America Voted for Arresting & Deporting Illegals

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
But we got Ice cracking down. Those were street vendors
in New York City. We got also Freslo City Council
cracking down on street vendors in the Tower District. Two
different reasons. We'll talk about both. And oh yeah, the
truck driver on drugs that killed three innercent people, two
burned to death. He was here illegally, California Democrats, you

(00:20):
voted for this. It's happening on both coast. I don't
know if you saw the melee in Chinatown in New
York City going after illegal street vendors that are ripping
off companies man selling Well, that's just New York City.
Why are you going after the hard working people there
as well? There were quite actually a few criminals that

(00:42):
were taken down. Guys, do you really think they actually
went out and said, hey, with all the criminal, illegal
aliens running around here, let's go down there and get
people that are selling purses that aren't legitimate. You know
how they're tagged. They were going after criminals down there.
And what happens is when you were down there and

(01:04):
you arrest you ask people all around there, where's her passport,
where's identification? This is what America voted for. There's a
lot of people go, well, we didn't really think that
it was. Well, wake up, Sally, it's happening. I was
just really stunned. Well, I guess I shouldn't I shouldn't

(01:27):
have been stunned here, But this is sad. I guess
I'm thinking of a time that's gone by, and I
should listen to people that I know that are in
the military and have been in the military, that are
feel comfortable in speaking to me and letting me know
things they normally wouldn't say to other people. It's changed somewhat,
but I always thought, well, the people in the military

(01:50):
always have America's back. Listen to the staff sergeant. She's
in the National Guard. She was in the Air Force previously.
Her name is Demi Pallisex. He's a staf charge in
the Illinois National Guard and she's running for some office
so Illinois House A Representatives. She's a Democratic course running
for the thirteen district the north side of Chicago. Let's see,

(02:12):
I'm a proud queer Latina, a military veteran, a community leader,
and a communications professional. And this is straight up sedition.
She's saying that she will disobey orders. Is asked to
serve the National Guard in Chicago's, she would disobey them.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
If you were activated to the Chicago mission, would you
defy orders?

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Absolutely, I would definitely say no.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Tell me why.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
I mean, I'm not going to go against my community members,
my family, and my culture, my neighbors, and I believe
that this is a time to be on the right
side of.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
History, all right, So we will have sedition from our
armed forces. This is wokeism beyond. This is what Secretary
Heigsech is getting rid of. I bet you any how,
this story's out there so it will come to his attention.
I don't think she'll be in the National Guard in
Chicago anymore Illinois, but she wants that. She wants to

(03:05):
be fired. She wants the attention. That's why she's saying
this talking about her fellow Hispanic soldiers. We're Americans, dimmy.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
In Illinois, there are around two hundred people who are
legal permanent residents Green card holders who are either part
of the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard. DEMI,
I know you've spoken with some of them. Tell me
what they're feeling right now.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
So about twenty thousand people in the military are undocumented
or going through the green card process. Many of my
soldiers are of the Hispanic community, and they did join
to get themselves or their family documents. They are in
sheer panic.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
They're not the ones they're coming after it. They've already
signed up with the military. They were here illegally. I've
heard of that plan where you come forward and you're
willing to serve in the military, you can earn in
your citizenship.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
That's what she's talking about.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
They're not going to go after and rip up those contracts.
So he's just just creating it all. And there's so
many dumb down, gullible people. Elections have results and they matter,
and there's ramifications. DHS issued a statement ICE rate at

(04:24):
a horse race and Idaho over the weekend. They're all
over the place and they're going to keep growing. They're
getting more and more funded. One hundred illegal aliens were
arrested at a horse race event at in Idaho. ICE
dismantled horse racing, animal fighting, gambling Enterprise operation. Some NBA

(04:45):
players were caught out. No, they weren't there. LEEH. Morales,
who serves as the executive director for the American Civil
liberties Union of Idaho. They're also everywhere the aclien, even
of an Idaho. He criticized the Trump administration for coming
in full force the helicopters and drones and arresting people. Yeah,

(05:05):
that's called the arm of the law. Aco. You guys said,
no person, no Idaho and no American should ever accept
when of our government does this to its own people.
Correct morales, but they aren't our own people. Hence the raid.
How difficult is this to understand? The Idaho governor, he's
the Republican Brad Littell, he gets it. He's not good.

