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. Good morning and welcome to Kingdom Pursuits. I'm Jerry Mathis, sitting in for Robbie this morning. Going to be a great show. Got Dan and Mary Kay Rath in here with us, local realtors, and we're going to talk a little bit about.
the the new movement in real estate and stuff. I think you know when you think about it.
Well, I am going to back up just a little bit. I am going to go back to what I said during the last hour when I was doing the Christian Car Guy Radio. One of the things we talked about is, and which I think is just important, is as Christians, and I don't think we should that should be. Throw it out there, is that's the reason we're in business, and that be something we try to use our Christianity as a selling point. But I do think that God calls us to be Christians in our business, and I think sometimes that can be very difficult.
We talked about a little bit this morning with Mark from Poylem's Barbecue and Hot Dogs, and Darren De Witt with Colors Edge, our paint supplier, who's a nationally. Company and in a lot of locations and stuff, but they both run their business as a as Christians and from a Christian standpoint.
Well, sitting in front of me is two that also do the very same thing, and I think it's important. I know it's important to me for Ray's Body Shop and Record Service. We We I hope nobody comes in there and walks away and would be surprised if somebody says that you know I think Jerry may be a Christian that they would be shocked by that because I hope that's the way we do our business and stuff and I think it's important as Christians we support those people who do things the right way and understand that you know what part of our calling when God gives us opportunity is to use that as part of our mission field and. As I said, I'm looking at two people in front of me that I know just from history, and personal relationship with both of these. Their field of professional field of real estate is a mission field, and I'm gonna let Dan and Mary Kay introduce himself and introduce their company a little bit, and then I'm gonna ask the question, same question I put Darren on the spot with and Mark on the spot.
I know I've talked about y'all coming to this area and stuff, and what brought you here. But what brought you to Jesus Christ?
So, who wants to be first up? Thank you for having us, and we'll let Mary Kay go first. Ladies first. Thank you for having us, Jerry M. What brought me to Jesus Christ, other than the obvious question of God, was a blind date.
And his name was Pete, and his family were very, very deep in their faith. And I was raised in church, but what Pete's family taught me was that there was a difference between knowing about God and having a relationship with God. And that's how I became a real Christian. I would say, long, long time ago. Mine would have been back in the probably when I was in my early twenties and in college.
You had a college girlfriend for a couple of years, and then she became somewhat disinterested in me and was following another guy, and that was Jesus. And so, as painful as that was to break up, you know, the personal human relationship I had with someone else, it opened my eyes and. You know, soon that personal hurt was gone of of a breaking of a relationship, and it turned me in a different direction. And so that was that's almost almost fifty years ago.
So I I think I hear that a lot about relationships with young people, and you know, do you? Dates someone that's a non-Christian or just a Christian, or you know, a lot of questions about all of that, and that that was impetus for me back in college days. And wasn't it through Campus Crusade, which is now called Crew, I think, right? Isn't that? Yeah, a lot of my interest was Campus Crusade conventions that we went to, and at that time, my broadcasting interest was when athletes in action.
They were had basketball teams in different sports. And you know, so I sort of pursued that a little bit and did not get involved with them. But that that was kind of a corollary thing going on at the same time. Go ahead.
So a long time ago, both for both of us, but it speaks to the importance. It sounds like as to who you date and how you honor God in those relationships. You know, as you said that, I mean, both of those are. You think about in in life. There's times where unanswered prayers and God has more for us than we understand.
Sometimes He's working, and we don't know it quite yet. It's a matter of just trusting and stuff. And as we, I'm gonna tell you what I'm. Before we dive too deep into, I want to talk really about if you have a real estate question, you know, if you're getting ready to sell your home or buy a buy a home, we're going to talk a little bit about what needs the prep you need to do. And also, I think that that Dan and Mary Kay have also this part kind of ventured out more into the senior that movement and stuff.
We're going to talk about that. And if you have a question, a real estate question, what to be looking for, what to be expecting, what to look for in a realtor. What to look for when you're buying a house or selling a house? Think of those questions and give us a call. But I'm gonna take a moment to kind of go in a different direction.
