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Up next, a story from our Faith in Action series, where we share with you the stories

of people of faith, living it out in the public square. Today's story comes to us from the

little town of Noel Missouri, where there's a church that has an unexpected amount of immigrants

attending. Here's Pastor Josh Manning and his wife Lauren with the story.

My name is Josh Manning and Lauren you want to dive in?

Okay so yeah Josh and I've been married nearly 20 years.

So we're coming along.

I did 20 years at Walmart.

I was an assistant manager, and so you worked crazy hours.

I mean, you know, 15 days in a row at times.

I remember doing that.

You know, 12-hour shifts, a lot of those kind of things.

He was at Walmart constantly.

We lived an hour away from the Walmart in which he worked.

And so for a lot of years there, we were, you know, that's all we were doing is I was,

I was bringing home a paycheck and Lauren was at home and was never quite fulfilled. I just never had this feeling that we

were doing what God had called us to do. He always said, God has something for us. God's going to do

something with us. And I thought, what does that mean? We have little kids. We had twins and two years

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