(05:28):
I'm glad they came in here. We'll we'll work with
we have the inconnection with the Feds. We'll get these
criminals out of here. One two, three, four, five, sixty
seven eight eight strikes against the the boats out there,
the TDA Trende Oraragua Narco trafficking gang. This time it
was in the Caribbean east of Central America. And I'm more,

(05:52):
let's see uh ramped up offense against the Maduro regime
be fifty two nuclear bombers. Well, I was just saying
it toward the end of the last hour about Drudge
Report putting up there about we're getting ready to bomb Venezuela,
and Fox News talking about that was the top story
right there. Well, we do have some bombers down there.
I'm not saying we're going to be nuke and Venezuela.

(06:14):
We got some guide to missile destroyers. It's about thirty fives.
You know. We got some of those spy planes up
there too. You were seeing the Poseidon. These spy planes now,
and we got spy drones. We got nuclear submarines, we
got sixty five hundred troops actually in the vicinity. President

(06:38):
Trump said with that they blew up that submarine that's submersible.
He said, twenty five thousand Americans would have died if
I let that thing hit the coast. So we got
another one, this time on the Pacific side of South
America as well. Thirty four people have been killed on
these US strikes. Trump administrations told Congress the United States

(07:00):
is in a non international arm conflict with drug cartels
and they will continue the armed attacks.

Speaker 5 (07:10):
Good.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
We got to fight back because some people are coming
into this country illegally and attacking Americans, whether it's with
guns or knives, or financially or economically by taking jobs
or being high and driving a semi and killing three people.

Speaker 6 (07:30):
Exclusive dash cam of video, which is now the subject
of several law enforcement investigations. It shows a moment a
red Semi truck plowed into a number of vehicles on
the westbound ten Freeway in Ontario just after one pm yesterday.
The CHP told the La Times the driver of this
big rig is a twenty one year old man who

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is now under arrest on suspicion of driving under the
influence of drugs. A total of four semis were involved
and also for passenger vehicles, one of them floating in flames.
Three people were killed and four others were taken to
local hospitals.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Well, we now know the man's name Jazz, and pre
seeing he was the driver, three people died, two of
them and burned to death on the ten in Ontario.
How many offics have been on the ten in Ontario
and had some traffic back up and stall, But after
seeing that yesterday, getting on forty one here yesterday it

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was a little backed up and it was kind of
a little bumper to bumper for a moment, and I
looked in my side view mirror and there was nobody
behind me, and I thought, wow, it's just that easy.
You're just sitting there like that. And it made me
look behind me, is what I'm saying. More. Yeah, maybe
even tap the brakes a little so somebody can you

(08:48):
know see that Not a bad idea, but man, that
was I don't know if you saw the video. It
just crushed. It just crushed those car in front of him.
Ice has a detainer on mister seen with a sand
Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. He's in custody. He's suspicion of

(09:08):
Dui causing great bodily injury, gross vehicular man slaughter while intoxicated.
He was speeding under the influence, never hit his brakes whatsoever.
Chain Reaction Transortation Secretary Sean Duffy said this is outrageous.
He said, this is exactly why I set new restrictions

(09:30):
at prohibit illegal immigrants from operating trucks. He said, every governor,
and he put this to the California governor, must join
every other state and enforcing these new actions to prevent
any more accidents and death. According to the Asian American

(09:52):
Education Project, twenty percent of the nation's drivers are now
seeks Can you be a US truck driver and b Sikh.
That's not what anybody's talking about here. They're talking about
people that are here illegally driving these CBS News said

