February 3, 2025 • 32 mins
Learn more about how LifePlan helps people in southwest Michigan and Northern Indiana live a hope-filled life by offering parenting, relationship support, and pregnancy care. In this episode, Wolf Financial Advisory Chief Executive Officer, Rob Wolf, sits down with Lifeplan Executive Director, Lyndon Azcuna, to discuss how LifePlan’s team of volunteers uses a gospel-centered approach to change hearts and lives in our community.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Past performance does notguarantee future results.
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USA Financial Securities arenot affiliated entities.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Wolf Financial Advisory.
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Speaker 1 (00:44):
Advisory.
This is the Wolf FinancialPodcast.
Here is your host, Rob Wolf.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Good day everyone.
This is Rob Wolf with the WolfFinancial Podcast, and today
it's my honor to have LyndonAscuna, with the Executive
Director of Life Plan, joiningus today.
Lyndon, welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Thank you, Rob.
Thank you for opening thisopportunity for Life Plan.
I'm glad to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Absolutely so, lyndon .
You have quite a unique storyyourself as far as where you
came from, where you lived, whatbrought you to Life Plan, so
why don't you share with us alittle bit about what your life
story?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
looks like.
How far do you want me to goback, Rob?
Let's go back to the day, momand dad had a little too much to
drink.
No, I'm just kidding.
Well, I'm a Filipino.
I was born in the Philippines,really a small province in the
Philippines called Pagadian City, and I'm the youngest of six.
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Interestingly, within 11 yearsspan, five of my brothers and
sisters born and 11 years laterI followed.
Interestingly, so oops, kind ofthing.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
So there was a little whining involved?
Yeah, probably there was.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Anyway, I was born in the Philippines, Interestingly
at the age of five probablythere was.
Anyway, I was born in thePhilippines.
Interestingly, at the age offive my father died, so I didn't
have a father figure growing upand as you see my life evolve
you'll see how that impacted meand so forth.
My brothers and sisters came toAmerica early.
You know, being in thePhilippines was easier, much
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easier back then, compared tothe immigration laws now.
But anyway, at the age of sixmy mom and I came to America and
elementary high school, I grewup in America Chicago, miami,
florida and we were a Protestantfamily, but not a Christian
family necessarily.
We were churchgoers.
At the age of 15, my mom diedtoo but, being in an Asian
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family, my siblings took care ofme.
They were a lot older so theytook care of me.
And at the age of 15, again, mymom died.
But the church that followed upmy family in the Philippines,
that was a Baptist church andthat was the church that
followed up my sister in thePhilippines, that was a Baptist
church and that was the churchthat followed up my sister after
the wake.
And that's when my familybecame a Christian, because when
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we became a Christian family,started going to church.
But I was here in America, wewere still churchgoers and after
college, my you know, being anAsian, my family always said get
a good education and then, whenyou get a good education, you
get a good job and you'll behappy.
If you want to be happy, get agood education, make money.
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So I bought into that.
I went to the Philippines for myundergrad, med school and then.
But I stayed with my sister whowas a Christian, and I became a
Christian after I went to campand so I grew in the Lord.
I felt God.
A year later I felt God'scalling to the ministry.
If any man wished to come afterme, let him deny himself.
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Pick up his cross daily, followme, luke 9, 27.
And then I felt God's calling.
So I went to the ministry.
I went to a Bible school in thePhilippines and if I didn't
come back for grad school Iwould be a pastor there honestly
.
So grew in the Lord.
After graduating I felt God'scalling to study further.
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I applied to grad schools inAmerica and Wheaton Grad School
followed up the most.
I went there and, mostimportant thing, I met my wife
there.
We've been married for 32 yearsand we have six kids to prove
it, ages 32 to 15.
My youngest is 15.
Four girls, then two boys atthe end and then now we have
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four grandchildren.
But I want to tell yousomething.
Remember a lot of brokenness.
Father died when I was five.
Mother died when I was 15.
And you know Asians andFilipinos and my family.
You know we didn't know how tohandle problems and I thought
this was a characteristic of myfamily until I realized it's
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everybody's characteristic.
We used to hide things underthe carpet.
You know, didn't deal withthings, didn't deal with my
father's death.
But seven years into my marriage, I just had an early kind of
midlife crisis and you know thetendency is you blame the
closest person, your wife, andso I walked out of my marriage
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for three months.
I walked out of my marriage forthree months Now take note,
this was undergrad Bible, gradschool Bible, lots of ministry
experience Walked out of mymarriage.
I didn't know how to be married, I didn't know how to deal with
issues, and you think the grassis greener on the other side
and you still have to mow it.
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I always say, but three monthsinto my walking away and I had
two kids at that time already, Ialready had two kids, seven
years of my marriage I don'tknow if you know, there's that
seven-year itch, they say and sothe Holy Spirit got a hold of
me and I repented and I cameback.
But, interesting, when I cameback that was the fascinating
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thing I said to myself whatbroke in me.
There's something broken in meBecause I had all this ministry
experience Bible, a lot of headknowledge and I said what broke
in me and I started addressingmyself.
I started addressing thebrokenness in me and I knew
there were a lot of things thatwere broken.
I didn't know how to deal withthings, I didn't have good
examples of marriage, but therewas just a lot of broken.
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And then you know, honestly,rob, this was the turning point.
I started got rid of media, gotrid of music that were not
Christian, and I read the bookof Romans, one verse at a time
for the next three and a halfyears, and I really dissected.
I understood every verse andeverything, and every verse,
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every phrase, every meaning, andI took.
It took me three and a halfyears and during that three and
a half years I shut ministry off.
I didn't.
