So, you know, we have three days. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Be everything that has breath. Praise you, the Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Father, we come this morning, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God. We come this morning thanking you, Lord God, for your mercy, Lord God. And thank you for your mercy, Lord God. We thank you this morning, Lord God, for giving us, Lord God, another day, Lord God. You didn't have to do it, Lord God. But you did, Lord God. And we thank you for it. We praise you for it, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God. Father, we come this morning asking you, Lord God, to have your way, Lord God. In this service, Lord God, we ask you, Lord God, in the name of Jesus, that you will touch, Lord God, that you will move this morning, Lord God, in a mighty way, Lord God. Touch every heart, every mind, Lord God, every spirit, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God. Be glorified. Be magnified this morning, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God. Lord, we ask you that you receive this morning, Lord God. I will praise. I will worship, Lord God, that we offer until you this morning, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God. Let it be acceptable, Lord God. In your sight, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God. Hallelujah, Lord God. Hallelujah, Lord God. For Lord God for you Lord God. You Lord God.  Worthy of the praise Lord God. Worthy of the honor Lord God. Worthy of the glory Lord God. Be great and great to be praise Lord God. Hallelujah, Lord God. Lord, ask your message to come this morning Lord God. We ask you Lord God to continue Lord God, to speak through him Lord God, Lord God. Hallelujah Lord God. Hallelujah, Lord God.어 for it's your word Lord God that's gonna keep us Lord God. It is your word Lord God. It's gonna save us Lord God. It is your word Lord God. That's gonna heal us Lord God. in the name of Jesus Lord God. hide your word Lord God. hide your word in our hearts Lord God. that we as your people Lord God. May not Lord God.  I don't need a no you Lord God of the Holy Ghost Lord God in the name of Jesus Lord God. We ask you Lord God that you will save this morning Lord God. Save Lord God such Lord God and should be saying Lord God. He said no one. No one can come to the father unless they're drawing in the name of Jesus Lord God. Be glorified. Be magnified this morning Lord God. In this service Lord God. In Jesus name in Jesus name we pray. Amen and Amen. Come on bless your Lord. Tell you never. He's done great things. He's done great things.   He's done great things. He's opened doors. He's made money. He's delivered. He's healed. He's saved. He's done great things and I will bless your Lord at all times. David says I will bless the Lord at all times. I shall continually be in my mind. He's done great things. He's done great things. Scripture reading this morning will be a second Corinthians chapter six verses 14 17 and 18. It says be not unequally yoke together with unbelievers. For what fellowship have righteousness with unrighteousness and what communion has light with darkness. It says wherefore come out from among them and be separate says the Lord and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you. I will be a father unto and you shall be my sons and my daughters says the Lord almighty. If you believe that go ahead and give God some praise give him glory. Come on and let's give God praise in Jesus' name. Let's worship him. Glory to the Lord this morning to all. Hallelujah. He has done great things so I will bless the Lord to continually of the Lord today. Let from the inside enough to do for us. If you got sickness in your body persecuted not abandoned struck down that we're in the presence of miracles right now hallelujah and brought them into his house to give him a praise and we glorify and magnify our Lord. That's right thanks. Yes, yes. Having a solo by brother Michael James. Amen brother Michael James. laying hands on your ministry gotta lay hands on this the I use Everything attached to me, everything attached to me, everything attached to me, when? When everything attached to me is my winter season Is my winter season Is my winter season Say everything attached to me when tell your neighbors everything attached to me when everything attached to you when everything attached to you I said everything attached to you when it's my winter season it's my winter season it's my winter season it's my winter season it's my winter season it's my winter season it's my winter season it's my winter season it's my winter season it's my winter season it's my winter season that it's your winning season. Our victorious, never defeated. It's our winning season. Amen. Amen. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful presentation. Brother Michael, we thank the Lord for this young man. The Lord has gifted him. He's going to do a great work for the Lord in the house of the Lord on this morning. Been absent from this place. Been in the presence of the Lord throughout this season. But it's good to be back in the presence of God's people on this Sunday about the season. But it wasn't the same without everybody being here. Amen, amen. Scripture said we should not forsake to symbol ourselves together as the time begins to draw near. And we know that the time is short. We see it throughout all of society. Jesus is coming soon. I said, Jesus is coming soon. Amen. I'm excited on this day. I'm looking for the return of Jesus. Amen. He's going to come for His people. I'm glad that I'm going to be in the number when the saints go marching in. Amen, amen. Delighted for each of you who are here today. Before we go to the message, I want to call somebody. They have a report card. I'm going to recall. I'm going to call for this person. And the name of this person is, let me see what the name is. The name is Tunisia Rashon Bruce. She got her report card. Now, at this church, yeah, that's your mama, at this church, we celebrate education. Amen. God's got some educated people, too. God has educated people who have determined to be something for the kingdom. When a person puts forth an effort to enrich their ability to work for God, we celebrate that. I just want to call off these grays here. OK, right here. First thing is public administration. She got an A minus in that. What is that organization? And human behavior, she got an A in that. In public budgeting, she got an A in that. What is the SEM? Public administration policy, she got an A in that. And furthermore, research method, she got an A minus in that. And in ethics and profession, she got a B plus in that. In some kind of way, I'm not getting past that. See, this is a little something different. All right. OK, do you have it right here? All right. That young man to the rescue, Michael to the rescue. This is his mama, y'all. All right. Human resources, A minus. A graduate project, she got a credit. That's a credit, no credit. She got a credit. Then oral leadership. Oh, organizational leadership. Guess what she got in that? She got an A in that. And so all of these here, you did a lot of work. OK, you've got to tell me what this is right now. That is seminar and public management. Seminar and public management. She got a strategic management. She got an A minus. Public policy analysis, B plus. Human resources management, A minus. So now I'm excited. I'm excited. It excites me when God's people have ambition.  Daydreaming, he called us to serve. We bring glory to his name. And the scripture said, and he used them according to their several ability.  So we celebrate her. And so I have a piece of paper that goes along with her grades. It says, California State University. The trustees of the California State University on recommendation of the faculty of the California State University here confer upon Tanisha Rashon Bruce, the degree of Master of Public Administration. Master, master. Master of Public Administration. With all the rights and privileges pertaining thereto, given in Northridge, California on the 23rd day of September, 2022. Let's praise the Lord for what he's done. Praise the Lord for his servant. Amen.  I just want to share something with you guys. I didn't plan on saying this, but it's not by chance that I got all these A's. I'm going to tell you all what happened when I decided to go back to school. My spirit, the Lord, told me to talk to Bishop and tell him what I was planning to do. I want to encourage all of us. I know we don't do it because our mind be made up with what we want to do, but we have to seek counsel. I went to Bishop even though my mind was made up and I was being obedient when the Lord said, go tell Bishop what you're going to do. And I went to him and I said, Bishop, I'm going to go back to school. He said, as he always say, very well. And so I said, OK, but there's two schedules. One is on every Wednesday from 6 to 9.30, 5 to 9.45 for the next two years. And then that was in Alhambra. And then there was a class in Norwalk every Thursday. I said, Bishop, I'm going to do the Wednesday class. I won't be in Bible study for the next two years, but she know where I'm at. And he didn't like that answer. But that's what I wanted to do because I'm raising two children and Norwalk is up the street, 10 minutes. And it was on Thursdays and I had to go to Alhambra. And he told me to seek the Lord. I left with an attitude. I was in the car. Like, it don't make no sense. I want to go on Thursdays, Lord.  