(10:12):
more than thirty thousand Sikhs entered the trucking industry between
twenty sixteen and twenty eighteen alone. The Seat Coalition said
more than one hundred and fifty thousand Siak drivers commercial
trucks on American roads, and they owned more than twelve
thousand trucking companies. Now, can you be a trucking company owner,
be a Sikh and be in America? Yeah, that's not

(10:35):
what hey boy's saying. Saying. You can't hire illegal aliens
and you can't be an illegal alien owner of a
trucking company. The driver in this crash down there lived
in Uba City. He had just relatively minor injuries. They learned.
One of the victims was a fifty four year old
man from upland his name's not been released. Dead. The

(10:57):
two that were severely bird of the crash had not
been identified. Four additional people taken to the hospital because
he wouldn't stop. I mean, it's just a few days
after Transportation Secretary Duffy had a video out of an
illegal driving a truck down the wrong side of a
freeway in the dark. California is working against the Trump

(11:20):
administration with this. They're trying to require English tests to
get your driving commercial license, understanding basic road signs. I
read something today there was a California Dot officer saying
that they are being instructed to ignore the mandate. Well,

(11:40):
of course they are new Some thinks he's his own
country and just out of spite, he'll put the rest
of us that are driving these roads at risk. We
are past being in an abusive relationship with we Knewsom
in the Democrat government and Sacramento. We're past that. It's
moved into a murderous relationship with Sacramento. Their actions get

(12:03):
Californians killed.

Speaker 5 (12:05):
This is the Trevor Terry show on the Valley's Power Talk.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
There that they were handshaking and going down and it
looked like President Trump totally snubbed her. Well, it didn't
look like it. He did. I saw it, But it's
because she was kind of negative about Trump in the campaign.
But now that they're all together, now that she stood
up so well against the view here, President Trump had
RFK junior will at their in vitro fertilization announcement, which

(12:33):
we're going to talk about at five o'clock here, But
here he was like praising Cheryl Heines.

Speaker 7 (12:38):
See he forgives the Secretary of Health and Human Services,
Robert F. Kennedy Junior, whose wife destroyed the people in
the view yesterday. I have to say that she's she's
I'm not going to ever get into an argument with her.
And you've decided you learned that a long time ago.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
I wonder how many words President Trump says the today.
I think I say a lot of the talk show hosts.
But boy, he's over the top. He's always busy, always somewhere.
I've never seen a president like that. And I know
because it's my job to track the news and look
at it every single day. And that man is working
at the speed of Trump. And he's open. He's transparent,

(13:20):
and you better not ask him if he's not really
truly being transparent. He'll call you out. He does.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
You're responding to people who say that you haven't been transplanting.

Speaker 7 (13:30):
I haven't been transparent that some of your really I've
shown I've shown this to everybody that would listen. Third
grade reporters didn't see it because they didn't look. You're
a third grade reporter, always have been, so third grade
reporters didn't look. But anybody that asks these these pictures
have been in newspapers, they've been all over the place,

(13:50):
and you know, we're very proud of it. It's gotten
great reviews. It's gotten really great reviews. I think we've
been more transparent than anybody's ever.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah, you're a third rate reportner. And coming up here
at the bottom of the hourn just a few minutes,
we're going to talk to a local author and he
was highly recommended by Paul Leffler, so Paul's never been wrong.
Same was Kevin Foster, and he's got a book called
Run to the Brokenness, How your church could be the
center of your community. And uh, it's going to be
an interesting talk here. Thanks to director Ryan Nigel for

(14:24):
sending me this audio here the I Wordstone Express. I
had Congresson doug On in here from the Congo, which
Paul Leffler recommended again, talking about you know, seventy Christians
had been beheaded the day before he came in here
to be interviewed on this show. But seeing this Nigerian pastor,

(14:49):
he's talking about how Christians are being hunted and murdered
and being buried in silence. Was he speaking from the
full pit?

