- [Hubert] Chances arethere'll be a young girl

trafficked in your ZIP code tonight.

- [Gordon] Sex trafficking is an epidemic.

- [Hubert] And they gettrafficked by their own family

for drugs, for rent money, for whatever.

- [Gordon] See how these victims

are finding support and healing.

- They love me even ondays I don't love myself.

- [Gordon] Plus, it was theadventure of a lifetime.

- Saw one yesterday.

- That nearly ended in death

at the hands of a grizzly bear.

Hear that remarkablestory of survival and more

all on today's 700 Club Interactive.

Welcome to the show.

Doctors nationwide aretaking a new approach

to treating their patients,and it's a welcome change.

They're starting to prescribe food

instead of medicine to treat illness.

- Well in Chesapeake, Virginia,

a food pharmacy will be opening soon.

Those with illnesses likediabetes or hypertension

will be able to get prescriptions,

and instead of receiving pills,

they'll get an order forfruits and vegetables.

Residents will be able to get free food

for their entire family

and the prescription couldlast for up to a year.

- Local health officials say

they hope to improve thecommunity's access to healthy food

and help their patients see the connection

between what they eat and how they feel.

Jennifer Robinson, a nurse

and Chesapeake Regional directorof post-acute care says,

"We've created barriers,and I'm just not interested

"in any more barriers.

"How can I help you and help your family

"so that they don't need to utilize

"the healthcare industry so much

"for things we could'veprevented a long time ago

"if you just had some good, decent meals

"three times a day?"

And yes and amen for this.

This has been something throughout history

where doctors were moreconcerned about what you ate

in the treatment, and thelink between food and illness

has been there for a very long time.

In modern days, we've gotteninto the pill form of treatment

instead of looking at thingslike diet and exercise.

And if you go away fromall the preservatives

and all the additivesin our modern food chain

and get back to some basic things

like fresh fruit and vegetables

and meat without anyhormones or antibiotics

and these other things

and pay attention,- Yeah, it's a great idea.

- it will really change you.

- It's a great idea.

I think this is gonna grab hold

and we're gonna see it happening

- Yeah.- across the board,

hope so.- I've been grabbing hold

of that, hadn't let to any weight loss,

but anyway, feel pretty good.

Well there's some goodnews for Atlanta residents.

The city is turning sevenacres of vacant land

into the largest free foodforest in the country,

and volunteers hope it will solve

a major problem in the area.

- It's part of the city's efforts

to bring healthy food within a half a mile

to 85% of Atlanta residents by 2022.

Currently in that area,there are no grocery stores

in a reasonable walking distance.

It's basically a food desert area,

an urban area whereaffordable, nutritious,

fresh food, again, is difficult to find.

They're usually found in low-income areas.

36% of Atlanta was giventhis classification in 2017.

- Well this new food forestwill produce a wide variety

of fresh, flavorful, andhealthy nuts, fruits,

vegetables, herbs, and mushrooms,

which will all beavailable for the public.

And congratulations to Atlanta.

And that's one of the,I think, untold stories,

that in our urban areas,in our inner cities,

you have these fooddeserts where, literally,

you don't have access tofresh fruit, fresh vegetables.

It's literally unattainable,for you can't walk

to the grocery store.

It used to be there usedto be a grocery store

on every corner.

Those are long gone and you need a car

to drive to one of the big stores,

and if you don't have that, well then,

you're stuck in a fooddesert, and as a result,

you're also stuck with a bad diet.

- And the freshnessfactor and the shelf life,

when it's right off thevine or out of the ground,

it's considerably longer

so that's great.- And it's considerably

better for you.- Yes.

- Well speaking of foodand feeding others,

a nine-year-old boy is doingjust that in Napa, California.

He found out many of his peers

couldn't afford to pay theirschool lunch debt, so he did.

Take a look.

- [Mom] Watch your fingers.

- [Reporter] Cooking andmealtime are important parts

of the Kirkpatrick family's day.

(blender whirs)

So when nine-year-old Ryan hada conversation with his mom

about kids who couldn'tafford school lunches,

he decided to do something about it.

He asked his mom to find outhow much fellow third-graders

at West Park Elementary School owed.

- I think 74.50.

So I took that email and came to Ryan

and said, "What do you want to do?"

And he said, "I guess I can pay for it."

And I said, "Are you sure?"

He said, "Yes."

