Reverend Lana Tull [00:00:02]:

We really need to listen to what God want us to do first, then instill it into younger people and help them out because we're in a situation right now. I call it a situation. In this world right now, young adults and young girls going to need older or mature adults more than ever. I tell my girls, don't look at what's on the news because that's man, God got a better plan.

 

Shay Cook [00:00:34]:

Ever felt those awkward vibes? When religion and money come up, you're not alone. Welcome to Yahweh's Money, the podcast where we tackle the crossroads of faith and finance. I'm Shay Cook, an accredited financial counselor and the CEO and founder of Crusaders for Change, LLC. Join us on our journey as we discuss topics like tithing, saving and conquering debt through religious perspectives. Let's get started. 

 

Shay Cook [00:01:04]:

Hey everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Yahweh's Money. We are in 2026 recording this episode with a very the most special guest I'll tell you about in a little bit. But today we're going to be talking about raising righteous daughters. Faith, finances and the power of service. We often focus on managing our resources, but what about raising the next generation to be faithful financial stewards? And I know that's what I'm trying to do with my daughter Alana. Today, we're talking about the crucial investment we make in our girls by instilling lessons in faith, money and selfless volunteerism. We'll explore how these principles build a spiritual and material foundation to life.

 

Shay Cook [00:01:47]:

It's all about seeing our daughters as future leaders worthy of proactive faith driven discipleship that prepares them for success in every area from the checkbook to the check pew. I love that our main scripture for today is Proverbs 22:6. Start children off on the way they should go and even when they're old, they will not turn from it. This verse is a cornerstone for all parents and mentors, teaching our daughters and sons I have to add the principles of faith led financial stewardship and community service is an investment in their lifelong spiritual and material well being. It is the foundation for a righteous, successful life, ensuring they stick to the path of abundance and purpose. So today, after all this time, we finally have the one and only, especially in my life, Reverend Lana Tull. She is my mama, my mommy.

 

Shay Cook [00:02:46]:

Okay? She's a wife of 47 plus years to my daddy, mother of three adult children, my brother and my sister, Mitchell and Montoya. And then she's a grandmother of six, a pastor of her own church, a dedicated Girl Scout for 59 years, y'all, the head troop leader at Girl Scouts of Central Maryland. She's devoted to her life to mentoring young women. Hey, Mama.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:03:12]:

Hey, baby. How you doing?

 

Shay Cook [00:03:13]:

I'm good. I'm here. I'm here. And I'm excited to have you on the show.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:03:17]:

I'm excited to be here.

 

Shay Cook [00:03:19]:

You look amazing.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:03:20]:

Thank you.

 

Shay Cook [00:03:20]:

You do, too. Tell us a little bit more about you before we get into our rapid fire.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:03:27]:

Well, my passion is youth and young adults, you know, using Girl Scouts.

 

Shay Cook [00:03:34]:

I'm sure I was.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:03:35]:

Alana was in Girl Scouts. Even Toya was a mascot in Girl Scouts. So she was in Girl Scouts. I've been in Girl Scouts since I was a Brownie many, many, many, many moons ago. When they count up my service, they count that too. That's why it's 59 years. I feel like I'm a relic. But I enjoy it.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:03:56]:

I really enjoy it. I just built a brand new troop last week and I'm happy about that. And what I love about Girl Scouts is a lot of people don't know it has an opportunity for girls to advance, to grow. All of the female astronauts in NASA were Girl Scouts. Michelle Obama is a Girl Scout. Barbara Mikulski is a Girl Scout. Nancy Pelosi is a Girl Scout. So we have a good foundation and I love it because the girls get excited, they become friends.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:04:30]:

They understand what being in a community is about. You know, when they come to the meetings, they're in the community. So it teaches them how to love on each other, work with each other and not have a bunch of foolishness. And it's fun watching them grow.

