Kingdom Pursuits Featuring Comedian Karen Javitch and Author Charity Martin

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Your host Robbie Gilmore. We have amazing you know it's kind of independence thing and so we we got sort of a patriotic/independence. I don't know, but there's something really special happened on today show some really really glad that you tune in and you get to share a mess. We have witnessed Charity Martin, who is the author of his life for mine, a missionary journey and the story behind this is just kind of mind blowing just to begin with my wife and I were on the pastors cruise here a few weeks ago and we sat down with charities Father's Day in Boston is the pastor's tragic triad church is Trinity. I'm glad I said triad and he began to tell us this story and then unbeknownst to me that I'd forgotten that this other man sitting at the table with this had been on one of my shows before and that before this book was even out he can to share the punchline. And so now here we turn to come full circle back to this story, which in its own way. Sounds tragic but charity well I'll let you just kind of describe what happened okay. My sister Joy.

Why is that missionary, she started omissions or quenches about 14 minutes as mother of a teenage couple of teenage missionaries myself. I looking back and see how terrifying it must've been for my parents to let her go in do missions work as a small person you still want to protect them when they're that age there's so much they don't know about the world and that she said I meant to be a world changer in answer she did. She went on mission trip starting at age 14 and she visited 20 countries in her life to missions like Jesse just bounce around me that we sometimes we didn't even know what country she was, and just what part of the world.

She was then, and occasionally we would hear from around here.

Now that's she's she's good and then she was 26 and she was headed to Bangladesh for a two year assignment with the organization that she was with at a school and a children's like a dormitory type thing. There with that she had been there once before and decided to go there long term, it would be her longest term assignment. She mostly would go for short periods of time that this was a long-term assignment and she had six months before that started and so she went to Malaysia in that time to work at and at an orphanage there until they were ready for her in Bangladesh and that she been there. Not very long at 10 days maybe, and she wasn't feeling well and got up from dinner went to the bathroom and a founder collapsed in the bathroom and rushed her to the hospital in Kuala Lumpur which is that a great hospital in had all modern technology and the first thing that they told us and it was so frustrating because we were hearing everything 12 hours time delayed because so it would be the middle the night when the doctors were actually working with her. Then we would hear stuff all day long we wait and hear nothing because it is the middle of the night over there but they said there's an abnormality in her brain. We don't exactly know what's going on for I while she was awake and communicating with the pastor and his wife that were there and then.

Then she started to get really restless. They had to sedate her. We were getting all this information like thirdhand. It was very confusing for that was on a Sunday.

We got home from church and they had called and said this had happened and so we're just kind of like well will just wait and see what happens. She they're saying she's okay and then she became unconscious and they were able to figured out they ended up discovering she had a and AVM. I don't know the exact medical term for that but basically a malformation in her brain and that had ruptured and was bleeding into her brain said they did emergency brain surgery to evacuate that bleeding and while she was in recovery.

She had a massive brainstem hemorrhage and died within 12 hours. So Sunday was the day she collapsed and Wednesday she passed away week.

My parents, nobody was able to get there in time. I mean, it takes 20 something hours to get from here to Malaysian mom's passport was expired so dad decided to wait on her to get it and they got it resting out from wherever they they got it, rushed better. They didn't have it in time said they were scheduled to leave Wednesday morning to go be with her while she was in hospital but she died before they even left though they didn't end up going so well.

You can see the basis of this book.

His life for my missionary journey by charity Martin and so we've got that coming up for today but on a completely different end of the spectrum, we have Karen Trottier (Karen yeah yeah job I got it will welcome and Karen is a composer, lyricist on the author and the comedian which always fits in well with me and her latest song is, why don't you run for president. Welcome to La Robbie have never been in well.

As I listened to your song help with no sin, be involved.

Yeah. Also, you know, I should say one of the really really cool things you do, you did a musical based on the life of Diana you can post it. Yeah, I can put on. I loved her millions of people and I devastated when he died at the piano, composing all about her not realizing that I would put them into a musical. Later, but she touched everybody's heart and I just yes, I wrote a musical about her call wrote the book and it's been an city in the country and two months ago at the New York City which was so amazing. Yeah really appreciative of what a cool cool thing that God's got you in such a time as this. In such places as were all the different things that you've been involved in. You know, when I looked through all in. Another thing that you did in fact the biggest video that I think you've got is the one on the lady that have 14 kids. You wrote a song about having 14 kids at one time that all wrong about that. I was really apprised that all the this is where you can see the comment because apparently the mom already had six kids yeah and so she had these new eight coming home with her and I so the auto mom which by the way, the kingdom pursuits.com you can you can see her website were all the stuff is the song is from the point of view. One of those babies.

