How Cindi’s Hope is Changing the World – Dr. Cindi Mendoza

[00:00:00] 9/7 19 and now here’s your host Kevin Conover bring your time

[00:00:06] welcome to educate for life I’m your host Kevin Conover and my website is educate for life gorg I’m here in

[00:00:11] Southern California on Cape Rays radio we are airing on FM 106.1 in North

[00:00:17] County as well as AM 12:10 here in San Diego and I have some an exciting guest

[00:00:24] on the program today the the stuff that’s happening is incredible you know I’m an apologist and what that

[00:00:30] means is I defend a biblical worldview I defended my job I I school I teach high

[00:00:36] school students how to know the truth of Christianity and then how to defend it and one of the things that comes up

[00:00:41] frequently whenever I’m you know talking with skeptics or maybe atheists or

[00:00:47] agnostics who say you know I’m not really interested in religion because I feel that religion does more harm than

[00:00:52] good in the world and you know this is something that comes up very frequently and I have a guest today on the radio

[00:00:59] who is and and I think there are many people that are doing incredible things to help people around the world but this

[00:01:06] ministry that I’m going to be talking about today is doing something that’s just phenomenal in rescuing people you

[00:01:14] may or may not know that human trafficking is a huge problem in the world today there are in fact more

[00:01:19] slaves in the world today than ever before in world history according to the stats on human trafficking and one of

[00:01:25] the big places this is happening in the world is in Kenya as well as Rwanda this

[00:01:31] year does mark the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide you’re probably familiar with that there was a movie

[00:01:37] made about it an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and politically moderate Hutu were killed in just a hundred days in

[00:01:44] 1994 and thousands more were subjected to sexual violence and tortured in a

[00:01:49] system at systemic campaign by the Hutu ethnic majority my guest today is dr.

[00:01:54] Cindy Mendoza and her Ministry of Cyndi’s hope org you can check it out on the web Cindy’s – hope org is reaching

[00:02:04] out and rescuing orphan girls out of human trafficking dr. Mendoza thanks for

[00:02:09] being on the program today oh it’s my pleasure thank you for having me Kevin absolutely and you where are you

[00:02:16] originally from dr. Mendoza I’m from San Diego yes that is my hometown I went to

[00:02:25] UCSD for my undergrad okay fantastic and and so you right now you have two two

[00:02:32] schools in Kenya another one in Rwanda and two more coming in Rwanda that are

[00:02:38] specifically meant to educate reach out and educate and help young girls who had

[00:02:46] been involved in human trafficking or we’re at risk for human trafficking is that right yes the two schools in Kenya

[00:02:54] we started I started back in 2011 I started with one and it grew but the

[00:03:00] girls that attends to me till we have South Sudanese Somali Ethiopian Kenyan

[00:03:07] Ugandan we have there six different nationalities that attend the two schools in Kenya and those lots of

[00:03:15] different histories and background that the children come to cities hope and from orphans to sexually abused to be

[00:03:24] rescued from being traded to be you know the fourth wife in South Sudan little

[00:03:30] girls whose parents were murdered right in front of them and and they were completely orphaned coming on a bus from

[00:03:37] Ethiopia and they get to attend Cindy cope Academy so where there’s full boarding facilities and Christian

[00:03:44] education well now usually I’m sorry you mentioned that rescued from being the fourth wife

[00:03:51] is that what you said yes that’s what I said so in South Sudan there are still civil war and civil unrest in South

[00:03:58] Sudan and some of these children and even women widows as Kumiko boss’ll

[00:04:04] rescues and has quite a few widows will walk across the border to walk through

[00:04:09] South Sudan to come into Kenya or Ethiopia because their deaf community

[00:04:15] was burned down and their parents were murdered and killed and they are fleeing

[00:04:20] so they walk three days to the border either gambelli refugee camp or into

[00:04:27] Kenya and I work with another partner ministry who identifies little girls

[00:04:32] that are orphaned that are going to be traded as why because they don’t have

[00:04:38] anybody to speak for them and therefore it is acceptable to buy another wife traded girl for a boat and these little

[00:04:46] girls are then brought to Cindy’s Hope in Kenya and then they’re given

[00:04:52] opportunity they get to go to school they’re fully character aborted clothed fed and taken care of

[00:04:58] Wow so so that and that reference to the fourth wife that’s that’s because in a

[00:05:05] large majority or a large portion of the population is follows Islam and under Sharia law a man is allowed to have four

[00:05:12] wives is that what you’re referring to when you say the fourth wife well in South Sudan you they’d still practice

[00:05:18] polygamy and yes so they can have child rides and and and many wives in my

[00:05:25] Somali and my Ethiopian families usually the husband just leaves and the mom then

[00:05:32] has seven kids eight kids and it’s one lady who is uneducated has never Audra

[00:05:40] been to school and she is left trying to find how to care for these children he

[00:05:45] then come to Cindy’s hope and the children really has never gone to school so you have a 13 year old 11 year old

