 I hope today I'm Amy Schaefer. I'm here with Tom and Sidney. And I just wanted to say today, happy, blessed, fortunate are those whose God is the Lord. So today we have a lot to be grateful for, Tom. We do have a lot to be grateful for. And coming up in just a little bit, you're gonna get to meet two missionaries who are sharing the gospel of all places in Ukraine. I had a chance to sit down with them earlier, Curtis and Teresa Hubbell, and they share about how they got started and get this motorcycle ministries. I know a lot of us would sign up for that one before this was before God called them to minister in Ukraine. So it's gonna be a great conversation. It's always incredible to hear how God is using people all around the world to make an impact for the gospel. Something just wanna quickly bring up today because I love TikTok and there's a big thing happening right now on Capitol Hill. There's a congressional hearing with the TikTok CEO that his name is Shao Chiu. So there's a lot of people, Tom and Amy, there's like both sides. So just wanna hear your thoughts on weighing in because I know a lot of people are for the band because it's connected to China. There's a lot of people right now that are a little upset, like you don't ban TikTok because of the community and because of the free flow of information. Just wanna know what your thoughts are on a possible TikTok fan. Oh yeah, no big deal. Just a slight, I do have thoughts on this because my children send me TikTok videos all the time. They're like, hey, and we're laughing. I think social media platforms are kind of like money. It's neutral. It's who's hand is it in and what are they doing with that money or with that social media platform? So as we know, TikTok can be used for good to spread the gospel, to share stories and also it can be used for bad. I am concerned about a social media company that is run and designed by another nation, especially a nation that might not prefer us and might need to gather information from us or follow trends for us or learn things about us. So I am really concerned about social media in general because of the control that it has. I'm talking about myself, Instagram. I'm like, you know, it's like what in the world it's become almost like an addiction. Well, it can become an addiction and I don't use TikTok myself. Although you can't miss TikTok because it's connected to Facebook and connected to Twitter, two things that I do use. The interesting thing about social media is that, you know, they're private companies but they really are the forum for speech now. They really are. They're the forum for speech. And so how do we, how is that thing regulated? How is it possible to regulate it when and it's something to say, what's a private company they can expel somebody from it? I'm like, well, wait a minute. It's really close to squelching freedom of speech. So those are all interesting topics. I like how you both weighed in on this. So you probably don't like, I agree with both of you because I know there are like security concerns because it's connected with China. And Tom, I agree with you because it's a great platform for free speech. I am for TikTok. I don't believe a ban should be put like put in place because I think, you know, if you look at Facebook, if you look at Instagram, they have a lot of restrictions. So I think it's like to ban one, I think you need to look at holistically all of them. But one thing I've been, you know, I'm on the platform and I can honestly say it is amazing just to see the movement that is happening with the content creators. And it's a really, it's a huge community is growing. And let me tell you, I have never seen on a, if you wanna see a move of Holy Spirit 24-7 on a social media platform, I've been saying this, go on TikTok. I'm telling you, I've seen deliverances. I've seen people get out of wheelchairs, people being laid hands on. There's young people that are creating all these things really pushing for the gospel. I've seen people saying like, I'm coming to Jesus. So I just really think there's such a move like that is happening on TikTok. And an interesting statistic I've heard, one out of six teenagers are getting all their news from TikTok. So it's just like, yeah, yeah, it's a really big thing. That's like good and bad. I get most of my news from Twitter, honestly, you know? Cause it's just like right there, but. One thing that I think is important for believers is that it's stupid to not use these platforms for the gospel. Like just to be like, I hate everything. I just want to go back to, you know, to 1940. It's like, take whatever we can and use it for the gospel. I mean, we got all kinds of little clips out. The barn door is open. We're not, it's going to be hard to go back. There's going to be other things, but yeah. Well, I appreciate our conversation. Hope you that you enjoyed it too. But right now it's time for the three of us to get all on the same page. Cause you know what time it is. Time for something host. All right, Tom and Amy and you at home, are you ready to play? Here we go. Question numero uno. Which country had seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine? I want to say Egypt. Egypt. I think we're going to go with Egypt. Joseph, EJ. All right. Got this very good joy. That's from Genesis 41. And Joseph, what did he do? When he, he stored up, didn't he? He stored up. So yeah, that's good. Here's the next one. What happened to the Jews in 587 BC? Okay. I think this has to do with Esther. I think so. Cause I swear, I feel like it has to do with Esther and with Haman and they were like, for such a time, because I don't know. It was when Babylon defeated, carried them away into captivity. Or it's, it's sad. I just. It's still Babylon. All right. It is Babylon carried away into captivity. Yeah. Amen. It's kind of, you know, on the edge of what that whole story too. Cause I saw on a footnote in the Bible reading recently with the story of Esther. Cause I saw it on TikTok. True. True. And here's our