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From Germany to Honduras: Part 2 with Preston and Kem Moreino
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In this episode we continue our conversation with Preston and Kem Moreino.
Kem's experience in Germany reveals cultural norm where atheism is taught from kindergarten. Despite this Kem witnessed powerful spiritual breakthroughs as children embraced Christ, often against everything they'd been taught.
The conversation takes a wild turn—literally—as Preston shares hair-raising stories from rural Zambia, where baboons steal children, hippos claim human lives, and elephants silently approach unsuspecting sleepers. These aren't just entertaining anecdotes; they're windows into the very real challenges this village faces in part of the world most Americans will never see.
Their Honduras stories blend humor with profound spiritual impact. From Kem sleeping on a table to Preston's night in a questionable hotel surrounded by "unsavory characters.'' but the most touching was witnessing Catholic mothers weep openly during children's ministry.
What drives people to embrace such unpredictable, sometimes dangerous circumstances? The Moreinos exemplify a truth echoed by the Apostle Paul: when God calls, obedience matters more than comfort or safety. Their testimony challenges listeners to consider what God might be wanting them to do. And whether they're willing to say yes regardless of the cost.
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Hey everybody, this is Kent Sweeney with the God's Little One podcast, also known as the GLOW podcast, and I'm coming on here to kind of let y'all know a little something about this podcast. This is not actually the full part two of us talking with Brother Preston and Sister Kim Marino, and I'm not talking about like taking clips out and editing, I'm talking about this is a very long podcast. When I did this, I got to a point I didn't think it was going to take as long to finish this podcast, but it ended up taking a long time to do this podcast. This podcast altogether was around an hour and 30 minutes, so I ended up cutting out part of the podcast and turning it into a part two and a part three. So that's out. So when this ends the way it does, that's the reason I just wanted to let y'all know why this ends at a certain point. So the last part of this podcast we'll be talking about brother Preston, sister Kim's first trip to Honduras. The next podcast we'll be talking about more recent stuff, and when I say recent, I mean the last uh, three, four years maybe to now. Actually, the last trip we talk about, or one of the trips we talked about just happened this year, and then the next one, uh, then we just talked about several trips before that, but more recent trips. That's what we'll say.
Speaker 1:So I hope you enjoy this episode. Uh, uh, I apologize for how this all happened, but I it was just so long. This is going to make it better. It lets me be able to keep more content so that I don't run out. Uh, I want to make sure I don't run out, so this will be the second part, talking with preston and kim. This will kind of be uh, this will talk about their other missions trips that they've been on, and then it'll end with talking about their first trip to Honduras. So I hope y'all enjoy this episode. God bless you and I'll be back for the outro. Hey, everybody, welcome back to the God's Little One Podcast. I'm your host, kent, and today this is part two of our podcast with brother Preston and sister Kim Marino. Y'all know them from last time, so I'm not going to give them no big introduction like we did last time, but thank y'all for being here today.
Speaker 2:Oh man, we're so excited just to be back with you and continue this conversation.
Speaker 1:Yes, sir. So to start this podcast out, this one is going to be more focused towards God's little one. The last one we kind of just talked about everything else, but there is two things that I have that I want to talk about that we didn't talk about last time. The first one is I want to start with you, kim. You talked about doing work and journey, but we didn't really get into details about that. So why don't you just go ahead and, like, talk about some stuff that happened over there and just talk about the experience?
Speaker 3:Okay, yeah, so when we went over there, brother and sister Presley were actively on the ground there as missionaries, and so we went to the place there and it's a place called lauhammer, and we worked with them. They had a little church going on there. It was kind of like in an apartment building, and so when we came there, our goal and mission for that trip was to do kids ministry, and so we had several days of doing a VBS sort of production and ministry to them and so. But we also, like, ministered in several church services, not only there, but there was another church just maybe 20 minutes away or so, that we would minister at. And it was a very interesting trip. It was the first trip I had been on that was in another, like first world country, and that was pretty unique.
