Deborah Woolard, Kim & Adria Faulkner, and Trisha Murphy

Kingdom pursuits where you hear from ordinary people instilled with an extraordinary passion together we explore the stories of men and women who take what they love and let God turn their passion into the kingdom pursuits now live from the truth. Your host Robbie Gilmore. You would think it was Robbie Gilmore because they just said that you'd be wrong. Got billed that morning got the pleasure of filling in for Robbie. Robbie is a way get ready for another show the masculine journey.

Dave got a boot camp today and you will hear him soon. In this case, you've got an ordinary host from it, but some extraordinary people with me this morning to share about some wonderful ministries that they're involved with Kim.

Kim is with this and Adriana.

They go to talk to us of and Deborah are going to talk to us about a wonderful book club and can you tell us a little bit about what you do want to wake my accent.

I'm gonna go ahead and refer to Deborah first since she can give us the rundown and I'm very excited to talk to today about the pain about the next chapter book clubs at Piedmont down syndrome support network brought the next chapter book clubs to North Carolina in the spring of 2012 they paid for training for about 20 coordinators from across the state so there book clubs and cross North Carolina that are, the next chapter book clubs their unique community-based book club for adults and adolescents with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Guidelines for membership are to meet in a public location so all our clubs meet publicly and I'd like to thank some of our sponsors right now. I went to Barnes & Noble which hosts one Robin Hood YMCA and armies on North University.

Each house to club once a week. They meet for about an hour and a read out loud to each other.

The book clubs have at least four people that are members and at least two facilitators.

All of our book clubs are actually much larger than that and they have coordinator and a facilitator. They sit publicly and read books out loud to each other. They don't have to be able to read independently to be members of the book club will thank you so much.

Will find out a little bit more about that in just a minute.

We also have a new friend of mine, Tricia Murphy, who I got to meet when I drove the great big huge truck for crisis control. Our fairground had a special where you came in and brought items of food you got into the fear free and they filled up half there will warehouse would you tell us a little bit about crisis control in which what they do for us in Christ. Thank you for having me bail the crisis control ministry has been in Winston-Salem for 45 years now and it started as a ministry to help people who found themselves in crisis. Maybe they had shorter work hours that week they had a child that was sick and they couldn't make the monthly bills and if they didn't make those monthly bills they could find themselves and catastrophic situation said they would go to churches and try to get help from individual churches and the churches found out quickly that they weren't able to help her fill these needs are able to sort of screen out or do what's necessary. Send ministers of this city and and and County got together and formed crisis control ministry.

So our job were for site County's largest emergency assistance. We help people in crisis with rent and mortgage utility payments, pharmacy needs food. We also watch out for classes for personal development but were really there in case during crisis and you need help that month to get out of it yet. Kim and I both have served our our different churches is the person in charge of helping people with a knock on the door know what I was in charge of that you have people come in and you just couldn't decide whether they were pulling your leg or daughter, or the need was too big for you and the reason I fell in love with crisis control was that our church could call and they would help us figure out whether these people were with the 12th church that day that they become not but on the door or we can send them to crisis control and they could do a whole lot more than what our congregation could do, ask you later about some interesting stories of doing that. But yet, but I had a brother that was down syndrome and my mother was especially good instructor got a heart for the ministry you've been in and of pride for which you you do for a long time would you you just got a couple minutes to start with but tell us a little bit about how you got involved with the reading program. I actually met Deborah through the MDA.

Actually we both have children with muscular dystrophy and she was telling me about the program and I was like wow that sounds absolutely fantastic.

I had a cousin that was autistic and I just loved him so much and he and I were playmates, so I like to have a heart for people that have no some intellectual challenges this what you like me so much so, I think, but so when Deborah told me about the opportunity. I jumped on it said I think her thank you very much, because Tuesdays is my day at at the YMCA. Why are at the YMCA and is, it's my favorite day. It really is my favorite day you do light up when you get ready to go when you're lit up when you come back.