I have Fonda Bryant on the phone with me this morning. Last month was Suicide Prevention Month, and my plan and had hoped to get Fonda on the air last month, and I just It just did not work, and one of the days I wanted to do it, she was traveling to Winston, and for a Wake football game, and so, and I was on air, and I couldn't make that work neither, so, got to roll the air now because I wanted to just take an opportunity just talk about training coming up. She has training. Online training coming up today, and if you don't know Fonda, she's nationally recognized mental health advocate. Fonda is the leading voice in suicide prevention and stigma reduction.
Certified QPR trainer, and tell you what. She has a heart for those are hurting in mental health issues, bigger than anything I've ever seen in my life, and her dedication. And I am just so grateful to call her my friend and. Just, just good to have you this morning. Tell me a little bit about the training coming on today, and also, I'm gonna take just a moment also say, during this time, if you hear anything about Fonda, you'll just hear the excitement and her passion.
If you are an organization leader with a civic group or business or something, and need the, encourage you to maybe look into opportunity of bringing. Vonda, in to do a live training session because the online stuff is awesome and it's great. But if you can do the live, it is really impactful. Vonda, how you doing this morning? I'm doing good.
I hope you are doing well, and thanks for having me. I appreciate it. And as you said, I have a QPR, which stands for Question, Persuade, Refer, Suicide Prevention Training, in less than an hour from 12 to 2 Eastern Standard Time. And you're right, training in person is better. But I will say the thing is, a training online, I get to train people from all.
Over the country, from all over the world, I have trained people from Ireland. I've trained people from Puerto Rico, England, South Africa.
So the training online, as I said, it gives people the opportunity to join in from all over the world. And in this day and time, I know people think, "Oh, it can never happen to me. Nobody in my family will ever take their own life." That's not true, because when we look at the stats, we know that many are dying. And the thing. Is is that I really educate people about mental health?
Because again, people look at suicide as a sign of weakness. But or or if you die, you're you're weak and you're crazy. And we're none of that. We're not selfish. Forty six percent of people who die by suicide have a treatable mental health condition.
Ninety percent have shown signs and symptoms, and the reason why we don't come to people to get help is because the stigma and the judgment.
So I dispel all of that, and once you get finished with the training, you will know how to talk to us. You will know how to get us help because at the end of the day, we really don't want to die. We just want that pain to go away. And with one out of five adults. And one out of five children have any mental health condition.
Everybody has someone in their family that is struggling, including themselves.
So I want people not to kid themselves or think, "Hey, this could never happen to me. Nobody in my family would ever do such a thing." Because I know better. I know better. Absolutely, Fonda. I know that I don't want to keep you, and I know we're going into a break.
So, when I come back from the break, I'm going to give information how to go online. I'm going to go and give that right now. It's FondaNC underscore forty at yahoo dot com. You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork dot com. Welcome back to Kingdom Pursuits.
I'm Jerry Mathis, Rays Body Shop, and Records Service. Real quick, I'm going to give, as Fonda was on the air, I'm going to give you some information how you can go online, and if you will go ahead and text and Fonda at. Fonda N C underscore forty at yahoo dot com as F O N D A N C underscore four O at yahoo dot com, and that way she can send you the link for the online training. If you hear me, this is some valuable training. I just encourage you to do that.
Also, you can go to our website wellnessactionrecovery dot org, and again if. If you own a business or or a group, a church, I can't tell you how much I would encourage you to get in touch with her and have her come in, because one of the things we didn't get the opportunity to. But I just talked to her, and she told me this number: the second leading cause of death for early teens to thirty is suicide in the United States. And that's something I think we can prevent. It's just it's tough, and and people will think that it doesn't affect me, and it's somebody else, but it's everywhere.
And and what our kids are going through, and the pressures they have. Bonda was in a school in Charlotte area doing a.
