WEBVTT NOTE This file was exported by MacCaption version 7.0.11 to comply with the WebVTT specification dated March 23, 2013. 00:00:00.667 --> 00:00:02.936 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% male announcer: The following program is sponsored by Friends 00:00:02.936 --> 00:00:04.938 align:start line:85% position:44% size:78% of Life Outreach International. 00:00:06.640 --> 00:00:09.476 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% announcer: Lauren Burns was kidnapped by her father and 00:00:09.476 --> 00:00:11.211 align:start line:69% position:48% size:38% taken overseas. 00:00:11.211 --> 00:00:13.747 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Lauren Burns: She called my father's house, no one answered. 00:00:13.747 --> 00:00:18.085 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% She called his restaurant, and they told my mom that Ali never 00:00:18.085 --> 00:00:20.187 align:start line:63% position:48% size:43% showed up at the restaurant today. 00:00:20.187 --> 00:00:24.524 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Then her third phone call was the Royal Jordanian Airlines out 00:00:24.524 --> 00:00:27.427 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% of New York, and my mom broke down and said, "Please, I think 00:00:27.427 --> 00:00:29.730 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% my ex-husband's taken my daughter." 00:00:29.730 --> 00:00:32.399 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% So the woman came back on the phone and said, "Yes, we have a 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:35.335 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% Lauren and Ali arriving in Amman this evening." 00:00:36.136 --> 00:00:46.146 align:start line:85% position:48% size:18% [music] 00:00:46.146 --> 00:00:53.553 align:start line:85% position:48% size:18% [music] 00:00:53.553 --> 00:00:56.023 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Randy Robison: Welcome to Life Today, I'm Randy Robinson, 00:00:56.023 --> 00:00:57.424 align:start line:63% position:50% size:50% Blynda Lane's with me, good to see you. 00:00:57.424 --> 00:00:59.660 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Blynda Lane: Good to see you, thanks for having me on today. 00:00:59.660 --> 00:01:01.929 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Randy: It's great to have you with me, and you know, a lot of 00:01:01.929 --> 00:01:06.366 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% what we talk about here on "Life Today" is sort of rescue, right? 00:01:06.366 --> 00:01:09.169 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% God, whether it's rescuing people literally from sex 00:01:09.169 --> 00:01:13.040 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% trafficking or rescuing people from their hopelessness, their 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:16.977 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% addictions, those types of things, rescue and redemption is 00:01:16.977 --> 00:01:19.479 align:start line:69% position:46% size:68% kind of a God story, right? 00:01:19.479 --> 00:01:20.847 align:start line:69% position:47% size:63% We got a crazy one today. 00:01:20.847 --> 00:01:22.716 align:start line:69% position:44% size:78% Blynda: We have an awesome one. 00:01:22.716 --> 00:01:25.085 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% Hold on, put your seatbelt on, it's a good one. 00:01:25.085 --> 00:01:26.453 align:start line:69% position:50% size:45% Randy: Yes, we do. 00:01:26.453 --> 00:01:29.690 align:start line:63% position:50% size:50% Lauren Burns and Bev Lambert join us. 00:01:29.690 --> 00:01:31.024 align:start line:69% position:50% size:41% Welcome, ladies. 00:01:31.024 --> 00:01:32.392 align:start line:69% position:50% size:70% Lauren: Thank you very much. 00:01:32.392 --> 00:01:34.628 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Randy: And you know, I could try to set this up, but it just 00:01:34.628 --> 00:01:36.496 align:start line:69% position:47% size:58% wouldn't do it justice. 00:01:36.496 --> 00:01:38.665 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% So, let's--where do you-- we're ready to jump in with 00:01:38.665 --> 00:01:39.999 align:start line:69% position:48% size:33% these ladies. 00:01:39.999 --> 00:01:43.003 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Blynda: I know, I mean, really, so Lauren, this is your story of 00:01:43.003 --> 00:01:47.507 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% your childhood, but such an interesting connection that your 00:01:47.507 --> 00:01:50.544 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% lifelong friend and a second mother, Bev Lambert, have 00:01:50.544 --> 00:01:52.212 align:start line:69% position:48% size:33% had together. 00:01:52.212 --> 00:01:57.951 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Take us to the beginning of Lauren Burns, seven years old, 00:01:57.951 --> 00:01:59.286 align:start line:69% position:50% size:50% or even before that. 00:01:59.286 --> 00:02:02.422 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Lauren: Before that, so my--I always say my childhood started 00:02:02.422 --> 00:02:04.024 align:start line:69% position:50% size:35% as a hot mess. 00:02:04.024 --> 00:02:06.960 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% By the time I was six weeks old, my parents--my mom's filing for 00:02:06.960 --> 00:02:10.630 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% divorce, because my father is from Jordan near Israel, he's 00:02:10.630 --> 00:02:13.633 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Muslim, and my mother's a Christian from Florida, and they 00:02:13.633 --> 00:02:17.004 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% met in Dallas area working at like a Denny's diner. 00:02:17.004 --> 00:02:19.706 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And Bev and Rick were my mom's closest friends, they knew my 00:02:19.706 --> 00:02:24.144 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% father, they walked alongside that relationship for four years 00:02:24.144 --> 00:02:27.714 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% until my mom was pregnant with me, and when my mother was 00:02:27.714 --> 00:02:29.683 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% pregnant with me, my father was super-excited. 00:02:29.683 --> 00:02:33.286 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% They were about to have their first child, and he told my mom 00:02:33.286 --> 00:02:36.456 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% that he needed to go to Jordan because his father was sick. 00:02:36.456 --> 00:02:41.595 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% And so he left her, and my mom was by herself for three months, 00:02:41.595 --> 00:02:44.398 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% not knowing if my father was going to come back. 00:02:44.398 --> 00:02:46.967 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% She actually went into labor early because of all of the 00:02:46.967 --> 00:02:48.635 align:start line:69% position:50% size:70% stress, about a month early. 00:02:48.635 --> 00:02:53.273 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% She was working with Beverly's mother, Wanda, and my mom 00:02:53.273 --> 00:02:55.575 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% thought she just kept going to the bathroom, and Wanda said, 00:02:55.575 --> 00:02:58.011 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% "No, your water broke. 00:02:58.011 --> 00:02:59.346 align:start line:63% position:48% size:43% You need to get to the hospital." 00:02:59.346 --> 00:03:00.714 align:start line:69% position:45% size:73% Blynda: You're having a baby. 00:03:00.714 --> 00:03:02.849 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Lauren: So that's how long Bev has been a part of my life. 00:03:02.849 --> 00:03:06.787 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% And when my father did return, he looked different. 