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Well, happy Thanksgiving, and we welcome you

to this special edition of "The 700 Club."

We've got a great show coming up,

including the amazing story of a Thanksgiving miracle.

And we'll also be praying for you and your loved ones

on this special day of Thanksgiving,

feasting, joy, and, undoubtedly, football.

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Undoubtedly.

Maybe a parade or two.

Plus, Irlene Mandrell, the youngest sister of the Mandrell

Trio is here with a Thanksgiving tribute in song for our troops.

But before we get to all of that,

Paul Strand takes us to Plymouth, Massachusetts

for a look at a side of the Pilgrims

you may never have seen.

Most kids in most public schools

are no longer being taught what a rich, godly heritage

this nation has.

God and prayer have been thrown out of their schools,

and with it, the knowledge that early settlers made covenant

with God, and this allied the country with Him.

Much of this early heritage started with the Pilgrims right

here in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

PAUL STRAND (VOICEOVER): On a trip down the East Coast,

this group of pastors and students from Spokane,

Washington came to reclaim that lost education for themselves

and their children.

Getting all of this information, revelation,

and the heart of God into the next generation.

Most of them, if they've been through public school, and even

a lot in Christian schools--

they don't know their history, as far

as how our nation was founded.

PAUL STRAND (VOICEOVER): Like the Pilgrims didn't just

come here to escape religious persecution,

but to set up a new type of government.

In an age of absolute monarchs who ruled like God,

the pilgrims believed the real God made all humans equal.

So any leader should be elected by the community

and should be servants of the people, not lords over them.

Male, female, it doesn't matter.

We're all created in the image of God.

And therefore, no one is above, no one is below.

But they have another king, a heavenly king, King Jesus.

And that's who they follow.

PAUL STRAND (VOICEOVER): Pilgrim re-enactor Leo Martin

led this group around Plymouth.

What you're not learning is that we

are a Christian nation founded on Christian principles.

And we tell that story.

We don't tell it only because I'm a Christian.

We tell it because it's a fact.

Some Some today are taught Pilgrims were stern control

freaks, clamping their religion down on everyone.

But they knew God as the God of liberty

who wanted men free in Christ.

They understood the only way to stay free

was by self-governing, each person following

the moral code and virtues laid out in the Bible.

That actually liberates and brings incredible freedom.

PAUL STRAND (VOICEOVER): Without that moral and virtuous living,

they'd need a powerful government to control them.

We can only have that liberty if we have that

self-government.

Because if we don't rule ourselves,

somebody's going to rule over you.

It is in these, and all our actions--

PAUL STRAND (VOICEOVER): And that's

why almost all early education was

about teaching the eternal truths

and guidance in the Bible.

If we're built on the Bible, which I would believe

is objective truth, uh, then it's truth that doesn't change.

It's truth that doesn't shift.

It's the solid rock.

PAUL STRAND (VOICEOVER): When they sailed from England,

they knew well they could die from the New World's

harsh winters or Indian arrows.

But they still came.

And half their number died the first winter.

They literally put everything on the line

for what they believed and were willing to lose

their life, half of them, for future generations.

They believed it so much.

PAUL STRAND (VOICEOVER): Few kids

today are taught that food was scarce--

so scarce 14 of the 18 Pilgrim mothers

died, because they kept giving their meager rations

to their children.

They gave their lives for the sake of another generation

so that we could live in the world we live in today.

PAUL STRAND (VOICEOVER): Pastor Trevor's oldest daughter

was radically changed on a previous trip

where she learned all this and told her parents,

TREVOR SEAMAN (VOICEOVER): It's up to me.

It's up to our generation to carry the baton,

to champion truth, to live, and to be a voice.

I have people say to me all the time, I'm just one person.

I listen to you.

What can I do?

One person can't do anything.

51 people started our country.

One person can do something.

PAUL STRAND (VOICEOVER): The pilgrims

weren't colorless and dour, as some

teach, because they believed the joy of the Lord

was their strength.

And they were to be thankful, no matter their circumstances.

They're famous for Thanksgiving Day,

but Martin has a problem identifying

that as a specific day.

Which one do I pick?

The Pilgrims thank God for everything.

PAUL STRAND (VOICEOVER): But little

is taught of what made them so thankful,

of the miracles and moments where God's hand guided

and saved.

They needed plowed fields their first year,

because they had no plows.

Right where the Pilgrims landed were

fields plowed by the Patuxet tribe

that had been wiped out in a plague.

What's being taught right now is

that they stole the land, that they

took advantage of the natives.

The Indians did not want the land.

They would not come back on it because of the plague.

PAUL STRAND (VOICEOVER): Squanto was

a friend of nearby Indian chief Massasoit

and was declared a special gift from God by the Pilgrims, who

testified they couldn't have survived without him.

