Speaker 1: Hey, says Dan, Mom, come on your story, hours.
Speaker 2: On presenting your story, hour building for a better tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Hello, they're boys and girls.
Speaker 4: Hello moms and dad.
Speaker 3: Hello everyone. This is Aunt Carroll and I'm Uncle Dan,
Speaker 3: and we're both giving a great, big welcome to each
Speaker 3: one of you.
Speaker 4: That's right, Aunt Carol, say, I was just wondering what
Speaker 4: kind of story do you have today?
Speaker 3: What do you mean, Uncle Dan?
Speaker 4: Well, sometimes you tell about historical events, sometimes you tell
Speaker 4: about adventure, stories about people living today. Sometimes you tell
Speaker 4: stories about kids.
Speaker 3: I guess this is kind of a grand mixture of everything. Then, oh, well,
Speaker 3: first of all, it's a story about two friends, Calli
Speaker 3: and Kanisha. They are twenty first century.
Speaker 4: Kids, okay.
Speaker 3: And it's a story about something that happened quite a
Speaker 3: number of years ago.
Speaker 4: I see sort of two or three for the price
Speaker 4: of one, Aunt Carrol.
Speaker 3: I guess you're right, Uncle Dan. And even though it's
Speaker 3: a story about a lot of different things, it has
Speaker 3: a fit, very short title. I call it the Club.
Speaker 3: Calli and Kinesia are both fifteen years old, both attend
Speaker 3: Jefferson High School, and both like pizza, music, and of
Speaker 3: course boys. Not only that, but they also like the
Speaker 3: same subject in school, which, believe it or not, is biology,
Speaker 3: and so it's not surprising that many an afternoon will
Speaker 3: find them studying together, munching on a snack, and just
Speaker 3: talking together as best friends often do.
Speaker 5: Have you figured out the third problem yet? Not yet.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I may have to change my mind about biology.
Speaker 5: I know what you mean. This genetic stuff is tough.
Speaker 5: You've got that right, Okay. If both parents carry one
Speaker 5: defective gene S for sickle cell anemia and one normal
Speaker 5: gene A, what is the chance that each child born
Speaker 5: to them will be an unaffected carrier like themselves. Hmm,
Speaker 5: let's see.
Speaker 7: Let's draw the grid like mister Cooler showed us.
Speaker 5: Okay, ss sa sa aa looks to me like it
Speaker 5: would be fifty percent.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that's right. Two out of four that
Speaker 7: makes fifty percent.
Speaker 5: Do you know anybody that has sickle cell anemia?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I do.
Speaker 8: My cousin Jamal in fact, really uh huh, he has
Speaker 8: a really bad too. They say it's dammage. Some of
Speaker 8: his organs, like his spleen for one.
Speaker 5: Wow, it's awful. So could you be a carrier then?
Speaker 5: I mean, he is your cousin. That means your dad
Speaker 5: might be a carrier.
Speaker 7: Nah.
Speaker 8: Mom told me that Boshe and Daddy have been tested.
Speaker 8: But my uncle James is a carrier, and so is
Speaker 8: my aunt Dantella.
Speaker 6: Poor Jamal.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I no kidding.
Speaker 6: Anybody for lemonade.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Mom, comeing in.
Speaker 6: So are you girls done with home war?
Speaker 5: Almost?
Speaker 8: I was just selling Cali about my cousin Jamal. He
Speaker 8: has sickle cell anemia.
Speaker 5: And we're studying about that in biology.
Speaker 6: I see, Well here you are.
Speaker 5: You know, it doesn't seem fair. Sometimes people are born
Speaker 5: with stuff like that and it isn't even their fault.
Speaker 9: Oh that's true. Not everything in life is fair. In fact,
Speaker 9: there are a lot of things that aren't fair.
Speaker 7: What do you mean, missus Gregory?
Speaker 9: Well, is it fair that some people get sick, have
Speaker 9: heart attacks, or get cancer or diabetes?