Speaker 4 (15:01):
No?

Speaker 1 (15:01):
Was he speaking from the back of a pickup truck
bed drop down? No, he was standing in a mass
grave of mostly children and their mothers. Man. The Christian
blood that's flowing out and hasn't been a whole lot
of talk. Now it's not. It's kind of broken English,

(15:23):
but you can you can hear he he's calling out
for the US Senate. He's calling out for President Trump. Listen,
let's go deny. He said, the government cannot longer deny

(15:43):
there's genocide or Christians.

Speaker 5 (15:45):
And today.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
He's standing with dead bodies.

Speaker 5 (15:55):
You're not donations.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
I know you're watching Senate America. Senate, you're watching what
I'm doing on saying you're watching what I'm doing and
saying here he's standing in the whole thing with with graves.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
To trouble, no, please.

Speaker 5 (16:15):
To save our life in.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
Killing in Nageria, killing Christians and h He's got all
the caskets around him, all these wooden caskets, a big
mass grave. Listen to this guy. He's a pastor to
different guy, tell me about the village. Total village a.

Speaker 8 (16:38):
Preacher of the gospel and evangelists and evangelist is known
for troubling to rural villages.

Speaker 5 (16:43):
There is a village. We went for an.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
Outreach, something going to rural villages.

Speaker 8 (16:47):
We did our medical outreaches. Show Jesus being please the
gospel today.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
Preach the gospel to them.

Speaker 8 (16:55):
Donated clute to dam boats children, an adult.

Speaker 5 (16:59):
Everything is going.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Well, gave on clothes, everything going well.

Speaker 8 (17:03):
Fast forward last week that blage is completely wipe out. Lord,
we're cute and Lord with this please In fact, you
are working on Espected.

Speaker 5 (17:14):
We just stumbled on human skull.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
You said you're walking. You stumble on a human skull.

Speaker 8 (17:20):
You're working on Expected. You stumbled on human skeleton. So
that's why I don't long got kid to Let's this
cost me my life, but I'll come out as being
the truth to the world or what is happening?

Speaker 1 (17:30):
This is a Nigeria, Why at least if it's not America,
why is the United Nations? Don't even nobody talking about
going in there or any coalition. Listen to this pastor
talking about seeing a three year old baby slaughtered like
a chicken.

Speaker 8 (17:43):
I've never thought that it is coming. We are we
witness a three years old baby will be slow tied
like it's chicken. Oh my goodness. I never thought that.
That's why I said that. Up today, I can get.

Speaker 5 (17:55):
The trauma off my head.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Up to day, I can't get the trauma off my.

Speaker 5 (17:58):
This is the Trever Show on the Valleys, our talk.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
Like we knew somehow it came together and you came
in and we talked about I guess I'm trying. Maybe
he was at church shooting in Texas that was such
a big thing.

Speaker 4 (18:11):
Yeah, I think it was. And I think you was
looking for some a church in the area that had
implemented some security measures and we had at that time.
And unfortunately, Trevor, we've seen that happen so many times
over since that time I was with you on six
years ago.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
So yeah, well, Kevin, since then? Is this your first book?
That thank you for the copy of it. It's beautiful, man,
hardback here run to the brokenness, How your church can
be the center of your community.

Speaker 4 (18:37):
Is this your first that's my first book?

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Well? Congratulations, And I said, anybody that Paul Leffler recommends
always turns out to be pretty brilliant. So you got
a bar to hit here with this? All right? All right?
How long you and mister Leffler known each other?

Speaker 4 (18:51):
Probably about the last seven years. Yeah, yeah, he's a cogeneration.
Oh he's such a great guy. He's such a good
friend and good brother. He's walked with me. There is
some really amazing times and some pretty dark times too.
He's a good friend.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
You talk about the dark times and run to the Brokenness?
How much are your life you're sharing there?

