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Chaplains are modern-day disciples.

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-Ta-da!

-Yay!

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Excuse me, are you Jewish? Have you got any Jewish pals here?

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They take the word of God out of the church

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and into the places we work and play.

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This is what Christ did,

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he came and walked and talked and lived amongst people.

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They're employed in our hospitals and universities,

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at the football ground, on the street.

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-We are here to help everyone who is vulnerable.

-We are very vulnerable!

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LAUGHTER

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All chaplaincy is front-line ministry. You are actually out where it is happening.

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Tonight, how a mother faced her worst nightmare.

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The first thing I did was I went to reception and I asked,

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"Can you please call the chaplain? I need to speak to someone now."

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How a trip abroad changed a Muslim convert's life.

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I came back to the UK with a beard, a wife and a dress on.

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That's the short version.

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And kosher bowling and student matchmaking with Rabbi Shmuli Brown.

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Yes!

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We are following chaplains in the city of Liverpool,

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the work they do and the people's lives they touch.

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Chaplains work with all the faith groups in Liverpool,

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including the city's Muslim population.

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Try and keep it as straight as possible.

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Today, Muslim chaplain Adam Kelwick is moving house to be

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closer to the main mosque where he works.

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What it will mean is, more than anything,

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I will be moving closer to the heart of the Muslim community, as it were,

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than I have been before.

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I will be much closer to the mosque, no excuses now for not praying,

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the morning prayers are at 4 o'clock in the morning.

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Adam's chaplaincy is based in the Toxteth area of the city.

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It's one of these places that the longer you stay,

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the more it is grows on you. It really is, the people are amazing.

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You can't get better than Scousers, you can't, you really can't.

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I think the general image of Islam or Muslims in society today

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can be a negative one, but at the same time,

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I think it's incumbent upon myself

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and other members of the Muslim community to try their hardest

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to be extremists, to be extremely kind, to be extremely polite.

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I think this is going to be the way the negativity can be tackled.

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People are often surprised to discover that Adam is a Muslim convert.

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His birth father is Yemeni, his mother, Mary, is from Rotherham,

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and Adam was raised as a Christian.

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This is Adam wearing his Christmas hat one Christmas.

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Like most white British families,

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we did all the Christmas things, Christmas dinner. Crackers.

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Putting the trimmings up.

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I was introduced to Islam when I was 17.

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I remember picking up a copy of the Koran in English.

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And after getting through the very biblical

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style of the translation, which I was given, I did find,

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without sounding too cheesy, that it did make a lot of sense to me.

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There he is, my Adam there.

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Adam converted to Islam, but his life turned around even more

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during a trip to Yemen to meet his extended family.

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That's really where I started to practise the faith which

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I'd already taken on beforehand anyway.

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And then I came back to the UK with a beard, a wife and a dress on.

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And that's the short version.

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I was a bit shocked, I'll not say I wasn't,

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because it was a big step for my eldest son to take.

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I never expected him to do such a dramatic move.

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To be quite honest with you,

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when he came back from Yemen it was like, it sounds a bit dramatic,

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he'd gone as a boy and come back as a man.

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Now, with his unique understanding of both Christianity and Islam,

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Adam is on a mission to build bridges between Muslims

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and the wider population.

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University Rabbi Shmuli Brown is in Manchester

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buying food for a Jewish student social event.

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Kosher tenpin bowling.

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It's all part of the Rabbi's mission to keep students

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close to the Judaic path.

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Today, we are doing a bowling event where the students will have

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a very, very good time, meeting other students.

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Coming together, boys and girls,

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they are going to be having a nice social event in a Jewish midst.

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Which is crucial for us, to keep the Jews together

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and introduce one to another.

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Jews, whenever we do any events,

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there's always food involved, you have to keep them happy.

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This is what brings the students to most of our events,

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the food, of course, and the booze!

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20% extra free - you've got to be Jewish to take this.

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In keeping with Jewish tradition,

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all the food will be strictly kosher.

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Kosher means "fit". Basically, what's fitting for us to eat.

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The meat has to come from an animal which is kosher,

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a kosher animal has to chew the cud, plus it has to have split hooves.

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Pork, pig, it has split hooves, but it doesn't chew the cud,

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so we're not allowed to eat pork, so Jews don't eat that.

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Fish have to have fins and scales,

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and poultry, it's all laid out

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in the book of Leviticus what is permissible to eat and what not.

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Where now, Rabbi?

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Now we're off to Liverpool, final destination.

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We're going to have a blast tonight.

