[00:00:00] Speaker A: Whoa.
[00:00:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:00:03] Speaker C: Come on.
Hey.
[00:00:09] Speaker D: Welcome, everybody, to the Kingdom Bound insider podcast.
I am here with not Chris Parker. This is not Chris.
You guys are lucky. We get the amazing, awesome Donna Russo, who has been with the ministry for 40 years. The executive director still going strong.
She is with us. She's with us because we have some really cool. These next two episodes are cool. Today we're going to be hearing from some of our favorite partners and sponsors today, from some interviews that we had at the festival last year. And then Donna's going to stick with us for the next episode, episode 10, where we're going to be talking about festival, all things Kingdom Bound festival. And so that's why Donna's with us in this podcast and the next one. So, Donna, welcome. Thanks for coming. Thanks for hanging out with us.
[00:00:56] Speaker E: Thanks. It's a pleasure to be here.
[00:00:58] Speaker D: And you're kind of killing two birds with one stone.
[00:01:00] Speaker E: I am.
[00:01:00] Speaker D: You came from a funeral.
[00:01:02] Speaker E: I did. I went to a funeral this morning.
[00:01:04] Speaker D: And we should talk about that.
[00:01:05] Speaker E: We can.
[00:01:06] Speaker D: It was someone that's kind of connected
[00:01:07] Speaker E: with Kingdom Bound for sure. So some of the listeners will remember. Depends. We'll we dig through the archives and see what the age median is of our audience.
But many of you may know this, that our founder was Fred Caserta and he founded Kingdom bound back in 19.
Well, the first festival was in 87. The work began before that.
And he was married to a lovely lady named Cynthia caserta. But Fred, 20 years ago, actually this year, in April, he passed away, went home to be with Jesus. And a few years later, probably, I don't know, five or ten, I guess I'd have to talk to Cindy, but she remarried and her husband, her new husband passed away over the weekend. And so they live in Rock.
And so I got the news that he had passed away. And so the date just actually coincided today so that I was able to go see her this morning. She was really happy to see me. I haven't seen her in several months at least.
And, you know, she was a very interesting side note to that story.
Many people don't know this, but Cindy was Fred's primary caregiver. Fred had a lot of mobility issues. And Fred, Cindy was his caregiver. And when she remarried, she. Her new husband, David was. They. They did many wonderful things together. They had a lot of really great years together. But in the last couple of years, he was diagnosed with a debilitating disease and she became a caretaker again. And so, you know that like calling
[00:02:32] Speaker D: on her life almost.
[00:02:33] Speaker E: Yes, yes. Really he did.
She did. She had a lot of grace, a lot of mercy. And so we'll, you know, we're praying for her. And. But it was a. It was a beautiful funeral service, and it coincided, so it was only 30 minutes away from the location here. And so it worked out well.
[00:02:47] Speaker D: Nice.
So Fred Caserta.
[00:02:50] Speaker F: Yes.
[00:02:50] Speaker D: Founder of Kingdom Bound. You said to, like, this year. It's his 20th, 20 years since he passed.
So give me. Give, give the. Give the people listening. Give me your favorite Fred memory or one of your favorite.
[00:03:03] Speaker E: Oh, my goodness, there are so many.
[00:03:05] Speaker D: I know. I'm sure there are one.
[00:03:07] Speaker E: I'm going to say that I'm hoping to still capture this. I know that this picture's in our office.
It was hanging in the old office. I just don't know where it has gone in the new office. But there was a picture. For many of you who know, Fred was a prayer warrior. And so, you know, he'd always say, well, I can't always physically get to where I need to be, but I can be praying. And so he was always encouraging everyone. He always wanted to make sure he prayed with the artist himself. It's why we have an area now with chaplains behind the stage, so that every artist has an opportunity. You know, the artists. Everybody thinks the artists come to the festival and it's just one great big party. And, you know, they have family. They've left wives or husbands at home, and they have kids and they have issues and stuff. And so sometimes it's really great for somebody to sit down with them and say, let's pray. Let's. Let's put your heart at ease before you have to go out and be on the stage.
But Fred would always love to do that. And so he would be. He'd get in a golf cart and he would just go all over the grounds. He'd stop a volunteer, he pray with them. He'd stop the security person. He'd stop a daring lake worker, and he'd pray with them. But I have a visual in my head, and this picture exists. He's on the golf cart, and the ladies from Point of Grace are surrounding him on the golf cart, and they are having a moment of prayer. And it's really a tremendous. It was like a tremendous visual. And that was kind of like. It captured his heart. It was one of the things that he loved to do. But he also, for all those you know him, he was large as life. He had a big personality, and you always knew where you stood. So if he didn't like something he told you, and if he loved it, he told you, you know, but it was always like, I can recall phone calls where he would talk with an agent. He didn't like the way the conversation was going. He picked the phone back up. You know what? I didn't like the way that conversation ended. But I'm going to. I want to pray and I want to make sure that there's no issue between us. There's no ill will. There's no ill feelings, because you're a person first, you're my brother, or you're my sister in Christ, and we'll work the business out after. And that was his heart. That's who he was.
[00:05:04] Speaker D: I didn't. I met him once in passing when I was younger, but I didn't really know him. But the stories I hear about him and the way people talk about him, it really is an honor to carry on the legacy that he created and to build on the foundation that he created. And it really is an amazing.
You and I have seen it through.
Christian festivals, Christian events, they come and go.
Especially in this business. Artists come and go.
You've said on more than one occasion that, you know, somebody who ran a festival or an event or a ministry got taken away in handcuffs. And I joked to you the other day, I said, donna, is that the way you want to go out?
[00:05:47] Speaker E: And you said, no, no, absolutely not.
[00:05:49] Speaker D: But the fact that Kingdom bound number one, you know, it's been 20 years since his passing. And so Kingdom Bound not only lasted through him 20 years, but also another 20 years after he passed. He really handed it off to real special people. You, John, Micah, Lou, Fliss.
[00:06:05] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:06:06] Speaker D: You guys have really stewarded this thing really well.
[00:06:09] Speaker E: Yeah, he. He really poured his DNA into all of us so that at the time, you know, when he passed, it wasn't. I'm sure that there were people that said, what's going to happen now? And, you know, there were several critical things that happened after he passed away. The park management was. The park was sold.
We had a major crash in 2008. Finances were tight. We had another infamous gas situation where the gas was out of control, similar to the way that it is now. And, you know, I've said this. You've heard me say this before.
