This is the Truth Network. She's real fine, my four oh nine. She's real fine, my four oh nine, my four oh nine. I. Welcome to the Christian Car Guy Radio Show with today's guest host, our Christian Body Shop Guy, Jerry Mathis.
I say this calls for action, and now. Good morning, and welcome to Christian Car Guy Radio. I tell you what, a Saturday morning here in North Carolina—a little wet. But we're going to have a great morning this morning. Also, just want to make mention.
I'm Jerry Mathis, Christian Body Shop guy from Ray's Body Shop and Wreckers Service, and this is a call-in show.
So anything we're talking about, if you have a question about a car, car, automotive paint, or really be something, a good time to ask those questions this morning. Or if you just really want to know about where to get a good hot dog in Forsyth County, or is it worth the travel from Burlington to come and get a hot dog? At a Poylems this morning in the studio.
Well, first I'm gonna give you the number eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four. And in the studio have Mark Flint with Poylems Barbecue and world famous hot dogs, and Darren Dewitt with Colors Edge. And they they just continue every time I talk to Darren. I mean they. They're growing rapidly, and we're going to talk a little bit about some of the new trends in the automotive industry and stuff.
But first off, I just want to just take just a moment before we even really dive into anything, and and and I am going to ask Darren and Mark one of the first questions I am going to ask them. Just I don't know that I've ever asked this question on the radio. Tell me a little bit about what brought you to the Lord, because these are two men. But one reason I'm excited about this morning is two guys that are my brothers in Christ, which is the most important thing, and also they run their businesses with those same principles. And I think too many times, and I know that we have conversations.
I know I've had conversations these two guys about how sometimes that can be difficult. And I do think biblically, and God's word tells us that we need to. You know, our faith needs to be part of our everyday life. And when you're in business, or run a business, or own a business, you know what God expects us to to also let our faith shine and stuff. And it's the tricky part is you don't want to.
Be overbearing because I understand other people have different thoughts and different beliefs. Not that they're right, not that they don't need to know about the gospel of Jesus Christ, but it's just a way sometimes you have to handle it.
So, Mark, what brought you to Jesus Christ?
Well, it started off when I was—I won't make this very long—but it did start off when I was young. I mean, my parents were Christians, and I was at church all the time, and just like I give testimony at church other day at. Growing up as a youth and youth groups, going to Richcrest and Caswell, which is Christian camps for people to go to when I was growing up, and just being in church and just growing up with it and knowing God and doing His will, and you are talking about you got to be careful about how. You do talk to people this damn time, and that's exactly right because you never know what you, you know. A lot of people are non-believers, and I always before when somebody asks me anything, I do me a quick, a quick little silent prayer in my head to the Holy Spirit that please let me give this man the right or woman the right path to go on to help them and help them understand Jesus.
Yep, Darren. Ah, well, basically, you know, I grew up in a also in a in a Christian home. You know, my my father was. We went to church. My father's one of more most godly men I've I've ever met or known, or and and it's easy to say that, but he's been a very very good example for me growing up and seeing.
You know, growing up in a Christian family and everything that sometimes they you know they say it's easy and and this and the other and you get a head start with the knowledge of of Christ and everything. But there still comes a time in your life where you actually do have to believe, and you you sometimes I think people that grow up in a Christian family too they they. Struggle with that sometimes. Is it do I believe what I believe because I just grew up that way, or do I believe what I believe because God is, in fact, affected my heart and I'm called to to believe?
So, I was fortunate enough to feel that presence of the Lord. Through high school and then, but it really wasn't until college that that I actually you know felt the calling and and I was able to turn my life over to the to to Christ completely. And doesn't mean you still don't struggle or anything like that, but yeah, you know, because Satan always likes to put his challenges out there. But knowing that Christ is is is your redeemer and your savior, you know, has always you know helped me keep up. Be be uplifted in in my Christian walk, and continue going that way.
And in business side, is it's it can be a little bit difficult. I was fortunate enough to kind of see how my dad navigated it because he was in the same industry as I was, only kind of a different different level. He would sell to customers like me, and then I sell to customers like like you. And I saw. How he used his faith as far as how he lived it within the business, and that's kind of how I kind of try to emulate it.
