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The Cadence Way — We Strive
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Cadence missionaries Trevor and Jen Claypool discuss what it looks like to strive after the hearts and souls of military members and their families, while also reflecting on military ministry as the sole focus of Cadence International as an organization.
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Introduction to 'In Cadence' and Cadence Way
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Welcome to In Cadence, where we talk about what it looks like to share the gospel in our lives with the military community. Join us as we talk about what God is doing in the lives of our service members and how we can be a part it.
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Welcome to the podcast. David Hutchings, Brian Cleger here, and we are joined by Trevor and Jennifer Claypool, and we're excited to have them as guests. Today, we're talking about the Cadence Way, and for over 70 years, Cadence International has been doing military ministry, sharing the gospel in our lives with the military community, and we have our history all the way back to World War II, and over those 70 years, we have been learned some ways that we do things are unique to us. Not, not that nobody else does them, but when we do cadence ministry, these things are always present.
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And so some time back we crystallized them. We started calling them the cadence way is how we do ministry. Yeah.
Focus on Military Community and Mission
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And the cadence way really breaks down into five simple statements of what we do. And we, we stay, we serve, we shape,
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We send and we strive. And today we're talking about we strive and we strive is simply encapsulated in the idea that military ministry is all of that Cadence does.
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It's our one focus, it's our one passion, and it's our joy. And we really give our all to the global military community that we serve. So wherever we are around the world, The various ministries we have, they may take on different shapes, different forms, may be connected to different branches, international and domestic.
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All of that creates the variety within Cadence, but we are focused on the military community. It is the one community. ah aspect of ministry that we are just always moving towards and we're not deviating from as we practice all of that makes cadence cadence.
Trevor's Journey to Military Service
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So um Trevor and Jen would love to just hear a little bit from you guys, a bit of your story and really not just what drew you to Cadence, but ah Trevor, your prior service.
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So talk to us a little bit about what what brought you into the ah into military service, and then we'll kind of walk that story forward ah to what brought you guys to Cadence as well.
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You know, it's it's an interesting question because I get asked that question a lot since I'm now in ministry. and And what really brought me into military service was a divine intervention.
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Most people... you know They don't say that. Most people don't even really like that response and because it's not you know patriotic. It's not all these other things, but it it is quite honestly exactly what drew me in where I had a life that was pretty good outside the military. I was running a landscaping and construction business. It was thriving. I was busy. i had people working for me.
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um and And one day I was just sitting in a chair and watching a show. and And quite honestly, this thought came to my mind. um that was overwhelming and undeniable that said, hey go join the service.
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It did not specify which service. um and And I don't think it meant to. And I think that's that's oftentimes where and the Lord calls us into us something. He just wants your heart. He wants to know know that that you're going to serve. You're going to go do it.
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ah whatever that looks like, whatever service it was in, wherever I'm placed, that kind of
Trevor and Jennifer's Military Mission Field
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thing. So I did, I went and joined the Marine Corps because I was looking for a difficulty or the challenge. And I was looking for somebody to be called i'm the best, you know, the Marine Corps likes to do that. And they make a bunch of words and grunt and all that stuff.
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um But it also, you know, there was a, there was a thought that um it kind of followed my family's progression. They had joined some of my family members were Marines in the past. And so So I got to i got to jump into got to jump into the Marine Corps.
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ah The Lord blessed that. The Lord had blessed my service since my joining to where everywhere I went, if i really poured all I had into it, I came out number one all way across the service. and And he used that to help influence others' lives throughout my military service.
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um And along the way, i met my beautiful wife at my initial school, Jen, who who can give her aspect of the story and and really.
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um We'll get into the cadence aspect of it, but prior to cadence, the Lord was working as well throughout the service. um and And as we talk more about cadence and what that looks like and how and the specific We Strive aspect of it that will be coming up, I think it will be really cool to tie all those pieces together.
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Yeah. So I came into the picture right after he got out bootcamp, you know, when your first sergeant tells you like, okay, now you're on leave. Don't go like meet somebody and get married. We did.
