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00:03 we're living in unprecedented times. 00:06 Join us now for Today special program. 00:13 I want to spend my life 00:18 Mending broken people 00:23 I want to spend my life 00:29 Removing pain 00:34 Lord, let my words 00:40 Heal a heart that hurts 00:45 I want to spend my life 00:50 Mending broken people 00:55 I want to spend my life 01:01 Mending broken people 01:15 Hello and welcome to another 3ABN Today program. 01:18 Thank you for joining us as you do each and every day. 01:21 Thank you for your love and your prayers 01:23 and financial support of 3ABN. 01:26 As we, I like to say this every day, 01:28 as we endeavor to take this great gospel of the kingdom 01:31 into all the world. 01:33 Now, there are many ways to support the ministries 01:37 on this earth, on planet earth. 01:38 3ABN is one of those. 01:40 We're so thankful, nearly 37 years 01:43 since the idea came to build a television station, 01:46 to reach the world with an undiluted 01:48 three angels' messages, 01:49 one that would counteract the counterfeit, 01:52 but there's all kinds of ways. 01:53 So people send tax deductible donations to us 01:57 through finances, 01:58 but there's also other ways to support 3ABN. 02:02 And so that's why I have my sister Tammy, 02:04 and brother-in-law Bruce Chance with us here today. 02:07 We're gonna talk about our Donations Department. 02:10 And so, you may have something in your hand 02:15 that you say, I don't really need it, 02:17 but maybe it'll help the work of God. 02:19 Maybe you don't have the cash, but you say, you know what? 02:21 I've got this. We'll talk about what it is. 02:23 Tammy and Bruce are here, but maybe you have something. 02:26 They always say, Tammy and Bruce, 02:28 somebody's junk is somebody else's treasure. 02:30 Sometimes. Right? 02:32 So you never know somebody as always 02:35 we're looking for something 02:36 that you're willing to throw away 02:38 or maybe have. 02:39 I've seen that myself. 02:41 So today we're actually they're in charge 02:42 of the Donations Department at 3ABN. 02:45 So glad to have you guys here today. 02:47 Thank you. Thank you. Glad to be here. 02:49 Since you're looking pretty good for 'em. 02:51 Oh, just looking pretty good. 02:54 I'm not going to bring up her age or anything, 02:56 or she's a baby compared 02:57 to the rest of her four older brothers. 02:59 Yeah. 03:00 And, but anyway, 03:02 we're glad that you're here along with Bruce. 03:03 Thank you. 03:04 And so the donations apartment, 03:06 how long has that been going on Bruce about? 03:08 It's going on 19 years now, Danny. 03:11 Nineteen? Yes, 19 years. 03:13 That's amazing. That's amazing. 03:15 So you're gonna... 03:17 Today, we're gonna talk to folk about 03:18 what they can do. 03:20 And we actually have some items here 03:22 that people have donated and you can go to... 03:24 We'll talk about how we can go 03:26 to our website and what have you. 03:27 But before we get into that too much, 03:29 we have some music today. 03:30 We have Tim Parton and we also have Ginger. 03:34 And I always call her Ginger Lester, 03:36 but I have to look at her actual name here, 03:38 it's Pitchers. 03:39 So I've always known her as Ginger, Ginger Lester, 03:42 incredible woman of God, great singer, musician. 03:46 So I think she and Tim Parton 03:47 are gonna bless us right now with some music. 04:06 His name is wonderful 04:11 His name is wonderful 04:17 His name is wonderful 04:22 Jesus my Lord 04:29 He is the mighty King 04:35 Master of everything 04:40 His name is wonderful 04:46 Jesus my Lord 04:55 For He's the great Shepherd 04:59 The Rock of all ages 05:05 Almighty God is He 05:17 Bow down before Him 05:23 Love and adore Him 05:29 His name is wonderful 05:35 Jesus my Lord 05:42 For He's the great shepherd 05:48 He's the Rock of all ages 05:54 Almighty God is He 06:05 Bow down before Him 06:10 Love and adore Him 06:16 His name is wonderful 06:22 Jesus my Lord 06:31 He is wonderful 06:35 Jesus my Lord 06:50 Amen. 06:51 Well, if that doesn't put you 06:52 in a mood for a praise and worship, 06:55 I don't know what it does. Thank you, Ginger. 06:56 Thank you, Tim. 06:58 And we've been knowing Ginger for a long time, 07:02 and she's incredible musician as well, 07:05 plays instruments. 07:06 And her brother, Brian, of course the Lester family, 07:09 a lot of you know them, 07:10 they are known pretty well around the world, but what... 07:14 She just has such an anointing, doesn't she? 07:16 Yes, such a smooth, just mellow voice. 07:19 Yeah. Yeah. 07:20 And it's just when you can sit back 07:22 and just praise the Lord on. 07:23 So thank you so much. 07:25 Of course, Tim Parton, 07:26 he doesn't hurt the pity thing at all, does he? 07:27 Playing the piano. 07:29 What an incredible musician also. 07:30 We're so blessed to have Tim as apart of our family here. 07:34 What we're talking today about how you can support 3ABN. 07:38 There are number of ways to do it, 07:41 and it's been 18, 19 years, close to 20. 07:44 I remember that we got in the mail. 07:46 Someone sent us, was it a toaster? 07:49 And I think it was an electric toaster, 07:52 but it was one of the first toasters, 07:54 electric toasters ever made. 07:56 This lady wrote in and said, 07:58 and this has been nearly 20 years ago. 08:00 She was, I think, in her 90s then and said, 08:03 when I was a little girl, 10, 11 years old, we got this. 08:06 So that would have been, 08:07 we'd figured its time early 1900s. 08:11 I don't know if that'd be 10 to 20, 08:13 somewhere in there around 1920. 08:15 And so, when electricity was brand new and so she said, 08:19 my mother used to make toast on this. 08:22 And it means so much to me, 08:23 but I was watching 3ABN and said, 08:26 boy, if I just had something 08:28 and the Lord basically said to her, 08:29 what is this you have in your hand? 08:31 So she said, well, maybe this can be useful. 08:33 She sent it. 08:35 And that really, I think, kind of catapulted us into, 08:38 you know what? 08:39 So many of us have things that we give away, 08:42 we throw away and yet they can be 08:44 very valuable 08:46 because there's always somebody 08:47 wanting to buy something like that. 08:48 Right. 08:50 And I think that brought 08:51 quite a bit of money, didn't Bruce? 08:52 Yes, it did. I think it did. 08:54 Yeah, it would have because it's rare. 08:57 Now talk about some of the things 08:59 I know it's been many years, 09:00 but some of the things that people donate to us 09:04 or they can donate that would... 09:06 That is tax deductible. 09:08 And again, maybe it's, you askthe Lord, 09:10 what is this, you know? 09:12 He says, what is this you have in your hand? 09:14 So Lord, what is that I have that maybe I don't need, 09:17 and I'm willing to send it to 3ABN 09:19 and whatever their praise of value is, 09:21 you will get a tax receipt. 09:22 Is that right? That's correct. 