Ep 112: When God Runs Your Business - What Happens? (Part 1)

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"Do you know any company owners who view their businesses as a vehicle for extending the kingdom of God? Today we talk with Catherine Wilberton, of Patterson's Water & Plumbing, Plays On Word’s Original “PlayMaker”!"

Catherine Wilberton, owner of Patterson's Water and Plumbing, takes us behind the curtain of what it means to truly operate a business as a ministry. As the first monthly supporter of Plays on Word Theater, she shares wisdom gained from decades of entrepreneurship guided by prayer and biblical principles. "I think I'm just the manager of God's business," Catherine explains, revealing how this perspective shapes every aspect of her company. Rather than seeing profits as merely personal gain, she views her business as a vehicle for Kingdom causes — supporting ministries, providing for her family, and allowing time for relationships and personal pursuits like beekeeping. 

Catherine delivers eye-opening insights about water filtration that most consumers never consider. Did you know the water absorbed through your skin during a hot shower could potentially be more harmful than unfiltered drinking water? She explains how chlorinated municipal water, while necessary for killing bacteria, can create carcinogenic byproducts when interacting with organic matter in pipes. This education-first approach exemplifies how Catherine prioritizes customer welfare over mere sales. The conversation reveals fascinating connections between business and ministry. When Catherine supports Plays on Word financially, those resources translate into performances that have led people to commit their lives to Christ. When Pastor Teddy performs "The PETE Play," even young children become captivated by biblical stories they might otherwise never encounter. This beautiful cycle demonstrates how Christian entrepreneurship creates ripple effects far beyond business transactions.

What might happen if more business owners adopted Catherine's philosophy that "businesses should tithe"? Her example challenges listeners to reconsider their own approach to work, finances, and ministry support. Whether you're an entrepreneur, employee, or ministry leader, this conversation offers fresh perspectives on integrating faith with every aspect of life and business.

PlayMakers: Patterson's Water & Plumbing: https://pattersonsqualitywater.com/
Patterson's Gives Back: https://pattersonsqualitywater.com/about-us/we-support
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Look at you, look what you'vedone.
I don't know why I'm always sosurprised, because he always
does it, he always comes through.
Why am I always so surprised?
So now, what I'm doing is I'mthanking him.
So I have my prayer requestsand I'm thanking him for doing
it, even though I don't see itdone yet.

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But I know he's always workingand I don't know how he's going
to do it, but I'm thanking himand because then I know it's
going to happen.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
You're the only thing , you're the only thing, you're
the only thing.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Hello and welcome to Plays on Word Radio, where we
discuss, analyze, work and playon the Word of God.
Thank you for joining us onthis excursion.
Today let's join Pastor Teddy,also known as Fred David Kenny
Jr, the founder of Plays on WordTheater, as he does a deep dive
into the Word of God.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Catherine Wilberton, larry and I joke because we're
the Wilbertons from Hamilton- ohwell, hey, okay.
Sounds fancy.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, that's fancy stuff I know doesn't it yeah Wow
.
So we want to welcome you toPlays on Word Radio.
It's been a long time coming.
This is for those of you guyslistening that don't know.
Catherine is probably our firstsupporter, I think.
I mean she's literally thefirst official monthly supporter

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to Plays on Word.
The person that saw, sheunderstood the vision and she
could see and she had faith inwhat the Lord was doing through
us and 2019,.
I think yeah, yeah, and we'veknown her longer than that.
But sure have, yeah, and youguys were my kids' youth group

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leaders.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Oh my goodness, that's right, yeah, when they
were little kids 35 now.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Babies that are now having babies that are now
having babies Exactly.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Wow, yeah, yeah, I forgot about that Because they
used to chase me, those guys.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, they used to chase me.
Yeah, they just had one of thetwins.
Just had a baby three weeks ago.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, so yeah, those little boys getting you in
trouble downstairs at PastorJoe's church, poor Pastor Joe, I
mean.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Pastor Joe Gratzel.
He was going cuckoo, he wasjust.
We were driving him nutsbecause I would have the kids.
The kids would mob me and justchase me all around and we would
run around and I know I'mpretty sure I'd be willing to
bet that some of the eldersthere were giving him the side

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eye like uh, you know, uh, joe,you bring this guy in, you're in
time out more than they were.
I definitely, and you knowsomething, wherever we have gone
, that's seems to be the mo.
That's the mo.
That's what happens, seems Idon't know.
The kids just rile them up andgive them back, that's it.
Oh, definitely, here, have someJolt Cola.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
The kids always had fun and they always knew they
were loved.
Yes, yes.
Wow, that's it.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
So we go way back, that's 2005.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
I was just going to say you guys just got married,
Yep.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Right, we were young, now I'm old, I feel old.
But yes, we were young, now I'mold, I feel old.
But yes, but yes.
Katherine is the first personthat really said I'm gonna, I
want to be a monthly uhsupporter and just help, push
you guys out and do the madnessthat you do, and I want to
really help and like we are hereright now.