Speaker 3:And we also got to see some major cultural differences between America and Germany, and one of those is alcohol, and so alcohol is totally normalized in Germany and they start drinking when they're 12 and 13 years old, and so and this was kind of a crazy thing that I remembered just earlier was we went to one of the hosts there, we went to his home and him and his wife were recently new converts and um, but they had us all over for dinner one night and I just remember we sit down for dinner and he comes by and he has beers in his hand.
Speaker 3:He's like you guys want one, and I'm 17. This is my senior trip that we've gone on and I just I remember pausing for a second, being in shock and then just being like no, thank you. You know, but it was one of those things that it's so normal there that they had never given it any thought, you know, and so, uh, that was interesting, but it was also. It was amazing to see on that trip just how people they were, very, very reserved in their culture. They didn't know how to respond to the presence of the lord openly, I feel like usually they would just close their eyes, not even like say any prayers. But I remember that time with the kids, the kids seemed to just really be open to prayer and you could tell they were taking it to heart everything that was being said.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, Do you remember any specific like miracles or someone getting touched that you can talk about?
Speaker 3:Not any specific miracles on that trip. I do remember there were several kids, though that did give their life to God oh nice. And ask Christ as their Savior, and that was huge. I mean to be honest, even in the schools there, they start them in kindergarten teaching atheism and so they're taught not to believe in God Right, and so that's huge for them to even have been open to believing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's that, yeah, that's you know, our our, that is a miracle, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:That is yeah, cause you know when you're born around it, when you're born around atheism, or, and you just don't know it, it's harder to, you're just so used to it. But then you bring something new in and you're going to get one or one of two reactions. You're either going to get somebody who is, uh, completely against it, like I've been believing this, I'm not going for it, or you're going to get somebody who's like this is new and this seems good, so I want to see what this is.
Speaker 1:So so pressing exactly so pressing now. I'm going to talk to you about something now. I don't know if this is necessarily like this is just something that I heard you talking about that I thought was something worth putting on the podcast. I remember when we was in honduras on our last trip. You was talking I don't know if you was talking to me, my dad or whoever. I think he was talking in the truck about elephants and the baboons, just telling stories about stuff that you had seen them do or heard about them doing.
Speaker 1:And that was some crazy stuff. So please, if you could talk about that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely so. In the opportunity that we've had to go over to Zambia, to go over to Zambia, One of the places I mentioned in the last podcast was that we would go to a place called Chiawa, and it's a place that is a lot farther out. There's not any city around it's huts and it's a lot more just out in the savannah, you know.
Speaker 2:I mean it's dirt road and it's a different way of life and it definitely feels like you're stepping into I mean almost a different world. But one of the things that they talked to us about while they were there was just the animals and the fact that they have to be aware of that. And so there was one day where we were out of the church and we had done a kids program and we looked over and we saw about five baboons that were running across and they were several hundred yards away, um, but even at that distance you could tell how huge they were I mean they.
Speaker 2:They looked like something that you would not want to run into, you know, and so started talking to some of the people that were from around there and they told us that a few weeks before they had actually had, there was a baby that was right next to a window. And one of the things they have to be aware of is that the baboons actually will come and they'll steal dogs, they'll steal goats and occasionally they'll even take small children, and there was a baby that had been taken out of a window by these baboons, you know. And so just a really terrible situation and something that you know, for us it's like that's not a struggle or something like that that we would ever even think of yeah it's the world they live in, though, yeah, and, you know, just kind of made it more real.
Speaker 2:You know, my first thought whenever I'd seen the baboons was, you know, kind of, oh, this is, this is cool yeah um, but for them it was something where they they go on high alert, yeah, um, because they've got to be aware of things like that that's, that's, that's just, that's wild it, it really is, uh, I mean, it's, it's crazy.
Speaker 2:You know that, uh, the wildlife that's around there is something that you've got to be, you know, just aware of at all times, because there's things that literally can can take your life and are out to, out to get you know.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, yeah, Now go ahead, Go ahead.