He learned English in Europe.

He became the interpreter between the Pilgrims

and the Indians.

That's the only way they could communicate.

PAUL STRAND (VOICEOVER): When the Pilgrims' foreign crops

wouldn't grow in Plymouth, Squanto

taught them to plant corn and fertilize it

with fish from the local river.

As Plymouth rain fell on this group of pastors and students,

it recalled a drought that struck a couple of years

after the Pilgrims landed.

They held a very public fast and prayer time

until God sent a miraculous rain right over them

that saved the crops.

That led a local chief to Christ,

along with much of his tribe.

Incidence and interventions like these

are sprinkled throughout America's history.

But so little of it is known any more

to the younger generations, who desperately need this knowledge

if they're to carry the baton into the future

so this can remain one nation under God.

Paul Strand, CBN News, reporting from Plymouth, Massachusetts.

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We-- we are a self-governing people,

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Well, Thanksgiving is a nice time of celebration for Carissa

and Matthew Hatfield.

Two years ago, a few days before Thanksgiving, their baby

daughter underwent emergency surgery

for a brain tumor that spread to her sinus cavity, eye

socket, and middle ear.

Yet when her surgeon went to remove the mass,

nothing could have prepared him for what he found.

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I had prayed for our little girl for as long

as I could remember.

I could feel instantly that father-daughter connection.

TERRY MEEUWSEN (VOICEOVER): On August 12th, 2015,

Matthew and Carissa Hatfield welcomed their third child,

Paisley Novella, into the world.

I can't describe that feeling, that you're

just overwhelmed with emotion.

Like, this is my family.

This is exactly what I hoped for.

TERRY MEEUWSEN (VOICEOVER): But over the next few days,

the couple noticed that Paisley had a crooked smile

and couldn't fully close her left eye.

I, in the back of my mind, just thought,

we're going to get her checked out,

and everything's going to be fine.

It's just going to go away on its own.

TERRY MEEUWSEN (VOICEOVER): But it didn't.

And at her two month's checkup, pediatrician Charles Kelly

had reason for concern.

We thought-- and it's very common--

that there was just a little, minor injury at birth.

You know, forceps, um, can constrict the-- the face

and the head, and kind of nerves are-- are just temporarily

damaged.

So we thought it was that.

But at two months, it should have resolved.

TERRY MEEUWSEN (VOICEOVER): Doctor Kelly

referred Paisley to Cincinnati Children's Hospital for an MRI.

After two MRIs, doctors told the parents she needed a CAT scan.

Right then and there, my-- my heart dropped.

What is it?

Like, what's going on?

That's when I'm like, OK, they saw something.

It can't be anything good.

The phone rang, and immediately, I picked it up.

And she was like, she has a mass.

It's invading her brain.

It's compressing her facial nerve.

It had already deteriorated her skull.

I ran down to Matt's office, and I'm just like, she has a tumor.

To see the look on his face, to not know what

was going to happen.

So I'm going to have to bury my daughter.

And I don't know how I'm going to do this.

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TERRY MEEUWSEN (VOICEOVER): The mass

had spread to her sinus cavity, eye socket, and middle ear.

The best-case scenario, you take the tumor out,

and then there's a lot of rehab.

There's a lot of therapies.

There's reconstructive surgeries,

neurological deficits, cognitive deficits, physical deficits.

The worst-case scenario, I was thinking, you know,

this-- this could be a malignant, aggressive tumor.

She could die.

TERRY MEEUWSEN (VOICEOVER): That weekend,

they reached out to the only one they knew could help.

All I did was beg God--

God, please don't let my baby die.

Just please don't let her die.

Please don't take my daughter away from me.

If anything, you know, let me trade places with her.

TERRY MEEUWSEN (VOICEOVER): Through

those desperate prayers, Matthew found the strength

to trust God.

MATTHEW HATFIELD (VOICEOVER): I just made a promise to God.

And I told my wife--

I said, I don't know how this is going to turn out.

But no matter what happens, whether she lives or she dies,

we've got to trust God.

CARISSA HATFIELD (VOICEOVER): He's like, He's still good.

No matter if He takes our baby away, there's a reason.

There's always a reason.

And there will be good out of it.

As a mom, I didn't--

I was just like, I cannot say those words.

TERRY MEEUWSEN (VOICEOVER): But that Sunday,

she found hope when her church gathered around her family

to pray.

I felt like at that moment, everything is going to be fine.

Everything's going to be just fine.

I was just at peace, that peace that passes all understanding.

I remember coming to that point and finally just saying, like,

God, either way, you're good.

TERRY MEEUWSEN (VOICEOVER): Monday morning, November 23rd,

just a few days before Thanksgiving,

the Hatfields got another call.

Paisley needed emergency biopsy surgery.