Speaker 5: I guess not. But maybe sometimes people don't eat rite
Speaker 5: or smoke and they get those things.
Speaker 9: Well, sometimes yes and sometimes no. Well how about burst effects?
Speaker 9: Or how about people who get into bad accidents, or
Speaker 9: or people who live in countries where they have no freedom?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Or how about people who were made slaves? My great
Speaker 8: great great grandfather was a slave. Really, yes, and he escaped.
Speaker 7: On the underground railway to the north.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 5: That's amazing.
Speaker 9: Remind me to show you girls something. There's something I've
Speaker 9: been wanting to I'll get it.
Speaker 5: Hello.
Speaker 7: Oh hi, Missus Washington.
Speaker 5: Yes, she's here. Oh okay, I'll tell her bye. It
Speaker 5: was your mom. You gotta go home now. Okay, Well,
Speaker 5: i'll see a school in the morning.
Speaker 7: Thanks for the lemonade, Missus g No problem.
Speaker 6: You come over anytime, Kenisha, tomorrow if you like.
Speaker 7: Yeah, tomorrow sounds good. I'll be here.
Speaker 5: You want some pizza too, sure, Okay, I'll stick in
Speaker 5: another one. Grab a couple of paper plates.
Speaker 6: There are cookies in the jar and milk in the fridge.
Speaker 5: Okay, Mom. Thanks.
Speaker 10: You know, Callie, I've been thinking about, well, what we
Speaker 10: were talking about yesterday, about the bad things that happen
Speaker 10: to people and how unfair it is.
Speaker 7: What would you think of, well, trying to even a score?
Speaker 5: What do you mean?
Speaker 7: Okay, just hear me out, because maybe this is gonna
Speaker 7: sound weird. But what do you think of starting a club?
Speaker 5: A club?
Speaker 8: And to be a member of a club, you have
Speaker 8: to do something good. You have to pick a cause
Speaker 8: and do something about it. You can't just talk about it.
Speaker 10: You have to help in some way.
Speaker 5: Here, hold your play it out there. Thanks, get the milk,
Speaker 5: would you?
Speaker 7: Okay? So what do you think about the club?
Speaker 5: I don't know. Sounds kind of cool.
Speaker 6: Uh did I hear something about a club?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Kenisha is talking about starting one, a.
Speaker 6: Club where you have to do good beans.
Speaker 11: Right.
Speaker 9: Oh, well, I'm afraid somebody already beat you to that one.
Speaker 6: Huh what do you mean?
Speaker 9: Well, long ago, there was a good Deeds club that
Speaker 9: was part of your Story Hour. Kids send in their
Speaker 9: good bees to Aunt Sue and Uncle Dan. They were
Speaker 9: the first toasts of the program.
Speaker 7: Really cool.
Speaker 5: I still love listening to those stories, Orphan, Arthur, the
Speaker 5: two Jimmies.
Speaker 7: So what do you think about the club?
Speaker 5: Why not? School's almost over and we don't have anything
Speaker 5: else to do this summer. Sure, let's go for it.
Speaker 7: Maybe we could get some other kids interested. We'll each
Speaker 7: pick a cause and we'll see what we can do.
Speaker 3: As soon as school was out, Calli and Kanisha started
Speaker 3: their project. Kanisha's older brother, Jackson Jack for short, joined
Speaker 3: the girls as well. The first order of business for
Speaker 3: the club members was for each of them to decide
Speaker 3: what cause or charity they wanted to support.
Speaker 5: So, Kanisha, have you decided?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm going to raise money for research for sickle
Speaker 8: cell anemia. I'm thinking that since I like to make
Speaker 8: cookies and stuff, a bake sale would be good. I
Speaker 8: might even be able to get my youth group.
Speaker 7: At church to help out. We could donate our money
Speaker 7: in Jamal's name.
Speaker 5: What a great idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like it too because I can snitch cookies.
Speaker 7: Hey Jack, wait just a minute, take.