He believed this, and I believe it. Kingdom exists because God wants it to. Not, you know, like, not because we want it to. We're there to steward what God has given us. And so I believe that so long as he continues to want that to happen, it will. And through the many different challenges and things that have gone on. When you think about the fact that many of the other festivals have changed locations multiple times. We've been in the same location all these years and we had favor. You know, Darien Lake has been a wonderful partner to us and has really opened the door for us so that the festival could continue to take place. And I think also it warrants making sure that the listeners all understand and know or the viewers that the park's open to the public during Kingdom Mound. We're not closed. It's not a closed event. Park's open to the public. And we have a stage actually that takes place inside the theme park. Right near the food court. Yeah, there it's the parks gazebo stage. They let us have the afternoons there. And Michael Peace runs a really great program there. And there are many people who are waiting in line to get food. They're waiting in line to get on a ride and they're hearing the gospel while they're waiting.
[00:07:44] Speaker D: Michael Peace just did an interview with Kevin at the festival last year and he just came right out and said, he said, I love Christians. You guys are all my brothers and sisters, but when it comes to the festival, you're not my priority. He says, I look for the people without the kingdom bound wristband because that's who I want to connect with and minister to and talk, talk with and pray for.
And so yeah, Michael Peace sees the festival as his mission field.
[00:08:10] Speaker E: Once a year he does. And it's true. It is like I've been inside the park to watch those things happen and watch people's faces and their reactions because they're not expecting that. I've also heard from families who come who say, well, we pick this not necessarily because we're believers, but we know it's going to be a safe environment and it's going to be a family friendly environment. We know we want them to think that we want them and then at the same time we want to give them the exposure to the gospel.
[00:08:35] Speaker D: Absolutely. One last thing about Fred, my wife reminded me about it yesterday.
He had a saying. When it came to prayer, you got to share that. You know what I'm talking about? The arrows.
Oh, shooting an arrow.
[00:08:50] Speaker E: Yep, shooting an arrow up. You know what? We had a security guard by the name of Lynn's ankle and it was, was between the two of them, they would always do that. Like you'd hear them on the radio because back then we used the radio. It was way more than we a phone. And there'd be something situation going on. And he'd say, we're going to shoot an arrow right now. And that meant we were going to pause and we were going to spend some time in prayer over what was going on, whatever it was, whatever the situation was. And, you know, the Holy Spirit would intervene, so much so. And maybe you've already heard this story, Mike, when the storm actually turned around, that has happened on more than one occasion. But we've had like, you know, we would get the weather report. And the rule of thumb always is that if there's lightning within a certain mile radius, then they have to call the show.
[00:09:30] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:09:31] Speaker E: And so there was a storm circling one of the nights, and it was getting closer, and it was getting closer. And then the events director who worked for the park had called Fred and said, you know, it's getting closer. And Fred said, well, he goes, well, we're praying, you know, he said, we don't want to call anything. And that storm literally went all the way around the. Went around the park, didn't rain, didn't store on us, and the storm just went around us. And that has happened a few other times before, but this one happened to be where it was marching in on us, and we could see it. And, you know, you never want. You don't want the message to not be spoken, and you don't want to miss out on that because all of a sudden it's raining. Rain we can put up with, but we can't do with lightning. But yeah. And, you know, so from that perspective, you know, that was always one of those things that he would look and say whether we're going to pray right on the spot or whether he would say we're going to call the intercessors, and we're going to say we're going to have them spend some time in prayer about this, because we want to make sure that this is covered the whole time.
[00:10:26] Speaker G: Yeah.
[00:10:27] Speaker D: And I think one of the reasons why God has blessed Kingdom bound for 40 years is because it's not like people. People come for the music and the fun, but we put the festival on because we know the power of prayer. We know the power of the gospel. We know the power of the presence of God. And so I think because under your leadership and other people helping and coming alongside that, we have kept Jesus as the reason why we do it, you know, and we haven't gotten caught up in a lot of some of the other reasons why you do a festival. And I think that's one of the biggest reasons why we have gone for as long as we have.
[00:11:09] Speaker E: And I've heard and that that is, this is not a, a pat us on the back. This is a thank you to Jesus.
I've heard many artists say that it's one of the reasons that they like to be a part of kingdom. And you know, you see that if you look when you see repeat artists, you know, it's because we kind of have the same heart for ministry. And so, and they, they'll, then they'll be right up front and say it. You know, there's a focus here that's not somewhere else.
[00:11:34] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:11:35] Speaker E: And that's not to say that somebody else isn't doing a good work, but we need to do what God has called us to do. And I think I've said this on multiple occasions.
No one will really like this, but this is, you know, my philosophy.
My favorite part of each night at the main stage is the main speaker.
[00:11:52] Speaker D: Absolutely.
[00:11:53] Speaker E: To me, like that's the whole purpose. Like you're all coming in and I know everybody's coming to hear whoever. And I'm not saying they're not ministering because they are, but they're setting the stage. Much like when we go to worship on Sunday morning. And worship is setting the stage for us to hear the message. And that message is, you know, to me that's the most important 20, 30 or 40 minutes for the evening because by then people's hearts have been softened and they're ready to be receptive.
[00:12:16] Speaker D: Yep. I tell people all the time that we do all the hard work and we raise the money that we spend on these artists and we put in the long days and the long hours and we sit through 90, 100 degree weather all day to get to those evangelistic moments. And that main stage is one of the biggest reasons why we do what we do. We love having fricking in country, we love having skillet, we love the energy and the passion and the fun that they bring. But, but we love when people respond to the gospel and that's the biggest reason why we do it.
[00:12:47] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:12:48] Speaker D: I love hearing those kind of stories. And we're going to hear some more stories in today's podcast.
But before we do that, we like to do it this day in history.
[00:12:58] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:13:00] Speaker D: And you might even remember this day, but I kind of do.
I was 10 when it happened in 1989. On this day, DC Talks self and self titled album came out. 1989. On this day in history. Yeah.
[00:13:17] Speaker H: Wow.
[00:13:18] Speaker E: And it took us four years to book them.
[00:13:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:20] Speaker E: We didn't have them until 93.
[00:13:22] Speaker D: Yep. 93 was the first year they came.
[00:13:24] Speaker E: Yep.
[00:13:25] Speaker D: So DC talk this day in history.
[00:13:27] Speaker E: Wow, that's great.
[00:13:28] Speaker D: Came out. Yeah. So 1989, I was 10.
[00:13:32] Speaker F: Wow.
[00:13:32] Speaker E: They were an influential band.
[00:13:33] Speaker D: Absolutely. They were. They were. Yeah, they. I guess they definitely changed the industry. They changed Christian music. People that came after them kind of, they opened the door for that.
