Hey friends and welcome to the happy hour with Jamie Ivy podcast. I'm your host Jamie and I'm so glad you're here.

Each week on this show, I invite a friend to join me and we chat about the big things in life, the little things in life and everything in between.

Hello, hello, hello, happy Friday guys. Welcome to another episode of the happy hour today is episode 346 and my guest is Ron Dell

Trevino and it is the middle of December you guys were doing it. We're making it my prayer and hope for you as you enter into this holiday season is that you will see the beauty that is

celebrating the fact that God put on flesh and came down to be with us. It is something we're celebrating and I pray that you get to see that and experience that in the midst of a super hard year. Guys speaking of a super hard year, you guys have heard me talk about this for the last couple weeks and I'm going to keep talking about it because I'm so excited to partner with compassionate international for you the happy hour listeners to help them as they help kids in their community.

Compassion's tagline is releasing kids from poverty in Jesus name and my favorite thing about compassionate international is they literally work through the local church in every community. I've seen this in action when I visited them in Haiti, when I visited them in Kenya, when I visited them in Mexico City, I've seen their work where they work through the local church and I'm asking if you want to partner with them right now to help kids who are in the Dominican Republic. We have picked that country as a place that we want to focus on.

We've had over a hundred kids sponsored since Thanksgiving and I'm so thankful for you guys for doing that. We have a big vision we would love to see every kid in the D.R. who's been waiting over a year get a sponsor.

The sponsor is someone who gives $38 a month, but you also get to really pour into their lives through letter writing and if you listen to my episode with Jonathan Almonte that came out the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, you remember how important that is.

Right now we want to give you a thank you gift if you sponsor between now in the end of 2020 we love to send you a copy of a new book, you be you plus a Christmas ornament from Grace Lace go to compassion.com slash iv that's my last name ivy.

Why to see all of the details and all of the kids that need sponsors right now. We also have a really big plan to hopefully take a trip to the D.R. with compassion and with happy hour listeners to visit the child that you sponsor.

So go to compassion.com slash ivy for all the details for $38 a month. We can literally change the life of not only a child, but also their family and eventually their community friends. We have a great show today.

I had the great opportunity to sit down and talk to rundale Trevino and I've been wanting to talk to him for a while. I followed him on Instagram where he would just have some terrific one liners to help us all focus on Jesus in the midst of a crazy 2020 in particular.

Crazy election season. Rondale is the founder and director of the immigration coalition. It's a faith based nonprofit providing clean drinking water to Latino immigrant migrant and asylum seeking communities along the US.

Mexico border. We spent a lot of time talking today about how we get started with this work what their goal is and how you to can partner with them to help people have clean drinking water in the midst of a hard situation that they might be enduring.

You're going to enjoy this conversation. So here it is. Rondale Trevino on the happy hour.

Rondale welcome to the happy hour. Hey, good to see you. Good to be with you. I'm excited. Like you said long overdue. I'm excited to have a conversation.

This is so long overdue and I will admit I don't know how I found you. I'm going to guess it was on the Instagram because you know we're finding people these days online and then we start following them and the next thing you know you're like,

Oh, I want to talk to this person's right think that's how I found you but introduce yourself to all of our listeners because we both live in Austin, Texas, which is crazy.

Yeah, we do. We do. Yeah, Rondale Trevino. My family moved here to Austin in the midst of the pandemic on March 16.

I did not know that you all are new Austinites. Yeah, we're in Memphis for 10 years. I was in Memphis for 10 years. My wife was there for a couple years with me.

And yeah, we moved in the midst of the pandemic. And before the pandemic, we're like, this is what God wants us to be. And we moved here. Like God, do you really want us to be?

Where are you leading us? I don't want to try to trust you here. So the God has been good. We've been here for eight or nine months. And yeah, we came down here primarily as a pastoral position here in a local church and then also the organization that I run the immigration coalition. So yeah.

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