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Missions Through the Years with Brother Joel Sneed Part 1
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Journey into the heart of global missions through the eyes of Pastor Joel Sneed, who shares compelling stories from his decades of ministry experience in Honduras.
Pastor Joel takes us back to his formative years alongside mission pioneers Brother Daniel and Brother Joey Swinnea, recounting adventures that range from humorous mishaps to profound spiritual encounters.
The conversation reveals how experiencing extreme poverty and witnessing extraordinary spiritual hunger forever altered Brother Joel's perspective. He describes altar services where people would respond with remarkable sensitivity that continues to inspire his work today. Perhaps most moving is Brother Joel's reflection on the legacy of Brother Daniel Swinnnea.
But Pastor Joel doesn't just look backward—he challenges listeners to discover their own mission fields. "When I walk out these doors today, I'm on the mission field," he explains, dissolving the artificial boundary between foreign and domestic ministry. His practical advice rings with authenticity: "Even a bad mission trip is a good mission trip" because of the relationships formed through shared sacrifice and service.
Whether you're considering your first mission trip or looking to rekindle your passion for reaching others, this conversation offers both inspiration and practical wisdom from someone who has traversed both the physical terrain of Honduras and the spiritual landscape of cross-cultural ministry. What's your mission field waiting to be discovered?
Hey everybody, welcome back to the God's Little One podcast. I'm your host, Kent, and today we have got a very special episode. We are going to be talking to a special guest, Brother Joel Sneed. He is the pastor of Full Gospel Temple in Jonesboro, Louisiana, and he is also the founder of Four Corners Global Outreach. Thank you for being here today brother.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir, brother Kent, thank you so much for having me on today.
Speaker 1:So today we're going to try and do two parts today in a podcast, and you were there pretty much at the beginning with Brother Joey going a lot when y'all was younger. So to start this podcast out, go ahead and talk about how you first got involved with missions.
Speaker 2:Well, honestly, kent, back in 2010, there was a pastor that came and preached for us here in Jonesboro and he asked me if I would like to go with him out of the country. And he continued Every time I would see him, he would ask me, and I always declined. I never had been out of the country, never even flown too much, and so, finally, the Lord began to deal with me and he wanted me to go through the school of Christ. He wanted me to come to Trinidad, and from there we flew over to Grenada and I stayed there for almost a month and went through the school of Christ, and that's pretty much where my burden started for the mission field.
Speaker 1:What was your first mission trip?
Speaker 2:Well, my first mission trip. It's hard to think back all the way to the very beginning, but we were very young. I would go with Brother Daniel and Brother Joey and we would travel, and probably around 2011, the end of 2010 or the first of 2011, I think was my first trip.
Speaker 1:Right. So what did y'all do on that trip?
Speaker 2:Well, we preached, we preached everywhere we went. You'd have to understand. When Brother Daniel was there. It was a lot of preaching involved Preach, preach, preach, and I love that, I love that. So we were very young we thought we were doing something really important and we were, but we really weren't. We were just there with him and I appreciate everything he'd done for us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I remember I've heard several stories from my Uncle Danny and Uncle Joey. He would bring you up there. These days, whenever we go on a missions trip, if we've got a big group, we'll kind of take them on a break. We'll go drive up halfway up the mountain, go stay the night and then go off the rest of the day. But back in the day he didn't give you rest.
Speaker 1:No, there was no breaks with Brother Daniel, he was all business from the time we left the airport in Louisiana all the way to we landed in Honduras. It was strictly business, right? Yes, sir. So what is something whenever you went on your first missions trip overseas? What is something that you didn't expect that surprised you when you went over there?
Speaker 2:I think my first trip, my biggest surprise was the poverty level. I had never seen anything quite like that. So that's what really, and it affected me. It affected me the way I lived back home. It affected me. So that was probably my biggest surprise on a trip like that.
Speaker 1:Right, what impacted your life the most?
