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It's Father's Day and many dads will have received one of these | 0:00:06 | 0:00:09 | |
if they're lucky because there are still only | 0:00:09 | 0:00:12 | |
half as many of these sold as there are Mother's Day cards. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:14 | |
So, on today's Songs Of Praise | 0:00:14 | 0:00:16 | |
we raise a cheer for fathers everywhere. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:19 | |
I meet the Jordan family to share their thoughts | 0:00:19 | 0:00:21 | |
on food, faith and fatherhood. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:23 | |
My dad is good because he gets my clothes ready. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:27 | |
He likes to make jokes a lot. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:30 | |
He fixes light bulbs when he doesn't even know when they're on. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
He is still alive. He's OK. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:37 | |
We hear how one father is helping his young son reach new heights. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:41 | |
I think he's the best daddy who's ever walked this earth. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:45 | |
And 40 years after the death of Agatha Christie, | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
Richard Taylor visits her home on the trail of a church mystery. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:52 | |
For our music today, | 0:01:02 | 0:01:03 | |
we have a great performance from gospel singer Lorraine Cato | 0:01:03 | 0:01:06 | |
and our hymns reflect the love, guidance and strength | 0:01:06 | 0:01:09 | |
we receive from the greatest father of them all, God the Father. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:13 | |
I grew up without one and now I am one | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
and I consider it the most important job I've got. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
But being a dad is not always easy, especially if, like me, | 0:03:25 | 0:03:28 | |
you don't have a role model. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:30 | |
These days, more and more people are turning to the internet for advice. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:34 | |
Like EuGene Jordan. | 0:03:35 | 0:03:37 | |
He's gone a step further and set up his own video blog | 0:03:37 | 0:03:40 | |
following his traumatic experience of becoming a father. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:44 | |
It was a bit of a difficult experience for us | 0:03:46 | 0:03:49 | |
because a few hours after my daughter was born, | 0:03:49 | 0:03:52 | |
we noticed that she was having a seizure | 0:03:52 | 0:03:55 | |
and down one side of her body was just shaking. | 0:03:55 | 0:03:57 | |
It was really traumatic to witness because, | 0:03:57 | 0:04:00 | |
being a first-time parent, we didn't know what was going on. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
The seizures were caused because of two blood clots in her brain | 0:04:04 | 0:04:08 | |
and, you know, we were prepared for the worst. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:10 | |
We were told that this might have a negative impact on her, | 0:04:10 | 0:04:14 | |
be it a learning disability or perhaps even walking. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:17 | |
And, being a family of faith, we spoke to our parents, | 0:04:19 | 0:04:22 | |
we spoke to our friends and our churches all prayed | 0:04:22 | 0:04:25 | |
and within a matter of days, | 0:04:25 | 0:04:26 | |
the report came back from the doctor and she said, | 0:04:26 | 0:04:29 | |
"Well, we don't know where they've gone, but the blood clots are no longer there." | 0:04:29 | 0:04:33 | |