I went to a secular work andstarted over again and kind of
my life went home instead ofbeing distracted and I could
tell you that was the turningpoint of my life.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
So why Romans?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Because I knew it was the greatest book in the Bible,
it's the pinnacle of Paul'swriting and I knew, and that's
what made me really deep in mywalk with God I shut everything
off for a year, started dealingwith my anger issues, my
brokenness inside of me, and Istarted figuring that out and,
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interestingly, just fast forward, what I do with men.
I am working on ananti-pornography program
curriculum that'sChrist-centered, that helps men
really address their brokenness,and I work with men who have
brokenness and you know whatSelf-awareness, not
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understanding how the past hasimpacted their present.
In other words, we buy into alot of the lies of the past or
what we grew up with, or theemptiness that was broken there.
So, anyway, I'll say I'll talkabout that later.
So that's my life.
My wife and I've been marriednow for 32 years, like I said,
six children, four grandchildren.
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Obviously it's not perfect, butwe know how to deal with it now
and I know how to deal with it.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
And so all these past life experiences have prepared
you for your present positionExecutive Director at Life Plan.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
So how have you brought those life experiences
into Life Plan, life Plan'soverall mission?
Yes, yes.
And what is it that you all aretrying to do there?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yes, how about if I even give you a preliminary
before that?
How about if I even give you apreliminary before that?
Because of that brokenness, ofmy father's absence, I've been
working for 32 years in innercity ministry.
I went to a Christian communitycenter in Chicago working with
the poverty.
In fact, my first job out ofgrad school was a big buddy
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program for an inner city kid.
Then I went to Awana.
I was in Awana for Awana ClubsInternational biggest children's
ministry.
I was there for 12 years.
Eight of the 12 years I didprison work.
I was in Angola prison thebloodiest prison in this country
in the 60s, and I worked thereand I established an event for
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children to be reconciled withtheir father and I created a
fathering program called MalachiDads that's still running today
.
After I left because of mybrokenness of an absent father
and coming home, being a fatherto my children, actually, that
night that I repented, I wenthome.
I was out of the house forthree months.
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I went home and I saw my girlsleeping and the Holy Spirit
spoke to me and said this is thesame pain you didn't want your
children to experience that Iexperienced with having an
absent father.
Children to experience that Iexperienced with having an
absent father.
So that was the pillar or thestraw that broke the cabinet
back for me to come home andthat I taught fathers in prison
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how to be a godly father,rescuing their children from the
cycle of prison, recycle ofprison coming back to prison or
kids going to prison.
Anyway, I was doing that.
Then, coming to this area, lifePlan the reason I started in
Life Plan my in-laws lived herebecause I lost both of them.
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I married into a great family.
We used to be in Chicago.
Then we visited them in Grangerlike 10 times a year all the
holidays and we decided to movehere to take care of them as
they get older.
And within two years aftermoving here, they both passed
away and we decided are we goingto stay?
And that's where I gotconnected to Life Plan.
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So I've been in Life Plan for10 years as the executive
director.
Do you want me to continue?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Absolutely.
I love this.
I don't have to do any workhere.
This is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
So Life Plan again.
I've been there for 10 years.
I would say first thing that Ichanged in Life Plan was the
mission statement.
So how do you know anorganization by its mission
statement and the missionstatement of Life Plan.
We exist now.
We exist to spread the gospelby helping people choose life
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and live a hope-filled life.
Let me unpack that.
I made sure the centerpiece wasthe first five words.
We exist to spread the gospel.
I believe in being in mybrokenness, seeing the world.
The heart of all our issues isthe heart away from God and we
need to restore that.
And God has said the power ofthe gospel is the solution.
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So I believe that in my ownheart and I believe that in
prison ministry and I believe itin applying it here in the work
with Life Plan.
So we exist to spread thegospel by helping people choose
life.
Historically, in 1985 we wereestablished as a response to an
abortion clinic.
That's what life was called atthat time Pregnancy Care Center
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of Niles.
So I kept that history which,which helped people choose life.
And then the last phrase,having a hope-filled life,
meaning what we do is we helppeople choose life, save babies
and point people to Jesus,that's our bottom line.
I can unpack that a little bitmore, but yeah that's life
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planned.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
You know, what I love about you sharing your
testimony just on a side here isthe fact that I think some of
the hits that people get goingto church, or some people have
negative views of Christians, isbecause at times people feel
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like they hold themselves holierthan thou, right as far as I'm
better than you, and so forth.
And having people like yourself, lyndon, that share your story
and some of the fallen and thebrokenness, and being willing to
share that just goes to showthat church is full of sinners.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
It's a hospital, it's a hospital for sinners and we
can't hold ourselves out asbeing better.
Everyone's got brokenness intheir lives and that's why we
need each other and that's whywe need the gospel and the
saving grace that that messageoffers.
So I appreciate you sharing andbeing open about that, because
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that's what life's about iscaring and sharing and bringing
hope to people, and that'sexactly what Life Plan does.
So can you share with me acouple examples of some stories
of impact that Life Plan has andwhere you've seen personally?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Yeah, we have a lot of stories about people coming
in.
People come to us with feltneeds, primarily in the area of
relationship, caring for family,children, infant.
Some of the services I'm goingto give you a story in a second.
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Some of the services we offerwe offer free pregnancy tests,
free ultrasound.
We have peer-to-peer counseling.
We walk with people in theirjourney.
I think our society since the60s has been broken and families
are fragmented and people needa community that they belong to.
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Somebody will walk hand in handthrough their issues.
So we address felt needs and welove on people.
So we address felt needs and welove on people.
Our centers have been known asa place of peace, harmony and
just vulnerability and opennessand compassion.
So we walk with people and thenwe help them through their
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journey, whatever it is brokenrelationship, child caring,
issue with their children andthen hopefully through that we
earn an opportunity to bring thegospel in, because that's the
ultimate brokenness in theirlives.
