Behind the Mic: Dave & Amelia Share the Latest Story of Sunburnt Souls

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Dave Quak 
Welcome to Sunburnt Souls. I'm Dave Quak and on this show we explore life and faith and our mental well-being as a pastor that struggles with mental illness. I get to chat to people like me, people that love Jesus and follow the way of Christ while dealing with the messiness and brokenness of life. Thanks for tuning in to this week's episode.

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Dave Quak 
Well, I love this. Will. Something else you'll hear with Amelia and Dave today. How are you going? Meals.

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Amelia Rees
Good. How are you?

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Dave Quak 
I'm good, I'm good, I'm good. What we thought, listen, is is that it's been 25 episodes and we've been going quite hard for the last five months. It's already. It's going quick and slow, depending on what you're which way you're looking at it. So we just thought we'd give an update on how we are, how somebody else's and have a chat about that.

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Amelia Rees
Yes, I'm so excited. Let's get into it.

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Dave Quak 
It's been good. So, what we're going to do meals and we're going to take take turns asking each other questions and we'll probably deviate and go wherever we gotta go. But, Amelia, you have been such a blessing. You have edited every single episode so far. You've been the prime listener. Like later on, I'm going to ask what you got out of some burnt souls, because if anyone's got anything, it's you.

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Dave Quak 
Because you've pulled every episode apart. But dude, how are you? How's your mental health has live? What's been going on? You going right? Yeah.

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Amelia Rees
Going good? Yeah. Since the last episode where I sort of shared my life up and down. I had to be honest, up and down. We had to put down one of our dogs fairly recently. That's been really hard. But then there's been awesome blessing things that have just come. I've recently baptized my best mate. Yes, her whole family, which has been awesome.

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Amelia Rees
So I think just like with life in general, it's up and down.

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Dave Quak 
Lessons in focus. That's so cool. You baptize your best friend. How long you been chipping away at your best friend to introduce you to Jesus?

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Amelia Rees
Well, we've been best mates for 17. I'd say 15 years.

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Dave Quak 
Yeah, well, I reckon solid.

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Amelia Rees
Yeah, yeah.

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Dave Quak 
So for anyone out there who's working on a friend and you're up to 14 years and you're thinking of giving up, don't give up. Don't. So you baptize em. And then her husband Elliot and the two boys. Two.

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Amelia Rees
Yeah. Yep. Yeah. It was awesome. It was right. We just. It was just private. Brought out in the middle of, like, a like it was sunny coast. It was freezing. I was in a wetsuit.

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Dave Quak 
So good. And they said the first time you baptize people. Yeah. So you went four for four in your first one. And I just, I oh now that's good I love it. Meals. Yeah. You mental health. How's that going.

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Amelia Rees
Yeah it's good. It's up and down. Up and down in the sense that recently I've tried to so I'm going to not a mission, but I'm on a journey of slowly reducing my medication. Yeah. So as you would have heard in one of those first episodes, I was gone through some heavy stuff and I was highly medicated for my anxiety and depression.

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Amelia Rees
And now that I've got more skills through the psych end, life is a little bit easier, just in general. I was like, you know what? I think it's time to start reducing some of those, you know, the levels of medication just to see how it goes. So I've already I was on 100mg, then I dropped down to 50.

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Amelia Rees
Yeah. And then. Yeah. And the last week or so I was like, oh yeah, let's do this. I'm going to just drop down to 25. I feel great today. Yeah. I wasn't ready for it.

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Dave Quak 
Okay. Okay. So you had a crack at halving and then did you just go not not time and went back to 50.

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Amelia Rees
Yeah. Yeah. So and I think it was like I was talking to my husband about it. He's like, why are you trying to drop it so quickly? Because I've been on this medication for like ten years. It's a long time to be on medication that messes with your brain. Really? Okay. Balanced. And I think it was a combination of, you know, I feel spiritually ready.

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Amelia Rees
I feel like I've got the strength. I've got the tools. But I hadn't really created a plan this time around of what it's going to actually look like to drop my meds. Whereas I did that last time. I was like, okay, I need to be aware of this. I need to be aware of this. If this happens, you know, if I react in this way, I've got a bit of a plan.

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Amelia Rees
Whereas this time I was like, oh, I feel good. Let's just drop it again, see what happens. Yeah, yeah. So it wasn't I don't feel like I was organized enough and yeah, okay, that makes any sense.

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Dave Quak 
No condemnation. The thing is about being on this mental health journey is that there will be times where you, like, I really want to try to get off, you know, and I think that's important to have a crack, with the appropriate help and, you know, consultation with the GP, but no failure if you went down and it didn't work and you back up to 50 because you were at 100.

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Amelia Rees
Yeah, that's it, that's it. And it's a journey. And now I'm like, okay, well I on when I am, you know, ready to drop again. Having a better plan in place. I know that that's what I need to do now to listen.

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Dave Quak 
Yeah that's cool. Let's listen.

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Amelia Rees
So yeah. What about you. How's your mental health been? Because at the beginning of recording or starting all of this, you were in a manic episode?

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Dave Quak 
Yeah, well.

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Amelia Rees
90% medic.

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Dave Quak 
I wanted to sound smart, so I got a quote from Charles Dickens, and it's from the start of his book, The Tale of Two Cities. And it starts by saying it was the best of times. It was the worst of times. So literally, I reckon he's. Yeah. So that's basically been the last five months, Amelia. It has been the best and the worst.

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Dave Quak 
So the best in the sense that God's done some really cool stuff through the podcast. And I've had so many amazing, things happen, like one thing leading to another to another, and, you know, all those things that only God could sort out. So it's been unbelievable seeing him move. And I've enjoyed it and I haven't felt burdened.

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Dave Quak 
You know, I felt pressure, but in a good way. So on one sense, you know, the podcast has been really exciting and that's been fueling me, but also, man, like bipolar.

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Amelia Rees
You can't say.

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Dave Quak 
You know.

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Amelia Rees
Like just rubbing his face.

