 to make an impact in this world for good. Welcome to Hope Today, I'm Anna, and I'm here with Sydney and with Tom. And Tom, we get to talk about Arlene, who is gifted in the kitchen. Wait a minute, we get to talk about food. I like food, I love food, you probably love food. Well, I love Arlene Williams for many years. She had a program on here at home. The program is still on Cornerstone. And Joe Ligo, he's the online content coordinator for At Home, and he is going to be with us, and he is going to be sharing about the programs, about the recipes, how you can watch, how you can cook. It's going to be great, because we all love food. We all love food, and you know, we all, if you're watching, you love Cornerstone, and we're really excited because coming up in just a moment, you don't want to miss, have a sweet woman that is here with us. Her name is Lene Davis. She's part of a Christian sorority, and you're going to hear how God has used Cornerstone to make an impact in her life and others, and also hear about the great work that her sorority is doing in Pittsburgh and beyond. So today, I'm just really excited just to talk about all of us coming together as a family. I feel like today's like Cornerstone family time, you know, here on Hope Today, we're produced by Cornerstone Intelligent Network. If you're watching from Florida, Alabama, whatever you are, we are all part of the great family here, so we're so glad you're joining us today. That's important to remember. Some of you just see Hope today, and you may be wondering about At Home. We're going to let you know how you can watch Arlene. You can watch the wonderful recipes. She cooks, even if you're in another area that doesn't carry all of Cornerstone schedule, so that's going to be important. Right, and I mean, speaking of family, family is so important, and God has placed us in a family as brothers and sisters in Christ, and it's very cool to just see how, depending on how your relationships are with your biological family, God has given us such gifts and such joy connecting with those in the body of Christ, and it's really through our gifts and talents when we're truly walking in that, that we can connect with each other and bless one another, and the conversations today, I just feel like we'll highlight that. They truly will. I just think I just reminded of that song. It was Sister Sledge. It says, we are family, so you are our family, and you know always, if you, even today, as you're watching and you need us anytime, just a prayer, just some encouragement. We're always here at our prayer line at 888-665-4483. That's right, amen to that. We are family, and for 25 years, a member of our family, Arlene Williams, shared her love of God and good food with TV audiences around the country, most famously on the cooking show At Home with Arlene Williams, filmed right here at Cornerstone Network. She passed away in 2017, but Joe Ligo, a good friend of ours, is helping to keep her legacy alive by uploading classic At Home episodes and Arlene's recipes to a new website for people to enjoy. Let's check out this fun montage of a few summertime clips with Arlene. Hello. Yes, yes, this is the zucchini thing. Oh, oh, hi family, this is the zucchini. And honestly, it does look like a phone. Doesn't, look how big these babies are. Zucchini time, yeah. How many of you had left on your front porch during this whole summer season? Cause you know what, these babies love to grow. And you know, they're so good for you. They're so healthy. Today, we're talking tomatoes. Now you say tomato and I say tomato. You say potato, I say, no. The tomatoes are coming in by leaps and bounds, as they say. Well, the little tomato herself's over here to help me today. She even wore red, you know. I'm the more pink because I'm not quite right yet, but she's right. I should ask this Italian lady if she likes tomatoes. Yeah, you couldn't have a meal in an Italian home without a tomato, right? Yeah, especially homegrown. Oh, well, I told you today it's old castor rolls from two old people. No, no, no. Good time. Always a good time when the family gets together and say hi to your fan club. Hi, fan club. Be sure to join us the next time because it just wouldn't be the same without you here at home. We'll see you then. Bye-bye. Thanks again. Thank you. You say tomato, I say tomato and Joe, it's great to have you join us on Hope Today. Are you gonna answer that zucchini right there on your, is it ringing? Hello. You know, watching that montage, it's so funny. Yeah, you just see the zest Arlene had for life and all the different people that she had on the show and that she loved so much. It's funny, you know, some of those episodes are 30 or 35 years old and you still feel the love when you watch them and you feel how much she loved, you know, doing what she did. You know, Joe, it's one of our most popular programs. Still is, hasn't been