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A Legacy of Love and Unity in Missions with Betty Swinnea
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What happens when a simple trip ignites a lifelong passion for mission work? Meet Betty Swinnea who shares the extraordinary journey that she embarked upon with her late husband, Brother Daniel. Their path led them from transformative experiences in Mexico and Haiti to impactful missions in Russia, Armenia, and ultimately Honduras. Discover how a crucial partnership with Brother Luis Vargas changed lives, and how even a crisis in food supply became a divine opportunity for change. Betty's storytelling is filled with inspiration and a testament to the relentless commitment that continues through their family and community.
Hey everybody, welcome to the God's One Podcast. This is a very special podcast. I'm your host, Kent, and today we've got a very special guest, Betty Sweeney. She is the Secretary of House of Prayer and International Outreach. She is also the Secretary of God's Little One and she is the wife of the founder of God's Little One. Thank you for being here.
Speaker 2:It's good to be here.
Speaker 1:So I was really looking forward. Whenever I thought of this podcast, I knew we had to have you on because you were the wife of the founder. You were one of the founders when God's Little One was started, so I wanted to get details of how it started. So we're just going to go ahead and start with the questions. First one I want to ask you is how did you and Brother Daniel get into missions work?
Speaker 2:Well, years ago we had this Brother Wayne Romag that got us invited us to go to Mexico and we went there and met Brother Fred and we began mission work back then and Daniel just fell in love with missions and ever since then he's just always done missions. It's just a heartbeat that he had.
Speaker 1:What was y'all's first? So you said your first trip. Where'd y'all go on that?
Speaker 2:His first trip was to Haiti with Brother Walter Jones and now comes to our church and Daniel was invited to go with Brother Walter Jones, and his heartbeat was missions.
Speaker 1:What did he say to you whenever he came back from that trip?
Speaker 2:Oh, he was a very sick man when he came back, he got something over there, but it didn't stop him. They said that what he had could kill a person, but it didn't faze him. As soon as he got well, he was back on the mission field.
Speaker 1:He loved it.
Speaker 2:He loved every bit of it.
Speaker 1:He did Before Honduras. Besides that, what places did he go on missions trips?
Speaker 2:He went to Russia with Brother Clint Denon in Armenia and he made several trips to Russia and Armenia and he just loved his missions.
Speaker 1:So he eventually. Y'all did missions for a long time and he eventually settled and y'all started just working in Honduras until he died. So how did y'all get into Honduras?
Speaker 2:well, we had a fellow by the name of brother Robert McNeil that invited us to go there. We were at the time.
Speaker 2:He was going to Mexico lots of times but it got really, really bad over there with the cartels and all and they'd call him and say don't come this time, brother Daniel, because they were set up in the town where he had him a house. And right after that Brother McNeil invited us to Honduras. Brother McNeil invited us to Honduras and we went, started a meeting in Soccerfield and we bused in hundreds of people to this meeting and that is where we met Brother Luis and they had another interpreter. That was scheduled and he counseled at the last minute and Brother McNeil got Brother Luis to come and Daniel and Brother Luis's hearts just knitted together.
Speaker 1:I believe in my heart, it was just orchestrated by God to begin to work with Brother Luis. For those who don't know, Luis Vargas is our on-the-ground missionary. He is from Honduras and he leads everything there. He's with the pastors every day. He's always on the ground doing missions work and he sets everything up for us whenever we go. So it has really been a blessing having him there. Like we, we couldn't do it without him.
Speaker 2:Honestly no way so.
Speaker 1:But whenever y'all met brother louise he was doing trying working on some kind of missions thing. So explain what he was doing and what problems he was having.
Speaker 2:That y'all ended up getting with him about uh, brother louise was um feeding malnutall ended up getting with him about. Brother Luis was feeding malnutrition kids up in the mountains and he had some farmers that was supplying this food for him and it was. It was like a rice stuff that was full of vitamins and and he was beginning to make a difference. But these decided to go into the big cities and they didn't want to go to the mountains anymore and he didn't know how that he was going to be able to get the food after that, because all of his support for that just fell through overnight Right and he was on his way to the mountains and he was weeping because he had just got the news from the farmers and Brother Daniel was in bed and it was like five o'clock in the morning on a Sunday morning and the Lord just set him up in bed and said I was hungry and you fed me not. Wow.