Speaker 1: It easy, only the broken ones. You are going to
Speaker 1: break a few just.
Speaker 11: For me, please.
Speaker 7: I can see you're going to be a pest.
Speaker 5: What about you, Kelly, Well, one easy thing to do
Speaker 5: would be to donate my hair.
Speaker 6: Your hair.
Speaker 7: You're going to shave it off?
Speaker 5: No, nothing quite that wild. I'm just going to cut
Speaker 5: off my ponytail.
Speaker 7: But you've been growing your hair out since you were six.
Speaker 5: That's why this is so perfect. There's this organization that
Speaker 5: makes wigs for kids that don't have any hair.
Speaker 6: Bodd kids.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the kids have an autoimmune disease that makes all
Speaker 5: their hair fall out and it never grows back. Can
Speaker 5: you imagine no hair?
Speaker 6: Wow?
Speaker 7: That would be awful.
Speaker 5: I know, so you have to have a ponytail at
Speaker 5: least ten inches long.
Speaker 1: No problem there, Yours is almost to your waist.
Speaker 5: And you just cut it off and send it in,
Speaker 5: all clean and dry. They make really great wigs, really
Speaker 5: good expensive ones, and give them free to kids with
Speaker 5: no hair. But but what, well, it really doesn't take
Speaker 5: any effort. I mean, my hair has already grown long enough.
Speaker 5: And besides, I think I'm ready for a shorter hair style,
Speaker 5: So it really doesn't qualify for that much of a
Speaker 5: good deed. I'm looking for something else to do too,
Speaker 5: something that I can work on this summer.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can help me on my project, which is
Speaker 1: I got the idea from you, guys.
Speaker 7: You did yup?
Speaker 6: Canisi was telling me that she told you about our
Speaker 6: great great great.
Speaker 7: Grandfather, the slave, the one who is he's the one?
Speaker 1: Anyway, I saw this report on TV that there are
Speaker 1: still people forced into slavery today.
Speaker 8: No, yeah, he's right in Africa and other countries too,
Speaker 8: can you believe it?
Speaker 1: Worst of all, there are places where Christians especially are
Speaker 1: taking as slaves, even little kids.
Speaker 5: Wow, So what can you do? I mean that's a
Speaker 5: long ways away.
Speaker 1: There's a Christian organization that buys slaves back and gives
Speaker 1: them their freedom. I'd like to see if I can
Speaker 1: raise enough money to save just one little kid from
Speaker 1: something that terrible.
Speaker 5: Count me in, Jack, I'll be glad to help you
Speaker 5: with that.
Speaker 6: Later that week.
Speaker 5: So what do you think, mom? Does it sound like
Speaker 5: a good idea?
Speaker 6: A very good idea.
Speaker 9: By the way, I keep forgetting I have something important
Speaker 9: to show you later.
Speaker 5: Mom, I've got to run in and take care of
Speaker 5: one of my customers, frisky mister Adams Terrier.
Speaker 6: Do you think you can raise enough money by pet sitting?
Speaker 6: I hope.
Speaker 5: See. Summertime is when lots of people go on vacation,
Speaker 5: and sometimes they like to be able to leave their
Speaker 5: pets at home instead of boarding them somewhere. Well, makes sense,
Speaker 5: Like the Grisbies down the block they have three cats.
Speaker 5: They want their cats to be able to just stay
Speaker 5: in the house like they always do. I already have
Speaker 5: them as clients.
Speaker 6: To do well. I'm impressed.
Speaker 7: So what well?
Speaker 9: Now, how would you like for me to make you
Speaker 9: some business cards on the computer? Maybe you could go
Speaker 9: door to door in the neighborhood when school is out
Speaker 9: next week and leave your card with the people.
Speaker 6: Huh. Drum up some more business.
Speaker 5: Wow, Mom, thanks, what a great idea.
Speaker 7: So how's it going, Kelli? Any more customers?
Speaker 5: Yep, those business cards Mom made are doing the trick.
Speaker 7: How about you?