You know, I try, you know, I try to emulate Christ's attributes and stuff, and throughout my interactions with people, and even when you get difficult people and stuff like that, and you know, you just you know you you find yourself praying for them and and still wishing for their successes and everything of that, and And it does change your attitude towards it, and hopefully, you know they they see that even you know in a way to where it. My goal is to plant seeds. I guess would be the best way to to to you know to describe it is is in business wise. Most of my my advantages is to be able to plant seeds, and hopefully they'll get some water and continue to grow and and and build their faith that way. Yeah, and you know because I know for for Ray's Body Shop and Record Service, I want everybody that comes through the door to know that that that we are you know faith based organization in in a way and stuff, and how we take you know everybody has a mission field, and sometimes I think as a follower of Jesus Christ or as a Christian, you think you know what missions are for the missionaries, are for the preachers, are But you know what our mission field may be in our backyard.
It's going to be in our businesses. It's going to be in our family. It's going to be in our neighborhood, our workplaces. And that being said, you know I think it's just important that you know as a Christian I try to when I'm doing business. I love it when I can kind of look back and see if it's, you know, what what what the background of the company I'm doing business with, because I think it makes where I gives me a different level of trust, and I think that is something that that that gets missing sometimes, and people don't don't realize the value of having a an organization or a company or a restaurant or a paint store or paint supply that, you know, that that it's a Christian base because.
There's a lot of opportunity to do things that aren't that that as a Christian you wouldn't want to do, and that being said, I when asked Mark and and and. Darin, to to tell a bit about the faith, they didn't. Also, I want to take an opportunity now to tell me a little bit about your business, because that's as I said, I think we need to make sure as Christians that's the people we support, the people who support God's work. Because I know the two men sitting in front of me do support God's work in a lot of different areas and stuff.
So, Mark, well, we've been in business since nineteen ten. I guess you might say we fed a lot of people in them years, and I tell somebody just the other day I said, well, maybe back in the fifties or sixty was ahead of McDonald's on burgers, but of course we're not now with all the stores they got. But you know, I've been blessed, and I tell people, and they say, wow, a hundred and ten years. I'm like, yes, the good Lord's blessed me. I mean, you know, it's all in His hands, and I've just been blessed with everything when it comes to the business.
So I mean, and it's—I mean, to me, people say, "Well, when you retire," and I said, "Man, I can't retire if I—I ain't gonna be no greeter at one of these other stores or something." Because I—I'm a people person. I want to be able, and people can come to me. I don't have to go out here and search for them.
So. Yeah, what's your location and hours, real quick? Forty-four hundred Old Walker Town Road, Bus Smith Reynolds Airport, Monday through Saturday, ten a.m. to five thirty p.m. All right, and Darren, if he Give me a little bit of laydown on your your business.
All right, so our business is we we deal with automotive industrial coatings and distribution.
So kind of what that entails is we sell to collision centers, body shops, walk-ins, do-it-yourselfer guys, and then we also deal with manufacturers and stuff like that. Pretty much anything that has paint on it, you know, whoever's applying it, that's who we want to sell to. Typically, is is Our customer base, for the most part, and been doing it, been doing it actually since 2004 is when we, when I started Colors Edge over there in Greensboro, North Carolina, and you know our biggest focus was to, to you know, be a service oriented jobber.
So, and we've been blessed to expand into multiple states now, and you know, knock on wood, continue to be blessed.
So. All right. We'll be back in just a moment with Mark and Darren. We're going to talk a little bit about the new trends in the automotive industry. Again, it is a calling show.
eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork dot com. Good morning, and welcome back to Christian Car Guy Radio. I think I got cut off with the phone number as we've gone into break. It's eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four and. We were just talking about their businesses and stuff, and I think it's so important that through the automobile we have the opportunity to bring people together and stuff.
And part of it is there's two aspects of that, and I'm going to share a little bit. One, when I was growing up, I mean, one of the big things that we did, we'd get in the car from South Side of Winston and drive all the way across the county up to Poylems. On back then, they were open on Sundays. That was a big, big thing. Set outside and.
Talk and just enjoy time as a family. We didn't sit there and have the you know everybody wasn't on their phone and texting each other back and forth or the people. We would just spend time together, and I think that's something that got has got lost with time. And then also with Darren and stuff, he mentioned this. He said has some walk ins that come in.
