Philip Cameron: Hello, my
name is Philip Cameron, and do
you know that your life consists
of a million, million, million
decisions you have made all
the way across your life.
Each one small and insignificant
by itself, but the mosaic that
is made is the
photograph of your life.
I want to help you today to
understand the value of making
the right decision.
I'm so glad you've joined us.
My daughter, Melody, is here,
and I'm glad you're
here with us.
This is "Daily Faith."
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Philip: The power of choice,
the first thing that God gave
mankind in the garden
was you can choose.
He said, "I've made all this for
you, but don't touch that tree,
because if you touch the tree,
the day you do, you will die."
And you know the old story,
Adam and Eve in the garden.
They chose to eat the fruit
and sin entered the world.
I'm astonished as I've lived
my life and seen over the long
years now, 50 years in ministry,
how many bad decisions,
obviously bad
decisions, that people can make.
Sometimes, it just
leaves me speechless.
It's a car wreck about to
happen, and you can tell them
it's a car wreck about to
happen, and they won't listen,
and they won't pay a bit of
attention, they go anyway.
And the choices that we make,
and I'm here to tell you right
up front, I've made some of the
dumbest decisions of my life and
it cost me dearly.
And my dad said to me many
times, "You can't be experienced
without experience."
But at the same time, if you
listen to wise men, that maybe
have fallen down that hole in
the road, you can save yourself
a lot of time.
And I wanna talk to you today
about the power of decisions.
God made a covenant
with a man called Abraham.
His wife and he,
Sarah, were barren.
They had no children.
And God told them to leave Ur
of the Chaldeans and go to
a place that had foundations,
that God had made for them.
And this covenant that he would
strike would be forevermore.
And God made a decision to
communicate with mankind
in a totally and
absolutely new dimension.
Abraham, having no children,
decided to take a lot with him.
He had a nephew called Lot, and
as I guess a guard to his
old age, I don't know his
reasonings, but he took someone
with him that should
never have been there.
And how many times, let me ask
you this question, just between
me and you, how many times have
you brought things along
and people along that
should not be there?
And you know they shouldn't be
there, and you end up
doing it anyway.
And the Bible tells us that
Abraham was blessed, and his
flocks and herds grew, and
because Lot was with Abraham,
Lot was with the anointing.
Lot was with the chosen
one, he was blessed as well.
And we read in Genesis the most
ridiculous story, something that
I can't--I read it, and every
time I read it, it's like ugh.
The Bible says that the herdsmen
of Lot argued with
the herdsmen of Abraham.
And Lot confronted his uncle,
and said, "Look, we have
a problem here.
My shepherds and your
shepherds are fighting."
If I had been in Lot's shoes,
I'd have said to the guys,
"Kill all my sheep.
I want to be with him."
But the sheep became more
important than the anointing.
The stuff became of more
value than the man that God had
ordained and called out of Ur
to go to the Promised Land.
And the Bible says that Abraham
said to his nephew,
"Look, let's not
fight, we're family.
Whichever way you want to
go, you go, you choose.
And if you go
north, I'll go south.
If you go east, I'll go west."
And the Bible says that Lot
lifted up his eyes to the
beautiful well-watered plains,
the grassy, idyllic scene of
Sodom and Gomorrah.
And if you look where that
happened, the only place where
Abraham had to go was up
into high lands where the grass
grazing was less.
I would rather be on an ice
cap with the anointed than
in a valley full of
grass with the cursed.
And the Bible tells a graphic
story of how Lot began on the
plains and ended up in the city,
and by the time we hear of him
again, and Abraham begs God
to spare his nephew's life,
he says, "If there's eight
righteous," he goes all the way
down to one, and the Bible says
that two angels came
and they were now in the city.
They were no longer out in the
valleys, the city had possessed
them, and worst of all in
the city, there was rampant,
unhindered sin, and God sent
angels to get Lot out before he
destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
Lot had two daughters, read
the story, and both his married
daughters were still virgins.
His married daughters
were still virgins.
And as the angels were outside
Lot's house waiting for Lot to
come, and for them to warn them
about what was going to come,
the men of the city
wanted to know the angels.
Things had become so twisted
in the city that the men of the
city wanted to have sexual
relationships with angels.
And Lot took them in, protected
them, and they warned him,
"This has got to
come to an end."
Let me tell you something, God
looks at it and his mercy is
shown, and his mercy is shown,
but there comes a point when God
says, "That's enough,
boys, that's enough."
So, one night, you'd find a
man, and his wife, and his
two daughters running.
The boys never came.