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um and we did all the wrong things. Um, you know, we met, got married right away. from the day I met him, he knew he was called into ministry. He said, I don't know what that looks like, but I know that the Lord is calling me to ministry one day.
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and That just kind of bounced around in the back of our heads. So we kind of had a plan when we first got married. He was going to serve four years. He was going to get out, go to seminary. And like, that was it. That's all we had ever talked about.
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Four years comes up. We, you know, had two kids by this point um on the way to adopting a third. Um, and we got put in a situation where he couldn't get out.
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Um, and it was, it was less than 24 hours. He was basically pushed against a wall and had to reenlist by the next day. And we were like, why is this happening? What's going on? Like,
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And it very quickly turned from a, Lord, why is this happening? To, Lord, what are we missing here? And then it really clicked. It was like, whoa, this is our mission field. Like, he's called you into ministry. We don't know what that looks like yet. But these are the people who come to you before when they won't go to a
Challenges in Ministry and Cadence Fit
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chaplain.
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Here's people that will come to our house when they have questions, but they won't go to a church. um Here people that we get to minister to. this is our mission field. Like we've been missing this the whole time.
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um So from that point on, it was like, okay, Lord, what do you have for us in this military career? um And then we just kind of went forward with that, joining always our civilian church family with our military life. And how do we plug those together? How do we teach military members how to walk out their faith in ah community that doesn't encourage that? And Um, so we kind of always had a plan and this is a very, very abbreviated version of this. Um, but he was going to retire and we wanted to, you know, he grew up on a farm. I grew up on a farm.
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Um, we wanted to have this like farm slash bed and breakfast for military members to get away with their families and connect. And, you know, we were that young couple that couldn't take our kids on vacations and like, we couldn't connect.
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Um, And we just kind of always did life's parallel. And we wanted a place to offer to other military families when we retired um to get away, relax, decompress. We had never heard of Victory Ranch at the time, mind you.
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um And that was kind of always our goal. And as we got closer towards retirement, That was kind of out of the picture. The housing market took that out of the picture as to the things that around the time that he was retiring.
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um And then it was like, okay, Lord, you put this on our heart. We're not ready to walk away from the military family. Like these are our people. These are who you put on our hearts. Um,
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What do you have for us? And we had never heard of Cadence. And we had new Cadence missionaries in our community who we did life alongside in the chapel, but our ministries never connected. Like Trevor did men's ministry. I did children's ministry.
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Cadence ran their ministry. All were thriving. We just never really had time to cross paths. And our Cadence missionaries asked us to fill in for them while they took ah while they went home for the summer and, um we did, we filled in and we never
Influence of Cadence Missionaries in Germany
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looked back. And we were like, this is it. And they were doing it so well and intentional and just loving these military members. And we thought, okay, is this what you have for us?
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And um our our cadence missionaries at the time were like, you knuckleheads, like, this is what you're doing already. Why wouldn't you consider cadence after retirement? And we're like, Why wouldn't we?
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We don't know, but we'll pray about it. And the Lord just kept impressing it on our hearts. We met Cadence. We met Cadence headquarters and just fell in love with the organization. um And yeah, that's that's how we got here.
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Jen, you truly are a Marine's wife because you used the word knucklehead refer to people. ah Okay, so your first you keep calling them these Cadence Missionaries. Who were they? Where were you? Tell us a little bit about their ministry.
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Yeah, so in Wiesbaden, Germany, Chris and Melissa Stevenson, Chris had just retired himself, stepping into ministry, and they were just so intentional about plugging people into ministry, loving them well, sending them out to then serve in the community.
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um And we just kind of saw what that looked like through an organization lens. We had ah kind of always done it at home, but what does that look like representing an organization who had such a rich history?
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And um yeah so we got to go in on their Friday night Bible studies and Trevor got to teach a little bit. And i jumped in with the women's ministry. And we just saw these young military members, and and this is no offense to anyone, but at the Wiesbaden Hospitality House, they often refer to themselves as the Island of Misfit Toys.
