Random Acts Of Kindness

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I could not be more excited about all that's going on in the show today. One of the first things that's going on. You may have heard it as acts of random kindness. That's arc. If you were, you know, watched Evan Almighty, you would know about that. But it just happens to be random acts of kindness week, which is saying it the other way around random acts of kindness week. You have enlightened me.

You did not know that. And so, you know, you only got one day left in this week to have a random act of kindness. So as a random act of kindness, I've allowed Kurt, no, I had Kurt, excuse me, Avery who works with Sawyer to come on as he's written this amazing book along these ideas of how a small company disrupts markets and changes the world with the company of Sawyer. But anyway, Kurt, welcome to Kingdom Pursuits. I don't know if I can keep up with him, but I'm happy to be here. It comes at you fast some days.

Just get your catcher's mitt out and be ready. Okay. But clearly, clearly, I love the title of this book. And I'm guessing, you know, it says how a small company disrupts markets and changes the world. And for those who weren't aware, you know, I'm the Christian car guy. And, you know, one of the small companies that totally disrupt the world was Ford Motor Company. It was a little bitty company at one point in time.

And Henry Ford just wanted to make a cheap car that he could have, his people that built the car could afford. And that little random act of kindness right there changed the world. I would imagine, Kurt, that's kind of what we're doing, right? Yeah, we're having a bit of an impact right now. So yeah, we'll see how it'll get big.

Just too good not to get big. That's right. That's right. And so, you know, we're going to find out more about Sawyer Company, but also talking about random acts of kindness.

We have with us Colin Andrews, of course, my friend Bob Young. And you guys are working on that kind of idea right now. Aren't you, Colin? What's going on? Yes, sir. So I guess it really just kind of depends on how you want to hear about it.

There's multiple different ways to look at this, but I like to look at it from a way of coming back into what God has been leading me to do. We've recently done a fundraiser with my church called Heat for the Heart. And we organized this in a very short time period, trying to send money up to western North Carolina. And a lot of the funds that have been allocated are going to the larger cities.

And Spruce Pines is a very small city, not really touristy per se. So we decided that we would send the money up there because my contact that usually does our barbecue cooks has a good buddy that is part of the fire department. So three weeks time we get organized, we get the meat, we get, you know, all the people together and day comes. Everything goes off without a hitch.

Everything went perfectly. The last total that we have so far, from what I understand, is we raised $6,000 in a period of three weeks to send directly to these people. And we donated all of the meat, everything.

It was strictly profit because it was all donations. And at the end of the day, we had one butt left over. And I was waiting on a buddy of mine to give me a call back, didn't ever hear from him. So I said, you know what, I work for the social services. I'll take it to work, feed everybody at work for the day. Driving home, you know, after cooking all day, when you're cooking for other people, you don't really want to do much when you get to the house.

You just want to relax. So, you know, I was driving along and there's a gun shop that opened up near the house just recently. And I walked in before to talk to these guys.

It turns out I ended up growing up with one of them. So I stopped in and I said, you know what, I'm going to do something nice today. God had said, you know, stop and give it to these people because obviously you don't want to cut it up. That's fine, but do something good. So I took this butt in there, walked in with it, gave him probably a seven pound butt and I just gave it to him.

And I said, you know, I hope that you guys enjoy this barbecue. I had an extra one. I didn't feel like cutting it up.

Enjoy it. Walked out. Didn't think anything of it. Well, a week later, I went in to check and see because, you know, as a cook, you want to know you want feedback.

Was it good? Yeah. Yeah.

I want to know, was it bad or did it hurt somebody? Right. Yeah, exactly. So I go in and there's a gentleman in there that's trying to trade in a shotgun and he's talking with a man and, you know, he goes, by the way, I apologize. You know, I heard about your father, my condolences.

And so I'm sitting there and I'm like, I wonder what that's about. And the guy walks out and then the owner of the shop starts talking to me and he says, yeah, I didn't tell you anything about that. But that day that you had come in, I had 15 people at my house. My father had passed away and we were trying to figure out how we were going to feed everybody. Now I live out in Moxville.