- [Reporter] He used his allowance money,

which he would normallyuse to buy sports gear.

- This one's from Posey,this one's from Brandon.

- And gave it all to the school.

Depending on income levels,elementary school meals

range in price from 30 cents to 3.25 each.

Still, district policy says that students

with a negative lunch accountwill still receive a hot meal.

Ryan anonymously paid forthe outstanding debts.

- I want them just to realize

people actually think about them

instead of just telling them what they did

because you're just bragging about stuff.

So I want them to feel happy

that someone actually cares about them.

- That is really deep wisdom from a child.

To let people know we'reactually thinking about you

and not bragging about what we did.

We're thinking about you andwe're telling you that we care.

- Yeah, that's wonderful.- That's one of the keys

to providing aid to anyone.

They have to know firstthat you love them,

that you care for them, that you see them

in their condition, and thatyou want to make a difference.

- Yeah, good job mom inencouraging that sensitivity factor

in your little one.- Good job all the way around.

- Yeah, that's awesome.

Well a 12-year-old girlis making a difference

in the lives of kids across the country.

Ella was diagnosed with ITP.

That's a condition that causesunusually low platelet levels

and excessive bleeding and bruising.

Ella has to be hooked up to an IV

every eight weeks for treatment.

Since she know how intimidatingthe process can be,

she developed a way to makeIVs seem less scary for kids.

- Ella invented the Medi Teddy,

a pouch on the back of a teddy bear

that holds IV bags or bottles.

As you can see, the tubesand needles look less scary

and intimidating, and Ellais adamant that Medi Teddy

be a non-profit so she cangive back to other kids

going through a similarexperience as she did.

If you want to help Ella,

all you have to do isgo to her GoFundMe page,

and you already see they'veshattered their goal,

but still, what a wonderful thing

for children's hospitalsacross the nation.

Yay.- It's amazing how,

you know, it's scriptural, Romans 8:28,

but all things work together for good.

Here she is strugglingwith her own challenges,

and out of that comes something

that impacts--- Comes a wonderful idea.

- Yeah, unbelievable.- To say how can we make this

a more pleasant experience, yeah.

Well yesterday markedthe four year anniversary

of a sad day in our nation.

On June 17th, 2015,

Dylann Roof entered the Emanuel AME Church

in Charleston, South Carolina

and he took the livesof nine of its members.

A documentary from executiveproducers Steph Curry

and Viola Davis and director Brian Ivie

was released to commemoratethe four-year anniversary.

- The documentary, "Emanuel,"was made in partnership

with the city of Charlestonand all 10 affected families.

It features interviews withsurvivors and family members

and it's a story ofjustice, faith, love, hate,

and the healing power of forgiveness.

Here's the trailer.

- She said, "You better get over here,"

she said, "'cause I got to go."

I said, "You know what?

"You catch me at the car."

And I could hear her inthe car talking to somebody

and that's the last time I saw her.

- [Reporter] I'm outsidethe Emanuel AME Church.

We do know that severalpeople have been shot.

- He sat through the whole Bible study.

When we closed our eyes to pray,

that when he lit up the room.

- [Man] I've seen other cities explode,

but now we have ninedead bodies in a church.

There's gonna be a response.

- Oh, but God works in mysterious ways.

(audience applauds)(inspiring music)

- I remember their response.

Their response, literallywithin hours of the shooting,

is we forgive the shooter.

It was an unbelievabletestimony of their Christianity,

their devotion to faith, that we forgive,

we love our enemies.

And what a great thing foreveryone in America to hear

and to see and to experience.

Well "Emanuel" will be in movie theaters

across the country.

There's only one day that you can see it,

it's June 19th, so mark your calendar.

That's the only day it'sgoing to be in theaters.

Make sure you go because it'llbe an incredible experience.

- Well coming up, an incredible story.

He was viciously attacked bya grizzly bear and survived.

Greg Matthews shares his incredible story.

It's next, so stay with us.

(dramatic music)

Greg Matthews planned thehunting trip of a lifetime

only to end up being the hunted.

Take a look at this.

- [Narrator] Greg Matthews and his brother

planned a 10-day hunting tripinto a remote area of Alaska.

- Saw one yesterday.

- [Narrator] It started out asthe adventure of a lifetime,

but on September 22nd,2015, everything changed.

Greg came face-to-face witha vicious grizzly bear.

The attack was gruesome, butmiraculously, Greg survived.

