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Oh my soul, I'll worship your holy name, bless the Lord.

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So bless the Lord, oh my soul, oh my soul, worship his holy name.

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Sing like never before, oh my soul, I'll worship your holy name.

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The sun comes up, it's a new day dawning.

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It's time to sing your song again, whatever may pass and whatever lies before me, let

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me be singing when the evening comes.

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So bless the Lord, oh my soul, oh my soul, worship his holy name.

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Sing like never before, oh my soul, I'll worship your holy name.

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You're rich in love and you're slow to anger.

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Your name is great and your heart is kind.

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For all your goodness, I will keep on singing.

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Ten thousand reasons for my heart to find.

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So bless the Lord, oh my soul, oh my soul, worship his holy name.

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Sing like never before, oh my soul, I'll worship your holy name.

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Bless the Lord, so bless the Lord, oh my soul, oh my soul, worship his holy name.

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Sing like never before, oh my soul, I'll worship your holy name.

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And on that day when my strength is failing, the end draws near and my time has come.

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Still my soul will sing your grace unending.

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Ten thousand years and then forevermore, forevermore.

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So bless the Lord, oh my soul, oh my soul, worship his holy name.

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So sing like never before, oh my soul, I'll worship your holy name.

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I will worship your holy name.

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I will worship your holy name.

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Your holy name

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Holy name

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Holy name

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Amazing grace

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How sweet the sound

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That saved a wretch like me

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And I once was lost

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But now I'm found

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Was blind but now I see

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T'was grace that taught

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And grace my fears relieved

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How precious did

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That grace appear

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The hour I first believed

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Oh Lord, I first believed

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The Lord has promised

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His word my hope secures

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He will my shield

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As long as life endures

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Yea when this flesh

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A life of joy and peace

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When we've been there

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Ten thousand years

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Bright shining as the sun

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We've no less days

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To sing God's praise

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Oh, amazing grace, sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.

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I once was lost, but now I'm found, was blind, but now I see.

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In John 11, it says, Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life.

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The one who believes in me will live, even though they die.

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And whoever lives by believing in me will never die.

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Do you believe this?

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Father, we thank you that you are the resurrection and the life.

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That even if we die, our earthly bodies on this earth, Father, we know that we have eternal

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life because you promised us that.

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So we thank you in this weird moment of loss, Father, that you are life.

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For whoever believes in you will live, even if they die.

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So Father, we thank you this night.

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We thank you for who you are.

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We thank you for what you are doing on this earth and for who you are on this earth.

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And we thank you for the life that comes after this, that this is just a dressing room for

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eternity.

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Yeah, we love you, we adore you, and we thank you.

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Amen.

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Free to sit down again.

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This might be an emotional night for some, I know, I just, I've been, I've been feeling

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it this week, for sure.

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And that's okay.

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That's okay to feel.

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We're gonna actually get to see something on the screen, a video that will, just some

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bits and pieces of Guido and who he was.

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So just lean back and remember who he was and, yeah.

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What's up, my name's Guido Guidi.

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You were born for great faith.

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You were designed for it.

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Everything about you is designed and wired to recognize God and to hear God.

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Everything about you, all of your senses, your entire creation, what God made you, he

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could do no better.

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When he made Adam and Eve, it was the high point of his creation.

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He could not improve upon his creation.

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And everything about us, our emotional life, intellectual life, our senses, sight, sound,

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smell, taste, touch, all these senses were actually given to us to be tools that we used

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to discover him.

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Praise Him from whom all blessings flow.

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Praise Him of riches given low.

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Praise Him above the heavenly host.

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Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

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We sing Amen.

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We sing Amen.

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We sing Amen.

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We sing Amen.

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A friend of mine invited me to church.

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And while we're at this church, we see this guy.

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And he looks exactly like this member from Korn.

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The bassist, Fieldy.

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And I was like, dude, I think that's this guy, Fieldy.

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And my friend was like, dude, why would he be at church?

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And I was like, yeah, good point.

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It's probably not him.

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Well, the guy walked past me, and I knew it was him.

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So I was able to go outside and talk to him for a little bit.

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And I was just like, dude, why would you come to church?

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And he was like, I love Jesus.

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And I just, that, he got to, I got to spend like five minutes with him.

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But after that, I just started thinking.

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I was like, this guy has the ability to have all the money, all the girls, all the drugs.

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Like everything that I thought was going to bring me happiness in my life.

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And he's choosing Jesus.

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And I knew I was never going to achieve that level, you know, of freedom in my life.

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Because I thought that's what was going to bring me freedom.

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Was all the drugs I could do without having to go to jail.

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And so that helped me to just really think like maybe there is something to this Jesus thing.

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I was invited to another church.

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When I went to that church, it was a charismatic church.

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And I had never been to one of those.

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I get there, and I'm just like, oh, my God.

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Like some of the weirdest people I've ever met in my life.

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People are just like hands up.

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They're dancing around.

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They're doing all this stuff.

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And I was just, oh, my God.

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Like I cannot be here.

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Like these people are tripping me out right now.

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But I just knew I needed something.

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And I knew there must be something to this Jesus.

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While I was at this church, I got a lot of encouragement.

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I was able to start feeling loved.

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And while I was there, I was able to move in with a family.

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And I had gotten to go to a couple conferences.

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And at these conferences, there are just thousands and thousands of people loving Jesus.

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And I just would feel so amazing while I was there.

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But then after it would be over, I would kind of just be stuck in my head again.

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And I was like, man, I just wish there was something like these conferences that happen all the time.

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And a friend of mine was like, yeah, there's this school, BSSM.

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And at BSSM, it's kind of like a never-ending conference.

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And I was like, oh, my God, that's what I need.

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So I was able to go through the application process.

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And I got accepted.

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And that may not sound like anything to you.

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But for me, I've never been accepted to anything but basically jail and rehabs.

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And I was accepted to this school.

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And while I was at this school, just God has showed up in so many ways.

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Highlight.

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I won!

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It's actually kind of good.

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I love the look.

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Can I do it?

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Yeah, come on down.

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I feel like I can no longer stand.

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I would have stayed a little longer, held on a little tighter.

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Now, would I give for one more day with you?

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Because there's a wound here in my heart where something's missing.

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And they tell me that it's gonna heal with time.

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But I know you're in a place where all your wounds have been erased.

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And knowing yours are healed is healing mine.

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The only scars in heaven.

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♪ Don't belong to me and you ♪

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♪ There'll be no such thing as broken ♪

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♪ And all the old will be made new ♪

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♪ And the thought that makes me smile now ♪

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♪ Even as the tears fall down ♪

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♪ Is that the only scars in heaven ♪

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♪ Are on the hands that hold you now ♪

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♪ I know the road you walked was anything but easy ♪

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♪ You picked up your share of scars along the way ♪

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♪ But now you're standing in the sun ♪

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♪ You fought, you fight, and your race is run ♪

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♪ The pain is all a million miles away ♪

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♪ Joyful, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

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♪ Joyful, today, today ♪

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♪ Said I woke up to the summer shining through ♪

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♪ Calling all my friends asking what's the mood ♪

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♪ Feeling a little different, I'm on something new ♪

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♪ Joyful, today, today ♪

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♪ I ain't gonna let no clouds get in my way ♪

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♪ The only road I'm walking is the one I pick ♪

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♪ Catch me sitting in the sun, no time for shade ♪

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♪ Today, today, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪

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♪ This is the day that the Lord has made, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪

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♪ And I ain't gonna let it slip away ♪

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♪ I'm gonna be joyful, yes, I am, yes, I am ♪

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♪ Joyful, today, today ♪

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♪ I'm gonna be joyful, joyful, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪

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♪ I'm gonna be, I'm gonna, gonna be joyful today, today ♪

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♪ I got that feeling that you get when you get new kicks ♪

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♪ Bell ringing on the last day of singing, yeah ♪

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♪ High-fiving everybody, but we outta here today, today ♪

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♪ So fast, life comes and goes ♪

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♪ Make it last, best slow your road ♪

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♪ They don't take it as a choice, but you gotta know that ♪

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♪ Today's the day, ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪

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♪ This is the day that the Lord has made, ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪

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♪ And I ain't gonna let it slip away, nah. ♪

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♪ I'm gonna be joyful, joyful, ooh, ooh, ooh, gonna be. ♪

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♪ I'm gonna be joyful, joyful, today, today ♪

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♪ I'm gonna be joyful, joyful, yes I am, yes I am. ♪

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♪ I'm gonna be joyful, joyful, today, today. ♪

332
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Also, I'll share this with you.

333
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So we had a 13 hour prayer night

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from Thursday night till Friday morning.

335
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And so I, someone texted me at like midnight

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and was like, hey, you should really come, God's showing up.

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And I just happened to wake up like around 1231

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to use the bathroom.

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So I was just like, oh, I don't wanna go.

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And then God was like, really?

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And I was like, okay, God, if you're really moving,

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like I, for sure, of course.

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I just, you know, sometimes people say things

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and then it's just like, I don't know, but whatever.

345
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So I go there and around like two,

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between maybe two and three in the morning,

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dude, this fricking like glory cloud thing shows up.

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It was the craziest thing I've ever seen.

349
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You could feel his presence.

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I've never felt it so amazing and beautiful.

351
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And there were all these little feathers,

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like snow particle looking things,

353
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just floating around, like circulating,

354
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but they were more going up instead of falling down.

355
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Craziest thing I ever saw.

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All right, hope you're having a good day, bye, or night.

357
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I don't know what time it is there.

358
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I don't know about you, but there wasn't a,

359
00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:18.120
don't think it was a picture up there

360
00:34:18.120 --> 00:34:19.480
where Guido wasn't smiling.

361
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Oh, I miss that guy.

362
00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:30.960
You know, seeing that, just kind of,

363
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he was such an amazing guy.

364
00:34:32.460 --> 00:34:36.760
And I know, I know him for the part of,

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I think I got to know him when, about 2017.

366
00:34:40.420 --> 00:34:43.860
So I've only known him for the last four years of his life.

367
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But this was my experience of him.

368
00:34:47.580 --> 00:34:49.300
This was who he was.

369
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And my experience of him through school,

370
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and I know, of course he had his ups and downs,

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but there was always that, Guido with that spark.

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spark in his eye, always up to something mischievous.

373
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There was always a prank coming, you could feel it.

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He would jump up and scare you or say something funny,

375
00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:13.920
but I thought I'd just share a little bit

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of my experience with Guido,

377
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because to be honest, that's all I can share.

378
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I can share about my interactions with him

379
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and who he was to me,

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and then just share a little bit

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what actually scriptures is saying about where he is now.

382
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As I said, I always remember,

383
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he always had a smile on his face.

384
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The first time I met him, he had a smile on his face.