How did you get involved in in the program. Deborah like to have a son with down syndrome and muscular dystrophy, co-diagnosis and I heard about it at a national conference and I said would not be wonderful. Let's try that out and I learned right away.

It's so much more than a literacy program. They sit together in a public location. The readers in the beginning readers and they pick a book they get to choose. We give them a choice of books they typically read classics that are written in about 1/4 grade level.

They sit in a circle and take turns reading with whatever support that they need from people like Andrea and Kim takes about three months to complete a book because we stop a lot and talk about what does that mean is that ever happened to you and get them to engage in conversation and a lot of people aren't. That doesn't happen a lot and I asked their opinion about things like books and they like books of the same reasons that we do the adventure of the characters, the things that bring you in. So they really fall in love with their books at the end of the book. Then they get to have a party. We have a pizza party and we have a movie of the book.

If that's available only take a field trip, so after completing a book, then they get to do things after we read Sherlock Holmes.

We had a wonderful tour of the police station and learned all about everything that happens in the police station after we read Sherlock Holmes, then we will that's when we get that one after we read Robin Hood. We got to go to an archery center and learn about how both of change from Robin Hood days to $2000 Bose of today and all got to shoot bows and arrows at the target after black beauty. We went met black beauty and learned how horses should properly be taken care of. We just went to the Humane Society to talk about the dogs that were there. After completing call of the wild so we get to do field trips whenever possible. Otherwise, we have pizza and watch the movie, which is a favorite event. All of our members area settings him him and named Andrea can talk about how exciting their book club is was a waterfront director for special needs camp in Raleigh was so amazing to realize there were a lot of kids that really had very little interaction with any other children you the adults that did give them an opportunity to be out in public intended to be treated normal and have a chance to experience with the bunch of other people care about as powerful really appreciate the ministry your involved in crisis control. I've seen it make a world of difference in in lots of people's lives. It amazes me to go down and see the warehouse and how much food that's been collected one of the projects that we used to love doing it. The church was to set out a box and put whatever item there was the autumn of the month for crisis control.

How can churches get involved in and help make a ministry like yours successful.

Well as you know Bill crisis control runs really on an army of volunteers that we have limited staff position so that we have all our money going towards helping the people who need it. That being said, we need volunteers. It takes 75 volunteers a day to help crisis to make crisis control run and that's between our two locations in Winston-Salem and the two ships we operate. And that's even before you get to the food drives and the different things that we that we have going on ways that churches can help would be conducting a food drive, providing congregation members with information to the interviewers. Hope you got a long list of ideas we brought after the break we want to thank you if you have a question 866-34-TRUTH for one of these ministries give us a call and tell us about 866-34-TRUTH 788. Should you tuning the fontanelle about different ways you can get connected be a lot on the hill at a time, or refreshing an ambassador for Christ in our community would love to hear from you if there's a ministry. We think you think the rest of us need to know about you, been touched by crisis control. If you volunteered if you been in a reading program would love you to call 866-348-7884 and talk about it a little bit. Trish was talking about some different ways individuals and churches can get connected help crisis control prosper never dreamed it took that many people a day and takes that many people a day, and for special events. Obviously, it takes more. For example bill you participated in our food fair drive at the fair took 200 volunteers because were operating out of six gates and it's a long day, so we really do need volunteers and were actually in dire need right now for interviewers and interviewers only need to commit to three hours a week morning shift or an afternoon shift and they are trained and they will actually interview our clients who come in determine their need to determine their crisis. Figure out what their income is what they're lacking in and meet with the lead volunteer who together they come up with.

How can we help and we ended typically writing a check for utilities or giving them unit food or prescription medication and said that's determined through a process train process so we definitely have a need for interviewers.