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Dave Quak 
Man. I'm just rubbing my head because, like, it literally is the best of times in the worst of times. Like, I have the greatest days and the most horrible days. So through the last couple of months was the first time I hit a low period since starting the podcast. So I was manic for the first little bit. Yeah, manageable.

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Dave Quak 
Manic, then unmanageable manic and then crash into a hole. And I was, you know, I'm in contact with you over those times. And I really man, I was just fatigued and burnt out and like, oh, just really sad actually. Probably not burnt out. More sad. Just like just sad. So I stayed in that for a few weeks and really tried to dig deep into the spirit and, kind of lean into what God was doing through the sadness.

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Dave Quak 


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Amelia Rees
And then is there any discoveries.

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Dave Quak 
Just that like, I mean, there was one positive to come out of it that I realized that now my mental health isn't kind of related to ministry success or not as it used to be. So it doesn't for me anymore. Sadness isn't related to performance or ministry or anything anymore. It's just really the rhythms. Because God was still able to use one of one of the most effective podcasts we had was actually recorded during one of my sad phases, and God used it.

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Dave Quak 
So I don't know, man, it's the best of times. It's the worst of times.

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Amelia Rees
Well, tell us about the best of times and what's been going on with the podcast with this cool stuff, because there's some exciting times.

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Dave Quak 
Okay, so just a shout out to to Vision Radio. So their national radio station on in Australia, they're amazing. I've got in contact with the guys there and one thing led to another and we they had me on their show twice. And then a third time. And the reason they did that is I had an interview with a guy called Matt Prater.

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Dave Quak 
He's got an awesome podcast called History Makers. You should check that out. And he interviewed me as well for his podcast. And then after that I went on with a man called Neil. He runs a podcast called 2020. And then I went on again, for with a guy called Robbo, and that was for their Sunday morning program.

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Dave Quak 
And it was just a real sense of validation that I felt like God was on the ministry, because these guys are professionals. And on the show, I knew I was well-spoken and it went well. Like I could tell it went well. And through it, I made a new friend and his name is Kyle. And so what happened with Kyle is that he had, one of the discussions and reached out to me and said, hey, Dave, thank you for what you shared.

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Dave Quak 
You know, I feel like it really spoke to where I'm at. Anyway, one thing led to another and we connected and became mates like, Kyle's my friend and and we really similarly wired and God's done a similar work in our lives. And one thing led to another, and he came down to our church and shared his testimony about salvation and coming to Christ and man.

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Dave Quak 
It was so powerful. It was so cool. And our church just erupted. It was just amazing. And then we went down to Tucson Beach and we baptized him. Yeah. And it was so cool. And his whole family came and there were just beautiful people and so that, you know, that sort of thing, that's the best of times.

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Dave Quak 
So there's the highs and the lows, but the highs are the stuff where I'm like, man, God, you're doing great things. And then, you know, I get regular emails from people just saying, hey, we heard this podcast or, you know, this happened and it's been great. So, so it's been awesome. You know, it's awesome.

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Amelia Rees
And I think that's an example of like, God can use us wherever we're at. You know, it really can. And we sort of doubt that sometimes we're like we would sort of get so caught up on our own ability to be able to do things and sort of put ourselves in the box rather than just gone like, I, Lord, this is where I'm at.

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Dave Quak 
Yeah.

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Amelia Rees
If you want to use me, use me. And I think that's all it takes is the openness and the willingness.

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Dave Quak 
And that's one thing I respect about you, Amelia, is you're not in the box. You know, you're not your typical pastoral person. You're not the typical minister, but you're very pastoral in that you're a pastor to your community, and you're very much a minister in that. You, you know, you baptized a whole family a couple of weeks ago.

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Dave Quak 
You share the gospel all the time. You so into some burnt souls. You know, you do that on your own time, like you're not in the box and God's using you. And I think I think that's that's cool. And that's what I've noticed through the podcast too, is that God really uses people who feel like, whoa, you know, some people would write that person off, but God is like, no way.

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Dave Quak 
And if you read the Bible, we're in good company. There's so many lunatics and crazy people who God uses in the Bible. There's there's one good guy.

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Amelia Rees
Yeah, exactly. The rest of you like us. Well, okay. Well, talking about church, then, because one of my burning questions. Because when I listen back to that first episode where you telling your story and you were like, oh, it's going to be interesting to see how the church sort of your own church, your pasta, how that's going to be received and all that sort of stuff.

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Amelia Rees
So how is that going?

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Dave Quak 
They are legends. Amelia. I have loved and supported and people have opened up. It's open conversations, ministry opportunities. It has been the best. They've been so encouraging, you know. Yeah, there's been some funny comments like there's comments that people say because they just don't know what else to say. Like, you know, but all from a good heart, you know, and and I felt so loved and encouraged.

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Dave Quak 
And it's actually led to a few other speaking engagements as well at other churches. I've been watching it a few other places, and it seems to be that what we're talking about is something people are talking about. So every time I've spoken in a church on something related to sunburnt souls or whatever, God's really used it to like, I guess to do some real solid ministry time and also to bring some things to the surface as well.

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Dave Quak 
So my church church's been amazing and I love them. And then also the extended body of Christ has been amazing too, which is cool. And I think it's helping people. And I suppose that's one thing I want to ask you, since we're exchanging questions like you literally listen to every episode, but you do so way more thoroughly than any any other listener would because you've you're editing and re listening and you know, you know, fixing up some of my sound mistakes and editing out the Navy, yelling out whether or not I want some fish.

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Dave Quak 
But, Amelia, I should.

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Amelia Rees
Be keeping a list of.

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Dave Quak 
And there's the dogs barking and the Uber Eats. Like, look, Amazon will always arrive halfway through a recording. No matter what time they say they'll be here. It's halfway through the recording. I'm in the process of building a recording studio, which we'll come back to, which is going to be awesome. But circling back to that question, like you've heard and listen to the podcast more than anybody else, what do you think?

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Dave Quak 
Like, is it helping you? Like, what do you reckon?

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Amelia Rees
Definitely, definitely. It's honestly well it's now my favorite podcast to edit.

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Dave Quak 
Yeah. Because you do a whole bass. Well you do a lot.