We are a gospel-centeredministry.
We equip our volunteers on whatis the gospel.
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They're generallycompassion-oriented people.
Most of the people thatvolunteer with us have
experiences of brokenness also,so they can better minister.
They want to serve in this area.
Anyway, here's a great storyabout a client, and then I'll
piggyback on the strategiesbehind how this person has
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experienced the whole gamut ofour ministry.
Okay, let me share this.
This is a story of a clientSometime within the last eight
months.
Okay, when I first startedgoing to Life Plan, I had no
idea how much I would grow tolove coming every week.
It started with watching videosand learning about my
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soon-to-come son and receivedultrasound to see him.
I would get diapers andclothing every time I come in,
which helped out so much on theexpenses of diapers.
After my son made hisappearance, I was welcomed back
to Life Plan with even a greaterlove from everyone from my son
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and I to Life Plan, with even agreater love from everyone, from
my son and I.
I also appreciate all of thedifferent video classes that I
have to choose from.
I have watched so manyeducational videos about
pregnancy, newborn.
My husband also came in towatch the father's video course
and I have done some of theirBible study courses.
The past years of attendingclasses at LifeLive have meant
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so much to me the staff and theeducational courses, the
materials they provided for thebabies and mothers, the nurses
and the environment.
I look forward to coming everyweek.
I also appreciate receivingprayer for my week ahead of
ahead every time I come in.
I am so thankful for Life Planin my life.
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Interestingly, this person hasnot only benefited from the
service and her husband.
She has become a Christian andis connected to one of our local
churches that we partner with.
So I want to give you ourfive-prong strategy.
Our five-pronged strategy iscommunity relations.
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We're all about being in thecommunity, connecting to
churches, connecting to business.
You know, connecting with thecommunity because it's all about
relationship.
People know you by therelationship.
They trust you because of therelationship.
So the more we're out there,through social media, through
connecting like this, throughoffering our service, connecting
the resources in the communityto the people in need in the
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community.
So we're all about communityrelationship.
Number two we're aboutprevention.
We believe being in a prisonministry.
I used to say prison ministrystarts in the high chair.
That was one of my quotes whenI was in prison.
You have to start young.
When I was in prison, you haveto start young.
I realized, you know, when theladies started coming in with
their husband I said, okay, wehave to start back a little bit.
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You're in good strategy andyou're good in programming, you
realize you have to do someprevention work because here's a
brokenness.
You know this.
There's a brokenness, it mustbe somebody's not doing their
budget right, so anyway.
So, anyway, we have to do someprevention work.
So some of the prevention workwe do, we started a men's
ministry.
We're in schools.
We're in five to sevendifferent schools in our area
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and wherever we have a location,we start connecting with the
schools there.
We offer a SRA sexual riskavoidance training.
We have a specialist that gointo the school and I want you
to know all the Michigan andIndiana schools across the
country and even a lot ofdifferent things.
They require their students toget sex education, health
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classes when we were young,right.
So that's a huge need.
That's a huge need.
That's a huge opportunity.
This is one of those areas thatjust bursting to the steam.
We just okay.
So we're in schools and westarted also doing because we
only did ultrasound pregnancytests, but we started offering
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now STI testing and treatment sopeople can come at a rough week
, they can come and see if theyhave any of the diseases.
And why is that?
Why did we open that Becauseit's an opportunity for more
conversation for the gospel.
Okay, so we started doingprevention work.
Okay Then.
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So community relation,prevention services Again, the
typical services in all three ofour sites, most pregnancy care
centers across the country, freeultrasound, free pregnancy
material goods, peer-to-peercounseling.
We do that.
Then we do church integrationbecause we believe we are not
the church.
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The church is God's instrumentto change the world.
So church integration is wework with churches to get
volunteers, because our work isthe work of Christ, the hands
and feet of Jesus Christ.
So we go to churches.
Do you have people that canvolunteer with us, for us and
doing the work of the ministry?
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And not only that, just likethis story of this girl she
became a Christian.
Now she's connected to a localchurch, because after they
become a Christian in ourministry, we connect them to
local churches.
Hey, what kind of church wouldyou be comfortable with?
Hey, you go to this.
Here's somebody ready toreceive you because we are not
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the end.
Long-term discipleship, Ibelieve, belongs in the local
church and that's thepartnership we have with the
local church.
Last but not least, thefive-pronged story community
relationship, prevention service, church integration and, last
but not least, god has given usthe strength to organize and
really systematize, and so wehave duplication.
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In 1985, it was in Niles.
In 2019, we started one inBenton Harbor, very close to
here, like, I think, 10 minutesfrom here, and then last year we
started one in South Bend andthen, god willing, as the Lord
provides, every four to fiveyears we're going to start a new
one.
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We're thinking about MichiganCity, thinking about Dwoajak I
would love Gary Indiana kind ofthing.
So that's the strategies wehave.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
So what is the biggest needs that Life Plan has
as an organization right now?
Is it financial resources,volunteerism?
What is it that is holding youback from being able to do this
expansion the way you want it?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
So I say to my staff what would we spend if we had a
million bucks given to us?
So they love that.
It's fun thinking about that.
Not in ranked order, but Iwould say the needs that we have
.
And this is immediate right now, because some of my we know we
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have a lot of snowbirds.
We have a lot of snowbirds.
A lot of people come to usafter their kids have graduated
so they have more time now.
So that's good, it's great.
So sometimes, because ofsnowbird during the season right
now, we lose some volunteersand we need some volunteers in
all our three sites Because themore volunteers we have, the
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more times that we can open up.
So right now I'm trying to getthe number.
I think we are 60, 70 percentcapacity.
