This is the Truth Network. 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 kingdom pursuits.
Now, live from the Truth Booth, your host, Robbie Dillmore.
Well, good morning. I'm Jerry Mathis, the Christian Body Shop guy from Christian Car Guy Radio from Ray's Body Shop and Wreckers Service. I am sitting in for Robbie this morning. I get the privilege of doing that whenever Robbie has either man camp or or some of the king. Different men's retreats that he does, and also just family time.
So, I get a. I'm blessed with opportunity to sit in and and and. Kind of slide over to this side of the the thing on Kingdom Pursuits.
So it's gonna be a great, and this morning's gonna be a good morning. It's gonna be a great morning. Got Derek and Avon Machamonde with us this morning. We're going to talk a little bit about ministry. Going to talk about missions, and going to talk a little bit about just just what God's doing in their world and stuff, and what's God's doing throughout the world.
To tell you the truth, and one of the things I'm going to ask him because I don't think we've ever I've had They've been on this program before with me, but this time I want to kind of throw them a curveball right off the bat. I want to ask them. Start with Derek. Tell me a little bit about your coming to know Jesus Christ. And so I think it'll be an easy one.
It'll be a softball, but it was one you weren't expected.
So that's right. Yeah, it's really, really an honor to be here on Kingdom Pursuits. It's a wonderful place to be, and we give glory to the opportunity. And just sitting here with Brother Jerry Mathis from Ray Body Shop, and so we just growing up in the village was. Really, a world apart from you know the American life or the Western world, but we were fortunate that our parents, who grew up traditionally in African beliefs, were approached and reached out to.
And ministered to by a missionary from the United States, especially from Winston of Salem, and was able to convert, have them converted to Christianity. As a result, we, the children, became Christians because we had seen that which was good in Christianity. Yeah, that's, and I think that story, you know, that that's going to kind of lead up into what we talk about as far as missions and stuff, because I think it's so important. And I, I mean, I know there's a lot of people that are in the mission fields that didn't grow up. In that area and stuff, and I know they're doing great work.
Doctor Pruitt did a wonderful job in Zimbabwe and and and and bringing the gospel of Jesus Christ to people who didn't know it. But I think there's just so much power in somebody who has come from. That village, and going back and still ministering and stuff, carrying on what his, you know, what his vision was for for the area. Navon, I know yours is a little bit different, a different part of Zimbabwe. Growing up.
Yes, it is.
So Derek and I grew up in Zimbabwe, but we grew up in different parts of the country. And when that same missionary moved, it was during the war. They moved from the village and came to the city. In the city, they established a church, and that church was just a couple of streets from where I lived and I grew up. And as kids.
We started going to it because they would reach out. They would come into the schools. They would invite us to church and wanted us to be there. And through the teachings during the school day, when they would come to teach us Bible lessons, because in Zimbabwe they actually led. Um, missionaries.
I am coming into the schools and teach Bible class, and then on Sundays and the weekends, then we would go to church, and that is how we learned and were brought to Christ. Yeah, and and as we're kind of fast forward, I mean that's kind of because of Pruitt and stuff, and his connection with Winston Salem. And as a matter of fact, t here is a deep history of Doctor Pruitt with Pineville Christian Church because that was one of the first missionaries that that church started supporting when it went from under the blanket of the Church of Christ missions, been doing it as an individual. Trying to just just make that connection.
So as we sit there and I think about it, and and I and as I mentioned, it's so important whenever we see people who are involved in sort of where they grew up and stuff. And I think that's why it's important. We think about missions that always has to be. Overseas, sometimes our missions start in our own backyard, and that may be. And you know, I hope the challenge that today people come out of is wherever they're at, God is going to use you, and then God is also going to push us sometimes to go further from what what we think.
Sometimes we need to get out of Jerusalem and go to you know wherever God may lead us and stuff. But sometimes it's tough, and we need to. Use other people encourages for that, and and I as we're sitting here, and I think there's a one things I want to talk about will be how people hear this story and stuff what's going on in Zimbabwe, because right now you know we live in a country that there's you know we think there's a lot of turmoil going on, but when you start looking at other countries, what's going on, it's minimal, and we don't always. Appreciate what we have in this country because when you go back on a on a trip, how is it different from what it is here? I mean, I know, and to me, I'm just amazed where where we as a country can overlook how blessed we are, and sometimes we need to.