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And it's like these guys who are in the military who feel like they don't fit. They're just something doesn't fit. And and that's that situation. you know That's Jesus in you that doesn't fit in a dark community. And it's that light trying to shine. And they finally find this community
Unique Challenges for Military Families
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of other lights shining. And it's like, whoa, we fit here. And they're loved on.
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And then they can go out and shine in the community. it It's a really cool ministry. How do you describe them? eyelet Island of? The Island of Misfit Toys. but what Was that from like the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? The Claymation The Claymation version. I don't know. Oh, yeah.
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So really, i mean, even that hits on like where for a believer in the military to feel almost like a fish out of water in some ways. so and Some things are it's one thing to be a service member, to be a dependent, to be in the military community. And there's.
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unique needs and experiences that come with that, as well as to be a follower of Jesus and to be growing in that together as a family. So you bring those two together and that's a very specific ziic set of experiences, needs and desires.
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What are some of the unique needs just for for soldiers and their families? Um, as they try to navigate ah that world and their life and maybe even their faith.
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what are What are some of those unique needs that you guys experienced and that you saw um in your time in the Marines? That's a great question. you ah And I appreciate ah appreciate the question because there's a lot of needs.
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And as as we try to boil them down, and think it's important to remember that each military has its own culture. And just like any any occupation you really get into, there's and ah there's a culture within that that and business world. There's a culture in just your your community locally.
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And so inside the Marine Corps no different. And in it provides a culture. And oftentimes, the culture inside of the of the Marine Corps is is not the healthiest.
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um That's not true across the entirety of the Marine Corps, but it is true in certain portions of the Marine Corps. And so Some of the desires or needs of those who have a faith walk in Christ inside of the Marine Corps is really a place for them to be able to ah to come along others who also have that same faith walk so they can grow and in be in an environment where they can ask hard questions, get real answers.
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but also that they have a place where they know that the person who's providing them the answers to that is is providing them true answers or says, don't know.
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And that's okay. and Because then you get to work through it together. And as you come back the next time, you've both ironed out these different things and you get to rub against each other. And it becomes this this beautiful, um strengthening, maturing environment that really, really helps you eat some meat in the future when it comes to the text of the scripture and to knowing our Lord and Savior.
Transition to Cadence Ministry
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Yeah, I think um a scripture that always came to me throughout the career or his career was Second Corinthians. How in Second Corinthians, where he comforts us in all of our troubles so that we can comfort others.
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and We went through a lot in in the military life, and I don't even think it was until he retired that we really recognized how parallel we were. um And just we didn't we weren't able to connect and stay there. i mean, wives raising kids by themselves, husbands not present in their kids lives, husbands not present in their wives lives.
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um and I mean, there's a lot that the enemy can use to pull marriages apart, to pull kids away from their parents, to pull. mean, it's it can be a pretty dysfunctional lifestyle. Yeah.
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But to have people walk alongside these military members and comfort them like the Lord comforted us through that, um but to point them to the comforter um and have him, you know, it's not me. I didn't give myself this comfort. It came from the Lord and let me introduce you to him so that he can comfort you the same way, because it is hard. It's hard to raise kids without a husband around. And it's hard to explain to them um why they're feeling the emotions that they're feeling,
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Because you don't have a dad around and that's a big deal. um Or why am I feeling lonely? Why am I seeing young single soldiers running out to strip clubs or brothels on weekends? Like it's a sad, dark place and they're looking to fill these emotional voids with the world.
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But let us come alongside you and show you the healthy way to fill them. um It's that Jesus-sized cookie cutter hole in your heart that only Jesus can fill. Otherwise, you're just going to keep looking. And on the ah on the other side of that, if I could, and think there's a a and value or a strength in the military that they move so frequently, they build relationships pretty quick.
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And so there's there's a strength in the fact that they can come alongside somebody else and you can engage them and build a pretty quick relationship where I've i've recognized since I've been retired, relationships are a little more difficult to build with the outside community, the na civilian world.
