Tanya Gaw On Tour Interview With Dan Vachon - Aug. 1, 2023
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Summary
In this episode, we interview Tanya Goth, founder of Action for Canada in New Brunswick, on her first ever tour of the Maritimes. In this episode we talk about her journey with Action For Canada, what it's like to be a leader in a growing organization, and what it means to be courageous.
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all right so here we are with tanya goth founder of action for canada in new brunswick
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i almost said new brunswick nova scotia but new brunswick new brunswick
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on her first ever tour of the maritimes so it's good to have you tanya thank you dan good to be
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here i'm excited about being in the maritimes yeah beautiful weather being in bc and all of a
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sudden here on the east coast i'm not quite as east as i can get but that's right get east we're
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getting there right that's right yeah so i'm dan vashon i'm a chapter leader in cape brett in sydney
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nova scotia and i oversee uh also the chapters here in the maritimes as well as the pastors and
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church ministry here so it's a privilege to have tanya with us and my wife and i and tanya are
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traveling for this uh week introducing her to some of our people here in the maritimes so we're glad
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to have her so as you're watching uh preparing to watch the empower hour this week we thought we'd
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do a little interview and uh so for those of you that were in ontario last week you got to discover
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tanya is real real oh i got shocked there uh got to meet her in that but i when i ask her a few
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questions in that just to kind of get to know her a little bit better and um this is a little bit
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different because we are used to even as as uh people that are in leadership with her we're used to
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seeing her on a computer screen and uh for tanya as well the people that she interacts with like
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on the empower hour or the interviews that she does uh on on the different shows that she does
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she's used to watching a camera just like she's watching now but now she gets to interact with
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people and um so the first question i have for you tanya is tell me about the reactions that you're
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seeing from people uh first of all the people that are sitting down in the audience their facial
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expressions but also as they're receiving the information some of them for the first time
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how they're reacting when they come up to you after your presentation it has been such an amazing
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opportunity i've been looking forward to this actually for years you know i i sit there at the
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desk and working to pump out resources and material and strategize and uh you know assemble people
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across the country and help to put people in place i mean first of all a big shout out to all our
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leaders uh we can't do what we're doing without people stepping up and volunteering their time
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and so now to finally have the opportunity to meet people in person my heart has been full i've been so
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blessed and you know normally we do i do a weekly uh update news update on what's going on across the
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country and what we're facing and now i am just so blessed to be here on the front line
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meeting people who have uh actually benefited from the resources and what action for canada has been
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doing and so i will walk into a room and numerous times people have walked up to me and embraced me
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in tears and so we will never know the full extent to what action for canada how it has affected
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people's lives i wish i had many more hours to actually sit down with them and find out the the true
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nature of their story uh but there is so much gratefulness and then there are those that uh once
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i've given the presentation it's about a two-hour presentation and i says you know it's like a
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university course we're going to go through this or you can sit through a two-hour movie and enjoy it so
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be prepared because i want to lay a foundation and then bring you through to the point of what a for c is
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doing and then afterwards uh again the people that walk up to me are blown away and especially if it's
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somebody that uh you know is just waking up and becoming aware and so it just puts a lot of the
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pieces to the puzzle in place for them all right so a number of years ago when god first prompted you
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to start action for canada obviously he didn't reveal his whole plan to you but at this point with
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action for canada we've seen incredible growth for example we have a parent and homeschool department
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we have a pastors and church department we have chapters literally from coach to coach we have a
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tech team we have a social media team we have a research writing and editorial team we have video
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editors we have administrators a lot of behind the scenes things and you're the head of it all so when
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do you sleep but seriously how does an organization so big and so spread out across the country run so
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smoothly well i've always said since the beginning that this organization is god-breathed god gave me
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a nudge to start writing a letter to my mp then he gave me a nudge to reach out to people on my email
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list and be courageous and send it even though you know i was unsure how they'd respond so i'm appealing
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to you all to be courageous and share information you know it's up to them as to whether or not
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they rejected but you've planted a seed and so i started planting seeds and people started
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responding and joining me and so you know it says many hands make the job light and as i began to
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reach out people began to volunteer their time and then we've got such an amazing team at the national
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office like you say the administrators and those who are behind are helping to organize this and then
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people have felt it in their heart nationwide to join as a chapter leader and then if they can't do
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that they're joining joining within the chapter as a boots on the ground and that's getting our resources
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out into the hands of the community and to elected officials and and so you know this is it's been
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massive but people share the vision for the mission and that's what i've been praying for
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and so that makes it easier for myself because i'm not uh you know going up against those who are
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rejecting what i'm doing and if they do i wish them good luck i'm working with people who are
