We could not get parents to be upset about the fact that they were closing the school.

They were hopeless.

What we said is there was a lack of hope in the heart for people who are poor.

They don't believe that they can affect change.

And when our message was, you need to do this, they were like, nope.

But when we became parents at the school and we said, we need to do this and they saw our

children there, it made all the difference.

And they decided to keep the school open.

For us, it was an incredible testimony and we really believe relocation is very important.

You cannot work from a distance.

You have to be one with them.

Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilbeau with inspired. Great to be back for another

fantastic week of encouragement. You know, we all, the danger is we spend too much time

the 24-7 new cycle just bombards us relentlessly with a distressing, depressing,

negative, cynicism-inducing narrative, fear-inducing narrative.

And we just, that is soul-destroying.

And what we need is good news, which is why it's great to be this week with Renita Reed

Thompson.

Welcome, Renita.

Thank you so much. Good to be here with you. Yeah, so thrilled to have you. You're in the States right now, although you do a lot of traveling around the world. Renita, we have overlapped in terms of our work in Burundi. She is the president at Discipling Marketplace Leaders. She's got a fantastic story. I don't really want to say anything else right now and just want to crack on with it.

So, come on, Rita, let's go for it. So let's start way back. I don't know how much of your childhood

you want to share, but what shaped you as a person? Yeah, well, that's a good question. So my parents

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