Welcome to the Ransomed Heart Podcast. Welcome back to our regular listeners. I'm

John Eldridge and got a special treat this time. Paul Lavelle is a man who was a member of our team for a number of

years at Ransomed Hart and just a really good guy.

Knights and weekends, he went back to school

while working at Ransomt Hart and got his counseling degree.

And then it was just clearly called to a very unique

ministry and so we just wanted to share what Paul's doing with our friends and our

world so I get what Paul's doing with our friends and our world. So I'll give you a glimpse and then I want

you to hear some of Paul's stories. What Paul does is minister to the hearts of men and women coming out of military experiences

from various branches of the military. If you've been in the Ransom world for any amount of time you know the heart central.

We see ourselves as kind of heart surgeons giving people back their heart and when you give somebody back their heart you give them back their life.

But what Paul does is a very deep work very much in the spirit and even with the message of Ransomed Hart but very specifically towards

guys in the military.

So welcome, Paul.

Welcome back to Ransomed Hart.

Yeah, thanks John.

It's good to be here.

Yeah, it's pretty wild to have you back in the building.

It's kind of cool. Been a couple years almost. So give us a glimpse. We were sitting over lunch the other day and you started to tell us stories of what's happening

with the guys that are coming to you out of pretty elite parts of the military, pretty intense combat experiences, pretty fresh combat experiences?

What are you doing?

Well, we started a little ministry called Operation Restored Warrior, and it really does

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