That's part of the industry they work with. You know what? Take opportunity with your kids and stuff. Do some things on your car. Take a weekend, a month where you do.
But just clean on it, or go by and get some touch-up paint or some stuff at the at Colors Edge, and and just work on it. Just spend time as a as a family. I mean, that is some great time to to bring families together. I think that's one of the issues we have in society now. Our parents aren't necessarily.
Doing things and teaching our kids the things that they're going to need to know in life and stuff that you know what take time and just sit around talk about Jesus Christ with them, just just take that opportunity and I'm going to kind of steer away for just a moment on a different subject. Fonda Bryan is on the phone with us this morning, and I'm only going to keep her a few minutes because she's got a busy day today. Fonda is nationally recognized mental health advocate. Fonda is the leading voice in suicide prevention and stigma. Reduction, and she's a certified QPR trainer.
And Fonda is a she has a heart for mental health issues and stuff, especially the suicide prevention. Last month, I really want to try to get her on the radio because last month, September, was suicide prevention month, and it just did not work out.
So I said I'm gonna get her on the radio this month. And Fonda, how are you doing this morning? And also get Take the opportunity. I think you have a training coming up at noon today. If I'm not wrong.
Yes. Good morning, and how are you doing? I hope you are doing well. And always, thanks for having me on. Yes, I have a training today: QPR, which stands for Question, Persuade, Refer, Suicide Prevention training, from twelve to two o'clock.
Hopefully, I'll have enough people because I at least need ten people to train. But hopefully, I'll have enough people. If not, it'll roll over until the next month. But it is just imperative now more than ever. That people learn the warning signs of suicide or someone being in a crisis, and I heard what you were saying about parents spending time with their children and doing things with their children.
And you're correct; we have really Gotten away from that. Everything is technology now. You know, you call somebody on the phone. You don't even for anything now. You don't even speak to a person.
You speak to a automated system. You go to the grocery store. They have lines where you can go through and ring up your stuff.
So we're getting further and further away from human connection, and that goes to parents with their children. Because I've been out to restaurants, and as soon as the family sits down, what do they do? Pull out phones, pull out tablets, and that's part what feeds into what I do, what mental health and suicide prevention. Because these kids are really, really struggling, and a lot of children will tell me, Miss Fonda, I'm struggling, and I try to talk to my parents, and they just dismiss it, and they need to stop that because these kids really are struggling; they're not making it up. Yeah, it's, and you're right.
You said anywhere you go around families and stuff, they're just not connecting and stuff. And you know what? Parents need to have you know ask hard questions of their kids because, like you said, I mean, I don't know exactly what those numbers are. I'm sure you do, but it seems to me just from Just what I'm hearing, you know, that that age of early teens and or late teens and early adult in the twenties, the suicide rate and stuff is just just seems to be going. I mean, it's just every time you turn around, you hear about it.
Yes, I was at a high school yesterday for a health fair, talking to students, and I was busy all four lunches from the time I came in to the time I left, and it just really breaks my heart. It's one thing to talk about it; it's another thing to actually see it. And for young people ages ten to thirty-four, suicide is the second leading cause of death. And if people think, "Oh, it never happened to my children," I wish they could have been there yesterday to hear the stories of children telling me, you know, that they. With depression, anxiety, they have no one to talk to, and that's why it's so important for me to put the wristbands on students that I design.
You know that hey, I can't be with you, but I can give you some hope and some help. Where they can text one word help seven four one seven four one, and as long as they're not suicidal or going to hurt somebody else, they can go back and forth and text. Nobody has to know. They can also call or text nine nine eight eight with As long as again, if they're not going to hurt somebody themselves, they have someone that they can vent and talk to. Because a lot of being able to stop suicide or help kids, you know, before they get to crisis mode, it's just to be able to talk to someone and not feel like they're being judged.
And that's a big thing that I talk about in QPR training when I share my story. Is the fact that a lot of times the reason why we don't come and talk to people is because of fear of judgment. Fair judgment, absolutely. I'm going to give again. If you're if you're hearing this, if you're hearing Fonda's voice this morning, and you know what, you may think that that it doesn't affect you, but mental health affects and suicide affects all of us when we start really diving into it and really looking into it and and being honest about it.
