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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:19,240 If there’s ever a good time to be alive, 2 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:22,080 it’s when you’re a child. 3 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:24,960 The time of dreamers, 4 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:28,600 captains, and clowns, beating hearts. 5 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:35,120 When you’re full of all the curiosity this world deserves. 6 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:39,720 Mama, you drive like a grandma! 7 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:41,600 You don’t know it then, 8 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,480 but the world is simpler. 9 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:47,600 There’s nothing much for a child to worry about. 10 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:50,000 Things just are. 11 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:54,240 And you shine with something you will never have again: 12 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:56,000 innocence. 13 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:58,440 Chante, are you coming? 14 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:03,000 That car ain’t even work, mama. 15 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:12,200 I told you! 16 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:16,880 I remember my own innocence 17 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,000 growing up with my mama and daddy 18 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:23,120 right here in the piney woods of East Texas, 19 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:26,080 where the Lord is easily found. 20 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:28,600 How you all doing this morning? 21 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:30,680 Watch your dress, mama. 22 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:46,080 You comin’, Pookie? 23 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:49,880 Careful... 24 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:54,400 Alright. 25 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:04,520 This place, 26 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:07,640 I have both loved and hated. 27 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:08,600 Yes! 28 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:10,360 I have seen miracles here. 29 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,640 I’ve seen the heights and the depths, 30 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:16,440 virtue born and virtue lost. 31 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:19,320 It was here I was given life, 32 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:21,720 now and hereafter, 33 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:25,960 and it’s where I hope, with all I have within me, 34 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,600 we could give others a chance at it. 35 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:32,640 For all that it is, 36 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:35,280 you’d never know it by its name. 37 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:50,480 Let me hear! 38 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:52,320 Hallelujah! 39 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,480 You might have been put back. 40 00:03:58,360 --> 00:03:59,600 Shut down. 41 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:01,800 Turned out. 42 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:03,800 And tossed over. 43 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:05,480 But you oughta know 44 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:07,720 that my God is able! 45 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:09,600 You oughta know... 46 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:11,760 that He gone get it done! 47 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:13,560 You oughta know 48 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:15,680 that you ain’t gotta beg. 49 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,760 You ain’t gotta come through the side door! 50 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,400 No! You ain’t comin’ through the side door! 51 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:27,880 You ain’t gotta come through the back door! 52 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:30,760 Right? 53 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:33,800 You gonna walk right on through 54 00:04:34,280 --> 00:04:35,800 through that front door! 55 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:37,640 Glory Jesus! 56 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:39,120 Hallelujah! 57 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:43,800 You can call my Jesus on the main line. 58 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:45,720 â™Ș You can call Him on the main line, 59 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:48,040 â™Ș He gonna give ya what you need! 60 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:53,640 I first met WC, 61 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:56,720 years before, right here in Bennett Chapel. 62 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,600 He and his brothers came through singing one week, 63 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:00,960 said he took one look at me, 64 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:03,480 and knew the Lord wanted him to stay. 65 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:06,360 So he did. 66 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:12,040 They made him pastor. 67 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:14,840 We got married there and had two of our children, 68 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:17,040 my precious Princeton 69 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:18,160 and LaDonna. 70 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:20,440 You know Joe brought them ribs today, pastor. 71 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:22,240 You know they boiled then. 72 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:24,240 I can’t have me no boiled ribs. 73 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:27,160 You know what? Just give ‘em to the kids. 74 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:31,920 Now, Prince was deprived of oxygen during delivery, 75 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:35,800 so he’s goin’ be my baby from here on. 76 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:40,760 I want me some more grandbabies. 77 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:41,880 Mama, I can’t! 78 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:43,680 You can’t or you won’t? 79 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,880 Why you can’t? I want some more grandbabies. 80 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:48,200 Just let this go. 81 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:50,280 Look, the two I got feel like 10 82 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:51,640 and they need all of me. 83 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:52,856 Two babies. That’s cute. 84 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:54,720 You ain’t even got started yet... 85 00:05:54,840 --> 00:05:56,360 With all I do... 86 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:01,320 Hello? Yes, Reverend, she here. Hold on. 87 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:03,600 Hey! 88 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:04,920 There you are! 89 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:06,416 I spent all my change looking for you. 90 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:07,720 Must’ve called the whole county. 91 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,800 I know, been rippin’ and runnin’. How’d it go? 92 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:12,800 No sale. 93 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:14,640 But good news, 94 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:17,200 I got another couple wanna meet later this week. 95 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:19,360 That one’s gonna close, mark my words. 96 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:20,440 That’s right... 97 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:22,560 Anyway, I’m in town in case you need somethin’. 98 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:23,920 Nothin’ I can think of. 99 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:25,680 You sure? I’m at the store right now. 100 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:26,680 Yeah, I’m sure. 101 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:28,840 Alright then now. You got my love. 102 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:31,320 I love you. Oh! Toothpaste. 103 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:32,120 Come again? 104 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:34,320 Yeah, we need some toothpaste and soap powder. 105 00:06:34,840 --> 00:06:36,520 See? It’s a good thing I called. 106 00:06:36,840 --> 00:06:38,160 Oh! And lady things. 107 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:41,120 Lady things? I gotta get the lady things? 108 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:42,800 I am a pastor, you know. 109 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:45,400 The cashier might just come to Jesus 110 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:49,000 if she sees you buying lady things for your First Lady. 111 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:50,760 Oh! And get some cereal too. 112 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:52,880 Lord have mercy! Ok. 113 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:54,200 Bye! 114 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:55,040 Alright. Bye. 115 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:56,160 Bye. 116 00:06:57,960 --> 00:06:59,760 You got him buy your lady things? 117 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:01,320 Then he threw that phone 118 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:02,720 halfway across the parking lot. 119 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:07,440 Ok. Call me later, right? Bye. Alright. 120 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:10,840 You ask any of us, and we’d say the same: 121 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:13,320 there was no one like Mama. 122 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:16,080 She raised up 18 children 123 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,520 in an old broken-down shack in the woods, 124 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:22,160 made of scrap wood and tin. 125 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:25,920 Back where you knew you were rich if your roof didn’t leak. 126 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:31,760 But I never had so little and not noticed in all my life. 127 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:34,680 Lord, she watched out for her kids. 128 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,080 Yes, Lord, bless Zachariah. 129 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:40,800 Help ‘em all to be strong children, oh God. 130 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,200 Be obedient, oh God. 131 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:45,640 Bless her, Jesus. 132 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:47,840 Bless her, oh God. 133 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:56,600 Down to the deepest part of my soul, 134 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:00,000 I know the Lord is good. 135 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:03,520 But when your world is shaken, 136 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:07,280 and it all falls down around you, 137 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:10,680 and you plead with Him to stop it, 138 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:12,720 but He don’t... 139 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:19,840 you forget that He is ever present. 140 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:22,360 Oh, Jesus. 141 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:47,880 Mama! 142 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,440 Mama! 143 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:09,640 You know the day will come, 144 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:12,520 but you never expect when it arrives. 145 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:15,480 So, to me, 146 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:18,760 mama left us without warning. 147 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:21,880 I had my loving husband, my family, 148 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,480 and countless cousins and siblings. 149 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,120 I had the Lord above. 150 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:30,240 But my anchor was gone. 151 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:31,960 Pulled up, 152 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:36,520 and I felt the wild tides of grief rise around me. 153 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:40,720 Murtha Lee Grisby Cartwright. 154 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:43,280 A mother of mothers, 155 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,600 her sweet soul suddenly flew from this earth 156 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:51,080 and rose on to that sweet by-and-by. 157 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:59,920 Knowing I would see her on those shores was no comfort. 158 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:03,360 It’s just something you feel you can’t wait on. 159 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:07,160 But there was still more for me here than I knew. 160 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:09,360 For I had not carefully considered 161 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:11,480 that the way things ought to be, 162 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:14,560 is not how they are, often enough. 163 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:16,400 911, what’s your emergency? 164 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:19,800 Police? I need you to help my mommy. 165 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:21,416 What’s your name, sweetie? 166 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:23,400 Um, it’s Mercedes. 167 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:27,240 He’s doing something bad to her. 168 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:29,840 Why you do it? Where’s my money? 169 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:31,400 I know you used it! 170 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:35,760 Just stay on the phone with me, okay? 171 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:38,240 How old are you? Mercedes? 172 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:40,400 Huh? What you mean why? 173 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:42,160 Mercedes? 174 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:45,040 I’m six. Are you almost here? 175 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:46,800 We’re sending someone right now. 176 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:49,440 Does the man have a gun? Does he have a weapon? 177 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,600 Mercedes? Mercedes? Are you still there? 178 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:53,600 Maybe I’ll go ask baby girl. 179 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:54,736 Why would I do that?! 180 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:56,120 Don’t hurt her! 181 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,200 He’s doing something bad to her again. 182 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:02,320 Where’s my money? Do you think I’m playing with you? 183 00:12:03,560 --> 00:12:04,320 Stop it! 184 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:05,800 Mercedes, stay with me... 185 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:07,296 I need you to come over here. 186 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:08,160 We’re on our way, sweetie. 187 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:09,776 But, I need you to get somewhere safe, okay. 188 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:11,200 I want you to hide somewhere. 189 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:12,880 I’m not asking you again. 190 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:15,040 - Mama! - Give me my money! 191 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:16,336 - Are you still there? - Yes. 192 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:22,920 I need you to help my mama! 193 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:36,936 Princeton needs help. 194 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:41,760 Oh, mama, Princeton needs your help. 195 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:44,440 Mama. 196 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:48,840 Mama. Mama! 197 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:50,640 LaDonna! Turn off the burner. 198 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:52,120 Sorry! You told me that... 199 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:54,080 I know what I told you to do. You burnt it! 200 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:56,040 Hold on, Princeton! 