December 28, 2025 • 39 mins
Bart's - West Blvd Ministry - mentors young men, helping those become vibrant adults, and partners w/ local schools https://westblvdministry.org/who-we-are/
Terrance's - Pastor of the Progressive Baptist Church - On the West Side - outreach ministry, dealing with folks in crisis. https://www.livepbccharlotte.com/
City of Hope Web Site: https://www.cltdc.org/
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hi everyone.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm David Chadwick here on News Talk one oh seven
point nine FMWBT, giving to you this radio show that
I've been doing now for al most twenty six years.
It's been a pleasure doing it. In case you don't know,
it's a faith and values program that tries to intersect
faith and values with what's going on locally and globally. Again,
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it's a pleasure doing this show. Thank you to Perry's
Fine Jewelry for your sponsorship of the show. Without you,
I could not do this on a weekly basis. And
I'm so grateful that you believe in me and believe
in this message that I try to bring to this
Charlotte community and expanded radio audience now as I understand
on one oh seven point nine FM, all the way
north to the North Carolina Virginia line south end to
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South Carolina far as well as Columbia. I understand, maybe
even to Wilmington to the east and Asheville to the west.
So it's been great doing the show now an expanded audience.
And what I want to do today is to continue
our desire to raise money for the purpose of caring
for what we call the City of Hope. It is
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six different neighborhoods throughout Charlotte that have real problems and
issues that just aren't seen. They're in the underbelly of Charlotte.
They are in the hidden parts of Charlotte. This beautiful,
shiny New South city growing exponentially, has pockets of poverty.
And what I'm trying to do is expose those where
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we can't help do a couple of things for kids.
We want to help feed them and give them better
food so that their minds can work better. But secondly
to also give them reading capabilities and as well mentorship
so that these kids can have positive particular male influences
in their lives and be able to be upwardly mobile
in the years to come. So real quickly, from the
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very beginning, I want you to go to cityofhopeclt dot
org and Moments of Okature. The church I pastor is
given a one hundred thousand dollars matching gift. We want to
match that and then divide it up among these six communities.
We've had several on thus far, and we'll be able
to give that to them after the first of the year.
And I have every belief, folks you'll do that again.
Go to CITYFOPCLT dot org and your one dollar becomes two, year,
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five becomes ten, or twenty becomes forty. It's a great
way for our ministry in Charlotte to expand and touch
the most unnoticed and the neediest of people here in
the area. Bart Noonan is with me. He oversees a
ministry called West Boulevard Ministry. Also Terrence Groome, he oversees
Progressive Baptist Ministry, both on the west side of town.
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And you, two guys I know know each other from
ministry involvement, but I wanted everybody to get to know
you as well. Bart Noonan, tell us about your ministry please,
and welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Well, David, thank you so much for having us on
just to speak about what's taken place throughout West Boulevard
and the West Boulevard Corridor. West Boulevard Ministry, we are
approaching our ninth year. Our mission is to serve the
spiritual and physical needs the families in the communities within
the west bull of our corridor in West Charlotte. To
the glory of Jesus Christ. I like to think, David,
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we're like a Swiss Army Knife for Jesus. We have
a mentoring program called the West Bull of our Ministry
Stars Academy, where we walk with young men four through
eighth grade. You know, when I say walk, I mean
we intentionally love on these young men. We're involved in
their schools, talking to their teachers and their homes. They
are with us five Monday through Friday. After school. We
do physical fitness, we go on field trips. We teach
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them about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They come to
church with us too. You see them on Sundays.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
It is one of the most amazing things I've ever experienced.
Been back and talk about that later on to our audience, Yes, sir,
and really just living life with them. I mean we
send them to camp for the summer. We take a
spring break trip. This year we're going to Boston. We
go to the beach for a week every summer. This
will be our fourth summer, so we go to the
same beach house, so they have an experience of growing
up saying hey, yeah, we had a beach house too,
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and we go to the same beach, so they're familiar
with the surroundings and the settings. And then we also
work in schools, you know, walking with Harding University High School, WES,
Charlotte High schol w N A Science West Steam Academy
and meeting needs within those schools and also creating initiatives
as well, work with a CMPD, creating that bridge for
Charlott Megper Police Department into the neighborhoods that we serve.
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And you know, ironically enough, we even have a CMPD
police officer who is a mentor in our mentoring program.
And Coach Jamal came to me after one of our
luncheons we have, which is Barbecue for Blue. We feed
the police department January through November at our house. We
have a catered it's amazing, an amazing day. And Coach
Jamal came to me and he wanted to volunteer, and
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I said, under one condition, Jamal, I do not want
you to share that you're a police officer of the
boys for three or four months, because we have speakers
that come in and share their testament and their story
with our young men. And then we had Coach Jamal
come in to share his story with the stars and
he wears uniform men and the boys jaws hit the
ground because what we did was we made Jamal. Jamal
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was a person to them, a coach to them. They
did see the uniform until after they got to know
who Jamal was, and that was able to build a
bridge for these kids, and that can start looking at
things a little bit differently. So we're just involved in
a lot of different aspects and throughout the neighborhoods.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
But you know, like out of Isaiah six, you know,
God said who will I call? And he called us
to those places.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
He called you, well, terars kind of turned to you
and just need a minute. We'll pick up all on
the other side of the break. But what are you
doing Progressive Baptist Church, what are you doing on the
west side of town?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Thank you again for having me, David. Just a brief
history of Progressive. We are fifty four year old ministry
that has been in the ARA back when it was
the old Dalton Village area. Progressive Baptist Church received this
name because when they looked at the community, very high crime,
very high drug infested, very low income, and the group
wanted the community to progress as the church progressed. And
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so the church was based on not just preaching and teaching,
but outreach and ministering to So I've been there eight
years now and I have a philosophy. I feel like
if we can have people in right relationship with God,
right relationship with themselves, then they can be right relationship
with their neighbors. But sometimes that means you have to
deal with people in crisis, and so we do a
wide variety of things. Because we are in the midst
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of a food desert, we have to make sure that
our people have food to eat. So we were very
privileged on last year to be able to give fresh
vegetables to the people who are in need. Again, we
have a lot of families where the grandmother is raising
grandchildren and so quite like Bark, the children are very
much in need. But what we forget is sometimes the
older people need need as well.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Terence Groom bart noon and with me talking about an underbelly,
hidden part of Charlotte, we want to try to raise
some money. Cityfopeclt dot org is where you go and
we can raise this money to help their ministries and
others as well. I'm David Chadwick will be right back.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
I say it out on in the roadway many years ago,
hooping and I would find you love along the Rogain Road,
but I got a lost to time or two. Wipe
my brow and care posh through I couldn't see however, resigned.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
It's straight everyone, Welcome back to the show. I'm David
Chadwick and this is News Talk one oh seven point
nine FMWBT. Great to be with you today. We are
continuing our desire to raise money through cityfopeclt dot org
Moments of Hope Church. The church I pastor has given
one hundred thousand dollars as a matching gift. We're asking you,
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the listeners, to just give us whatever you can. If
it's five dollars, it becomes ten, If it's twenty five dollars,
it becomes fifty, and amazingly, every little bit begins to
allow us to reach our goal. That money will be
used for organizations in six local Charlotte communities that are underserved,
that are poorer. They are often hidden and we don't
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know what goes on in those communities, and we want
to help them, particularly in several areas. One is in
feeding and also giving them healthy food, which then has
implications for the kids, especially on their brain abilities to
concentrate better and to do better in school and finally
also reading, because we understand that if a kid can't
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read by the end of the third grade, it's the
greatest predictor for prison that's out there. So again, listeners,
may I call you to give a Christmas gift. Yeah,
we're two three days after Christmas and we're before the
new year, so you can even make this tax deduct
go to CITYHOPECLT dot org and you can give this
gifts and we can meet this goal of giving one
hundred thousand dollars to these communities that are around us
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in need. Bart Noonan was in the first segment, shared
his ministry West Boulevard ministry Terrence Groom, the pastor of
Progressive Baptist Churches with me as well. I had to
cutch you all because we had to go to commercial terance.
But tell me some more about your ministry at Progressive Baptist.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Like I said earlier, we catch a lot of people
in crisis, and one of the biggest things, like you said,
being in the midst of a food desert is feeding people.