Speaker 4 (19:08):
A little bit? Yeah, yeah, quite a bit of it.
So it's a story a little bit about our church
and how we've run to the brokenness. And the whole
idea behind Run of the Brokenness is a lot of
times people tend to avoid the brokenness, they run away
from it, not just in their own personal lives and
other people and the community. But the point is to
the book, instead of running away from the brokenness, to

(19:30):
run to the brokenness, because that's where we can make
the most difference in people's lives.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Do you have any idea. I don't know how much
research or it might be in this, but you know,
we talk about church and community and we think of
the white steople on the corner with the white fence
and part of the community. But if you go one
time on Sunday, that's good. You're going to worship the
Lord on Sunday. But for to really become community, you

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almost see you go a few times, don't you to
develop that kind of community. You know, with all the Catholics,
I'll get my hands down, they're good at this stuff
of getting people together.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
Oh yeah, one hundred percent. But the book really is
more about not having people come into the community, but
rather having the church people go out into the community
and impacting the community Monday through Saturday. That's really what
the book's about. So it's a little bit different than
most church books. And I think it's a book honestly
that whether somebody is faith based or not faith based,

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they would really enjoy. Because the majority of the population
right now seventy percent according to a Barner report done
two years ago, states that seventy percent of the people
the general population, they can't see any good that the
church is doing. And so we tend to gather in
our churches, in the nice country club churches and get
together and feel good about each other. But then it

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doesn't go out and impact the major issues and the
problems that are in the community. And the entire message
behind the book is like it's time for us Monday
through Saturday, for people in churches to go out and
to try to solve the biggest issues in the community.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
And first off, there's a lot of great people involved
with a lot of great churches. And I don't want
to come off like I'm acting like a pharisee, but
I sit in a lot of churches and I'll here,
look at our missions here, and they'll show this foreign
country and they'll have a missionary couple there and they'll speak,
and that's all great. My dad was a world outreach
director for the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. I mean, that's our

(21:25):
mission right to go. But yet, so I think they're
not looking right in the neighborhood maybe of a submission
work that needs to be done here. And is that
kind of the direction you're going with this?

Speaker 4 (21:39):
Absolutely, And as you know, Trevor, our era, our Fresno Era,
right here in our area is the third most impoverished
place in the nation according to a study done a
couple of years ago. And so there are tons of
opportunities for the church to rise up. There are about
four hundred churches within the Central Valley. Imagine if each

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and every one of those four hundred churches would engage
and just do something. It doesn't that's scalable. Whether whether
it's a small church, a mid sized church, or a megachurch,
every church can do something. If all four hundred churches
did one thing to be able to help solve the
issues of our area, it would be completely different. You know,
a couple of years ago, we celebrated our eighteen year

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anniversary and we were honored and privileged to have Mayor
Jerry Dyers our church, the church, our church, Life Bridge.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
Community Church Community.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
I started the church twenty years ago with my wife
and we had our eighteen year anniversary just a couple
of years ago, and the mayor came and made this statement, Trevor,
that was a dream that my wife and I had
when we first came to Fresno, and he said this,
if we had more churches in Fresno, like Life Bridge
Community Church, we would not need a police department. And

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I really feel like that if more well, because we
do so much to help people. Because when people do,
when they do things that they should and do. It's probably
because they have lack in their life. Maybe they don't
have enough money, or they don't have the food that
they need or the clothing that they need. But if somehow,
some way, the four hundred churches, and there by the way,
there are tons of really great churches here in Fresno area.

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I'm friends with a lot of them. But if we
had all four hundred churches actively engaging in the brokenness
in the community, we would see transformation on a scale
like we've never seen before.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
So I'm sure you've said this to many people. Is
that what made you sit down and put it into
book form so you can give a blueprint?

Speaker 4 (23:32):
I think so.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
Yeah, it's a blueprint for the city.