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It's going to epic for the students, I'm telling you.

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Adam the Muslim chaplain is renovating an old Mosque

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with a group of fellow converts.

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Up to 5,000 people converted to Islam in Britain last year

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and a big part of Adam's chaplaincy work is about giving them help and support.

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People come from all different backgrounds and social classes.

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People will convert to Islam in prison,

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people will convert to Islam in university,

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old people, young people.

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Converts are like a bridge in our community

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between the born Muslims and the British people.

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And hopefully, you know, as time goes on, we can discuss

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and eradicate a lot of, you know, the misconceptions, again,

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about Islam.

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Sometimes people who convert to Islam can be quite isolated,

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and they can sometimes think,

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"Am I the only one who's done this and who is in this predicament?"

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And then, when they do get to meet with other like-minded people,

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they start to realise that it wasn't only them who got a funny look

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in the mosque, because they weren't wearing the headscarf properly,

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or they weren't the only ones who've been having major fall-outs

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with their parents because they don't want a bacon sandwich anymore.

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And it's things like this. So, first and foremost, bringing people together.

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Caroline Gorman became a Muslim after she worked in Africa.

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Like many fellow converts, her friends and family

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have struggled to accept her new identity.

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It is an issue for people.

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That's what I struggle with, because the only things that

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I've left behind are things that aren't...

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that I don't think are anything that I needed in my life.

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I don't drink any more,

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I don't wear make-up, um, I don't go to nightclubs.

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I feel like I'm being more true to myself now than I ever have been.

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I can understand entirely why a person would become concerned

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with one of their relatives becoming Muslim,

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especially if they're reading tabloid newspapers on a daily basis.

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People don't like change in general,

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and I can also see,

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bearing that in mind, why people might feel threatened

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when Paul becomes Abdullah and starts growing a beard

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and starts going to the mosque once a week and starts slipping

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Arabic phrases into what he's saying.

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THEY GREET EACH OTHER IN ARABIC

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At advice sessions down at the mosque, Adam helps converts

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to understand why choosing Islam can upset family and friends.

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Can you try to understand why people around you might feel

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threatened or intimidated or worried about you becoming Muslim?

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Yeah, yeah.

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I think that's an important part - trying to see things from their perspective.

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Yeah, I think it made a difference

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when you said that it doesn't really matter what I'm going through,

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to just be more compassionate,

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especially with people who aren't Muslim.

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And at the end of the day,

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Islam came to perfect the three relationships which we have.

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The first and foremost is the relationship between us and God,

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the second one is between us and ourselves, and the third one is

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between us and the people around us.

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Helping people through times of crisis is all part of a day's work

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for the chaplains at Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital.

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Alder Hey's chaplaincy team is headed up by Anglican priest Dave Williams.

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People do find themselves faced with these situations

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which are crises in their life,

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and they...they sometimes engage with God for the first time, I think.

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You know, most young families haven't engaged with God in school

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as we did in my day, probably not in church,

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and maybe this is the first time they've really had to come

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and come alongside God and say, "Well, where are you in this?"

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Amanda Baylis found God when she faced her worst nightmare,

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hear at Alder Hey.

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Today she's brought her daughter Sophie in for an eye test.

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-Are you Mum?

-Yes.

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-I am one of the consultants here.

-Hiya.

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But six months ago, she was here in very different circumstances.

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Sophie's heart was failing and Amanda was told to expect the worst.

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Hello, Sophie. How are you? Are you all right?

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'When you love someone so, so much you would lay your life down

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'for them and you are told that they can be taken away from you,

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'it's the worst feeling you can ever experience.'

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Look at this again.

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HE CLICKS AND WHISTLES

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Good girl, Sophie.

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'I remember coming out of ICU'

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with a dry eye. I didn't cry, because it was just pure shock.

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And the first thing I did was I went to reception and I asked,

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"Can you please call the chaplain? I need to speak to someone now."

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'And we went across into the chaplaincy and we literally sat down

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'and we prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed for Sophie to survive.'

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I have no doubt at all that sometimes we are called as a last resort,

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and they're just basically looking to you to guide them and to say,

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"Where do we go? What is the hope here?"

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And that's that wonderful situation, that wonderful privilege of being

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in that situation with them to say, "I don't know why this happened,

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"I don't know why this awful thing's happened.

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"I believe your child is absolutely safe with God

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"and I believe God's here weeping with you.

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"And that's the comfort I can offer you.

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"That's the only comfort I can offer you."