We could do more.
We could do more.
So volunteer needs is it'songoing Financially sure?
You know, if the Lord gives usfinancial provision, what would
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I invest on?
Well, you can always everynonprofit.
The last thing they spend theirmoney on is training and
marketing, obviously, becauseyou know they got to do program
first.
So training and marketing Iwould love to do more marketing
stuff, billboards, things likethat.
Update all our marketing pieces, and then the prevention stuff.
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This is one of my favoritethings.
This is one of my favoritethings.
We are about to launch twochildren's books, two
anti-pornography children'sbooks.
Pornography is a huge area ofbrokenness we feel in our
ministry, meaning in theministry that we serve, the area
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God has called us into.
Brokenness is broken.
Sexuality Pornography is one ofthem.
I'm building ananti-pornography men's program,
but we want to buildanti-pornography children's book
for parents to help theirchildren be aware of pornography
.
If you go to Amazon right now,there's only one and it's not
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Christian.
We have one and we alreadywrote it.
We have the guy from I don'tknow if you've heard of Focus on
the Family, odyssey.
The graphic artist of Odysseyhas committed to doing it for us
.
We're just waiting for themoney.
David Miles is his name, sohe's going to do the graphic and
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then this would be a productthat we would have on Amazon
that parents Christian parentscan buy, and it can help them in
a tactful way to share withtheir children the danger of
pornography and what you do ifyou get exposed to that.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Yeah, because you were sharing with me some pretty
significant stats regarding theuse of pornography.
Oh my, goodness so why don'tyou share with the audience what
that looks like I?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
have so many.
Let me tell yeah, the one Ishared.
I recalled that in 2013, therewere 1.4 million pornographic
sites.
That's 2013.
That's 12 years ago and todaythey don't even know because it
has evolved so much but thenumber one pornographic site in
2019, it was the biggest one,but it's only one out of the
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millions had an equivalentviewing of 665,000 years.
We don't even have things tocomprehend that.
665,000 years of viewing in oneyear.
One pornographic site.
The average age of kids gettingexposed to pornography the
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average is eight, the number oneculprit.
80% of pornography comesaverage is eight.
The number one culprit.
80% of pornography comes fromright here.
Pornography earns more moneythan Major League Baseball,
major League Football, majorLeague Hockey combine.
In a year, pornography makesmore income than that.
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So it's huge.
It is destroying our families,destroying our men, destroying
our marriages, and we have toprotect our children and we have
to protect our children.
There's a video online onYouTube that I don't recall the
name right now, but it's aChristian, a non-Christian video
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, and it talks about the dangerof pornography to children,
because children at the age ofzero to 15, 16 don't have the
mental capacity to push backagainst it.
They don't.
They don't have the mentalcapacity.
So when they get exposed at ayoung age, it's very dangerous
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for them.
They get hooked on it, andthat's what we want to prevent.
Because children are naturallycurious, yes, yes, and they're
going to want to see what thisis all about yes, yes, are
naturally curious, yes, yes, andthey're going to want to see
what what this is all about.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yes and so, and when you and when they're seeing that
and they're seeing it, they'rethey're seeing sexuality in a
much different light than whatit was created to be one of my.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I do a talk among teenagers and I tell, I tell the
boys um, uh, you don't want toget into pornography because
it's like this.
It's like this Imagine if youwere junior high, early high
school, and I said to you okay,in six years you're going to be
in a competition.
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Okay, we're going to preparefor that competition.
It's going to be a bigtournament, okay.
So the next six years we'regoing to meet three to four
times a week, meet and practicefor two to four hours and we
practice, practice, practice forthe next six years.
Then the sixth year, we come tothe tournament and we practice
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football, practice football,it's a football tournament.
And then the sixth years, wecome to the tournament and it's
a football tournament.
And then the six years, we cometo the tournament and it's a
golf tournament.
The point there if we teach ourboys that this is what sex is
and then they get married andtheir marriage bed, they will
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start off with the wrong imageof what sex is and they're
already starting way back inwhat their healthy relationship
should be and it'll mess them upand this is killing our country
.
So that's the brokenness thatwe want to address.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
So if somebody wants to get involved with Life Plan,
what is the best way that theyshould go about doing so?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Yes, very simple Info at lifeplanorg.
You just communicate that in anemail.
Info at lifeplanorg If you wantto volunteer, send us an email.
Somebody will respond to youwithin 24 hours because it's a
need.
If you want to give, throughthat, they can also go to
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lifeplanorg, our website.
There's a page for giving.
We are a ministry that's beingprovided by the Lord through
people and through churches andthrough businesses.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
So it sounds like to me, the greatest need is people,
sure, the people, the humanresources that will allow you to
connect with these vulnerablepeople, these broken people that
are coming in.
Whether it may be it's a younglady that's pregnant and has
questions and doesn't know whatto do, or a young man struggling
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.
You guys are much more broadthan just.
We're providing services tohelp those who are pregnant and
choose life.
You are so much more.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
We are so much more.
I say that sometimes we're aglorified pregnancy care center.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
There you go.
Absolutely.
The other way people could findout information about you is
just visitingwolffinancialadvisorycom.
Go to our resource page.
You are highlighted Life Plans,highlighted as one of our
Charity of the Month recipients.
We have a full page on you andalso a link right back to your
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local community.
So, lyndon, I just want tothank you for sharing in your
heart, for wanting to serve ourcommunity and the brokenness and
really bring the gospel ofJesus Christ to those people,
because it's only once peoplerealize that they're broken that
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they can start rebuilding.
So thank you for your serviceand God bless.
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Good day everyone.
This is Rob Wolf with the WolfFinancial Podcast, and today
it's my honor to have LyndonAscuna, with the Executive
Director of Life Plan, joiningus today.