If we don't have enough we have to turn people away if we don't have enough people at the front desk or having a receptionist that can bring people and we have to turn people away so we definitely have a dire need for interviewers and receptionists at the front desk but we also need people from your churches and your congregations to help us be computer clerks file clerks food room assistance warehouse assistance. We need people to be food's orders to go and help when we have these food drive to literally in a check for expiration dates. Make sure the food is safe and then sorted into the different container so that we can offer people the various things we need pharmacists, we have a pharmacist on staff but you always have to have a pharmacist on staff and if she's out. We need pharmacists and a retired pharmacist or someone who's got time, we need pharmacy technician assistance inventory clerks in the courses you mention a special projects like the fair like Schmidt best. We have additional needs for people just to work on a short-term basis. If you don't want to commit for something every week, put your name on a list to help us with bulk mailings, but your name on the list to be called to be in a motor pool like you were bill we needed drivers who could drive big trucks for the fair.

We need community ambassadors to go and be a representative for your church, tell us what what crisis control needs meant meet with your neighborhood groups talk about us. We run poverty simulations so that people can get in a day or in sort of a short-term idea of what it's like to spend a day in poverty and what the limitations and constraints are. We need at least 25 people every time we run a poverty simulation situation, but we also need committee members say that your good and finance. We need you on our finance committee. If you're good at long-term planning.

If that's your if that's your natural talent we need you.

We also have virtual prayer partners when our clients are in the room. They are given the opportunity to write a prayer, put it in a box every day. Our staff and volunteers pray for this person, we pray their prayer, and in addition we send those prayers out to volunteers who pray for them for a month so we need those volunteers. We need Congregational lies on their it really it really goes on those lucky if you can breathe this got a job for you is something that can plug you into that. I would encourage you in your Sunday school class could start off by praying about crisis control. You could call and ask for somebody to come in and talk to your Sunday school class about what crisis control does you could set a box out somewhere and you can say were collecting canned goods than you can send one of your Sunday school members with that box of goods over there to take a tour the facility with got lots of people that don't live in Forsyth County.

I would hope that in every community that a number of churches have gotten together and tried to put together a program to help the least of these. I'm a firm believer if you're a believer you got a responsibility to get off the sofa and on a weekly basis. Get out smile, shake some hands and make a difference in God's kingdom. You know you most of the nation half of the adults you come in contact with don't belong to a church or denomination. It most of this nation.

25% of the adult human have never ever been to a house of worship. One thing we used to do is to take advice on said prayer station and we go to the park would put up a saw that said prayer station and you would be amazed at the people that will walk up and say what is this you say we just offer people the opportunity to probably form a find out what they need to pray for, and then give them a sheet that shows a list of all the different places they can go to in your community to get assistance to put your church, your small group to the bottom of the sheet. Keep track of the name and the phone number those people you pray for the night before your small group meets the night before your Sunday school classmates the night before church call him back and ask them how they're doing after they finish telling you and after you finish, pray, inform again. Tell him you got a wonderful place you'd like to take up the meet your best friends and we can fill some of these churches that have empty pews. What we need to do is to find out how we can be Christ's hands and feet how we can be God's shoulders how we can put our back in motion to make a difference for the kingdom and their people in your communities that need help and you are in a position to make a big difference and be part of a reading program to sit down with a bunch of folks that need some loving care and attention and an opportunity to fellowship is absolutely powerful.

Jim, you got a story you can share about you shared so many really neat things with making you pick one of your your favorite moments with the ministry. Well, I just have to say the thing that gets me every week is how much they care and encourage each other and it's just amazing to me how much they love each other and care for each other and and just to see that in motion a it's just that's what gets me that's what keeps me there every week and encourages me to be to be more like that just to care for us to care about each other and really, can you you help out with the program.

Can you remember a particular story is a time where you saw somebody just light up. You knew that your time there was was really important to want to do with the oh yeah I'm really excited about the class and we all like a discussion before you start reading shares about their week in the young and so exciting and on.

I really enjoy like we asked in their opinion has been saying on creating then the ideas that they come up with. I really am blown away because they think of things I would've never thought of and on say I'm pizza parties, they love that they get really excited so Deborah can you think of a particular time. The one particular event really touched your heart. I think that they talked about that with the caring that they have for everybody if somebody's missing there concerned about. They really develop friendships that then extend beyond the book club and to let people know the PSS and the down syndrome support group locally pays for the books pays for the pizza for the parties. There's no cost for anybody to become a member and they can find more information about our local clubs. There are PD SSN.org website and I know that there are other book clubs and other counties so mock spell has one at the library there and there some other ones across the state.