The boys were too stuck in what
they were up to in the cities of
Sodom and Gomorrah.
And as fire and brimstone began
to fall, running down through
the empty, dark alleyways of
Sodom and Gomorrah, a man that
had shepherds and sheep
well beyond anything you could
imagine, because he'd made the
wrong choice, was running
for his life with his wife
and his girls behind him.
And he's shouting at them,
running through the streets,
their footprints echoing against
the stone walls and sidewalks
in the city, about
to be destroyed.
And he's screaming, "Don't
look back, don't look back."
And they get out of the city,
and they escape from the fire
and hailstone that's
falling--brimstone that's
falling around all over the
city, killing, and destroying,
and burning everything.
And his wife couldn't resist.
She turned around and was
turned to a pillar of salt.
I wish that was the end of the
story, but the two girls that
were with him, his daughters,
his own daughters, looked at
their dad, lonely and broken,
all the things he'd given up
and lost because
of his stupidity.
And the Bible says that one
night they got their dad drunk
and they went in and
they slept with their dad.
And one son was called Amon,
and the other was called Moab.
And out of that relationship
came the Ammonites
and the Moabites that fought
against the children of Israel
through the generations.
It all happened on a plain when
an uncle and a nephew fought.
Two girls, mother-in-law, Naomi,
Elimelek has died, Mahlon and
Kilion have died, the sons,
and the two daughter-in-laws and
Naomi have heard there's bread
back in Bethlehem Judah, and
they leave, and they come to the
end and the crossing of the way,
and Orpah, the Bible says, opens
up and begins to weep, and she
says, "I've got to go back to my
people," and she goes back
and is never heard from again.
Orpah is gone, but two girls at
the same place at the same time,
one went back, the other said,
"Treat me not to leave thee
or from following after you.
Where you go, I will go.
Where you lodge, I will lodge.
Your people will be my
people," and her name was Ruth.
Two people at the same time
making a decision, one to go
into poverty with her
mother-in-law, the other to go
back to the
security of her family.
She met a man called Boaz and
by her faithfulness and love
and decision, became part of
the lineage of Jesus Christ.
All it took was the right
decision at the right time.
I pray, Lord Jesus, right now
to my friend that's watching,
I don't know the decision that
you're gonna make, but I pray
right now, dear friend, that
you make the right choice.
Not the easy choice,
but the right one.
I pray that the power of God
will manifest in your life, the
character of heaven will
come in, and you'll say,
"Lord, whatever it costs,
I'm gonna follow you.
Whatever it takes, I'm
gonna make the right choice.
And if I do, I know at the end
you'll honor me for doing that."
I pray for your family in the
name of Jesus, that whatever
trouble they're in that God
will redeem them out of that
and bring them home,
because you're a choice.
You were God's greatest choice.
"For God so loved the world that
he gave his only begotten Son,"
for you, that if you
believe, you shall not perish.
You were God's choice, and I
pray his blessing in
every choice you make, in
Jesus's name I pray, amen.
I'll be back in a moment.
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Philip: Talk
about a right decision.
The greatest decision you'll
ever make in your life is when
you say, "I have
decided to follow Jesus."
And the moment you do
that, you open up a whole new
relationship, and, oh,
what's the word I'm looking for?
Oh, my goodness, it's
right at the tip of my tongue.
I'm having a senior moment.
You open a whole new facet of
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because when you believe in
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If you believe in the Lord
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When you believe in the Lord
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And our family were a bunch
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And two young preachers came to
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So, I hope that you are the
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it'll be a great blessing.
Thank you so much.
Melody, we are getting
closer and closer every day
to Christmastime.
Melody: Can you believe it?
Philip: And that is one
of our happiest and also our
busiest time of the
year, tell them why.
Melody: Well, Christmas is
crazy any year, no matter what
is going on, we all know that.
We usually collect Christmas
and all kinds of goodies
to send to Moldova.
We ship that from here in the
United States, because people
collect Christmas
gifts for the kids.
Philip: Churches do
this, individuals do this.
Melody: Women's groups,
all different kind of groups do
that, and we normally send
that, like, the first week
of November.
But, on top of that, we decided
to add another little project
in there along with it.
And with all our Vatra houses
that we've purchased in the last
couple months, and we've
finished, we now have to furnish
them, and fill them, and get
them ready for the girls
and the young men that are
coming into stay there.
So--
Philip: How urgent is this?
Melody: Of utmost urgency.
I mean, there are
kids waiting for us.
We have a list of kids who
have nowhere to go,
and they're waiting for us to
say, "We're ready."
Philip: Understand
this, please listen to me.
This is critical.