385
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Coming into second year of ministry school,

386
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not really knowing what was gonna happen

387
00:35:44.280 --> 00:35:46.600
or who he was gonna meet or he never knew me,

388
00:35:46.600 --> 00:35:50.760
but he had the smile on his face and I knew this guy,

389
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I'm gonna like getting to know this guy.

390
00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:56.560
And if you've had any interactions with Guido,

391
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you always know he's always the first one

392
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to volunteer to help.

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He's always the first one to stack chairs.

394
00:36:03.120 --> 00:36:04.920
He's always the last one in the room

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to help clean up something or just help you carry something.

396
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That's the Guido that I knew.

397
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Guido came into my life as a student,

398
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but he became a friend.

399
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He became a friend to me, my wife, and my family,

400
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and he got to know my daughter.

401
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My son wasn't born at the time,

402
00:36:26.640 --> 00:36:30.160
but when he came into our life, he got to know my daughter.

403
00:36:30.160 --> 00:36:33.240
And Guido was great with kids.

404
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He's always great with kids.

405
00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:39.000
He always got down on their level, looked them in the eye,

406
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and he would always persuade them to play with him.

407
00:36:43.200 --> 00:36:45.240
And my daughter doesn't play with anyone.

408
00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:47.400
She plays with a lot of people,

409
00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:49.200
but not everyone gets to play with her.

410
00:36:49.200 --> 00:36:51.880
But Guido, he came right in.

411
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And what we saw a lot about Pierre,

412
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especially at the end part,

413
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obviously Guido, Guido loved the Lord.

414
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If you've had any interactions with him,

415
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you know that his life wasn't always that way.

416
00:37:07.520 --> 00:37:12.520
He had a good two decades of the Lord

417
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coming in and out of his life

418
00:37:15.560 --> 00:37:17.760
and him not necessarily always choosing him

419
00:37:17.760 --> 00:37:19.640
and struggling with addiction.

420
00:37:20.560 --> 00:37:21.840
But about six and a half years ago,

421
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his life took a turn for the better.

422
00:37:25.480 --> 00:37:30.480
And so many people have been touched through his life,

423
00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:35.320
through his smile, through his prayers,

424
00:37:35.320 --> 00:37:40.320
through his testimony, through his just, his awe of God.

425
00:37:40.440 --> 00:37:41.880
I remember having team meetings

426
00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:44.800
when he was one of my interns,

427
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one of my third year students.

428
00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:48.240
And he would come in and he would be so excited

429
00:37:48.240 --> 00:37:50.720
because he just realized something new about God.

430
00:37:50.720 --> 00:37:52.360
He just read something new in the Bible

431
00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:53.920
that he'd never read before,

432
00:37:53.920 --> 00:37:55.920
or he heard something that, God is this,

433
00:37:55.920 --> 00:37:57.560
guys, did you know this?

434
00:37:57.560 --> 00:37:59.240
And he was just, he was like a kid,

435
00:37:59.240 --> 00:38:01.680
just getting excited about things

436
00:38:01.680 --> 00:38:04.040
that was very foundational,

437
00:38:04.040 --> 00:38:08.000
but that actually got to me so many times.

438
00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:08.960
Things that for me is like,

439
00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:11.000
yeah, I've heard that a million times.

440
00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:12.120
But then Guido came in and was like,

441
00:38:12.120 --> 00:38:13.400
have you read this?

442
00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:14.640
Have you heard this?

443
00:38:14.640 --> 00:38:16.960
And we're like, it doesn't feel like I have to

444
00:38:16.960 --> 00:38:18.280
when you say it that way.

445
00:38:20.240 --> 00:38:21.720
Guido has something about himself,

446
00:38:21.720 --> 00:38:24.880
of the honesty, the raw honesty,

447
00:38:24.880 --> 00:38:27.640
and just the authenticity that he carried.

448
00:38:27.640 --> 00:38:29.160
He was just himself.

449
00:38:29.160 --> 00:38:31.000
Highs and lows, he was himself.

450
00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:33.160
You could always count on that Guido was himself

451
00:38:33.160 --> 00:38:34.080
in any setting.

452
00:38:36.360 --> 00:38:40.660
But Guido wasn't first and foremost a minister

453
00:38:40.660 --> 00:38:43.440
or someone that was a student.

454
00:38:43.440 --> 00:38:46.160
Guido was first and foremost a brother,

455
00:38:46.160 --> 00:38:48.400
a son, and a friend.

456
00:38:50.120 --> 00:38:53.560
He was someone that wanted to relate to you

457
00:38:53.560 --> 00:38:57.140
and wanted to meet you at your level

458
00:38:57.140 --> 00:38:58.520
and understand you.

459
00:38:58.520 --> 00:39:01.200
Guido was always curious, in my experience.

460
00:39:01.200 --> 00:39:03.360
He was always curious, always wanted to know,

461
00:39:03.360 --> 00:39:08.240
always had questions, always, his mom would know.

462
00:39:13.040 --> 00:39:15.680
I've seen Guido laugh.

463
00:39:15.680 --> 00:39:16.680
I think we all have.

464
00:39:16.680 --> 00:39:18.160
But I've also seen Guido cry.

465
00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:22.640
I've seen him take in of the realities of life

466
00:39:22.640 --> 00:39:27.640
and people not necessarily responding

467
00:39:27.800 --> 00:39:30.440
the way he wanted people to respond.

468
00:39:30.440 --> 00:39:31.760
Or when he prayed for someone

469
00:39:31.760 --> 00:39:34.200
and they didn't get what he prayed for.

470
00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:40.520
Guido had a lot of empathy, and I love that about him.

471
00:39:41.520 --> 00:39:45.920
There were moments where Guido came,

472
00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:50.600
and at the time when we met pretty much on a daily basis

473
00:39:50.600 --> 00:39:53.680
as he was a student, asked for advice.

474
00:39:54.600 --> 00:39:56.080
And it wasn't always about ministry.

475
00:39:56.080 --> 00:39:57.520
It was a lot of times.

476
00:39:57.520 --> 00:39:59.720
But so many more times it was about family.

477
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.640
it was about relationships, it was about how do I dream, how do I think,

478
00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:10.080
what should I dream, what's appropriate, how far can I go?

479
00:40:12.080 --> 00:40:16.640
He always had those questions and I always got to encourage him, hey, Guido, you can go as far as

480
00:40:16.640 --> 00:40:24.160
you want, there's no limits for you. And I remember the time when he was asked to go to Biola and

481
00:40:24.960 --> 00:40:30.800
and speak, Biola University, and he came to me, he's like, I don't know if I can do this,

482
00:40:30.800 --> 00:40:36.000
I've never done anything like this before. I'm like, bro, you got what it takes,

483
00:40:36.720 --> 00:40:41.360
you just open your mouth and share what God has done in your life and you're good. He's like,

484
00:40:41.360 --> 00:40:48.320
sure, yeah, yeah, sure, go for it, just go for it, take a risk. He went and he came back buzzing,

485
00:40:48.320 --> 00:40:55.680
because he'd done just that, he was himself, he just started sharing and he's like, they want me

486
00:40:55.680 --> 00:40:59.280
back, they want me to come back. I'm like, there you go, I told you it was going to go well.

487
00:41:01.200 --> 00:41:05.440
But there was something about Guido, when he just started sharing about

488
00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:08.720
the things that he was passionate about, it just started spreading.

489
00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:14.800
He ministered to a lot of people that most of us probably wouldn't even say hi to.

490
00:41:16.240 --> 00:41:19.440
He loved people on the street, he loved people in misery,

491
00:41:21.520 --> 00:41:30.640
he helped people and always went another round. I remember being, traveling a little bit with him and

492
00:41:31.440 --> 00:41:34.880
always walking down the street, he was always stopping, like,

493
00:41:35.120 --> 00:41:37.280
always walking down the street, he was always stopping,

494
00:41:38.160 --> 00:41:42.080
like, always stopping talking to someone, always stopping helping someone, always

495
00:41:42.080 --> 00:41:45.120
stopping and giving someone some money, helping them.

496
00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:55.680
This is the Guido I remember, the Guido I learned to love. But Guido was just like you and me,

497
00:41:56.880 --> 00:42:02.080
he had his struggles, he had his ups and downs, he had his bad days, just like you and me.

498
00:42:02.640 --> 00:42:04.640
And sometimes his whole life came knocking and

499
00:42:06.960 --> 00:42:15.440
tried to remind him of the past. And I can only imagine the things that

500
00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:18.880
that he might have gone through in those moments.

501
00:42:20.640 --> 00:42:26.160
But he always had Jesus, he always had the strength, he always had the strength to love.

502
00:42:32.720 --> 00:42:39.840
I feel a void when Guido's not here anymore. I think all you in here feel the same way.

503
00:42:41.520 --> 00:42:47.200
I miss him. We didn't interact a lot over the last months of his life,

504
00:42:48.640 --> 00:42:51.440
but even seeing this video and even thinking and talking about him,

505
00:42:52.400 --> 00:43:00.720
like, I miss him, I miss that smile. I miss hearing all this latest adventure or his next dream.

506
00:43:03.040 --> 00:43:06.640
Or his current frustration about something. That was also Guido.

507
00:43:08.960 --> 00:43:14.160
He was always frustrated about the injustices. Justice was important.

508
00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:24.240
But as I was just praying about tonight and thinking about what I was wanting to share

509
00:43:24.240 --> 00:43:31.280
with you guys, I just started reading in scripture what the Bible is actually saying about

510
00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:38.560
what happens to us when we leave this earth. And I just wanted to read a few verses to you.

511
00:43:40.240 --> 00:43:43.520
And then we're going to move into the next part of this night. But

512
00:43:48.560 --> 00:43:55.040
this applies to Guido. Romans 8 38. For I am convinced that neither death nor life,

513
00:43:55.840 --> 00:43:59.600
neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future,

514
00:43:59.600 --> 00:44:04.880
nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation,

515
00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:09.600
will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

516
00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:17.280
Guido knew this because he gave his life to Jesus. He lived this.

517
00:44:22.640 --> 00:44:29.040
And I was just thinking about him today as I was praying. And it's easy to think about

518
00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:36.320
the passing and that he's not here. But all of a sudden, God started to show me, hey,

519
00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:41.520
do you actually know where he is right now? Do you know what he's doing right now?

520
00:44:42.400 --> 00:44:47.760
And I just started picturing him standing in front of God with that big smile on his face.

521
00:44:48.720 --> 00:44:55.600
And there's no struggles. There's no worries. There's nothing that is anywhere near the frustrations.

522
00:44:55.600 --> 00:44:58.240
He is where he was created to be.

523
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:00.840
to be.

524
00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:04.380
The ultimate goal is with God,

525
00:45:04.380 --> 00:45:06.200
and that's where he is right now.

526
00:45:06.200 --> 00:45:07.840
And he's enjoying it.

527
00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:09.560
Let me tell you, he's enjoying it.