I'm still going to come to church. And that was my, that was the flesh, me saying no. And he said, well, what are you going to do about Bible study? I said, Bishop, I'm not going to be saved. I'm still coming to church. And he said the Lord wouldn't be pleased with that. He told me to seek the Lord. He said, go up to the school and try it out. And I said, OK. I'm still like, I'm going on Thursdays. We have so many people that have come to church. And I don't know if they sought the Lord or sought Bishop and told him what they wanted to do. But if we all do what we want to do. So I'm like, people wouldn't come in the Bible study and they got their degrees. And I, Thursday, I said, OK, Lord, I'm going to go from work. And I'm going to go to Alhambra and see. Took me an hour to get there. So every Thursday I'm driving an hour to get to school. And when I got there and I had fast and I was praying, but I was still saying I want to go on Thursdays, Lord. And I had to pray, Lord, help me to get out of your way. Help me to hear you clearly so that my judgment don't overcloud what you say. And I think that's important for us because when your mind is made up, you're going to do what you want to do. You're not going to hear what nobody else say. You're not going to see it. I get to Alhambra. And on my way home, the Lord began to minister to me. And he told me to do what Bishop said, go to school on Thursdays to Alhambra. And I cried on the way home. And I cried. And then I changed. And said, Lord, not my will, but thy will. And I yielded to God. And that's why I believe and I know obedience is better than sacrifice. It's not by chance I got all him grades like that. That was because of me being obedient to what my pastor told me to do when seeking his counsel. So I just wanted to share that with y'all because I was amazed. I was like, dang, I know I'm smart, but I didn't know I was that smart to be working full time and to be raising two children as a single parent and to go back to school after over five years. Because I did law school for a couple of years, but I didn't plan on sharing it. So I didn't do the math and how many years it's been since I decided to go back to school. But this is a result of being obedient. All A's and two B's seek your counsel, your pastors, and your first ladies and do what you're being told to do. You guys pray my strength to the Lord, and thank you for celebrating with me. God is great, and he's greatly to be praised. Amen, I thank the Lord for the desire, for the will to humble ourselves to God's way. The Lord for that testimony is going to be seen in our message on this morning. I want to call your attention to the book of Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy chapter number seven. I'll call your attention to this particular portion of this scripture, beginning at the first verse down through the 16th verse before we begin the text. This is Moses, whose God's man, that he used to bring his people out of slavery in Egypt. Children of Israel were down in Egypt, and you know the test and the trials they went through in slavery, not having the will of their own, being under stress, required to work long, hard hours, day and night. But the Lord brought them out. He delivered them. You know how the story goes. He brought plagues upon Egypt, and he made it so tough for Egypt in spite of what Pharaoh said. Pharaoh said, I won't let your people go. But the Lord worked on him until he began to ask him, why don't you all just get on out of doubt? He said, you're causing too much trouble. Go ahead and leave. And the report is that the scripture said they left with a high hand. What that meant was they went to their neighbors and said, I want to borrow some of your jewelry. Can you let me have some of that gold you got? And they were gladly given it to them. And they left Egypt. They didn't leave broke. And so as they began, you know the story. In the wilderness, they were in the wilderness for 40 years. Then they finally get to a place where they're just about to cross over the river of Jordan into the Promised Land. And Moses is preaching to them. He's teaching them. And he says to them, well, let me give a little more introduction. What I'm going to be talking about is the most dangerous threat against the law of God. And there are seven that are called out. Enemies after enemy confronts men and he walks throughout life. The enemies are hostile, often attacking and threatening to drain the life out of man. Sometimes the enemies are powerful, far too strong for men to overcome by himself.   These are enemies of the law of God. Well, Moses knew the fact that man was no match for the enemies that the devil would put before them. And so he heard from God and he wanted to help them know that your salvation is secured. He said, God has already provided for you what is necessary for your life. He said, but you're no match for the devil. He said, you can't handle him.  He said, I want you to understand that you are not a match. You're not a match for the devil. In verse one, he says, when the Lord thy God shall bring the end to the land wherewith thou goeth to possess it and has cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, the Gurgoshites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Parasites, the Hibites, the Jebusites, seven nations, greater and mindier than thou. He says, there are many, many people who want to be in your place.  Hallelujah, hallelujah. My topic today is it's in the trust. It's in the trust. Let me get my lawyer notes out here. Now, when you get to be some of us in here, when you get to be our age, you start to think about your legacy. And you want to know how to pass the most that you can on to those who are left behind after we leave here. And so there's a will, then there's a trust. Now they say the will is OK, but if you have a will and you don't have a trust, it's got to go through probate. And when it goes through probate, it's going to take a long time by design because there are lawyers involved and they want to get their piece of the estate.  So people who understand a trust, they understand that can't happen if it's placed in a trust. It doesn't go through probate because the will has already been established. So now there are two trusts. One is a revocable trust. And then there's another one that's a living trust. There are separate terms that describe the same kind of trust that is easily changed. But then there's a non-revocable trust that cannot be modified after it is created without the beneficiary's consent. Come on, somebody. Come on. I want to tell you it's in a trust. It's in a trust. The Lord has made provisions for us. And he says, when I say these words, nobody can change. Nobody, but nobody can change it unless you let them have it, unless you give it over to them. So now let's proceed. In the first verse, it talks about all the people who want to be who Israel is. He said, but the Lord is going to bring you out. Verse 2 said, and when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee, thou shall smite them and utterly destroy them. Thou shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy unto them. He says, I'm telling you that what you've got to do, understand, these are commandments. This is what the Lord says must happen in the lives of his people. He said, thou shall smite them and utterly destroy them.  He said, when you utterly destroy it, he said, there's nothing left to speak of that is of use. Thou shall make no covenant with them. He said, don't listen to them when they try to take it. Well, wait, let's work this out. He said, don't make a covenant with them nor show mercy unto them. He said, when they start hollering mercy, mercy. Don't have any mercy. He said, take them out. Neither shall thou make marriage with them. Uh-oh. He said, thy daughters, thou shall not give unto his sons. He said, danger. Nor his daughter shall thou take unto thy sons. He says, you need to have your children under subjection of the Holy Spirit. I grew up in a sanctified house. And the house was sanctified when I was it. That's right. Come on, somebody. But what I saw was holiness. What I saw was righteousness. What I saw was a longing and a will to please the Lord God, who is the savior of the world. And so he said, don't allow your children. He said, you've got to teach them to the place where they know that they can't mix with everybody. He said, and there's a reason for that. He said, far, far beast, because they will turn away thy sons from following me. The Lord said, I'm a jealous God. He said, I made you. I created heaven. I created earth. Everything is for my glory.  They will turn away thy sons from following me. That they may serve other gods. So will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, parents, and destroy the suddenly. So the Lord, the Lord is saying, and it's clear. I'm not interjecting anything. He says, I have commanded you to separate. I've commanded you not to be with idol worshipers. He said, because if you can't get it right, he said, you're going to lose.  Somebody say amen.  Who are we? What is our will? Verse five said, but thus shall ye deal with them. Ye shall destroy their altars.  He says, don't let them do it around you. He said, they're coming against you, but here's what you need to do. You've got to get rid of what is coming against you that's trying to do damage to you and the kingdom of God. For thou art a holy people. And you're holy unto God. He said, you've been called out of darkness. He said, you belong to me. I filled you with my spirit. I washed you in my blood and I purchased your soul at Calvary. He said, you belong to me. Hallelujah. He said, I'm not willing to share with any other gods. Thank you, Jesus. Thou art a holy people unto the Lord. The Lord thy God has chosen thee to be a special people unto him above all people that are on the face of the earth. Now, you all have heard me say this before. I said, you're God's best people. We're the best people God has on earth. I'm not just spewing out something. This is what the scripture said. The scripture said, you're better than everybody else. And people want to challenge you. Well, you think you're the only ones, right?  Yes, we're the ones. He said, you're chosen. He said, you belong to me. And there's nobody better to ask what the Lord is about than one who belongs to him. One who's been purchased by his blood. One who's fallen in love with him. One who seeks his face. He said above all people that are on the face of the earth. And he said, the Lord did not set his love upon you nor choose you because you were more in number than any people. For ye were the fewest of all people. Now, the Lord just told us that we're his own. We're his chosen. And so he says, don't get all puffed up because you belong to me. He said, don't get it twisted. You didn't deserve it. There was nothing you did to have this come to you. He said, I chose you.  