The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast
Have you ever been tempted? Jonathan's Story Part 4
Thu, 06 Mar 2025
"What if your dreams were just out of reach?" For Jonathan, life was a daily struggle. Growing up he faced challenges most people can’t imagine, from hunger to the harsh realities of life in poverty. This week, in part 4 of his journey, Jonathan shares how the support of the local church became the foundational hope in his life. Jonathan’s story is a powerful reminder that together, we can support each other and make a difference when times are tough. It’s true. We’re better together! And this season, we’re asking our podcast community to do something TOGETHER to bring light into the lives of those who need it most. Want to be part of the change? Visit Candace.com and click on “Compassion” to learn how you can help change the life of someone like Jonathan. Come back next week to hear more of his story. To see how we can make a difference together, go to https://ccbpodcast.com/compassion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the theme of the podcast season?
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.
Chapter 2: How does the podcast community contribute to social change?
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.
How many hours schools, how many hours children attend school here in the U.S. ?
I think it's about seven hours. Is that about right? It's been so long. My kids are, they're all grown.
Chapter 3: What challenges did Jonathan face in his education?
So back then it was just four hours. Okay. And so I just remember again, going in the morning, four hours running back. And I'm deeply grateful to this young boy and his family who were able to lend me the uniform so I could go to school. But reflecting again back to my chain, Candice, I wanted to be a game member.
I don't want to portray with you and your audience the beautiful story of a before and after immediately.
Chapter 4: How did Jonathan's environment influence his early aspirations?
Mm-hmm.
That was the role model that I saw in my ghetto. You know, that was the reality. I'm not excusing me. I'm just saying, again, there are aspects of spiritual warfare that are physical aspects. I mean, physical need aspects.
Chapter 5: What role does hope play in overcoming poverty?
Mm-hmm.
health, lacking resources, but there is an aspect of hope when you're in poverty. And not only for those who are in poverty back in the third world, even here in the US, there is a need of hope, even for those growing in a stable context. And so for me, I didn't see hope. And hope for me were the guys in my ghetto selling drugs in the street.
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.
Exactly. They had nice sneakers. Mm hmm. They had nice clothes. I, again, I don't, I barely can. Someone lent me the uniform to go to school. My shoes are broken. I have to take cover and put it inside. It's a 90% humidity country. It's a tropical country. It is raining and then it's sunny. The sidewalk is hot. My foot were burned every day because the sidewalk was so hot. Yeah.
But when it was raining, the cardboard get damaged or I will spend days without eating and I'll take sugar because something happened in my body that I didn't understand why happened. Every other time I will be shaking, sweating and feeling cold in the 90 Fahrenheit weather, 90, 95.
which never makes sense to me why that happened, that combination of feelings and thermal sensation in this reality. One day at school, they gave me a cookie and I immediately fell.
Yeah, so are you diabetic?
My blood sugar was coming down. Things I didn't end up with diabetic, but I was on the path because my blood sugar came down many times. And so one of the things that I did, I will take sugar, brown sugar, put it in water and drink it. And that will be a way to stabilize my blood sugar off. Got it. In this reality, with these guys selling drugs in the ghetto, in the corner,
I mean, Candace, if you would have asked me what was my biggest need, I would have told you, I need Jordans. These guys in the 90s, where there was no way I could have Jordans, they had Jordans. I would have told you, I need Air Jordans.
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