528
00:45:10.960 --> 00:45:12.160
He's having a good time.

529
00:45:16.560 --> 00:45:18.720
Jesus paid the price for Guido,

530
00:45:18.720 --> 00:45:20.280
as he said in John 3.16,

531
00:45:20.280 --> 00:45:23.520
for God so loved the world that he gave his only son,

532
00:45:23.520 --> 00:45:25.920
that whoever believes in him shall not perish,

533
00:45:25.920 --> 00:45:27.180
but have eternal life.

534
00:45:28.180 --> 00:45:30.240
Guido has eternal life.

535
00:45:31.340 --> 00:45:33.740
And there's nothing in this world

536
00:45:35.300 --> 00:45:36.680
that has greater consequence

537
00:45:36.680 --> 00:45:39.020
than actually us giving our life to Jesus,

538
00:45:39.020 --> 00:45:41.860
because that has eternal value and eternal purpose.

539
00:45:43.700 --> 00:45:44.740
And Guido made that choice,

540
00:45:44.740 --> 00:45:46.240
and he gave his life to Jesus.

541
00:45:48.060 --> 00:45:51.880
Because of that, he's with him right now.

542
00:45:54.060 --> 00:45:55.960
Yeah, praise Jesus.

543
00:45:56.960 --> 00:45:58.720
So as I was praying about this

544
00:45:58.720 --> 00:46:01.740
and actually thinking about Guido, missing him still,

545
00:46:02.960 --> 00:46:06.440
and his death feels like an injustice and a theft,

546
00:46:06.440 --> 00:46:07.280
to be honest,

547
00:46:09.800 --> 00:46:11.160
these verses came to mind.

548
00:46:16.240 --> 00:46:19.520
Death has been swallowed up in victory.

549
00:46:19.520 --> 00:46:22.040
Where, O death, is your victory?

550
00:46:22.040 --> 00:46:23.980
Where, O death, is your sting?

551
00:46:26.960 --> 00:46:29.240
Guido chose life.

552
00:46:31.280 --> 00:46:33.720
And even in death, he lives.

553
00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:40.680
And I read this as I closed worship,

554
00:46:41.800 --> 00:46:43.400
and I'm gonna read it to you as,

555
00:46:46.480 --> 00:46:48.320
John 11.25.

556
00:46:48.320 --> 00:46:49.160
Jesus said to her,

557
00:46:49.160 --> 00:46:51.480
I am the resurrection and the life.

558
00:46:51.480 --> 00:46:54.480
The one who believes in me will live, even though they die.

559
00:46:54.520 --> 00:46:58.880
And whoever lives by believing in me will never die.

560
00:46:59.840 --> 00:47:01.040
Do you believe this?

561
00:47:02.320 --> 00:47:03.960
And I think if Guido was here tonight,

562
00:47:03.960 --> 00:47:07.680
he would read that verse and ask you the same thing.

563
00:47:07.680 --> 00:47:09.240
Do you actually believe that?

564
00:47:09.240 --> 00:47:10.320
Do you believe in him?

565
00:47:12.160 --> 00:47:13.360
He would tell you his story,

566
00:47:13.360 --> 00:47:14.200
and he would say,

567
00:47:14.200 --> 00:47:16.640
this is the best decision I've made in my life.

568
00:47:16.640 --> 00:47:17.640
He was all about it.

569
00:47:17.720 --> 00:47:20.720
Guido is where he was created to be right now,

570
00:47:22.720 --> 00:47:24.520
and he's having the time of his life.

571
00:47:27.560 --> 00:47:29.680
I'm just seeing him sitting with Jesus,

572
00:47:29.680 --> 00:47:30.960
just cracking jokes.

573
00:47:34.120 --> 00:47:35.120
I think he is,

574
00:47:35.120 --> 00:47:38.440
and I think Jesus is laughing the deep belly laugh

575
00:47:38.440 --> 00:47:39.280
that he can do.

576
00:47:43.320 --> 00:47:45.840
And I'm gonna read this to you as I close worship.

577
00:47:48.640 --> 00:47:50.000
Punch your kids and dogs.

578
00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:51.240
He loved dogs.

579
00:47:51.240 --> 00:47:52.520
Yes, that's true.

580
00:47:56.960 --> 00:47:59.000
Guido has his time of his life right now.

581
00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:04.240
Guido left us way too early,

582
00:48:05.280 --> 00:48:06.320
way too early,

583
00:48:09.200 --> 00:48:11.680
by something that came knocking from his old life.

584
00:48:14.960 --> 00:48:17.320
The addiction that he won over,

585
00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:18.840
or Jesus won over,

586
00:48:18.840 --> 00:48:19.680
came and knocked on the door

587
00:48:19.680 --> 00:48:21.800
and actually, sadly, took his life.

588
00:48:24.960 --> 00:48:28.040
That's where it feels like a theft and an injustice in this.

589
00:48:32.040 --> 00:48:32.880
But,

590
00:48:34.880 --> 00:48:36.360
death, where is your sting?

591
00:48:38.520 --> 00:48:39.840
Where is your victory?

592
00:48:42.920 --> 00:48:44.280
When death thought it won,

593
00:48:44.280 --> 00:48:45.640
it was a victory for God.

594
00:48:47.640 --> 00:48:49.840
Guido is having the time of his life

595
00:48:49.840 --> 00:48:52.440
with the dogs and the kids and the angels and Jesus,

596
00:48:52.440 --> 00:48:57.440
and having all the food that he can muster.

597
00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:01.720
I don't know how he had the body figures

598
00:49:01.720 --> 00:49:03.880
that he had with all that he ate.

599
00:49:03.880 --> 00:49:04.720
I guess he worked out.

600
00:49:04.720 --> 00:49:05.560
I was also jealous of him.

601
00:49:05.560 --> 00:49:09.560
He could eat whatever and didn't change a gram on his body.

602
00:49:10.560 --> 00:49:13.560
Guido was and is a beautiful human being

603
00:49:13.560 --> 00:49:15.240
that is in a place right now

604
00:49:16.320 --> 00:49:17.920
where we all get to go one day.

605
00:49:19.520 --> 00:49:20.360
But,

606
00:49:24.320 --> 00:49:26.080
I wanna suggest for a moment,

607
00:49:26.080 --> 00:49:28.040
if you would just wanna close your eyes,

608
00:49:31.560 --> 00:49:34.800
I just wanna thank God for Guido's life in prayer.

609
00:49:34.920 --> 00:49:36.840
So, Father, I thank you for Guido.

610
00:49:36.840 --> 00:49:39.400
I thank you for the one that you created him

611
00:49:39.400 --> 00:49:41.160
and the image of you.

612
00:49:41.160 --> 00:49:43.000
Thank you for all the memories,

613
00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:45.960
all the joy that we've had with him.

614
00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:49.560
Even the heartaches and the moments of trouble

615
00:49:49.560 --> 00:49:52.240
that we've been, we still had him.

616
00:49:52.240 --> 00:49:55.080
But, no, now you have him fully where you are, God.

617
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.480
God, so we ask Father that you would just come

618
00:50:05.040 --> 00:50:06.440
and you see those who mourn,

619
00:50:06.440 --> 00:50:08.560
I ask that you come in comfort.

620
00:50:08.560 --> 00:50:10.740
I ask that you would just come and remind us

621
00:50:10.740 --> 00:50:12.120
of the beauty of his life

622
00:50:13.240 --> 00:50:15.980
and the beauty of who he is and who he was

623
00:50:15.980 --> 00:50:19.800
and how he touched our lives individually

624
00:50:19.800 --> 00:50:21.640
in different ways and shapes, Father.

625
00:50:23.040 --> 00:50:27.880
And I thank you that we get to celebrate his life

626
00:50:27.960 --> 00:50:30.480
and remember him and celebrate who he was.

627
00:50:32.640 --> 00:50:35.340
Yeah, in Jesus' name, amen.

628
00:50:38.320 --> 00:50:40.800
We're gonna do this now.

629
00:50:40.800 --> 00:50:44.560
We're gonna hear a little bit from Guta's sister

630
00:50:44.560 --> 00:50:48.160
in just a moment and some other people

631
00:50:48.160 --> 00:50:51.520
that were close to him during his time here.

632
00:50:51.520 --> 00:50:53.240
And then we're actually gonna take a moment,

633
00:50:53.240 --> 00:50:54.800
if there is someone in here,

634
00:50:54.800 --> 00:50:56.480
you have something that,

635
00:50:56.480 --> 00:50:58.040
hey, a memory that you would wanna share

636
00:50:58.040 --> 00:51:00.640
or something, a thought about Guido,

637
00:51:00.640 --> 00:51:03.040
then we're gonna have a little bit of an open mic up here.

638
00:51:03.040 --> 00:51:04.440
And we're gonna take a moment

639
00:51:06.320 --> 00:51:08.280
for you to share if you want to.

640
00:51:10.400 --> 00:51:11.800
But before we get to that part,

641
00:51:11.800 --> 00:51:15.360
I'm gonna invite Robin up here and share a little bit.

642
00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:17.600
So welcome up, Robin.

643
00:51:19.320 --> 00:51:20.160
Thank you.

644
00:51:20.160 --> 00:51:21.000
Thank you.

645
00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:21.840
Thank you.

646
00:51:25.120 --> 00:51:26.480
Hello.

647
00:51:26.480 --> 00:51:27.400
Oh, goodness.

648
00:51:27.400 --> 00:51:30.080
I'm not used to talking in a mic, so bear with me.

649
00:51:32.520 --> 00:51:34.580
I've got something that I'm gonna read.

650
00:51:39.760 --> 00:51:42.160
First of all, I think we're all motivated

651
00:51:42.160 --> 00:51:43.120
by different things.

652
00:51:43.120 --> 00:51:44.960
And some things, it's strange how one thing

653
00:51:44.960 --> 00:51:48.200
can motivate one person and not another person.

654
00:51:48.200 --> 00:51:50.460
But I was motivated.

655
00:51:50.860 --> 00:51:52.860
I had a conversation, it was a tough conversation

656
00:51:52.860 --> 00:51:54.900
with somebody who was really feeling raw.

657
00:51:55.940 --> 00:51:58.580
But it led me to go to sleep that night

658
00:51:58.580 --> 00:52:00.860
and then wake up and I just still had thoughts

659
00:52:01.900 --> 00:52:03.240
that were just going through my head.

660
00:52:03.240 --> 00:52:04.940
And so I just, I've kind of felt that nudge

661
00:52:04.940 --> 00:52:05.780
to get up and write.

662
00:52:05.780 --> 00:52:07.540
And this isn't something that I normally do,

663
00:52:07.540 --> 00:52:08.980
but this is where I was at.

664
00:52:10.500 --> 00:52:11.340
So,

665
00:52:13.860 --> 00:52:16.300
my brother's life has been used.