Speaker 3:Oh, I was just going to say I only got to go to Chihuahua one time, but I do remember when.
Speaker 3:I went there that just recently a lady had gone down to the river, because Chihuahua sits right on the edge of the river, so they would go down to wash their clothes or to wash their dishes and the lady had actually gotten killed by a hippo, and like it was just one of those things. You know, like that's insane. That's so different than the way that we live life. You know, we don't worry about. The biggest thing we have is squirrels, rabbits. You know, like they have these massive creatures that are actually a danger to life, and so that's son.
Speaker 1:I know they say elephants or hippos kill more people than anybody in that in that country yeah, yep, it's crazy they're.
Speaker 2:you know we think of a lot of these animals. It's just like I said, something that's cool or neat to see, um, but when you live there day in and day out, you realize the danger that can be associated with it.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, so uh, the one other thing was the elephants. I remember you talking about. Go ahead and talk about that.
Speaker 2:The thing was the elephants I remember you talking about yeah, go ahead and about and talk about that.
Speaker 2:So, um, sometimes they would go out and, uh, you know they might be traveling from one place to another, and so they would end up sleeping outside, right, and the local people there and oftentimes you know they would just they, they'd take them, them a little pack and they'd just sleep underneath the stars.
Speaker 2:But when they were in an area where they knew that there was elephants, they would actually, they told us, sleep underneath their truck, and the reason that they would do this is because we don't think of this, but the feet of an elephant is padded and it's literally, it's so crazy but the way that God made those elephants and the way that they walk, even though they're these huge, massive animals, you literally can't hear them coming until they're right on top of you. And so they told us stories of guys that had been just sleeping out underneath the stars and had literally been stomped on and trampled by elephants because they just weren't able to hear them coming, you know, and so, again, just one of those crazy things that you know makes you more aware and makes you realize that you know there's a lot of challenges that people face in other places that we don't ever even consider.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like in Honduras, they don't necessarily have an animal problem, but they have like a water source problem, because we go, we've got our water flow. We can go drink water out of a fountain and it might not be the best in the world, but we can do it and we ain't gonna have to deal with what they do. But they have to deal with parasites in their water.
Speaker 1:That uh limits their their lifespan, like, well, we have people go over there and one of the big things we'll probably talk about this later, but well, maybe but one of the big things is we tell them don't drink the water and right because I've had people on trips that came home and got sick from it. So yeah, that's something that they have to deal with that we don't have to deal with here in the States.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:So, before go ahead. What was you saying?
Speaker 2:Oh, no, no, no. I was just going to say it's crazy how many things I think that we take for granted sometimes in our American culture.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I agree. So before we move on to God's little one talking about y'all's work with us, is there anything else, any stories or any kind of thing you'd like to say about all this before, because I don't want to leave anything out if there's anything y'all got to say.
Speaker 2:No, nothing specifically that comes to mind.
Speaker 1:Okay, what about you, kim?
Speaker 3:No, I'm sure I could think of some more, but I think I'm good to move on.
Speaker 1:All righty. So now we're going to be talking the rest of this, most of this podcast. If y'all have anything I want to say in between, then we can. But the most of the rest of this podcast we'll be talking about y'all working with you guys little one and stuff. But the most of the rest of this podcast we'll be talking about y'all working with the God's Little One and stuff. So first thing I want to ask is I know your dad went, brother Phil Marino went before y'all. I actually got to go on that trip with him. So how did y'all get involved with God's Little One?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so our first involvement with God's Little On ones was actually through Brother Terry Miles.
Speaker 1:I was wondering if that was it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was back whenever we were in Bible school at OBI and he had come to us and said you know, there's been an opportunity that's opened up to go to Honduras with God's little ones and the work that the Sweeneys are doing there and had asked us if we'd be willing to go as part of the very first speak team and be a part of the kids' ministry that was going on, and so this was several years ago. Kim, I think, is trying to see if she can pinpoint it.
