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.

Hey friends, welcome to the happy hour Jamie. I'm your host Jamie and I'm really glad you're here.

Today on the show, I sit down with Mitchell Johnson and this is the audio from the Jamie Ivy show, which we aired in the spring and Mitchell shares his story and you guys, you heard me say it a thousand times.

Stories change the world. I really do believe that everyone has a story worth sharing and Mitchell has a very unique story.

I sat down with Mitchell and he shared about how as a young child, his family was in the midst of Hurricane Katrina.

We all remember Hurricane Katrina when it came in and devastated the city of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Well, Mitchell was a 12 year old boy and he walks us through what that was like and what it was like to be rescued and what his life has been like since and what his family has endured because of that tragedy hitting their family.

You're going to love this and as usual for most of the episodes in the month of December, you can watch them.

This audio was originally from a show that we did that was a visual show. It was on YouTube. In fact, it's still on YouTube and it's called the Jamie Ivy show.

We had a couple episodes that we aired in the spring and Mitchell's was one of those shows so you can go to Jamie Ivy dot com slash YouTube and you can watch Mitchell and I talk about this.

You know, I want to say thank you. Thank you. Thank you so many of you have stepped up to sponsor a child through Compassion International.

We've been talking about it all month and you guys have graciously stepped up and said, you know what, I want to be a part of this.

I want to join in with the mission that compassion is doing. And so if you haven't done that yet, I would love for you to think about it and pray about it.

Go to compassion dot com slash Ivy. Use that unique link and when you sponsor a child in the DR, we're going to send you a thank you gift as a wallet from able, which we love able around here.

And we're also going to send the child that you sponsor a copy of my newest kids book, God made you to be you.

I know that the native language of the Dominican Republic is not English, but these children learn English in school.

And so we thought it'd be fun to send their family a book in English that they can practice and know how special they are to God.

Compassion is a program that I believe in that I stand behind and that I think makes a difference in children's lives.

My favorite thing about compassion is that they work in each community through the local church.

The local church is doing what the local church is set up to do and they are caring for people in their community with your help of $38 a month.

That local church is going to provide the child that you sponsor with proper medical care, nutrition and clean water,

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