666
00:52:16.300 --> 00:52:17.220
Can you hear me okay?

667
00:52:17.220 --> 00:52:19.280
Because I know I'm pulling the mic, okay.

668
00:52:19.320 --> 00:52:22.280
My brother's life has been used for great things.

669
00:52:22.280 --> 00:52:26.140
When I say this, it's easy to skip over his life.

670
00:52:26.140 --> 00:52:28.840
Many of you here only know Guido's life

671
00:52:28.840 --> 00:52:32.600
when he was clean and didn't know him before.

672
00:52:32.600 --> 00:52:34.960
Yes, I'm sure you have heard his testimony

673
00:52:34.960 --> 00:52:38.160
and heard snotted bits of his life before being clean.

674
00:52:39.360 --> 00:52:41.380
Guido's life was a full life.

675
00:52:42.560 --> 00:52:45.880
His life had years of pain and turmoil.

676
00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:48.600
Our life as children was not an easy life,

677
00:52:48.600 --> 00:52:50.160
but it was the life we knew.

678
00:52:51.220 --> 00:52:53.780
During these difficult years,

679
00:52:54.640 --> 00:52:57.920
there were many times we were protected or shielded.

680
00:52:57.920 --> 00:53:00.920
And I've come to see this as God's holding,

681
00:53:00.920 --> 00:53:03.080
comforting and protecting our soul.

682
00:53:04.480 --> 00:53:08.320
I can tell you, I always could see how gifted Guido was,

683
00:53:08.320 --> 00:53:12.760
the potential he had, how easy some things were for him.

684
00:53:12.760 --> 00:53:15.120
But I can also say that some things

685
00:53:15.120 --> 00:53:18.440
that were so easy for me, weren't for him.

686
00:53:19.280 --> 00:53:21.520
We all have gifts that are unique to each of us.

687
00:53:21.520 --> 00:53:23.000
Use your gifts.

688
00:53:23.000 --> 00:53:25.200
Don't try to be like somebody else

689
00:53:25.200 --> 00:53:27.640
because you're you and uniquely made.

690
00:53:27.640 --> 00:53:30.100
You are you because of the life that you,

691
00:53:31.840 --> 00:53:34.560
your life, you are you because of you

692
00:53:34.560 --> 00:53:36.200
and the life that you have lived.

693
00:53:39.320 --> 00:53:43.940
When my brother got clean, I was so excited.

694
00:53:45.380 --> 00:53:47.800
These last six and a half years have been such a gift

695
00:53:47.840 --> 00:53:51.780
to see how his entire life was used for great things.

696
00:53:51.780 --> 00:53:53.040
Because of the life he lived,

697
00:53:53.040 --> 00:53:55.600
it was so easy for him to do some things

698
00:53:55.600 --> 00:53:57.640
and also difficult to do others.

699
00:53:58.880 --> 00:54:02.000
When Guido met Becca, he was so happy.

700
00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:04.080
He was content and at peace.

701
00:54:04.080 --> 00:54:06.140
My mom and I came down for their wedding.

702
00:54:07.120 --> 00:54:10.760
This was the happiest we had ever seen him.

703
00:54:10.760 --> 00:54:13.200
We loved Becca instantly.

704
00:54:13.200 --> 00:54:15.440
And they were so at ease with each other.

705
00:54:15.440 --> 00:54:18.000
I was so excited to see what was next.

706
00:54:19.240 --> 00:54:22.120
Now, what came next surprised me

707
00:54:22.120 --> 00:54:24.080
and anyone that was close to him.

708
00:54:24.080 --> 00:54:26.160
But this was not a surprise to God

709
00:54:26.160 --> 00:54:29.120
since he already knew this union would lead him home.

710
00:54:30.680 --> 00:54:33.920
When I said early on that Guido's life

711
00:54:33.920 --> 00:54:37.040
had a lot of pain and turmoil, it did.

712
00:54:37.040 --> 00:54:39.440
Guido was in the best place of his life

713
00:54:39.440 --> 00:54:41.880
and had been for a long time.

714
00:54:41.880 --> 00:54:45.320
At this time, he had dealt with, he had processed,

715
00:54:46.160 --> 00:54:48.020
he had forgave, he had healed everything

716
00:54:48.020 --> 00:54:49.520
that he could see at the time.

717
00:54:50.500 --> 00:54:54.600
But Guido had never been in a true intimate relationship.

718
00:54:54.600 --> 00:54:57.680
Yes, he had plenty of sexual relations in his life,

719
00:54:57.680 --> 00:54:59.320
but not one based on love.

720
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.440
I've often thought of life in layers like an onion.

721
00:55:04.440 --> 00:55:09.780
We get through one layer to then start the next layer of experiences until we eventually

722
00:55:09.780 --> 00:55:12.920
reach the core.

723
00:55:12.920 --> 00:55:16.240
This core was the final step for Guido's life here.

724
00:55:16.240 --> 00:55:19.000
I never expected it to end so soon.

725
00:55:19.000 --> 00:55:25.280
I saw it as the beginning to so much more, but this wasn't the case.

726
00:55:25.280 --> 00:55:29.560
Guido lived a full life and touched thousands of people.

727
00:55:29.560 --> 00:55:34.860
He loved and embraced life, and I look forward to hearing how he touched your life.

728
00:55:34.860 --> 00:55:42.080
Remember that we all make a difference, and we are uniquely made, so be you.

729
00:55:42.080 --> 00:55:48.120
One of the other things that I'm just going to share on a tidbit here is there's a lot

730
00:55:48.120 --> 00:55:52.580
of different experiences that we can share, but one of the things that my brother went

731
00:55:52.580 --> 00:55:56.280
through his years of in and out of jail, he would always, as soon as he got thrown in

732
00:55:56.280 --> 00:55:58.840
jail, it was, pray for me, I don't want to be here.

733
00:55:59.120 --> 00:56:04.400
Pray for me, I want out, but as we saw this reoccurring cycle often, honestly, it happened

734
00:56:04.400 --> 00:56:09.200
way too many times, I started sitting back, and I'm going, you know what?

735
00:56:09.200 --> 00:56:13.360
I don't know if I really want to pray for him to be out of jail right now, because when

736
00:56:13.360 --> 00:56:17.300
he's in jail, that's when he got clean.

737
00:56:17.300 --> 00:56:20.400
When he was in jail, he was in the Bible study.

738
00:56:20.400 --> 00:56:24.920
When he was in jail, he was leading the Bible study, and at least two different times while

739
00:56:24.920 --> 00:56:30.160
he was in jail, he had full revivals in the jails, where more than 100 people have given

740
00:56:30.160 --> 00:56:35.440
their life, and so it was really hard for me to sit outside and want to pray for him

741
00:56:35.440 --> 00:56:39.160
to not be in there, because it was doing the best that I'd seen him.

742
00:56:39.160 --> 00:56:44.400
Okay, so I'm going to cut abruptly, because that's just me and who I am, so I'm going

743
00:56:44.400 --> 00:56:48.880
to pass the mic to somebody else.

744
00:56:48.880 --> 00:56:55.760
Thanks Robin.

745
00:56:55.760 --> 00:57:05.960
We have some people that were close to Guido that wanted to share, so Jalisa, do you want

746
00:57:05.960 --> 00:57:06.960
to start?

747
00:57:06.960 --> 00:57:07.960
Yeah?

748
00:57:07.960 --> 00:57:08.960
Hi guys.

749
00:57:08.960 --> 00:57:31.840
I'm Jalisa, obviously it sucks that I'm here talking to you, but it's also a really high

750
00:57:31.840 --> 00:57:34.960
honor to be able to do this.

751
00:57:34.960 --> 00:57:43.200
If I'm honest, it feels a bit vulnerable to get up here and share a little bit about

752
00:57:43.200 --> 00:57:48.520
one of my favorite people.

753
00:57:48.520 --> 00:57:51.240
So here we go.

754
00:57:51.240 --> 00:58:04.320
I met Guido in first year in 2016, and quickly he became a dad, an uncle, a brother, a friend.

755
00:58:04.320 --> 00:58:07.680
Literally all of those in one for me.

756
00:58:07.680 --> 00:58:13.160
Some days he was more like my uncle, some days he was more like my brother, some days

757
00:58:13.160 --> 00:58:18.000
he felt more like my dad.

758
00:58:18.000 --> 00:58:22.160
More often than not, he felt like my dad.

759
00:58:22.160 --> 00:58:31.920
He would probably say, oh, she's my little sister, but to me that's what he represented.

760
00:58:31.920 --> 00:58:37.880
We discovered that he was literally my parents' age, literally.

761
00:58:37.880 --> 00:58:42.720
He was younger than my dad and older than my mom, so we sandwiched them.

762
00:58:42.720 --> 00:58:48.040
So that's why it was so easy to see him as a father figure.

763
00:58:48.040 --> 00:58:58.160
And you know, in family dysfunction, my own, I felt a lot of parental disappointment.

764
00:58:58.160 --> 00:59:09.320
And where I expected the same of Guido, I was actually met with love and encouragement.

765
00:59:09.320 --> 00:59:18.760
I never felt shamed for anything that I shared with him or because I wasn't better at something,

766
00:59:18.760 --> 00:59:25.680
but instead he always had his guns loaded with truth bombs ready for me to redirect

767
00:59:25.680 --> 00:59:31.760
me to what the father was saying and who God is actually.

768
00:59:31.760 --> 00:59:37.760
So I never felt disappointment from Guido, but I always felt championed and loved by

769
00:59:37.760 --> 00:59:53.320
him and I knew and I could feel the way that he believed in me and that really moved me.

770
00:59:53.320 --> 00:59:59.760
Guido was an imperfect and an unpolished Christian who...

771
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:04.760
would let curse words slip out of his mouth every so often,

772
01:00:04.760 --> 01:00:07.040
which I absolutely loved about him.

773
01:00:08.760 --> 01:00:13.260
So I knew that he understood forgiveness and grace.

774
01:00:15.240 --> 01:00:19.300
He was the first safe male figure I'd ever encountered.

775
01:00:21.760 --> 01:00:24.000
And he unashamedly threw around

776
01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:26.120
I love you's and you're beautiful's,

777
01:00:26.960 --> 01:00:31.080
and things my natural father never said to me.

778
01:00:33.160 --> 01:00:35.880
Guido helped start this redemption in my heart

779
01:00:35.880 --> 01:00:38.800
for fatherhood and what it looked like

780
01:00:38.800 --> 01:00:41.320
to view a healthy father.

781
01:00:44.080 --> 01:00:45.680
In our friendship, we also discovered

782
01:00:45.680 --> 01:00:48.480
that his birthday is exactly two weeks before mine,

783
01:00:49.480 --> 01:00:51.000
to the day, Thursday to Thursday,

784
01:00:51.000 --> 01:00:53.280
if his birthday is like March 4th.