 

Shay Cook [00:04:46]:

Consistently,you've always said you love taking helping young women and young adults. And every time you would talk about it, whether it was in church or even I still some of my most amazing memories is being in Alaska, Fort Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska. My mama running the Girl Scout troop and going to that little building up the street from us and selling cookies and just having a good time being around, getting my badges. I still know, you know, “On my honor, I will try to serve God in our country”, you know, all those things and then put my daughter into it. It was always a great experience with Girl Scouts. So I'm really proud of you of continuing that for 59 plus years.

 

Shay Cook [00:05:24]:

I mean, I thought you. I was going to say you're only 40, but you can't be because I'm 47, so that's not possible. But she still look good for age. My daddy always be like, yeah, you Think you got your mama skin because she got that good skin. I'm like, she sure do. So definitely proud of you of doing that in the girl Scouts and continuing that and passing that on to generations.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:05:45]:

Yes.

 

Shay Cook [00:05:46]:

Being having that legacy, 

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:05:48]:

That's what made me name my church Elevate and Empower Ministries, because that's what I want to do with young people. Elevate them and empower them.

 

Shay Cook [00:05:55]:

Yeah, I love that. All right, well, let's get into our rapid fire questions.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:06:00]:

Okay.

 

Rapid Fire Questions Jingle [00:06:02]:

Take your seat. Let the wisdom inherit hit the rapid fire questions. Say what's on your spirit? Take your seat. Let the wisdom inherit. Let’s hit the rapid fire questions. Say what's on your spirit?

 

Shay Cook [00:06:29]:

All right, what is the single most important spiritual lesson you've made sure to pass on to your children and the girls you mentor?

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:06:37]:

Well, my girls, I passed on to them the Proverbs 31 woman. You know, she is an entrepreneur, she's spiritual. And I guess that came from me because I'm a crafter and you know, I make stuff and do stuff, have businesses. I passed that on. And from that came from my mom, who was a entrepreneur. And then with my son, I passed on the Proverbs 31 Son that told all of you, all you have a purpose, God have a promise for you. And my scripture is Jeremiah 29:11. He knows the plans He have for all of you.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:07:18]:

And you see your plans, how they filter out, and as long as you walking in that, He's going to increase it. So I think that's mainly what I instilled in my kids.

 

Shay Cook [00:07:28]:

And what about to the girls that you mentor?

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:07:31]:

I instill the same thing into them. Right now, starting next week, I got interviews with four girls for community service to help me around here with my business. And they excited. These are high school kids and you know, when you get them involved right there early, it keeps their mind away from straying and they also like to succeed. You know, I got one girl going for a gold award. That's a scholarship. 300 colleges, she could take that scholarship and girl Scouts.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:07:59]:

So that's what my focus is, to get as many girls a free scholarship as I can.

 

Shay Cook [00:08:04]:

Amen. Yeah, need that free money and school is not cheap these days, so they need that to help them. All right, so in your 59 years with the Girl Scouts, how have you seen the organization evolve into incorporate lessons of financial literacy or entrepreneurship, like selling cookies?

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:08:20]:

Well, from the years when I started, it was not too much about entrepreneurship. Back in the ‘60s, it wasn't too much about that. It was more about just getting them cookies out and sold. But now we have entrepreneur badges that they earn during cookie time. The girls have to count their own money. They have to take it to the bank. So now it's more involved.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:08:45]:

We had a guest speaker, Pete Smith.

 

Shay Cook [00:08:49]:

Yeah.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:08:49]:

And when those young girls got up and talked after the cookie sale, I had tears in my eyes.

 

Shay Cook [00:08:55]:

Oh, wow.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:08:56]:

They was talking, like, Fortune 500 people. And we talking about kindergarten to 12th grade.

 

Shay Cook [00:09:04]:

Yeah. These kids are smart.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:09:05]:

They got the concept of finances. And we also teach them to save. Always save. Pay yourself first. The parents are enjoying it because that's what we teach them.

 

Shay Cook [00:09:19]:

Oh, that's beautiful. I love that. All right. And lastly, from a spiritual perspective, what is the deepest, most profound impact volunteer work has had on a young girl's sense of self and purpose and even from your point of view growing up?