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On the day of Sophie's first heart operation,

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Amanda had a religious experience that changed her life.

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I lay her down and I was absolutely mortified to have left her

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on this table, not knowing whether I was going to see her alive again.

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And I came out of the theatre

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and it was like a wave of calmness

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had hit me, a wave of relief that she's actually in the theatre room.

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Um...

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A massive sense that everything was going to be OK.

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I can't describe it. It's like something took over me, almost.

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I've never experienced a feeling like it.

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And I truly believe that that was God saying to me,

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"Amanda, everything will be OK."

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The future is now looking good for Sophie,

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but she still needs regular check-ups at Alder Hey.

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And Amanda always calls in to see Dave and the team.

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To have the chaplains here as an emotional support

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and a spiritual support has been immensely important to me.

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They have acted, in a way, like a surrogate family almost.

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Since I've come to Alder Hey, God did come into my life

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and I've felt him come into my life.

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And I'll NEVER turn my back on him again.

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The Festival of Eid marks the end of Ramadan,

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and Adam's helping with prayers down at the mosque.

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Even though the mosque is quite big as a building,

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there are so many people who come on Eid day that we have to do

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three separate sets of prayers to accommodate for everybody.

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It's a time of great joy.

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All Muslims, let us not follow the path of Shaitan,

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let us heed instead the advice,

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the golden advice from our illustrious master,

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the prophet Muhammad sala Allah alih wa salam.

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Let us enhance these days of Eid with good and beneficial and fruitful...

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Liverpool's Muslim community is diverse and cosmopolitan

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and welcomes converts.

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When you do become Muslim you don't have to change your name.

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You can still be called John and you can still be called Peter

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and you can still be called Daniel and you can still be called Natalie.

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Although you might be required to dress modestly,

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that doesn't necessarily entail that you have to wear black clothes

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from head to toe, especially if it's not part of your culture

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and it's not a part of who you are.

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Thanks to Adam, Caroline's now hopeful she can help her family

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and friends accept her new faith.

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I think that I understand a bit more now why people...

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why people are maybe a little bit upset about my conversion,

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or why people think that I've changed,

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that, like, I'm a completely different person.

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But I'm still...

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like, I'm still the same and I still care about the same things.

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Adam...he was meant to be a Muslim, that's all I can say.

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When I look back on his childhood, y'know,

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he always had such a thirst for knowledge,

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a thirst for everything,

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and I think Islam, ultimately,

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answered all his main questions.

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'The thing is, it worked out wonderful.'

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I've got four beautiful grandchildren

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and my son and his wife, they couldn't be happier.

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People always say they can see a similar look in us

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and I can't see it, and my mum says she can't see it either.

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Similarities.

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He won't admit it, but he's got a silly sense of humour, like me.

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-I'll admit that.

-Would you admit that, yeah?

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I've got a sense of humour.

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-Yeah.

-I hope!

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He's more grown-up than me, but...

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Yeah, sometimes I wonder whether he's my dad or my son,

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cos he's full of good advice, aren't you, Adam?

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-You are as well.

-I know. He's lovely.

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I feel really embarrassed now.

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Rabbi Brown is racing to get things ready for the kosher bowling.

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Let's get cutting.

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My hopes are, basically, that many people should come

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and they should meet new people

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and they will be friendly

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and make new friends and have a fun night.

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On the menu - food and fun.

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And if the rabbi gets his way,

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a spot of Jewish student matchmaking.

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It's very important that they find a Jewish match,

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that they find a Jewish date,

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because that preserves the continuity of the Jewish nation.

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That sounds quite dramatic. Is that what's at stake?

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Of course, of course.

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Unfortunately, many people marry out of the faith.

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And we're trying to... We're trying to promote keeping in the faith,

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and staying within the faith,

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because there's many good Jewish boys and girls out there.

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Ohhhh!

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Oh!

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Yeah!

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The evening kicks off with a bowling-themed life lesson.

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There's a very big life message with bowling, very big life message.

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You see these bowls, these tenpins over here?

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These tenpins over here are standing up.

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They represent the obstacles and the challenges in our lives.

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There are things that are blocking us.

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But we have to knock them down.

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If you go to the side, to the left, or to the right,

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you ain't getting nothing.

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This is the message of bowling tonight.

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Remain centre-focused for the rest of your lives.

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Guys, enjoy the food behind you, enjoy bowling,

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meet one another, make new friends.

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Even at the bowling alley,

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everything is prepared according to kosher law.

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The reason why I'm covering it is because it's a public place.

