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We kept six megatons per year of carbon, you know, in the ground with this victory. Clayton Thomas Mueller, senior campaign specialist with 350 Canada, just wanted to give a quick update on the tech frontier victory. This is a very historic victory. Never in the history of the Alberta Tarsans has an expansion project, you know, been denied. Oh, I think that resistance right now, in particular indigenous resistance, is very emboldened by this spectacular victory against the tech frontier mine. And we can only go straight up from here.


What I've realized working with young people is we ask them all the time, what do you want to do when you grow up, right? We ask them all the time, like you need to have some sort of profession picked out. And what happens with young people is that the worst answer is not having an answer. No one feels like they can say, I have no idea, I'm a drift. I have no idea how to pursue life. So what do we do instead? We just randomly choose some prestigious vocation, like being a doctor to solve cancer. I'm not saying this is what you did, AJ, but this is what happens a lot. We pick some profession that we think sounds good to other people because we'd rather have a bad answer to that question than no answer at all. But then over time, we just keep saying it over and over and we never question it anymore. And then all of a sudden we find ourselves on this path with all these responsibilities and we feel trapped. And so thankfully there is a better way. There's a better way to do this that is not that complicated. And I wonder, Belle, if you wanna jump into Purpose. Yeah, let's hear it. Yeah, okay, absolutely. So just in the most simple terms, the way that we define purpose in the research is it's doing things that are personally meaningful that also are intended to contribute to the world beyond oneself. And it's really as simple as that. It's the intention to contribute with things that are personally meaningful. So you can take that same career as a physician and you can either be doing it in a way that is not about personal meaning and contribution. It's just about the accolades and the prestige and the wealth behind it. And that's gonna be probably a really long slog for you if that's what it's about. Or you could be a doctor who is like, I am fascinated by the study of medicine and I wanna be able to use that privilege and those talent and that education in order to affect change or change lives or heal. And then that same job, just like any other job, a custodian or a teacher or a nurse or whatever it is, can have very different meaning to people. And when people have purpose around their particular things that they wanna do, it's a completely different experience. That's what we see in our research is that it has everything to do with whether people have increased levels of engagement in school and work. They're increased in performance and it also affects their sense of mental health and wellbeing. When people have purpose, all of those lights kinda turned on.


As a mobile dental hygienist, even as a dental professional, even as any dental professional, this is just great so i'm holding this right now. This is a water bottle so I don't know if you guys are like me, but you forget to drink water at the end of the day you're probably dehydrated you might have a headache you're not feeling well. If you drink enough water, you will feel so much better I take this with me on the road to make sure. That I drink it when the time comes, and this really helps me it's amazing to think all of this is going into my body. But it's so healthy for you, so this is the most amazing Amazon purchase I wish somebody told me about it sooner it comes in different colors another thing for dental professionals is. This type of dawn now it is missing some teeth I actually lost some of it, but isn't this great blue is my favorite color you guys can probably see that. isn't this great so I use this tool to show patients what implants are what root canals are. What composite fillings are amalgam fillings what calculus kind of looks like sorry it's kind of bright it's not really showing up on my camera. But this is from Amazon not expensive I will leave the links for you guys down below guess what else you can get on Amazon. micro brushes do do you guys realize how expensive micro brushes are these are called micro brushes they actually have smaller tips on Amazon, these are the larger ones. I buy both I just don't have them with me handy I will leave the link for you guys on the bottom I buy them, they are so much cheaper than buying them from a dental supply company and they're the same thing. Another thing that you guys can thank me later for my introoral camera so when you take pictures inside the mouth. You can show them to your patients, obviously, I love using my introoral camera this was from Amazon a great photo so what I do I plug it into my laptop. And the pictures show up on the screen right away, I can do a video to actually show them. If they're looking at the same time, if I want to take a picture I just have to hit capture and that takes a picture and they're very, very clear. You can save them on to your computer, you can email them to your patients, you can save them into your program. A great price when I was looking at dental supply companies, they were quoting me $2,000 $4,000 for an introoral camera on Amazon, they can be anywhere from 200 to 300 I forget how much I paid for this one i'm sorry. I want to say 300 at the most, but totally worth it I'd much rather do that than pay $4,000, especially when it's a great picture so those are my latest Amazon finds you guys.  I bet anybody is going to want this right you don't even have to be a dental professional we all need water that's a great way to get it, thank you guys for watching i'll see you guys in the next one.


OTAN Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. Good afternoon. We are the Valley Girls. We're the two-site, two-site, one-project team from Apple Valley Adult School and Victor Valley College, joined together in Sacred Partnership by AB86, and we want to share with you our endeavors and pilot program. So I am Martha Mendez. I'm the Adult Education Regional Consortia Manager, and I'm not sure why this isn't advancing. When something like this happens, Adele has to move away from the technology, and then it sometimes starts working. So, there we go. So, yeah. I'm Martha Mendez. I'm the Adult Education Regional Consortia Manager for our area, and I'm also the Grant Manager over the WIOA grant for Victor Valley College, overseeing the components that have to do with the grant for ESL and GED as well. And our team consists of, we've lost one team member. She's been promoted. Lili Aguirre is with us previously, and today we have Rebecca Monjará. She joined us in January. And our off-site team consists of Jessica Bernardo. She's our ESL and GED counselor, Adult Counselor, and Cheyenne Laguna, who is our Costas Testing Coordinator. And we also have Ardeen, who oversees our division. Her name is Dr. Tarango. She's been promoted to Associate NEPI as well, and has been very supportive of our endeavors and comes from adult education. So, something we're really proud of having that support. My name's Adele McLean, and I'm from Apple Valley Adult School. I have a magnetic personality that tends to work, you know, work on computers in a not-so-great way. I want to tell you who I have here with me, Claudia Escobar, my office coordinator, and Melina Bazzada, who is my admin clerk too, and also our student success story of the year. So, from OTAN, thank you. The reason that I chose office staff to bring on this endeavor with me is that we want to change systems. We want to change forms. If we really want to make those kinds of changes, you need people who work with those systems and forms. And I know that's a unique way of looking at it, but I think we've had, we've done some tremendous work already so far this year. I also did not want to forget to thank, we have Christina Hyatt. She's an amazing support person. She has made us meet every week. We started with 10 minutes. We've been putting in a half hour, sometimes two hours, because what we're dedicated to is something much bigger than us that I hope will last for the next decade at least of change. I also want to thank Dr. Zachary and Dr. Rubleitis for encouraging me to apply for this unique situation to OTAN. I just can't thank OTAN enough for their help in this project. All right, guys, so I just wanted to introduce what May does and how I got here, my diploma. We do offer construction, and EKG12 lead. We also do graphics, and those three are actually articulated with Victor Valley College. Those are RCTEs. We also have this beautiful lab and our graphics, which we're not promoting right now, but we are. And I wanted to show you our beautiful new updated campus. We actually got two computer labs. We also have two cards with Chromebooks. And those were COVID funded, please. Let's keep that straight. But we were able to update a lot of our rooms, and we're really proud of what we're accomplishing right here with our rooms, and we're able to provide to our students for a better education. So these are some of the numbers from Apple Valley Adult School and numbers that matter for me. First of all, I want to say that I'm considered a rural adult school. They do a rural classification because I have people that travel a really long distance to get there. And let's see, I have right now 530 unduplicated students served this year so far. In the past, we have received three promising practice awards, one on a transitional educational plan. Our regional graduation actually made national news with COABE, and then our E&E surveys. Last year, we actually had 100% this year, only at 83. But we also have done many presentations on how other agencies can improve their E&E surveys using our strategies. Let's see. I have four adult education credential teachers, only one is full-time, but several of my staff have applied for it during the pandemic to get an actual adult education credential on top of either their single subject or multiple subject credentials. My lead teacher that I hired full-time actually will be graduating with her T-Soul Masters this Saturday, tomorrow. My ESL teacher for VVC is one of my former high school graduates and she graduated from VVC as valedictorian. We have the highest graduation rate regionally, and we have the lowest per pupil cost. This is from the past, basically a year and a half. We have 53 certificates, but each one of those got, the student received three college credits and 10 high school credits at the same time. We hopped on to articulated courses already offered by our high school. This makes it easy for me to find teachers for those positions. I also wanted to add in here a thought I had with your presentations today that if you're looking for credential teachers for healthcare and your school has applied for a community schools grant, they're going to be increasing the number of nurses. Let's, I believe it's now Mr. Hernandez.  