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Share it. But most of all, thank you for listening and for choosing the Truth Podcast Network. This is the Truth Network. Unfortunately, Robbie is not here today. Robbie couldn't be here today, but I'm grateful for the opportunity to host such an amazing show. For Kingdom Pursuits, this is Carmen Ramirez and I'm speaking with Sam Main from Masculine Journey. Say hi, Sam.

Hello. Robbie is out having some fun today, I think so. I think so.

I've heard a couple different stories. Yeah, we'll let him share it when he comes back. I'm sure he'll be up for doing that. And Sam's not here alone. He's also here with David Brussels from Sheets. Hey, thanks for having me here today. I appreciate it. Thanks so much for showing up. And also on the other mic, we have Brooke from the Hope Center.

Hello. Thank you so much for having us. Oh, thank you so much you guys all for coming out.

It's my first time hosting, so I'm a little nervous, but I'm glad you guys all showed up. So about the Hope Center, Brooke, what can you tell us about it? If I know nothing about the Hope Center, tell me like I'm a little kid. Alright, so the Hope Center is, we're trying to make it more into a community center. So what we do have is we have a clothing closet that is free that you can come to. And then we also have a food pantry as well. So we serve the community here in Walkertown, Kernersville area, but also the Forsyth area as well.

Wow, that's really, really cool. So how did you get involved with the Hope Center? Well, at first, I got involved through the clothing closet because the food pantry was just kind of starting up and we haven't really been open. The food pantry hasn't been open for, it's been like less than a year now. So I started in the clothing closet and just really, really wanted to see the food pantry kind of explode and do well. Really saw the need there in that Walkertown area. And so that's what we did.

We just went for it. Oh, wow. Are you from this area? I'm not. I'm actually from the Winston area. So yeah, I love Kernersville though. Oh, I actually live in Kernersville. Oh, you do?

I do. I just moved there like a year ago. Yeah, it's definitely like, more of like that small town feel. Yeah, it is a really small town. Perfect for families.

We love it there. Sam, how did you get involved with the Hope Center? Well, I, the church that Brooke and I go to is the one that started the Hope Center. It's called the Project Re3 Hope Center.

You can find it on Facebook, different places. But about end of last year, I was having lunch with our pastor, Mike, and he was just talking about how much he had going on. And I said, well, how can I help you? And he said, well, what do you think about being the director of the Hope Center? And initially, I'm like, no. Then I went home and prayed about it. And God said yes. And so I said yes. And it's just been tremendous.

The job that Brooke and Sharon do there is just amazing. And I just try to try to help and try to find resources, you know, for them for more food. We are partners with Second Harvest Food Bank.

But that doesn't quite meet the needs of all the people coming in as you have inflation going up and a couple and at least one other local food pantry closing down. We've had more clientele come through. And so that's where Sheets has gotten involved.

And David can probably talk a little bit about that. So yeah, so Sheets is partnered with Project Re3 Hope Center. We're currently, it started on Thursday, we're doing a canned food drive. So you go to any of your local Sheets here in Winston, the Kernersville area, Walkertown, King, Bermuda Run, Wahlberg, and donate three or more cans of food and you can get a free fountain drink or free coffee, cappuccino, anything like that.

And you just take it up to the front register area, give it to an employee, and they'll hook you up with a drink. And so we partnered with them kind of with what Sam was saying, meeting the demand. I too go to Project Re3.

You missed that, but it's fine. So I was helping at the Hope Center one Saturday and talking with Brooke and Sam and kind of heard that the need was there. And so I went back, I prayed about it and reached out to my district manager. And she's really awesome, sent her an email, she forwarded up the flagpole. And ultimately Sheets approved to do this can drive, which is something huge because typically we don't do that kind of thing necessarily.