I turned you around and gave you a clean heart. Gave you a new mind. Gave you a determination to do my will. He said, you were not chosen just because it was a bunch of y'all. He said, you were the fewest of all. All the seven armies that came against you, they were all larger and minor than you. He said, but that made no difference. How many they had and how strong they were, that didn't count. He said, the only thing that counts is who belongs to me and you belong to me completely. Hallelujah. I want the Lord to know I'm completely yours, Lord. Come on, somebody.  When it gets tougher, when the enemy comes against you, you need to tell him, Lord, you know me. You know my track record.  I wasn't about any good, but I thank you that in spite of myself, in spite of the lack that I had, said, Lord, you picked me up and you told me you love me. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And I embraced it, oh God.  I love you for your tender care, for your loving kindness toward me. I love you. I can't help but love you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. What a privilege. What a privilege we have. Hallelujah to be in the kingdom of God. Hallelujah. But see, if you're going to be in the kingdom of God, you've got to do right. You've got to do what the Lord said do. Come on. I used to hear the old folks say, I reckon so-and-so. And I reckon, no, it ain't no reckon. It's clearly delineated. What the Lord says do. You've got to come out from among them and be separate. Said the Lord. The Lord God. The creator of heaven and earth. And everything for his glory. Come out from among them. Don't get mixed up in them.  Hallelujah. Hallelujah. The Lord did not set his love upon you nor choose you because you were more in number. In number than any people. For you were the fewest of all. And I love the grand conjunction. But because the Lord loved you. And because he would keep the oath. Which he swore unto your fathers.  Come on.    From the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. So what he says to us in verse eight. Because the Lord loved you. Because he would keep his trust. Then he gave an oath. There was a conditional contract. He said I gave a contract to your forefathers. And I promised. Come on somebody. God said I promised. I promised that I'm going to give you this land and it's going to be yours without anything attached to it. He said you're going to possess this promised land. Come on somebody. The Lord has promised Elder Ross. If we walk with him. If we talk with him. If we do his will. If we humble ourselves before him. And say Lord not my will. Not my will. But your will be done in me. He said you got to walk right. You got to talk right. You got to live right. You got to be right. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I'm glad I belong to Jesus. I said I'm glad I belong to Jesus. I look at other people who don't have the impediments that we have. And I wonder how in the world do they make it? Where do they turn? Who do they look to in distress? When all of these things that would be set us. All of those things I caught up. When all of those things come into our life. We got somebody we can run to. Come on somebody. We got somebody we can call on her. We got somebody who will hear our fingers cry. And they say answer by and by. I thank God that he's always there. Always listening. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. I got to throw in a testimony right here. First lady is doing good. Come on somebody. First lady is doing good. Hallelujah. One more treatment. One more treatment. Tomorrow at 9.30. Come on somebody. Come on somebody. The Lord is raising her up. The Lord has healed her. Hallelujah. The Lord has gave her victory. Hallelujah. He's given victory. And I'll tell y'all. Some of you perhaps have heard it. The first lady has always been concerned about losing her hair. Under these conditions. I was with her in the first consultation she had with the oncologist. And they were discussing it and she says she told her what they were going to do and what medications they were going to administer and so forth. And my wife said well I hope it's like it was last time. She said I had cancer 27 years ago. She said and I didn't want to lose my hair and I didn't lose my hair. All right. And the oncologist said to her well yes between the second and third treatment that you have you'll be losing your hair. Hello somebody. Hello somebody. Is God able? I said is God able? Come on. You ought to see the first lady's hair to hair. Come on somebody. She ain't lost that hair. Come on somebody. God is able. I said he's able. He is alive. Now y'all might think that don't sound like much. Oh she was vain and she didn't want to lose her hair. Well that's what she didn't want. And because she didn't want it she said I'm going to the lord. I'm going to God.  Hallelujah. Hallelujah. She's got victory. Because she belongs to Let me move on. We have a covenant with him because the Lord loved you because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto thy father had the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of a bondsman from the hands of the Pharaoh king of Egypt. No, therefore, that the Lord thy God, he, come on, he is God. There is no other God, not like our God. He said, you just need to know who your God is. He is, he is God, the faithful God, which keep it covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations. Come on, somebody. I like, I like, in Acts, he said, the promise is unto you and to your children. Come on. When the Lord saves you, he said, I promise your children the same thing unto you and your children and to as many as the Lord our God shall call everybody that the Lord calls. He said, it's available to you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So you just need to know who your God is. He said, no, therefore, that the Lord, your God, he is the God, the faithful God, which keep it covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations. Verse 10 said, and he repays them that hate him to his, to their face. So he says, now you're in favor. You're in a place of favor where God loves you and he'll hear your cry and he'll, he said, if your ways please me, if you'll be obedient to me, he said, ask what you will. Come on, somebody. That's better than the Las Vegas.  He will not be slack to him that hated him. He will repay him to his face. He said, all of those God haters, all of those proud. I don't believe in that. I don't believe in that stuff. I don't believe in God. You're prerogative. It's up. This is what the school teachers used to tell us when we were in grammar school. It's up to you. I'm here to teach. I know what to teach and whether you get it depends on it's up to you, what you wanted or not. Verse 11 said, thou shalt therefore keep the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which I command thee this day to do them. The Lord says, you're on easy street because you're in the right family. You're in the right family. He said, but that's not all of it. He said, even though you're in the family, you've got to do what you're supposed to do. You've got to follow the family rule, keep the commandments, keep the statutes and the judgment which I command thee this day to do, wherefore it shall come to pass. I just want to pause right there. It shall come to pass. It shall come to pass. It shall come to pass. If you harken to these judgments and keep and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he swear unto your father. He said, it's in the trust. I deposited in a trust and it's an irrevocable trust. No matter who comes, no matter who goes, no matter what weapon they bring against you. He said, it's in a trust because I get a covenant with your fathers and your father's fathers and you can't lose unless you don't do what you ought to do. Hallelujah, hallelujah. And that just kicked a song over in me, Elder. Hallelujah. It is done. I believe on the sun. Yes, sir. I am saved by the blood of the crucified one. It's already done. Hallelujah. Thank God. Hallelujah. Come on somebody. Somebody say hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I praise him for what he's done. Yes, sir. Hallelujah. Verse 13 said, and he will love thee and he'll bless thee and he'll multiply thee. He will also bless the fruit of thy womb and the fruit of thy land and the corn and thy and thy wine and thine oil, the increase of thy kind, the flock of thy sheep in the land which he swear unto thy fathers to give thee. Let me get my note. So that sounds like something we heard earlier in the service. My winning season. Come on. Did anybody get that? He said, it is now your season. He said, everywhere you look, everywhere you turn. It's coming up roses for me. It's coming up victory all over the place. It's my winning season. I'm in the body of Christ. I belong to God and nobody can't touch me as long as I stay under his wings. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Oh, this make me want to shout. Make me want to shout. Make me want to run. Hallelujah. He said, everything connected to you. You don't have to worry about Johnny who's acting crazy right now. He's connected to you. Come on somebody. He said, I'm going to get ahold to him. I'm going to turn his spirit around. I'm going to change his heart. I'll change his mind with his educated self. I'll change that. Hallelujah. Oh, I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. Then the next verse he said, I don't know why this next verse come in here because he already said it already. He said, thou shall be blessed above all people. Come on somebody. Now you remember when they started out, he said, you are the fewest. And when you feel, guess what? You don't have nothing not to speak of you in the getting by business. Come on somebody. But then in verse 14, he said, thou shall be blessed above all people. There shall not be male or female and among you or among your cattle. He said, all the ladies who want to get pregnant, they're going to get pregnant and have a baby. Come on somebody. Well, maybe that was from back then. I mean, these modern day people, I don't want to lose my shape. When you get old, you don't have lost your shape already. We're not having a baby. No, I'm going to tell him. I got to tell him, Elder Ross. I got to tell him. They say, I want my school girl figure.  