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Ep 136: From Brooklyn to Eternity - A Journey of Healing
"What happens when personal tragedy and transformation become the foundation for authentic ministry? James and Melissa Pinto's story answers this question with raw honesty and profound hope."
James and Melissa Pinto, of Trinity Tabernacle of Gravesend, Brooklyn, share their powerful testimonies of finding faith through personal tragedy and transformation. Their journey from congregants to church leaders reveals how God uses our darkest moments to prepare us for ministry and outreach.
• Melissa found faith at age 13 after losing her mother to illness, learning that "ultimate healing is heaven"
• James was saved in 1995 after witnessing his father's dramatic transformation from drug addiction through Christ
• The Pintos balance ministry and family life with eight children at home, emphasizing family as their primary ministry
• They prioritize rest and self-care through implementing lessons from the Thrive Leadership Foundation Retreat for Pastors
• Trinity Tabernacle celebrates 100 years of ministry, beginning as the first Italian Pentecostal church in Brooklyn
• Current focus includes community outreach and potential church planting in neighboring communities
Please pray for Trinity Tabernacle's upcoming outreach on September 6th at Lady Moody Triangle and their vision to plant a new church in a neighboring community.
Trinity Tabernacle of Gravesend Website: http://www.trinitytab.com/
Trinity's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrinityTabernacleOfGravesend/
Trinity's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@trinitytabernacle7584
Scripture Bakery (Melissa's Bakery! - Check her out online/ DM to order): https://www.instagram.com/scripture_bakery/?igsh=YXRtOW5mZ2h2ZHpm#
'PETE' @ Trinity 08/15/25: https://www.youtube.com/live/CQwiEmzsEKs?t=969s
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Speaker 2:If you don't need video, brother Fred, then it's fine, okay.
Speaker 1:You don't need video, right? No, I don't have to have it, okay, cause it's. That's not the part that's going on the podcast, yes, so.
Speaker 2:So Melissa and I are here going on the podcast, yes, so.
Speaker 1:um. So, melissa and I are here. Oh, y'all are awesome.
Speaker 3:Awesome, awesome, okay, hi there.
Speaker 2:I'm here too, how you doing Good.
Speaker 1:Can you guys see us? Okay, I see it. Fine, all right, cool, that's awesome. Okay, all right. So today we have, uh, james and melissa pinto from the. Let's see, I want to make sure I uh make sure I get this correct. The Trinity Tabernacle in Gravesend Is that correct?
Speaker 2:Trinity Tabernacle of Gravesend.
Speaker 1:Yeah and uh. Well, welcome to Plays on Word Radio. Uh, this has been a long time In the making. You guys Were part of our Our recent Northeast tour that we went on and we had A terrific time Visiting with you guys. And Did you guys have any thoughts About the play, the? The experience did. Uh, I'll let you use your own words rather than putting words in your mouth. What, what were your thoughts?
Speaker 2:I thought it was uh, very well put together. Uh, the acting, of course, was excellent. Um, of course was excellent the worship and the singing. I did get some of the people in the church had spoke to that how they really enjoyed your voice and your singing and also, of course, just the play itself, going through the entire gospel, the life of Peter, how you brought it to life. Also, some of the humor that's tied into the show was really good also and we really enjoyed it. The people enjoyed it, even, unfortunately, the cell phones ringing in the background, which I couldn't believe. Like, after one cell phone, a second one. You would say let me check my phone. One phone rang so long. I thought it was part of your act at one moment. But yeah, but uh, even the way you handled that was uh well, you know I forgot about that's right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think I worked that into the play somehow way of working things into the performance. Yeah I, I think I said so, I think it was, I think it was ringing or something like that, and I said uh, something like yeah, they, they, we don't get good cell service in galilee, or something like yes I was gonna say this in the sense that, um, I like that you interacted with the crowd, so even with the sneezing, oh, you dropped out. I heard you say interacted and then you dropped out. What happened?
Speaker 4:Sorry, that's okay. I was saying how you interact with the crowd, even with the. I mean, besides the cell phone, there was some sneezing. Even with Andrew the cell phone, there was some sneezing, um, there was even with anu, um, and things like though it's, I think it keeps them on their toes. And then, of course, the I had to say something.
Speaker 1:So yeah, yeah, amen, amen, that's uh, that's fantastic. So you guys, some, you got some positive feedback, that's good.
