to begin by sharing with you what the Lord ministered to me while I was gone.

As many of you know, God provided, as he's always so faithful to, for my family to go to

New York. And we did so for my 10 year old daughter Sabia who was invited to audition to sing

America the Beautiful at the upcoming U.S. tennis open.

This was my daughter's first time off this island, her first time on an airplane.

She was born 10 years ago at Castle, and this was her first time leaving the island.

And it was my first time leaving in two years. The last time I actually left the island

was when we went to Israel back in May of 2015. While there we visited the Brooklyn Tabernacle.

As I've shared, this was a bucket list thing as it's been referred to.

I've shared in the past how God has used Pastor Jim Symbola mightily in my life since back in the early 90s.

And more recently, not just me, but my 19-year-old firstborn son, Elias, who met Pastor

Simbola while we were there, and he was very gracious and took the time to lay hands on my son and pray for him one of the most powerful prayers I've ever heard.

I'm just weeping like a baby in the background.

It didn't help when Pastor Simbola asked Sabia to sing at the Brooklyn Tabernacle. When he asked

her I was speechless and, you know, for me to be speechless,

that's quite something. So this was Sunday after third service and he invited her to sing

Tuesday night at their prayer meeting, which we did attend and she did sing, and she

sang Kanaka-vi-vi-a-vaa-apella.

In the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Oh, and by the way way I think you know this, I've shared this, at their prayer meetings,

there are Tuesday night prayer meetings, over 3,000 people in a tent, at the prayer meeting,

the prayer meeting.

On Sunday morning, we had to stand in line to go to, I've never in my life had to stand in line

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