Speaker 8: One bake sale down and two more to go eighty
Speaker 8: seven dollars and fifty five cents from the last one,
Speaker 8: which isn't bad.
Speaker 5: How about Jack's lawn service? How's he doing?
Speaker 8: He's mowing lawns like mad when he isn't still in
Speaker 8: my cookies.
Speaker 5: Well, it sounds like we're underway big time. I love
Speaker 5: this club stuff and I really.
Speaker 7: Feel like we're doing something worthwhile.
Speaker 5: Yeah, me too. I can't wait to see how much
Speaker 5: we can earn.
Speaker 3: We'll get back to my story in just a moment,
Speaker 3: but first, Uncle Dan and I would like a moment
Speaker 3: with all your parents, grandparents, and teachers.
Speaker 4: In the past few years, Aunt Carolyn and I have
Speaker 4: received many requests from both adults and teens themselves, asking
Speaker 4: for stories dealing with some of the hard realities teenagers
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Speaker 3: and serious nature of the subject matter, you won't hear
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Speaker 4: But for now, let's get back to Aunt Carol's story.
Speaker 4: The club.
Speaker 3: All summer long, Calli, kanish and Jack worked hard to
Speaker 3: earn money for their charities. Calli cut her hair and
Speaker 3: sent in a sixteen inch ponytail so that it could
Speaker 3: be incorporated into a wig for a child. She loved
Speaker 3: looking at the before and after photos of kids on
Speaker 3: the charity's website and seeing the difference that the gift
Speaker 3: of hair made in their young lives. Kanisha continued working
Speaker 3: with her church group to raise money for sickle cell
Speaker 3: anemia research. Calli's business as a pet sitter for vacationing
Speaker 3: neighbors proved to be a good money raiser, as did
Speaker 3: Jack's lawnmowing service. One day in mid August, the club
Speaker 3: met to take stock of their efforts.
Speaker 5: Seventy eighty ninety ninety one two three, God bless you
Speaker 5: got a cold? No, it's allergies. Turns out I'm allergic
Speaker 5: to cats.
Speaker 6: The cats.
Speaker 5: Oh no, I guess it's a good thing. My pets
Speaker 5: sitting days are about over.
Speaker 6: I guess, so how much total?
Speaker 5: A grand total of four hundred and ninety three dollars. Wow,
Speaker 5: that's great, And don't forget I've got another week well
Speaker 5: week and a half, so I'm guessing maybe another fifty dollars.
Speaker 5: How about you, Jack.
Speaker 6: Chocolate cake coming right up, exclusively baked for the members
Speaker 6: of the club.
Speaker 7: Hey, missus, g cool. Look at the top of the cake, you.
Speaker 6: Guys, dollar sign decorations all over it. We're celebrating today.
Speaker 9: I'm so proud of you, and the dollar signs stand
Speaker 9: for all the money you've raised.
Speaker 6: Oh, guzindide, let me grab the tissues for you.
Speaker 9: Oh, by the way, that reminds me, I'm so glad
Speaker 9: you sneezed.
Speaker 5: Thanks, mom, just what I need. I'm mother who loves sneezes.
Speaker 9: No, it's not that you just reminded me. Now you
Speaker 9: sit there. I'll be back in a flash. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 9: this is what I've been wanting to show you.
Speaker 5: The handkerchief, the one you have framed, the one that
Speaker 5: hangs on your bedroom wall.
Speaker 6: Yes, that's the one.
Speaker 7: It's really pretty, missus.
Speaker 9: G Oh no, well, well, I mean it is pretty,
Speaker 9: but that's not the reason.
Speaker 6: I'm showing it to you.
Speaker 5: Well what then?
Speaker 9: I want to tell you the story of the handkerchief.
Speaker 9: I've never told you before, CALLI, but now the time
Speaker 9: is right.
Speaker 5: The story I don't understand.
Speaker 9: Yes, the story, Jack, do I have this right? The
Speaker 9: reason you were interested in working to free slaves is
Speaker 9: that a member of your own family was once a slave.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my great great great grandfather three grades.