Yeah, like I'm honestly really surprised, but I'm really glad to hear because I love Sheets, so I'm definitely going to be supporting them from now on. Awesome, awesome. And you said you're in Kernersville, so we have three in Kernersville, yeah. But yeah, so it's going pretty good so far. So if you're listening and you want to donate some food to the Hope Center, which is a great outreach for our community, please by all means stop by Sheets or Project Re3 as a drop-off area as well as the Hope Center, I do believe has a drop-off on the side door.

All right. Hey Sam, so I know you were telling us something a little bit about the Masculine Journey boot camp. Can you let us know a little bit about that? Yeah, David and I are actually on the Masculine Journey radio show and after hours. And we have a ministry that we do that does men's boot camps. We've been doing it in one version and other since 2009. And so we've done a fair number of them. We do a couple of them a year. And so we have one coming up November 17th through the 20th, which we're giving away a boot camp today. Yeah, we are later.

Later. And yeah, stay tuned and a book, a great book called Wild at Heart. But we also have an upcoming thing called Entrenchment that's free and it's in Reedsville and it's September 30th and October 1st. And for more information on both of those, you can go to masculinejourney.org and find out information and register for the boot camp, which is a great deal.

It's four days for $199. Oh, wow. What all do you guys do at the boot camp?

What can someone expect you to do? Well, it's getting closer to God is the outcome. Getting closer to Jesus.

That's a great outcome. Yeah, growing your walk. We have certain topics that we go through that really speak to men's hearts quite a bit. Not that they wouldn't to women's, but we're geared into men's ministry. And what it does is we'll have a topic and then we'll kind of teach on it, train on it, let the Holy Spirit work. And then you go out and you have quiet time with God and work on that topic or work on whatever God wants to work on on your heart. And we've seen people get some intense healing, hear from God for the first time ever, that type of thing. That's always so beautiful when they first hear from God. Yeah, it's just an amazing thing. And we go with expectation that God's going to do something.

We don't know what it is, but he's going to do something. And honestly, as many of them as I've been to, which has got to be up to about 30. Wow, you hold the record now.

Yeah, pretty close. I've gone to other people's boot camps and doing that again next weekend. Gone to ours, of course. But every time I've been, God's done something for my heart or for me at those camps. And so even though the information's the same, I'm in a different place towards God. And so I hear things differently. And David's also been to three, two boot camps. It seems like so much more.

But anyway. Oh yeah, the boot camps are great. I went to my first one fall of last year and then went to the spring, this past spring.

They're great. And I definitely say go in there with an open mind and pray about it. We were just talking the other day, Sam was pretty confident in my first boot camp.

I wasn't even going to stay. And I'm really glad I did because talking about hearing God's voice for the first time, it was an audible form. And I heard it at my first boot camp and ultimately it changed my life completely.

Totally different person I was a year ago. And I'm definitely thankful for the boot camp and what they do with it, or we do with it now. That's really cool.

Honestly, I wish I could go, but it is the man's boot camp. So Carmen, how did you get into this? So I've been studying radio since I was about 16 at the Career Center.

They no longer have the radio broadcasting program, but I've been working with Truth Broadcasting for a year. And I'm usually the producer, so I'm usually on the other side of the class. But today I'm the host since Robbie's not here. Yeah. Well, good. That's exciting. Long, long time ago, I'd went to college and my initial major was radio and TV. Oh, really?

Yeah. And I did that for a while and then switched over to teaching, which I didn't finish that one either. But what was kind of cool is over time God had brought me back to the radio show back in 2011 that Robbie helped start the Masking Journey radio show. And then also through the boot camps and stuff, he's let me kind of step into that teaching stuff, which is pretty cool where he uses all the stuff that we get. So it's exciting to see that you're just getting started in that side of the microphone, but you're going to do a great job.

Oh, thank you so much. Unfortunately, our time's up, but we'll be back. And you guys stay tuned to learn more about the Masking Journey boot camp and maybe somebody will get to go to it as well. You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com. If you missed the first segment, Robbie isn't here, but I am. My name is Carmen Ramirez and I'm here with Sam Main from the Hope Center. Hey Sam, how are you doing?