So before we get to some Kate Kingdom Bound news and before we get to some of these great stories, we're going to get to, as usual, this podcast would not be possible without people like Kevin from Elam Fellowship who help us to record this, publish it, edit it, put it out there. And Kevin and Elam Fellowship are amazing partners of ours, and so they always have a lot of amazing things going on. And so here's the latest from Elam Fellowship.
[00:14:14] Speaker C: Here at Elam Fellowship, we believe that the Lord still speaks.
[00:14:18] Speaker F: Hi there. My name is Phil McNeil. I'm the president of Elam Fellowship. I want to talk to you about our prophetic ministry conference and worship conference coming up in August. We believe strongly is the fellowship that the Lord still speaks and he uses people. Bring your team, bring your worship team, bring your team of leaders. If you want to see a fresh vision for the prophetic in your life, in your church, in your ministry. I can tell you that's what this conference is about. Prophetic ministry from people who've been doing this most of their life.
[00:14:50] Speaker C: In the Bible, prophetic movements of God were always followed by a response of people, praise from his people. At this conference, we will do the same. Elam Fellowship's prophetic and worship conferences will be held August 13th through 15th at Word of Life in Rochester, New York.
[00:15:07] Speaker F: We have a heritage in this. It's by the grace of God, come and be a part. I know you will grow in your understanding and the gift of the prophetic. God bless you.
[00:15:18] Speaker C: Tickets and more information can be found at elam prophetic.
Org.
[00:15:25] Speaker D: All right, Donna, so there's always, you know, lots to talk about with Kingdom Bound. We always have lots of events going on. We have the festival coming up very soon, next month. We're about six weeks away now.
[00:15:35] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:15:35] Speaker D: And so give us some different Kingdom bound news. People are used to hearing me, and so they're probably really bored about me talking about Kingdom Bound. And so for you, like, tell us some things that people should know from your perspective. What do you think that.
[00:15:50] Speaker E: Well, so, you know, like they like to say, you know, in the, in the business, it's crunch time yeah. So we've got a lot of stuff going on. So if you were thinking about volunteering, now's the time.
[00:16:00] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:16:01] Speaker E: So you know, lots of volunteers. Most of the stuff that I'm going to say, if you go to kingdomound.org I'll say that a couple times. If you go to kingdomond.org, you'll find most of these things that I'm talking about. So if you're still interested, we are still accepting volunteer applications.
We need lots of help. If you look around, there are actually five staff people that make Kingdom on happen. On a staff perspective. Now, you know that it takes more than five for the festival to happen. So we recruit about 300 volunteers at least. So if you had something on your heart, we'd love to have you.
We're also adding a few new things this year. For those of you who've been coming for many years, you know that we've always typically run a youth program in the morning and we're moving the youth program to the afternoon. I know you'll be hearing more detail about this, but if you are a youth leader, youth pastor or youth, your parents and you have teenagers, you need to know that there will be a youth program called Reach 1 at Kingdom Bound, which will be happening in the afternoons. So it's going to be 1:30-3:00'. Clock. I believe that's going to be the time.
[00:16:57] Speaker D: We have some really good speakers for that.
[00:16:58] Speaker C: We do.
[00:16:59] Speaker E: And I think that's going to be a really exciting time, you know, and, and there's still plenty of time to ride rides and there's still plenty of time to enjoy all the other stuff that's going on at the festival. It's not cutting into the concert time. So you're going to be able to hear all your favorite bands from the team perspective. But it's going to be a really great program to, to, to. To check out.
[00:17:15] Speaker D: And that's at what time every to 3 o'.
[00:17:18] Speaker I: Clock?
[00:17:19] Speaker D: 1:30 to 3 in the generations tent, kind of across from where the worship tent is.
[00:17:23] Speaker E: Yes. And so like I said, especially if you familiar and you've been coming before, we're not going to have that program in the morning at 9. So the teenagers, you'll like that you can sleep in.
[00:17:31] Speaker D: It always blows my mind when people go to our festival and they don't even go into like the worship tent or the vending tent or the kids tent. Like they don't even know that I'll ask that question.
[00:17:43] Speaker E: And they're like Oh, I didn't know so and so was playing and I said, well, because they're at our worship stage and you really should go over there. The worship stage is really an incredible experience and, and it is, you know, it's a. To me that's like church touching down at the campground.
And it's really a special time. Very, very impactful from that perspective. And so, you know, you should really check that out.
[00:18:04] Speaker D: If you've never been to the worship tent or you, if you've only gone to like the concerts at night, we would highly encourage you get there early. The park opens at 11, get there at 11. You walk all the way through the park towards the campground. You have just followed the sign for the campground. And once you get into the campground you're going to find the worship tent. And that's like the oasis of kingdom bound.
[00:18:24] Speaker E: It is. You know, and on the flip side, there are some people that they park there at nine o' clock in the morning as campers and they don't ever leave.
[00:18:30] Speaker D: They don't leave.
[00:18:30] Speaker E: They stay there till the tent closes at five.
[00:18:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:18:33] Speaker D: And you get bummed that we don't have people on at night.
[00:18:35] Speaker E: Right. You know, but of course we want to move everybody over to the main stage so we could have one big corporate gathering in the evenings.
We're also, if you were at the festival last year, we are bringing the art classes back this year. So they are online. That's part of the reason I wanted to bring that up because if you go to kingdomon.org and you click on Buy Tickets, one of the menu items will be art classes. And we're going to do the ceramic mugs again. We're going to do note cards and there'll be canvas painting. So I think those, they're always popular. There's only so many slots available because we only have so many supplies.
So first come that register and buy are the ones who get to participate. So I think that's great. You could take a really cool piece of artwork home with you.
And I believe that Stephanie, she really does a great job, engages the people and I think that if it's something that you're interested in, you have a really great time. And another thing that we had last year that's coming back this year and again, if you have kids anywhere 8 to 15 years of age, they can participate in this Family Life network is going to be bringing back their youth drama workshop. They had that available last year and that's in the same location where, I'm sorry, I may have the wrong location. It's in a pavilion.
[00:19:46] Speaker D: It's in the.