Speaker 3:I think it was 2017.
Speaker 2:Around 2017. And so got the opportunity to go over there and went into several churches and, you know, did the children's program with the presentation of the gospel and, you know, saw God work in the hearts and the lives of those children, tasted Honduran coffee and even I remember that trip they even had us plant some coffee plants there back behind the Glow Center and so just kind of our first opportunity to go and be, you know, a help to a small help to the work that y'all got going on there, that y'all got going on there.
Speaker 1:What struck y'all different about this ministry?
Speaker 2:or what affected you in a different way going up there. So one of the things that you know, I guess, just kind of stood out to me throughout it was just the heart of your Uncle, brother Sweeney. You know the willingness to give. I could tell, you know, that his heart, his burden for the work that was taking place, there was not just something that he was doing but something that he had a true burden for, burden for. And then one of the other things that stood out to me and that I've seen throughout the years is the people of Honduras. They aren't always quick to respond but they dig deep in prayer.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, we've seen a lot of that on our last trip.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Absolutely I think that Go ahead.
Speaker 3:I think on that trip though, they were just now like they were working on getting those extra vitamins and stuff in the rice that they would give out. I think they were already handing it out, but they knew they were needing, like, more vitamins, and so what's really cool to me, I love that they saw the need there in the communities of the Glow Center and they started meeting that need.
Speaker 3:I do think you know the Bible talks about how Jesus says you know I was a hungered and you fed me, or you know what I mean. Like just meeting those basic needs of people goes so far to show the love of Jesus, and so I think that's awesome. But just looking forward now, it's really cool to see that back then they were working on it but now it's done. I mean they've figured out how to get that stuff added in and the work has progressed. They feed more kids now and I mean that's what it's all about, is going forward and growing the kingdom of God.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so y'all got to go see a feeding station. Is that what y'all were saying?
Speaker 2:No, I don't think we typically got to go see a feeding station. Y'all just got to go see them. They talked to us about it and what they were doing and how they were trying to get more of those nutrients into yeah, that's like Brother Luis's daughter.
Speaker 1:Y'all met her on the. Y'all have seen her probably before. But y'all seen her on the last trip she went to school and she's going to be from what. I don't know if it's still going to happen like it is, but she's supposed to be helping bro Luis Cause, we're trying to make more of our own food. We kind of go through another group right now that brings us food. Uh, we're trying to kind of grow our own food up there, so she's been trying to help us make like energy stuff or something like that.
Speaker 2:like vitamins and stuff.
Speaker 1:So it's really, it's really growing in that way. I don't like you. Seen up there we have the new greenhouse being built so that we can do that kind of stuff, yeah, absolutely so what's? Some interesting stuff that happened on y'all's first trip, some kind of stories, or just talk about y'all's experience more um, so a few things.
Speaker 2:That first trip, uh so started off. I think kim mentioned it maybe uh in the last podcast. But uh first trip started off just a little bit crazy in the fact. So we had rented one or two trucks and then we had rented a van and uh, so it that story where it it started overheating yeah and uh, we pulled off on the side of the road, you know, and uh, they said y'all better get out of here because the gangs are headed this way. So that was. That was definitely memorable definitely and uh yes, it's set.
Speaker 2:You know, a little bit of a tone as far as just you know is this is this. Have we gotten ourselves into something crazy, you know, but truthfully I mean it. It turned out to be great.
Speaker 3:I know several funny stories from that trip. Go ahead, yeah. So I remember we went to this church and it was several hours away from where we were basing out of in La Campa, and so it was pretty a unique situation because until that point we had always stayed in like a little hotel there in La Campa, and that night the host pastor said that they had homes for people to stay in, and then I think there were going to be a couple of the guys staying in a little hotel close by, and so let's start off the night. We are in service, and towards the end of service the preacher or pastor I'm not sure which one he was, but he goes around and he starts praying for people, and I remember he has everyone line up in the front and he's praying, you know, very fervently over these people, and he would walk up to one of his church members and he would lay his hand on them and pray for them, and then he would blow on them and they would fall out.