But if you're interested in having one in your county and listening to the radio station today.

You can find that out from going to the next chapter book club website and they'll be information on training there which they now do online and so you can bring a club to your own community and there's also been an extension of that as as Kim and Adrian said the joy of that club extends sometimes beyond that. So two of the clubs who meet at the Robin Hood.

Why and they enjoy our club so much.

They ask what else they could do for our members and we gave them a suggestion and they now have a let's get fit program that happens every Monday night from 5 to 6 where for free. They don't have to be members of them why they don't have to pay.

They can just show up at 5 o'clock and do an hour of exercise which is very interactive with the whole group of over 20 people with intellectual disabilities who show up to do that and so the joy of the book club has spread beyond that. But I think if we have a few minutes I'd like him to talk about her book club and particularly has been very creative and what they do. So we have a holiday party for our four book clubs and their families to come together for a potluck. And her book club tends to be our entertainment. I would love always found her to be.

I would love for her to talk about that several times that they've done ways and activities are all four book clubs together, pick one that that was particularly meaningful meaningful last year we had the talent show and that was incredible lead to the amount of talent that that is in my group is Joe's. It's amazing, but the year before that everybody got to pick a scene from their favorite book and I think we had six Swiss family Robinson we had Charlie and the chocolate factory.

Try to think Ager can you think of of some others that that where they are.

But the Swiss family Robinson was great. They were just really really get into it and some of the things that we do when we read is we will we get into that right after the break. Some of our listeners will call in at 866-348-7884. We appreciate you listed in your prayers that Rob sidekick came in instead Robbie is getting ready for a program he's at the boot camp will be on a little bit later to talk about yet.

We are sitting here having a wonderful discussion about a book club program and about crisis control and we would love for you to call Lyons specially for the crisis controller program like that is made a difference in your life whether you were on the receiving end or the giving in. Would love you to call into 866-34-TRUTH 87884 I was reading tutoring elementary school. I know we've got a lot of people out there that have done different reading programs in different manners. Would love for you to call in and share some wonderful story that made you want to go back time and again did make a difference in somebody's life, particularly if you're an adult reading program would love to hear from you, but Kim was wrought in the middle of telling us a little bit about her particular program that she leads and those rascally commercials cut her off. Yeah I am one of the facilitators at the Tuesday night meeting in and we have a very dramatic group. One of the things that that we really enjoy doing while reading a book is making sound effects. We've got one that's he's super good at it early super good. Some of the noises that that we will come up with our whole area sexually so I do have one story that I wanted to share. We were reading the book because of Winn-Dixie and they got into a part where the girl was talking about her mom leaving and I don't know what what was going on with me that day, but I just reading the book like this book. I like this book it all and everybody was so caring and there like all poor. My name is Kim to because we have two kingdoms and one of them's not there anymore, but I'm still Kim to and akin to it's going to be okay this is funny I guess Deborah is there particular your your son met somebody is one of the book meetings top two stories, one is my son who has Down syndrome and muscular dystrophy. As I said, he has always been in love with love and he met a lovely young woman named Allison at his book club and they've now been engaged for two years and that came from the book club and I'll tell you a story about how the book clubs actually started which I found interesting story. It started in Columbus Ohio at a developmental center and there was a man who was on the board and he would come to the center to to the University for board meetings and he would always be there a little early with his newspaper and his coffee and he would sit and drink his coffee and look at the newspaper and the director talked with him one day and found that he did not know how to read. He wanted to fit in, and that's what he thought people dead so they decided they would start a book club and the professionals in the disability field said we will bring in reading tutors will get audiobooks will have a reading teacher, so they started this book club and the member said no, no, we want to be out in public. We want to be at Starbucks with our coffee. We want to read a book out loud to each other. They throughout their plan and met with what the people who are members of the book clubs than they needed and has worked marvelously. So there are over 300 around the world and hopefully will extend to your community wonderful, thank you so much for being involved in that. I will find out how Tricia got lost in crisis control and ended up being in charge of all the things that she's in Georgia your marketing and I wear many hats. Marketing, special events, PR said through three main hats and then lots of little hats in between the right people to call when on the hill you end up helping crisis control. Well, actually I have been in marketing. Most of my adult life that's been sort of my my calling in my training, but about 10 years ago when my daughter was actually injured. I quit working for a while and I needed something to fill my time and my husband actually suggests it will why don't you try volunteering for crisis control any sort of data from a pragmatic point of view, it will keep your resume current said that's not exactly altruistic reason, but it it was a reason and so I went and I was became became the interviewer, which means that I am meeting with the client and going and into the interview room, hearing their story, which are incredibly touching and in doing sort of the legwork to make sure that this is a situation we can help with going in fighting their cause with the lead dog became very touched with with crisis control and what I was doing the ministry that we are serving their I eventually went back to work and after a number of years that actually was a marketing manager at LA Reynolds garden showcase which actually close over a year ago. So when dad shot ended.