Speaker 2:Oh, definitely yeah, People enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:We hope to make our way back towards you guys. Maybe we'll bring our Genesis Joe to you, or maybe even our Dan play, if we get that finished, or even the Christmas one we were talking about before you guys left oh, that's right.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, christmas, joe, yeah, so, uh, yeah, it's a possibility. We'll see if we can uh see if we can make that. I'm just I'm, I'm really glad to hear um feedback and I'm glad for the audience here because we have many of our supporters actually listen to this podcast, so it's good for them to hear the, the feedback. We, you know one of the best things about when we did Trinity, I do give an invitation to receive the Lord and to make it official with him, and I think we had like six, six or eight hands went up in the back. Nice, which was you know that was a real blessing, man. You know that was a, that was a blessing. I know that heaven was.
Speaker 1:Heaven was happy about that amen uh, and you know it's, we're partially an outreach and primarily a encouragement to the body of christ. So that's our prime directive is to the body of Christ. So that's our prime directive is to the body of Christ. But we also have an evangelistic aspect. We do the work of evangelism in the play. So I also gave an opportunity for anybody that wanted to just double down in faith and wanted to maybe rededicate to the Lord, or maybe they've been getting beat up or something, and usually a lot of hands go up during that time because people, you know, they come in on Sunday mornings and they give you a smile, but a lot of times people are hurting and they really need, they need the power of the Lord. Right, what do?
Speaker 3:you think Amen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, any thoughts on that, guys? No.
Speaker 4:Well, you're speaking to an evangelist here.
Speaker 1:Amen, amen. That's fantastic, and the crazy thing is we were actually at that church five years ago. There was an event that happened outside and our dear brother Angelo and some of the guys from Horizon, I think, put together I think it was Horizon it put together some kind of get-together. Was it Angelo, or was Angelo just part of that?
Speaker 3:Angelo was part of it.
Speaker 4:Okay, yeah, yeah, I think it was Lighthouse Church, which is the church that meets within this church and is also part of our youth program. Put together some sort of music concert on the lawn.
Speaker 2:Yeah, worship.
Speaker 4:Worship on the lawn.
Speaker 2:And Angelo was part of that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he was one of the singers. That was nice. Yeah, that was my first experience there and as we came, when we pulled up to do the peep play, I was like wait, why does this feel? This feels really familiar. Katie was like wait a minute. And then I walked around the back and I said yo man, this is, this is the place. I can't believe this. It's just a. It's a small world. I guess brooklyn is uh, is just knit together like that, because when I think of brooklyn, I think of angelo, I think of richie can't sell. I think of now, I think of you guys. So you know, that's uh.
Speaker 3:I love when things like that happen, when you know God knew um that we were all going to come back again together again five years later. You know, I just love when, when you notice those little things yeah, yeah, that was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:So tell me something. Um, I need to hear your story. I mean, james, I can hear in your, in your accent, that from you. You're from new york, I can hear a new york accent there, but I the deal with that.
Speaker 4:Well, because I'm not from here.
Speaker 3:Amen there you go, drop the mic.
Speaker 4:I was born in Missouri, raised in Texas, my family's in Illinois. Wow, I lived in Connecticut and Germany, and while I was in Connecticut is when we met and then moved to Brooklyn after we got married.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so I think I have a little bit of everything. So it's just kind of who knows?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love it. I love it, james. What about you, man?
Speaker 2:I grew up not far from here, a few miles.
Speaker 1:You hear it in the accent.
Speaker 2:In a part of Brooklyn called Dyka Heights, so like Bensonhurst. Okay, it's not far from here. Okay, yeah, been here my whole life. Basically Lived in Florida for a few months, but I don't even count that it was so short.
Speaker 1:So I need to hear your story. Where does Jesus come into play with you and with Melissa? What's going on here? When did you guys meet that guy?
Speaker 4:Melissa, well, mine's a lot shorter than James, I think. Okay, my mom died when I was 13. And so through the grieving process of that, I came to know the Lord. It took six to eight years and then I could say fully on at 10 years that I really was serving him. But yeah, my mother grew up in a Christian home. So when she got sick she came back to the Lord, but we weren't raised as Christians. So I, you know it was a process, but yeah, basically through that I've never but yeah, basically through that, I've never cursed. I don't drink, I don't smoke, I never did any of that, I don't really have anything. It was really through a grieving process that the Lord just pulled me in.
Speaker 1:So you became aware because of the great comforter, yeah.