[00:05:51] and they don’t even know their ABCs they only know how to speak their language in

[00:05:56] Somali or Ethiopia Amharic or Monroe so

[00:06:01] they’re speaking these other foreign language and then they come to see me so we we teach English and they also know

[00:06:07] we are going to teach Christianity so we map memory verses every week they have Chapel weekly and so yes you have the

[00:06:16] Sharia law you have abandoned women you have orphans you have sex traffic you have sexually abused girls you just have

[00:06:23] orphaned girls from the war so so Cindy tell us about this did you did you know

[00:06:31] that this was something you were going to do when you were a young were you in high school thinking to yourself you know what I’m going to go start a school

[00:06:37] in Africa I’m going to rescue a girl out of human trafficking is that what happened not at all I knew when I first

[00:06:47] became born-again and when a in my early 20s the Lord had told me to go back to get a teaching certificate so when I had

[00:06:53] graduated from UCSD it was in political science at Japanese studies that was my focus and then I went back to school to

[00:07:02] get teaching certificates and masters and doctors so I knew the Lord was calling me to Christian education but I

[00:07:09] and in the mission field but I had no idea that I was going to start schools and missionary also required you to know

[00:07:17] human resources and accounting and I had no idea that this is where it would take

[00:07:23] me in it and the Lord the more you submit to what the Lord is your calling the figurative enos it’s far bigger and

[00:07:31] greater than you could ever imagine how the Lord wants to use you if you just say yes Lord

[00:07:37] pick me choose me yeah I want to do great things for you what is it gonna

[00:07:42] take well what do I need to lay down and so you know you said I heard you so did you

[00:07:50] grow up in a Christian family you said you got saved in your early 20s yes my um my dad got born again when he was in

[00:08:01] his forties and I watched him he was baptized in Mission Bay and I was

[00:08:06] thinking he joined a cult my surgeon I really watched the transformation of my

[00:08:13] dad and there in San Diego and then we started going to church and we got faith

[00:08:20] in what what kind of transformations did you see in your dad that ultimately led you to go wow this is something I need

[00:08:26] to consider well and it’s real that Jesus is real I his behavior change so

[00:08:32] he wasn’t as angry anymore he was more at peace he was going to church and

[00:08:38] really learning what the Bible said they were going to Bible School and I remember being 19 in sarcastic thinking

[00:08:44] what are you gonna study to be in a nun or a monk when you’re studying a Bible now I look back in a gasps and Shane

[00:08:52] like a old dad I’m so sorry because now I love to study the Word of God it is my

[00:08:59] passion to know how the Lord wants us to live and how to teach others what how

[00:09:06] the father and desires rested to be manifested in our life yeah he is real the god of the universe is real

[00:09:12] hmm that’s that’s amazing yeah and it’s so true you know I heard a guy talking

[00:09:20] about the influence of Christian missionaries in Africa and he was saying you know the only influence that we see

[00:09:27] that really lasts is the influence of Christ and this guy was not even a Christian he was actually saying this

[00:09:34] kind of in a way where he was like reluctant to say this because he said look it we go in there we give money we

[00:09:41] do things but there’s no lasting change unless you bring these people where they

[00:09:46] begin to dedicate themselves to Christ and then we see lasting change and you

[00:09:52] know that we see this testimony all over the world that when a it’s not religion that says people it’s it’s Jesus Christ

[00:09:58] it’s that relationship personally with him yes it’s a mindset change Kevin that

[00:10:04] you have to change how you think you have to think like God thinks that all things are possible for him he believes

[00:10:10] then I have no limits no boundaries because God has gone before me I don’t even have to be afraid if he tells me to

[00:10:16] go to Somalia I don’t have to be afraid if he says will open a new school Rwanda because God doesn’t have a money problem

[00:10:22] he just has a faith problem the Word of God says the eyes of the world that are looking to and fro throughout the whole

[00:10:28] earth to see whose heart is going to begin that’s what he’s looking for and

[00:10:34] we say yes here my friend me I don’t go that’s what he’s looking for and then he says okay now I want you to

[00:10:40] go do this and you say yes you don’t even have to know all the details because the Holy Spirit in you will

[00:10:46] guide you and direct you in where you need to gather the funds or where you need to tell you okay now I need to do

[00:10:52] some Human Resources now let’s learn how to do this he’ll teach you where you need to go and worry what you need to do

[00:10:59] Wow and that’s inspiring if you’re listening my guest today is dr. Cindy Mendoza and she went from a 19 year old teenager

[00:11:06] mocking her father who had turned to Christ to somebody now who is serving over in

[00:11:13] Africa who has started now three schools – in Kenya one in Rwanda and two more

[00:11:19] coming in Rwanda rescuing orphans out of human

[00:11:24] trafficking and other horrible situations in which they’ve gotten themselves in so send you I’m curious to

[00:11:32] know how did you how did that inspiration start where did that come from when did you hear this call from

[00:11:37] God – that okay I’m supposed to do this in Africa and what was that process of