785
01:00:53.280 --> 01:00:55.980
And so I'm like, literally two weeks after.

786
01:00:56.960 --> 01:01:01.400
And every year, he would send me cute little voice memos

787
01:01:01.400 --> 01:01:06.000
of him singing happy birthday, which is my favorite.

788
01:01:06.000 --> 01:01:07.820
He never forgot.

789
01:01:07.820 --> 01:01:09.380
Even if I did, he never did.

790
01:01:13.000 --> 01:01:16.540
He prayed for my brother, who was also in and out of jail,

791
01:01:18.400 --> 01:01:22.400
prayed and helped me believe for redemption in my family,

792
01:01:22.400 --> 01:01:24.840
who also lives in addiction.

793
01:01:28.440 --> 01:01:30.880
He taught me how to change a tire.

794
01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:32.820
But let's be honest,

795
01:01:32.820 --> 01:01:35.320
I probably couldn't tell you how to do that today.

796
01:01:35.320 --> 01:01:37.320
So went out the window.

797
01:01:39.400 --> 01:01:41.080
We did homeless ministry together

798
01:01:42.280 --> 01:01:43.680
at the Lighthouse Church.

799
01:01:45.560 --> 01:01:47.240
We went on hikes together.

800
01:01:47.240 --> 01:01:51.240
We went to see movies, which was so great going with him

801
01:01:51.240 --> 01:01:52.800
because he always paid,

802
01:01:54.960 --> 01:01:58.320
which at the time we had the cheap theater here.

803
01:01:58.320 --> 01:02:01.120
So it may have been like $1.50,

804
01:02:01.120 --> 01:02:03.560
but it was still on him and I didn't have to pay.

805
01:02:07.680 --> 01:02:10.720
He'd tell me about cute girls around.

806
01:02:10.720 --> 01:02:14.560
I'd tell him about cute boys and he'd get protective,

807
01:02:14.560 --> 01:02:16.040
which was obvious.

808
01:02:17.280 --> 01:02:19.320
We talked about his future children

809
01:02:19.320 --> 01:02:22.480
and how I'd be D.I.J. to his kids

810
01:02:22.480 --> 01:02:24.400
and how he'd be Uncle Guido's to mine.

811
01:02:33.440 --> 01:02:37.120
I always envisioned Guido at my wedding, always.

812
01:02:38.520 --> 01:02:40.600
And he always had a part to play,

813
01:02:40.600 --> 01:02:43.120
whether that was officiating my wedding

814
01:02:43.120 --> 01:02:45.720
or walking me down the aisle.

815
01:02:46.720 --> 01:02:51.720
I never imagined that it would be this soon

816
01:02:52.880 --> 01:02:54.720
that Guido would not be a part of it.

817
01:02:57.160 --> 01:03:00.320
And I always imagined that we'd be lifelong friends

818
01:03:00.320 --> 01:03:02.520
and I guess to some extent that's true.

819
01:03:04.680 --> 01:03:08.000
I always felt so honored and proud to know Guido

820
01:03:08.960 --> 01:03:10.080
and I still do.

821
01:03:11.600 --> 01:03:15.520
I am so thankful that he left his legacy

822
01:03:16.320 --> 01:03:17.720
and that we get to keep sharing it.

823
01:03:19.520 --> 01:03:21.600
I consider Guido a hero in the faith

824
01:03:22.480 --> 01:03:24.840
and an absolute legend

825
01:03:24.840 --> 01:03:27.600
whose testimony is still so very powerful.

826
01:03:30.760 --> 01:03:31.600
Yeah.

827
01:03:32.680 --> 01:03:35.160
Thank you guys for giving me space to share.

828
01:03:36.760 --> 01:03:39.120
And yeah.

829
01:03:39.120 --> 01:03:41.240
And letting me cry up here.

830
01:03:43.880 --> 01:03:45.280
Do you want me to pass it on?

831
01:03:46.040 --> 01:03:47.080
Yeah.

832
01:03:47.080 --> 01:03:48.080
Yeah, here you go.

833
01:03:50.120 --> 01:03:51.120
My name is Brian.

834
01:04:04.680 --> 01:04:09.680
And I am, like Julissa, just incredibly honored

835
01:04:11.800 --> 01:04:15.440
to share who Guido meant to me

836
01:04:16.280 --> 01:04:17.120
and our family.

837
01:04:18.840 --> 01:04:20.560
And let me first start by saying words

838
01:04:20.560 --> 01:04:24.080
can't really describe how much he meant to us

839
01:04:24.920 --> 01:04:28.800
and how much he meant to our family.

840
01:04:28.800 --> 01:04:33.800
I have three kids and he loved them so incredibly well.

841
01:04:36.520 --> 01:04:39.720
And just like his sister shared,

842
01:04:39.720 --> 01:04:44.240
we don't know the extent of what he fought through

843
01:04:44.240 --> 01:04:45.160
to come here.

844
01:04:46.440 --> 01:04:48.840
I remember one time I was praying for his face

845
01:04:48.840 --> 01:04:50.960
and I could feel the metal plates

846
01:04:50.960 --> 01:04:52.720
and the screws in his head.

847
01:04:52.720 --> 01:04:54.280
And I was like, Guido, what happened?

848
01:04:54.280 --> 01:04:56.280
And he's like, you don't wanna know.

849
01:04:56.280 --> 01:04:57.560
I said, no, I wanna know.

850
01:04:58.520 --> 01:04:59.360
The truth.

851
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:02.780
trauma and the pain he went through.

852
01:05:02.780 --> 01:05:05.140
He is a hero.

853
01:05:05.140 --> 01:05:08.500
I mean, the things that he fought through to come here.

854
01:05:08.500 --> 01:05:12.500
A lot of us know Guido as the happy,

855
01:05:12.500 --> 01:05:15.160
I mean, he was happy, the jokester and all that,

856
01:05:15.160 --> 01:05:20.060
but the amount of fight and perseverance

857
01:05:20.060 --> 01:05:25.060
and heart he displayed is really amazing.

858
01:05:25.060 --> 01:05:30.060
Like many people here, my wife and I,

859
01:05:30.060 --> 01:05:33.060
we met Guido when he came to school.

860
01:05:33.060 --> 01:05:36.060
We were in the same revival group with Julissa,

861
01:05:36.060 --> 01:05:40.060
and that was five years ago and not that long.

862
01:05:40.060 --> 01:05:42.060
We're the same age, Guido and I,

863
01:05:42.060 --> 01:05:45.060
and so just a fraction of his life,

864
01:05:45.060 --> 01:05:47.060
but in those five years,

865
01:05:47.060 --> 01:05:50.060
we saw just a tremendous transformation.

866
01:05:50.060 --> 01:05:55.060
We saw him go from unapproachable and aloof

867
01:05:55.060 --> 01:06:01.060
to careless, careful, I mean, caring,

868
01:06:01.060 --> 01:06:04.060
selfless, and powerful.

869
01:06:04.060 --> 01:06:08.060
I so vividly remember the first time we met him.

870
01:06:08.060 --> 01:06:10.060
My wife and I, it was in first year,

871
01:06:10.060 --> 01:06:14.060
and we were late, and so we had to sit

872
01:06:14.060 --> 01:06:16.060
in the way, way, way, way back at the Civic Center,

873
01:06:16.060 --> 01:06:18.060
like the nosebleed seats,

874
01:06:18.060 --> 01:06:21.060
and we actually ended up sitting next to him

875
01:06:21.060 --> 01:06:24.060
and find out that he got there really early

876
01:06:24.060 --> 01:06:28.060
so he could sit in the way, way, way, way, way back,

877
01:06:28.060 --> 01:06:31.060
and three things I remember about that encounter.

878
01:06:31.060 --> 01:06:34.060
One, he did not want to be there.

879
01:06:34.060 --> 01:06:37.060
Two, he had this tremendous bag of raw carrots

880
01:06:37.060 --> 01:06:39.060
that he was eating,

881
01:06:39.060 --> 01:06:46.060
and three, he was continuously offering them to us,

882
01:06:46.060 --> 01:06:47.060
but that's who he was.

883
01:06:47.060 --> 01:06:49.060
He was so generous.

884
01:06:49.060 --> 01:06:51.060
He was so generous,

885
01:06:51.060 --> 01:06:57.060
and we ended up, I remember being like,

886
01:06:57.060 --> 01:06:59.060
this guy does not want to be here,

887
01:06:59.060 --> 01:07:03.060
and we were in the same revival group,

888
01:07:03.060 --> 01:07:05.060
and we ended up in the same small group,

889
01:07:05.060 --> 01:07:08.060
so it was me, him, and two other guys,

890
01:07:08.060 --> 01:07:12.060
and small group is where I fell in love with him.

891
01:07:12.060 --> 01:07:15.060
We grew close because we were the same age

892
01:07:15.060 --> 01:07:18.060
and the other two guys in our small group were half our age,

893
01:07:18.060 --> 01:07:22.060
so Guido and I were like,

894
01:07:22.060 --> 01:07:25.060
what are we doing here?

895
01:07:25.060 --> 01:07:28.060
What is going on here?

896
01:07:28.060 --> 01:07:32.060
But that's when I saw how special he was,

897
01:07:32.060 --> 01:07:34.060
meeting with him weekly,

898
01:07:34.060 --> 01:07:36.060
hearing his heart,

899
01:07:36.060 --> 01:07:38.060
hearing his story,

900
01:07:38.060 --> 01:07:42.060
but I realized I'd be really close to him during retreat,

901
01:07:42.060 --> 01:07:44.060
retreat week.

902
01:07:44.060 --> 01:07:47.060
In front of our whole group, he stood up,

903
01:07:47.060 --> 01:07:49.060
and I was shocked what he said,

904
01:07:49.060 --> 01:07:51.060
and what he said was,

905
01:07:51.060 --> 01:07:53.060
I just want a real friend.

906
01:07:53.060 --> 01:07:58.060
I want a no BS, real friend that's not fake,

907
01:07:58.060 --> 01:08:01.060
and I found myself drawn to him,

908
01:08:01.060 --> 01:08:04.060
and I remember when I went up to him in that moment,

909
01:08:04.060 --> 01:08:06.060
and all the guys surrounded him,

910
01:08:06.060 --> 01:08:08.060
and I looked them in the eyes,

911
01:08:08.060 --> 01:08:13.060
and I saw this depth of purity and authenticity,

912
01:08:13.060 --> 01:08:15.060
and I was like,

913
01:08:15.060 --> 01:08:20.060
you and me are going to be really good friends,

914
01:08:20.060 --> 01:08:22.060
and I think we all know those eyes.

915
01:08:22.060 --> 01:08:24.060
If you've had time to talk with Guido,

916
01:08:24.060 --> 01:08:26.060
and you've looked in his eyes,

917
01:08:26.060 --> 01:08:28.060
I think we all can agree.