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Amelia Rees
Yeah. Yeah a lot of them. So it's really uplifting for me. I think. I think the main sort of point across the board over all of the episodes is really just God's resounding love for his people and for the people that are willing to go. He had shared warts and all, ugliness and all, he can really use us where we're at.

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Amelia Rees
I particularly loved it's funny because I probably just loved it more because it's you and Jess, but the episode that you did with the beautiful wife Jess, and she was speaking about how basically she's had a miraculous healing from her mental health space and that you as her husband, it hasn't been that. Yeah. You know, and that's something I think in the Christian community that is sort of a little bit hard to grapple with.

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Amelia Rees
Sometimes we ask for healing and sometimes God says yes, and sometimes he says no. Or he says later, and that in particular was a real encouragement to me because I was like, you know what? It it is still healing by the way. It's still healing. There's still brokenness that we need to journey through. And I think that there's so many things that we can learn from our experiences.

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Amelia Rees
And if we take the time to sort of slow down and work through those issues, I think you learn more from that sometimes than a miraculous healing where it's just dealt with overnight like this, growing and changing that needs to go it and and all of it's for God's glory. You know, Jess's Jess's story is phenomenal. Your story is phenomenal.

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Amelia Rees
And the contrast between you as husband and wife is phenomenal. Totally different spaces. But yeah, I think that's been the yeah, the overarching message is just how loved people feel from the Lord, and that whatever we're going through mentally doesn't change that.

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Dave Quak 
Yeah, I love that, Amelia. Yeah. And we all do have different stories. I never realized how different Jess and I, I mean, I've always speculated we're quite different, but, like, talking through all this stuff. We are such different human beings.

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Amelia Rees
Yeah, man.

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Dave Quak 
We've been all, like, make sure we have a good marriage when the kids leave, because it's like, man, we gotta have some connection points here. We do have a good marriage, but like it, it's it's so different. But you're right. It's all different ways of God getting glory. You know, I'd love to see more miraculous. I was thinking about this.

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Dave Quak 
I think maybe of not lost faith for it, but I haven't been praying as hard lately for it. And so I'm going to start digging in again. You know, when I say miraculous, I think all healings miraculous, like even through medication. But when.

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Amelia Rees
I say miraculous, I mean like.

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Dave Quak 
Like like like she got, you know.

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Amelia Rees
Like she got. Yeah.

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Dave Quak 
But I guess even like she shared in the her story, like it was instant in the moment, but it was ten years in the making as well. Yes. So yes.

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Amelia Rees
Exactly. Yeah. That was going to be one of my other questions for you too. What has been your, you know, experience of, you know, 25 episodes in a zoom in? Any highlights?

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Dave Quak 
Yeah, there's been lots of highlights. There's been lots of chats. Like on the whole, it's been really encouraging. I've been stoked to people's response and willingness to come on and talk.

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Amelia Rees
That's really surprised you.

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Dave Quak 
Yeah. It has, it has especially guys like Carl Phase like I mean all of them are amazing. But he's someone who is really respected and like really a heavy hitter in his field. And he spoke so really and articulately. I really appreciated him. But I also appreciate just the everyday friends of mine as well. So it's like because their stories just is miraculous in different ways.

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Dave Quak 
Some of the insight I actually really liked, the chat with Brad Johnson. So he's my friend and we spoke about his life with ADHD. He's also got a child who's got Down's syndrome. And I thought that was a really powerful chat. So for me it's been, it's been really good for my personal growth, getting to chat to all these people because I feel like I get to pull things apart.

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Dave Quak 
And I do preparation in advance. So I know the person even more than any listener will by the end. And so for me, it's like, yeah, it's been it's been good. It's been good. There's been challenges, you see. Did you just hear my alarm went off?

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Amelia Rees
I did hear your alarm, stupid.

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Dave Quak 
Every time. I'm sorry. There's no reason for that to go off. So, Amelia, side note, praise point. Okay.

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Amelia Rees
Yes.

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Dave Quak 
We've got this little nook. In the end, we got an L-shaped house, and at the end of one of the ill legs, there's like an area that I'm currently kind of built in and turn into a podcast studio because I can't handle it anymore. Man.

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Amelia Rees
You got.

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Dave Quak 
Like, this straight. You got to understand someone who, with my, like, neurosis and all the things that annoy me, like, literally ten minutes before we started recording, there was a helicopter flying around on top of it. What? Yeah. What am I looking for, man? Searching for, like, the guy who just shot Trump. I mean, like, that only happened for FAA.

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Dave Quak 
Let's go. He's not here. But, like, you know. So there's always, like, a a helicopter or a dog or something. So anyway, so my friend Rob and Lorinda, my friends Rob and Lorinda, they, gave me an air conditioner, which is awesome. So that's in the area now that's been installed. And then I've got all this, like soundproofing gear.

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Dave Quak 
And over the next couple of weeks we'll have a studio. So yeah, so it has been one of those things where I'll just, you know, even in all that, I've had to just trust God because you're just really at the mercy of the elements. And we live on the lawn mower iest street on the planet Amelia.

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Amelia Rees
Which is funny because your streets like a dead end.

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Dave Quak 
It's a dead end. And they all just mow the lawn all the time. And I hate mowing the lawn. The only good thing about winter is that the lawn doesn't grow much. The rest of it's the worst. So funny. Funny, funny.

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Amelia Rees
Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah.

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Dave Quak 
I've seen in you, Amelia. I mean, your passion for Jesus has always been, you know, very, admirable. But I've noticed, even just since we've been working together, your love for him and your passion for ministry has just gone through the roof. And I don't know if that coincides with the podcast or if that was already happening.

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Dave Quak 
Tell us about that. Like you're flourishing spiritually at the moment.

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Amelia Rees
I think it's an accumulation of things. I think it's the podcast. I think it's also like I mentioned, I just baptized my best mate and she has we're going to have a on the podcast at some stage. She's got a phenomenal story and some awesome tips to share for balancing your mental health. Yeah, but she's just because she's a brand new Christian to it.

