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Gorillas, Cement, Kids Ministry, and more with Dray Hopson and Thaddaeus Massey
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Dray and Thaddaeus journey in missions took them to mountain villages. These two along with the rest of the team that went witnessed in the Mountains of Honduras through kids ministry. On this podcast we get to here these twos side of there experiences.
The most profound ministry moments weren't always during the polished performances. At one church, what initially felt like did not go well with unresponsive children and a struggling interpreter became divine orchestration. Their message about resisting temptation profoundly impacted an X alcoholic at the back of the room who was battling. God had appointed this "unsuccessful" service specifically for him.
The emotional pinnacle came during their final day at a mountain Catholic school. Here team members connected deeply with children despite the language barrier. They communicated Christ's love leaving children openly weeping.
This episode powerfully illustrates how effective ministry happens when we are willing to be used by God even when circumstances seem imperfect. Want to see these missions in action? Visit the God's Little One YouTube channel to watch videos from this trip, including the famous gorilla costume that had children chasing with delight. Thank you for your support.
Hi, welcome to the God's Little Own Podcast with your host Kent. Today I have two special guests. Say y'all's names.
Speaker 2:My name is Dre.
Speaker 3:Hobson, I am.
Speaker 2:Thaddeus.
Speaker 4:Sorry, dre, I am Thaddeus Massey.
Speaker 1:Alright. Well, thank you guys for being with us. Today we are going to be focusing more on a trip that y'all recently went on, back in 2024. But to start out, I'd like to ask y'all how y'all got started into missions work. Dre, could you go first?
Speaker 3:Well, I really got started with missions work the first time that I actually came to HOP and I learned about Brother Daniel Sweeney and how he started the entire thing and it just captivated me his story and everything and I was invited to go with the Sikh team the first time that I ever went to Honduras and it was in 2020.
Speaker 2:Honduras um 2020. Honduras and it was in um 2022, the first time that I went in November and we went and did a whole entire group thing and it's kind of a complicated story.
Speaker 4:Um, my parents are are in the kids ministry, okay, so I never really grew up doing missions work. And one year we met Brother Sweeney. He talked to us. He said, hey, you should definitely come on a trip. I was about 15 years old the last time I went and they fell in love with it and they wanted to do more. So I think the following year after that, we had a kids crusade for the first time in Honduras. It went amazing and I tried my best to go on more. It just happened to upon time, right before school year. I asked brother Sweeney if I could go on a trip. He said, yeah, we'd love for you to come. I said, all right, give me the date and I will say I feel like this trip changed my life in perspective and it's been amazing. I'm excited. I'm also excited for this November.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I did hear about that November. We're going to talk about that here in a minute because that is really exciting stuff.
Speaker 4:What would y'all say is y'all's favorite trip y'all been on by far. This third one, this third trip for me, it was amazing.
Speaker 1:Uh, probably, man you've been on some good ones I've been on.
Speaker 3:Every trip literally that I've been on has been different, like way different, but probably the one before this last one. This one is a close. This is a runner-upper. This last trip was a runner-upper, but the one I went with, uh, mama betty was probably one of my most iconic, memorable ones because we went there and you could see the memories flowing off of her and that was very special, you lucky dog getting to go with them all. I've never been with her on a trip.
Speaker 1:So recently y'all went on a special trip. What exactly was it, Dre?
Speaker 3:Like, what did y'all do? We did a kids crusade and did a show called the Safari Theme and we had two special guest puppets, rafiki and Becky, and so that was the main topic and sharing the little Bible stories through them.
Speaker 1:Thaddeus, have you ever seen this safari thing before you went on this trip, or was this your first time getting to see this kind of stuff?
Speaker 4:Are you talking about just kids ministry in general? Uh, the specific one we did like with this group um, I think I saw it one time a few years ago at obi. I think they did something like that. But, um, but to be a part of it and to see a different person, like a way, how you guys use your set, um, yeah, I would say this would be my first time so, uh, what like?
Speaker 1:uh, let's talk about day by day. We're going to talk about what y'all did. Uh, so y'all landed in honduras and how was? Like, what y'all do the first day dre.
Speaker 3:The first day was a lot of driving and getting to the hotel and staying that night. We got to stay in the nice one for the first time at the beginning. Usually we don't get to do that. That is very rare to do it like that. We usually go all the way to the middle and it takes like four or five hours to get there and all this other stuff. But it was pretty late in the day. So a lot of travel on the first day and just preparing our minds and seeking the Lord to give us wisdom and to reach these kids. So that's what I feel like the first day was more like.