Some training and stuff yesterday, and some of the stories she was telling me about these young kids, and they're, you know, thirteen, fourteen years old, was coming up and telling her and talking about the struggles they were having and breaking down in tears. Man, it just, man, it just ripped my heart out. I mean, those struggles are there.
So I encourage you to to reach out to Fonda.
Well, Dan and Mary Kay, tell me a little bit about your company now, and and and how somebody would be able to get in touch with you. Then my next question, well, I'll come back to that after you give that out because if you got a pen, need this information, you better write it down.
Well, we have been in real estate for about twenty five years, and I today I'm gonna say I saw that this morning when I just kind of flipped through. Man, it had shocked me. I know. I can't believe it. It's hard to believe.
But but during that course of time, we have helped people buy real estate, sell real estate, invest in real estate, from first time homebuyers to professionals. We did a lot of medical resident business in the past, and you know all the different professions have covered in all different age groups and demographics. We've been at Howard Hanna. Allen Tate Real Estate now for seven years, and really in the last couple years, organically it started to happen that we are working more with our own peer group, now. I married married Mary Kay when she was maybe ten or twelve years old.
If I told you how many years we were married, you'd say that's not possible when you look at her. But I got a few more gray hairs, and so that just seems natural for us to work with people that are similar to us in our peer group.
So we have been doing a little bit more senior real estate, and not really intentionally, but it's just been natural that it's happened. And so as I look back at our last four or five business transactions, it's Been helping people to downsize, or to right size, to relocate to be near their grandchildren. We have a transaction going on right now where the sellers are in their 80s. They want to move to their grandchildren or near the beach, and the woman that's interested in buying in the house is a grandmother who wants to live near her grandchildren. And so that just seems to be a lot of our our type of business person these days.
And there's just a lot involved when you get to be The senior age of anything, and of course, in real estate as well, and it does bring in other things that we need to know. In order to concentrate on helping that specific age group, because it's a whole different realm. If they're downsizing, as Dan said, we need to help them get rid of a lot of their belongings. If it's moving closer to be with grandchildren, they may have owned their last home for twenty-five, thirty years, and this home will look different for them. It needs to.
One level, no steps, you know, all that sort of thing.
So, we we've taken the training to focus on helping seniors, and we are in that age group ourselves. And we have found it to be very rewarding, and we're enjoying it very much. If you've ever looked at a real estate agent's credentials, there's always an alphabet of initials after their name, and our newest is S R E S. Which is senior real estate specialist, and so. They they have backed it up to fifty years old and older, so it could it could be anywhere.
But but I think what we've learned in all these years is just the kind of the mechanics, the the whole rhythm of when it's time to move to a smaller house or to relocate. As Mary Kay said, there's so much emotional that's going on.
Someone's been in a house for forty years; they're raised all their kids there. The ages and the heights. Or on the door frame, and so what do you do with that? And you know how do you take some of the memories with you? What do we do?
Do we get a mortgage? Do we use our cash? Do we refinance? There's there's a lot of different components, and so we're busy assembling a team of people. We want to have a A CPA that we can trust, an attorney that's into elder law, moving companies.
One of our senior folks, we had to find mobile nail care. Believe it or not, something that they're not able to go out and do.
So there's a lot of different things besides just putting a sign in the yard and what color should I paint my living room. We know all of that stuff too, but to us, the the biggest compliment is when someone says, "Well, we trust you, whatever you say." You think we should do? We trust you, and it's not just because we know everything, but we think we know everybody.
So, if someone says, "Well, what do we do with this old car?" I might say, "Well, let me call Jerry because Jerry knows what to do with cars." So, it's good to just have a network of people. And if anyone's listening, and they have a heart for working with seniors, and you can think of an offshoot of our real estate business, we'd love to talk with you. As I say, we're gathering people that we feel we can work with and trust. Yeah, and now we're gonna back up a little bit. If I'm if I'm if I'm in the market to to sell my home, what would be, what do I need to do?