The surgeon needed to determine if the mass was cancerous

or caused by an autoimmune disease

called histiocytosis X. Either one would be fatal.

I was literally, visibly shaking.

I didn't know how much I could take anymore.

TERRY MEEUWSEN (VOICEOVER): Again, they got a word of hope,

this time from the anesthesiologist

who carried her away.

He was like, I had a talk with God this morning about Paisley.

He was like, she's going to be just fine.

And so at that moment, it's reassurance

that God's got this.

TERRY MEEUWSEN (VOICEOVER): They were

told the surgery would take three hours.

But just 45 minutes in, the surgeon

called Matthew and Carissa into a consultation room.

As soon as he opened the door, he just

started shaking his head.

He was like, your prayers must have worked.

There was nothing there.

Nothing.

And the smile on my face!

I was just like, what?

Are you serious?

Like, oh my gosh!

And immediately, you know, we just praised God.

And, um, we both started crying.

And just could not believe what the doctor was saying.

Somehow between Friday and Monday

morning, this large tumor, probably

the size of a walnut or bigger, disappeared.

They had no medical explanation for it.

TERRY MEEUWSEN (VOICEOVER): That same week, the Hatfields

celebrated Thanksgiving with Paisley in their arms.

And they knew exactly who to thank.

Who but God could do such things as these, you know?

Who but God?

MATTHEW HATFIELD (VOICEOVER): A lot

of people were saying, you know, it's the hospital's fault.

They-- they had faulty scans.

I just said, hey, they did an MRI and a CT.

It was there on both of them.

We did a follow-up after that.

It was gone.

I mean, this is truly the power of prayer.

No one else but God can take that tumor away.

Best Thanksgiving ever.

One that we'll never forget, for sure.

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TERRY MEEUWSEN (VOICEOVER): Four months later, she

was released from all care with only minor hearing

loss in her left ear.

She's now a happy, healthy toddler and a big sister.

I've been doing this 20 years.

Never experienced anything like this.

I think it was, uh, the hand of God

directly healing this little child.

It's crazy, it's wonderful, and I feel so blessed.

I really feel that I was witness to a miracle.

Everyday I see her, she's just a living reminder

of what God can do.

I mean, they had given my daughter a death sentence,

and we were supposed to accept it.

There's not a day that I go by that I don't thank God

for healing her.

I look at her now, and she's perfect.

God made her perfect.

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Given her a death sentence, but we

weren't going to accept it.

I love it.

Well, here's some prayer requests,

and then we want to pray for you.

This is an answer, actually.

Glenna who lived in Claremont, New Hampshire

suffered from scoliosis for 55 years.

She was watching this program one day,

and you, Terry, gave this word, quote--

"There is something else--

you have scoliosis, but right down at the very bottom

of your spine.

It is quite painful and potentially can

cause some real problems.

God is strengthening you for right now.

Just lift your hands and praise the Lord."

And guess what-- Glenna in, uh, wherever that was,

in New Hampshire, has been healed after 55 years.

What have you got there?

Let me tell you about Dorothy.

She lives in Rensselaer, Indiana.

She suffered a heart attack in 2016

and now was having shortness of breath and blood pressure

issues.

Her cardiologist diagnosed her with a heart murmur.

She came home, turned on this program, Pat,

just as you begin to pray.

And you said, "Lord, there is someone

right now who has a heart murmur.

It has caused you to have shortness of breath,

and you've been having a difficult time.

Right now, God's touching your heart

and causing that rhythm to take place exactly--

what is called a sinus rhythm.

You're being healed in the name of Jesus."

She said she felt a tingling like electricity flow

through her and a sense of peace.

Immediately, the shortness of breath was gone.

And on a follow-up visit, her doctor

couldn't hear the heart murmur, and her blood pressure

was normal.

That's a complete healing, yes.

You know, folks, how does this happen?

You know, God is greater than anything we could conceive of.

He can-- He created the Earth.

He created the sun, the moon, the stars, everything on Earth.

He created mankind on Earth.

And what He can do is easily to fix it,

because He is God Almighty.

You know, and the Bible says, trust in the Lord, your God.

Trust in the Lord and lean not onto your own understanding.

Trust in Him.

Now, we're going to pray for you.

But what I'll ask you to do is please, right now,

as we begin to pray, that you will trust in the Lord,

and you will receive His goodness.

And you will let the joy of the Lord come into your heart.

Now, Terry and I are going to join hands.

We're going to symbolically believe God for you right now.

Father, on this Thanksgiving Day, we give thanks to you

for these answered prayers.

We give thanks to you for the blessing of God.

We give thanks to you for this great nation.

We give thanks to you for our freedom.

We give thanks to you for the bounty of this great nation

you allowed us to live in.

Now, there are other people in this audience

who are suffering.

They're hurting right now.