Speaker 2:Now let me interject right here real quick, just for Brother Sweeney's sake, brother Danny's sake. This pastor was somebody that Brother Luis had known years and years and years before. Right. But, hadn't really been in any contact with in a long, long time, and he had heard that there was a team from the US that had come down and so had invited us to come and be a part of their service.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah. So this is kind of it was really first for everyone. You know, we're kind of going in as guinea pigs and like this is no knock. It was just kind of a funny experience.
Speaker 2:And so we get there.
Speaker 3:Well, he is praying for his people and every one of them would fall out. And I remember you know, obviously we believe in the moving of the spirit and we believe that God does miraculous things. Sometimes His power falls on you and you experience it in a different way, but what was unique about it is that every single person was doing it. And I remember he started praying for our group and we weren't passing out or falling out and I think it was like bothering him and so he ended up not praying for our whole group because we weren't.
Speaker 2:Well, so what happened was he ended up? He started off at the very beginning praying I mean spending some time really praying for each person, anointing them with oil and then blowing on them at the end of that prayer. And after going down the line of about five people and realizing that we weren't falling out, it went from like one to two-minute prayers to like ten-second prayers. They kind of just tapped us each on the forehead and then moving on to the next person, you know.
Speaker 3:So that to me was really just like a little bit of a cultural shock, is what I would say, and it was funny to me in the moment.
Speaker 3:Well, that night is when we're splitting off and we're going to these different homes and or the guys going to the hotel which I'll let Preston tell you about the hotel but the girls we split up and we ended up riding in the back of someone's truck someone we had just met that night and go to this lady's house, and the outside of her house was really beautiful I mean, she had so many beautiful plants and really for Honduras, like, I think her home was a very nice home and I remember we came in and she had, you know, a living room, several bedrooms.
Speaker 3:Well, all of the other girls got like set up in bedrooms, like paired up that's the word I was looking for. And so then she's like oh, I have a bed for you over here. So there's this little nook that goes off the living room and it's not a very like, it's a very narrow nook here, but I see that there's like this it looks like table legs that I can see underneath and there's a mat on top, and so that was unique as well. I got to sleep on a table that night and I was a little scared of falling off I'm not going to lie, because it was just a little higher than your normal bed, but you know I slept at least a couple hours that night.
Speaker 2:And it was really cool though.
Speaker 3:I mean, I have a video of her garden outside. I remember that next morning it was just so lush and green and she also let us go up, climb up this ladder on one of her rooftops. There of like a shed, she had coffee beans drying and so I got to see that for the first time. See that, see that. You know what they look like when they're unroasted and kind of the process.
Speaker 2:So that was really a cool experience there go ahead and talk about the hotel, hotel preston yeah, so uh, one thing I've found, uh, on going on different mission trips to different places, is that sometimes you are surprised by the people that maybe you end up interacting with, and sometimes you can be surprised by the places that you end up staying. That night, after we left that service, we dropped the girls off, or made sure they'd all gotten to their respective places, and we headed for this hotel that the pastor, I believe, had either suggested or had through the church put us up there and yes, and so we get there and, as is relatively common in other countries, there's this gate with, you know, barbed wire on top of the fence and it rolls back and we drive in.
Speaker 2:it rolls back and we drive in, and immediately we noticed that the place is got more than a few unsavory characters that are standing around. And so I remember, in those situations, one thing that I do is I look towards the person that has the most experience, and I remember looking over at brother miles and I could tell he was a little nervous. And if brother miles is a little nervous, uh, then there's probably good reason to be nervous. So, but we got our keys to our hotel room and got settled in and they were a little bit on the questionable side, and so we ended up not really unpacking anything, uh, and just kind of going in and um, ended up.