We have been offered
kids that we can't take in.
And right now, they are chancing
their life being caught
by a trafficker.
And if only you knew the
frustration and the fear it puts
in our hearts, not for us, we're
fine, but can you imagine having
a house finished and not having
the furniture inside it
for these kids?
We have lists of kids waiting
desperately, "Please take me in,
I'm begging you, take me in."
And they are living any
way they can right now.
We've got a couple of houses
rented as we speak right now to
take just the worst cases, but
if you could help us to finish
one of these houses, we need
furniture, we need containers.
Each container that goes across
from Montgomery all the way to
Chisinau is costing $9,000
for the container,
not for the stuff.
You say, "Well, why don't
you buy stuff over there?"
We've tried, and we looked
around, and it was horrendously
expensive, and it was terrible
quality, unbelievable quality.
Doors falling off cupboards,
I mean, just--I can't
describe the
frustration I've had.
And we finally came to the
decision that containers were
the only way to go, that we know
the quality before
they go in there.
So, you can help
us by doing what?
How can someone help
us right now, Mel?
Melody: We have chosen all
the things we've done, all that,
the detailed hard work of
figuring out how many beds,
how many windows, and all
that kind of stuff.
We've gotten everything laid
out, and what we did is, we went
to Wal-Mart and Target, and we
created registries like you do
for your family getting married,
or somebody having a baby.
And we've put everything on the
website, so you can shop from
home, or you can go into the
store and purchase the items off
the registry, and you can
ship 'em to us if you're
doing it that way.
That way, you can be involved.
It's not just something that's
happening on the other side of
the world, you can go into the
store, and you can choose, say,
"I want to make a warm bed for a
young girl," and, you know, you
can get the duvet cover, and
the comforter that goes inside,
and the pillows, however--to
the extent that you can.
Philip: And know that that
thing that they carry out
of the shop--
Melody: A young girl will be
laying in that blanket in just
a matter of weeks, and you
made that possible, and that's
another reason we like to do
it from this way, is that the
people who have been our
faithful friends, who have been
with us, you know, for years,
or, you know, if today is the
first day you've ever met us,
hi, we're glad you joined us.
But that way, that anybody can
be involved, and be a part of
it, and know what's being
done and where it's going to.
Philip: You're a mom.
How important, if
these were your kids?
Melody: I am a crybaby,
so I will very quickly
talk about this.
But I can't imagine my kids
not having anywhere to go.
Philip: She was
the reason I started.
When I first learned of girls
at 16 being put on the street,
Melody was 16.
Melody: And this is not just
there's nowhere to sleep, to lay
their head at night, it's a
matter of life and death.
These are not, you know,
sleeping outside in the cold is
bad, but when a threat of being
picked up by traffickers and
sold across the world and abused
by men dozens of times a day,
every day, 'til you die, that's
a whole other level of
need and urgency.
Philip: One of the saddest
things that ever happened to us,
we--Chrissie and I went to
this orphanage, we put all
the windows in it, 391 windows.
And at the end, there's a park
bench outside, and there was
18 girls on the park bench.
And I went outside and
the director says,
"They all must leave."
I says, "What do you mean?"
And he says, "They're finished,
they're done, they're 16."
And they gave 'em a couple of
dollars and a bus ticket to
whatever name is on their birth
certificate, and I looked at
Chrissie, and I says,
"How many can we take in?"
And we just finished a house,
and she says, "Oh, if we take
the computers out of the
computer room, we can
maybe take three."
And I looked back at a park
bench with 18 desperate faces
looking at me, and I says,
"Chrissie, please," she says,
"That's all we can take."
And some other girls that were
in that house already, and I
says, "Come and help Dad choose
three girls," and all these kids
who were orphans started to cry,
because they knew what
was gonna happen.
"No, no, we cannot do this.
No, no, we cannot do this."
And we ended up having a meal
at our house, and they all came,
and we chose three.
One of the girls we did
not choose was a girl
called Valentina.
We found her in China.
Listen, she left the photograph
that we took that day, and went
to her mother, and her mother
says, "There's no place for you
in my house."
Her new husband didn't want her.
She got trafficked to Greece,
then to Cyprus,
and then to China.
And we found her in China, asked
her, "What's the worst thing
that's happened to you?"
She says, "Two Christmases
ago from now," she says,
"Ninety-five men
used me in one day."
That's how real this is,
and we need your help.
I want you to watch some of
these very same girls in Odesa
having Christmas, watch this.
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Philip: That is
in Odesa, Ukraine.