09:24 And many of the items that we use is... 09:27 I mean that we can really use is, 09:29 of course, anything with gold in it, 09:31 silver items, sterling silver items, 09:34 like dinnerware and that kind of thing. 09:37 Platinum, diamonds, jewelry. 09:40 I think there's a ring on up here, 09:43 I got wedding and it's a diamond ring 09:47 and people as they come 09:49 into the church and a lot of newcomers 09:50 come to the church, they get rid of their jewelry 09:53 and they send it to us and we turn it 09:54 into money for Lord's work. 09:55 Okay. 09:57 And there's many items that, you know, 09:58 I don't have time to mention all the items 10:00 that we get and use, 10:01 but there's some of the top items 10:03 that we can really do well with. 10:04 Other things is vehicles, RVs, china, real estate, 10:10 musical instruments like we have here. 10:14 That's just a few of the items that we can really use. 10:18 I remember probably been about 10 years ago, 10:22 somebody sent this old fan 10:24 and it was just a like on a pedestal fan 10:27 and it was rusted and everything. 10:30 And I'm like, what are we gonna do here 10:32 with this old rusted fan? 10:34 And it ended up being like from 1930s 10:37 or something like that. 10:39 And I think we got several thousand dollars out of it. 10:40 Wow. 10:42 Yeah, it was something, but you know, a lot of... 10:45 Because of the internet now, so many things that were rare 10:49 is now easy to find because of the internet. 10:52 But so you got to have stuff that's pretty special, 10:55 just like the toaster and just like this fan 10:58 things like that that are really hard to come by. 11:02 You can't just find anywhere on the internet. 11:04 Yeah. They're rare. 11:05 And so that's the things we can really do well with. 11:09 Everything old is rare, including people. 11:12 Yeah. I'm rare, yeah. 11:13 We're getting more, 11:14 me getting more rare all the time, my age. 11:17 So I understand that. 11:18 Does that make you worth more? 11:19 You know, depends who is to, 11:24 who you're talking about, your kids and grandkids maybe. 11:26 Are you saying you might be an antique? 11:28 I am an antique. 11:29 Anytime you hit that 70, you're definitely an antique, 11:32 but hey, still going for the Lord so far, right? 11:34 That's right. 11:35 And we're not willing to give up yet and quit. 11:37 We're willing to keep going. That's right. 11:39 Now, some of the things over the years, 11:41 you mentioned people who've had motor homes. 11:43 They've donated to us vehicles, all different kinds. 11:47 We've had some really old vehicles, 11:49 but like musical instruments, 11:51 there's been several of, especially ladies 11:54 who maybe their husbands have passed away. 11:56 And they had... 11:57 He had an old guitar, 11:59 whether it's an old Sears guitar, 12:00 whether it be a Martin or a Gibson, 12:02 and it's just sat there, sitting there for years 12:04 and they don't have heirs and the kids don't want them. 12:07 And they say, hey, let's send those to you. 12:09 And a lot of those times, and a lot of those things 12:11 are worth many thousands of dollars. 12:13 Absolutely. 12:14 I don't know what you have there, 12:15 is that a little clarinet or something? 12:17 No, it's a little flute. Flute. 12:19 Yeah. Yeah. A German made flute. 12:21 And, but we get saxophones, we get dobros. 12:26 I mean, we get everything you can imagine musically. 12:30 And, of course, most all of the guitars 12:32 that we get comes to you, the expert with guitars. 12:36 You know a lot more about them than I do. 12:38 And so we have you to market those for us if we can. 12:41 Yeah. 12:43 We sometimes take them 12:44 to Gruhn Music down in Nashville, 12:45 'cause they're the foremost experts in the world 12:47 and we get appraisals on them. 12:49 Exactly. 12:50 And then we're able to sell them, 12:51 but tell us how that internet works, 12:53 because a lot of people don't understand. 12:55 In other words, let's say this item right here, 12:58 you've got the silverware. 13:00 Yeah. 13:01 Now, how do you find out 13:03 what it's worth and how do you reach people? 13:06 So you have a big audience for. 13:08 In other words, years ago, we would have put this 13:09 in West Frankfort Daily American 101, 13:12 and people around West Frankfort 13:14 would have seen it. 13:15 Now you literally can show it to the world, right? 13:17 Right now we put it on... How does that work? 13:19 On eBay. 13:21 That's where we put most stuff that 13:22 we have buyers that come that know, 13:24 he's got certain things that will come here, 13:26 but for the internet right now, it's eBay. 13:30 And that goes to the whole world. 13:32 And so... So you do what? 13:33 You take pictures. 13:34 You take pictures, you put it... 13:36 You list it, you put either an auction price 13:40 and it's gonna auction or you put a buy it now price 13:42 and that's the price it is. 13:45 And then that way people can bid on it 13:47 or they can do a buy it now 13:49 where they can just pay the full price right then, 13:52 and we ship it to them. 13:53 Okay. 13:54 And the one thing about the internet 13:56 I might add is 13:57 it's a great research tool for us. 14:00 Of course, we can't know everything 14:02 about everything that comes in. 14:04 So we, you know, lean back on eBay a lot and... 14:08 Tammy said you knew everything. 14:10 Well, I hate to disappoint her, but... 14:14 He knows a lot. You know, it's... 14:16 There's a lot to know just with the coins alone, 14:19 you know, and keeping up 14:20 with gold and silver bullion prices. 14:22 That a lot right there, but no, 14:24 I don't know everything I wished I did, 14:26 but there are so many things 14:29 that we get in that we do lean back to, 14:32 you know, to eBay or the internet and research. 14:35 And we can find usually unless it's a very rare item, 14:38 we can find several just like it. 14:41 And then we can average 14:42 those prices at what they sold for. 14:44 And that's what we call a current market value price. 14:47 Okay. 14:48 Now, like this, is this the coins? 14:49 It is, that's a... 14:51 See if I can reach over and grab this thing. 14:53 That's a book. 14:54 And I think the top row there is... 14:58 I don't know if we... Yeah. I think, I think. 15:01 Each one of these are different kinds of coins 15:03 and it tells you what they are. 15:05 Yeah. What years? Yeah. 15:06 That's a flying eagle at the top. 15:08 Okay. So somebody donated this? 15:09 Yeah. 15:11 That book and, I'm sorting those out 15:13 and selling those individually 15:14 to get the most we can out of them. 15:16 Okay. Wow. That's amazing. 15:17 Yeah. 15:19 And people have something like this. 15:20 Those are the old Indian Head cents. 15:22 Yeah, that's what it is, Indian Head cents. 15:24 Indian Head cent. That's really neat. 15:25 Now this happens to be a picture. 15:27 We don't know if we can certify it yet, 15:29 the actual signatures, but who's on here. 15:31 Let's say Mickey Mantle. Is that Bill Martin Ted? 15:35 That's Billy Martin. Billy Martin, over here is... 15:38 DiMaggio. Joe DiMaggio. 