918
01:08:28.060 --> 01:08:31.060
The eyes, my wife always says,

919
01:08:31.060 --> 01:08:33.060
you can tell someone by their eyes.

920
01:08:33.060 --> 01:08:36.060
She's always like, let me see their eyes, let me see their eyes,

921
01:08:36.060 --> 01:08:38.060
but anyone who's looked at Guido's eyes can tell,

922
01:08:38.060 --> 01:08:40.060
we all agree.

923
01:08:40.060 --> 01:08:42.060
He had a depth of character,

924
01:08:42.060 --> 01:08:44.060
a depth of love,

925
01:08:44.060 --> 01:08:46.060
a depth of authenticity,

926
01:08:46.060 --> 01:08:49.060
and it was just something so pure and childlike,

927
01:08:49.060 --> 01:08:52.060
and when you juxtapose that against his past,

928
01:08:52.060 --> 01:08:55.060
you realize just the radical transformation

929
01:08:55.060 --> 01:08:58.060
that God did in his life.

930
01:08:58.060 --> 01:09:01.060
At one of our revival group meetings,

931
01:09:01.060 --> 01:09:04.060
and David, you shared this,

932
01:09:04.060 --> 01:09:07.060
we brought our daughter, who's now nine,

933
01:09:07.060 --> 01:09:09.060
she was then four,

934
01:09:09.060 --> 01:09:13.060
and she had just gone through a whirlwind of change.

935
01:09:13.060 --> 01:09:15.060
She still thought we were on vacation.

936
01:09:15.060 --> 01:09:17.060
We're from Virginia,

937
01:09:17.060 --> 01:09:20.060
and she's like, when are we going back home?

938
01:09:20.060 --> 01:09:23.060
She was in a new place, no friends,

939
01:09:23.060 --> 01:09:25.060
and I remember that group,

940
01:09:25.060 --> 01:09:27.060
Guido got down on his knees,

941
01:09:27.060 --> 01:09:29.060
and he scooped her up,

942
01:09:29.060 --> 01:09:31.060
and he was like, I like your tattoo,

943
01:09:31.060 --> 01:09:33.060
and I was like, I have a tattoo,

944
01:09:33.060 --> 01:09:35.060
and hers was fake, his was real,

945
01:09:35.060 --> 01:09:38.060
but they instantly became best friends,

946
01:09:38.060 --> 01:09:43.060
and whenever he would come over for dinner,

947
01:09:43.060 --> 01:09:46.060
he would just take the time to play with her.

948
01:09:46.060 --> 01:09:50.060
Chutes and Ladders, Candy Land,

949
01:09:50.060 --> 01:09:53.060
he would just sit down and love on her,

950
01:09:53.060 --> 01:09:56.060
and he would do that with all of our kids,

951
01:09:56.060 --> 01:09:58.060
all the way forward to when

952
01:09:58.060 --> 01:10:00.060
she was one of the flower girls.

953
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:02.440
his wedding, and she was too scared to walk down the aisle

954
01:10:02.440 --> 01:10:06.240
by herself, so Guido walked her down the aisle.

955
01:10:06.240 --> 01:10:11.080
And that's the kind of love that he had for my kids.

956
01:10:11.080 --> 01:10:12.760
And his love for Jesus was so pure,

957
01:10:12.760 --> 01:10:15.440
you know, he demonstrated it everywhere we would go.

958
01:10:15.440 --> 01:10:18.000
You know, he would stop for the one.

959
01:10:18.000 --> 01:10:21.320
Walking from the outside to the inside of class

960
01:10:21.320 --> 01:10:25.440
took forever, because he knew every single person.

961
01:10:25.440 --> 01:10:27.680
He would say hi to every single person.

962
01:10:27.680 --> 01:10:30.480
He would hug every single person.

963
01:10:30.480 --> 01:10:34.480
And he would genuinely say, you're beautiful.

964
01:10:34.480 --> 01:10:38.560
I believe he broke so many things off of so many women

965
01:10:38.560 --> 01:10:41.160
by just sharing, you're beautiful.

966
01:10:41.160 --> 01:10:44.120
He would brag on everyone.

967
01:10:44.120 --> 01:10:47.400
He would always stop for the one.

968
01:10:47.400 --> 01:10:49.520
And he wasn't perfect, like Julissa said,

969
01:10:49.520 --> 01:10:52.760
and that's why he was the perfect friend to me.

970
01:10:52.760 --> 01:10:55.480
Because we were both kind of like,

971
01:10:55.480 --> 01:10:58.880
we don't have time for anything fake.

972
01:10:58.880 --> 01:11:02.280
Like, you know, we're older, let's get on with this.

973
01:11:02.280 --> 01:11:05.080
Let's go, let's do this.

974
01:11:05.080 --> 01:11:07.160
And that's what I loved, he was always raw.

975
01:11:07.160 --> 01:11:08.800
He was always real.

976
01:11:08.800 --> 01:11:10.760
He wasn't afraid to ask questions.

977
01:11:10.760 --> 01:11:13.920
You know, especially in the culture of BSSM,

978
01:11:13.920 --> 01:11:18.080
where sometimes you have the need to perform and be perfect,

979
01:11:18.080 --> 01:11:20.600
and although he did have perfect attendance,

980
01:11:21.560 --> 01:11:25.920
he was so real and so raw.

981
01:11:25.920 --> 01:11:29.080
And that's what I loved about him.

982
01:11:29.080 --> 01:11:31.120
And all he wanted to do was pursue God.

983
01:11:32.520 --> 01:11:35.800
I mean, he would tell me, if God is so real,

984
01:11:35.800 --> 01:11:38.560
if the Bible is real, why wouldn't we give our all to him?

985
01:11:38.560 --> 01:11:39.400
Why wouldn't we?

986
01:11:39.400 --> 01:11:41.280
And he challenged me.

987
01:11:41.280 --> 01:11:43.280
He would come over and he would say, I'm fasting.

988
01:11:43.280 --> 01:11:45.280
And I'd be like, don't bring your fasting

989
01:11:45.280 --> 01:11:46.440
into this house, Guido.

990
01:11:47.480 --> 01:11:49.680
And if you know how much Guido loves food,

991
01:11:50.720 --> 01:11:54.080
the fact that he would fast is how much he loved God.

992
01:11:54.080 --> 01:11:55.240
But he would challenge me,

993
01:11:55.240 --> 01:11:57.680
and I'd been the lifelong Christian.

994
01:11:57.680 --> 01:11:59.600
I was the one who grew up in church,

995
01:11:59.600 --> 01:12:02.200
and he was like, if God is so real,

996
01:12:02.200 --> 01:12:04.560
why wouldn't we give our all?

997
01:12:05.760 --> 01:12:08.920
But over the years, he became so much more to our family.

998
01:12:08.920 --> 01:12:10.680
He became family.

999
01:12:10.680 --> 01:12:12.560
You know, we would have him over for holidays,

1000
01:12:12.560 --> 01:12:13.960
Christmas, Thanksgiving.

1001
01:12:15.120 --> 01:12:17.880
He would come to my daughter's dance recitals.

1002
01:12:17.880 --> 01:12:20.560
He would come to my son's baseball games.

1003
01:12:21.400 --> 01:12:23.120
He would always speak into them.

1004
01:12:23.120 --> 01:12:24.840
He would pull them aside.

1005
01:12:24.840 --> 01:12:26.400
He would pray for them.

1006
01:12:26.400 --> 01:12:27.760
He would encourage them.

1007
01:12:28.680 --> 01:12:30.200
He would talk to them.

1008
01:12:30.200 --> 01:12:32.120
He would love on them.

1009
01:12:32.120 --> 01:12:34.400
He was Uncle Guido to our family.

1010
01:12:36.560 --> 01:12:38.200
And I loved his questions.

1011
01:12:38.200 --> 01:12:39.760
Oh, I loved his questions.

1012
01:12:40.800 --> 01:12:42.640
He wasn't afraid of not knowing.

1013
01:12:44.360 --> 01:12:47.320
But all he wanted was more of Jesus.

1014
01:12:47.320 --> 01:12:48.680
And he wanted the people around him

1015
01:12:48.680 --> 01:12:50.640
to have that freedom and that joy.

1016
01:12:54.760 --> 01:12:56.200
You know, for me personally,

1017
01:12:57.360 --> 01:13:01.880
you know, he was an amazing friend.

1018
01:13:01.880 --> 01:13:06.880
And it's still a shock that he's not gonna be around.

1019
01:13:07.280 --> 01:13:09.200
It's still a shock that he's not gonna be

1020
01:13:09.200 --> 01:13:10.520
at our Thanksgiving table.

1021
01:13:12.520 --> 01:13:16.200
To me, it's a shock that we're not gonna be able

1022
01:13:16.200 --> 01:13:17.840
to go to Mount Shasta together.

1023
01:13:18.880 --> 01:13:21.840
He had a season pass this year and he was so excited.

1024
01:13:23.600 --> 01:13:26.880
But while it's easy to just focus

1025
01:13:26.880 --> 01:13:28.320
on how much we'll miss him,

1026
01:13:30.200 --> 01:13:33.160
you know, he's left us with so many fond memories

1027
01:13:33.160 --> 01:13:34.560
that we'll cherish forever.

1028
01:13:35.520 --> 01:13:37.320
You know, as a family, my daughter,

1029
01:13:37.320 --> 01:13:39.360
my oldest daughter, she couldn't be here.

1030
01:13:39.360 --> 01:13:40.440
She's in South Carolina,

1031
01:13:40.440 --> 01:13:45.360
but she was just sharing how much he meant to our family.

1032
01:13:45.360 --> 01:13:49.040
And I was like, yes, a huge hole is missing in our family.

1033
01:13:50.360 --> 01:13:53.560
But he left us with so many amazing memories,

1034
01:13:53.560 --> 01:13:58.560
so many amazing times, so many amazing memories

1035
01:13:59.000 --> 01:14:02.640
of dinners where we would have to go and buy extra meat

1036
01:14:02.640 --> 01:14:04.360
because Guido was coming over.

1037
01:14:07.160 --> 01:14:11.560
Of us biking together and he would have to wait for me

1038
01:14:11.560 --> 01:14:14.040
because I'm not that, I'm out of shape

1039
01:14:14.040 --> 01:14:16.480
and Guido is in amazing shape always.

1040
01:14:17.680 --> 01:14:21.040
You know, the memories I have of driving up

1041
01:14:21.040 --> 01:14:24.600
to Mount Shasta with him and him talking nonstop

1042
01:14:24.600 --> 01:14:28.560
and asking questions and having so much fun

1043
01:14:28.560 --> 01:14:29.800
with something like that.