So, for me, | 0:04:34 | 0:04:35 | |
it was an incredible time where I witnessed my first-ever miracle. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:39 | |
We hear about miracles in the Bible, but I've never seen one myself. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
And that kind of gave me a new desire and a new... | 0:04:42 | 0:04:46 | |
More faith in God. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:47 | |
I think, if that never happened, | 0:04:49 | 0:04:51 | |
I would have been just a parent who just kind of winged it. | 0:04:51 | 0:04:56 | |
My daughter and I, we do loads of things together. | 0:04:56 | 0:04:58 | |
We go to church as a family, she sits next to me | 0:04:58 | 0:05:01 | |
whilst I'm playing the drums and she has her own little pad. | 0:05:01 | 0:05:05 | |
# Holy spirit... # | 0:05:05 | 0:05:06 | |
Although I come from a big family, | 0:05:07 | 0:05:09 | |
and I've got my dad and my four brothers, | 0:05:09 | 0:05:11 | |
nobody close to me had been through the experience I'd been through. | 0:05:11 | 0:05:15 | |
I kind of closed myself off a bit | 0:05:15 | 0:05:16 | |
because I didn't have anybody to talk to about it. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:19 | |
But then I really wanted to make sure that fathers who have | 0:05:19 | 0:05:21 | |
gone through a similar experience that I have, | 0:05:21 | 0:05:23 | |
that they know that they're not alone. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:26 | |
So I decided to share my story and my journey online | 0:05:26 | 0:05:29 | |
and I posted a YouTube video. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:32 | |
What Father's Day message should I say? | 0:05:32 | 0:05:34 | |
Hi, I'm EuGene Jordan and we're here to talk about... | 0:05:34 | 0:05:38 | |
With technical assistance from his wife, Keisha, | 0:05:38 | 0:05:40 | |
and their daughter, EuGene has created a Men and Marriage site. | 0:05:40 | 0:05:44 | |
-Hi, I'm EuGene and this is... -Geneva. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
And you're watching the fatherhood series. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:49 | |
What's been the response to the blog? | 0:05:49 | 0:05:51 | |
Um, it's been bigger than I actually would have imagined. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:55 | |
I never thought I would get guys sharing their story back with me. | 0:05:55 | 0:05:59 | |
Usually, guys talk about facts and statistics | 0:05:59 | 0:06:02 | |
and here I am sharing my feelings. | 0:06:02 | 0:06:06 | |
He's now enlisted the help of his dad and four brothers. | 0:06:06 | 0:06:10 | |
If you provide everything in the quantity and quality | 0:06:10 | 0:06:13 | |
and the love that you're supposed to, you cannot help | 0:06:13 | 0:06:17 | |
but be seen as a Superman, you cannot. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:19 | |
Any time I flick on the TV, I genuinely see some bozo | 0:06:19 | 0:06:22 | |
not really paying attention to his child. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:24 | |
I know, those fathers I've connected with, | 0:06:24 | 0:06:27 | |
who actually play a significant part in their children's life... | 0:06:27 | 0:06:30 | |
We need to shine some light on those kind of guys | 0:06:30 | 0:06:32 | |
because that's really going to help other new dads or other fathers | 0:06:32 | 0:06:36 | |
who thought, actually, this job is really difficult. | 0:06:36 | 0:06:39 | |
So, what does a blog about fathering do on Father's Day? | 0:06:39 | 0:06:44 | |
I guess what any son should do, go and see their dad. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
At EuGene's parents' home, known as Jordan HQ, | 0:06:47 | 0:06:51 | |
the whole family regularly descend for Sunday dinner, all 24 of them. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:57 | |
