the blue for 

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two cups of coffee and handsome 
to me. 

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And so, that's how good God is. 
Wow. 

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Well, thanks for your time. 
I know you're exhausted. 

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I know that one of the one of 
the ways that you one of the 

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things you shared was, you're 
emotionally exhausted. 

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I know your jet lag and 
emotionally and physically 

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exhausted, but the Lord is with 
you, we're with you and we pray 

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blessings and encouragement and 
a good night, rest tonight, for 

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all that's up ahead. 
Thank you so much. 

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All right, love you guys. 
God bless you, bye-bye! 

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Hey, thanks again, for being a 
part of the leader, served 

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podcast. 
If you've made it this far one, 

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remind you we have our you 
Ukrainian Relief Fund available 

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if you want to support the 
ministry. 

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That we're doing, not only this 
trip, but future trips or 

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whatever. 
God might have, you can go to 

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our website, Calvary Co dot 
church, /give, and just use the 

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drop-down. 
Menu for Ukraine Calvary Co dot 

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church /give. 
And you can use the drop-down 

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for Ukraine. 
Please, continue to keep praying

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for this team. 
God is using them in great ways.

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There's still more people to put
into safety and shelter and help

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them establish even just for 
this next season of their life, 

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because the future is very 
unknown. 

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So let's not forget them and 
continue to pray for them and 

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come alongside of them. 
Ingrates Port and encouragement.

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