Speaker 2:And he began to weep and cry and he said Lord, what are you trying to tell me? And immediately his mind went to Brother Luis and he called Brother Luis and Brother Luis told him the story about the farmers dropping in and he said well, how much will it cost to do a container of food? And he told him it was like $2,500 back then. It's much more now, but it was $2,500. He said well, my wife and I is going to send the next container of food for you. And that's how it all began.
Speaker 1:And you all have been doing it ever since and it has grown from that. What did Brother Daniel say to y'all whenever he had got back from Honduras and decided to start doing that? What did he tell you?
Speaker 2:Well, daniel was a man that he, just when God led him to do something, it was he's going to do it or die.
Speaker 1:And that's just how he did.
Speaker 2:And he just come home he's just saying we've got to help, we've got to do this so he began, our camp meeting was coming up real soon, and so he designated the whole camp meeting for raising funds for this mission work. And it never has stopped. That's where it started and it's just never stopped. It's just always somebody stepping in and doing this.
Speaker 1:Once he was gone, someone else came and continued. Well, one of his sons came and all of the sons together. They've continued the work. That's right. So, besides the food, what kind of support did y'all do the first few years of starting missions work?
Speaker 2:Well, we've done lots of campaigns and preaching A lot of preaching, a lot of preaching and strengthening the ministry. People over there didn't very few of them had the Holy Ghost Right and really wasn't that hungry, didn't even. But when Daniel went he began to preach about the. Holy Ghost, and it put a hunger in them for it.
Speaker 1:What was Brother Daniel's goals whenever he first started Guzzle? Did he call it God's Little One at the time? Let's talk about that first. I know he did missions work, but how did all that go about of actually starting a missions program?
Speaker 2:Well, he did call it God's Little Ones. He put S on it, and then, when we tried to get the paperwork done on it, somebody already had a name for that, they said, all we had to do was drop the S and that would be good, because Daniel didn't want to change that. And so we started the God's Little One right off the bat. I mean, that was just a name that came to him, that he felt like that's what he wanted to do.
Speaker 1:So, getting back to that question, that was a rabbit trail, but that was a good rabbit trail. Going back to the question, what was Brother Daniel's goals for God's Little One when he first started?
Speaker 2:Well, when we first started, that was it feeding malnutrition kids. That was how we got in there, and then his goal was to do ministry. That was his main goal was to do ministry. That was a stepping stone for us and it opened doors, many doors, just by feeding those children opened the doors in the many villages that we began to preach.
Speaker 1:So, since he started, we're going to get a little bit about what we're doing now eventually, but I want to talk a little bit about what is going on now, related to what was going on then. We now have about four or five I want to say four or five churches we've built. Did y'all do much of that kind of stuff at that time, or was that later on? That was later. That was later on. Yeah, did we have any churches under us at that time? Because I know we got several churches under us now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we did have a good many churches under us at that time, but it kind of, you know, it's changed over time. It has changed over time. It has changed Over time it has changed. Brother Danny was a big part in all those changes, things that came up and stuff, and he has just been phenomenal.
Speaker 1:Right For those who are new to the podcast, we did talk to Danny Sweeney for the very first podcast. He is the admissions director took over after brother Daniel died. It's his son took over it after Daniel died and he's done some phenomenal work since and we talked about him taking over and this kind of stuff. We talked about it. So if you're new to podcasts and you haven't seen those videos or those recordings, I highly recommend you go listen to them. Podcasts. It is some good stuff. So I'm talking about that podcast. I talked to him about the toy drives. He said that those started a little, not very long before Brother Daniel died. So how did that come into being?
Speaker 2:long before brother daniel died. So how did that come into being? Well, we were going. We were scheduled to go to another one of the soccer field campaigns which is you say soccer field campaigns?
Speaker 1:explain what that is.
Speaker 2:First, well, it's a big soccerville field and we rented uh speakers and and so y'all actually did services at a soccer and a platform, we platform, we had to rent all this, all the chairs, all this, and then we bust in all these people in this soccer field. Well, this was the second year of going into this soccer field and before we went, brother Luis wanted Daniel and I to go to the mountains.
Speaker 1:He had a heart had.
Speaker 2:y'all went to the mountains. He had a heart.
Speaker 1:Had y'all went to the mountains before that?