[00:19:46] Speaker E: Yeah, it's one of the seminar pavilions inside the amusement. So the young people get a chance. Like, you know, some of the kids are into sports, some of the kids are into music, some kids are into what all the different things. There are a lot of young people who are into drama. Look, I always do is look at a high school musical and you can see all the kids who are involved in drama. And there's so many pieces to that. There's the people who play instruments, there's the people who are backstage doing production, there's the actual actors on the stage. The drama workshop gives an opportunity to find out what you might be good at, what's your gifting, what's your talent, and you have an opportunity to actually have some dramatic time to play at role play or to do something from a production standpoint. Family Life brings their crew in and they actually do the training. And that's going to be taking place in the afternoons on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
[00:20:33] Speaker D: Yeah. And if you've never been to a Family Life production at their campus, you have to go.
[00:20:39] Speaker E: Agreed.
[00:20:40] Speaker D: The plays are amazing, the food is just as good.
[00:20:43] Speaker E: Yeah, they do a really great job. And I think, you know, it's because I think a lot of times people think, oh, we have to go really far away. You really don't have to. It's not. It's not a. It's a short ride. Family Life Network has been a tremendous partner with Kingdom Mound for many, many years. So we're excited that they're bringing this back again. And I know that you may hear about this and you'll say, oh, well, they're doing that at churches and they are. And listen to those commercials too. But also they're actually starting to run a new ad where they're talking about this particular class that's taking place at Kingdom Bound. So if you're coming out and your kids are going to be with you, you can sign them up online at the Family Life site and register them and then they'll be able to take part in those classes.
[00:21:22] Speaker D: And then one thing that we have that doesn't have to do with the festival that's in the Kingdom Bound world is we're partnering with Project Lab to do an Art Gallery September 19th.
And we're super excited, the call for artists. Because what we want is we want artists who love to paint, who sculpt, who draw, who do photography, anything visual. We want them to be an exhibitor. At our art gallery. It's going to benefit Sheridan Parkside Life center, which is a place that needs a lot of love and care. And we're actually helping them raise funds for a literacy program in that area. And so we are looking for artists who to exhibit, and then we're looking for people to come and enjoy the art. And so that's going to be September 19th at Sheridan Parkside Life Center. There's information about it in emails that you've been getting.
We have a call for entry. So if you go to callfore entry.com and search for beauty that remains, you can find our event that you can apply to be an artist and all proceeds, like I said, you go to Sheridan Parkside Life Center. But we're super excited just to see the gospel presented through a different art form. And. And then we just had a. We also had a. A recent meeting with the Project Lab arts group and we're starting to plan a spring event that is going to be more performance art. And it's going to be. It's cool the way that they kind of brought it to me.
It's going to be a night of worship, but it's not just music. They want dance, they want poetry, spoken word music.
And so it's going to be a night of worship, but not your typical night of worship. It's going to be performance art worship type worship. So that, that's kind of. We're in the very early stages, so if you want information about either of those things, shoot me an
[email protected] and I can get you all that kind of stuff.
[00:23:19] Speaker E: It's great. Lots of excitement.
[00:23:21] Speaker D: Yeah, a lot of. It's a cool time for the ministry. It's a cool season that we're in.
[00:23:25] Speaker J: Welcome back to the Kingdom Bound insider podcast. I'm your host, Kevin Nevill.
[00:23:29] Speaker K: Yeah, hi, Kev. My name is Sean Jones from Toronto, Canada. Originally from South Africa, living in Toronto now and working for this incredible ministry called I am second. Amazing. It's my friend Jeremy.
[00:23:42] Speaker L: Right on. I'm Jeremy.
[00:23:44] Speaker I: I'm.
[00:23:45] Speaker L: I'm sharing my name second. But we're taking a survey here at Kingdom Bound and the vast majority do say that you are Australian. So good thing for clarifying your South African. And I'm a good Dutch Canadian living in Kitchener, Ontario, Kitchen of Ontario.
[00:23:59] Speaker M: All right.
[00:24:00] Speaker I: Hi, guys. Hi, Kevin. My name is Michael Kraus. I was actually born and raised near Frankfurt, Germany, but been living in Kitchen, Ontario as well for the last 42 years.
[00:24:09] Speaker J: All right, See, I love Seeing so many Canadians, I'm Canadian myself, so it's nice to have that, that group here. But you guys aren't just random people walking around Kingdom Band. They gave you your own stage.
Not everybody gets their own stage.
[00:24:24] Speaker F: Amen.
[00:24:24] Speaker J: So you got, you got to tell us what is I Am Second.
[00:24:29] Speaker K: Awesome. Let me do that. So I Am Second is one of the fastest growing Christian multimedia ministries in the world.
And I don't say that boastfully. I just say that because I believe people are searching for hope and truth. And a lot of that is online.
And people are tired of a narrative that's being fed and forced to them, and so they're searching. Right. So we are seeing enormous growth in the ministry.
You know, in, in people coming and looking at our ministry, we create short stories, testimonies of a person's life that's been transformed through faith. Okay, so famous athletes, sports heroes, movie stars, rock stars, and ordinary people just like you and I that have got incredible, inspiring stories that are told in a cinematic experience in a dark room and a white chair. Right. We sort of know they're known as white share testimonies. And these stories take you on a very emotional roller coaster ride where they share of something incredibly dramatic that they've gone through.
And then through faith, by finding Jesus and putting him first in their lives, how their lives transform.
And then they declare at the end, I am second.
You know, so lots of famous names, people like Mike Fisher, Kerry Underwood, Brian Head Welsh from Corn Ra Dickey, Bethany Hamilton, the Duck Dynasty crew. Yeah. So many incredible Christians that are just unashamed to share their faith publicly and then give it to the kingdom. Right. And just there's a power in testimony, right. Where when you go vulnerable and you share how God changed your life, that power of story really infiltrates the world. Right. And catches people. It's people's attention, especially non believing Christians. Like people that are just, you know, searching for truth.
Yeah.
[00:26:25] Speaker J: So where does the name I am sacking come from? What are they saying when they say that?
[00:26:29] Speaker K: Great question. So I am second because I put Christ first in my life.
[00:26:34] Speaker J: I love that.
[00:26:34] Speaker K: Yeah. So it's a place of living from. I'm living as second. Right. I'm second to my wife, second to my friends, to my, you know, second to my enemies. I live second. Yeah.
[00:26:45] Speaker L: It's putting others above yourself, right. Living out the life.
[00:26:48] Speaker K: That's correct.
[00:26:49] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:26:49] Speaker L: And that's the thing. All of these films that you're talking about, they're like four minutes to ten minutes in Length. They're all free, open source. You'll find them on YouTube or right on imsecond.com and then like, we've got them categorized as well. So, like, somebody's going through, say, addictions or abuse or something, you can send them that particular story, and then it can soften their heart. And a lot of people are like, wow, if that guy or that rock star, that lady made it through that, maybe I can. And it prompts a potential of life change. And then if we get into conversation with people like us as God's followers, we might be able to then draw them back to Christ. Who's first?