I thought I really want to work for a nonprofit. I really want to use my talents for good.

This is something that I want but I only want to work about three days a week because I've got issues with my mother this sort of thing.

I'm dealing with.

So I just it was kind of amazing.

I went on indeed.com. And lo and behold there was a job for a marketing person at crisis control ministry three days a week and it was like it was almost not ordained in a visit and so that that's why I'm here with your interviews you think of the particular situation where particular individual or family came in and the you really knew what crisis control was able to do for that family made a big difference. While I have a particular story that happened just just recently courtship to be confidential to some point, but a lady. She's 38 years old and she has cancer and is or was undergoing severe in a cancer chemotherapy treatments and with that she wasn't able to work the hours that she normally would and that's a severe case for a lot of people. You know some of us may be lucky enough if we don't work the hours that are needed to pay her monthly bills. We can rely on our savings unit to bridge that gap.

Or we can go to our parents or family. Or we could even get every bank lender's other resources that we may have been a lot of people don't have that and when she couldn't work the hours that she needs to work to pay all the bills because because of this sickness.

They are in dire straits. You know she was really fearful that she was gonna lose her home when she don't pay rent and you get you that eviction process starts. You not only can have to make up back payments of rent you promise you had to do a deposit again. It really starts to snowball when she can't make that payment you can't pay till is it just goes on and on and can become catastrophic that she came to see us and we are able to take care of the rent, pay the back and pay whatever was needed and get her back on her feet, so that now it's not the crisis did not become a catastrophe or something catastrophic and said that's what we do and that's just something that just came to mind as you're speaking.

Remember, like him when I was in charge of the emergency fund. The church you really look forward to being able to help somebody in the make a really big difference in their life at the you dreaded sit there have the judge in such a although sure this person is pulling my leg.

These facts just don't stand up at you to have crisis control layer to be able to if you done this 50 times in the last 50 days you get pretty good review truth detector at a few that poor little person in the church tried to figure out but see this is that members second cousins, next-door neighbor Albert yeah it it it it it it's a real blessing in our community to have that ministry going know what I've been in the jail and prison would talk to people I share with them that our community does is much as it does. They're all these congregations and individuals that are ready, willing, and they wake up, go into work, hoping they can help 20 families. They are hoping to turn down 20 families and to get through their head. There's a lot to help out there that people are pulling form be able to talk about crisis control in the jail and prison ministry has been very, very, very powerful over the years, Kim, is there something else that you'd like to share about your your group you've told me a few stories about some of your favorite members. Oh, other all my favorite so bad. I remember you talking about one Todd thought was just really neat. Oh, they just have such gentle spirits. That's what gets me the most is that I think you did. You want to share venture yeah okay I have this one boy Renee has like the most outgoing personality and on like the mayor one day he knows everybody in town and uses.