Speaker 4:The Lord being the comforter. I was very upset and I was very mad at God because my mother claimed healing to the day she died and didn't prepare us.
Speaker 4:And through that, the Lord, little by little, we were invited to a youth group and there's a lot of things that are entangled with it, but he really just showed me who he was and that the ultimate healing is really heaven and, you know, it's really our perspective on earth, which is not our home, and all those other great things that I'm still learning, so, um, but through that, I always said, if he could get me through that, um, he could get me through anything, and since then I've my faith has never wavered, so, thank God.
Speaker 1:Amen to that, that's. Uh, I'm sorry you had to go through that at such a young age, but uh, I'm also glad that the lord got a hold of you at such a young age, you know and started yeah, it's a good example of uh refined by the fire yeah, yeah, I know some folks even now that are angry with God for allowing loved ones to pass on, and it is a it's a difficult thing.
Speaker 1:You know. The Lord heals some people and some people. Some people. He says you're going to get the final healing, you know, but not right now. So it's definitely a challenge, you know.
Speaker 4:Yeah, how about you, jane? Really, that's the healing that I believe that the Bible is talking about is really our salvation. It has healed us, has redeemed us from death and we have an ultimate healing in the Lord, if we can see it that way, that nothing else is promised to us. We're not promised a new knee or a new heart, but we are promised a new body in Christ for eternity, and when we get saved, that seals the deal that we have been healed from that.
Speaker 1:So anyway, no, no, that's absolutely, you're absolutely right with that, because you're never going to go wrong that way. And, believe it or not, that is our primary, that's our primary ailment. The primary ailment of humanity is sin. And Jesus, you know, his mission was to deal with that. He came to deal with, he took away our sin and by his stripes we are healed.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, you're, you're, you're absolutely correct, he can heal, he still does heal, oh, yeah, and he can, but the, the primary, the primary aspect of the healing that was necessary, um was, was sin. It's kind of like, if you have um, you know you, you have, you somebody who has, like a, a brain tumor, and maybe they also have a little cut on their pinky, um, you know, to focus on the little cut is not the way to go. You need to deal with the, the real problem, the brain tumor, and that's what Jesus did and when, when he came, he dealt with the, the main problem. Now, can he? Can he heal the Nick on the finger? Absolutely, and he, he can and does, but not always, not always, yeah, but one, one area he always heals is sin. If someone comes to him and says Lord, save me please, I'm a sinner Save my soul. Yeah, he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins. So amen to that, yeah.
Speaker 3:You brought up an interesting point and I think this is something that most people that have not been raised in a Christian home that's why there's so much trouble is the fact that you weren't prepared for it. You know, and that's why it's so important to to be exposed to Christ, to raise your, your kids, in a Christian atmosphere, your kids in a Christian atmosphere, because at least I mean, we're not prepared for everything that comes at us, but we know our father is, so at least we have a place to turn and thank goodness, as he said, he got a hold of you. But I think that's the problem with a lot of people we're just not prepared for stuff and people don't know what direction to look when something so tragic happens, you know if they're not in Christ.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. How about you, james, before your phone dies?
Speaker 2:Excuse me.
Speaker 1:How about you man?
Speaker 2:Oh. So thank God, the Lord saved me back in 1995. Prior to that I was really in a bad state, suicidal thoughts, just not living a good life. And what was what was good in that? Despite everything that was happening, my father became a Christian back like in 1989, 87, something like that, and so at that time he had went into a ministry called Victory Outreach and his life was radically transformed. Because he was a hardcore drug addict for many years, shooting heroin, cocaine, like 100 milligrams of methadone habit a day for like 19 years.
Speaker 2:Oh and um, when I was desperate I said if god can do it for him, he can do it. So I was exposed to the as a kid, you know teens. But I wanted to do my own and thank God, I was able to turn to the Lord when I needed him and he was there. So that was back in 1995. And got saved, was with a church for five years. Then from that church I came over here and just was a congregant for years. Then from that church I came over here and just was a congregant for years. Then I got into youth, then got involved speaking, became an assistant pastor on the two pastors and then eventually I became the pastor here.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's awesome. I love it. That's that's awesome. I love it. I love the story of uh just going there for to worship on sunday and you know, 25 years later or whatever, it is 30 years later. It's more longer than that actually.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah and then uh now.