Speaker 9: Well, believe it or not, calli's great great grandmother two
Speaker 9: grades was also once a slave.
Speaker 6: What but she's white.
Speaker 9: Well, she wasn't a slave here in this country. And
Speaker 9: this handkerchief, this handkerchief actually.
Speaker 6: Belonged to her.
Speaker 5: You're kidding.
Speaker 6: No, that's why it's so special. Why had it framed?
Speaker 7: Tell us about her, missus g Where does she live?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Mom, Well, her name was Ellie, and she lived in
Speaker 9: Armenia a long long time ago now.
Speaker 6: During a terrible war.
Speaker 9: Her father had been captured and killed by those who
Speaker 9: hated Christians.
Speaker 6: And she and her mother had been driven from their home.
Speaker 9: After months of hardships and ill health, her mother knew
Speaker 9: that she didn't have long to live.
Speaker 12: Ellie, my darling, come near to me, Yes, mother, can
Speaker 12: I get you something?
Speaker 13: No, my child, just sit and listen.
Speaker 12: Yes, mother, but.
Speaker 14: Don't don't have long, I.
Speaker 13: Darling, I'm so sick and so weak.
Speaker 6: I know that soon.
Speaker 12: No, mother, you're going to be well you'll see.
Speaker 13: I wish it could be true, but Jesus is my savior,
Speaker 13: and soon I will be safe in his arms. It's
Speaker 13: you that I worry about, Ellie. What what will become
Speaker 13: of you?
Speaker 12: Oh mother?
Speaker 15: I have prayed and prayed, and I believe I know
Speaker 15: that it will be best if I sell you. No, yes,
Speaker 15: you are to become a servant in the house of
Speaker 15: a rich family.
Speaker 12: No, oh, mother, No, I have seen.
Speaker 14: But the girls, the orphans, they are so much safer
Speaker 14: when they are part of a well to do landowner's family.
Speaker 13: They are not on the streets begging.
Speaker 6: Or worse.
Speaker 13: But no, marry, you must do this.
Speaker 16: For me.
Speaker 14: It is my dying wish.
Speaker 6: Mother.
Speaker 14: No, please, oh, my darling, it is done already.
Speaker 13: I have arranged for it.
Speaker 14: You.
Speaker 7: You will be safe there.
Speaker 6: And so it happened.
Speaker 9: Ellie became a servant, a slave really, of a rich family.
Speaker 6: Her mother died soon after.
Speaker 5: That's terrible. Her own mother sold her into slavery.
Speaker 9: But only after prayer, Kelly, only after she was sure
Speaker 9: that that's what God was telling her to do. And
Speaker 9: the rich family treated Ellie reasonably well, although she had
Speaker 9: to work very very hard. She had food, she had shelter,
Speaker 9: and she was safe from life on the streets, where
Speaker 9: young girls were routinely abused and beaten.
Speaker 6: But then one.
Speaker 12: Day, Ellie, please come here.
Speaker 17: Yes, Master, Ellie, I'm sorry, but I can't keep you anymore.
Speaker 17: My business has suffered losses and we can't afford you.
Speaker 17: So tomorrow I will take you to the slave block
Speaker 17: in town to be sold.
Speaker 12: Oh Master, please.
Speaker 17: There's nothing to be done about it, Ellie, be ready
Speaker 17: tomorrow morning.
Speaker 5: First thing.
Speaker 9: That night, Ellie could not stop crying. She was so
Speaker 9: afraid of what would happen in the morning when she
Speaker 9: was to be sold it's cattle or sold to the
Speaker 9: highest bidder. She wept and pleaded to God for mercy.
Speaker 12: Oh God, I am so frightened. What will happen to me?
Speaker 14: Oh buy me?
Speaker 12: What if my new master's cruel? What if he beats me?
Speaker 12: What if he appeases me?
Speaker 11: Oh God, I should have given my heart you long ago.