I'm doing good. We're very grateful to be here. It's such a great platform. This show is pretty amazing to see what God does and brings people together. Been fortunate to be on the show a few times with Masking Journey and with the Hope Center.

And it's always amazing how God takes the little offering that we give and multiplies it, which is really pretty cool. Speaking of center. You know, it wouldn't be Kingdom Pursuit without Robbie's riddles and jokes.

And these are all Robbie approved, by the way. I am irrationally scared of places like shopping centers, particularly if they are confusing and difficult to navigate. I have a complex, complex, complex.

But once you've seen a shopping center, you've seen the mall. It sounds like Robbie. Yeah. Sadly, I had to leave my job at the Cat Rescue Center. Know why, Sam? No, why?

David, Brooke, anybody? Nope. No idea.

They cut me hours. See, I thought it wasn't perfect for you. What language is spoken at the center of the earth? Sam? Christian? I don't know. No clue. No. No, no clue.

Korean. Ah, good. Bazing.

Potatoes and glasses are never the center of attention. Know why? No.

They're just spectators. There we go. I have a riddle for you guys today. Not to be stuck in the middle, but the center of Christianity is where? Do you guys know where the center of Christianity is? I don't have any idea, Carmen. Where is it?

Yeah, I guess it's as good as mine. Oh, well, somebody's going to have to call in and find out because we have a prize to give away today. So if they know what it is, Christian, tell them what they'll win.

Like we said before, they're going to win a Masculine Journey boot camp experience valued at $199. All right, so if you know the answer to that, call in and let us know and you'll be the winner and you'll get to go to a God changing experience. Yes.

All right. Brooke, I know you were telling us a little bit about the clothes closet. Can you tell us a little bit about maybe your passion behind that? Well, I actually run the food pantry portion of it. And Sharon is incredibly passionate about the clothing closet. And it's really infectious the way she is so passionate about what she does. She was really the brains behind the Hope Center and starting both the food pantry and the clothing closet.

So I have to give her credit. But I really feel strongly about fighting for our community. And being able to grow the food pantry has been my way of fighting back against food insecurity.

Also showing my kids that when there's a need, you have to jump in. You have to do something about it. We can't just talk about it. We've got to do something about it. Well, that's amazing.

I didn't even know you had kids. Well, that's a great example to set for them. Thank you. So partnering with Sheets has been huge for us because we're still kind of small. So this is a really big opportunity for us. So we're very grateful for David and for Sheets. Oh, wow. I'm still really surprised that you guys were able to partner with such a large company. They were willing to partner with you. I know it's been amazing.

And we're really excited to see where this is going to take us. So yeah, Sheets, David, you know, won't say a whole lot because he's pretty humble about stuff. But he was instrumental in getting that down the line. He'll tell you he just sent an email. But the thing is, he sent an email, and he sent it to the right person.

And his passion and his relationship with his boss is what helped this all come about. And, you know, we don't know how much food we're going to get from the food drive. But what we do know is we're going to get whatever God gives us.

And we're also going to help people know about us. Because in this day and age, as inflation goes up, people are choosing right now, do I pay my rent? Do I pay my house payment? Do I eat? Do I get the kids school clothes? You know, and we're just trying to meet the needs of the school clothes, you know, or any clothes for that matter, necessarily, and food. And they can come, you know, once a month to get food, right?

Correct. Yes, once a month to get food. So yes, obviously, donations have been down during the summer. So getting the word out and really having food drives and things like that have become increasingly more and more important. As Sam says, as inflation goes up, there's more and more families that are in need of food. And we never want anybody to have to choose between putting gas in your car and putting food on the table.

And that's why we're there. If somebody's hoping to help, what are maybe some staple items that they could bring to the food drives? So non-perishables are huge for us. It could be boxed potatoes, it could be packets of rice, mac and cheese, beans, you know, fruit, anything that's non-perishable that is within date. We love to see those items. We love to see fun items, too, things that you would put in your kids' lunch boxes, snacks, little individually, you know, packaged Cheez-Its or, you know, fish crackers, anything like that.