in production for a few years now but we've got 400 episodes and you're in the process because again, I think it is Arlene's ability to be everybody's grandma, everybody's mom, everybody's aunt, you know, big sister. She just communicated the love of God that way, didn't she? Oh, absolutely. It's funny, you know, I have a bunch of the episodes here with me and I'm editing them and getting them on YouTube and stuff. And it's funny, sometimes I'll catch myself sitting there listening to her instead of working, you know, because it'll be a really good episode or she'll say something. It's funny, something she said, you know, 20 years ago to a camera, God is using that today to affect people. You know, it's been saved on tape for however many decades and some days it's just the thing I need to hear when I'm watching the show or putting the clips online. You know, she'll say something about fear or about hope or about healing or about faith. And you know, it's funny how she managed to sneak that in between the recipes. And yeah, some days it's exactly the thing you need to hear. Yeah, I mean, again, it's a Christian show. It's about food, but it's about the Lord as well. And you're doing an incredible service to put these up online, including the recipes because every time, I mean, we play the program here basically every day, it's on seven times a week and people will call and they want the recipes, you're gonna be able to, they're gonna be able to get those at the website. So tell me what you're doing and tell me how people can watch at home. Sure, absolutely. So of course, at home still airs on Cornerstone Network. You know, weekdays, it's three and then it has a couple of airings on the weekends as well. But you know, if that's not enough, you can watch online anytime. We have a new YouTube channel. It's youtube.com. I can give you the full URL. Just search at home with Arlene Williams and you'll find it. And yeah, we have over a hundred episodes on YouTube. We're adding new episodes each week and they're the full episode, the full half hour. You can watch the whole thing. And we also have the recipes available too. You'll see there's a link in the description of the YouTube video or you can go to ctvn.org slash at home. And every time an episode goes up on YouTube, we also put the recipes on the website and the recipes are completely free. There's no subscription. There's no mailing. There's no postage. They're just right there on the computer. You can print them off. You can share them with friends. And that's something we're really happy to be able to do because these recipes mean a lot to people. I've run the at home Facebook page and I've people messaged me saying, do you have the recipe from this show she did in 1994? And sometimes I have it. Sometimes we're still looking through 20 years of shows so it can take a little while to find a specific recipe. But we try to do our best to put everything on the website. So Joe, you had the privilege of working here at Cornerstone Television years ago with Arlene. So what was it about her style that just gave you such an affection for her and for her show? Yeah, I think I didn't really realize it until after she passed away, which is kind of sad. I wish there's so many more things I wish I could have talked to her about when she was still around. But Arlene really loved to make people feel welcome with food. And she always made a point of, anytime she had a party, she did a lot of episodes about having people over for parties, Christmas and fourth of July and that kind of thing. And she really wanted to make people feel welcome. And she would always say, well, make sure you have some of this but if people can't eat that, well then make sure you have a veggie tray or make sure you have fresh fruit or well, if people can't have that because it's too spicy, if you're doing chicken wings, make some that are spicy, make some that aren't spicy. So then people can have that. And it was always just so considerate. And there's one episode from a long time ago, she has a notebook and every time she had people over for dinner she would take notes on what she made, what people liked, what people didn't like, what dishes she used and what colors the napkins and the tablecloth words. She kept track of all that stuff because she wanted people to feel welcome. So if somebody said, I really loved that cheesecake you made, she would write that down and remember it the next time that person came over. Joe, I love your reminisces of Arlene. Tell me, I think you're cooking right now, aren't you? We're in your kitchen there. What have you got cooking? Yeah, so our big thing for July is we are doing Tomato Tuesdays and Zucchini Thursdays. And so I've been cooking up some tomato stuff. This is one of Arlene's recipes. This is, it's called easy tomato and corn skillet. And so this is a skillet meal. You can add chicken to it if