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We owe you a thanks because ofthe things we've been able to do
and the lives we've been ableto touch and impact.
Even this past weekend, we justdid our Pete play, which you've
seen a few times.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
I love that play.
You saw the original of it,yeah, but we did that at a
Christian coffee house in NorthCarolina and there was a little
kid that was up front and he wasI don't know how would you
describe him Katie.
He was trying to help me.

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He was just overly excited.
He didn't know what was goingon.
But he decided that he wasgoing to start interjecting in
the play.
And so I'm doing the play andI'm praying.
I'm like Lord, what do I doabout this kid?
He started, he's really being adistraction.
I can see other people lookingat him and he's distracting.
And then the Lord, I guess, gota hold of him and of course I
pray.

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While I'm doing the play, I haveconversations with God.
So I had a conversation withGod while I'm doing the play and
the Lord calmed him down andlocked him in and I don't think
he said another word for therest of the play.
He was just locked in and Katieshowed me a picture and he was
on the edge of his seat,literally on the edge of his
seat, to the point where Iforgot about him.

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But we were able to go andminister to not just kids but
adults.
I had an elderly woman came upto me and she was just so
grateful and so thankful.
She said, oh, thank you so much.
Oh, that meant so much to me,thank you so much.
She was so, so thankful for itand you know you have played a
direct role in that.

(05:40):
So I'm basically, and everybodywho has supported I'm just I'm
passing on this informationbecause it's not they're
thanking me, but they're alsothanking you guys.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
We always like to ask too you know what is it?
We know that you've seen theplays.
And what is it about theministry that compelled you to
support it and to support for solong?

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, well, your plays are Sunday school lessons
brought to life, right, it'sjust like all those Sunday
school lessons I remembergrowing up with and then being
the Sunday school teacher andteaching them, and you guys just
brought it to life and likethat little boy in the front row
, captivated, because you'retelling a story story, a true

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story, and you're bringing it tolife.
And sometimes we just read thebible and it's, you know, no
offense.
But sometimes we're like youknow, like sometimes you can't
picture everything else and like, like the pete play, like what
peter was actually going throughand uh, in his mind and and

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putting, you put us there in inthe plays, you put us right
there and that's what's so coolabout it.
And it just, you know it, forthe people, um, that don't get
it.
They never read the bible,right, you know you're reading
them, you are the, the Bible,you're reading them, you are the
Bible to them.
You're reading them the Biblethrough a story.

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And I think that's great,because then people are like
what happened after that?
What's the rest of the story?
So it compels them to open upthe Bible and read the rest of
the story.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
Amen.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
At least I think it does.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah, oh, no doubt You're right.
We've had people actually giveus testimony about that.
They're like I can't wait to goback and read and I can't wait
to continue reading and get intomy word.
I think that's for me, that'spart of the.
That's the measurement ofsuccess is someone's life being
turned around and someonegetting into the word.
And the funny thing is that alot of people will nod their

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head when Pete says hey, youguys were there, you remember
the story.
And people remember the storybecause maybe from Sunday school
or they've heard it in churchor they read it some of these
stories and they've been throughthem and so in some way, shape
or form, they are familiar withthe story, as if like, yeah, I
remember that, yeah, I was there, I was kind of there, and so it

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helps to adds to the wholeexperience.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
You know that I wanted to point out too.
There's I was actually lookingat some of the photos from that
particular performance you'retalking about with that young
boy, and there's a point in theplay and and um, I've taken a
picture of you pointing up tothe ceiling, up to the air, you
know, up to the sky, andeverybody else is looking at you

(08:33):
, but he's looking in thedirection where you're pointing.
Oh, he was in it you know, andhe was, so he was in it.
But but I mean that's a pointto the, the fact where you're
pointing, oh, he was in it andhe was in it.
But I mean that's a point tothe fact that you do you
captivate people.
For what?
An hour and a half, but overallyou're pointing them to Christ
and that's why people want to goback and read and get into the