00:03:06.787 --> 00:03:10.123 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% He was in the traditional clothing that you would wear in 00:03:10.123 --> 00:03:13.927 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Jordan, and he was praying on his prayer rug, and he told my 00:03:13.927 --> 00:03:16.396 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% mom he had gone to Jordan to make a home for us. 00:03:16.396 --> 00:03:20.700 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% He wanted me to be raised in his tradition, in his culture with 00:03:20.700 --> 00:03:23.370 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% his beliefs, and my mom said absolutely not. 00:03:23.370 --> 00:03:26.440 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% So by the time I was six weeks old, my mom was filing for 00:03:26.440 --> 00:03:29.576 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% divorce, and she found herself as a single mom with me 00:03:29.576 --> 00:03:31.711 align:start line:69% position:48% size:23% to raise. 00:03:31.711 --> 00:03:35.782 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Randy: That right there is a traumatic beginning, but it got 00:03:35.782 --> 00:03:37.384 align:start line:69% position:48% size:33% even crazier. 00:03:37.384 --> 00:03:41.555 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% How old were you when you saw your father at the time that 00:03:41.555 --> 00:03:42.923 align:start line:69% position:50% size:45% changed your life? 00:03:42.923 --> 00:03:45.725 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% Lauren: So, up until that, I saw him every other weekend. 00:03:45.725 --> 00:03:48.495 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% My mom had full custody of me, but my mom let me see my father 00:03:48.495 --> 00:03:49.830 align:start line:69% position:47% size:53% whenever I wanted to. 00:03:49.830 --> 00:03:51.965 align:start line:63% position:50% size:50% He had remarried, he had other children. 00:03:51.965 --> 00:03:56.570 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% When I was 7 years old, 1987, it was Halloween weekend, my father 00:03:56.570 --> 00:03:59.106 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% asked if I could stay an extra night to go trick or treating 00:03:59.106 --> 00:04:03.710 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% with him, and he showed up, just him alone at the house, and when 00:04:03.710 --> 00:04:06.713 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% I got in the car, my stepmother was not there, my siblings were 00:04:06.713 --> 00:04:10.183 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% not there, and he turned and looked at me and said, "I have a 00:04:10.183 --> 00:04:11.551 align:start line:69% position:48% size:43% surprise for you. 00:04:11.551 --> 00:04:14.087 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% We are going to Jordan so you can meet your family for the 00:04:14.087 --> 00:04:15.422 align:start line:69% position:50% size:31% first time." 00:04:15.422 --> 00:04:17.491 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% And of course I'm like, "My mom didn't say I was going 00:04:17.491 --> 00:04:18.825 align:start line:69% position:50% size:25% to Jordan. 00:04:18.825 --> 00:04:20.360 align:start line:63% position:50% size:50% She said I was going trick or treating. 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:21.962 align:start line:69% position:46% size:68% Are you sure this is okay?" 00:04:21.962 --> 00:04:25.765 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% But the more questions I asked him, the more frustrated he got, 00:04:25.765 --> 00:04:28.969 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% and I just stopped asking the questions, because I knew he was 00:04:28.969 --> 00:04:30.303 align:start line:69% position:50% size:35% getting angry. 00:04:30.303 --> 00:04:34.674 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% So we're on our way to the airport, and my mom had no idea. 00:04:34.674 --> 00:04:37.377 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Blynda: And he was telling you, though, that she did know, so 00:04:37.377 --> 00:04:38.712 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% probably to keep you calm. 00:04:38.712 --> 00:04:42.149 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Lauren: Absolutely, and so that Monday when she went to go have 00:04:42.149 --> 00:04:44.184 align:start line:63% position:50% size:50% lunch with me--which I have to back up. 00:04:44.184 --> 00:04:47.187 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% She's a single mom, so for the people that know what it's like 00:04:47.187 --> 00:04:49.623 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% to be a single parent, you don't stop your day to go have lunch 00:04:49.623 --> 00:04:50.957 align:start line:69% position:50% size:61% with your kid at school. 00:04:50.957 --> 00:04:53.793 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% You don't have the time, but God. 00:04:53.793 --> 00:04:56.229 align:start line:69% position:50% size:70% God was already intervening. 00:04:56.229 --> 00:04:59.866 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% On that Monday she went to the school and to go have lunch and 00:04:59.866 --> 00:05:03.470 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% the teacher said Lauren never showed up at school, and so this 00:05:03.470 --> 00:05:05.505 align:start line:63% position:50% size:50% is the '80s, there's no cell phone. 00:05:05.505 --> 00:05:08.642 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% She went to a pay phone, she called my father's house, no 00:05:08.642 --> 00:05:09.976 align:start line:69% position:48% size:33% one answered. 00:05:09.976 --> 00:05:13.713 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% She called his restaurant, and they told my mom that Ali never 00:05:13.713 --> 00:05:17.117 align:start line:63% position:48% size:43% showed up at the restaurant today. 00:05:17.117 --> 00:05:21.388 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Then her third phone call was the Royal Jordanian Airlines out 00:05:21.388 --> 00:05:22.756 align:start line:69% position:50% size:31% of New York. 00:05:22.756 --> 00:05:24.758 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% She remembered the name of the airlines, because she had 00:05:24.758 --> 00:05:27.093 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% traveled there before they got married. 00:05:27.093 --> 00:05:29.963 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% On the phone, standing at that pay phone, she talked to the 00:05:29.963 --> 00:05:32.732 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% woman and she said, "Do you have a Lauren and an Ali on your 00:05:32.732 --> 00:05:34.201 align:start line:69% position:50% size:50% flight reservation?" 00:05:34.201 --> 00:05:36.536 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% And the lady said, "I can't give out that kind of information." 00:05:36.536 --> 00:05:39.472 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% And my mom broke down and said, "Please, I think my ex-husband's 00:05:39.472 --> 00:05:40.941 align:start line:69% position:48% size:48% taken my daughter." 00:05:40.941 --> 00:05:43.643 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% So the woman came back on the phone and said, "Yes, we have a 00:05:43.643 --> 00:05:46.580 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% Lauren and an Ali arriving in Amman this evening." 00:05:46.580 --> 00:05:47.914 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% Randy: So you're already on the plane. 00:05:47.914 --> 00:05:49.716 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% Blynda: Panic had to have set in at that moment. 00:05:49.716 --> 00:05:51.251 align:start line:69% position:50% size:50% Lauren: On that day. 00:05:51.251 --> 00:05:56.089 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Randy: So, you land in Jordan, and your mom realizes 00:05:56.089 --> 00:05:57.857 align:start line:69% position:47% size:58% something's gone wrong. 00:05:57.857 --> 00:05:59.259 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% Is this where you come in? 00:05:59.259 --> 00:06:00.927 align:start line:63% position:48% size:43% Bev Lambert: It's where I come in. 00:06:00.927 --> 00:06:04.497 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% So we were in the courthouse, we're private investigators. 00:06:04.497 --> 00:06:08.101 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% We were doing some assignments at the Dallas County Courthouse, 00:06:08.101 --> 00:06:11.271 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% and my husband's pager went off, and it was Cathy's number, and 00:06:11.271 --> 00:06:13.139 align:start line:69% position:50% size:31% it said 911. 