Speaker 2:Basically, I think we got up at like four, 30 or five the next morning and us guys that were staying there and we got in our truck and, uh, we left the hotel and were waiting on everybody else just as soon as we could get them and get on the road, because it was one of those places that it felt like if you stayed there too long you could end up in a questionable situation. But that's not the first time nor the last time that I've experienced that, and so that's part of the I will say. Some people may think it sounds crazy, but that's part of the fun of going to these other countries and working with different people is. Sometimes, you know, you find yourself in a place where, as an American who culturally is probably on the spoiled side of things, you realize that you know things aren't always what we think that they're going to be like back home, but I will say, it's always worth it, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I've made it out alive, out of every situation. So far you know.
Speaker 3:And truthfully so.
Speaker 2:These are just funny stories yeah, but they never made me think twice about going somewhere.
Speaker 3:You know like they're just they're fun learning experiences and there's something to look back on and laugh at yes and I love that, I think it's fun.
Speaker 1:I mean it gives you something to talk about.
Speaker 2:Exactly, that's the truth. Yeah, it makes trips more memorable you know which is awesome. I love it.
Speaker 1:Now, preston, I want to have you say a little bit of something on this, but I would like to real quick say about that Pastor, we do not condone you just going and blowing on people when you pray for them oh absolutely. If God tells you to, then do it. I have a story me and Brother Danny will be talking about on a future podcast, but we talked about to where the Lord told him to, but that was a different kind of scenario. He didn't even want to do it.
Speaker 1:He did it because God told him Don't just go, just start blowing on people when you're praying. That is not.
Speaker 2:Give me your take on that. Absolutely, there is a time and a place for different things, and God, through the Holy Ghost, will lead us at times to pray for people in a certain way or another, to speak something to people, and it's important that we're always obedient to the leading of the Spirit.
Speaker 2:But there are also people out there who follow a more charismatic mindset and approach to things and can sometimes and I think this was likely the case with that pastor was that he had started off well and then it probably gotten involved with a more charismatic movement, and so that was you know.
Speaker 1:That's what y'all dealt with there. I just I wanted to clear that up. I don't want anybody going and saying, oh, absolutely no, I wanted to just clear that up.
Speaker 2:Whenever we got out of there, he was like I apologize, you know, because he didn't want to promote that approach to being in the church or in the presence of God, but it did create a good story, didn't one?
Speaker 1:of y'all blow back at him. Have got, but it did create a good story, didn't one of y'all blow back at him?
Speaker 2:That was Jonathan Miles, I believe, and he may get me in trouble for saying that.
Speaker 1:I'll take the blame.
Speaker 2:He's never been one to shy away.
Speaker 1:It was so you know yeah sometimes in situations, all that you can do is laugh yeah and uh that that was the case for that moment so was there anything else on that trip that y'all want to talk about before we go to another trip, any miraculous thing that happened or just any way that somebody was touched, anything like that?
Speaker 3:I remember actually, one of the kids' crusades that we went to. It was a really small church building there, but I remember we had a lot of mothers that came and were sitting in the back and what we found out afterwards was that a bunch of them don't go to church anywhere, or they went to a Catholic church, and so that was the first time that the gospel had been presented to them in a way where it wasn't work-based. And I remember in the altar services there, the time of prayer, that the mothers were just sobbing. You could tell they felt something different and I felt like that was an open door there. You know that God opened and a lot of that opportunity. You know it was. I mean, you know we're doing silly skits, you know, to present the gospel and maybe stuff that may seem immature to others, but truthfully, those young mothers were there, even middle-aged mothers, and they were soaking that in, and so I really believe God did something that tripped in those ladies' lives.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what about you, preston?
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, that I hope we can break up that story. His lady's life what about you, preston? Yeah, no, that I'll bring him back up that story. Catholicism is very prevalent throughout Central and South America, and one of the things about it is that it creates a distance between God and people. You know, there's only access through a priest, and so that was one of those powerful moments where when, for somebody that has never felt like they could really approach God themselves was able to realize and recognize that they could call out to God and that he would hear them. It was just a powerful moment, right?