I'm going to give out a couple websites and a and a for able to get up with Fonda. One, I think, if you are going to Be interested in taking the training. It's Fonda N C. It's F O N D A N C underscore forty at yahoo dot com. I think I'm right on that.
Am I correct, Fonda? Yes, Fonda F O N D A N C underscore the number four zero at yahoo dot com. And if you email me before twelve o'clock, I can send you the login information. It's a two-hour class, and I'm telling you, it's very upbeat, it's very positive. We just don't talk about I just don't talk about suicide.
I also talk about mental health, what to look out for with that, and also I talk about self-care because in this busy World of everything that's going on. We need to also take time for self-care. Self-care is not selfish, and it really helps. Absolutely. Also, I'm going to give out the website wellnessactionrecovery dot org.
Fonda is available also to do in-person training. I encourage you to reach out, especially if you own a business, a corporation, or any kind of civic group. Great opportunity to get some training. Fonda, thank you, and I'll talk to you a little later. Thank you.
Have a great rest of the day. You too. We'll be back in just a moment. Again, Christian Carter. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com.
Welcome back to Christian Car Guy Radio. I am Jerry Mathis, raised body shop and wrecker servicing with Mark, Len from Poium's Hot Dogs, well, Barbecue and Hot Dogs, and Darren DeWitt with a. Colors Edge, which is growing rapidly, I know they got North Carolina covered and Southern Virginia, and Texas, and who knows where next. But I also got on the line RK. We're going to go in the garage with RK.
And one thing about RK, what they say, RK, I forgot how old you are. Ninety years old.
Something close to it, at least. Yeah, you've seen a lot of change in the industry and stuff, and that's what. Oh, unbelievable! Unbelievable! And that's what me and Darren were just talking about, and have talked about over the last.
I think we talked last week and stuff about just on the paint side of it, just how much change and stuff. And R.K., what are you working on in the garage today? Oh, working on two thousand six Ford eight speed shifted transmission, two thousand twelve Ford constant transmission, two thousand eleven Chevys. Oh my gosh! I don't want to tell you.
I got a bunch, and it's raining, and I'm not up to par. But anyway, what I was going to talk about today. His heaters. I got in my car. Robbie has a.
We have a a church in here in Rapsor. We have a little booth there, and it's fall festival for Rapsor. But anyway, so we have a little things to give away and fish. But they they're fishing for something. For the heaters, I was going to talk about heaters.
In 1953, they finally made a law to put heaters in. Thank goodness! When I got up to put the the windshield wipers on, to drive here, on the window just fogged up.
So, 1953 was the first year Plymouth came out. Plymouth came out with a heater. Wow! Just think, what life would be without a heater in your car today? I don't think we could take it.
And I want to tell a little story. I don't know if I said this, told this story before. Said, "What are you working on today?" And I and transmissions, of course. And I don't know. There's a few of us out there that know this.
In 1953, the Hydra-Matic Oldsmobile Cadillac transmission. Building warehouse burnt down and the the factory burnt down, so they had to take Buick Dynaflo's and Chevy Powerglides back then, and put the Powerglides and stuff in their smaller Pontiacs, and they put the Oldsmobile Dynaflo's and the Cadillac Dynaflo's in the in the cars back in the '53, until they got the factory back. I'm gonna tell you a little true story. Orange Oil Hospital bought a ambulance with a Dynaflow in it, and and one and one of the funeral home bought another one, Cadillac. The Dynaflow.
We worked in them things close to a year, and I said, Dad, why don't we just go to the junkyard buy and buy a Rex fifty two or a fifty three, hydromatic set up and put it in? We found two overtook us a couple of months. Found two of them, put them into cars, and didn't have any more problems. Problem free.
So y'all are having. Let me ask you something, okay? Y'all are having the fall festival today. Yes, Ramsor Fall Festival. Yes.
All right. Where did if somebody in Ramsor area would love to come and share the afternoon or morning with you? Where? How do they get where? Where are you at?
We're on Main Street in the booth. We're on Main Street right down at the start of the.
Well, it's about maybe thirty thirty five booths. Of different things going on, churches, food, you name it. But anyway, we're here with this five of us, six of us here, from the church that we're just hanging out with the people coming by and talking about Christ and talking about truth. Bobby's got this truth, the truth, the light, the cross up on the on his. There's ten here.