And he said, that's how you're going to multiply. And the kingdom's going to grow and be greater and better and better. And he said, not only that, he said, all your heifers in the field. Now y'all stop that. That means they not country folks. They don't know that that's a legitimate word. He said, all of your heifers, they're going to bring forth and bring forth and bring forth and raise you. Great pastors I had, R.W. McMurray, great, great man of God, the Lord directed his steps, gave him a great work. Now, he was the diocesan and there were pastors who might have been a little bit jealous at how the Lord was using him. The bishop says, it would be jealous if you wanted. He said, and you can grow and grow your church as big as it'll get.  And the more you grow, the higher I grow. Come on somebody. And when the Lord begins to bring in more and more and the church begins to grow and they go higher and higher and the church gets greater and bigger and richer and all of that kind of stuff. Deeper in the word, he said, I'm not concerned because I'm on the top. And when you grow up, I'm going up at the same time and same level you're going up. Two more verses. The Lord will take away from thee all sickness. Come on somebody.  Hallelujah. He said, all of those haters. He said, God's gonna let the disease and the evil. He's gonna let it fall on them. Come on somebody. I'm glad I'm under the umbrella. Glad I'm under the umbrella. Let it rain. Let it pour. Thank God for Jesus. Thank God for Jesus. He said, thou shall consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee. Thy eye shall have no pity upon them. Neither shall thou serve their gods. But that will be a snare unto thee. He says, in the end. He said, in the end, it's gonna turn around on them. Come on somebody. So there's no reason for us to worry. No reason for us to wonder why they're doing this and how they're affording to do that and all on and on and on. And we're just a few little old people over here. He said, don't you worry about it.   He said, but those who have been in the driver's seat, come on somebody. Those who've been pulling all the shenanigans and getting everything that they want for themselves and for their people. He said, it's gonna turn around. Turn it around. Turn it around on them. Neither shall thou serve their gods. He said, when it turns around on them, thine eyes. He said, when you see it and you see what they're going through and you see how they're struggling and they don't know what to do next. He said, don't pity them.  Come on somebody.  He said, he said, they went against him and his program, didn't love him, didn't love his people. Matter of fact, he hated God's people. He said, so in that day, you can look on them. Don't feel nothing. Why? It was their choice. It was their choice. Hallelujah. Now all that God is doing for and among us, it's by choice. God wanted us to have it and we wanted it. Come on. And because we wanted it, he said, come on to me. Oh, he did labor and a heavy leg. I'll give you a rest. Come on. I'll claim you as my own and anything that you need, you just come to me. Just call on my name. He said, and I'll deliver you out of your problems. Hallelujah. I want to tell you, there's no need to worry because the promise is in the trust. We recently redid our trust. Man came to our house, talked to us. He came back maybe a week or two later. He brought a box about this big. Here it is, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander. Everything you have is in this box and it's designated to who it should go to.  It's in the trust and whatever God has put in the trust for us, we can enjoy it. Come on somebody. He loves us. That's why he left it to us. Hallelujah. It's in the box. We're blessed in the city. We're blessed in the field. We're blessed when we come and when we go, we can, hey, sickness and poverty must cease for the devil is defeated. Everybody say, bless, bless, bless, bless, bless, bless, bless, bless, bless, bless, bless, bless in the city. Hey, we're blessed in the field. We're blessed. We cast down. We're blessed saints. He loves us. He loves us. We're special, but it's in the trust. Healing is in the trust. Salvation is in the trust. Peace is in the trust. Deliverance is in the trust. Everything you need is as I will give you all things that pertain to life and to God in it. The eternal blessings of God laid in the trust. And I'll get what you're going through. It's going to work in your favor. Lay. Lay. Having trouble. Say, lay less. We're blessed. We're blessed. We're blessed. He made a covenant. He made a covenant. He made a promise. He says, I'm blessed. We're blessed. My question is, have you made yourself a legitimate beneficiary of the trust? See, I used to be in insurance. You have a beneficiary, but you have to be legitimate. Either you have to be born in or adopted him, and we've been adopted into the family of God, and we're legitimate heirs of the promise. Have you made yourself a legitimate beneficiary of the trust? Have you been born on the water and of the spirit?  Have you come out from among the world? He said, be separate. Bishop told us we need to be separate. See, I love everybody, but everybody can't come in my house. Only those that are my people, only those that are joined to me that have separated themselves from the people out there. They can come in my house into my presence. It tickles me. My grandkids, they come in my presence. The first thing they say is, grandpa, I want because they know I'm going to give it to them because they belong to me. But God says, if you will come to me and be baptized into the body, let me fill you with the Holy Ghost. You become my heir and you have access to the trust. See, everybody doesn't have access to the trust. They can know about about. They may not have access, but God says, if you position yourself in me, you can have access to the trust.  You can be baptized in Jesus' name and feel God will fill you with the Holy Ghost. If you're watching us by live stream, I'm inviting you to come next week and somebody will baptize you in the name of Jesus.  And you can celebrate just like we're celebrating it. The more Bishop talked about it, the better I felt. I sat there, you know, Bishop, I felt all right when I came in. But the more he preached, I began to say, I'm somebody. I am somebody. I thought I was bad, but I'm real bad. Hey, because I belong to the king. I'm a child. I'm a son of the king. I'm a daughter of the king. And so we invite you. And if you need prayer today, if you're here, I'm inviting you down to the altar and let us lay hands on you. Let us pray for you. If you need healing in your body, if you need a blessing, if you need finances, whatever it is you need, we will pray with you and God will honor that. If you just want to go a little higher in God, we'll pray. If you haven't made Jesus Lord of your life, we'll pray. We invite you and we're going to pray for you right now, those that are watching us by live stream. God is faithful. He's a faithful God. I just sat there and I was listening to Bishop talk about First Lady. She went through it. She still got a hair. Made me a little bit jealous, Bishop. I didn't, I didn't think to pray about that. Too late, too late, too late. Let's pray.   They said joy unspeakable and full of glory. So Father, I pray for these great people. I pray for those that are coming to you in Jesus name and I see them in the spirit coming from the north, the south, the east and the west to make you Lord of their life. Take them, fill them, keep them, grow them, cause them to be great in the land. Father, we thank you because you're faithful. We give you praise. We give you glory. We give you honor in Jesus name. If you believe that, come on and clap your hands and bless the Lord. Tell somebody next year, we're blessed. We're blessed. We're blessed. We're blessed. We're blessed. Sister Merlin, won't you come? We have many, many great and precious promises. Hallelujah that the Lord, it comes with salvation. Hallelujah, walking in righteousness and trusting and believing God. Let's give the Lord a handbrake for the promises. Hallelujah of God. Hallelujah. Amen. It is now offering time. Hallelujah. Come on. Now, what does the scripture say about giving, about offerings? Bring him the first. Okay. That's one thing. Amen. He said, give and it shall be given. Uh-huh. That's another one. Shaking together, running over, running over. Hallelujah. God don't just bless you. He make it so you have to shake it so it'll go down some more and shake it again so it'll go down some more and some more can be put in there and you can shake it again. All right. God is an overflow blessing. Thank God. Hallelujah. That's the God that we serve. Amen. If you have your offer, then you're ready to give. Amen. You could come on. Amen. Hallelujah. We can also give by Givlify, Shield of Faith Long Beach. You can mail it in to 4934 Long Beach Boulevard right here in this beautiful city of Long Beach, California. The zip code is 90805. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I'm just so excited about the Lord. Bishop God blesses us so wonderfully in the word of the Lord. Amen. And we are just growing leaps and bounds and God is doing great things here at Shield of Faith and we are glad. Hallelujah. We come in praising and giving God glory. Amen. And set me atmosphere for him to do something wonderful. Hallelujah. And his house and he meets us here every Sunday, every time God meets us here. And so we're really, really glad.  Lord, we thank you. Has everyone been served? Lord, we thank you for the offering.  We thank you, God, for giving us, hallelujah, meat to bring into your house. God, we thank you. Hallelujah. How you blessed us. Hallelujah. And cheerfully, we give it back, God. It belongs to you anyway. We give it back to you, God. We thank you. Hallelujah. How you've shaken it together and pressed it down. Hallelujah. And had it running over God. And we thank you. However you've given it to us, we bless you. Hallelujah. Let it, hallelujah. Meet every need. Hallelujah. In the house, God. And let every need in our houses be met in the name of Jesus, God. We thank you and we praise you. In Jesus name, hallelujah.  Hallelujah. Thank you for meeting us here. Thank you, God, for blessing us with your word. Hallelujah. Sit from heaven down. We thank you, God. Bless Bishop, hallelujah. And all that is concerned in your house, oh God, bring us here next time. Next Sunday, hallelujah. Ready to lift our hands and to give you glory and to give you honor. God, in Jesus name, we pray. Amen. And those who are in agreement, say amen.


