How Exactly Does Vangie Have What Sabrina Needs? | Vangie | 015

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We're all freaked out, we're all
like, OK, and she said I am

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pregnant, I am homeless and I
have nowhere to stay and all I

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need is just $47.
Welcome to When You Look, where

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ordinary people share their
extraordinary experiences and

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you get to decide, was it
coincidence or God?

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Vanji, welcome to When You Look.
So Great to have you on the

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show.
What a pleasure to be part of

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this show.
Thank you for the invitation.

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Yeah, absolutely.
Genuinely excited to hear your

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story.
All of the stories that are

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shared on When you look are
first hand accounts and you have

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one of those.
So we're tremendously excited to

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hear what you have to share.
But before we jump into the

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story, tell us a little bit
about yourself.

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Well, Aaron and I have been I'm
a we've been happily married for

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24 years and we have three adult
children, Jonah, Anna Lynn and

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Abram.
And together we Co we Co founded

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and we Co direct currently RVA
Hope Center and we're just

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blessed.
Awesome.

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Well, thank you so much for
sharing about that.

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Let's jump right into your
story.

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So give us a little bit of the
back story and then walk us

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through things as they went.
Yeah, yeah.

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I'm excited to share this story.
We actually took our first

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mission trip to New York City.
Our church partners with New

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York School of Urban
Administries called Nicem.

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So you might hear me say Nicem a
lot.

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And we take a team out every
Christmas.

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And so we finally, after so many
years, decided to give God yes.

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And I try a domestic mission
trip.

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And it was our first and it was
in 2013.

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The night before we left, we had
a total worship service.

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And one of the ladies there put
an envelope of cash in my hands

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and said, this is supposed to be
that there's some money in here,

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and it's supposed to be for
someone special in New York

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City.
So I was like, all right, I will

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take this envelope of cash.
I don't know what it's for.

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This is my first mission trip,
but I will take it for someone

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special in New York City.
So we drive up to New York and

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we have our training that day.
And of course, one of the rules

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is you're not supposed to give
cash to the people whom we serve

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because some of them are
unsheltered and someone, some of

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them might struggle with
substance use disorder and all

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the things.
And so I thought, OK, Lord, what

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am I going to do with this
money?

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I, I counted in the envelope, it
was $48, by the way.

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So I told the ladies on my team,
I sit on my night stand and

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said, Hey, this is supposed to
be for someone special, but

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we're not supposed to hand out
cash.

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But let's just pray about what
God has in mind for this.

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So one night we thought, oh, you
know, we, we ministered to a

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couple of ladies and one of them
was homeless and she needed some

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money for a verification letter.
But we were like, OK, I don't

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know if this is what we're
supposed to do with it.

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And that was $35.00.
But we're like, no, I, I don't

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know if this is what the Lord
wants us to do with it.

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So we wondered, OK, Lord, let's
just go back to nice some and

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let's just pray about this more.
So Sunday came.

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So that was Saturday night.
Sunday came and we're like, OK,

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this is our recreation day.
I'm going to take this envelope

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that says for someone special,
$48.

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Jesus loves whoever is supposed
to be there.

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We're going to find somebody
whom we're supposed to bless

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this, you know, $48 for.
So I put it in my purse all day

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Sunday waiting for some sort of
moment to happen.

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And God really didn't show us
anybody in our path that day of

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whom we're supposed to to
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So then here, here we come this
Monday and we normally don't, I

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normally don't bring a purse.
I brought my purse on Sunday.

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I accidentally, I accidentally
brought my purse on out for

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safety reasons.
Some of us carry our purses, but

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I somehow inadvertently did and
I had that envelope with me.

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And our goal was to take these
stuffed animals and acts of

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kindness, do ministry to
families on the ferry.

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So we took a subway, then went
on the ferry and lo and behold,

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I had my purse with me.
So we did ministry and I'm like,

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OK, Lord, I have my purse with
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We did ministry on on the ferry.
And he really didn't show his

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like the person who I'm supposed
to do this $48 for.