Anything like that? All right. Are there any things you guys don't take as a food drive? We don't take anything that is expired. We don't take anything like that. As far as anything we don't take, we'll take hygiene items. We love kitchen items, anything like that.

So we'll take a wide range. All right. Thank you. Hey, David, do you mind sharing again the sheets locations around the area? Yeah, sure.

No problem. So it's going to be the sheets in the Winston area. Also all the sheets in Kernersville. We're also doing it at Walkertown, King, Bermuda Run and the Wahlberg location.

So just go into any location. You can go up to the front register, speak to any employee, the manager, anybody with a Sheetz shirt on and let them know you're donating cans. And then you can help yourself to a free self-service cold drink or hot drink, which includes our coffees and our cappuccinos. And it's just a really great outreach to support with the Hope Center.

Like they're talking about inflation and not wanting to choose between gas or rent and food, you know, ultimately is why Sheetz partnered with the Hope Center because ultimately we don't want that either. And you spoke earlier about how we're a big company. Locally wise, you're correct with the local partnerships.

We do do some bigger partnerships. This is one of the first ones that I'm aware of, not saying it doesn't happen, but I'm very thankful that I work for a company that has allowed me to be in a position to be able to help the Hope Center and Project Re3 with this. And ultimately that's what God laid on my heart. And my passion with that is to help people in general.

I've always been like that. And so I'm glad I'm getting the opportunity or God's given me the opportunity to help the local community with this. Oh, wow. Sam, I wanted to ask you some more about the entrenchment opportunity thing that you spoke of earlier. Yeah, the entrenchment is something new that we're trying. And that's with Masculine Journey, right?

It is. It's with Masculine Journey. Sorry, God's got our hearts in several different ministries here. And so at least a few different, several is an exaggeration, but a few different ministries. Had a friend that actually used to go to Project Re3 years ago, who's now a pastor of a church up in Reedsville, reach out to me probably in the spring and said that his church had wanted him to do a revival for men specifically.

And he said, instead of revival, I want to do something similar to a boot camp because he's been to a boot camp. And so we're going to his church in Reedsville. It's a new Lebanon church up there and it's September 30th, October 1st.

It's free. The only thing that we're asking is that people provide a donation for the food that they're going to get. If they want to bring some canned food, we definitely take that and give it to the Hope Center as well. But it's a time where they can kind of see what a boot camp's like without investing a whole weekend because the boot camp runs Thursday night through Sunday at noon. And this is just going to be Friday evening and then all day Saturday.

And so we're going to do some of the topics we do at boot camp, do the quiet times with God, all that kind of stuff, just to let God do his work and then also let people know what it's like to come to a boot camp. Oh, wow. That's a great opportunity, you know, just one day instead of the whole weekend if you don't have time for that. Right. And it's relatively local. You know, I mean, Reedsville from here is a little bit of a drive, but if you're in the Kernersville area, you know, it's 40 minutes, you know, you're up there. And again, the cost is just your gas getting up there.

And if you, you know, eat lunch or dinner, either Friday or Saturday, just asking for a donation to the church, so they're not losing money on it. But can I ask Brooke a question? So Brooke, you know, we're not a very big operation over there. But Sharon is great about sharing the numbers. Do you mind sharing the numbers from August and year to date?

Absolutely. So in August, we had 74 families come through for food. And that equals to 238 people, individuals total in those families.

And for clothing, it was 122 families that we had come through that totals 335 individuals that we served in that family. Wow. Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah. And those numbers continue to rise as well. So we're seeing a lot. What was our year to date through August?

Does she have that on the bottom of the thing there? Our total families that we've served is 269 families this year. Yeah.

August. 925 people. Wow. That is a lot of people. I'm glad you guys are all willing to do everything. Absolutely.

Yeah, it's pretty amazing. And the people that come in are tremendous. Brooke, I mean, you're there every time we're open, it seems like.

