4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Many people in Wise County agree that they can’t jail their way out of a drug epidemic, but there’s a lot less agreement on what to do instead. And we find out what happened to Joey Ballard.
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0:00.0 | Hey, if this is your first time listening to the show, you might want to go back and |
0:04.0 | listen to the two episodes before this one. |
0:06.6 | It'll make more sense that way. |
0:08.4 | Here's producer, Caitlin Esch. |
0:13.3 | It's Sunday morning at Freedom of Worship Church. |
0:16.4 | People are streaming in, finding seats and wooden pews. |
0:20.0 | It's a non-denominational Christian church with Pentecostal and Baptist influences built |
0:25.0 | on top of a mountain in Wise County in the mountains of Virginia. |
0:29.6 | The service is in a modern, sparsely decorated room with a high ceiling and plush carpet. |
0:35.3 | The pulpit looks like a stage with screens displaying verses from the Bible. |
0:41.6 | Pastor Rob Fultz welcomes the crowd. |
0:44.3 | It's good to be in the house of the Lord today. |
0:46.1 | It's great to see you all together again. |
0:48.7 | In addition to being a pastor, Fultz also owns a bounce house business. |
0:53.2 | He's a school bus driver and he's a math teacher. |
0:56.3 | So a sermon is peppered with math references. |
0:59.4 | You know, the speed of life is 186,000 miles per second. |
1:04.3 | God is light, he says. |
1:06.1 | Therefore, God is the fastest thing in the universe. |
1:09.0 | He can get to you in an instant. |
1:10.4 | I mean, the devil can't travel that fast, but God can't. |
1:13.2 | There's a lot of music throughout the service. |
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