201 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:57,920 Mama can’t be there every minute you call her. 202 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:00,336 Just... Just... Go finish the greens. Go finish the greens. 203 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:01,696 Daddy, Prince needs your help. 204 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:04,256 Mama’s on the way in there, Princeton! 205 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:05,576 No! Your daddy will be there, ok? 206 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,240 He could wipe your ass for once... Oh! 207 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:09,760 Really, Donna? 208 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:16,440 Princeton, Princeton! 209 00:13:17,560 --> 00:13:20,960 Princeton! Princeton! Son, son. Princeton. 210 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:24,400 Alright, alright, baby! Ok. Mama’s here. Mama’s here. 211 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:26,360 I’m not mad at you. I’m sorry I got mad at you. 212 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:27,840 I’m sorry I yelled, baby. 213 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:29,680 I shouldn’t use the bad word, ok. 214 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:33,280 Alright. I’m sorry. I’m sorry, baby. 215 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:35,200 Ok. 216 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:39,240 We ok. Ok? 217 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:44,320 We’re all good now, see? See? 218 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:46,520 We all good now. 219 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:49,840 Let me see you. Ok. 220 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:55,520 Sit on down. Hold on to this. Hold on. 221 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:58,760 I’ll be right back. Give me a minute. 222 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:02,520 What is going on? 223 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,320 I can’t shake it, WC. It won’t go. 224 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:11,600 I prayed. 225 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:15,400 I cursed it. I put oil all over myself. I did everything. 226 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:31,760 It’s ok, Prince. It’s okay, it’s alright. I got you. 227 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:39,920 What your mama meant to you is a good thing. 228 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:42,320 And nobody knows that... 229 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:44,720 WC... 230 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:57,160 Oh, Donna... 231 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,200 I’m sorry. 232 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:01,000 I’m fine, 233 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:03,040 people pass on. 234 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:05,960 I just need you to stay with the kids. 235 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:10,960 I’ll clean up when I get back. 236 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:00,200 Mama! Jesus, take this from me... 237 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:05,480 Please, take it away from me or just take me home. 238 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:11,360 Just take me home. 239 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:49,920 It’s strange how He speaks 240 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:52,040 without words, 241 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:54,280 but still... 242 00:16:57,160 --> 00:16:58,840 you know. 243 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:13,600 Yes, I am too. Ok, I look forward to it. 244 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:15,240 Hey, mama. Hey, baby. 245 00:17:15,360 --> 00:17:17,280 Hey, WC. 246 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:19,680 You doing alright? 247 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:21,480 Just a couple things I might have to... 248 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:23,240 quit around here... 249 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:26,680 Hey, Diann, it’s me. 250 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:27,920 You free Wednesday night? 251 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:30,040 I want you to come with me to a class. 252 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:32,480 An adoption orientation. 253 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:36,400 ‘Cause I’m thinkin’ ‘bout adopting some kids. 254 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:39,160 Reverend, look... 255 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:40,480 I’m talking to him right now. 256 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,320 Just come on over later and I’ll fill you in. Bye. 257 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:45,440 Adoption? 258 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:48,040 You want to adopt kids? Like human ones? 259 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:49,160 I’m thinkin’ on it. 260 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:51,400 Donna, you ain’t got to do all of that. 261 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:53,520 Look, why don’t you go and start the garden again? 262 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:54,976 Or something, that’ll ease your mind. 263 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:56,400 That there is relaxing. 264 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:58,280 I don’t need to relax. 265 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:00,720 Was that the call? You just put the call in? 266 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:02,360 Look, it’s just orientation. 267 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:04,280 Oh my Lord Jesus, help me. 268 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:06,920 How are we gonna do this with all we got already going on? 269 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:08,560 You’re barely holding on as it is. 270 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:10,256 How are we gonna do all this with Princeton? 271 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:12,680 I just said I’m letting some things go. 272 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:15,040 If it’s something we ought to do. 273 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:17,440 Why don’t we just get you down to the pound 274 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:19,320 and adopt a little puppy? 275 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:21,600 Maybe one of those cute little baby kittens. 276 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:22,720 He spoke to me! 277 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:25,200 They might even have one of those little tiny horses... 278 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:27,440 No! The Lord spoke to me. 279 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:28,720 Who did? 280 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:32,120 The Lord spoke to me. 281 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,360 He does speak, don’t He? 282 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:37,920 Oh, yeah. He speaks. He’s speaking to me. 283 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:39,440 WC, I’m serious. 284 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:43,800 I’m serious too, Donna. We cannot adopt children! 285 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:50,560 WC, 286 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:57,360 I couldn’t go another day like I was. You understand? 287 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:00,480 I didn’t want to be here no more. 288 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:03,600 But something happened back at Mama’s today. 289 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:06,240 He took the depression. 290 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:10,840 It’s gone! It’s gone! 291 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:16,680 I want to love like Mama did. I... 292 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:20,600 I want to be for them, what she was to me. 293 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:23,240 Hm? 294 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:25,400 Look, 295 00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:28,320 I know you gotta want this with me, 296 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:32,040 but I at least need to hear about it. 297 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:34,760 See what it’s going to take. 298 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:37,200 I don’t see it. 299 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:50,320 There never was gonna be any trial run at it. 300 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:52,080 We ain’t given that. 301 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:55,040 We can look away, but the Father of us all, 302 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:57,200 He uses one-way streets, 303 00:19:57,320 --> 00:19:59,880 because we are not meant to turn back, 304 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,280 no matter what you see down there. 305 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:04,920 This is a big job, 306 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:06,840 and it’s important to have the skills 307 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:08,600 and the knowledge you need... 308 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:09,840 Ok... 309 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:11,480 Let’s move on. 310 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:14,360 I’m not supposed to 311 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:17,160 take pictures at work, 312 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:20,120 but sometimes I do. 313 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:22,000 It’s hard to feel like... 314 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:24,560 I’m the only one who sees these things. 315 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:30,640 This is the temporary home of a single mom 316 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,040 and her five and seven-year-old girls. 317 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:37,160 They missed school because her mother was evicted 318 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:38,840 because she lost her job. 319 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:41,760 I found them here doing a welfare investigation, 320 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:44,520 and they sent me to remove the kids. 321 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,000 She gave me these 322 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:51,080 when she was trying to keep me from taking her children. 323 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:59,600 This family had bed bugs for months. 324 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:02,440 They couldn’t afford the $523 payment 325 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:04,400 to get rid of the bed bugs, 326 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:06,880 or get new bedding and sheets, 327 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,400 so I was sent there to remove the kids. 328 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:12,880 70% of the kids we have in the system 329 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:16,040 are there because of poverty-related neglect. 330 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,080 Most of what we do would be 331 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:21,840 unnecessary if somebody would just help these families. 332 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:24,280 The other 30%... 333 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:27,520 need homes because their parents are dangerous 334 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,160 and they put their kids through hell. 335 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:32,880 Kids like these. 336 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:38,000 So this is a seven-year-old boy. 337 00:21:38,120 --> 00:21:41,280 We found him in a crack house. 338 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:45,520 We were able to place him in a good home. 339 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:49,200 This was a girl 340 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:53,040 who was pimped out by her mother. 341 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:55,280 We were not able to save her. 342 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:58,840 It’s like driving by an accident. 343 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:03,600 You see the twisted metal and shattered glass everywhere. 344 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:07,760 Then you see the victims lying in that wreckage... 345 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:11,160 mothers, fathers, the children. 346 00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:14,240 The real devastation. 347 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:16,400 When that hits you, 348 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,440 you can’t just drive by. 349 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:30,480 You are here because 350 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,240 the Department of Protective and Regulatory Services 351 00:22:33,360 --> 00:22:34,240 can’t stop this. 352 00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:36,440 And we need your help. 353 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:44,680 I like her. 354 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,760 Pastries, coffee, we love questions. 355 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:51,200 What are you thinkin’ on? 356 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,040 I’m thinkin’ 357 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,120 you might not be as crazy as I thought you was. 358 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:58,560 Maybe we both is. 359 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:02,160 But I don’t feel like it. 360 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,400 I can’t even keep a husband around. 361 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:06,200 Uh-uh, girl! 362 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,400 Don’t take the blame for that man. 363 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:10,280 I don’t know. But I... 364 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:15,600 I can’t just sit back and moral support you after all that. 365 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:19,440 I can’t. 366 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:22,240 Terri! 367 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,200 Hey, Terri! Are you in there? 368 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:31,000 Terri, are you in there? 369 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:54,400 Yeah. Yeah, no foster mom. Well, I can’t wait here all day. 370 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:56,920 Yeah. No, I did. I did. 371 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,520 I mean, if she is, she’s not answering it. 372 00:24:01,360 --> 00:24:03,320 Ok, she’s here. I’ll call you back. 373 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:07,360 Miss Nolan. 374 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,840 I’ve been here two hours. That is simply unacceptable. 375 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,080 I don’t control the bus schedule. 376 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:14,680 What do you want me to do? 377 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:16,080 I’m here for Terri. 378 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:18,480 What?! One missed appointment. 379 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:20,040 You’ve missed five! 380 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,760 And she wasn’t in school either, so where is she? 381 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,080 Is she home alone?! 382 00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:31,640 Most people work if you haven’t noticed. 383 00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:34,440 I can’t take her everywhere. 384 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:36,720 She’s absolutely fine. 385 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,200 Probably made a mess of everything though. 386 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:44,320 Terri! Terri? Terri?! 387 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:46,120 See? What did I say? 388 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:47,320 Are you here? 389 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,320 Look at this mess. Now I need to hire a maid. 390 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,040 Family Services needs to pay for this. 391 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,120 Terri? 392 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:10,840 Hey, Terri. What do you say we get out of here? 393 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:12,280 Can I take the kitty? 394 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,360 No, sweetie. I’m sorry. 