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uh seeing as i said that vision for the mission and willing to jump right on board and help
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and and so that makes all the difference in the world amen all right so speaking on that it uh i want
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to ask you a question about something we don't often talk about it does come up but uh it's about
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supporting action for canada now we're on the road here and we're coffee lovers and coffee drinkers we do
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have uh an organization that does support action for canada um i had a thought some time ago if
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people that drink coffee were to give up let's say a large coffee a week say an average of two dollars
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and fifty cents that's ten dollars a month so what are some ways that people can partner with action
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for canada on a regular basis well dan it's a very good point right because as we grow just take a look
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at our map and and you can see we're serious about the business of putting chapters into every single
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community in this country and united people and then finding elected officials you know people
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who will run uh for office people who will reach out to our pastors uh parents that will be committed
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to go to school board meetings and those who will go to city meetings etc and every time a chapter
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uh is a leader is vetted action for canada sends them a tent table weights uh printed material cards
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those boards that we can stand outside of school boards and schools they don't sexualize our
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children all of that costs money and so the national office is uh supporting this and i want to encourage
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people to get involved at the community level help with the costs of the printing and uh because if we
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can have a campaign in september where we print off for instance the win sex ed flyer soji uh notice of
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liability the flyer etc and hand them out outside of schools that is the way to reach parents i mean
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this is just an incredible campaign that we have coming up in september so but that's going to take money
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to pay for those printed materials and the cost overhead within the chapters themselves is very low
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we need to have a facility churches are opening that up but you know what we should give a love offering
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to the church and so that is definitely one way that you can contribute financially if you could become
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a ten dollar a month supporter of action for canada sign on and join us that would be tremendous and help
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us out to make sure that all the upcoming chapters that we can afford to get them the materials that i just
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mentioned and then volunteer your time if you don't have the money i know a lot of people are being hit
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very hard and i'm very sensitive towards that but you could give of your time and also pray give time
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to pray and support the mission that uh you know that we've got before us amen and speaking on prayer
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the last two years action for canada has had prayer campaigns particularly in the months of april and may
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two years ago as a result of our prayer campaign we now have a number of prayer teams actually you and i
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we just popped into our monday uh morning zoom prayer team and i usually lead that team but we're
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on the road to pastor bruce is leading that team today so we surprised the team there with a surprise
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visit from you but as a result of that this team is now an international prayer team that meets three
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times a week and uh this late last year we had a walk for revival campaign lasting seven weeks and so you
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participated in the walk for revivals in bc and now in ontario so uh describe to our viewers how
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important is prayer in action for canada oh it's huge prayer moves mountains i was always praying
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for you know the the faith of a mustard seed and the lord showed to move mountains and when you take
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a look at that map across canada i i feel like that's a mountain that we're moving and you know
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there's different ways of looking at that so prayer is absolutely essential to the journey this is a
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spiritual battle against good and evil i've had uh people come up to me who say you know i never
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thought that i'd become a christian and it was one fella in particular and i was so moved by it
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he says but i saw such a dark evil and i says when you see such evil you know that there's got to be
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good and only god is good so even if you're an unbeliever uh you know to embrace i know you see
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the evil that's happening here but as a christian we have hope and we know that uh god is very much on
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the throne he's very much in control and then you know some people will say what what kind of good
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god allows this kind of evil well a good god also gives us free will and we have decisions to make
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and we've turned our back on god in this nation this is a nation founded on christian principles
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and uh in chronicles it says that if we'll humble humble ourselves and pray and repent and i mean with
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a sincere heart that god promises that it'll heal our land so that's another area of prayer that you
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personally can think about the areas where you know maybe you never spoke up about what was seeping
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into our schools uh maybe you never attended a city council meeting and you've just been living your
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life and and that's sort of neglectful maybe you haven't cared about who you were electing for so
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you've contributed you know unbeknownst to you until now you've contributed in the decline of uh of
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canada's uh freedoms and so we've got to get back to god and we got to get on our knees a little and
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so in that sense as well prayer is extremely important because god promises he'll heal our
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land if we take this serious amen well said well this will conclude this interview perhaps we'll get
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another one done at some point but uh so we're leaving st john new brunswick we were with pastor phil
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hutchins and his wife jamie last night we're heading up to fredericton new brunswick tonight and off to
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moncton on tuesday so by the time our empower our friends see this we're going to be in new
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in nova scotia in halifax so uh but thank you so much for being with us this has been great to have
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kenya here with us we may let her go back to ontario or or the maritimes we'll see but thank
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you so much for being with us so god bless you and god bless canada