[00:11:44] saying yes because that’s a that’s a big change to go from as somebody living in

[00:11:49] Southern California San Diego there’s a lot of comforts here incredible weather and lots of blessings and then to go all

[00:11:57] the way to Africa where you’re dealing with horrible tragedies and the kind of stuff that happened in Rwanda and so

[00:12:02] forth and then to be willing to take that step what what was it that caused you to go this is something that God

[00:12:08] wants me to do um I realized as I when I

[00:12:14] first became saved I was thinking I don’t have time to read the Bible I was going to college and thinking wow that’s

[00:12:19] a whole nother assignment and yet the Lord in His grace he draws you in and

[00:12:26] you start reading you want to know more you want to know more and I realized you

[00:12:31] know when people say I’m God wants your heart I just want your heart and I was

[00:12:38] actually taking a train I was an Amtrak Cindy real real quick here this is a good place to take a quick break Syria

[00:12:45] was taking a train if you’re listening she was taking a train and then something happened okay we’re gonna come up on a quick break here that’s a good

[00:12:51] tease and my guest today is dr. Cindy Mendoza that Cindy’s – hope org if you

[00:12:58] want to learn more about the ministry if you want to get involved this is a great opportunity to see Christ

[00:13:03] work in your life and work through your life so stay with us we’ll be right back [Music]

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[00:13:43] thanks for listening today this is educate for life I’m your host Kevin Conover my ministry educate for life is

[00:13:49] meant to help young people and and adults look at the facts look at the

[00:13:55] evidence for the truth of Christianity and commit their life to Jesus Christ ultimately and on my website you can

[00:14:00] take all kinds of classes on these subjects all kinds of things like how did the Bible come together who wrote

[00:14:06] the Bible how do they choose what books are in the Bible what about creation what about evolution what about all the

[00:14:11] details of those sorts of things we also have numerous radio show guests just a little while ago I had on the the show

[00:14:18] Mary Jo sharp a former atheist who became convinced that Christianity was true through the evidence and we have

[00:14:24] all kinds of amazing interviews up there with people from all over the world talking about how Christ has influenced

[00:14:30] their life and ultimately given them the hope of eternal life my guest today is dr. Cindy Mendoza and she is has a

[00:14:38] ministry called Cindy’s hope that is working in Africa to rescue kids out of

[00:14:43] human trafficking then educate them provide a home for them the food they need the water they need everything that

[00:14:49] they need in order to get going and she is has three schools up and running two more to go and when we left off on the

[00:14:56] the last segment she was talking about what ultimately caused her to decide that this was something that she that

[00:15:03] God was asking her to do was was minister to these young people in Africa so you were on a train Cindy inand what

[00:15:10] happened next I I don’t know if I was reading my Bible

[00:15:15] or or a block or what but I remember the Lord beam it was very clear that there’s

[00:15:22] kind of a colloquialism that the Lord just want your heart but he was sharing

[00:15:27] with me I don’t just want your heart city I want your hands and your feet and your mind in your mouth I want every

[00:15:33] part of you I want every part of you to serve me and you were created for a

[00:15:38] purpose for such a time is it then I’m calling you out and that the Lord is

[00:15:44] just calling me I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older even though I like to think I’m special but these colonies from each one of us

[00:15:52] that each one of us has been created with purpose with intent with passion

[00:15:58] and we are to fulfill the purpose that which our Father created us and that

[00:16:04] requires sacrifices and saying Lord you know what if you know the number of

[00:16:10] hairs I have on my head if you and kept every tear I’ve cried in a bottle if you know my days from beginning to end then

[00:16:16] surely you know what’s best for me surely you know that I shouldn’t just study political science with the biology

[00:16:24] and Japanese studies but it wherever you want me to go whatever you want me to do is that the best plan that’s the best

[00:16:31] way to go now now did you have anybody when you said okay I’m gonna go to Africa I’m gonna do this did you have

[00:16:36] anybody say whoa that’s crazy what on you know maybe you know take a breather here did anybody were there

[00:16:42] anybody the saying that you you you should rethink this lots of times even now lots of you know

[00:16:50] where did you feel but then I believe the vision for what the Lord has for

[00:16:56] this coming up next six months is two more schools in Rwanda and not only

[00:17:01] non-christians but Christians think that is absolutely your what I can’t think of

[00:17:08] the word right now but you’re imposing upon the Lord that you are you’re overstepping your bounds you’re putting

[00:17:14] God to the test yes yes and my buddy I don’t there’s nothing that he can’t do

[00:17:22] yeah it wants us to step out and believe leave that he has everything that we

[00:17:28] need there is a in Rwanda when the Lord had asked me to go to Rwanda almost two

[00:17:34] years ago I when I was there the Lord showed me an especially as an educator

[00:17:40] you’ll appreciate this cabin that 48% of the population is under 18 years old 48%

[00:17:47] of the population according to the statistics that they have Wow 4th floor