There's is a woman who has--

Eliza, has lupus erythematosus right now.

That lupus is being healed in the name of Jesus.

Touch her.

Terry.

Someone else, you have a skin condition.

The only thing I can say is it's like your skin sloughs off,

but it's very unsightly and uncomfortable.

God is healing that for you.

Someone else, I don't understand this,

but you have some kind of an olfactory nerve damage.

You can't smell, so you can't taste your food well,

but God is restoring that joy to you again.

Just receive it in Jesus' name.

There's somebody whose left leg shriveled.

It was-- I don't know, from birth or from polio

or whatever you had.

But anyhow, your left leg has been shriveled,

and it has been deformed.

And right now there's a creating miracle taking place.

Your leg is straightening out.

Your foot is straightening out.

It is filling out, the muscles are taking charge,

and you walk and jump and just run in joy.

Terry.

And there's someone else.

You have a problem with the thumb on your right hand.

It's like, I don't know if it was a pass

breakage or something, but you can't open jars

or it's just incredibly sore and painful.

God is totally healing and restoring that to you.

Just receive it now, in Jesus' name.

Right now we give thanks to the Lord.

We give thanks to the Lord.

Dear CBN partners, it's Thanksgiving Day,

and I want to take a moment and thank you

for being there for me when I needed prayer.

I don't know how--

--I would have survived.

When my mother abandoned me, I was so afraid.

But you loved me and gave me a wonderful place to live.

How can I sing here for the gift--

--that you brought to my village?

The drought had killed all of our crops.

What a miracle that you dug a well for our people.

We had nothing.

After the hurricane ripped through our town,

everything was gone.

But then you showed up with truckloads of food and water

and made me feel like somebody cared.

Thank you so much.

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She made her mark performing with her big sisters, Barbara

and Louise.

Then Irlene Mandrell went on to a highly-successful career

of her own.

Her latest project is very close to her heart,

a CD tribute of thanks to our nation's military.

Take a look.

NARRATOR: The youngest sister of the world-famous country trio,

the Mandrell Sisters, Irlene Mandrel is

no stranger to the spotlight.

She's won two Music City News Comedy Act of the Year awards

and has a star on the Country Music Hall of Fame walkway.

Through the years, Irlene has also

found success as an actress, model, and spokesperson.

As much as she loved working with her sisters,

now nothing brings Irlene more joy

than collaborating with her three children.

They followed in the family's musical and theatrical

footsteps and share their talent on Irlene's solo debut

project, "Thanks to You," produced

by her husband, Pat Holt.

The patriotic project is Irlene and her family's way

of saying thank you to our nation's heroes

on Thanksgiving and every day.

I wouldn't have survived.

Thanks to you.

Please welcome to "The 700 Club" Irlene Mandrell.

Great to have you with us.

Thank you, Terry.

I have loved you and watched you for years.

Oh, which is so nice.

And it's an honor to be here.

You have such a family history of performing for people,

bringing joy to people.

What was it like to be the youngest member of the Mandrell

Sister?

It was always wonderful.

It's the best now.

I love it.

No, it was great because even now, actually,

Barbara and Louise have always watched out for me.

If they knew I'm going to be doing something,

they'll make sure-- do you have everything you need?

You want to go through our closets?

And it's always, OK.

Because their closets are pretty awesome, right?

So how did you get your start, because Barbara kind of led

the troop with her own beginnings,

and then you and Louise came along later.

How did that happen for you?

Well, that's true.

Barbara was actually performing when

she was 12 on the "Johnny Cash Package Show" and all of that,

playing the guitar and sax.

But when she was a teenager and we lived in California,

my dad started a band because he loved to play.

My mom and dad met because she played keyboard in her church

and her brother was a preacher, had a church.

And Daddy's brother was an evangelist.

And they played and they met that way.

And so when the music happened, they already

had the background in music also.

So dad started a band.

They needed a bass player, so mom learned bass,

and Barbara played steel and sax and everything.

And the drummer became a Navy pilot, which--

Barbara and Ken.

He was a drummer first, but they're

married and have been forever.

And they went overseas and Louise

and I stayed with our aunt and uncle.

But they went and they performed so many places

that the USO didn't go into, places

that were pretty dangerous, but the men normally

didn't get entertainment.

But when they came back and Ken and Barbara

got married and Ken became a Navy pilot,

they went to Washington State where he was stationed.

And Barbara retired at 18.

TERRY MEEUWSEN: Good grief.

Yeah.

But Louise said to me, she goes, we've

got to keep up our instruments so we

don't want to get left behind because she's not

sticking with that.

And she didn't.

Ken went to overseas, and we then moved to Nashville.

And she came to Nashville and Dad took her to the Opry,

and she said, I need to be up there.

She needed a band, so I became her drummer.