I like when he says hello to you. You seem so genuinely excited to see endings with that he's that way with everyone he means and really can light up somebody's day with how excited he is and he'll remember every little detail valuing.

How is your cousin is your friend so-and-so and linkages really is a great personality, so appreciate that. That is wonderful you is once a week or twice a week once a week once a week and you been doing to help about how long four years now, years wonderful to have something like that in your life where you know you going to be somewhere when you get to make a difference. You get the to see people that light up because you exist to see them light up when they get to help the other people in the romance just wonderful.

Deborah you have story you'd like to share.

I just want to say that when I tell people that there is book club so many parents say all that's not something my child would be interested in that they don't read and that would be something that they would do well they end up being wrong because once they become part of this group as as Kim and Adrian said they develop such wonderful relationships the facilitators bring these books to life.

They can't wait to come to book club if they ever have to mess there.

So sorry they messed want to catch up on everything.

So when parents think that there child that it's a literacy program. It's not. It's a social program around books and around excitement and sharing and giving their views so I think that for many people there very surprised to see how they look forward to coming every week that if they can, and assign event of that is that they do increase their letter. Thank you so much. Got one more segment live love to have some callers call in 866-34-TRUTH 874 but I hope you will be thinking about writing this station.

What is U.S would go to school to remember that it was spoken in Aramaic and translated in Hebrew, and then Latin in the English. I really think a better way to look at that is, we don't receive because we don't think were worthy day ask we don't receive because we don't think there's help out there so we don't go look, there's a whole lot more assistance there a whole lot more people that are ready, willing and able to assist folks that most of the people that are in dire necessity understand or accept. No part of that is that we as Christians have to be that light on the hill in time. A refreshing and be willing to talk to people when they're hurting and be willing to talk to people when they're going through problems and be willing to pray with people and connect people up with this person says they've got a particular problem, the know some other people that are in the business or have the knowledge to be able to help them.

And if you're sitting on your pews and you don't do much other than that sit on the pew would sit on the sofa, then you are interacting with the people that can make a difference in your life and the others that Jesus expects all of you to be the type people make a difference in the lives of others. This while you are an ambassador for Christ. We want to make sure that the people that we come in contact with that are hurting. Find a way to deal with it. If we are talking with people that need resources and assistance we need fraud in Raleigh help for those folks that we come in contact with not just our neighbors, not just the people we know their names to what we all have a responsibility that anybody that we come in contact with in our daily life we should think that there's a reason that we were put in contact with these folks and in occasions where we can help.

We should help personally and we can't help personally. We need to try and get them connected with the right folks don't get me wrong about so you put just anybody in your car but you all have funds. If you're not on a weekly basis, making a difference in the lives of others.

If you not volunteering in your community. If you not reaching out beyond your church and your faith community to make a difference in the lives of others that I hate to say that your part of the problem and the reason that half the people around are connected to a church or to a denomination and I'm here to say this shows purpose is to help you find something that will make your life more wonderful, more exciting, more Christlike. I want to ask you to pray say to God, I'm looking for an opportunity away to make a difference in the lives of the people that God puts in my path now was absolutely wonderful program is to help people learn how to read. There's a fellow named bone crusher Smith, who's a heavyweight champion of the world. North Carolina wanted Britt goes from prison to prison from jail to jail and he tells them in the most important thing if you don't know how to read after accepting Christ as your Lord and Savior is to learn how to read and if you've learned how to read. You need to get your GED, your your high school and then you need to get your community college then you need to get a four year degree will in addition to that, you've got to find an organized way to reach out into your community and get plugged in and the light up like a lightbulb. There are lots of folks that are scared to death to leave their home. They're scared to death the talk to people they don't want to let the world know that they're hurting in their scared and they need help, but you should be the type person that consist.stop when I say fine, say no, no, I really want to know how you're doing and then to pray with him and if the God puts on your heart a way to help get them connected with somebody to solve their problem should do that that crisis control is easy to find. It's what your webpage crisis control.org know that was a hard when you need to write it down on your arm have it close at hand. If you can't remember crisis control.org and we were looking that right now throughout the nation. There's a phone number you can dial for help, and that number is Adria you fill that number two on one. So if you dial 211 a nice friendly person will come on the phone and they'll say what are you looking for what type of help you need and you need to dial was that number they need to dial 211 or you were saying they could Google what emergency assistance in your county. It is amazing how much assistance there is the Forsyth County is blessed we are blessed with more organizations with more deep pockets with more congregations with more individuals that are helping others, but there still a couple hundred jobs available at crisis control where you can get plugged in for a few hours a week and make an unbelievable difference in your neighborhood and if you don't live in Forsyth County promise you there are some really great Christian ministries that you can make a difference if you want to give them a couple hours a week if you want to give them a day a week if you want to have a heart so big that you willing to give them three days a week. There are places for you to get plugged in. And if you're sitting there going.