-This is my family. This is my mum. -Hi, Mum. -Hello. | 0:06:57 | 0:07:01 | |
-Hi, David. -Hiya. | 0:07:01 | 0:07:03 | |
-Where's your dad? -Well, he's in the kitchen. -I need to meet him. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:07 | |
-Mr Jordan! -Ah! -Father of the family. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:09 | |
Good to see a man in the kitchen. I love cooking, myself. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:12 | |
Listen, can I help you while we have our next hymn? | 0:07:12 | 0:07:15 | |
-Give that a stir. -Great. It's Good, Good Father. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:18 | |
CHILDREN'S LAUGHTER | 0:09:39 | 0:09:41 | |
For many dads, a kick-about in the garden with the kids | 0:09:44 | 0:09:47 | |
is what the weekend's all about. | 0:09:47 | 0:09:49 | |
That's certainly the case for one father and son, | 0:09:49 | 0:09:51 | |
even if the ball does need a little adapting. | 0:09:51 | 0:09:53 | |
Football with Jackson is a little trickier | 0:09:57 | 0:09:59 | |
than football with anyone else. | 0:09:59 | 0:10:01 | |
The special balls I've got has bells inside it, so when I jingle it, | 0:10:01 | 0:10:05 | |
it goes ding-a-ling. | 0:10:05 | 0:10:07 | |
Jackson was diagnosed with LCA, | 0:10:08 | 0:10:10 | |
which is Leber's congenital amaurosis, at three months old. | 0:10:10 | 0:10:14 | |
From what we've been told, | 0:10:14 | 0:10:16 | |
it's like the equivalent of looking through five net curtains. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:20 | |
So, that's only about a metre of vision. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:23 | |
I think he's the best daddy who has ever walked this earth. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:28 | |
As a father... Well, to begin with, I was completely devastated. | 0:10:28 | 0:10:32 | |
Sadly, most people will turn to faith when tragedy strikes | 0:10:32 | 0:10:36 | |
and, for us, at that time, it was tragic. | 0:10:36 | 0:10:38 | |
You know, we'd just introduced this beautiful baby boy | 0:10:38 | 0:10:41 | |
into the world, and then to find out that, actually, | 0:10:41 | 0:10:43 | |
there was something that wasn't quite right. | 0:10:43 | 0:10:46 | |
And our faith is what got us through the early stages. | 0:10:46 | 0:10:50 | |
I think if there's something that I'd deeply, most deeply desire, | 0:10:50 | 0:10:55 | |
it's to just be the same as everybody else. | 0:10:55 | 0:10:58 | |
They have said that within his lifetime there should be a cure. | 0:10:58 | 0:11:02 | |
Kevin's got a mountain to climb to raise money to make this possible. | 0:11:03 | 0:11:08 | |
So, the next task is climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
It's a little bit nerve-racking. | 0:11:13 | 0:11:15 | |
There's a lot of training to be done beforehand, | 0:11:15 | 0:11:18 | |
so over the next few months I will be training on Snowdon | 0:11:18 | 0:11:22 | |
to make sure that I'm trained as much as I can be. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:24 | |
Climbing Snowdon, Britain's second-highest mountain, | 0:11:25 | 0:11:28 | |
will be a challenge in itself, so in preparation, | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
Kevin and Jackson are leaving Mum behind | 0:11:31 | 0:11:33 | |
and going for a boy's day out, taking the train part of the way up. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:38 | |
You know, it will be an amazing experience for him | 0:11:38 | 0:11:40 | |
and I can't wait to get him up to the top of that mountain. | 0:11:40 | 0:11:44 | |
I'm really, really excited | 0:11:44 | 0:11:45 | |
because it's my first time ever on a mountain. | 0:11:45 | 0:11:49 | |
TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS | 0:11:50 | 0:11:52 | |