Speaker 2:Oh, it's definitely the altar services when we would preach, the sensitivity of the people there, the ladies, the men alike. Some were ministry, some were not, but it didn't matter. When you gave an altar service after preaching, they just filled the altars and it was just. That's what. That's what impacted me the most, right.
Speaker 1:So we've got plenty of time here to talk about stories and stuff so. I'm kind of just going to just let you just whatever kind of, whatever memories you got. You want to talk about stories, whether it's funny, whether it's miracles, whether it's testimonies, whatever it is, you just tell as much as you want, and if I need to ask you anything, I'm here to ask All right, well, there are a lot of stories I couldn't tell you.
Speaker 2:I mean, there's a ton of stories, and I did travel with Brother Joey all the time. We hardly was ever on a trip not together. We were always together. Brother Daniel always had us together. I learned a lot of things, brother Kent, on those trips and through Brother Daniel. We miss him so much.
Speaker 2:But some of the things I could tell you is that we just preached, preached, preached. Brother Daniel would get us into places that you know it would be just seven or eight men there and we would preach like the house was on fire and it didn't matter if it was 700 or if it was seven. We were taught to do that. That's something, a lifelong lesson that I've held on all the way to today. And so I want to tell you one story, if I can, real quickly.
Speaker 2:We were up in, joey and myself. We were alone up there. Luis was with us and you may have heard this story before, but we were staying in a little small what appeared to be a motel and all there was to really lock the door was a door, a nail in the door. So we would close the door and just roll the nail over and it would hold the door closed. I guess it was probably about 12, 30, one o'clock in the morning. We're laying there, not sleeping. There's no air and it's quiet. There's mosquitoes everywhere, it was hot and all of a sudden it sounded like right outside of our window, gunshots begin to go off. And so we just jumped up. It scared us so we went to the door. Luis never got out of his bed, never came out of his room. He said go back to bed, amigo. He said it's just a welcoming committee welcoming y'all to their city. So that's one of the stories that I have. That's a little comical.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I remember Joey talking about that and y'all seen some powerful services that week yes, we did that, that he probably did talk about that on his podcast and, uh, because it was, there was a lot of activity. There was a lot of spiritual activity fighting against us on that particular trip even, uh, just demonic forces. We were in a place that was really consumed with different spirituality I mean different things, people, they were involved in witchcraft and all there. So we had to battle through that. But we battled through that and I'm going to tell you, the Lord really rewarded us and them. So many things happened there. So many souls were saved, miracles took place right there on those in those dirt streets there.
Speaker 1:Right, what's been your favorite trip you've taken? So?
Speaker 2:far my favorite trip. That's a very, very difficult one to to answer.
Speaker 1:There's been so many that's the answer that uncle joey gave me. I just told him okay, what is one of one of the most impactful ones you've ever had?
Speaker 2:well, probably, uh, it's, it's got to be one with brother daniel. Yeah, and I'll tell you, uh, I've never seen, even still to this day, uh, I've never seen anything like it. A lot of times towards the latter end of course we didn't know it was the latter end of brother daniel's life he would, uh, he would sit down and preach mostly, but there would be kent, two and three hundred people in the, in the, in the congregation, would be outside the. He would have a microphone. I can see him right now sitting in a metal chair with his leg crossed over and he's just preaching and he's just preaching and there's no. You know, we get so vibrant and we are emotional and I love that too, but he just would sit there and he would preach for about 45 minutes and the man would give an altar call and I would literally see men crawl to the altar with tears of conviction in them and that's probably the most powerful, powerful thing that's impacted me the most and that's probably one of my favorite trips?
Speaker 1:yeah, Is there any specific miracles or anything like that you remember?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do remember some. There was a man actually over in my office right now. There was a man that came into a service that had some type of something that was eating away at his leg around his shin area, and he had come in on a homemade crutch and we began to pray for him and, miraculously, the Lord touched that man and he began to pray for him and, miraculously, the Lord touched that man and he began to walk on that leg and and then, after he started walking, he started jogging. Then he started running around where we were having church there that's probably the the. That was a great miracle and he gave us that crutch. So we brought that crutch back on the airplane with us and it's hanging in my office right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, uh, what's um? Because I know like you say and you've seen demon cast out and stuff. What's some? Because I know like you say and you've seen Demon Cast Out and stuff what's some stories of people getting saved that you remember.