00:06:13.139 --> 00:06:17.611 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% So we went over to the desk phone, and we called Cathy, and 00:06:17.611 --> 00:06:20.146 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% she said--she lived in Richardson, which is probably 00:06:20.146 --> 00:06:24.351 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% about 30 minutes from the Dallas County Courthouse, and she said, 00:06:24.351 --> 00:06:27.621 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% "Lauren's been taken, she's landing in Jordan," and this is 00:06:27.621 --> 00:06:33.093 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% like--there was no time for, you know, extra words. 00:06:33.093 --> 00:06:36.463 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% "Lauren's in Jordan, come here now," and we were like, we'll be 00:06:36.463 --> 00:06:37.797 align:start line:69% position:50% size:31% right there. 00:06:37.797 --> 00:06:40.333 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% So we did flasher--my husband was a police officer most of his 00:06:40.333 --> 00:06:44.704 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% career, and so he flashered us all the way to Richardson, and 00:06:44.704 --> 00:06:48.141 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% when we got there is when she completely fell apart. 00:06:48.141 --> 00:06:51.111 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Blynda: Well, yeah, because it seems like there was a good 00:06:51.111 --> 00:06:55.415 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% relationship as, you know, husband and wife exes, I guess, 00:06:55.415 --> 00:06:56.750 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% there was a good relationship there. 00:06:56.750 --> 00:06:59.786 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% There were no red flags when you would be with him. 00:06:59.786 --> 00:07:02.455 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% You even knew him, so this seemed a little out of the blue. 00:07:02.455 --> 00:07:06.059 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Plus, he has a whole another family, so he's now left as well 00:07:06.059 --> 00:07:08.995 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% to do this, so none of the pieces probably felt like they 00:07:08.995 --> 00:07:11.965 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% were fitting together to make sense at any point in this. 00:07:11.965 --> 00:07:15.302 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% Bev: it was the conviction of his religion, which was 00:07:15.302 --> 00:07:19.572 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% completely opposite of how a Christian would behave. 00:07:19.572 --> 00:07:24.344 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% It was cloaked in every kind of hidden--everything was hidden, 00:07:24.344 --> 00:07:26.746 align:start line:69% position:45% size:73% and it just was so unlike it. 00:07:26.746 --> 00:07:29.983 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% We've realized we don't know this person that we thought we 00:07:29.983 --> 00:07:34.587 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% knew, including Lauren, didn't know the the dad that she 00:07:34.587 --> 00:07:35.922 align:start line:69% position:48% size:43% thought she knew. 00:07:35.922 --> 00:07:37.924 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% Randy: So, what was it like when you got there? 00:07:37.924 --> 00:07:39.292 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% Do you remember, because you were what? 00:07:39.292 --> 00:07:40.627 align:start line:69% position:48% size:48% You're seven again? 00:07:40.627 --> 00:07:41.995 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% Lauren: I was seven years old, yes. 00:07:41.995 --> 00:07:44.531 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% So my stepmother, I had a great relationship with my stepmother, 00:07:44.531 --> 00:07:48.068 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% and I had two siblings at the time, so I was a big sister. 00:07:48.068 --> 00:07:49.402 align:start line:69% position:50% size:61% None of them were there. 00:07:49.402 --> 00:07:50.770 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% It was just my father. 00:07:50.770 --> 00:07:54.474 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% my father had sent her and the kids away, so they did not even 00:07:54.474 --> 00:07:55.942 align:start line:69% position:47% size:58% know what he was doing. 00:07:55.942 --> 00:07:57.844 align:start line:69% position:50% size:75% No one knew what he was doing. 00:07:57.844 --> 00:08:01.815 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% And the laws in Jordan at the time, Beverly found this out. 00:08:01.815 --> 00:08:06.286 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% My birthday is in September, he took me in October, and the 00:08:06.286 --> 00:08:09.956 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Jordanian law was when a child turns seven, all rights go to 00:08:09.956 --> 00:08:13.593 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% the father, so he had timed everything, he had 00:08:13.593 --> 00:08:15.128 align:start line:69% position:48% size:48% planned everything. 00:08:15.128 --> 00:08:17.464 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% When I got to Jordan, it was just the two of us. 00:08:17.464 --> 00:08:19.866 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% I was, you know, meeting my family for the first time. 00:08:19.866 --> 00:08:23.603 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% He has a huge family, 12 siblings, my grandmother and my 00:08:23.603 --> 00:08:25.638 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% aunts, they all lived in the same sort of building. 00:08:25.638 --> 00:08:27.073 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% Everyone spoke Arabic. 00:08:27.073 --> 00:08:28.408 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% I didn't speak Arabic. 00:08:28.408 --> 00:08:30.310 align:start line:63% position:50% size:50% I had never left-- I'd gone to Florida. 00:08:30.310 --> 00:08:34.314 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% That's as far as I had gone, and so it was total culture shock, 00:08:34.314 --> 00:08:35.982 align:start line:69% position:50% size:70% and my father was different. 00:08:35.982 --> 00:08:39.719 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% He was not the loving dad that would brush my hair and put me 00:08:39.719 --> 00:08:41.321 align:start line:69% position:46% size:68% to bed and take care of me. 00:08:41.321 --> 00:08:45.358 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% It was--there was clear lines of it's the women's job to take 00:08:45.358 --> 00:08:47.660 align:start line:69% position:47% size:63% care of you, not his job. 00:08:47.660 --> 00:08:50.630 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% And so I was there without a mother, I was there not knowing 00:08:50.630 --> 00:08:52.599 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% the culture, not knowing the language. 00:08:52.599 --> 00:08:54.334 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% The food, the bathroom was different. 00:08:54.334 --> 00:08:57.437 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% It was a hole in the floor instead of a toilet. 00:08:57.437 --> 00:09:00.206 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% Huge culture shock, and I was scared. 00:09:00.206 --> 00:09:03.643 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% And every time I asked, "When will I see my mom again?" 00:09:03.643 --> 00:09:06.179 align:start line:69% position:50% size:45% I knew not to ask. 00:09:06.179 --> 00:09:08.848 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% He would just shut me down, "Don't you like it here? 00:09:08.848 --> 00:09:10.784 align:start line:63% position:50% size:50% Is my family not good enough for you? 00:09:10.784 --> 00:09:12.619 align:start line:69% position:45% size:73% Don't you see it'll be fine?" 00:09:12.619 --> 00:09:15.321 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% Just sort of pushing me off day after day. 00:09:15.321 --> 00:09:19.859 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% I knew things were wrong when I started going to school. 00:09:19.859 --> 00:09:23.463 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% I knew it wasn't a vacation when I had to go to school to learn 00:09:23.463 --> 00:09:26.032 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% the language, to learn to read and write, and I was the oldest 00:09:26.032 --> 00:09:28.535 align:start line:69% position:48% size:43% in the classroom. 