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:09:33]:

My mom was always a volunteer. I got a lot from her. And my Aunt Julia, she was always a volunteer. I had some strong women in my life. You know, Aunt Nadine, Aunt Beulah, all these people strong. It made me strong. A lot of people look at me and say, how you doing? You know, Shay, I've been sick, very sick. And people like to know, how you still moving? How you still going? When I do stuff like this, this makes me want to move.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:10:03]:

It gives me the energy because I'm helping someone else. It's not all about me. It's about helping someone, especially young girls and young adult women. They need a solid foundation.

 

Shay Cook [00:10:18]:

Yeah.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:10:19]:

That's what I want to, you know, instill in them. And I become like a Velcro. The young girls see me, and I go to council. I see women running to me, hugging me that I've never seen before. But my name is all over council, you know, so they know I'm about helping young people. So right now, my target is Baltimore. That's where I'm building the troops at.

 

Shay Cook [00:10:43]:

I love that, especially since that's where you come from. But I know I always tell people on this podcast, my service comes from my mama and my daddy. They both serve this country in many different ways. Military, Girl Scouts, through religion, and just in many different opportunities that they have. But I always said the entrepreneur spirit definitely came from the Stilley, which is my mama's maiden name, came from that side of the family, so. And definitely started, you know, for me through her. But like you said, my aunt. I mean, my grandma.

 

Shay Cook [00:11:11]:

And then my Aunt Julia was like my second grandma. She was just always in service and taking care of people.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:11:16]:

She was a nurse, our religious rock.

 

Shay Cook [00:11:20]:

She had us in church when we moved back years. Like, yeah, she gonna put that cane on if you weren't going to church. So that was good. So. All right, thank you for that, Mama. That was amazing. All right, let's get into the main discussion. So raising for faith and finances, how do you intentionally weave together biblical principles like tithing and saving and practical money lessons, or what does a financially fit daughter look like to you? I would say hella look like Shay Cook.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:11:47]:

A financial fit young lady, daughter, is somebody who first have a purpose. Have a purpose. And the purpose is something that you're going to strive to find your strong scripture to stand on as you find that purpose. And then also be diligent with your income, your money. And like I say, all the time pay yourself first, then pay your bills, and then put some more away if you got some leftover, you know, so that's how you build. And just to be strong and in your faith will help you with your tithing. And tithing don't mean you have to give money all the time. Sometimes tithing can be by time.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:12:29]:

Time to give out talents that you have. Because everybody might not have trillions of dollars to give out all the time, you know, But God said he loves a cheerful giver. That's what Christ said. It's not about the tithe no more. That was in the Old Testament. We in the New Testament now. And Jesus said that he loves a cheerful giver. And that could be in time, talent and tides.

 

Shay Cook [00:12:53]:

Amen. Amen. I always say that too, because time is one commodity you ain't getting back. So I think time is probably even more valued in money because is some people just expect you if you just show up and be there for them, you ain't got to bring them nothing. You just got to be there. Yeah, that's very important. So how are the young girls? What are you seeing from them when you're teaching them? Are they excited about this? It sounds like. I mean, they're compassionate.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:13:17]:

They compassionate about it. And the funny thing is, every Girl Scout in Troop 2103, which is my personal troop here, Severn, have a bank account.

 

Shay Cook [00:13:28]:

Oh, wow. Well, nowadays they got to really, because nobody has cash..

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:13:32]:

They all have a bank account and they've been putting money in it. We talking kindergarten to 12th grade.

 

Shay Cook [00:13:41]:

Oh, nice. Well, I know my dad made me get a bank account earlier on as well too, because I was working in Germany at the. Where was I working? Somewhere at the motor pool or somewhere summer hire Program. So I had to get it like at 13.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:13:55]:

Uh huh. All y' all started in your teens. Early teens.