I was coming home from America
went in the Atlanta airport
through immigration, and the
immigration officer, when I told
him where I'd been in Moldova,
he says, "Where have you been?"
I says, "Moldova," he
says, "You won't believe this.
I've just been transferred
up from the Caribbean, and we
intercepted a 40-foot
container," the same kind of
container we're asking
you to help us right now.
He says, "We opened this 40-foot
container, and there was
38 Moldovan girls in it, shipped
all the way from Odesa
in the Ukraine."
And it so cut me into my heart,
that I said to Chrissie, I says,
"I don't know how we're gonna
do this, but we're gonna have
to open a house in Odesa."
And those are some of the
girls in that Odesa house today,
because people like you
give and support our work.
And that's them having
Christmas, so we need your help.
We have got containers that
we've got to have full of
furniture, and one of them
full of Christmas gifts.
Five of furniture,
one of Christmas gifts.
Each one of these containers
costs $9,000 just for
the shipping alone.
Not the furnishings,
just for the shipping.
We have one or two containers,
I think two containers
full right now.
We need the rest of the
furniture to come in.
We need you to go to Wal-Mart
and Target on their registry of
The Orphan's Hands and give.
You can give those items, I
mean, specifically to us, and
they'll ship them to us, and
we'll put them on the container.
We need you to pray.
Will you pray with me?
Lord Jesus, you know the need.
You know these kids are waiting,
desperately waiting for a home.
And there are folks watching
just now that can support
and provide a whole bedroom
for kids, $5,000 gift.
There are those that could give
a container and say, "I'll pay
for the whole container," or if
94 give $100, that container
is taken care of.
You know them.
You know the decision they
can make right now to change
someone's life on the
other side of the world.
Pray, Lord Jesus, for your
voice to speak in their hearts.
In Jesus's name I pray, amen.
Time is almost out, but
tell 'em again how to do this.
Melody: You can call us at
our offices, 833-DAILY-FAITH.
You can go onto our
registry website,
registry.philipdcameron,
that's Philip with one L,
philipdcameron.com, and that'll
link you to Wal-Mart and Target.
Or, you can go into the store,
you can print out the registry
sheets, take it with you, or you
can download the store app on
your phone and you can search
the items there on your phone
as you're going
through the store.
So, the easiest way is to call
us, the most fun way is to go
into the store, but there
are a couple ways to do it.
Philip: I don't agree.
Keep away from the
stores at all costs.
Email it in, the best way,
just type it in your computer.
Listen, you are important.
The decisions you will make for
these orphans in the next few
seconds will determine how a
life will be lived for eternity.
Make the right choice.
We love you so much and
appreciate you, bye-bye.
announcer: For over 25 years,
the Cameron family has been
changing the lives of
orphans in Romania and Moldova.
From providing running water,
flushing toilets, and clean
wells, to coal for heat, new
windows, as well as food
and clothing.
They champion the physical needs
of the orphans in these broken
and desolate countries.
Many of Moldova's orphans
are saved from the horrors of
trafficking through homes
founded by the Camerons.
And in the process, orphans
become daughters and sons.
They come to know their Heavenly
Father and are forever changed
by the love of Jesus.
God helped the Camerons lift
these amazing young men
and women out of darkness.
Now, no longer orphans, they
want to return and invade that
very same darkness with
the light of Jesus Christ.
The Orphan's Hands equips
these daughters and sons
to become missionaries.
Your monthly gift of $31 will
allow us to rescue and take in
more girls and boys, saving
them from the hell
of human trafficking.
Your monthly partnership will
allow us to care for those in
The Orphan's Hands homes
in Moldova and the Ukraine.
When you partner with us on a
monthly basis, giving a dollar a
day, you will receive "Every 30
Seconds," a testimonial book of
the lives changed by
The Orphan's Hands.
If you want to join Philip and
Chrissie in taking care of these
precious young people, please
contact us today by calling
833-DAILYFAITH.
You can also give by going
online to philipdcameron.com, or
by writing to post-office box
242246,
Montgomery, Alabama, 36124.
So many lives
depend on what we do.
Thank you for loving the lost.
Philip would love
to hear from you.
If there is a need for prayer in
your life, and you want him to
pray for your unsaved loved
ones, reach out to Philip at
833-DAILYFAITH.
We believe for
great things for you.
Contact him today.
If you are a pastor, church
leader, or business owner,
and would like to have Philip
Cameron come and speak to your
church, conference, or event,
please call 1-833-DAILYFAITH,
or go to
pastors.philipdcameron.com, or
request by mail at attention
Andrew Cameron, post-office box
242246,
Montgomery, Alabama, 36124.
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