[00:27:27] Speaker E: I love that.
[00:27:27] Speaker G: Yeah.
[00:27:28] Speaker J: Now, Mike, how do you fit in to the I Am second gang? Where does your story begin?
[00:27:33] Speaker I: Yeah, that's an interesting story. I'm actually a full time accountant. I have my own business for many years.
And I guess I got to a point in my life where I was searching for more.
I wanted to live a more purposeful life.
And these two guys and myself, we attended the same church.
And I just got inspired mostly by the fact that I was ready to get out of the pews. I wasn't satisfied just sitting in the pews anymore. I wanted to get more active. I wanted to serve God more. And I love the ministry because I have my own testimony. And I believe many people will challenge scripture, they will challenge verses, but they can't challenge your testimony because it's your story.
They can't argue with it.
[00:28:20] Speaker L: Well, and actually, recently Mike was able to go as a representative of I'm second down to a major race, an international hill climbing called Pikesby. Why don't you tell us about Pikes?
[00:28:30] Speaker I: We work actually in partnership with pastor Don Wickstrom. He's called the fastest pastor and he's one of the racers in the race.
And we basically did similar to what we're doing here. We represented the ministry, prayed for people, handed out merchandise, and basically represented the brand at such a cool place, like a race that's 113 years old and
[00:28:54] Speaker J: in a gorgeous city. It's Colorado Springs, is it not?
[00:28:57] Speaker I: I mean, I would have never thought. I always love to travel.
The idea of traveling and serving and getting to these cool places, I would
[00:29:03] Speaker L: have never dreamt of the way this all came about. Like, we had a church planting organization called E3. So we're going to equip people with really simple tools, help them to get out there and do evangelism, share their faith, and then gather people and establish the church. And so it was about 16 years ago, all that church planting stuff's happening, and it was growing and spreading around the world. And then we got this idea.
There was a partner of ours who read John 12:32 and he says, if I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto myself. And this is of course Jesus saying, if I'm lifted up on the cross.
But this guy says it leapt off the page like it was prophetic and just said, how can we lift up Jesus and make his name famous now? What would it be? And so we got all this church planting stuff happening, and then it birthed this idea of TV commercials, billboards, wristbands, movies, whatever it's going to take, make Jesus name famous. And that's how I am second got birthed. But this E3 stuff is continuing as well. And so we're equipping people to do evangelism and establishing churches. Now we have a long term strategy in 102 countries in the world. And last year alone, get this, we actually documented in our networks through E3. And I'm second.
699,000 baptisms.
[00:30:21] Speaker J: Like 699,000 all over the world.
[00:30:25] Speaker L: Amen.
[00:30:25] Speaker J: And we talk about a revival coming, but that's revival there.
[00:30:28] Speaker L: And that's the thing. It's happening around the world. God is on the move. There are more documented church planting movements on the planet today than any other time in human history. And so on the E3 side, we do it face to face. I am second. We do it digitally. You know, right now we've got what, 70 million new site visitors a year coming to Iron Second.
[00:30:49] Speaker K: Wow. Yeah. And get this. That's up from prior to Covid, where we were averaging 22 million a year. Covid happened and then all of a sudden, boom. Up to 70 million. Right. So just tells a story.
[00:31:02] Speaker G: Yeah.
[00:31:02] Speaker J: It's like, so people are listening, they're coming back. People hungry for something more.
[00:31:07] Speaker G: Yeah.
[00:31:08] Speaker L: You know, and even in Internet land, like if somebody's on your page for 20, 30 seconds, like, that's great. We're averaging eight minutes where people are staying, they're watching, just transfixed by this. And then if even 2%, click, hey, I. What's next? How do I Follow Jesus? More 200,000 people a year need discipleship because of the videos. Like, it's just staggering. While God's through.
[00:31:29] Speaker J: I love it.
[00:31:29] Speaker L: But Mike's a great example. He's just a guy who's just like, man, I love hanging out with you guys. My life is getting transformed. He hits the streets with us or starting to call him super volunteer now.
[00:31:40] Speaker J: Somebody could have showed up one day and then they're just like, we'll put you to work.
[00:31:45] Speaker I: I would say it started about a year and a half ago, and I found myself becoming very sort of lukewarm in my faith.
And I was going through some hard times, I guess, and Sean came to my office and he's like, by the way, we're going on a missions trip to Columbia in a month.
[00:32:02] Speaker J: And I'm like, he wasn't asking you.
You were signed up at that time.
[00:32:06] Speaker I: I gotta go. So I knew I had to go there. And it was transformational.
I had a big fear of public speaking, and we ended up having to teach local churches in Colombia in another language with a translator, of course. And all of a sudden, I found myself standing with a microphone on a stage in front of 70 people at a church on a Sunday morning at 7 o', clock, because I start real early there because it gets so hot there.
And so that trip was.
[00:32:33] Speaker G: It was.
[00:32:33] Speaker I: I believe in that trip. God took that fear from me. Because if you want to spread the gospel, you can't have a fear of
[00:32:39] Speaker L: public speaking, you know, like, this is so cool. This year in particular is really so fun for me to be here and now to share this part of the story in this podcast, because I used to come here with my family in, like, 92, 93, 94, 95, and God got a hold of me through lots of stuff that happened to Kingdom Bound. He called me to the mission field. I left for Mali, West Africa. I was serving with 98% Muslim society, just figuring out all this stuff that God was having us do.
But God really used my mom. It was my mom who said, come on and fill up the van and let's go to Kingdom Bound. And, well, sadly and very tragically, very quickly, my mother passed away suddenly from a complication due to Ms.
And, yeah, we just had no clue. And all of a sudden, one day, she was gone.
And, yeah, it was terribly difficult. I was living in Western Canada. I flew home for my. I preached my mom's funeral. Man, the hardest thing I've done, you know. But I packed up some of her belongings and books and stuff and I put it in this box and I taped it up and I put rope around it and I shipped it back to Western Canada. And I thought, you know, one day I'm going to open that box. Well, I stayed. I served in Western Canada for five, six years.
[00:33:49] Speaker J: And the box kind of got forgotten for a while, I imagine.
[00:33:52] Speaker L: And then I moved back to Ontario, and that box was sitting in my attic. And three months, two months ago, I decided to open up that box and see what's inside it.
[00:34:00] Speaker F: And.