Speaker 2:Well, there was. I was preaching in a field one time. A lot of our preaching was done outside. At that time they would string up a few lights and let us just go at it. You know, and I remember, my past is I have a terrible past. My past is not a good past and I'm not proud of it at all, but I do utilize my past.
Speaker 2:And I was preaching outside and there were three grown men behind me sitting under a tree and they had been drinking and they were intoxicated, bad. So about halfway through my message they began to mock me and they were getting louder and louder and louder and I just would get louder than them and I just didn't let it affect me, didn't let it bother me. But all of a sudden the Lord began to change my direction and I began to preach those men and Kent, I told my testimony, I just began to tell where God brought me from and I found myself looking in the congregation of 150 people and God was talking to three men behind me that I couldn't even see. So we began, I gave the altar, call. It probably 15 people came forward, but all of a sudden, those three men right they, they made their way to the front and they gave their hearts to God right there that night. That was my favorite time of salvation, I believe, on any of those trips.
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, we see some powerful things in Honduras. I remember Brother Danny we actually did a podcast about this and we got to talk to him about I don't know if you remember the story, but the guy who was in a coma from drinking alcohol. Yes, I did the doctor basically said that he couldn't do nothing about it and he they prayed for him and he ended up. The last picture they got of him was him walking home.
Speaker 1:That's exactly right, we talked about that in a podcast, and that's just one of countless miracles we've seen Countless absolutely. What are some challenging things that y'all faced in missions?
Speaker 2:work Probably when you have to understand on the mission field.
Speaker 1:Like you're transferred, you're getting around, yeah so I was gonna ask you when it, when it?
Speaker 2:rains, uh, it, it. Because our mindset here in in the states is if, if service starts at us at seven o'clock, we're usually there, uh, 30 minutes early. There they're not really on a time frame and it's hard to get accustomed to that. You're ready to get to the service, you're ready to preach, you're ready to get into the altars, and they're not even there yet. That's a little bit of a mind issue for us from the state.
Speaker 2:So I found a lot of times and then it would rain, it would rain and they would call and say you can't get through the creek, so that that service there would just be omitted until the next day or maybe the next morning. So that that was something that that was challenging for me to get over that and to to find myself. But but again, I utilized all of those trials and all of those things that was going on in my mind. I utilized them and I learned from those things. I began to then when I would go, I would be ready. I'm going to tell you with Brother Daniel Sweeney, you better always be ready. You never know. Yeah, you never know, because you'll travel six hours from San Pedro Sula up to the Glow Center and he, he's already got a service scheduled and you're preaching, and he just told you that before you started the journey up the hill. So the best thing to do is always be ready with him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, be in season and out of season. Exactly right, that's exactly right. You brought up something I want to talk about. You talked about the driving and I know from talking to my dad on a podcast we have had some crazy experiences driving.
Speaker 2:Well, I'll I'll say this uh, I have never been in the vehicle with your dad, but I'll tell you what. I have heard stories I think he he could. He could get his honda's driver's license tomorrow. He drives exactly the way they do. Yeah, the travel there is wild, it is very wild. We've seen so many car wrecks and things like that and it's just, it's overwhelming, it's crazy. There's no law, it seems like there's no law there it's like you're going.
Speaker 1:it feels like you're going like 60 when you're going like 50. But it's just the way you drive, with the curves and stuff swer, swore, swore, swerving in and out of traffic. It's some of the craziest driving I've ever done.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you don't drive like them, you're going to get run over. So you have to drive like they were.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's my. I remember me and my dad was driving. Uh, last year we went on a trip, no year before last, I say I want to say and we, oh my word, he had me pushing my feet up against the truck. It was so scary. But so just keep, you got any more stories you can remember you want to talk about?
