Ronda Paulson: Kids Should Never Sleep in Offices (Pt 1)
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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🗓️ 28 May 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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When Ronda Paulson found out that kids entering foster care slept in government offices while they waited to be placed, she got mad at God and heard ‘These are my children, what are you going to do?’ What Ronda did is build a beautiful home to welcome them into and there's now 22 of these Isaiah 117 Houses around the country. And they've loved on over 5,000 kids on what is often the worst day of their lives.
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| 0:00.0 | The most pivotal moment of that whole foster care journey, those foster care classes, actually came at week seven. |
| 0:10.0 | They took us to the Department of Children Services in Washington County, Tennessee, Johnson City. |
| 0:15.0 | I've never been to an office like that. |
| 0:18.0 | I always tell people to think about the DMV and we're sitting in this room it's kind of drab no windows kind of dingy the |
| 0:27.4 | gentleman says that when a child is removed from their home they come here and |
| 0:32.4 | I thought he's not meaning here. Like he doesn't mean like this |
| 0:35.6 | physical building like there's no reason you would ever bring a child in here. And so |
| 0:40.4 | that's what I ask. I was like when you say here, you don't mean here. |
| 0:44.9 | And he said a little girl slept on this floor last night. |
| 0:48.8 | And that's when I got mad at God. How could you? And I was so mad and I heard, these are my children, what are you going to do? |
| 1:16.6 | Welcome to an army of normal folks. I'm Bill Courtney. I'm a normal guy. I'm a husband, a father, I'm an entrepreneur, and I've been a football coach in Intercity Memphis and the last part unintentionally led to an Oscar for the film about our team. |
| 1:25.0 | It's called Undefeded. |
| 1:28.0 | Y'all, I believe our country's problems will never be solved by a bunch of fancy people in ice suits talking big words that nobody |
| 1:36.1 | understands on CNN and Fox, but rather by an army of normal folks, us, just you and me deciding, hey, I can help. That's what |
| 1:47.0 | Rhonda Paulson, the voice we just heard has done. Rhonda took God's challenge of what are you going to do and she built a beautiful home for foster children. |
| 1:58.0 | So that's when they're put into the system one of the hardest days of their life. |
| 2:02.0 | They're not sleeping in a DMV type conference room. |
| 2:06.5 | And this one Isaiah 117 house has turned into 23 of them and loving on over 5,000 foster kids. |
| 2:15.8 | I cannot wait for you to meet Rhonda |
| 2:18.1 | right after these brief messages |
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