Lyndon, welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Thank you, Rob.
Thank you for opening thisopportunity for Life Plan.
I'm glad to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Absolutely so, lyndon .
You have quite a unique storyyourself as far as where you
came from, where you lived, whatbrought you to Life Plan, so
why don't you share with us alittle bit about what your life
story?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
looks like.
How far do you want me to goback, Rob?
Let's go back to the day, momand dad had a little too much to
drink.
No, I'm just kidding.
Well, I'm a Filipino.
I was born in the Philippines,really a small province in the
Philippines called Pagadian City, and I'm the youngest of six.
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Interestingly, within 11 yearsspan, five of my brothers and
sisters born and 11 years laterI followed.
Interestingly, so oops, kind ofthing.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
So there was a little whining involved?
Yeah, probably there was.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Anyway, I was born in the Philippines, Interestingly
at the age of five probablythere was.
Anyway, I was born in thePhilippines.
Interestingly, at the age offive my father died, so I didn't
have a father figure growing upand as you see my life evolve
you'll see how that impacted meand so forth.
My brothers and sisters came toAmerica early.
You know, being in thePhilippines was easier, much
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easier back then, compared tothe immigration laws now.
But anyway, at the age of sixmy mom and I came to America and
elementary high school, I grewup in America Chicago, miami,
florida and we were a Protestantfamily, but not a Christian
family necessarily.
We were churchgoers.
At the age of 15, my mom diedtoo but, being in an Asian
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family, my siblings took care ofme.
They were a lot older so theytook care of me.
And at the age of 15, again, mymom died.
But the church that followed upmy family in the Philippines,
that was a Baptist church andthat was the church that
followed up my sister in thePhilippines, that was a Baptist
church and that was the churchthat followed up my sister after
the wake.
And that's when my familybecame a Christian, because when
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we became a Christian family,started going to church.
But I was here in America, wewere still churchgoers and after
college, my you know, being anAsian, my family always said get
a good education and then, whenyou get a good education, you
get a good job and you'll behappy.
If you want to be happy, get agood education, make money.
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So I bought into that.
I went to the Philippines for myundergrad, med school and then.
But I stayed with my sister whowas a Christian, and I became a
Christian after I went to campand so I grew in the Lord.
I felt God.
A year later I felt God'scalling to the ministry.
If any man wished to come afterme, let him deny himself.
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Pick up his cross daily, followme, luke 9, 27.
And then I felt God's calling.
So I went to the ministry.
I went to a Bible school in thePhilippines and if I didn't
come back for grad school Iwould be a pastor there honestly
.
So grew in the Lord.
After graduating I felt God'scalling to study further.
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I applied to grad schools inAmerica and Wheaton Grad School
followed up the most.
I went there and, mostimportant thing, I met my wife
there.
We've been married for 32 yearsand we have six kids to prove
it, ages 32 to 15.
My youngest is 15.
Four girls, then two boys atthe end and then now we have
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four grandchildren.
But I want to tell yousomething.
Remember a lot of brokenness.
Father died when I was five.
Mother died when I was 15.
And you know Asians andFilipinos and my family.
You know we didn't know how tohandle problems and I thought
this was a characteristic of myfamily until I realized it's
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everybody's characteristic.
We used to hide things underthe carpet.
You know, didn't deal withthings, didn't deal with my
father's death.
But seven years into my marriage, I just had an early kind of
midlife crisis and you know thetendency is you blame the
closest person, your wife, andso I walked out of my marriage
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for three months.
I walked out of my marriage forthree months Now take note,
this was undergrad Bible, gradschool Bible, lots of ministry
experience Walked out of mymarriage.
I didn't know how to be married, I didn't know how to deal with
issues, and you think the grassis greener on the other side
and you still have to mow it.
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I always say, but three monthsinto my walking away and I had
two kids at that time already, Ialready had two kids, seven
years of my marriage I don'tknow if you know, there's that
seven-year itch, they say and sothe Holy Spirit got a hold of
me and I repented and I cameback.
But, interesting, when I cameback that was the fascinating
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thing I said to myself whatbroke in me.
There's something broken in meBecause I had all this ministry
experience Bible, a lot of headknowledge and I said what broke
in me and I started addressingmyself.
I started addressing thebrokenness in me and I knew
there were a lot of things thatwere broken.
I didn't know how to deal withthings, I didn't have good
examples of marriage, but therewas just a lot of broken.
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And then you know, honestly,rob, this was the turning point.
I started got rid of media, gotrid of music that were not
Christian, and I read the bookof Romans, one verse at a time
for the next three and a halfyears, and I really dissected.
I understood every verse andeverything, and every verse,
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every phrase, every meaning, andI took.
It took me three and a halfyears and during that three and
a half years I shut ministry off.
I didn't.
I went to a secular work andstarted over again and kind of
my life went home instead ofbeing distracted and I could
tell you that was the turningpoint of my life.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
So why Romans?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Because I knew it was the greatest book in the Bible,
it's the pinnacle of Paul'swriting and I knew, and that's
what made me really deep in mywalk with God I shut everything
off for a year, started dealingwith my anger issues, my
brokenness inside of me, and Istarted figuring that out and,
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interestingly, just fast forward, what I do with men.
I am working on ananti-pornography program
curriculum that'sChrist-centered, that helps men
really address their brokenness,and I work with men who have
brokenness and you know whatSelf-awareness, not
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understanding how the past hasimpacted their present.
In other words, we buy into alot of the lies of the past or
what we grew up with, or theemptiness that was broken there.
So, anyway, I'll say I'll talkabout that later.
So that's my life.
My wife and I've been marriednow for 32 years, like I said,
six children, four grandchildren.