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Amelia Rees
She is on fire and we work together quite a few times during the week and stuff. So now we have to actually sit down and be like, okay, we're going to get some work done before we can bring up Jesus, because otherwise we just keep

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Dave Quak 
Yeah, literally.

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Amelia Rees
Talk about it for hours. So I think just having that person that is just so new in it and just so desperate and so hungry for all of the information and the spirit and all that sort of stuff, it's just been a real encouragement. Yeah. So having something solid as like a ministry outlet has been awesome, just to be able to put that energy into something, I guess.

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Amelia Rees
I think it's probably some combination of things, but that's that's like with anything, God's timing is perfect. Yeah, I think a year ago I may not have been in the right space. You wouldn't have been in the right space. You know, just all the things sort of fall into line. Yeah, but I'm absolutely loving it.

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Dave Quak 
Yeah. And. And your marriage seems to be going really well as well, like you and Marshall. Hey.

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Amelia Rees
Yeah.

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Dave Quak 
Let's give a shout out. He's the best.

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Amelia Rees
He is the best. He is the best. But it's it's hard work, too. Like I said, we we recently had to put down one of our dogs, which was it was a young dog. It wasn't an old dog. Yeah. And that was really his little buddy and his first experience with grief as well. So ever he hasn't lost, you know, a fish, nothing.

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Amelia Rees
So this was his sort of experience with that and just walking and doing that together. But I think that's the key to any marriage or relationship is just to keep doing life together. Yeah, as a friendship, just because we're married doesn't mean that we don't have to still work on our friendship. And I think that's the thing that we always come back to.

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Amelia Rees
And he's he's the person I just want to hang out with. Yeah. Let's call that a rough day. People doubt whatever I always feel is my cup. And we have a level of openness, I think, because I've been through those health experiences. And when you nearly lose your life at a young age, you sort of go, puts things into perspective.

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Amelia Rees
Yeah, it really.

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Dave Quak 
Does. And sadly, you've had so much experience with grief that, I mean, the one good thing about having that experience is that God can use that to equip you to help Marshall through his grief. Yeah.

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Amelia Rees
Exactly. Right. Exactly right. Yeah. But even that in itself was interesting because, you know, for the first few weeks, I was focused on Marshall and then, you know, he sort of got a bit better. And then I sort of fell apart and I was like, why am I here? It's been, you know, two months since we've had to put our dog down.

00;21;39;26 - 00;21;56;11
Amelia Rees
Why am I getting upset about it now? It's like, oh, okay, because I was in carer survival mode. And then I got to the point where I was like, okay, well Marshall's okay, so it's time. My brain told me it was time for me to feel about. Yeah. You know. Yeah, just but being aware of that as well because I was like, oh, I don't know why I'm not really.

00;21;56;14 - 00;22;04;17
Amelia Rees
I was sad, but I wasn't I wouldn't say grieving. Yeah, but my grief was just put on hold for a few weeks before I realized it kicked in.

00;22;04;19 - 00;22;23;05
Dave Quak 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, a lot of your work as well is self-driven. Like, you don't have a nine till five. Are you at it when you can you do the weddings and all that stuff and you can like I guess that gives you a bit of space to move your rhythms around the rhythms of Marshall to help him out as well, and vice versa.

00;22;23;08 - 00;22;29;10
Amelia Rees
Yeah, definitely. Definitely. I don't think I can ever go back to a 9 to 5 nine or have to leave my house.

00;22;29;13 - 00;22;35;16
Dave Quak 
I have to leave the house. That's the best thing. If you're an introvert and you're a podcast editor, but you're not really an introvert, you're kind of like a bit of both.

00;22;35;16 - 00;22;49;25
Amelia Rees
Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, a bit of both. Yeah. As I've gotten older I, I wouldn't, I wouldn't even after to find myself in an extrovert anymore. I'm extroverted as in I'm quite bubbly. Yeah. You're fun but I at the older I get, the more people make me tired.

00;22;49;25 - 00;22;57;02
Dave Quak 
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you find as well that your people's enough people that you don't really need more people in your world because you like. Oh, I've got enough good people.

00;22;57;08 - 00;23;16;02
Amelia Rees
Yeah, yeah, I got that. And then I'm like, then you sort of go, okay, well, it's time to step out of my comfort zone and yeah, get a bit better at that, which, you know, we've just started going to hopefully a new church. We've found a new church home. So but that's been part of that too, is going, kind of love to get to know people and put into that.

00;23;16;02 - 00;23;20;24
Amelia Rees
And that's hard sometimes. Like, yeah, you get to that age where you like, I'll get my friends. I'm good.

00;23;20;26 - 00;23;29;27
Dave Quak 
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you guys haven't really had a, traditional faith community for a while. Like you've been to a lot of. I mean, you've been growing in your faith, but more organically and correct.

00;23;29;27 - 00;23;33;23
Amelia Rees
Yeah. Not in the building on a Sunday night, which is a whole different.

00;23;33;25 - 00;23;36;18
Dave Quak 
It's a whole thing. Hopefully that'll works after your meals.

00;23;36;21 - 00;23;36;29
Amelia Rees
Yeah.

00;23;37;01 - 00;23;40;01
Dave Quak 
I'll be blessed to have you. If you lived down the coast, we'd be pinching you in a second.

00;23;40;08 - 00;23;44;01
Amelia Rees
I know just going to be able to the Gold Coast to.

00;23;44;03 - 00;24;03;23
Dave Quak 
But let's give the, let's give a few updates. So a couple of milestones were hit over the last couple of weeks. I didn't know whether to put them on Facebook or not, but I figure people who are interested are actually listening now, so. Okay. Yeah. So we had our 5,000th download a couple of weeks ago, which I thought was pretty cool.

00;24;03;25 - 00;24;10;23
Dave Quak 
Like you podcast edit for living is, is that like a wee mid-range a little like how how is that? It's good.

00;24;10;25 - 00;24;30;08
Amelia Rees
And I think what's what you can see too, on the stats and also some stuff is that some regular regular listeners. Yeah. Which is awesome. It's hard to keep people's attention because each podcast too, depending on the topic, you'll lose some listeners, you'll lose your gain others, you know. So to have that consistent following and from what I understand, you get quite a bit of good feedback as well.