So, this is the train. How cool is it? | 0:11:53 | 0:11:55 | |
-# Just the two of us... -A big step up. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:59 | |
-# We can make it if we try... -Well done. Good work! | 0:11:59 | 0:12:02 | |
# Just the two of us... # | 0:12:02 | 0:12:04 | |
It's an hour-long journey to the top. | 0:12:04 | 0:12:06 | |
Off we go! | 0:12:06 | 0:12:07 | |
WHISTLE BLOWS | 0:12:11 | 0:12:13 | |
So, Jacks, I can now see all the way up the track | 0:12:13 | 0:12:16 | |
-for about 200 or 300 yards. -Yeah. -And it's all going uphill, | 0:12:16 | 0:12:19 | |
-really, really steep. -Wow! | 0:12:19 | 0:12:21 | |
You're going to start hearing the engine roaring in a minute. | 0:12:21 | 0:12:25 | |
And you'll feel yourself tipping back into your seat. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:28 | |
-Are you ready for it? -Yeah. | 0:12:28 | 0:12:30 | |
-OK, Jackson, there's a really big drop to our left-hand side. -Wow! | 0:12:30 | 0:12:35 | |
Come on, train! You can do it! | 0:12:36 | 0:12:39 | |
The train has taken them as far as it can. | 0:12:42 | 0:12:45 | |
It's down to Jackson now to get to the summit at 3,560 feet. | 0:12:45 | 0:12:50 | |
-Can you feel that wind? -Yeah, I can. -It's because we're so high up. | 0:12:55 | 0:12:59 | |
-This way. -Hey! That was a huge rock. | 0:12:59 | 0:13:02 | |
Right, a really uneven surface now. | 0:13:05 | 0:13:07 | |
-There we go. -There we are. We're at the top. | 0:13:13 | 0:13:16 | |
-How does it feel? -We're on the summit! | 0:13:16 | 0:13:18 | |
-Well done, mate. -We're on the peak! | 0:13:18 | 0:13:20 | |
Good work. Well done! | 0:13:20 | 0:13:21 | |
-A Snowdon cheer! -Well done, buddy boy! | 0:13:21 | 0:13:24 | |
-A summit cheer! -Well done. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:27 | |
-We are at the top. -Yay! | 0:13:27 | 0:13:29 | |
Yay, we're at the top! | 0:13:29 | 0:13:30 | |
-You're the highest boy in Wales right now. -Am I? | 0:13:30 | 0:13:33 | |
-Yep. -Wow! -It's official! | 0:13:33 | 0:13:35 | |
# As the Father has loved me | 0:13:46 | 0:13:52 | |
# So have I loved you | 0:13:52 | 0:13:55 | |
# Remain in my love | 0:13:55 | 0:14:00 | |
# Remain in my love | 0:14:01 | 0:14:09 | |
# This is my commandment | 0:14:11 | 0:14:15 | |
# That you love one another | 0:14:15 | 0:14:19 | |
# As I have loved you | 0:14:19 | 0:14:25 | |
# God is love and those who live in love... | 0:14:32 | 0:14:40 | |
# Live in God and God lives in them | 0:14:40 | 0:14:45 | |
-# God is love -God is love | 0:14:45 | 0:14:50 | |
-# God is love -God is love | 0:14:50 | 0:14:57 | |
# If you keep my commandment | 0:15:13 | 0:15:18 | |
# You will remain in my love | 0:15:18 | 0:15:21 | |
-# Love one another -As I have loved you | 0:15:21 | 0:15:28 | |
-# Then your joy is complete -Then your joy is complete | 0:15:29 | 0:15:37 | |
# If you keep my commandment | 0:15:37 | 0:15:41 | |
# And you love one another | 0:15:41 | 0:15:46 | |
# Your joy will be complete # | 0:15:46 | 0:15:54 | |
Time now for a little family mystery. | 0:16:06 | 0:16:08 | |
Our church detective, Richard Taylor, | 0:16:08 | 0:16:11 | |
has been investigating a personal secret | 0:16:11 | 0:16:13 | |
of one of our best-loved crime writers who died 40 years ago. | 0:16:13 | 0:16:18 | |
Agatha Christie, the Queen of Crime, | 0:16:20 | 0:16:23 | |
the best-selling author of the 20th century, | 0:16:23 | 0:16:26 | |
the creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, | 0:16:26 | 0:16:30 | |
The Queen Of Crime... | 0:16:30 | 0:16:32 | |
was also a devout churchgoer | 0:16:32 | 0:16:35 | |
and it turns out that this intensely private lady | 0:16:35 | 0:16:40 | |
had a few church secrets of her own. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:43 | |
I've come to her home, Greenways, in South Devon, to find out more. | 0:16:43 | 0:16:48 | |