So catering, you got some choices, but if it's not Chick-fil-A or McDonald's, you don't really, you know. Yeah. For those people in Virginia and Ohio, Moxville, it starts with an M. It's not, he didn't go to Knoxville. Yeah, no, not Knoxville. Definitely not there.

Moxville out in Davie County. Yes, sir. But, you know, it, he, I had no clue.

And I, you know, I don't know why I stopped in there. It would just happen to be these guys might enjoy it. Right.

But I don't think that that was the case. Right, right, right. It was ordained it was that you would, you would be able to do that. And so now from what I understand, before we get to the shenanigans, which we got to get to, he's been piggybacking on this idea. Now I can't imagine. Can you? That he would piggyback off a barbecue.

Yeah, he is. And of course, we've got a whole lot more coming up with random acts of kindness. But so speaking of random, right.

Yes, it does. And so I love the idea of random. And so I had a few random ideas, random ideas.

So and by the way, Kurt, if you want to jump in, if you have any of these answers, feel free. We're just having a little fun before we get into the seriousness of what all's going on. So if someone keeps dropping off random Lego blocks in your front yard, what's your problem? Yeah, what do you think, Nick?

Somebody keeps dropping off random Lego blocks in your front yard, or they might even pile them up front door. What's your problem? You won't know what to make of it. Just saying. Okay. And here's another one for you. I mean, looking for big things out of you calling here.

This is your piggybacking on all this. What's the condition where someone spontaneously tells jokes at random times? Honestly, I can repeat that one. What's the condition when someone spontaneously tell joke tells jokes at random times? You may say I have this condition. You have this condition.

You definitely have this condition. I don't know what it's called. It's called a gag reflex. That made you laugh a little bit, Kurt, didn't it? Oh, yeah.

You're probably gagging. So what is it when bathroom items start randomly singing, you know, in the shower, you're in there, and all of a sudden your bathroom items begin randomly singing? What is that called? Come on, Colin, you can get this. This is an easy one. A soap opera. Oh, you got it. Soap opera. Most of these jokes are unanswerable, but today that was a clean joke.

So no doubt here comes, you know, we knew if you could get through all that, you would get to a Bible riddle that's coming. So whose life, when you think about it, whose life was all about random acts of kindness? Whose life would that describe?

And if you can answer that, you call us at 866-348-7884, 866-348-7884. And if you can answer whose life was all about random acts of kindness, we'll tell you what you're going to win when we come back from this break. We are going to find out a lot more about this amazing book, how a small company disrupts markets and changes the world, as well as we're going to piggyback off on this barbecue idea, and there's no buts about it, I'm telling you.

We'll be right back. Darrell Bock Welcome back to Kingdom Pursuits, where we hear how God takes your passion and uses it to build the kingdom. And oh my goodness, it's so cool to hear how God does that through so many diverse gifts and talents and things that we get to hear about every week on Kingdom Pursuits. And I really think that we're like, believe it or not, Bob, I think we're in the 16th year of essentially this show, which was formerly Robbie's Hobbies.

We just renamed it at some point to Kingdom Pursuits, but pretty fun to hear all that we've heard over the years, right Bob? It's just amazing what God's done. And so we were just talking about if you could answer whose life was all about random acts of kindness in the Bible, this is not hard.

Don't overthink it. 866-348-7884. Whose life was all about random acts of kindness?

866-348-7884. And if they can answer that, Nick, tell them what they'll win. Absolutely. Yes, you'll be winning a prize from the Kingdom Pursuits prize vault. It can be a date the word calendar or an inspirational book for you.

Or some combination thereof. We got to get rid of those calendars before. There's two parts already almost into February. 866-348-7 We're getting back to Kurt, who we've not given much time to yet. We apologize for that. We didn't mean to monopolize the show. We did too much piggybacking.