[00:17:53] of every 10 or under 18 yes you have a country of youth you have a country of

[00:18:00] youth you have a 64 to 1 student-teacher ratio also as an educator and as a

[00:18:07] teacher that is you’re not learning a whole lot oh that’s that’s insane I can’t even imagine how you would be able

[00:18:14] to manage that yeah are the children truly even learning and by the time they

[00:18:20] get to sixth grade most of those students are dropping out and dropping off because they have no hope to go even

[00:18:25] further in school so the 64 no one is even you know they’re only going up to

[00:18:30] sixth grade and the Lord said you know he says in 2nd 2nd Kings 17 Elijah prays

[00:18:37] to his ethnicity he would open his eyes that he would speak and that what I believe the world is city I need you to

[00:18:44] open your eyes there is a harvest here there is a harvest of boys and girls we need to know me I need to know that

[00:18:51] there is a God of the universe and he loves them and I created them for playing the purpose and I need them to

[00:18:57] come to me so Christian education is the vehicle to bring those boys and girls

[00:19:03] into the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ they get to know the father when they rise up when they walk upon the

[00:19:09] road when they go there along the way they get to know him because they’re going to see them every single day yes

[00:19:16] and that changes everything once a person knows Christ and so Cindy how many people or how many young people are

[00:19:22] currently in the schools that you’re currently running um I will be up 350

[00:19:29] students right now and I just had a meeting with the mayor last month and he

[00:19:36] said you’re doing a great work we just want to add kids into your classroom you know can you take 50 and I said no no fifty to

[00:19:45] one nothing to no I need to go home and fundraise and we’re going to fill more classrooms because we have a 16 to one

[00:19:53] student-teacher ratio we don’t want 50 to one so not only the current school we

[00:20:01] are adding more classrooms but two more schools will come up in different areas to minister to the boys and girls yeah

[00:20:10] across Rwanda and and where does that money come from to be able to provide for them are you providing are you providing room and board as well as

[00:20:16] education or is this is this they’re just coming to school or how does that work

[00:20:21] in Rwanda yeah I do have a few orphans

[00:20:27] and the orphans are fully cared for their boarded day at breakfast lunch and dinner and school fees and uniform so if

[00:20:33] they’re an orphan they’re 100 percent cared for if they have a parent one parent Cyndi’s hold pays for their

[00:20:41] complete education may have a snack and they go to school for free all their books and the teacher’s salary

[00:20:48] everything is catered for and then they go home at night and they live with their parents and the parent is

[00:20:55] responsible for their school uniform the parent is responsible for making sure they’re on time to come to school so

[00:21:02] they’re come by and with the community that it’s not just free everything is a

[00:21:07] either way but they have some some buy into that so so where is the funding

[00:21:13] coming or is the government supporting your school or how do you get funding for all of this it’s all from the wall

[00:21:20] it’s all fund raised some churches from individuals wherever whomever the Lord puts on their

[00:21:28] heart to send donations okay and that’s important yeah and so in order to get

[00:21:33] these next two schools off the ground I mean for our listeners sake and for those of you listening who you know have

[00:21:39] the financial means to support a ministry that’s making a radical difference in the world and doing such

[00:21:45] incredible things this is a fantastic ministry to support Cyndi’s – hope org

[00:21:52] what what kind of funding do you need in order to get these other schools off the ground

[00:21:57] each school cost a hundred and ten thousand per phase one so one hundred and ten thousand dollars

[00:22:04] puts up the the beginning classrooms administration and the and the latrines

[00:22:10] the toilets so one hundred ten thousand so I’m and you need to buy the land and

[00:22:16] so I need two hundred and eighty thousand to get these two schools open

[00:22:21] by January 22nd 2020 okay so if you’re

[00:22:27] out there and you have those those means we know God has plenty of money that’s not the issue like Cindy’s saying it’s

[00:22:32] it’s God is looking for our faith to collaborate together as a body of Christ

[00:22:38] to minister to these young women out here who are ultimately going to go out and then in that community begin to

[00:22:44] share Christ also as Christ impacts their lives if you have the resources would they just if they want to make a

[00:22:50] donation would they just go to your website Cindy yes they can go to the website and donate Cindy told there’s a

[00:22:56] 501c3 so we are registered in the United States as a corporation and a non-profit

[00:23:03] and so all donations are tax-deductible they can why are the money to us they

[00:23:09] can write a check and all the finances we have a treasurer in Kansas who keeps

[00:23:15] tracking of all those finances and sends out the seeds and files the tax forms

[00:23:21] and all the legal operation okay that’s yeah that’s fantastic okay and then I wanted to get kind of go

[00:23:29] back again to your story as in you you felt called to do this why was it that

[00:23:35] you chose Africa specifically and what why not another part of the world why

[00:23:41] not maybe you know South America or some other area or China or somewhere else

[00:23:46] what was it that ultimately led you to make the decision that you were meant to minister in Africa and so when we get

[00:23:52] back my guest today is dr. Cindy Mendoza of Cindy’s hope org and she is talking