Speaker 2:No, we hadn't been. This was actually our first time to go. I guess you would say we were scouting in and out Right. Yeah, and we went to places that actually he wanted to do a shortcut. We went through fields. We took down gaps in people's fields and it wasn't even a road. Horses is what traveled it. And we went up into this place and we saw these kids kicking around something. It wasn't even a soccer ball, they were kicking around something out there playing at a school and we asked Brother Luis said, what kind of toys?
Speaker 2:And he said toys. They don't even know what that is. And it just birthed in us to do toys, and so it it was. We didn't realize what a big project this was we were used to doing it in mexico and it was on a small scale compared to so y'all had done toy drives before, just not in this location, not in not in honduras and not this big scale, because we've been doing those for years, because in mexico. You can load up your vehicles and travel in there.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:This you got to ship on a ship.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you know we just never had done anything like that, but Brother Luis had shipped stuff in before.
Speaker 2:So he just helped us with all that and we just started gathering toys and and taking it.
Speaker 1:it was just the light it brought to those kids faces when they saw those things I've seen videos and I've been on several toy drives and I I like to say that for a first time person, for someone going to missions for the first time, a toy toy drive is one of the best you can go on, per to my. In my opinion, we uh well, so we was talking about that soccer ball field, those meetings y'all did. I want to talk about that a little bit so you explain what they are. What kind of impact did y'all see from those?
Speaker 2:oh my, it was uh. So people and these people were so hungry and some of them were church people, some of them weren't church, right, and they just wanted to get in on the excitement because they seen excitement and they came. But I mean, it was people that sought God and prayed and sought the Lord and we didn't have the best of weather that second time we went I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2:it rained so much. It just flooded things and they would come off of them buses with paper on their head, whatever they could find, and they stood out there in the rain and listened to those messages and stuff. It was something I'd never experienced before let's talk about the churches.
Speaker 1:So y'all, uh, once y'all got in the mountains, y'all started getting churches under God's little one what was the first church? And talk about that whole deal of getting with that church, getting that in involved to where we would go to their church and do that.
Speaker 2:Well, the first church was Pastor Domingo and he had loads of people. I mean, he had probably 600. They had church every night and sometimes twice a day, and they would just come when they could.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Some might come this service some another service.
Speaker 1:They had service every night of the week Packed out every night.
Speaker 2:They had services every week, yeah.
Speaker 1:The one sad thing about that is, but it's also very powerful. I want to say last year, brother Domingo, the pastor of that church, he died last year, I believe, wasn't it from COVID?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:He died from COVID last year or sometime. Well, we got to go up there. I was on the trip, they did this, so it was really cool and we was able to be a part of them picking their new pastor. And they've got a new pastor in there and you've met the new pastor, right. Um, I have. Yeah, he's a very good, very good, very good leader and it's just a very at least from what I've heard. I've seen him and stuff. But uncle danny has told me he's a very good pastor, he it's. It's just really cool because we we that's our.
Speaker 1:I didn't know that was our first church, or I might have, but I didn remember. That's really cool, getting to see a first church grow to where they happen to get a new pastor because they've been around, and I think that's really cool, that's right. So the whole process of getting churches under us how did y'all decide to do churches under us? Because I know y'all decided to do toy drives. But why did y'all decide to do churches under us? Because I know y'all decided to do toy drives.
Speaker 2:But why did y'all decide to do it the way we do it now, to where we go to the churches, Well, I think that's something that Brother Danny and Brother Luis talked over, and because that it was a group of people, that churches, that was working with us, but they never came and it's just like they just quit respecting brother Luis and all that and it and it caused a division and so with that division, it is what it is today. Brother Daniel and brother Luis has worked through this and we have very strong churches. We do, very strong, we do.
Speaker 1:Very strong. We do and we grow and we have got—y'all didn't build churches at the time. I mentioned that earlier. Now we have churches we have four or five. We're working on one right now that we are actually sending money to build the churches and I think Brother Luis is helping them find pastors and stuff. So it's really growing. Every every year, something new is happening. This year we every year something new has happened. It has grown from one brother, danny, from daniel, yes, and y'all went that's right to where we started.
Speaker 1:Just doing it. Why don't you explain a little bit about how it's grown? We we've talked about with uncle danny, but I want to hear you say it explain how we've grown from what y'all started to until now. Well, it was big when we were going, it was really big but it's different now.