But Kurt, tell us a little bit about, you know, obviously God's put something on your heart to share and what he got for us. Well, we're very fortunate. We're in the outdoor industry. We do insect repellents and water filtration for the hikers, campers. And we developed this technology that you can just run it through our filter, drink out of any river, stream, whatever you want, doesn't matter. We don't care if the cow's pooping it or not.

It will make it safe. And nobody's been able to match that technology in the 20 years that we've had it. So we totally, the disrupting part of the disrupting part is we totally disrupted the US market and changed it from 70,000 units a year to millions.

For instance, you were talking about North Carolina and Tennessee. We sent 100,000 filters up there. So people would just drink the water they're standing in.

And it's a game changer. But we have this technology. And so you're sitting there going, okay, what else should we do with this? I mean, we're Christians and we've been very, very well blessed. So we take them overseas. We work with 140 different charities.

Some of the big ones you would know, the Samaritan's Purse and World Vision and whatnot, down to the smaller ones. And we're in 80 different countries. We're in even the hardest places like North Korea and Iran. And we were in Gaza before the bottled water showed up. And these filters never wear out. So we're to the point now where for as little as 10 or 20 cents, we can give somebody 10 years worth of clean water. And when we're going to a village within two weeks, the sickness is just gone.

It's gone. It was all waterborne diseases. So it takes us less than two weeks to wipe out 95% of all the sickness. And the remaining five is because they're not taking care of their eco matters or washing their food correctly.

But just totally. So essentially, the Sawyer Company is the one that's doing these filters. And so am I understanding that for 10 or 20 cents, you can put one of these filters in somebody's hands?

Yeah, yeah. We have different formats you can use on it. But we have one that you can just add to a tap, a faucet, and get up to 500 gallons a day of water that's safe to drink, no matter how bad the water coming in was, it's now safe. And we just screw it on top of a two liter bottle.

And that's your system. Just dip the water and dip the bottle in any water you have and just drink it. So does it work? Does it work with seawater?

No, that's the one that it's not work with. I just thought I'd try. Yeah.

That's biological bacteria, protozoan cysts, parasites, stuff like that. And it never wears out. You just keep cleaning it. And you've been doing it for 20 years. Well, we've been doing the overseas part since maybe we started maybe in 2008, we put the first ones in the field, and they're still working, by the way.

We've got some in Honduras, they're in their 15th year of giving water to families every day. You don't you don't wear them out. You just clean them and just go again. So we do about 2 million people a year right now. That was my first question.

I didn't know if you had to replace something or anything, but the fact that they're all renewable, that's amazing. Yep, yep, we do. Every time there's a hurricane, we're the first ones in. Even on day one, day two, you got to have clean water.

So you can take a suitcase and do 20,000 people out of a suitcase full of these filters. So we go in ahead of the hurricanes, people bunker down, and then they're up. You remember in Puerto Rico, all those bottles of water sitting on the tarmac rotting, right? Because we got there first.

Our people went in right away. And there was a point where maybe a third of all the Puerto Ricans were drinking out of these filters. And then another hurricane came by four or five years ago and didn't send any because they still had them. So it's pretty cool. So what the book is, is it's 25 different lessons that I use to run the business. Little marketing tips. I have a pretty storied, I had a pretty storied career in corporate business. And then I went out on my own. And let me say it was, it took 20, we lost money 23 out of the first 25 years until we became an overnight success.

But I know that for you, what was your turning point? We always knew we were going to make it we had a couple big, both call for ones, we do all the all the repellents for the military. So and we in the first call for we did all the sunscreens that they used over there. Those are God's stories.

But depending how much time you want to take to go into them, but yeah, I had no business bidding on but we did it anyway. She was I got a very big God. So why not? So and then sat down? Well, you know, we we basically, you know, the mosquito nets that people use, we invented that technology.

So half the world dies of bad water mosquitoes. And I said, Well, God, why don't we just go fix it? We got all the tools.

And of course, he said, Sure, obviously, it meant him that me, but I'm just the tool but but we do it. And they're phenomenal. I mean, they're there. You don't have to boil water, you don't have to cut down trees.