She's our transition counselor for our region. She's helped over 400 students, worked on them into one-on-one appointments and in group settings, but she's also CCAE award recipient of the year. So, you know, so I wanted to mention that because what she does is so important and crucial to what we do, which is why we brought her in. And with that, I mean, she works primarily with our transition students, but because our goal is to transition students from a level one and two ESL to the college system, that's why it was so important to have her with us. So in terms of Victor Valley College, just to give you the context, we are a small-sized college. We received over 10,000 FTSs. Our unduplicated enrollment is 17,000. But I think some of the really significant things that you're not seeing up here is that in 2012, we were on the verge of losing our accreditation. And I think that's significant because we had a new superintendent who was president when we started AB 86. And his number one charge to us was build the relationships and nothing else matters because at that point, our relationship with our community was not where it needed to be. And I say that because we're in a completely different place now. So he retired in 2019 or 2018. And then we had another superintendent, Dr. Walden, whose charge was excellence and developing excellence and doing things with purpose and very supportive of our consortium work. So where we're at now is we're ranked among the top 10 for our student outcomes, which is amazing. We didn't think we were going to be even close to these outcomes. We were also just recently, as of yesterday, awarded excellence and equitable course placement in math for our college. So among 56 colleges, we were top. So for us, this is like really like us. You know, you're thinking about 10 years ago and where we're at now. But most importantly is the ability and the place in the space to partner with our community. So we're really proud of that work and the support that we receive from our leadership. So that gives you the context of, you know, why we're doing what we do. Victor Valley ESL. I mean, Victor Valley College serves a region of 1,700 that's square miles. When we say we have a vast region and this is why partnership is so important. Basically, this is sort of give you the overview. It's like on the off of the 15th freeway on your way to Vegas. That's where we're at. And so VVC is the larger red star and we only offered ESL courses on the star that's that way at one point, just there. And so Apple Valley was this area that needed a service. That's how we identified that we needed to partner to do this. We have three satellite locations. We offer classes now at Apple Valley as of a year ago. Hisperia and on our main campus as well. Yeah. And we're expanding to include Victor Elementary School District. We're partnering with other agencies in the area that have requested our courses as well because it's the only way to reach the community. So in terms of adult programs, the pandemic really affected our enrollment. I mean, very severely. We were down to less than 40 students and honestly, could I really say that we had 40 active students? Probably not. It was very sad because it was difficult. The digital divide was very evident and we tried to do things where they would come in and do like drive through training and drive through help desk. We gave away, not gave away, we assigned the books to get them all back. But where we're at now, we have 219 for spring, almost 300 for the year that we serve. That's unduplicated enrollment from where we were at in the pandemic. We started a GED class a year ago. We started with, I don't know, 10, 11 students and now we have 33. We also now have these noncredit programs and we do dual enrollment with Rebecca who does a wonderful job in assisting those students. We offer all of these levels of ESL courses. Something new for us that came as a result of our partnership where we were able to identify the need for asynchronous hybrid courses. So all of our CORs went back to curriculum and they have been approved for hybrid and come the fall we'll have them CDCP approved so that we're able to offer those certificates to our students as well as additional basic computer skills courses. And we're still working on vocational ESL. We're not there yet. So. And passing it on. My role as a transition counselor, kind of like an umbrella, that's what I had put into my notes. So it's funny that the group before me described it as an umbrella. So the student population, it's like I serve several students. I need to know like what category they're in, but essentially sometimes they all will start off in one category and then transition into like a different pathway. So students who have graduated with high school diploma GED, they want to start college. So I'll meet with them and help with their transition or students who are still in working toward high school diploma GED, but they want to start college courses now. Well, it's due to dual enrollment for students who are ESL. We can get them started. We offer levels one through six, but then undocumented students as well. Sometimes we'll get students and they're undocumented, but they want to do something. They want to better their lives for themselves and for their family. And so I say, okay, let's start with ESL. So we start with the ESL noncredit. They work their way. And then now they have their English skills. So, okay, let's get into the high school diploma program. We're working towards high school diploma. And then we do the dual enrollment and they're getting that college credit. And then that leads into them being able to qualify for AB 540. So now their status changes brought to a California resident meeting the requirements. And now they can apply to the Dream Act. So there's all these little awesome details that I think is just super impactful. So I meet with students at each of the five adult schools and I offer to meet with them there or at our campus at the college. And I will do group meetings or individual appointments. So the goal is basically matriculation. So the steps to enrollment and then connecting students with the student support programs that are available at the college and ultimately helping in navigating what their goal is. What is their personal academic career goal? Each student is different. So it always varies in what the plan is going to be but ultimately helping them in what their goal is. So that was a great introduction, great team. I'm going to talk about the why we're here. And for those in Zoom, that was our first project right here. And if you saw, very artistic. I took an art class for that. Obviously it was from a kindergarten, but that is our why. That's what we thought this group was going to be. Two rows meeting in the middle and going on from there. Unfortunately, if you have Siri, Google Maps, you get rerouted every 10 minutes, right Christina? So this is where we're at now. This has been our process. We went from a Y to an H to a left to a right. Turn around, make a U turn. We've been everywhere trying to figure out how two separate teams can make this work for one community. And that's why we're here. We had a partner up like Martha was saying, we're in a rural area.  It's a lot of area to cover. And we really, when we say rural, that means people are not going to be buses that pass every hour. So if you missed it, you're going to wait another hour. So we need to make sure that our locations, BBC locations where they needed to be. So we were partnering because we needed them. And they needed us. But, you know, our district was really hit with the pandemic. Not only BBC CSL. Our district pretty much lost our ESL community. And that was sad, you know, because it was covered. They're not coming. They're not, you know, computer savvy. So how did we help them? So this role has also been a little bit about trying to get them back to our community. You know, so we needed to do that. We needed to see what we were not funding and what we were not reaching based on funding needs. We needed to expand our CTE. We had ideas. We had the passion to do it. But we needed more help. And it's okay to ask for help. And sometimes we forget that. We had that in our SIP plan, you know, to be able to track our transition. Ms. Rebecca has been doing a great job with that. We were trying. I think we had like a little Excel and calling students, hey, did you make it to the college or not? It's not easy like that. So they were able to help us do that too. But this was going to be where we were going to come together right here and really make this partnership work. Not for us. I mean, we were getting the benefit because we were getting the extra help. But really, we were meeting that need in our community. I think Rebecca. I had a couple of notes to add to that. Thank you, Claudia, for the explaining that. I think also we just really need to need because of the vastness of our region, we needed to meet our students there. And she's absolutely right that we needed the enrollment as well. We needed to reach the students and we were able to fund that out of general funds. And but the other thing that we really needed to do was introduce our new onboarding ESL faculty to a different environment that was going to be supportive. And because we operated in three different sites, the truth is community college can be rather impersonal at times for new faculty. So partnering with Apple Valley, if you don't know, you become family. And so you're always offered a cup of coffee. We walk in like if they're our family. And we knew that our ESL faculty coming in, we're going to feel the same type of warm welcome and our students would as well. So the intent was to create that environment and sort of start front-loading with this is how we do things. And so whoever's onboarding is receiving that type of support. And do you need copies? Do you need this? Because it's not always available at other sites. Unfortunately, we do the best that we can. But that's the other truth. I'm just being very sincere with that part here. But we wanted to examine operations. We wanted to provide that environment. And then of course the low attendance. And one remarkable thing about this is that our attendance has just been so much better for that. And our students also receive bus passes, free bus passes for being VVC ESL students. They receive bus passes. So that's also empowering and allows them another, you know, access to another resource and counseling and supportive services that are at our main campus. We're trying to bring those over, but we're not there yet. So remember the why? We're here with a why. We got here because of a why. But we don't know what to do, how to do it or where we were going, right? So they had to speak about this because I guess I was the most passionate one. I guess I shared it every time I went back to office. Guys, I have new ideas. I'm pretty sure they wanted to put me in a room and it's like hush already, girl. But you know, how did coming here, you know, how to ideal one-to-one, how to be like, everything helped us to make these goals, to make these ideas, dreams, you know, that we wanted to do. Okay. Everybody, I heard everybody team building. Everybody thinks because we're in the school, oh, you guys are great at team building. Oh, no, no, no. You know, sometimes it's even harder. You know, I thought we were great. I was like, I always say, and I tell people when they come into our school, we're a family here. You know, I'm usually the crazy aunt, but we're our family. But it doesn't mean sometimes we work well as a team. You know, all the personalities sometimes, you know, clash or our ideas or sometimes we don't have grace with each other, I think. So coming here, and I'm telling you, that first class, I saw Adele, who I love, and a whole new life. Like, I was like, I think coming up is all wrong, you know. And that was good. I think all of us had like an awakening moment like, huh, basement, balcony, where am I at, you know, and really kind of learning something not only to help the team, but for ourselves. The Gallup Training. I just extend the minds. I got the whole shebang, you know. So I was very interested in that. But it was good, because we did use it to kind of see, okay, what are our strong points? But also, okay, this is a weakness here, but how can we bring that up? You know, how can that weakness be our strength? Because I learned that, too. I think we use it in assigning sort of the roles, too. So some of those tasks, we absolutely have looked at the strengths we know. For instance, like Rebecca, Claudia, and Lilia, who's been promoted, have handled some of those tasks that require structure and sort of bringing the technical pieces together, because that's their strength. We drive structured people crazy. Yes. So we're like, yes, we can do it. We're great people. And they're like focused. You can't do like the 20 things you want to do. It's going to have to be this big, and that really helped us narrow our focus. They will learn, we say, they will learn. Yeah, narrow our focus. You know, really getting a site plan going. You know, when you're a small school, you know, you kind of sometimes I felt at times that, hey, we're just kind of going in the road and we're going to figure it out somehow. There's no real roadmap. We'll just, you know, kind of go and see where we end. But this kind of helped to structure everything and organize what we're trying to do. And we need that, you know. And it helped our school to learn our value too. Apple Valley adults go like, we had this talk in the office once, like, you know, we can't treat like, oh, that's their program. And this is ours. Because then there was not this welcoming because we didn't want them to be, oh no, that's a BBC class. So we don't help them. No, no. It was, or it's to work together. So that was something we had to actually kind of figure out in our office staff kind of thing, like, no, no, no, we're here. This is a community. We're going to all, all hands on deck. And I was like figuring it out and communicating it to us because at first I think there was a little apprehension. Adele was the buffer and said, I feel as though this is. And, you know, I said, well, the reason we can't do that is because I have to go to three people to do this paper process as ad hoc.  