Speaker 2:It's like hardly anybody had the Holy Ghost or anything like that and it has built up as far as the strong-spirited churches and all, and it's not the deadness that sometimes that you find, you know, but it is life in those churches and the hunger in them Right, and the hunger in the young people.
Speaker 1:Right, and that's another thing is the young people talk about them with their young people, because they don't. I I say this on, I can't say this enough I've done done two podcasts talking to people that do young kids and youth ministries kind of things with honduras explain how they are with their youth and kids, because it's it's people in the states don't understand this because they don't deal with this as much. Well, back then the youth, nobody did anything hardly with the youth back in then, like we always do in our youth.
Speaker 2:And I think that is something that the pastors were really excited about, because we brought that life to the young people, and they're young people. Oh my, they're so hungry for the Lord, and the Lord is just raising up ministry through this and through the youth groups that are going over there and doing things now. It's just really brought life and strength to the churches because of the youth, yeah because they've never done anything with it.
Speaker 1:They've never even had—they never had Sunday school when y'all went, and now we're able to bring them—we've got a church that has partnered with us and again, I don't want to have to say more, trying to get more people to listen, but we did a podcast with the pastor of the church who's over the Sunday school part of God's Little One and we are bringing them a Sunday school curriculum and teaching them how to do Sunday school and stuff and it's really growing with the young people and the kids and is really powerful. So you went when Brother Daniel, when did he die? I say, I ask every time. I ask every time but when did Brother Daniel die? I'm bad with dates In 2012. He died in 2012. You kind of you kind of stopped going for a little while after. Well, you went, but then there was a time where you didn't go and then recently I think it was last year you went again. How did it? I think it was last year you won again.
Speaker 2:How did it go ahead? Talk about that. Yeah, I didn't go a few, a couple of two or three of the years, but at the beginning you did go. I should.
Speaker 1:I should have mentioned. I didn't mention that you went a lot before after he died with my dad yeah my dad went a lot with you and talk about those those few years.
Speaker 2:Yeah well, we went um because I know richard, he asked us after daniel died. Daniel had just drew on a, a napkin, just a sketch of a building that he wanted to build over there. And actually Richard done a much better job. Well it would have been good for Daniel. He wanted to do the Acme block but we wanted to keep it original and we end up doing the Adobe Right and he had that drone and that was his next goal.
Speaker 1:He wanted to have a building. There Was to get this building Called the Glow Center.
Speaker 2:Yes, it was to bring ministers into there. Right. And to train ministers and strengthen them and encourage them Right.
Speaker 1:They was big in teaching pastors and stuff and I don't know young people, but they was big into teaching the School of Christ. We haven't done that in a while but we need to do that again, but they was big into teaching the school of Christ and he wanted to see us do that kind of stuff in there. Yeah, that's what he wanted it for and so when he died you went a lot over there for that kind of stuff with the building and stuff, right? Yes, I did.
Speaker 2:I was there when they did the groundbreaking and we had, after Daniel passed away, we had several people come up to us with big sums of money that they wanted to put into this goal that Daniel had to him and said, mama, I want to see that sketch of that building and I give it to him.
Speaker 1:And he tried to do it just as close as he could to what his daddy's dream was, and if you look at the building from a drone view, it looks like did he do it to look like an arrow or was it a cross? I think it was an arrow.
Speaker 2:If I have that right yeah probably it's kind of yeah, it's kind of slanted on the front, it's really, really cool.
Speaker 1:As a matter of fact, if you go on the YouTube channel, I believe you'll see videos. I don't know what videos, I can't point you to any specifically, but we have several videos that will show the Glow Center. But we have used the heck out of that thing since we did it. We use it every we. We stay there, we store stuff there. I've went on medical trips to where we'll bring uh, we had the last day of our medical trip. We went and we did medical stuff in the glow center. We've done. I went and did it, we did a, we did a, we did a missions, a pastor's conference there. It's been used so much and it was so necessary. What'd y'all do before we had a building with all this stuff?
Speaker 2:we actually just I don't know what brother louise. One time did it. Daniel built brother louise a house up there on mountains and one time we went on their porch and distributed it was. Oh, really it was tough and we went in the very first time in this little building and had this stuff. You couldn't even hardly work because it was so much stuff. So, nobody knows how wonderful it was when we got this building to work in.