In his book, "Wild Awakening,"

Greg shares his remarkablestory of survival

and how a relentlessanimal actually healed

his wounded heart.

- Joining me now is Greg Matthews.

It's great to have you here.

- Thank you very--- It's great to have you

anywhere after

this experience,- Right.

Thank you for having me.- right?

I could relate to this

because I come from a family of hunters

and I've watched my brothersand my dad hunt for years.

But this trip that you planned for,

I mean you planned for acouple of years for this.

You had everything youcould conceivably think of,

which paid off later on, butit was amazingly planned for

and you and your brother wereso looking forward to this.

You were going to hunt moose.

- Yes.

- But you were concernedabout wolves and grizzlies.

- Yes ma'am.

- So what did you thinkwhen, here you are,

you're out there, yourbrother's making moose calls

quite a distance awayfrom you, and suddenly,

you're confronted with not just a grizzly,

but a mama grizzly.

- It was very concerning,to say the least.

And thank you for having me on.

- It's so good to have you.- I greatly appreciate it.

It was very, very concerningbecause, when I looked up,

I thought it was gonnabe fulfilling a dream

of a big game hunt,hunting moose with a bow.

And it turned out it was a grizzly.

It was about eight and ahalf feet tall, 600 pounds.

- Oof!

- And to complicate things even more,

there were two sub-adultcubs right underneath her,

and it was, she was on me within seconds.

It didn't take long atall for that encounter.

- Sometimes we, in our minds, we imagine

how we would handle something like that,

but it always happensfaster and more unexpectedly

and puts us in more of anincapacitated situation

than we could imagine.

I mean you were mauled immediately.

- Yes.- Talk a little bit

about the attack and what happened.

- So once I saw the bear,

I was very, very concerned, obviously,

that there was gonna be an encounter.

I ended up basically coming to a point

where I grabbed my rifle instead of my bow

because a bow is not a good choice,

but I ended up having to standmy ground as she charged.

I shot the thing right in the face

and it didn't do anything.

- Wow.

- It lunged at me.

I basically stuck thebarrel of it in its mouth

and the barrel came backand hit me in the head

and then she pinned me.

First bite was to my face.

And after that, it tookmy head in its mouth

two different times.

Completely felt likemy head was in a vice.

- And the claws.

I mean she just rippedthe back of your head

and down your neck.

What were you thinking during this?

- This point, I was thinking two things.

One, praying to God, andI knew that I had to pray

because I had got to a point

where there was nothing left.

And the other thing wasjust sheer survival,

using all my skillswithin the fire department

that I had learned, just surviving,

and so I just interlacedmy fingers over my neck

and spread my legs and my elbows

and I just could not beflipped back over on my back.

That was my only thingthat I was trying to do.

- So how, and this went on for some time.

I mean you detail it in the book.

I mean I'm hurting for you

as I'm reading it, you know?- It's amazing.

- You can't see at this point.

Your eyes are filled with blood.

Your ears are ringing.

I mean did you think you were gonna die?

- I was convinced that I was going to die.

I thought that first biteto my face and my neck,

which opened up a hole aboutthe size of a tennis ball,

I thought my face was gone,literally, I couldn't see.

I realized after the violent head shake

after it bit into my arm andlifted me up off the ground

and basically threw me, I knew I was done,

I was gonna be basicallytaking on my last breath.

- Your brother comes fromwhere he is to where you are,

sees what's going on, and how does this,

how do you get rid of this bear?

- Well my brother, theLord gave him a special,

he's a brave man anyway,

the Lord gave him aspecial measure of courage

and he was able to charge that bear.

He couldn't shoot it off of me

because it was in between us

and the bullet might've gone through,

but he charged it and,finally, he got close enough

that the bear droppedmy leg and turned it,

and he said the bear'sface was completely covered

with blood and that it charged him

and he was able to shoot it twice,

and that still didn't kill it.

- It went off into the brush.- Went off

into the woods, yes, ma'am.- Yeah.

So here you are, I meanyou're about a mile and a half

in this condition, you can'tsee, you're barely moving,

and you've got to getback to where your boat is

that delivered you to this place.

And then, once you get back to the boat,

you're what, 10 miles from--- 10 mile boat ride.

- 10 mile boat ride.

Your cell phones are not working

in this area.- Right.

- During this, you askedthe obvious question

that most people would, "Why God?"

I mean "Why is this happening to me?"