Speaker 4 (23:34):
Really, it's it's a blueprint for the city.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
It's blue.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
It's actually it's a nice light blue, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
Yeah it is.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
Yeah, it's a nice light blue.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
And Dodger fans and might say it looks a little
to Toronto blue, Jayish blue, probably, but go ahead.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
Yeah, I'm a Cubs fan, so it's not cubby blue.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah, so good.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
But yeah, I think it's a it's a roadmap for
how local churches can engage in the community, no matter
where they're at. And also so it's not just for churches.
Even though it's directed in some part to churches and pastors,
it could also be appropriate for businesses and nonprofits and
individuals because if the entire idea of the book is

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that everybody's compassion level would raise up. I mean, I
was listening to your show earlier today and just the
sad stories that you were just talking about so incredibly sad.
There's so much brokenness in our culture today. But I
believe one of the big answers to the brokenness is
local churches, people in the communities rising up, having compassion

(24:33):
for each other, and having compassion for the social ills
that we see in our community.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
I'm not going to sit here and act like John
Stewart like I read the book. You know how he would.
I don't know if he ever caught him doing that
act like he read it. Yeah, we've had conversation, We've
emailed back and forth. I just heard you say you
and your wife started it, and I read pastor here Kevin.
I'm sorry. I didn't say pastor Kevin Foster. I just
thought it was author. I'm sorry that I didn't give
you your title.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
Man, Oh that's okay. I just like to go by Kevin.
That's fine. Actually, you know, people in church, you're.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
Like a SIMILEM and David Tongapaul. You guys don't realize
my dad the same. I had to say that. Why
people we like to say doctor, we like to say pastor,
we like to say father. It makes people feel good
to say that they have a relationship with that. I
understand sometimes you want to be off work, so I
get that as well. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (25:21):
Yeah, Actually, people in my church asked me what should
we call you? And when I kind of joke with them,
I just say, you can call me grand poohbab that's fine.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
All right, all right, k money. We need to meet
a need, don't we.

Speaker 4 (25:32):
We really do.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
That's what it's about. We really do. No matter what
country they went in, if you could meet the need,
h then they would you know, listen to you.

Speaker 4 (25:40):
Yeah. Well, actually historically when you find uh, you know,
churches all across the world, especially in areas where where
it's illegal or you get persecuted as a Christian, that
oftentimes the Christians will go into those countries and they'll
lead with like social services like you know, medical supplies,
food supplies. We we have partners over in Sri Lanka,

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where you're actually persecuted for your faith. I've actually had
I had no pastors in Sri Lanka whose houses have
been purned down simply because they have a church. But
this one particular pastor I met earlier this year, even
though he was viewed as kind of a pariah initially,
he started providing food for his community. Now he's known
as a provider, and now that's opened up a door

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for the gospel. That's just incredible And I think, I mean,
it's kind of basic, right, but I think for the
most part, local churches in America have drifted away from that.
So this book is all about getting back to the
main mission of reaching people where they're at, having compassion
for their brokenness, and not avoiding it, but engaging it.
And that's where we feel like the biggest, almost awesome

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miracles can take place as we engage in the brokenness
of others.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
I saw, you know, churches do the video displays of
events that happen that they do, and it was a
back to school event and just meeting that need of
kids that might not have had the cool school supplies.
But suddenly they were just blessed with like arms full. Yeah,
you know, there were so many leftover, like the five
thousand fish and all, you know, the loafs, it was

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extra leftover. It was just amazing to see that out
pouring though, and that joy that it brought. And I'm
sure that then makes a mom or dad be like, hey,
these are good people. What times your service?

Speaker 4 (27:22):
And then they get involved at one thousand percent And
we've seen that happen over the last five years in particular.
And what you kind of highlighted their Trevor is is
that they're providing dignity. They're giving dignity to people because
if we believe each and every human being is created
in the image of God, they're valuable no matter what
their skin color is, no matter what their economic status is.