Speaker 1:You're getting yourself ready for the booming stuff that happened. The rest of the week. Yes, Talking about the second day. Uh, let's go ahead and just line in Thaddeus how, what all did y'all do? Like? Where did y'all go the second day? What was the place like, and stuff.
Speaker 4:Second day, I believe it was. Uh, okay, we got out, we got a second day, we got there, we got to the yeah, the glove center. Yeah, we were at the glove center. We had, we got everything prepared. We like, uh, around, I would say what jerry, like seven o'clock or eight o'clock, I'm not a morning person, I think it was about yeah, it was about eight o'clock that morning.
Speaker 1:Y'all are lucky because when I go on trips they usually make us go all the way up the mountain, get there like one in the morning.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:I did that a couple times. Yeah, I think we went to go get supplies. I remember we did go shopping for some stuff.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, we sure did. That was day two. Yeah and gracias.
Speaker 4:Oh, I know exactly what else happened. We got to hang out with some of the kids, like all the locals. We did not get to go visit a church that night because we were doing something else. I can't remember what it was, it's very vague the first like three days. I can't remember the whole trip, but I knew exactly what we were doing during that time.
Speaker 3:It feels fun, we was preparing the bags. That's what we was doing that time. It feels fun, we was preparing the bags, that's what we was doing For passing out toys yes. Oh yeah, yeah, that's right. Because y'all did get to pass out toys the last time. Yes, I've seen that. Yes, we got to prepare some little goody bags for the kids.
Speaker 1:So, second day y'all started doing the kids' crusades.
Speaker 3:And how did the or the third day? The third day was yes, third day was very productive. We went to a, a smaller church up the hill um, I think you may have been there like the fence. The fence is like right against the wall, like you got to go up the mountain and it's like the fence is right here is it like one of the main churches we do yeah, a lady preacher. Oh, is that?
Speaker 4:the one where we that's the one where we kind of like bombed in a sense, like we felt horrible because like nobody was responding.
Speaker 3:But then the guy yes, yes, that's the one, yes, the guy from the very back walked up to the front so talk about, let's talk about that story.
Speaker 1:Go ahead, since you already mentioned it well, we were sitting there.
Speaker 3:We kind of a little bit bummed because they did not. The kids didn't respond like very into it and it was very hard. We had a new interpreter. He was, he was giving a hard time. I mean it was a hard time.
Speaker 4:Uh, yeah, it was it was like brother 20 was not. Uh was happy about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he told me about that when he got back. We was talking about, he said he was not very impressed that that is, didn't he?
Speaker 3:wasn't he the one that was interpreting for your your verse that you had to do? Yeah, oh my god, yeah it was.
Speaker 4:It was so like uh, they asked me I think it was that night before the kids were safe. They're like, hey, would you learn some spanish and and then teach the kids could stay? They're like, hey, would you learn some Spanish and then teach the kids the memory work that Stuart loves to do? So I'm studying and I'm kind of nervous. And then I get up there and I say the first few words and the guys just fly in through the first and I'm like, oh, I'm like okay. So I guess me learning Spanish really didn't help, but it did. It was funny because I talk fast. So when I'm talking fast I'm like throwing it out there, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And I'm telling him what I'm supposed to say and he's like what, what'd you say?
Speaker 3:He was lost.
Speaker 4:Like what, what'd you say? He was lost. I was fast and he couldn't understand and I felt bad. And then who was it? I think? I tried to find different words to describe what I was saying, but it wasn't making anything better.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, I mean, but it it still was powerful that we went from that. The verse was speaking about temptation and, um, the guy was in the back and he was literally a um ex-drunk and he he was like, uh, cleaned his up, was going to church there and he was actually engaged to get married, but he felt the temptations. So we spoke a message to kids that spoke to that man thinking about the temptations that he was facing in that day and we had no clue because we got drugged down from like, oh man, we can't get this message across. It just it.
Speaker 3:We got drugged down from like, oh man, we can't get this message across but it actually got across, yeah you know, and uh, that's what uh brother danny and me was sitting there talking afterwards and was like god knows what he's doing. He's gonna stink and just control it, you know yeah, and we just need to put our faith in what he's going to do.
Speaker 1:You know he's going to work yeah, that's powerful, right there yeah so, uh, did y'all have a specific like uh, so y'all had temptation for that day? Did y'all have a specific thing y'all did for temptation, like just with all your puppets and everything?
Speaker 3:yes, yes um first we had one yeah, first thaddeus came up, or Thaddeus came up after we did our action songs and does the verse, and then the monkey comes out and takes.