And I'm then I'm gonna kind of work my way down to how do I look for that realtor? How do I know. What I need to be looking for, but first off, if I'm thinking about selling it, I know there's things I should do. But is the first thing go out and get a get a realtor? Is there some things I can do to get things clarified in my own mind?
Sure, I think you should research every aspect of your life when you're looking for someone to help you with something. And if you go online, you can read our our biographies and find out what we're made of. As Dan. Said, are alluded to before. It's a whole different realm of of experience and.
I don't know. Just the things that we need to help us, depending on the age that we're helping.
So, in this regard, as Dan was talking, I was thinking of. I think one of the biggest elements that we have to work with. You talked about our faith being part of our business. We often have to work with the whole family. If Grandma and Grandpa are moving.
Their family wants to know that they're well taken care of, and so yeah, they can go online. They can find us, read our biographies, find out all the ministries we're involved in, and all the areas. And hopefully, that will bring them an element of trust. No matter if you're finding someone to tow a car, like in your business, Jerry, or fix a car, you want to know that you can trust them. The same with real estate.
Yeah, there's so much online information. Available in regards to how do I prepare my house? That that part I don't say it's easy, but it's a little simpler. But really, the key is to to find somebody that you trust as far as real estate goes. And there's a lot of good real estate agents here.
You know, they need business. We need business. We're not asking to work with everybody, but First thing to do is maybe give us a call and say, "Can we sit down and talk? Can you come look at our house?" And you know, our questions are: What's your motivation? What's your timing?
What's your Comfort level, uncomfort level. Again, one of the current clients we're working with said, "Well, can you limit the number of people that see my house?" And I said, "Well, that's kind of counterproductive." I said, "But I can manage when they come to see it, and if you need me to be there when they come, we'll take care of that." And so we're flexible enough to say, "Call us. We'll call the people. We'll find the right time." Because you know, if you're 80 years old and or older, or any age, if you're just Maybe not as mobile as you'd like to be. You can't just get up and leave on five minutes' notice because someone's in the front yard.
So we try to help them schedule that, and that gives them so much peace. We had a couple this week that had to leave the house for for an hour to show the house, and they said the dog was in a tizzy. He didn't know where they were going or why they were going. And so there's just so much going on, and we feel like we've got the experience through having taken care of. Elderly parents and neighbors and other folks that we kind of understand some of those needs and sensitivities and and are able to navigate it and it just feels like.
I said to the lady last night. I said, "If you were my mother, here's what I would advise you to do." And she goes, "Well, thank you. That means a lot." And I don't know any other way to kind of to people. They don't need another mother. They don't need another son.
But I think we all understand. There's that certain trust level if you're dealing with with with your own child or or some your own parent. And I, Jerry, you asked, "What would you do first?" It always starts with a conversation. Always, just to find out. What they're wanting to accomplish, and how quick, what is their time frame, and then we can develop a plan with them.
But it always, always starts with a conversation. Yeah, and I think both of you have mentioned a short amount of time conversation is trust factor. I mean, I think, and that goes back to why I think it's so important that that that we understand that our field of business or professional. Area that we're in is is part of a mission field, and it isn't necessary.
Sometimes you know, even Paul, you know, when he was on, he goes into Athens. What does he do? You know, he doesn't go in there trying to slam the gospel on them, but he says, you know what, I got to find what we have in common, and do it through a Christian's perspective. I mean, you know what? That one idol down there you worship, but I'm going to tell you about the true.
Person we need to be worshiped. I think in our business we have to kind of do that same thing: is find that common ground, but yet make sure that it reflects Jesus Christ and the way we approach things. Be back again in just a moment with Dan and Mary Kay. And if you have any questions about real estate, buying, selling, or prepping, or whatever it may be, give us a call. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com.
Welcome back to Kingdom Pursuits. I'm Jerry Mathis, Rays Body Shop Records Service, with Dan and Mary Kay Rath, local realtors. And again, this is a call-in show. If you'll give us a call, if you have any kind of question about selling a home, buying a home, finding a realtor, or whatever it may be, just give us a call at eight six six. Three four eight seven eight eight four.