[00:23:58] about the schools that are start she started in Kenya and Rwanda and opening

[00:24:04] even more school in order to rescue girls from human trafficking to get them out of abusive situations and ultimately to teach them

[00:24:12] about Jesus Christ as well as give them a really good education so that they can go out there and make a living and

[00:24:19] survive on their own and go out there and be an influence for the Lord stay with us we’re gonna we have two more

[00:24:25] segments left and she’s going to continue to share her story with us we’ll be right back when you need tires

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[00:25:14] thanks for listening today this is educate for life I’m your host Kevin Conover and we’re screaming all over the place we’re on Facebook we’re on YouTube

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[00:25:28] is a pre-recorded show that will air again on Sunday at 10 p.m. on Cape Ray’s here in Southern California FM 106.1 in

[00:25:36] North County as well as AM 12:10 in San Diego and my ministry has educate for

[00:25:41] life org where my goal is to help people understand why the bible is true go

[00:25:46] through all the tough questions people have about things like for example if God made everything who made God right

[00:25:52] or what evidence do we have that God actually exists is there any evidence from science and I’m speaking in June a

[00:25:59] lot there’s a bunch of events which I’m speaking at the great homeschool convention from June 13th through the

[00:26:05] 15th I’ll be speaking up there on all kinds of different subjects that pertain to both homeschooling parenting and

[00:26:12] apologetics I’m also speaking at the Awana honors camp in June June 23rd

[00:26:17] through the 28th I’m also speaking out future quests down here in Southern California and finally I’ll be at

[00:26:24] Calvary Chapel Oceanside speaking at their apologetics class on July 5th if

[00:26:29] you want to check that out I also teach a class every Sunday at Skyline Church

[00:26:34] in East County and you can join us 9:00 a.m. Sunday mornings and we’re going

[00:26:40] through different issues right now we’re covering the issue of human sexuality and are people born heterosexual or

[00:26:46] homosexual word we’re dealing with that that’s a big issue that people are interested in learning more about and so

[00:26:52] please come out and join us for any of those different events that would be great my guest today is dr. Cindy

[00:26:57] Mendoza her website is Cindy’s – hope org she’s her organization is a 501c3

[00:27:03] and they need the resources to be able to open up more schools in order to reach more kids especially Cindy these

[00:27:12] are all women’s girls schools is that right in Rwanda and we it’s 50/50

[00:27:19] because they’ll just come from the community the orphans that we board the girls that we board are I only board the

[00:27:26] girls that are orphan traffic abuse and we have one of

[00:27:32] the schools in Kenya in the downtown in East Lee we allow boy students to come

[00:27:39] that they’re usually refugees Somali or Ethiopian refugees come to school there

[00:27:44] as well but we only board them girls that are traffic okay now you know you said something interesting you said that

[00:27:50] four out of ten close to 40% of all the people in I think you said Rwanda are

[00:27:57] under the age of 18 why are there so many young people in in the area is that

[00:28:02] because of the Rwandan genocide yes sir because of the genocide that happened 25

[00:28:08] years ago you have so many people were were killed during the genocide that

[00:28:15] what is rising up right now is a nation of young people so even the Rwanda goal

[00:28:21] or desire is to educate their people they know that they are a landlocked country they don’t aren’t necessarily

[00:28:29] rich in oil or gold or diamonds but they have a lot of human resources humans so

[00:28:36] they would like to develop that and they just want to rise above where they come

[00:28:43] from okay and then what about Kenya does can you have a large youth population as all as well or not as not to those

[00:28:52] statistics I don’t have the statistics right in front of me but Kenya historically has been a little more

[00:28:58] stable than the other countries they’re their surrounding countries of Somalia South Sudan and Ethiopia those ones are

[00:29:05] still fighting how heavily so they have many refugees that scream into Kenya

[00:29:10] also Congo which is experiencing Ebola right now and it’s also known as the

[00:29:16] rape capital of the world quite a few neighbors there in East Africa that are

[00:29:23] not great places to go and many refugees and we have the opportunity to share Christ and educate these boys and girls

[00:29:30] to know him so so back to my question from the previous discussion we were

[00:29:36] having what was it that caused you to have a heart specifically for this part of the world and for these

[00:29:41] people as opposed to some other part of the world where what happened that that God influenced you in this direction um

[00:29:49] honestly I didn’t care where that time on the bus on the train on the arm chattering I didn’t I didn’t care where

[00:29:55] he wanted me to go I just wanted to go here my friends meet anywhere ever in my

[00:30:02] husband actually went on a short-term mission trip to Kenya Oh 14 years ago

[00:30:08] and then when he was in Kenya he said you know the Lord is calling us here out

[00:30:14] like a let’s go waiting for him to you

[00:30:20] know I wait for my husband yeah does your does your does your husband ever say slow down Cyndi you’re going too

[00:30:25] fast sometimes listens to the updates as

[00:30:31] other people you know any it’s like mommy are you know we have 350 you last