It's time for the Mac GeekGab, and listener Todd brings us our quick tip of the week with, I have been using the Mac since the 128k Mac a long time. I've never really started using tabs and windows in the Finder. When moving files around, I often want to open the folder I'm in in a new window. Right-clicking on the folder in column view gives you the option to open a new tab. Not what I want. It has been driving me crazy and thinking, there must be a way to open a new window. Today, I right-clicked and for the heck of it, held down the option key and voila, new tab changed to open a new window. More tips like this plus your questions answered today on the Mac GeekGab 971.


I'm so happy to be here today. This is Lauren Glendavidian and we're at the Alternative Media Conference that's been sponsored by Goddard College. There was a conference like this maybe 40, 45 years ago that was held by the founders of the Community and Alternative Media Movement who inspired our work here at CCTV Center for Media and Democracy. Then there was another conference in 2016. This is the 2022 version. Today, CCTV is really happy to host this particular panel with Allison Seger, who is the Project Director for Vermont Language Justice Project, and Dr. Jules Wetsche, who produces the African Variety Show. He is a producer on our 10 meeting television project, and he also we distribute that program all across the state on his behalf, and hopefully Bruce Wilson, who also is a community producer here, and a leader of Arts, so wonderful, which is a youth development program, so we're hoping that he will join us. We're going to talk about these projects and talk about how we are working together to reach people in all corners of our community, and not only that, but people across the globe. I'm going to start with Allison, who has brought the Vermont Language Justice Project to CCTV about a year ago after starting the project at her kitchen table, and Allison, now we're reaching 16 languages with public health and other kinds of messages for Vermonters of limited English proficiency. But why don't we start at the beginning of you at your kitchen table, and Bruce, welcome. We're so glad you're perfect. Time is perfect. Just unmute yourself, and we're going to start with Allison giving a little talk about how she started, and then we'll move on to Dr. Jules and yourself, okay? So glad you joined us. Fantastic. I know, so check that mute button, but you're good to be muted for the moment. Allison, tell us a little bit about how you started the Vermont Language Justice Project, and keep in mind our audience wants to learn about the value of alternative media and perhaps how to think about these projects themselves. Sure. Hi. Thanks for having me. The project started in March 2020 as the country was coming to a standstill and lockdown, and I'm a social worker by training and work a lot with refugees and immigrants. I was really aware that all the information about COVID was only going out in English for the most part, and I was really concerned about my friends and neighbors who really weren't getting the information in their language about what was going on. So I talked to a good friend of my Mohammed Jaffa who spoke Somali and some of my, we wrote a script and he made a video in Somali about COVID and what was going on. The very, right at the very beginning. We put it out on social media. We set up a YouTube channel. Mohammed sent it out to his Somali and my speaking friends. At the time, I was working with Spectrum Multicultural Youth Project. They were my downstairs neighbors. So between that project, they spoke probably about another eight languages. So we started making videos in as many languages as we could to make sure that people who needed the information could get it. We set up a task force which had a really long name because we just needed to do it. So we called it the multilingual coronavirus task force, right at the beginning. It had over 40 community partners, all people and organizations that were working with refugees and immigrants. Obviously, everything was online on Zoom at that point. We met twice a week and we really just were talking a lot about how to outreach to communities that just didn't have access to English, didn't have access to the internet or media, really. So we would, so I was working full time and doing this just at home. I'm a filmmaker by training as well. And over the course of the next year, we got some funding from the Vermont Department of Health to pay our translators for the work that they were doing. We got a group of 10 translators who spoke 10 of the most used languages in Chittenden County. And more than anything, I always really wanted to make sure that they got paid well. That was the most crucial thing because without them, we couldn't do what we were doing. And very quickly, our videos were going out all over Chittenden County, actually all over Vermont, actually all out over the country. We made links with Burlington and Winooski School Districts so that the sound files from our videos could be sent to the school districts through their robocall system. So when you know, when you get a message from from school saying there was going to be a snow day, you would also get a message in Burmese saying that there was a travel ban and you couldn't leave the state or you had to quarantine for 10 days when you came back. So we were really working with everybody in our community to just get the messages out as quickly and as efficiently as we can. What we saw that was really important was having local community leaders do the messaging so that they were trusted voices that people would relate to and and would feel comfortable with the information that was was giving out. I could we got funding a year ago and shall I leave it there for now? Shall I just finish? I'll leave it there. OK, I think that's a good introduction. And I think what's really important and unique about the project is what you just said, which is that the people who are translating the messages and communicating the messages on behalf of these public health information are trusted leaders in the community. Absolutely. As spokespeople, they have a role to play that you can talk about a little bit later in helping to distribute the messages as well. So Dr. Jules, why don't you thank you so much, Allison, for that start. And Dr. Jules, why don't you tell us about the African variety show and maybe there's maybe, yeah, tell us how you got decided to do this show, what led up to it and I'll show a little bit of the program while you're talking. OK, thank you so much for this opportunity. So first of all, when you had the pandemic, the COVID-19, so as a public health specialist and also MD as a background from Africa in Congo. So I did realize that it was a big lack of good communication to receive, to outreach the community. And also as a leader in the community, as they found and the president of France speaking out for the community. So there's one local radio, the community of Burlington, Behaviour.com. So they send a message to the priest to ask me if I was able to create one show which is going to help the community to have more training, education regarding the COVID-19. So I agree it was in 2020. So this is the reason I start the first radio show they call African variety show. So it's a kind of sharing the culture. I train people, give education, so the kind of health education and good health communication public health. So people, they should receive all information regarding COVID-19 in several languages. Because myself, I speak French, Swahili, Lingala, and also a little bit of Kikus and Kikongo. So I'm able to reach a large a large number of people in the community because we have most of immigrants here on the refugee. They speak Swahili, French, Lingala. Kikongo, so. So and then after that, I realized that it was good too. So people, when I'm talking, people, they can see me. So this is the idea I had to join the town mirroring TV with my TV show. So it's very, very important because most of people, they can they can follow me in a simple way. They can have a good, good health education and a good health communication because most of people they are unable to understand English or to read. So it isn't possible someone who moved to America like he's a 45 or 50 years to speak English. So as a leader, I understand because myself, when I was a general physician, I was to practice to the countryside. So African people, they prefer what they call the oral tradition. So to understand the leader is talking, everyone is hearing. And the chief is talking with the people that are listening. So this is the reason I said, no, I should create the one show, a radio show and TV show. So then I can I can leave the message and people that can listen because I select some kind of traditional music, African music and kongolism is when people are listening. And then I can leave the message and to the radio to the TV when they can see me, I try to do my best to explain to in the simple word. We know there is a lot of work here. They translate stuff, but people, they don't have time to read. They don't have the capacity to understand. It's like today, I just came to the radio. I should explain about the election, the election guide of 2020 to 2022. In French, it is easy, but in Swahili, there is many. There is like a five kind of Swahili people that they are speaking. It's not easy. So this is the, I will say, the core of of my show, my TV show to the town mirroring TV. Wonderful. Dr. Jules, thank you. Well, when we come back to you, we'll talk a little bit about and Allison also who's watching because you're making a show in a local setting, but it's actually also having a global impact. Bruce, if you can you take yourself off mute? Just get that little button in the corner. It says mute. Keep trying again. You see that in the bottom left corner. There should be a mute button. See it?  