00:09:28.535 --> 00:09:30.603 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Blynda: I just--I'm trying to imagine your seven-year-old 00:09:30.603 --> 00:09:33.807 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% little heart not understanding what's happening, not being able 00:09:33.807 --> 00:09:38.611 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% to talk to your mom, just the confusion and the fear that 00:09:38.611 --> 00:09:43.216 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% could have come over you and not knowing if all this, you know, 00:09:43.216 --> 00:09:45.518 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% now as an adult because you've been able to listen to cassette 00:09:45.518 --> 00:09:48.121 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% tapes and hear stories, but at that moment you had no idea if 00:09:48.121 --> 00:09:49.923 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% she was ever coming for you again. 00:09:49.923 --> 00:09:52.492 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Lauren: You have no idea, and looking back now as an adult, 00:09:52.492 --> 00:09:54.227 align:start line:69% position:50% size:75% that's a big part of my story. 00:09:54.227 --> 00:09:59.432 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% No matter what storm you're going through, divorce, issues 00:09:59.432 --> 00:10:04.137 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% with finances, issues with children, God is moving in ways 00:10:04.137 --> 00:10:08.007 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% you might not ever know when you're in the midst of 00:10:08.007 --> 00:10:09.375 align:start line:69% position:50% size:25% the storm. 00:10:09.375 --> 00:10:12.178 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% I had no clue that they were fighting for me day and night, 00:10:12.178 --> 00:10:15.415 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% and there was about to be a huge rescue mission to come get me. 00:10:15.415 --> 00:10:18.051 align:start line:69% position:47% size:58% I had no idea, but God. 00:10:18.051 --> 00:10:22.288 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% He was working because of the prayers that they were praying 00:10:22.288 --> 00:10:24.757 align:start line:69% position:50% size:50% when I was clueless. 00:10:24.757 --> 00:10:28.962 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Blynda: Okay, so pausing, she's in Jordan, not really knowing 00:10:28.962 --> 00:10:32.131 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% all that's going on, but you now, y'all turned it into 00:10:32.131 --> 00:10:33.533 align:start line:69% position:48% size:28% turbo mode. 00:10:33.533 --> 00:10:37.203 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% You've had to basically put your private investigation firm 00:10:37.203 --> 00:10:38.538 align:start line:69% position:50% size:21% on hold. 00:10:38.538 --> 00:10:39.906 align:start line:69% position:50% size:31% Bev: We did. 00:10:39.906 --> 00:10:41.541 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Blynda: What was the--how did you even know what the next 00:10:41.541 --> 00:10:42.876 align:start line:69% position:48% size:48% steps were to take? 00:10:42.876 --> 00:10:46.246 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Bev: We didn't, but we were far enough along in the private 00:10:46.246 --> 00:10:50.016 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% investigative journey that we had worked for some pretty 00:10:50.016 --> 00:10:54.153 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% heavy-hitting clientele, so we were able to get into the 00:10:54.153 --> 00:10:58.558 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% offices and get on the phone with some powerful Dallas-based 00:10:58.558 --> 00:11:02.495 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% people, H. Ross Perot's office, we were able to actually get a, 00:11:02.495 --> 00:11:04.797 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% you know, a meeting and a phone conference. 00:11:04.797 --> 00:11:07.800 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% There were some avenues that we were able to open that probably 00:11:07.800 --> 00:11:10.470 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% if we hadn't been in that field, we would have just said, well, 00:11:10.470 --> 00:11:12.539 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% like, call the police. 00:11:12.539 --> 00:11:15.041 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% But we were able--we knew about some other missions that had 00:11:15.041 --> 00:11:19.112 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% taken place as well, so we got in touch with those entities, 00:11:19.112 --> 00:11:23.116 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% but it was a dead end at every turn. 00:11:23.116 --> 00:11:27.820 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% No one ever said, oh yeah, here's what you do, or have you 00:11:27.820 --> 00:11:29.188 align:start line:69% position:50% size:41% thought of this? 00:11:29.188 --> 00:11:31.057 align:start line:69% position:44% size:78% No one said anything like that. 00:11:31.057 --> 00:11:36.763 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% So at that point there was only one thing to do, pray, because 00:11:36.763 --> 00:11:39.566 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% we were just getting shut down everywhere we looked. 00:11:39.566 --> 00:11:42.669 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Randy: I mean, what you do, do you call Jordan back then? 00:11:42.669 --> 00:11:45.138 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% Do you call like some office in Jordan? 00:11:45.138 --> 00:11:48.975 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Bev: Well, we actually had some people suggest that they would 00:11:48.975 --> 00:11:53.813 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% contact King Hussein in Jordan, and we were like don't do that, 00:11:53.813 --> 00:11:55.748 align:start line:69% position:50% size:81% because we're planning a rescue. 00:11:55.748 --> 00:11:59.352 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% The last thing we want is for the Jordanian government to see 00:11:59.352 --> 00:12:02.422 align:start line:69% position:44% size:78% us coming, so we're laying low. 00:12:02.422 --> 00:12:05.425 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Randy: You assume that they were not going to be of help, 00:12:05.425 --> 00:12:07.961 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% especially when their law was on your father's side. 00:12:07.961 --> 00:12:09.329 align:start line:69% position:48% size:23% Bev: Yes. 00:12:09.329 --> 00:12:12.465 align:start line:69% position:50% size:81% Randy: So you went for a rescue. 00:12:12.465 --> 00:12:16.402 align:start line:69% position:50% size:75% Bev: We--there was no options. 00:12:16.402 --> 00:12:20.907 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% The thought of not getting her back was not in any way in our 00:12:20.907 --> 00:12:22.241 align:start line:69% position:50% size:45% thought processes. 00:12:22.241 --> 00:12:23.910 align:start line:69% position:47% size:58% It was going to happen. 00:12:23.910 --> 00:12:27.614 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% When you're in the private investigative field, you learn 00:12:27.614 --> 00:12:31.851 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% how to do it by hook or crook, if you know what I mean. 00:12:31.851 --> 00:12:34.687 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% Randy: I think I do, but I'd love to hear more about it. 00:12:34.687 --> 00:12:39.926 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Lauren: Well, the turning point, so Rick had told my mom go to 00:12:39.926 --> 00:12:43.162 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% RadioShack and put a recording device on the phone. 00:12:43.162 --> 00:12:46.866 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% So every time they called Jordan, my mom would call and 00:12:46.866 --> 00:12:49.469 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% beg, and I've listened to all these cassette tapes, hours 00:12:49.469 --> 00:12:50.837 align:start line:69% position:48% size:43% of conversations. 00:12:50.837 --> 00:12:52.171 align:start line:69% position:48% size:48% Bev: It's horrible. 