Speaker 1:It was a godsend.
Speaker 2:It was. It was a blessing.
Speaker 1:So we've talked about the growth. We've talked about Brother Daniel. I'm not going to say we're not going to get back to that, but I want to talk about you for a minute. Going to missions. What was your First response going to Honduras? What was you thinking whenever you went for the first time and what was your first trip and stuff. Talk about that.
Speaker 2:Well, my first trip was the soccer field the very first time, and I loved it. I just loved the country, the atmosphere, the people. So sweet, they just make you feel like you're a king and a queen. And I really, really enjoyed it. I love the little town and I just walk around that town and saw the monkeys. It was really nice because the first place we went was Belfonte and that was in the kind of tropical part of it.
Speaker 1:Now we're up in the mountains. Yeah, now we're up in the mountains. What did you think whenever he said y'all was going to start doing missions work.
Speaker 2:Oh, I was always in. Whatever he felt led to do, I was always in for it.
Speaker 1:How have you felt seeing it grow from what it was have?
Speaker 2:you felt seeing it grow from what it was. It's just a great feeling to know that little old people like us, that we don't feel like we're that much on this earth that the Lord would use us in a way that we could bless so many people and encourage and strengthen so many people in the ministry.
Speaker 1:This is a question that I've kind of started using this different ways that I like to ask I'll use it for people who do young people ministry. I want to ask you this in this way what would you say to someone who doesn't think missions work is necessary, or doesn't believe in it or doesn't think it's important? What would you say to someone? In it or doesn't think it's important. What would you say to someone? Good question. You should have seen Brother Terry Miles' response whenever I asked him one similar to that.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, the Bible speaks about it about the missions and go ye into all the world and why wouldn't we go do something for the Lord? I mean, it's not all about us, it's about others and about strengthening and encouraging people that just don't have the means and we can support. That means for them. That means everything you know to those people and to us. It's a blessing to us and that includes I believe that God just blesses people that are mission minded.
Speaker 1:I agree, and that includes going overseas or in state missions work.
Speaker 2:It's all Hometown.
Speaker 1:It's all missions work. It's all mission. Something else I'd like to ask is what would you like to see in the future? What would you like to see happen in the future with God's little one?
Speaker 2:Just it to grow bigger and bigger. I just, I just love the more people you help. To me, that's, that's a beautiful thing you know, I just, I just like to see, uh, it continue and even grow stronger. But I'd like to see more little churches built in the little villages, because what you don't understand about it is the towns may not be so far away, you know, like say, 20 miles.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:For them would be impossible.
Speaker 1:Because a lot of them walk. They have to walk or they have to hitch a ride. A lot of them hitch a ride, walk or grab a bus Right.
Speaker 1:And that is their way of going Grab a bus Right, and that is their way of going that school teacher that we got to we'll talk about that future. I'm not going to get detailed on that, but we got a school on the premises of the Glow Center thanks to another missions work that is partnered with us. But that teacher she has to get up early in the morning and ride a bus to get up there and it's not a short trip, if I remember right. I don't know details of it, we'll get into it with another podcast coming up, but it is really. They'll do a lot of things to do. They'll do a lot to go to mission not mission services, but services and stuff. They'll do a lot to go to a church. I've seen we've picked them up before I've seen them do some crazy things or some long treks to get to a church.
Speaker 2:Even them coming to get the toys.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:You can see way down the road, they're just walking in that direction. They have to leave early and they walk. It don't matter if it's raining or shining, and we've seen them walk in the dark, yeah.
Speaker 1:It's crazy. That's right. It's something that I know a lot of people in the States would not be willing to do.
Speaker 2:That's right.
Speaker 1:But that's what they do.
Speaker 2:And they're willing to do it to get help, and that's why building these new little churches in their villages and towns is a beautiful thing. It is, it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1:So it's a beautiful thing it is. It's a beautiful thing. So we talked about this before we did this podcast. And what kind of story? What's your favorite moment or favorite story?
Speaker 2:from God's little one. Well, one of my favorite things is we was at Pastor Domingo's one time and they were having this like just a meeting. Like we would have a camp meeting Right. Get different ones. You know ministry minded to come and these people were hungry for the Holy Ghost and I'm telling you, the Holy Ghost fell. We were having like three little services a day. They would have a service. Take a break.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've done that before.