And people see that in a couple slides, what they did to help us feel a little more comfortable to, like, I think we were talking about yesterday, like, what do we do when we feel like that? You listen to what the other person is trying to tell you.  It's just they're either scared. They're either confused. They really don't understand. But if you take the time to listen and say, okay, I hear what you're saying. Let me see how I could help you get here. And they did that. And I appreciate that, you know.  Sometimes we will forget that, yeah, Martha has to go through three people to get to the person she wants. I go to Adele and she finds whoever she needs to go to. You know, and that was it. And we needed to remember that. Communication skills. Something so small creates such a big problem sometimes. But it was very important that we needed to work like, hey, you guys got to send an email or let us know who's coming. And we're seeing the difference that small little skill has made to actually help the student. And of course, using an encouragement or strength. We forget to do that. Honestly, I think even has about you. We just forget to, hey, you're doing a great job. Hey, that was a great idea. It doesn't take much, you know, but it does help get the team going and getting that push. Because sometimes we become tired. We become discouraged. We look at the students like, why, you know, the numbers that we're seeing like this, well, that's a sad number. You do get there. But you know what? If we kind of encourage each other, we get back up and keep on going. So we're going to talk about those. So just in summary, we have served at Apple Valley adult school over 200 ESL students since spring of 2022. We started with one class that filled up in 10 days, I think roughly maybe less. And it was one of those things where we went to Dr. Terango and I said, we would like to do this. And it sort of broke the mold because it's, we had to follow a different model for creating a schedule outside of what the normal scheduling system is for a community college. And then it filled up right away. So initially we were like, we're going to offer level two and three. Apple's going to do level one. But the truth is that Apple said, we just really need a level one right now. And then we will gladly work with you to do the level one eventually. But right now let's start and so we said, okay, let's do that.  So next semester we offer two in fall. We're doing three now and for fall we're offering four sections and these classes are exceed capacity at the teacher's discretion in many cases and or they're at capacity. And those are usually 25 students in a class. So really exciting. These are some pictures that, you know, from our celebration at Apple Valley. So we had our administration attend as well as Apple Valley. And then some of our wins just as a direct result of our partnership. We went on this tour and it allowed other staff at the college to learn about the work that we're doing. So it's highlighting our consortia work and also our partnership work. And they have an understanding of adult education and the different things that we do, not just in the realm of the ESL program. We have a brand new facility. So they went in, we introduced them to everyone, all of the key staff, everyone who processes our paper applications and whatnot. In terms of our ESL classes, our ESL attendance and persistence rate are drastically different from those at other sites. So for us, that's a huge win. We have 25 students attending consistently at Apple Valley versus what we have other, you know, in other locations. And we know that it has to do with the team and supportive approach. We've also, because of the work that we're doing together, our Dean invited us to participate in a promotional video that they're putting together for other programs like CTE, nursing, fire. And she said, I think that you guys should do something because you're doing great work with what you're doing in Apple Valley. And would you like to? And I said, yes, I was already working with the same vendor without even knowing. So it just worked out, we went on site, recorded a video at Apple Valley Adult School, interviewed our students in various languages. And so we wanted to have that to show to you today, but we'll have it for the next round. Our non-credit application has been revised as a, as results of our partnership. It's a, so one of those things that surfaced while we were enrolling students, it's a barrier. It asks for residency status. And, you know, it's not something that is, it's not helping. It's a barrier to enrollment. So we removed that, but I really had to go to our entire leadership team. I had to take it to cabinet. There was a process that wasn't just, Hey, could you just remove this? And so as a result of that, we're launching a non-credit application come July and something that they call superglue. Because I stated to our team that we need to do what we call a one and done registration system because of our students leave. Then we lose that opportunity to engage them and onboard them. So timing is really crucial. So what our college is doing now is offering that. And at that point we will go back and, you know, cross train and say, this is how we're going to onboard our students who walk through this door and how we as a, you know, as a team are going to provide support. We've improved faculty engagement. As we had mentioned, we have this stellar ESL teacher that I was able to work with our dean to hire and bring on. And she was an Apple Valley adult school student, VVC valedictorian amazing student at the university. And it's not teaching, which is I mean just awesome for us. So those are sort of the wins for our team. Our communication has improved tremendously and we've been able to overcome challenges and sort of heal from them a little bit. And, and our, you know, we're better for it, definitely. And here we go. So part of our site plan is providing orientation. And this was going to be at the adult school. And eventually we do also want to incorporate it as a zoom where students can log into the orientation virtually. So that was one of our accomplishments in the sense that that's the focus of our, of our program project for D lack. We thought we would start off with a bunch of different things, but it led into resolving like the non-credit application that we now have a digital registration form that we didn't have before. But we really need an orientation specific for our population. What we have now is one orientation for the college community, which includes everything from financial aid and things that don't necessarily apply to our, our population. And so that's how we got into this plan of we need an orientation because students don't know that they're both Apple Valley and Victor Valley college students. How do they get their student ID? What other CTE courses are available to them? And that's why we did the orientation that Rebecca's going to speak to. Another awesome thing is I was able to go to ASB and said, we need cultural events because our students don't ever see themselves on campus. So for the first event that I was able to host in partnership with our ASB was via de los muertos, via de muertos. And it was the first time we had an event that featured Mariachi in that sense. We did have one graduation, but it was really neat to bring that and our ESL students were able to come and participate. And then the Cinco de Mayo, like a week before our president said, what are we doing for Cinco de Mayo? And I'm like, we can do something. So ASB again comes to the rescue and this picture in the middle is with our ESL students from Apple Valley. So just to demonstrate the engagement and how welcome they feel, it was their first time stepping on our campus. So really awesome to be able to invite them to come to a celebration and a party. They danced for three hours straight and we were all in the middle, you know, and so it was really a wonderful celebration and way to make them feel welcome.  And we had information about the courses that we offer, but it was different. You know, it was a celebration. We also have to actually today, Asian American and Pacific Islander cultural festival. We shared that information with Apple Valley as well. And all of our sites, you know, ESL school programs outside of the college campus. So celebrations. We're also hosting in the upcoming year an ESL celebration for our community. They're bringing them out on campus and buying their families and we're going to issue their certificates for the level one, level two, level three are, you know, superintendent will come and we'll probably have a guest speaker in the past. We've had a business owner that owns the edible arrangements and he was an ESL student. So we're just excited to do things like that for our community. I just think one of the main things for orientation is, you know, our goal or mission is to serve our students and to make sure that they feel welcomed. And so with that orientation, I think that it really does speak to that and making it simple. So apply orientation and assessment registration. That's your matriculation. And then during the orientation showing how to videos but also pictures just to kind of give visual on the building and what it looks like and what to expect when they do go visit. This is our main building. So I would say this is an important building because this is where admissions and records is at. Financial aid, all of the special support programs are located in this one building. And then during the orientation, you know, starting college can be very daunting and scary and especially for students who are ESL and so providing the computer. Okay, let's log into your my BBC portal. This is how you access your student email account. This is how you request your student parking permit because if you go to campus, you don't want to get a ticket or how do you get your student ID card and you want that because you can use that as a discount throughout the community or use it as a free city bus pass. A lot of our students write the bus for free so have that student ID card on you. So all of these little details making sure that they know we are here to support you and walk you through this process. So some of the things that Apple Valley had to do are what I had to go through in order to make these processes happen or behind the scenes and I need administrators to know that. I had to go to