1044
01:14:31.360 --> 01:14:34.000
You know, we'll cherish our fond memories of him

1045
01:14:34.000 --> 01:14:37.480
and we celebrate his incredible legacy,

1046
01:14:37.480 --> 01:14:39.080
the legacy that he's left among us,

1047
01:14:39.080 --> 01:14:43.320
the impact that he's had is incredible.

1048
01:14:43.320 --> 01:14:46.440
When people share with me the impact

1049
01:14:46.440 --> 01:14:48.240
that Guido had in their lives,

1050
01:14:48.240 --> 01:14:52.920
I'm dumbfounded about how much he's touched

1051
01:14:52.920 --> 01:14:54.440
and helped people overcome.

1052
01:14:54.440 --> 01:14:57.960
And I only see a small glimpse.

1053
01:14:57.960 --> 01:14:59.680
I know in heaven, he'll have

1054
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:07.500
A line stretched out for miles of people waiting to say thank you, Guido.

1055
01:15:07.500 --> 01:15:09.300
Thank you for loving on me.

1056
01:15:09.300 --> 01:15:12.480
Your hello changed my life.

1057
01:15:12.480 --> 01:15:14.020
You look beautiful changed my life.

1058
01:15:14.020 --> 01:15:15.820
Your testimony changed my life.

1059
01:15:15.820 --> 01:15:17.820
Your book changed my life.

1060
01:15:17.820 --> 01:15:20.180
I know that's what's gonna happen.

1061
01:15:20.180 --> 01:15:22.100
And Jesus is saying, thank you, Guido.

1062
01:15:22.100 --> 01:15:28.140
Thank you for the way you lived your life.

1063
01:15:28.140 --> 01:15:33.060
So I just want to say, Guido, we love you.

1064
01:15:33.060 --> 01:15:36.260
You are our family forever.

1065
01:15:36.260 --> 01:15:39.620
We miss you tremendously.

1066
01:15:39.620 --> 01:15:43.660
But we celebrate that you're in heaven.

1067
01:15:43.660 --> 01:15:48.500
And we can't wait to see you again face to face.

1068
01:15:48.500 --> 01:15:53.020
Thank you, guys.

1069
01:15:53.020 --> 01:15:58.420
Hi, I'm Laura.

1070
01:15:58.420 --> 01:16:03.900
And I had the privilege of getting to co-pastor Guido a little bit at Hope Recovery.

1071
01:16:03.900 --> 01:16:10.260
And I remember coming to BSSM, and I don't have a really good filter either.

1072
01:16:10.260 --> 01:16:19.220
And so I loved having him around because I wasn't the only one cussing in group.

1073
01:16:19.220 --> 01:16:23.980
But I loved, as everybody I'm sure will say, just the authenticity.

1074
01:16:23.980 --> 01:16:26.460
You knew what you were getting when Guido walked in the room.

1075
01:16:26.460 --> 01:16:29.620
And nobody walked in the room and didn't feel important.

1076
01:16:29.620 --> 01:16:30.860
And I just loved that about him.

1077
01:16:30.860 --> 01:16:33.460
I loved the way he talked about his family.

1078
01:16:33.460 --> 01:16:39.020
He loved you guys so much.

1079
01:16:39.020 --> 01:16:44.340
And he was so proud of all of you and so proud to be a part of your family.

1080
01:16:44.340 --> 01:16:48.380
And he never candy-coated anything.

1081
01:16:48.380 --> 01:16:52.500
And despite all that, it just didn't matter to him.

1082
01:16:52.500 --> 01:16:57.180
When he would talk about you, the love that would be in his eyes was really quite impressive

1083
01:16:57.180 --> 01:17:00.460
and quite challenging.

1084
01:17:00.460 --> 01:17:02.100
That was the thing that Guido did for me.

1085
01:17:02.100 --> 01:17:06.420
He always challenged me with the fasting and all the...

1086
01:17:06.420 --> 01:17:10.140
He never did anything partially.

1087
01:17:10.140 --> 01:17:13.100
There was never any gray area to Guido.

1088
01:17:13.100 --> 01:17:15.100
There was no middle of the road.

1089
01:17:15.100 --> 01:17:18.540
He radically lived his life out.

1090
01:17:18.540 --> 01:17:25.900
And I think in the time that we had him, that he did as much for the kingdom as I feel like

1091
01:17:25.900 --> 01:17:27.820
I've done my whole life.

1092
01:17:27.820 --> 01:17:31.660
And he did it in a really short amount of time.

1093
01:17:31.660 --> 01:17:39.020
And I personally feel really honored that he's up there looking out for us now.

1094
01:17:39.020 --> 01:17:43.220
He's in a real position of power to pray for us now.

1095
01:17:43.220 --> 01:17:45.860
I'm glad he gets to go to Jesus and go...

1096
01:17:45.860 --> 01:17:47.180
Yeah.

1097
01:17:47.180 --> 01:17:54.420
I'm glad he gets to go to Jesus and go, you got to give her grace.

1098
01:17:54.420 --> 01:17:55.420
I look forward to...

1099
01:17:55.420 --> 01:17:57.860
I do look forward to seeing him again.

1100
01:17:57.860 --> 01:18:01.060
And I just wanted to share one story.

1101
01:18:01.060 --> 01:18:05.300
A friend of ours, Andrea, she couldn't be here.

1102
01:18:05.300 --> 01:18:09.580
In the slide show, there was a picture of Guido and there was a man sitting and he was

1103
01:18:09.580 --> 01:18:11.180
shaving his head.

1104
01:18:11.180 --> 01:18:16.300
And then it's the only slide in the whole show that didn't have Guido in it.

1105
01:18:16.300 --> 01:18:19.300
And his name was John and he lived on the street.

1106
01:18:19.300 --> 01:18:25.380
And he came to the Lighthouse Church where they did a worship night every Monday night.

1107
01:18:25.380 --> 01:18:28.100
You were with him on that, right?

1108
01:18:28.100 --> 01:18:34.220
And this man walked in and he was covered from lice from head to toe.

1109
01:18:34.220 --> 01:18:36.780
I'm out right there.

1110
01:18:36.780 --> 01:18:38.500
But Guido wasn't.

1111
01:18:38.500 --> 01:18:43.380
There was nothing about anybody that challenged him that he wouldn't walk right up to them

1112
01:18:43.380 --> 01:18:44.900
and love him.

1113
01:18:44.900 --> 01:18:48.660
And he cut his hair and they took his clothes.

1114
01:18:48.660 --> 01:18:49.900
They took him to the Y.

1115
01:18:49.900 --> 01:18:50.900
They got him showered.

1116
01:18:50.900 --> 01:18:53.420
Guido went and bought him clothes.

1117
01:18:53.420 --> 01:18:59.380
And by the time he was done with him, he was lice-free, looked like he did in that picture.

1118
01:18:59.380 --> 01:19:02.580
And he did that for anyone.

1119
01:19:02.580 --> 01:19:04.700
It didn't matter.

1120
01:19:04.700 --> 01:19:10.380
He so challenged my walk and my life and my belief in Jesus and will continue to do

1121
01:19:10.380 --> 01:19:11.380
that.

1122
01:19:11.380 --> 01:19:19.780
And I am so incredibly happy that we have his story and that we can, as people who love

1123
01:19:19.780 --> 01:19:24.660
him, support his vision and get that book into every prison, that we can get that book

1124
01:19:24.660 --> 01:19:32.700
into every person's hand who, like, his life is going to be a legacy forever.

1125
01:19:33.700 --> 01:19:36.700
And I, for one, am just really privileged I got to be a part of that.

1126
01:19:39.700 --> 01:19:40.700
That's great.

1127
01:19:44.700 --> 01:19:46.700
Did we have Kara?

1128
01:19:46.700 --> 01:19:47.700
Kara?

1129
01:19:47.700 --> 01:19:48.700
Yes.

1130
01:19:48.700 --> 01:19:51.700
I've actually met you, so I didn't know who you were.

1131
01:19:51.700 --> 01:19:52.700
All right.

1132
01:19:52.700 --> 01:19:53.700
Wow.

1133
01:19:53.700 --> 01:20:00.700
So I did not have the pleasure of having a lot of time with Guido, but the time I did

1134
01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:03.560
did have was so impactful on my life,

1135
01:20:03.560 --> 01:20:06.960
and just a stirring with the Lord.

1136
01:20:06.960 --> 01:20:10.280
So I first came to Bethel in 2018,

1137
01:20:10.280 --> 01:20:12.120
never knew there was a school here,

1138
01:20:12.120 --> 01:20:14.480
didn't know anything about anything here,

1139
01:20:14.480 --> 01:20:19.480
except for I saw Bethel TV on music videos and whatnot.

1140
01:20:19.720 --> 01:20:24.720
And I was so freaked out, it was at a convergence training,

1141
01:20:24.920 --> 01:20:28.600
training, and he was in third year, I believe,

1142
01:20:28.600 --> 01:20:32.160
on 2018, no, second year, I don't remember.

1143
01:20:32.160 --> 01:20:35.520
But anyway, so I come into this conference,

1144
01:20:35.520 --> 01:20:38.520
and I actually was starting to do prison ministry,

1145
01:20:38.520 --> 01:20:41.160
and wanted to bring BSSM,

1146
01:20:41.160 --> 01:20:43.320
although I didn't know what BSSM was,

1147
01:20:43.320 --> 01:20:45.160
into the prison system,

1148
01:20:45.160 --> 01:20:48.000
and somebody just bought me a ticket,

1149
01:20:48.000 --> 01:20:49.560
and I ended up here.

1150
01:20:49.560 --> 01:20:52.320
And I was so freaked out, and I'll never forget,

1151
01:20:52.320 --> 01:20:56.040
Guido ended up sitting at my table,

1152
01:20:56.040 --> 01:20:57.640
and we started talking,

1153
01:20:57.640 --> 01:21:00.720
and I was literally trying to hide from everyone.

1154
01:21:00.720 --> 01:21:03.240
I didn't want anything to do with this.

1155
01:21:03.240 --> 01:21:05.640
I just felt very out of place.

1156
01:21:05.640 --> 01:21:08.520
And he started telling some of his story.

1157
01:21:08.520 --> 01:21:13.520
And immediately, I was just completely just blown away,

1158
01:21:15.000 --> 01:21:18.720
because I come from 20 years of active addiction.

1159
01:21:18.720 --> 01:21:20.860
I was 20 years in and out of prison.

1160
01:21:21.780 --> 01:21:24.220
I was completely transformed by the Lord,

1161
01:21:24.220 --> 01:21:26.140
but I didn't know how to talk about it.

1162
01:21:26.140 --> 01:21:28.140
I didn't know at that time,

1163
01:21:28.140 --> 01:21:31.340
how to kind of navigate it with other people.

1164
01:21:31.340 --> 01:21:34.780
And so at that moment, I felt comforted.