But, you know, I'm there on Saturdays. And David, you help out on the fourth Saturday. But everybody that's come through is just so gracious and just really, really good people. It's great to help them in any way. Well, I'm glad the Lord knows. And I'm pretty sure He thanks you guys for everything you guys do. The music coming up, that means we're about to be great.

But if you know the answer to that, call in. You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com. Welcome back to Kingdom Pursuits. We're here today with David and Sam and Brooke, all helping out the Hope Center and David with the Sheets. We're so glad to be here. I do appreciate you having us on today. No, thank you guys for coming. So Sam, tell me a little bit more about the Masculine Journey Bootcamp. Well, obviously, since you've been, we let anybody go. No, but David and I are friends. So if I've given him a hard time, it's just because I enjoy doing it.

But no, we met at a bootcamp is where we met for the first time. But the Masculine Journey Bootcamp is derived from the book Wild at Heart, which is also part of the prize package today. And it just goes through and that book has a unique way of speaking to a man's heart. It hit me, I was going through a really rough time in my marriage back in the early 2000s.

And my boss at work actually gave me that book. And it hit me where I was working at the time, and it hit me at a place where my heart really needed. It spoke about God in ways I didn't learn at the churches that I'd went to, because each church kind of falls into its own little flavor. Some want to speak on grace a lot more, some want to speak on repentance a lot more, that kind of thing. And this gave me more of a total picture, and a different picture of my own heart and God's heart. And that led to me going to my first bootcamp, which was with the Wild at Heart team in Colorado.

And it was just tremendous. It's the first time I had heard from God ever. And he worked on some really painful childhood wounds that I had, and helped me move past those, helped me move into a place of healing and restoration and a place where I'm not embarrassed to talk about those things anymore. Because when those things happen to you, often the enemy comes at you, and it makes you think it's only you that deals with it. For me, it was a molestation issue that happened from a family member. And so when that happened, and being the age that I was, my first thought was, no one will ever know about this.

I'm never going to say anything. And when you keep those things bottled up, the enemy has free access and just pins you down. And what God did is he came in and he worked on that healing for me and helped me understand that what had happened to me wasn't my fault. That I was a victim there and just different things that the enemy had me believing and really moved me to a place of freedom and a place of where those things don't hurt anymore. It's just a part of my life.

It's just what happened. And it helps me speak of God's glory and God's redemption. And there's so many other things that he's come in and helped me move past in my life, because none of us get through this life unscathed. Everybody gets hurt. Everybody gets wounded. We all have scars.

We do. And God has to come in sometimes and open up that scar and get the splinter that's in there out so that it can really heal instead of festering. And so I see that happen with men over and over and over again. And a unique thing for men is, especially if you're old like me, David, so I'll go ahead and say it so you don't have to. I'll take that one from you.

But growing up at the end of the John Wayne era where just suck it up, be a man. You don't talk about these things. You just shove them down. That's what you're told.

And that's the worst thing you can do. The best thing you can do is, as the Bible shares, it says, share with a brother, share with someone else that then it can come to light and then God can heal it. And so through those boot camps, we're really stepping in and sharing those moments with God, letting him father us through it. That was a great story that you told about yourself. How old were you when you accepted the Lord? Well, I accepted the Lord when I was a teenager. And to be truthful, I started going to the church because the girls were kind of cute.

And it was a small town and I'm like, yeah, well, that's a place to meet somebody. You know, God, God used that little hook and it reeled me in. And from there, he helped me at a church camp. I accepted the Lord.

And I went to a great church growing up, but one of the things that they never really did is they were great at preaching. You need to accept Christ. But then no one ever said, what do you do after you accept?

There's no like help me class kind of thing. And so I really tried to just stumble on my own. So I accepted God and felt like, okay, I'm cleansed and everything's good until the next time I send again or something else happened. And I thought, okay, am I still saved? Am I not saved?