Speaker 2:Well, I remember one story in particular. We were in Puerto Catez, honduras, and that was a trip that there was a lot of us preachers on, and what they would do is they would take us around to let me just kind of give you an overview of how that would go. We would fill a van up, a 15 passenger van. It would be preachers and interpreters and they would just travel around and they would open the door and they would drop a preacher and an interpreter off at a church that we were scheduled to be at and you would go in there and they would go around from church to church dropping them all off and then they would come back and begin to pick us all up. We were in charge of that particular service. I remember a time in Puerto Cateas that we were all there. They had a big flatbed trailer that we would preach on and it was my night to preach and I was up there preaching this service in particular. There was a lady there that was demon preach and I was up there preaching at this, this service in particular. There was a lady there that that was demon possessed and, uh, I didn't know that at the time. I'm just preaching and when it got time for the altars and we got there to pray for her. She came up for prayer. You know, and and I'm just thinking everything is just a normal, we're just praying for people and all of all of a sudden that thing began to manifest itself and we began to see him and we cast the devil out of that lady right there. So that's a very impactful service for me and those type things happened a lot. They happened a lot there.
Speaker 2:One thing I find is in Honduras, people would tell you here in the States, when you say, are you born again? You just ask somebody, are you born again? Their answer is usually yes. You hardly ever find somebody that say they're not saved. But there in Honduras, when you ask somebody, are you saved, they'll be very honest with you and they'll say no, I'm not. And you'll be able to try to communicate with them and basically convince them to be born again. So it's a little different that you know, you're witnessing and you're preaching. All those things are different. So when you get in the altars and you begin to ask people, you know the specifics of what they need. They'll tell you what they need. If they need to be born again, they'll tell you right there I love that about being in a third world country. I absolutely love that about being in a third world country. I, I, that's. I absolutely love that, yeah.
Speaker 1:So, uh, we I got two things I do want to talk about. Uh, so years ago you got to go, you went you're back when you and uh brother Joey, were young and y'all went with my papa and stuff. Well, when he died, how did that affect you? Missions wise.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, Kent, you would think that of course we were all very upset. Even today there's so, there's so many things that your grandfather taught us and we didn't even realize I don't think until he was gone the most important things he taught us. We didn't realize until Brother Daniel had passed on, what he was actually teaching us. It was almost like he knew where we would be 10 years from then. But it affected me in a positive way. It put such a fire inside of me to go back there and not only to do what he did, but do what he would want us to do, and he would want us to go with fire. He would want us to go and just preach the gospel all over the whole entire country. That's what he would want. So that's how that affected me. When he passed away. It just put such a burning on the inside of me. That's what's pushed me to where I am today on the mission field. I'll be honest with you. He did that, he knew how to do that. I'll tell you.
Speaker 2:One time we were preaching and it was Brotherey had stayed back. This particular trip this, not this didn't happen often and I was there with brother daniel. It was a lot of us there. Brother daniel had been there for a couple of weeks already. So joey was brother joey was going to come in and I was going to leave. Yeah, no, no, I was going to stay.
Speaker 2:I was coming in, joey was leaving, so brother joey left and I stayed there, brother, Brother Daniel, and he said I hope you're ready for tonight. And I said, sir, he said you'll be preaching the service tonight at seven. I said, oh, you know all these excuses, all these things. You know just like it is today. But he never. And I didn't know then that I'd be pastoring someday. You know how many people give me excuses for things and because of those type of situations I had to preach that night. I didn't have a choice. There was no option, no plan B. You're preaching tonight. And I learned from those type experiences and I appreciate that today and now I'm able to convey those things that Brother Daniel Sweeney has taught us over all the years. That's his passing. Did those things inside of me?
Speaker 1:Right, and for those who don't know who I'm talking about, we've talked about so many times in the podcast. It's a very important thing to us because of who Brother Daniel was. He was my papa and he is the founder of God's Little One, and that's who we were talking about when we talk about brother daniel. So, yeah, he had a key role, uh, in all of it. He's the one who started.