Louise became her bass player.

TERRY MEEUWSEN: Had you drummed before that?

I did.

That's when my uncle was a drummer.

I learned a lot from him, staying

at my aunt and uncle's house.

And I was very young, and Louise was learning bass.

TERRY MEEUWSEN: But it seems like it was just

in you, like in all of you.

Like you say, Dad needed a bass player,

so my mom learned to play bass.

IRLENE MANDRELL: But she played keyboard,

and she actually taught Barbara to read music

before she could read.

That young.

So there was that foundation.

But I think with Louise and I, it was a matter of we're

going to learn these instruments because when they start

back, which we know they will, know Barbara will,

we'll be ready.

TERRY MEEUWSEN: That's awesome.

And we loved it.

And we did a lot of military in the beginning when we started.

TERRY MEEUWSEN: Speaking of military,

I want to talk about your new release, "Thanks to You."

And on the back, pictures of your beautiful children,

because you're still keeping up that family.

The family that plays together stays together.

IRLENE MANDRELL: I love that.

Well, with Barbara and Louise and we did the show together

and people loved it, said you guys seem so close.

We were always close.

We traveled on the road together.

You don't just have dinner at night.

You wake up on the bus and you get in the living room

and you share everything.

We were so close.

Now, I don't get that with my kids.

They have other lives going on, other things happening.

But when I work in town, I just recently

did a TV show that was local, and I had Derek plays drums.

I taught him drums.

He surpassed me like in a day.

But he's incredible, and the girls both

are great singers in their own right,

but they're singing background, and they're all on the album.

TERRY MEEUWSEN: How fun was it to do this project

with your children?

Incredible.

And they're on a lot of it.

I also have my niece, Christy Sutherland.

The song that I want to sing for you all, she wrote.

And she's Barbara's daughter-in-law

to her oldest son.

And she's a great Christian writer, singer,

and they love sharing their testimony.

And there's just so many in the family.

I tell you, hopefully, come back sometime and share.

I'm also writing a book.

I heard that.

And before we get away from the album,

this is also for the military we talked about.

And we did work on it with songs for about two years,

picking songs that we loved.

And Reviver Records came in and said,

if you finished this project, we'll put it out.

And they were great.

TERRY MEEUWSEN: And there's a story

to the song you're going to sing today.

Tell me about that.

It is.

And Christy being an incredible singer,

she's on the album singing some backup for me.

But we all love working with her.

And Louise had Christy on the road with her.

And they were getting ready and they had the TV on

and the news came on.

And it was a soldier at his best friend's

funeral with his best friend's family.

But his best friend had died saving his life.

TERRY MEEUWSEN: Wow.

And Chrisy said, I've got to write a song about this.

And so you'll hear.

When you hear the words, he sings somebody died for me.

But it gets to the point of nobody would be surprised

that he died saving his life.

He was such a great person.

He always used to say, somebody died for me

and talk about Jesus.

So she recorded it as a Christian song,

and a lot of people have.

But when I decided to do a military tribute, I said,

I know what song I have to have on the album.

TESTIMONY PERSON: It had to be on there.

Well, I want to mention that Irlene Mandrell's CD is

called "Thanks to You."

I'm going to let you release and walk over

because we want to hear this song you're talking about

and just get a sneak peek at what's on here.

So I'm going to let you go, and I'll tell folks

where they can get this.

It's sold wherever music is sold.

Don't forget to be on the lookout.

She talks about her new book.

It's called "God Rains Miracles,"

and that's coming out next year.

She's a busy lady.

And this morning she's busy too today.

Right now here's Irlene Mandrell singing "Somebody Died for Me."

He was a troubled kid, in and out of jail.

when his daddy said, this is the last time I'll pay bail.

He enlisted in the Army, and they sent him to Iraq.

He was a different man when he came back.

Somebody said the Army must have whipped you into shape.

But he said, that's not the reason that I've changed.

Somebody died for me before even asked for help.

He gave his life for me when I couldn't save myself.

I cannot live the way I lived or be the way I was.

Every day is a gift for me because somebody died for me.

Now they fold the flag and attach a silver star

while the grieving mother leans against his arm.

Then he stands before the family,

and he does his best to tell how he survived

the night his best friend fell.

He says no one who knew him was surprised he died that way.

He tried to live for Jesus, and he always

used to say somebody died for me before I even asked for help.

He gave his life for me when I couldn't save myself.

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Well, today marks the 91st Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

3.5 million people will line the streets of New York

to see it firsthand, with another 50 million

watching it on TV.

And there you're about to hear from the team that

makes that parade happen.

Take a look.

NARRATOR: Just 30 minutes outside of New York City

sits a plain, brick warehouse in Upstate New Jersey

that most people wouldn't even notice.

