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This is Lee Habib, and this is our American stories.

It's been said, children are our future.

One man is making that future brighter one construction project at a time. J.T. Olson is the founder and president of both

hands, a ministry dedicated to helping Christian adoptive families fund their adoptions by

coordinating service projects and fixing up widows homes.

Here's J.T. with the story.

What we do at both hands is we help families raise money for adoptions, and we do it by serving a widow.

And whatever I explain that to somebody, they usually are very polite.

They look at me, though, with this glassy eyes because they think it's real nice, but they really have no idea what it means.

And so I have found the best way for someone to understand both hands is to really tell you how it started.

I mean, it was back probably about the turn of the century.

I was on the board of a local nonprofit here in town that served birth moms.

And one year I was in charge of the fundraiser.

And I chose to do a golf fundraiser.

It was a kind of fundraiser where you, before the event, you sent letters out ahead of time asking people to sponsor.

So I sent my letters out. And I had a buddy who I'm in a Bible study with.

He sends my letter back to me.

Does not include a check.

He just scribbled on my letter with a magic marker.

J.T., if you told me you were working on a widow's house, I might sponsor you.

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