You know what? He said, I was going to kill you then. I got out my gun. I tried to shoot you in the head. He said, and this gun and he slaps this gun has never failed me. He said, it wouldn't work. And I tried it three times to shoot you to kill you. And it wouldn't work. And now I know why. He said, because God is with you.

Welcome, everybody.

This is Simon Gilbeau with Inspired.

I'm super excited this week to have another fantastic guest with us.

His name's Dunk Dyson.

He was awarded an MBE for his work in, well, setting up Toy Box and also Street Kids Direct. Lives in Guatemala, been there for I think three decades. And I'm just really excited to hear all about him. For those of you that

are new to inspired, we're just all about telling great stories of stirring faith of overcoming

many different challenges. And I've in different mates from all sorts of randomly

varied walks of life over the last number of months and actually I can't claim Dunk as a mate yet

although maybe after an hour together we can but a friend of mine wrote to me just a few days

ago and said this is Charlotte Cox shout out to you Charlotte saying you've just got to get

this guy and he's got great stories so I'm'm looking forward to it. So, Dunk, welcome. Thank you very much. After that introduction, I can't wait for it myself. Great to have you. Now, so you're in England briefly, but you're based in Guatemala. I think that's your, in your main context of ministry. But let's go right back. Let's dig into, well, actually, let's start with the program that sort of change your life. I gather you're watching a TV program on Sunday night and it changed the course of your life. Tell us about that. Yeah, well, it was, I got home from a youth group. I was a youth worker in Chesh and Boyce in Buckinghamshire, got home after youth group very late one night,

Sunday night, and turn on this TV, watch the news. I didn't know this program was coming up.

And this text appeared across the screen, rare texts, I said, they shoot children, don't they?

And this program, BBC Everyman program, not only transformed my life, but transformed

everything about the way I thought about the world and how I thought about children,

because the program was portraying the situation of young children who are living on the streets, which I'd never really heard of

before, but living on the streets of a country called Guatemala, not only was that bad enough,

but were being hunted down, tortured and killed by the people that you would have thought

would be there to look after them, the police. And so when I watched this program, it was a harrowing program.

And at the end of that program, I'm like, I've got to do something.

I've got to try and help in some way.

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