facilities, the assistant superintendent of facilities and find out how to get the facilities use agreement in place. Get a couple directors on board, go to the cabinet, get them to lobby for me. They also provide child supervision for me from the parenting center. They provide funding for this out of LCAP because they think it's worthwhile. And we provide child supervision based on a model used during the pandemic for all of the ESL classes, whether they're mine or theirs. Apple Valley also provides a conversational ESL class right now and we are going to be providing citizenship classes and ESL level one next year. We hope to provide a model that we can duplicate throughout the consortium. And here we are, the Valley Girls, the team barrier. Our barriers and challenges and how to break those barriers. It's two sites, one team, one project to become one. From Y to H, helping students transition to VVC, onboarding rules and duties for the Valley Girls. Apple Valley, we're providing facilities, furniture, childcare, information technology support, onboarding ESL walk-ins and lab scheduled time for COSIS testing because we have to share those facilities so that we all get the points we need for our WIOA. Also, I had to make a lot of friendships with maintenance and operations because I didn't have any money for furniture for the nice picnic tables we have, but I also provide a construction course and I'm like, hey, don't you need your guys trained and blah, blah, blah, aren't they adults? Send them over or need some free stuff. When you get something good, bring it by. So we have, I mean, they have been very generous with us, providing us with lots of things. The whole district is happy to see what's happening because it supports the families. We're supporting the moms and the dads of the students. Just some of the things that we had to do that are, the concessions our district had to make, we had to adjust our academic calendar so that it starts in lines with Apple Valley, which is something that you think you could do easily, but you got, because each of our courses is 108 hours and we had to figure that out with the holidays. We also had to find a faculty member to teach outside of our traditional semester. Our semester begins in February or September, so they have to come in a whole month or two earlier, but because of the environment and where they're at, I have to say we haven't really had that much of a problem with finding faculty. We had to really share with our administration, at least on my end, and I believe it does as well, why we are having a faculty member and our team participate in DLAC and OTAN. They know what DLAC and OTAN is. I really had to print the modules, I typed a memo and provided the justification and also the resources that we're going to be needing and the outcomes that we expect by the end of this term, which is why the YouTube channel, the resources, the how-to videos, and the orientation video specifically tailored to our ESL population. Those are things that we've had to demonstrate and we take them for granted, but it's really advocating for OTAN and DLAC, so our being here means a lot and we know that they know that there's value in what we're doing here as well. One other plug for DLAC and OTAN is I'm part of a leading from the middle team developing a leadership academy for our college and the components of this leadership academy are amazing, and so I've shared with that team what we're doing and they're impressed and they're like, we could use that, we could use that. Instructional supplies at Apple Valley, we've had classroom sets of books put in over there because we needed those resources there, additional headsets, adapters for the computer lab because ours didn't work, so things like that that we didn't know right away and we had to figure out and then of course testing has always been, we had to coordinate that, the use of the lab. And then for our next steps, definitely we want to create an ESL YouTube channel and this would be for students who they can go to something, a QR code and how do I access my student email, click on it and so I was able to create captions and then able to figure out how to use captions but in different languages and so I actually learned that from OTAN which is super awesome but I want to learn more because I'm hungry for that because I got it but I feel like it's not perfect so that's one of the next steps but also the support but we would like. And that's, I think we're getting, not to the end but other steps that we're going to be taking at our school to support because the good thing is that they listen to what the students are saying. It's not our ideas. We hear what the students say especially front office support. We hear what they're saying and we say, you know what, the students are saying they need this. We set up three computers in our main office to make sure that when the students are coming in they have access to that right there and then. We were talking about a Google form or something else where they could get an appointment because sometimes they need something in hand. They need to know like, did you hear what I'm saying? Did you take it? So we'll be working on that. So it's our shared calendar and involving our students but yes I think I'll take the place. Yeah so those are all the stuff we're going to be providing on our campus and hopefully we'll help to get the students to enroll, ease everything they're going through because we want to ease the process because sometimes that's all that's stopping them. They're afraid of the process so we're hoping that we'll be able to buffer that a little bit for them. And what do we get from DELEC? Go ahead Adele. Resources, oh sorry. The resources such as the curated curriculum, free curriculum, digital curriculum, the teamwork guidance is invaluable, technology support, just ideas to work around barriers we have. Thank you. And then. Ta-da! Thank you.


Is there more behind inflation than meets the eye? Economist Jerry Boyer reveals what's really behind the soaring prices and why inflation is a moral violation, plus the practical ways to be inflation-free. Pastor Gary Metric breaks down what the Bible has to say about thriving during these economic times. Get ready. The premiere of Cornerstone Television Network's new prophetic series, Signs of the Time, starts right now. Welcome to Signs of the Times, where we are gonna talk about what God is saying in the prophetic now. You know, there's a reasoning behind this show and it's gonna give you a spiritual perspective of the days that we're living. You know, there's a lot going on in this world and you can see it through your own lens or you can see it through the lens of which it is that God is doing. You know, God has a plan in the midst of everything that's going on and today we're gonna be talking about inflation and how you can find victory in every era of your life. So what's wrong with inflation? Does it line up with Jesus' teaching? What does the scripture say about thriving during these hard economic times? All that and more is coming right up. Well, I'm so excited because in the midst of these hard economic times and everything that's going on, there is a word. God has a message and he wants you to have his perspective on what's going on and we've got a phenomenal man of God with us here today. I call him the Holy Ghost Economist because not only does he understand the economy and what's going on in it, he also has a perspective from God's lens and view in the prophetic now of what's going on. Jerry Boyer, so good to be back here with you. Jay, my friend, great to be with you again. Signs of the times. It's amazing that in the midst of everything that's going on, what I love about it, Jerry, is that God wants us to know his perspective of what's going on. Yeah, and he hasn't been silent on these things. Now, maybe the church is silent, but that doesn't mean that Jesus is silent or the Holy Spirit is silent in giving us the scriptures and in guiding his church after the giving of the scriptures. And there's actually a tremendous amount of material in the Bible about money, about finance, about economics and especially about inflation. One of the principal ideas in the Torah is that unjust weights and measures are an abomination to the Lord. An abomination to the Lord. Comes up in the prophets, comes up in Malachi, comes up in Amos, comes up in Isaiah, your gold has become dross. For example, you've made your shekel heavy. But what happened is that there would be cheating when it comes to the currency. So the value of the shekel would be changed based on what people in government wanted to do. And what that means is if you're producing more, if you're watering down, if you take gold and you mix it and you melt it down and you mix it with lead, you have more coins. And then the government can spend more coins and it has more spending power. But what you've really done is you've debased the value of each coin in circulation. And Isaiah talks about that. Amos warns that it was leading to mass slavery. People couldn't keep up with the inflationary prices and so the poor were sold for the price of a set of shoes. They couldn't keep up with their spending because of the inflation. And they had therefore sold themselves into slavery. So the Bible talks about this a lot. And Jesus is a prophet. He's prophet, priest and king. So he's our savior and we know that. We have a lot of emphasis on that.  And he's also a prophet. So he's not less than Isaiah or Amos or Malachi, which means he also is talking about these things. If we have eyes to see and ears to hear, there are little details in the gospels where he confronts the money changers, for example. But we might not know that. Like if I talk to you about $5 a gallon gasoline or $6 a gallon gasoline, it's like, oh, you know what that means. That's high, right? So if I had said to you three years ago, we're gonna get $5 a gallon gasoline.  If we say $5 a pound ground beef, oh, that's high. We know those numbers. But if we see Jesus confronting the money changers and paying the temple tax, and he goes out and has Peter grab a stulture from the mouth of a fish to pay the temple tax, is that high or low? We don't know their prices. We don't know their world. Well, it's high, you know, it's double. It's a doubling of the price. So every time somebody went to do business with the temple, they went to the money changers and there was an inflationary price on the shekel.  Not just because they have a bad attitude or whatever about money or not cause they're doing commerce on the temple grounds but because they're doing crooked commerce. They're cheating. That's what makes them robbers. It's not just that it's inappropriate for them to be doing this in the temple. They wouldn't be robbers, they'd just be in the wrong place. But they're robbers because inflation was robbing the people and the poor most of all and they gave their dove sacrifices which is why Jesus three times singles out the dove merchants for his rebuke because the poor are hurt most when you have inflation. When a rich person during inflation has fewer houses, a poor person during inflation has fewer meals. So it's not equal in impact on everybody. Wow, so that's the reason why Jesus was upset. He's not upset because the church is actually doing any type of business but because they allowed inflation to come into the church. Is that what I'm hearing? Yeah, they had unjust weights and measures. So if you go back and read the details of the Torah, the church, the temple was supposed to be like a place where you worship God but it was also the Bureau of Weights and Measures. So there was a fixed value of the shekel and it's defined in terms of a backup. But we don't know what becas are, right? We don't know that language. And you also look at the Greek translation in terms of a drachma. So you knew how much silver was supposed to be in the shekel.  You go later in the gospels and you look at the details and the price of all of that has doubled because they cheated.  