So in honor of Karen Carbone music today will be one of two things.

It will either be her. Why don't you run for president song which will play here in a minute, and the other one being that she wrote which is very cool. You may be wondering, Robbie, why don't you get your real I get to my right was little I could really bring myself to do my little until my jokes in light of the first segment here.

What will we talk about in the second. Her other thing that she bit Karen.

She has written a happy anniversary so that it is our hope in her that will be as popular as happy birthday to you because of anniversaries a huge deal. Lately I think you would tell me your wife's name and we have been married 3131. What's your first name. Her name is. To me she's actually sitting right in front of me.

Yes her name is Tammy Glidden's and I Robbie you go feeling it right now when we come back here more charity story about her sister got her right here. Have Karen start on her journey. My riddle is maybe the most difficult little I have ever made myself that I have a riddle worth that you will have a chance to whether there job right.

You so you knew that my riddle was coming so speaking of Pres. may not actually chairman of the board of golf manufacturer well the saying of the former vice president is known as an algorithm that you think so here comes the riddle of riddles of all my riddles. I can remember relearning anything like I've riddle today so Karen saw why not known for president.

She mentions there were three governors, nine senators, four mayors, five women, six congressmen, one to remember. And I do love this one builds self-help author girl running for president. But what about with which presidential candidate which presidential candidate is missing based on Proverbs 2918 which presidential candidate is missing based on Proverbs 29, 18, and that candidate candidate. That way, that Robbie things would be, what kind of doctor okay so think like me and then think of Proverbs 29, 18 and go what kind of doctor might that candidate be and he probably would go into the same tune because that that song is absolutely aware how your inspired money every day more people running you know you but you get to running.

I mean absolutely great. And by the way the Christian car got excuse me, you go to kingdom pursuits.com get my website.com and you can see Karen job yeah yeah like I don't know what it's R yeah that there you go. Her videos there are songs and again, really quite a story more in today show. But getting back to charity Martin and in her book his life for mine were talking during the break.

My my wife is joined as fridge she wanted the chance to meet charity because we talk to her father, my mother log buildings with us to what we are talking about, you know how that time that like was really hard on your parents if they couldn't get there in time and then the situation with the body. Could you share some of that with a listers because I think that's intense right yeah sure. So we went because we were able to get there and then we began the process of trying to bring her body home. We it was very expensive. Like I remember it was around $13,000 and that was just not feasible.

So she was cremated in Kuala Lumpur and then the US Embassy mailed her an urn with her remains in it home to us. So the closure was long in coming.

Because of that. Not seeing her body not actually Avenue you know that she's gone but still she doesn't feel that our makeup from dreams for probably two years that we had found out that she wasn't really dead that that was just something that someone had made out that she been taken prisoner. You now just crazy things that your mind as and you're trying for something not to be real so that when her ashes arrived. We had a headstone made and we buried them at my sister's property hurt her remains their little family service and it ended up being a blessing because now we are able to go there and plant flowers then pull weeds and remember her and talk about her. We built a stone wall.

Some of our cousins came and helped do it and became like this therapeutic memory thing that we do now that we have a plaque made that says the joyful garden and so now looking back I can see that is the mercy of the Lord, because you have to bury a body in a cemetery. You can't just bury it where you want to and we would've been stuck visiting the cemetery, whereas now we can go and work together and be together and so the way that the Lord is merciful, even in the saddest, most horrible thing ever.

It's it's overwhelming and amazing to see his mercy. Looking back in that situation. So one day you feel the knock on your heart to tell the story.

Yes.

Well, it was my dad's idea and he's like, right down some of joy story.

That's a great idea and I want to read it when you've got some stuff written and now my dad is a preacher so he can tell a whole. He can tell the whole thing from start to finish in 25 minutes and so he can and he's a wonderful storyteller, but when he gave me what he wrote. I like this is like four pages. This is not a book, so I have all the words. Let me take a crack at it. Never been sort of words and I was very small so I can talk to my husband about it and he's I can't have an idea and kindness. We batted it back and forth a little bit like I'm just in a sit down and just see what comes out. And so now I got 1520 pages written and I printed it out and take it over to mom and dad. They are moving into new house they were paint nothing. Let me just read you what I read and I read I read it to him.

Nothing I can pitch it if you want to write it. I will hands off.

This is just an idea and something that the Lord gave my husband. Now we are chatting and that he said won't you pitch it on paper. Let's see what happens. So like I well so that's when I started started writing and then what was the well just the beginning starts at the end. Actually, that the beginning of the story. We started from the end and from the vision that my sister had had the day that she died of an angel coming into her hospital room and saying come with me and then I want to show you something and then I journey around the world and all the places that she had been. And so I read.