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Obviously it's not perfect, butwe know how to deal with it now
and I know how to deal with it.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
And so all these past life experiences have prepared
you for your present positionExecutive Director at Life Plan.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
So how have you brought those life experiences
into Life Plan, life Plan'soverall mission?
Yes, yes.
And what is it that you all aretrying to do there?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yes, how about if I even give you a preliminary
before that?
How about if I even give you apreliminary before that?
Because of that brokenness, ofmy father's absence, I've been
working for 32 years in innercity ministry.
I went to a Christian communitycenter in Chicago working with
the poverty.
In fact, my first job out ofgrad school was a big buddy
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program for an inner city kid.
Then I went to Awana.
I was in Awana for Awana ClubsInternational biggest children's
ministry.
I was there for 12 years.
Eight of the 12 years I didprison work.
I was in Angola prison thebloodiest prison in this country
in the 60s, and I worked thereand I established an event for
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children to be reconciled withtheir father and I created a
fathering program called MalachiDads that's still running today
.
After I left because of mybrokenness of an absent father
and coming home, being a fatherto my children, actually, that
night that I repented, I wenthome.
I was out of the house forthree months.
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I went home and I saw my girlsleeping and the Holy Spirit
spoke to me and said this is thesame pain you didn't want your
children to experience that Iexperienced with having an
absent father.
Children to experience that Iexperienced with having an
absent father.
So that was the pillar or thestraw that broke the cabinet
back for me to come home andthat I taught fathers in prison
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how to be a godly father,rescuing their children from the
cycle of prison, recycle ofprison coming back to prison or
kids going to prison.
Anyway, I was doing that.
Then, coming to this area, lifePlan the reason I started in
Life Plan my in-laws lived herebecause I lost both of them.
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I married into a great family.
We used to be in Chicago.
Then we visited them in Grangerlike 10 times a year all the
holidays and we decided to movehere to take care of them as
they get older.
And within two years aftermoving here, they both passed
away and we decided are we goingto stay?
And that's where I gotconnected to Life Plan.
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So I've been in Life Plan for10 years as the executive
director.
Do you want me to continue?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Absolutely.
I love this.
I don't have to do any workhere.
This is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
So Life Plan again.
I've been there for 10 years.
I would say first thing that Ichanged in Life Plan was the
mission statement.
So how do you know anorganization by its mission
statement and the missionstatement of Life Plan.
We exist now.
We exist to spread the gospelby helping people choose life
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and live a hope-filled life.
Let me unpack that.
I made sure the centerpiece wasthe first five words.
We exist to spread the gospel.
I believe in being in mybrokenness, seeing the world.
The heart of all our issues isthe heart away from God and we
need to restore that.
And God has said the power ofthe gospel is the solution.
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So I believe that in my ownheart and I believe that in
prison ministry and I believe itin applying it here in the work
with Life Plan.
So we exist to spread thegospel by helping people choose
life.
Historically, in 1985 we wereestablished as a response to an
abortion clinic.
That's what life was called atthat time Pregnancy Care Center
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of Niles.
So I kept that history which,which helped people choose life.
And then the last phrase,having a hope-filled life,
meaning what we do is we helppeople choose life, save babies
and point people to Jesus,that's our bottom line.
I can unpack that a little bitmore, but yeah that's life
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planned.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
You know, what I love about you sharing your
testimony just on a side here isthe fact that I think some of
the hits that people get goingto church, or some people have
negative views of Christians, isbecause at times people feel
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like they hold themselves holierthan thou, right as far as I'm
better than you, and so forth.
And having people like yourself, lyndon, that share your story
and some of the fallen and thebrokenness, and being willing to
share that just goes to showthat church is full of sinners.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
It's a hospital, it's a hospital for sinners and we
can't hold ourselves out asbeing better.
Everyone's got brokenness intheir lives and that's why we
need each other and that's whywe need the gospel and the
saving grace that that messageoffers.
So I appreciate you sharing andbeing open about that, because
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that's what life's about iscaring and sharing and bringing
hope to people, and that'sexactly what Life Plan does.
So can you share with me acouple examples of some stories
of impact that Life Plan has andwhere you've seen personally?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Yeah, we have a lot of stories about people coming
in.
People come to us with feltneeds, primarily in the area of
relationship, caring for family,children, infant.
Some of the services I'm goingto give you a story in a second.
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Some of the services we offerwe offer free pregnancy tests,
free ultrasound.
We have peer-to-peer counseling.
We walk with people in theirjourney.
I think our society since the60s has been broken and families
are fragmented and people needa community that they belong to.
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Somebody will walk hand in handthrough their issues.
So we address felt needs and welove on people.
So we address felt needs and welove on people.
Our centers have been known asa place of peace, harmony and
just vulnerability and opennessand compassion.
So we walk with people and thenwe help them through their
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journey, whatever it is brokenrelationship, child caring,
issue with their children andthen hopefully through that we
earn an opportunity to bring thegospel in, because that's the
ultimate brokenness in theirlives.
We are a gospel-centeredministry.
We equip our volunteers on whatis the gospel.
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They're generallycompassion-oriented people.
Most of the people thatvolunteer with us have
experiences of brokenness also,so they can better minister.
They want to serve in this area.
Anyway, here's a great storyabout a client, and then I'll
piggyback on the strategiesbehind how this person has
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experienced the whole gamut ofour ministry.
Okay, let me share this.
This is a story of a clientSometime within the last eight
months.
Okay, when I first startedgoing to Life Plan, I had no
idea how much I would grow tolove coming every week.
It started with watching videosand learning about my
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soon-to-come son and receivedultrasound to see him.
I would get diapers andclothing every time I come in,
which helped out so much on theexpenses of diapers.