Again, that number is eight six six, three four eight seven eight eight four. Dan and Mary Kay, one question I I have. You know, we talked about.
Well, I guess the question is, when you're looking for. To make that move, what is probably the biggest obstacle that y'all run across that that people are having to face and get get through? Because I know that there's things that that happen when somebody first says, "You know, I'd like to move," and I'm think I'm one of the downsizes, or or my family's growing, I need to upsize. Whatever it may be, what seems to be that one thing that people just don't expect, that kind of creeps in there that has to be answered.
Well, a lot of it just has to do with the financial part of it. Whether they can qualify for a mortgage for the house that they want, whether or not they're comfortable with our economy right now, with the interest rates that they hear. You know, during the COVID time, interest rates got down to the three percent range, and so if you have a three percent range, you're not as likely to want to sell your house if you have to buy a new one with a mortgage that's double.
So that's one of the obstacles that we see these days. A lot of times, people's appetite is bigger than their pocketbook, and so it's it's a bit disappointing sometimes when they find out they can't afford as much house as. They want, but if you historically and traditionally look back at real estate, if we're at seven and a half percent right now, that's not that unusual if you look at the averages. You can go back and talk to your parents, and they bought houses at 20 percent interest rate and didn't think much about it. But of course, the whole economy, the whole world was different then.
So I think that's another part that you really have to trust your real estate agent, who can lead you to the proper lenders that can inform you correctly about the financial part of it, because that's going to be something you you face monthly, your monthly obligation, and how comfortable you are. Does it hamstring you? You can't do. Anything else, because it's it's all poured into your house.
So I think that's probably the biggest thing we face right now in this market is the financial side. It's I've got too much in the house and too good of interest rate to sell, and someone else says I can't afford to borrow enough the house that I want.
So now we're back to just the human passions and needs that we have of you know sometimes wanting more than we really can afford, and it's hard to be patient when you see the perfect house. Yeah. As Dan was talking about that, I would say also, emotion is always part of a move. Moving your residence is one of your biggest decisions, and when you move, whether yesterday I talked to two different clients. One was moving to a larger community, which is a senior community, and the other one is moving to a smaller one, a smaller home, a one-level home.
So no matter what. The reason is that you're moving. It's emotional. It's a big decision, and handling that and not getting overwhelmed by the whole process. And we encourage them to trust us to take one step at a time.
This is what's next. This is what we do next.
Now we do this next. We need to find a place to do this, or to put this, or to gather this. Helping them with each step, rather than getting so overwhelmed by the whole picture, they have to move. That's already been determined, and so helping them through the process step by step. There's a chronology to it all.
You you make the decision, but then, they start packing well before they need to, or getting rid of things they don't need to. And Mary Kay's an expert at that, when it comes to staging a house to get it ready to sell. But the other side of that is kind of unstaging it, or preparing to sell it, or to donate it, or to give it to children.
So when she talks about the emotion, when we said, well, what are you going to do with that hutch over there? Oh, my daughters are already. Fighting over that, so sometimes Mary Kay's a referee and has a solution to how to take care of that.
So it really does become very emotional for people when they get involved. And so, kind of back to your question of how do you find a real estate agent? You really need to mesh with someone, and. Heard on one of your commercials before, you know. Not everybody should go out to dinner together because maybe they don't all get along, right?
And that's just the reality of life. But I think sometimes we feel like we're able to help people understand all the different components of of how emotional it can be, and and how to make it all work when you're dealing with families that have an estate to sale, and you've got two or three different siblings, and they've got spouses. There's a lot going. On there, and again, our experience, our maturity, our faith—all of those things, I think, really play a factor in how to deal with people. Yeah, I think that's where the trust comes in, because you've got a—you know—I can imagine that that there's going to be times where your recommendation is not where they're thinking, and may not even be on the radar.