395 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,800 But we should probably gather your things, yeah? 396 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:24,320 Oh, here. Use this. That’s for trash. 397 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:30,560 Hey, did you hear me knocking out there? 398 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,120 No. 399 00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:33,640 Ok. 400 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,200 Where are we going now? Can I go home with you? 401 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:41,480 You know I wish you could. 402 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,720 But you are going to a family this time. 403 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:49,760 Hey, I’m glad to be talking to you and not the kitty. 404 00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:58,816 Oh, no, no, no! Hey, hey, hey! 405 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:00,800 You can’t take those toys. They’re my grandkids’. 406 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,080 No! Give him back! He’s mine! 407 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:04,240 Hey, hey, hey! Hey! 408 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,256 Those were bought with county funds. She can take those. 409 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,080 No, she can’t! That’s my hard-earned money, 410 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,000 so she can leave those here. 411 00:26:10,120 --> 00:26:13,960 That girl has big problems you have no idea. 412 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:17,560 Some kind of chemical imbalance or neurolastic issues. 413 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:21,360 She thinks she’s a cat, for God’s sake! 414 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:26,360 Neuro-elastic? That’s very perspicuous insight. 415 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,200 - I’d love to hear more. - More what? 416 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:30,920 Of your perspective. 417 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:32,960 What do you think her problem is? 418 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:35,880 She’s a mess, I don’t know. 419 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,280 So, neutral operants? 420 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,680 What about successive approximations 421 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:42,360 with reinforcements? 422 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,120 Positive and negative? 423 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:46,280 Or classical conditioning through 424 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,800 systematic desensitization? 425 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:50,720 What the hell are you talking about? 426 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,040 Oh, did I lose you? 427 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:59,520 I think Terri’s problem is mostly environmental. 428 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,640 Repeated exposure to terrible things. 429 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,960 Like hateful old hags. Are you with me now? 430 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:07,800 I don’t believe you. 431 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,600 It’s a conditioned response. 432 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:12,760 Everybody has one. 433 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,440 What do you say we take those toys? 434 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:18,856 Why are we taking this all the way out here? 435 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:20,536 Diann, you are asking too many questions. 436 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:21,600 I just don’t understand. 437 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:22,720 Just set it over there. 438 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:24,480 Ok, we will... wait a minute. - Slow down. 439 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:26,480 Alright. Set it right here. 440 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:28,480 Yeah. Ok. 441 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:32,240 Oh! It’s WC. He can’t find these. Hm-hm. 442 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:36,640 LaDonna! 443 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:37,800 Where is your mama? 444 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:39,296 But he doesn’t know about this? 445 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,040 These are just in case. 446 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:45,000 No, Donna. No, no. You are way down this road already. 447 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:47,000 And he’s just gonna see this when he comes here. 448 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:48,776 His tools are here. He ain’t comin’ in here. 449 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:50,720 Unless he sees us. 450 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:52,480 You need to tell him. 451 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,560 Girl, it has been a while since you had a man. 452 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:57,680 Look, don’t you know we’re on broil, 453 00:27:57,800 --> 00:27:58,600 men are on simmer? 454 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:00,400 Yeah, that is not how it was for me. 455 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:01,680 Oh! Diann! 456 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,360 I’m talkin’ about the things they don’t want. 457 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,640 Sometimes you know you got to do what they don’t want 458 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:07,800 before they know about it. 459 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,160 And when they finally warm up to it, 460 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:11,560 you didn’t waste no time. 461 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:12,760 Donna... 462 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,520 you think he’s just gonna warm up to somethin’ like this? 463 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:17,680 You’re talking crazy. 464 00:28:31,360 --> 00:28:34,640 Can you imagine LaDonna or Prince on their own? 465 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:38,560 If nobody took them in? 466 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,480 We really gotta talk about that right now? 467 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:46,896 Why don’t you go and stop fiddling with that head scarf 468 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:48,720 and come over here, woman? 469 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:51,920 How romantic of you. 470 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,480 Oh, you want romance? 471 00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:57,680 I can do that. 472 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:00,480 Since when? 473 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:08,640 I’m about to show you romance right now. 474 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:10,160 Hm... 475 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,720 I’ll start with a little poetry. 476 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:28,080 Oh. No. Please, don’t, WC. 477 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:29,800 Song of Solomon, 478 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,440 behold “you are fair, my love. 479 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:35,840 Your hair is like a flock of goats.” 480 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,800 A flock of goats? 481 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,440 Hm-hm, yeah. It gets nice in the end. I know you. 482 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,280 “Your waist,” my dove, 483 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,760 “your waist is like a heap of wheat.” 484 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:49,400 A heap of what? 485 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:50,520 Wheat. 486 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:52,480 See, that’s a compliment in the Bible! 487 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:54,880 Heaps of wheat are smooth 488 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:58,320 and desirable. 489 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,440 They’re big, is what they are. 490 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:03,920 Hm. 491 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,120 How can we not do something? 492 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:14,320 Hm-hm... 493 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:19,640 WC! 494 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:25,416 ’Cause you and me ain’t got no idea 495 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:26,520 what to do with all that. 496 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,440 You need to speak for yourself. 497 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,280 I mean, is that how you feel about what I do? 498 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,720 You don’t never wanna face nothin’, woman. 499 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,760 Now these are somebody else’s children. 500 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,200 We don’t know what we gon’ do. 501 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:43,760 We’re lucky that we doin’ our own children like we do. 502 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,320 I’ve never seen you so scared. 503 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:51,760 Look at me. What’s the matter? 504 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,640 Look at me. What’s the matter? Hm? 505 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,240 Is He speaking to you? 506 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,720 Is He speaking? 507 00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:30,240 Donna! 508 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:32,400 - Hey, I’m in here! - Donna! 509 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,520 They got a child for me. 510 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,160 It turns out you can’t wave too much trouble 511 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,800 in front of my sister before she jumps out of her chair 512 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:43,760 and does something about it. 513 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,320 Her heart is just too big. 514 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:48,960 So she went and beat us to it 515 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,560 and took in a child of her own. 516 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:57,120 Diann! He looks just like you. 517 00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:58,320 Oh! 518 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,720 Hi, Nino. I’m your auntie Brenda. 519 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,120 I’m married to her, so I’m your uncle Chewy. 520 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:04,240 Like Star Wars. 521 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:05,400 He’s Mexican. 522 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,040 Yeah, you have a Mexican Wookiee for an uncle now! 523 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:09,440 Come on. 524 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,720 Good morning, baby. Welcome to the family. 525 00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:17,440 Hi, baby. How you doing? You’re so handsome. 526 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:19,160 I appreciate you. You’re so sweet. 527 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,200 Hi. You’re so cute. I’m your auntie Gladys. 528 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:24,320 Auntie Gladys. 529 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:25,920 And I’m your aunt, Donna. 530 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:28,440 We are so happy to finally meet you. 531 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,240 You got you a good mama right here. 532 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:34,000 Who’s this young man? 533 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,320 Looking all sharp in this here suit? 534 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:37,640 Alright, now. 535 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:39,360 What’s your name, son? - Nino. 536 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:41,280 Nino. 537 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,960 I’m your uncle. I’m Pastor Martin. 538 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:48,840 That’s right. 539 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,360 The Lord heard you, Nino. 540 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,200 The Lord heard this child! 541 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:56,536 Oh, yeah! Yeah! 542 00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,000 Our God is a good God! 543 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:00,200 He’s worthy to be praised! 544 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:01,880 He’s the father to the fatherless. 545 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:03,520 He’s a mother to the motherless 546 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,360 He’s a doctor when you need Him. 547 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:06,920 Show Him some praise! 548 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:08,200 What we doing? 549 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:09,720 What we doing? 550 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,280 Our God is good! All the time! 551 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,400 All the time! Glory, hallelujah! 552 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:17,520 Let’s sing. 553 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,160 â™Ș Soon and very soon... 554 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,760 â™Ș Soon and very soon... 555 00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:46,696 - First Lady. - Hey! 556 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:48,296 - How you doing? - I’m good, how are you? 557 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:49,640 That’s good. Doing well, sweetie. 558 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:53,000 Listen, I’ve been thinking about Diann 559 00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,200 and what you all are doing here. 560 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:57,000 It can get really hard. 561 00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:58,200 Hm-hm. Hm-hm. 562 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,520 I had two cousins that were adopted. 563 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:02,920 I didn’t know that. 564 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:05,480 One made life so miserable for my aunt and uncle, 565 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:07,520 they had to send him back. 566 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,040 The other ended up in prison. 567 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:11,960 It didn’t end well. 568 00:34:12,240 --> 00:34:14,440 You need to be very careful 569 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,560 what you encourage, First Lady. 570 00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:21,360 We can’t just... look away. 571 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,280 Hello, Mr. Sanchez. This is Susan Ramsey from DPRS. 572 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:41,360 I’m trying to find a place for two children. 573 00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,320 Would you be willing to take... 574 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:48,200 No, I understand. No, that’s ok. 575 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,080 Thank you for everything you do. 576 00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,560 Hi, Rachel. It’s Susan. 577 00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,680 Could you and Tom accommodate an emergency placement? 578 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:04,240 Two kids. 579 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,720 The girl is seven years old and her brother is three. 580 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:10,720 Really? 581 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:14,960 Ah, no, I don’t want to split them up. 582 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,800 Ok. Ok. You know, I gotta go. Ok. Thank you, bye. 583 00:35:29,240 --> 00:35:31,160 As long as possible. 584 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:32,880 One night? 585 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,560 Ok, I may have to take it. I’ll call you back. 586 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:38,600 Still nothing? 587 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:39,720 No. 588 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,280 Well, the O’Brians were just certified. 589 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:43,960 Hm, they want a baby. 590 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,560 Well, bless their hearts. 591 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,600 What about the Martins? They’d take siblings. 