I wonder if Christ wants me to do this and assure you the answer to that is yes and if you don't believe me, you need to go back and you need to start the gospel of John and you need to read that sucker.

If you.our job is to make a difference in the world. Your responsibility if you got Jesus in your heart is to make a difference in this world. That was the reason that God niche you together in your mother's one God has plans for you plans not to harm you, but plans for hope in the future, but that hope in the future that the Scriptures talking about is not just your hope for the future.

Your responsibility is to be a hope and a future for the people that God put you around if you not plugged into a faith community. If you don't have a church if you don't have a small group assure you God want you to be in one. If you're in one you've got a group of people that you all should be trying to figure out a really wonderful way. The group of you to make a difference in your community that a group can help crisis control. A group can start a book ministries a group can do all kinds of signs but is also a place to call up and said I bumped into this nice young lady and her daughter, and they don't know what to do it. I don't know what to do.

What can we do as a church group to help this family and take the fear out of step into those situations, you need to be plugged into a faith group of people that believe in prayer and believe in making a difference in our communities. You also need some events where you go to in the like. Adria, you help other people. Lida, you help them understand what heaven Christ in their heart is all about. How can you get hooked up to book club there several ways that you can help. Certainly you can contact the Piedmont down syndrome support network@pdssand.org.

You can come and visit one of our book clubs you can ask to be a substitute facilitator and will do your training and your background check for you and you can make donations to help the members purchase books for the book club. So that's a wonderful way to help locally and are Piedmont down to numb support network actually serves at least five counties.

So it's not just Forsyth County we do the whole surrounding area and can refer you to other areas in the state. If you need and then the national dance and national next chapter book club is an CBC.org and you can get information to see if there's a book club in your county or in your area and how you could help join a club or help facilitate a club and were always looking for substitutes, so don't hesitate to contact the PD SSN Piedmont down to numb support network like to encourage like to encourage you to do to get a pencil and paper and to get on the Internet. You might even try calling the 211 number and do a list of all the different resources that are available in your county. So where can somebody go to get food.

Where can somebody go to get groceries where can somebody go to get free close where to go to to get financial resources to help them put together a one page of all the different places people can go to get assistance how they do it and at the bottom put down there.

Your churches name and your churches addressing your churches phone number and print up about 20 of those suckers go find you good a restaurant in your area and get some coupons for a McDonald's or Hardee's or what have you. And when you see somebody that needs help, got little Gideon Bibles you can get little Bibles, but I like to hand them the resources I really don't like the hand of money don't know where the money's going to go enough.

God tells you to hand the money that's fine with me. But more important than that is a list of the places they can go to get assistance.

And there are occasions when I've been outlasted while you walk over that McDonald's you and I'll go sit down and have a nice meal you can share with me whatever you'd like to share with me that I'm not gonna give you any money, but I've got 30 minutes and I've got enough money to buy you a nice one. We've got to figure out a way walking through life to see how we can make a difference in the laws other people would gotta be connected with other people that feel that same drive that said this because I want you to pray for Russia's control ministry want you to pray for the book club.

I want you to pray for Robbie Gilmore.

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