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So I'm thinking, OK, we're done
for the night.

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It's going to happen tomorrow.
I don't even know what the Lord

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is up to.
In order for us to get to the

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Pharaoh.
You go through a sequence of

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subway.
So we're returning back and I'm

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thinking the night is over of
ministry.

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All of our stuffed animals are
gone.

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We actually miss one of our
trains, I believe that day.

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And somehow we're we're delayed
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So mind you, there's fairies
involved, there's subways

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involved, there is trans
positions of all that involved.

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And our team probably of seven
or ten are sitting in the subway

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and the door opens at one of our
stops.

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So it wasn't even, you know, we
hadn't even gotten to our

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destination.
And this lady comes in and she's

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like, can I have your attention,
everybody?

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And we're like, Oh my gosh, what
is this woman?

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What?
We're all freaked out.

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We're all like, OK.
And.

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She said I am pregnant, I am
homeless and I have nowhere to

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stay and all I need is just $47
to pay for my the rest of my

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hotel room.
And at that moment we really

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knew.
I started crying, Aaron started

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crying.
I'm like, don't I have that in

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this envelope?
So I, I, our team knew about it.

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So we're all freaking out that
this is the person whom the Lord

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appointed even before we left
Virginia and, and told somebody

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to give that certain amount of
money.

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So she asked her to sit with us,
and you could just feel like the

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work of God just around us.
And our whole team got to

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minister to her.
And I got to show her the

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envelope and say, you're not
going to believe this.

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But 500 miles away, five days
ago, a woman put in my hand,

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there's somebody in New York
City that's going to need this

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money.
And we really didn't know who

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it's going to be.
And so we got to tell her that

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that's how God sees her and he
was going to provide.

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So it was really cool that we
got to give her that cash.

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She saw I put Jesus loves you in
there.

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And not only was that not, it
wasn't just that that was that

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was just ministered to her.
Her name was Sabrina.

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She we also, she got to explain
that she grew up as an atheist

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and she had challenges,
including depression.

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And at that moment, as we kind
of surrounded her, I felt

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prompted to ask somebody in our
team, one of the young girls,

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hey, does anybody want to share
their their story?

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And unbeknownst to me, one of
the other team mates said, Hey,

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I want to share to Sabrina my
story.

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I actually am a overcomer of
depression and I'd love to tell

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her.
So here's Sabrina, who shared

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that she's been challenged with
depression.

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And on my team is one of the
girls that has been overcoming

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depression.
So they got connected and it was

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just a sweet moment of
connection.

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She began.
Sabrina began to cry.

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And we just knew that, wow, he
had appointed this days, days

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and even years before.
And Mickey also had a Bible.

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So we were able to give her a
Bible that day.

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And another person on our team
had a special word for her.

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So she had, you know, asked her
about her grandma.

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And then when Miss Jeannie asked
her about her grandma, she said,

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yeah, actually, my grandma is a
Christian, and she's been

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talking to me about God.
And anyway, it was just kind of

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crazy.
It was just kind of crazy.

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So that that's that's what it
was.

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And not only ministered to our
whole team, but the entire train

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or everybody in our train was
like, Oh my gosh, what is going

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on?
And I don't know, it's just, it

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was just pretty amazing how when
you think about the ferries and

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the trains and the millions of
people in New York City and

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forgot to orchestrate that
moment.

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So it was awesome.
Yes, wow.

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I mean, that's so good.
And you even use the word as you

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were describing, not the planes,
trains and automobiles, but the

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fairies and the subways and all
of that.

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You talked about at one point a
delay delay in your return of

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some sort.
Yes, we had missed, I believe it

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was we had missed the subway.
We were running to the subway.

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We had missed it and we had to
wait another 15 minutes for it

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to come back around like, Oh my
gosh, we just missed it.

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But we're like it's OK, we'll
just wait for the next 1.