And there was no help. And through this program, through Wild at Heart and a lot of John Eldridge's other books, it's really helped me understand that concept and understand, as Paul writes about, we're new creations in Christ. And it'd be like yelling at a baby when they're first trying to learn how to walk and saying, why aren't you walking yet and shaming them. And so as Christians, we have to grow from milk to meat is what Paul writes. We have to go from that early sustenance, I think is the word, to something that's more, you can take bites of.

And that's as we grow as Christians and as we get stronger in Christ, those tendencies go away. Sorry, I gave you more than what you asked for. No, that was terrific. That was great. I'm glad you shared that with us.

Well, thank you. Do you have any other experiences at the bootcamp? Maybe something that you witnessed?

Yeah. We've seen a couple people. I wasn't at this particular bootcamp. I had actually went out to play paintball and thought that I was younger than I was.

And so as I went to run, I didn't tear one hamstring, but both hamstrings at the same time. And so it happened like four days ahead of bootcamp and I couldn't go. But one of the people that went and they weren't a Christian, they got invited, they came and initially they were very upset that they were there. They weren't enjoying it.

It was completely foreign. And by the end of the bootcamp, they accepted Christ and actually got baptized at the camp at that time. And we've had a couple different baptisms. That's been pretty special. We had one at this last bootcamp where one of the guys from Ohio that comes down, came down and he was with his brother-in-law and his dad on that particular trip. And he just said, Hey, I'd really love to get baptized while I'm here.

I can't think of a better place to do it. And so it's been pretty special to see what God does. There's just story after story of what he does. We only ask two questions of the guys when they leave bootcamp, we do a little survey and the two questions are, how did God come after your heart and how can we pray for you? And it's amazing just to read their stories of just spiritual strongholds being broken and them getting freedom. We've seen marriages be changed.

We've seen marriages not make it, but the people be changed. And it's just amazing it's just amazing to see how God steps into it and really, really just loves on the men. David, is there anything you've seen at the boot camps?

Seen a lot. I mean, both boot camps that I've been to, obviously I was working on my, or God was working on my own stuff. You know, kind of to go off of what Sam said about it and as well as, you know, anybody listening that's been to one, but to just give you kind of an idea, you know, for me, for my first boot camp, I was in a pretty bad spot in my life. I mean, I'm married.

I have two kids from my first marriage and my youngest daughter had moved in with me several months prior to the first boot camp. And actually, Jim was the one that got me to come to the boot camp and he actually asked me two weeks before it even started. But I was at the end of my road. I mean, I was hopeless.

I didn't know where to turn, didn't know where to go from there. Pretty much was ready just to be, you know, give up. And I went to the boot camp and like I said, you know, earlier where Sam thought, you know, I didn't expect me to stay and I didn't expect to stay.

I didn't even take my stuff out of my truck into the cabins we stay in. You were confident. I was pretty sure within the first little bit of it that I was like, you know, I'm a fish out of water here. And went to the bonfire the first night and one of the seasoned boot campers that actually shares the same name as me, his name's David, he asked me in front of everybody of why I was there. And right at that very moment is when God started coming after my heart during it.

And, you know, just kept pressing into him during it and because I'd never really experienced that before. I mean, I've been saved. My dad's a minister. You know, I was baptized as an infant. And so, you know, I thought I was living the life that I was supposed to. But I can tell you that boot camp really, in a great way, and not to sound bad, definitely showed me with God's help, obviously, that I was definitely not living the life I should have.

Thank you so much for sharing all that. We haven't got any callers. If you guys know the answer to the riddle of what's the center of Christianity, call 866-348-7884 and you'll win a boot camp experience.

You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com. Back to Kingdom Pursuits. This is Carmen. Robbie isn't here today, but I'm really happy to host this show.

And I'm really glad I have these three spectacular guests here. We have Brooke from the Hope Center and we have Sam and David, also from the Hope Center and David specifically with Sheets. Brooke, do you have any stories you can share with us about the Hope Center? Any testimony or something like that?