And you kept hearingthe Lord and your family

speak to you, saying what?

- They were saying, theLord specifically says,

"I am not done with youand you need to fight."

And then He put a vision of myfamily right in front of me,

saying, "Daddy, you have tofight to come home to us,"

and gave me that vision too.

'Cause you know, whenyou inspire the heart,

you're capable of doing alot of incredible things.

And when the Lord inspiresyour heart, it just,

yeah, I just knew, I knew it.

- I want to talk aboutthe spiritual implications

of what happened to you in this.

One of the reasons thatyou had been a hunter,

that you'd been involvedin survival techniques,

that you'd done, really,some life threatening work

over the years was becauseof your relationship

with your dad.

He left when you were, what, 10 years old?

- [Greg] Yes.

Eight years old.

- Eight years old, wow.- Yes, ma'am.

- And so that had leftsuch a hole in your heart

and you kept trying to be the guy

that was gonna make your dad love you,

make your dad proud of you

without realizing that youkinda even laid that on God,

- [Greg] Yes.

- as God's child.

So how did this turnthings around for you?

- This is actually the bestthing about this whole story.

There is a grizzly attack, it's detailed.

I will put you there for that story.

But the amazing story is what God did

during that whole process tosave my life from a wound,

at eight years old like you said.

He completely turned it around.

He showed me that I was loved.

He showed me that I had always been loved.

And then he overlighted the fact that

that lie of the enemy thatyou allowed on your heart

at eight years old that said

that you are not worthy of love,

that you have donesomething terribly wrong,

and that your dad has left because of that

was an absolute lie.

And He dispelled that and He showed up

when I had nothing leftand said, "I love you.

"You know I love you.

"Your dad has alwaysloved you the same way."

- And I love the way that you went back

after asking God where he was.

"Jesus, where were youduring all of this?"

You went all the way back tothe very beginning of your life

and God showed you the whole plan.

- Yes, absolutely.- Yeah, amazing.

Amazing.

It is an incredible book

and you can find out more of Greg's story.

When I tell you we'reskimming the surface,

I mean we're skimming the surface.

It's called "Wild Awakening," and listen,

you're getting the first info about it.

It's not out untiltomorrow, but it's available

wherever books are sold starting tomorrow.

Great gift for anyone in your life,

especially finding out about the whys

of how God loves us.

- Absolutely.- Thank you, Greg.

So nice to have you hereand what a great book.

- [Greg] Thank you very much.

It's been a privilege.- Gordon.

Yeah, Gordon.

- Still to come, the hidden problem

in every ZIP code in America,

children being sold into sex slavery.

- By their own family fordrugs, for rent money,

for whatever.

Some of the most difficult cases for us

is when a young girl was trafficked

when she was five, six, seven years old.

- See how one ministryis providing healing,

self-sufficiency, and afuture for these victims

when we come back.

(dramatic music)

The victims of sex traffickingoften suffer for years,

and those who do get outface a long road of healing.

But as CBN's Paul Strand shows us,

many victims are findingthe love and care they need

at a place called The Hope Center.

- So many people are willing to pay

so much money to buy sex.

It's a horrible scourge.

But victims can escape sex trafficking

and go on to lead whole,new, wonderful lives.

It's that hope that The HopeCenter Indy is all about.

Indianapolis PastorHubert Nolen wanted more

than leading a church.

- A ministry that would go to the streets

and the highways and byways andbring in the less fortunate,

the least of these, the broken,the bruised, the battered.

- [Paul] The multi-billiondollar global business

of sex trafficking createsmillions of such victims.

- What is your ZIP code?

And whatever your ZIP code is,

chances are there'll be a young girl

trafficked in your ZIP code tonight.

And that's how rampantit really is in America.

- [Paul] God put onNolen's heart a mission

to quit his church and helpvictims of sex trafficking.

- At the same time as Istep aside from the church,

this 26-acre campus,210,000 square foot facility

comes on the market.

- [Paul] And so far, dozens of women

have fled to the ministry.

We're keeping identities secret

because there have alreadybeen attempts by traffickers

to take them from the center.

The women here get a home, education,

food, therapy, and the gospel.

Were you sort of trapped in a,

like a real, scary place?- Yep, yeah.

Rape, physical abuse.

Yeah, mostly sexual abuse.

- [Paul] It turned her intosomeone she didn't want to be.

- An addict, an alcoholic,a liar, a manipulator.