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So as we consider just the
timing of everything we just

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knew and then all the stops and
of all of the sections into the

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train of the, of, of your
subway, she chose our our car,

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our train car to jump into and
ask for that request.

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And it it has, you know, she has
changed my life forever because

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it was a testimony to his just
divine intervention.

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So yeah.
Wow, wow, that is so good.

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Well, we're going to we're going
to go into in a little bit to

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how it has changed your life.
But before we get there, you

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talked about being in the in the
train car and you talked about

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you, you could feel the work of
God around us.

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What did that?
What does that mean?

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Yeah, yeah.
You know, in that moment, this

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was Christmas time, I could just
feel the Holy Spirit's presence.

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And honestly, what it reminded
me and that it touched all of

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us, was recall that Mary was
pregnant and had nowhere to

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sleep.
And in that moment, it was just

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kind of a holy moment kind of
being in this space where God

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brought her to us just like he
brought Mary and desperate in a

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desperate cry of wanting a safe
place for her to lay her head

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down.
It was just such AI don't know.

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It was just such a holy moment.
Every everything, all the

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answered prayers we've been
praying about this envelope of

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cash who was who was supposed to
go to.

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And in that very moment, it was
like the culmination of, of

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God's details coming together.
And even our team, because each

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one of our team members, it
wasn't just me, each one of us

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got to contribute to this
moment.

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And I, you could just feel God
working.

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I don't even know how to explain
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Well, I think you, I think you
did a nice job all of.

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Us, all of us were crying.
Honestly, the whole team was

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crying.
It wasn't just me and Aaron, but

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our whole team was crying in
that moment, yeah.

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Yeah, 'cause it sounds like
everybody was aware of the $48

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that it, that, that it was in
the envelope.

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And there was also, it sounds
like some degree of anticipation

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over these handful of days of
what are we to do with this?

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When will we see this?
It sounds like they're, again, I

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don't want to put words in your
mouth here, but it sounds like

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there may have been some
expectation and anticipation of

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who is this?
What will this look like?

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And then these doors open up and
some doors open up.

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So what was that like?
Well, and to me, I thought most

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people ask for like, do you have
a dollar?

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Do you have any spare change?
Do you have any?

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Do you have $100?
It was a specific amount.

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So we were just, I don't know,
we were all shocked and it's

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interesting because we thought
we were done for the day.

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So we took off all of our
Christmas stuff.

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We were just off of ministry
mode and we were just like,

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well, you know, what more could
we just, we weren't even

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expecting it because we thought,
oh, our, our nights done.

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We've already done with, we've
gotten rid of all the animals.

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We, you know, and just I, I just
recounting just taking that out

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of my purse, which I wasn't
supposed to have with me, which

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that was the only outreach that
I carried my purse and and just

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being able to show her Jesus
loves you for someone I wrote

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for someone special in New York
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Jesus loves you and for someone
who's proclaimed to be an

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atheist to demonstrate in a
tangible way that Jesus loves

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her by sending a bunch of crazy
people from Virginia 500 miles

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over 500 miles away at that very
moment you just can't make up.

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This was an only God.
Overwhelming feeling and, and

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presence for sure.
So, and we got to pray with her.

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We got to, you know, her train
got out, she exited before we

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did.
And so we got to bless her and

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encourage her.
And it was just an amazing

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encounter.
And yes, so we'll always

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remember Sabrina.
The name of our first ministry

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vehicle is Sabrina.
So she has a special place in

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our heart for sure.
Yeah, wow, Wow.

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Oh my God, Oh my God.
So.

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Yeah, praise God.
So let's let's rewind because I

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want to come back to the
beginning, OK?

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And you are given an envelope.
Yes.

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What I mean you, you sort of
mentioned that this was your

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first mission trip.
Did I hear that correctly?