00;24;30;08 - 00;24;48;02
Amelia Rees
Yeah. People, you know, even at one side you like, I think we've got, as much as it is a blessing getting on those people who, you know, the big weeks, as you call them. Yeah. But having some more testimonies mixed in there as well. Yeah. What the listeners are sort of seeking at the moment. But I think that's the thing too.

00;24;48;02 - 00;24;55;24
Amelia Rees
It's there's a, there's a real community sort of growing. Yeah. And that's what I think you'd want to know from the listeners too, is like, what do you guys want to hear more?

00;24;55;29 - 00;24;56;11
Dave Quak 
That's right.

00;24;56;11 - 00;25;01;11
Amelia Rees
I want to hear more. Just Chinese. Is there a topic that you want us to cover?

00;25;01;16 - 00;25;13;28
Dave Quak 
Because I'm looking at the stats now. Well, we're chatting and it doesn't seem like the bigwigs have a big, uptake. Then our friend. I do slightly, but not in the way that I thought they would.

00;25;14;00 - 00;25;14;14
Amelia Rees
Yes.

00;25;14;14 - 00;25;33;24
Dave Quak 
Which I think is in a way, I'm kind of encouraged by that because it means people are bought into everyday stories. Yeah. I actually had one guy say that he doesn't really like the bigwigs. He'd rather just hear the everyday stories. Yeah, but everyone's like, subjective. So there'll be different people who, like different things. Yeah. So we've got 25 episodes.

00;25;34;09 - 00;25;52;21
Dave Quak 
We're on Vision Radio and the Vision Radio app now, which is cool. And then one cool thing in the next couple of weeks, it might open up to be on 96 five and juice, which is the gold Coast's equivalent. So that may or may not happen, but even they've been like really positive and just helpful.

00;25;52;24 - 00;25;55;24
Amelia Rees
Yes. Yeah. That's it. Yeah. Because they're in the same sort of yeah.

00;25;55;24 - 00;25;56;23
Dave Quak 
The same industry.

00;25;56;24 - 00;26;14;20
Amelia Rees
Audio industry sharing stories and all that sort of stuff, even just to get those connections. But even the fact that they're like, this is yeah, this is different. This is what people want. It really just goes to show then the need for this sort of conversation right now, and I think the world is sort of ready for it to the last few years over Covid and all that sort of stuff.

00;26;14;20 - 00;26;21;13
Amelia Rees
The whole mental health space is really opened up. And so, okay, well, why can't we do that from a spiritual perspective?

00;26;21;13 - 00;26;40;16
Dave Quak 
Yeah, that's the feedback I often get. Is that okay? People are loving talking about this now. Jesus. Because it's it's got to be both. It's just a different space. I've not been in this space before. Getting the podcast, you know, makes it feel a little bit, I'm glad about that, that that's, you know, being off the generosity of some people, plus this amazing marketplace.

00;26;40;18 - 00;26;56;16
Dave Quak 
I bought this stuff yesterday and he goes, oh, I've got a couple of rolls of this acoustic paneling stuff. Do you want it? Anyway, he got it here and I googled it. And it's 1400 bucks worth of this really epic soundproofing stuff would be. And he just gave him to me. So I was like, what are the legend?

00;26;56;16 - 00;27;09;29
Dave Quak 
So. So I feel like those things are still happening. So I don't want to like, negate what God's done by like starting to like, I like, chase money and stuff that you don't like. It just it's so cringing, but at the same time asking for partnerships.

00;27;09;29 - 00;27;22;08
Amelia Rees
I don't know, that's it. Like I said, will pry into it if any. See what happens to what God leads us, because I know that eventually it would be great to. But I think even things like speaking engagements and stuff like that, it's going to be a risk. Yeah, that you're going to be able to really press into it some sage.

00;27;22;08 - 00;27;32;28
Amelia Rees
And so I've just done that. You just said speaking engagements. What's what does that look like? One how would someone reach out to get in contact with you? And to what are you talking about when you're up this.

00;27;33;00 - 00;27;40;10
Dave Quak 
Yeah. No, this is a good question because it's been it's been really encouraging. So the first thing I did was a men's brekkie and that was for 50 guys.

00;27;40;13 - 00;27;45;00
Amelia Rees
Can you tell the story of what happened with that two with the Next Door? That's a great story.

00;27;45;04 - 00;28;08;29
Dave Quak 
This was this is wild. Okay. So the very first speaking engagement I got asked to speak had was literally next door, like sharing a boundary fence with the house that my dad lived in. After him and my mum had broken up, but it was that house. And so I'd seen this house, like, all the time through my childhood and stuff.

00;28;09;05 - 00;28;27;02
Dave Quak 
And it was really interesting because leading up to it, I was wondering whether or not I'd be triggered by seeing that house or anything because like, it was linked to my childhood and some things went down there that I still had to process or whatever. Anyway, I got to this venue. I drove past the house first to have a look, and it's exactly the same color.

00;28;27;02 - 00;28;55;00
Dave Quak 
They haven't painted it in like 20 years, which is probably normal. I don't know how else to be paint a house. Anyway, I came back and then went into the room where the speaking engagement was happening, and literally the view in the back window was the entire house from front to back. And it just made me laugh. And the reason it made me laugh was because, like, for me, I wasn't in any way triggered or upset or going back to any of the trauma.

00;28;55;00 - 00;28;55;26
Amelia Rees
Yeah, no.

00;28;56;03 - 00;29;20;09
Dave Quak 
I actually like I actually had this really kind of potent, illustration linking back to the house, but I never even used it because I just forgotten, you know what I mean? Like, and also thankful to God that I'd been so set free that there was no kind of like, it was almost like, in my mind, a little bit of a testimony that there's no baggage from the old life that that, you know, I was completely set free, and it was just cool.

00;29;20;11 - 00;29;40;04
Dave Quak 
It meant a lot to me that godness, you know, these wonder literally did that for my very first summer soul speaking thing. It was cool. And so I spoke. Yeah. And basically at that thing, I just shared my story and then just spoke about three things we do in churches that aren't super helpful, things we say in Christian circles that aren't helpful, and what would be a better response?