15:40 And that's Whitey Ford in the center of that... 15:41 Whitey Ford in the middle, he didn't sign it. 15:43 He didn't sign it. 15:44 But we think this could be, we don't know, right? 15:46 But we haven't been able to certify this. 15:47 That's correct. 15:48 So we'd have to get this one certified to know... 15:50 Yeah. 15:51 If it's really, because of course 15:53 it would make it worth a lot more money. 15:54 I'm sure. Absolutely. 15:56 Getting those guys to baseball fans 15:57 and all of that. 15:58 Now also you have some coins. 16:00 If people... 16:02 I might add too. Yeah. 16:03 If people send in memorabilia like that, that's signed. 16:06 If it has a COI certificate of authenticity, 16:09 that will command what it's worth 16:13 if they have that with it. 16:14 Okay. So... All right. 16:16 Okay, go ahead. Okay. 16:17 Now, the coins like here on top, 16:19 I see in these plastic bags on top of them. 16:22 Are those old coins 16:23 or are they just rare coins or both? 16:25 They're both, both. 16:27 In some instances 16:29 the Kennedy half dollar is not rare, 16:32 but it's uncirculated, but that's some old, 16:36 once again there's a Liberty nickel there, 16:38 I think on the end. 16:39 And there's a couple of Indian Head pennies. 16:43 And there's a Seated dime there. 16:46 1877 Seated dime that that is a stamp CC, 16:51 which is the mint mark that stands for Carson City, 16:54 which is why it makes it rare. 16:55 Okay. 16:57 That boggles my mind that there are... 16:58 We got coins from 1870 and 1800. 17:02 You think, how could they still be around? 17:04 And look good. Yeah and look good. 17:06 So, looking really good, basically unused. 17:09 Yeah. You know. Right. 17:11 But I mean, these are all from you. 17:13 These are from you folks. 17:14 You're sending things in, and this helps us tremendously. 17:18 And again, maybe it's something 17:20 you don't want to sell 17:21 or you don't have the market to sell. 17:23 You don't know how to do it. 17:24 Maybe you don't know very many people. 17:26 When you send it to 3ABN, 17:28 you not only get a tax receipt for it. 17:31 But then we make sure that 17:32 they put it on the internet on eBay she says, 17:36 and Bruce has people who come with it has to do 17:39 with coins that he works with professionals. 17:41 And so we're able to make sure 17:44 we get the most for the value of the gift 17:48 that you give. 17:49 One interesting story is, I don't know all the details, 17:53 but he's been... 17:54 We have a Red Skelton painting 17:56 that was supposed to have been painted 17:58 by Red Skeleton and that's a clown painting. 18:00 And he's been working on trying to authenticate 18:02 it with the Red Skeleton Foundation. 18:05 And he's been dealing with Mrs. Skelton 18:07 with she's still alive, yeah, in her 90s. 18:10 And he's going through her manager or whatever it is. 18:14 Yeah. 18:15 But anyway, yeah, she's still alive 18:17 and she's still in charge of that foundation. 18:19 Good. Yeah. 18:21 Actually, I don't know. 18:22 I guess I didn't tell Tammy, but it has been authenticated. 18:25 Okay. It is authentic. 18:27 And we have a COA on it, certificate of authentication. 18:30 Really? On the Red Skeleton painting? 18:32 On the Red Skeleton painting. Yeah. 18:33 He was actually pretty good, wasn't he? 18:34 He was great. He was one of my favorites. 18:36 Yeah. 18:37 Well, I mean, a good painter too. 18:39 Oh, yeah, actually he turned out to be, 18:43 well, actually a well-known painter. 18:44 Yeah. 18:46 You know, of course he did all the clowns 18:47 that he portrayed in his skits, but... 18:48 Yeah. 18:50 Because she is the one that authenticated it. 18:51 Okay, all right. 18:53 So we thought that was kind of neat. 18:54 Yeah. That was very... 18:56 You know, growing up, of course in the 50s and 60s, 18:58 Red Skeleton was on, you know, 18:59 as Clem Kadiddlehopper and all that. 19:01 Yeah. 19:02 Well in the 70s, 19:03 I'll take time out for a little story. 19:05 I don't know if I told you guys, 19:07 but in the 70s, I think it's like 75 or 6. 19:10 I was in Berrien Springs, Michigan. 19:12 Melody was about, I don't know, 19:14 six, seven years old. 19:16 She had watched him on TV and they said Red Skeleton 19:19 is going to be at Notre Dame. 19:20 And so from Berrien Springs that's 30 minute drive 19:23 or something, it's not that far. 19:25 So I said, well, we're gonna go down there. 19:27 I was shocked. 19:28 I mean, people came out by the thousands... 19:29 Oh, yeah. 19:31 You know, because by then 19:32 he was probably off the air far as his regular TV shows, 19:35 but everybody just loved him. 19:36 He was the kind of guy that you love, very patriotic. 19:39 If you ever listened to him, do the pledge of allegiance. 19:43 It'll bring tears to your eyes. Oh, yeah. 19:45 This guy was what's called a real patriot, 19:48 loved his country. 19:50 And so we... Melody wanted to see. 19:52 So I took her. 19:54 And so we watched him 19:55 and I remember one of the first things 19:56 he said, he said, boy, the people in South Bend, 19:59 Indiana, they're so friendly. 20:01 He said, I got off the airport. 20:03 I went to the park and he said, somebody yelled Red Skeleton. 20:07 And he said, people just started 20:10 crowding around me wanting autographs. 20:12 He said they were so nice. 20:14 I kind of felt bad I had yelled at. 20:17 That's Red Skeleton. Yeah. 20:20 He had brought attention to his own name. 20:22 So then the crowd were leaving, there's thousands of people. 20:27 So I tell Melody, if we go out this front door, 20:29 we're gonna be as all, let's just go around. 20:32 So I went like down, 20:34 went down almost into the locker room area, 20:37 trying to do a shortcut to get out. 20:40 And just as I was going, the door opened in the basement 20:43 and guess who was there? 20:44 Red Skeleton, and nobody knew he was gonna be there. 20:47 We didn't know he was gonna be there. 20:49 So there were several other people. 20:51 So probably 10 or 15 people. 20:53 So they all jumped in front and he said, 20:55 oh, Red, can we get autograph? 20:57 And he said, sure. 21:00 So he... 21:01 You know, again, there's 10, 15 of us. 21:03 So Melody is like, dad get his autograph. 21:05 I want his autograph. 21:06 I said, honey, I don't have any paper whatsoever. 21:09 'Cause he said, if you've got the paper, 21:11 so people would hand it. 21:13 So I reached in my pocket, all I had was a dollar bill. 21:16 So I tapped the guy in front of me. 21:17 I said, would you hand this up to 21:19 Mr. Skeleton to Red Skeleton? 21:21 And he said, sure. 21:23 So Red Skeleton, 21:24 he took the paper and he signed it too. 21:26 You know, people need to say here, 21:27 thank you very much. 21:29 And you know, here, thank you. 21:30 So he looked at, he said "Whose dollar is this?" 21:33 I said, "That's mine." 21:34 I says, "For my little girl." 21:35 He said, "Thank you, I appreciate it." 21:37 And he put it in the pocket. 