Speaker 2:He is the key. I, I, he is the key, he's, he's. This is. This is built around a vision that he had from the ground up, even where the glow center is at and and I know some listen to this, may not know what that is, but it's a it's a place up in the Lempira Mountains that Brother Daniel had drawn out on a napkin, I believe it was, and it wasn't even built when he passed away, but it's there now, exactly like he wanted it.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:You know, and that's you know, I love that, I love that. So, yeah, he is the key to God's little one. Yeah, that's you know, I love that.
Speaker 1:I love that. So, yeah, he is the key to God's little one. Yeah, that was the next. That's such a good lead in, because that's what I was going to talk about. Next is the Glow Center. So, yeah, like he said, we talked about this actually on a podcast with my dad and my uncle and definitely go listen to that. It gives you more insight on the building.
Speaker 2:We're not going to be ministering at. If you can go up there, where they are, the people are, you can build relationships, and when you stay at the Glow Center, you're closer to everybody, people, just literally. You're there. Somebody will just pull up. You know a pastor that pastors up the you know two miles up the mountain. He'll just pull up on a motorcycle and we're able to have relationship. So that's what the Glow Center has done. Not only has it provided a place for everybody to stay, not only has it provided a place for there's been so many conferences there, so many conventions. You know all of these things. Right now there's a school there, there's a school behind the Glow Center right now, and so it's been a great impact on a lot of different areas of the ministry.
Speaker 1:Right, what is the most like? We've talked about the preaching and stuff. Have you been able to go on a kids crusade type of trip or anything like?
Speaker 2:that? Yeah, I did. We did that a couple of times. I've done that. I'm not myself really a good, probably a puppet man. I'm not really the man you're looking for for a kids crusade, but I love kids crusades. I love going. Matter of fact, last year about this time last year I was there and we did that. I was able to be there one time with Brother Danny and the Sikh team was there I believe it was Sikh team and they was doing that and I got to preach in that particular service. So I love that. And you know it's to see what I think it's phenomenal here, right, but when they take what they do here there, it is absolutely amazing to watch the response, even the adults. I mean you know that it's not just a kid's crusade. I mean it draws so many people and it affects so many people Right, yeah, we got.
Speaker 1:so there was a trip a while back that we had. A group went on and they told me a story. I did a podcast with two of the guys that went and they told a story about that trip and they was talking about temptation and not giving in to stuff and there was a former drug addict who had got saved but he had been dealing with that temptation. So he prayed hard that service and, like you said, it's not just for the that service.
Speaker 1:And that was some, and it's like you said, it's not just for the kids.
Speaker 2:It's not at all. That's exactly right. Anybody can get something out of it. That's exactly right.
Speaker 1:So, uh, any more stories you want to talk about? Just keep telling me stories. Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Uh, you know there's so there's so many things funny things and then more serious things. I just there is a there's a draw in there. Oh yeah, you know. There's just something about this work this you know. I appreciate you doing this podcast, you know, because people are able to tune in and listen to people's hearts. That's been there. There's such a drawing there so for people to go, I would encourage people today, if you've never been, contact Brother Danny Sweeney, I mean he'll make a way for you to go. And in the part two of this podcast, I'm very excited and anxious to talk about Four Corners, global Outreach and the way they come into fruition with God's little one. It's an amazing story and they're almost like sisters.
Speaker 2:I mean it's just an amazing Like connected, connected completely, yeah, so I would encourage anybody to go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, going on a missions trip is. I always say everybody's got to go. There are certain circumstances, some people got issues not to go and stuff. But if you are able to go everybody needs to go on a missions trip. It's one of the best ones. It's just, it's so much fun.
Speaker 2:It's so much fun.
Speaker 1:So uh, let's. You said is there any funny stories you remember you want to tell?
Speaker 2:Oh, my goodness, I could tell. Yeah, I don't know if brother Joey, he's already been on this podcast, but we were in a place at one time. We were were right on the ocean, we were staying there, we were alone. Brother Luis obviously was there. He was in our interpreter, but after we had been teaching, I think, the School of Christ all day, we was going to go down to the ocean. So we walked down there and we got out in the water. We just pulled our pants, legs up, just got out in the water.