Speaker 1:Okay, let's talk about that first real quick because we got the YouTube video Speaking of. If anybody listening here has not subscribed to the God's Little One YouTube channel, you've got to go subscribe, because that video that we did that fatty has helped me with that a lot. That is one of the best videos I we have ever done. But talking about the gorilla, got to see it, oh man you're, you're missing out you are missing out it is so good I was like mckinsey.
Speaker 4:Where's the video at? Oh, no joke, I had McKenzie and Abby, both McKenzie, I think.
Speaker 1:She texted me twice. Abby texted me two or three times, both asking me when the video was coming out and it dropped, and I mean I watched it the next day.
Speaker 1:I was like, yes, the video is out and I'm telling you we're going to talk later about the help that you gave me, but I'm telling you it's the best video that we've done on the God's Little One channel. Okay, that's awesome. Getting back to talking about the gorilla, tell me the whole idea behind that, what exactly it is, because I know you're the if anybody watches the video who understood who the gorilla is.
Speaker 2:He's standing here right in front of me.
Speaker 1:Dre Hobson is the gorilla.
Speaker 3:So talk about the inspiration behind that and just talk about the gorilla. So it's so. It's funny how the gorilla whole costume it's become like a major part of almost everything we do. He's gonna come out and he's gonna be trying to do something. He's disrupting everything and and taking what's not his and it just kind of gets the kids uh minds of knowing that he's curious and he is doing something that he's not supposed to be doing. He is taking and causing disruption, but it's testing their memory as they get scriptures and learning the scriptures and we use the gorilla to come out there and take things that they just learned and they have to put it back together.
Speaker 3:So the inspiration of it was our old sunday school teacher, um sister winnie. She was the main one that she saw. That gorilla costume was like this will work great to get the kids to learn the memory verses, and so ever since then we have incorporated it into every single memory verse that we could do in these kids crusades. So that's pretty much how the gorilla costume started and the kids love it.
Speaker 1:So it's probably one of my out of the favorite moments of the youtube video is the part where the gorilla comes out and all the kids just start chasing them.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was, that was the the first time that has ever happened like that, and it was and I've helped with the kids stuff and I can vouch for me.
Speaker 1:I've never seen them do that. It was so fun.
Speaker 3:It was.
Speaker 2:I wish I could have been there.
Speaker 1:But yeah, so Thaddeus, how all, like I know you did the verse and stuff. They had you up there talking a lot. So what all did they have you do?
Speaker 4:How do I put it? My main job was just to help remember and to do that whole skit with the gorilla. And after that got done I asked Mackenzie. I said, hey, there's this song called Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. And she alerted her. I know it in Spanish and she's like great, we can do that. And what I like to do about when it comes to like missions or like kids crusades, I like to get the adults involved. So when I was up there, I was mainly trying to get the adults' attention when it came to like that song or or the um the little skit I did have a little, I did testify a little bit.
Speaker 4:Um, I think it was the third day, uh, I mean, no, it was a, it was a, it was the last day at the um, the catholic school in the mountains, you did testify a little bit yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4:Yeah, like I talked to, look, I talked a little bit about that, but that day, um, it was mainly I was trying to get the adults attention, because, the way how I look at it, if adults are having fun and the kids sees it, then they're more excited than anything, and I I've never done anything with an interpreter before. I've done songs for kids when it comes to history states. But this was a little bit different because you're having to communicate in a way where they don't understand you but you want your interpreter to understand.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 4:It was very confusing but it was so. It was so awesome. I learned a few words in Spanish to like I can't remember what jump was asante, santa fuerte, I think that means sing louder. I can't remember, but I learned a few words just to get the kids hyped up and like really, and enjoy this program because that it's for them, like this whole thing is all for them, it's not for us, and like I was just up there doing songs and the skit, I really felt like I had like a small part in it, but I'm grateful that I got to be a part of it, like I don't have to have a big role to do something.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's fulfilling when you are helping in something like that, even if you're just in the background, because when I went with the Sikh team I was just, I was just walk around every now and then, but it was powerful to see that what you're part of in that affects such a big difference. And if you weren't there, somebody else would have to fill that spot and that would be hard to find.
Speaker 1:There's a role in missions for everybody. It don't matter what kind of personality or what kind of uh, I don't know what the word I'm looking for is talent you have.
Speaker 2:There's a role for everybody to do something.
Speaker 1:Uh, so how was the? So you said the response of the first day was not the best, but you did have people who came up and prayed and stuff. Uh, what, what y'all do after you got done with all that? Did y'all talk, interact with the kids much afterwards, or?