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story.
So we have them for a briefmoment.
But it's not about us, it'sabout the lord.
Yeah, I think you do your jobwell well.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Thank you very much.
We've had a bunch of peoplethat have committed their life
to the lord at these events andyou played it.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
You played a direct role in that know that you.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
Your name is on that, uh, plaque that the lord has
for us.
You know people involved.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Well, it's not me, it's God, it's just God, amen.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
So some of you guys listening are probably familiar
with Catherine and don't evenknow it.
If you listen to the Bridge FMin New Jersey, you've heard
commercials for Patterson'sQuality Water and plumbing.
And oh, that's right.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yes, Well, we rebranded about a year and a
half ago.
Now we're Patterson's Water andPlumbing.
It's funny, we started out in Idon't know 1975.
My dad was Patterson's Plumbingand Heating.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
And then in 1980, some guy at a church this is
actually a good story Some guyat a church we were going to had
a small water treatment company.
And I don't know if you evermet my dad.
He's a big man.
He's smaller now I don't knowwhy we get smaller when we get
older but you know, he was likesix something and 280 pounds.

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He's a big, burly man and itwas tough for him to get under
sinks and crawl spaces.
So, um, this guy at church wasselling a small water treatment
company.
So my dad bought it.
It was just some equipment anda database and he changed from
patterson's water and plumbingto patterson's quality water.

(10:34):
Long story short, I took overand, um, we just rebranded back.
But about I guess it's about 10years ago, I went on a mission
trip to Guatemala with a bunchof teenagers and one of the
young girls there I was talkingto her mom.
It turns out it was this younggirl's grandfather who my dad

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bought the business from.
Wow, so when I see him, I Ihave met him since he would go
to the same church.
I never realized it was him andI said I, I'm in business
because of you and because yourinteraction with my dad so many
years ago.
Like there's so many mouthsthat this business feeds.
You know so many families thathave been involved in building

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this business up and it's kindof neat.
You know just kind of neatsmall world stuff yeah, that's.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
That's most likely not an accident or coincidence.
I I think the good lord had ahad a hand in that.
That's really cool, yeah yeah,it's neat yeah that is awesome.
So, yeah, we uh, you know we'vea long time sponsor at the
bridge as well.
We hear the commercials forPatterson's quality water and

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plumbing.
So it's safe to say you guysare a Christian-owned business.
There are Speaking to the ownerthat is a Christian.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
So if anybody is in the New Jersey area, we'll put a
link for the website and you'llbe able to contact Catherine.
I will tell you this theabsolute best water filter I
ever had in my life and I'm Idon't want to say I'm OCD, but I
am kind of OCD about cleanwater, you know and the best

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water filter I ever had in mylife was one of the filters that
, Billy, let us try.
I think I owe you, I think Istill owe you for it.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
No, no, no.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Yeah, it was Put it this way.
I put a whole house filtersystem at my house and it was a
basic, you know, home Depotwhole house filter and I was
using the charcoal filter thatthey supply and it was decent.
But Billy said no, no, no, no,no, try this one.

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And it matched up perfectly.
It was the exact same size.
It was.
I think it was blue, though,and I could tell it worked
better.
You can tell when you get inthe shower, yeah, and just
everything coffee, everythingthat was there was just.
Uh, it was a night and daydifference.
And here I was getting thedecent one from home depot.
Yeah, so tell us a little bitabout, uh, about the business.

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What, what do you guys do?
I mean, do do if I have mudwater in my coming out of my
faucet, so can you help me out?

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Sure can yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
First, we'll make you a mud pie.
Why is it even important tohave clean water coming out of
here?

Speaker 2 (13:27):
You know why.
You know it's funny.
So many people don't even haveclean water.
We take water for granted herein the United States.
So many people have to walkmiles and miles for water and we
turn on our faucet and we'vegot clean water, yeah, boom,
yeah, it's amazing.
Yeah, but like on city water,people take that for granted.