- [Paul] And Barbara'spast isn't even close

to some of the worst here.

- And they get trafficked bytheir own family for drugs,

for rent money, for whatever.

And so some of the most difficult cases

for us to deal with is whena young girl was trafficked

when she was five, six, seven years old.

- [Paul] Barbara finallyescaped from her pimp.

- I hid away in another state

for a little over four years.

- [Paul] Then she heard Pastor Nolen's son

and partner in the ministry.

- He was talking to a groupof people about Hope Center

and what they were doing hereand what God was doing here

and that was it.

- [Paul] It called to you?

- It called me loud and itsaid, "Come home, come home."

- [Paul] Barbara and the others

are helped by volunteerslike Janell Moore,

who says she can relate to them.

- I had an affair, got pregnant,my husband divorced me.

People look down on themand think that their past

portrays who they are, and thatdoesn't have to be that way.

- [Paul] Moore suffers fromALS, a terminal illness,

but that doesn't stop her.

- I transport the girls andmentor a handful of them.

The girls can trust me.

I can love on them.

- They're able to take themost difficult problems

and the most difficult things

and just, with the most simplestanswers, help you fix it.

From the moment I got here,

they loved me even ondays I don't love myself.

- [Paul] Moore can't imagine a better way

to spend her last days.

- And they say, "Why do youspend your time with us?"

And I said, "Because I love you.

"Because God sent me here."

- [Paul] She was toldmore than five years ago

she'd be dead in two to five years.

- By God's grace, I'm still here.

God gives me strength every day.

- Over the last two years,

we've had over 100,000 volunteer hours

served here at The Hope Center.

- [Paul] Nolen loves thefact it's mainly believers

helping in this work.

- I think the greatest joy for me

is to see the body of Christ

and to see what it's actuallydoing for these women

and how we have becomeone and we are unified

for a cause and a purpose.

- [Paul] He hasn't wanted help or cash

from most other sources.

- The federal government, stategovernment, or tax dollars,

I just felt like I wanted Jesus dollars.

- [Paul] The center's turningout successes educationally.

- Just this year, we've had a graduate

that's now in college.

In her first semester, she pulled a 3.87.

- [Paul] And spiritually.

- Over the last year or so,

we've seen about 30 to 35 of them

make a public confessionof faith in Christ.

- There's nothing I can't do

and recover from with God on my side.

I have learned thathere at The Hope Center.

- Hope Center Indy issalvaging so many lives.

And guess what?

It's without federalprograms or tax dollars.

This is what the powerof the church can do

when it's unleashed and when believers

put their minds and their backs to it.

Paul Strand, CBN News.

- There is no limit to whatwe can do if we just believe.

Terry, you were saying that, yes,

this is happening in every ZIP code.

- In places that you would not imagine.

Truck stops.

You know, just where highways intersect

in the middle of the country.

I mean it's such a massive problem.

And I love the fact that thisis happening in the church.

You know, this help iscoming from the church,

that it's not government money,

it's not some bigprogram in Washington DC,

it's people caring aboutmaking a difference

and then doing something about it.

I just--- What would you tell someone

how to get started?

What would be the first

step?- Well, I think you could

find out about organizationslike The Hope Center in Indy

and then support them.

And if you can, look at the lady with ALS.

My word, she's thereworking with these women,

establishing trust, loving on them.

Everybody can do something.

If you can't go there every day,

then support what they're doing.

I mean it costs to do that,

and if we don't want Washington to do it,

then we need to stand behindit and make sure it gets done.

- Well, God wants us

to do it (laughs).- Yes, He does.

He's our--- You know, Washington

is not our God.

God wants us to do it,- Amen.

- and God wants us to reachout to people who need help.

It's the story of the Good Samaritan.

When you see somebody lying,

bleeding on the side ofthe road, do you pass on by

or do you say, "What can I do?"

And for the Good Samaritan,yeah, he was busy

and he couldn't stay there,so he found an innkeeper

and said, "Could you take care of it?

"And here's some money to help."

We can all do our part,

maybe not hands on, butwe can all do our part.

And yes, let's do whatever we can

to get this scourge out of our country

because it is a scourge.

For more information on The Hope Center

and how to find out how youcan help, go to CBNNews.com.

Here's a scripture from John.

This is My commandment,that you love one another

as I have loved you.

Let that be your commandment for today.

Love others just as God has loved you.

God bless you.

We'll see you again.

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