But then just just that they are able to that goes back to you said need to meet with them and feel comfortable with them because you can talk through it and then all of a sudden you realize you know what Dan Mary Kay y'all are absolutely right I just didn't really look at it from that perspective because I deal with that on the repairing automobiles I mean it's the same thing anytime you're dealing with customers sometimes they're not you know. John Doe or Mary doesn't have an accident every week and doesn't deal with it.
Somebody doesn't buy or sell a home every day or every week or every ten years.
So it's just just having that comfort level where you can talk it through with somebody is just important, I think. And and and I've seen that. I've seen that from from outside that that circle because I know people that y'all dealt with over the years and and the approach that you take and the walking through it and talking talking it through. Even to the point of where you know it'd be stuff that may not be in y'all's realm of responsibility, but it helps the sale or the buy, or it helps that individual.
Well, you will make recommendations for okay. You know what? Maybe I can help you be the mediator to make sure we get this AC condition or the roof or the issues in the yard, whatever it may be. Because I think that trust part is where. For me, I could trust if in this aspect anything either one of y'all were to tell me.
Thank you, thank you. That is so true, Jerry. If a person looks at a property. They may fall in love with it, but if it is a three-level home with all kinds of stairs, and they've just had a hip replaced, that's probably not their best option. And we just have to help them understand.
You probably maybe your health has changed and you're not able to take care of five acres of land anymore, or a pool, or whatever it is. Then we help them understand we're doing them no good service if we think about other things other than what is best going to serve them in their next season of life. Yeah, it's it's satisfying to play almost the long game with some of our clients. We got a a text and a picture yesterday of someone that just dug up the whole driveway and put in new concrete and put in new garage doors. Not very exciting in the in the scope of everyday life, but this is advice we gave them six months ago, and they're following this list of things that we talked about, and they're getting excited and fired up.
But they probably won't buy and sell until next spring. We're okay with that, and I think that's where some real estate agents get a. Bad name and there's too much pressure. They they pressure you too much, and we don't do that. We we like to see the fruition.
We we understand the trust in the relationship that we're building, and we say great job because it's going to pay off. And they really are satisfied later on. It's hard to imagine how excited you get over a garage door, but they're they're fired up. They got some new garage doors. But the important importance of that was having the consultation, that conversation.
First, we think your home will get more money. We think that you'll be happier with the bottom line if you can do A, B, C, and D to your home, and how much times you need to do that. Let's give you the time to do that. And we know you have a budget, and so we're going to ask you how to how you can handle that and be comfortable with it. We're not going to pressure you into tearing up your whole kitchen if all you need is a new set of curtains.
We're back in just a moment with Kingdom Pursuits. You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com. Welcome back to Kingdom Pursuits in the studio with me, Dan and Mary K. Wrath, Realtors in the area and stuff. And we're I just want to take just a moment before I go into the next.
Part talking to Dan and Mary Kate. Make sure we. I definitely want to make sure we get the information out there how to get in touch with them. But I just want to take a moment to mention a ministry that I am involved in. Robbie Dillmore is involved in.
Scott and Bob Young and a bunch of us are involved in. That's Jesus Labor of Love. I know you've heard me talk about it. Heard Robbie talk about it on the radio quite a bit over the last few years. But right now, Jesus Labor of Love is in a kind of a little bit of a funny predicament, where we have had over the last two months.
More requests than you could ever believe, and this is a ministry that helps really heavy with single moms and single parents.
Sometimes it's to help get them a car.
Sometimes it's get cars back on the road. Most of these moms, and even we've also done veterans and men who are also in crisis with an automobile. But what it does is we don't realize the the value of having transportation, especially in the world we live in now. But We're able to get cars back on the road for them, where they can get to work to to make sure they can support their family. Where a lot of them have kids that are.
Have disabilities or medical issues, and they need to get them to the doctor, and they're doing it with Uber or on the bus. It's an opportunity to really show Jesus Christ through automobiles. But our ministry, Jesus Labor of Love, is as I said, the requests have been just crazy. The requests are definitely outweighing the finances of the ministry.
