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Summer Speedos | A Lifeline In The Midst of Crisis · Neighbourly: Real Stories of Care and Community

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  This is Journey with Care. Hey. We're taking 4 weeks of the summer
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  to keep it short or speedy. Let's just call these
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  summer speedos. Short action packed dives into the
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  incredible stories of everyday people using Care Portal to
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  build connection and change lives. Care Portal, for those
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  that haven't heard, is an amazing platform connecting churches,
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  families, and businesses with specific needs with some of the most
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  vulnerable in our communities. So as you soak up the sun this
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  summer and enjoy these summer remember, Journey with
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  Enough chit chat. Let's get on with the summer Speedos.
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  I met this mom and she's was
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  a victim of a violent crime, she and her 3 daughters, and they
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  escaped with very little. I found out about her right before Christmas.
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  Actually, a community donor said that she had things to
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  donate, and I was the connecting church. And so
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  on the 23rd December, we delivered a lot of clothes and
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  shoes and foods to the hotel where the agency had put
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  this family up.
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  I really didn't get to meet the family at that point. There was a strange
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  glitch, and I just ended up leaving everything.
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  Fast forward a few days, another request comes through care
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  portal. It sounds like the same family, so I pick up the request.
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  Enough, same family. They had moved into some temporary
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  housing, so I gathered up the request items, air mattresses,
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  and and a teammate, and we went to deliver, and I finally
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  got to meet the family.
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  This mom is amazing, but she told us that
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  she just all the events that had happened to her, her car
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  broke down. Her daughter was
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  suicidal. She has 2 children and herself are type 1
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  diabetic. They were camping out in this
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  really bad situation and then stayed in the hotel, but that was, you know,
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  just for a little while. And she was just going through such a
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  nightmare, and she said, I just was trying to figure out how I could
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  just end it all. I could take my life and, also, my children
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  just put us all out of this misery.
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  And she said, I I think God must hate me. And I
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  said, God doesn't hate you. God loves you.
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  And she said, well, nobody sees me. Nobody
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  sees us. And I said, I'm here and I see you.
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  We're here. God loves you and
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  you're surviving this. It's incredible. This is
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  incredible bad situation. And she said, well, I wanna know
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  how to have God in my heart. I mean, I hear people talk about
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  that. I just don't think that God is for
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  me. And we
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  said, of course, God is for you. You know, Jesus has bought
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  you. He's paid for you. He loves you. You're not perfect. We're not
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  perfect. But you are righteous because of Jesus. And
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  God loves you and accepts you and you're reconciled with God.
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  And just the look on her face, and she
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  just broke down and cried. We hugged her.
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  We've been in contact couple times a day since
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  then. Another church has partnered with us to
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  help support this family. They brought her, you know, a microwave
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  and a way that she could, you know, store some food in this very
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  temporary shelter that they're in the moment. Care
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  portal made that connection, and that community donor
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  that had a closet full clothes donate that roped me into this.
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  You know, bless your heart.
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  Families need to be seen. They need to know that God loves them.
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  They need to know that there is a church full of
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  people who have received from God and want to help
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  people find a healthier place than they're at
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  right now. And we're all people
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  that have received from the Lord and are looking for
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  people that need to know that God is for them.
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  When the world spins by the
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  home, remember
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  that you belong.
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  Thing you ever dreamed came true.
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  When you laugh and you cry, I'll be
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  always on your side, and thank God
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  for you and me.
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  When we're older, we were saved.
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  And everything that you do take hard.
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  You are strong. You are brave. You are all
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  you meant to be. Everything you ever
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  dreamed came true.
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  For you and me.
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  Thank God for you and me.
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  Thanks for listening to this summer Speedo on the Journey with Care podcast.
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  To keep the stories and conversations flowing, remember the summer
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  of 30. 30 listeners to donate $30 in the next
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  30 days to help make a difference. Visit journeywithcare.ca/30.
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  That's journey with care slash 3 0. Thanks for being part of
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  the journey.