It was a privilege on last year that twice a
month we were giving away one hundred bags of fresh
vegetables to those in the area, so if they would
have fresh food, fresh vegetables, they would be able to
eat healthy. Even now, we receive phone calls where people
are in need, and so we constantly feed them out
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of our food pantry. With this issue that we've had recently,
we just supported Nourish Up. We had to get big
food drive within the church to help support the community
at large, because we believe in building relationships. As we
feed people, we get to know that children, we get
to know the mothers, the fathers, and we help them
become healthier and in so doing sometimes we get a
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chance to commune with them and even help them overcome
obstacles that they're facing with. We have faced that and
everything from homelessness and a lot of our people to
just people who are stressed and distressed. And so when
we deal with our ministry, it is a holistic approach
to try and help people have a healthy mind, with
healthy body and in healthy spirit.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, we believe so much in the church. I pastor
almost a hope and wholeness and that's body, soul and spirit.
And you know what, if your body's not working well,
your mind's not going to work well. And if you're
not spiritually connected to God, you're not going to be
working well in body or soul. So the truth is
they all are connected, and we need to emphasize each one.
But the fact is that there is food insecurity in
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Charlotte is sometimes off and overlooked and not talked about,
but there really is food insecurity in our city. In
there it is.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
It amazed me because when it was brought to my attention,
because you forget what you take for granted. In my neighborhood,
I can walk to three grocery stores and Bart can
tell Stuffy that in our quarridor there's no grocery store
in a three mile radius. I was grateful to be
able to partner with Bart during the COVID. I can't
tell you how many families we fed, you know, collectively,
just bringing resources together. Here's a great resource. But I
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look at people with whom needs I.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Think we did close to thirty thousand meals.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Oh my goodness, wow. Well, Bart, One thing I know
about you is You're a connector, and it's one of
the great gifts God's giving you is to connect people
to other people who can help them. And Terrace keep
on going. Tell us some more about your food ministry there.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
And getting our food ministry up right now, we've basically
been just doing it volunteer. We make sure that people
continue to give, continue to bring canned vegetables, things that
we can pass on that will stay on the shelf
for a few days, because we don't want anybody to
go hungry, and so we want to make sure we
have a supply. We get a phone call I can't
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tell you how many times a day with the family
that needs food, and so we just share what we have.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, and the truth is a lot of people don't
think about this, but when you know publics or you
know the big supermarket chains look at a place to
put a supermarket, they don't go into impoverished communities and
look at their research and say, oh, this has got
to be the place where we place our next one,
and they go to places where there's more affluence. So
the fact you don't have many grocery stores there is
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a big issue, and that's why we need to raise
money in order for you to have.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Food exactly exactly because we find people who not only
don't have a grocery store, they don't only have transportation.
And so imagine trying to catch a bus to get
some food, catch the bus back bringing those bags. So
in our church, when we have food available, it makes
it a little bit easier for our neighbors to community.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And a part of this campaign again Folks, is to
allow Terrence and Bart and other organizations to purchase the
food to have it on hand so that when the
crisis comes, they're ready to help the person in need.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Bart.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
As you listen to Terrence talk, does it resonate with you?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
It definitely does, you know. I always tell people love
is a verb, you know. And our faith has made
completely by what we do and what we face over
in the West Bowl Ofvard Corridor. And when Terrence talks
about crises, it happens in real time. And we're so
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grateful at West Bull Ofvard Ministry that we're nimble and
we can move quickly. A story that comes to my
mind is two weeks ago, I had a mother come
to me with her mom and.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
She was so.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Broken because of the way she was treated by her
husband who had some issues with infidelity and some mental abuse,
and she was lost and she didn't know where to turn,
and we were able to step in and the gentleman
was holding her hostage with his portion of the rent
over her head. He wanted to go out in Philander
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and do what he wanted to do. And I told
her that's one hundred percent unacceptable. That we would step
in that gap and bridge that rental payment for her
for the next couple months and then work with her
to find an affordable housing for her in the area.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
And you saw this, just this weight come off of her.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
And we did some other things, and I think she's
got some new employment coming down the road, which we're
really excited about as well. But the only thing I
told her next time, don't wait so long to come
to us. We need to have these discussions when they
happen so we can work as efficiently as possible. But
you know, I always tell folks too, like our families,
we don't go to the gates of hell for them,
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We go through them because it's in that darkness. I
tell them, we got to get together and meet in
that darkness. And West Bulwer Ministry is going to meet
you in that darkness because as sooner we can come
together in the middle of that darkness is the sooner
that Jesus Christ can grab a hold of both of
us and pull us out the other side. We do
not want our families standing in that darkness alone. That
we are there with them and going to walk through
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it with them. So it's important that we first of all,
I'm sure like Terrence couldn't attest to, it's important that we.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Develop trust.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
This basis for our relationships with our families, because it's
through that trust in mutual respect that love can grow
and blossom. Because a lot of times some of these families,
the moms or the kids, you know, the true love
of what love is and that love that Christ has
shown for each of us, they might not be familiar
with that.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
And we have that opportunity to show that love to him.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
And that is such a responsibility because a lot of them,
like this young boy that came by yes day, Kwan,
and when he was leaving, he turned around and said,
I love you, mister Bart, and I could see that
gleam in his eye, and I know that through him
working with us, that he's starting to understand what love is.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Well. He's got the image of God stamped on his heart.
And when he experiences God in flesh like you Bart
and you Terrence, working with them, they experience that love
and it grows in their hearts as well. Folks, this
is what we're trying to do, is to raise money
to help feed and give hope to young kids, especially
in vulnerable communities in Charlotte. Go to cityohopeclt dot org
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again Cityofhope selt dot org. Your gift will immediately be
matched doubled, and we're trying to raise one hundred thousand
dollars to help these kids in need and parents. Can
you think of a quick story that really might help
our listeners understand the kind of person you're dealing with.
I mean on a regular basis.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
There was this one issue that resonates in my mind.
I came to the church one day and there was
this family sleeping in our parking lot. Young lady and
her three kids, very similar to what Bart said. She
was running away from an abusive husband. The church gat
together and basically adopted this family and helped her with housing,
helped her get the kids in the school, helped her
find employments. I just met with her yesterday and she
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said she just now stopped thinking that I'm still sleeping
in the car. And so when we deal with people
with trauma, those are the kinds of things that we
have to help them grow through. And she's just now
feeling like we will have food. She's just now feeling
like we will have a safe place to sleep. The
kids are just now feeling like we can have our
own bed. And so we have those kinds of people
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come across our paths quite often, and we can't help everybody,
but if we can just help one.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
At a time, like that star illustration, you know, thousands
of starfish on the sea and somebody's throwing one after
another back in the ocean. Somebody comes to them, looks
at the thousands, looks at the few being thrown back
into What good are you doing? And he thinks another
one throws it into the ocean as well, I'm doing
good for that one. And that's all you can do.
You can't do everything for everyone, but you can do
something for someone, and that's what you're trying to do.
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And it sounds to me like as you're looking at
your different ministries, that you are just trying to be incarnate.
You know, we just celebrated Christmas time, which means God
became one of us. In Jesus, that God put flesh
on to come love us and show us His love. Well,
you guys have put flesh on and moved into the hood,
if you will, and that you're trying to care for
those people who are in need and loving them as
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best you can for the purpose of making sure that
they know that they're loved and have hope. City of
Hope CLT dot org. Go there, let's double this gift.
Let's help kids in need. We'll be back with some
more stories in just a moment. Harveryone. I'm David Chadwick
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and this is News Talk one oh seven point nine FMWBT.
Welcome back to the show. If you'd like to hear
this program in its entirety, go to WBT dot com.
Scroll down to the weekend shows, look for the David
Chadwick Show and you can hear it from beginning to
end with Bart Noonan, who is the head of West
Boulevard Ministry. So Terrence Groom is the senior pastor at
Progressive Baptist Church on the west side of town, ministering
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to many people who are greatly in need, especially children.
Because it's just hard to believe that children in our
city don't have enough to eat, they don't have a
place to sleep, and we're trying to help them have
the kind of lifestyle that gives them hope and move
upward in life. Bart, I'm going to turn it over
to you right now because I know one of the
things you love to do is to share stories regarding
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particularly the kids that you're ministering to. One thing I
want to do is compliment you and you too, Terrence,
being positive male role models to these kids, because, as
you've already alluded to, a lot of these kids come
from abusive dads, absent dads, you know, and they don't
have that positive male figure in their lives. And when
they encounter a guy who's not abusive and doesn't beat
them down with his words, but really does love them,
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I think it makes a difference in life. So congratulations
to you both. Thanks for emulating the incarnational love of Jesus.