We say they're usually 10 to 15% annual income is diverted to dedicated to cleaning water. Now you don't have to it. It's instant. And all and by the way, if you know, Sawyer's website is pretty easy to access.

I put a link at kingdom pursuits calm, of course, just as a w, y, e, r. And if you look at it, you can see, you know, all these products, including the book that he's talking about, which, you know, who wouldn't want to know these principles that he's talking about, we're probably going to get into a couple of them here shortly. But getting back to our piggyback plan, okay, because this is another just random act of kindness of, you know, really, as you know, a little bit about Colin story. Recently, he was fighting for his life.

So, then this is this was probably back in 2020. But you know, I had a near death experience where I wasn't sure whether or not I was going to make it and at 20, you know, 24 years old, you think you're invincible. And when you figure out you're not life changes for you real quick and in a hurry. And, you know, I think I went through the seven stages of grief right there all in a 30 minute span where I did everything, but you know, get up and jump and, and, you know, try to run around or run it off. But you know, I begged for forgiveness and begged for life. And, you know, I think it's in our hardest moments that that was when, you know, we all come to God.

Anybody that has a relationship with God in their hardest moments, we default back to God because we know that God is always present. And, you know, lying there, all the machines hooked up, heart rate, 285, 290, been defibrillated twice already. And I said, God, you know, it's up to you. If you want me to live, I'll live. If you want me to go and leave this world, it's my time.

And I can't do anything about it, but I really don't think I'm ready to go yet. And I said, you know, if you can help me get through this, I promise you that, you know, I'll come back and I'll spread the word and spread the gospel and use my talents for good. And then of course, you know, I come out of it. And what did I do?

I didn't do that. I did change how I live my life. I used to do some things that I'm not proud of as we all have, you know, and me and Bob, we've had discussions about this firsthand. Haven't we, Bob? Colin grew up in my youth group. Oh, really?

Yeah. Years and years we were together and lots of trips and lots of excursions helped a lot of folks had a lot of fun. Well, I'll ask you the Bob question. What was the turning point that you actually decided, gee, I ought to fulfill what it is I obligated myself to? Well, it's, it's kind of sad to say, you know, but when I was called about this, this fundraiser and, and, and as foreshadowing to this, you know, I've always been the person to call if there was something going on at the church where they needed help cooking something. I love to cook and cooking is the best way to bring people together. You know, if you cook a meal and you tell people to show up nine times out of 10, as long as they know you can cook, they're going to come.

Right. You know, so we do fish fries and pulled pork, you know, up at the church and that's, that's kind of what we do. That's what we're known for. And we advertise it.

And, you know, it's right. Oak forest is my home church. And that's where I grew up from the age of 10 up until the time I decided that I didn't think I needed to go to church anymore. You know, but when I gave that, but to that, that young man at the gun shop and not having any idea as to what he was dealing with and he didn't show it and he, he wasn't, you know, he didn't break down and start crying. He took it on the chin and he, he just, you know, let me leave without saying a word about it. But when I came back the next week and he told me about it, he said, you know, you really did do something there for me.

And you saw God work through you and you went, Hmm, this could be another opportunity to do some more piggybacking. So we're going to be talking about that yet. I'm going to see if I can find out about one of these tips when we come back. Oh man, I'm so excited.

We got Kurt Avery and Colin Andrews, Bob Young. It's exciting day on Kingdom Pursuits. Stay tuned.

You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com. Welcome back to Kingdom Pursuits, where we hear how God takes your passion and uses it to build the kingdom. And boy, we are loaded with bear today as we have with us. Oh my goodness, Kurt Avery and the Sawyer company and how a small company disrupted the markets and changed the world. Certainly.

Water, what stories we heard, right, Bob? Amazing. And then we got Colin Andrews, a former student of Bob Young and, and how cool is that from Oak Forest United Methodist Church. And they have got this amazing barbecue thing that they're doing. We need to tell you that they need to raise some money because they've got some stuff that they want to do through this church.