592 00:35:49,720 --> 00:35:50,800 You should call them! 593 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:52,440 Or I could just punch ’em in the face. 594 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,720 Come on, Jo-beth! Two of our hardest right off the bat. No. 595 00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,560 You should call them, seriously. They can do it. 596 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:01,960 I gotta go. I’ll see you tomorrow. 597 00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:03,720 Hm. Come back with better ideas! 598 00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:05,880 I guess you’re gonna be up all night! 599 00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:17,680 Hey. 600 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:19,160 Anything yet? 601 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:20,720 Just one night. 602 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,520 I’m sorry. What you gonna do? 603 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,000 I’m considering the Martins. 604 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:27,320 Really? 605 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:30,040 Yeah, I would take them home with me, but 606 00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:32,000 I have drinking to do. 607 00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:34,080 After my fight with Peter. 608 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:35,960 Are you guys ok? 609 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:37,920 I have no idea. 610 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,280 You scared? 611 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,480 I think they’re here. 612 00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:12,640 Donna? 613 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:21,200 Come on! 614 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:22,760 Come on, let’s go! 615 00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:26,600 Let me out. 616 00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:36,640 Look at you! 617 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:39,360 Look at this child... 618 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:47,440 Tyler. 619 00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,160 You’re gonna be my little boy, now. 620 00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:04,360 Mercedes... 621 00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,040 Are you coming out? No, OK... 622 00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:09,240 What’s going on? 623 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:16,120 Hey, Susan. 624 00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:18,440 Are you sure these people want us? 625 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,240 Oh, sweetheart. I know they do. 626 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:25,040 What if they’re not nice to us? 627 00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,880 Do you see Miss Martin? 628 00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:33,000 She just told me that she knows you’re her little girl. 629 00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:34,240 She did? 630 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,280 Yeah. She did... 631 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:40,640 OK? 632 00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,480 OK. Let’s do this. 633 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:49,680 My precious Mercedes. 634 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:51,640 I’m so happy to see you. 635 00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,760 My name is Donna, but you can call me Mama. 636 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:56,080 Hi, Mama. 637 00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:57,800 Oh, come on. 638 00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:00,040 Is this my bed? 639 00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:01,560 No. That’s your bed over there. 640 00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,320 Alright, bouncy boy. Settle down. 641 00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:06,160 Take your shirt off. 642 00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,400 I get this one. Oh, hey. 643 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:14,640 â™Ș One morning soon... 644 00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,040 Lord Jesus. 645 00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:26,320 Hey, Tyler. 646 00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:30,840 â™Ș One morning soon, 647 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:35,240 one morning soon, 648 00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:40,000 â™Ș I heard the angels singing 649 00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,480 Oh, you’re so sweet, baby. 650 00:39:43,240 --> 00:39:44,600 OK. 651 00:39:44,720 --> 00:39:47,440 Now I’m gonna run the tub, OK? 652 00:39:51,720 --> 00:39:54,480 No, no, no, no! 653 00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:58,360 Leave me alone! No! I don’t want to! No, no! 654 00:39:58,480 --> 00:39:59,640 Nobody’s gonna hurt you, OK? 655 00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,080 What’s the matter? What’s going on, baby? 656 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:03,800 No 657 00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:05,856 Hey, hey, hey. Hey. What’s the matter? What’s wrong? 658 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,160 I turned on the water and he just fell apart. 659 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:09,440 Lord Jesus. 660 00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:11,360 Tyler, that’s OK. That’s OK. 661 00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:14,160 Hey. Hey. That’s OK. 662 00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,160 Come, come. Come here. Come here. 663 00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:20,440 I got you. I got you. 664 00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:22,080 Baby, we’re not gonna hurt you. 665 00:40:23,240 --> 00:40:25,760 Mama got you. OK, you don’t have to take a bath. OK? 666 00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:27,160 We love you, baby boy. 667 00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,560 We just welcomed two new children 668 00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:16,160 into our family. 669 00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:20,160 You know, that’s worth the praise right there. 670 00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:22,760 That’s worth the praise. 671 00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:29,120 The other night I was holding my new son, 672 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:34,640 in my arms, and he was trembling and flailing, 673 00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,000 terrified 674 00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,880 at just the thought in his little mind 675 00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,200 of hot water in the bathtub. 676 00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:46,200 And I couldn’t calm him down. 677 00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:49,280 I couldn’t take that fear. 678 00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:51,120 Nothin’ I could do. 679 00:41:51,240 --> 00:41:55,920 Church, it’s time that we put our eyes on the children 680 00:41:58,240 --> 00:41:59,240 that ain’t got nobody. 681 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,880 That’s right. That’s right. Amen! 682 00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:05,320 I know it ain’t easy. 683 00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:06,720 I hear all the time. 684 00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,600 “But Pastor, 685 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:16,040 kids like these, they gonna cause me some problems.” 686 00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:20,080 Well, yeah. Alright. Yeah. 687 00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:22,880 Well, ain’t you cause some problems too? 688 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:28,680 Yeah! Oh, yeah! That’s right. That’s right. Preach! 689 00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:30,480 “But Preacher, 690 00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,800 I don’t have enough money to be adopting no kids.” 691 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:35,040 Hm. 692 00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:37,640 Well Joseph adopted the Son of God, 693 00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:41,680 and had Jesus born right there in a manger, 694 00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:45,240 right next to a pile of manure. 695 00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:47,760 And He did alright! 696 00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,920 Yeah? Right... Amen! Yes, He did! Amen! Amen. 697 00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:53,200 “But Reverend, 698 00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:56,240 I don’t wanna make no big old stinkin’ mess. 699 00:42:57,240 --> 00:43:00,880 I ain’t gotta take care of somebody else’s problem, do I?” 700 00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:02,936 In Jesus’ name! Amen! 701 00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:04,320 And what I say to that is: 702 00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:05,840 “Pharaoh’s daughter 703 00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:08,720 took the redeemer of slaves and pulled him up 704 00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:12,520 right out of the murky banks of the Nile river... 705 00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,920 And set Moses right there in her home as if 706 00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:18,360 he was her own son! 707 00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:20,320 So why we’re not doing the same?! 708 00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:23,680 We fill up church houses like this all over the place. 709 00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:25,200 Every Sunday. 710 00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:27,560 And we praise Jesus in them. 711 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:30,640 We praise the Lord, alright? 712 00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,680 But if we can’t wrap our arms around 713 00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:35,240 the most vulnerable amongst us, 714 00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:36,720 then what do we have?! 715 00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:38,440 What do we have? 716 00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:43,120 Noise! Noise! Noise! Noise! 717 00:43:43,240 --> 00:43:46,200 Noise! Noise! Noise! Noise! That’s what we have. 718 00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:47,640 Noise! 719 00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:54,520 And the children can’t take the noise anymore. 720 00:43:54,640 --> 00:44:02,640 Amen! Amen, man! 721 00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:05,360 And I looked. 722 00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,760 Lord knows I looked. I looked Donna. 723 00:44:10,240 --> 00:44:13,440 I looked, but I can’t find 724 00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:16,040 where He say our life gonna be easy. 725 00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:20,520 And I can’t find it ’cause He ain’t never said it. 726 00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:22,600 What He said is 727 00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,480 count it all joy... 728 00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:28,560 Count it all joy when you 729 00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:30,240 run into trouble. 730 00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:32,280 You know what real religion is? 731 00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:34,040 We got real religion when we visit 732 00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:36,520 the orphans and the widows in their distress. 733 00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:40,120 That’s what it is. And that’s what it says in the Book. 734 00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:42,720 Now, I’m askin’ you... 735 00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:46,480 Right now! 736 00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:51,680 Will you join with us? 737 00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:57,200 Will you take a little hand in yours 738 00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:09,280 Will you help us lift a child out of the river? 739 00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:17,080 Alright! Preach, preach! We can do it! 740 00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:22,160 Bring them up! Bring them up! Bring them up! Bring them up! 741 00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:24,040 That’s right! Bring them up! 742 00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:28,760 Pull them up! Pull them up! Pull them up! 743 00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:32,400 Jo-beth! 744 00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:34,040 Sorry, I’m sorry! 745 00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,520 Jo-beth! Come here! 746 00:45:36,720 --> 00:45:39,080 First Lady and Reverend say that 747 00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:41,360 22 families want to adopt. 748 00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,360 The whole town. Whole town wants kids now. 749 00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:47,016 Are you kidding? That’s about right. 750 00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:49,000 But the training’s a problem. 751 00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:51,160 Most folks can’t make it all this way. 752 00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:52,480 So we’re hoping that 753 00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:54,640 you can do the classes at the church instead, 754 00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:56,880 Yeah? Yes. Of course. I can get... 755 00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:00,080 I will get baptized for 22 families. 756 00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:06,240 But we’re also here to ask to takin’ in another child. 757 00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:07,840 Really? 758 00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:08,840 Hm-hm. 759 00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:11,000 Things are going that well with Mercedes and Tyler? 760 00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:14,040 Hey, it really don’t matter how things are goin’. 761 00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:15,480 And I got to ask, hm. 762 00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:20,520 The kids... we want the ones that nobody else want. 763 00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:22,160 - Hm. - Wow. 764 00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,400 Well, we definitely need help with Intensive Level, 765 00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:25,600 our older kids. 766 00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:29,240 What about the Santiago boys or Terri? 767 00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:30,960 Oh Terri? Jo-beth, no. 768 00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:33,040 Who’s Terri? 769 00:46:34,240 --> 00:46:37,120 Hm, Terri is a 12-year-old girl 770 00:46:37,240 --> 00:46:39,280 who’s been in care for three years. 771 00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:43,240 She’s with a good family now, but they just gave notice. 772 00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:45,200 It’s been tough finding a permanent placement. 773 00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:46,560 We’ll take her. 774 00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:47,960 Reverend, First Lady, 775 00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:50,200 I want this to be a good experience for you. 776 00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:51,720 There are so many other kids 777 00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:53,280 that would be much easier to handle. 778 00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:54,760 Well, we’ll let... 779 00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:56,680 somebody else take care of those children. 780 00:46:57,320 --> 00:47:00,840 No. No. Terri is not a good fit. 781 00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:04,360 All these people that you say are watching you... 782 00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:07,240 What happens when it doesn’t work out with Terri? 783 00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:09,400 I see a lot of children coming back to me. 784 00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:11,080 Susan, 785 00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:15,480 this is something that we must do. 786 00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:17,600 You understand? 787 00:47:17,720 --> 00:47:20,160 Religious guilt can’t fix the broken child’s heart. 788 00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:22,080 Love can. 789 00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:24,800 Real, determined love. 790 00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:26,440 I have to pick up the pieces. 791 00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:29,320 When all the lovey-dovey is gone, the real world hits hard. 792 00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:31,120 It don’t matter. 