The house is now owned by the National Trust | 0:16:53 | 0:16:55 | |
and it's been preserved exactly as it was in Christie's day. | 0:16:55 | 0:17:00 | |
It's full of her things, some of them are little spine tingling. | 0:17:00 | 0:17:05 | |
And this is her drawing room, | 0:17:07 | 0:17:09 | |
the place where the writer of classics | 0:17:09 | 0:17:11 | |
like Death On The Nile, Murder On The Orient Express | 0:17:11 | 0:17:15 | |
and The Mousetrap would come to escape. | 0:17:15 | 0:17:19 | |
She wrote at this desk, but, above all, | 0:17:19 | 0:17:22 | |
this place was about home and it was about family. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:26 | |
Christie would attend services at St Mary's Church | 0:17:28 | 0:17:31 | |
in the nearby village of Churston Ferrers. | 0:17:31 | 0:17:33 | |
I'm going to St Mary's to meet with Agatha Christie's grandson, | 0:17:33 | 0:17:37 | |
Matthew Prichard. | 0:17:37 | 0:17:39 | |
She was always very happy in this church | 0:17:39 | 0:17:42 | |
and I think she felt closer to God here than in most places. | 0:17:42 | 0:17:47 | |
And she was obviously a very devout person. | 0:17:47 | 0:17:50 | |
Even when I was younger I worked that out. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:54 | |
She was a very private person. | 0:17:54 | 0:17:56 | |
She has a great reputation of being shy, which she was, | 0:17:56 | 0:17:59 | |
and she was quite shy about her spirituality as well. | 0:17:59 | 0:18:02 | |
Sad to say, I think we probably learned more about her spirituality | 0:18:03 | 0:18:06 | |
after she died than we knew when she was alive. | 0:18:06 | 0:18:12 | |
Earlier in her life, | 0:18:12 | 0:18:13 | |
when she got married in the middle of the First World War | 0:18:13 | 0:18:17 | |
to, obviously my grandfather, Archie, | 0:18:17 | 0:18:20 | |
we found a picture of Archie | 0:18:20 | 0:18:23 | |
who was quite a handsome young man. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:28 | |
He was, wasn't he? | 0:18:28 | 0:18:29 | |
But, interestingly, on the back there is some handwritten script | 0:18:29 | 0:18:33 | |
which comes, I believe, from Psalm 91, and this was in the form | 0:18:33 | 0:18:39 | |
of a prayer that she would get him back safe and sound after the war. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:44 | |
"Thou art my hope and my stronghold, my God. In him will I trust." | 0:18:44 | 0:18:50 | |
That is lovely. | 0:18:51 | 0:18:52 | |
As a member of the family, strangely enough I still miss her. | 0:18:53 | 0:18:57 | |
She was a terrific person and I learnt a lot from her | 0:18:57 | 0:19:00 | |
and I think, even in the 21st century, we still gain | 0:19:00 | 0:19:04 | |
-a huge amount of enjoyment from the work that she did. -Mm. | 0:19:04 | 0:19:07 | |
Christie gave the church a secret gift which is still there. | 0:19:09 | 0:19:14 | |
It was only after her death that people discovered | 0:19:14 | 0:19:16 | |
that Agatha Christie had donated this window to the church. | 0:19:16 | 0:19:20 | |
The story was that, as she sat here in services | 0:19:20 | 0:19:23 | |
when the glass was plain, she just felt that something was missing. | 0:19:23 | 0:19:29 | |
So she commissioned an artist, telling him | 0:19:29 | 0:19:31 | |
that she wanted something that would appeal to children, | 0:19:31 | 0:19:35 | |
like her grandson, Matthew. | 0:19:35 | 0:19:36 | |
The window is coloured with the most beautiful pinks and purples. | 0:19:38 | 0:19:42 | |
In the centre, you have Christ, the Good Shepherd. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:45 | |
On the left is the Nativity | 0:19:45 | 0:19:46 | |
with the shepherds visiting baby Jesus in the stable. | 0:19:46 | 0:19:51 | |
And on the right, you have Jesus walking on water | 0:19:51 | 0:19:54 | |
and fishermen at their nets. | 0:19:54 | 0:19:55 | |