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where in the military, it's it's almost like they foster this culture of um of community where you relate because you relate because you went through a boot camp. You relate because your families are going through difficult times together. You relate because ah you you share commonalities.
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And so I think that's one of the one of the perks of of some of the the challenges inside the military, but also it it kind of helps out in some regard it also.
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It's everything you guys are saying to there's the pros and their cons. Military builds relationships really quickly um out of necessity because every two to three years you're moving to a new community.
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And that's one of the cons. And Jen, what you were saying about how Satan can exasperate all these different challenges. Well, those even get exasperated when you have to form community every two to three years as you move and go to a different place.
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Would it be fair to say that, like, I mean, you guys, when you're in the military, I mean, you talked about that being your mission field. Your mission field hasn't changed. It's just the angle from which you get to do ministry.
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For 20 years, you did it from within the military. And now it's still the same ministry. It's just you have a different angle on it. Share a little bit about Victory Ranch and what you do for Cadence and where you're at and what that looks like for your ministry.
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Yeah, we, oh yeah. um So we, um getting closer to retirement, this, this, you know, dream that the Lord had always put on our heart of, of nurturing these relationships through like, but what we saw at the time is like bed and breakfast type hospitality, allowing military members, you know, into our home, giving them a place to get away and relax.
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Um, When we realized that wasn't going to happen and we were like, okay, Lord, this is in your hands. He said, well, am I supposed to just get a civilian job? And I did. I broke down and cried. Like I'm not, I'm not a huge crier, but I was crying. i was like, I'm not ready to walk away from these people. These people are our family. They're our life. They are who the Lord has put us through life with for the last 20 years.
Victory Ranch Retreat Opportunity
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I'm not ready to walk away from that.
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I didn't know, you know, what that, I was like, can you just give me one more duty station? I was begging him. Can you just give me one more? Let's move back to the States. Let's settle. I had never ah heard her beg like she was begging.
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He's like, babe, I can't, like I'm being called out And I was like, oh, I can't really argue with that, Ken. I and need to suck it up. And i was like, okay.
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Well, then we started our journey when Chris and Melissa encouraged us by calling us knuckleheads um to pray about um linking up with Cadence, to be able to continue to minister to military members.
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And um once we got to know the organization, we thought, hey, we'll get to headquarters. We'll pull back the green curtain. And, you know, there's something we won't like about it. So we'll move on. and that was To be fair, i was not about an organization.
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I was about ministry. see and What we recognized quickly when we when we started to engage the organization is that. The organization is there to share the gospel and to ah come alongside its missionaries and to really support them as they go out and do, as they strive and to to share the gospel on their lives.
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So it's true it it was as true as as what it was presented to us. So we fell in love with the organization, the people, the missionaries, leadership. um And we were like, cool, let's use this rich legacy and history and strive and push forward towards these military members. and So we get to Canada see, you know, we go through the whole ah nail biting process. And then, you know, Dave Hutchings says, we would like to commission you as missionaries with Cadence International. and We were like, oh, that's wonderful.
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And we don't usually talk about, you know, um locations, but like, I mean, Have you thought about Victory Ranch? And then, you know, we'd never heard of Victory Ranch. And Glenda and Bob were at Canada Sea with us who were also at Victory Ranch at the time.
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um And we're like, what is Victory Ranch? And I mean, verbatim, it was everything we ever said we wanted to do when he retired. It was a place for military members to get away, connect with the Lord and their families and pretend they're not in the army for the day.
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am And of course started crying. She's not a big crier.
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And so we, you know, we prayed about it. We were like, yeah, we will pray about it. And the Lord just really stirred up a fire in our hearts for victory ranch. And, We learned about Victory Ranch and it's been here since 1983.
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It has a fun history, but we'll we'll skip in that we'll skip that a little bit. But it hosts military members in retreat ministry. So different than the typical hospitality house in Cadence, um Victory Ranch has guest sleeping space. It's a 17 acre ranch with a pond and boating and fishing and hiking. James.