793 00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:33,800 The state ain’t no family. 794 00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:47,560 We don’t know the full extent of the trauma, 795 00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:52,080 but her mother is an addict and may have pimped her out. 796 00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:54,480 Her boyfriend raped 797 00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:57,960 and tortured Terri and left her in a ditch. 798 00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:02,120 Her mother subsequently smothered Terri’s older sister. 799 00:48:02,240 --> 00:48:04,920 She has attachment issues, 800 00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:07,960 manic episodes, and can resort to some pretty... 801 00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:09,200 Unusual... 802 00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:10,360 Hm, 803 00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:13,360 unusual coping mechanisms. 804 00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:15,760 She pretends that she’s a cat. 805 00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:19,640 When people say that they want to adopt, 806 00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:23,320 they don’t usually mean kids like Terri. 807 00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:25,400 They’re just afraid. 808 00:48:26,240 --> 00:48:30,240 That’s all. Had to get your eyes on other things. 809 00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:34,280 I see, we... We got our eyes on this, right now. 810 00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:36,320 And this is all that we see. 811 00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,480 We got over 20 families 812 00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:42,360 that want kids just like Terri, 813 00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:45,840 and any other child that need a home. 814 00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:49,640 That’s just in our little neck of the woods. 815 00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:51,960 You think about that. 816 00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:54,560 We got churches on every corner. 817 00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:57,000 Every single one. 818 00:48:57,160 --> 00:48:58,536 In each and every one of them peoples 819 00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:00,600 they done heard the same thing. 820 00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:05,000 There shouldn’t be a child without a home! 821 00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:08,840 We can turn this whole thing around. 822 00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:17,360 Let me think about it, OK? I will call you. 823 00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:19,920 Okay. I will call you. OK, OK. 824 00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:21,040 Churches? 825 00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:22,136 Yeah. Well, they’re communities. 826 00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:23,200 That’s all I care about. 827 00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:25,056 They’ve locked arms, they have shared history, 828 00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:28,520 they share burdens. It’s like a much bigger family. 829 00:49:30,240 --> 00:49:33,480 OK. I’ll stick my neck out and go to bat for this. 830 00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:37,560 I’ll get the budget and put everything I can behind this, 831 00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:39,520 including you and Jo-beth. 832 00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:42,240 But the Martins have to succeed. 833 00:49:52,720 --> 00:49:55,280 Terri, we see Susan all the time. 834 00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:59,240 Listen, I know you had to stay in a lot of places, 835 00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:03,960 but you ain’t never gonna have to leave this home, sugar. 836 00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:07,960 I’m gonna take care of everything you need 837 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:09,840 from here on. 838 00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:12,040 We’re your people now, 839 00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:14,720 so you can call me “Mama”. 840 00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:19,720 OK, Donna... 841 00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:22,360 I’m a cat. 842 00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:24,840 That’s what Ms. Ramsey said. 843 00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:27,320 Sounds like a fun game. 844 00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:30,560 You know the other kids play all kinds of 845 00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:33,280 pretend games round here so, 846 00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:35,760 we got lots to do. 847 00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:50,840 What is she doing? 848 00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:52,840 LaDonna, just get ready for breakfast. Sit down. 849 00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:56,480 We are about to eat, Terri. Keep your hands clean, OK? 850 00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:58,880 Terri? Let’s play kitty later. 851 00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:02,200 We wanna talk, get to know you more. 852 00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:06,040 OK, tell us what you like to do. 853 00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:08,720 I’m a cat. 854 00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:10,040 You’re weird. 855 00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:12,240 - Hey! LaDonna, that’s not nice. Stop it. - Mama! 856 00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:13,976 Do you really think you’re a cat? 857 00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:15,880 You’re not a cat. You’re a girl. 858 00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:17,960 She’s acting like a cat. 859 00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:21,880 Donna... Where’s those chicken livers you saved? 860 00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:24,040 Oh, they’re in there somewhere. Why? 861 00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:24,880 OK. 862 00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:27,600 Terri. Hey, Terri. 863 00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:32,400 Ew! 864 00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:35,520 Come on. Come on. 865 00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:40,440 There you go. That’s your breakfast. 866 00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:43,160 The cats around here got to eat, 867 00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:45,960 you know, chicken livers and little mice 868 00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:47,560 and things like that. 869 00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:49,040 So, if you want to be a cat, 870 00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:51,760 we’re gonna set a plate of food out for you every day, 871 00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:54,600 and you can sleep out on the porch. 872 00:51:54,720 --> 00:51:59,800 But you got to be watchful of the raccoons and coyotes and 873 00:51:59,920 --> 00:52:03,200 possums and slugs. They get you. 874 00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:09,640 WC, what have you done? 875 00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:11,400 Something Solomon would do. 876 00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:14,680 You think that’s gonna make her feel better? 877 00:52:17,240 --> 00:52:19,800 Maybe that’s why he had all them wives. 878 00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:21,120 Kept looking for a woman... 879 00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:23,800 that wouldn’t question him all the time. 880 00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:41,120 I ain’t gonna eat that. 881 00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:06,400 I’m gonna call Susan! 882 00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:16,920 I’m hungry! 883 00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:19,080 I bet you are. 884 00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:21,440 We got a whole lot of food. 885 00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:24,640 But I don’t know what kind to feed you. 886 00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:28,616 I don’t think I’m gonna be a cat anymore. 887 00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:30,760 I wanna be a girl now. 888 00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:32,800 Good. 889 00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:34,496 We got more than enough cats around here. 890 00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:37,680 We need more little girls... 891 00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:48,560 Hm, girl. Your hair is matted. 892 00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:50,840 OK, alright. 893 00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:55,120 So once a week maybe two, use that conditioner I got you. 894 00:53:55,240 --> 00:53:58,480 Work through the tangles, moisturize it. 895 00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:01,360 You gotta protect your hair, OK? 896 00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:04,640 And tonight I want you to tie it up 897 00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:06,960 with a scarf. 898 00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:09,320 You got good hair. 899 00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:12,160 Girls gonna be jealous of you. 900 00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:14,280 Yeah. 901 00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:17,160 You’re a beautiful girl. 902 00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:20,360 OK. Uh. 903 00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:28,000 Anywhere you want. 904 00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:29,736 And please come get me if you have any questions. 905 00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:31,280 Anything. OK. Thank you. 906 00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:34,200 Hey. OK. Alright. 907 00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:37,400 Hi, how are you? 908 00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:40,760 Do you expect a raise? 909 00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:42,400 There’s a minimum income threshold 910 00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:43,800 that they want you to meet. 911 00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:46,400 We won’t be gettin’ no raise. 912 00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:51,000 Hm, I’m sure you will. I have a good feeling. 913 00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:53,720 We’re happy to have you two... 914 00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:56,120 Thank you. 915 00:54:56,240 --> 00:54:57,896 Yes, I know you’re nervous. I’m too. 916 00:54:57,920 --> 00:54:59,720 OK. I know how you feel. 917 00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:02,440 We were all done. Kids all gone. You know that. 918 00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:05,120 But something kept pulling at me. 919 00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:06,320 “Go, do it.” 920 00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:09,440 Yes, do it. This is Johnnie and her husband Fred. 921 00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:10,360 This is Susan. 922 00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:11,720 Hi. Thank you so much. 923 00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:16,320 All kinds showed up that night. 924 00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:18,680 Mostly friends and family, and 925 00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:21,800 some I hardly remembered. 926 00:55:22,240 --> 00:55:25,600 You feel so many things, like you’re 927 00:55:25,720 --> 00:55:28,760 flying and then falling at the same time, 928 00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:33,040 when something so important feels out of your hands. 929 00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:37,560 Then the kids started coming. 930 00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:42,400 With stories that just tore at your insides. 931 00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:50,280 Hi. Susan! 932 00:55:53,720 --> 00:55:55,640 Don’t cry. 933 00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:02,960 And they kept coming. 934 00:56:03,080 --> 00:56:04,480 Scores of them. 935 00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:10,360 I made dinner for you. Come on, have a seat. 936 00:56:11,240 --> 00:56:14,560 Out of all that loss and pain, 937 00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:18,880 children who went into the system from all over East Texas 938 00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:21,680 made their way to our little town 939 00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:24,760 into a handful of determined families. 940 00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:27,000 Joshua and Randy, welcome home. 941 00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:29,840 Come on in. Come on and meet your brother. 942 00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:32,440 Nino! No! Get them out of my house. 943 00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:33,920 You better run! 944 00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:46,040 You’re my little boy now. 945 00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:48,440 That little paper makes it official. 946 00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:50,760 You ain’t going nowhere now. 947 00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:00,320 Now, scripture says 948 00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:03,040 “Let the Believers with little wealth 949 00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:05,880 glory in their high position.” 950 00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:09,920 Now I only ever made sense of that for one reason: 951 00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:14,600 It seemed the less we had the more He gave. 952 00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:21,360 He watched over us every way we could think of. 953 00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:46,520 Happy birthday, dear Keiosha, 954 00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:50,800 happy birthday to you. 955 00:57:56,640 --> 00:57:58,480 Why d’ya all lookin’ at me? 956 00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:01,320 ‘Cause it’s your birthday, sweetie. 957 00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:02,760 You know what a birthday is? 958 00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:04,440 You’ve ever had a birthday cake? 959 00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:05,760 Birthday cake? 960 00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:08,480 All of you guys are gonna get one. Every year. 961 00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:10,360 Ready to blow out the candles? 962 00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:13,560 One, two, three. 963 00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:18,560 Hey, good job! 964 00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:21,680 Great job! How about that? 965 00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:30,760 WC? 966 00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:32,360 Yeah? 967 00:58:32,480 --> 00:58:34,200 You paid the water? 968 00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:37,320 I’m on getting it turned back on. 969 00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:38,776 I still gotta get groceries. 970 00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:40,576 That’s at least a hundred dollars. I don’t understand... 971 00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:42,216 You don’t wanna think I know all the things 972 00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:44,040 around here and... 973 00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:45,560 Excuse me, young lady. 974 00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:47,400 Where did you get those daisy dukes? 975 00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:48,576 What’s wrong with them? 976 00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:49,736 Girl, you’re looking for trouble in those things. 977 00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:51,560 Go change. 978 00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:53,760 Hey, Franklin. 979 00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:55,600 Hey, Frankie. Come in. 980 00:58:55,760 --> 00:58:58,320 Oh, not now, baby. I need everyone’s help for a while. 981 00:58:58,440 --> 00:59:00,096 Oh, I’ll catch you later, I guess. 982 00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:01,376 We’re gonna go play Donna. 983 00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:02,760 I said not now. 984 00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:04,320 Why not? We’re done already. 