Talk about more West Boulevard Ministry.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Well, David.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
First of all, I just want to thank my Lord
and Savior Jesus that He's placed me and give me
this opportunity and bestow this upon me and West Boulevard Ministry.
You know, I wasn't always the father of the husband
that God called me to be. Until fourteen years ago
when I surrendered my life to Jesus, and I look
at every day that we get to work with these
kids as I get a do over with children. My
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son Josh was ten, my daughter Lindsay was a little
north of eleven when I got clean and sober, and
so even though I was there, I wasn't always one
hundred percent present. So this opportunity on a Sunday to
walk with these young men is something that I hold
dear to my heart and what we do every Sunday.
One of our coaches, Coach Todd Capitano, another fellow brother
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in Christ here at Moments of Hope Church and West
Boulevard Ministry coach volunteer who Todd and I actually went
to school together at Charles Latin.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Todd picks the boys up for church.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
We have a group of you know, anywhere from four
to six young men that want to go to church
every Sunday, and they get ready, you know, they got
to get get up and get ready at eight o'clock
in the morning, get picked up and they come and
they worship with us, and they sing and they take notes.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
They can kind of jump in here. This past Sunday
when I preached, three of your kids came up to
me as I was sitting there in between services, and
they showed me the copious notes that they had taken
from my sermon, and I sat there and went, oh,
I wish all the people who come here weekly took
those kind of notes as well.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Well. It is. It's truly remarkable.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
And to see these young men grow, like when they
start in our program and where they are now, they
all grow at different speeds, and they all come in
from different places, but to watch how their faith is growing.
And every Tuesday night, we have a Bible verse every
week that we asked them to memorize, and we are
at a place now where we're about anywhere from eighty
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five to ninety percent every week. And I get them.
They're not little short ones either, because I make them up.
I pull them out and put them up there, and
they have to memorize them every week. And they come
up there with so much pride that they've memorized this
Bible verse. And it's really I always tell them, I said,
I'm telling you right now, Jesus or Paul got everyone
in the angels of heaven are looking over the edge
of Heaven applauding you and tuning you, guys on as
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you lean into Jesus, as you chase your faith, as
the build your faith in coming to church as part
of that. So we're we get real excited about that.
And they've all been baptized, you know, we've done that here.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Been so cool to watch them come forward. Oftentimes the
mom will come too and then get into the water
afterwards and say I want to be baptized as well.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
So it's spreading through the whole family.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
And that's what Jesus Christ will do when we give
him an opportunity we open up. You know, people always
talk about brokenness being an ugly thing. I don't think brokenness.
I think brokenness is a beautiful thing. I think we're
broken just right. Our hearts get broken that spot just
so Jesus can come in there and penetrate our hearts
and the recesses of it and grow.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Well. It's only in brokenness can the gunk and the
junk and the selfishness and all of that leak out. Amen,
so that you can be infilled with the love and
self lessness and the giving to others that God wants
us to have. Amen, So go to Cityfope clt dot org.
Folks in your gift will immediately be double to help
these kind of ministries that Bart's talking about, that Terrence
is talking about. Terrence, do you have the same kind
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of fatherlessness crisis in your community as well?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
You know, as he mentioned that, I thought about a
couple of young men that we talked to in our
Sunday school class. One of the things that we try
to do is provide a safe haven for our children,
a place where they could come and they could talk
and they can relax. And so on Friday night, once
a month, we'll have our youth Friday Night. We provide food, games,
and a Bible study lesson. And because we're a traditional church,
we have our Sunday School on Sunday mornings where we
provide for them breakfast in the whole nine yards. And
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as he was talking about the fatherlessness, I had this
one young man who was struggling because his father was
in jail. He was being bullied and he was contemplating suicide.
But because of building relationships, we gave him an opportunity
to talk with someone in a place to vent. And
what really blew me away, Bart, and you might be
aware of this is he wasn't by himself. Three of
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the five young men that were in that Sunday school
class that day had contemplated suicide at thirteen years old
because of the absence of a positive mail role model,
you know, because of looking at bad news, because of
bad circumstances. But I am a firm believer that we
can overcome our circumstances with the right help, with the
right encouragement, with the right resources. And that's why I
appreciate what Bart does. That's why I appreciate what you
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do at moments of hope. That's why we are a community.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Well, we're a team and we've got to work together.
I have access to some funds that you guys don't
have access to, and I've just asked myself, well, how
can I help the West side of town? You know,
I can't do what you guys do. You know, I'm
married and have other responsibilities as well. But I can
help raise money, which is what I'm trying to do
right now, and use this microphone to reach thousands of people.
Folks again, CITYHOPECLT dot org. Go there. Your gift is
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immediately doubled and we can give a couple one hundred
thousand dollars to these ministries that Terrence and Barter are overseeing.
And every time you send a dollar, you're sending yourself.
You just need to know you might not be able
to go to the west side of town, but when
you're sending your dollars, you're sending yourself. So cityhopclt dot
organ is the website easy to give there, let's make
this goal possible. Bart your thoughts, well, I was just.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
David, as you're talking about that, I'm thinking about Terrence
that the families and the children that we work with
and we walk life out with is all these children,
all these families matter. There is greatness inside each one
of these children that we come across, and it's our
job and our responsibility to first of all, to get
that child or that parent to believe in themselves, to
love themselves, to embrace the love of Christ so that
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it could be filled with that love, and then get
some hope going on because so many times people will
just pass through these neighborhoods and not know what's behind
these doors. There are some amazing, incredible families children behind
these doors, and that's who we're going to see we
go West Bulvar Ministry, Progressive Baptist Church, We're going to
knock on that door and go on that home and
meet them right where they're at. We're not going to
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sit there and say you just come by our ministry
or our church and let's have a conversation. We're going
to go find them, and we need people's help to
go find them. But trust me, we're going to go
find them because that's what we do on a daily basis.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Well, that God so loved the world that he sent
his only side, and then that one of the beautiful
stories of Christmas is that God pursued us, that he
didn't let us just wallow with all of our godlessness. Yeah,
he pursued us. And that's what you're doing. You're pursuing
these kids.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
And if as a society, if we could pursue others
in just a little bit like Jesus pursued our hearts,
this place would be different.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Yeah, the world would be different.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
So many homes want to live in gated communities right
now and be protected, and I understand that in some instances,
But on the other hand, we've got to open the
gates and go to the people in need. Because they're
not going to be found unless we go. And that
Isaiah six to eight verse that you talked about when
Isaiah said, you know here, I am sin me. That's
what God wants for all of us in terrence. I
know you feel that way as well.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Yes, in need because again it's funny you mentioned gated communities,
and we have to remind people prisons at gated communities time.
Oh my goodness, sometimes we become prisons of our own possessions,
and we have to remember were always esteem others greater
than ourselves. I do want to share a success story.
We do have a young woman in our church. And
I say young woman because she's a high school graduate now.
Came from tragic circumstances. Her mother was killed by her grandmother,
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and she's thing with the aunt that was present in
this whole combination.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
When it happened.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
This is a couple of years ago, okay, But because
of encouragement, because of people helping her to get through school,
she graduated high school. She received numerous college scholarships. But
here's the downfall. Because of her family dynamic, she didn't
go to college. She went to work. I shared that
because it's both success and failure at the same time.
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The success was she overcame because she had the help
of her community. The failure is she stopped short of
what she could be. Now, we're still working with the
young lady, We're still encouraging her to finish her education,
go beyond high school. But I said that to say,
the trauma that we face in our communities is deeper
than most people.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Really and it's generational, and it's generational. It's generational, and
I don't think any of us understand, especially on the
south southeast side of town of Charlotte to the north
where Huntersville, where you know they're more exclusively beneficial communities,
we just don't understand what it's like to have chronic poverty,
to have tension, to have chronic stress. And that does
take its toll on your lives, doesn't it, Bart It does.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
I mean, they live in trauma, and then you know,
Terrence and I live in trauma as well, because the
things that we experience with these families, and no one
wants to be alone. We are not made to be alone.
And a lot of our families, a lot of the parents,
they feel alone. And that's what our job is to
step in there and be that representation and let them
know that someone's there with them, someone's an advocate, someone's
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gonna walk with them through the trauma. Because they're actually
going to just pick up the phone and call someone
to talk about that.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
They can't know.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
They don't trust anybody. So we got to build that
trust and we have to build. And I always say
that about community that words has commitment to unity.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
We need to get back to that. We don't have
a lot of community going on. We need to be
committed and be unified.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
But we have people down there who want to do this.