 

Shay Cook [00:13:59]:

Yeah. And I remember doing that for Alana just so we could save for her. And then when she got her jobs and started making her a little money, she always had that we could pass that over to her. So that's good because there's a lot of people out there still, they're unbanked, that don't have bank accounts. And so I know whether they're veterans or immigrants or just people that are of low income, they just don't have it because some people don't trust the financial institutions in America. 

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:14:24]:

Yeah, well, I tell people, if you don't trust it, put it on your mattress.

 

Shay Cook [00:14:27]:

No, that's not good. That's so old school. And what if your house burned down or what?

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:14:34]:

The bank can burn down too, you know, But.

 

Shay Cook [00:14:36]:

I mean, but that's off, y'all. Okay. Okay. All right, moving on. So the power of service. So let's discuss the spiritual and emotional return on investment from a life of service. So how does volunteerism impact a young person's identity and understanding of community stewardship? I'll start by saying that I know seeing my family, especially my mom and dad, serving the country as a service member, just volunteering through Girl Scouts and many opportunities in the church and so forth, I saw that it was better to serve people than yourself first.

 

Shay Cook [00:15:14]:

Even though sometimes as women, especially black women, we need, we struggle with that because we got to learn to balance, take care of ourselves. I always say self care is not selfish. We need to take care of ourselves. But then as I gotten older, I know I need to serve God first, take care of myself, and then serve others. So having that true connection to God really helps me see that serving God's people is where he wants us to be. So, and I'm sure that's impacting our young people that you're supporting as well.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:15:43]:

Yeah, that's true. We really need to listen to what God want us to do first, then instill it into younger people and help them out because we're in a situation right now. I call it a situation. In this world right now, young adults and young girls gonna need older or mature adults more than ever. I tell my girls, don't look at what's on the news, because that's man; God got a better plan.

 

Shay Cook [00:16:15]:

Amen. Or even on social, because that's where they really at. They ain't looking at the news, they on that social that tick tock, YouTube, all that and thinking that's you know, gospel. And that's not gospel. And that's not. Oh, a lot of times. Yeah. Yeah.

 

Shay Cook [00:16:31]:

Or people just posting stuff that is really short and dumb or really short and funny. And then. I know I was reading an article this weekend about brain rot. How us being on these social media platforms and getting this information that's really triggering our brains to be excited within like 5 seconds is really kind of stupid and dumb as a nation. I'm just going to put it plain because that's what it is, is making us less intelligent because we are getting all this quick information. And really, to get good information knowledge, it takes time still to process that. So we're starting to rot our brains from that. And I'm sure.

 

Shay Cook [00:17:06]:

And this is. Young people ain't old people. They said it's not young people. But definitely for our young people, our next generations, we gotta be careful getting them off of them devices and get them into Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts and other organizations, church or wherever, community center, ymca, whatever it may be, Boys and Girls clubs, so they can be around other people because we cannot do life alone.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:17:27]:

I think that's what this generation needs. Because when I grew up, it was not a lot of social media, and when you grew up, it wasn't social media. So.

 

Shay Cook [00:17:36]:

All right, so let's talk about dressing for the job you want. Discuss the importance of presentation, preparedness and carrying oneself with confidence and integrity. How does it align with a righteous steward in one's image and future career path? Again, I'm going to start here because my mama was very, very, very clear. And my daddy, but more than my mama, when you go out of their house, the Tull household, your hair better be done, your lips not be like dry, you ain't no ashy skin. You better be dressed and pressed, okay? And I mean, even when I was growing up, you started going to work, you had to have your stockings, on your heels, your makeup, you know, so that was very important. We're trying to instill that in Alana. And she has her more creative style, but she knows even to this day, she go to work. You better be clean, you better be smelling good, you better be looking good, your clothes better be ironed when you came out of Mitchell Tull's house because he was that military mindset.

 

Shay Cook [00:18:31]:

But my mom and daddy were very clear about that. So how are you sharing that now with this generation that just wear pajamas everywhere they go?