21:39 And then he went on side 21:41 and Melody was looking at him like, 21:43 what is he going to keep that dollar bill? 21:45 So then he pulled it out and he said, 21:46 "Oh, I guess you want this back." 21:48 I said, "Well, I think she would appreciate this." 21:50 So then he signed it and gave it back to us. 21:53 But what a great, great guy. 21:55 And there's paintings, so we actually have that. 21:57 We have a real painting. We have it. 21:58 Okay. 22:00 So if you're interested in Red Skelton paintings, 22:01 there you go. 22:03 So... 22:04 You know, there's one thing 22:05 you were talking about, you know, 22:07 maybe if a widow has a... 22:09 Their husband's a guitar, this and that, 22:11 it's very sentimental and it's something 22:14 you want to hang on to. 22:16 But, and I understand that I have some of my dad's things, 22:19 but in the end, 22:20 this old world's gonna pass away. 22:22 That's right. 22:23 And if you can turn it in and let us make money 22:25 to support the ministry, to support spreading 22:28 the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world. 22:31 It's great. Absolutely. 22:32 Yeah. Yeah. 22:34 We're gonna have to let go of everything. 22:35 Absolutely. 22:36 Now there are some things, 22:38 and I think of point you said for me to, 22:40 we wanted to make was, if you have something in doubt, 22:44 you're not sure. 22:45 Call first, call, ask for Bruce, 22:48 call donation department, 22:50 because there are things such as like clothes 22:52 that we really don't want to be sending clothes. 22:55 We're not in a position to handle clothes. 22:58 There's some other things I'm sure. 23:00 Yeah. 23:01 But you definitely, 23:02 if you're in doubt call, like in general, 23:05 people have sent maybe a few thousand records, 23:08 like older records. 23:10 Most of those wouldn't be valuable, 23:11 but if they were signed, 23:12 it was an Elvis Presley record 23:14 and it's signed by Elvis Presley. 23:16 It's worth some money. Right. 23:17 You know, if it's an old softball, 23:18 it's not worth much. 23:20 But if it's signed by the king 23:21 and his court, then authenticated, 23:24 then it's definitely worth something. 23:27 So other words, 23:28 there are things that we can't use. 23:30 Anything else in general that jumps out that 23:32 maybe people send a lot that 23:34 we're not able to use 23:35 or should they just call in out. 23:38 Yeah. The best thing... 23:40 The best case scenario is to just call 23:43 and let's talk about it and see if we can use it 23:45 or if we can't and then spare them 23:47 the cost of sending the item, you know, just in the item. 23:52 So, you know, we can talk about it 23:54 and they can get a hold of me through email 23:56 or call on the phone, area code 24:00 (618) 627-4651, 24:05 ext. 3078. 24:08 And that will bring you 24:09 right to me, and I'll talk to you. 24:10 Okay. 24:12 We've also mentioned this in the past several times, 24:14 but it always, it's good to repeat. 24:17 Sometimes when people send something. 24:19 it's been appraised, jewelry, whatever, it's been appraised, 24:22 and they say, well, 24:23 the appraisal's worth, you know, 24:24 says it's worth this much. 24:26 Well, what the appraisal 24:27 is for replacement value, like for fire or theft. 24:30 Insurance? Yeah. 24:31 And for insurance, 24:33 that's not the fair market value. 24:34 The fair market value is going to be 24:36 quite a bit lower than what the appraisal is. 24:39 And we like people to know that upfront. 24:42 No, that's a very good point because I remember years ago, 24:45 somebody sent a ring that 24:47 they said, oh, it's worth 25,000. 24:49 Really when we really had people look at it, 24:52 put up for sale, I think 5,000 was the most. 24:54 And they're like, but it appraised that 24:56 this jewelry is one of those things 24:58 that has a huge markup. 25:00 Absolutely. 25:01 As soon as you walk out of the stores, 25:02 it's worse than cars, automobiles. 25:04 It's worse. 25:05 You get a new one, you walk out, 25:06 then it's worth very little. 25:08 If you try it, try to give it back. 25:10 So again, those are types of things 25:11 you need to talk to Bruce. 25:13 If you got an appraisal on it says, he can... 25:15 You send him a picture of it or give him information. 25:18 He probably can get an idea 25:20 what it would be worth at least, 25:21 but you can pretty well be assured that 25:24 it's not gonna be anywhere near 25:25 what your appraisal for insurance might be. 25:27 Right. 25:28 And one thing people can be assured of, 25:31 we're gonna get the most that we possibly can out of it. 25:34 We're gonna do the research 25:35 and we're gonna do the legwork to make sure that 25:37 we get, and we pray over each one of these items 25:40 that comes in. 25:41 So do the best we can... What I really like is we had... 25:44 One time we had somebody 25:46 that pulled a trailer truck up here, 25:48 and it was full of every kind of doll 25:50 that you can imagine. 25:51 I remember. 25:53 A lot of them was not worth much, 25:54 but there was old Barbies galore 25:57 and old Barbie clothes. 25:58 Some of them still in their packages from 26:01 1959, 1960, 59 26:03 was when the first Barbie came out. 26:05 And I know that because I loved Barbies. 26:07 I know. 26:09 And Chatty Cathy, with a bunch of boys, 26:12 we weren't used to anything but baseballs, bats and gloves. 26:15 And then Tammy comes along. 26:17 There's Chatty Cathy. I don't know. 26:19 Mrs. Beasley, maybe was after you. 26:21 That was after me, yeah. 26:23 That was after you, but at least Barbies. 26:25 But we had these Barbie, 26:27 some still in the box, the 1959 box. 26:30 Wow. And just never touched. 26:32 And we had hundreds of them and we ended up, 26:36 I don't know, I want to say around 17, 18,000 26:39 that we got out 26:40 a lot of these Barbies and their clothes. 26:42 I mean, their little clothes still in the package. 26:44 Their outfits would go for $150, $160 on the internet. 26:48 Wow. Isn't that amazing? 26:49 It is. 26:51 So I love to get old Barbies and her friends, Midge and Ken 26:55 and all that when they're from the 60s. 26:59 Yeah. Well, that's the thing. 27:00 So many people keep that, like you say, 27:02 after a while you start looking, 27:04 you revaluate life and things, and that's the... 27:08 I mean, I'm talking honestly, 27:10 Yvonne and I was talking about the other day, 27:12 since we just few weeks ago, you know, I turned... 27:14 Hit the 70, you look at 27:16 your future different than you did before. 27:18 Sure. 27:19 'Cause before, well, I'm planning on what, 27:21 now you look and say, I'm planning on what. 27:23 I was thinking about, 27:25 I should replace the siding on the back of my house. 