[00:30:39] time he left for example he’s in he’s in Kenya right now working and you know

[00:30:44] he’ll come back and he’ll he or something I didn’t know there were 350 he’s a dentist and he does other work

[00:30:50] that’s not even weeks and he told is just the ministry that was the most out

[00:30:56] of mine is you know the Lord yeah and and what about your own family do you have kids of your own

[00:31:02] I do I have three DS so my boys are now 24 19 and 16 Wow and are they involved

[00:31:12] at all in what you’re doing they do they go without the two older ones are now working and going to college in Tulsa

[00:31:20] Oklahoma and our youngest son travels with us we’ll go back to Africa next

[00:31:27] week and he’ll travel with us in and minister with us he also you know in

[00:31:32] schools and is involved sometimes he likes it and sometimes he’s 15 and doesn’t like it that’s right

[00:31:38] well what do you say to the person who who you know feels like oh wow I’m I

[00:31:45] want to be a part of something like this I want to do something like this but there’s people telling them oh that’s dangerous and and you know what you know

[00:31:52] there’s a lot of problems and these parts of the world and you know it’s it’s risky what do you say to somebody

[00:31:58] who says something like that the safest place to be is in God’s perfect will then you can be in trouble

[00:32:08] get in a car accident or be sexually assaulted in America that the worst place to be is any disobedience to what

[00:32:15] the Lord is calling you to do if he’s asking you to go you will have no greater joy no more safety than

[00:32:22] following and obeying the father that’s that’s great that’s a great way to you

[00:32:29] know phrase that and look at that absolutely if you are somebody who wants to support Cindy’s hope

[00:32:35] Cindy’s hope Cindy’s – hope org is the website and if you want to put your

[00:32:41] money to good use you know a lot of times we wonder okay should I give should I donate money to a particular ministry because we’re concerned about

[00:32:47] maybe the way they’re going to use that money is it going to be effective or are they going to are they actually making a difference well if you look at the the

[00:32:55] facts surrounding this ministry and and dr. Cindy Mendoza and what she’s doing they are making a gigantic difference

[00:33:01] the money is going towards an obviously good use and they’re seeing all kinds of amazing things happen Cindy can you

[00:33:09] share with our with our listeners some of the impact that you’ve seen happen that’s more on a personal level rather

[00:33:17] than the we have the overarching view that you’ve got these three schools started you’re starting two more schools you’ve got 350 students but on a more

[00:33:24] personal level what are some of the stories of how people’s lives are being changed the I’m glad you asked first

[00:33:34] I think the Lord always first of all he wants to work in our lives he wants to show us individually personally that he

[00:33:41] is a God of the living and not the dead and I remember I was sharing with

[00:33:47] another church and I was I was sharing about Cindy told and I it wasn’t until I

[00:33:52] was actually giving the presentation that the Lord pointed out to me he said to me this is this is the product of

[00:33:58] your faith this is like your garden you know and as we plant and as we show as

[00:34:03] we believe on the Lord and obey Him that the manifestations I know these are

[00:34:10] Christian words I’m throwing out but these are the results that you get when you obey the father and one of the

[00:34:17] schools is in the downtown area it’s in it’s even called little no vacation

[00:34:22] which is the capital of Somalia so it’s a very rough bad neighborhood and my husband and I we’re at a conference with

[00:34:29] other missionaries at the time American and European missionaries and the pastor

[00:34:34] was challenging us as missionaries you know what if these people in Somalia knew Jesus Christ they won’t be bombing

[00:34:41] places they won’t be kidnapping and doing all these horrific things and he said so he who is gonna go he’s gonna go

[00:34:47] to Somalia I’m like man I’m calling my husband put my hand down and so one go I

[00:34:56] would tell these people and my husband I mean he goes to play he goes to Jordan he goes to Pakistan he goes to South

[00:35:04] Sudan under even been to those really rough places and he’s like you not going to Somalia and yet the Lord wants your

[00:35:13] heart the world launching said yes we’ll hear my Effendi because I didn’t have to go to Somalia I didn’t need to disobey

[00:35:20] and be rebellious towards my husband either you know there is a community just 30

[00:35:26] minutes from our house in Kenya that was full of tamale people refugees that had

[00:35:31] come so you don’t even have to go to Africa God might be calling you down the street to your house and minister and

[00:35:38] King and to show unto these people glides and I’ll Michael okay gosh Lord alright well I would meet women who like

[00:35:48] I said eight children and her husband left her for another younger cuter woman

[00:35:54] he didn’t just give birth to eight kings and here’s this woman living in a small room that’s only decided some of our

[00:36:00] closets in America and I’m eight people living it here in this situation no

[00:36:07] schooling no education and and Montini can can we have $30 for rent can we have

[00:36:13] some money to buy flour um you know $30 I just is amazing I have a lady that

[00:36:21] Kame actually in January and she’s a Sudanese woman and she’s a widow her