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City water is clean water, butthen you've got the chlorine
coming through and that's that'swhat you had over at BRIC and
Billy gave you this.
You know, carbon filter onsteroids, you know to make a big
difference.
So you got to be more concernedabout the water that is going
on your body than that's goingin your body if you're on

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municipal water, because you candrink that water till the cows
come home and it's not going todo as much damage as one 10
minute hot shower where yourcores are taking it in and your
lungs are taking it in andthat's actually more dangerous
than drinking it.
So cause, when you drink it,your body's filtering it out.
Yeah, yeah, so yeah, we do awater.
Obviously, water treatment,that's like a niche industry

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under the plumbing umbrella andnow we've introduced, you know,
a whole plumbing division wherewe, you know, fix clogged drains
and leaky pipes and replace hotwater tanks and all that.
So it's it's been, it's been fun.
We got a great team, we've gota great culture.
It's really.
I'm really blessed.

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I am really really blessed.
God has answered so manyprayers in that business that I
prayed decades ago and God hasanswered them.
And it's just that persistency.
There's been plenty of timeswhen, you know, I was sweating
buckets and wondering when God'sgoing to come through, but you
know, he always has a plan, andwhen I look back I'm like, oh,

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look at you, look at you, lookwhat you've done.
I don't know why I'm always sosurprised, because he always
does it, he always comes through.
Why am I always so surprised?
So now what I'm doing is I'mthanking him.
So I have my prayer requestsand I'm thanking him for doing
it, even though I don't see itdone yet, but I know he's always
working and I don't know howhe's going to do it, but I'm

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thanking him.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
An attitude of gratitude, yes, thankfulness.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, because then I know it's going to happen.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
I hope everybody listening can hear that this is
a business owner that is talkingabout faith and incorporating
the Lord in her business.
That's just a rarity.
You don't hear that a lot.
I'm sure there are businessowners that are full of faith
and everything but the Lordbeing incorporated in the
business is absolutely fantastic.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
So some of the points that you were talking about
about that clean water andspecifically about the shower,
and I really didn't think aboutthat.
I feel like a lot of peopledon't know this right.
A lot of people don't know it.
How do you get people to know?

Speaker 3 (16:15):
There's a follow-up question as far as what, what
are you finding like toxins andstuff like that?

Speaker 2 (16:19):
but answer the first question so townships chlorinate
the water they have to,otherwise we'd all have
heebie-jeebies you know, likethat's a good thing, chlorine is
a good thing.
And then there's organic mattergrowing in the pipes and you
know, just junk, you know.
And that's not a bad thingeither.
But when the two hang outtogether it's a real bad

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marriage.
And trihalomethanes, which isdisinfection byproducts, is the
byproduct of disinfection, canform.
It doesn't mean it's going toform, but there's a chance it
can form and that is thecarcinogen.
That's the culprit.
It's the two of them togethermerge.
That's the culprit.
It's funny.
New Jersey 101.5, remember thatradio station?

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Had some guy their regular guyin the morning talking, and
somebody called me up this is acouple of years ago and says oh,
you got to call in.
They're talking about the waterissue in New Jersey.
You got to call in.
So I think I was on hold forlike an hour and a half waiting
for my time.
I had like two minutes not eventwo minutes to talk and I and
that's what I said you're soworried about the quality of the

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water that you're drinking andthere's so many easy fixes.
You know you have people thatlive in apartments that can't
have a system installed.
You know you can.
First of all, a Brita filter.
I'm all about that, that's justcarbon.
A refrigerator filter it's justcarbon.
Carbon's wonderful, so use thatto drink the water.
And then your shower head.
You could get it for 30 to 60bucks on Amazon a replaceable

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shower head that has a filter inthere.
It's so world of difference.

Speaker 4 (17:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
It's the world of difference.
You don't have to have thewhole house system installed
just and you replace it everyfour to six months.
Right, you'll feel it in thewater when it needs to be
replaced.
I'm more.
Change it before you feel it.
Um, just get on a schedule, butit's so.
That's what we just want toeducate people.
Whether they use us or not, wedon't care, because god always
provides.
We just want to be thateducation to people about what's

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in their water and easy thingsthat they can do like.
There's no reason anybodyshouldn't have some kind of
filtration in their housebecause it's cheap enough.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
The skin is the largest organ.
It sure is For the body.
It actually takes things in, itabsorbs.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
And most people shower with clothes off.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Yeah, right, yeah, so there's no filtration With hot
water.
So your pores are opening up andpotentially carcinogens and
other problems.
I know there was.
It was on the ballot down herein North Carolina.
There was a I don't want to saya referendum, but somebody was
running and their whole campaignwas let's fix the water, let's

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get clean water, vote for cleanwater.
And I was like, oh, I need toget Catherine down here because
I don't know what's going ondown here.
And I have the fridge filterand the Brita filter and the
Brita filter and somethinghappened to that.
It had like an electric thingon it that would tell you when
it was overdue.