So last hour, and really about a month ago, I made a challenge, and I called it the Coffee Challenge. That is, if you'll take, and you're hearing my voice. Once a week, don't buy one cup of that coffee at whatever place you go and buy coffee and pay five, six, seven, eight dollars a cup for it, or an energy drink. Just take one of those a week, and put that towards Jesus' labor of love. You can go on the website, and you'll see now we've changed the way you can donate.
There's you can do a one-time gift, you can do reoccurring, or you can do an amount, and it's all there. They can do a bank.
Now, so it makes it so much easier. There's also a link there to, you know, what if you have that automobile sitting in your driveway that all the neighbors are wishing you would get moved, you know what? Donate it to us. If it doesn't run, that's fine. We'll get it running.
If it doesn't run and not worth getting. Repaired and there's more issues than feasible. We can turn that into cash.
So the opportunity there, we're going to clean your yard up for you. Give us a call. But the coffee challenge is take something this week that you you know do without one cup of coffee, one energy drink, one bag of chips, whatever it may be, and take that and donate it to Jesus Labor of Love. You can do that. Just think if a hundred people took five dollar Drink or something donated a hundred people.
What difference that would make? What if a thousand people that hear my voice this morning did that? What a difference that would make in somebody's life. And Mark at Poylem's Barbecue and Hot Dog this morning said that if anybody comes in and says, just take the change from your hot dog and barbecue and soda and chips, he'll put it aside, and then whenever he gets. Every month, write a check to Jesus Labor of Love, so that's an opportunity.
So you don't have to give up anything; you can have a hot dog or barbecue and still help with Jesus Labor of Love.
So I encourage you to do that. Take the coffee challenge; give up something one time a week and donate to Jesus Labor of Love and make that impact. And as I am sitting here this morning, right outside the door of the studio, is two kids. That are touched by Jesus' labor love, and I really didn't even think about that. And this is a surprise that they're here.
But Dan and Mary Kay can touch on that because their mom was also one that received help through Jesus' labor love that made a huge impact. That is very true. We didn't line that up when we came here this morning. We didn't know that they were going to be here before us. But these two sweet little girls that are spending the weekend with us, their mama, we've been involved in their family's life now for over four years.
Their mama needed a vehicle, and Jesus Labor of Love helped her secure a vehicle. And because of that, you don't even think about, or at least I didn't think about. All the ripple effect of that, but it's being able to get to your job so you can have an income. Being able to get to the grocery store. Being able to take the kids to the doctor.
Being able to get them to school on time. Getting to church to worship with your church family. All that and so much more is affected by having a dependable vehicle. Yeah, and so they've got one and. These sweet little girls are waiting for us to be done, so we can go play at the park and and spending the weekend with us.
But we continue to be involved with this family, and because of that, we're making a donation to Jesus Labor of Love today.
So, I'd love to go get a hot dog from Pulliams. I would love to do that, but we're still going to make a donation.
So, it's a ministry that we firmly believe in. Yeah, it's it it is powerful, and one of the aspects that really kind of gets overlooked.
Sometimes when we talk about it, is just that we have a team that prays with everyone when they make a request, and there is sometimes people just need to know that somebody cares about them, but more importantly that through that that Jesus Christ cares for them, and that's just so powerful.
Well, back to Dan and Mary Kay, back to the real estate. I want to make sure I get in there, and if you have a pen or pencil or something. Here, how to get in touch with Dan and Mary Kay. You can call us at three three six five seven seven one one two one, or just search us online, Dan Rath Real Estate. You'll find us.
Yep. I just, I can't tell you how grateful I am to have you in the studio with me this morning. One quick, got one to say before we go off the air. Anything? Thank you for having us.
Thank you for all the work you do. Let us know how we can serve your real estate needs. All right, and you can trust them, and that's important.
So get out and support Christian businesses tomorrow morning. Be in church somewhere. Go through those doors. I don't care if it's rain and sleet, snow, and whatever it may be. Get with your family.
Get with the community of believers.