Speaker 1:Now you are like the head shepherd. Um, that is just, that's awesome. Tell us a little bit about now. You guys have a bunch of kids. You have a full household.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Tell us about the challenges of ministry life and being, you know, full-time mom and dad there. What is that like? I'm sorry, finish that I was going to say. What is that, like I'm just asking, just give me a little. Give us a dose of that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, it's actually very busy. You got to learn how to juggle your time responsibilities, but we've always established from the beginning that the family is always going to be our most important job. You know, as far as the ministry, of course, our marriage first, our children next, and then you know the ministry is, I believe, the way the Lord wants it. Because you know we have a dear friend that said to us once the only thing you can take to heaven with you are your children. And you know, if you really think about that and you know as parents, I mean as others people could do other things. So I went to Christ.
Speaker 2:But that most important one is our first ministry, the conversion. See how kids our first ministry, the conversion, see how kids say following the Lord. So we pour a lot of time into that. And then ministry, you know, keeps us very busy, but thank God we were able to what I feel do it. We have a lot of help, good help around us in the church One brother's on staff, others that are volunteer staff. So obviously it's not a one-man job, a good wife, we're a team and somehow at the end of the day it all works out.
Speaker 3:Amen, I'll tell you something that was impressed upon me, and I'm sure you know, just like all kids, your kids aren't perfect. However, I loved how they're very polite, very courteous, and I loved how respectful of one another they were.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was.
Speaker 3:Just in conversation afterwards, when we were all kind of sitting around sharing a meal. That's an attribute to you guys, of course. Thank.
Speaker 4:God.
Speaker 2:Melissa does a good job with the kids. She's a homeschooler. They're around pretty much all day long. Of course they have a little interaction, but she pours a lot of time into them and, thank God, we see good results.
Speaker 1:There was an unusual amount of courtesy between the siblings. I was quite surprised by that. It was amazing. I was like wow.
Speaker 4:It's the being raised with the southern hospitality party amen amen that was one of the things I noticed, very different between my speech and the speech of people in here in brooklyn. They're not meant to be mean, but that's kind of how it comes out to be so harsh and uh, you know, I said where's the pleases, where's the thank yous?
Speaker 1:like there's no uh, but uh that I noticed that when we moved to north carolina, people were there was a, just a southern, um kindness, yeah, there's a southern kindness. That that was. I was like wait a minute, you know, I'm walking into the, into the home depot, and and this lady's like bless you, bless you, god, bless you, and all.
Speaker 2:I'm like wow, oh, hey, now okay well yeah, as you know, here in brooklyn, people walk right by each other. They don't even say hello, nothing, nothing. It's awkward not all the time, but a large part of the time, unless you say something you know and then they wonder what you want what's the matter with you?
Speaker 3:you never know, like in the kingdom eventually, like how even one smile or one, you know, extension of courtesy can really help someone, if someone's like having an awful day, or maybe they're at the end of their rope and they just needed to be acknowledged and validated, like I'm here, you know. So that's why, like you said, melissa, the please and thank yous and the little things really add up.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And get noticed. Exactly.
Speaker 4:Because the world speaks differently to each other.
Speaker 3:And we shouldn't be surprised. We're in this world, not of it.
Speaker 2:That's right yeah that's true, wow.
Speaker 1:So I think we originally met you guys at America's Keswick at a pastor's conference, like three years ago, I think. I don't remember when we first went.
Speaker 2:About three, four years ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then we also didn't we run into you guys at the Thrive Thrive, at Thrive, with Scott, our dear brother and sister, scott and Lynn, yes, with Scott, our dear brother and sister, scott and Lynn, yes, and so you guys are the first people. I think that we have interviewed that have been to that.
Speaker 1:Oh really, yeah, as far as that we've interviewed and you know I talk about it until I'm blue in the face, but what were your thoughts of that? If you could tell another pastor or another couple that's in ministry, what would you say to them about that?
Speaker 2:The Thrive Retreat oh yeah, I mean, it was a place to get yourself back in order. You know time of rest, get your priorities in order. You know, especially as pastors, you could be pulled here and there. You're running all over the place and they give you a basis, a foundation, where you have to. You're not being selfish, but you have to pull back the moment and and look at everything that's going around around you and make time for yourself. So I think it definitely it's stuff that we know, but it brings you back to the center like hey, are you doing this, are you taking that time, are you having that rest, or you know? And of course, I tried to implement it when I got back. I will. I will be honest, you do deviate.