I wrote that and then I went back and read a little bit of SS kids and that's what I that's I shared with mom and dad and I can do it just like that sound. It was as it was a process because I knew her at home but I didn't know her as a missionary so how to read her journals and talk to her friends and secure this all the things that you have written which amazing stuff.

Authors will which one did you feel the Lord just really just hammering down on you about your charity touching and and I think because charities talking about you joy was a missionary and that was and she without the help of the down ship much empathy and compassion and I think I got inspired by God to write about her definitely and once I even had a dream because that is a little question about what should I do this or not, and Princess Diana came in a dream and said yes I want you to bet that helped me a lot. I figured that was something from God telling me that was okay and I raise money. I haven't made any money off of her musical I just raise money for charity.

Her musical as I was losing your information they're stalking.

That's what you do in your talk shows to start looking at those and fry what interests you and hopefully will interest you. So I what grabbed me was that the lady that sang the song from YouTube from Diana movie.

You could tell that she was moved the way she set it up that this woman was like this is my cat, my favorite Karen and she could say your last name, job, no just like you could tell that that you had touched her heart and that's the thing about music is it touches people's heart and and and that's the beautiful thing about the Diana musical was that you could see were this this person's heart is been enriched clearly by being able to share in the creative process of singing a song you know there's more to it than just obviously saying the words to do it right. Supposing as an artist right as I write when I have actors play the roles of the right words I wrote a very you have is the anniversary song you can begin and you probably go on the website there and be able to hear it anytime soon get ready for the next anniversary celebration.

Karen job which yeah yeah yeah all right okay so it's there it's there but you know I realized during the break that I was really a slot slot, talkshow host, but I did not even tell you what you could win if you guessed this riddle, and so on to say it one more time that is.

Here's the real which presidential candidate is missing based on Proverbs 2918 and that candidate the way Robbie thinks would be, what kind of doctor and if you can guess that you need to call us and I'm shocked and that was called about the number 866-34-TRUTH 878-848-6634 trees on challenging out there today. Can you riddle this riddle which residential candidate is missing based on Proverbs 29, 18, and that candidate would be, what kind of doctrine that they can guess that she told what to do with and I'm talking back Scriptures from Christian farming.

They have they have beads on them that will help you share the gospel. We've got we've got goodies. If you can riddle this riddle, you've got to call us and I'll be really disappointed if somebody doesn't get it, Mel, 8663 for 87884 is a member calling win 86634 truth so getting back to charity and are story when I was listening to what would hundred earlier that the idea that your sister had this vision/dream. Can you come to take us back in about a minute.

I mean, sure, she said that an angel on a conversation on the phone before she passed. Well, now my other sisters I have three sisters total. My sister Sarah. The day that joy died had a dream of an angel coming into Joy's room and saying come with me. I want to show you stuff things I want to show you in taking her kind of back through her life at the beginning of her missions work and showing her how her life had impacted the kingdom and I mean is not what we all want will everybody wants to see how their life is had an impact for the kingdom and to Angel took her and they went back through starting at the beginning of her life and by the end of the story.

The angel has brought her all the way up to the present time, and they returned to where they had left from which was her hospital room. If you don't really know at the beginning intentionally because it's a story and I wanted it to be a story that draws you in. From the beginning. So for the most part you don't know, unless you knew her or know us that she died at the end so and write that way on purpose because I wanted it to wanted to grab you the story, not just the fact that she had died because my dad said if you're going to do something with your life based on the fact that that you knew joy don't do it because she died do it because he died, the Lord, because Jesus died because that's the way that she lived.

She lived like every day was a day to advance his kingdom and so in the body of this is her journal. Yes yes I read there.

All of her journals. All I did.

There were so many is a humongous stack and I started at the beginning and I read all the way through my wife after wonderful question she should be the top during the break.

She said that hard. Yet well at first it was sweet. It was like to talking to her my end, but hearing her inner struggle that she would have shared with any of that. She was careful especially with mom and dad not to worry them by telling them some the times that she wasn't sure what she was going to do next or where the money was to come from her and when she was afraid and she didn't know she was careful to kinda shelter us a little bit from that.

So getting to hear her heart after she died I felt like I knew her differently than I had known her while she was alive. So was this really sweet as I got closer to the end. It got harder because I knew counting the stack. How many journals I had left before I got to the one that she had just started. There's probably maybe two or three entries only in the one that she bought to take with her to Malaysia before she died. So, getting closer and closer to the end.

There is this dread, but mostly it was mostly was sweet as I getting to know her well. Karen is your mother. I'm thinking that as you were writing the musical on Princess Diana.

I imagine you became much more intimate with her as well.

The molarity Diana I'm going to help in the world and help you know all the downtrodden and and then she died like that with order similar to charity.

