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Jim Baker With Hair
00:02:06
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| That's why I'm here. | |
| That's why I wanted to come here, because I wanted to tell Jim Baker's partners that years ago, in 1979, he had this TV show, and it cost millions of dollars to maintain it. | |
| He had a huge budget. | |
| They were under enormous pressure. | |
| And the same dollar was being carved up by many ministries. | |
| That's not Doug on the screen, is it? | |
| I don't think so. | |
| Is that Doug Weed? | |
| Yes. | |
| Oh, that is. | |
| Oh, it is. | |
| That's you right there. | |
| I knew it was Doug. | |
| And that was CM Ward in there. | |
| You loved him, didn't you? | |
| I loved CM Ward. | |
| And that's Jim Baker with hair. | |
| Real hair. | |
| No wig. | |
| That's not a wig. | |
| And Doug Weed with glasses. | |
| This is classic. | |
| So Jim Baker. | |
| Wow. | |
| He brought onto his show because there was a crisis going on, like there's a crisis going on in Houston, the flood. | |
| There was a crisis going on in Southeast Asia and people were starving to death. | |
| And it broke his heart. | |
| And so Jim Baker brought on to his show Pat Boone and Dan O'Neill, myself. | |
| We were getting started launching a program to help these people. | |
| And Jim said to his audience, I want you to write, and he gave the address. | |
| They're trying to start something to help feed these hungry people. | |
| Nobody does that. | |
| You don't do that because to get on TV, a ministry like this, you pay millions of dollars to buy the TV time, and you give your own address. | |
| And then the money can come in, and some of it can be applied to pay off the TV time, and then you can give it to whoever is doing whatever project you believe in. | |
| But you don't put their address up, because if you put their address up, you're not only giving them money directly, you're giving them the name of your partner and a partner who's inclined to support your particular ministry. | |
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Disney-esque Generosity
00:01:11
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| It's totally unheard of. | |
| I've never seen another ministry ever in all of history ever do that. | |
| But Jim Baker did it, and that money went to start Save the Refugees in 1979. | |
| They changed their name to Mercy Corps, and today they've given $2 billion of food and medicine around the world. | |
| Amazing. | |
| And they're one of the world's most famous and most prestigious NGOs in the world. | |
| They're everywhere all over the world with offices all over the world. | |
| That is one of many little things you planted in your generosity in these Disney-esque moments that you would have, your creative moments on TV. | |
| And I wanted to come back and make sure you got credit for that because I've never seen them. | |
| Nobody gives you credit for it because they're a very big organization. | |
| They're international. | |
| They're sophisticated. | |
| They've got governments all over the world supporting them. | |