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games in the barn and pool and pickleball and basketball and all kinds of fun stuff where families and and soldiers, like just single soldiers or with their families, can get away, pretend they're not in the army for the day, um and have a place to connect and hear the gospel presented to them. And we get to meet people and love on them and introduce them to Jesus and in an environment that allows the distractions to kind of be silenced and, um, yeah, to connect with them through retreat ministry. So we get to have a little more, um, personal time, I would say with them versus hospitality house that gets weekly discipleship time with them, which is also great. Ours just looks a little bit different.
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i would I would say it's it is positioned well between Fort Jackson and Shire Force Base, as well as two reserve bases, McCready and McIntyre. However, what we've been coming to realize is that any base within six hours or greater is really eyeballing Victory Ranch to bring people to. we have We have folks who are coming out of Quantico, Virginia to come down to Victory Ranch. Other bases as well that that would love to come up and just spend time getting to partake in the environment. But really, it's to come and to spend time with others in a place where they feel like and the environment has been prepped.
Cadence's Mission and Outreach Strategy
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for them to come into and be able to relax, uh, and really learn and hear the gospel, uh, I think is a really valuable, um, as it it is a really valuable tool.
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And then I think the Lord blesses that as we can see again and again, as we get more calls, et cetera. Yeah. Schedules booked up through the end of the year. We're booking into March of next year already. Um, it is such a blessing to be here. um Yeah.
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So kind of pushing into the strive aspect of it. Yeah. I mean, there's days that are long and hard and sometimes we're maintenance people, sometimes we're janitors. um But the Lord put this on our heart and we strive for the goal of sharing the gospel in our lives with military members. And this is a beautiful environment to do that in.
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That's awesome. And it's such an amazing story for you guys to step out in faith, knowing knowing the Lord has called us to military people and we're willing to lay aside our desires because this is really clear. We want to stay in this place. And then for God to bring that together. i mean, you said he lit a fire. I mean, guys, it's been a wildfire. It is taken off. You've taken that place by storm, what God is doing.
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There's such a long history and a legacy that you referenced there, but there there is just a surge of life that has come through that calling, your presence there, God's provision in that and bringing your your desires and your obedience together into one thing has just been such a really fun and potent thing to watch. it It really has been a wildfire. So super fun to see.
00:23:42
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So through that whole story, being connected in the military community to now doing military ministry. And like Brian said earlier, it's the same thing from different angles.
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um As you've stepped into Cadence, How would you describe this, we strive? and And would you even say, would you say that it benefits cadence to have that kind of, use the word strive, another word would be focus, to have a singular focus on military people and on the military community.
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Is that of a benefit ah to the ministry that you do? and And how would you describe ah this, we strive and how it plays out in your ministry experience? Right.
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Yeah, I think that's ah that's a great question. in And so I have like a kind of an image that's painted in my mind when when I think about it. And yeah we all know what a corpsman is.
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and they i don't I don't know what they call them in the Army, in the Marine Corps. We call them corpsmen, maybe medic. It is a medic, yep. Yeah, a medic. And so I should know that, right? I'm reaching to the military.
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Yeah. um And so ah as as they think about almost like ah a combat scenario where where there's a bunch of people who are in the field and some of them are injured, um they never say, hey get over here to the medic, right? The medic always goes to the injured.
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And so where that imagery comes in is cadence is going, right? to what I would say almost like the injured. It's not injured per se, but it is going to those who are in need of hearing the gospel. And so where the singular focus comes in is that medic can focus on on one person at a time ah before he needs to move on to the next place. And so...
00:25:26
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where i think it's really valuable is there's all kinds of distractions in a battle space where all kinds of things that that could be done but everybody has their specific role inside of that battle space and they all need to do that and so cadence in it in its idea its concept of coming to alongside military i think what's really valuable is that they can focus 100 on the military and their families and bring the gospel to them because that's needed. a lot of these people are hurting.
00:25:55
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Actually, a lot of these people are, are looking for somebody to come alongside them. And what they really want is somebody to come alongside them and live with them because they want to know that they can count on and rely on ah that person when the time comes, when the challenges come, the difficulties come, and that they can call them up and that they know that they'll be there, that they can ask them hard questions and they know they'll get the right answers or or not the right answers, but they'll get the truth ah brought to them.