27:27 It's decent, but I thought I should replace it. 27:29 And then I said, for what? 27:30 You know, it's probably going to 27:32 last longer than I am. 27:34 So why bother with it. 27:35 You know, you think, 27:37 I remember my brother once said he went to... 27:39 After he hit 70, he went to get... 27:41 He needed new shingles on his roof. 27:44 So the guy said 27:45 now here we have the 30 year warranty 27:48 and said we have the 20. 27:50 And he said, was that all my choices. 27:52 Well, I have a 10 year, you know, 27:54 he said, that's all I need. 27:55 I'm 70 plus years old. 27:57 Well, actually he asked Bruce, 27:59 he said, what do you think 28:01 this needs to be replaced, and Bruce said, 28:02 you don't need the 20 or 30. 28:06 He said, well, you know what? 28:07 You're right. Yeah. 28:09 And I don't. Yeah. Absolutely. 28:10 So you do think differently. 28:12 So some of you at home, maybe you've had things 28:14 for many years, 28:16 but really what good is it gonna do? 28:17 And so we were just saying, you pray about it. 28:21 You ask the Lord, you say, 28:22 what is this I have in my hand 28:24 and takes us back to Fonda Summers, 28:27 Fonda summers I think she was about 77 years old 28:30 in her 70s, mid 70s in 1984, November. 28:35 And right after I was impressed 28:37 to build a television station to reach the world. 28:40 I think Larry Welch at the time was a literature evangelist. 28:44 He had come in as someone 28:46 from the area that Kenny metat lumberyard. 28:48 And so he took Bible studies and Larry joined the church. 28:51 So he became literature evangelist, 28:53 and a card filled out by Fonda Summers 28:56 that lived out East or West Frankfort 28:58 out towards Thompsonville area. 29:00 So he went to visit her, 29:01 then introduced her to my mother. 29:03 My mother invited her to prayer meeting. 29:06 And so the very week after 29:07 I'm impressed to build a television station 29:10 to reach the world, we go to... 29:12 I go to prayer meeting, which we didn't always do. 29:14 Still don't always, I'm sorry, 29:16 but we try when we can. 29:19 But, so I went to prayer meeting 29:21 and there was only a handful of people there at the time. 29:23 I don't know if there's a dozen and I was so excited. 29:26 I said, "The Lord has impressed me 29:27 to build a television station to reach the world, 29:30 blah, blah, blah." 29:31 Fonda Summers was there first time 29:32 she'd ever been in an Adventist Church, 29:34 Methodist Christian lady, wonderful lady. 29:36 So two nights later, 29:38 my mother calls me Friday night. 29:39 And she said, "You remember Fonda Summers 29:41 that came to church Wednesday night?" 29:43 I said, "Yes." She said, she called me. 29:46 And she said, she went home and she prayed. 29:49 She said, "Lord, I'd like to do something for those people. 29:52 And, but I don't have anything. 29:54 I don't have any money. 29:55 And I think it's your will that, 29:57 you know, Christian television station 29:59 sounds like a great idea. 30:01 I really wanna do something, 30:03 but I just don't have anything." 30:04 And she said, I'll never forget 30:06 the Lord impressed me, 30:08 "What is this you have in your hand?" 30:11 She said, "What? I don't have anything. 30:12 I mean, I got a few acres of property. 30:15 She said, I don't use property towards the back end. 30:19 Maybe I could give a couple acres of property." 30:22 So my mother said, Fonda Summer said, 30:24 and I'm like, "Well, where is it?" 30:26 I had been talking to Clarence Larson, 30:28 who was an engineer down at Marion TV station, 30:31 who's at Arizona's back then I think 30:34 they were new apple Commodore 64 30:37 or something computer. 30:38 And he was looking for ways to do uplinking, 30:41 which no one in the area did, 30:42 which means you could send signals 30:44 from earth to satellite 22,300 miles to space, 30:48 then back down into big 30:50 10 and 12 foot satellite dishes. 30:52 And he said, there's so many microwave interferences from... 30:56 He called at Mobil, Illinois, 30:57 like phone companies and others. 31:00 There are so many interferences. 31:01 There's very few spots. 31:03 But he said, "Out towards Thompsonville 31:06 he said about six, eight miles, 31:08 there's an area out there that looks like 31:09 it would be free." 31:11 So I asked my mom, "Where's this property?" 31:13 She said, "Well, it's out by north of Thompsonville." 31:15 And I said, "Really?" So we go out there. 31:17 And, of course, the long story short, 31:19 many of you know, she Fonda Summers gave us 31:22 two acres in the back of her property. 31:24 That two acres, when we got scientific Atlanta 31:27 from Georgia to come up, to see if it would work 31:30 where we could uplink and send microwave signals, 31:33 22,300 miles of space, they said it will work. 31:38 But at that two acres, you even had to move it. 31:40 We had to move it 31:42 to the east side of the property, 31:44 'cause it wouldn't have worked another... 31:45 There would have been interferences. 31:46 So that two acres, she said, Lord, He said to her, 31:50 "What is this you have in your hand?" 31:52 And she said, "Well, 31:53 I don't have it, just as two acres." 31:55 Look what that two acres of property turned into? 31:57 Exactly. 31:58 Then turned into a beacon on a hill, 32:00 out in a little bean field, former bean field 32:03 out in the community of less than 600 people. 32:05 And here mile or two out of town from that 32:08 and was able to literally send signals up to satellite 32:12 all across North America. 32:13 And then eventually from that same spot in '95, 32:16 I think it was, 32:18 we put in our first dish KU band dish 32:21 that would go to Europe. 32:23 So when Mark Finley did the 1990, Net 95 and 96. 32:27 We at 3ABN, we brought people translators 32:30 from all around the world, 32:32 different countries around the world 32:34 and built little booths for them in our buildings. 32:38 And they translated as this went live 32:40 all the way across to Europe, 32:42 down in Romania and to Russia, you know, Bosnia, 32:45 Herzegovina, Germany, 32:47 all of these places from this little spot. 32:50 What is this you have in your hand? 32:51 Happened to be the exact spot the Lord wanted 32:54 and designed and for this to go up. 32:56 So you may be the same thing. 32:58 What is this you have in your hand? 33:00 Maybe it's something you don't feel 33:01 it's worth anything, 33:03 but I will guarantee you that it is. 33:04 You pray about it and say, 33:06 "Lord, what would You have me to do?" 33:07 And then be sure you give us a call, 33:09 email us, text us, call Bruce, and we'll find out what it is. 33:14 And if we can use it for the Lord's honor and glory, 33:17 we definitely will do it. 33:18 That was such a miracle in itself that 33:20 this woman who visited the church 33:22 for the first time was convinced of 33:25 what you were saying 33:26 and what could she do to help when, 33:29 I'm sorry, some of our own denomination 33:31 was against it all the way around. 33:34 And here's this woman who doesn't know any of us, 33:37 but she was impressed immediately 33:38 that she wanted to help. 33:40 That was a miracle. 