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We believe each and every person has value. And I
think that's so important to know that we had a
thrill store a few years ago and we had the
opportunity to employ a special needs adult who had never
had a job before. And I remember the day that
our manager handed him his first check he ever earned
in his life, and he just started bawling. Our control Bee,
He's called his mom. He said, please, let me call

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my mom. He called his mom and said, Mom, Mom, Mom,
this is the first time ever I got paid. And
she was on the other end of the line just
crying her heart out to and Trevor. There's nothing like
that in the world. And that's the other thing I
talk about in the book too. So as churches, we
only measure ourselves according to how many people are in
church on Sunday, which is important, but like, can we

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also count the special needs adults that we're giving jobs to?
Can we also count the people that were clothing? Can
we also count the people that we're feeding? And so
there's a chapter in the book talking about changing the
metrics for local churches. The pandemic really, I think, reset
things in so many different ways for local churches, and
it's time that we start counting differently.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
Is your third store still open?

Speaker 4 (28:51):
It's not. Our rent tripled and so we're we've paused.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
It for right now, like every other third story triple
the prices these days.

Speaker 4 (28:58):
Oh man, I'm telling you, it is just insane.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
So everything's going on, even thrift stores are extensively well,
you know.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
The revenue was actually not that bad. But because the
the triple net on the rent tripled, basically we had
to pause it.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
But we are well, did your man get another job
somewhere else?

Speaker 4 (29:16):
He did good? He did, Yeah, he absolutely did. Yeah, yeah,
and that was and that helped him to get on
a really good pathway. But our desire one day is
to have a compassion center, which a thrift store will
be a part of that as well.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
So Pastor Kevin Foster, local author, run to the brokenness,
how your church can be the center of your community.
Sounds like you have the ear of the mayor. I
want to come back with some of the most brokenness
that we see around us. I could probably open the
blinds and we could see some brokenness people and windows.
But the homeless issue the situation, and you have homeless

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and then you have those that just accept it becomes
a lifestyle and they become transients. And I mean, just
what I try and do is when I see him
out there, trying to imagine at one point they were
swaddled in white blanket and as a newborn baby. You know,
God still sees them like that his his children. And

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I think I have to constantly remind myself when I
go into they get a job, you know, over my
air conditioner, yelling in my card. And now these are
God's children in they're boy, they're broken more than anything.
So I want to come back and get your idea
about that for the the blue book, blueprint of our community.

Speaker 5 (30:28):
This is the Trevor Carry Show on the Valley's Power.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Talk Pastor Foster, Kevin Foster. The homeless, the transience, the lifestyle,
the ones that are down and out, the ones that
are addicted, the ones that are mentally inflicted. Boy, that's
some brokenness. What's your what's your message to the city.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
Absolutely? You know, there was a couple of years ago
where a guy in our church came up to me
after service one Sunday and he said, hey, listen, can
I invite that woman that was always asking for money
at the corner across the And at first I said, well,
of course you can, you know, and you know, but
like a lot of us, right where are we really

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comfortable with the homeless individual sitting next to us in
church on Sunday morning? And I said, I said to Mike,
and I said, yeah, absolutely, of course that's why we're here.
We're a church that runs to the brokenness. So to
my surprise, she sat next to him next Sunday and
then after a while, she ends up giving her life

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to the Lord, being completely transformed. An older woman in
our church began to disciple to her, began to mentor her,
talking about life skills, how to get a job. Well,
I'm pleased to tell you that today she has a
job and she now her and her husband now have
an apartment. After twenty years of being on the street
and being addicted to drugs, she now is in her

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own apartment, attending church. And now what she's doing, she's
doing outreach for us in the homeless community, helping other
homeless people.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
It's so beautiful if I'm picking up what you're throwing
down and you're saying, God might be the answer to this.