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And I think we're all as cadence part of the capital C big church, the body of Christ, and everybody in that body has their own role. And we just happen to be, you know, maybe, maybe we're a finger, maybe we're a toe. I don't know, but we're just the part that reaches military members. There's mission organizations all over the world that are amazing organizations that we support many ourselves.
00:26:51
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um However, The Lord impressed on our hearts and and, you know, all the way back to Jesse Miller and on his hearts to particularly just love and share the gospel with military members specifically. And if we can hone that focus in on that one thing, we can do it really well.
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and And I think also on top of that is is we've been in that culture. And so we can speak that language. we can We can speak to them in a way that they hear it. vice Somebody external to that may not be able to communicate in the same way or or even have that door open to them.
00:27:25
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And I actually like, so you used the word focus earlier instead of strive. but i So I looked up the definition to strive and the actual definition is to make great efforts to achieve or obtain something.
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um And so I like the word strive over the word focus simply because we do, we all make great efforts. yeah You know, we we work hard. We're working out our faith um to and and for what to achieve or obtain something. That something is to share the gospel in our lives with military members, because that's what the Lord's called us to do.
Gratitude and Call to Action
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So I love I love the word strive and I love striving for the Lord through cadence. Trevor, Jen, um Chris and Melissa Stevenson recommended you guys to you and to Cadence for this ministry ah because of what they saw you guys living out.
00:28:19
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You didn't come join Cadence and have to learn the Cadence way. Sure. Like you guys were already doing it because, I mean, honestly, the Cadence way is just how we have said we do many biblical things. And you guys were living out your faith and doing ministry in the Marines to military and their families.
00:28:37
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And then when you got to taste Cadence and come see what we were organizationally, you just realized like, We're you, you're us, it's a great fit. And you just get to keep doing what you were doing from just a ah different angle.
00:28:51
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And your guys' faithfulness ah to following and to being aware of what God was leading you to do and stepping out and following after Him, it's not an easy journey.
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Many people go through the challenges of transitioning out of the military. And there's a lot of goods and a lot of hearts that come with that. And you guys stepped out in faith. And, you know, we want to talk to you guys about we strive because um that effort, that faithfulness, that obedience, we see it in you guys and we love it. And we want other people to hear the story.
00:29:24
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You guys are just I mean, You guys are living it. You've been doing it. And what we're we're just excited for the future because this this striving towards the military community, this continue to live in the calling that God has given you, how you've lived that out in your time of service. But even now, like I don't know. i just it Even this conversation begs so many more questions because knowing your story And a little bit of even what wasn't shared today and how much I still don't know. Like, I want want to know more of what God has done. i'm want to
00:29:58
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I'm excited for what God's going to do. But ah the hardest part of these conversations is that there's there's a limit on them. And there's so much more that we want to see and hear and know about. But So I'll just leave it at thank you.
00:30:11
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Thank you for the walk of obedience. It's been a privilege to watch it ah because those the walk of faith is hard for all of us individually as we follow Jesus. But to get to walk part of that with you and to see the fruit that it's bearing is amazing. We are grateful for you guys. And we we just want to see the wildfire continue to get stoked up. It's amazing.
00:30:33
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it It has been such a blessing to be with Cadence and two to just allow the Lord to do his thing. and The wildfire is exactly right. I think that's a great description. We were intentionally lit a fire, but then it's just kind of the Lord does his thing.
00:30:48
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And he has really stirred things up. It's really been awesome to watch. Well, thanks for the stories, guys. We look forward to more and we're so grateful for you.
00:31:00
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And if you are a listener wants to hear more of their story or read more about it, you can go to cadence.org, look up the clay pools or any of our ministries. If you want to find out if there's a ministry near where you're stationed, ah that's the place to go look it up. But you can hear or read more about them and their ministry at cadence.org. Guys, thanks for your time.
00:31:18
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It was really a treat for us.