Absolutely. I have so many really amazing stories. But there's a lot of families that lost their jobs during the beginning of the pandemic. And I think we all kind of thought, you know, two weeks to a month, and then everything would be back on track back to normal. And I was just seeing so many families having to put their bills on credit cards and oh, we'll catch up when everything opens back up. And so we have a lot of stories about how they've maxed out multiple credit cards and they're now in all this debt, just trying to pay their light bill, pay their phone bill, pay for their kids medicines or medications that they personally need. So to be able to pay off all of those bills, or possibly medical debt, that's what they needed to do was to supplement with the food pantry.

They couldn't put food on the table and pay their light bills. So we have a lot of stories like that. I will say we do a Christmas toy drive every year. And what we do is we let families pick out Christmas gifts for their kids, which is really so beautiful. And it is so touching. And I was taking this one little girl back one time and she was talking about I was you know, what would you like for your grandmother to pick out?

We have a lot of grandparents that have become parents. And she was just saying, you know, I'm just so happy. Just to be here.

Oh, that's so I know she was like, I don't it doesn't matter what she picks out. This is making her happy. And I'm just happy that we're together. And I think that's what really what I love the food pantry and the clothing closet brings is like that family connection. I feel very strongly about families connecting and sitting around that table every night for dinner or a couple nights a week. And we're able to take that stress away, be able to feed them for them to be able to feed their children.

And just that's one less thing at the end of the day that they have to be worried about is to be able to feed their children connect at the end of the day become stronger as a family. Wow, that's an amazing story. Thank you for sharing. I'm really glad that the Lord ignited that in your heart and that was even able to happen. It's really amazing, like how he connects all the dots and how we all end up where we are. It's not something that I ever thought that I'd it's not something that I ever thought that I'd fall into or end up running.

But I a big believer in taking the opportunity is because we can talk about the changes we want to see all day, but that's not what's going to change the community and it's not what's going to hopefully change your, you know, future. So I mean, my kids are a huge part of the Hope Center. And my youngest, who's six, he has really gotten involved as well. It was really cute. The other day we were at the park and there was this two year old, he was helping down the slide, kind of being really protective. And the kid was a little bit, you know, like, Oh, I don't know who you are.

And he was like, you know, he's like, my name is Griffin. And I'm really friendly because I work at the Hope Center. And I, you know, I welcome people, and I help people with food and clothing. And I was like, that's, at the end of the day, what you want your kids to continue to do.

I will do fight with my last breath to make this world a little bit better. That's amazing. You're such a great role model for your kids, all of you. You guys, I'm so thankful for everything you do. I honestly can't even believe it.

I'm hearing it all. And I'm trying to picture how you guys do all this. The pantry, the clothes drive, putting in all these hours.

I mean, we all have our 40 hours at work, but you guys still take time to do even more than that. I mean, we have a strong team of people that we've become more like family than just a team. And we all very much are just as passionate as the next about what we do and what we want to see for the future of the Hope Center. Honestly, this is just amazing.

I'm really glad. Thank you so much for sharing. I would add for the Hope Center, if you're part of a church out there and you want to partner with us, you know, this is not about our church. It's about helping the community. And we have already the way church in Kernersville, that's helping out monetarily each month, starting this next month, and then also sending some people to help volunteer. You know, our goal would be obviously to get enough volunteers and enough food to be open more, right? But with the people we have, we're kind of at our max, you know, but if you wanted more information, you could go to Project Re Three Hope Center on Facebook. You can also search that for our website.

Facebook's probably a better place because you can ask questions right there. But we could use volunteers, we could use food, we could use monetary donations, anything that God lays on your heart. It is a 501c3, meaning that anything you give is tax deductible. So if that's something that's important to you, we can provide receipts for that. But, you know, obviously, if you own a bakery and you'd like to give some leftover bread, day old bread, we'd take that if you, you know, anything like that. How about you, David, anything you want to share? You know, just like Sam was saying, it's a good opportunity and Brooke talking about volunteering. I just, if you're sitting there thinking, you know, I really want to do something, I say reach out to them and do it. Don't wait. Don't let it pass you by. God's laying it on your heart.

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