After my son made hisappearance, I was welcomed back
to Life Plan with even a greaterlove from everyone from my son
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and I to Life Plan, with even agreater love from everyone, from
my son and I.
I also appreciate all of thedifferent video classes that I
have to choose from.
I have watched so manyeducational videos about
pregnancy, newborn.
My husband also came in towatch the father's video course
and I have done some of theirBible study courses.
The past years of attendingclasses at LifeLive have meant
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so much to me the staff and theeducational courses, the
materials they provided for thebabies and mothers, the nurses
and the environment.
I look forward to coming everyweek.
I also appreciate receivingprayer for my week ahead of
ahead every time I come in.
I am so thankful for Life Planin my life.
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Interestingly, this person hasnot only benefited from the
service and her husband.
She has become a Christian andis connected to one of our local
churches that we partner with.
So I want to give you ourfive-prong strategy.
Our five-pronged strategy iscommunity relations.
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We're all about being in thecommunity, connecting to
churches, connecting to business.
You know, connecting with thecommunity because it's all about
relationship.
People know you by therelationship.
They trust you because of therelationship.
So the more we're out there,through social media, through
connecting like this, throughoffering our service, connecting
the resources in the communityto the people in need in the
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community.
So we're all about communityrelationship.
Number two we're aboutprevention.
We believe being in a prisonministry.
I used to say prison ministrystarts in the high chair.
That was one of my quotes whenI was in prison.
You have to start young.
When I was in prison, you haveto start young.
I realized, you know, when theladies started coming in with
their husband I said, okay, wehave to start back a little bit.
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You're in good strategy andyou're good in programming, you
realize you have to do someprevention work because here's a
brokenness.
You know this.
There's a brokenness, it mustbe somebody's not doing their
budget right, so anyway.
So, anyway, we have to do someprevention work.
So some of the prevention workwe do, we started a men's
ministry.
We're in schools.
We're in five to sevendifferent schools in our area
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and wherever we have a location,we start connecting with the
schools there.
We offer a SRA sexual riskavoidance training.
We have a specialist that gointo the school and I want you
to know all the Michigan andIndiana schools across the
country and even a lot ofdifferent things.
They require their students toget sex education, health
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classes when we were young,right.
So that's a huge need.
That's a huge need.
That's a huge opportunity.
This is one of those areas thatjust bursting to the steam.
We just okay.
So we're in schools and westarted also doing because we
only did ultrasound pregnancytests, but we started offering
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now STI testing and treatment sopeople can come at a rough week
, they can come and see if theyhave any of the diseases.
And why is that?
Why did we open that Becauseit's an opportunity for more
conversation for the gospel.
Okay, so we started doingprevention work.
Okay Then.
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So community relation,prevention services Again, the
typical services in all three ofour sites, most pregnancy care
centers across the country, freeultrasound, free pregnancy
material goods, peer-to-peercounseling.
We do that.
Then we do church integrationbecause we believe we are not
the church.
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The church is God's instrumentto change the world.
So church integration is wework with churches to get
volunteers, because our work isthe work of Christ, the hands
and feet of Jesus Christ.
So we go to churches.
Do you have people that canvolunteer with us, for us and
doing the work of the ministry?
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And not only that, just likethis story of this girl she
became a Christian.
Now she's connected to a localchurch, because after they
become a Christian in ourministry, we connect them to
local churches.
Hey, what kind of church wouldyou be comfortable with?
Hey, you go to this.
Here's somebody ready toreceive you because we are not
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the end.
Long-term discipleship, Ibelieve, belongs in the local
church and that's thepartnership we have with the
local church.
Last but not least, thefive-pronged story community
relationship, prevention service, church integration and, last
but not least, god has given usthe strength to organize and
really systematize, and so wehave duplication.
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In 1985, it was in Niles.
In 2019, we started one inBenton Harbor, very close to
here, like, I think, 10 minutesfrom here, and then last year we
started one in South Bend andthen, god willing, as the Lord
provides, every four to fiveyears we're going to start a new
one.
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We're thinking about MichiganCity, thinking about Dwoajak I
would love Gary Indiana kind ofthing.
So that's the strategies wehave.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
So what is the biggest needs that Life Plan has
as an organization right now?
Is it financial resources,volunteerism?
What is it that is holding youback from being able to do this
expansion the way you want it?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
So I say to my staff what would we spend if we had a
million bucks given to us?
So they love that.
It's fun thinking about that.
Not in ranked order, but Iwould say the needs that we have
.
And this is immediate right now, because some of my we know we
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have a lot of snowbirds.
We have a lot of snowbirds.
A lot of people come to usafter their kids have graduated
so they have more time now.
So that's good, it's great.
So sometimes, because ofsnowbird during the season right
now, we lose some volunteersand we need some volunteers in
all our three sites Because themore volunteers we have, the
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more times that we can open up.
So right now I'm trying to getthe number.
I think we are 60, 70 percentcapacity.
We could do more.
We could do more.
So volunteer needs is it'songoing Financially sure?
You know, if the Lord gives usfinancial provision, what would
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I invest on?
Well, you can always everynonprofit.
The last thing they spend theirmoney on is training and
marketing, obviously, becauseyou know they got to do program
first.
So training and marketing Iwould love to do more marketing
stuff, billboards, things likethat.
Update all our marketing pieces, and then the prevention stuff.
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This is one of my favoritethings.
This is one of my favoritethings.
We are about to launch twochildren's books, two
anti-pornography children'sbooks.
Pornography is a huge area ofbrokenness we feel in our
ministry, meaning in theministry that we serve, the area
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God has called us into.
Brokenness is broken.
Sexuality Pornography is one ofthem.
