We're talking about Emmanuel, the with us God, and realizing that God sit his son to be a warm-blooded, human, although fully God, wearing skin and walking on bones.

I cut my teeth on the Word of God in this church, a different campus, but in this same

fellowship of believers.

I also became a worshipper at this church.

I was in my early 20s when we first started coming to First Baptist Church of Houston, Texas, and I was their very first aerobics teacher. I need you to understand how my ministry began at that time at First Baptist.

That is what threw me up in front of people for the first time.

I'd surrendered to ministry at 18 years old and had no idea.

All I knew was that he had called me.

He had made that much clear, and it was so specific.

And I wish so much I could go back and relive it to even know what

was it I sensed what there was no voice out loud there was nothing I saw but I knew I knew there was a

just a sense of the spirit of God that came upon me and I knew that my future belonged entirely to him. I didn't know what it would look

like. All I knew to do was whatever was the next thing and do it in his name. Anybody know what

I'm talking about? Just meet the next need. Well, a group of women came to me and said, we think

that you could teach aerobics. It was the huge thing. It was the early 80s and they were like, I was in my early 20s.

They were like, let's go. Let's go. I said, well, you know what? I've made this commitment

that I am only going to do what I can just like blatantly glorify God to do because I've

surrendered my life to ministry. So somehow it's got to become blatant ministry.

Well, at that same time, there was Stephen Curtis Chapman and Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith

and all sorts of people like that that were beginning this huge movement that became Christian contemporary music.

And so I put all of that to choreography that I made up myself. And I'm going to tell

you that there are some women in this room that were in that class. And listen, this thing went on

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