[00:34:00] Speaker L: Oh, man. And I opened. There's all these books, Kay Arthur Ministries, all these great things, you know. And I found a letter, a handwritten letter from my mom. It was a testimony that my mom wrote down. And I. Wow.
[00:34:12] Speaker J: And you have it here.
[00:34:13] Speaker L: I have an excerpt for you because I was shocked. I read this. Okay. So this is my own mom sharing her heart of what was going on here. She says, I felt the Lord tugging at my heart, saying, you're my child. I felt his love, his presence, his awesomeness. He reduced me to a humble weakling. I knew I had to repent of my old way of life. I had to be his totally. And so I went to my bedroom, I got on my knees, and I humbly confessed. I asked for forgiveness of all my sins. See, God was convicting her, right? My heart felt so full, I thought it would break and asked the Lord into my heart, and I wanted to know more of him. And then I started getting discipled at this the Cell group. And I started going to precept Bible studies, you know, K. Arthur materials. And then the more I got into His Word, the more I came to know my father, God. But then she says this, the ultimate experience for me was going to Kingdom Bound.
[00:35:02] Speaker N: Wow.
[00:35:03] Speaker L: Oh, man. I read this. I, like, started weeping. I called Mike Wang from Kingdom Bound.
It was going to Kingdom Bound with the young peoples. It was a weekend that I'll never forget. There were so many people praising and singing to the Lord. We all partook in communion because the church that we grew up in, we never did open communion like this. So it was amazing. And she says it was so awesome. The presence of the Lord was so overpowering. I rededicated my life to Christ. That day at Kingdom Bound, I asked the Lord to use me any way he wanted to. And that's how she ended up living out her life till her dying day. So it was Kingdom Bound has absolutely been foundational in our lives. So I'm. And now to bring the ministry that God's birthed in us and to bring it here and partner with God. Oh, my God.
[00:35:48] Speaker J: Jeremy, what was your mom's name?
[00:35:49] Speaker L: Her name was Christina.
[00:35:51] Speaker J: Christina. So just in honor of her, isn't this amazing that lives are still being changed? You guys are able to be part of that message, and that whole life was changed, and now she's just, you know, living life With Jesus.
[00:36:04] Speaker L: But I'm thinking this here's my name. My name is Jeremy Dorton.
[00:36:07] Speaker I: Michael Krause, Sean Jones and we are second.
[00:36:11] Speaker J: I love it. Guys. Thank you so much for being part of the podcast and we'll see you at the I am second too.
[00:36:16] Speaker K: Awesome brother. Thank you.
[00:36:18] Speaker H: My name is Savannah Stewart and we are located here. We're actually in Darien Center. We're about seven minutes down the road. We have, we've been here since 2012. So total freedom is the program that we run, Total Freedom New York. There is one located in Florida and we also have one in Manitoba and Canada.
It is a nine month faith based drug and alcohol addictions program. So we help men and women get set free from addictive lifestyles.
It is a residential program. So ultimately they live on property and live, serve and learn a new way of life. So within the ministry and the growth that we've had, we have some vocational businesses. So because we're on 50 acres, we are very blessed with some land. We have a freedom expression. So the booth that you see here is our one vocational business where we can print apparel. We print pretty much anything on anything. We have a lot of contracts. You know, we can do sports teams, businesses, anything that a logo needs to be put on.
But yes, we have the apparel that we design ourselves and sell.
Ultimately we're trying to spread what we do and you know, God's love.
But so that's what our booth is here. But you'll see a lot of these yellow shirts of total freedom around the entire property because there's many of us around
[00:37:43] Speaker J: for that side of the business. How would they get a hold of you?
[00:37:47] Speaker H: So if you go to our website, it's TotalFreedomNY.org and our contact information is there, but phone or email is all on the website there.
Our other businesses, there's a connection through. So you can find how to get a hold of freedom expressions through the Total Freedom website as well.
[00:38:07] Speaker J: But that's not all you guys do. You have quite a lot. What else?
[00:38:10] Speaker H: So we also have an automotive business and to go restaurants. So curbside pickup, it's a Latin American, Latin American grill. So your rice bowls, your burritos, your tacos, salad bowls.
So within all that we call it a vocational business because the men and women who are working in these businesses or serving are in the process or have gone through the process. So they're actually learning transferable skills. You know, some are actually being trained to be an, an auto tech, you know, so they come in the process and they had no idea about cars, but they have an interest and a love for it. And now they can do some actual skills trade. They're here all day setting. Setting the stages up in the. And you know, whatever is needed through the pack center, the worship tent, the kids. The kids tent as well as tear down. So after Skillet leaves on Wednesday, it's a late night, so they don't get up early on Thursday morning, that's for sure. But they're the takedown crew. Something to see too. People come back year after year, so they come looking for us because they know we're here.
And there's a gentleman who is looking for Pastor John, who is our founder, and he just wanted to share with him his testimony. You know, he prayed for him like two, three years ago and has always kind of been.
I guess I don't know the exact story, but I was just kind of getting a snippet of it and just telling him how his life has transformed. And that's what it's all about. Right. So which is. Which is really cool.
[00:39:48] Speaker J: Beautiful. Savannah, thank you so much for joining us.
[00:39:50] Speaker M: My pleasure.
[00:39:50] Speaker H: Thanks for having me.
[00:39:51] Speaker J: We loved hearing about the ministry and we can't wait to hear more. More about it through the years.
[00:39:55] Speaker H: Yeah. Awesome. Thanks again.
[00:39:57] Speaker A: Water is our major challenge here.
Water is very important because it's the source of life with everyone in water.
[00:40:06] Speaker N: In Liberia, only 15% has access to carbon water for the Moravia Central Prison. Prison is now connected to the carbon water system.
So it means that they depend on a handoff well for access to water. Wherever we construct a handoff well, correction officers and inmates were identified and they were trained to be able to do preventive maintenance and also do repair.
Now we have the skills to maintain when a pump has a breakdown.
[00:40:42] Speaker A: Being in prison and then getting a chance to be outside, that's a privilege. Wherever there was problem there, they called upon me. I go there and then solve it. The skill that I learned to maintain the water system here, I will take this skill with me upon my release.
[00:40:58] Speaker N: The WASH project is also one of the platforms that we use to witness to share the love of God with our beneficiaries.
[00:41:08] Speaker A: When I came to prison, I was like, everything was gone. There was no way to move.
One pastor encouraged me, let's go to the house of God. And when I got there, things become different.
I can see many things, what God has done for me.
[00:41:25] Speaker N: But if we talk to you about Christ, Christ will always remain with you. Christ will always be with you. From that Day up to death, though they handle well. It's essential.