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OK.
And not that that necessarily

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matters, but someone that I
presume you know just gives you

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an envelope of cash, it says
this is for somebody in New

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York.
I'm like, what was that like for

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you to actually that was more.
Even more complicated.

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In fact, she she didn't even
hand it to me.

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We miss each other and she's
like, Oh my gosh, you need to

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come to my house.
So I sent my son to her.

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She's like, I didn't see you.
I have money and I'm like in

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this Thursday night, I'm leaving
5:00 in the morning.

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So I send my son out to her
house.

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She's like, no, this has to go.
I'm she was a little under the

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weather.
Somehow we didn't connect.

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So I sent my son over to her
house to pick up this.

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I'm like, what, what, what is
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And he actually grabbed it for
me since we were in the midst of

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packing.
And so, yeah, so here it is, a

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person at church.
I sent my son to go get this

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envelope of cash.
And I knew she was.

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It had to go to New York City if
we're going to go this to that

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extent.
So yeah.

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Yeah, wow.
Man, it's awesome.

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It's awesome.
No doubt praise God.

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Praise God, Praise God.
Yes, He's so good.

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He's so good.
So tell us a tiny bit more or

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even a lot more of when you're
with Sabrina earlier, you use

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the phrase as you were talking
to her.

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This is how God sees you.
Tell us a little more about

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that.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Well, we really got to tell her
in that moment that God hasn't

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forsaken her, that even though
she is homeless and pregnant,

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that God has been caring for her
all this time, that he's never

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forsaken her, that, you know, he
is, she is made in his image.

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And we got to tell her about the
plans and purposes that he has

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for her and for her baby.
And the the cool thing is our

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words meant something because
the ACT, this crazy divine

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moment just happened.
So it was an act of God and our

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words were believable because he
sent us messengers to

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substantiate that he yes, he
does see her in our time of of

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need.
She was, she was so loud and was

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crying out.
She literally it felt like it

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was a cry for mercy and and and
in his word he is shown over and

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over and over again when we cry
out to God, that man, he answers

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us and so I I say she cried out
for mercy.

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Can anybody help me and that
moment he used our team and this

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specific amount of money to
provide for her need.

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And I just love that not only,
you know, we each year the team

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varies and you send somebody who
is overcoming a young lady.

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So this was a young lady and
then he saying sends a teenager,

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also a young lady to share about
depression.

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So how cool that, you know, she
got to really minister to her

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and say, this is how I can
overcome how I overcame

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depression.
And you can you can get through

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this.
And so I just it was so cool to

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see how he used each one of us
on the team to really speak life

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to her.
And it really changed her whole

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countenance.
She was encouraged.

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She said she was going to call
her grandma because she says

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that my grandma, you know, talks
about reading the Bible.

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My grandma prays.
But had Miss Jeannie not say,

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hey, do you have a family member
that has been praying for you or

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that loves you?
Have you have you considered so

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even encouraging her to think,
hey, maybe I can reach out to my

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grandma and she won't be alone
anymore.

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So it, it just was such AI can't
explain.

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I really can't even explain this
moment, this front row seat to

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to God's glory and orchestration
and connection with this, this

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young lady.
And I mean for us it, it was a

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catalyst for our faith.
Like you can't deny that there

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is a God.
And I think in that moment it it

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it spurred us on.
We were like, man, wow.

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Our God knows all the details
and he would orchestrate.

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You know the timing of even us
sending us out there to the

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number of gifts like we were we
had.

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We came back once our stuffed
animals were gone.

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Just every, every the minute the
second was orchestrated.

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Really, the seconds were
orchestrated in our connection.

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If you really consider the tasks
that we had beforehand and all

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the, the transportation pieces
that led us to that, that, that

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that exact intersection.
You just can't make that up.

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That God would would even set
the that the timing of the

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subway trains and ferries just
so that Sabrina can be seen and

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known by the God and the creator
of our universe.

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It's just so powerful.
So he wants to do that for each

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of us, and he does so, and he
does that for all of us in in

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all of his ways.
So it's just, it was just such a

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amazing witness to God's power
and sovereignty.