When she was at home in Devon, either growing up or later | 0:19:57 | 0:20:00 | |
at Greenways, Agatha Christie spent time overlooking water | 0:20:00 | 0:20:05 | |
and fields and that's exactly what you see here. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:09 | |
This is local, this is Devonshire. | 0:20:09 | 0:20:11 | |
Fishermen and fish, sheep and shepherds | 0:20:11 | 0:20:14 | |
and Christ the Good Shepherd in the centre watching over everything. | 0:20:14 | 0:20:18 | |
I love it that this window is so personal to Agatha Christie, | 0:20:18 | 0:20:22 | |
one of the world's great writers | 0:20:22 | 0:20:25 | |
expressing her quiet devotion and West Country pride. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:30 | |
# I will lift up mine eyes to the hills... # | 0:22:44 | 0:22:49 | |
I'm joining the Jordan family for Sunday dinner. | 0:22:49 | 0:22:53 | |
They love to sing, and if you are a fan of gospel music too, | 0:22:53 | 0:22:57 | |
there's a great opportunity to come and join us in London | 0:22:57 | 0:23:01 | |
at the Hackney Empire for our Gospel Weekend. | 0:23:01 | 0:23:04 | |
Tickets are free, so to book yours, go to the website... | 0:23:04 | 0:23:09 | |
Last year, singer Lurine Cato wowed the Hackney audience. | 0:23:13 | 0:23:16 | |
Here she is for us singing the gospel classic Going Up Yonder. | 0:23:16 | 0:23:20 | |
# If you want to know | 0:23:23 | 0:23:27 | |
# Where I'm going | 0:23:28 | 0:23:32 | |
# Where I am going soon | 0:23:33 | 0:23:40 | |
# If anybody asks you | 0:23:42 | 0:23:45 | |
# Where I'm going | 0:23:47 | 0:23:50 | |
# Where I am going soon | 0:23:50 | 0:23:58 | |
# I'm going up yonder | 0:23:59 | 0:24:03 | |
# I'm going up yonder | 0:24:04 | 0:24:08 | |
# I'm going up yonder | 0:24:08 | 0:24:12 | |
# To be with my Lord | 0:24:12 | 0:24:16 | |
# Oh-oh-oh-oh | 0:24:16 | 0:24:17 | |
# I'm going up yonder | 0:24:17 | 0:24:21 | |
# I'm going up yonder | 0:24:21 | 0:24:25 | |
# I'm going up yonder | 0:24:25 | 0:24:29 | |
# To be with my Lord | 0:24:29 | 0:24:33 | |
# Oh-oh-oh | 0:24:33 | 0:24:35 | |
# I can't stand the pain | 0:24:35 | 0:24:38 | |
# The heartache it brings | 0:24:39 | 0:24:43 | |
# The comfort in knowing | 0:24:44 | 0:24:48 | |
# I'll soon be gone | 0:24:48 | 0:24:51 | |
# Oh-oh-oh-oh | 0:24:51 | 0:24:53 | |
# And God gives me grace | 0:24:53 | 0:24:56 | |
# To run this race | 0:24:56 | 0:25:01 | |
# I know I'll see my Saviour face to face | 0:25:01 | 0:25:08 | |
# Yeah... | 0:25:08 | 0:25:10 | |
# I'm going up yonder | 0:25:10 | 0:25:13 | |
# Going up yonder | 0:25:13 | 0:25:15 | |
# I'm going up yonder | 0:25:15 | 0:25:18 | |
# Going up yonder | 0:25:18 | 0:25:20 | |
# I'm going up yonder | 0:25:20 | 0:25:22 | |
# To be with my Lord | 0:25:22 | 0:25:26 | |
# Yes, I am! Yes, I am! | 0:25:26 | 0:25:28 | |
# Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah | 0:25:28 | 0:25:30 | |
# I'm going up yonder | 0:25:30 | 0:25:32 | |
# I'm going up yonder | 0:25:32 | 0:25:35 | |
# Going up yonder | 0:25:35 | 0:25:36 | |
# I'm going up yonder, yeah | 0:25:36 | 0:25:42 | |
# Hah! | 0:25:42 | 0:25:44 | |
# To be... | 0:25:44 | 0:25:46 | |
-# Be with my... -..with her... | 0:25:46 | 0:25:55 | |
-# ..Lord... -..Lord... # | 0:25:55 | 0:26:04 | |
The Jordans are a talented family. | 0:26:07 | 0:26:10 | |
Back in the '90s, they toured the UK. | 0:26:10 | 0:26:13 | |
Now the eight siblings are grown up, but they still regularly gather | 0:26:13 | 0:26:17 | |
at their parents' home, along with their own children. | 0:26:17 | 0:26:20 | |
I'm here with all the men of the Jordan family, | 0:26:20 | 0:26:23 | |
and they are all fathers. | 0:26:23 | 0:26:25 | |
Clint, what do you think is the role of a father? | 0:26:25 | 0:26:28 | |
I think the three P's would probably sum it up - | 0:26:28 | 0:26:33 | |