985 00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:05,680 Don’t go out that door. 986 00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:06,560 Why not? 987 00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:07,560 ‘Cause I said not now. 988 00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:08,816 I’ve already done everything you need me to do. 989 00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:09,936 You don’t stop making plans for me. 990 00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:10,960 Just wait a minute now. 991 00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:11,800 You can’t tell me what to do. 992 00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:13,176 Why can’t I just do what I wanna do? 993 00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:15,720 I just wanna go out and play with Franklin. 994 00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:17,320 Why can’t I do all these things? 995 00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:18,656 Who are you talking to like that? 996 00:59:18,680 --> 00:59:20,240 WC, you better see this girl. 997 00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:23,080 Alright now... Just lower your voice now. 998 00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:24,200 Lower your voice. 999 00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:26,560 Especially you! Don’t tell me what to do! 1000 00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:28,080 Why can’t I just do it? 1001 00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:31,120 Just leave me alone. 1002 00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:33,400 - Alright. Alright! - I don’t want to do anything. 1003 00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:36,000 Just stop it! Stop it! Stop it! 1004 00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:39,360 Now, now, now! Just leave me alone! 1005 00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:41,360 I don’t wanna do it anymore. 1006 00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:45,680 Hey! OK. OK. OK. 1007 00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:47,760 That’s OK now. Look, look. We’re here for you now. 1008 00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:52,000 - Take your time. - Alright. 1009 00:59:53,160 --> 00:59:56,000 I’m sorry. I’m sorry. 1010 00:59:57,280 --> 01:00:00,280 - It’s OK. It’s OK. - Sorry. I’m sorry. 1011 01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:17,616 Terri has suffered a significant 1012 01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:19,320 amount of rejection and betrayal 1013 01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:20,600 from her mother. 1014 01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:23,360 Abandonment from her father. 1015 01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:28,080 It may take a long time for her to trust you. 1016 01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:33,160 Well, that’s the broken window. 1017 01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:35,400 He got locked out and used a rock to get in. 1018 01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:37,080 But honestly, I can wait on this. 1019 01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:39,040 The real problem is in here. 1020 01:00:39,160 --> 01:00:40,960 Come on in. 1021 01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:43,400 So it’s leaking in here. 1022 01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:46,800 Every time I try to wash clothes the whole place floods. 1023 01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:48,680 They say the sewer pipe is backing up 1024 01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:50,640 ‘cause of all us in here now. 1025 01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:53,080 I don’t have $800 to fix it. 1026 01:00:53,200 --> 01:00:55,320 Alright. It’s a lot of people. 1027 01:00:55,440 --> 01:00:58,280 They’re with a lot of wear and tear so. 1028 01:00:59,920 --> 01:01:01,200 I’ll go see what I can do 1029 01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:03,120 Anything you can do I appreciate. 1030 01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:14,856 I would make it more real. 1031 01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:16,576 (So give today and help us meet the 1032 01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:21,840 Hey, that color look right to you, Jim? 1033 01:01:22,160 --> 01:01:23,720 Oh, no. 1034 01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:25,680 Brand new projector better be... 1035 01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:28,320 So I really want that whole wall there. 1036 01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:30,640 Got the new screens, I don’t wanna do that. Leave all... 1037 01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:37,160 Mark! You gotta minute, my brotha? 1038 01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:40,080 WC! Good afternoon. 1039 01:01:41,640 --> 01:01:44,320 Jim, hold off on the announcements for a minute. 1040 01:01:44,760 --> 01:01:46,880 I left messages but 1041 01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:48,000 I never heard back. 1042 01:01:48,040 --> 01:01:49,440 Yeah, I’m sorry, I’ve been swamped. 1043 01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:52,600 Well, I don’t wanna bother you with too much, but... 1044 01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:55,680 we’ve come into some needs, pastor. 1045 01:01:55,800 --> 01:01:57,760 OK. Well, what’s going on? 1046 01:01:57,880 --> 01:01:59,520 The kids keep comin’ and 1047 01:01:59,640 --> 01:02:01,680 it has put a strain on people somethin’ fierce. 1048 01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:03,560 And the houses’ gettin’ worked now. 1049 01:02:03,680 --> 01:02:05,400 I got one mother, she’s a single mother, 1050 01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:07,400 she needs a new sewer line. 1051 01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:09,040 And I just ain’t got it right now. 1052 01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:10,936 Reverend, you know we’ve been doing the best we can. 1053 01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:13,160 Mark, I appreciate everything you’ve done thus far. 1054 01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:14,376 It’s just that we’re in a situation here 1055 01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:15,120 and our only way... 1056 01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:17,840 Isn’t the county sending you all support still? 1057 01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:20,120 These are working families. 1058 01:02:20,240 --> 01:02:21,960 It goes fast. 1059 01:02:22,080 --> 01:02:23,200 There’s a lot of needs. 1060 01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:25,280 OK... Hey look, 1061 01:02:27,200 --> 01:02:30,520 you took on a heavy burden, WC. 1062 01:02:30,680 --> 01:02:31,920 So why can’t you? 1063 01:02:32,040 --> 01:02:34,200 Lord, if we can just come together on this... 1064 01:02:34,320 --> 01:02:35,680 Because it’s too much. 1065 01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:37,736 I’m not going to turn everybody’s life upside down. 1066 01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:39,920 We can’t come at it like that. 1067 01:02:40,440 --> 01:02:41,680 You know what it says in James? 1068 01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:44,400 I do know. I’ve got a Bible. 1069 01:02:44,920 --> 01:02:46,600 You also need to use wisdom. 1070 01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:48,240 Wisdom? 1071 01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:50,280 I say I got a Bible too. 1072 01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:52,760 I just ain’t seen the part about the big stages. 1073 01:02:52,960 --> 01:02:56,080 I’ve seen the orphans and the widows, and the millstones 1074 01:02:56,200 --> 01:02:57,456 - Look, Reverend... - and the sheep and the goat. 1075 01:02:57,480 --> 01:02:58,760 Reverend, you need to back down. 1076 01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:00,656 But I ain’t seen the standing-on-the-sidelines part. 1077 01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:02,640 There’s a bloodbath going on outside 1078 01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:04,280 and you on a cruise ship up in here?! 1079 01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:05,640 WC! 1080 01:03:05,800 --> 01:03:06,960 We care about kids here. 1081 01:03:07,080 --> 01:03:08,320 Which ones? 1082 01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:10,136 You can’t see the ones sitting right 1083 01:03:10,160 --> 01:03:11,720 outside on your doorstep?! 1084 01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:27,520 The conference is coming up. 1085 01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:28,680 On top of everything else, 1086 01:03:28,720 --> 01:03:30,400 it’s just not in the church budget. 1087 01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:46,320 So this is from Mary and I. 1088 01:03:46,960 --> 01:03:49,120 Give me the names of the kids. 1089 01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:52,280 We got gift baskets planned for Christmas. 1090 01:03:53,040 --> 01:03:55,640 OK? We’ll do what we can. 1091 01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:00,680 I appreciate this. I really do. 1092 01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:03,280 Right. Hm. Alright. Take care. 1093 01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:20,160 What are you doing out here? 1094 01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:21,720 Cleaning up. 1095 01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:26,760 I took care of your sister’s plumbing. 1096 01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:28,480 Well, that’s good. 1097 01:04:28,600 --> 01:04:30,320 Pastor Mark helped. 1098 01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:39,440 Lord knows I want to love that man. 1099 01:04:39,760 --> 01:04:40,840 I really do. 1100 01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:42,576 But he got me on my face so much I can’t barely 1101 01:04:42,600 --> 01:04:45,080 get the taste of dirt out of my mouth. 1102 01:04:45,520 --> 01:04:47,176 I’m where the Lord put me, I’m doing His work, 1103 01:04:47,200 --> 01:04:48,480 but why I got to beg? 1104 01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:51,280 I don’t know why you keep going over there to them. 1105 01:04:51,920 --> 01:04:53,296 Because we ain’t got enough to pay for the electric 1106 01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:55,160 on the church right now. 1107 01:04:55,920 --> 01:04:57,736 We barely got nothing’ for all these kids coming in! 1108 01:04:57,760 --> 01:04:59,160 Well, that’s embarrassing, WC. 1109 01:04:59,280 --> 01:05:01,440 I mean, what go around here ain’t nobody’s business. 1110 01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:02,800 Why it ain’t his business? 1111 01:05:02,880 --> 01:05:05,480 We worship the same Jesus, ain’t it? 1112 01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:07,200 He’s my brother. 1113 01:05:10,080 --> 01:05:14,080 Come on. Come here. Come here. 1114 01:05:36,840 --> 01:05:38,760 How far is this place? 1115 01:05:38,880 --> 01:05:40,760 Girl, you asked to come with us. 1116 01:05:40,880 --> 01:05:43,160 We shoulda drove my dad’s truck. 1117 01:05:43,280 --> 01:05:45,760 Franklin, you can not drive. 1118 01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:47,160 Alright, here we are. 1119 01:05:47,280 --> 01:05:50,560 OK, all you swore on your dead granny’s graveyard 1120 01:05:50,680 --> 01:05:52,880 that you’re not gonna tell nobody about this. 1121 01:05:53,240 --> 01:05:55,000 And Terri swore on her cat. 1122 01:05:55,120 --> 01:05:56,600 I don’t have a cat, troll. 1123 01:05:57,240 --> 01:05:59,800 Girl, it’s a joke. Chill. 1124 01:06:07,800 --> 01:06:09,080 This is our pond, 1125 01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:12,040 nobody knows about it. So let’s keep it that way. 1126 01:06:12,160 --> 01:06:13,480 Especially parents. 1127 01:06:13,600 --> 01:06:15,520 Bro, if my mom knew about this, 1128 01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:17,680 she would for sure think I’m gonna drown. 1129 01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:19,440 So, who’s going in? 1130 01:06:19,560 --> 01:06:21,240 No way, I can’t swim. 1131 01:06:21,360 --> 01:06:23,200 It’s too cold for all that, anyway. 1132 01:06:23,320 --> 01:06:25,360 It’s not that bad. Stop being a baby. 1133 01:06:25,480 --> 01:06:27,000 Aight, you go in then. 1134 01:06:27,120 --> 01:06:28,360 Aight, I might 1135 01:06:29,600 --> 01:06:31,720 Stop trying to show off, little boy. 1136 01:06:32,880 --> 01:06:34,160 Put that down! 1137 01:06:43,560 --> 01:06:45,360 You ain’t got no choice. 1138 01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:46,920 Really? I know I can’t. 1139 01:06:47,040 --> 01:06:49,040 Ain’t no such thing as can’t... 1140 01:06:51,240 --> 01:06:52,560 Alright, let’s try it again. 1141 01:06:52,680 --> 01:06:54,480 Do like this, alright? 1142 01:06:54,600 --> 01:06:57,520 â™Ș I... 1143 01:06:58,360 --> 01:07:02,120 â™Ș need Thee... 1144 01:07:02,240 --> 01:07:09,920 â™Ș Every hour, I need Thee... 1145 01:07:10,040 --> 01:07:12,000 Hm-hm. See? 1146 01:07:12,360 --> 01:07:14,080 Look at you, girl. 1147 01:07:14,200 --> 01:07:16,176 So pretty in that dress, playin’ that song so good, 1148 01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:17,720 you gon’ be playin’ it at the church. 1149 01:07:17,840 --> 01:07:19,456 Daddy, no! Oh, yes. You is. 1150 01:07:19,480 --> 01:07:21,080 You gon’ be playin’ it at the church. 1151 01:07:21,160 --> 01:07:22,040 If I got a thing to do with it, 1152 01:07:22,160 --> 01:07:23,736 you’re gonna be right up there next to the pulpit. 1153 01:07:23,760 --> 01:07:25,360 Right at the pulpit next to your mama. 1154 01:07:25,480 --> 01:07:26,536 But daddy, I messed it up. 1155 01:07:26,560 --> 01:07:27,736 I don’t know about all that. 1156 01:07:27,760 --> 01:07:28,976 Yes, you are. You got it. 1157 01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:31,960 You got lots of talent. 1158 01:07:34,160 --> 01:07:35,400 Daddy... 1159 01:07:38,640 --> 01:07:40,240 Daddy... 1160 01:07:44,240 --> 01:07:45,840 Daddy... 1161 01:07:48,720 --> 01:07:50,520 Daddy... 1162 01:08:24,040 --> 01:08:25,640 Ouch! 1163 01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:26,840 What’s wrong with you? 1164 01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:28,760 Hey, what are you doing? 1165 01:08:28,880 --> 01:08:29,880 I saw you trip her! 1166 01:08:29,920 --> 01:08:30,680 I didn’t do nothing! 1167 01:08:30,800 --> 01:08:32,120 Yes, you did! Stop lying! 1168 01:08:32,200 --> 01:08:33,296 Get in the house right now. 1169 01:08:33,320 --> 01:08:35,520 Stop it! What about her? You ugly little bitch, LaDonna! 1170 01:08:36,120 --> 01:08:38,600 Hey! Get off me! Get off! 1171 01:08:38,720 --> 01:08:39,400 You get away! Get away! 1172 01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:40,680 You liar! 1173 01:08:40,840 --> 01:08:42,480 Get off my daughter! 1174 01:08:44,400 --> 01:08:45,816 Why did she have to come here? 1175 01:08:45,840 --> 01:08:46,920 That’s enough, LaDonna! 1176 01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:49,160 Didn’t you just see what she did to me? 1177 01:08:49,640 --> 01:08:52,320 Make her leave! I don’t want to hear that again. 1178 01:08:52,600 --> 01:08:54,680 Why don’t you ever do anything? 1179 01:08:54,800 --> 01:08:55,960 She’s so mean! 1180 01:08:56,080 --> 01:08:57,920 Mercedes lies and steals all the time and 1181 01:08:58,040 --> 01:08:59,160 you never do anything! 1182 01:08:59,320 --> 01:09:00,760 I said that’s enough. 1183 01:09:00,880 --> 01:09:02,800 You need to show them some understanding, OK? 1184 01:09:02,920 --> 01:09:04,680 All you care ‘bout is them. 1185 01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:06,200 LaDonna, come here. 1186 01:09:06,320 --> 01:09:09,240 Come here. Come here. 1187 01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:12,960 Come on. Come on. 1188 01:09:21,360 --> 01:09:23,040 You got me, you got me. 1189 01:09:23,160 --> 01:09:25,160 You won’t get me. You ain’t gonna get me. 1190 01:09:25,280 --> 01:09:27,720 Alright, I’m hit. 1191 01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:32,680 Got me. 1192 01:09:37,880 --> 01:09:39,560 Got you, got you. 1193 01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:43,680 Tyler and Prince, you all go wash up. 1194 01:09:44,480 --> 01:09:45,576 Dinner is almost ready. 1195 01:09:45,600 --> 01:09:46,736 Oh, no. Got him, got him. 1196 01:09:46,760 --> 01:09:48,240 Terri. 1197 01:09:49,840 --> 01:09:51,760 I wanna talk to you. 1198 01:10:02,600 --> 01:10:06,400 I want you to know I didn’t mean what I said earlier today. 1199 01:10:06,720 --> 01:10:07,720 Yeah, you did. 1200 01:10:07,800 --> 01:10:12,160 No, Terri. I was just very upset. 1201 01:10:13,720 --> 01:10:15,160 You’re my daughter too. 1202 01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:17,600 But we missed out on a lot. 1203 01:10:19,120 --> 01:10:22,400 I didn’t give birth to you, or nurse you. 1204 01:10:24,200 --> 01:10:27,360 I didn’t get the chance to rock you to sleep... 1205 01:10:29,480 --> 01:10:31,800 We’re gotta to work on this together. 1206 01:10:32,440 --> 01:10:33,960 Terri... look, 1207 01:10:34,880 --> 01:10:36,400 I’m not giving up on you. 1208 01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:40,480 I ain’t gonna do it, but you can’t give up on me either. 1209 01:10:48,600 --> 01:10:50,640 Do you have any questions? 1210 01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:52,320 Hm-hm. 1211 01:10:52,880 --> 01:10:55,960 OK. Well, 1212 01:10:56,960 --> 01:10:59,840 I want you to try and be positive about yourself. 1213 01:10:59,960 --> 01:11:02,400 Don’t dwell on all the work that has to be done. 1214 01:11:05,960 --> 01:11:08,680 I want you to know that you’re beautiful, 1215 01:11:08,800 --> 01:11:11,000 you’re capable 1216 01:11:11,400 --> 01:11:14,240 and you’re strong. 