final, and here's our like our last question to answer. We are on a roll. What is the name of the feast of unleavened bread? Is it Shavayot? Is it Pentecost? Or is it Passover? Because I'm, okay. Cause I, is it, it's Passover? It's Passover? It's TikTok. It's Passover. Cause isn't it like the, like, Hold on. Cause I just, I just, I just, I literally was just reading about this. It's unleavened bread. The feast's over. It's Passover. I'd say Passover. It's Passover. I mean, Passover. Oh, we're thinking this. We got it. Passover. We talked our way through that one, didn't we? It is Passover. It is Passover. Good job, everyone. I hope you guys do play at home. We have fun doing that. Well, when we return in 60 seconds, you'll get to see my discussion with Curtis and Teresa Hubbell and see how God has used them to share the good news of Jesus in Ukraine. We'll be right back. Laura called our 24-7 prayer line. She had so much fear that she didn't want to leave her house. She had lost her husband of 54 years, just six months earlier. Laura was flipping through TV stations when she came across Cornerstone Television. She felt compelled to call. One of our prayer partners talked, listened, and prayed with her for 45 minutes. At the end, Laura said how much the ministry had helped relieve her fear. Praise God for how He's using CTVN. When you give, you become part of what He's doing. This month, when you give, we'll send wild expectations as our way of saying thank you. This book will inspire you to live your life as God intended. To give and request your copy, visit us online at ctvn.org slash donate or call us at 888-665-4483. Hope happens here. Curtis and Teresa Hubbell, missionaries, missionaries to Ukraine, which is a very interesting thing, I'm sure. Curtis, tell me about your story. How did you get involved with Ukraine? Well, that story actually starts a long time ago, but we've been going to Ukraine now for the past few years for various lengths of time. But we've been missionaries here in the United States for over 20 years doing motorcycle ministry. I have to stop you right there before we go on. Tell me about motorcycle ministry. I'm excited to hear about this. I'm not a motorcycle rider myself, but I think that's a tremendous inroads into a group that maybe doesn't hear the gospel a whole lot. Yeah, you're correct. The biker culture is very huge in the United States and it's kind of hard to exaggerate how crazy things can and do get. I've been riding motorcycles since I was five years old. So it was kind of always on my list that I would ride a motorcycle all over the country that I'd seen my dad do, but I was a pastor, and so I started riding and made it up to the big rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, and I had been praying before I left. God, if there's opportunities, let me see them. And he showed me a group that almost nobody else noticed and it was children. And so here I was in this big rally and I saw kids that were being exposed to things that I didn't feel they should be and I just started praying for those children. And I started asking God, would you please guard their hearts and guard their minds and guard their ears and their eyes? And I started even getting emotional as I was praying for these children that I was seeing all over the place. And finally I prayed a very dangerous prayer. I said, God, would you please send somebody to do something about this? And that led us on an over 20 year journey where we went into a motorcycle ministry. Our denomination appointed us as missionary state side to the biker culture. And we reached out to the whole family. So we did children's ministry at some of the bigger rallies and just had a great, great time doing that. I just have to stop and say, I can't imagine children's ministry at Sturgis. I want to know, I mean, anybody who doesn't know anything about Sturgis, it's a quite a scene of debauchery from what I understand, but yeah. It is. And it puzzled me that the children were there, but they were. And over the 20 years that we did it, we preached the gospel to thousands of children and then their families ride along with them. I can't tell you how many times at a children's program, we would have as many adults in the crowd as we did a children. And then their guards kind of down. Cause here's a guy up here, he's doing puppet show and a few little magic tricks and this. And then I preach the gospel just like I, I mean, I preach the gospel. It doesn't matter if it's children or adults. I preach the gospel and we would have strong responses from the children regularly, but sometimes adults too. And so that's, you know, we spend a long time doing that. And then God started stirring me that there was something new to do. And that's where we ended up going to Ukraine to start motorcycle ministry. All right. So you're taking what's successful in the United States and going over to Ukraine. Theresa, what did you think when, when Curtis said, Hey, I feel like God wants to do this in another country. Well, like anything else, I figured he's the visionary and usually it works out. So here we go. That's a good, that's a good way to be. So let me tell me about what you did in Ukraine, what you're doing. Obviously the situation with the war, I'm sure it's affected you, the situation with the pandemic. I'm sure it affected you. Tell me about what the ministry in Ukraine. Yeah, it was a, it was a very interesting journey because we were doing something completely new. I kind of usually do new things. And so we went over and our church wasn't quite sure how to get us plugged in. And so we just, we just went and, and wanted to see how it would go. And it was, it was tremendously successful. But what I found was the motorcycle ministry was only a, it was actually, even though that's what we went to focus on, it was only a small part of what we were doing. And I saw there was a huge need to disciple young people in the nation of Ukraine itself. There's not a lot of young people that see ministry as a, like