Listeners Bart Noonan, Terrence Grooms. They want to be in
that community, They feel called to that community, and we
can help them do so. Go to Again CITYFOPECLT dot
org make a donation. It'll be immediately matched a goal
of one hundred thousand dollars for the purpose of helping
the Brt Noonans, the Terrence Grooms of this world be
able to continue to care for these at risk, vulnerable
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families who have no one else except them, who have
left their own comfort to go to them and say
we're pursuing you for the sake of the Gospel of
Jesus Christ. I'm David Chadwick. This is News Talk one
oh seven point nine FMWBT. I'll be right back.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Georg the leader Recurky.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Hi everyone, I'm David Chadwick. Welcome back to news Talk
one oh seven point nine FMWBT and this program with
my friend Bart Noonan from West Boulevard Ministry and my
friend Terrence Grooms on the West Side of Town Progressive
Baptist Church, both of them doing incredible ministries among the
hidden and depressed and oftentimes at risk kids who are
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in our community. We're trying to raise enough money to
help them do their ministry well. CITYFOPECLT dot org is
one of those ways. Before the year end, give a
tax deductible gift to this five oh one C three
that has as its purpose to bring hope to these
vulnerable comunities, and we're grateful for your support again. Cityofhope
SELT dot org. It's easy to give online and your
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money is immediately doubled in order for us to have
funds given to these guys. One of the fun things
we do at the beginning of the years, have you
guys in studio to give you your checks and that's
going to be a fun thing to do as well.
But Bart, what's really cool is about your ministry on
the west side of town in years as well. Terrace
again a hidden part of our shiny new South City Charlotte.
But you guys have tried to move beyond just West
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Boulevard the west side of Charlotte to go to other
places and help as well.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Yes, sir, last year after Hurricane Helene, we were a
spirit led to Swannaoa, North Carolina where we embraced that community.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
We worked with W. D.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Williams Elementary School and provided Christmas for the entire elementary school.
And then we partner with Valley Hope Church in Swanna,
Nooah and where we are rebuilding a home for a gentleman,
Eddie Ward in Swanta, Noah. And that we look to
have that house completed in the spring of this year,
in twenty twenty six. But you know, in western North Carolina,
in the mountains of Appalachia, there is also a very
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deep poverty that lies within those hills, and we've been
called to walk along with our brothers and sisters in
Christ up there as well. Rained my lovely wife myself
just got back this past weekend where we met up
with the Kingdom Seekers, which is a gospel choir or
gospel band that we met on King Street October eighteenth,
this past October for homecoming for Apple Lazia State football
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and they're raising funds for Christmas for Cove Creek Elementary
and Mabel Elementary. And I handed my business card to him.
I said, give me a call. Let's see what if
there's anything there we could do to help you. And
Rain turned to him and said, if Bart said call you,
better call.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Better call.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
So he reached out to me a few weeks later
and we landed on meeting up there this weekend and
providing them with resources, and also some volunteers from West
Root High School, the football team there that we support,
came up with us as well, and we shopped for
those two elementary schools, Cove Creek and Mabel Elementary School
in Wataka County, and also a children's advocacy advocacy center
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for the Blue Ridge for children that are in difficult situations.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
We can't.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
We heard about one three siblings who share one toothbrush.
We heard about a family who lost just lost their father,
so you have a single mom four boys in the
only heat they have in their house, I think it's
a two room house, was one stove, wood burning stove.
So you know, there's a lot of different folks out
there that God has directed us to help and walk with.
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And you know that's West Bulvardmentitry is spirit led, so
if God lays out on our.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Heart, we could communicate with individuals.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
God has blessed us with those opportunities to love on
some folks in the mountains too, which we're going to
continue to do that, and we're going to be up
in Wa Talker County again this year doing some things
as well.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Well. That reminds me too. Last year we raised enough
money to help rebuild a whole community in the western
North Carolina, Barnersville, North Carolina. If people would like to
see that video before and after, go to CITYOPCLT dot
org where you give the gift. We have that video
posted there and that need is huge, but the truth
is there are needs everywhere and we're just going to
try to meet them as best we can. Again, go
to CITYHOPECLT dot org and your gift will be immediately doubled,
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immediately matched, and we're going to help more and more people,
particularly on the west side of town here in Charlotte,
but also in other places around our area as well. Terrence,
any thoughts from you finally, as you think about what
you'd love for listeners to hear regarding your ministry.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
We believe in partnerships, and over the last three years
I've been partnering with a young lady by the name
of Anette g And what she does is she gets
all of these underprivileged children and provide Christmas for them,
and everything is completely from donations, and she may have
sixty two one hundred year kids that we may come
together and they'll have a good meal. Everybody gets a
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Christmas gift. Everybody's feeling welcomed and warm, and ordinarily they
may not have had anything. And so those are some
of the things that I like about our churches because
we recognize that we can't lift up the world, but
we can hold up our corner, and so we partner
with those, We lock hands with those who are doing
the work so that we can all be better together.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Well, you know, in World War two there was a
common enemy, Adolf Hillary. He wanted to control the world,
and in America we sent hundreds of thousands of soldiers
along with other allied forces to fight against him and
all of his evil. But the truth is a lot
of people couldn't go. But what did they do. They
gave donations, or they worked in the factories to produce
bullets or armory, or they knitted together clothes in different factories.
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The truth is everybody did what they could in order
to win that war. Praise God, we won that war. Well,
we're in a war right now. We're in a war
against the Devil and all of his henchmen and his
desires to kill steel and destroy Well, how do we win? Well,
some people are on the front lines. Praise God for
Bart Noon and in Terrence Grum. You're on the front
lines doing this ministry, defeating the devil. But you need
people back there making bullets, making clothes and doing the
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things that are necessary for you to win. That's what
we're doing, listeners. We are a part of being back
making things for Bart and Terrence to be able to
do what they need to do to win the war. So,
if you'd like to give money, which is a simple
way to send yourself into the front lines, go to
Cityfope celt dot org again. City of Hoope CLT dot org,
and your gift will be immediately matched. Will give these
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monetary gifts to Terrence and Bart after the first of
the year to help them continue to do what they
do so well, and that is fight against the enemy
and rescue kids, particularly from the devil, by feeding them,
by clothing them, by encouraging them by being with them,
and also the reading programs that we do as well
and help them learn how to read by the end
of grade three. Again the greatest predictor whether they go
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to prison or not. We want kids to be able
to read. Bart, I'm running out of time in just
a short few seconds. What would you like to leave
people with?
Speaker 3 (36:42):
You know, we thank everyone for their help, but I
also want to let you know out there that we
are praying for you as well. We are praying for
our city, we are praying for our state, and we
are praying for our country. And I just would pray
for blessing upon everyone who's listening that made the Lord,
our God comfort lead and you, strengthen you and keep
you in good health in twenty twenty six, and that
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just remember we're stronger and we're better together than we
are separate. There is enough principalities of darkness that's trying
to bring us apart from one another. But I believe
as the body of Christ that we need to come
together for our city and to impact our city, one child,
one family, one interaction at a time, in every life matters.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
You know how I was thinking. When I played basketball
in college, I didn't ask my teammates whether they were
a publican or a democrat. I'n't ask them whether they
were poor or rich. I'd ask them whether they're from
the North of the South. We had a common opponent,
and we came together as a team to beat the enemy.
That's all that was important was to win the game.
Didn't have arguments. We were unified and we should be
unified as well, especially as Christians in the church, no
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matter what church were a part of, to help fight
this enemy who is trying to kill, steal, and destroy
our children. That Jesus has come to give us life
and give it to us in the fall day, abundantly, abundantly.
Judomi thirty nineteen. Moses said before he died, choose life.
Always choose life. You wont know where our job description is.
Choose life any way you have a choice between life
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or death. Choose life, and you're never more a devoted
follower of God. Tearns any final thoughts.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
I'll make it quick, David again. I'm a firm believer again.
Back to esteeming others greater than we just esteem ourselves.
My little philosophy is make the next person's life better.
Everybody has a story, no matter where you're from, whether
it's from West Boulevard or South Boulevard, North Charlotte, South Charlotte.
Let's not look at people as blankets. Let's look at
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every individual story and help make somebody else's life better.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
City of Hope clt dot orgus. Where you go, your
one dollar will become two, your four dollars will become eight,
Your one hundred dollars will become two hundred dollars. To
help these guys in this kind of ministry and folks,
wouldn't that be the best New Year's present possible? As
we move into twenty twenty six, let us support other people,
be unified, be together, because we are better together, and
we're better when we serve other people. Jesus did say
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it's more blessed to give than to receive. I'm David Chadwick.