Speaker 11: My father was a Christian, my mother was a Christian,
Speaker 11: and they told me about you, how they trusted you.
Speaker 12: Now now I know how much I.
Speaker 11: Need you, So please, Father, forgive me my sins, make
Speaker 11: my heart clean. I want to be your child, and
Speaker 11: please and please take care of me.
Speaker 9: The next morning, Ellie's master took her to the slave market.
Speaker 9: She was led to the auction block by a rope
Speaker 9: fastened around her neck, and she was terrified.
Speaker 11: Oh Lord, please help me, Please help me, Please help me.
Speaker 9: Soon there were five men bidding on her, and each
Speaker 9: one looked more cruel and barbarous than the next.
Speaker 6: Then something truly strange happened.
Speaker 4: One hundred Do I hear?
Speaker 6: One?
Speaker 17: Twenty five?
Speaker 18: One twenty five?
Speaker 5: One guy twenty five out there?
Speaker 18: Fifty two hundred going, one two hundred going.
Speaker 5: Wait, wait just a minute.
Speaker 7: What who are you?
Speaker 6: You're smiling her?
Speaker 1: Fuck?
Speaker 16: Never mind, I want I want to look this slave
Speaker 16: over more close.
Speaker 6: We're away one minute, one minute closer.
Speaker 4: Look, can't hurt.
Speaker 5: Let's get home with it.
Speaker 6: I have the sleeve. You'll see.
Speaker 9: As this man looked Ellie over from head to foot,
Speaker 9: she shuddered. He looked worse, if possible, than any of
Speaker 9: the others.
Speaker 6: What if he should outbid all of them?
Speaker 16: Yes, hey, get out of there. Yes, you are the
Speaker 16: one I want.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's get on with it. I want to take
Speaker 5: her home with me.
Speaker 18: Okay, you've had your chance on get moving. Yes, yes,
Speaker 18: I'm going two hundred. I've got two hundred two fifty.
Speaker 18: That's my manty. I make it three hundred, one.
Speaker 5: Thousand, one thousand.
Speaker 16: You hurt me one thousand.
Speaker 18: One thousand, once, one thousand, twice one thousand to the
Speaker 18: man who wanted a closer looker.
Speaker 9: The man who had outfit all the others came to
Speaker 9: the auction block and led Ellie away by the rope.
Speaker 9: She was so overcome with terror that she stumbled and
Speaker 9: staggered as they made their way through the crowd.
Speaker 6: Oh mom, wow, missus g what happened?
Speaker 9: Well, yeah, that's the most interesting part of the story.
Speaker 9: After leading her along for several blocks, the man rounded
Speaker 9: a corner and pulled Ellie with him. Then he stopped
Speaker 9: and a kind, understanding smile replaced his cruel sneer. He
Speaker 9: removed the rope from around her neck and said.
Speaker 16: Do not be afraid, my child.
Speaker 12: What is your name, Ellie?
Speaker 16: My name is Ellie and mine is Abdul. Don't be afraid.
Speaker 16: You won't be hurt. My wife is here and she
Speaker 16: will take good care of you. Jasmine, come here.
Speaker 15: I'm coming.
Speaker 16: She is she the one Abdul, Yes, Jasmine, she's the
Speaker 16: one she is the one.
Speaker 9: Abdul and his wife Jasmine cared for Ellie throughout the
Speaker 9: rest of the war, and when it was over, they
Speaker 9: helped her find her way back to her homeland and
Speaker 9: to her relatives. But before they left her, they had
Speaker 9: won more surprise.
Speaker 16: Ellie, do you remember that day in the market when
Speaker 16: you were on the auction.
Speaker 7: Block, the day Abdul came to bid on you.
Speaker 12: I'll never forget what a terrible day that was. At first.
Speaker 16: Anyway, I want you to know that I would never
Speaker 16: have imagined that I would ever go to the slave market.
Speaker 16: But the night before I had a dream, and in
Speaker 16: that dream, I saw myself buying a slave, a young girl.