Speaker 3:yeah, we would pass out. We would have a big sack of we had colors and crayon coloring papers and I think we had stickers in there and some candy and we would get the bag out and we'll pass it out. You have to watch the kids a lot because they would try to come back for more than one. I've seen them with the balloons and stuff. Yeah, I think Thaddeus and me probably blew at least 1,000 balloons. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Y'all probably were all out of air after that day.
Speaker 3:Oh, my gosh, it was crazy. I was glad we had little hand pumps, but I mean, I had biceps by the end of that week pumping the lungs he got his workout done for the rest of the year right there.
Speaker 1:So, uh, after the first day or after the first uh day of doing that that stuff, uh, y'all went. I don't know what y'all did through the rest of the day. If y'all did anything interesting, did y'all do anything interesting afterwards, like when y'all went back to the Glow Center or anything?
Speaker 3:Yeah, thaddeus, didn't you start helping on the fence right? Yes, on the front of the gate.
Speaker 1:Let's talk about so before we continue with anything. Let's talk about y'all working on the Glow Center, because y'all helped building a lot. The Glow Center, because y'all helped building the lot. So what all was y'all doing?
Speaker 4:Thaddeus, if you want to go ahead and say that, okay, so they were telling me when I was helping him get all the material I did that with him like one time, but he said they were trying to build some gates, or like they wanted a sliding gate. They were building concrete columns and what was the other thing? I think it was stands to hold the gate. Like we did that we cleaned up around the Glow Center a little bit, but normally after we got done with the Kids Crusade we would come home. I think some of us would take a nap. Ben, my cousin Ben, he's a hard worker but I think he went to take a nap because he was so wore out of that day.
Speaker 3:That was a tiring day.
Speaker 2:What are you going to try to do so much after all that traveling? Oh man.
Speaker 1:Go ahead, sorry.
Speaker 4:Go ahead. No, no, no go ahead.
Speaker 1:So what all did y'all do? Y'all both can tell me, because y'all both did it. I've seen the videos and stuff we got. We actually haven't showed any pictures or anything of y'all working on it. Well, we showed one or two, but once the fence gets done we are going to have a YouTube video of the whole building process. But what was y'all's part of the building process?
Speaker 3:Stirring cement Ugh. I've seen that. That looked very interesting. It's annoying, go ahead, go ahead. I mean like, keep on. You literally like one minute. They're like whoa too much water and you're like what I mean. So you're slashing it around trying to get it all not so much water and y'all ain't using no machine or anything. Y'all are having to do this in the dirt.
Speaker 1:I seen it. This is so crazy. They were having to do it just like they're living in with the Hondurians Because they dug up in the ground and y'all can talk about this. But I just thought it was so funny, thaddeus go ahead and say what y'all was doing it in.
Speaker 4:It was so fun. Okay. So folding concrete I've never like done anything like that before, but that's how I look at it. All right, you're scooping up our top of the concrete and you're throwing it onto another that's folded, all right, it don't matter what it looks like, so we're doing that. Brother, brother, brother, louise, I think. Uh, one thing that I remembered. That was so funny. He spat on the ground on like a piece of wood. He said if that dries too soon, you're not fast enough. And he told Dre to run to his house. I'm like I've never heard anything like this. I'm like for me, I don't mind hands-on labor, but like I've never poured concrete or done anything like that before. So my back was killing me, but I loved it. Like it was just us guys out there, all right, and just doing this for Brother Luis, and he's just talking. He's like less water. He's like put that over there, just commanding us around.
Speaker 3:It was so good.
Speaker 2:It was hilarious.
Speaker 3:I was going off of that thing when he spit and said You're not fast enough if it dries. Well, his house is up the mountain About a quarter of a mile away. I can't believe he made you walk all the way and I ran that thing and got back before it was even able to drive. Like he was thoroughly shocked with how fast I did it dude that's I about died, though I won't lie, I was, I was pooped. I was like, oh, this is, this is terrible, I'm so tired now. And then he.
Speaker 1:Then he proceeded to throw me a bucket and was like hey fill this up with concrete and carry it to the dude over there I think last time we went on a missions trip together, you talked about running up the mountain oh, I ran that I've been running a mountain.
Speaker 3:Ever since I've been going there. I I had to run up there after like a couple of storms, because I stayed there for a whole week when y'all left and I stayed there for a week.
Speaker 1:We got to talk about that one day that was, that was a experience.