33:41 And it was, and she said later, 33:43 she said, you know, I'd forgotten about it. 33:45 But my husband and I had 33:46 owned this property for years. 33:48 And we thought about selling it. 33:50 She said, "I thought about 33:51 selling it after he passed away." 33:53 But she said, "I remember years ago 33:56 that I had a dream and I dreamed that 33:58 the back acreage," 33:59 which is what she ended up giving us. 34:01 She said, "Had a fence around it, 34:03 and the gate was open. 34:05 The most beautiful fatted cattle 34:07 came from all directions and filled up that property. 34:10 And all these years, 34:12 I've never known what that meant." 34:13 Now she said, "I know what that means. 34:15 That represents people 34:17 coming in from all walks of life 34:19 to find the good news of salvation through 3ABN." 34:24 And so here all these years later, 34:26 you know, Fonda Summers asleep in Jesus, 34:29 but how many people will have come to know 34:32 Jesus and the truth by what she was able to do, 34:35 by simply listening to the Lord. 34:37 What is this you have in your hand? 34:39 That gives me goosebumps to recite that dream. 34:41 But yeah, it was all meant to be for sure. 34:44 Yeah, absolutely. Okay. 34:46 Bruce, some of the things you mentioned that, 34:48 that we do accept and work out good, 34:53 as you mentioned, 34:54 coins or gold or silver platinum, 34:57 many things like that, jewelry, silverware like this. 35:03 Now, is that china over there? Yeah. 35:05 It's beautiful, whatever. So quite a few. 35:08 Tell me about that? We get quite a few. 35:10 Actually, Tammy does the china, so I'll let her talk about it. 35:13 Yeah, we get a lot of sets of china. 35:16 And if it's, I can't remember 35:19 all the names right off top of my head, 35:20 'cause I'm getting old too, but Mikasa. 35:24 Noritake. Yeah, Noritake, Mikasa, China. 35:26 England. 35:28 We do good with that and old china 35:31 that's in really good condition, 35:32 not chipped or anything. 35:34 That's you know, maybe from the 40s or 50s, 35:37 you have a lot of older people 35:38 that got it when they got married, 35:40 you know, back in 40. 35:41 And if they're not chipped in good condition, 35:44 that can be worth quite a bit of money. 35:46 Now when people come here to visit, 35:48 can they look at 35:49 some of this stuff that you have? 35:51 Sure, absolutely. 35:52 We usually open our store. 35:55 Actually we call it a store outside of our offices there, 35:59 but we usually open it during camp meeting time. 36:01 Of course, during the COVID we haven't had a camp meeting. 36:04 So with the people that come to camp meeting 36:06 get a chance to come. 36:08 Lord willing this fall, 36:10 we hope to have camp meeting here 36:11 and we want you all to come and join us. 36:14 We're praying on it. 36:15 So, some of you, you can bring things 36:16 you wanna get rid of. 36:18 And some of you can take things back 36:19 that you've been looking for. 36:21 We've had people... 36:22 We've had beautiful people come and they donated 36:25 something maybe six months before 36:26 and they come and they buy it again. 36:29 Well, now that's good, I like that. 36:31 And they say, when we get done with it, 36:33 we'll send it again. 36:35 A lot of people buy things 36:36 from the store and say, you know, 36:38 this is just gonna be returned to you 36:40 in just a short period of time. 36:41 We just want to help, you know, just wanna help. 36:43 Now, that's great. 36:45 It's just a great way to support the ministry. 36:46 Yeah. You know. 36:48 Okay. Absolutely. 36:49 Tammy, you have a little testimony. 36:52 You've been going through 36:53 some things yourself physical things. 36:55 Tell us a little about that? 36:58 Back in November, I went to the dermatologist 37:01 about something completely different 37:03 and I had this little thing on my leg 37:06 and it didn't look anything like 37:08 what you would think skin cancer would look like. 37:10 It looked like maybe eczema or something, 37:12 just little spot like this. 37:14 And it had been years I'd had it. 37:16 I hadn't paid any attention to it. 37:18 He kept telling me the doctor need to look at it. 37:20 And I said, "It's not enough, and it's eczema." 37:22 And so, I knew the doctor 37:25 'cause I had sold a puppy to him. 37:27 And so we were just talking 37:29 and I just happened to look down. 37:31 He was looking at something on my face 37:32 and I just happened to look down. 37:34 I said, oh, by the way I said, "Is this eczema?" 37:36 I said, "I've had it for four or five years." 37:37 I said, "I can't, I've put stuff on it. 37:39 It doesn't go away." 37:40 And he took one look 37:41 and he said that is skin cancer. 37:43 And I said, "What?" 37:45 I was just so taken back. 37:46 And I said, "You're kidding me?" 37:48 And he said, "I'm not kidding you." 37:49 And he said, "We are gonna do a biopsy right now." 37:52 And he also spotted one on my face 37:54 that he thought was, 37:56 and he did a biopsy on both places. 37:58 This one was fine. 37:59 The leg came back skin cancer. 38:01 And it was a very, very large tumor. 38:05 And so he... 38:07 When he told me, he called me and he said, "It is cancer." 38:10 And he said, "We've got to take it out." 38:12 And like you said, things change as you get older. 38:15 And it was... 38:17 I don't feel like I panicked in any kind of way 38:19 or, oh no, what am I gonna do? 38:21 I just said, "Lord, Your will be done." 38:23 I mean, whatever happens 38:24 'cause it had been there a long time. 38:26 And so, you know, that's, 38:28 I'm not one who go to the doctor too much. 38:29 And so I didn't know if it had spread or whatever, 38:33 but I just felt, I felt good about it. 38:37 I knew the doctor personally, 38:38 I felt good about his abilities. 38:40 And he said, "I promise you, I will get it. 38:43 I promise you." And I said, "Okay," you know? 38:45 And so we... 38:46 I just kind of turned it over to God 38:48 and he operated and he took the tumor out. 38:51 They sent it downstairs to the pathology 38:54 and he looks at it and determines 38:56 if they've got all the edges of it to make sure 38:59 you might have to go back in and do more. 39:01 But it came back that 39:03 he had gotten it all in some plus. 39:05 And so they sewed me back up and I've got a bit ugly scar, 39:10 but I don't care. 39:13 I'm too old to worry about a scar. 39:15 But I just thank the Lord for it 39:18 because shortly after I went back, 39:20 for him to check my leg and the doctor, 39:23 that was another doctor, and she said, 39:26 we just dealt with somebody that had exactly 39:29 what you had, except it was on her face. 39:31 And she said, she brought her daughter in to, 39:34 for some acne or something. 39:36 And she said, I kept looking at that thing on her face. 39:38 And she said, it was just little scratch, like, 39:41 and she said, I didn't like the looks of it. 39:43 And she said, can we do a biopsy? 