But we use that to say, look, Christ is the living water that will never go dry.
[00:41:43] Speaker A: Now one day I can walk in the house of God to tell somebody that it is because of Samaritan Press. Today I'm here
[00:41:53] Speaker G: for having me. My name is Caleb Nealan and I'm a full time missionary with my wife and our six kids for the ministry of Eight Days of Hope.
[00:42:00] Speaker J: And you say full time missionary, that means you're on the road full time. Tell us a little bit how that happened.
[00:42:08] Speaker G: Yeah, so we, we commit to serve between 150 and 190 days a year for eight days of hope. So it's our, it's our only source of income. So we don't actually receive a paycheck from Eight Days of Hope. We fundraise all of our own support outside of the ministry. But a few years ago, back in 2021, I believe it was, we went on our first trip with Eight Days of Hope and fell in love with the ministry, fell in love with all the things, the way that Eight Days of Hope operates and, and really was on the verge of saying, you know, do I want to do this full time or not? And Steve Tyber came on, the founder of Eight Days of Hope, and was talking to us about the ministry of the safe houses, building safe houses for women and children being rescued out of human trafficking. And that sealed the deal for me.
I went, we left that trip and my wife on the way home was like, this is what we're supposed to be doing with our life. And I'm like, I'm glad you, I'm glad you said that because I believe that as well.
Went back to our house in Central Texas and finished remodeling it. We were in the middle of a remodel and finished the remodels and put our house in our farm up for sale. We sold all of our belongings, moved into a camper with our five children.
[00:43:29] Speaker J: Now you said five at the time.
[00:43:30] Speaker G: At the time, correct? Yeah. And about three weeks after moving into the camper, we found out that my wife was pregnant with our sixth child. And so so far, we've been in and through 23 different states in three years.
[00:43:46] Speaker J: And are you building houses in each one or.
[00:43:49] Speaker L: Yeah.
[00:43:49] Speaker G: So everyone's different. We have four arms of the ministry and we participate in all four arms of the ministry. So the mass feeding arm of the ministry has taken us to Houston, Texas, Dahouma, Louisiana to Florida, the rebuild ministry. We've went To Florida, Fort Myers, Florida, Amory, Mississippi, Lake Charles, Louisiana and Laplace, Louisiana. The Rapid response ministry is all over. Anywhere a disaster hits, tornado, hurricane, flooding.
I've been to probably five or six different states with them and then the Safe House Construction Ministry. So we partner with ministries who provide long term care for women and children and we cover their construction costs. So whatever, if they're remodeling, building from the ground up, whatever it is that they need, we cover their construction for them. We bring in tools and volunteers. And I've led my first project this year in South Dakota in April. So that was a cool trip. You know, there's no power, there's no clean drinking water, there's roofs that are missing, houses that are flooded, and there's a huge loss of hope, not including the losses of life that seem to always follow a hurricane. So the number eight in the Bible means new beginning. So we are, our goal is to offer these families hope in Jesus Christ, but also help them to have a new beginning, just start over.
And sometimes that looks different for however the level of destruction is for the families.
Sometimes that's just cutting down a few trees, sometimes that's gutting an entire house and throwing all of their belongings away, but coming alongside of them and saying, you know what? Christ sees you, we see you and we want to bring you hope.
[00:45:40] Speaker J: It's amazing. Now Caleb, you yourself have, have an amazing story about God bringing you hope and a new beginning. Can you tell us a little bit about how, where we could find out
[00:45:50] Speaker A: more of it later?
[00:45:50] Speaker G: Yeah, so I, my, my testimony is deep into the human trafficking.
I was a sexual addict for a long time and yeah, you can see my whole story. You can actually do it two ways. You can go to 8daysofhope.com their YouTube page. So Eight Days of Hope. YouTube.
The title of the video is called Purchased. Or you can simply Google my name, Caleb with a C Neyland N E Y, L, A N D. And the video is called Purchase. And you can view my whole testimony in video format. Yeah, I lived enough in shame and guilt and it was time to get out of that. And Christ was there and he's still there. You know, it's not, that's what I love about Christ. It's not a commitment that you make one time and then he leaves you alone. It's a commitment that he makes to you in return. You commit your life to Christ and then he commits his life to you and he doesn't leave you alone. He sends His Holy Spirit to dwell inside of you and help you. He convicts you when you need convicted, but he also comforts you when you need comforted. You know, I just shared a devotion at Eight Days of Hope Buffalo, our outreach. I got to speak on stage there.
And one of the things that God showed me was God doesn't always choose to rescue us out of the fiery pit.
Sometimes he chooses to just sit with us in the ashes, right?
And that's the God that we serve. A God that comforts and loves and joins us in our suffering, even if he doesn't rescue us out of it at the time. But he wants to be with us in those suffering moments. So the hope that Christ offers is an eternal hope. And that's just something that I want people to know. Life is too short to live in shame and in guilt when Christ has offered full redemption and restoration through his blood.
So if you're listening to this and you're like, I've got a past. You don't know what I've done.
You don't know my story. There's no way God loves me. There's no way that God can use my story.
I don't believe that Christ is a God of redemption and he can redeem your story for his glory.
[00:48:04] Speaker M: Yeah. My name is Diella Ordonez.
[00:48:06] Speaker B: So my name is Patricia Ordonez and I am from Dutchess county and my wife and I run a publishing business and they're so excited to be here.
[00:48:18] Speaker J: How did you guys get into the publishing business? Where did that begin?
[00:48:22] Speaker M: So that actually started with some of my stories that my testimony and I went through a credible system and I had a radical encounter that Reverend the Lord and he said, daniela, I need to write a book about what happened in the life of the education system and how you believed in me. And by the end of that, you stop believing it. And when you write that book, it'll open up doors for you. People are going to be so impacted and you're going to help others to also tell their story. So I was obedient with that. I did the first book and then I ended up coming into some issues with after publishing, you know, the. The gap was so bang, I wasn't sure how to get into industry or how to grow out or what I was supposed to do. And then when Covid hit, I actually aspired from my job as a New York City educator. And that's what opened the business together. It's called people to write Self publish a concatenation testimonies.
[00:49:19] Speaker B: And what we focus majority is like storytelling and that's why we so drawn to Kingdom Bound. Because Kingdom Bound is about, like sharing stories and sharing testimonies, and that's exactly what we are about. And we love to see other people's stories and their pain. And like my wife says, he turns the pain into purpose.
That's literally our tagline for our business.
[00:49:42] Speaker I: Yeah.