Speaker 3:But yeah, that, that heel. I've been up there way too many times so when he said that I had to beat the, I was like you got me messed up, thinking I'm going to have to run that fast. I did it, though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you did.
Speaker 3:Thaddeus was able to vouch for that.
Speaker 1:Thaddeus, you should have went and run with him.
Speaker 4:I'm not a runner, but I would walk with him. I'd be like all right, give me a ticket.
Speaker 1:So let's get to the. I think it's the fifth day, Was the next day?
Speaker 3:The fifth day was. That was the next day.
Speaker 1:Right, I think I got that right.
Speaker 4:Anyway, the next day, the fifth day, was wonderful.
Speaker 2:Let's get to the next day.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that last kiss you stayed was the most amazing experience I've ever felt.
Speaker 1:I'm ready to hear, because I've watched the videos and I heard was that his sister who was talking on the video, or was that yes?
Speaker 3:I heard.
Speaker 1:We got your video talking your sister talking on the video at the end about the trip, and when I heard it it was so powerful, like it was so good. I can't wait to hear you'all talk about it. Let's go ahead and get to the next day. So where did y'all go for?
Speaker 3:the next day we went to um, the catholic time, um, and they had weird beliefs and they had a a story that they believed happened of a man called the banana man and he was like seeking wealth and riches and he only found it in, uh, selling bananas and he became a banana. So like that is a fairy tale belief up in the mountains. They believe that. I've never heard that before. Yes, and it's pretty wild how they was thinking, but they had no experience with Jesus or Christianity like that. It was all strictly just ritualistic Catholicism.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And it was just packed. The entire room was packed out, so that one was inside. Inside, yes, and it had two exit doors, but one door they would keep closed because it was by us and the other door was left open, uh, for people to be able to go out. But it was the entire floor was just kids. It was at least, at least 100, would you say about 150 kids there. Thaddeus.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I think there was more. I'm going to be honest with you. It might have been 150, but it looked a lot to me.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because we had the entire elementary school there too.
Speaker 1:Oh wow, so y'all did that at a school or a church. It was at school.
Speaker 3:That's crazy that they actually had us go do that yeah that's crazy and I was sharing before the podcast with uh kent, uh thaddeus about that, that story with the lady on the hill that you had an opportunity to really witness to and touch her life.
Speaker 4:We're talking about the we're talking about the girl. Yeah, the two girls, yes, that was can't. Let me tell you, that was the most amazing experience I've ever felt with anybody. All right, or just praying. Um, I saw those two girls up on the up on that hill, um, during the program that were just sitting outside and they were just watching. They weren't making any faces or anything. I'm like I feel I want to talk to them but I feel like they'll think that they're too old for kids. For, like, church Kids are safe. It's the same thing. And, um, I I was like you know what? Um, I'll just wait a little bit. So, right when they asked for altar, I had all these kids. I had like three or four kids I was holding and I was praying for them and I said these two words to the little kids.
Speaker 4:I said may all my sins and everyone throw it out there, all right, because I don't know what the word you is in Spanish, but I was trying to explain to them Christ loves you, so I get done praying with them and I'm crying and I really felt like a strong urge to go pray for those girls. But then Dre was like, hey, will you go up there while I go pray for those kids? And I was like I would love to. Let's go do it. So we marched right up there and I'm trying to think of her name because she told me what. They both told me their names. Okay, I can't remember. I gave it a second but I couldn't remember. And I was talking to them. What was his name? Hey, dre, who was our interpreter. What was his name? Again?
Speaker 3:Dang, it's a C name.
Speaker 1:Mr C. We'll just call him Mr C. We'll call him Mr C for now. Mr C.
Speaker 3:I will get it.
Speaker 4:when I do that, I have him on this year but I can't remember, so I don't think we got our interpreter, but I went up there and yeah, just me, and you, me and you went up there I literally try to get.
Speaker 4:I try to give them my best spanish possible, because I've never done like so spanish before like I. I learned it a little bit in like second grade for like letters and numbers, but nothing else. So I felt a strong urge just to talk to her in English and I said you know, god loves you so much that he gave you a purpose here today on this planet, in Honduras. He loves you so much, even though a lot of people reject him, even when there's good things happen in our life, bad things happen, he still loves you. He gave you a place to live. He gave you a place to live. He gave you a family. And I was and I was like, and I kept on repeating like man, what kids loves you? And I said jesus loves me too, not just you, but I showed a picture of her, of my family. I said that's my mom, my dad. Christ loves all of them.