Speaker 2:Now that you're saying it, I gotta remind myself to get back to it but, I do take my time, I go fishing and have my my leisure time and get away from the phone and and try not to take calls on certain day, a certain day, once a week, if I don't have to. And um, I try my best to continue doing it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I knew when I went, I, I, uh, it wasn't until day, what was it? Day two, what is it? How long is the retreat? I forget day two.
Speaker 3:What is it how?
Speaker 1:long is the retreat? I forget, is it monday to thursday or monday? Three days, right, three days, I think it's three, something like that. I, it was like this until I was, I was not. I couldn't relax till the second day uh-huh like day one I was.
Speaker 1:You know the walls are up and I'm just like, uh, it, it. But then day I started to relax a little bit. I'm like, okay, wait a second, and I've tried to implement a lot of the stuff that we learned, that we got there. And the best thing is it's not like a seminar where you're being force fed a ton of information. It's really just a place to okay, to okay, get away, relax and just focus on a few key things. Yeah, that can keep you from going off the rails and uh, with.
Speaker 4:that being said, I like that. It was intimate. There was only, you know, no more than eight to 10 couples, I think they said, and I think with us it was only eight couples. Yes, and that made it even more, you know, enjoyable, I guess, because you're getting to be able to talk to one another and actually be encouraged by one another, minister to one another and so forth. So that was nice too, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I like that part too, and you brought up a good point too, james. You know, every now and then I try to keep some of the materials and things and a book I got from that that weekend and I just try to go back through it again, because you get so caught back up into your daily routine, you know. So it's good to refresh and renew and kind of look over that stuff again, you know. You know, just kind of like the Bible, we don't read it once, you know, and put it down, we're back to it and and when I've done that, I'm reminded of some of the things that maybe kind of, you know, went away or left my mind for a minute, because it's so, you know, clouded with daily stuff, you know, and um, that was, that was a big part for us to be able to sit back, refresh, renew, relax, and I think that's something we both have a hard time doing sometimes, you know, and I'm sure with the what nine kids you guys have yeah what does that mean?
Speaker 3:relax what?
Speaker 1:is that it's, it's, it's, is it, is it? Nine kids, nine, nine right nine uh officially nine officially.
Speaker 2:We lost the sun years back.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, so there's eight here.
Speaker 2:So there's eight here, but one in eternity.
Speaker 1:Amen, wow, eight is enough.
Speaker 2:That's it.
Speaker 1:Remember that show, I watched that show.
Speaker 2:Eight is enough.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's amazing. Well, we're really glad that we were finally able to meet up with you and bring a play to you.
Speaker 2:Thank you.
Speaker 1:You know, we're just grateful to meet everybody out there. What were you going to say?
Speaker 3:No, I just was going to ask about and you probably were going to ask this next, but just about the future of their ministry. I mean, I know they have, you know, church and all that stuff. If there's anything that you guys are really focused on, is there something you have a heart for? What can we be praying for? You know that kind of direction with what you guys are doing outreach.
Speaker 4:Our, our thing is outreach.
Speaker 2:We're always in the community, so yeah, we, we try and outreach the community quite often. We're doing an event on september 6th outside worship um, a lady moody triangle. That's a place here a few blocks away from the church, so we'll be doing an outreach out there all day. Then we've been reaching out to another community about four miles from here. We had an outreach there about six weeks ago, so we're trying to get into that community, so we're just trying to minister to the community and the greater community around us. That's something you can definitely keep in prayer. We'd like to see a church start up in one of those communities not far from us, which I really think would be great and something we would hope to see happen.
Speaker 1:Amen, amen. We can pray. Anybody listening right now. If you don't know what to pray for, if you're like I don't know what to pray for, you're like I don't know what to pray for, well, you can pray for Trinity up in Brooklyn and pray for the outreaches and the Lord of the Doors, and for you know, there's a prayer request right there for you, amen. Speaking of Trinity, our dear brother Paul Mazzu. When I told him we were playing there, he was all excited and he starts telling me oh, my family, my family, and then Phil Sinclair brother, phil bass with us and Paul plays drums, and Phil plays bass, plays drums, and phil plays bass. And um they, phil, told me that that church trinity, was the the first protestant italian church in new york city or brooklyn, or something like that probably brooklyn.