But in the end, they were making change but it wasn't at a fair price.  But the ATM takes $200 out of your account and then you make a $100 contribution. That's what the temple system was operating like. So there was an upsell. That's inflation, that's price inflation. And Jesus warned about it. He warned about the debt and he warned about the inflation. They weren't practicing the Shemit laws, et cetera. And he warned about it and 40 years later, there's a debt revolt because of the inflation and the debt where people can't stand it anymore and they rise up in violence, they kill the high priest, they burn down the hall of public records because they're alienated from the rulers who've been bleeding them dry. The Romans say, we got to deal with this problem. They roll in and Jerusalem's destroyed within a generation. And a lot of that was the inflationary debt spending economy and economic exploitation. Wow. So how does that apply to us today? We get the biblical respect of what was going on in Jesus' day. We know that Jesus didn't like inflation. What does that mean for us as Americans today? And how should we take what you just shared and translate into the 21st century that we're living in today with $5, a gallon gasoline. And matter of fact, I was at the store just a couple of days ago and I was buying, I go to Sam's Club or Costco to get these huge things of paper plates. They were $17 a month ago. They're up to $25. So all this stuff is going up. How are we supposed to look at it? Costco is supposed to kind of control it a little bit. It's a discount place, right? Yeah, exactly. It was everything is going up. What does that mean for us in light of what you're talking about today? Or the portions are going down. Like it's the same price, but the muffin is smaller, right? Shrinkflation, they call that. Well, how does it apply today? Well, first of all, it does apply today. What Jesus said still applies today. He's still king. He's still prophet. He's still savior. It still applies. Number two, it's still robbery. Wow, yeah. Right? I know people want to blame business for this. It's greedy business. Business is getting hurt by this, too. So I don't know where Jesus would turn over tables, but I suspect maybe our central bank would be where he'd start, because that's where the robbery is taking place. They've debased the currency. Why did they debase the currency? Because the government wants to spend. And so how does the government spend? Well, the government borrows. But we're not willing to lend our government that much money anymore. We don't do the savings bond. We're not savers, so we don't lend to the government. So they have to create new money. So the central bank creates new money out of thin air. They call it fiat currency. Fiat means let there be. In the Latin Bible, when God says let there be light, fiat looks. Well, they say let there be money. But only God can create something out of nothing. Government can't. So when they're doing that, when they're creating money out of nothing, what they're really doing is just debasing the currency for the rest of us. So who benefits? Government spenders benefit. Who else benefits? Well, big New York-centered banks are the ones who administer these programs. They run the plumbing for this new money creation. So they benefit the most. So the ruling class, both the government side of it and the financial side, they get that new money. They get that new spending power. And then the money seeps out to the rest of us. And by then it's debased. And we have limited purchasing power. But it's still robbery. It's still a sin. It's still unjust weights and measures. And it's still an abomination. So let me hear you, Sarah. Basically what happens then, the government wants to spend a whole lot more. And so when they start spending more, they run out and so what happened, everything goes up for us so then we can pay for what they're spending. Yeah, unlike us, they have a printing press in the basement. So when they wanna spend more, they print more. But of course- The value of the dollar then goes down. The value of the dollar goes down. Exactly, it's not that scarce. So let me ask you this question. What do we do now? Knowing that, what do we as the church people, what's our responsibility in this day and hour? We see this going on. We see this happening. Like you said, obviously we can't go in and flip over the tables like Jesus did. But what can we do? Well, we can take responsibility for the fact that we didn't take responsibility. This inflation is, we shouldn't think of it as something that just happens or just happens to us. We had a prophetic responsibility to disciple the nations, to teach them to obey everything that Jesus commanded. That's what he said. That's right. This kind of thing. It includes personal salvation. It includes staying away from sexual immorality and pornography and abortion and all that list of things. But every bit as much includes not robbing your neighbor. So you don't like knock over a liquor store. We know that. But when we don't prophetically witness against our government, it's like they're knocking over every store in the country. Everybody, everyone who's using dollars is getting kind of robbed from. It's the church's job to tell the state, you're not God.  You're there to restrain evil. You're not there to practice evil. So we left a vacuum there. We didn't speak into that. And so we thought of inflation as just like, maybe they did their math wrong or somebody made a mistake. No, it's a system. It's designed to be a system. It benefits them. It hurts us. It's immoral. And we didn't tell them that. Remember what Ezekiel says? If you warn somebody about what God says and then they don't listen, then the bad thing happens, the guilt's on them. But if you don't warn them, then and the bad thing happens, the guilt's on you. So this is kind of ours.  It's a forced fast. We have to get back to what's essential. Do you think that when we're going through times like this, say what God wants us to do is get back to the essentials. What's really important? Maybe it's even in the gospel, getting back to standing up for righteousness, getting back, because you know, I think about 2nd Chronicles 7, verse 14. We say that all the time. And we think that's for like the world. If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray, seek my face, turn from the wicked way. He said, then I'll hear from heaven, forgive their sins and heal their land. Well, if you read up above in verse 13, it talks about pretty much inflation, famine, pestilence, all those things. So when these things are happening, is this an opportunity for us to get back and start seeking the face of God and find out, why are the heavens closed? Why aren't things working and find out what God is saying so we can make the adjustment? Yes, so we can make the adjustment and get through it, you know, with God's help.  We're in it now. Okay, so they create, they quintupled the amount of money in circulation. That's why inflation was gonna come. We're in inflation now. And it's gonna be tough to get out of it. The central bank is gonna have to contract the money supply, probably trigger a recession. Pretty good chance we're in a recession now by fighting this. And that's what, when you make bad decisions, you get to the point where there's no easy way out and that's where we are. So we need to ask God to help us to be our provider during this time, to be ready for this, to be a help to others. You don't stop helping others. That's right, that's right. Now you help more because more help is needed, but also speak prophetically to the government to say you shall not debase the currency. It is an assault on God and it's assault on the image of God. Money is supposed to be honest. When you debase the currency, you steal minutes, hours, weeks, months, days of our labor. It's invisible to us in some sense, but that's what's going on. You're transferring money from people who are working up to the ruling class. We've got to confront that. It's immoral. It's not just immoral in that it's a violation of immoral laws. It's immoral and that is an offense against God. God takes debasement of currency personally because he cares about people, especially the poor, and those are the ones who are hurt the most. So I can hear you people saying right now, okay, you're talking about talking to the government and talking to those that are debasing the dollar, things that, how do we do that as the church or as preachers, even me as a pastor? There may be people watching right now that are wondering, how do I take a role in that? What do we do to speak out against that? Oh, we're doing it right now, right? We're doing it right now on Cornerstone Television. And I think it should be part of preaching. I think preaching ought to include the idea that the government shouldn't debase the currency, that the government is not our savior. But wait a minute, Jared, people say, don't get involved with politics as a church. I mean, we're not supposed to get involved with that. So what do you say to the preacher out there that says that, or the pew sitter that says, we're not supposed to be involved in politics? I would say, have you read the Gospels? Yeah.  The government.  Because he was a threat to their power. He talked about politics. He goes down to the capital city, Jerusalem. He goes to the, basically with the capital, Herod's Temple, the temple controlled and built by the king. And he confronts them over their economic policies. So somebody forgot to tell Jesus not to be involved in politics. So I think there's a difference between getting involved with partisan politics. And that has gotten in a little bit, like the Trump Wars or whatever, right? Well, that's who to vote for. That's a different area, but fundamental principles, fundamental biblical teachings where the Bible is clear, we're supposed to be a prophetic voice on that. So maybe more like morality, speaking on these moral issues that are driving these bad economic decisions. Where God has spoken, the pastor must speak. Amen. Amen. So that includes this economic policy. The government is not our savior. We turn to the government as our savior. It didn't have enough money to be our savior. So it created money out of thin air to keep us from having recessions. Or government shuts down so much stuff with COVID, that slows down the economy. And then it tries to goose the economy with extra money. Well, all right, that's our government. We elected those people and we didn't speak to that prophetically. So where the Bible is silent, I think pastors should be silent. But where the Bible speaks, pastors should speak. Amen. Amen. So let me ask you this question. Let's get a little bit practical. And those of you that are watching, anytime that we are experiencing recession, we're experiencing inflation, there are practical steps along with spiritual steps. Sometimes we can get caught up so much in the prophetic that we're just blessed in the city, blessed in the field, blessed when we come, when we go. And I'm all for that. I believe that. But I also believe that we are three-part beings, that we are spirit, soul, and body. That means whenever we have trouble, it can affect one or one of those three or all three. So we can't always just say, well, I'm just gonna be blessed and this, that, and the other. But not do the things practically that we need to do. What can people do? And there's a way that I watch right now. I want you really to tune in right now because I believe this is very important. We see gas prices going up. We see how the shelves are bearing the stores. There's a shortage on baby formula, all these things. We have to do practical things along with the spiritual thing. What would you say to people that how they can be prepared, even practically, practical things, even if they weren't quote unquote Christians, what is the right way to steward in this time when there's inflation going on? Well, I don't know if people are gonna like it, but if the prices of things go up and your salary doesn't go up as much and that's what's happening, you have to cut your spending. And I know that seems like a austerity mindset or not abundance. But it's the foundation of future abundance to live within your means. That's good, that's good. So that's the fast. We didn't fast as a nation with our spending. We overspent, we over borrowed, we demanded our government overspend and over borrowed. So we consumed like mad, right? Because we didn't fast, now the fast is imposed on us and we need to go back to basics. Bargain, you mentioned Costco. Bargain hunting is important. You know, I'm making changes, right? Ground beef gets too expensive, maybe you switch to ground turkey or ground chicken or something, maybe you don't like it as much. Well, we're going through this, right? I mean, to me, this is judgment. It's judgment in the sense of when you violate biblical principles, God's design is when you violate biblical principles, bad things happen. We violated them so bad things happen so we go through that. So bargain hunting is important. You know, this might seem kind of silly, but I find it can be really helpful to people, especially if they have a lot of anxiety about inflation. Take a look at doing some gardening. It can cut your food bill, right? But it also is like a peaceful thing to do.  