This is News Talk one O seven point nine F
m w b D talk with you all next week.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
Hmm
Hi everyone.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm David Chadwick here on News Talk one oh seven
point nine FMWBT, giving to you this radio show that
I've been doing now for al most twenty six years.
It's been a pleasure doing it. In case you don't know,
it's a faith and values program that tries to intersect
faith and values with what's going on locally and globally. Again,
(00:29):
it's a pleasure doing this show. Thank you to Perry's
Fine Jewelry for your sponsorship of the show. Without you,
I could not do this on a weekly basis. And
I'm so grateful that you believe in me and believe
in this message that I try to bring to this
Charlotte community and expanded radio audience now as I understand
on one oh seven point nine FM, all the way
north to the North Carolina Virginia line south end to
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South Carolina far as well as Columbia. I understand, maybe
even to Wilmington to the east and Asheville to the west.
So it's been great doing the show now an expanded audience.
And what I want to do today is to continue
our desire to raise money for the purpose of caring
for what we call the City of Hope. It is
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six different neighborhoods throughout Charlotte that have real problems and
issues that just aren't seen. They're in the underbelly of Charlotte.
They are in the hidden parts of Charlotte. This beautiful,
shiny New South city growing exponentially, has pockets of poverty.
And what I'm trying to do is expose those where
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we can't help do a couple of things for kids.
We want to help feed them and give them better
food so that their minds can work better. But secondly
to also give them reading capabilities and as well mentorship
so that these kids can have positive particular male influences
in their lives and be able to be upwardly mobile
in the years to come. So real quickly, from the
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very beginning, I want you to go to cityofhopeclt dot
org and Moments of Okature. The church I pastor is
given a one hundred thousand dollars matching gift. We want to
match that and then divide it up among these six communities.
We've had several on thus far, and we'll be able
to give that to them after the first of the year.
And I have every belief, folks you'll do that again.
Go to CITYFOPCLT dot org and your one dollar becomes two, year,
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five becomes ten, or twenty becomes forty. It's a great
way for our ministry in Charlotte to expand and touch
the most unnoticed and the neediest of people here in
the area. Bart Noonan is with me. He oversees a
ministry called West Boulevard Ministry. Also Terrence Groome, he oversees
Progressive Baptist Ministry, both on the west side of town.
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And you, two guys I know know each other from
ministry involvement, but I wanted everybody to get to know
you as well. Bart Noonan, tell us about your ministry please,
and welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Well, David, thank you so much for having us on
just to speak about what's taken place throughout West Boulevard
and the West Boulevard Corridor. West Boulevard Ministry, we are
approaching our ninth year. Our mission is to serve the
spiritual and physical needs the families in the communities within
the west bull of our corridor in West Charlotte. To
the glory of Jesus Christ. I like to think, David,
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we're like a Swiss Army Knife for Jesus. We have
a mentoring program called the West Bull of our Ministry
Stars Academy, where we walk with young men four through
eighth grade. You know, when I say walk, I mean
we intentionally love on these young men. We're involved in
their schools, talking to their teachers and their homes. They
are with us five Monday through Friday. After school. We
do physical fitness, we go on field trips. We teach
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them about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They come to
church with us too. You see them on Sundays.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
It is one of the most amazing things I've ever experienced.
Been back and talk about that later on to our audience, Yes, sir,
and really just living life with them. I mean we
send them to camp for the summer. We take a
spring break trip. This year we're going to Boston. We
go to the beach for a week every summer. This
will be our fourth summer, so we go to the
same beach house, so they have an experience of growing
up saying hey, yeah, we had a beach house too,
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and we go to the same beach, so they're familiar
with the surroundings and the settings. And then we also
work in schools, you know, walking with Harding University High School, WES,
Charlotte High schol w N A Science West Steam Academy
and meeting needs within those schools and also creating initiatives
as well, work with a CMPD, creating that bridge for
Charlott Megper Police Department into the neighborhoods that we serve.
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And you know, ironically enough, we even have a CMPD
police officer who is a mentor in our mentoring program.
And Coach Jamal came to me after one of our
luncheons we have, which is Barbecue for Blue. We feed
the police department January through November at our house. We
have a catered it's amazing, an amazing day. And Coach
Jamal came to me and he wanted to volunteer, and
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I said, under one condition, Jamal, I do not want
you to share that you're a police officer of the
boys for three or four months, because we have speakers
that come in and share their testament and their story
with our young men. And then we had Coach Jamal
come in to share his story with the stars and
he wears uniform men and the boys jaws hit the
ground because what we did was we made Jamal. Jamal
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was a person to them, a coach to them. They
did see the uniform until after they got to know
who Jamal was, and that was able to build a
bridge for these kids, and that can start looking at
things a little bit differently. So we're just involved in
a lot of different aspects and throughout the neighborhoods.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
But you know, like out of Isaiah six, you know,
God said who will I call? And he called us
to those places.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
He called you, well, terars kind of turned to you
and just need a minute. We'll pick up all on
the other side of the break. But what are you
doing Progressive Baptist Church, what are you doing on the
west side of town?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Thank you again for having me, David. Just a brief
history of Progressive. We are fifty four year old ministry
that has been in the ARA back when it was
the old Dalton Village area. Progressive Baptist Church received this
name because when they looked at the community, very high crime,
very high drug infested, very low income, and the group
wanted the community to progress as the church progressed. And
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so the church was based on not just preaching and teaching,
but outreach and ministering to So I've been there eight
years now and I have a philosophy. I feel like
if we can have people in right relationship with God,
right relationship with themselves, then they can be right relationship
with their neighbors. But sometimes that means you have to
deal with people in crisis, and so we do a
wide variety of things. Because we are in the midst
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of a food desert, we have to make sure that
our people have food to eat. So we were very
privileged on last year to be able to give fresh
vegetables to the people who are in need. Again, we
have a lot of families where the grandmother is raising
grandchildren and so quite like Bark, the children are very
much in need. But what we forget is sometimes the
older people need need as well.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Terence Groom bart noon and with me talking about an underbelly,
hidden part of Charlotte, we want to try to raise
some money. Cityfopeclt dot org is where you go and
we can raise this money to help their ministries and
others as well. I'm David Chadwick will be right back.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
I say it out on in the roadway many years ago,
hooping and I would find you love along the Rogain Road,
but I got a lost to time or two. Wipe
my brow and care posh through I couldn't see however, resigned.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
It's straight everyone, Welcome back to the show. I'm David
Chadwick and this is News Talk one oh seven point
nine FMWBT. Great to be with you today. We are
continuing our desire to raise money through cityfopeclt dot org
Moments of Hope Church. The church I pastor has given
one hundred thousand dollars as a matching gift. We're asking you,
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the listeners, to just give us whatever you can. If
it's five dollars, it becomes ten, If it's twenty five dollars,
it becomes fifty, and amazingly, every little bit begins to
allow us to reach our goal. That money will be
used for organizations in six local Charlotte communities that are underserved,
that are poorer. They are often hidden and we don't
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know what goes on in those communities, and we want
to help them, particularly in several areas. One is in
feeding and also giving them healthy food, which then has
implications for the kids, especially on their brain abilities to
concentrate better and to do better in school and finally
also reading, because we understand that if a kid can't
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read by the end of the third grade, it's the
greatest predictor for prison that's out there. So again, listeners,
may I call you to give a Christmas gift. Yeah,
we're two three days after Christmas and we're before the
new year, so you can even make this tax deduct
go to CITYHOPECLT dot org and you can give this
gifts and we can meet this goal of giving one
hundred thousand dollars to these communities that are around us
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in need. Bart Noonan was in the first segment, shared
his ministry West Boulevard ministry Terrence Groom, the pastor of
Progressive Baptist Churches with me as well. I had to
cutch you all because we had to go to commercial terance.
But tell me some more about your ministry at Progressive Baptist.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Like I said earlier, we catch a lot of people
in crisis, and one of the biggest things, like you said,
being in the midst of a food desert is feeding people.