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:18:38]:

Well, I instill in them that even though there's a new fad, as I call it, a fad there's also a professional fad, and that's the professionalism of if you going out to do work, wear a nice pair of slacks, have your hair done. If you a teenager that wear makeup, make sure it's not gaudy. Have a I call it an everyday face. Just some lipstick and a little blush. I tell the young guys, stop sagging.

 

Shay Cook [00:19:05]:

They still doing it.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:19:06]:

Pull your pants up. I know a lot of these young boys like their dreads. I don't complain about locks.

 

Shay Cook [00:19:11]:

We call them locks now.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:19:12]:

I don't complain about that because that's our heritage. But I do tell them, please have their hair shaped up. Have their edges shaped up and look crisp, because I've seen some beautiful young black men with those.

 

Shay Cook [00:19:24]:

Oh, my God, with them locs, if you got them things twisted. But then they start looking like Lil Wayne. No disrespect to him, but somewhat. Come on, do your hair, y'all. I'm old school. I was raised by this woman on this podcast right now, and we go old school, you brush your hair, you put that.

 

Shay Cook [00:19:39]:

Maybe not grease now, but oil, some Something. I don't know what's going on in the world, and I understand it might be a financial thing, but it don't cost that much to get a brush or get somebody to twist your hair and some oil.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:19:51]:

It really don't. Thank you for saying the financial thing. I might have the girls do that as a community service. Get some brushes and some grease and give it to people.

 

Shay Cook [00:20:01]:

I always say on this podcast, I'm the queen of shades. She is the emperor. People need it, though. People need it. I mean, I can go on and on about that. My grandmother was just at Christmas, talking to my nephew about it, even though Makari's hair, he got that normal style. She was looking, but she was trying to learn more about that. So every generation, especially in the black community, is very keen on.

 

Shay Cook [00:20:21]:

On how you present yourself. Because this world is going to eat you up if you don't present yourself correct.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:20:26]:

That's true.

 

Shay Cook [00:20:27]:

Yeah.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:20:27]:

And that's the first thing a person see, believe it or not. Your presentation is the first impression. Impression that they get on you. It's how you how you walk before you even open your mouth. Yeah, right before you open your mouth. The way you walked in your office.

 

Shay Cook [00:20:41]:

And it's got. Sometimes it ain't got nothing to do with your hair and your clothes. Is the way you present yourself, how you.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:20:47]:

Your mannerisms.

 

Shay Cook [00:20:48]:

Yeah, and your mannerisms, you know, and if God is with you, that glow Gonna come in there with you. Right. So, you know, so definitely. All right, so let's talk about the volunteer advantage. So why does a history of selfless service make a young woman more prepared, capable and tractable to future employers and colleagues? So you name dropped earlier. Michelle Obama, Nancy Pelosi, all these NASA astronauts that have been with Girl Scouts, how do you think that's helped them become prepared for.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:21:17]:

It's like a spirit. When you have a heart to help a community or give or volunteer, you get this glow about you. And your mindset is different than the ones that just don't do nothing. You got a different mindset because you are learning, you are helping, you're teaching. Volunteering is a wonderful thing. It's a wonderful thing because you get skills from that. You meet plenty of people, all different kinds of people, and it helps your inner strength grow. That's why I love, even right now I'm working with Girl Scouts, but I'm still volunteering with Girl Scouts.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:21:57]:

It's just wonderful. I've been doing it for so long. It's like a part of me.

 

Shay Cook [00:22:00]:

Yeah, it's part of your DNA. When you're out there giving, you don't have time to think about your own. What if you're depressed, anxiety, you're sad, you're mad, you're angry, you have to put that to the side. And you might not smile, but most time if somebody's smiling at you, you smiling back at them. So to me, that is a great thing. When you're going through something, you need to get out there and be of service to somebody else because that's really going to. It's going to help you build gratitude and humility and all those great traits, but it's also going to take your mind off of that, whether it's the craziness going on in the world, in America, at home, at work, wherever. In your finances, if you're struggling with finances, I'm telling you, I always tell people on this podcast when I know it's because I'm continuously tithed and I'm continuously giving, I'm continuously doing that right thing.

