with this linda and this is from around the globe because it's something that they have spread around the world but proudly we have it right here in our own backyard so very proud so first of all we're twenty's were program that was how it up at the bible chapel rachel's challenge program was and we just talked what a beautiful motivational program it was it was good i want to say we have our so we have our shirts on and right i'm looking around you know how you see all the different outfits and everything well you know we had to do uniforms you know we'd never have to worry about what we're going to wear you know like when we're like  information about rachel's challenge first of all coincidentally and i think i don't know i believe in like how all things come together and there are things happen for a reason and like who you're connected to right isn't just a coincidence ok my step brother danny and his wife jamie they now live in new orleans but they are from colorado and they went to columbine to they were at columbine the year that the columbine basically massacre the shooting had happened and as a matter of fact danny was a football player and one of the targets they were after were athletes and he even had his car impounded that day because they wouldn't first of all they searched all the cars and then you know  like i guess a memorial for the columbine sad so bringing it full circle and having something like this rachel's challenge here in our own backyard i was actually really thrilled and couldn't wait to talk to them about it to see if they knew her and what was going on but sadly as devastating as this was something beautiful came out of it you know and that's the only way yeah so rachel's father was here and he did the program and i just wanted to give a little bit of information about rachel's challenge and what they're what they're doing so just some statistics one hundred  sixty thousand students skip school every day for fear of being bullied now you know how i feel about bullying we've done programs at the library i  it's just awful you know how kids treat each other and we're all it's the same i am students who adults do it too right but it starts young which is too bad so because of that as they say it doesn't have to be this way creating a school climate less susceptible to harassment bullying and violence is possible we see it happening in socio economically and demographically diverse schools across north america every day first for us it started with rachel joy scott this is the little girl that was the first one killed at columbine because she happened to be sitting outside having lunch with a stories with with her parents and he told some of the stories and had some of the pictures like there was a picture of one of the kids that you know had some different challenges you know you know physically mentally and was always bullied and picked on and she was one that chose you know not to do that and you know asked some of her friends to you know you need some friends right you know just be nice and you know and as kids are th like yeah right or whatever and she's like you know you don't have to marry him can somebody be nice to him or say hello and then he this always makes me choke up and then he said to the scotts that had she had she not done that he wanted to commit suicide right because he reached she reached out to him that she had stuff to show and saved his life believable and there were more stories like that right and she was really have been touched well that's a lot and saying it's the human really comprehend you know twenty five million i mean god bless that family her vision to start a chain reaction of kindness and compassion is the faces for our mission making schools safer or more connected places where bullying and violence are replaced with kindness and respect and where learning and teaching are awakened to the fullest and it works what i like about this and i'm just go to just give a couple statistics and then i just want to say what the hell this program works very quickly over one point five million people are involved in rachel's challenge programs more than twelve hundred schools and businesses have been reached this is how schools and businesses to become safer and more connected to the places that they live and learn rachel had this quote and they use this and all of the stuff that says i have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion then it will start a chain reaction of the same people will never know how far a little kindness will go and i just want to say too that the one piece it does from the opposite does it very kindness to our kind of you know of coming in and being better people not of like you know scolding you for right it's about you know looking inside the other i wish like everybody in the whole like could have been like you know i mean like i know good bit of people yeah huge turnout but i think it was just a message that i wish you could just broadcast it everybody agree that it was wonderful and i actually i have a connection to rachel too so the shooting focus she's a very big journal are and what they do is they took a lot of her journals and published them in like one volume right and it was more so she was extremely very strong in her faith to which we were going to it but that was more what this particular book was about yeah and for me as a young high school student i don't care what year i had in high school i read it doesn't matter but regardless i remember reading it and it was extremely impactful to me and my personal faith and i had recently found and i was cleaning out stuff when i moved which was not two to recently but still i found a lot of like stuff from high school like my i used to keep a planner and i had rachel's quotes written all it and i have i have my own my own journal her own quotes and so i had the opportunity at this event that i because i really because the book really made a difference to my life and what she had said you know this was now however many years ago  t twenty years ago to that i went up to after the program i went up and i talked to her dad because i know in my own family having lost people i know they wouldn't like the most important thing to those that are the family members is that that person forgotten which obviously rachel's never going to be forgotten right but i wanted to personally go ahead and tell us the her father my story so i did i said you know what i read her book in high school it was a huge impact to me and so i could tell by looking at him that he was a  so that was it was really important to me that was able to do that so it was an awesome that he got but we had him here that was a little bless him i don't imagine you know what there was like one more thing that there was i don't remember who i was talking to but somebody asked me a question