a viable thing to do with their lives. Most of the pastors, I don't talk about pastors as bivocational in this region. I call them like quad vocational at least. It's a very difficult, demanding, sacrificial thing to lead a congregation. And so there's not a lot of young people who are lining up to do this. And there, I just saw somewhat of a void where when they saw an American who was willing to leave the lifestyle here, which many of them fantasize about coming to America. And here I am leaving America and going to them. The question that I always got from people as they would meet me for the first time, they'd say, are you a real American? And I thought, what, why are you asking this? But what they were asking is, was I born in America? Or am I a person that came, went from Ukraine to America or somewhere else to America and now I'm back visiting? Or what was my story? And when they found out that I was actually an American, the next question is, why are you here? And then I said, because God sent me. And then I noticed that they would listen to me if my Ukrainian friends might say the exact same words. They might use the exact same scriptures. But when it came from me, these people were on the edge of their seat wanting to know what this American who was sent by God had to say to them. And so we started developing some programs where we could disciple young people, give them biblical training and some job skills along the way, and then hopefully send them out as church planters or just stronger godly men to get involved in churches. So it started to take on that aspect and then we found a permanent home. We were going to be on a church planning team in Odessa. And so we were very excited when we come back and all of that was rolling and we were in that final phase. That was starting on March 9th and war broke out on February 24th. So in a lot of ways, we felt very devastated because we have family in Ukraine now, not by blood, but we have family. We have people that are so dear to us and so many sleepless nights and we just prayed. I had no more tears. I mean, I just prayed and prayed. We've been doing that for the last, how many ever months it's been now, just praying that God would bring peace to this region. But it kind of interrupted that plan, Odessa, where we were going to plant the church in the news a lot. That's where the war is right now. And so things were kind of put on hold and we ended up then going to Moldova to work with local churches and to help with Ukrainian refugees. Right, 495,000 I think last time I heard or in Moldova, Ukrainian refugees. So just tell me one thing. Where is, what, I mean, what is the heart of God for the people that you're working with? What do you feel when you share? I mean, either one of you can answer. What do you feel when you share with them, when you're drawn to them? What part of the heart of God is he expressing through you? Well, what I believe that God communicates to everybody, but especially people in Ukraine and Moldova is that they are valuable. They are marginalized people just because of the region that they're in. They're the poorest countries in all of Europe and that carries a stigma with it in and of itself. Moldova has become a nation of the abandoned. Everybody leaves to work in another country. So we met many small children and young people that see their parents maybe a few times a year but they don't even know them. We've met elderly people who are completely alone because their sons are working somewhere abroad and they're just abandoned and forgotten. And what we communicate is they are not abandoned or forgotten because God knows their name, he knows the number of hairs that are on their head and he has a plan for their life. And that's what I love communicating is what I know because there were times in my life that I felt abandoned and forgotten or marginalized and God was always there to let me know that is not true and I think that's the message that we bring. It's a universal message. Absolutely. When you think of so many that are displaced especially if you're working with Ukrainian refugees you're kind of like mom and dad I think in some cases to them because of the need that is there fulfilling that need. Teresa and Curtis thank you so much for being with us. Teresa and Curtis Hubble, missionaries to Moldova and Ukraine thank you. Thank you. Tom what you doing? Oh I can't find anything good on YouTube to watch. The commentaries, the blogs, the tier videos, the gaming videos it's all boring. Oh have you thought about subscribing to Cornerstone's YouTube channel? Cornerstone has a YouTube channel? Of course it does. Hold on taking a pause to remind you to subscribe to our channel, hit that like button and ring that bell for notifications. Now back to the video. I'll show you how to subscribe. Just search for Cornerstone Television Network and hit the subscribe button so you can stay up to date getting filled with the Holy Spirit with consistent uploads every day. 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What an important scripture for us as believers. First of all, you're going to receive power and that power is not just for you to live a successful victorious Christian life. That power is for boldness. That power is to go out and to bring the light and bring it at home first Tom. Then go from your home to your community. Then go from your community to the nations. You know today we talked about Ukraine. Yesterday we talked about Iran and it's so important what God is doing all over the world that we can either be a spectator, we can sit on the bench and watch or we can get in the game, get on the field and get moving. I like how you say power by the way. Power. Power, yes. Think about Peter, okay? He had just run away from a little girl who said, hey you were with Jesus. He just had denied Christ three times. He had no power whatsoever in him. But then, and here he was hiding in a room too by the way, then he gets filled with the Holy Spirit. All of a sudden he has power. He