 

Shay Cook [00:22:48]:

God is always going to bless me and always have and you know, and some people just have favor. And I believe this lineage from my mom and daddy, we all have favor.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:22:57]:

So you know, our father in the ministry, Rev. Dr. John Alon Senior had thing and I go by it, right this. You can't be God given no matter how hard you try. Amen. So if you want to keep, if you want to try to beat Him, keep giving.

 

Shay Cook [00:23:14]:

Yes, right. Keep going. You ain't never going to beat them. But. So what is your perspective on financial and spiritual wisdom? You've learned as you've been, you know, from a mother to a daughter now, a mentor and wise, wonderful, and your woman.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:23:31]:

It's a journey. First it was a. It's a journey and sometimes going to surprise people if you never stop learning.

 

Shay Cook [00:23:39]:

Never. If you do, you’re dead.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:23:39]:

Never stop learning. You can be. I have a 95 year old spiritual mother, Cammie, she's still teaching school, she's still driving. And wisdom, it just changed from knowledge to wisdom. It becomes wisdom. But going through all this, from me as a Brownie up to where I'm at in present moment, it helps me right to this day that I do this. Even sometimes when I might get a little, tiny little bit of depression, I think about my spiritual Father again. Say he only got a two minute pity party.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:24:12]:

And after that two minutes, I'm calling somebody or talking to some young girl, finding out how she doing, what's going on. You know, I have a lot of 999 godchildren.

 

Shay Cook [00:24:23]:

Oh, she do everybody. Her mother, she godmother for everybody, you.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:24:27]:

Know, so I'll be talking to them and it gives me joy, it gives me strength. You know, I was talking to your cousin this morning, Verona, and she was talking about how dreary it was. And I told her, I see the Lord out there because it is a sky, you know, it ain't black, you know, it's a sky out there. As soon as I said that, the sun came out, you know, so we got the see things as though we want them to be not what they are.

 

Shay Cook [00:24:59]:

Faith. Have faith.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:25:01]:

Yeah. The biggest word is faith. The Bible says without faith it's impossible to please God. That's the word of God. Without faith, it is impossible to please him. So you have to have faith.

 

Shay Cook [00:25:14]:

Yeah. And that's what's going to get you through. I told people all the time I was saying this at the Goldman Sachs club program I went through this summer, people was like, yeah, you got to fake it. I was like, I ain't faking nothing. I'm faithing it.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:25:25]:

And faithing that, faithing it.

 

Shay Cook [00:25:27]:

And I ain't no faking out here. I'm just God give me a plan. I know he gonna provide. And this took me a long time to learn that. But I'm here now and I know that I'm faith in it. If he's shown me something, I'm supposed to do. Most of the time. I'm gonna do it.

 

Shay Cook [00:25:40]:

Sometime I'll be like, good Lord. But, you know, I'm trying not be too stubborn, but my mama know I am, but. But I try to be obedient. And, yeah, faith in it till you make it. And it really. It's God behind it.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:25:51]:

You gotta have faith. I've been through some strong faith battles. Like when I got paralyzed for three months. Doctors said I wasn't going to make it. I told him, I live and I shall live and not die. I had to have my faith build up, so I had to build my faith up. And now I'm walking, talking, driving, doing what, working with these little, little children, you know? So if you speak it, life, power, life and death is in your tongue. I believe in that 100%.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:26:18]:

If you speak it, God's going to give it to you. And, well, I'm going to tell somebody a little spiritual sleuth. When you speak positive in the atmosphere, you cut the devil down because he can't live under positiveness.

 

Shay Cook [00:26:32]:

Amen.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:26:33]:

When something trying to attack you, think of something positive. Speak in the atmosphere.

 

Shay Cook [00:26:37]:

Exactly.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:26:38]:

He going back up.