But inside, skilled artists and craftsmen

work in secrecy creating masterpieces

that millions will enjoy.

It takes a special person to work here.

NARRATOR: John Piper is the studio director.

There's something that is bigger and grander than any

of us who are involved in it.

Coming over.

NARRATOR: That something is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade,

the most celebrated parade in the world.

It takes a gifted team--

designers, carpenters, painters, welders, sculptors,

seamstresses, and others to build and maintain

every balloon, float, and costume.

Working on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade,

you get to work on some magic.

NARRATOR: But this is no child's play.

Some of these pieces tower four stories high, and the work that

starts the first of the year takes creativity, hard work,

and long hours.

It's not just the skill set and the talent

that you're looking for.

It's the passion.

So you have to turn them the right way

to make it look like animal hair.

It always goes to shed water.

John Chaney is a carpenter who's

been working with the parade for more than four decades.

Today he's working on a rocking giraffe.

So this is just regular rope, and you

have to be a bit of a hairdresser to be a parade

worker, I suppose.

NARRATOR: Set designer, Brett Garrity,

remembers catching the bug when he was a boy.

BRETT GARRITY: I saw my first parade in 1993,

and immediately, I was drawn to it.

I just thought it was the coolest thing.

NARRATOR: So at 15 years old, he wrote then studio director,

Manfred Bass, a letter asking for a job.

Until this interview, Brad didn't realize

the studio had kept the letter.

Wow.

Yeah, that's pretty wild.

He told me when you turned 16, give me a call,

and we'll see what we can do.

So when I turned 15, I called him.

They gave me a summer internship,

and I've been here ever since.

NARRATOR: In addition to the floats and balloons,

it takes thousands of volunteers to make the parade a success,

and most of them are in costume.

Kimberly Montgomery and her team are

responsible for dressing all of them.

This is Macy's costume shop here in the Macy's parade

studio.

We're on the third floor, and we have about 5,000 costumes

in this room.

NARRATOR: That includes the most famous suit of all.

There's something special about Santa growing up

in Missouri.

I remember seeing him coming in, and it

was the most exciting thing as a six-year-old to see Santa,

and that was the real Santa.

That wasn't Santa helper.

And now I know Santa personally.

Like he sends me birthday cards.

It's really awesome.

NARRATOR: With Santa's arrival, comes the end of the parade.

Costumes will be put away and the floats dismantled.

Then a late-night turkey dinner will proceed a long winter's

nap, a well-deserved break after another successful kickoff

to the holiday season.

Well, as a tradition, Macy's is a department

store, but my goodness, almost 100 years.

TESTIMONY PERSON: That's unbelievable.

Isn't that amazing?

Every year gets better and better.

They're fabulous.

The work they do is so creative, and it is such fun,

and millions of people watch it on TV.

It is the tradition.

Macy's in the morning.

Football in the afternoon.

And turkey somewhere in between.

Turkey somewhere in between or after.

All don't know.

Well, next to food, for most Americans,

Thanksgiving weekend is all about football.

And this Saturday, the Colorado Buffaloes

will face the Utah Utes in Salt Lake City.

In 2016, Mike MacIntyre was the college football coach

of the year after leaving the Buffaloes to their first top 25

ranking in 14 years.

Recently, [INAUDIBLE] sat down to talk with Coach MacIntyre

at Folsom Field in Boulder.

NARRATOR: Colorado head coach, Mike MacIntyre,

took a perennial losing program and transformed the Buffaloes

back into a national contender.

When Mike was named college football's 2006 team

coach of the year, fitting that his rebuild in Boulder

began from rubble.

TOM: Coach, give me that recruiting pitch

you give to play here at the University of Colorado?

Well, number one, it's just a special place.

It's been voted the most beautiful campus

in America multiple times.

You have an unbelievable outdoor setting.

I call it the ultimate college experience.

MIKE MACINTYRE: You have a small town with everything,

but we're only 23 miles from downtown Denver.

And it's a nationally-known university

that has a lot of pride and a lot of prestige.

TOM: College football faces that constant turnover of roster.

You are a program builder.

How do you perfect something that's so fluid?

MIKE MACINTYRE: It's very hard.

And I learned a little bit of being

in the pros with Bill Parcells and how

he managed a roster because it turns

over more than it used to.

You have to always recruit.

You have to look at who your juniors are, not just

your seniors that are leaving.

You're replacing, really, your juniors.

We have to manage our roster that way of recruiting.

TOM: Every head coach has to father, but specific to you,

Coach Mike, how did you father players?

MIKE MACINTYRE: Great, great question.

My belief in Jesus Christ is most important thing

in my life.

What I do to be able to father correctly

is to spend time in the mornings by myself,

to get my heart, my soul my mind correct,

to be able to handle the situations

and handle the young men like I would my son.

It's loving them where they are, helping them move and achieve.