you want. You can eat it for breakfast like I'm gonna do. I put a fried egg on top there. So I'm gonna be having some later. You can serve it over rice and it's an easy way to use up summertime vegetables, corn and tomatoes. If you have a garden, you know what it's like to have too many tomatoes. So that's a real easy one. It's just tomatoes, onions, corn, you know, garlic, a little bit of olive oil. And then of course since it's zucchini, everybody knows if you have zucchini, you have too much zucchini. So this was an Arlene recipe. This is sausage stuffed zucchini. And so that is melted cheese on top with some hot Italian sausage, you know, a little bit of cheese and Parmesan. And then you just put it in half of a zucchini like that. It's the easiest thing in the world. So both of those recipes are available for free on the website. You can go to ctvn.org slash at home. Both of them are there right now. And if you tune in to at home today, you'll see it's a Tuesday. So we've got more tomato recipes as well. We'll be posting there. So definitely, definitely cool stuff you wanna check out and easy stuff too. Stuff that, you know, anybody can make and enjoy. Well, I know you're like four hours away from me, but hold on that zucchini, that sausage stuffed zucchini. I'll be right over after the show. Yeah, yeah, no, it's all delicious stuff. Arlene's recipes are, you know, they're tested by Arlene, so they gotta be good, right? Absolutely. Well, Joe, thank you so much. Tell us real quick again how someone can watch the show. Sure, so you can check us out on YouTube. Just search at home with Arlene Williams on YouTube. We've got new episodes going up each week. And of course, you can follow us on Facebook. Just look for at home with Arlene Williams. We post all our updates there. And then the recipes can be found at ctvn.org slash at home. And so you can search, if there's a particular recipe, you can search for it. And we're adding new ones all the time. So, you know, be sure and check back for updates. Absolutely, Joe, thank you so much. This is a service to people everywhere. Thank you for doing that, Joe. Absolutely, thanks for having me. Yeah. Well, I encourage you to take advantage of Arlene's programs. You won't be disappointed. Right now, let's go over to Sydney. Thanks, Tom. When you give to Cornerstone Telstra Network, your generosity brings hope today into the homes of many in the Pittsburgh area, across the country and around the world. Your partnership provides us the ability to touch lives beyond the airways through our 24-7 prayer line. And for one Pittsburgh woman who's a member of a Christian sorority, she says the prayer line brought her comfort effort. She suffered a devastating loss. And joining us now to share her story and how she is spreading it to other people is Lene Davis. Lene, we are so glad to have you with us today. Hi, Sydney. How are you? I'm doing really well. Good, good. It's a pleasure to be here. Well, it's a pleasure to have you with us, Lene. Before we, I want to talk about it in a minute about the Christian sorority and the impact that your organization is making. But first, tell us about the impact Cornerstone specifically had on your life. Back in 2005, I lost my father. I was devastated, Sydney. And to be honest, I didn't want to live. And I could not even pick my Bible up to read and I was turning the TV channel and Cornerstone came on. And I'm watching it and I'm crying. And the prayer line came on and I called. And I still remember her voice, Beverly. She prayed for me. And even after our prayer, we continued to talk. And we became friends after that. And I, to this day, thank Cornerstone that helped me in my life. And I don't know what I would have done if Cornerstone was not on TV at that time. And happened to go to the store a couple of months ago and the cashier, she was crying so bad. And she walked past me, she had a box. She says, I can't do this. I don't want to live. I'm going to kill myself. And I'm thinking, did I hear that or did she say that? And when she walked past me again, I said, excuse me, can I talk with you for a second? She never said, yes, she never said, no, she stopped. And I grabbed her hands. I says, I want to pray with you. We prayed and she just hugged me and cried and she was falling to the ground. And I'm thinking, Lord, what should I do? And I heard God say, quiet. And I'm rocking her and I'm still praying in her ear. And I said, what's your name? She told me, I says, do you have a Bible? And she goes, no, I don't. I says, when you go home, turn on Cornerstone. Cornerstone was there for me in 2015. And I know you will be tremendously blessed and your heart will be covered by Cornerstone. And this neighborhood store is near my house. I'm always in there. And I walked in and she must knock me over. And she says, thank you. You saved me. And I says, no, God saved you. And she says, I