Speaker 2:And we came back in and they began to weep and cry. Brother Daniel preached to them about the Holy Ghost and they just got so hungry and they began to weep and to cry and it sounded like a roar going over that mountain and Daniel, he told me, he said Look, take a video of this and send it to Danny.
Speaker 2:Danny at the time was living in South Carolina. We took it and Brother Danny was eating lunch with somebody. It was on a Sunday and he was eating lunch with some people in his church and I called him and I sent that to him and he began to hear that they couldn't even eat they. They just stopped and fell on on their knees and began to weep and cry and pray for what they feel felt coming over those airwaves.
Speaker 2:But those people were just crying out and they were saying in, in, uh, our language. They were saying feel me, feel me, feel me, just crying it over and over, feel me, and I'm telling you, the holy ghost swept in that place that day, and that's just one of the great experiences and feeling that I've ever had. As far as h Honduras was concerned, that's remarkable.
Speaker 1:I've never heard that story. I love that I got one or two more questions to ask you before we close this podcast. How has God's little one affected your life personally?
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know. Daniel always had this mission-minded thing and I always went whatever he said. But it does something to you inside that is unexplainable the feeling that you have when you go see those people. You might be here in the States and you hear about it. You might be here in the States and you hear about it, but when you go and you see and feel the real experience.
Speaker 2:It's very different and I just always loved it and I always had a heartbeat for it. Because of it, I mean, I work overtime here trying to collect up stuff for when we have our toy drive.
Speaker 1:You're one of the biggest when it comes to who works in God's Little One the most, you probably top number one. I'm going to say you do a lot.
Speaker 2:Well, I do fight for it. You top three, I do fight for it I'm going to give.
Speaker 1:one of the only ones who does more is probably Brother Luis, because he's up there 24-7. But of the people here that do most for God's little one, I'm gonna put you over Uncle Danny personally, because I don't know about all that y'all are right there. Y'all are right there as far as in state I'm giving it to you, but it's, it's it's just like my church here.
Speaker 2:It's my heartbeat right well, god's little one is too right and, and I just always fought for it.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:I just I try to do the best. When I do something I like to do the best that I can within my means.
Speaker 1:Right, we said earlier, you kind of stopped going for a little while, two or three years, you said, and then you went back to Honduras for a toy drive, I believe it was. How did it feel going back? I'm going to ask you two questions how did it feel going back?
Speaker 2:first, it felt great. I thought, man, why hadn't I been every year?
Speaker 1:Because it is the best. What took me so long?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's the best feeling.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:But I went through a spell that I was just pushing others on out. You know, when your finances are so tight until you want somebody else to go in your place sometimes. And that's kind of where it was at the time and it felt good going back. Oh, it did feel good going back and I just like I can't believe what I just had, what was I thinking. Because it is an experience that you know only if you go, that you'll really understand.
Speaker 1:You can watch videos, you can support it, you can hear the stories, but you've got to go experience it for yourself. That's right. How did you feel seeing it? Because I knew it's grown since you had last went. So how did it feel seeing it grow, seeing the growth on that trip?
Speaker 2:oh it was great because I it was churches that they people that they had got in contact with that I'd never met before and it was just wonderful seeing the growth it was.
Speaker 1:I say it was because I wasn't able to go on that trip. I almost went I was no joke the day of the trip, thinking about going. I was going to take Isaac was going to go on that trip. I was going to take his ticket and go, but I didn't end up. I backed out, uh, cause I didn't think I'd be going on another trip that I ended up going on the next year. But, um, I know it, it was. Would have been cool to be able to go with you. But so we're going to. I got one more question for you, if you can call it a question, one more and then we're going to close this podcast. Take as much time as you want, give some closing remarks or, if there's any questions I haven't asked you you'd like to say? If there's anything you want to say anything, you'd like to tell people any stories you want to tell. Floor's open for whatever you want to say. Go ahead.
Speaker 2:Well, I just am thankful for everything that people has done to make this happen. Right, you know, just one person can't do this.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:It takes many people working together in unity to be able to do a project like this of going over there. It's not a one-man thing. It's not a one-man thing, it's not a one-man show and we have never looked at it like that as a one-man show.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:We are just so thankful for everything that people have done to support this ministry, to make it go on for the Lord, because it's not something that we could have done without the help of others, Even getting this building built. We could have never done that without the big support and help that people has put into it for us.