Speaker 2:Well, we ended up going on out in the water and this is a very Brother Joey those waves began to come in and he turned around about the time he's gonna kill me for telling this, but he turned around about the time one of those waves rolled in and they knocked his glasses off in the ocean. I mean, we're in the ocean and he's panicking, he's screaming because he can't see. He can't see without his glasses. He got to preach in the morning and he has no glasses. So we're down there and I'm laughing.
Speaker 2:It was kind of funny to me, but it was not funny to him. So I finally found with my foot I felt surprisingly in the bottom of the ocean. I felt in the sand something on my foot and I just picked it up with my foot. I felt surprisingly, in the bottom of the ocean, I felt in the sand something on my foot and I just picked it up with my foot and it was his glasses. And do you know, I handed him his glasses. He put the glasses on. Another wave came and the same identical thing happened again and I said listen, we got to go, we got to get back. So yeah, that's a staple story that I like to tell to everybody.
Speaker 1:Yeah, uncle Joey, I remember him telling about y'all go up there and they call y'all Pumbaa and Timon. Oh, he started that. He started that. Okay, he started that. Yeah, he started that I don't think he said that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he probably did. No, yeah, he started that. So he's one of my dearest friends, brother Joey Sweeney, and uh, uh, you know I appreciate him. Uh, I don't think I would be where I am today without his encouragement and without our just friendship. You know, we've done a lot of things together pray together, uh, church together, preach together, talk together on the mission field, and I appreciate him so much.
Speaker 1:So what is one of your favorites? Uh, just one of your favorite things. You see, going up there nowadays and back in the day, what's your favorite thing you?
Speaker 2:see Favorite thing as in.
Speaker 1:Mission, just like favorite thing you experience, oh it's definitely.
Speaker 2:I like the pastor's conferences, if that's what you're referencing, those type things. I love to see another pastor getting help and it's amazing. People here and people there, they're people. They face the same exact battles what pastors face here in the States, those men way up in those mountains that have no electricity in their home. They're facing the same devil, they're fighting the same battles. So when you're able to help each other, you know they minister to us when we go. It's not like we're always just going to help. We always receive help when we go, and so I like to see those men and ladies as they're getting help in those altars. They're just crying out to the Lord. I have video after video of 30 and 40 pastors at a time wailing to the Lord, just crying out to the Lord and falling down their knees. It's the most amazing thing you'll ever experience. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh it is. We got to go do a pastor's conference at the Glow Center one time and it was powerful.
Speaker 2:It is very powerful. I've done that, yes.
Speaker 1:So how would you encourage somebody who is considering going on a missions trip?
Speaker 2:Somebody that's. I was always considering going Back in 2010,. I was always considering going and it was not until I went. And here I am today. It's 2025. That was in 2010. So what I would say is just try just one time. Just one time, and I can just about guarantee even a bad trip is a good trip. I mean, even a bad trip is a good trip. I'm serious, and it builds relationship. I have relationships with people today Because when you're staying in a hotel that has no air, you know, you're having to.
Speaker 2:Everything's a sacrifice. And you're with seven and eight other people there. You build relationships by the end of the week. Now there's usually somebody disagrees about something during the week, everybody's hot and they start getting tired. But at the end of the week, man, you go back and look and go back and discuss with these people. Such relationships are built while you're there. So I would tell somebody just try it one time. And I can, I can just about guarantee that you're going to. You're going to. It's going to affect you, it's going to affect you.
Speaker 1:That's something I said on one of my, on one of the on the last trip I went on. I said I told everybody I said my favorite part of one of, one of my favorite part of missions is just getting to meet people.
Speaker 2:Just getting to meet people.
Speaker 1:I love going on trip. My favorite trips are to go with people I don't know as much get to know new people.
Speaker 2:And that's something I really like. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1:So, uh, what would you say to someone who doesn't believe missions work is necessary?