Or whatever, it's bad for your blood pressure. So when I did something like, I looked at the things that you can grow that we buy that are kind of expensive, like asparagus is more expensive than lettuce. So I planted asparagus, you know? Herbs are kind of expensive. So we planted basil and oregano and, you know, thyme and sage and those kinds of things. So it's kind of an outlet for your energies. It's healthy, you're in the sun and it can cut back on expense. Mushrooms, I kind of like some kind of expensive mushrooms. I thought, I can't buy them at this price. You know, I gotta cut back, but I can grow them. Right, so it's a nice hobby to take up. It's kind of spiritual because you're kind of dealing almost more directly with God's world when you're touching His earth and growing things and you're seeing His blessing. You know, when He does that and it helps you control your spending to some degree. We know a lot of times people look at this and for some of you that tuned to check out here in just a moment, say, oh, wait a minute, that's not the blessing. Listen, even Joseph cut back during a time of we had seven years of plenty. He saved an extra 20% in order to make sure he could make it through those other seven years. There, I think one of the things that we have missed so many times, Jerry, we have missed the importance of being practical. We've been so spiritual out there. And I'm all about, listen, everybody knows, I believe in sea time and harvest. I believe in being blessed. I believe that we're the head and not the tail above and not beneath. All of those things, ladies and gentlemen, I believe all about, I am firmly, firmly, firmly rooted in the fact that we must be practical in these seasons too. Live within your means. But you can sow, and we're gonna talk about that in just a minute here, you can sow and you can do all of those type of things, but it's very important that we are practical in these days and in these hours. We shouldn't live outside of our means, is that correct? Because if we can't tell the government don't spend more than you should, if we're still doing it, exactly. Individual Christians, churches, live within your means, don't overspend, don't get into debt. And you can still have surplus. What do you do with your surplus? That goes to the poor, because they need it most during inflationary periods. So that one of the ways you sow is, you know, he gives to the poor lens to the Lord. So that's an investment, right? And that's an investment you should make and you should not be cutting back on that. But there's a lot of luxury items that people buy. We've just gotten to the habit of, you know, getting, going to Starbucks, you know. Right, right, right. You know, coffee that you make at home is. It's a Keurig Starbucks. Exactly, right. So just look around and say, where am I spending, you know, where I don't need to be spending and cut back. Not because God is stingy, but because this is a fast that we're learning from so that we can be a blessing to the world. And plus, could this be the case too, Jerry, that God wants to know if we'll be good stewards? I believe that there's a river, I want someone to hear this. There's a river of blessing, even in the time of the famine. There is overflow in the time of the famine. But see, you have to steward it. And I believe in these times, God, I would say it like this, Jerry, God doesn't want to give to somebody that He can give to. He wants to give to somebody that He can give through. Yes, right, right. And so do you believe this? Sometimes even in these moments, God's saying, hey, as you pull back a little bit, you continue to keep so and make my kingdom first, that He will increase people so then we can be a blessing to those that are hurting in this time by preaching the gospel. Yeah, absolutely. And I think one of the things, starting businesses, growing your business, you have a job, maybe you have a side business in order to grow. Growth is, that's what I'm looking for. I'm not looking for austerity. I'm just saying that your growth has to be within the limits that God in His providence has set. You shouldn't be credit carding your way through an inflationary crisis because in the long run, the debt is just gonna keep going and keep going. So it's just math. If the prices go up, your salary doesn't go up, then if you buy as much, then you're going into debt. And that's, I think that is something we should avoid because it enslaves us. But if we have excess, if we have assets, then what we can do is be a blessing to other people. And so there's a seasonality to this. And I think it's a time for Christians to really think about, how can I be better at my job? How can I get it, you want a growth story? The growth story would be, everyone's working from home and they're doing their laundry or whatever and they're not really doing a very good job at work, the great resignation. Be the best in your workplace so that when there are raises that are given out, you're first in line to get those raises or be the best running your business. That's growth and you can be a blessing. But until then, don't go into debt to buy Starbucks or whatever and not to pick on Starbucks. Live within your means, be a planner like Joseph, who was a blessing to the world. Amen, amen. And we wanna encourage you all, take your stand in this day and in this hour. Take your stand to be able to stand against inflation and do as he just mentioned, be a good steward even in these moments. And we wanna encourage you as well. We've got a few gifts that we wanna give to you and we're gonna ask anybody that is willing in this season to take a moment and sow some type of a love gift and for your gift of any amount at all, we have three gifts for you because we wanna see you overcome in this day and in this hour. And it's called The Maker and the Takers by Jerry Boyer. Can you tell me a little bit just about that book that we're gonna be offering to them for a gift of any size? What I did is I went through the Gospels carefully and read the things that Jesus said about economics and finance and put them in the historical context so that Jesus is talking about economics a lot. But an interesting thing is Jesus confronts some wealthy people in the Gospels. He confronts the Keyist, the tax collector, the rich young ruler and the money changers. He's a rich young ruler. He's not just a rich business owner. Every confrontation that Jesus has over money he has in the capital area with people connected with government. Up in Galilee, it was an entrepreneurial area. You had a lot of small businesses like Joseph and Fosterson Builders. An archeologist said pretty much anytime you dig up a village in Nazareth you find three or four shops. It's a shopkeeper, small business, entrepreneurial society. There were rich people there, but Jesus never, ever confronts any of the wealthy people up in that economy because they weren't takers, they were makers. They were producing things, farming, carpentry, building. They were making something of value. Down south in the capital region, they were takers. The rich young ruler defrauded, Jesus says. The Keyist was a tax collector, power of government, who took more than was due. The money changers, as we pointed out, inflated prices against Torah rules. So we don't just have Jesus goes around criticizing wealth. No, Jesus' criticisms of wealth are focused on the takers. When up in Galilee, he recruits his followers, entrepreneurs, makers. When Jesus wanted to get the job done he recruited from entrepreneurs in the private sector. When he goes down and confronts people enough that they get so angry that they kill them he's confronting government officials who are using their power to extract wealth from everybody else. And if someone doesn't see how that applies now I don't know how you can miss it because that's the same situation we have now. So ladies and gentlemen, we've got all that for you. Listen, we've got three gifts that we want to give to you for a gift of any size. We've got the makers versus the takers. We've got a wonderful book by Gloria Copeland about God being our source. And then we've also got a wristband for you that we want to give to you that we're gonna talk to you more about in just a moment. So for your gift of any size, go to the phone right now,<PHONE_NUMBER>. We want to pray for you. And if you're struggling during this economy or anything else that's going on we want to stand in the gap with you because God doesn't want you just to survive but he wants you to thrive in this season. Jerry, thank you so much. Don't go away. We've got a whole lot more on signs of the times biblical keys to defeating inflation. We'll be back in just a moment. Cornerstone television is dishing out all new episodes to fill your home with truth and joy this season. From hope today to origins, hard questions, sister to sister, today's Nashville, move your mountain and dashing dish. Taste the best of local Christian TV on Cornerstone television network where hope happens. Welcome back to signs of the times where we are talking about biblical keys to inflation relief of soaring above all of that stuff that's going on out there. Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you something. It doesn't matter what's going on in the economy, what's happening, God has a plan for you and the purpose of this show is all this stuff that's going on in the moment we are gonna talk about what God is saying in the prophetic now. We just talked with Jerry Boyer and he talked about why inflation is wrong and how we can defeat it even in the practical sense. But you know, I know a lot of y'all don't wanna talk about the practical, talk about the budgeting, talk about those things. Sometimes you need to cut back for a season. Hope you heard what he said. It's just a seasonal thing. But I believe that right now God wants you to know even though trouble may be happening right now. I love the song we sang years ago, trouble don't last always. And right now you're about to hear a message from a man that needs no introduction. We all know Pastor Gary Metric and he's gonna give us hope on how to thrive during these rough economic times. Well, I hope you got your lenses on because God's about to give you another perspective. Are you understanding what this show's all about? It's about giving you the right perspective. There's a lot of crazy stuff going on there. But how many of y'all know God is in control? He knows what he's doing and he's got prophetic voices that are gonna speak to you on how not just to survive but to thrive in this time. And we've got Pastor Gary Metric here to talk about how to do that. Pastor Gary, welcome to Signs of the Time. Yes, I'm excited about this new program series. You know why? It's relevant, it's dealing with issues that are just facing all of us today. Katherine Coleman used to say the Bible is more relevant than tomorrow morning's newspaper. That's good, that's good because really the Bible's already prophesied what tomorrow's newspaper is gonna catch up with. And that's what this show's all about, Pastor Gary. It's all about people are going through hard economic times, we see inflation, we see all these things that happen. But God's got a word, God's got a word. I think about the story of Elijah. You know when he said that there was gonna be a famine in the land for three and a half years. And he's wondering how in the world are we gonna get through this? And the word of the Lord came to him, sent him to the brook called Charith. And we know that God sustained him there. And when the brook dried up, the Bible says then the word of the Lord came again. I need someone to understand right now that the word of the Lord is coming to you right now to give you what it is that you need. Pastor Gary, what was on your heart that God gave you this message that the people are about to hear? Well, the enemy loves to promote fear. And when gas prices started to double and everybody went to the grocery store was paying more, you could just tell there was almost like a spirit of fear that was trying to come upon the people of God. And Pastor Jay, that's why I love Cornerstone Television Network because we like to offer hope. That's right. God is not a God of fear. He is a God of hope. You know, the Lord showed me one time a pot on the stove and he had two handles on it. One handle was faith, one handle was fear. And the Lord said, what handle are you gonna grab? Because faith is a choice. And so is fear. And you and I have to choose. We have to be intentional, especially in these times that I'm gonna live by faith and I'm not gonna live and succumb to the fear that I could hear every day if I turn on my television. And ladies and gentlemen, that's why we have this show for you. We want you to understand how to thrive during these times. Listen, the Bible says that in the end times there would be perilous times. We look at it, that there'd be famine, that there would be earthquakes, that there would be all these things. We see pestilence. We take a look at the COVID-19 virus. We still got different strands coming out from that. I mean, there's all sorts of stuff that's going on. But listen, God has a word. And I want you to understand right now that Pastor Gary prepares to teach us, he's got a word that you don't have to operate in fear. You don't have to operate looking at, well, the gas prices are going up and I'm on a fixed income. Listen, there is a word, just like it was for the Shunamite woman with Elijah. She was wondering how in the world are we gonna get through? So I got this little bit of meal, little bit of oil. We're gonna make this and we're gonna die. But you know what? The word of the Lord came in. I believe this man of God, Pastor Gary has a word today just for you. And if there's others that are battling with fear or struggling in this day and in this hour, tell them to tune in to signs of the time. We're gonna be giving you a prophetic insight to what God is saying in this moment. So Pastor Gary, take a moment and just minister to the people, give them the hope today that they can thrive during these hard economic times. And you know, I love that wristband that we're offering for your best gift because it says, I choose faith over fear. We did a whole project in our church. We're wearing wristbands that says, Jira, I choose to live in an anti-inflation zone. See, I believe we've gotta declare it. We've gotta decree it. We've got to just be intentional about it. I mean, let's face it, we are living in unprecedented times. We're living in a day that none of us have ever seen all of our lives. Inflation is at a 40 year high. Last month, it was higher than the month before. And Pastor Jay, I think next month, it's not going down. It's gonna continue to rise. You know what, I'm sensing in my spirit right now, Pastor Gary, for those of you that are watching, I believe this with all of my heart that as inflation is going up in the natural, I spoke this in my church just this past week. I said, there is an inflation of grace available for people. When Noah built the ark, when the storms came and the floods came, the higher the flood came, the higher the arc came. That is grace. And the Bible says that when that flood was prophesied that it was gonna come, which can be a sign of inflation, you can be a sign of famine or whatever is that it might be. It was amazing. The Bible says that Noah found grace. Can I prophesy over you for just a moment? God wants you to know in this season, grace is available. Now you do have to do what Jerry said. You gotta be practical. You gotta use wisdom. But if you will heed the word of the Lord, the grace of God is available for us today. And we are not just going to survive, but we are gonna thrive during these times of economic hardship, Pastor Gary. Somebody needed to hear that right now. That was a rainbow word for somebody. You know, the Bible says we go from faith to faith. So if inflation's going up, if recession's going higher, let your faith go higher in the Lord. God doesn't want you to succumb to fear. You know, I wanna talk about a term in the Bible. It's scriptural, but a lot of people aren't familiar with it. It's called the land of Goshen. Come on, Pastor. Goshen is found, it was found, first of all in the book of Genesis, when Joseph was alive and he revealed himself to his brothers and he said, is my father still alive? And they said, yes he is. He said, tell my father and all of you to come and move down here in the land of Goshen where you will be blessed and multiply. And then of course, in the book of Exodus, the book of the land of Goshen is found. I like to call it, Pastor Jay, it was a community within the land of Egypt. It would be like, here's the city of Pittsburgh, but then inside of Pittsburgh, there's Monroeville or there's a little town or there's a community within the city. That's what Goshen was. All of the Egyptians lived in the land of Egypt, all of the children of Israel lived in the land of Goshen. Now let me just read a couple of scriptures for a biblical premise. Genesis 47, 27 says, so Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt in the country of Goshen and they had possessions there and they grew and multiplied exceedingly. So here it is, there's a famine out there, there's recession out there, but in Goshen they're growing, they're multiplying, they're being blessed. And then it says in Exodus 9 and verse 26, only in the land of Goshen where the children of Israel were, there was no hail. Now this is interesting, the plagues hit Egypt. We all know about the 10 plagues, but they never touched and came into the land of Goshen. God somehow put a shield around the children of Israel. One of my favorite scriptures is Psalm 5 and verse 12. The Bible says he surrounds the righteous with a shield of favor. Now let me ask you this, do you believe God can put a shield around your life so that what's going on in the world doesn't have to affect you? Do you believe that while recession and inflation are affecting people out there in the world that a shield of favor, come on somebody, can surround your life and God can keep you and provide for you and protect you from what is going on out there in the world? Pastor Jay, I believe he can. I believe that too and I believe there is an anointing for that inflation of grace that is upon you. I love that word Pastor Gary because listen, it doesn't mean it's not happening. We're in this world, but we're not of this world and because of our relationship with the Father, I was thinking of Psalm 91. He said that no plague will come near our dwelling because we are in that secret place. That's so good. One more, Exodus 8 verse 22, I like this. In that day, the Lord says, I will set apart the land of Goshen in which my people dwell and no swarms of flies shall be there in order that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of the land. See God said, I wanna make a distinction between the Egyptians and the Israelites and I believe in this day, God wants to make a distinction between the unbeliever and the believer. What is it that separates the believer from the unbeliever? It's one thing, it's God's presence. But God's presence is a shield. God's presence is a covering. God's presence is a divine, holy, invisible protection over us that I believe can shield us from what is going on out there in the world. But here's the key. We have to use our faith and believe it. Amen, we know, and that's where it comes back. I'm thinking, Pastor Gary, and those of you that are watching, I want you to catch this, talking about the story about Elijah here as well. Every one of you, whether it was Joseph, whether it was Elijah during the famine, the Shunamite woman, let me say this well before I go there. Every person, this is why you need a man of God in your life in this season, during the signs of the times. And this is the times of the signs. What do I mean by that? This is a time that all those signs that have been spoken of years and years ago, we're seeing the fulfillment and the unveiling of those things. You need a man of God in your life. The day of the lone ranger is over. You need people that can speak a word in season. Joseph had a word for the government to get them through the famine. Elijah had a word for the Shunamite woman, which could be a church member. Everybody needs a man or woman of God to give them the word of the Lord so then they can create that presence that you're talking about. So true, that is so true. This is not the time for you to stay isolated. You've got to stay connected. You've got to stay encouraged. Well, the second thing is, I love this story in Genesis 22. It's the story of God telling Abraham to take his son Isaac, go up on Mount Moriah and offer him there as a sacrifice. Now I love what Abraham says. See, he's the father of our faith. If we can learn faith from anybody, we can learn it from Abraham. He says to his servants, me and my son are going up on the mountain and we will return. He may not know of how God was gonna do it. He may not know of when God was gonna do it, but somehow he had the faith that the Lord was gonna provide for him. And he did. And so Isaac, he's carrying the wood and he's carrying the fire. And he says, father, I have the wood and I have the fire, but where is the sacrifice? And Abraham says to his son, the Lord shall provide. The Lord shall provide. So they get up on the mountain. And I love this story because what's interesting is that while they are ascending one side of the mountain of Mount Moriah, they did not see. They did not know that a ram was going up the other side of the mountain until they got to the very top. And Pastor Jay, sometimes we fear, we worry, oh, where's my rent gonna come from? Where am I gonna get money for gas? Where am I gonna get money for groceries? And we don't always see what the Lord is doing until that right time. God is not hiding it from you. He's hiding it for you. And I love this, Abraham lifts the knife. He's gonna sacrifice his son. And the angel says, Abraham, stop. And then he says this, here's the key. He says, now I know that I could trust you. And can I say to you that I believe that this inflation that we're in right now, this recession that we're in right now, it's a trust test. God is saying, can I trust you to believe that I'm gonna provide for you? Can you trust me? Can you trust me that I'm your provider? Not your paycheck, not the government, not your social security check.  