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And we can only have kosher utensils and kosher items,

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so I don't know what's gone on this table,

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it could be ham or anything like that,

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that's why I'm covering it.

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Yeah!

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Whoa!

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One thing I can definitely say

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is that it's very possible in a few weeks from now,

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I'll get this telephone call,

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"Rabbi Shmuli, thank you ever so much for the bowling,

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"I've just found my soulmate."

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Very possible I'll get this telephone call

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because we have it all the time with different events we do.

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Whoa, whoa, whoa!

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There are only 200 Jewish students in Liverpool.

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But happily for the Rabbi,

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the young people here are hoping to marry within the Jewish faith.

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Jews have always liked to stick together.

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Just as I suppose any other religion, any other culture,

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any other nationality would like to stay together.

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Parents are always happier if you bring a Jewish girl home.

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Another strike!

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There is very much a stigma

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of kind of your parents will be disappointed in you

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or the community will look badly on you,

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or at least it feels like that sometimes.

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On the count of three say "cheese".

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'I will never give up.

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'Giving up is a failure.

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'We've got to keep on trucking,

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'we've got to keep on looking for more Jewish people

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'and bringing them closer to the faith,

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'because this is my heart and soul.'

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Guys, you were great. Great, great, great.

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What's this?

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Oh, she's lost, we've lost her.

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Since their life-changing experience at Alder Hey,

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Amanda Baylis and her daughter Sophie

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have also enjoyed a very special day.

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Amanda and Sophie are now regular churchgoers,

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and they were baptised together.

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Sophie Margaret, I baptise you in the name of the father...

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..and of the son...

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..and of the holy spirit. Amen.

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I baptise you in the name of the Father...

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and of the son...

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and of the holy spirit. Amen.

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OK.

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I want it to be an upbeat atmosphere,

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but the main focus of the day is to move forward

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and to obviously have God formally enter our lives

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and look forward to a really promising future

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with me and my daughter.

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Are you going to sleep?

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There's memories of a special day for another mother and child, too.

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I bet you are tired.

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Carson Hartley has been at Alder Hey Hospital since he was born,

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and has had ten operations to tackle various problems.

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But last summer, he was allowed out for a day,

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to the delight of his mother, Kirsty,

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who has to spend much of her time away from the rest of her family.

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Here we go.

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What are you doing?

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Yeah, it's the first time we've left hospital.

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Panicking now! Every time the alarm goes off I'm, like, "Where's the nurse!"

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On Carson's first day ever out of hospital,

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he was guest of honour at a special fundraising event.

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Just over the moon that we've got to this day eventually.

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It's took so long and such a lot of hard work off everybody

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that I never thought we'd see this day, but it's here.

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And we're out.

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Hey?

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He feels like our baby now.

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It's like, he's ours, we've got a baby!

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Yes.

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Amanda and her daughter Sophie, now baptised,

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can celebrate the start of a new chapter in their lives.

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Sophie, in her short life, has taught me

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so much about life and how special and sacred it is.

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Sophie has taught me the values and meaning of life.

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Sophie has taught me life is too short to waste away.

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Sophie has taught me patience and compassion.

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Sophie, you have changed my life.

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Oh! Where are we?

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Before heading back to the hospital,

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Kirsty showed Carson the home that she hopes he will one day come back to for good.

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This is your home, Carson. Eh?

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This will be your bedroom.

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This is his bed.

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The only bit of equipment we've got at the minute.

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What do you think? Hey?

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Your bedroom.

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It's fab, isn't it? It's fab to have him home.

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Yeah. It would just be nice to have all my children together as a family.

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Because at the minute we're kind of split into two families -

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the hospital family and the family at home.

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Yeah.

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It just feels like he should be here now.

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I don't want to take him back. Keep him here.

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I believe that sometimes, and quite often, good things

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do come out of these bad experiences people have,

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and they change their opinions on suffering

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and their opinions on the world,

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certainly their opinion of the need for God in their lives.

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And will actually say, "I realise now I wasn't on my own in that,

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"and I don't know how I got through it."

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I say, "I think I do know how you got through it," you know.

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Carson is still at Alder Hey.

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But his mother, Kirsty, remains hopeful

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that one day her family will all be able to live together.

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New beginnings,

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and hopefully new beginnings of a journey that goes on for life.

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People do change. People do change here.

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Next time...

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the 999 chaplain on frontline fire duty.

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It's about real life and sometimes real death situations.

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And revealing the delights of Christmas to overseas students.

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Lovely.

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