 

Shay Cook [00:26:39]:

That's good. Whether it's your physical, your spiritual battle, financial battle. Speak it positive. You think you got negative in your account. Talk about the positive in your account. If you. If you need to save. And you're like, oh, man, no.

 

Shay Cook [00:26:52]:

Talk about, I got thousands of dollars.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:26:54]:

In my savings, you know, because sometimes all that is a test that God is taking you through to see where you're going to go with it.

 

Shay Cook [00:27:02]:

Exactly.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:27:03]:

You know, so He take you through a test to see her account is overdrawn. Is she going to trust me to fix it, or is she going to sit there and be in a pity party? And he will work it out. That song I love Jesus. Work it out. He will work it out. He will work it out.

 

Shay Cook [00:27:20]:

Yes, He will. He will give you a testimony out of that test, Right?

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:27:24]:

Yes, He will.

 

Shay Cook [00:27:26]:

That is amazing. All righty. So, you know, guys, according to a report by the Corporation of National Community Service, teens who volunteer are 50% less likely to abuse drugs, alcohol, or cigarettes. And youth who volunteer regularly have higher academic achievement and are more likely to stay employed as adults. This shows a direct link between service and a healthier, more prosperous life. So the greatest inheritance we can give our daughters is not cash, but character. A character rooted in faith, seasoned with financial wisdom, and animated by a commitment to service. The woman of God is prepared for her life's calling in every aspect, from her spirit to her wallet.

 

Shay Cook [00:28:12]:

By choosing to teach these principles diligently, we are honoring the divine potential within them and securing a future filled with abundance and righteousness. All right, mom, before I get into the call to action, what are your final thoughts for today?

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:28:28]:

My final thoughts is whoever's listening, if you got a grandchild, boy or girl or daughter, boy or girl, get them involved in volunteering. It builds character, it builds strength. I had three girls that advanced last year or this year, and they graduated from high school with summa cum laude in Girl Scouts. They got the Gold Award. One's going to Howard and one going to UCLA. Full scholarships.

 

Shay Cook [00:29:00]:

That's awesome.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:29:00]:

Full scholarship. That came out of the Severin community. That's my pay.

 

Shay Cook [00:29:07]:

Yeah, I ain't mad.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:29:08]:

That's my pay that I was contributing to, helping them get there. So definitely get your children involved in some. It's good to have them in sports, but I think what it is, we have been conditioned that the only way a child can get a scholarship is through sports. Yeah, that's not true. If they get in an organization, if they do community service. And in Maryland, I found out, since I've been working for Girl Scout Council, 75 community service hours is what you need to graduate. But if you get 225, that's an automatic scholarship.

 

Shay Cook [00:29:41]:

Wow. Is that new? Because Alana, I don't think she did all those hours and getting any of that, but that's new.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:29:47]:

Yes. That’s new.

 

Shay Cook [00:29:47]:

Yeah. That's awesome. That's good. That's good to know that our state's.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:29:51]:

Open to everyone if you know.

 

Shay Cook [00:29:53]:

Yeah. And I think that that's on purpose, but we going to share everybody. So everybody here, make sure you look at your local scholarships, whether it's in the city, the county, the state and federal. I know I got a bunch of scholarships when I was in high school that were not sports related, so. But they're out there. You just gotta look for them. But. Oh, man.

 

Shay Cook [00:30:12]:

So this week, invest in the spiritual and financial future of a young woman in your life. So either open a conversation with a young woman about money, not just spending, but saving and giving. Discussing the importance of dressing with intention is another one. And like my mom say, volunteer, volunteer together. Definitely recommend volunteering. Spend an afternoon serving your community and discuss how that act of service reflects the heart of Christ and builds a righteous spirit. Thanks, mom, for joining me.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:30:43]:

I love you for having me.

 

Shay Cook [00:30:45]:

All right, well, thank you guys for joining us and we appreciate you and Happy New Year.

 

Reverend Lana Tull [00:30:50]:

All right, have a blessed one.

 

Shay Cook [00:30:54]:

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