Candace

Life is like a roller coaster, but it's so much better when we go through it together. It's true. We are better together. And this season, I'm asking our podcast community to do something together to make a difference in the world. There are hard things going on around us. Hurricanes, floods, fires, people hurting.

And as followers of Jesus, we show up in the hard stuff and we build relationships with people who need us. We give. Each week, I'm bringing you a short piece of an interview with a special guest. And each week, you'll hear more about what we can do together. These are short episodes, less than 10 minutes. So come join us.

So did you pray when you gave your life to Christ?

Was that by yourself? Were you with Your mom or Dulce or?

Wow.

Nothing like just putting you on the spot right there. Go for it.

Would you say, though, that that hope that you had, like explain that to me in terms of your hope was in Christ. You knew that at that moment. It was hope for your future, that the possibilities were there. Did you feel that God could make those possibilities happen for you?

Come back next week to hear more about Jonathan's story. To see how we can make a difference together, go to Candice.com and click where it says the word compassion. You'll see more about my story and be able to change the life of someone like Jonathan. Go to Candice.com, click where it says compassion and join me. Until next time, be grateful all day, every day.

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Me too. That is my love language.

That's a book, The Love Languages by Gary Chapman.

maybe things for home too like soap and shampoo or um but you have now these letters coming in from a person that's your sponsor and you don't quite know how this all fits in like who's this weird person i'm getting letters from because it's the the church itself that's in your local area that's helping you exactly so tell me about like the first letter you received or

Uh-huh.

Life is like a roller coaster, but it's so much better when we go through it together. It's true. We are better together. And this season, I'm asking our podcast community to do something together to make a difference in the world. There are hard things going on around us. Hurricanes, floods, fires, people hurting.

Thank you for that reminder. Because while I sponsor, I think right now I have, I mean, I have four kids. I've sponsored more through the years, but some of them have graduated through the program. So I've taken on new children. And and I do feel that way often because I do write, but I don't write as much as I would like to. And I always feel terrible about it.

And as followers of Jesus, we show up in the hard stuff and we build relationships with people who need us. We give. Each week, I'm bringing you a short piece of an interview with a special guest. And each week, you'll hear more about what we can do together. These are short episodes, less than 10 minutes. So come join us.

But it's a good reminder in that while I will always continue writing, but if I it's not as often as I want to know that, you know. I do know that the church is there. Exactly. Being the hands and feet and providing that in person. Exactly. But I do know how much the relationship means to the children too. It really makes a huge difference.

Kind of right on the nose. I got it.

How did that make you feel when you read those words?

Come back next week to hear more about Jonathan's story. To see how we can make a difference together, go to Candice.com and click where it says the word compassion. You'll see more about my story and be able to change the life of someone like Jonathan. Go to Candice.com, click where it says compassion and join me. Until next time, be grateful all day, every day.

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Right. A little stork is dropping them off and bringing them in a basket.

Right. So you're going to this church. The church is helping you. The church is providing the food, the clothes, essentially, the things you need for school, even...

I was going to say your mom. I'm assuming your mom was probably so happy. But did you understand what that even meant?

Right. That's a big burden lifted.

Off of her. Yeah. And how old are you when you got sponsored?

Seven, okay.

Life is like a roller coaster, but it's so much better when we go through it together. It's true. We are better together. And this season, I'm asking our podcast community to do something together to make a difference in the world. There are hard things going on around us. Hurricanes, floods, fires, people hurting.

And as followers of Jesus, we show up in the hard stuff and we build relationships with people who need us. We give. Each week, I'm bringing you a short piece of an interview with a special guest. And each week, you'll hear more about what we can do together. These are short episodes, less than 10 minutes. So come join us. So you didn't join a gang. Did you join a gang? Like when?

Yeah.

But isn't it amazing that God still keeps the door open for us? So even if we don't walk through it that one time that, you know, he has, he still gives us more opportunities to keep walking through.

So when did you, yeah, you didn't miss the opportunity. Tell me more about that.

And pouring into you.

We do. We do, however, less and less. And I was very sad when my son came up to me not too long ago. And my kids are all adults, but they said, Mom, I have to send something in the mail. Which side of the envelope do I address it on? Where does the stamp go? Which side do I put the return address? And it's a little hard because young people just don't send snail mail very much anymore. Anymore.

Come back next week to hear more about Jonathan's story. To see how we can make a difference together, go to Candice.com and click where it says the word compassion. You'll see more about my story and be able to change the life of someone like Jonathan. Go to Candice.com, click where it says compassion and join me. Until next time, be grateful all day, every day.

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When did compassion come into your life?

Because you saw when you saw them, they had money because they were selling drugs. Did they have they had clothes? They had a home. They had food.

Life is like a roller coaster, but it's so much better when we go through it together. It's true. We are better together. And this season, I'm asking our podcast community to do something together to make a difference in the world. There are hard things going on around us. Hurricanes, floods, fires, people hurting.

And as followers of Jesus, we show up in the hard stuff and we build relationships with people who need us. We give. Each week, I'm bringing you a short piece of an interview with a special guest. And each week, you'll hear more about what we can do together. These are short episodes, less than 10 minutes. So come join us.

Yeah, so are you diabetic?

Right. I mean, I get it. That's also what we're thinking of when we're children, when we're teenagers. and we don't fit in.

It might be people that you might not be in extreme poverty, but that's where we can go down a bad path or a wrong path because when you so desperately wanna fit in with others and you don't have those things, they're like stars in the sky and you just wanna grab onto them and it doesn't matter the cost, it doesn't matter if they're bad. You just want to feel seen and be like everyone else.

Come back next week to hear more about Jonathan's story. To see how we can make a difference together, go to Candice.com and click where it says the word compassion. You'll see more about my story and be able to change the life of someone like Jonathan. Go to Candice.com, click where it says compassion and join me. Until next time, be grateful all day, every day.

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I think it's about seven hours. Is that about right? It's been so long. My kids are, they're all grown.