It was a privilege on last year that twice a
month we were giving away one hundred bags of fresh
vegetables to those in the area, so if they would
have fresh food, fresh vegetables, they would be able to
eat healthy. Even now, we receive phone calls where people
are in need, and so we constantly feed them out
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of our food pantry. With this issue that we've had recently,
we just supported Nourish Up. We had to get big
food drive within the church to help support the community
at large, because we believe in building relationships. As we
feed people, we get to know that children, we get
to know the mothers, the fathers, and we help them
become healthier and in so doing sometimes we get a
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chance to commune with them and even help them overcome
obstacles that they're facing with. We have faced that and
everything from homelessness and a lot of our people to
just people who are stressed and distressed. And so when
we deal with our ministry, it is a holistic approach
to try and help people have a healthy mind, with
healthy body and in healthy spirit.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, we believe so much in the church. I pastor
almost a hope and wholeness and that's body, soul and spirit.
And you know what, if your body's not working well,
your mind's not going to work well. And if you're
not spiritually connected to God, you're not going to be
working well in body or soul. So the truth is
they all are connected, and we need to emphasize each one.
But the fact is that there is food insecurity in
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Charlotte is sometimes off and overlooked and not talked about,
but there really is food insecurity in our city. In
there it is.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
It amazed me because when it was brought to my attention,
because you forget what you take for granted. In my neighborhood,
I can walk to three grocery stores and Bart can
tell Stuffy that in our quarridor there's no grocery store
in a three mile radius. I was grateful to be
able to partner with Bart during the COVID. I can't
tell you how many families we fed, you know, collectively,
just bringing resources together. Here's a great resource. But I
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look at people with whom needs I.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Think we did close to thirty thousand meals.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Oh my goodness, wow. Well, Bart, One thing I know
about you is You're a connector, and it's one of
the great gifts God's giving you is to connect people
to other people who can help them. And Terrace keep
on going. Tell us some more about your food ministry there.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
And getting our food ministry up right now, we've basically
been just doing it volunteer. We make sure that people
continue to give, continue to bring canned vegetables, things that
we can pass on that will stay on the shelf
for a few days, because we don't want anybody to
go hungry, and so we want to make sure we
have a supply. We get a phone call I can't
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tell you how many times a day with the family
that needs food, and so we just share what we have.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, and the truth is a lot of people don't
think about this, but when you know publics or you
know the big supermarket chains look at a place to
put a supermarket, they don't go into impoverished communities and
look at their research and say, oh, this has got
to be the place where we place our next one,
and they go to places where there's more affluence. So
the fact you don't have many grocery stores there is
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a big issue, and that's why we need to raise
money in order for you to have.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Food exactly exactly because we find people who not only
don't have a grocery store, they don't only have transportation.
And so imagine trying to catch a bus to get
some food, catch the bus back bringing those bags. So
in our church, when we have food available, it makes
it a little bit easier for our neighbors to community.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And a part of this campaign again Folks, is to
allow Terrence and Bart and other organizations to purchase the
food to have it on hand so that when the
crisis comes, they're ready to help the person in need.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Bart.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
As you listen to Terrence talk, does it resonate with you?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
It definitely does, you know. I always tell people love
is a verb, you know. And our faith has made
completely by what we do and what we face over
in the West Bowl Ofvard Corridor. And when Terrence talks
about crises, it happens in real time. And we're so
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grateful at West Bull Ofvard Ministry that we're nimble and
we can move quickly. A story that comes to my
mind is two weeks ago, I had a mother come
to me with her mom and.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
She was so.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Broken because of the way she was treated by her
husband who had some issues with infidelity and some mental abuse,
and she was lost and she didn't know where to turn,
and we were able to step in and the gentleman
was holding her hostage with his portion of the rent
over her head. He wanted to go out in Philander
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and do what he wanted to do. And I told
her that's one hundred percent unacceptable. That we would step
in that gap and bridge that rental payment for her
for the next couple months and then work with her
to find an affordable housing for her in the area.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
And you saw this, just this weight come off of her.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
And we did some other things, and I think she's
got some new employment coming down the road, which we're
really excited about as well. But the only thing I
told her next time, don't wait so long to come
to us. We need to have these discussions when they
happen so we can work as efficiently as possible. But
you know, I always tell folks too, like our families,
we don't go to the gates of hell for them,
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We go through them because it's in that darkness. I
tell them, we got to get together and meet in
that darkness. And West Bulwer Ministry is going to meet
you in that darkness because as sooner we can come
together in the middle of that darkness is the sooner
that Jesus Christ can grab a hold of both of
us and pull us out the other side. We do
not want our families standing in that darkness alone. That
we are there with them and going to walk through
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it with them. So it's important that we first of all,
I'm sure like Terrence couldn't attest to, it's important that we.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Develop trust.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
This basis for our relationships with our families, because it's
through that trust in mutual respect that love can grow
and blossom. Because a lot of times some of these families,
the moms or the kids, you know, the true love
of what love is and that love that Christ has
shown for each of us, they might not be familiar
with that.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
And we have that opportunity to show that love to him.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
And that is such a responsibility because a lot of them,
like this young boy that came by yes day, Kwan,
and when he was leaving, he turned around and said,
I love you, mister Bart, and I could see that
gleam in his eye, and I know that through him
working with us, that he's starting to understand what love is.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Well. He's got the image of God stamped on his heart.
And when he experiences God in flesh like you Bart
and you Terrence, working with them, they experience that love
and it grows in their hearts as well. Folks, this
is what we're trying to do, is to raise money
to help feed and give hope to young kids, especially
in vulnerable communities in Charlotte. Go to cityohopeclt dot org
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again Cityofhope selt dot org. Your gift will immediately be
matched doubled, and we're trying to raise one hundred thousand
dollars to help these kids in need and parents. Can
you think of a quick story that really might help
our listeners understand the kind of person you're dealing with.
I mean on a regular basis.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
There was this one issue that resonates in my mind.
I came to the church one day and there was
this family sleeping in our parking lot. Young lady and
her three kids, very similar to what Bart said. She
was running away from an abusive husband. The church gat
together and basically adopted this family and helped her with housing,
helped her get the kids in the school, helped her
find employments. I just met with her yesterday and she
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said she just now stopped thinking that I'm still sleeping
in the car. And so when we deal with people
with trauma, those are the kinds of things that we
have to help them grow through. And she's just now
feeling like we will have food. She's just now feeling
like we will have a safe place to sleep. The
kids are just now feeling like we can have our
own bed. And so we have those kinds of people
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come across our paths quite often, and we can't help everybody,
but if we can just help one.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
At a time, like that star illustration, you know, thousands
of starfish on the sea and somebody's throwing one after
another back in the ocean. Somebody comes to them, looks
at the thousands, looks at the few being thrown back
into What good are you doing? And he thinks another
one throws it into the ocean as well, I'm doing
good for that one. And that's all you can do.
You can't do everything for everyone, but you can do
something for someone, and that's what you're trying to do.
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And it sounds to me like as you're looking at
your different ministries, that you are just trying to be incarnate.
You know, we just celebrated Christmas time, which means God
became one of us. In Jesus, that God put flesh
on to come love us and show us His love. Well,
you guys have put flesh on and moved into the hood,
if you will, and that you're trying to care for
those people who are in need and loving them as
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best you can for the purpose of making sure that
they know that they're loved and have hope. City of
Hope CLT dot org. Go there, let's double this gift.
Let's help kids in need. We'll be back with some
more stories in just a moment. Harveryone. I'm David Chadwick
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and this is News Talk one oh seven point nine FMWBT.
Welcome back to the show. If you'd like to hear
this program in its entirety, go to WBT dot com.
Scroll down to the weekend shows, look for the David
Chadwick Show and you can hear it from beginning to
end with Bart Noonan, who is the head of West
Boulevard Ministry. So Terrence Groom is the senior pastor at
Progressive Baptist Church on the west side of town, ministering
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to many people who are greatly in need, especially children.
Because it's just hard to believe that children in our
city don't have enough to eat, they don't have a
place to sleep, and we're trying to help them have
the kind of lifestyle that gives them hope and move
upward in life. Bart, I'm going to turn it over
to you right now because I know one of the
things you love to do is to share stories regarding
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particularly the kids that you're ministering to. One thing I
want to do is compliment you and you too, Terrence,
being positive male role models to these kids, because, as
you've already alluded to, a lot of these kids come
from abusive dads, absent dads, you know, and they don't
have that positive male figure in their lives. And when
they encounter a guy who's not abusive and doesn't beat
them down with his words, but really does love them,
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I think it makes a difference in life. So congratulations
to you both. Thanks for emulating the incarnational love of Jesus.
Talk about more West Boulevard Ministry.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Well, David.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
First of all, I just want to thank my Lord
and Savior Jesus that He's placed me and give me
this opportunity and bestow this upon me and West Boulevard Ministry.