call Cornerstone. She does pledges now. She's in a church. She's on the ministry team at her church. And Cornerstone is a coverage to our hearts, you know. And I'm so glad I was there for her. And every time I see her, she goes, you saved me. I go, no, if it wasn't for God, if it wasn't for Cornerstone. And she asked me, well, why did you pray for me? Why did you stop me? I said, because you're my sister. You're my sister. That's why. Lene, just hearing that just really warms our heart. And you know, that's the whole reason why we exist here at Cornerstone is to be able to be hope in the midst of darkness. I just want to say thank you for just even just sharing this testimony being open and willing to share it and to even speaking into her heart because we know there's so many people that even right now that if you are watching and you're listening and you just feel like you are at the end of your rope that, you know, you can call us at any time. And it is because of your faithful support that we are able to have the prayer line. We're able to have shows like Hope Today and like what you just saw at at home with Arlene Williams. Like all these shows, it's because of your faithful partnership. And so, Lene, thank you so much for just for just sharing that. And we see you're in your attire with your Christian sorority. So tell us a little bit about your sorority. We are Christian sorority in Pittsburgh. We're Alpha Iota, Alpha Christian Sorority Incorporated. We are non-denomination. We're non-collegiate sorority, sister. We have other colonial chapters in other states. And our sorority, AIA, we focus on, excuse me, Sisterhood Fellowship and Service. And that's why I stopped a young lady in the store because she's my sister and that's that Sisterhood, that bond I wanted to show. And I tell you, I'm tremendously blessed and I'm, I thank my CEO. I'm Tiffany Chamberliss, which is visionary, you know, by, you know, getting an organization together. It's a tremendous blessing. Yeah, we have some pictures that we want to show you that are going to be here on the screen and you see them right there of just like the work that you do. So tell us some of the things that you do within the community to spread the love of Christ. Volunteering is in our DNA. We volunteer in the city of Pittsburgh. We help children. We donate. We're having a car wash next week and we're raising money for children back to school. We get free haircuts, clothing, books, school supplies for children. We go in a community and let the community know, you know, we're here. We meet people all over and every time I walk out my house, I'm going to have my sorority apparel on to let them know I am a sister. I'm here for everyone to help anyone that I can. I think it's so beautiful, the work that you all are doing just going out and showing people the love of Christ because it is so needed. And you mentioned that there's a car wash that's coming up. So you can give us details about that car wash because it helps children that are in need. We're having a car wash. It's next weekend. It's at Advance Auto in East Liberty. And please, if you don't have a car, you can bring your bike. You can walk up and do a donation and also you can receive prayer. You know, it's not even about like the money part of our car wash. We want to let everyone know our surrounding Christ, you know, the love of Christ that we share. I love that so much as just being the hands and feet of Jesus. That's what you all, you beautiful women are doing. And on your tag, it says steadfast. So you just share your, so you're called steadfast in your sorority line. So tell us, what does that mean and how you got that? My line name is steadfast. And I'm the ace of answered prayer. Answer prayer is the line that I cross. And my name is steadfast when she met me and my big sister, Visionaire, she prays. When we join the sorority, she prays and God gives her that vision of what our name is. My name is steadfast. I'm steadfast on the Lord. In my walk, I'm going to mention the Lord. And that's how I got the name steadfast. And Lene, we just have like a, like 30 seconds left. So what would you say today to encourage someone how to remain steadfast in Christ today? No matter what you're going through, God has the first and last say so. Give it to him. He will never leave you. Never leave you. I don't care how bad it is. Stay on your knees. If you cannot pray, just say Jesus. And that would help you. I love that so much, Lene. Thank you so much for just sharing your testimony and your story and thank you for your organization, your sorority that is being the hands and feet of Jesus. We so appreciate you. And thank you for spreading the word about Cornerstone. That really touches and warms our hearts. So thank you so much for joining us today. Yes, absolutely. I love Cornerstone. Yes. You love us. Well, we love you too. We love you. We don't want you to go anywhere because when we come back, we're just going to take a moment to speak and uplift your spirit. Stay tuned. We'll be right back. 