Interview: Sam Childers, the ‘Machine Gun Preacher’......

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Sam Childers is the “Machine Gun Preacher (http://www.machinegunpreacher.org/)” who inspired a movie by that name, starring Gerard Butler. His book, Another Man’s War: The True Story of One Man’s Battle to Save Children in the Sudan (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1595554246/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=nellminowthemovi&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=1595554246)http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=nellminowthemovi&l=as2&o=1&a=1595554246&camp=217145&creative=399373 tells the story of his journey from biker to builder to preacher to protector of African children.


I have 179 children that I take care of full-time, close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan. They’re coming close to university age now and the better schools are in Uganda. My biggest problem now is school fees. I have the only library in Sudan. It has videos, DVDs, computers, and we’re just starting to finish a school we built off the compound, to be given to the community. The children have been amazing. It’s been a hard road for them as you can see in the movie. The children even down to this day have a lot of trust with me. There hasn’t been any killing around the orphanage in two years but when it was bad they would just come and hang me me, as I’d walk around with my gun at my side. Sudan got their independence but they have no infrastructure. If anything happens and fighting breaks out again, they will bring the kids to us to care for. And we now have places for children in Ethiopia, too

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Machine Gun Preacher is the inspirational true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an astonishing transformation and finds an unexpected calling as the savior of hundreds of kidnapped and orphaned children. Gerard Butler (300) delivers a searing performance as Childers, the impassioned founder of the Angels of East Africa rescue organization in Golden Globe-nominated director Marc Forster's (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) moving story of violence and redemption. When ex-biker-gang member Sam Childers (Butler) makes the life-changing decision to go to East Africa to help repair homes destroyed by civil war, he is outraged by the unspeakable horrors faced by the region's vulnerable populace, especially the children. Ignoring the warnings of more experienced aide workers, Sam breaks ground for an orphanage where it's most needed--in the middle of territory controlled by the brutal Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a renegade militia that forces youngsters to become soldiers before they even reach their teens. But for Sam, it is not enough to shelter the LRA's intended victims. Determined to save as many as possible, he leads armed missions deep into enemy territory to retrieve kidnapped children, restoring peace to their lives--and eventually his own. The explosive, real-life tale of a man who has rescued over a thousand orphans from starvation, disease and enslavement, Machine Gun Preacher also stars Michelle Monaghan (Due Date), Kathy Baker (Cold Mountain), Madeline Carroll (Mr. Popper's Penguins), Academy Award(R) nominated Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road) and Souleymane Sy Savane ("Damages").....snip~

I watched this movie the other night. My hat is off to the Guy. The LRA and others know who he is over there. Kony even put out a hit on him. From what this guy has watched the LRA do to Women and Children. He just couldn't take it anymore.

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http://www.debatepolitics.com/images/smilies/New_Smilies/2bump.gif.....Hmmmm and here I was wondering what some thought about this Machine Gun Preacher and going after Muslims and Kony. For what they do to women and children. :undecided:

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Heya WR did you see this?

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Ted Nugent's twin brother separated at birth.

Except, as this guy claims, he takes care of his kids.

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He had no military experience either. Plus I think he needs people to help out. If he ends up getting any peeps with Military experience. He may just find Kony long before any others down there.