When I see those videos from from y'all going to a trip and stuff. And I see some, and some of the other videos of during the times of political unrest of the torture. I mean, you know, you may get here. We may get online, and there's plenty of attacks going on. But there, there's physical.
Well, I tell you what.
Sometimes in this country now, we've seen physical attacks, which isn't good. But it's. It's rampant. I mean, you you absolutely are scared for your life because of what you believe sometimes and who politically you may be supporting or want to support. And so, when you go back, what's what's the first thing that kind of the culture shock when you go back on the back to Zimbabwe?
What's that first culture shock that hits you? I think it's just the difference that we see, even being here in the United States. Just going back to Zimbabwe makes us appreciate even more of the United States. Even the challenges that we may see here in the United States—they are nowhere close to the challenges we have in Zimbabwe. The differences, whether it's political, whether it's Just the.
Poverty level, whether it's the all the things that are going on, you know, it's to where we look and say, "My goodness, we are truly blessed in the U.S." No matter how we look at it, and things we may complain about, because we then see the reality when we hit the road and when we are on the ground in Zimbabwe and just seeing the poverty level and just seeing the desperation and seeing. The political and upheaval that's going on, and just seeing just how people are desperate, and they are just really looking up to Jesus as the source of their their refuge and strength because they can't find every any other place. Because when they look anywhere else, it becomes sinking sand for them.
So, really, it's it's totally different, and we are grateful that. We have friends here who work with us and support us, that we may continue to preach the good news of Christ to these people who are desperate, who otherwise have no other hope other than the hope they can find in Christ Jesus. And for me, I always laugh because it's just the simple amenities and infrastructure that you take for granted when you are in the United States. You have to think, especially when you're traveling, about the bathrooms because at once you pass certain stops, if you need to go to the bathroom, you are running out into the bush, and you are going to the bathroom in the bush. The roads.
Take you forever.
So a short distance, maybe um thirty miles, will take you three times the amount of time to travel, just because there is no infrastructure. And then, of course, you know, like access to water, where you are having to go and fetch water to be able to drink, to bathe, and to use. Absolutely, and when this is a call-in show, I hope you'll give us a call at eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four for any kind of questions with what's going on in ministry work in Zimbabwe. You are listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork dot com. Welcome back to Kingdom Pursuits, and again, if you got a question for Derek Avon or or anything with missions, give us a call at eight six six.
Or maybe you just want us to share your story that you've been on a on a mission trip or supporting a mission. We'd love to hear your story. Maybe your mission field is, like I said, be your backyard. It could be the door down the hall or the house you live in. We just, you know, God will put us in.
Challenges to, to to serve Him and to to share the gospel again is call in eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four, and sorted to that point, I'm going to read in which. These are two passages that I think everybody knows, and especially you know, if you've been in the church, you know these. Matthew twenty-eight, and Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit." Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you always, to the end of age. That one passage means so much to me, and one thing that that that kind of really always sticks out to me is, you know, what there's a lot of movements, and I've been involved in a lot of different.
Organizations over time, and I kind of think there's a time where I realize maybe we'ren't doing a really good job of the part where you know what we're introducing them to Christ, but are we making disciples? And I think that's so important. And then the other piece of that is at the end of it, when God's promise to us and Jesus's promise is, "I am with you always," because there's time when this journey here on earth can be awful difficult, and there's you know sometimes we think those mountains are too. Steep for us to, to climb. But then, what should encourage us to to make sure we continue to keep on is Romans ten, and and this passage just kind of reinforces when the times are tough.
God gave us a calling, and it for one thing to bring people to Christ. It is for everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in Him, for whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
And how are they to preach unless someone is sent? As it is written, how beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news? And I think that's what Derek and Abon are doing now. And I think that's what Doctor Pruitt was doing. And I think there's so many people out there listening.
That are doing that is we needed those two passages to me go together, and I just I'm just I'm just blessed whenever I'm I'm able to to spend time with Derek and Avon because of what is going on there and and some of the things I'm I'm also going to take time to mention is if you would like to get involved. With to to help Derek and Avon and in Zimbabwe, and we're going to talk a little bit about the things that are happening on the ground. But one way to do it, I think, you can just go to Musha Monday Christian Foundation. That is correct, and it will lead you right there to a lot of information, but also areas where you can can help financially. But one of the biggest thing is help.