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And you can tell my gut canactually tell when the filter's
starting to go because it startsto let stuff through that it
probably shouldn't.
And I'm like, oh, I don't feelso good, I just drank a bunch of
water.
It's not like I'm drinking moldor anything, but you can tell
the difference.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
You get used to yeah, you get used to your water and
when you drink water that youcan smell and taste the chlorine
.
It's just so objectionable.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
Not good and I I know that my old doctor in Bricktown
he used to have on his wall.
He had on the wall thedifferent municipalities that
actually put the fluoride in thewater Fluoride.

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But there was a whole bunch ofother towns that did put a lot.
I think it was Bobby Kennedywas talking about it saying that
we don't need to fluorinate thewater because you're getting
enough from your toothpaste.
We're over fluoriding peopleand that's not a good thing
either.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
That's not good at all that causes all kinds of
issues.
So just to have a consciousnessof of water, it's not so you're
saying it's just as important tohave a, to have either the
whole house filter or a showerfilter a shower filter
absolutely yeah, yeah, not justthink you're good to go because

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you have a fridge filter yeah,yeah, I would actually direct
people, if they only had 100hundred bucks, to spend dude in
the shower first, really, justyeah, absolutely yeah, and deal
with the drinking the water, butthat, yeah, that's more
important than the water you'redrinking I know, it sounds goofy
, really this is goofy but it'smore important to protect the

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biggest organ of your body.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Yeah, you know something?
I know that.
I know some people that believethat it was the is either the
chlorine or the fluoride.
Something in the water wascausing skin rashes for them.
They got the whole house filterand the rashes and stuff
started going away.
I think I think people aresaturated with stuff like why
can't we just have h2o?
Remember?

Speaker 2 (21:22):
drinking out of the garden hose yeah, it has
interesting taste, but um Idon't.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
I don't think it was, don't think it was going to
kill us.
So, yeah, we're going to put a,we will put a link.
This is kind of an infomercialfor patterson's plumbing and
quality water.
Did I get that right?

Speaker 2 (21:42):
patterson's water and plumbing water and plumbing
that's Patterson's Water, andPlumbing Water and Plumbing.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
That's it, patterson's Water and Plumbing.
After being such a longtimesupporter of Plays on Word, it's
the least we can do is letother people know that you are
even out there.
If they just call you, what doyou do?
Do you come out and test thewater, or do you?

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yeah, we'll come out, we'll test the water.
We do free plumbing assessments, yeah, plumbing assessments,
yeah.
We just give a lot, lots ofinformation, yeah, lots of
information, um, and then wejust uh, inform them on the best
decision for their water and,if they have plumbing issues,
for their plumbing, becausewater directly affects your
plumbing too.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
if you've got water issues, sometimes you got
plumbing issues too, becauseyour plumbing system how about
hard waters, a situation whereyou get calcium, or what is a
build up of uh, minerals andcalcium build up inside the
pipes.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
It causes dry skin, dry hair.
Well, it um.
Clogs pipes, yes.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
Clogs valves, yeah I had that problem early on in my
house and it, uh, it caused agreat deal of grief with my
boiler and, yeah, even my hotwater tank.
Yes, the every it just I waslike what's going on and come to
find out that I had thatcalcium build up, and so I wish
I would have known to call youthen.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
So just in thinking about Catherine.
You've always had such anentrepreneurial spirit about you
and you know I love you as asister in Christ and I've always
been impressed with yourbusiness approach to kind of
life and I just wanted to know,do you want to talk a little bit
about?
You know your thoughts ofyou're probably one of the

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businesses that I've seen thatgives back so much to different
ministries and charities, and Iremember talking to you one time
about it and you just have thisphilosophy of wanting to.
You're in business, yes, butyou want to take part of that
and be able to give back.
And I just thought you knowmaybe you'd like to expound on
that a little bit.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
You know, when you say it's my business, I think
I'm just the manager of God'sbusiness.
Like, I think it's God'sbusiness and he's just put me in
charge of these wonderfulpeople and the money that comes
in and the money that goes out.
So I just pray all the time forwisdom on where that money goes
in and out.
And yeah, I mean I'm making aliving personally and

(23:56):
everybody's paid and my vendorsare paid and yeah, I just feel
like businesses should tithe.
You know, I think that'sbiblical.
Some people say, no, you know,like the person, the owner,
should tithe, but I thinkbusinesses should tithe, because
what are we in business for ifnot kingdom causes?