And so we're going to get into all that in a minute and we're going to give you the address and how you can do that. But as promised, you know, Kurt, this book has got these tips and stuff. Like when you are writing this book, I've, which is a tremendous thing I think God put on your heart to do and share what he's been teaching you all these years that led to your being so fruitful. Did one of those ideas kind of sneak up on you as you're writing the book and you went, wow, I never thought of that. No, I'm a professionally trained decision maker.

I mean, if you boil it down with all my training, I am an MBA from Northwestern and all that kind of work for some very prestigious people. So the book is really about how to make decisions quickly and accurately and avoiding pitfalls. So the usual stuffs in there, the big ones, 4Ps, 5Cs, life cycles, all that kind of stuff. But there's a lot of ones where I take you down my path and my logic. And so I'm into math trap, how to not get bogged down in the numbers when you can make your decision, when you've got an idea where it goes, knowing the difference between the numerator and the denominator. Everybody usually manages by the numerator, but the secret is really understanding the denominator or decision making. I can slow down a little bit for those who aren't math geniuses. Okay, so most people do decisions based on the numerator.

And can you kind of explain that? Yeah, so for instance, if you look at what was the Walmart magic, Walmart took and made their delivery system so efficient that they did not need to invest a whole lot in the store. So they turn their products 40, 50 times a year, which means everything on the shelf is paid for. They sell it before they have to pay for it, so they have zero investment. So they don't need a lot up in the margins.

They can work on very low margins because they've taken away the investment that it takes to open a store. And so that's the same thing. It's, you know, I liken it to like a plumber. Let's say, you know, if you can manage your plumber on half the investment, you can open up two stores. So two different things.

So you don't need to make as much money on the margin because you've reduced your investment. Right, right. Okay.

Well, that's beautiful. So if we could just, so what you're saying is, and I know that the car companies, this is, you know, one time I got a chance to go on Fox and Friends. They wanted to know how to save General Motors. And it was exactly what the same idea that you just described only in a completely different way is that the car companies figured out, especially General Motors, that they could make a whole lot more money on expensive cars than they could on inexpensive cars. And so they were working, they were thinking that the way to be more profitable was to make a bigger margin.

Right. And as a result, they put the American people into such tremendous amounts of debt that they could no longer trade cars. That's why they started coming out with rebates and all sorts of crazy marketing ideas in order to pour more debt into the American public, which, again, at some point in time, they were no ability to buy cars and sales dropped but plummeted and Ford went into trouble. General Motors went bankrupt and so did Chrysler.

Right. Well, what kind of what happened there was they were trying to be full service. We have everything from the little cars to the big cars. And what the foreign companies did, they came in and cherry picked the bell curve part where they were just selling right to the most popular cars. But, you know, the big companies. So that's why you saw they what they did is start dropping the lines that weren't profitable. Well, to go back to what I said at the very beginning of the show, just to disagree with you for a second, which I love to do anyway.

It's always healthy. How did Henry Ford change the market? How did you change the market? Right. You got the you got the cheapest.

You have the cheapest water filter out there, right? Yeah, actually, that was a shock industry, too. Right.

Right. And so who had the cheapest car out there by some huge, gigantic margin, by the way, to work? And so by doing that, he put all those people to work building cars. And so if you were to build a cheaper car, the cheapest car in the market, would it not create a tremendous market just like you did with the filters? Then all of a sudden, not cherry picking what's the most popular car, not trying to increase the human debt on the planet.

But in other words, just trying to meet a need without putting people into crazy amounts of debt would put a whole lot of people to work and make the company would be phenomenally successful, wouldn't it, if you could do it? Yeah. Oh, part of Ford's secret was he raised the rates and he cut the workday down so they had money to buy cars. Right. And he changed the whole we went to a 40 hour work week because of him. Otherwise, people were working 60 and sat there working Saturdays, they had no time to go enjoy themselves. And then they didn't have the money.