You know, I wasn't always the father of the husband
that God called me to be. Until fourteen years ago
when I surrendered my life to Jesus, and I look
at every day that we get to work with these
kids as I get a do over with children. My
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son Josh was ten, my daughter Lindsay was a little
north of eleven when I got clean and sober, and
so even though I was there, I wasn't always one
hundred percent present. So this opportunity on a Sunday to
walk with these young men is something that I hold
dear to my heart and what we do every Sunday.
One of our coaches, Coach Todd Capitano, another fellow brother
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in Christ here at Moments of Hope Church and West
Boulevard Ministry coach volunteer who Todd and I actually went
to school together at Charles Latin.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Todd picks the boys up for church.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
We have a group of you know, anywhere from four
to six young men that want to go to church
every Sunday, and they get ready, you know, they got
to get get up and get ready at eight o'clock
in the morning, get picked up and they come and
they worship with us, and they sing and they take notes.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
They can kind of jump in here. This past Sunday
when I preached, three of your kids came up to
me as I was sitting there in between services, and
they showed me the copious notes that they had taken
from my sermon, and I sat there and went, oh,
I wish all the people who come here weekly took
those kind of notes as well.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Well. It is. It's truly remarkable.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
And to see these young men grow, like when they
start in our program and where they are now, they
all grow at different speeds, and they all come in
from different places, but to watch how their faith is growing.
And every Tuesday night, we have a Bible verse every
week that we asked them to memorize, and we are
at a place now where we're about anywhere from eighty
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five to ninety percent every week. And I get them.
They're not little short ones either, because I make them up.
I pull them out and put them up there, and
they have to memorize them every week. And they come
up there with so much pride that they've memorized this
Bible verse. And it's really I always tell them, I said,
I'm telling you right now, Jesus or Paul got everyone
in the angels of heaven are looking over the edge
of Heaven applauding you and tuning you, guys on as
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you lean into Jesus, as you chase your faith, as
the build your faith in coming to church as part
of that. So we're we get real excited about that.
And they've all been baptized, you know, we've done that here.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Been so cool to watch them come forward. Oftentimes the
mom will come too and then get into the water
afterwards and say I want to be baptized as well.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
So it's spreading through the whole family.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
And that's what Jesus Christ will do when we give
him an opportunity we open up. You know, people always
talk about brokenness being an ugly thing. I don't think brokenness.
I think brokenness is a beautiful thing. I think we're
broken just right. Our hearts get broken that spot just
so Jesus can come in there and penetrate our hearts
and the recesses of it and grow.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Well. It's only in brokenness can the gunk and the
junk and the selfishness and all of that leak out. Amen,
so that you can be infilled with the love and
self lessness and the giving to others that God wants
us to have. Amen, So go to Cityfope clt dot org.
Folks in your gift will immediately be double to help
these kind of ministries that Bart's talking about, that Terrence
is talking about. Terrence, do you have the same kind
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of fatherlessness crisis in your community as well?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
You know, as he mentioned that, I thought about a
couple of young men that we talked to in our
Sunday school class. One of the things that we try
to do is provide a safe haven for our children,
a place where they could come and they could talk
and they can relax. And so on Friday night, once
a month, we'll have our youth Friday Night. We provide food, games,
and a Bible study lesson. And because we're a traditional church,
we have our Sunday School on Sunday mornings where we
provide for them breakfast in the whole nine yards. And
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as he was talking about the fatherlessness, I had this
one young man who was struggling because his father was
in jail. He was being bullied and he was contemplating suicide.
But because of building relationships, we gave him an opportunity
to talk with someone in a place to vent. And
what really blew me away, Bart, and you might be
aware of this is he wasn't by himself. Three of
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the five young men that were in that Sunday school
class that day had contemplated suicide at thirteen years old
because of the absence of a positive mail role model,
you know, because of looking at bad news, because of
bad circumstances. But I am a firm believer that we
can overcome our circumstances with the right help, with the
right encouragement, with the right resources. And that's why I
appreciate what Bart does. That's why I appreciate what you
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do at moments of hope. That's why we are a community.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Well, we're a team and we've got to work together.
I have access to some funds that you guys don't
have access to, and I've just asked myself, well, how
can I help the West side of town? You know,
I can't do what you guys do. You know, I'm
married and have other responsibilities as well. But I can
help raise money, which is what I'm trying to do
right now, and use this microphone to reach thousands of people.
Folks again, CITYHOPECLT dot org. Go there. Your gift is
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immediately doubled and we can give a couple one hundred
thousand dollars to these ministries that Terrence and Barter are overseeing.
And every time you send a dollar, you're sending yourself.
You just need to know you might not be able
to go to the west side of town, but when
you're sending your dollars, you're sending yourself. So cityhopclt dot
organ is the website easy to give there, let's make
this goal possible. Bart your thoughts, well, I was just.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
David, as you're talking about that, I'm thinking about Terrence
that the families and the children that we work with
and we walk life out with is all these children,
all these families matter. There is greatness inside each one
of these children that we come across, and it's our
job and our responsibility to first of all, to get
that child or that parent to believe in themselves, to
love themselves, to embrace the love of Christ so that
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it could be filled with that love, and then get
some hope going on because so many times people will
just pass through these neighborhoods and not know what's behind
these doors. There are some amazing, incredible families children behind
these doors, and that's who we're going to see we
go West Bulvar Ministry, Progressive Baptist Church, We're going to
knock on that door and go on that home and
meet them right where they're at. We're not going to
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sit there and say you just come by our ministry
or our church and let's have a conversation. We're going
to go find them, and we need people's help to
go find them. But trust me, we're going to go
find them because that's what we do on a daily basis.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Well, that God so loved the world that he sent
his only side, and then that one of the beautiful
stories of Christmas is that God pursued us, that he
didn't let us just wallow with all of our godlessness. Yeah,
he pursued us. And that's what you're doing. You're pursuing
these kids.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
And if as a society, if we could pursue others
in just a little bit like Jesus pursued our hearts,
this place would be different.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Yeah, the world would be different.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
So many homes want to live in gated communities right
now and be protected, and I understand that in some instances,
But on the other hand, we've got to open the
gates and go to the people in need. Because they're
not going to be found unless we go. And that
Isaiah six to eight verse that you talked about when
Isaiah said, you know here, I am sin me. That's
what God wants for all of us in terrence. I
know you feel that way as well.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Yes, in need because again it's funny you mentioned gated communities,
and we have to remind people prisons at gated communities time.
Oh my goodness, sometimes we become prisons of our own possessions,
and we have to remember were always esteem others greater
than ourselves. I do want to share a success story.
We do have a young woman in our church. And
I say young woman because she's a high school graduate now.
Came from tragic circumstances. Her mother was killed by her grandmother,
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and she's thing with the aunt that was present in
this whole combination.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
When it happened.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
This is a couple of years ago, okay, But because
of encouragement, because of people helping her to get through school,
she graduated high school. She received numerous college scholarships. But
here's the downfall. Because of her family dynamic, she didn't
go to college. She went to work. I shared that
because it's both success and failure at the same time.
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The success was she overcame because she had the help
of her community. The failure is she stopped short of
what she could be. Now, we're still working with the
young lady, We're still encouraging her to finish her education,
go beyond high school. But I said that to say,
the trauma that we face in our communities is deeper
than most people.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Really and it's generational, and it's generational. It's generational, and
I don't think any of us understand, especially on the
south southeast side of town of Charlotte to the north
where Huntersville, where you know they're more exclusively beneficial communities,
we just don't understand what it's like to have chronic poverty,
to have tension, to have chronic stress. And that does
take its toll on your lives, doesn't it, Bart It does.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
I mean, they live in trauma, and then you know,
Terrence and I live in trauma as well, because the
things that we experience with these families, and no one
wants to be alone. We are not made to be alone.
And a lot of our families, a lot of the parents,
they feel alone. And that's what our job is to
step in there and be that representation and let them
know that someone's there with them, someone's an advocate, someone's
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gonna walk with them through the trauma. Because they're actually
going to just pick up the phone and call someone
to talk about that.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
They can't know.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
They don't trust anybody. So we got to build that
trust and we have to build. And I always say
that about community that words has commitment to unity.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
We need to get back to that. We don't have
a lot of community going on. We need to be
committed and be unified.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
But we have people down there who want to do this.