Speaker 2:So right now we're celebrating 100 years this year. Wow. The church started three blocks away by a brother named Giovanni Greco yeah, greco, and he came here from North Brooklyn, okay, and there's a lot to go into the story, but anyway, he got off the bus, heard music and there's a Boy Scout troop there and he told them what he wanted to do. He started a storefront church and from there they built a church. Nice, a hundred years ago 1925, they built a church by hand and they were there and they were there and then we got this church here from the Dutch reform, from his son, emmanuel Greco, in 1979, like around there. So we've been here in this current building since then, but that church is still standing. It's a Korean Presbyterian church now, but up on top of the building almost by the roof if you were were to look it says corny island pentecostal church.
Speaker 2:I love it, yeah, so it's uh. Yeah, you know, because the italians, obviously primarily, are roman catholics, so this was like one of the first Italian Pentecostal churches, and then after that, I mean, there was a number of them at the time, but in all Italian areas throughout the country, so we actually started off as an Italian Pentecostal denomination. Wow, now we're multicultural.
Speaker 1:Yeah, nice, wow, yeah, that's fantastic man. I love the history, I love hearing the history of the church and I like to think about the old saints praying and you know us being part of the fulfillment or the answers of prayers. That happened, you know, a hundred years ago. Yeah it's amazing that type of thing. It's like wow, wow, man, this is, this is great. That building you're in is sweet too.
Speaker 3:That's fantastic beautiful yeah didn't you find a? Um? Wasn't there a picture of paul when he was a little kid?
Speaker 1:yeah, that you guys have like, um, some kind of photo albums of of church members and, yes, so we found a baby picture of pa with his brother and him His brother passed two years ago I think, and was it last year, recently, yeah, the last year or the year before. But him and yeah, like young kids, like maybe two years old or something like that Paulie.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It was just great. It was really cool to see that I think our brother Angelo, I think his mom was.
Speaker 4:Esther.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she was going there. We love her. We haven't spoken to her in a while. We need to reach out to her. But yeah, we did. What did we do? We did christmas joe at um horizon in brooklyn and esther came out and and she brought the flags and everything. Yes, yeah, and, and I was. I was playing to keep the piano, looking down, and all of a sudden I look up and in my peripheral I see flags going by and I'm like, oh, ok, all right, ok, and she was, you know, worshiping the Lord with the banners. I was like, ok, all right.
Speaker 2:She brought them out to our last street meeting. We did a Lady Moody triangle. Yeah, he brought them out to our last street meeting. We did a Lady Moody triangle. Yeah, he brought out the banners. I love it.
Speaker 1:I love it, man. I love praising God enthusiastically. Yeah, that's awesome, okay, well, yeah, that's it. We just wanted to touch base with you. Thank you for letting us come be fools for Christ.
Speaker 2:We enjoyed it. We'd like to have you back for Christmas.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll see if we can, god willing.
Speaker 3:We'll be looking at that schedule over the next week or two and I'll definitely reach out.
Speaker 1:Terrific, yeah, so God bless you guys, james and Melissa, and if anybody, there's going to be a link to their YouTube channel and their website on the show notes, so go check it out. You can actually even see the Pete play on their YouTube channel, which is cool. You guys did a fantastic job of recording it. Really, it looks and sounds good. I sent it to quite a few people and they were blessed. So thank you guys, be encouraged.
Speaker 3:Thank you, we love you guys, thank you, we'll see you soon.
Speaker 1:Yes, amen. God bless you now. Hold on, hold on.
Speaker 3:Yep, I got it.
Speaker 2:It didn't die yet I was afraid to play the video.
Speaker 1:example and now it froze froze now it froze, hello there it is okay, you froze. For a second there I heard you afraid to play the video and then all of a sudden, boom, it froze oh, it's good to see your faces.
Speaker 3:Hey, you know what j? What, james, you should pray us out.
Speaker 2:Pray you out.
Speaker 3:Yep, pray us out All right.
Speaker 2:Lord, we thank you for this time. We thank you for your grace, your mercy, we thank you for your hand upon us. We ask you, lord, to just continue to move in the ministries. Lord, god, we thank you, lord, for my God, the callings and the just different giftings, lord, that you've given to the church, and we thank you, lord, god, for praise our word, and we just pray, lord, that continue to be used for your glory and honor In Jesus' name, amen.
Speaker 3:Amen. Well, it's good to see you too.
Speaker 1:Amen, god bless you All. Right, we'll be reaching out.
Speaker 3:God bless.