00:12:52.171 --> 00:12:53.539 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% Lauren: Which is very hard and emotional to listen to. 00:12:53.539 --> 00:12:54.874 align:start line:69% position:46% size:68% Blynda: I can only imagine. 00:12:54.874 --> 00:12:57.276 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Lauren: But I hear my mom calling begging, and people are 00:12:57.276 --> 00:13:00.913 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% answering, it's my aunts, speaking only Arabic, and my mom 00:13:00.913 --> 00:13:03.216 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% was like, "Please, you have to bring Lauren back. 00:13:03.216 --> 00:13:04.550 align:start line:69% position:50% size:41% I am her mother. 00:13:04.550 --> 00:13:05.918 align:start line:69% position:50% size:45% This is not right. 00:13:05.918 --> 00:13:07.253 align:start line:69% position:47% size:63% I will not prosecute Ali. 00:13:07.253 --> 00:13:08.955 align:start line:69% position:50% size:75% I just want my daughter back." 00:13:08.955 --> 00:13:12.992 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Day after day, all day long calling, and they kept saying 00:13:12.992 --> 00:13:18.064 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Lauren's not here, Ali's not here in broken English, and all 00:13:18.064 --> 00:13:20.600 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% these days of not eating, not sleeping, the amount of 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:23.703 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% depression, you can imagine what that house was like. 00:13:23.703 --> 00:13:26.406 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Beverly--and I have this on a recording on a cassette tape. 00:13:26.406 --> 00:13:30.243 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% I believe I have it because I know God wanted me to hear it 00:13:30.243 --> 00:13:31.944 align:start line:63% position:48% size:43% because they were living together. 00:13:31.944 --> 00:13:33.513 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% Bev: We had just moved in. 00:13:33.513 --> 00:13:35.381 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% If Cathy needed to go to a meeting, 00:13:35.381 --> 00:13:39.752 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% my job was to say, "Oh, Ali--" if he called, 00:13:39.752 --> 00:13:41.320 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% "she'll be right back. 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:42.655 align:start line:69% position:50% size:50% She's in the shower. 00:13:42.655 --> 00:13:43.990 align:start line:69% position:44% size:78% Let me have her call you back." 00:13:43.990 --> 00:13:48.494 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% We didn't want them to ever know Cathy was missing, because it 00:13:48.494 --> 00:13:52.298 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% might give them the notion that she was on her way to Jordan. 00:13:52.298 --> 00:13:53.900 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% So she was always around the corner. 00:13:53.900 --> 00:13:55.268 align:start line:69% position:44% size:78% She was not out of pocket ever. 00:13:55.268 --> 00:13:57.704 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% Blynda: You had two steps ahead all at all times. 00:13:57.704 --> 00:13:59.072 align:start line:69% position:48% size:23% Bev: Yes. 00:13:59.072 --> 00:14:00.440 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% Randy: Okay, so your mother was heading to Jordan. 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:04.010 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Lauren: Well, but this phone call, she--so Beverly called my 00:14:04.010 --> 00:14:06.846 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% mom and said, "You have got to get away. 00:14:06.846 --> 00:14:10.483 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% You've got to pray and fast," and Beverly talked to her about 00:14:10.483 --> 00:14:12.985 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% fasting brings you the closest to God. 00:14:12.985 --> 00:14:15.722 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% And my mom said, "You're right, I have got to get away 00:14:15.722 --> 00:14:17.056 align:start line:69% position:50% size:25% and fast." 00:14:17.056 --> 00:14:19.492 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% Bev: There was a lot of noise, a lot of voices. 00:14:19.492 --> 00:14:21.828 align:start line:69% position:50% size:61% Everyone had an opinion. 00:14:21.828 --> 00:14:24.197 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% That wasn't God's opinion. 00:14:24.197 --> 00:14:27.800 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% I'm tired of listening to these ideas and these, you 00:14:27.800 --> 00:14:29.969 align:start line:69% position:50% size:45% know, suggestions. 00:14:29.969 --> 00:14:32.638 align:start line:69% position:47% size:63% We have to know it's God. 00:14:32.638 --> 00:14:34.474 align:start line:69% position:50% size:61% We have nowhere to turn. 00:14:34.474 --> 00:14:37.310 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Go away, and don't tell me where you're going, and I want you to 00:14:37.310 --> 00:14:42.648 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% get on the ground before God and fast and pray until you do have 00:14:42.648 --> 00:14:44.450 align:start line:69% position:48% size:28% the answer. 00:14:44.450 --> 00:14:46.886 align:start line:63% position:50% size:50% Don't call until you have the answer. 00:14:46.886 --> 00:14:49.589 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% Randy: Why was that so down in your soul? 00:14:49.589 --> 00:14:51.824 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Because when you think we need to go rescue a child from 00:14:51.824 --> 00:14:54.260 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% another country, we're not gonna have the cooperation of that 00:14:54.260 --> 00:14:59.866 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% other country, you don't normally think that means let's 00:14:59.866 --> 00:15:01.200 align:start line:69% position:50% size:25% just pray. 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:03.870 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% People feel like they're not doing anything, right? 00:15:03.870 --> 00:15:07.774 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Bev: There's a difference in saying I'm going away with you, 00:15:07.774 --> 00:15:11.544 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% God, and I'm gonna wait until than saying let's all pray, 00:15:11.544 --> 00:15:12.879 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% let's join hands and pray. 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:14.247 align:start line:69% position:47% size:53% There's a difference. 00:15:14.247 --> 00:15:15.581 align:start line:69% position:45% size:73% Randy: What's the difference? 00:15:15.581 --> 00:15:17.717 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% Bev: But also, this was a spiritual battle. 00:15:17.717 --> 00:15:23.356 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% This was Christ, Christianity against his faith. 00:15:23.356 --> 00:15:26.392 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% So there's no way to fight that except prayer. 00:15:26.392 --> 00:15:29.061 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Lauren: In that motel room on the third day, she went to Fort 00:15:29.061 --> 00:15:32.265 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Worth, and in the motel room the third night after fasting and 00:15:32.265 --> 00:15:36.435 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% praying, God gave her the scripture Daniel 10:12. 00:15:36.435 --> 00:15:39.939 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Daniel was fasting 21 days over the Israelites, and the angel 00:15:39.939 --> 00:15:44.911 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Gabriel came to Daniel and said, "Because you've humbled yourself 00:15:44.911 --> 00:15:48.247 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% before your God, your words were heard." 00:15:48.247 --> 00:15:53.152 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And my mom just wrote it and said there is--it took 21 days 00:15:53.152 --> 00:15:55.188 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% because there was a battle in the heavenlies over 00:15:55.188 --> 00:15:56.522 align:start line:69% position:48% size:38% the Israelites. 