[00:49:42] Speaker B: And then Kingdom Influencers is what we call ourselves.
So it's beautiful because Kingdom Band has opened, like our eyes to see beyond our horizon. And we're so excited to see what the Lord is going to do
[00:49:58] Speaker I: and
[00:49:58] Speaker B: the doors that he's going to open.
[00:50:00] Speaker M: And one of the things that's really interesting, I think, is we get to do. I say we get to do this because God is blessing us to do this, is that we all have the ability to influence others. And so, like his shirt came in fitter today's world, we think of an influencer as somebody who has millions of subscribers and, you know, is all this like, level of fame. But the reality is that you can influence someone just by going shopping. You can influence someone just by being in your home. So you don't have to have this mass. The media followed, have a story. If God did something in their life, it changed your life. You had the ability to influence others. So that's what we're recoiting this term. Kiva.
[00:50:40] Speaker B: Yeah, definitely. We started our podcast, but about a month ago.
[00:50:44] Speaker M: Yeah, we started a podcast a month ago. But I think our. Our biggest thing now is. Is the books. And because books, I mean, books out, they outlast. Right. So it's like this. When I go away, the knowledge, the wisdom and the things that I've learned, I can pass this on to my hands.
[00:51:00] Speaker J: Right.
[00:51:00] Speaker M: And it will be something they always have.
[00:51:03] Speaker B: It's about living a legacy, basically. It's living a legacy.
[00:51:06] Speaker M: Yeah. So a lot of it started with my background in education and being an English teacher. So my husband, how we work together, he's more of the one. So I'm the one that helps you kind of write it, package it, do all that. He's somebody that's going to help me to expand it. So he's like Marcus the marketing guru, and I'm the one that like can pull the story out of.
[00:51:25] Speaker J: Beautiful. That's a beautiful partnership right now. You know, God. God puts these teams together and then sends them out to do the work. That's amazing, guys. So what's the next step of the ministry for you guys? What is God leading you guys into?
[00:51:37] Speaker M: So pray for us because maybe this time next year, we're going to be back next year. So our goal is hopefully by next year we'll have an rv.
This is something that we felt like God's putting in our fire because since he both work full time in the business, we have the time, freedom to be able to go wherever God is calling us. So we have a heart for evangelism, and we have this heart to kind of just travel with our kids. They're homeschooled. So wherever God wants us to go and just be the light and just carry the kingdom, wherever these are used to go, we're just all about mobilizing the message God has placed in our hearts, but also going out into the world. It's the ethnic.
It's the church in the wilderness outside of the four corners of the four walls of the church. It's really what we're about, about in this season.
[00:52:24] Speaker B: Oh, we're having such a good time. And the most beautiful thing is just seeing my kids enjoy, have fun. And, like, the memories, like yesterday we were at the concert, like, I literally put my son here and my wife put my daughter there, and we was like, jamming up with Matthew West. We were just all jumping. And it was just such an experience that I know my son is going to remember. And again, like she was saying, it's all about legacy. And so as, like, really leaving something behind is more than just finance. It's more than just an impact. It's like leaving a legacy that they will remember you by. I remember God came to me one time and he was like, patrick, I know you want to leave impact finance, like, all this good stuff, which is good with the Bible, talks about it, but he's like, how do you want to be remembered when you're going down and you're like, being buried? And that put a dent on my heart to say, lord, I don't know.
And then I started equipping myself with the wisdom that he has given me. And I said, I want my kids to say, my father was this loving, caring, compassionate, passionate man that no matter where he was at, no matter how busy he was, he always give me his attention. He always give me his love. Because at the end of the day, when I go under the ground, they're going to remember their memories and the impact I've made in their life rather than the stuff I give them. And so for us, it's more than just books. It's more than just business. More than getting people into stages is helping people to see those memories and how you can package those memories, the toughest memories that you experience and how you can help others have breakthroughs with the memories that you experience, which were bad, but God turns it into good, into purpose. Books outlive man because you can pass it on to your kids. Like, I can write a strategy, like, we went through a hard time in our marriage the first year. And, like, I can write a strategy on my son and give it to my son and my daughter, two books, and be like, this is the strategy that we got out of our marriage and I want you to have it so you don't have to go through what I went through. And you can have a strategy, a Kingdom revelation, an insight that you can pass it on to your children, to the next generation, because they're going to have the same struggles, right?
And so it's all about outliving your life, your legacy, and then when you're gone, they're able to live it for you.
[00:54:44] Speaker M: Maybe they don't have to go through the same levels of struggle because they learned it from us, but if those things start rearing their head, then we have a resource. You have something, you watch someone, one, live it, but two, to put that into something, it's going to outlive us For Generina, we're so happy to be here. We're so, so blessed. I'm so grateful. And God is just. God, it would be so faithful. You know, he just told us, like, just go.
[00:55:10] Speaker J: And once more, the website is Kingdom Influencer accelerator. Accelerator.com.
[00:55:15] Speaker B: yeah.
[00:55:16] Speaker M: We want to accelerate you. It's your job of experience. No more wasteless side.
[00:55:19] Speaker B: Yeah, Right. Thank you so much. You appreciate it.
[00:55:23] Speaker J: Guys, this has been Kevin Neville on another Kingdom About Insider podcast, and we'll
[00:55:27] Speaker D: see you next to those amazing stories. We have so many cool partners, so many cool sponsors that come and make the festival better. People like I am. Second eight Days of Hope. You know, we had, you know, you heard from Total Freedom, which is a huge. A huge partner of ours. They help with so many of our concerts and they, like, they make the festival so much easier.
[00:55:47] Speaker E: They do.
[00:55:48] Speaker D: So big, huge thank you to all of our partners and sponsors that come alongside of us. Obviously, Mission Go is in there as well, but we love hearing stories, even, like, stories about their ministries and how Kingdom Bound is a part of what they're doing worldwide. I mean, when you hear about the things that Eight Days of Hope gets to do, right? And then the fact that Kingdom Bound gets to be a small part of that, it's. It's really cool. To be able to, it really is to kind of be a part of, of the things that they're doing. So. But that's it for this podcast. The next podcast you're going to be on with us. We're going to be talking all about the festival. So join us for that. That'll be out in two weeks.
But in the meantime, I would love for you to send me an email. I want to hear, you know, some ideas that you have for us in the fall. Maybe some things that you would love for us to talk about or do more of. Tell us some things you love about the show. Tell us some things you don't love about the show. But you can email
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[00:57:05] Speaker E: Thanks very much.
[00:57:06] Speaker H: It's great.