Through prayer, prayer is the most important thing we can do, and I say that with Jesus labor of love. That that thing is how important it is. People to donate, but prayer is also important and stuff. And I think too many times we don't understand the power of prayer and how God works that. And I'll say again, you know, I want, I would love for people listening to be able to donate and stuff.
But I always say, anytime I ever have anybody in the studio, is don't take away from your local church. But if God lays on your heart to say, you know what, I want to do something special. This is another organization that I know the money goes to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. And a couple things I want to make sure that both of you share a little bit about is what's going on on the ground. One thing we talk about water and stuff—the importance of that—and also through the Masham Monday Christian Foundation, y'all's big focal point and stuff is.
the the water and and helping the the widows and the kids and the youth and stuff and we all know how important at Pine Dale Christian Church one of the things that we did even as a church was when we realized the youth and the kids were the important thing they needed to be our focus and that seems to be your focus also and y'all are able to do some great things on the ground I mean preachers are going into schools and stuff and I'm gonna let you just share a little bit of what's going on on the ground yeah we we are truly Blessed, like Brother Jerry just mentioned, we are truly blessed that we are still able to reach out in schools and and preach the good news of Christ Jesus in schools. We are really working hard because there are also other religions that are coming in from other you know parts of the world that really are. Competing with the our the the religion that we have and and the the Christ that we know the Lord that we believe in, that died on the cross for us, that today we may have that remission of our sins and the gift of the Holy Spirit.
So, so we are trying to instill in the young people while they are young to say, "This is the Christ, who is your Savior, who is the one who you." Can go to without going to anyone else to be saved, but you can go directly to Him yourself and be able to receive Him as your Lord and Savior. And so we reach out to the young people in schools. We preach to them by you know bringing soccer balls to them before they play soccer. They they have a devotion after they finish. They shake hands just like when before they do.
And then they again have a prayer time together.
So these are things that are helping the young people to have good fellowship, good relationship, good relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, as they are Lord and Savior. And we also minister to them by giving them pencils because when I grew up myself, my mother, we were ten kids.
So I'm gonna one of them. I'm gonna stop because that's one of the most exciting pictures I ever see. Is whenever these kids, and it'll be hundreds of them, will be sitting on the dirt outside of a school or a soccer field, and they're holding up a pencil. And also, I hate to interrupt you, but also want to make sure you mentioned. A piece of candy, and and it's a specific piece of candy because it's it can go a lot further.
I'm let you go ahead and share that story also. Yes, yes, yes. And we found out that even just from our upbringing and the struggles that we went through and the desperation just to get a pencil, that if you didn't have a pencil or if you don't have a pencil, you'll be sent home from school because they will send you to go find a pencil or get your parents. To find a pencil, so our mother would break the pencil into three and just make a necklace out of it, so that we can see it dangling just below our chin, so that we don't lose that piece of pencil, and so that it becomes so dear to me and Yvonne that each time we go, we can get you know whether it's our friends or Sunday school class and others who can jump in just help us get lots of pencils. That we take with us just to minister to the little boys and girls, and then when you give them the piece, the pencil.
Sometimes some of the little kids come back to us or go to the teacher and say, "I was given the pencil. Is it okay for me to take it home?" Then the teacher tells them, "Yes, it's yours now. It belongs to you. You keep it safe and take it home." And I think if you don't understand the level of poverty that Derek referred to earlier, once you actually go to the village and you witness it, it is life changing, because again, water is a resource that is so difficult to come by. Anytime we can provide water at the school, so that when the kids are at school, they have water to drink, that means.
A lot to them, and then of course we talked about the pencils. Parents do not have jobs, so a lot of the women in the village are widows. They are widows with average of five, six, seven kids, and they're having to provide for those kids without any income coming in, without any other means to sustain them. Then you can understand how a pencil is.
So difficult to come by, and it means a lot when a child receives a pencil. We take the Smarties with them with us because any time we are there, it is a very special day. And when they get the Smarties, they will open it up and they will take one. A lot of the kids will just take one and eat that and savor it. They'll close it up and then the next day they'll eat another one.
So then the Smarties really. Last a long time, and the kids thoroughly enjoy them. Yeah, it's just the things that we take for granted, and I mean, I I see those videos, and it just I don't know, it just it just touches you. It can't help but touch you. And and I know that I've been on mission field, and I've shared this during our class at Pondale Christian Church is when you go and stuff the things that we overlook and take for granted.