All right. Well, okay. If you're in our listening audience and you're in Ramzo area, go by and see. Yeah, come on by. There's plenty to eat and plenty and plenty of plenty of money.
Yeah, plenty of wonderful people.
Now, hey, come on, come on by. Love none of you. And tell about tell RK that you've been listening to him on the radio and have a great morning and enjoy yourself and stay dry.
Okay. Thank you. Thank you. God bless. God bless you, Darren.
Talking about changes. Talking about the transmissions and stuff. Man, has the automotive paint industry in the last I don't know probably. Twenty some years ago, I mean, all of a sudden, started making just drastic changes and stuff, and it really another piece. I just want to, because I say this all the time, I'm from the body shop perspective, but I'm gonna let Darren kind of kind of chime in on this with all these changes with the paint materials and the type of stuff.
You know, part of things people don't understand the cost of a repair anymore. I mean, the paint cost is just gone. Just gone crazy, and and now you know they're looking at it and say, "I've got damage on a fender," and you have just a little scratch on the door, and you're having to paint almost the whole side of the vehicle, and they don't people don't understand why that is sometimes. Even Mark is talking about. I mean the.
When he first started, he also painted some cars back in the day. The M Ron painting stuff. Thank, thank the Lord. They that was a talk about widowmakers. There you go.
Yeah, yeah. It's it's it's the painting industry in and of itself is definitely. Kind of gone through and almost like a little bit of an upheaval, a little bit because one, there's challenges from several different sides that that are driving some of this.
Some of it is, you know, the like we were talking about the OES, the the car manufacturers and stuff. When you know when they're producing cars, they want to make it stand out, so they want something that's going to look good and and try to attract the eye and stuff for the consumer.
So even if you have a white car. That white car will have some kind of a weird flake in it, or a pearl, or something, just to kind of set it aside when the sun hits it, and and all these different colors that are out there. And then it's tasked to the paint companies to decide or to figure out how to match those colors on a consistent basis, so that when they take it to you know a shop like yours, that you are able to repair it and be able to get the color just like just like OE. You couple that with some regulations that have been come through.
So now, with the EPA standards and stuff, because you know back in the day, like with Emron and all this stuff, I mean, a lot of that stuff was pretty pretty dangerous as far as not good for your health. And you you don't wear a mask, and you're feeling it for obviously several days, wondering if you're gonna gonna make it to the to the next weekend. That's right.
So so you know they they cleaned up the industry quite quite a bit on that side of it. But even now today, you know they're they're taking more and more chemicals out.
So then the paint companies have to figure out how do we make this work where it still sprays, how it still matches, doesn't affect it. But just with the color spectrum itself that's out there, yeah. When you get a scratch on your On your vehicle, yeah, you can you know, you can blend an area, but then you got your clear coat and everything like that, and and blending clear doesn't. It's not the greatest. People do it.
It's still okay, but it'll start peeling back because it's not over the whole entire panel.
So that's why you wind up going over the whole entire panel.
So there's just a lot of different things out there that that really are driving up the cost there. That a lot of people don't don't see, you know, out there. And and it's and it it kills me because like I said, it's this has probably been the most challenging year. For us in general, just with pricing structures and stuff like that, because you know we've had you know some hyperinflation you know several years ago, then we still got inflation keep going in, and you get to the point where you know vendors keep raising their costs with us, we have to pass it on, and you get that crunch and of of where people can afford stuff or how they can afford it, and and insurance companies so. It's just a big.
Just, yeah, just kind of becomes a big challenge there.
So, you know, but there, there are there are some legit reasons why, you know, prices just continue to to kind of go up on our side of it, at least. And hopefully, that'll kind of settle down. We're hoping settle down now. Finally, I'm with you. Hey, Darren, while you're talking about that, explain the people a little bit that may not know back in the day when.
You were selling your when the paint was sold the way it was sold compared to now that back then you had so many cars at orange peel. Explain to people about the orange peel. Yeah, so orange orange peel, and you still have it today to some extent. Not as bad. They the technology has gotten a little bit better, but some of that was from.