provide, protect and persevere. | 0:26:33 | 0:26:36 | |
Your child is not always going to do what you want them to do, | 0:26:36 | 0:26:39 | |
but you should always be the voice whispering in their ear. | 0:26:39 | 0:26:43 | |
It's no secret amongst the entire family | 0:26:43 | 0:26:45 | |
that I would be considered a handful. | 0:26:45 | 0:26:48 | |
And I am reminded of the prodigal son, | 0:26:50 | 0:26:53 | |
and being the one who ventured out of the faith and, you know, | 0:26:53 | 0:26:57 | |
seeing what the world had to offer, and my father, | 0:26:57 | 0:27:00 | |
he still opened the door and he still said, | 0:27:00 | 0:27:02 | |
"Here's where you belong." | 0:27:02 | 0:27:05 | |
He has always been there. | 0:27:05 | 0:27:07 | |
He may have been disappointed, he may have been angry, | 0:27:07 | 0:27:11 | |
but he has always shown us this window of forgiveness, | 0:27:11 | 0:27:15 | |
and we can always look in. | 0:27:15 | 0:27:17 | |
-ALL: -# Thank you, Lord. # | 0:27:17 | 0:27:23 | |
How much of your fathering has been influenced by God as a father? | 0:27:23 | 0:27:27 | |
A very interesting question. | 0:27:27 | 0:27:29 | |
God, throughout the Bible, he's just like an ordinary bloke, | 0:27:29 | 0:27:33 | |
saying, "Listen to me and you'll do all right," but they don't. | 0:27:33 | 0:27:36 | |
And he keeps forgiving them and saying, | 0:27:36 | 0:27:38 | |
"Come back, come back, come back." | 0:27:38 | 0:27:40 | |
If God forgives me for so many things that I've done, | 0:27:40 | 0:27:43 | |
then how can I not forgive my own flesh and blood? | 0:27:43 | 0:27:46 | |
I wasn't brought up by my father, | 0:27:46 | 0:27:48 | |
and when my wife was pregnant, I felt terrified. | 0:27:48 | 0:27:51 | |
Do you feel the way that your father has brought you up | 0:27:51 | 0:27:54 | |
has equipped you for fatherhood? | 0:27:54 | 0:27:56 | |
100%. I think it really hit home when I did have my child, | 0:27:56 | 0:27:59 | |
and I can hear it in my head now. My dad used to say, | 0:27:59 | 0:28:02 | |
"Yeah, you're going to understand when you get your own child." | 0:28:02 | 0:28:06 | |
I've learnt how valuable we are to him. | 0:28:06 | 0:28:09 | |
My dad told a story. I was young, I wanted to keep going out | 0:28:09 | 0:28:12 | |
of the house, and I would say, "Why can't you let me go?" | 0:28:12 | 0:28:15 | |
He said, "Imagine you're a jeweller | 0:28:15 | 0:28:17 | |
"and you have a diamond, and your diamond had feet. | 0:28:17 | 0:28:19 | |
"Would you like that diamond go out on the street | 0:28:19 | 0:28:22 | |
"where everybody can take it and steal it?" "No." | 0:28:22 | 0:28:24 | |
"So why would I let you go out on the street | 0:28:24 | 0:28:27 | |
"where someone can take you away from me?" | 0:28:27 | 0:28:30 | |
Can I have that drink, please? | 0:28:30 | 0:28:32 | |
Love. | 0:28:32 | 0:28:34 | |
You really know that a father's love is just such a great thing. | 0:28:34 | 0:28:39 | |
I always tell my dad that I love him and, even to this day, | 0:28:39 | 0:28:42 | |
I just kiss him and say, "Daddy, I love you. | 0:28:42 | 0:28:44 | |
"How are you doing?" and stuff like that. | 0:28:44 | 0:28:47 | |
-Thank you, Chef. The food is fantastic. -You're welcome. | 0:31:15 | 0:31:18 | |
That's almost it for this week. | 0:31:18 | 0:31:20 | |
Next week, Sally visits the Somme to commemorate the 100th anniversary | 0:31:20 | 0:31:23 | |
of the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army, | 0:31:23 | 0:31:27 | |
and retraces the experiences of devout Christian young men | 0:31:27 | 0:31:31 | |
who heard the call of duty. | 0:31:31 | 0:31:33 | |
We end with a hymn that acknowledges | 0:31:33 | 0:31:36 | |
that we don't always get things right, | 0:31:36 | 0:31:38 | |
but that when we go wrong, | 0:31:38 | 0:31:40 | |
there's a Heavenly Father there for all of us. | 0:31:40 | 0:31:42 |