Awesome. So nice to see you, Bruce. Yeah, welcome. So glad. Thank you for joining us today at the Alternative Media Conference. Yeah, so you've been producing with CCTV for a long time and you have been working. I think first would be great to hear about your work with young people and why you think this is important for the future and how that you made the switch to doing interviews and working with them and others on TV. Yes, thank you. So first of all, I once apologize for being a little late and Allison, Dr. Jules and LG, you know, I'm so happy to be a part of this what we're doing right now. And so I think around 2002 or something, I started doing shows here on CCTV. And for me, I'm just going to talk about that for a second, one minute. It's so important that I do these shows because what I do is the outlet and the people that I represent or who I serve can hear about information about what I'm doing, as well as the guests that I bring on the show. So important that they know about all the things that they do and all the things that we do and I couldn't do. I just could not do without CCTV. I said a hundred times and I'm so happy to be a part of CCTV. So this youth that I work with primarily, I started working with youth in 1999, I worked at Canterbury Center and which side you run a real location. And I created a mentoring program for you, Bill Burlington. And and so I learned a lot about youth. And so most of the youth. Most of the youth that I work with, they all were saying that they want to be empowered, right? They want to be help with their goals and aspirations. They want to be on youth boards and commissions and do things in the community. And so I agree with them, you know, I agree with them. And so I created youth advisory board from primarily from before COVID. High schools and colleges around the state primarily Franklin County, Tinley County, Rubin County. And so youth always make decisions about programs, projects and this that we do and they still do. It's so important that they have a voice for everything we do in this world is so important. And so I'm very excited about working with youth and what we do. We created because you want to have some places that can be with themselves, some places that can hang out when they get educational, different systems of drugs and I call it tobacco, have funny events and things like that. I open up. It's a way because I open up first I open up youth centers and in the largest malls in the state called the Chilaw Center and Living Rooms and Lafayette and I. So youth, when they first gave the idea, it was an university mall. I first opened up the youth centers. They was like, yeah, we always hang in the mall. So we we need a place in this mall and I said, OK, let's go talk to the vice president of the mall. And sure enough, she said, sure, you're right. They should have a place and make decisions. So we open up a youth center and University Mall followed by the Burlington Mall. And then it's so weird because Rutland basketball team was in a youth center and University Mall. And they was like, God, we need some place like this in Rutland. And many people had asked me to do things in Rutland. I would call us two hours away. I want to do things in Rutland. And and and I and it was going to say, we need one is in Rutland. He's a basketball team. And I said, well, I'll try to get one open. If you guys build my youth advisory board, they say, yeah. So I talked to the owners of the university on Rutland Mall. Sorry, Rutland, Down Run Mall. And they say, well, certainly all the other malls agree that we're a good fit for any any mall or any place youth. And so we opened up that place in 2010 and you friend that place and and working with our community partners around the state. And it was an incredible event for them. Then it's funny. Castle and University came to the university. I mean, really, and they said, we love this idea. We need to open up. We have a grant to open up a youth center somewhere, you know, in Fairhaven. And so I said, first thing I have to do is I need to have a youth advisory board because I won't make a decision about anything until I especially about you until I created one. So we created one. Those are F 35s here coming over and we love them. But anyway, so we open up a fair haven. We open up a youth center in Fairhaven. It's called Loft 89 and you've ran that program and we're going with our community partners and Castle and University. And it's incredible for those youth. And we have the job, job, salary, mentoring, tutoring, job, internship, things like that, which we still do. And incredible. We have you. You can't believe you've had a work together or different types of youth working together. Normally, they probably wouldn't even be hanging out with each other, you know? But we have a 50 award for doing that. And now we kind of were my my board, one of my youth board members said, we need to change up. So now we have art galleries and University of Montreal Arts. So wonderful. And so I still work with youth. I still work with college students. I work with our community partners. And I'm so happy. That's the best I can. The best that I am, you know, is working with the community, our community partners and having an access like CCTV to be able to report what we do. We have a lot of types of shows. Chava Center, Loft 89, Straight Talk for Mod, United Commons Club, a lot of shows we we have on CCTV based on the programs that we have. And you for many of you for facilitating them. We have incredible guests who talk about what they do. And it's so important that they talk about what they do to the guests. So people, our audience or anybody can understand things they didn't know about housing or that just goes and UVM catamount dancers, whatever they just don't know. And so are we very so I'm so happy to be a part of the CCTVs. So I don't know what else you want me to say. I can talk about where I came from. Well, I think it would. I think it would be good. Why don't we this is amazing work that you do. And I think the role that CCTV and the community video plays is to amplify the work and expand the reach of the work and also to provide another set of skills for the young people because you see them even in the short segment, just the poise and the confidence that they gain by talking and presenting themselves on television is another skill set. So I think what I want when we come back to you, what I'd like to hear about is the programs that you've been doing recently, your own sets of interviews with people from the community and how you're using that as an outreach tool in and of itself. But let's hear from Allison next about the the reach and the role that these community translators play in helping to expand the audience and for the actual public health information that is useful to these populations in our state. Thank you. And Bruce, I wanted to set up that that youth center in the university more. So thank you for that. I worked with you and no many that went there. So thank you for doing that. That's awesome. I never knew it was you. I guess in about August last year, we were awarded some funding through CDC disparities grant and enough for me to quit my job at Howard Center, where I'd worked for way too long, probably 23 years and actually set up this project, the Vermont Language Justice Project. And it's just kind of funny. I was I didn't want to continue to work from home. I didn't know who could be a fiscal sponsor. And I was going to a birthday party and I was thinking, oh, my friend Megan's going to be there. And then I thought, oh, Megan works with CCTV. Oh, that would be a really good place to house this project. So over a bonfire on a Saturday night, the beginning of September, I just said to Megan who knew about this project and was actually posting the videos actually on CCTV throughout the whole of covid. It is said, you know, we're looking for a home. Could you be our home? And I'm not kidding within three days, the turnaround was, yes, please, we want you, which was just really so awesome. And it's it's such a great fit because, you know, we're making videos and our mission is to do outreach to the community. And it's it's it's and it's about democracy. It's about having everybody be part of the the the discussion of knowing what's going on. And so it just felt like a really great place to to to sit. And since I started in November, I started November the first. We've now had over one hundred and seven thousand views on our YouTube channel. And our reach is literally all over the world. But when when the rapid antigen test video, when the rapid antigen test came out, they were only in English, like you'd get your box of things and it would just be in English and maybe Spanish. So that meant you had to read one of those two languages. So we felt it was really important to do these how to videos of how to take a test. And there were so many different tests, some were like for five minutes.  So we did we did 16. We did we did six different tests in 16 languages. And those have been viewed from Saudi Arabia to Costa Rica, all through South America, Europe and the Middle East. When the when the refugees from human proletes from Afghanistan started arriving, we increased our languages to include Dari and Pashto. We're now doing videos in Ukrainian with the new Ukrainian influx of people. We're now making really good connections with migrant justice and the clinics down in Middlebury. And we've also realized it's actually really important to do videos in English as well. You know, not everybody reads and writes and people need access to information in English. The videos are all put on the Vermont Department of Health website. And that's not a video that's about us. That's that's an ad. And we're now also doing videos in ASL as well. What's really, really awesome, two things is, well, you know, and the videos aren't complicated. This is my bathroom and this is my son, you know, it doesn't have to be like fancy big cameras and everything. It's it's just as important to get the message out as long as you can see what's going on. That's what is most important to us. What's exciting now is that with covid kind of disappearing a little bit, we're actually able to do different kinds of videos. We're just finishing up a series of videos about how to access a pharmacy, how to get prescription filled. We're doing videos on health insurance, what is health insurance? What are all the terminology used in health insurance? What's the deductible? We're doing a series of videos about. About mental health issues. We're going to do some videos about housing. So now we're actually branching out into doing what my dream is really, which is my dream is everything. I feel like we need to be doing videos about everything that we as. English speaking, when I say we speak for myself, but what I as an English person can just read about and access on the internet, which so many people that don't speak English or can't read or write in their own language don't have access to. That's that's where we're going next. And really, the world is our oyster. There's just so much more that we could be doing. I was recently at a refugee health conference in Cleveland and this doctor, who is the director of like 10 clinics in Seattle, came up to me and she said, oh, you're the language justice project. We've been using your videos throughout the 10 clinic centers in Seattle because the information just is not available in anything other than English or Spanish. So that's a little taster of what we've been up to and where we plan to be going. And also, I think you may have mentioned, but it was worth pointing out is that people all over the world are using these videos. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Saudi Arabia, it's like there was I I feel like I know which rapid antigens tests are being used in Saudi Arabia because we probably got about 8000 hits in one of our Arabic videos about one of our rapid antigens tests. It's kind of crazy, really. Yeah, all over the world. Thank you, Alison. Yeah. Oh, one other thing that we're doing on CCTV is that when Jules puts his show out, for example, after his show, we'll put a French video about COVID or whatever it might be to follow up. So they finish watching Jules show and then they'll watch the French version of our video or the Swahili version. There's a micro justice program that gets aired on CCTV. And after that program, we put up the Spanish the Spanish videos that we've been doing as well. I that's fantastic. It's smart programming. Yes, I'm glad we're doing that. Dr. Jules, you had talked about trying to share information with the local population about public health. And at the same time, you're covering really important issues that are happening in the Congo and political issues. And you have guests who come from your country and talk about what's happening, who have been working on democracy for a long time. So I wonder maybe tell us about those guests and the purpose of your show in promoting a pro-democracy agenda. OK, thank you so much. First of all, I want to thank Alison for the hard work. I know it's not easy, but it's a great job. And thank you. There is a good result in the community. Thank you. So your question is what I can say now when I'm doing my show, it's like from local to to global. Now it's like a kind of they call global communication because a lot of people they can follow me around the world, even Congo and everywhere. So last time I was in Congo, I want to visit my family for three weeks. So I think now, as I know, our TV, I never talk about the political situation to my show, but I have to next time I have to do that because most of the stuff I see in Congo, in Africa, the main problem came from here, United States of America, Canada, London, particularly for Congo situation.  Everyone had Dr. Mukwege who received the price noble. We don't we don't have a real democracy. You know, the big country, the multinational companies, they don't they don't they don't give us the opportunity for a good development, a good democracy. So they put to the power someone who may be never been university is not a good leader. So this is a big problem we have, particularly in the east part of the DRC. So no one, we don't have people, they speak up. Even to many, many, I say many channels like CNN, they never talk about Congo, but we saw now like the problem between Russia and Ukraine. Everyone is talking about Russia, Ukraine, but why not from Congo? This is not a good democracy. We need more assistance for like America, because America is a big power to Congo. We have a partnership relation. So for me, if we need to have a strong democracy, a good leadership and a good governance, they have maybe to to put someone who studied here and understand America culture. And when he go, he goes like in Congo. He gonna be a good leader. You know, because the problem is they used Rwanda and Uganda to destroy Congo and the multinational company. They took many, we have many, many militias and they took minerals and they fight people, women's in in my community here, we have some people who does to live there. They they had like a sexual violence between facing their kids, you know. So I think this is a best means to to I can maybe the future organize some kind of of show, maybe invite some political Congolese to come to talk about about Congo, because they they plan, we plan to have the election next year, 2023. What we have to do, we have some message, maybe Joe Biden, the president or our leader here. They they never know exactly what happened in Congo. It's a big problem. So I think I think we have to do our best to talk, to speak up. Because Congo is the biggest country in the world. We have a lot of wealth, minerals, but it's the poor, poor, poor population. It's the reason last time when I went with some kids, they were born without clothes. So my last show when we can see when I went in Congo, I brought some kind of clothes to the kids, often kids. So it's terrible, terrible. Sorry, you have people that are watching in the Congo, too. And I mean, you have a global audience. How do you get the word out to them? How do you share the link to your program? So in my my cell phone, I have I have like 10 groups of WhatsApp, like we have one group from physician, Congolese physician, they live in Congo. I share with them. I have some friends who used to study, who used to went to the high school with one group here, too. All Congolese, we have one one big group, so we shared information. So and sometimes through the radio, when I'm doing a radio show, I'm doing Facebook live, too. So, yeah, after after after my TV show, I'm able to to share with people around the world. Yeah, and maybe they can watch you, too. And I think it's a good feedback. It's I mean, it's amazing when we look at the numbers and where people are watching, you know, you have a global audience. And I think what's important for people to understand in this as alternative media makers is that. Activism is at the heart of. True alternative media, social change and improvement and support for people that can benefit is part of what we are. So we're really political activists first and we've we've found video and radio as a tool for getting the word out. It's one tool in the toolkit, it right of social change. And that's what makes us different than mainstream media. And actually, honestly, I think it's what makes us different from public media is that we are first activists. And we happen to have found video and audio as ways to activate. And so, Bruce, I wanted to ask you so you have again, you've used these the tool of video. You have made many different series over over the years. But most recently, you're doing your own interview show. And tell us about that program and how you're choosing your guests and why this is an important part of your work. Well, first of all, I want to say to Allison and Dr. Jules, you guys are doing incredible work. And I want to be a part of any ways I can help. And even once you think I can help you, please. Ask me, Dr. Jules, I want to come on your show. Yes, yes.  So yeah, so wow. So we have been having a lot of shows, but I keep saying, I don't know what year 2002 or something like that. But anyways, so I was just writing a little bit when you were talking. But so our shows normally from a lot from the beginning, I wasn't like hosting my shows. I would like you for, you know, the hostess show or people who are working because those are the people who I serve and those are the people who should really host the show. In this video you see right here some Elaine Wong. She's a city manager of City of Winnieski. And so she's she's there at the Battery Park with me doing a show with me. She's incredible. She she want to be she want to meet everybody, she says. And so I like her style and she's very she's very nice and approachable. So she's one of the people that on the show they lose head on the glass over here was on Lieutenant Governor Zuckerman and Vermont Public Radio, Vermont Public Now, Scott Finn, Vermont Federal Housing, Mara Collins, Winnieski Superintendent, Burlington Superintendent, Winnieski Superintendent of Schools, Principal, Burlington High School, Mayor Christine Lott. Bo Yang, Executive Director of the Aid, as it goes, my friend for many years. Bo Yang for the Human Rights Commission. So Charlie Baker from to the kind of regional planning, Brian Pines, CETO Director and in our shows are so wonderful. United College Club, Vermont Low Heart Music, Straight Talk, Vermont. We have a lot of different shows based on the programs that we we have. And the programs that we have like are so wonderful was programs created by youth, you know, you know. And so we just put it part of what we do. And and we still do them like United College Club is another one that we've been doing since 1999, it was created by the college students. Mariam Gramaski from Shumplain College. And she's been on that show that was like years ago. And her goal was to have UVM, St. Mike's and Shumplain working collaboratively together because they seem they wasn't really getting along. They weren't collaboratively. She thought that if they all work together, that they can get a lot more done and being someone kind of the largest, you know, recognizable colleges that people would support them. She was right. We should do United College Club. You know, it's incredible things we do at UVM. And now Norwich, St. Michael's, you know, we love it. And her goal was to bring college students together when they can have make with helping with their goals, dreams and aspirations while helping them with jobs, job selling, military and internships. Like before the COVID had six interns from all those colleges. And so we're building back up because, wow, they're the best that I can ever have around me. These college students and they do incredible work in the community. And we helped them with the things that they want to do, you know, in life. We just don't have them doing anything. We maybe they want to shop on our youth or something. But then if they want to be like, well, they're a doctoral or Indian chief. We know all those people. And so we help let them meet those people and help them with their goals. And that's what I'm so happy about about working with colleges and high school students.  So wonderful stuff you probably see around Burlington. Sixty percent of the murals in is through our so wonderful in Burlington. And you've we created so wonderful boxes, electrical boxes. You probably see them all around us in our community. Our partners who create these boxes. And the thing was by our so wonderful, we don't we don't our partners in South Burlington, they put murals over in credible boxes. But we don't put murals over places that don't have graffiti on them because we have a graffiti abatement program. And basically in my studies in 2002, if you put murals over graffiti, they seem to honor them code of ethics or and so they don't go bomb the what they call bomb the wall and so that so we don't. Arts are wonderful. Don't put murals over places that have don't have graffiti on them. So we, you know, when you see around Burlington, all those cool ones and behind hand is a graffiti art ones and all those places is through art. So you'll see you'll see our level and all of them. And so you go now let me just ask you this question. I I have the sense and I'm not sure if I'm right that one of the reasons that you choose the people you interview in service rendered, which is your most recent series, is as a way is as an organizing tool. Right. A way to remind them about what you're doing with the youth and to elicit their support. Am I right? Is that part of your thinking behind the people you choose to interview? Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. You know, yes, ma'am. And also let the others know exactly what they're doing because sometimes people just don't know about the public radio. They don't know about public. They don't know about how legislative work or how, you know, kind of my dancers, you know, and so we help them. They contact us and we hook them right up to those people. That's so important because a lot of people have goals and aspirations. They just don't know how to do it. They don't know how to get to that point. And so the people that we interview, they love us. They love service rendered corporate. They love our programs because they know about us. And they know that we are to help people for real and we need to help. And so, yes, ma'am, we definitely bring them on the show so we can get support as well, you know. And and they do support us for many, many years. I mean, many years, not just yesterday, you know. So I couldn't do this work without the people I serve, you know, no way to work and do what you know. And for me, this is the best thing I can ever do in this world. And I wish I was, you know, be better, be better, you know, perhaps with myself, but, you know, when I see people graduating from high school and graduation from college in part of our program, that's I can even tell you what the measurement that is for me. We also created youth home boards in 2003. You sit on Police Commission, Planning Commission School Board in the city of Bronson. We just redid the resolution and we're about to start on putting youth to be on these city boards. South Bronson adopted our adopted youth home boards, Wynuski and Essis. So now youth home boards is going to be expanded and we want youth home boards anywhere they can be. I talk to businesses and you need to, you got no youth on your board, you better get work. You know, you're trying to make decisions how to the world. Your project is going to look at five years. You got to talk to you first, I mean, because it's all about them. Yeah. Well, that actually is a good segue to our last question, which is looking ahead to the future.  And why do you think that it's a good example for the folks that are watching at this alternative media conference? Maybe Allison, you could respond to that as we start to wrap up. Where do I see it going? I just feel like there is nothing like what we're doing anywhere in the country. And we need to be everywhere. We need to be doing videos on everything, not just health. But if you just think about health, you know, if you what your doctor tells you, you want a colonoscopy, you know, if you don't read or write English, you can't follow the instructions on even how to do the thing, let alone what it is. We need to be doing videos on everything when you can't drink the water in Burlington because a pipe is burst. There needs to be a rapid response that send out messages, audio messages in all the languages spoken. So where do I want to be in five years? I want us to be on that journey to making us making it known that what we do is so important that it gets written into every aspect of local and city government, state government organizations that are helping people, social services, mental health. It needs to be everywhere so that everybody has access to the same information. I really feel strongly that, you know, Vermont does a good job in welcoming people into the state and they talk about encouraging wanting refugees and immigrants. But then if we're not talking to them, if we're not sharing our information, we're perpetuating a system of inequality and that that's just not OK in my book. So I don't know if I answered your question. That to me is where I feel we need to be going and we need to bring, you know, stakeholders to the table to make sure that what we're doing actually. Increases right now, our money runs out in a year's time. So that's what we're also doing is figuring out how to get sustainable funding for what we do. Well, can I say something to Allison? Yes, sir. Allison, thank you for saying that because I say that every day to somebody that we got to make sure that you just can't make decisions about people without, you know, without them being around and helping you put something, one word in what it is. What's their goals and aspirations? How do they feel? What's their dreams? What they need for themselves? Systemic stuff, right? People just can't do that without, you know, you just can't put together some of what I asked the people who so-called they serve, right? So thank you so much for saying that because this underscore everything I always, you know, say to people, I was saying that to the mayor today, I had a meeting with Mayor Christine today in City Hall and City Planning, because I'm on that board, blah, blah, blah. And I would tell them the same thing that we need to look over their mission statement from the chartered mission just in 17th or whatever that is. And that maybe we need to change some few words because Winooski has 25% of New Americans. And so I wasn't around when all these white people put together this charter about Winooski. So maybe everybody, when they first want to try to change something, they should look over their mission statement that goes in objectives when they created the organization. And so that that's got to change from first thing. So Allison, thank you so much. Yeah, thanks for saying that, Bruce. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And Dr. Jules, when you look ahead, I mean, you have any thoughts, any response to this question of including people in decision making? Certainly. And then tell us as you look ahead, where do you see the African variety show? And, you know, largely your work, we're going. So I think we need more support to continue our goals because it's very, very important that if I'm talking to some friend, they live in other states. But here I think Burlington now is the best place because because of diversity and what we are doing. So I think, as Allison said, public health is a big umbrella. Every, everywhere, touch or aspect of the life. So we need to work more. We need to have more support to extend to the other series. Why not all over month? Because it's very, very important people. They cannot live here, but they're not involved. They're not engaged. So this also used to talk because I'm also first community voice is a member of the city of Burlington. So we talk every day. So sometimes it's not good because this is our second country. This is our second life. People have to have more information to be involved, how they can improve their life.  But with the hard work now, I think Burlington it's more diverse than the other state, the other series. So yeah, we need more support and we're going to continue to work more to create many projects which are going to help immigrant community. Dr. Jules, thank you so much. I'm just speaking as a person here at CCTV who kind of in a way visualized this this project to be open for everyone. I'm so grateful for the work that the three of you are doing to blaze the trail into the future and the next generation of this work. It's it's vital and it's very inspiring for me. So thank you very much. And Bruce Wilson, services and all your other projects. Dr. Jules, what she of the African variety show and other projects and Alison Seeger of the Vermont Language Justice Project. Thank you so much for joining us here at the 2022 Alternative Media Conference supported in part and hosted by Goddard College. Thanks so much for joining us. Wait a minute. I didn't get to say about my part. What I think. No, I thought you did. But I wanted to know how I see how she goes. OK, first of all, so this is how I feel for me. So since the governor just appointed me to the Human Rights Commission, I'm a commissioner. I sit on it. I'm a commissioner for inclusion, belonging for the city of Winnowsky. I'm a commissioner for China County Regional Planning and I sit on the board for Justice Equal University for Green Mountain Transit. So the Winnowsky School District Anti-Racist Committee. And so for me, it's some other things I'm a part of. For me, it's about less diversity, equity, inclusion or justice equity, diversity and inclusion. So let's get the people who look like me, a part of making decisions about what's going on. So I'm very strong on on that. And that's for me. That's what I'm doing right now. And that's what I see my work supposed to be. This is the best I can be, you know what I'm saying? So I just want to work with everybody, you know, Allison, you got a hundred some thousand hits. Dr. Jules, you're around the country.  So I want to work with you guys and and she would also tell you that when I say it, I will be contacting you about it. So thank you. That's this one. Thank you, thank you, thank you. That's a great that's a great way to wrap up. I appreciate it. Yeah, thank you so much, Bruce, for your work and all of you. It's been a pleasure. Have a great afternoon.


Good evening ladies and gentlemen. It's a great honor to be here, and I'm really humble especially after hearing the ratio of applicants and awardees. I would like to begin by thanking the Brain Foundation, its sponsors, donors, the scientific committee members, staff for the bestowal of this research gift. This will allow our group that sits within the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition at Deakin University to conduct research on this exciting new project. I also speak on behalf of my co-investigators, Professor Aaron Russell, Dr. Victoria Folletta, Dr. Paul Delegata, and Dr. Frederico Girlinger Romero. We are all very enthusiastic about the exciting possibilities of this project and very grateful for this award to help us undertake it. Sorry, this award will help us undertake this project. An aspect of our group's research is to focus and better understand how skeletal muscle maintains its strength and function. In particular, we have become interested in understanding the relationship between motor neurons and muscle and how it affects muscle health. When trauma or disease damages the connection between the motor nerve and skeletal muscle, muscle wasting occurs. This leads to impaired mobility, lack of independence, and may even lead to premature death for some people. Most peripheral nerves are able to repair and recover functional connections with the skeletal muscle. However, the amount of nerve regeneration is often not sufficient. This leads to permanent muscle weakness and long-term disability. Therefore, a major goal for treatment of nerve damage is to repair the nerve processes effectively and to facilitate maximum reconnection with muscle to allow full functional recovery. In patients with motor neuron disease, or MND, and mouse models of MND, we have observed that progressive loss of motor neuron and muscle wasting is associated with an increase in a small gene called microRNA-23a in the muscle. When we suppress microRNA-23a in a mouse model of motor neuron disease, we have observed significant improvement. Now, we want to see what happens in an acute injury, in an acute pathological condition. So we propose to investigate the effect of microRNA-23a inhibition on nerve repair using an acute nerve crush injury model. Our study will investigate how skeletal muscle strength and movement improves following nerve crush injury in mice with either normal or suppressed level of microRNA-23a. We hope this study will further inform us on the specific role microRNA-23a plays in molecular pathways during regeneration. Our work is still at its very early stages. Thank you for understanding that our idea has potential and supporting our work. I hope we'll be able to present some interesting outcomes from this research in the future. Thank you again for this gift. We really appreciate it.