I mean. We do these little crafts and stuff that we take to do VBS with, y'all do it also in Zimbabwe, and you're thinking, you know what? In the states, these kids would think would just just push it aside. They don't even want to even be involved in it. That's too too childish, too whatever, and don't respect it and stuff.
But there, it means just so much. And the big thing that really does is. They're able to see that somebody cares for them, and then you take that message from somebody caring for them. You got somebody else, more importantly, that cares for them. That's Jesus Christ.
And I've shared this story. I may have shared it on the radio. I don't know, but back a few years ago, I was in on a trip in Jamaica, and we do VBS, and I teach older kids, and my class is supposed to be from fourteen to. Seventeen or eighteen, but there was years and and most years it was fourteen to fifty. I mean, because and and over the course of time, I've had older guys and girls who keep coming back and stuff.
But one one day on a Monday when we first got started back on a VBS at Broadleaf in Jamaica. I'll have some rules that I make them abide by, and one of them is when I start talking, you sit down and you listen, and we have fun, we enjoy it, and we make light of all of it. But I had this young man was about fourteen, fifteen years old, stood up and had a bag and wanted to show it to me. I kept saying, "Sit down, sit down. You can't.
You're sit down after class. But I want to show you something.
Well, we're gonna get back, and I'll show you what he showed me in just a moment. But again, got Derek and Avon Musha Monday and. Ministry is Mashamunde Christian Foundation. Love for you to to to just look it up and and see if that's something that may stir your heart in that website. Again, be back in a moment.
You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. Welcome back to Kingdom Pursuits. I'm Jerry Mathis, Rays Body Shop, Records Service, and with Derek and Abon. As I was telling the story, I'm going to tell you what the here he is. I'm on top of a hill in Jamaica, Broadleaf.
The church is built on top of a big rock, and this young man is just he's he's just excited because he wants to show me what's in that bag, and I'm.
Sometimes I will get to. This is the way I want it to go because I'm afraid I'm going to lose control, I guess, or something. But I'm. I make him sit down, and the whole time I'm going over the Bible lesson. I look at him, and he was just so.
I could just see. I just deflated him. I mean, I had just just broken him in a way. He sat there, was holding that bag, and I said, you know, the whole time I kept thinking, I wonder what it, what he, what he was wanting to show me, you know, but. Did what I thought I needed to do.
Well, I got finished doing the lesson, and he popped up and goes, "I just wanted to show you one thing." And he reached in his bag. And the year before, we had did you get construction paper and you fold it over and make all the bends and you make a Bible out of it. We had done that, and inside that, I told my class to write their favorite Bible verse in there.
Well, he comes up here and opens the bag and pulled that out and said, "said said, Mr. Jerry, every every every night I read my Bible verse and opened it up, and I felt so bad. I mean, I'm sitting there, but but what it did is just told me how important the little things that we take for granted is, and and I know you see that." On every trip, and and again, Musha Monday Christian Foundation. I'm going to spell Musha Monday, M U S H A Y A M U N D A Christian Foundation. That way, you'll be able to to go to it and pull it up and and just see what God lays on your heart when you go back.
Those little stories like that. I mean, you think about. I've seen the video where every Organization or team got a a a soccer ball, the last trip and stuff, and you would have thought they just was on Oprah Winfrey and got an automobile. I mean, it was just just excitement and the joy. Just man, it just just man, it just brings joy to you.
And and when you're when you're in the middle of that, when you go, what does I mean? I just think because you're going back to your home. Where you was born, and you're able to see, you know what the impact you're making. What what what's the first thing that kind of comes over over you and stuff, and and the excitement of it, and the excitement of knowing that there's people in the United States and throughout the world that are are also worried about carrying out the Great Commission and also being the one that goes and preaches the gospel. And you may not physically be able to go.
But you can, you know. I think we all have the ability to go support through prayer and and finances and stuff. And the big thing is the prayer part. Yeah, so we we are really just excited each time we come or we go to Zimbabwe and to Mushayamunda village and just work with the community there. And each time we get there, they are very excited to see us to see the visitors that we bring often, and just to interact with the visitors, just to hear the visitors preach the gospel.
