You're listening to Baud my name is Kirby Minnick and welcome to this week's episode of the

Bot and beloved podcast. I'm so glad that y'all decided to join me here today. I don't know how you got here.

I don't know how you heard about this podcast whether it's from my social media

you know tic-talk Twitter Instagram YouTube all that which you can follow me at

Kirby is a boss but however you got here I'm so glad that that you're here today because I have an amazing guest here who is going to talk about his testimony.

And if y'all don't know my guest, Mr. John Mark Pantana, then y'all are in for an amazing treat.

John, how about you introduce yourself to my audience and let's let's cut things off.

Okay, hi, my name is John Mark Pantana. Hello, I am a Christian artist and I write music for Jesus.

I'm currently working as a roofer, believe it or not, in my hometown.

Building that house, let's go.

Yeah, I work full time for my family's roofing company

in my hometown, Lynchburg, Virginia. But how I got here was, it's an interesting

interesting story how I got here. But yeah, make music for Jesus and it's lots of fun.

Sweet, and it's so cool because John and I like this is our first time really talking and

getting to know each other just being real with y'all but what's been cool is

I've listened to his music for a good little bit now and specifically the album

that caught my attention was Love Secrets and I remember listening to that and

just being like whoa like this is a vibe and just being like, whoa, like, this is a vibe.

And this is like really just capturing the essence of worship and I really loved it.

And so when I found out that we had mutual friends and everything,

one of my friends actually reached out to me, my friend Austin, and was like, hey, I know. friends and

here we are actually reached out to me my friend Austin and was like hey I know him it was like oh sweet he's like let me get you all connected and and here we are but John I would love for you to kind of share your testimony with my audience and just the journey that God has brought you on and how he got you to basically where you are today because I know your story from what you've told me is one that is

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