[00:36:28] husband was killed in battle her and her five kids walked three days across the border to get into a refugee camp she’s

[00:36:36] in a UN refugee camp she’s sexually assaulted in a UN refugee camp and it’s

[00:36:42] pregnant with twins oh my gosh thinking father father I mean we have nothing

[00:36:48] here at home to cry about lady I mean –

[00:36:54] now she’s a mother of seven and um my friend who he brings and brings the

[00:37:03] other little girls that are being trafficked up there he comes to me I have a lady she has seven kids like Oh

[00:37:09] James that is a big that’s a big people group yeah and yet Lord yeah I have

[00:37:16] different friends that have you know some people love to fun school some

[00:37:22] people love to fund a towel initiative or whatever I’m working on and I have a mutual friend who has a heart for women

[00:37:29] and I said I’d continued to me I need some help you help me fundraise her name is Bible she has seven kids I

[00:37:37] need to get her to Cindy cope it’s going to take bus fare it’s going to take passport it’s going to take bed and

[00:37:43] within two months the Lord had brought enough money to bring Bible and her seven children to Cindy’s hope um it is

[00:37:52] a story of hope that once they get there and they need the God of the universe you don’t have to can use your husband

[00:37:59] he is your provider he to care for you um and you don’t have to worry about being grazed anymore you don’t have to

[00:38:05] worry about how am I going to feed my kids because the god of the universe will now feed them and care for them and

[00:38:11] educate them well and there’s just no other way you want to live your life oh

[00:38:16] absolutely my guest today is dr. Cindy Mendoza and you’re hearing from her personally she’s

[00:38:23] over in Kenya and Rwanda ministering to all these people a lot of refugees a lot

[00:38:28] of people in very very horrible situations that have come out of very difficult times there’s a lot of cry

[00:38:35] is over in that area of the world a lot of famine a lot of lack of water a lot

[00:38:41] of difficult situations but God has drawn drawn her over there and she’s ministering over there if you want to

[00:38:47] support her this is a great opportunity to invest in the kingdom of God Cindy’s

[00:38:53] hope gorg Cindy’s – hope org we have one more segment left stay with us we’re going to talk a little bit more about the future

[00:38:59] of the ministry and how these what these other schools are going to be doing and so stay with us as we continue to talk

[00:39:05] to dr. sinja mendoza we’ll be right back [Music]

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[00:40:51] you have the financial means to support what they’re doing as they reach out to people over in Africa

[00:40:57] please take the opportunity to get to know more about the ministry and to invest in what they’re doing it’s absolutely needed and there is the

[00:41:07] the UN right now if you’re looking in the news is warning about Somalia facing

[00:41:12] famine and drought so there’s all kinds of issues over there she was just

[00:41:18] telling us about how the there’s so much youth in Rwanda because of the Rwandan

[00:41:24] genocide that happened back in 1994 and so this is an

[00:41:29] opportunity for you to make a difference investing in the kingdom of God and what about somebody’s Cindy who wants to do

[00:41:37] more than say just give support financially what if they actually want

[00:41:42] to travel to Africa with you is that a possibility also do you need people to

[00:41:47] go and teach also or what’s the situation there absolutely we there’s

[00:41:53] three poor teams coming throughout this summer all the way till the end of September there will be groups of people

[00:41:59] coming out to Cindy’s hope either in Rwanda or to Kenya doing different

[00:42:05] things from aquaponics we’re setting up at each location – we do prison work in

[00:42:11] Rwanda where we go into the prisons that preach the gospel we are planning in July to do a baptism there at one of the

[00:42:18] sites as well as some Bible studies and and working with the prison’s one of the

[00:42:23] focuses was every month at City so it doesn’t matter which campus you’re on

[00:42:29] but we do outreach so even the children are taught to use not just to come in

[00:42:34] and receive but to give out there we were to be conduits of Christ’s love provision care prayer so the kids the

[00:42:43] teachers will have a gift whether its food or a Bible and they will go out to

[00:42:48] identify people in our community needy needy families or elderly and we would

[00:42:55] go to their homes once a month and minister to that minister the love of Christ either give you’ll clean their

[00:43:00] home we’ll melt their cow whatever it is scheduled for that month and in Rwanda

[00:43:08] just recently we when I was there in April we were going we go door-to-door

[00:43:13] like EE Evangel consume expose we go door-to-door with our Bibles and praying

[00:43:18] for the families how can we pray for you and we do this on the lunch break because in Rwanda they come home from

[00:43:23] working out in the field during lunch time so we had gone there was three of us and knocked on this one gentleman’s

[00:43:31] home now at the time Coby was the leader so when the leader is leading the leader gets to

[00:43:37] choose what what home were going into when and I want to okay home on speaking loosely here this is a mud brick mud home that’s the three

[00:43:45] of us are going into they have one long bench that we sat on and Kolby starts

[00:43:52] talking with him about Jesus and he has his Bible under his arm and he said you know have you asked Christ as your Lord

