Bue la land, I'm longing for you, and someday on thee I'll stand.

I'm David Michael Ceeley, SEALY, I pastor Sharon Bethes Church in downtown Sharon South

Carolina, population of about 600 people.

The Reverend Ceeley is 72 years old and full disclosure, aside from being a pastor with

a really good singing voice, he's also my producer Amanda Ceeley's favorite uncle.

She thought the world needed to hear him sing and to listen to his story.

Reverend Ceeley came out of retirement early this year to lead a church.

The average Sunday attendance is about 70 people, many of them senior citizens like himself.

Then came the pandemic, and with it, a warning from his cardiologist.

His exact words were, you cannot afford with your cardio problems and with your breathing

problems.

You're one handshake away from heaven with this virus.

The congregation still needed him for socially distant services, for phone calls, for letters

of encouragement, and for funerals, including several for people who died of the same virus

his doctor had warned him about.

It's rare that I do a funeral for a complete stranger.

Most of these people, I didn't just know I'm a loved one and still do, and I'm looking

forward to seeing him begin one day.

In today's episode, CNN's senior writer Thomas Lake tells the story of a singing pastor

in a small town in South Carolina who's doing what he can to honor the departed, even as

he tries to avoid becoming one of them.

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, and this is coronavirus,

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