Speaker 1:yeah, well, we're going to end this podcast here, but before we go I'm going to talk about something. So in this podcast we talked to Preston and Kim about, well, their first missions trip to Honduras and the experiences that they had there, and Ken said something that I want to bring up. She said that none of it made her second guess going, and I want to talk about this for a minute. So Acts 20, starting in verse 22, says and now, behold, I go, bound in the Spirit, unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there, save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me, but none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself so that I might finish my course with joy. And the's getting ready to go to Jerusalem, and he doesn't know everything that is going to happen to him. He doesn't know everything, but he does know, from the Holy Ghost witnessing in every city, that bonds and affliction will be there. He knows this and we can read of a time after him saying this that someone said that he would be bound. We know this, but Paul was willing to do it anyway. He was willing to go anyway. He was willing to do God's will. It says and now behold, I go, bound in the Spirit, unto Jerusalem. He went to Jerusalem. God wanted him to go to Jerusalem and he did it. He knew that he was going to face affliction. He was going to face bonds, but he was going to face affliction. He was going to face bonds but he was willing to go anyway. He was willing to do what God told him to do.
Speaker 1:You know, we all get, we're all called to do stuff. We're all called to do a certain ministry. We're all called to do stuff, sometimes not even ministry, just something God wants us to do one day. We've got to obey. We've got to do what he calls us to do. We've got to fulfill the ministry he has prepared for us. He has, well, he is preparing us for. He has something he wants us to do. He has a ministry, he has a calling for us. But in order to fulfill that, we have to be willing to obey. No matter what kind of opposition we're going to face, no matter what kind of trial we're going to go through, no matter if it makes sense or not, if we want it to be, if we want God's will to be done, we have to be willing to obey. We have to be willing to do no matter, to do it, no matter what it is, whether we face persecution, whether we face trials, whether we're going to be killed for it. We've got to do God's will. No matter what, we've got to obey what he has called us to do. So I encourage you, whatever God calls you to do, whether you are worried about stuff financially, whether you're worried about persecution, trust God and do it anyway. His plan is perfect, no matter what the outcome is. Trust God and do His will.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you for listening to this episode of the God's Little One Podcast. We hope you enjoyed it, and I do got to say a little. I know that this podcast was supposed to come out last week and well, I didn't have the time to get it ready last week, sunday. I usually do them on Sundays. I didn't have time to do it last Sunday. I'm not going to get into the whole reason why, but I had stuff going on so I wasn't able to do it. I apologize for that. And then I was going to try and work on it Monday, but I ended up leaving Monday to go to Siloam Springs, arkansas, for two things for a camp meeting and for a golf tournament. It was a fundraiser for God's Little One to give the proceeds to God's Little One. It was an awesome event, raised a lot of money for it and y'all will be hearing about that later. So that's the reason it didn't come out last week. I apologize for that.
Speaker 1:But to make up for it not being out last week, I'm going to be doing a bonus podcast. It should be out tomorrow. I'm going to try and edit it tomorrow if I have the time. But that podcast is actually going to be with Jared Carroll. He is the one who is over the golf tournament. We went to meeting in the middle of the fairway. He's over it and it was his idea. So we're going to be talking to him about the golf tournament stuff and this podcast was actually recorded before the tournament happened. So once I'm done with y'all are done hearing him and me talk, I'll come on on the outro and I'll let y'all know how it all went and I'll give y'all kind of like the final results of it all.
Speaker 1:But it was a really exciting event. We really enjoyed getting to do it. We actually did a live stream on the Facebook channel. We did well a couple of different live streams, but I encourage you to go listen to those. We hope you enjoy those. And we will be coming out with a YouTube video on the YouTube channel for that God's Little One, honduras Missions. I don't have no dates for that, but we will have it be coming out soon, but anyway. So the next podcast coming out will be tomorrow. It'll be that one that I just told you about, and then we'll get back into our normal schedule.
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