00;29;40;04 - 00;29;40;27
Amelia Rees
Yeah.

00;29;41;00 - 00;29;46;15
Dave Quak 
Because I don't want to just come in and just like, destroy and pick on the church for being behind the game. I also want to do a.

00;29;46;15 - 00;29;47;07
Amelia Rees
Quick yes.

00;29;47;07 - 00;30;06;22
Dave Quak 
So that, you know, that was the first one. And then that led to doing a, another night service where it was kind of like for their church service, they had, question and answer time and also the guess for that. But then that became a podcast on my mate Matt Thomas's podcast. And so he kind of did a two for one thing, a similar thing.

00;30;06;22 - 00;30;27;11
Dave Quak 
I was speaking there about things you should and shouldn't do, within the church community, but also more focused on like, okay, how do we disciple people who are on this path? Yeah. How do we support people who are, on this path as well? And so that was that one, which was a very similar thing I did in the third one I did I did a third one on a similar vein at a different church.

00;30;27;11 - 00;30;51;04
Dave Quak 
But we had a really strong ministry time where I was like, okay, guys like, you know, in response time, people do all different things like call people to the front or whatever. I did it a bit different where I got people to respond in their chairs with their community, who were going to support them, so that those people would then be the prayer people, because in mental illness, you need people to track with you.

00;30;51;04 - 00;31;06;28
Dave Quak 
Yeah. And so there's no point them coming to get pray from me. They need to get pray from the people who will be committed to seeing them. Day in, day out. And and it was so powerful. Amelia, like all these people came in, they were, you know, there was laughter and tears and heavy and light and God really moved.

00;31;06;28 - 00;31;48;13
Dave Quak 
But one thing that I really glimpsed in that meeting was the heart of God for his people. You know, he just cares for us. And he is indiscriminate in his love. His love for his people is just so huge. And so, you know, we'd have in that in that particular service, there's people who were responding because they were anxious, depressed or married to someone who was aggressive or all these other things sitting amongst the guy who seemingly might not have any mental health issues or has a good job or whatever else, everyone sitting in the same congregation and we're all the same before the Lord.

00;31;48;13 - 00;32;10;04
Dave Quak 
Yeah. You know. Yeah. All his children who once were separated but because of Jesus are no longer, you know, and so I don't know that that for me, I want the message of someone souls to be one of restoration when it comes to your mental health. But even bigger restoration between you and God. Because he is good and he loves us.

00;32;10;07 - 00;32;32;15
Amelia Rees
I love that, and I even love that approach of not making people get up and come to the front because if you're really anxious, you don't want to do that. That's right, I do. That's the last thing you even if you really want to get up there, you might just be go, like, yeah. So and even that is teaching the church like, this is what this is how to incorporate these people that are struggling with mental illness or anxiety or whatever.

00;32;32;15 - 00;32;36;10
Amelia Rees
Like this. I don't want to get up and do this. Let me make people where they're at.

00;32;36;12 - 00;32;59;15
Dave Quak 
That's it. And I had to do a hybrid one, actually, where some people came forward where they were comfortable. But I was thankfully hearing pretty clearly from God to do that, but then also offer prayer. So it was almost like the people who needed to come up and do some on the knees business with God, you know, did that, you know, it came in a bit more repentance in like, you know, coming before the father, whereas the others were getting ministry.

00;32;59;15 - 00;33;23;02
Dave Quak 
So it was kind of that's cool. You know? And when I say repentance before the father, I that word used to like not scare me, but like I feel yuck when I heard it because they're it always like come across so violent and come across so like condemning and stuff. And I get that there's an element where we need to understand the gravity of our separation from God.

00;33;23;04 - 00;33;42;00
Dave Quak 
But there's good news. I want to be the bearer of good news. And so the fact that we can kneel before God and before a word is on our mouth to say, sorry, God, he's like, heck yes, you're mine. You know, he's so generous with his love, I don't know, have you found that to be the case?

00;33;42;02 - 00;33;56;06
Amelia Rees
Oh yeah. Big time, big time. And I think it's when when you're at your lowest that you really feel that love the most if you call out. Yeah, don't be silly. But, you know, there's a comfort of going, I don't know what's coming next.

00;33;56;09 - 00;33;56;19
Dave Quak 
Yeah.

00;33;56;19 - 00;34;13;05
Amelia Rees
I can't get out of bed because I'm so depressed, whatever that looks like. Like that's a vulnerable space. It's a vulnerable space. And having that friend that you can invite into that and be like, we'll just be just. Yeah. And sometimes you don't even have I don't know about you, but sometimes I don't even have the energy to do anything.

00;34;13;05 - 00;34;16;12
Amelia Rees
Pray for repentance. Nothing. I just go, oh Lord, I just need you.

00;34;16;15 - 00;34;16;28
Dave Quak 


00;34;17;00 - 00;34;20;20
Amelia Rees
Full stop. And he hears us and he comes and that's amazing.

00;34;20;23 - 00;34;42;25
Dave Quak 
I feel like he's really attracted to like our steps towards him. Like in James full right. It says you know draw near to God and he'll draw near to you. And I guess that wasn't the gospel I kind of grew up on, like the gospel I grew up on as a kid was way more, I don't know, I like it was almost like, okay, Jesus will forgive you, but only because he's obliged.

00;34;42;28 - 00;35;04;11
Dave Quak 
Like, you know, like it's like it was like it was never from love. It was always really, like, harsh. And, I don't know, man. The the longer I walk with God, the more I feel he's so kind to me and just loves me. Amelia. I guess for the listeners, I want them to come to a place where they recognize God's affection for them.

00;35;04;14 - 00;35;05;06
Amelia Rees
Yeah.

00;35;05;08 - 00;35;24;24
Dave Quak 
Just their his affection, his fatherly heart. Where he's like, you know what, man? Brokenness, sinfulness. You are my child, and I understand who you are despite your flaws. And I still invite you into my family. I just want to propagate that message as much as I can. Hey.