Speaker 2:We can never send these containers over there with the food and the toys and whatever we need to send over there, without the help and support of every one of you people out there that has fought with us and kept us going you just kept us going and we just appreciate it.
Speaker 2:And I know, when Brother Danny, he was pastor in a church in South Carolina and after Daniel passed away, well, it was about a year and he just got this gnawing burden that he had to do it and Brother Joey was still going and doing things and Danny would make a trip, but it was just something that he felt like he needed to come help with and so he come and he has kept this on top of things he's kept.
Speaker 1:The vision alive, he's kept this vision alive?
Speaker 2:Yes, he has, and we appreciate that. We appreciate Brother Danny doing that for us and all these I'm not going to name names because I'll tell you what I'm going to miss somebody. But we have had lots of people come and help us, a lot of people To keep this mission going Right. And we appreciate everything that everybody's ever done.
Speaker 1:And I apologize for something. I said that that was the last question. I decided to ask you another one. I had this thought I want to ask you what would you, what do you think if Brother Daniel was still here, or if he could talk to y'all and tell y'all what do y'all think he would say for the of the growth? What do you think he would tell?
Speaker 2:I know Daniel he would love. I told Danny this the other day. I said he would love what has went on with this ministry because it was his heartbeat and he would love to see this right now. I know he would. Of course he would never come down from heaven to do that I wouldn't have dreamed of making him do that. He would never do that, but I know he would be so proud of what has went on with this ministry.
Speaker 1:And with that we are going to close this podcast. I would like to thank my guest, betty Sweeney, or, as I call you, maumau. Thank you for being here for the podcast. It went very well. I appreciate you giving us your time and you have a good one.
Speaker 1:Sister Betty made a statement about Brother Daniel and she said if God told him to do something, he was going to either do it or die. God is telling us all to do stuff, whether that's to go talk to a person we don't want to talk, to move to a place we don't want to move, to do a certain thing we don't want to. God is telling us to do stuff we have to obey. Luke 22, 42 says this verse is right before. Jesus is about to be betrayed and mocked and whipped and put on a cross to die for our sins. And this is what he says. He knows what he's about to face, he knows the pain, he knows how hard it's going to be and this is what he's praying. He says, basically says Lord, if there is any way for me not to have to do this, if there's any way for me not to have to go die on the cross, any way for me not to have to go face. He knew it was going to be difficult. He knew it would hurt, but he said, if this is what I have to do, it was going to be difficult. He knew it would hurt, but he said, if this is what I have to do, I'm going to do it. God is telling us all to do stuff. Whether it's to go somewhere. We don't want to go talk to somebody. We don't want to talk to give something up. We don't want to give up. We have to obey his will. God's will is perfect. He's got a perfect plan for us. But the only way that will is going to happen is if we obey. We have to obey no matter what he tells us, no matter how much something means to us. We have to obey God first. God comes first. His will comes first. If we want God's will to happen, if we want the rewards God has for us, we have to obey him. Well, there you go.
Speaker 1:That is the third episode of the God's Little Podcast. I hope you enjoyed it. If there's any glitches in it and stuff, I apologize. Like I said, we're a new podcast. We're learning as we go, but I really hope you enjoyed the content we had.
Speaker 1:In our next podcast we're going to be talking to Richard Sweeney and Jonathan Schmid. We're going to talk about their experiences with missions work, but this podcast is going to be more focused towards the Glow Center, which is our building in Honduras. This podcast we're going to be talking about the building process, how it got designed, all that stuff. We talked about it a little bit on this one, but we're going to get in depth as much as we can about the building part. So we hope you enjoy that podcast and keep listening. That one will be coming out not this coming Monday but next Monday, so be watching for it.
Speaker 1:Thanks for listening to the third episode of the God's Little Home Podcast. We hope you enjoyed it and if you would like to contact us, if you'd like to send us a text or call us, our phone number is 318-491-1772. And if you would like to send us a donation or anything like that, our PO Box is PO Box 904, oakdale, louisiana, 71463. Any kind of donation would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for listening. God bless you and you have a great day.