1217 01:11:14,360 --> 01:11:16,400 OK? 1218 01:11:17,480 --> 01:11:20,600 OK. I will. 1219 01:11:28,440 --> 01:11:33,200 Mom! I can’t find my yellow dress! 1220 01:11:35,960 --> 01:11:37,840 Mom... - Huh? 1221 01:11:37,960 --> 01:11:39,320 Where’s my yellow dress? 1222 01:11:39,480 --> 01:11:40,480 I can’t hear you. 1223 01:11:40,520 --> 01:11:42,560 I need it for church! 1224 01:11:47,720 --> 01:11:49,680 You’re beautiful. 1225 01:11:52,360 --> 01:11:54,840 I am beautiful. 1226 01:11:57,160 --> 01:12:00,040 I am capable. 1227 01:12:00,320 --> 01:12:03,000 I am strong... 1228 01:12:07,640 --> 01:12:10,400 And responsible. 1229 01:12:22,360 --> 01:12:24,400 I am stupid. 1230 01:12:26,040 --> 01:12:28,120 Such an idiot. 1231 01:12:45,520 --> 01:12:47,840 Oh, come on, Tyler. 1232 01:12:47,960 --> 01:12:50,760 Time to take a bath. Ready to take a bath? 1233 01:12:50,880 --> 01:12:54,080 Ready? Ready to take a bath? 1234 01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:57,640 Come on. Come on. Come on. 1235 01:12:57,760 --> 01:13:01,120 Are you going to bathe? Come on, see it. It’s okay. 1236 01:13:01,240 --> 01:13:03,320 Oh! 1237 01:13:30,440 --> 01:13:33,760 Terri, what’s the matter? What’s going on? 1238 01:13:34,000 --> 01:13:36,480 Are you worried about something? 1239 01:13:36,760 --> 01:13:37,760 Hm-hm. 1240 01:13:37,880 --> 01:13:39,160 I’m just playing. 1241 01:13:39,280 --> 01:13:41,640 What’s going on with you, girl? 1242 01:13:41,760 --> 01:13:45,480 Nothing. I just like that game. 1243 01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:48,760 Yeah, but you’ve been playing that a long time. 1244 01:14:01,160 --> 01:14:04,440 You miss her? Your mama? 1245 01:14:11,240 --> 01:14:13,520 She was mean sometimes. 1246 01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:17,200 How was she mean? 1247 01:14:30,800 --> 01:14:33,520 Hey, you just get her out your mind, okay? 1248 01:14:33,640 --> 01:14:34,720 You’re here now. 1249 01:14:34,800 --> 01:14:36,560 You’re my child and ain’t nothin’ 1250 01:14:36,680 --> 01:14:38,920 gonna happen like that in this house. 1251 01:14:39,440 --> 01:14:40,720 Hey! 1252 01:14:41,880 --> 01:14:43,520 Terri... 1253 01:14:47,040 --> 01:14:49,160 Baby... 1254 01:14:50,800 --> 01:14:53,320 Look at me. 1255 01:14:56,360 --> 01:15:00,680 I was thinking about making a pie or cookies or somethin’. 1256 01:15:00,960 --> 01:15:04,160 What do you think? You wanna help me? 1257 01:15:07,880 --> 01:15:08,880 Yeah. 1258 01:15:15,320 --> 01:15:17,160 Why is she doing that? 1259 01:15:17,640 --> 01:15:20,080 It’s called baptism. 1260 01:15:20,440 --> 01:15:22,680 It means she’s a new person now. 1261 01:15:22,880 --> 01:15:25,960 You see, Jesus takes all your sadness 1262 01:15:26,120 --> 01:15:28,600 and everything you’ve done wrong... 1263 01:15:29,240 --> 01:15:31,920 and gives you a new life. 1264 01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:56,600 It seems there’s no heartache on earth 1265 01:15:57,000 --> 01:16:00,080 like the wounds from a mother or father. 1266 01:16:00,520 --> 01:16:04,560 They eat at you and refuse to stay hidden 1267 01:16:04,680 --> 01:16:07,240 in the recesses of your soul. 1268 01:16:08,440 --> 01:16:10,680 You can’t ignore them. 1269 01:16:10,760 --> 01:16:12,920 You can’t numb yourself so well 1270 01:16:13,040 --> 01:16:15,200 that they will not one day overtake you, 1271 01:16:15,320 --> 01:16:18,680 and the ones you’re meant to love. 1272 01:16:30,640 --> 01:16:31,776 Listen to your mother. 1273 01:16:31,800 --> 01:16:34,800 You better listen. Don’t talk to me like that... 1274 01:16:53,480 --> 01:16:55,320 Hey, Glen. Is Theresa here? 1275 01:16:55,440 --> 01:16:58,000 Yeah, but it’s really not a good time First Lady. 1276 01:16:58,120 --> 01:16:59,480 Get yourself back in here! 1277 01:16:59,600 --> 01:17:01,240 I should talk to her, really. 1278 01:17:01,360 --> 01:17:03,360 This is really, really not a good time. 1279 01:17:03,480 --> 01:17:06,240 Theresa! It’s Donna. Where are you at? 1280 01:17:06,360 --> 01:17:08,000 I do everything for you all. 1281 01:17:08,160 --> 01:17:10,280 I give y’all everything I got and this is how you act? 1282 01:17:19,400 --> 01:17:22,800 W.C.? W.C., wake up. 1283 01:17:23,480 --> 01:17:24,760 W.C.! 1284 01:17:24,880 --> 01:17:26,800 I heard something outside. 1285 01:17:27,480 --> 01:17:30,280 Go check on the girls. Go! 1286 01:17:31,600 --> 01:17:33,680 I never agreed to no nocturnal children! 1287 01:17:33,800 --> 01:17:35,760 If it ain’t serious, Lord, it’s gonna be. 1288 01:17:35,920 --> 01:17:38,520 Better be dead, dying or worse. 1289 01:17:38,640 --> 01:17:40,280 I always get that... 1290 01:17:46,440 --> 01:17:49,040 It is serious. It’s Terri. She’s gone. 1291 01:17:49,160 --> 01:17:49,960 Oh, Lord. 1292 01:17:50,080 --> 01:17:51,640 Her window’s open. 1293 01:18:02,080 --> 01:18:05,000 Your parents are gonna kill you. 1294 01:18:23,960 --> 01:18:25,760 No, wait. 1295 01:18:36,680 --> 01:18:39,280 Put your arms around me. 1296 01:18:51,360 --> 01:18:54,320 “So tell us again, Reverend, 1297 01:18:54,440 --> 01:18:58,160 how’d you find yourself getting shot by your neighbors?!” 1298 01:19:01,200 --> 01:19:05,040 Terri! Terri! Franklin! 1299 01:19:05,160 --> 01:19:06,616 Boy, your daddy’s gonna hear from me in the morning! 1300 01:19:06,640 --> 01:19:07,880 He told me to come here! 1301 01:19:07,920 --> 01:19:09,136 - No, I didn’t. - Yeah, you did. 1302 01:19:09,160 --> 01:19:10,280 You told me to come here! 1303 01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:12,040 No, I didn’t. I never did. 1304 01:19:12,160 --> 01:19:13,360 He’s lying. 1305 01:19:13,480 --> 01:19:16,640 Get your tail out here right now, little girl! 1306 01:19:17,840 --> 01:19:19,720 Now! 1307 01:19:21,520 --> 01:19:23,440 I haven’t observed much progress... 1308 01:19:30,080 --> 01:19:31,960 How’s the adoption progressing? 1309 01:19:32,400 --> 01:19:34,640 That could change things. 1310 01:19:34,760 --> 01:19:37,200 It’s tough right now. 1311 01:19:38,600 --> 01:19:42,520 It would change the stipend. 1312 01:19:44,440 --> 01:19:47,160 It don’t seem like she wants to be anyways. 1313 01:19:47,640 --> 01:19:49,920 Until she believes that she’s loved and 1314 01:19:50,040 --> 01:19:52,360 that she’s safe it is not going to happen. 1315 01:19:52,480 --> 01:19:53,816 We’ve given her everything she needs! 1316 01:19:53,840 --> 01:19:54,896 I don’t know what else to do, 1317 01:19:54,920 --> 01:19:57,080 with all we got goin’ on. 1318 01:19:57,200 --> 01:19:58,576 Then it may be in her best interest 1319 01:19:58,600 --> 01:20:00,320 to be in a different home. 1320 01:20:00,600 --> 01:20:01,640 What? 1321 01:20:01,760 --> 01:20:03,480 I don’t see her forming an attachment. 1322 01:20:03,600 --> 01:20:05,400 No! That won’t ever happen. 1323 01:20:05,520 --> 01:20:06,200 First Lady... 1324 01:20:06,360 --> 01:20:08,360 Susan, I won’t have that. 1325 01:20:08,480 --> 01:20:10,800 It’s not up to you. Or me, 1326 01:20:10,920 --> 01:20:12,560 okay? 1327 01:20:12,680 --> 01:20:14,000 I told you. 1328 01:20:14,160 --> 01:20:18,120 People in this town are looking to you. 1329 01:20:18,240 --> 01:20:19,576 We can’t have them give up because they see 1330 01:20:19,600 --> 01:20:21,280 things falling apart with Terri. 1331 01:20:21,400 --> 01:20:23,000 What’s happening with Possum Trot 1332 01:20:23,120 --> 01:20:24,680 has the attention of the state. 1333 01:20:24,800 --> 01:20:27,480 We’re approaching legislators for more accommodations, 1334 01:20:27,600 --> 01:20:28,800 more resources. 1335 01:20:28,920 --> 01:20:32,600 This could mean a huge, huge change for the system. 1336 01:20:32,760 --> 01:20:34,840 And Joyce won’t risk that. 1337 01:20:34,960 --> 01:20:36,080 She will pull Terri 1338 01:20:36,200 --> 01:20:37,920 if she feels that she needs different care. 1339 01:20:38,040 --> 01:20:39,520 Now if you pull Terri from my home 1340 01:20:39,600 --> 01:20:42,280 how’s that things not falling apart? 1341 01:20:43,080 --> 01:20:44,840 She’s still gone. 1342 01:20:45,960 --> 01:20:48,120 You wouldn’t be giving her up. 1343 01:20:48,360 --> 01:20:50,120 It would be psychiatric intervention 1344 01:20:50,280 --> 01:20:51,800 at the recommendation of her doctor. 1345 01:20:51,920 --> 01:20:52,800 Not your fault. 1346 01:20:52,920 --> 01:20:54,400 Nobody is gonna see it that way. Hm, 1347 01:20:54,520 --> 01:20:56,480 Susan, you got to understand. 1348 01:20:56,600 --> 01:20:57,880 There’s so many families here, 1349 01:20:58,000 --> 01:20:59,680 they’re hanging on by a thread. 1350 01:20:59,800 --> 01:21:01,680 Everybody ain’t got it like it. 1351 01:21:02,800 --> 01:21:04,800 Just be mindful of that, if you? 1352 01:21:04,960 --> 01:21:06,720 Take her out now you gonna get a lot 1353 01:21:06,880 --> 01:21:11,280 more kids than Terri if you do what you say. 1354 01:21:13,560 --> 01:21:15,560 Okay. 1355 01:21:17,680 --> 01:21:19,880 We just need to turn a corner... 1356 01:21:22,120 --> 01:21:24,000 Yeah. 1357 01:21:24,120 --> 01:21:26,600 Okay? -Okay. - Okay. 1358 01:22:03,080 --> 01:22:04,720 W.C.! 1359 01:22:05,040 --> 01:22:05,800 What’s wrong? 1360 01:22:05,920 --> 01:22:07,960 I need you in here! And bring Terri. 1361 01:22:08,080 --> 01:22:09,640 Terri! 1362 01:22:16,800 --> 01:22:17,880 Terri, what is this? 1363 01:22:17,920 --> 01:22:19,040 You gotta speak up, T. 1364 01:22:21,160 --> 01:22:23,400 You need to tell us what is going on. 1365 01:22:23,520 --> 01:22:25,120 Do you want to hurt somebody here? 1366 01:22:25,320 --> 01:22:27,440 Why was that in your bed? 1367 01:22:29,480 --> 01:22:30,656 Somebody might come in here at night. 1368 01:22:30,680 --> 01:22:33,120 I don’t want them to hurt me. 1369 01:22:36,280 --> 01:22:39,920 Terri, who hurt you, baby? 1370 01:22:40,320 --> 01:22:42,320 Her friends. 1371 01:22:43,120 --> 01:22:44,280 Everybody. 1372 01:22:44,400 --> 01:22:46,880 Look, you’re safe here now, okay? Just calm down. 1373 01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:48,200 Let me go. You’re hurting me. 1374 01:22:48,240 --> 01:22:49,120 It’s okay. Just calm yourself, okay? 1375 01:22:49,240 --> 01:22:51,800 Okay, baby. I’m trying to talk to you, 1376 01:22:51,920 --> 01:22:53,816 I’m trying to love you. I’m trying to talk to you. 1377 01:22:53,840 --> 01:22:56,440 Let me love you, you’re not gonna turn your back from me. 1378 01:22:56,560 --> 01:22:59,880 - Don’t touch me! - Terri, hey! You... 1379 01:23:00,440 --> 01:23:03,160 I am your mama! I am your mama! 1380 01:23:03,280 --> 01:23:04,320 You ain’t my mama! 1381 01:23:04,440 --> 01:23:05,640 Yes, you my child. 1382 01:23:05,760 --> 01:23:06,840 You ain’t my mama! 1383 01:23:07,000 --> 01:23:08,800 Yes, I’m your mama, you hear me. 1384 01:23:08,960 --> 01:23:09,960 Terri! 1385 01:23:10,080 --> 01:23:11,480 Get off me. 1386 01:23:11,600 --> 01:23:12,480 Donna, Donna! 1387 01:23:12,600 --> 01:23:13,400 Leave me alone! 1388 01:23:13,520 --> 01:23:15,080 Terri. 1389 01:23:18,920 --> 01:23:21,640 Oh, Lord Jesus. Oh, God. 1390 01:23:21,760 --> 01:23:22,600 Donna... 1391 01:23:22,720 --> 01:23:23,720 W.C. 1392 01:23:23,840 --> 01:23:27,400 You’re alright, Donna? You’re alright? 1393 01:23:27,640 --> 01:23:30,800 Susan knew this wasn’t gonna work. Oh, Lord Jesus. 1394 01:23:31,800 --> 01:23:34,040 What are we doing, W.C.? What are we doing? 1395 01:23:34,160 --> 01:23:35,480 Donna... 1396 01:23:35,600 --> 01:23:37,280 Why did we agree to take this on? 1397 01:23:37,400 --> 01:23:38,560 This is what He said to do. 1398 01:23:38,680 --> 01:23:40,440 I don’t even like these kids sometimes, W.C. 1399 01:23:40,480 --> 01:23:42,200 I’m losing my own little girl in all this! 1400 01:23:42,320 --> 01:23:45,080 I just want them out of our lives! 1401 01:23:47,800 --> 01:23:49,560 Oh, God. 1402 01:23:50,520 --> 01:23:52,960 I am nothin’ like my mama. 1403 01:23:54,240 --> 01:23:56,400 Terri gonna be fine. 1404 01:23:56,880 --> 01:23:59,200 All we got to do is just stay calm and do it. 1405 01:23:59,320 --> 01:24:02,520 No. No! Are you listening to me? 1406 01:24:02,760 --> 01:24:05,000 This is what the Lord said we do. So this is what we do. 1407 01:24:05,160 --> 01:24:08,800 Now it’s not the time to give in what we need and look back. 1408 01:24:09,000 --> 01:24:10,000 I need help! 1409 01:24:10,120 --> 01:24:11,456 I’m here every day by myself. Just by myself. 1410 01:24:11,480 --> 01:24:12,520 I do not leave you alone. 1411 01:24:12,560 --> 01:24:13,320 Yes, you do, W.C. 1412 01:24:13,480 --> 01:24:14,496 And now what do you want from me? 1413 01:24:14,520 --> 01:24:15,360 I’m here with Prince, I got LaDonna. 1414 01:24:15,480 --> 01:24:16,240 I can’t take it no more. 1415 01:24:16,400 --> 01:24:18,536 I don’t leave you alone. Now I’m doing the best I can. 1416 01:24:18,560 --> 01:24:20,000 I can’t be everywhere at once. 1417 01:24:20,120 --> 01:24:21,440 I’m keeping everybody. 1418 01:24:21,560 --> 01:24:24,200 With food on the table. And lights on. 1419 01:24:24,320 --> 01:24:26,760 Everybody’s lights on! What more you want me to do, Donna? 1420 01:24:26,880 --> 01:24:28,400 Everybody’s falling apart 1421 01:24:28,520 --> 01:24:31,120 and I don’t know what to tell them. 1422 01:24:33,280 --> 01:24:36,440 Listen... Donna! 1423 01:25:26,440 --> 01:25:32,760 â™Ș I love the Lord, He heard my cry, 1424 01:25:34,560 --> 01:25:37,040 I need you, Father. I need you, right now. 1425 01:25:37,160 --> 01:25:39,640 I can’t go on. Father, Please, Jesus, 1426 01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:41,200 We need you right now, Father. 1427 01:25:41,360 --> 01:25:43,880 Right now, come into this room. 1428 01:25:44,000 --> 01:25:46,000 You see what we going through. 1429 01:25:46,160 --> 01:25:48,720 Give us the strength, right now. 1430 01:25:49,240 --> 01:25:55,320 â™Ș I love the Lord, 1431 01:25:56,480 --> 01:26:00,600 He heard my cry, 1432 01:26:00,720 --> 01:26:08,720 â™Ș And He... And He chases my grief away, 1433 01:26:10,600 --> 01:26:18,600 Long as I live and troubles rise, 1434 01:26:21,200 --> 01:26:28,800 â™Ș I’ll hasten to... His throne... 1435 01:26:32,240 --> 01:26:34,640 I’m sorry. 1436 01:26:40,680 --> 01:26:43,240 I shouldn’t have talked to you like that. 1437 01:26:54,440 --> 01:26:57,480 Hm. 1438 01:26:58,800 --> 01:27:03,000 You... You’re a good mama. 1439 01:27:11,280 --> 01:27:13,080 What are we gonna do? 1440 01:27:32,880 --> 01:27:36,360 Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 1441 01:27:37,880 --> 01:27:41,400 This is a special place, Bennett Chapel. 1442 01:27:44,400 --> 01:27:47,280 The eyes of the Lord are on this house. 1443 01:27:50,480 --> 01:27:53,040 You know, I looked and I couldn’t find any 1444 01:27:53,880 --> 01:27:55,800 Harvard graduates in these 1445 01:27:57,040 --> 01:27:58,560 pews here. 1446 01:27:58,680 --> 01:28:01,480 I didn’t see any rocket scientists 1447 01:28:02,160 --> 01:28:04,080 or movie stars either. 1448 01:28:05,480 --> 01:28:06,800 Maybe not yet. 1449 01:28:07,360 --> 01:28:13,680 But what I do see is a room full of regular people. 1450 01:28:14,520 --> 01:28:16,920 Sound a whole lot like the 12 regular people 1451 01:28:17,040 --> 01:28:18,920 that Jesus left His whole church to, doesn’t it? 1452 01:28:19,680 --> 01:28:21,760 You’re doing something, in this here house, that 1453 01:28:21,880 --> 01:28:24,760 almost nobody else would. 1454 01:28:24,880 --> 01:28:28,920 You took in an orphan child. Or two or three or five! 1455 01:28:29,120 --> 01:28:30,840 You left your fishing boat 1456 01:28:31,280 --> 01:28:34,880 and you walked on with Jesus anyway. 1457 01:28:35,560 --> 01:28:37,440 And I know something else. 1458 01:28:37,760 --> 01:28:42,400 Some of you ain’t too sure about it anymore. 1459 01:28:42,920 --> 01:28:44,400 Fair. 1460 01:28:44,720 --> 01:28:47,800 Some of you, your compass is spinning 1461 01:28:48,160 --> 01:28:52,120 and you wonderin’, which way is what? 1462 01:28:53,200 --> 01:28:57,440 I know you feel it because I feel it too. 1463 01:29:00,880 --> 01:29:03,040 If we believe the Bible, 1464 01:29:03,200 --> 01:29:05,920 then we must bear that burden, 1465 01:29:07,480 --> 01:29:10,480 but it ought to be light. But sometimes 1466 01:29:11,840 --> 01:29:14,520 that burden is only light when it’s shared. 1467 01:29:19,360 --> 01:29:21,680 And we family... 1468 01:29:23,640 --> 01:29:26,640 If you’re feeling something heavy right now, 1469 01:29:27,480 --> 01:29:29,920 I want you to stand up with me. 1470 01:29:30,280 --> 01:29:32,160 Stand up. 1471 01:29:32,720 --> 01:29:34,840 Rest on your feet with me. 1472 01:29:35,040 --> 01:29:36,760 That’s alright. 1473 01:29:39,720 --> 01:29:44,200 Some of you feel like you can’t go on. 1474 01:29:45,120 --> 01:29:47,520 Some of you feel regret. 1475 01:29:48,600 --> 01:29:50,960 I want you to know that you heard Him right. 1476 01:29:51,080 --> 01:29:53,320 You didn’t make a mistake. 1477 01:29:54,000 --> 01:29:55,760 He ain’t ever promised us easy. 1478 01:29:55,880 --> 01:29:57,200 But what He promised us is that 1479 01:29:57,320 --> 01:29:59,520 He was gonna be right there by our side. 1480 01:30:03,440 --> 01:30:07,880 So let’s take up this cross and let’s keep on. 1481 01:30:09,040 --> 01:30:11,360 You did hear Him, 1482 01:30:12,840 --> 01:30:15,160 and He’s going to hold you right now, 1483 01:30:15,880 --> 01:30:18,480 because He hears you too. 1484 01:30:18,640 --> 01:30:22,400 Come on up here. Come on. 1485 01:30:24,120 --> 01:30:25,320 Come on. 1486 01:30:27,440 --> 01:30:29,800 I’m asking you now to get your arms around 1487 01:30:29,920 --> 01:30:31,320 your brothers and sisters. 1488 01:30:32,040 --> 01:30:36,120 Be there for them! When they call you in the midnight hour, 1489 01:30:36,520 --> 01:30:37,840 you come running. 1490 01:30:38,440 --> 01:30:41,920 They’ve got vomit on them from an ailing child, 1491 01:30:42,240 --> 01:30:43,680 you wipe it off! 1492 01:30:44,320 --> 01:30:46,240 They about to jump off the cliff 1493 01:30:46,440 --> 01:30:48,200 you step out there in front. 1494 01:30:50,920 --> 01:30:52,680 The greatest in His kingdom 1495 01:30:53,120 --> 01:30:54,400 is the servant of all! 1496 01:30:54,520 --> 01:30:56,560 Yes, He is! The Good Shepherd. 1497 01:30:56,720 --> 01:30:59,320 It’s time to do this together, church. 