Of Christ Jesus, and just to how they just absorb that, how they can sit for hours just to to hear, you know, the preaching of the gospel, and you know they can go the whole day without eating, and they can go the whole night. Just literally, when we get there, they want to do all night worship, where they are up all night, you know, and having people preach every. Hour and sing and dance to the Lord and just glorify God and so these are things that when visitors get there also and they see that and they experience that then they are also really moved and touched and and and see the level of um the the drive that the people have to to know Christ to love Jesus and to how they have really given their lives to Jesus and how How many more come and give their lives to Jesus when we go and preach and and teach them about the good news of Christ?
So we we take that Matthew twenty eight seriously that you know to go ye into the world and preach the good news of Christ Jesus to all those who are desperate. And the joy that the people have when we actually go just gives us just greater appreciation for just how amazing God is in putting everything together. I think He uses us, but when we go there, there are people who are behind us who are supporting us, making sure that you know, like we have the supplies that they need to be able to share. There are people. Who say I cannot go, but I still want to be helpful, and they will support.
You know, like I look at Myra, Myra Mathis. You know, just make sure that even when we collect supplies, all those supplies are organized so that we do have medications to share for people who don't have hospitals or anywhere to get these medications, or you know, like the soccer balls for the kids. We have to make soccer balls with just like leaves, and if they're fortunate enough to have a plastic bag, wrap it up.
So when they actually have a soccer ball that they can touch, that is real, it is very magical. And then they know that God loves them. And when we preach to them, they also see how practical the God that we say loves them is, and that there are people across the ocean who love and care. For them, so it is just wonderful to see the work that God does, so that His people will know Him through the people who do know Him. Yeah, and and the other piece about going and going on a mission trip is, you know, what it it brings Jesus Christ, and you see how Jesus is working through those areas you go to, but also.
I loved seeing the videos from just like this last trip when y'all went, and it was church in Ohio Northside. My right, that may be. Yeah, the we had this first year. Oh, this first year we had oh. Because yeah, we had the medical team.
Right. Yeah, actually, from the the local doctors from yeah from the different hospitals.
So we did a lot of medical work, and that really, really took care of many, many elements from from people that are so sick and desperate. And people walked some ten miles, twenty miles, just to come and stay in line so that they could be seen. And and and and that was how desperate people are because some of these people have never had medicines before.
Some have never seen a nurse or a doctor before. But to say they have seen a doctor to them becomes a miracle because this is something they never expect.
So when we do that, they can now be able to see the practical Jesus. When we tell them that Jesus loves them, this is the way they. Can see the practical Jesus, and they are grateful and glorify God because to them a miracle has happened. Things they never expected, maybe the illness that they had, or maybe something that was cut out, open to to take all that pus out when they have these big boils. And sometimes some of them have worms that go into their their bodies that were squeezed out because they just sleep on the ground and they have all kinds of things.
Happening to them, so when these things are taken care of, they can see the good hand of Jesus, and they are grateful for it. Another thing is the other piece that kind of gets, I think, lost in it, is those that go on those trips are changed, and you probably see that through the hospital. Derek is very involved in medical. And and the bond in the school system.
So it's two areas here in the United States that certainly they're sharing Jesus Christ at. But also when you talk to people who've been on that their first trip, their lives has changed. I mean, and it can't help but to be changed when you see what people, the way other people live, because we kind of think you know what it's like, but until you put your feet on the ground and stuff. It changes you. Yeah, very true.
I I think we have so many examples, and the one that always comes to mind is another friend who went and so he was very practical guy who fixes things, who works on things like more like Brother Jerry working at the body shop, you know, fixing all the, doing all the panel work. And but when he after at the end of the day, he said, you know, I thought I was coming here to fix. The people, but what what I found out is that I am the one who have been fixed.
So that was really touching and moving. That's powerful. We'll be back in just a moment with Kingdom Pursuits. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. Welcome back to Kingdom Pursuits.
As we get ready to wrap up in our last segment, I do want to take just a moment to mention Jesus Labor of Love, which is a ministry that is a local ministry that's nationally that that meets the needs of widows and not just widows. We have branched out to a lot of different different areas and stuff, where providing repairing vehicles and getting them. Back on the road, and also in some cases, giving them a vehicle, and it's a ministry that over the last seven or eight weeks has kind of a. I mean, the requests have just been really rolling in there, and and there's a lot of requests, and if you don't understand the how important a vehicle is to society that we live in today here in the United States. This weekend, just put your keys aside and pretend you don't have transportation, and just see them.