39:44 And the lady said yes. 39:46 And she said, it came back exactly the kind that you had. 39:49 And she said it had already spread. 39:51 She had had it like five years 39:52 and she said it had spread to her bones. 39:54 And she said, we took it out. 39:56 She took chemo. 39:57 She only lived long enough to see her daughter 39:59 graduate from high school. 40:00 Wow. 40:02 And so I would just said, thank you, Lord. 40:03 Now, I was just very, very thankful. 40:05 Yeah. Oh, yeah. 40:07 Yeah. 40:08 I can't take anything for granted nowadays, right? 40:10 Yeah. Every day is a gift. 40:11 Every day is a gift. 40:13 Today the Lord gives us, it's a gift, 40:15 so we need to make the best of it. 40:17 And remember, we're here for a reason 40:19 and that's to serve the Lord. 40:21 And people say, well, what can I do? 40:23 I'm not a preacher. I'm not a teacher. 40:25 I don't sing. I don't do whatever. 40:27 It's your own personal testimony. 40:29 Ellen White says is your greatest asset 40:31 is your own personal testimony of what God has done for you. 40:35 Nobody can talk you out of that. 40:37 Nobody can tell you it's not true 40:39 because that's between you and the Lord. 40:41 So the devil didn't give it. 40:43 And the devil didn't take it. 40:44 Can't take it away. 40:45 So for us, it's a matter of evangelism serving the Lord. 40:50 Many of you do it many ways, others who can't go, 40:52 you help financially thank you for your love, 40:56 for your prayers and financial support. 40:58 And some of you do it through our wills and trust department. 41:02 And so we have that. 41:03 That's helped tremendously 41:05 over the years to keep 3ABN going and growing. 41:08 This Donations Department, the same thing. 41:10 When you send, what may be your junk, 41:13 or sometimes you say, I really liked this. 41:16 It does have great sentimental value to me, 41:18 but I want to see it put to the Lord's work. 41:21 So when you do that as Bruce said, 41:24 he's gonna get the very most that he can. 41:26 He's had a lot of years experience doing this now. 41:28 So we're making sure that everybody knows about it. 41:31 'Cause when you put it on eBay, you put it on the internet. 41:34 Then people literally 41:36 from around the world can look at it. 41:37 So if you don't know what something's worth, 41:39 you put it up long enough 41:41 and you watch people start bidding. 41:42 And finally somebody 41:44 just wants it better than somebody else, 41:46 more than somebody else. 41:48 Right. 41:49 But we've seen that too with old cars. 41:50 A lot of people say, well, 41:52 I've got this old car, you know, 41:53 it's 40 years old, but it's just been in the barn. 41:56 My husband drove it. I don't drive it anymore. 41:58 It's in nice shape. 42:00 You know, call Bruce, let him know about it. 42:02 Again, instruments, whether it's guitars 42:04 or violins or mandolins or any kind of dobros, 42:08 as he said, you know, 42:09 any cello, we had a cello that was donated. 42:11 It was like a hundred years old. 42:13 Yeah. Yeah. 42:14 And I think that brought a few thousand dollars. 42:17 Kris Wilkinson of Nashville String Machine, 42:20 and who also has done a lot of projects with 3ABN. 42:24 I think she put us in touch with cello player 42:27 and they said, man, this thing's a great instrument. 42:28 Yeah. 42:29 And so they bought it and put the money again 42:32 right into the Lord's work, so... 42:34 Well, this is something 42:36 that's it's kind of off the subject, 42:38 but it's, it's kinda on my heart 42:39 if you don't mind. 42:41 Sometimes I know people and as well as myself, 42:46 sometimes you get in, especially as you get older, 42:48 you think, well, I'm not much good. 42:49 You know, I can't do this or I can't help somebody 42:51 like I wanted to or whatever. 42:53 And the Lord can work with you and use you in all aspects 42:58 and all works of life. 43:00 And I have a small side business 43:02 and I have these girls that work for me, 43:04 high school age girls. 43:06 And honestly, I guess we were sheltered. 43:10 I'm naive. 43:11 I never knew the dysfunction that goes on in families. 43:16 Problems. 43:18 The problems, the divorces, 43:20 the challenges over the children 43:24 and some of these girls come from those backgrounds 43:27 and it's somehow it slowly evolved into them 43:31 coming to me with their problems. 43:34 Some of them have been verbally abused, 43:36 things like that. 43:38 And they come and they're crying, 43:39 you know, and they come to me 43:41 and none of them have been raised in church. 43:43 And so that's my opportunity. 43:45 And, you know, to talk with them, 43:47 to pray with them. 43:49 And somehow it's just... It's nothing to do with me. 43:52 It's God working through me that it has evolved into. 43:56 It's like our house as my son Trent said, 43:58 our house is a hub where these kids are coming 44:00 and going and coming and going all the time, 44:02 you know, and talking about things. 44:04 And I try to help where I can. 44:06 And I try to talk to them about the Lord. 44:09 And many times when these problems come up, 44:12 I say, well, you know, this is why we have the Bible. 44:15 This is why we have the Ten Commandments, 44:17 because it's not for God to be happy. 44:20 It's to make us happy if we abide by these things. 44:23 If you'd go against this, 44:25 then things blow up in your face. 44:26 And you know, this is what happens. 44:29 And so I feel like that it has turned 44:31 into another sort of ministry with young people. 44:35 And five years ago, I could never have them... 44:38 I wouldn't even thought I'd want to do that, 44:40 you know, with young people, 44:41 but somehow it's turned into that 44:42 and I love these girls, 44:44 you know, like they're my kids. 44:46 And they know that. 44:47 And they respect that because, you know, 44:49 I try to show them the love, 44:51 but I talk to them about church. 44:52 I talk to them about the Lord. 44:54 I talk to them about what God wants with their life. 44:56 And I just wanted to share that 44:59 because there's many different ways 45:01 that you can do ministry. 45:03 When there's some, a lot of things you can't do, 45:05 but there's many ways that you can do much outreach. 45:08 Yeah. 45:10 And that's really good because so many times folks 45:12 who worked full-time in ministry, 45:14 you really feel like you've done your job. 45:16 Right. 45:17 But if we're working in ministry 45:18 and we're getting paid for it. 45:20 Right. 45:21 You know, and then we say, 45:23 oh, well, after 6 o'clock I'm out of ministry, 45:25 you know, I don't need to do anything for the Lord. 45:27 I work for Him all day long, 45:29 whether I'm running a camera or directing, 45:32 or whether I'm in the office work 45:33 or doing finances 45:34 or on air or whatever I'm doing. 45:37 But really this responsibility is while we're waking, 45:40 it's 24/7 whenever. 