goes out and he preaches boldly right afterwards and 3,000 people were added to the church that day. That's the difference. That's the power of the Holy Spirit. That's what happens when we're empowered. And again, yes, we're empowered to live our lives properly and righteously, but we're mainly empowered to spread that gospel around the world. Tom and Amy, I like how you both point out the power. And I believe in the Greek word is dunamis and that's where we get like dynamite I believe in. So just thinking about the power of a Holy Spirit is called to blow some stuff up. You've ever seen the action movies where things go pew, pew, pew. That's what, seriously, I know you guys can't really excited during those action movies, but that's what God has done in us when we have the Holy Spirit within side of us. That it's like we can go into different atmospheres. Like we can set the atmosphere and we can just go and dispel and break up and blow up the darkness because we know that the darkness and Satan has a plan to just cripple people and hold people in bondage, but when we are able to go out and be a witness and talk about the good news of Jesus, where we're able to talk about the truth and love and how it sets you free. Wow, lives are changed and just one life can just change a whole neighborhood, a whole family, a whole city, whole world. So what would it look like if we all went out and been that dynamite, that power that would go out and just tell one person? And I just encourage you today, this is something that I remember I was at a woman's conference and I think her name is Chloe. I forget her last name, but she's from the UK and she said, ask the Holy Spirit when you go to the grocery store or you go to market just what aisle you're supposed to go through or if you're sitting somewhere, just ask them like, okay, who am I supposed to share this with today or what do you want me to speak and encourage someone? And you know, I did that recently with someone and I was like, oh Jesus, this is kind of awkward. It was out of Starbucks, but it's interesting that when you do it, people are so receptive, Amy. They're so upset, receptive and so hungry. People are looking for truth like never before. You know, and this spirit of power or boldness is not just for extroverts. So I want to talk to all of you out there who might be introverts, who might not feel that boldness like you're seeing here like, wow, we just are coming at you. My mom, I picked her up last night from the airport and she is on the more reserved, conservative, quiet side, but I'm telling you, she is like on a mission from God. Everywhere she goes, there is a quiet, silent boldness about her where she cannot let somebody come to her home, help at the house, go to the store, go get her hair done everywhere. The wait, last night, we're sitting at the end of dinner and we're talking to the waitress about Jesus and then the waitress, amen. And oh, this was such a divine appointment right there at Cracker Barrel by the airport. And I'm thinking, Tom, it's not just for extrovert bold people, it is for all people and it's a command. Well, I think that's a big part of the power. The power is that it doesn't rest in us and even our personalities. Praise God for our personalities. They're a gift of God. It's who we are. But he wants us to be able to speak about him through that personality to someone who you uniquely can reach and you need that power to reach. We can't talk anybody into the kingdom. We can't preach the most perfect sermon to them that they'll say, oh, I see all the logic. It doesn't work that way. It's the power of God into their heart, into their soul that says, hey, this is what I need. I don't even understand all of this, but I know there's something right here. I know there's something true here. Now that only happens if we open our mouth. I mean, yes, we need to live the life before people. But the real power comes when you open your mouth and you begin to declare the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ to someone however God gives you to do that, do that, believe that. God has got that power for you. Peter didn't know what to say before that and he sure knew what to say after, okay? And all the disciples, the same thing, hiding at one minute, proclaiming the gospel boldly another minute, that's where the power comes from and that power is for you today. I feel like what we're saying today is to get out of yourself. I know a lot of times, like especially in our American culture, like we like, and I'm not saying there's anything wrong where we like take, take, take, we eat, eat, eat. But if we're like so full and so hungry, like how are we gonna give out to other people? It's better to give than receive. And the greatest gift that we've all received or those in Christ is because of what Jesus has done for us. He paid the ultimate price and because he got up, we're able to get up again and we're able to go and tell the testimony and the story of what he's done in our lives. I love that so much is that what we've walked through, what we've gone through, the hills and the valleys, the mountains, and then we can say, you know what, I've walked through this, I've been through this and I know the person who was walking with me and that was Jesus. And so we just wanna encourage you today to go out and tell somebody you never know that you're planting a seed and it's a seed for eternity. Amen, so God has got good and perfect plans for you. He's got wonderful things for you to do, things that you couldn't imagine doing, but God is excited to see you walk in them. He's thrilled, just like when a baby takes their first steps and the parents so thrilled. God is so thrilled for the things that he has for you, the things that he wants to see happen in your life. Just yield to him today, say, yes, Lord, whatever it is, I'll do it, when you do that, all of a sudden everything in your life becomes animated and God shows you his great love. 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