00;35;25;00 - 00;35;31;01
Amelia Rees
Oh, 100%. I think the other part of it is, too. It's like we sort of forget that Jesus came to save the broken.

00;35;31;08 - 00;35;31;18
Dave Quak 
Yeah.

00;35;31;18 - 00;35;49;26
Amelia Rees
So it's okay to be broken in front of the Lord? Yeah. Like it's okay to sit there and go like I am broken. Because that's what he came to do is to rescue us from that. Yeah, yeah. So there's no shame in going. I don't feel the best that I can. I don't have anything to offer. He just wants us to come to him and be in his presence and allow him to.

00;35;49;27 - 00;35;51;00
Amelia Rees
To live with us.

00;35;51;04 - 00;35;51;29
Dave Quak 
Yeah.

00;35;52;01 - 00;35;53;15
Amelia Rees
Such a gift.

00;35;53;17 - 00;36;17;20
Dave Quak 
Such a gift. We just came back from holidays. Amelia. Been at strategy for a couple of weeks already, and it rained, like nine out of 12 days, like it's been bucketing down. And there were a couple of days where we literally sat up, got up, sat in the lounge room as a family, read books and didn't say much.

00;36;17;20 - 00;36;38;02
Dave Quak 
Every now and then I want to get up and grab a snack, you know, and then and then later on we play a few board games, go get some fish and chips, and we literally did nothing. And I loved it so much. Amelia was just able to be a dad to my kids. Yeah, and expected nothing of them.

00;36;38;02 - 00;36;57;02
Dave Quak 
And they didn't expect anything. They didn't ask anything. We were just there, you know, and to be honest, that was, I guess, more fulfilling than going to Dreamworld or whatever, because I was just like, we were just in each other's presence. And I feel that one thing God has shown me through my mental health battle is that that's how he sees me.

00;36;57;02 - 00;36;59;18
Dave Quak 
He's just content with me in his presence.

00;36;59;23 - 00;37;04;29
Amelia Rees
Yeah, and he wants nothing more than, you know, to be embodied into that space, into that space.

00;37;04;29 - 00;37;22;23
Dave Quak 
So I guess if you're listening and you don't understand what Amelia and I are talking about, I would encourage you just to sort of say to Jesus, look, I want that. I want to intimacy with you. I want a relationship with you.

00;37;22;25 - 00;37;46;07
Dave Quak 
You know, so say to God, you know what? I'm not walking with you, but I want to. You may even want to, like, just take some time, even as you're listening now, just to, like, close your eyes and be like, God, I'm broken. Walk with me. Fix me and love me. You know, I just feel like that's.

00;37;46;09 - 00;38;06;01
Dave Quak 
It is his heart. It is, it is. And for the guys that are listening like, you don't understand how encouraging you've been to Amelia. And I like the fact that you guys are behind this and getting old and, you know, just all the cool things that have happened, like, God is using you guys in our lives and we're really thankful to you.

00;38;06;04 - 00;38;07;04
Amelia Rees
So thankful.

00;38;07;06 - 00;38;09;28
Dave Quak 
Yeah, yeah.

00;38;10;00 - 00;38;11;15
Amelia Rees
Such an awesome journey.

00;38;11;17 - 00;38;19;16
Dave Quak 
It is. So anything else you want to share? Amelia, before we start wanting down?

00;38;19;18 - 00;38;23;07
Amelia Rees
I didn't have anything else in particular.

00;38;23;10 - 00;38;39;16
Dave Quak 
Well you just just one thing like, you know your friend. She came to Jesus after 15 years of selling seeds. What was it for her. And in your life. What was it for her. That sort of made the penny drop.

00;38;39;19 - 00;38;53;21
Amelia Rees
Let's go. Digression I was actually talking to her about that the other day because I was like, was there just like a particular moment? Was there a moment that this happened? And for her it's just been a like a slowly waking up.

00;38;53;23 - 00;38;54;02
Dave Quak 
Yeah.

00;38;54;06 - 00;39;14;14
Amelia Rees
To the fact that this could be different. And I truly believe that like God's going to do some powerful stuff with her. And he's been preparing her for that. And she had to go through what she needed to go through to be able to be powerful in that space. Yeah. So I don't think there was any one particular, moment for her after also because I asked her that question.

00;39;14;21 - 00;39;16;20
Dave Quak 
Oh, yeah. When you when you interview I.

00;39;16;20 - 00;39;27;17
Amelia Rees
Yeah, when I interview y'all probably with that questioning is because she talks a lot as well. So sometimes you'll ask a question then half an hour later you're like, okay dude, here's the question. I'm not sure.

00;39;28;00 - 00;39;28;04
Dave Quak 
But.

00;39;28;04 - 00;39;47;13
Amelia Rees
What was interesting the other day was she goes, how did you continue to stay, my friend, knowing that I wasn't a Christian. Like, how did that impact you now that I'm a Christian? Like, if I was friends with you and you weren't, that would be really hard. And I was like, yeah, it was really hard. But I had faith that you'll get there eventually and you're on your own journey.

00;39;47;13 - 00;40;04;01
Amelia Rees
So yeah. And what better way to be a witness was just to be your friend and to be there for you because she always, you know, we all we would and we would talk about good stuff. And it just wasn't real for her and her heart at that moment. Or as strong like she was always said all I believe.

00;40;04;01 - 00;40;08;13
Amelia Rees
But yeah, definitely a born again Christian. God love to.

00;40;08;14 - 00;40;18;20
Dave Quak 
It. Isn't that world like he good. You know, he gets in relationship with people all different ways. So in the next couple of weeks, you'll hear from em. That'll be awesome.

00;40;18;22 - 00;40;21;21
Amelia Rees
Yeah, sure. Listen to this and be like, oh, no, no, I have to get prepared.

00;40;21;25 - 00;40;30;01
Dave Quak 
Yeah, I have to get ready. It's going to be a big on he. Miss Amelia, can you, pray for us as we start to wind up today?