And when they're 30, what are they doing then?

Are they a husband that stays true?

Are they a father that never leaves?

Are they a businessman that can be counted on

in whatever they do?

And I think that really guides me in a better principle.

TOM: What is adversity's greatest gain?

MIKE MACINTYRE: That's when the true growth happens.

Comfort is not where you grow.

You grow in conflict.

Easy to say, but hard to do.

Adversity's greatest gain as I grow closer to Christ I

still understand that God is in control,

and he always knows my situation.

It's not too big for him, and he has a plan for me.

But sometimes the plan is not exactly what I want.

But the plan is, hopefully, to influence other people

for eternity as they watch me go through that situation.

TOM: You're a recipient of multiple coach-of-the-year

awards.

Even in the back of your mind doing this as long as you have,

does it validate my program can work here?

MIKE MACINTYRE: You always have those moments

when you're sitting there by yourself,

is it going to happen?

The individual awards were nice.

There's no doubt about that.

But at the same time, that means our team did really well.

And that means that those young men

are buying in, becoming one.

They're understanding what it's all about.

My dad won some of those same awards,

and we're the first father-son to ever win that.

And when my dad dying in the same year I won all those,

was a validation.

Hey, Dad, thanks for showing me Christ

and showing me what the right way to try to do things.

TOM: On game days, with cameras on you,

they'll cut to you on the sideline.

We can feel the pressure and the stress.

What anchors you in that moment?

MIKE MACINTYRE: It's not wrong to show

your emotions in the right way.

And I have a passion for our players.

I have a passion for the game.

I carry a coin in my pocket.

It's my father's coin when he won the Bobby Dodd award,

and now I have one, which is pretty cool.

I just take it and rub it.

It's kind of my count to 10, calm-me-down situation.

It's not a good luck charm.

It's for situations like that.

TOM: You are an ambassador for an academic institution.

You're also very outspoken with deep convictions.

When do they conflict?

When do the compliment?

MIKE MACINTYRE: Wow, that's a great question.

There's a lot of rules and laws that I

follow that our country has set up in the universities,

so I definitely follow those.

But I can still be who I am, still

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We still have this freedom of speech on that side of that,

and so there are some conflicting situations there.

But at the same time, it still goes back to my faith

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who I am Mike MacIntyre, but who I am in Jesus Christ.

TOM: Where do you get your identity and approval

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MIKE MACINTYRE: I fight that often.

I really do.

Because I want to be successful, and I want our kids

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And I want to do well, and I want

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Well, we wish you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving.

This is our special for Thanksgiving for all of you.

And may the Lord's glory shine forth in your heart.

Enjoy your turkey.

Enjoy your music.

Enjoy your football.

And let me help you enjoy "The 700 Club."

Singer-songwriter, Jessi Colter, is

known as the first lady of outlaw country.

And along with her husband, the late Waylon Jennings,

she forever changed America's country music.

Jessi's personal life is as storied

as her professional life, and her journey of love and faith

is equally as powerful.

NARRATOR: Jesse Colter, a name etched

in country music history.

A singer and songwriter, Jessi's first big hit

came in 1975 with "I'm Not Lisa," that topped both country

and pop music charts.

She's also known for her rocky marriage

to the late country music legend, Waylon Jennings,

and for standing by him as he fought

his own demons of addiction.

We met with Jessi at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

in Nashville, where she talked about her new memoir,

"An Outlaw and a Lady," a book about her marriage

to Waylon and her journey to a lasting faith in Jesus.

Born Miriam Johnson in Phoenix, Jessi's faith

was shaped by her mother, a Pentecostal evangelist.

It was her faith, her faith in God, her staying attached

to God in prayer, in praise.

The heritage of faith, is what I'm talking about,

is better than money, celebrity.

It's a marvelous-- something that's

implanted in you that can't be forsaken for long.

NARRATOR: At 18, she married producer and pop

star, Duane Eddy.

Intrigued by his philosophy on life of intellectualism

and objectivism, she began to question her Christian beliefs.

I had looked into Buddhism.

I was into this "Urantia" Book."

I'd accepted Ayn Rand, existence exist.

There is no big universe, a father all this stuff.

I thought, well, maybe Christ came as Krishna.

Maybe he came as Buddha.

The places I walked are not places that I would recommend.

I thought this is really intellectual.

This is really smart.

Yet I was looking in all the places

and not finding what I needed.

NARRATOR: As Jesse drifted further from God,

her marriage started unraveling.

After six years, the couple divorced.

By then, Jessi and Waylon had collaborated

on several projects.

As the two continued sharing their mutual love for music,

they became inseparable.

They married in 1969, forming a country music power duo

that achieved rapid success.

We were surprised and happy.

It was just that simple.