I'm building ananti-pornography men's program,
but we want to buildanti-pornography children's book
for parents to help theirchildren be aware of pornography
.
If you go to Amazon right now,there's only one and it's not
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Christian.
We have one and we alreadywrote it.
We have the guy from I don'tknow if you've heard of Focus on
the Family, odyssey.
The graphic artist of Odysseyhas committed to doing it for us
.
We're just waiting for themoney.
David Miles is his name, sohe's going to do the graphic and
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then this would be a productthat we would have on Amazon
that parents Christian parentscan buy, and it can help them in
a tactful way to share withtheir children the danger of
pornography and what you do ifyou get exposed to that.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Yeah, because you were sharing with me some pretty
significant stats regarding theuse of pornography.
Oh my, goodness so why don'tyou share with the audience what
that looks like I?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
have so many.
Let me tell yeah, the one Ishared.
I recalled that in 2013, therewere 1.4 million pornographic
sites.
That's 2013.
That's 12 years ago and todaythey don't even know because it
has evolved so much but thenumber one pornographic site in
2019, it was the biggest one,but it's only one out of the
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millions had an equivalentviewing of 665,000 years.
We don't even have things tocomprehend that.
665,000 years of viewing in oneyear.
One pornographic site.
The average age of kids gettingexposed to pornography the
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average is eight, the number oneculprit.
80% of pornography comesaverage is eight.
The number one culprit.
80% of pornography comes fromright here.
Pornography earns more moneythan Major League Baseball,
major League Football, majorLeague Hockey combine.
In a year, pornography makesmore income than that.
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So it's huge.
It is destroying our families,destroying our men, destroying
our marriages, and we have toprotect our children and we have
to protect our children.
There's a video online onYouTube that I don't recall the
name right now, but it's aChristian, a non-Christian video
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, and it talks about the dangerof pornography to children,
because children at the age ofzero to 15, 16 don't have the
mental capacity to push backagainst it.
They don't.
They don't have the mentalcapacity.
So when they get exposed at ayoung age, it's very dangerous
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for them.
They get hooked on it, andthat's what we want to prevent.
Because children are naturallycurious, yes, yes, and they're
going to want to see what thisis all about yes, yes, are
naturally curious, yes, yes, andthey're going to want to see
what what this is all about.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yes and so, and when you and when they're seeing that
and they're seeing it, they'rethey're seeing sexuality in a
much different light than whatit was created to be one of my.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I do a talk among teenagers and I tell, I tell the
boys um, uh, you don't want toget into pornography because
it's like this.
It's like this Imagine if youwere junior high, early high
school, and I said to you okay,in six years you're going to be
in a competition.
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Okay, we're going to preparefor that competition.
It's going to be a bigtournament, okay.
So the next six years we'regoing to meet three to four
times a week, meet and practicefor two to four hours and we
practice, practice, practice forthe next six years.
Then the sixth year, we come tothe tournament and we practice
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football, practice football,it's a football tournament.
And then the sixth years, wecome to the tournament and it's
a football tournament.
And then the six years, we cometo the tournament and it's a
golf tournament.
The point there if we teach ourboys that this is what sex is
and then they get married andtheir marriage bed, they will
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start off with the wrong imageof what sex is and they're
already starting way back inwhat their healthy relationship
should be and it'll mess them upand this is killing our country
.
So that's the brokenness thatwe want to address.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
So if somebody wants to get involved with Life Plan,
what is the best way that theyshould go about doing so?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Yes, very simple Info at lifeplanorg.
You just communicate that in anemail.
Info at lifeplanorg If you wantto volunteer, send us an email.
Somebody will respond to youwithin 24 hours because it's a
need.
If you want to give, throughthat, they can also go to
(29:34):
lifeplanorg, our website.
There's a page for giving.
We are a ministry that's beingprovided by the Lord through
people and through churches andthrough businesses.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
So it sounds like to me, the greatest need is people,
sure, the people, the humanresources that will allow you to
connect with these vulnerablepeople, these broken people that
are coming in.
Whether it may be it's a younglady that's pregnant and has
questions and doesn't know whatto do, or a young man struggling
(30:12):
.
You guys are much more broadthan just.
We're providing services tohelp those who are pregnant and
choose life.
You are so much more.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
We are so much more.
I say that sometimes we're aglorified pregnancy care center.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
There you go.
Absolutely.
The other way people could findout information about you is
just visitingwolffinancialadvisorycom.
Go to our resource page.
You are highlighted Life Plans,highlighted as one of our
Charity of the Month recipients.
We have a full page on you andalso a link right back to your
(30:54):
website as well, along with manyof the other charities in our
local community.
So, lyndon, I just want tothank you for sharing in your
heart, for wanting to serve ourcommunity and the brokenness and
really bring the gospel ofJesus Christ to those people,
because it's only once peoplerealize that they're broken that
(31:17):
they can start rebuilding.
So thank you for your serviceand God bless.
This is Rob Wolf with the WolfFinancial Podcast.
We look forward to having youfolks join us on our next
episode.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Thank you for listening to the Wolf Financial
Podcast.
For additional informationabout our firm, please visit our
website atwolffinancialadvisorycom.
The strategies and conceptsdiscussed are for educational
purposes only and do notrepresent specific investment,
tax or estate planning advice.
Investing carries an inherentelement of risk and it is in
everyone's best interest toconsult a tax, legal or
investment professional.
(31:55):
The opinions expressed hereinare not meant to provide
specific investment advice orserve as a prediction for future
stock market performance.
Past performance does notguarantee future results.
Securities and advisoryservices are offered through USA
Financial Securities member,finra SIPC, a registered
investment advisor.
Wolf Financial Advisory,lifeplan and USA Financial
(32:15):
Securities are not affiliatedentities.
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