Speaker 2:Uh, I would really like to talk to somebody. It is necessary, and it's necessary here, it's necessary at my own home. I'm on the mission field today and when I leave here I'm going on the mission field. When I walk out these doors today, I'm on the mission field. So really, I don't really base the mission field as a third-world country. I wake up every morning I feel like in a mission field as a third-world country. I wake up every morning I feel like in a mission field. So to debate that I would have to ask the question. You know, because everybody, you know, people like to say well, we got people right here that are lost Absolutely and we need to. This needs to be your mission field also. But just go, try it. Just go, you know, try it in a third-world country where things are a little bit different, you know, and that's. I would encourage somebody that don't believe that again to try just one time try just one time, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And the last thing I want to ask you before we stop this part.
Speaker 2:One is what has missions work taught you? Responsibility, organizational skills, really. Responsibility, organizational skills, really. It has impacted me. When I come back from the mission field, I always because you have to be, you have to have flexibility, you have to be flexible. On the mission field, you got to be able to adjust, and so, when I get back to the States, the way I organize things, the way I put things together, you know, that's one of the things I think that I have learned just to flow, just to flow, so I prepare myself, prepare for the worst, and that's one of the things that I feel like I've learned the most on the mission field and I'm just going to give you time here at the end.
Speaker 1:We got plenty of time, so just take as much time as you want to just give some closing remarks or say anything you want to say.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I'll just say this I've had opportunity after opportunity to be on the mission field and it's affected me, it has become my heartbeat. I feel it all the time. I have a built-in. I tell my wife sometimes I have a built-in clock inside of me that I just know when it's time to take a trip, I go and take a trip. So, you know, there's vivid memories and numerous times where things have happened there, some things that was hard, some things that were simple, but there was a lot of things that Kent. They just on the inside, they just changed me. They just changed me whether it was in the pulpit teaching or whether it was at a kid's crusade. It just changed me.
Speaker 2:I contribute all those desires and and those things that are put inside of me today. And I I don't want to sound, but I'm going to reflect back to brother daniel. You know I, I contribute those things to him. Yeah, I, I wish, I wish, honestly, I'm gonna say this and and and. You can I know you edit, you can edit whatever you want to edit, but I'm going to say this I wish brother daniel could spend just one day, just one day of what's going on right now in hunders and see the impact that he truly made in in people's lives.
Speaker 2:Now we know it's the lord, but brother daniel followed the lord, he followed the and I have no doubt today he would be humbled, he would be excited, he would love the progress that has taken place since he's left. He would love the ministries, he would love the finance, he would love the school of Christ, the medical missions, the feeding stations, everything in between I can guarantee you. I just wish he had one day. Look, that man trained us so well and he shared his vision with us so well and it put a burden in all of us to continue to go after he passed. And our goal is we want to cast the vision that he had, because that was from above, that was from heaven, and so that thing has been passed on to us. That's why I'm connected to, I'll always be connected to God's little one, no matter where life takes me. I'll always be connected to God's little one because of the times in the past. I love Brother Daniel and I miss him so much.
Speaker 1:And that is a great way for us to end this part one of the podcast with Bird Joe Sneed. We kind of pointed this one back towards the earlier days and talking about God's little one more. The next one we're kind of going to be leaning more to what you've done and stuff with four corners and stuff like that and the partnership with God's little one. Thank you for being here on this first podcast.
Speaker 2:Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1:And we will see you on the first podcast. Absolutely. Thank you for having me, kent, and we will see y'all on the next podcast with Brother Joel. Again, brother Joel kind of was talking about at one point about being on the mission field even when he wasn't in Honduras and stuff, and if you remember it, it was later into this podcast and I just want to kind of ask a question what is your mission field?
Speaker 1:We've all been called to do some kind of ministry. We've all been called to witness to people in some way. What is your way? What has God called you to do? Has he called you to preach? Has he called you to sing? Has he called you to go into the streets? What is your mission field? Is it overseas? Is it down the street? Is it in another state? What is your mission field? What does God want you to do?