Listeners Bart Noonan, Terrence Grooms. They want to be in
that community, They feel called to that community, and we
can help them do so. Go to Again CITYFOPECLT dot
org make a donation. It'll be immediately matched a goal
of one hundred thousand dollars for the purpose of helping
the Brt Noonans, the Terrence Grooms of this world be
able to continue to care for these at risk, vulnerable
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families who have no one else except them, who have
left their own comfort to go to them and say
we're pursuing you for the sake of the Gospel of
Jesus Christ. I'm David Chadwick. This is News Talk one
oh seven point nine FMWBT. I'll be right back.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Georg the leader Recurky.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Hi everyone, I'm David Chadwick. Welcome back to news Talk
one oh seven point nine FMWBT and this program with
my friend Bart Noonan from West Boulevard Ministry and my
friend Terrence Grooms on the West Side of Town Progressive
Baptist Church, both of them doing incredible ministries among the
hidden and depressed and oftentimes at risk kids who are
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in our community. We're trying to raise enough money to
help them do their ministry well. CITYFOPECLT dot org is
one of those ways. Before the year end, give a
tax deductible gift to this five oh one C three
that has as its purpose to bring hope to these
vulnerable comunities, and we're grateful for your support again. Cityofhope
SELT dot org. It's easy to give online and your
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money is immediately doubled in order for us to have
funds given to these guys. One of the fun things
we do at the beginning of the years, have you
guys in studio to give you your checks and that's
going to be a fun thing to do as well.
But Bart, what's really cool is about your ministry on
the west side of town in years as well. Terrace
again a hidden part of our shiny new South City Charlotte.
But you guys have tried to move beyond just West
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Boulevard the west side of Charlotte to go to other
places and help as well.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Yes, sir, last year after Hurricane Helene, we were a
spirit led to Swannaoa, North Carolina where we embraced that community.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
We worked with W. D.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Williams Elementary School and provided Christmas for the entire elementary school.
And then we partner with Valley Hope Church in Swanna,
Nooah and where we are rebuilding a home for a gentleman,
Eddie Ward in Swanta, Noah. And that we look to
have that house completed in the spring of this year,
in twenty twenty six. But you know, in western North Carolina,
in the mountains of Appalachia, there is also a very
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deep poverty that lies within those hills, and we've been
called to walk along with our brothers and sisters in
Christ up there as well. Rained my lovely wife myself
just got back this past weekend where we met up
with the Kingdom Seekers, which is a gospel choir or
gospel band that we met on King Street October eighteenth,
this past October for homecoming for Apple Lazia State football
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and they're raising funds for Christmas for Cove Creek Elementary
and Mabel Elementary. And I handed my business card to him.
I said, give me a call. Let's see what if
there's anything there we could do to help you. And
Rain turned to him and said, if Bart said call you,
better call.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Better call.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
So he reached out to me a few weeks later
and we landed on meeting up there this weekend and
providing them with resources, and also some volunteers from West
Root High School, the football team there that we support,
came up with us as well, and we shopped for
those two elementary schools, Cove Creek and Mabel Elementary School
in Wataka County, and also a children's advocacy advocacy center
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for the Blue Ridge for children that are in difficult situations.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
We can't.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
We heard about one three siblings who share one toothbrush.
We heard about a family who lost just lost their father,
so you have a single mom four boys in the
only heat they have in their house, I think it's
a two room house, was one stove, wood burning stove.
So you know, there's a lot of different folks out
there that God has directed us to help and walk with.
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And you know that's West Bulvardmentitry is spirit led, so
if God lays out on our.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Heart, we could communicate with individuals.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
God has blessed us with those opportunities to love on
some folks in the mountains too, which we're going to
continue to do that, and we're going to be up
in Wa Talker County again this year doing some things
as well.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Well. That reminds me too. Last year we raised enough
money to help rebuild a whole community in the western
North Carolina, Barnersville, North Carolina. If people would like to
see that video before and after, go to CITYOPCLT dot
org where you give the gift. We have that video
posted there and that need is huge, but the truth
is there are needs everywhere and we're just going to
try to meet them as best we can. Again, go
to CITYHOPECLT dot org and your gift will be immediately doubled,
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immediately matched, and we're going to help more and more people,
particularly on the west side of town here in Charlotte,
but also in other places around our area as well. Terrence,
any thoughts from you finally, as you think about what
you'd love for listeners to hear regarding your ministry.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
We believe in partnerships, and over the last three years
I've been partnering with a young lady by the name
of Anette g And what she does is she gets
all of these underprivileged children and provide Christmas for them,
and everything is completely from donations, and she may have
sixty two one hundred year kids that we may come
together and they'll have a good meal. Everybody gets a
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Christmas gift. Everybody's feeling welcomed and warm, and ordinarily they
may not have had anything. And so those are some
of the things that I like about our churches because
we recognize that we can't lift up the world, but
we can hold up our corner, and so we partner
with those, We lock hands with those who are doing
the work so that we can all be better together.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Well, you know, in World War two there was a
common enemy, Adolf Hillary. He wanted to control the world,
and in America we sent hundreds of thousands of soldiers
along with other allied forces to fight against him and
all of his evil. But the truth is a lot
of people couldn't go. But what did they do. They
gave donations, or they worked in the factories to produce
bullets or armory, or they knitted together clothes in different factories.
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The truth is everybody did what they could in order
to win that war. Praise God, we won that war. Well,
we're in a war right now. We're in a war
against the Devil and all of his henchmen and his
desires to kill steel and destroy Well, how do we win? Well,
some people are on the front lines. Praise God for
Bart Noon and in Terrence Grum. You're on the front
lines doing this ministry, defeating the devil. But you need
people back there making bullets, making clothes and doing the
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things that are necessary for you to win. That's what
we're doing, listeners. We are a part of being back
making things for Bart and Terrence to be able to
do what they need to do to win the war. So,
if you'd like to give money, which is a simple
way to send yourself into the front lines, go to
Cityfope celt dot org again. City of Hoope CLT dot org,
and your gift will be immediately matched. Will give these
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monetary gifts to Terrence and Bart after the first of
the year to help them continue to do what they
do so well, and that is fight against the enemy
and rescue kids, particularly from the devil, by feeding them,
by clothing them, by encouraging them by being with them,
and also the reading programs that we do as well
and help them learn how to read by the end
of grade three. Again the greatest predictor whether they go
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to prison or not. We want kids to be able
to read. Bart, I'm running out of time in just
a short few seconds. What would you like to leave
people with?
Speaker 3 (36:42):
You know, we thank everyone for their help, but I
also want to let you know out there that we
are praying for you as well. We are praying for
our city, we are praying for our state, and we
are praying for our country. And I just would pray
for blessing upon everyone who's listening that made the Lord,
our God comfort lead and you, strengthen you and keep
you in good health in twenty twenty six, and that
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just remember we're stronger and we're better together than we
are separate. There is enough principalities of darkness that's trying
to bring us apart from one another. But I believe
as the body of Christ that we need to come
together for our city and to impact our city, one child,
one family, one interaction at a time, in every life matters.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
You know how I was thinking. When I played basketball
in college, I didn't ask my teammates whether they were
a publican or a democrat. I'n't ask them whether they
were poor or rich. I'd ask them whether they're from
the North of the South. We had a common opponent,
and we came together as a team to beat the enemy.
That's all that was important was to win the game.
Didn't have arguments. We were unified and we should be
unified as well, especially as Christians in the church, no
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matter what church were a part of, to help fight
this enemy who is trying to kill, steal, and destroy
our children. That Jesus has come to give us life
and give it to us in the fall day, abundantly, abundantly.
Judomi thirty nineteen. Moses said before he died, choose life.
Always choose life. You wont know where our job description is.
Choose life any way you have a choice between life
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or death. Choose life, and you're never more a devoted
follower of God. Tearns any final thoughts.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
I'll make it quick, David again. I'm a firm believer again.
Back to esteeming others greater than we just esteem ourselves.
My little philosophy is make the next person's life better.
Everybody has a story, no matter where you're from, whether
it's from West Boulevard or South Boulevard, North Charlotte, South Charlotte.
Let's not look at people as blankets. Let's look at
(38:31):
every individual story and help make somebody else's life better.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
City of Hope clt dot orgus. Where you go, your
one dollar will become two, your four dollars will become eight,
Your one hundred dollars will become two hundred dollars. To
help these guys in this kind of ministry and folks,
wouldn't that be the best New Year's present possible? As
we move into twenty twenty six, let us support other people,
be unified, be together, because we are better together, and
we're better when we serve other people. Jesus did say
(38:57):
it's more blessed to give than to receive. I'm David Chadwick.
This is News Talk one O seven point nine F
m w b D talk with you all next week.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
Hmm
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