Equip & Empower Ministries

If I just said 2508 of 1966, it would just go over your head.

But the minute you say Christine Caine, it changes everything.

There's just one degree of separation between me and the people we're rescuing.

If I wasn't born in Australia where there was a rule of law and an adoption system, I could be one of the kids we're rescuing today.

So if you, if you look at the lineup, you know, one year I think we had T.D. Jakes, and John Piper, and Rob Bell, and Malcolm Gladwell, and Andy Stanley, like all...

Maybe Christine Caine.

Throw her in there, too.

Like-

But together we give so much.

And so this really was something that we started to partner with, with Christine Caine and the A21 team-

Mm-hmm

... um, back in 2023.

So, so that's what we did.

So in 2023, we had an elite mastermind retreat, and Christine Caine came to speak to the retreat, and God just downloaded to me, "Brooke, it's time to write a fift- your first $50,000 check." And at the beginning of the retreat, we had 50 women in the room, and I decided, it was just like a decision I made, I said, "Brett, I feel like I'm supposed to write a $50,000 check to Christine, to A21."

Mm-hmm.

"She's coming to speak." You know, there was, there was no, uh, there was no expectation, but I, I thought if I could show 50 women what it looks like to write $1,000 on their behalf, and together we give $50,000.

As a parent, we better make some of those sports events because our kids need our support and our affirmation.

But if we miss the game for work, there better be times we miss the game for worship, right? Like Christine Caine, she's a, um, she, she's the, she's a prolific speaker.

She's from Australia.

She also, uh, is the president of a non-profit that gets people out of sex trafficking.

Someone told me a long time ago, "Books are people." So if you wanna know John Maxwell, just read all his books.

And so listen to his, his podcasts, listen to his audios, you know? If you wanna know, you know, any great leader, just, just listen to him, right? Uh, you know, Christine Caine, we've known her for years.

She's an incredible leader, you know? Uh, just listen to her.

She, she's, she's a genius.

Here there's gonna be pirates and convicts and murderers [laughs] and criminals, and over here there is adultery and fornication and abuse and addiction.

But then they're gonna see 30th of March 1996, Nicholas Joseph Caine marries Holy Ghost terrorist Christine Caine.

[laughing] And at that moment, they're gonna see that everything changed because when Nick and I got married, we drew a bloodline in the sand and we said, "With us, it stops.

Adultery stops.