Just the product itself, the atomization actually creates most of the the orange peel. And a lot of times, with you know the manufacturing side, their goal is just to get the car out. And people don't know what orange peel means when they get done with your car. It looks like an orange, yeah, paint does. And a lot of times, people don't realize the orange peel until they get the car repaired.
And then we do a good job of of sanding it, buffing it, doing all that stuff to where it's All nice and slick, the panel that we worked on, and then the rest of the car has kind of got some orange peel.
So customers kind of said, "Hey, what's my car's not right?" So, but it's it's technology has got a lot better. You see a lot less of that now, so that's good on that end. Yep, and we'll be back in just a moment. Again, I'm gonna try to get the number in eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four. Be back in a moment.
You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. Good morning, and welcome back to Christian Car Guy Radio. I'm Jerry Mathis, Ray's Body Shop and Records Service, Christian Body Shop Guy. We're going to go back and talk a little bit about the the paint industry and stuff. And if you have a question on your automotive paint, or also a question about walk-ins going into the store and just buying supplies to to help with your automotive industry, or if you just have a question about some of the history of Williams Barbecue and hot dogs, man, just give us a call.
But I want to. I don't know if Dern. If he'd like to, I'm thinking maybe give his phone number. I don't know, people. If you got a piece of paper and pencil, want to write, let Darren give you his his phone number.
Well, probably website because he's got a lot of phone numbers. Yeah, depending on where you're at, but you can go Colors Edge. Yeah, ColorsEdge.com. We'll get you. You know, we'll kind of give a listing of all our locations and stuff, and phone numbers, and contact information, and where we're at and stuff.
Because we're, like I said, we're you know. We're all we're, you know, in Texas. We're in you know, obviously we're in Houston, Dallas, South Texas, Corpus, down there, and then here in the Carolinas. You know, we're you know here in the Triad, up in the mountains, up in Boone, down in Charlotte, out of Concord, over in the mountain foothills with Hickory and all them.
So, yeah, if you need anything, cause we you know we we do pride ourselves on service and helping those guys. You know, especially walk ins. You know, we do have a heart for them, and we do our best to try to you know. Try to get people the the right stuff to to to do the jobs that they're trying to do. Whether it's just washing their car, because we do you know carry detail supplies all the way to to minor fixes and scratches and stuff like that, and give them ideas on on the best way to kind of fix some of that stuff.
Yeah, and if you're in the area listening. And it's an area that colors edges locate is not located in. I mean, just go to the paint store and stuff. Try to find out a project that you can do with your with your kids or as a family and stuff. Man, it'll it'll pay dividends.
I'll tell you that. Also, I'm just going to take a moment to mention Jesus' labor of love. I know Mark is familiar with it. Then I think Darren has heard me talk about it before. You know, that's a ministry where we help basically a single Moms with transportation.
That's sometimes supplying a car or just getting a car repaired, and also it kind of branches out. We do. It's not just just single moms as much now because we have helped some military and veterans and and some single fathers that are struggling through things.
So there's a lot of opportunity to help. But I'm going to be honest. Right now is a time that I I think God is blessing that ministry, but also. Man, the need is great, and it's probably the need for the last two months has been really more than what the ability for the ministry to be able to meet those needs.
So we're having to really kind of put people on hold, or just trying to trying to make connections where is not a dollar amount to it. Where some of the shops and stuff, I know we're one of them, where somebody can just come by and we can do something without having a cost involved to get people with a car. Safe and stuff. I guess probably about a month ago, I threw out a challenge, and I'm going to do it again this morning. I'm going to call it the Coffee Challenge for Jesus' Labor of Love.
If you'll go on the website. Christian Car Guy Radio. Then go over to the left-hand side of it. There's a link there for Jesus Labor of Love. There's one that tells you about the ministry.
Also, there's a link if you want to donate a vehicle.
So if you've got a car out in your driveway that your spouse has been saying, "Get that thing out of the driveway, man!" Give us a call. Even if it's not in running condition, we need to get it in running condition, or we can just turn it into cash. I see so many cars sitting in people's driveways. It's been sitting there for months. They don't look like they—that's a great opportunity.
Yeah, they're just gonna sit there and let the tires rot and the cars rot. It's an opportunity to give it and to help somebody. Every penny and every donation that goes into Jesus Labor of Love goes directly into the ministry of helping. It goes directly to helping somebody. There's not a.