00:15:56.522 --> 00:15:59.826 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% There was a battle in the heavenlies over me, and so God 00:15:59.826 --> 00:16:03.896 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% told my mom in that motel room, you have got to lay down your 00:16:03.896 --> 00:16:06.265 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% cigarettes, because she was smoking nonstop. 00:16:06.265 --> 00:16:09.902 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% You've got to forgive areas of bitterness and anger and 00:16:09.902 --> 00:16:13.206 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% forgiveness and surrender them, and my mom did. 00:16:13.206 --> 00:16:15.741 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% She prayed, she wrestled with God, she walked out of that 00:16:15.741 --> 00:16:19.212 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% townhouse and went back to the townhouse with Bev, and Bev 00:16:19.212 --> 00:16:21.747 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% opened the door and said, "You don't look the same." 00:16:21.747 --> 00:16:23.082 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% And my mom said, "I'm not. 00:16:23.082 --> 00:16:24.984 align:start line:69% position:50% size:81% I'm going to get my child back." 00:16:24.984 --> 00:16:28.654 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% And that's when everything changed in our story. 00:16:28.654 --> 00:16:30.022 align:start line:69% position:50% size:70% Blynda: Which is so amazing. 00:16:30.022 --> 00:16:32.158 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% You know, it makes me think, just like you said, Randy, that 00:16:32.158 --> 00:16:36.128 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% there's a feeling that we might have that by pausing and praying 00:16:36.128 --> 00:16:39.298 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% and fasting it's like we're not doing enough, how do we do that? 00:16:39.298 --> 00:16:43.736 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Yet, in your story, that moment was actually what kind of 00:16:43.736 --> 00:16:46.672 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% allowed the Lord to do the supernatural thing that we could 00:16:46.672 --> 00:16:48.708 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% never do in our humanness. 00:16:48.708 --> 00:16:51.210 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% And so what actually--what doors opened after that? 00:16:51.210 --> 00:16:54.614 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% What happened with your mom and the rescue mission from there? 00:16:54.614 --> 00:16:58.084 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Lauren: So, after that, so Rick had got an appointment at the 00:16:58.084 --> 00:17:00.319 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% Dallas County Courthouse, so my mom to stand before the 00:17:00.319 --> 00:17:01.687 align:start line:69% position:48% size:28% grand jury. 00:17:01.687 --> 00:17:03.022 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% It was one of those checking the boxes. 00:17:03.022 --> 00:17:06.025 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% He warned her, "Cathy, there's nothing that they can do, but 00:17:06.025 --> 00:17:09.028 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% they might be able to get a warrant out for Ali's arrest." 00:17:09.028 --> 00:17:12.765 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% So if Ali comes back, they can arrest him and then try to 00:17:12.765 --> 00:17:14.567 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% figure out where I am. 00:17:14.567 --> 00:17:17.637 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% So she went to the courthouse, she told her story before the 00:17:17.637 --> 00:17:20.539 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% grand jury, telling them that I had been taken. 00:17:20.539 --> 00:17:23.542 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% They told her, "We're so sorry, there's nothing we can do." 00:17:23.542 --> 00:17:27.213 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And then my mom broke down and said, "We spend billions of 00:17:27.213 --> 00:17:29.782 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% dollars in foreign aid every year, and you're saying you can 00:17:29.782 --> 00:17:31.951 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% do nothing to help me get my child back." 00:17:31.951 --> 00:17:34.387 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% And they all shook their head and agreed with her. 00:17:34.387 --> 00:17:35.855 align:start line:69% position:47% size:53% And one man stood up. 00:17:35.855 --> 00:17:38.057 align:start line:69% position:47% size:58% His name is Al Zapanta. 00:17:38.057 --> 00:17:41.961 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% "He gave my mom his business card, and he said, If you're not 00:17:41.961 --> 00:17:44.130 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% happy with the State Department, here's my card. 00:17:44.130 --> 00:17:45.965 align:start line:69% position:50% size:81% I work for the State Department. 00:17:45.965 --> 00:17:48.234 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% Give me a call and I'll see what I can do." 00:17:48.234 --> 00:17:52.471 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% So she put that in her wallet and walked out, and 00:17:52.471 --> 00:17:54.307 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% that's when she went and prayed and fasted. 00:17:54.307 --> 00:17:57.510 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% So when she came back home, she pulled out that card on a 00:17:57.510 --> 00:18:00.880 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% Monday, and she called Al. 00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:05.785 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Al told my mom one week before he was the foreman at that grand 00:18:05.785 --> 00:18:09.689 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% jury, he was in Washington DC meeting with one of his friends 00:18:09.689 --> 00:18:11.924 align:start line:69% position:44% size:78% by the name of Everett Alvarez. 00:18:11.924 --> 00:18:15.561 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% Everett Alvarez was the second longest-held POW. 00:18:15.561 --> 00:18:17.964 align:start line:69% position:50% size:70% He was held for 8 1/2 years. 00:18:17.964 --> 00:18:21.968 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Everett, during this lunch, was telling Al about a group of men, 00:18:21.968 --> 00:18:26.305 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% ex-Green Beret, Delta Force, Army Rangers, they had just 00:18:26.305 --> 00:18:29.642 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% started a company called CTU in North Carolina. 00:18:29.642 --> 00:18:33.346 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Their mission was to go to the Middle East to rescue hostages, 00:18:33.346 --> 00:18:35.514 align:start line:69% position:46% size:68% not children, but hostages. 00:18:35.514 --> 00:18:36.849 align:start line:69% position:50% size:61% Blynda: But still, yeah. 00:18:36.849 --> 00:18:38.217 align:start line:69% position:48% size:28% Randy: Wow. 00:18:38.217 --> 00:18:39.552 align:start line:69% position:50% size:75% Lauren: That is how God works. 00:18:39.552 --> 00:18:42.121 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% God was already putting everything in the right. 00:18:42.121 --> 00:18:45.591 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% Like, Al was the foreman that day in the jury? 00:18:45.591 --> 00:18:49.695 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% And so that was the catalyst, my mom praying and fasting, and 00:18:49.695 --> 00:18:51.464 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% then everything started trickling down. 00:18:51.464 --> 00:18:54.934 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% So my mom said, "I want to talk to these men." 00:18:54.934 --> 00:18:59.305 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Randy: All right, we're gonna have to just say a little time 00:18:59.305 --> 00:19:02.708 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% out to you guys and put this on pause, because we're gonna have 00:19:02.708 --> 00:19:05.411 align:start line:69% position:44% size:78% to finish this another program. 