The impact it has on you, and a lot of the people that are applying for help are, are mothers that have kids that are have disabilities and need to get them to doctors' offices and stuff and can't do it, or has to get a on a bus or Uber or a cab or whatever trying to make that happen, and also others that are trying to just get to work to be able to support their family and stuff don't have a vehicle and just trying to get back on their feet.
So if you have a, as I said, talked about Derek and Vaughn is don't don't take from your local church that you're giving. But if God lays on your heart, Jesus' labor of love is a great ministry, makes a huge impact for those that we are able to help, and there's so much, so much need out there. And even if you have that vehicle in your driveway that you're not driving, if it's a one that runs, we'll. Make sure we get everything safe on it. Make sure all the all all the running components are in good shape, and give it to somebody who doesn't have a vehicle, or if it's one that doesn't run and isn't worth fixing, we can turn that into cash to help somebody else.
So it's Jesus' labor of love. You can go to Christian Car Guy Radio and Christian Car Guy, and scroll down. You'll see a link to Jesus' labor of love. Back to Derek and Avon. As before, we close up this segment.
I just want to just ask. Thing we didn't mention and stuff, and also how to make sure again you can get in touch with you and the ministry. If you're an individual wanting to end this story, and just just people that are lost and need to know Jesus Christ, and and those who are on the other side of the world, almost this is a great opportunity to to bring Jesus Christ through this ministry. Also, if you're a church or an organization that wants to help, I mean, one thing not just all. Always, money part.
If you have supplies that you can help get there and stuff that they can distribute when they get there, that's there's all kind of opportunities to serve. And Derek and Von and and Dennis and Gurley will be glad to talk to you about how to make that happen and stuff.
So, as we wrap up, Derek and Von, is there anything that you wanted to make sure we said that we didn't get an opportunity to say? Yeah, we we are grateful for the opportunity, and we just want to let you know that we preach Jesus in a practical way. Whatever we do, we do it that the Lord may be glorified and can be glorified, and that someday when we get to heaven, we can see the many people that we have interacted with, and maybe that you have impacted, even though you. May not have gone in person, but you have sent a pencil. You have sent money to drill a well or wells.
You have been able to contribute with soccer balls. You have done the little things, the medicines and the balloons that kids will just come and swamper and just enjoy the time with us and and see the love of Christ Jesus. And then they'll say when we get to heaven, oh my goodness, that day maybe they'll come to you and say, John or Carol. Or Carol or Rob and whoever it is, you have done this, Myra. You have oh, when you gathered all those things for me, you know, to help me, you know, Mary Kay, whoever it is, they mention all these names.
You have done it unto me. You have you have helped me to know Jesus. This is why I am here today. When we get to heaven, wouldn't that be glorious to see that? But again, to reach out to us, like brother.
As Jerry said, you can reach out to us at Mushya Munda Christian Foundation. Musha Yamunda Christian Foundation, and through that you can scroll our website. You can also get our phone numbers on there, and you can be able to reach out to us if you need to reach out to us directly and talk about, even maybe be part of the trip. You know, we we invite that as well. We we would love for you to be part of that, and so anything you can do to make a difference will be most appreciated.
We are so grateful and thankful for just the love and the hearts that the people that we know have, and that when you are in God's purpose and God's will, then you are helping His people.
So thank you so much, Brother Jerry, for having us, and we appreciate everything that you do for us. As I said, it's you know I think. As Derek mentioned, going, I think sometimes we overlook the the power in that. I know that we take large groups, Ponder, on our mission trip to Jamaica, and we really emphasize this past year and and years past at different times, trying to take youth. I mean, high schoolers, and it changes people for life.
I mean, I can guarantee you that. What my daughter was started going on mission trips at 14, and it's it's changed her life.
So as we wrap up, Derek and Vaughn, thank you for being with us this morning, and Mashamundi Christian Foundation. Jesus, labor of love. We need your help. Also, I just want to throw out a big thank you to Nick on the other side of the glass here, because you know what, none of this would happen without him, and I'm just appreciative of him. I appreciate Derek and Vaughn.
Appreciative of Jesus Christ and what He's doing in our life.
So tomorrow morning, be in church somewhere, and have a great week. And thank you for listening. Thank you.