Speaker 4:And when I started saying that, her eyes kind of opened, like as if she understood what I was saying. But I was, I was speaking all this in English, I'm like, and I was to me. I was like this is amazing, like she's understanding a little bit of English and I was like do you understand? She's like yes, I said would you like to come down and do the thing? And she did. But that's okay, but you did get to pray with her really, really good. Oh, oh yeah, praying for her. It felt like for me. It kind of. I I told um, I told this to my mom right before that trip. I said I want this trip not to um, just help me. I want to help others, all right I want to.
Speaker 4:I want this to give a good experience and when I did that I felt like I felt so light in a sense, like I felt so at peace because I got to do that and that trip wasn't for me but it helped, but it but it was in a sense like I wasn't trying to make it about me. Go ahead, you're good. All right, I was so confused yeah, you're good, you're good. So so that trip, uh, it helped me more than than I've ever experienced in my life because I I got to see what it's like on a missionary's perspective and not someone as a little kid. That's kind of on a vacation, right right, and we get down. One thing that I love the most about after I got deprimed for those two girls, I came down to help Brother. Who was it? I think it was Brother Danny. Brother Danny was tearing down the set and while I'm tearing down the set, I see my cousin Ben holding these. I think it was three boys in the car.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, and they were crying, oh man.
Speaker 2:God touched those kids in a different way that day.
Speaker 1:Was that the last place?
Speaker 4:That was the last place, we went and moved so strong they're, they're bawling their eyes out, they are crying and fans just hold him like it's okay and he's praying for all three of them. And I was like these kids really don't understand what the love of christ is or have a great example of what it, what it is, or experienced it. And I think it's so important why people I feel like every person that has a chance on a missions trip and just share the love of Christ Some of the kids may not understand the concept of what you're saying, but when you show them what the love of Christ is, the way how their whole perspective of love changes. And that trip did the same thing for me, Like as if I've never experienced love. I felt it all over again while I went there. So good times with those kids and a girl. I can't remember what her name is. I'll put it like this I've got a sister named Esther. Okay, she reminded me so much of her.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 4:She reminded so much of her and I was like I had the interpreter come over and I asked Esther what's her name and will ask if she wants to pray for her.
Speaker 4:So he tells he asked her for her name and he asked if she wants to interpret for her. So I'm praying for her and while I'm praying for her I feel this familiarity like as a student's family and I get done praying and I look at her and I said you're so beautiful, you remind me of my little sister Esther, and I just want you to know that you're loved, like it's not just me that loves you, but it's Christ and you don't have to feel like you're alone because God's always there by your side. And I'm crying at this point because I kind of miss my family during that time and like I normally don't get homesick, but that one I was like I really wish my family was there. And that last thing, that last service at that place, was amazing Because even after I got done, after we got done with everything, I believe I got to talk to the pastor I think that's who he is. That was the teacher.
Speaker 3:It was a teacher of the school, the principal, and the big thing about that one that you just said about the little girl was that after you, um, shared like that jesus loved her and that you loved her, and you, speaking of home, say that was literally what brother Danny stressed to us, that when we get there and brother, brother Luis, mainly about that these kids need to know the love of God, because they do not know none of that up here. That's what he was really saying.
Speaker 1:He said that to us multiple times before we went right and I've seen the videos of bro louise praying and the kids following it. It's so powerful it's the most the most powerful. Uh, again with the youtube video.
Speaker 3:The most powerful part of it was when the kids bro louise is praying and they're just repeating what he's saying, oh my goodness, it was so I, I, I was loving it that you got to go and watch that video.
Speaker 1:I know we keep saying it, I haven't seen it.
Speaker 2:I know we keep saying it, but man it was good, it was so, so good.
Speaker 3:We're pointing back to that video so many times. It got scenes that we could talk about in it and we need to actually more on on this podcast, do that probably more often.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you, the last day was just. I wish I could have been there for the last day because everything I've heard from what y'all are saying to what I've heard on the YouTube channel, it was so powerful and I know y'all had some powerful stuff coming from that I think we accidentally skipped a day, though the day y'all were outside the day I was like no, we talked about, we talked about we ran around, okay.
Speaker 1:So uh, if there's anything else y'all have to say about the church service that last day, uh, y'all go ahead and say it before we get on another topic, because I know y'all got more um, probably the kind of the funny thing is where they had gave us a drink, some drinks in there and and we was like I've had them give concoctions before.
Speaker 3:We was like man, it tastes like pineapples. And it was not pineapple, it was some little what. What did they call that thing, daddy? I cannot remember what they called it.