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Yeah, yeah.
Wow.

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Angie, thank you so much.
Yeah.

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Well, in a lot of ways, you, you
just sort of answered the

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question.
But we asked 2 questions of each

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of our guests towards the end of
our conversation.

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The first of which is was it
coincidence or God?

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Oh, Oh my God.
Oh my God, yes.

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Yeah, right on.
And I certainly had a sense for

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how you were going to respond to
that.

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But tell us a bit, but tell us a
lot.

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Tell us, ultimately, how your
life has changed as a result of

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the encounter here with Sabrina.
Yeah, You know, I'll get

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emotional again.
Other than knowing that our God

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is so real.
He showed us that there are a

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lot of Sabrinas out there that
are vulnerable, that have great

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needs and that need to be met
where they are.

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And so he fostered in that
moment.

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I know Aaron and I, we were
like, man, we want more of these

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encounters.
How do we, how do we get more of

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these encounters?
Excuse me?

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So I know what it birthed in us.
This is Hartford Urban Missions

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and Urban Ministries.
That's where it really began for

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us.
We would return to New York City

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as well as other big cities such
as Philly and Atlanta and LA and

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do similar ministries.
Not because we were chasing

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after the encounter.
We're chasing after a God and

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and Hungary to see his glory in
those moments.

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Like man, you know, like it does
give us front row seats to these

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crazy encounters.
And so I would say RVA Hope

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Center wouldn't be existing
right now had it not been for

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that that encounter with Sabrina
on that that one night, that one

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very cold night in December of
2013.

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And it has propelled us to find
more Sabrina's.

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It has propelled us to see, look
and shine light into the darkest

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spaces of our cities.
And yeah, like the name of our

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first ministry vehicle is
Sabrina, so we get to say her

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name multiple times a week.
Yeah, that is so neat.

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Would you share more about how
you are shining light in those

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dark places?
That was the phrase you just

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used.
Yeah, yeah.

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So our mission with RVA Hope
Center is to see transform lives

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through the love and power of
Jesus Christ, transfer lives and

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hearts through the love and
power of Jesus Christ.

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And what that looks like is
serving the most vulnerable and

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the most vulnerable here in our
city and that's Richmond, VA in

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the context of the urban setting
looks like some of our

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subsidized communities that are
under resource.

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So it's loving and serving those
youth that are at risk, and then

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it also looks like serving women
and children who are being

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sexually exploited and
trafficked here in our city.

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And those are their dark spaces.
And so that's what we do.

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Yeah.
Wow.

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Yeah, the Angie.
Oh wow, there's so much here.

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Yes, God is good.
He's good.

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Yeah, all the time.
All the time.

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All the time So.
Wow, I'm I'm, I'm still taking

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it All in all glory be to God
like.

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Glory to God, yes.
It's amazing what you've shared

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and the level of insight as well
and everything that you talked

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about in terms of the impact
that it had on you guys for this

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moment with Sabrina to then spur
McKnight, whatever, whatever

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term we want to use a a passion
for reaching the lost in the

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urban spaces and all glory be to
God with that.

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So thank you so much for sharing
the story.

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Thank you for being the hands
and feet and bringing not $47

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but 48 in an envelope.
And thank you for glorifying God

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here by sharing this story
broadly.

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Absolutely.
Appreciate it.

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Thank you for having me.
I love sharing God moments and

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only God moments and just giving
him all the glory that

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definitely she was a catalyst in
my life and Aaron's life.

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And I believe that moment
changed her trajectory forever.

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So and ours too.
So only God.

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Amen.
Yeah.

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Amen.
Love it.

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Well, thank you.
Thanks a bunch.

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We'll chat soon.
Really appreciate you being on

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when you look.
Yep, thank you so much for

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having me.
Well, there you have it.

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Was it coincidence or God?
You decide for yourself, but I

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