of like how does he do that right how does he go time after time after time after time to visit all these millions of peoples all the schools all the se what they've done both during both during her life and since her life so this takes place ten years later so this is a bit more recent the book that i had read so we're going to be reading this and discussing it at our book club so if you two are  teen tween and you were impacted by the reaches challenger school you want to learn a little more about her i really do urge you to pick a spoke up and read it and come talk to us about it on november third saturday morning actually sat afternoon we'll get you some pizza we'll talk about two years it was a very moving book so it was she who she really she was wise beyond her years of very were very very ok so that sure the teen book club flower in november  started a program it's called pop and taught and it's wednesdays at six thirty so it's for the dad to come with the kids get the dads out give the moms a break mom's have an opportunity to do a billion things with the kids about one in one with the dad right and we just had our first one i know and i just saw it last week from and i just it was so so it was so cute so we're highly encouraging all the dads in the community to to bring their kids were gearing it more towards two and under so the little little you've only seen it once i don't i've only seen it once or twice too but lucas likes daniel and there's always a commercial for dinosaur train before you so i kind of know that but anyways do dinosaur train so if you're a dinosaur fan you never if it's a show but you're like dinosaurs maybe you'll be interested in or have lots of fun dinosaur activities and crafts and then we will watch an episode dinosaur train a special halloween episode a i'm getting yeah i'm getting to my spooky one between book club it's october fifteenth that's the monday monday after school miss peregrine's home for peculiar children and you know it wasn't until i read this that i like hadn't noticed like on the cover like i noticed all the creepy pictures in the back i wanted to have them read something really creep know and talks about his grandfather in the pictures and everything and said has this picture is in the you know the grandfather would say you know what's she doing or what's wrong with this picture whatever and she goes on he goes on i don't know if maybe she movie so you know it's going to be creepy yeah so i thought well i haven't watched the movie yet but i might just like watch it and get to like a snippet of it a little clip of it for or just pull something off of you to for them to the old fairy tale cover and that's because it is about a fairy tale and as i'm reading it it is pretty it's like it is a think that it's going to be fun so that's why the seventeen year old girl alice and her and her mother always constantly on the run they're basically like gypsies or drifters or whatever when i call them and her mom is like what like she's been in like every year she's in a different school and when she's seventeen her mom is basically about to get divorced from her like a million husband and she kind of disco from place to place to live in their car for a while and they're always going somewhere because her mom and everywhere they go bad luck tends to fall that good and their mom i don't know why i'm not that far into it but her mom has something going on with her mother so the main character is grandmother causes them to be on the run and the grandmother is this famous author who becomes a recluse and settles in this state called the hazelwood in the very beginning the story she dies and the mother says oh now that you know your grandmother said we're finally free we should be free of all this bad luck oh mine the grandfather dies and the dad start oh that's cold it's very it's definitely creepy and so the girl was like kidnapped as a kid by a fan of the grandmother because and then she's working now in a diner and she sees the same guy that had kidnapped her and he hasn't aged at all and it's been like fifteen years and she's like why is he showing up again and why has a stuff with a guy that to me is a kid  cute we also have if you can we talk about rachel and i forgot to mention this so if you come in the library we have some photo booth props if you'd like to come and take a picture saying you took the challenge and i saw one that was oh yeah and we also have these if you want to so this one says i took the challenge cha the absolute favorite program every month is positive reading reason come in and read for registered therapy dogs it's a very popular program and every now and then we just want to remind you that that is going on so it's always the second s october thirteenth from ten to eleven twenty you sign up ahead of time for a slot to come in and use it you can read the dog does not matter what your ability is we've been home some preschoolers that will come and just kind of share pictures with the dog or we'll even how some girls like older students like third fourth fifth graders they want to come and read to the dog so i would like to honestly come and read it or come and see the dogs they're so fun i love them ok so go ahead all right so we were going to talk since we were doing rachel's talking a lot about rachel's challenge was to do i brought some books about kindness and of course the most obvious first one is the one that became the most popular for kindness was wonderful my favorite post yeah story about agi who because he had facial deformities and all these surgeries i was homeschooled so i never went to school and finally he's fifth grade going into school for the first time yeah and the story of how brutal kids can be  because of she brilliant idea came up with where all wonder is picture book right of the same topic i love it i'm so glad and on the back you know that their motto has always been choose kind which is so rachel but it says i know i can't change the way i look but maybe just maybe people can change the way they see and that's what that so there's a whole series of based upon the villains from disney movies for a taking place before the movie ok so this one is about malicious and it's called the mistress of all evil this is the most recent one there's one about there's one about the the beast within i think there's like five of them out so far and it's basically you know what why actually in disney world have seen them for sale similar to the kingdom keepers so mistress of all evil is the next book and the i don't know if the series has a name but yeah tale the dark fairy so great great books everybody here needs to go out and get one of those really good feel good you know make you want to change the world kind of books ok do you think yeah i'm actually reading a book called make your bed and it says you can