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We hope that you have been enjoying the conversations that have gone throughout this program. And you know that book that was just promoted as our gift to the month, Love Does, is perfect for this conversation because our lives are to be about love, sharing the love of Jesus through what he has put inside of us. So we saw Arlene loves people through food, through inviting people into her space to love on them. We see that Joe is using his technical abilities to put things up on the website and on social media. And Lene is praying with somebody in the grocery store who's ready to take her life and serving others in the community. Ask yourself today, what has God put inside of you that somebody else needs today? Guys, there's just so many ways to be the light of Jesus in the world around us. I absolutely love the normal everyday life-ness of what Arlene did, what Lene does. It's just the things of everyday life that God works in us. Praise God for pastors and teachers and people that are theologians and all that, but it's you and me. Just the people that are going to be in the supermarket, just the people that are going to be serving a meal that are going to make a difference. We're the ones that are going to be bumping into people all day long. You're the one that's going to bring that love of God. God's going to use you today. Have your eyes. We used to say, have your antennas up. Have your eyes open as to what God wants to do through you today. You know, I love we're having this conversation about love and what we're called to do. And it reminds me of like one of my favorite words. I like love-setting the Hebrew. The Hebrew word for love is ahava. And it simply means to give. And we think about the love that God showed when he gave his son Jesus. We are called to give. That's what love looks like. And so as Anna and Tom were sharing, and we just encourage you today as we are, you know, rounding out this show and this program today, is what can you do in your community? What can you do in your home? What is the small step that you can do to serve someone, to love someone, to be there for someone? You know, one thing I think it is so important in our busyness and our lives and so many things are going on. We see what's going on in our calendars. We get alerts, all these things. But the gospel is not about the calendars and all these to-do lists. It's about being sensitive to the Holy Spirit and me allowing ourselves to be interrupted. Are you allowing yourself to be interrupted? Are you allowing yourself when you get that nudging in your spirit to pray for that person that's at the grocery line? Are you getting that nudge in your spirit and being obedient when you see someone on the street or someone that's walking or homeless? Whatever it may be, we just encourage you today to be sensitive to that nudging of the Holy Spirit and allowing your schedule to be interrupted. Allowing yourself to say, you know what, I'm going to speak into someone's life. I'm going to love on someone. Maybe it's giving to someone in a special way. So just even today, we encourage you to just listen to those nudges of the spirit. They will always lead you into his love, into his light and it's for the other person. Yes, it says in Ephesians that you are God's masterpiece created in Christ Jesus for good works that were created for you in advance. Did you know that before the world began, God knew you completely inside and out. He gave a purpose. He infused you with purpose and he infused you with his Holy Spirit. As you accept his son Jesus, you get to enter into that new life to become that masterpiece that he made you to be. If you've never accepted Jesus, today is your day. We would love to pray with you to listen to your story, to invite you in to be part of the family of God. We are here for you 888-665-4483. There is so much light and goodness in you that this world needs. So today, come into the presence of God. Invite the Holy Spirit to show you who you are, no matter what's been in your past. You've got a bright future ahead because Jesus is in your future. And he's with you today. So enjoy the presence of God. Let him speak his love over you and empower you to go make a difference. Thank you so much for being with us on Hope Today. We pray that the conversations today inspired hope within you. Have a great one. On tomorrow's Hope Today, teaching kids important biblical truths through family fun adventures. Former NFL player and Dallas Cowboys Chaplin, Jonathan Evans, shares about his new children's storybook that features fun-filled modern retellings of the parables of Jesus. Don't miss tomorrow's Hope Today. 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