This is a nonprofit that doesn't have a structure that's. Getting paid, it's all volunteers that are doing it.
So I encourage if you've got that vehicle sitting there, give us a call. We'll get it moved for you and turn it into a vehicle that gets somebody transportation or. Turn it into cash by selling it. You know, just selling it to a salvage yard or I hate to say it, a crusher or whatever, because they will turn it into cash and we'll use it for something else. And now back to my coffee challenge.
Also, if you go, there's a donation thing where you can make a one time donation, you can make a monthly donation, and has different things. My coffee challenge is if you're in the listening audience, just think about it. If you just took One trip where you go buy a cup of coffee and put that aside and say, "I am going to donate that to Jesus' love." And if you don't drink coffee, maybe it's an energy drink or something. Just think about it. If you, I don't know what the price is, but some of those are four and five dollars.
Let's just say a hundred people hear that challenge and do that. The difference that can make. What if a thousand people did that, where every week one. Coffee, or energy drink, or bag of chips, whatever it may be, if you just turned around and donated that into Jesus' labor of love. I challenge you to do that because, like I said, right now the need is great.
The funds and resources aren't so great, and it isn't that we didn't have people who have always been willing to give and to help because we have some that are continual. Take it and they're where they can do it every month. Have so much bank draft, so it's all set up now. We changed that structure, or Robbie and and Lori and them changed the structure, so you can either do a one time gift, you can do a re. Current gift through the bank or draft it out.
It's just all kinds of opportunities to do it. My challenge is give up that cup of coffee, give up that energy drink, just one of them a week, and donate it to Jesus' labor of love. And I think that I, I think you'll be blessed by it. And I think whenever you hear those stories that come on, I know once a month we try to get some of the people call in that have been helped and stuff. You know, it it'll touch your heart, and if it doesn't touch your heart, I'm I'm I'm shocked because.
We take for granted transportation. You know what? Now there's plenty of parents out there, especially single moms, who have to have a job to be able to support their family and don't have transportation. Or taking buses. Or you just think about taking Uber and the cost of that, and then having to get kids with special needs, kids or kids with disabilities, having to get them to the doctor's office and don't have transportation.
Man, that's a tough place to be. And I won't say real quick for I know we're running out of time, but if if if you Like to come to the store and if your change, if you'll say give my change to Jesus Labor Love, I'll put it to the side, and when I get up, I'll write a check to them or send it to them, and I'll just do a charity because we'll got people that say, well, you know, just Keep the change. They've come up there and they got a dollar or two. They say, "Just give that Jesus labor of love." I'll be more than happy to make sure they get it. Yeah, so that you don't have to give up anything.
You get a hot dog and a barbecue, and and give to Jesus labor of love.
So that's you win-win situation. That's right.
It's you know it's just a great opportunity, and I just hope people hear my voice and hear my my my need and and and the request I am making because it's a great ministry. It touches a lot of lives and it's changed a lot of lives. And the big thing is, most important part of that ministry is we have a team that pray with the people who are seeking the help and stuff, and also pray with the people who are donating.
So you know, God is good, and God calls us to. Be part of it. Back to Darren real quick because as we mentioned about the the difference in the you know the industries changed and the products changed so much. One of the things that I I know that people struggle with and stuff is when they go into and and the cost of doing something and they'll even get an insurance check and say, well, if I can get it done cheaper, I'll pocket the money. I'm not.
This. This. I don't want this to sound wrong and everything, but it is important. No matter where you're at in this country, no matter where you're at here in the here in this California, Utah, Seattle. Whatever, go to a shop that's established and is going to do it the correct way.
Because there is ways, and that will be raised body shop. If you're not here, there's there's one in your community, because it makes a difference. And there's ways to cut corners. That's why I talked about why it's important. Colors Edge, Christian based.
That's right.
You could cut corners and save some money, but longevity of the product is where the cost comes. Savings comes back to bite you, and also in the Hot dogs, hamburgers, barbecue—I mean, hot dogs and barbecue and stuff. There's ways to cut corners, but you know what? Still have that product and stuff. And both of these men here are doing it the right way, and I appreciate it.
So, Colors Edge, Williams, hot dogs and hamburgers, hot dogs and barbecue. I keep saying, kick me for the hamburger part. I'm sorry.