Speaker 4:I don't remember.
Speaker 3:But it's like a little, it's almost like a berry but it tastes just like pineapples.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm glad it was good, because the last trip I was on they gave us watered-down rice.
Speaker 3:Oh, my, oh, no, no.
Speaker 1:Believe it or not. Hey, jared, we're gonna talk about that later. I'm gonna get jared on, but jared didn't drink it like a champ. Oh, my goodness me, I hit it, but uh, so after y'all had done the preaching that last day, uh, y'all gave out toys, right that last day at that same place, right? Oh?
Speaker 4:yeah, yes, we, oh yeah. There were so many kids that were swarming, and then they would hide their toys, and then they would, they would come up there and ask for more and I'm like oh, chuck, I can't remember, I don't know if you were here or not, it's hard whenever you got so many oh, my goodness it was. It was kind of chaotic and then very sweet. He's like all right, pack up. I didn't even single play a line. He's like get in a line. So it was. We took a whole.
Speaker 3:They had to take all the elementary kids out of there because they separated them from like 10 years and stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:And we took all the elementary kids up the hill to the house side and we had all them in there, me Haley and Brother Danny, all them in there, me and my, me hayley and brother danny all went up there in mckenzie and we we had to do all those kids and they started being like hiding and the mom was grabbing them and put them in their purse and and then make them go get another one. But we had to get rid of all the toys that day that we brought anyways, so it really was not bad.
Speaker 3:we just need to make sure that everybody got a toy at least right right right, instead of people be like four of them, and this kid doesn't even have one yeah, you know, and that's that's one thing that is, you gotta watch or else you'll.
Speaker 1:You'll be given all your toys to the same person same kid.
Speaker 3:Same kid got all the toys that that, honestly, that is very.
Speaker 1:Giving out toys can be very it. It's very powerful to see, but it can be stressful when you've got so many kids and you're having to watch them all.
Speaker 3:It is a lot of work but it's so rewarding, yes, to see their smile, though. It speaks volumes.
Speaker 1:Oh, they love it, they love it.
Speaker 3:We have, like you, got the pictures on there of how the kids are just lit up. Yeah, when you give them a, I mean just a baby doll yeah to the little girls.
Speaker 3:They just it could be the smallest thing and they love it and I I mean that that was one kid I had a little bitty. It was like one of them wind-up toys you wind it up and it walks across the table. It was a chick and and I I twisted it up and I sat on the table and I kept when there was a little girl. She might have been like maybe one or two years old and she just loved it and she would just laugh and watch it run down the table and I'd grab it and wind it back up and do it again and she just it was that type of those moments. Right, there are the ones that are going to stick with you forever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you won't forget that. You'll remember that every time you go, every toy drive is going to be different and you'll have a memory like that so, uh, we're about to be done with this, but I would like to talk to uh thaddeus for a minute, so when it comes. I think you were the one who helped me a lot with the pod, with the youtube channel, like the interviews and stuff. Was that you?
Speaker 4:uh, you mean with all the photos or the videos?
Speaker 1:just like I don't know, but I had several interviews that somebody that did. I think it was you that recorded them right I had a lot.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, that was me. Yeah, um, oh. So I had that idea. Um, I came up with that idea because I thought it'd be a great opening for a video that I was trying to make for my Instagram. I just wanted to make a small Instagram and a small video of people on our trip in Honduras and explain where they are and where they're from.
Speaker 4:And the days kind of went by right before everybody left. So I had one day I did everybody outside and then I did McKenzie and Abitha and Haley on two different days. I still have the videos right now. I was going to record myself doing it, because all I was asking was state your name, where you're from, what was your favorite part about this trip and what?
Speaker 2:have you learned on?
Speaker 4:this trip? What's your favorite part about this trip and what have you learned on this trip? And like some Brother Danny, I love his whole answer. Oh, I have a recording of Brother Luis talking. Send that to me. He gave me like the most amazing answer I've ever had. It kind of had to do with judging people and like I recorded that and I wanted to throw all this in a small video but I just threw them all into, like like the bundle of all the photos everybody had. I don't mind if y'all use them, it's cool. Like I, it's good that they go to use I did use them.
Speaker 1:I used the one of your sister and of Uncle Danny. I used a little bit of Uncle Danny's and I used a little bit of McKenzie's and it really, really helped the ending of the video. It was powerful. So this is just kind of a way for me to thank you for doing all that but we do really do need to put Brother Luis's on there then send me Brother Luis's.
Speaker 1:If I don't put it on a video, I'm going to put it on a short. I'm probably going to do that with several of those, but send me Bro Luis's.