So he raised the thing. But again, to get back to your original premise, which I love, by the way, and I'm really glad I learned this one, is that rather than worrying about the profit margin, right, which is what you called the numerator, right? Right. Then what you were worried about was the denominator, which is the number that ends up being the bigger number. The more important number, right? Right.

The lower you can invest your lower, you can have your investment, then the numerator is turning more times for you. Right. And same thing for the consumer.

Bob, am I losing you? No, my dad told me when we started in business, he says, you're not going to be able to control what you sell this stuff or you got to keep it in a certain range. He says, but you can't control what you have to pay for. And that was my mathematical advice from my dad.

And I'll just don't pay too much and you will be okay. And that was that was his advice. But I absolutely love what you were saying, Kurt. And it really is food for tremendous amounts of thought. But we got to get back to us for a second. We got the methodists over here.

They are raising raising funds via now you piggybacked into chicken. We have. Unfortunately, chicken backing is not a common phrase. We could make it one if that's what you would like to do. But for the sake of our he has created many phrases. Well, we we can roll with whatever we need to call it. But the United Methodist Church that I belong to is Oak Forest United Methodist Church. The Heat for the Heart fundraiser is what we organized to begin with.

And we started out doing barbecue butts. The church administrators and the groups within the church have decided that we're going to try to continue piggybacking off of this Heat for the Heart fundraiser to meet a goal and the goal. We don't have a number yet for the goal, but I don't really think that there needs to be a number. Personally, I believe that when there's a cause, there's no need for for wondering or worrying about, you know, a main goal to reach.

I think it's a matter of contributing what we can, when we can and where we can. So we're doing Port-A-Pit Chicken right now. We've got tickets. We're selling them for twelve dollars a ticket. We're also same thing we did for the butts, accepting direct donations directly to Spruce Pines Fire Department.

And we have the information if you would like to donate and it would go to Parkway Fire and Rescue Incorporated at P.O. Box one eighty eight Spruce Pines, North Carolina, two eight seven seven seven. And so for twelve dollars, twelve dollars, you get half a chicken, you get baked beans, you get slaw and you get a roll. And you also might get to see me if that tickles your fancy. So be it.

If you don't want me to see if you don't want to see me, then maybe close your eyes. You know, I don't know. What's the date on the chicken?

The chicken is going to be March twenty ninth at Oak Forest. They got a whole month to get this twelve dollars in. And tell us again, Bob, what's the cause? They came up with it's helping people in western North Carolina. I had people that I didn't know were charitable or anything come to me talking just this week about how much need there is up there and how much they had enjoyed helping up there. And you just think about it. People are cold.

People are sleeping in tents. People need gas. Yeah. Well, we'll be back with more of that and more information from again, Curt Avery. What an opportunity. What an honor to have him with us today. We'll be right back with a whole lot more King to Pursuit.

You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. Welcome back to Kingdom Pursuits, where we hear how God takes your passion and uses it to build the Kingdom, whether your passion is to effectively run a business or to cook. Right. It's amazing, you know, that he's given Golan this ability to cook in a given.

Clearly, Curt Avery, an amazing ability to run a business and the fruitfulness of that. I think of all the lives that have been saved from the water and the mosquito nets. Oh, my goodness. And that's millions right there. I mean, that is a pandemic in that area. Oh, I you know, I it's absolutely mind blowing. It really is.

It's almost unfathomable. So, Curt, have you had a chance to actually go overseas and see the fruit of what God's done with all that? Well, I'm not a great traveler, but I have people that we go over and I guess that we work with the charity.

So I'll give you a little story. I mean, we get to make you cry. So we go to Uganda and there and find out they won't name their kids till they're three years old. Why? Because if they make it to three, we're sure they'll live.

If not, we lose some. Typically, they lose a third of their kids before the age three. Install the filters. Two hundred fifty in that village.