00:19:05.411 --> 00:19:07.947 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% And I know, you know, I hate to do that for you guys, and if 00:19:07.947 --> 00:19:11.384 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% you're not able to watch it, you know, as it's scheduled, DVR it, 00:19:11.384 --> 00:19:13.652 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% whatever, you can always go to LifeToday.org for all of 00:19:13.652 --> 00:19:14.987 align:start line:69% position:50% size:25% our shows. 00:19:14.987 --> 00:19:16.355 align:start line:69% position:50% size:45% We will come back. 00:19:16.355 --> 00:19:19.925 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% You will find out what happened and not just with the rescue, 00:19:19.925 --> 00:19:23.629 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% but with Lauren over all these years that she's had to process 00:19:23.629 --> 00:19:27.633 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% it and deal with the trauma and the broken relationship with her 00:19:27.633 --> 00:19:30.803 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% father and the trust, but you're gonna hear some miraculous 00:19:30.803 --> 00:19:34.540 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% things when you join us again next time on "Life Today." 00:19:34.540 --> 00:19:37.610 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Real quickly though, there are some people right now who are in 00:19:37.610 --> 00:19:40.980 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% a situation where they need that rescuer, they need someone to 00:19:40.980 --> 00:19:45.151 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% come in and save them oftentimes from death but definitely from 00:19:45.151 --> 00:19:47.853 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% sickness, and our enemy is not flesh and blood in this case, 00:19:47.853 --> 00:19:51.223 align:start line:69% position:50% size:61% it's contaminated water. 00:19:51.223 --> 00:19:54.060 align:start line:69% position:44% size:78% Watch this, and we'll show you. 00:19:54.060 --> 00:19:57.997 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% We'll show you how you can be that rescuer today. 00:19:59.532 --> 00:20:08.307 align:start line:85% position:48% size:18% [music] 00:20:08.307 --> 00:20:10.910 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% Randy: Why would anybody drink this? 00:20:10.910 --> 00:20:16.348 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% This water is so polluted by animals and people and runoff 00:20:16.348 --> 00:20:21.654 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% and environment, I don't even want to touch it, much less 00:20:21.654 --> 00:20:22.988 align:start line:69% position:48% size:23% drink it. 00:20:22.988 --> 00:20:25.157 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% I certainly wouldn't give it to my children. 00:20:25.157 --> 00:20:30.129 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% But you know, for many people, they don't have a choice. 00:20:30.129 --> 00:20:35.334 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% A water source like this is the only water they can find, and 00:20:35.334 --> 00:20:38.137 align:start line:69% position:50% size:31% it's deadly. 00:20:38.137 --> 00:20:41.841 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% James Robison: You know, if you were thirsty in Africa, or in 00:20:41.841 --> 00:20:45.811 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% many of the remote parts of the world, you'd walk up to a stream 00:20:45.811 --> 00:20:48.247 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% like this, you'd say, oh, I've got great water, but what you 00:20:48.247 --> 00:20:52.618 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% don't realize is in this area alone thousands of people got 00:20:52.618 --> 00:20:57.656 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% cholera, serious severe diarrhea, many people it cost 00:20:57.656 --> 00:20:59.658 align:start line:69% position:50% size:50% them their children. 00:21:01.293 --> 00:21:03.295 align:start line:69% position:46% size:68% [speaking foreign language] 00:21:20.779 --> 00:21:22.781 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Betty Robison: And they can't do anything about it, because it's 00:21:22.781 --> 00:21:24.150 align:start line:69% position:45% size:73% all the water that they have. 00:21:24.150 --> 00:21:25.484 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% I just can't even imagine. 00:21:25.484 --> 00:21:28.521 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% This little baby is so precious, so beautiful, her mother loves 00:21:28.521 --> 00:21:32.224 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% her so much, and I wanna see this little baby live healthy 00:21:32.224 --> 00:21:36.662 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% because we've given some fresh water to them. 00:21:36.662 --> 00:21:41.700 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% Randy: As we give water for life, we give life to so 00:21:41.700 --> 00:21:43.035 align:start line:69% position:50% size:31% many people. 00:21:43.035 --> 00:21:47.206 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% They're asking us, they are begging us, if you could just 00:21:47.206 --> 00:21:50.943 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% give us fresh, clean water, we wouldn't be so sick, we could 00:21:50.943 --> 00:21:54.713 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% work to grow our crops, we could take care of our families, and 00:21:54.713 --> 00:21:57.516 align:start line:69% position:48% size:48% it starts with you. 00:21:57.516 --> 00:22:02.421 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% Let's give water for life so people can live. 00:22:05.257 --> 00:22:09.094 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% Randy: You are the answer to the problem. 00:22:09.094 --> 00:22:10.963 align:start line:69% position:45% size:73% We can give them clean water. 00:22:10.963 --> 00:22:17.536 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% We are prepared in over 20 nations to drill 350 wells or 00:22:17.536 --> 00:22:20.673 align:start line:69% position:47% size:58% more, I hope this year. 00:22:20.673 --> 00:22:25.110 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% But we're relying on viewers just like yourself, and you need 00:22:25.110 --> 00:22:28.681 align:start line:58% position:47% size:53% to know that there is nothing too small. 00:22:28.681 --> 00:22:33.919 align:start line:58% position:50% size:45% Saving one life, two lives is huge. 00:22:33.919 --> 00:22:36.288 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% Let me give you the breakdown real quick so you understand. 00:22:36.288 --> 00:22:40.125 align:start line:58% position:48% size:48% The average well for us costs $4800. 00:22:40.125 --> 00:22:43.162 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% There are some places that are very difficult to reach, there 00:22:43.162 --> 00:22:47.299 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% are some places where to get to actual clean water, you have to 00:22:47.299 --> 00:22:50.169 align:start line:63% position:48% size:43% drill quite deep. 00:22:50.169 --> 00:22:53.339 align:start line:58% position:50% size:70% But we go in, and we make it a well that will last for an 00:22:53.339 --> 00:22:55.941 align:start line:63% position:50% size:50% average of 70 years. 00:22:55.941 --> 00:22:58.077 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% It's totally enclosed. 00:22:58.077 --> 00:23:01.880 align:start line:58% position:47% size:63% This is truly water for life, because it is clean 00:23:01.880 --> 00:23:03.249 align:start line:63% position:48% size:38% drinking water. 00:23:03.249 --> 00:23:08.053 align:start line:58% position:47% size:53% It changes a village, it changes a region. 00:23:08.053 --> 00:23:12.224 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% We believe we have impacted nations through this, but again, 00:23:12.224 --> 00:23:14.159 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% it's all because of you. 00:23:14.159 --> 00:23:16.595 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% Some of you can drill an entire well, and I would encourage you 00:23:16.595 --> 00:23:19.098 align:start line:58% position:48% size:48% if you can do that, please do that. 00:23:19.098 --> 00:23:21.867 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% You'll bless so many people. 00:23:21.867 --> 00:23:24.703 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% Some of you can join with others, $48 will help provide 00:23:24.703 --> 00:23:26.739 align:start line:58% position:50% size:50% clean drinking water for a lifetime. 