All Saints Page #4

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He led a brigade in the war.

He kept them together for

five years in a refugee camp.

You're taking him with you.

Fine. I'll take him.

I thought you were doing a music program.

- What's with all the forms?

- (SIGHS)

Emergency contact info, school bus forms...

Ye Win wants my name on them.

Are they ready for school?

Don't assume refugee children

know American hygiene.

Don't assume they know

crayons, scissors, pencils,

or that they know teachers

aren't a danger to them.

Man. Oh, man.

So, no, I would say they're not ready.

You should've seen Forrest out there today.

This whole thing, it's not

some ego trip I'm on, is it?

I guess we'll see.

(CHO-CHO SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)

I have to pay the doctor today.

I'm sorry, Cho-cho.

Ye Win is driving

a new family in from Kentucky.

Do you know how to write a check?

They have to stay with us tonight, Mya.

I'm sorry. Just for tonight.

Where are they going to sleep?

You need a check, Cho-cho?

Hi.

(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)

I have to drive to Nashville now

with Michael.

To see the Bishop.

Are you managing other people's money?

- Yes.

- Whose?

Everyone.

(PEOPLE SINGING AT A DISTANCE)

AIMEE:
Welcome, everyone.

(SINGING STOPS)

Oh, don't stop. That was so pretty.

(ALL GREETING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)

I have something for you.

Can you please hand these out?

So, who here can read music?

Er, okay.

You know, I really love

that song you were singing.

Er, what does it mean?

"Jesus loves me, yes, I know."

Can you teach it to me?

Okay.

(SINGING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)

Let me try it.

(IMITATES SINGING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)

(LAUGHTER)

AIMEE:
That's not...

Doesn't sound so good? Okay.

- No.

- Okay.

Let me try again.

(SINGING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)

(IMITATES SINGING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)

- No.

- No.

Okay, I need some help here.

You sing it again,

and will you please join in?

That will really help me get it.

Please.

(SINGING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)

AIMEE:
Can you sing it louder?

Because that will help me.

Louder, louder.

Because it means that we have to take on

All Saints' massive mortgage.

Now, that's money that's not

going for mission services,

it's not going to poverty,

and it's not going to outreach.

I would argue that it is going

to all those things at All Saints.

Yes, and we all applaud your ambition,

but taking on this many needy families,

that would be hard

for even a thriving church.

Now, sometimes it's just beyond

our means to help.

Dr. Barr, we don't choose

who God sends to our door.

Yes, well, thank you for that fortune cookie

- from on high.

- You're welcome.

Your first harvest would be

when, Michael, Thanksgiving?

Yes, about.

And these estimates you've given us,

what are they based on?

Buyer projections. They're rough, obviously.

But you'll know for sure where you stand

by mid-December, correct?

Now, hold on. We can't wait

six months to sell the church.

We'd have to keep it on the market.

That would defeat the purpose.

Michael, this is not your personal property.

It's part of the diocese.

Right, except it's about to be

an Ultra-Mega Mart.

Michael, we're not some fat

bureaucracy in your path here.

So maybe don't cowboy up

every time you disagree.

We're here as a spiritual resource for you.

As well as shepherding your career.

Look, we're nowhere. Let's take a pause.

Er, what did you do before

you were a pastor, Michael?

I worked for a company called

Jarvis and Jones, selling paper.

It wasn't exactly plucking chickens,

but, still, I was on the road all the time

and just about ended our marriage.

I always knew we should be doing this.

I just kept ducking it because...

I'm not good with bosses.

This job has a lot of bosses.

Er, only one that matter, yes?

On the break,

I was reminded that this

isn't really about us or me.

Maybe it's best if...

if you hear from Ye Win.

Um... We were farmers,

then soldier.

We fight for our land,

for our people.

Fight in the jungle, in the mountain.

They burned our villages.

Many dead, many gone.

Girls crying over dead mothers,

father over dead son.

Many family lost or broken.

They forced us into refugee camp.

Thailand. We cannot leave.

There is nothing for children

to do, nothing for men to do.

Just wait.

Wait.

The people fight, cry, scream in the night.

Young people, they go bad, go crazy.

They steal, lie.

Girls get raped.

Boys, too, sometime.

But we have a church hut.

It is for rice, really.

We sit on rice bag and we sing and pray,

say Bible verses and story in church hut.

Yeah, many dead, many gone,

many family broken.

But in church hut,

we are one family.

Through Jesus Christ.

(CLEARS THROAT)

And we could

give them till January.

If their autumn harvest can feed the Karen

and keep the church afloat,

we bring down the "for sale" sign.

They'd have to at least make

the January and February

and March mortgage payments as well.

So, feed the Karen, pay my salary,

and the winter mortgage payments

all from the Thanksgiving harvest.

Yes. And I, for one,

don't believe that you...

Done. No problem.

Michael, I can't help but believe

that you have built

the barrel you have us over.

I'm not that good a carpenter.

Let's hope, for everyone's sake,

you're a better farmer.

- Thank you.

- Thank you.

(ALL CHATTERING)

(KNOCK ON DOOR)

No. No.

Hi.

Er, I just come by to...

Well, look, I know where y'all are from,

you keep your hats on in church

and you take off your shoes

to show your respect,

but over here, it's... Well, it's different.

It's the other way around.

And I just thought that

I'd come by and tell you that

so that you knew.

Thank you.

You come in.

Oh. No. No, thanks. No...

Is that an M16 or an M16A1?

Er, A1.

Well, you're lucky.

Toting around a dirty M16 in the wet jungle,

you might just as well be

carrying around 10 pounds of nothing.

Well...

(SIGHS) I'll be seeing you.

Please.

Thank you.

You're sure you all can handle this

and the chicken plant, too?

We are grateful for those jobs.

Very grateful.

All right, let's see. You got your corn,

squash, tomatoes,

plus fertilizer and insecticides, right?

- Organic?

- Yeah, organic.

Boy, it's gonna be something

to see those old ball fields

- cut up into crop rows.

- Yeah.

How are you gonna plow?

It's funny you should mention that.

'Cause I want to get the older kids involved.

A guitar is gonna do that?

Yeah, you know, make choir cool.

What?

We need tool, Michael.

Can you lend us some equipment?

You already got me plowing your field.

Yeah, but you can trust me

'cause I'm a minister.

Now once these crops are in the ground.

I hope the church is paying for this.

Er, I'm gonna...

- You have another card?

- No, there should be space.

Connection's flaky sometimes.

You got cash?

Er, yeah, sure.

- (PLAYING OUT OF TUNE)

- Hmm.

We're supposed to sing along with that?

I'm a pianist. Back off.

You got a guitar. That's thinking.

Hey, the credit card didn't go through today.

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