[00:43:58] and Savior and tell me about you know he’s sharing with him and and the gentleman said you know I used to

[00:44:04] believe in that I used to but after I got married and have kids you know I just I just didn’t have time for it and

[00:44:10] now I’ve been really trained and wondering and speaking and you know where is she where is this God and Cody

[00:44:19] says to him he said you know what it’s that God that brought us to you today that he wants to tell you how much we

[00:44:26] love you and how much he cares for you can I pray for you what is your name and the man because my name is Emmanuel and

[00:44:34] gentleman and I that would be another two people just pray I started weeping my name is Emmanuel you know the father

[00:44:43] never leaves us he’s Emmanuel God is with you you look up all the time in

[00:44:49] fact he’ll come to your door you’re not gonna door and say hey I love you I’m stealing your naughty and I have

[00:44:56] a gift for you oh and as we leave these houses I mean we do when the visitors

[00:45:02] are there but we do it we do it monthly anyway the staff and the kids at Sinise hope it is just the sweetest best time

[00:45:09] up serving not that loving the kids it’s super fun especially if you love children playing games and and they love

[00:45:17] that interaction Bobby listen so the visitors love that but going door to

[00:45:22] door and and spreading Christ or even going into the prisons and there’s just

[00:45:30] no greater joy it’s go greater joy than serving ham absolutely yeah we go down

[00:45:36] every month we go down actually I’m going down to the beach tomorrow and we shared Jesus with the people down at the

[00:45:42] beach down at Mission Beach and and everything and it’s amazing to see God work in people’s lives just through the

[00:45:48] people you get to talk to and and let them know that God is that look he loves them and he knows

[00:45:54] that they’re there and you know that they matter to him you know so that’s incredible so again my guest today is

[00:46:02] dr. Cindy Mendoza and if you’re interested in getting involved in reaching out to the people in Africa and

[00:46:08] making a difference in those people’s lives there’s so much need there though the Bible says that the harvest is

[00:46:13] plentiful but the workers are few pray to the lord of the harvest to send out workers into the harvest field and so I think that’s what you know we’re called

[00:46:20] to do is that there is no greater fulfillment than finding your purpose in

[00:46:25] what God has for you in order to love other people through whatever whatever Avenue that is and we all have a

[00:46:32] different place in life and it where the body of Christ we work together to bring people to the knowledge of Jesus Christ

[00:46:37] so or if you if a youth group wants to get involved Cindy if they wanted to take kids out to Africa like that is

[00:46:45] that something they could do also that they could organize with you absolutely we have Lori Akai is the USA director

[00:46:53] here in the United States and on the website it says contact documents the email addresses on there and she will

[00:47:00] set up and and walk the youth team meet with them help with the itineraries what

[00:47:08] hagwa to expect so we have someone here in the state that does manage and direct

[00:47:15] and coordinate youth groups going youth groups or any group but absolutely okay

[00:47:21] and they can all do that through the website yes they just need to email us and we will we’re also on facebook and

[00:47:28] facebook Messenger to use any types of that kind of communication is is on

[00:47:35] there I believe our phone numbers on the website as well okay great sorry it kind yeah well I think this is

[00:47:42] incredible what you’re doing there I think it’s fantastic and do you work with local pastors and missionaries also

[00:47:49] is there an integration there me yes

[00:47:56] I realize you really grow you just need to keep listening to the Lord because he

[00:48:01] has so many great ideas you don’t you don’t know at all yeah in Kenya there’s

[00:48:08] a lot of networking with different missionaries different different groups

[00:48:13] where we coordinate like I said I have another friend that works up in the UN

[00:48:19] camps up there in in Ethiopia and in and out of South Sudan he’s the one that

[00:48:24] identifies his group the orphans and brings them down there’s also different

[00:48:30] prison groups that we have worked with with Prison Fellowship to administer it

[00:48:36] and to live inside the prison so you definitely aren’t you the body of Christ

[00:48:42] and everybody has to laugh and different gifts and talents and you want to come

[00:48:47] together to spread the gospel yeah amen well thank you so much for being on the air with us today yeah and when do you

[00:48:55] head back to Africa next Tuesday okay so that’s exciting so again at dr. Cindy

[00:49:03] Mendoza I was on the program here today and Cindy’s hope goerge that’s Cindy’s –

[00:49:08] hope gorg if you will are interested in getting involved personally if you would like to take a trip with her to Africa

[00:49:14] if you’d like to serve over in Africa or if you want to just if you have the financial means and you can support what they’re doing again they’re going to be

[00:49:21] opening two more schools in Rwanda by January so they need the funds for that

[00:49:26] if you have the means to be able to do that please do that and keep the ministry in your prayer also Cindy I’ll

[00:49:34] be praying for you and thank you so much for all that you’re doing and all the blessings that you are to so many people

[00:49:40] thank you so much for having me and letting me share all this awesome things the Lord is doing and he wants to news

[00:49:46] each of us for need honor amen amen okay everybody listen out there we’ll

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