Speaker 4:All right, I'll see if I have it in record. I have it on audio, but I will definitely do that. I appreciate that so to finish this podcast out, I might be hitting I'm going to be hitting a dead zone.
Speaker 1:All right, so, uh, to finish this podcast out, dre, uh, what was your most, uh, what was your favorite part of the trip, dre?
Speaker 3:Uh, probably the experience. Probably the experience with um, seeing that even when we feel low, that God can still use us to reach somebody who is struggling, and also to never think it's too difficult to bring the gospel to hard to reach places.
Speaker 1:Hey, we appreciate you being on the podcast. Thaddeus, thank you for being on. We got to try and do something like this again next time you go on a trip. Dre, thank you for being on the podcast. It's been fun. I'm glad y'all got to try and do something like this again next time you go on a trip. Dre, thank you for being on the podcast. It's been fun. I'm glad y'all got to both be on and thank y'all for giving me some of y'all's time.
Speaker 3:No problem, all right, thank you, no problem.
Speaker 1:Mark 16, 15 says and he said unto them Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. This is a pretty common verse when it comes to missions. I mean, this is the Great Commission, this is what God has called us to do to go into the world and preach the gospel. So, yeah, this is my go-to when it comes to it. This one, and then I think it's either in Luke or Mark. There's another way this is said. That's my go-to when it comes to missions. But I want to talk about the timeline of when Jesus said this. This is after the resurrection, after he has rose from the grave, but this is before he is ascended up back into heaven. This is one of the final things he says to his disciples before he leaves. This is one of the things that he says he ain't got a lot more time with them. And this is what he says. He says go ye into all the world and preach the gospel. You know it can be easy for us to just go to church, listen to the sermon, pray, get in, go home, do it again Wednesday, do it again the next Sunday and just repeatedly, just do that in a cycle. But you know God has called us to do more. This verse says it. This verse says Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. It doesn't say to sit around in church and wait for people to come in. It says to go. It says to be active. We're not supposed to sit on the pews, wait for someone to come get saved. We are supposed to go out into the world and see them saved, to witness to them for Christ. That's what we're called to do. So I encourage you, in whatever way God is calling you to witness, whether that's to go overseas or stay at home, whether that's to go to the homeless, go to the sick, go to the lost, whatever way God is calling you to witness, go into all the world and preach the gospel. Do God's will and go.
Speaker 1:Well, we hope you enjoyed this episode of the God's Little One podcast. I gotta let y'all, I wanna let y'all know about something with this podcast. This was our first podcast I had ever recorded Me Dre, we're in the studio and we had Thaddeus on the phone and, as you can hear, still, we was learning the equipment, or I was learning the equipment, so the static on it was not, it was still acting up the first one we'd ever done. So that's just what happened. Like I always say, please bear with us. I promise you it's going to get better the more and more we go at it, but thank you for bearing with us and listening to it. I thought it was a wonderful podcast. I hope you enjoyed it too.
Speaker 1:In our next podcast we're going to be talking to brother Jamie McClain and we have got something phenomenal that we got to talk about in this podcast, something he experienced on the mission field the Holy Ghost moved in a way that you've got to hear. So I encourage you to please be listening for that next podcast. It won't be out this Monday, so what we do on this podcast is we post and then we skip a Monday and then the next Monday we post the next one. So be watching for that podcast. In this podcast we also talk about I believe it's his uncle, and we talk about the trips he's been on. And we talk about a special topic we talk about giving to missions and seeing what you gave used in the ministry in the missions work. So I encourage you to please be watching for that podcast also the singing and the music that you're hearing in the background while I'm recording this outro, uh, my, my studio, where I do the podcast, is in our, the church I go to, and, uh, our singers are, uh, practicing for easter sunday. So that's what you're hearing. So I apologize for the background sound.
Speaker 1:There's two more things I want to talk about before I close. The first one is we talked about Dre getting in the gorilla suit and running around and the kids chasing him. Well, I actually have the video of that on my phone and what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to go on the God's Little One Facebook page and, for anybody who would like to see that video, I'm going to put it on Facebook for people to see. So I encourage you to go look at that and let us know what you think about that. And that's the first thing I want to say. The other thing is the other thing I want to talk about is I just want to encourage you to go look into the God's Little One YouTube channel. You know this podcast is a really good way for us to get the stories out, but if you want to really see what's going on in Honduras, then I encourage you to please go look into the YouTube channel. Please go watch the videos and subscribe to help us out a little bit.
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