You know she knew what she wanted to do and she did it for as long as you get. Unfortunately she died one thing that's really cool about my sister is that since she has died. It's been amazing to see how many people including my own kids that have taken up the call to missions because it was an inspiring story that's been just as sweet, beautiful thing from the Lord that nothing has been wasted are great sadness, even that he didn't waste and he he expands his territory. Every time I get to speak about her, which is so overwhelming to have a dream come true in your life. On the heels of the most horrible thing that you've ever lived through and he's very he's very faithful and expanding his kingdom and we have to understand why he does what he does and that's a beautiful thing that he's taught me is teaching is that I don't understand his ways that I can trust him. I can trust him to advance his kingdom and that's that's how joy lived and that's how I live now what is fascinating that your stories do you have a daughter who when she was eight years old tell a little about story glasses.

This is also up on your right. So she was eight when joy died and she said to us very shortly after that so I want to be a missionary like Angeli and I said your eight euros have to wait a minute, and she said well how long and we said how about 13.

How about when you're 13. If you still feel like the Lord wants you to go on mission trips will talk about it so the day she turned 13 is my husband that it must've been midnight he was at doing work on the computer and she comes downstairs.

That was like her 13th birthday, so 1203 on her birthday. She's like I'm 13. Can I be a missionary now yeah and so she went that summer.

On her first trip.

Our church does quite a bit. Missions work. A lot of the inspired and coming about after joy died and that the impact it had on our church body and so now we go to the Dominican Republic and to cause Eckstein into Bangladesh and places like that every year and said she went to the Dominican Republic that that year and she's been the cause, Eckstein and she's been to Bangladesh.

Now that we we partner with the people in Bangladesh that joy was supposed to go and work for two years with they came to America and met us and he spoke her funeral and that cool cool connections that the Lord has made, so faith has been there and done work, and this summer she's going back to Kazakhstan. We've done long-term work there with our church and my son is 15 is going on his first trip this summer and when we asked him he's like well Angelo's missionary.

I should be a missionary to it's just kind of a an impact like my nephew Andrew is going as well. This summer so and hits his first trip, it's just me she would be cost to be beside herself. Excited that they're going now so awesome as I was listening to Karen. I couldn't help but think that your Princess Di's sons you know it kind of there and I have my wife about the mic in front of her.

She would help me because I don't know their wives names but she Kate and Megan is undoubtedly picked up the mantle right like their mother. I think she was a wonderful mother and she gave their compassion with their she took them with you know her anywhere. She went home with my wife in order to entice call no one has 866863487884 which is missing the proper weather. Why don't you love the bowling that lies with the blowing great all I feel your pain more than excited because Kim here in North Carolina actually has riddled my little Karen and Ken. With presidential candidate is missing based on the Proverbs 2918 candidate that would be, what kind of Dr. Kim.Walt about quote charity.

I'm so glad you're right and I was thinking it would be an optometrist needs to rooms because they would be a person you want, but only one way to call very very very much and you have one. The back script the farmers outreach backscratching which is really of all the back scratch.

I've really scratch as long as all oh, you have to use your left and Douglas. It's so you know I ask you question the break volunteers, you know, I just simply said, what was it that we heard you, Michelle. You want to make sure the dog.said and she started and while before we are all so I think this is to if you wouldn't mind showing again kind of what you just how good is when to cry on the radio. So what I said to my husband when we when I finished writing and we knew that the publishing process is starting and you know I love her she is my roommate for her whole life and she's four years younger than me, but we were always roommates and she was my friend and I wanted to tell her story well but more than that, I wanted to tell his story will and I felt like she's just a regular girl. She was shy and she was quiet as he is a tiny little slip of the nothing my daddies would say if she said underneath the clothes line sideways. She wouldn't get wet in a rainstorm. She's just so tiny and that a little girl from absolutely nowhere to do one step and then one more step and then one more step that the Lord asked her to do and didn't her life would have eternal impact. I wanted everybody to read the story to think my life can have eternal impact. If I am willing to say yes to the Lord, my life can make a difference.

And the cool thing is in writing it became a real thing in my own heart that I'm just a girl to nobody. I do toilets every week you know and then laundry. I'm just a regular girl but I say yes to the Lord. Then my life cannot impact the kingdom and isn't that what our lives are really supposed to be about is to impact the kingdom we really supposed to be telling his story, and if were not want to be doing and were not for not saying yes to him, then what are we doing, and Joy said yes to him and she said it when she was afraid and she said it when she didn't know what to look like next and she said it felt good to speak to us and everything in our lives. And so this book well. Thank you so much for you have come to find out more about her book is called his life for mine, which is also linked Shirley Martin see very person's life or my.com this is Truth Network