And so when the angel says, now I know, he says there's a ram over there in the bush and he revealed himself as Jehovah Jireh. And a lot of people say Jehovah Jireh means the Lord provides. No, it literally means the Lord's provision for you shall be seen. Cause if the Lord provides and I don't see it, then what good is it? The Lord's provision shall be seen. And you and I have gotta believe, we gotta trust him. You gotta, we have to trust him that he is gonna provide and take care of you from unexpected sources. I love that passage in Isaiah 45-3. It says he'll give us hidden treasures in secret places. So sometimes God is gonna use, he's gonna use people. He's just gonna use other ways, other resources to provide for you. And you know, one of the things that the enemy uses, this fear right now to do, is to get people to cut back on their giving. Well, I don't have as much to give. I just, I spend twice as much filling my gas tank. So how can I possibly still tithe? How can I possibly give to cornerstone television? Listen, that's the last thing you wanna do is cut back on your giving. That's right. Why? Because first of all, when you tithe, he rebukes the devourer for your sake. Second of all, Luke 638 says, when I give, it shall be given back to me. Good measure, press down, shaking together, running over. God will cause men to give into my bosom. So in other words, he'll use people to bless you. You know, on Sunday, it was my granddaughter's birthday. So we had the whole family over to the house. And so I was gonna order from the Olive Garden and I was gonna, you know, buy dinner for everybody. And I said, oh Lord, I sure could use a financial blessing. You know, so church was over and I went into the restroom at church and a man walked into the restroom and he said, I'm so glad I saw you in here.  And he puts a bill in my hand. So I just stuck it in my pocket. And when I got into my car, it was a $100 bill. And when I got to the Olive Garden, my bill was $100. It was like, the Lord provides. Amen, amen. 10 minutes ago, I didn't know where it was coming from. I didn't see that ram coming up the hill. I didn't know a man was gonna walk into the restroom and give me a Pentecostal handshake. We may not know how God's gonna do it, who God's gonna use, or when he's gonna do it, but we gotta trust that the Lord's provision shall be seen. And then the third thing, and this is so key, and I know that Jerry touched on this. Blessing the poor. Listen, one of my favorite scriptures is Proverbs 28, 27. Pastor Jay says, when you give to the poor, you shall not lack. There's no lack in your life. You need to claim that. I tell all of our folks, we have a missions Sunday, first Sunday of every month is Mission Sunday at our church. We have a great work in Haiti. I know Cornerstone Television has Cornerstone Cares with all of our missions outreach. When you sow into Cornerstone Television, you're blessing the poor. Here's God's promise. And you need to claim the promise. See, I don't just tithe. I lay my hands, my wife and I lay hands on the tithe, and we claim the promise of a tither. We lay our hands on the mission's gift. We say, Lord, you said, you promised, when I bless the poor, I shall not lack. And I claim no lack in my life. No lack in our church and ministry. No lack here at Cornerstone Television. That's putting faith in the word. That's taking your faith and wrapping it around a promise from God. You know, Pastor Gary, as you were talking, I was thinking about that story about Abraham's coming up one side, the ram is coming up the other. If he would not have followed the word of the Lord, he would not have seen the provision. That's right. I believe even right now, and some of you may have heard it, there's been a prominent speaker that's been out there, that's been known for many, many years that was known about how the tithe is not necessary anymore. And I wanna mention this to you, God spoke this to my heart, that while that was going on, he said, there must be an anointing for increase during this, I feel the Holy Ghost right now, there must be an anointing for increase for the body of Christ. I know we're in the middle of this inflation. I know we're in the middle of all these things going on. But listen, if you will follow the word of the Lord, if you will follow the man or woman of God and the word of the Lord, while you're following that word, seeming like you're going to your demise, you don't see that God's provision is gonna meet you at the top, at the highest place of inflation, at the highest point of that mountain, the provision was there. Don't you dare walk in fear, God's provision is near. Hallelujah.  And I believe if we will follow the word of the Lord, Pastor Gary, even the word that you're given, God wants people to know that these are the signs of the times, but he's got a word for us to bring us out and it calls us to thrive in these seasons. That is so true. And I'm convinced that this is a trust test. You know, in Malachi, it's the only place in the Bible where the Lord says prove me. In other words, trust me. Watch if I will not open windows in heaven over your life. I don't know about you, but if there's ever a time we need to live under some open heavens, it's right now. It's right now. You and I, you say, I can't afford to give. You can't afford not to. That's right. Pastor Jay, I tried to make a decision many years ago that I will not make a decision in my life based on fear. Amen, amen. Sometimes you just gotta push through those negative thoughts. Remember, the battle ground for Satan is your mind. That's where he's gonna torment you. That's where he's gonna play with your mind. He's gonna put fear and anxiety on you, but stand on the promise. God has not given you the spirit of fear, but power, love, and thank God for a sound mind. One translation says a disciplined mind. And then my third point is simply this. We may not be familiar with the scripture about the land of Goshen, but this scripture we are familiar with.  Doesn't say needs, plural. He supplies all your need according to his riches. But where are the riches? They're found in the glory. They're in his presence. The word glory is the kavad, the weightiness of his presence. I challenged our congregation. I said, look, when you go to the gas station, don't complain about the price of gas. God does not inhabit the complaining of his people. He inhabits the praises. I challenge them to have a glory spell at the gas pump.  Because when you're in the glory, when you're in his praises, that is when and where he's gonna supply your every need. Hallelujah. Ladies and gentlemen, I hope that you're getting this. I am so thankful for this time because I believe that in the midst of all the stuff that's going on, there is a word. God is speaking to us in the prophetic now. And there's somebody that are struggling right now with whatever might be going on. Maybe you've lost your job in this time. Maybe your money is funny and your change is strange. I don't know what's going on in your world, but the word is available today. And we wanna encourage you to take any size gift. We're not, this isn't about making money. This is about the word of the Lord. This is about Jehovah Jireh. The Lord's provision shall be seen. And I want you to pick up the phone. If you need prayer, we wanna pray for you. But while you're there, a gift of any size, any size gift, we're gonna give you three gifts. Three gifts are gonna be released into your life. We have the book by Jerry Boyer. That's gonna be a blessing. We have a book by Gloria Copeland. The Makers versus the Takers by Jerry Boyer. We've got, God is my source by Gloria Copeland and we've got the wristband, Pastor Gary. What's the wristband say again? It says faith over fear. Faith over fear. It's a choice, it's a decision. And I love this cause these are tools that really equip us. We need equipped in these days.  If you just sit there and worry and dwell on the negative and listen to all the secular news, you will open yourself up to a spirit of fear. But if you will get in the word, if you will get these books and read this material, wear this wristband and declare it. Shout it out, pray it, decree it. The Bible says in Proverbs 28, you shall decree a thing and it shall be established under you. I declare that that spirit of inflation that's in the world is not gonna affect me. I decree recession is not coming near my dwelling. I declare that because I bless the poor, I shall not lack. Come on, come on. So right now go to your phone for a gift of any size.  Think about what we're in the middle of right now. And God ordains this show to come to you in this moment. I want you to let everybody know about Signs of the Times. This is gonna be a powerful show, a series that we're gonna be speaking to you about what God is saying right now. And we all are facing inflation, but praise be unto God. There is a word, there is an inflation of grace as we're willing to follow the word of the Lord. Well, when we come back in 30 seconds while you go to your phone, we're gonna have some final thoughts with Pastor Gary and Jerry Boyer. Stay tuned. Do you have living water? Jesus stood up and cried out if anyone thirst, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. Are you dry? Are you thirsty? Are you in need of prayer? Call our prayer line or connect with us online. Well, at the end of every show here on Signs of the Times, we'd like to have some final thoughts and takeaways. What did God say to us in the prophetic now? And I sense two things, men of God, that God is saying right now. And I'm looking at both of you. I see the economy. I see you being a prophetic sign of just what being practical, understanding the signs in the times. And then I see you with more of the spiritual revelation of that. There's a word from God that we can follow in these moments. So I wanted to give you a moment, Jerry, just to speak to the people for a moment there and just give them some final thoughts to encourage them how to thrive during these times. Well, I was thinking about Pastor Gary and Goshen, right? So they're in Goshen and they're protected and they thrive. And part of Jewish culture is an abundance, hard work, diligence, entrepreneurship, creativity, right? So we declare and we have promises and then we do something. So the growth mentality involves, how is God gonna provide? I'm sure God's gonna provide. So I'm trying to expand my business. Right now we're expanding faster than we ever have in our history. So I think we gotta focus towards God as abundance, but do our part of it. He promises, he gives commands, we obey that. Like you said, if he didn't walk up the hill, he wouldn't have seen the provision. So we have to do our part of it. Amen, Pastor Gary. That's the old faith without works is dead. That's the balance. Balance is my favorite word in ministry. Amen, amen. Well, Pastor Gary, Jerry, I thank you both so much for your words. I'm so excited about what God is saying to us in these signs of the times. You know, ladies and gentlemen, I wanna encourage you one more time. If you are struggling in any way to go to the phone, dial<PHONE_NUMBER>. Let our prayer partners pray with you. God wants you to thrive during these tough economic times. And what are the gifts again, Pastor? You're talking about the bracelet one more time. Well, there's a bracelet you can wear right on your wrist and decree it every day. Faith over fear. And then your book, your book is called? The Maker Versus the Takers. That it's what Jesus is really saying about economics, finance and wealth. And he's saying a lot that we've missed in the past. That is so good. Thank you gentlemen so much for your words. I believe they've been a blessing to myself and so many others. Call right now for your best gift and get these tools.  Father, I thank you for blessing every life, every soul. We bind up inflation and we release an inflation of grace over your life. You will not just survive, but I declare today, you will thrive in these signs of the times.


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