Oh, thank you.

Thank you.

What a blessing it is to be here and what a blessing it is to be here and what a blessing it is to be in Texas. I I tell you I was

here the other night when James spoke and I don't know how many times I turned to my daughter and said

I don't even think you could put that on television in New York let alone say it in New York.

What a blessing, and,

Pastor, you have been so gracious since the day that we met.

I will tell you a real quick story. I had been praying for a while,

Lord, just tell me when to get out. I'll stay here just at least tell me when to get my family out of New York.

And I started to feel his rumblings of time to go.

And I narrowed it down to several places, and Texas was the first on the list and we were

driving down the highway here and I had never heard of Gateway before and I'm driving down the highway and I look and

a real estate agent is in the back and I just see Gateway that's all it says and I

said what what is that what is gateway I thought it was a computer company or something and

the real estate agent said that's church why and I looked back at my team in the car and I said well guys I don't

know why but that plays a role and I knew this is what we were supposed to live and I don't know

I don't know exactly what we're supposed to do here, but I know we're supposed to be here.

And when I met the pastor, the guy who was driving the car the next time I was here,

the guy who was driving the car, I said, I have got to meet the pastor of that church.

And I said this out of the car and I got in and the driver said, hey, you know, I know the

pastor of Gateway, you two should meet.

About 20 minutes later we met and

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