45:42 And people that we meet, it's our privilege 45:45 and our responsibility to introduce them to the Lord. 45:48 And that's a good thing. 45:49 Things like this and your side business, 45:52 I won't go into it for various reasons, 45:54 but the puppies you decided to get into. 45:57 And so the Lord has blessed that tremendously, 46:00 but you know, so all of us have a responsibility to do 46:04 what we can do for the Lord. 46:06 Some of you are saying, 46:07 I'd like to give some, I don't have anything. 46:09 Why don't you just remember to pray for 3ABN? 46:12 Because we are on the front lines 46:14 and people after all these years 46:17 are still people who resent 3ABN, 46:20 people who are anti-3ABN, but you know what? 46:23 I'm encouraged by that. 46:25 Because as I've said for so long, 46:27 if everybody loved me and everybody loved 3ABN 46:30 and everything I did and everything you do, 46:32 we must be not doing something right, 46:34 because the Bible says, 46:36 "All who live godly shall suffer persecution." 46:37 Right. 46:39 So when you're giving truth to a lost and dying world, 46:43 you're gonna have people object to it. 46:45 You're gonna have people offended by it. 46:46 You're gonna have people 46:48 who become your enemies because they don't want that. 46:51 They don't want the truth going out. 46:52 The devil doesn't want it going out. 46:55 So what I would encourage you to do for those of you, 46:57 you say, well, 46:58 I don't have anything I can give. 47:00 We appreciate your prayers, we covet your prayers, 47:03 because for those on the front lines, 47:05 you know, Greg and Jill 47:06 and all the others out on the front lines, 47:09 that the devil really is out to steal, kill, 47:12 and to destroy and you too. 47:14 He hates all of us that carry the name, 47:16 Christian, but we all can work together. 47:19 We all can help. 47:20 Some of you can give financially, 47:22 some of you can't, 47:24 some of you can donate things like this. 47:26 That's great too. 47:27 So Bruce, we just have a few more minutes. 47:29 What else would you wanna talk about? 47:31 I'd like to mention thanks to 3ABN CFO, Jason Bergmann. 47:36 We now have a new updated computer program system 47:40 that state-of-the-art, 47:41 and now what it does for people, 47:43 the donors is now that we can get those receipts 47:47 back out to them very quickly at once 47:49 we received their donation, 47:51 whereas before it was a period of time 47:53 before we could get them back. 47:55 That's good. 47:56 And but, and I'd also like to add the people 47:59 that do have donated items that has appraisals. 48:03 They should use those appraisals 48:05 for income tax purposes 48:06 if they have an appraisal on the item. 48:08 Instead of what we sold for. 48:09 Instead of what we sold for, 48:12 it would be to their advantage to do it that way. 48:14 Okay. Okay. 48:15 What else? 48:17 Anything you want to, for folks to know at home? 48:20 How the gold prices and the silver prices, 48:23 it's spot prices. 48:25 Yeah. So they can change. 48:26 Well, the spot prices change, you know, all the time. 48:29 Even as we've had this program, they're changing, 48:32 but gold has been up fairly high 48:36 for the last few months. 48:37 And it actually got up to $1,900 per ounce last month. 48:42 So you know, and the silvers went up too. 48:45 Yeah. 48:46 So those items that comes up, 48:48 I think silver's right at about, 48:50 while we're doing this program about $26 an ounce. 48:53 So... Yeah. 48:54 Silver and gold items is always welcomed. 48:56 And while it's, you know, 48:58 if you have these items right now, 49:00 so it's the time to get rid of them. 49:01 So... Yeah. 49:03 Wow. That's amazing. 49:05 Because also people have donated stock. 49:07 We have a lot of people who call us 49:09 and usually talk to Jason Bergmann, 49:11 their CFO, about stock. 49:14 Maybe they have it in different companies 49:16 and they say, you know, 49:17 we don't really want this anymore. 49:19 And so we want to give it to 3ABN. 49:21 3ABN is able to sell that at the market values 49:25 and use that. 49:26 I take a lot of those calls and transform to Jason. 49:30 Yeah. So I... 49:31 There are quite a few calls that comes in with stock 49:34 and the way things are now, you know. 49:35 Yeah. Absolutely. 49:37 And also from our wills and trust department 49:41 and our charitable gift annuities, 49:43 you can make tax deductible, you know, gifts to 3ABN. 49:47 Yet you can receive income from that till you die. 49:51 And so, depending what your age is, 49:53 how much interest, but it's more interest 49:55 than you get at a bank by far 49:56 because you aren't getting anything at a bank. 49:59 So when you hit 70 plus there, 50:02 all of a sudden your interest is more 50:04 so there's things that you can do 50:05 and you don't wanna pay 50:07 capital gains on certain things. 50:08 We, of course, we all going by the laws 50:11 and so abiding by that, 50:12 but there are certain advantages, 50:14 tax advantages that 50:15 we can take advantage of that are legal. 50:17 And so we're happy to talk to you about that. 50:20 So if you call here 50:21 and talk to our wills and trust department, 50:23 or you want to talk to Bruce 50:25 about some of the other things 50:26 that you have, we're very happy for that. 50:28 And again, the time is so short. 50:30 We've never seen the world in the mess that it's in today, 50:34 and eventually this won't be worth anything, 50:36 any of this stuff. 50:37 Yeah. 50:39 But right now we can turn it 50:40 into money to support the ministry. 50:41 Yeah. 50:43 This world's gone more haywire 50:44 in the last five years in my life 50:46 than I have to remember 50:47 all the rest of my life together. 50:49 Oh, I know. 50:50 My mom used to say, you might remember 50:52 when things go beyond her control 50:54 or something shocked her. 50:55 She'd say, you know what? 50:56 I just feel like everybody in the world is crazy, 50:59 except me and Dee and sometimes even Dee, okay. 51:02 So we're kind of getting to that point. 51:06 Now it's like, you turn on news, 51:08 no matter what channel it's like, 51:10 this is crazy stuff going on. 51:11 I look at him, I say people's going mad. 51:14 They've gone mad. Absolutely. 51:16 I agree. Yeah. 51:18 That's where we are. We're towards the end of time. 51:21 And so anyway, once again, 51:23 we thank you for your love and prayers 51:25 and financial support. 51:26 We're gonna go to a news break and then we'll be back 51:30 after that for closing talk. 51:35 If you'd like to write to our 3ABN Donation Center, 51:38 the address is PO Box 220, West Frankfort, Illinois 62896. 51:44 Again, 3ABN Donation Center, POBox 220, West Frankfort, 51:49 Illinois 62896. 51:52 You can call (618) 627-4651, 51:55 ext. 3078. 51:57 That's (618) 627-4651, 52:01 ext. 3078. 52:03 You can email Bruce.Chance@3abn.org 52:08 That's Bruce.Chance@3abn.org 52:12 or go to our website to 3abn.tv |
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