Speaker 1:I encourage everybody find what God wants you to do. Seek for his will. Seek for him to show you what his will is for your life, because I promise you he will show it to you. He will show you what his will is. He wants to Seek him for it. Ask him for it Fast, pray, read his word. I encourage you to do it. And just because you do one specific thing doesn't mean that's all God wants you to do. My Uncle, danny, brother Danny Sweeney Brother Danny Sweeney he pastors a church now and he is also the missions director of God's Little One. He not only does pastoring at a church, he also does missions work overseas. So just because you do one thing doesn't mean God doesn't want you to do more. So find out what God wants you to do. Pray fast, seek for God's will Ask him what he wants you to do. Pray fast, seek for God's will Ask him what he wants you to do. So I want to encourage y'all today whatever you feel like God's calling you to do. If you know what he's called you to do, do it. If you don't know, seek for it and do it with your whole heart. Do what God has called you to do with your whole heart. Run after it. Witness in whatever way he tells you to, whole heart. Run after it. Witness in whatever way he tells you to.
Speaker 1:Well, we hope you enjoyed this episode of the God's Little One podcast. This was a great episode. We had a great conversation with Brother Joel and I want to let y'all know about something. So if you hear the audio and if it sounds like off or anything, this was an offsite podcast. I didn't do this in the studio that we got here, if you can call it. I didn't do it in the closet. We got here. We did it in a room over at their church, over in their, over in their school and it was an open. It's a bigger room and it was echoey, I want to say, or whatever it was. So the audio was because of that, but it was still a great podcast.
Speaker 1:I enjoyed getting to do this. I enjoyed getting to go talk to brother Joe on this podcast. It was a blast and we got another part coming up with him and this part is going to be really good because it's talking about something that we've never talked about. On the podcast With Four Corners, global Outreach, we get to talk about that stuff and it's a great podcast. Both of these are great podcasts. I really do appreciate Brother Joel giving me his time. It was a blast to get to record and I hope youall enjoyed this part and I hope y'all enjoy the next part, which will not be coming out this coming Monday. Like y'all know. Y'all know, y'all should know this If y'all have ever listened to the podcast or listened to it. Yeah, if y'all have listened to the podcast where I've said it the podcasts several where I've said it it won't be out this coming Monday, it'll be out the next Monday. So we do a Monday, skip a Monday, go to the next. So I hope y'all enjoy the next part is going to be a blast.
Speaker 1:Uh, I know we've kind of been doing some two parters recently. Once we get done with this one with brother Joel, we we got like one, one parter. Now it is a long, one parter, but it's a great podcast. I hope y'all enjoy that one. It was a blast to do, actually did it recently. So, uh, y'all be getting a fresh update on something, but we'll talk about that on the next podcast. But this one, I hope y'all enjoyed it, because I sure did enjoy. It was a blast and I've actually I talked to brother Joel's wife, sister Mari, and she actually got me a picture of the crutch she was talking about. So I'm gonna have that up somewhere.
Speaker 1:I'm considering making a face, an Instagram page, for the glow podcast. We have the Facebook page for God's little one, but I'm considering making a face, an Instagram page for the glow podcast. We have the Facebook page for God's little one, but I'm thinking about making an Instagram page for just strictly for the podcast. I don't know if I'll do it, we'll see, but stay tuned. If I end up doing it I'll let y'all know on the next podcast, cause I'm might do it, do it soon, but no promises, I'm just saying I'm I might be doing it, so I'll let y'all know.
Speaker 1:But yeah, thank you for listening to this episode. I hope y'all enjoyed it and it was a blast to do. But if y'all would like to contact us and ask us any questions or give us your feedback on the podcast, we really do appreciate that. Our phone number is 318-491-1772. And that'll be Brother Danny, brother Danny Sweeney's, the one over God's Little One, the director of God's Little One, and so, yeah, you'll be able to contact him with that phone number. And then, 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 is greatly appreciated.
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