Rescuing Girls | Andy Roberts MBE

Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud

Great Lakes Outreach

Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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When Andy came across three young sisters being sold by their mother for abuse, he just had to do something about it… Do check out https://www.revive-international.org/ (revive-international.org) and https://churchmissionsociety.org/ (cms-uk.org) **Content Warning: Contains discussion of child abuse** If you'd like to receive a weekly podcast episode link that you can share with your friends on WhatsApp, click this link to join the group with ease: https://www.simonguillebaud.com/inspired-podcast/#whatsapp (simonguillebaud.com/inspired-podcast/#whatsapp) Support the podcast at https://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/get-involved/inspired-give/?utm_source=inspired_description&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=inspired&utm_id=inspired (greatlakesoutreach.org/inspired) For more from Simon visit: https://www.simonguillebaud.com/ (simonguillebaud.com) --- Produced by Great Lakes Outreach - Transforming Burundi and Beyond: https://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/?utm_source=inspired_description&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=inspired&utm_id=inspired (greatlakesoutreach.org)

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0:00.0	She'd been kidnapped.
0:03.8	She told us how she managed to escape one night, and she escaped back home.
0:08.3	And that's usually the happy end into any story, right, when you go back home.
0:12.6	But home to her, the reality was her own mum was selling her for sex.
0:19.3	And so we obviously wanted to do something about it.
0:23.0	Well, welcome everybody. This is Simon Gilbo with another episode of Inspired. I'm really excited
0:27.8	to you back again. Inspired is all about telling great stories about hearing people from different
0:32.2	walks of life and their journey and the ups and downs of it. but I suppose the common thread and all that is
0:38.6	God's faithfulness and the privilege it is to serve him. And this week we've got another
0:44.0	fantastic guest. His name is Andy Roberts. Welcome Andy. Thank you very much, Simon. Great to be here.
0:49.2	It's great to have you. So Andy was the founder and former international director for Revive, working out in Brazil.
0:55.9	He's now, his newer sort of assignment, if you like, is a CMS church mission society as mission director.
1:02.8	We're associates.
1:04.7	Andy, you probably, I don't know if you knew that.
1:06.7	Oh, yes.
1:07.4	So I'm sort of vaguely under you in that context.
1:12.6	It's a whole other story, but about 10 years ago no more than that 15 years ago i went on a selection weekend and got rejected
1:18.1	so that's my one of my claims to fame is getting rejected from CMS i wasn't good enough to be
1:23.3	a former mission partner but uh no heckler there's no bitterness in that anyway uh well you've got a great
1:28.7	story i love it that you were honored for your work um a few years ago was it last year for an
1:33.4	mb for your work which is great that it's great to get secular recognition for that obviously
1:37.9	i've done a fantastic job so lots to talk about let's let's get in there so you know i know
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