Speaker 16: I saw my myself buying you, Ellie, me you.
Speaker 4: That morning, God impressed abdulh to act on his dream,
Speaker 4: and so we went to the slave market.
Speaker 16: And that's why I came forward to get a closer look.
Speaker 16: I could hardly believe my eyes. There you were the
Speaker 16: girl I had seen in my dream. I acted mean
Speaker 16: so that the others wouldn't know what I had in mind.
Speaker 16: But I knew then that God had sent the dream
Speaker 16: to me, and I knew that he had sent me
Speaker 16: to the market that day to save you.
Speaker 12: Oh God, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you Lord.
Speaker 9: And so that's the story of your great great grandmother Ellie.
Speaker 9: She was saved because God heard her plea and God
Speaker 9: sent a man she had never seen before to buy her.
Speaker 14: Mom.
Speaker 19: I don't know what to say me either, except hey,
Speaker 19: you and Jack are kind of doing the same thing
Speaker 19: as he did.
Speaker 6: Huh.
Speaker 7: Well, think about it, your Christians, we all are.
Speaker 8: And you're going to send the money to buy back
Speaker 8: other Christians who are slaves.
Speaker 5: Hey, yeah, you're right cool.
Speaker 6: This is awesome.
Speaker 3: At the end of the summer, the club met for
Speaker 3: the last time. The results of their efforts were truly amazing.
Speaker 8: WHOA, it's hard to believe, but our youth group raised
Speaker 8: a total of five hundred and fifty one dollars and
Speaker 8: sixty seven cents from.
Speaker 7: Our bake sales.
Speaker 8: Of course we'd have had more except Jack here ate
Speaker 8: another twenty five dollars worth of my cookies.
Speaker 1: Well, a guy's got to keep up his strength, you know.
Speaker 1: Mowing lawns takes lots of energy.
Speaker 5: Tell me again how much you made, Jack.
Speaker 6: Six hundred and eighty five dollars.
Speaker 5: Wow, that's a lot of lawns and a.
Speaker 7: Lot of sweats and a lot of cookies.
Speaker 6: Come on, now, you know I deserved them.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, how about you, Kelli? What's your grand total?
Speaker 5: Five hundred forty five dollars. I'm still in shock.
Speaker 7: And still sneezing and got that right.
Speaker 5: Guess what I found out?
Speaker 1: What I saw on the website about buying backslaves that
Speaker 1: this group sent in two thousand dollars and it was
Speaker 1: enough money to buy twenty slaves.
Speaker 7: You're kidding?
Speaker 5: Is the price still the same? I don't know, cause
Speaker 5: if it is, we just raised enough to buy twelve people.
Speaker 5: Maybe some will even be kids like us. What a thought, awesome,
Speaker 5: absolutely amazing, Praise God.
Speaker 4: Wow, Aunt Carol austoin An amazing right.
Speaker 3: Well, Uncle Dan, never underestimate kid power or teen power.
Speaker 9: Hmm.
Speaker 3: When all that energy is aimed at a goal, great
Speaker 3: things can be accomplished.
Speaker 4: I'll say, what a difference all our young listeners would
Speaker 4: make if they would use their summers to raise money
Speaker 4: for their favorite charity.
Speaker 3: Or if not raising money, they could volunteer to shop
Speaker 3: for shut ins, helping a local soup kitchen, mow the lawn,
Speaker 3: rake leaves, or shovel snow for older neighbors. There are
Speaker 3: so many opportunities to spread kindness, and I know you
Speaker 3: boys and girls want to help.
Speaker 4: Remember Jesus said that whatever we do for others, why
Speaker 4: it's just like doing it for him.
Speaker 3: So may God bless you as you ask him to
Speaker 3: show you how you can make a difference.
Speaker 2: Goodbye for now, this has been your story hour building
Speaker 2: for a better tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Missus, Ann Carroll and Uncle DNN saying good bye everyone,
Speaker 3: See you again next time.