00;40;30;03 - 00;40;50;14
Amelia Rees
I would like to pray for us. Something else I would like to do to Dave. And we talked about two. It is. I'd like to maybe walk through like, what they call like the salvation prayer word, because I know there would be I think there would be listeners who maybe don't know what to say and to give their life to the Lord if that's something that they would like to do.

00;40;51;03 - 00;40;53;17
Amelia Rees
Maybe you could lead us in that and I can jump in and pray after.

00;40;53;24 - 00;41;00;20
Dave Quak 
What about this? Meals? What if just so everyone feels like they're participating, I'll say it and you repeat it. Love it. Go through it.

00;41;00;22 - 00;41;02;27
Amelia Rees
Let's do it all together. Yeah, I love it.

00;41;02;27 - 00;41;05;24
Dave Quak 
All right.

00;41;05;27 - 00;41;09;26
Amelia Rees
God, God.

00;41;09;28 - 00;41;13;01
Dave Quak 
I come to you as I am.

00;41;13;04 - 00;41;15;19
Amelia Rees
I come to you as I am.

00;41;15;21 - 00;41;21;23
Dave Quak 
With all my brokenness and craziness and frailty.

00;41;21;25 - 00;41;25;29
Amelia Rees
With all my brokenness, craziness and frailty.

00;41;26;01 - 00;41;29;22
Dave Quak 
And I ask to enter into relationship with you.

00;41;29;24 - 00;41;33;09
Amelia Rees
And I ask to enter into relationship with you.

00;41;33;11 - 00;41;38;03
Dave Quak 
I acknowledge that Jesus is the way to salvation.

00;41;38;05 - 00;41;41;26
Amelia Rees
I acknowledge that Jesus is the way to salvation.

00;41;41;29 - 00;41;46;09
Dave Quak 
That through his sacrifice I can be reconciled to you.

00;41;46;12 - 00;41;51;01
Amelia Rees
That through his sacrifice I can be reconciled to you.

00;41;51;04 - 00;41;57;27
Dave Quak 
And I lay my sin and brokenness and shame at the cross.

00;41;58;00 - 00;42;05;00
Amelia Rees
I lay my sin, my brokenness, and my shame at the cross.

00;42;05;02 - 00;42;09;05
Dave Quak 
I know your sacrifice sets me free.

00;42;09;07 - 00;42;13;05
Amelia Rees
I know your sacrifice set me free.

00;42;13;07 - 00;42;17;19
Dave Quak 
So I choose to walk away from my sin.

00;42;17;21 - 00;42;21;18
Amelia Rees
So I choose to walk away from my sin.

00;42;21;20 - 00;42;26;03
Dave Quak 
I accept your salvation with joy and thanksgiving.

00;42;26;06 - 00;42;30;00
Amelia Rees
I accept your salvation with joy and thanksgiving.

00;42;30;03 - 00;42;34;25
Dave Quak 
And I look forward to deepening my relationship with you.

00;42;34;27 - 00;42;39;09
Amelia Rees
And I look forward to deepening my relationship with you.

00;42;39;11 - 00;42;41;25
Dave Quak 
Come into my life. Holy spirit.

00;42;41;27 - 00;42;44;06
Amelia Rees
Come into my life. Holy spirit.

00;42;44;08 - 00;42;48;14
Dave Quak 
Fill me with your presence overflowing.

00;42;48;17 - 00;42;51;14
Amelia Rees
Fill me with your presence overflowing.

00;42;51;16 - 00;42;55;14
Dave Quak 
I look forward to working with you day in and day out.

00;42;55;16 - 00;42;59;18
Amelia Rees
I look forward to working with you day in, day out.

00;42;59;20 - 00;43;04;10
Dave Quak 
And I thank you that you are my father.

00;43;04;12 - 00;43;06;11
Amelia Rees
And I thank you that you are my father.

00;43;06;13 - 00;43;08;16
Dave Quak 
In Jesus name, Amen.

00;43;08;18 - 00;43;12;25
Amelia Rees
In Jesus name, Amen.

00;43;12;27 - 00;43;13;29
Dave Quak 


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Amelia Rees
Well, we just want to invite you into this moment. Pray that if anyone has just prayed this prayer for the first time, that they will feel your love and your presence. Lord, we're broken people, but you came to deliver us from that sin and hurt and pain. One Monday will be with you, with none of that will exist, Lord.

00;43;34;13 - 00;44;02;24
Amelia Rees
There will be no crying, no pain. Yeah. No hurt. Lord. We pray that as we walk along on this earth, that we will feel that love and acceptance and fullness as we walk throughout our lives, even though we are experiencing that pain and hurt. Lord, we want to thank you for everything that you've done for us every single day that we have breath in our lungs.

00;44;02;27 - 00;44;37;18
Amelia Rees
Thank you that you accept us for who we are despite our shortcomings. I pray that you will come and fill those shortcomings so we can be fulfilled and full, just as you designed us, just as you created us. Lord, we want to thank you for some bent souls in the ministry and the witness that this is. And I pray that as we continue to share stories and tips and experiences, Lord, that it will bring us together and closer to you, Lord.

00;44;39;17 - 00;44;40;18
Amelia Rees
Amen.

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Dave Quak 
Amen. Amelia Reese, it has been a delight chatting to you. I like you.

00;44;46;11 - 00;44;47;02
Amelia Rees
I like you too.

00;44;47;03 - 00;45;11;03
Dave Quak 
I like you a lot by now. You would have added the music because you're the editor. And so it would be done in a name and then it'll be like that. So some persons. Thank you so much for listening and we'll see you next week. I hope to fly back and see. I. For more candid conversations on faith and mental well-being.

00;45;11;05 - 00;45;31;05
Dave Quak 
Check out some holes.com. You can subscribe to our podcast on any major provider, or contact us directly to book us to preach or speak. Something that souls is a faith based ministry, and we want to thank everybody so far for their generous support. If you want to get behind us, pray our message reaches the ears of those that need to hear it.

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Dave Quak 
Feel free to donate financially online, but if you feel obliged or manipulated to give you better off sharing a loved one a coffee instead. I'm Dave Clark from Summer and solace.