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A friend said that once.
Like that it's all aboutkingdom causes and to me the
business is just a vehicle.
It's a vehicle for lots ofthings.
You know, I got a big family andthese grandkids and all this
joy in my life, so the businessis a vehicle for me to, you know
, spend more time with them.
You know I'm not, I'm notpunching a clock, I'm home right

(24:41):
now, which is nice, and youknow, the business is just a
vehicle for me to kind of do thethings I want to do in life.
I'm a beekeeper and I have timeto do that and a gardener and
you know my new marriage.
But it's also a vehicle to dothings for God.
You know to lean into that andhelp these ministries.
You know that.

(25:01):
You know there's a lot ofministries.
They such talent like you guysand they just need funding.
God didn't give me any talent.
I can barely tie my shoes.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Well, your attitude and your approach has had a
direct impact on a multitude ofpeople Just through the Place.
On Word ministry alone.
You've been able to—and we areextremely grateful for that, for
what you've done—.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
I'm grateful for you guys.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
Listening to the Lord and just allowing that.
And for those of you guys thatdon't know, on our banjo song
video we had one of thecelebrities in that song.
In that video is Catherine'sgrandson.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Yeah, yeah, chandler.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
He's going to be 12 this year.
Oh, my goodness, wow, amazing.
He plays Teddy Jr, basicallythe younger version version of
me.
It's the banjo song, or I'vegot a love maybe we'll link that
too well, yeah, we'll put thelink up there.
You'll get a chance to see him.
I think he's.
I think did he just lose atooth at the time or something,

(26:05):
or?

Speaker 2 (26:06):
something like that yeah since then he's cut all his
hair off.
He doesn't have all that crazyhair anymore.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
So he's a celebrity of that, uh, of that of that
video.
We're grateful that you loanedhim to us for that.
Now I have a question, thoughyou you mentioned beekeeping, so
yeah, yeah, let me put a pin inthat for a second.
I had a question, anotherquestion about the business what
is your radius of working?
Because there are peoplelistening to this probably all

(26:32):
over the place.
How far do you go?

Speaker 2 (26:37):
We go about an hour.
So it's Ocean, monmouth,burlington, mercer, a little bit
of Middlesex, a little bit ofAtlantic counties, so Central
Jersey.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
I would say Central Jersey.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
We cover all that area.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
And if someone had a question about water in general,
they could probably call us.
Just give us a call.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
They can call the office.
We've got great educated people.
If they need more information,just say can I talk to Catherine
about this?

Speaker 3 (27:03):
Amen, maybe they're in California or something, and
they're like hey, North Carolina.
Hey, yeah, North Carolina.
Hey, can I get a shower, one ofthose shower filters that you
were talking about?
I'll pay extra.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
So it's funny.
We have a lot of customers whomove out of state and they call
us for advice, like when they'reready to buy a water treatment
system.
They're like, all right, thisis the quote I got.
Can you look it over?
Can you tell?
Tell me if I need this?
This is my water test results.
So it's yeah.
Yeah, we're, just like I said,here to educate.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
I think we might have to take her business national.
I think we're just going tohave to buy her a fleet after
this episode, because she'sprobably going to have people
Want to get more busy.
She's going to have peoplecalling from California.
Hey, can I get that filter?

Speaker 1 (27:56):
That's funny.
You know, I think this isimportant because I love, as a
Christian, I love to see who theother Christian business owners
and what other businesses areChristian-based or have a
Christian background, because,you know, first and foremost, we
always pray for you anyway.
But I want to be able to prayfor those businesses and I want
to be able to support, if I can,in any way.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
Yeah, I bet you the apostle Paul, no doubt the
apostle Paul would be down withthe idea of supporting other
Christian owned businesses thatare better run by the brothers
and sisters that are, you know,supporting them, because he
understood that by supportingthem you're supporting them,
You're supporting ministry.
You know he was a tent makerhimself, and so people that
needed tents in Corinth orEphesus, you know they should go

(28:37):
to Paul or Aquila and Priscillato get the tents.
It just makes sense there yougo.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
One supports the other.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
Amen, you know so I like the mentality of that.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
Thank you.
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