1498 01:30:59,440 --> 01:31:00,520 Not alone. 1499 01:31:06,320 --> 01:31:09,840 We stand before You in our weakness, Lord, 1500 01:31:11,120 --> 01:31:14,760 now may the power of Christ come upon us. 1501 01:31:15,040 --> 01:31:18,680 Visit your people right now, in this moment! 1502 01:31:19,520 --> 01:31:22,160 In our weakness your strength was made perfect. 1503 01:31:22,280 --> 01:31:24,760 Take the weight from their hearts, Lord, 1504 01:31:26,480 --> 01:31:28,920 and give them the Holy Ghost power 1505 01:31:30,160 --> 01:31:32,320 to do what needs to be done. 1506 01:31:32,440 --> 01:31:34,040 Yeah! You got the power, Lord! 1507 01:31:34,160 --> 01:31:42,160 â™Ș Satan, we’re gonna tear your kingdom down, 1508 01:31:44,120 --> 01:31:52,120 Oh, Satan, we’re gonna tear your kingdom down, 1509 01:31:55,400 --> 01:32:01,960 You’ve been building your kingdom, 1510 01:32:02,080 --> 01:32:07,720 All over this land. 1511 01:32:07,840 --> 01:32:15,840 â™Ș Satan, we’re gonna tear your kingdom down, 1512 01:32:15,960 --> 01:32:23,960 â™Ș Oh, the preachers, they’re gonna preach your kingdom down, 1513 01:32:28,280 --> 01:32:36,280 â™Ș Oh, preachers, they’re gonna preach your kingdom down, 1514 01:32:38,640 --> 01:32:44,200 â™Ș You’ve been building your kingdom. 1515 01:32:44,320 --> 01:32:48,160 We got our arms around each other, like we never had, 1516 01:32:48,560 --> 01:32:50,760 and He can take you to deep places 1517 01:32:50,880 --> 01:32:53,280 with someone by your side. 1518 01:32:53,400 --> 01:32:57,440 Whatcha doin’? I know how it is, it’s hard. 1519 01:32:58,120 --> 01:33:00,120 I’ll come back and help you Mollie. 1520 01:33:03,800 --> 01:33:06,000 Here, Randy. 1521 01:33:10,040 --> 01:33:12,800 The road turned and we followed it. 1522 01:33:12,920 --> 01:33:16,200 Lord, the places you find yourself. 1523 01:33:16,360 --> 01:33:18,840 I can’t give him back. 1524 01:33:19,280 --> 01:33:20,840 I won’t be part of that, Donna, I won’t. 1525 01:33:20,920 --> 01:33:22,720 I couldn’t live with myself! 1526 01:33:23,840 --> 01:33:26,360 Diann... 1527 01:33:27,600 --> 01:33:31,000 You rescued that baby from the fire. 1528 01:33:32,000 --> 01:33:34,360 Now let us give him what he needs. 1529 01:33:34,720 --> 01:33:37,680 Yea, though we walk, the path goes one way 1530 01:33:37,840 --> 01:33:39,600 when you’re sure it’ll go another. 1531 01:33:39,720 --> 01:33:42,280 Joshua is coming home! 1532 01:33:47,200 --> 01:33:49,960 Hey, Joshua! 1533 01:33:52,080 --> 01:33:53,800 Hey! 1534 01:33:58,040 --> 01:34:02,280 I see now. The shadow of death is just poetry. 1535 01:34:02,400 --> 01:34:05,000 Until you step into that valley 1536 01:34:05,120 --> 01:34:07,040 and the shadow falls over you. 1537 01:34:07,440 --> 01:34:10,440 Only at that moment do you understand 1538 01:34:10,560 --> 01:34:14,080 you’ve stumbled into a place that will try your soul 1539 01:34:14,200 --> 01:34:18,880 to its very core because you followed God to that place. 1540 01:34:19,720 --> 01:34:22,920 But you had not come to green pastures. 1541 01:34:23,040 --> 01:34:25,880 You arrive somewhere that is only found 1542 01:34:26,000 --> 01:34:28,400 by a winding, narrow path, 1543 01:34:28,520 --> 01:34:31,160 with only lamplight at your feet, 1544 01:34:31,280 --> 01:34:35,760 because the Lord is not needed in green pastures. 1545 01:34:36,280 --> 01:34:38,560 The still waters are behind you. 1546 01:34:38,920 --> 01:34:41,920 Now you’re staring at the face of evil, 1547 01:34:42,040 --> 01:34:44,640 and where the fear of it will rise up in you 1548 01:34:44,960 --> 01:34:47,400 because it has left such a mark 1549 01:34:47,520 --> 01:34:50,640 that you will swear it can never be undone. 1550 01:34:50,800 --> 01:34:55,040 We can’t do it without you, Jesus. 1551 01:34:57,600 --> 01:35:00,720 Come on, now. Let’s go. LaDonna! Mercedes. 1552 01:35:00,880 --> 01:35:02,840 Go, Mercedes. Go! 1553 01:35:02,960 --> 01:35:04,240 We don’t have time for this. 1554 01:35:04,360 --> 01:35:06,296 Come on now, move your feet, little one. Let’s go. 1555 01:35:06,320 --> 01:35:07,880 We got it, Daddy. 1556 01:35:13,120 --> 01:35:17,200 I want A’s from all y’all. Each and every last one of you. 1557 01:35:42,680 --> 01:35:44,280 Hey. 1558 01:35:50,760 --> 01:35:52,760 What’s up? 1559 01:36:02,600 --> 01:36:04,880 Your sister is such a ho, LaDonna. 1560 01:36:05,000 --> 01:36:06,560 Shut up, Vanessa. 1561 01:36:06,680 --> 01:36:07,680 Let’s go. 1562 01:36:07,720 --> 01:36:09,040 We’re here. 1563 01:36:09,200 --> 01:36:11,280 I just got a bathroom pass. 1564 01:36:11,360 --> 01:36:14,000 She thinks I’m in the nurse’s office. 1565 01:36:14,160 --> 01:36:17,240 Alright, go, go on, hurry up. 1566 01:36:18,400 --> 01:36:21,160 What? Show me what you got, come on. 1567 01:36:22,320 --> 01:36:25,440 Come on. Let’s go. 1568 01:36:25,880 --> 01:36:28,160 Before somebody gets here. 1569 01:36:28,640 --> 01:36:31,880 Come on, take it off. Let’s go. 1570 01:36:35,320 --> 01:36:37,800 You’re crazy. 1571 01:37:13,600 --> 01:37:14,760 Mrs. Martin. 1572 01:37:14,880 --> 01:37:16,720 I am so sorry, Mr. Thompson. 1573 01:37:16,840 --> 01:37:19,280 I understand the suspension and we’re working on this. 1574 01:37:19,400 --> 01:37:22,800 Mrs. Martin. It was serious this time. 1575 01:37:22,920 --> 01:37:25,080 You might need to stop by a drugstore. 1576 01:37:25,760 --> 01:37:27,440 What? Hm. 1577 01:37:36,440 --> 01:37:39,160 What happened in there, Terri? 1578 01:37:43,840 --> 01:37:46,160 Did that boy hurt you? 1579 01:37:47,760 --> 01:37:50,120 Terri, I’m talking to you. 1580 01:37:50,320 --> 01:37:52,960 I’m not gonna do what you tell me. 1581 01:37:54,040 --> 01:37:55,896 How you fix your mouth to say something like that 1582 01:37:55,920 --> 01:37:57,840 when all I try to do is protect you? 1583 01:37:57,960 --> 01:37:59,280 No, you are not! 1584 01:37:59,400 --> 01:38:00,760 You want me to be like you. 1585 01:38:00,880 --> 01:38:01,976 I ain’t gonna be a fake little pastor’s daughter! 1586 01:38:02,000 --> 01:38:03,640 Okay, that’s enough! 1587 01:38:03,760 --> 01:38:05,000 Now I’m the parent here. 1588 01:38:05,120 --> 01:38:05,920 You may not accept that but 1589 01:38:06,040 --> 01:38:07,640 you at least gonna respect me. You hear? 1590 01:38:07,760 --> 01:38:09,240 No! 1591 01:38:09,400 --> 01:38:11,200 Terri! 1592 01:38:11,360 --> 01:38:12,840 You’re not gonna talk to me like that. 1593 01:38:12,880 --> 01:38:15,640 Stop it! I don’t wanna be here! 1594 01:38:15,760 --> 01:38:18,200 I don’t wanna be anywhere! 1595 01:38:18,320 --> 01:38:20,400 I wish I was dead! 1596 01:38:20,520 --> 01:38:23,600 I wish I wasn’t born! 1597 01:39:37,880 --> 01:39:41,800 â™Ș One of these mornings â™Ș 1598 01:39:43,200 --> 01:39:46,400 â™Ș Won’t be very long... â™Ș 1599 01:40:10,760 --> 01:40:12,600 Terri. 1600 01:40:37,160 --> 01:40:39,920 Terri’s gone. She took the car. 1601 01:40:40,040 --> 01:40:42,440 I don’t know, she was so upset... 1602 01:40:43,480 --> 01:40:47,240 WC, I don’t know, but the way she talked, she got me worried. 1603 01:40:47,360 --> 01:40:49,520 What we gonna do? 1604 01:40:51,240 --> 01:40:54,000 Tell Diann to grab the kids from school. 1605 01:40:54,120 --> 01:40:58,600 Fred, Fred, Fred! 1606 01:41:02,000 --> 01:41:03,016 What’s the matter, Chewy? 1607 01:41:03,040 --> 01:41:05,160 Terri took off in Donna’s car. 1608 01:41:05,440 --> 01:41:07,440 Terri is driving? 1609 01:41:07,560 --> 01:41:09,320 She’s gonna kill somebody. 1610 01:41:27,480 --> 01:41:31,200 RJ! Terri took Donna’s car! 1611 01:41:31,320 --> 01:41:33,240 She came by here? 1612 01:42:23,320 --> 01:42:26,280 Please, Lord, help us find this child. 1613 01:42:45,400 --> 01:42:47,520 Alright go head back to town, tell everybody. 1614 01:42:47,680 --> 01:42:49,240 Alright. 1615 01:42:53,200 --> 01:42:56,360 Diann, you heard something? 1616 01:42:56,680 --> 01:42:58,800 Ok, ok, bye. 1617 01:43:18,520 --> 01:43:22,240 Oh, Lord, we need your help. Oh, God. 1618 01:43:26,440 --> 01:43:27,536 Diann, you hear anything? 1619 01:43:27,560 --> 01:43:28,560 She’s not here. 1620 01:43:28,600 --> 01:43:30,416 But people are already looking for her, ok? 1621 01:43:30,440 --> 01:43:31,800 And I got more people coming. 1622 01:43:31,920 --> 01:43:33,656 - It’s getting late. - I know. Should we call Susan? 1623 01:43:33,680 --> 01:43:35,000 No! 1624 01:43:35,120 --> 01:43:38,200 Why we gonna do that? Ain’t gonna help anyhow. 1625 01:43:41,080 --> 01:43:44,400 Terri! 1626 01:44:02,400 --> 01:44:04,720 Come on, girl! 1627 01:44:04,880 --> 01:44:07,360 Terri! 1628 01:44:16,240 --> 01:44:20,320 You got people looking for you, that love you now! 1629 01:44:39,960 --> 01:44:42,280 Terri! 1630 01:44:43,200 --> 01:44:45,200 Terri! 1631 01:44:50,280 --> 01:44:53,360 No... No, I didn’t hear. 1632 01:44:53,480 --> 01:44:55,280 How long? 1633 01:44:55,680 --> 01:44:59,280 OK, OK. OK. Hey, Renae, 1634 01:44:59,400 --> 01:45:01,080 we’ll have to have this talk later, OK? 1635 01:45:01,200 --> 01:45:03,120 Thank you. 1636 01:45:05,800 --> 01:45:07,560 Terri’s AWOL. She took Donna’s car. 1637 01:45:07,680 --> 01:45:08,920 What? 1638 01:45:09,040 --> 01:45:11,600 They found the car crashed, but no Terri. 1639 01:47:11,240 --> 01:47:12,800 Terri! 1640 01:47:16,400 --> 01:47:19,840 Terri! Where are you? 1641 01:48:14,280 --> 01:48:18,360 I know this is hard, Susan. 1642 01:48:36,040 --> 01:48:37,760 Terri. 1643 01:49:18,400 --> 01:49:20,480 Are you mad? 1644 01:49:21,120 --> 01:49:23,120 No. 1645 01:49:23,680 --> 01:49:25,880 I’m not mad. 1646 01:49:34,360 --> 01:49:37,400 Am I a new person now? 1647 01:49:56,760 --> 01:49:59,560 Everybody! We found her! WC, 1648 01:50:01,640 --> 01:50:03,280 We got her! 1649 01:50:07,280 --> 01:50:08,280 Jesus... 1650 01:50:08,360 --> 01:50:10,520 Ok, that’s ok. 1651 01:50:14,520 --> 01:50:17,080 We found her... 1652 01:50:22,600 --> 01:50:25,320 - We found her. - Yeah, we found her, guys! 1653 01:50:25,440 --> 01:50:27,200 WC! 1654 01:50:28,360 --> 01:50:31,640 She’s ok. She’s ok, everybody. 1655 01:50:33,920 --> 01:50:38,120 Are you ok? Yeah? Ok. 1656 01:50:42,480 --> 01:50:44,600 She’s safe now. 1657 01:50:46,040 --> 01:50:47,760 Take her home then... 1658 01:50:58,400 --> 01:51:01,160 I’m supposed to take her back with me. 1659 01:51:01,320 --> 01:51:02,680 Right now. 1660 01:51:02,840 --> 01:51:05,160 Susan, please. 1661 01:51:08,280 --> 01:51:11,800 I wanna believe we turned a corner. 1662 01:51:14,000 --> 01:51:15,800 First Lady... 1663 01:51:18,080 --> 01:51:20,600 have we turned a corner? 1664 01:51:28,920 --> 01:51:30,560 Well... 1665 01:51:33,840 --> 01:51:37,120 It looks to me like we have. 1666 01:52:51,800 --> 01:52:54,360 I’ve had to look at some things 1667 01:52:54,840 --> 01:52:56,600 I couldn’t see before, 1668 01:52:57,120 --> 01:53:00,720 things I need to change. 1669 01:53:06,240 --> 01:53:09,200 I know I hurt you, Terri and... 1670 01:53:12,040 --> 01:53:14,520 I’m sorry, baby girl. 1671 01:53:22,640 --> 01:53:25,360 Did my mom hate me? 1672 01:53:26,480 --> 01:53:28,800 No. 1673 01:53:30,160 --> 01:53:32,360 Come here, baby. 1674 01:53:33,520 --> 01:53:35,480 Don’t say nothin’ like that. 1675 01:53:35,760 --> 01:53:38,720 Your mama didn’t hate you, ok? 1676 01:53:39,880 --> 01:53:42,560 I tried to be good, 1677 01:53:43,840 --> 01:53:45,280 but it didn’t matter. 1678 01:53:46,200 --> 01:53:49,000 This wasn’t nothing you ever did, you hear me? 1679 01:53:49,200 --> 01:53:50,520 Look at me. 1680 01:53:50,640 --> 01:53:52,440 She couldn’t see you. 1681 01:53:52,560 --> 01:53:54,320 But I see you. 1682 01:53:54,600 --> 01:53:56,240 And when I look at your sweet little face, 1683 01:53:56,280 --> 01:53:58,960 I see my little girl. 1684 01:54:00,920 --> 01:54:03,400 You’re a gift 1685 01:54:04,080 --> 01:54:07,760 and you were only ever meant to be loved. 1686 01:54:14,000 --> 01:54:16,440 Love is kind, 1687 01:54:16,760 --> 01:54:18,920 love protects, 1688 01:54:19,480 --> 01:54:23,280 and love never gives up. 1689 01:54:27,200 --> 01:54:30,120 That’s ok... 1690 01:54:33,120 --> 01:54:34,560 And love forgives, baby. 1691 01:54:34,720 --> 01:54:39,920 That’s where you’re gonna have to start. Forgive. 1692 01:54:42,520 --> 01:54:43,920 Hm. 1693 01:54:47,800 --> 01:54:53,280 It’s okay, I got you. 1694 01:54:56,080 --> 01:54:57,560 Hm. 1695 01:55:17,360 --> 01:55:19,640 That’s ok. 1696 01:55:19,760 --> 01:55:22,400 It’s alright, baby girl. 1697 01:55:24,040 --> 01:55:25,840 It’s okay. 1698 01:55:36,400 --> 01:55:39,040 Let it out, it’s okay, it’s okay. 1699 01:55:45,880 --> 01:55:47,720 We got you. 1700 01:55:57,800 --> 01:55:59,480 Let it go now. 1701 01:56:06,320 --> 01:56:08,280 He sees you sweet baby. 1702 01:56:08,720 --> 01:56:11,320 We say we believe, 1703 01:56:11,600 --> 01:56:14,560 that we’ll follow Him wherever He leads. 1704 01:56:14,680 --> 01:56:17,080 The truth is you don’t even know 1705 01:56:17,240 --> 01:56:19,000 if you have faith 1706 01:56:19,120 --> 01:56:22,960 until something weighs down on you with all its might. 1707 01:56:23,280 --> 01:56:25,720 There you see what’s inside. 1708 01:56:25,840 --> 01:56:27,600 When you follow to that place, 1709 01:56:27,720 --> 01:56:31,640 you will become like the One who leads you, 1710 01:56:31,960 --> 01:56:35,000 or you will find that you never knew Him. 1711 01:56:36,040 --> 01:56:37,400 We followed. 1712 01:56:37,520 --> 01:56:40,800 I heard it said we ain’t had no business tryin’. 1713 01:56:40,920 --> 01:56:43,480 But I say, if we can, 1714 01:56:44,280 --> 01:56:47,120 then who is it that can’t? 1715 01:56:49,960 --> 01:56:52,120 We took up those little hands 1716 01:56:52,240 --> 01:56:54,920 in the weakness of our own. 1717 01:56:55,040 --> 01:56:57,320 We took them in faith. 1718 01:56:57,680 --> 01:57:00,360 And yea though we walk through the valley, 1719 01:57:00,640 --> 01:57:05,040 and the shadow of death bears down on our souls, 1720 01:57:05,400 --> 01:57:07,480 I will fear no evil, 1721 01:57:07,600 --> 01:57:11,800 for I have seen that we do not walk alone. 1722 01:57:23,880 --> 01:57:24,520 Hello? 1723 01:57:24,680 --> 01:57:26,680 Susan, how you doin’, my sister? 1724 01:57:26,800 --> 01:57:29,080 Reverend! Hi. 1725 01:57:29,360 --> 01:57:32,280 Well, I just have finished talkin’ to some people 1726 01:57:32,440 --> 01:57:34,600 and it looks like we got room for more children. 1727 01:57:34,720 --> 01:57:38,840 Reverend, I can’t tell you how it feels to know that. 1728 01:57:39,200 --> 01:57:41,240 But at the moment 1729 01:57:41,360 --> 01:57:42,840 there are no more. 1730 01:57:42,960 --> 01:57:43,960 What? 1731 01:57:44,320 --> 01:57:45,640 What do you mean? 1732 01:57:45,760 --> 01:57:48,600 There’s not a child in need of a home 1733 01:57:48,720 --> 01:57:53,160 in 100 miles of Possum Trot in every direction. 1734 01:57:54,600 --> 01:57:56,800 But I know where to find you. 1735 01:57:57,240 --> 01:58:01,000 Alright then, uh. Well, you let me know. 1736 01:58:01,920 --> 01:58:03,720 Thank you. 1737 02:02:18,960 --> 02:02:22,440 Hi, I’m the real First Lady Donna Martin 1738 02:02:22,560 --> 02:02:25,600 and this is my husband Bishop Martin. 1739 02:02:25,880 --> 02:02:28,640 If we can do this in Possum Trot 1740 02:02:28,800 --> 02:02:30,960 with the little that we had, 1741 02:02:31,600 --> 02:02:34,280 what can we do if we all come together? 1742 02:02:34,400 --> 02:02:39,600 Today there are nearly 400,000 churches in this country 1743 02:02:39,720 --> 02:02:41,720 and there’s more than 100,000 children 1744 02:02:41,840 --> 02:02:43,800 waiting to be adopted. 1745 02:02:44,760 --> 02:02:47,160 It is time for a change. 1746 02:02:47,960 --> 02:02:49,680 Enough is enough! 1747 02:02:49,920 --> 02:02:54,040 Don’t you think that this 100,000 children deserve 1748 02:02:54,600 --> 02:02:55,680 a beautiful life? 1749 02:02:55,800 --> 02:02:58,480 Don’t you think that they deserve a chance? 1750 02:02:59,040 --> 02:03:00,240 It is in your hands. 1751 02:03:00,640 --> 02:03:04,160 I’m here to tell you that you can make a difference. 1752 02:03:04,760 --> 02:03:07,440 That we can annihilate this problem. 1753 02:03:07,600 --> 02:03:11,440 That there will be not a child without a loving home. 1754 02:03:11,880 --> 02:03:14,320 But it’s time now to put some action 1755 02:03:14,440 --> 02:03:17,800 in love and you know love is an action word. 1756 02:03:18,400 --> 02:03:20,360 You can’t sit up and look at how bad they are 1757 02:03:20,480 --> 02:03:22,440 but you’re not doing anything about the problem. 1758 02:03:23,080 --> 02:03:24,760 I challenge you today, 1759 02:03:25,000 --> 02:03:27,880 I challenge you to stand up 1760 02:03:28,040 --> 02:03:30,840 and let’s say this church and that church, 1761 02:03:30,960 --> 02:03:31,800 we’re going to make a difference 1762 02:03:31,920 --> 02:03:32,920 in the life of children. 1763 02:03:33,400 --> 02:03:34,120 Let’s help them, 1764 02:03:34,240 --> 02:03:35,640 let’s get them out of the system, 1765 02:03:35,760 --> 02:03:38,600 bring them in there, teach them, show them, 1766 02:03:38,720 --> 02:03:40,680 let them, help them to understand that 1767 02:03:40,800 --> 02:03:43,920 their life is just as important as any other child. 1768 02:03:44,200 --> 02:03:46,120 Next, on the website. 1769 02:03:46,240 --> 02:03:47,240 That’s mine. 1770 02:03:47,960 --> 02:03:50,560 Next is mine, Sonny. I wanted next. 1771 02:03:50,680 --> 02:03:51,840 Well, I’m on a roll. 1772 02:03:51,960 --> 02:03:53,080 Next, on our website, 1773 02:03:53,200 --> 02:03:56,680 you’ll find the information of how you can get involved. 1774 02:03:56,960 --> 02:03:58,720 Don’t be shy. 1775 02:03:58,840 --> 02:04:01,400 Go ahead and take your phones out 1776 02:04:01,520 --> 02:04:03,080 and scan the QR code. 1777 02:04:05,520 --> 02:04:07,520 Let’s change this whole world. 1778 02:04:07,640 --> 02:04:09,200 Let’s change the mindset 1779 02:04:09,360 --> 02:04:11,480 of what has happened in the past 1780 02:04:11,600 --> 02:04:12,800 and show forth that 1781 02:04:12,920 --> 02:04:14,560 we are the people of God. 1782 02:04:14,680 --> 02:04:18,360 God has given us the ability and the mind to do this. 1783 02:04:18,480 --> 02:04:20,800 So let’s do it together. God bless you. 125758

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