00:23:26.739 --> 00:23:32.211 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% For an average of 10 people, a gift of $144 would do the same 00:23:32.211 --> 00:23:34.780 align:start line:63% position:50% size:35% for 30 people. 00:23:34.780 --> 00:23:37.349 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% But here's the important thing, and Blynda, I know you 00:23:37.349 --> 00:23:38.684 align:start line:63% position:50% size:25% know this. 00:23:38.684 --> 00:23:41.687 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% I know you believe this, when we go in and we give someone clean 00:23:41.687 --> 00:23:46.191 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% drinking water, it's a good work, but when we go in and we 00:23:46.191 --> 00:23:51.297 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% give clean drinking water and we preach salvation in the name of 00:23:51.297 --> 00:23:53.932 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Jesus Christ, it's a God work. 00:23:53.932 --> 00:23:55.401 align:start line:58% position:50% size:61% Blynda: It's a God work, and it makes me think. 00:23:55.401 --> 00:23:57.603 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% You said something a minute ago about even if it was just 00:23:57.603 --> 00:23:58.971 align:start line:63% position:48% size:28% one person. 00:23:58.971 --> 00:24:03.175 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% You know, one person can't do everything, but every person, 00:24:03.175 --> 00:24:07.279 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% every person can do something, and that something that you sow 00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:10.316 align:start line:58% position:47% size:58% into this ministry will change someone's life. 00:24:10.316 --> 00:24:12.718 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% It will save someone's life. 00:24:12.718 --> 00:24:14.119 align:start line:58% position:48% size:43% Randy: It is, and I've seen this. 00:24:14.119 --> 00:24:16.855 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% I've been blessed to go to a lot of places where we have drilled 00:24:16.855 --> 00:24:20.859 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% a water well because of viewers just like you, and I've seen the 00:24:20.859 --> 00:24:22.194 align:start line:63% position:50% size:50% difference it makes. 00:24:22.194 --> 00:24:25.164 align:start line:58% position:50% size:50% It changes the health of a village. 00:24:25.164 --> 00:24:28.801 align:start line:58% position:50% size:70% It changes the sort of the temperature of the spirit, I 00:24:28.801 --> 00:24:32.738 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% would say, of a village, because those who are so brokenhearted 00:24:32.738 --> 00:24:36.408 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% because they've lost children in the past, they know that death 00:24:36.408 --> 00:24:38.510 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% has been pushed away. 00:24:38.510 --> 00:24:43.682 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% And we tell them, everywhere we go we tell them we are here 00:24:43.682 --> 00:24:47.886 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% because of God's love for you, that God has put a love in our 00:24:47.886 --> 00:24:52.458 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% hearts that we want to express to you through this simple act. 00:24:52.458 --> 00:24:58.397 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% So, again, I would invite you to join us to share God's love in 00:24:58.397 --> 00:25:02.835 align:start line:58% position:47% size:58% word and deed through Mission Water for Life. 00:25:02.835 --> 00:25:07.673 align:start line:58% position:46% size:68% Go online, go to the phone, make the best gift you can. 00:25:07.673 --> 00:25:11.143 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% announcer: Every day thousands of lives are lost to waterborne 00:25:11.143 --> 00:25:14.046 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% disease, and nearly half of those are children under the age 00:25:14.046 --> 00:25:15.414 align:start line:10% position:50% size:21% of five. 00:25:15.414 --> 00:25:18.717 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% Through Mission Water for Life, you can give mothers hope and 00:25:18.717 --> 00:25:23.455 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% children a future as we provide clean, fresh drinking water free 00:25:23.455 --> 00:25:25.324 align:start line:10% position:47% size:58% from the fear of death. 00:25:25.324 --> 00:25:29.395 align:start line:10% position:45% size:73% With your gift today, you can help drill and establish 350 00:25:29.395 --> 00:25:31.196 align:start line:10% position:50% size:56% water wells this year. 00:25:31.196 --> 00:25:35.134 align:start line:10% position:50% size:65% Your gift of $24 will help provide clean water for 5 00:25:35.134 --> 00:25:40.205 align:start line:10% position:45% size:73% children, a gift of $48 will help provide for 10, and $144 00:25:40.205 --> 00:25:43.409 align:start line:10% position:45% size:73% will help provide life-giving water for 30 people for 00:25:43.409 --> 00:25:44.777 align:start line:10% position:48% size:28% a lifetime. 00:25:44.777 --> 00:25:48.647 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% With a gift of any amount, we'll send you "Discovering the Joy of 00:25:48.647 --> 00:25:50.048 align:start line:10% position:50% size:50% Reading God's Word." 00:25:50.048 --> 00:25:53.685 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% Whether you've read the Bible for years or are just beginning, 00:25:53.685 --> 00:25:57.156 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% this book invites you to experience Scripture in a fresh, 00:25:57.156 --> 00:25:58.557 align:start line:10% position:50% size:45% more intimate way. 00:25:58.557 --> 00:26:02.861 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% With your gift of $100 or more, you may request "A Life of 00:26:02.861 --> 00:26:04.596 align:start line:10% position:50% size:75% Compassion" coffee table book. 00:26:04.596 --> 00:26:08.434 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% Capturing Life Outreach's heart for the world, each page pairs 00:26:08.434 --> 00:26:12.638 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% timeless Bible verses with vivid mission field photography, 00:26:12.638 --> 00:26:16.141 align:start line:10% position:50% size:45% making God's Word visible in action. 00:26:16.141 --> 00:26:20.546 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% Finally, please consider a gift of $1200 to help provide water 00:26:20.546 --> 00:26:26.084 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% for 250 people or a gift of $4800 to help sponsor a complete 00:26:26.084 --> 00:26:31.223 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% well and request Life's beautiful 2026 bronze sculpture, 00:26:31.223 --> 00:26:32.758 align:start line:10% position:50% size:50% "The Good Shepherd." 00:26:32.758 --> 00:26:38.530 align:start line:10% position:46% size:68% Please call, write, or make your gift online today. 00:26:38.530 --> 00:26:40.132 align:start line:10% position:45% size:73% Randy: I do hope you're going online and going on the phone 00:26:40.132 --> 00:26:41.467 align:start line:10% position:50% size:25% right now. 00:26:41.467 --> 00:26:42.801 align:start line:10% position:46% size:68% Make the best gift you can. 00:26:42.801 --> 00:26:44.536 align:start line:10% position:50% size:61% You can be that rescuer. 00:26:44.536 --> 00:26:48.540 align:start line:10% position:45% size:73% You can share God's love with someone in desperate need. 00:26:48.540 --> 00:26:49.875 align:start line:10% position:50% size:56% And you wanna hear the rest of the story. 00:26:49.875 --> 00:26:51.210 align:start line:10% position:47% size:63% Blynda, do you wanna hear the rest of the story? 00:26:51.210 --> 00:26:53.278 align:start line:10% position:47% size:58% Blynda: Well, I'm like on the edge of my seat. 00:26:53.278 --> 00:26:54.613 align:start line:10% position:48% size:33% Tell me more. 00:26:54.613 --> 00:26:56.281 align:start line:10% position:47% size:58% Randy: Lauren, Beth, can you guys come back? 00:26:56.281 --> 00:26:58.450 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% And let's find out what happened 00:26:58.450 --> 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