Speaker 4 (32:02):
Absolutely, absolutely, we really believed that.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
But you know what, and he also you know, whether
you're a missionary over in foreign lands, you can go
into hostile areas. You never knew where that the homeless
lady sitting next she could have pulled out a ballpoint
pen and put it in your neck. It's a risk,
it truly, it truly is. I had a situation where
I was talking to a homeless guy, and he goes,

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do you mind it's kind of chilly. Can I sit down?
Because I was talking to my car window and I
had that moment of of course, you can't. I don't
know who you are. I said, spin around, let me
see what you I don't know you, and he showed
me he had nothing. I said, sit down, and I
think that earned some trust with him, I think. But
I kept my eyes on his hands the entire time

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my car was running, and I was ready to bounce
out the door if I had to.

Speaker 4 (32:52):
We have found that a lot of times homeless individuals
often feel like they're unseen, and so if they can
feel like somebody's given them value and feel like they're seen,
a lot of times that will bring down their walls
of defense.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
I've often thought, what if this whole city, with all
our h what's it called the heart team that goes
out and helps almost what if we just said let's
just focus on one a day. That's right, We're all
everything was poured into one person, like that lady at
your church, we'd have three hundred and sixty five hopefully
cured by the end of one year.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
Well, once again, we have four hundred local churches in
our area. What if what if each one of those
four hundred churches just helped one or two per year,
that's eight hundred. If it's two per year, that's eight
hundred unhoused individuals that now have housing, that now have jobs,
that can now help be transitioned into a life. Because
most of these individuals they grew up that way, that's

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how they were trained. And so I think it's important
to break generational cycles of poverty within people's lives. And
I think a local church is a really good place
for that to take place.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
Well, I think that's the only ones they can do it.
Stay of California can't even account for twenty three billion
of missing money. They think that hey they might be
you know, on ketamine and fetnel, but let's give them
a room. Key, it's backwards. Yeah, you got you got
to heal all that. First.

Speaker 4 (34:08):
Government can't solve all the issues. I think we all
realize that.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
But there can help if they do it the right way.
They're doing that accurately.

Speaker 4 (34:14):
Yeah, if they help resource nonprofits and particularly I believe
faith based nonprofits that can really help. And actually when
they when we find that when government agencies do resource
faith based nonprofits. The success rate is is it's just incredible.
Is off the charts in terms of the ability to
be able to actually help the problem, to help the issue.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
What time do you preach on Sundays?

Speaker 4 (34:34):
Well, we have actually four services?

Speaker 1 (34:36):
So do you do all four?

Speaker 4 (34:37):
No ones in Spanish? I don't know Spanish yet, so
so we have English services at nine o'clock, ten thirty,
twelve thirty in Espanol, and then six pm on Sunday evenings,
which is the same as Sunday morning, because we ran
on a room on Sunday morning.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
Which ones do you preach?

Speaker 4 (34:53):
I preach all the English services? You do a three
hour talk show? Pretty much? Yeah, yeah, it's pretty I'm
pretty I'm dead. Is it different to the world ho
Monday morning?

Speaker 1 (35:04):
Let me ask you this. You talk to people in
front of you, and you're comfortable people in front of me.
That's different than talking on the radio. Are you as
comfortable behind the mike here as you are behind the
pulpit or is it different for you?

Speaker 4 (35:17):
You know what? Actually I really love this.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Yeah, well, you're good at it. I've done a communicator,
I've done a few different interviews.

Speaker 4 (35:23):
I did a podcast interview last week. I've got another
interview coming up next week.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
So where can they get this on? What dates are
coming out?

Speaker 4 (35:30):
So it's actually been released on my website run to
the Brokenness dot com, but also they can pick it
up on Amazon. The release date is October twenty eighth
Amazon dot com. Go to Amazon and pick up easy.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Let's go to Amazon type and run to the broken Ness.
How your church can be the center of your community.
Kevin foster Well. I knew Paul Weffler. He recommends Goodlin's.
It is a good talk, and good to see you
again and congratulations on sitting down and writing.

Speaker 4 (36:01):
Trevor.

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