Go back a year later. They named the kids at birth. Never lost the kids since the filter showed up. So we're saving hundreds of thousands of babies a year in this thing. And if that doesn't choke you up, I don't know what does. But yeah, you know, you know, every single one of those parents that lost how many babies and. You know, here's here's something that just absolutely and isn't it it's amazing to me that obviously.

Your company, somebody provided the technology, but they also provided you with a business understanding. Is that kind of what happened? Yeah, it is.

We have a world class engineer and I have the marketing skills. So that kind of came together. Yeah, we've been very well blessed. But, you know, we look at it.

There's no you who else in heaven. So or may the last check bounce over. That's a I've heard that a few times this month and this month it has merit in the past month. I've had people quote that to me. Really?

It's the first time I've ever heard it in my life. One fellas financial goal was that his last check bounce. Well, we're fortunate we turning when I exit the market, there's a term for you, whether physically or mentally. It all goes to the foundation because there is one thing you can take to heaven with you. And that's the other believers that you brought brought to Christ.

So you do get to take one thing to heaven with you. So it goes to the foundation and the foundation right now does all the charitable, you know, like all the proceeds from the book go there. But people donate to the to the foundation and every dollar goes overseas. We we covered the overhead and and so it's amazing. So twenty twenty five million people already. So oh, it is.

So one more time. Give us the idea of this book. It's called How a Small Country Company Disrupts Markets and Changes the World. It's called Sawyer Think. And so you're you invented Sawyer Think.

Yeah, it's my accent. Well, I obviously didn't learn a lot along the way and I'm not that smart. But yeah, it's my principles of how we built Sawyer to be successful and the concept here is we want to help those twenty five tips to help you make your business more successful so then you can be more philanthropic. We also teach you how to be philanthropic too, because I try very hard not to make a profit.

I mean, as silly as that sounds, I'm one hundred percent owner of the company. We're sub S and I can use the tax laws. Always give on a seizure with a seizure. Never cheat. Never cheat the IRS.

You don't want to go there. But there are laws that you can use to magnify your gifts. And so we give away quite a bit of money because I don't need it.

We're fine. But the book shows you how to be able to use that. So anybody can plumbers, you know, restaurants, food. I mean, you can change the world with the gifts that you have. But I have a very big God. So God, he tasked us with very big things to do. But he'll task everybody according to their skill sets and according to their abilities. And you can start a whole revolution.

I mean, just like town is doing now. Those are incredible stuff. And then somebody else will want to do it and somebody else will want to do it. And pretty soon you have all this service going on. It's wonderful. So the whole goal is we want to help you make your business more profitable and set your sights higher. That's beautiful. Absolutely. Again, it's we're so you're think S A W Y E R think how a small company disrupts markets and changes the world.

Just absolutely beautiful. But talk about changing the world one but at a time. You got to start somewhere, right? You do. You do. And I love how God grabbed your attention.

I absolutely think it's amazing. And so you're now you're out there. You called your buddy Bob's here. We got to get on Kingdom Pursuits and promote this thing.

And we're going to tell people, look, for twelve dollars. Oh, my goodness. You can help warm the people.

And obviously that have been heard up there in spruce and spruce ponds. Yeah, right. And well, you know, that's the thing about it is that a lot of people seem to think, you know, that you have to raise thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars in order to make a change. And, you know, the money does help change.

But what also helps change is a perspective in our minds. Right. So again, it's Park Wave, Park Wave Fire and Rescue Incorporated is where you make out the checks twelve dollars. P.O. Box one eighty eight Spruce Pines, North Carolina, two eight seven seven seven.

If you want to write all that down. That's the parkway fire. That is the fundraiser heat for the heart. The twelve dollars. You can make that donation out to Oak Forest United Methodist Church. There you go. Or just call three three six four one six two six four seven.

Tell them what you want to do. Thank you so much, Kurt, for being with us and Colin. Yes, sir. So much fun on Kingdom Pursuits today. You got so much truth coming at you. Stay tuned. Encouraging prayer. And it's time to man up at twelve o'clock hour twelve thirty.