We didn't know the impact of what

it was going to do until Waylon went down to Texas

and found the young people were really discovering our music.

NARRATOR: The couple released two top 40 singles, "Suspicious

Minds" and "Under Your Spell."

Then in 1975, Jessi released her breakthrough single,

"I'm Not Lisa."

The following year, she and Waylon

were featured on the groundbreaking album, "Wanted,

The Outlaws" with country legends, Willie Nelson

and Tom Paul Glaser.

Both had children from previous marriages,

and Jessi says Waylon loved all of them.

But his growing addiction to cocaine

was tearing their marriage apart.

And Waylon was so much fun and so celebrative and so creative

that he was great to be around.

But I came to a point where I feel like it was

getting physically destructive.

And I just had to make a decision.

And one day I was opening the door to this little house

we lived in and I said, well, there's always God.

All you can do is pray at certain points.

That's all you can do.

NARRATOR: In 1976, Jessi turned her heart, her marriage,

and her husband over to God.

I had good reason to leave the marriage.

And I had a day in my life on my knees after fasting.

I said I know you'll blessed me if I leave or you'll bless me

if I stay.

No matter what I want.

What do you want?

And those points of submission are amazing what happens.

And I stayed.

And so from that time on, I knew that my spiritual father was

my partner, and I was there for Waylon,

and I was there for Him.

NARRATOR: She says only then was she

able to love Waylon with the love of God

and pray for her husband.

Then in 1979, they had a son, Waylon Shooter Jennings.

Five years later, Waylon got over his addiction to cocaine.

He quit cold turkey, as Jessi poured

his last stash of the drug in the toilet and flushed it away.

In that moment, she shouted hallelujah.

But one prayer had yet to be answered.

JESSI COLTER: I was so excited when I came back into my faith

and wanted so for him to share that, but he wasn't there.

And so I had to learn through trial and error

to just live it.

And I did.

NARRATOR: By 2001, Waylon's health

had been deteriorating for years.

On Thanksgiving Day, he gave his life to Jesus.

He said the rest of my life is going

to be a mark for the good.

He made that decision.

NARRATOR: A few months later in 2002, he

passed away due to complications from diabetes.

Jessi found peace in knowing he had

accepted Jesus in his heart.

Jessi recently released an album called "The Psalms."

She says she sees traces of her own life

through the story of the biblical character, David.

JESSI COLTER: David so speaks to our human condition.

He gets so mad, he gets so trouble,

and yet he always comes to worship.

If you read the psalms, you just can't miss yourself.

It will show you yourself.

NARRATOR: Through that, Jessi hopes

people discover how God's love can restore the broken parts

of their lives.

JESSI COLTER: And if we just say, I just need you,

I need you to be in this, he know me better than I do.

He's been truly the lover of my soul.

I'm hoping that it gives people some direction

and acknowledging the power of prayer,

because I'm a prayer answered.

Amazing lady.

Those outlaws are something else--

Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson.

Do you like that, country?

I do.

I didn't grow up with it, but I like it.

PAT ROBERTSON: Well, I'm a fan of country.

I really think-- the outlaws.

I didn't realize Waylon had become to the Lord that way.

That's wonderful.

It's really beautiful.

What a great for her.

JESSI COLTER: Well, anyhow, Jessi Colter,

what a marvelous testimony, and what a lovely lady.

She is beautiful.

And you remember that song, "I'm Not Lisa?"

I remember it well.

It was a smash.

Yeah, I didn't realize she was the one,

but anyway, the first lady of outlaw country.

So you've seen it here on "The 700 Club."

But listen, she's got the truth, and she knows the truth.

And she's suffered.

She's gone through some difficult times,

but she still maintains her faith in the Lord

and is still praising the Lord.

What a beautiful, beautiful lady.

Well, folks, this has been our Thanksgiving special here

at CBN.

We're delighted you could share it with us.

And we leave you with today's Power Minute from Psalm 107.

"Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His mercy

endures forever."

Well, that's all the time we've got

for this edition of Thanksgiving.

Have a marvelous day.

Don't eat too much, and eat enough turkey

to really enjoy it.

Or eat enough today, fast tomorrow.

Whatever you do.

Remember, we'll be back on the air.

We'll see you tomorrow.

So for all of us, this is Pat Robertson.

Goodbye.

God bless you

Dear CBN partners, it's Thanksgiving Day,

and I want to take a moment and thank you

for being there for me when I needed prayer.

I don't know how--

I would have survived.

When my mother abandoned me, I was so afraid.

But you loved me and gave me a wonderful place to live.

How can I thank you for the--

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The drought had killed all of our crops.

What a miracle that too dug well for our people.

We had nothing.

After the hurricane ripped through our town,

everything was gone.

But then you showed up truckloads of food and water,

made me feel like somebody cared.

Thank you so much.

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