1165
01:21:34.780 --> 01:21:36.980
At that moment, I felt like,

1166
01:21:36.980 --> 01:21:40.020
well, maybe I could hang out here too, you know?

1167
01:21:40.020 --> 01:21:43.060
And so years later, I ended up coming to,

1168
01:21:43.060 --> 01:21:44.940
actually not years later, months later,

1169
01:21:44.940 --> 01:21:46.420
I ended up coming to BSSM.

1170
01:21:46.420 --> 01:21:49.820
First year, we did start BSSM in the prison systems

1171
01:21:49.820 --> 01:21:52.100
in Alaska, two different prisons,

1172
01:21:52.100 --> 01:21:55.800
in the Max Max prison,

1173
01:21:55.800 --> 01:21:58.540
and another prison that my dad's actually the chaplain at,

1174
01:21:58.540 --> 01:22:00.540
and I ended up coming here.

1175
01:22:00.540 --> 01:22:02.720
And so after that, you know,

1176
01:22:02.720 --> 01:22:05.460
there's something that happens

1177
01:22:05.460 --> 01:22:08.600
when you've gone through this lived experience together.

1178
01:22:08.600 --> 01:22:11.900
So I didn't hang out with Guido every single day,

1179
01:22:11.900 --> 01:22:15.660
but because when I was watching the pictures,

1180
01:22:15.660 --> 01:22:18.780
I was just tears of love and understanding,

1181
01:22:18.780 --> 01:22:22.740
because when you live in certain death every single day

1182
01:22:22.740 --> 01:22:27.140
for decades of your life, and the Lord transforms you,

1183
01:22:27.140 --> 01:22:30.580
and you see the goodness and grace and mercy and compassion

1184
01:22:30.580 --> 01:22:32.420
and freedom and hope

1185
01:22:32.420 --> 01:22:36.260
that you could not even try and find before,

1186
01:22:36.260 --> 01:22:37.940
I know what that feels like.

1187
01:22:37.940 --> 01:22:40.100
And so there's an instant bond that happens.

1188
01:22:40.100 --> 01:22:43.120
And every time I would see Guido, we would just know,

1189
01:22:43.120 --> 01:22:45.860
like we'd known each other our entire lives.

1190
01:22:45.860 --> 01:22:47.900
And so when he wrote his book,

1191
01:22:47.900 --> 01:22:51.700
it was so cool because he knew that I had, you know,

1192
01:22:51.700 --> 01:22:54.180
work in prisons and I'm back in Alaska now,

1193
01:22:54.180 --> 01:22:57.140
I graduated from third year last year,

1194
01:22:57.140 --> 01:23:00.220
and or this year, my times are all messed up.

1195
01:23:00.220 --> 01:23:01.800
In May, I just graduated.

1196
01:23:03.340 --> 01:23:07.820
But he called and he sent me like 10 of his books.

1197
01:23:07.820 --> 01:23:09.660
He was like, I'll just send you one, you can see what,

1198
01:23:09.660 --> 01:23:12.300
I'm like, no, I already know it's super powerful.

1199
01:23:12.300 --> 01:23:14.640
Like send me as many as you can.

1200
01:23:14.640 --> 01:23:18.200
And so he sent me 10 and I work at a treatment center

1201
01:23:18.200 --> 01:23:20.080
and I still go into the prisons.

1202
01:23:20.080 --> 01:23:21.240
I'm a chaplain up there.

1203
01:23:21.240 --> 01:23:24.800
And so I was able to hand out his books

1204
01:23:24.800 --> 01:23:29.080
to several of our recovery residences and prison chaplains.

1205
01:23:29.080 --> 01:23:31.280
And we had plans to meet.

1206
01:23:31.280 --> 01:23:32.120
I was coming here

1207
01:23:32.120 --> 01:23:35.200
on a Heaven and Business retreat this week.

1208
01:23:35.200 --> 01:23:38.560
And when I heard that he passed, you know,

1209
01:23:38.560 --> 01:23:40.200
and him and I had talked a lot,

1210
01:23:40.200 --> 01:23:42.680
we were very passionate about a lot of the same things,

1211
01:23:43.040 --> 01:23:45.800
just really bringing the freedom

1212
01:23:45.800 --> 01:23:48.180
from addiction and incarceration

1213
01:23:48.180 --> 01:23:50.580
and really bringing that freedom

1214
01:23:50.580 --> 01:23:52.800
and talking about it from the front of the church

1215
01:23:52.800 --> 01:23:54.500
and talking about it to everyone we can

1216
01:23:54.500 --> 01:23:56.920
and being on the street and sitting with our people

1217
01:23:56.920 --> 01:23:58.320
because that's been me.

1218
01:23:58.320 --> 01:24:00.240
I've been on the streets before.

1219
01:24:00.240 --> 01:24:03.040
And so it's me when I see someone sitting there.

1220
01:24:03.040 --> 01:24:06.440
And it means everything to me to sit and say, I love you

1221
01:24:06.440 --> 01:24:08.740
and you matter and you're important.

1222
01:24:08.740 --> 01:24:12.040
And so we just had this kindred bond

1223
01:24:12.080 --> 01:24:14.040
that happened through that.

1224
01:24:14.040 --> 01:24:18.760
But, you know, I just, when he passed,

1225
01:24:18.760 --> 01:24:21.200
I just had this incredible,

1226
01:24:22.280 --> 01:24:24.440
it was like this stirring that happened

1227
01:24:24.440 --> 01:24:26.680
of all the things that we had talked about,

1228
01:24:26.680 --> 01:24:30.280
of all the things that I knew that he wanted to see happen.

1229
01:24:30.280 --> 01:24:31.480
You know, kingdom on earth,

1230
01:24:31.480 --> 01:24:33.560
kingdom in our prisons, kingdom on the streets,

1231
01:24:33.560 --> 01:24:35.240
kingdom in every single person,

1232
01:24:35.240 --> 01:24:38.000
every single place, all the dark places.

1233
01:24:38.000 --> 01:24:40.160
Those are our favorite places.

1234
01:24:40.200 --> 01:24:42.400
And I just pictured, you know,

1235
01:24:42.400 --> 01:24:46.360
just so many people that his legacy is gonna continue

1236
01:24:46.360 --> 01:24:48.480
on and on and on and on and on.

1237
01:24:48.480 --> 01:24:52.800
Like there is nothing, nothing that the enemy has taken

1238
01:24:52.800 --> 01:24:56.040
that's not gonna be brought to glory for so many.

1239
01:24:56.040 --> 01:24:58.360
And so I'm just honored to be able to continue

1240
01:24:58.360 --> 01:24:59.300
to carry that out.

1241
01:24:59.300 --> 01:25:00.140
And I just.

1242
01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:01.280
I love you all already.

1243
01:25:01.280 --> 01:25:02.840
We've already had an amazing time.

1244
01:25:02.840 --> 01:25:04.360
So thank you.

1245
01:25:12.360 --> 01:25:13.960
We have a little bit more time.

1246
01:25:13.960 --> 01:25:16.080
So if there is anyone in here you

1247
01:25:16.080 --> 01:25:18.580
would want to share either a story or a thought

1248
01:25:18.580 --> 01:25:21.760
or a memory of Guido, now is the time.

1249
01:25:21.760 --> 01:25:26.320
So you can just come up here if there is anyone.

1250
01:25:26.320 --> 01:25:27.520
Yes, come on up.

1251
01:25:31.000 --> 01:25:33.280
My name's Cindy.

1252
01:25:33.280 --> 01:25:35.760
And I had the amazing opportunity

1253
01:25:35.760 --> 01:25:37.200
to do a ministry trip with Guido.

1254
01:25:37.200 --> 01:25:38.280
We went to Lubbock, Texas.

1255
01:25:41.760 --> 01:25:43.080
And it was awkward at first.

1256
01:25:43.080 --> 01:25:45.480
You know, you get however many people are together

1257
01:25:45.480 --> 01:25:47.200
and nobody knows each other.

1258
01:25:47.200 --> 01:25:49.240
And the first thing we did is it's Texas.

1259
01:25:49.240 --> 01:25:53.800
So we went for some kind of outrageously spicy tacos.

1260
01:25:53.800 --> 01:25:57.240
And so Guido comes to life right there with all the hot sauces.

1261
01:25:57.240 --> 01:25:59.440
And he goes back for seconds and thirds

1262
01:25:59.440 --> 01:26:01.120
and pretty soon he's cracking jokes.

1263
01:26:01.120 --> 01:26:04.000
And he just like bonded the whole team

1264
01:26:04.000 --> 01:26:08.440
because of the way Guido was.

1265
01:26:08.440 --> 01:26:12.600
And it was so fun to watch him come to life.

1266
01:26:12.600 --> 01:26:15.920
It was a trip with Jessica Tate, if anybody knows her.

1267
01:26:15.920 --> 01:26:20.560
And so there was prison ministry and there was street outreach

1268
01:26:20.560 --> 01:26:21.920
and all these things.

1269
01:26:21.920 --> 01:26:24.040
Guido and I kept ending up on the same things.

1270
01:26:24.040 --> 01:26:27.440
Like some people were over doing sozos all week

1271
01:26:27.440 --> 01:26:28.960
and we were out on the street.

1272
01:26:28.960 --> 01:26:31.880
And he was like a kid in a candy store

1273
01:26:31.880 --> 01:26:35.040
with ministering to those people.

1274
01:26:35.040 --> 01:26:36.920
And the other thing we were doing, you know,

1275
01:26:36.920 --> 01:26:37.880
it's a Bethel trip.

1276
01:26:37.880 --> 01:26:39.600
So we're going into churches.

1277
01:26:39.600 --> 01:26:43.280
And the atmosphere was just so dead.

1278
01:26:43.280 --> 01:26:46.720
I mean, the people were like so shut down.

1279
01:26:46.720 --> 01:26:49.920
And I just remember like going up to Guido and saying,

1280
01:26:49.920 --> 01:26:50.960
we have to do something.

1281
01:26:50.960 --> 01:26:54.040
And so we just broke out and got to the front of it.

1282
01:26:54.040 --> 01:26:58.560
We went on the stage and just started dancing like constantly.

1283
01:26:58.600 --> 01:27:01.640
And by the end of the week, everybody in every church

1284
01:27:01.640 --> 01:27:04.640
had all their hands in the air and they were all dancing.

1285
01:27:04.640 --> 01:27:07.360
And we would go out to dinner and Guido would just be,

1286
01:27:07.360 --> 01:27:11.520
I mean, hearing him talk about ministry and give testimonies,

1287
01:27:11.520 --> 01:27:15.200
you would just see, he would just radiate

1288
01:27:15.200 --> 01:27:16.960
the excitement of Jesus.

1289
01:27:16.960 --> 01:27:19.520
It was contagious and such a gift.

1290
01:27:19.520 --> 01:27:22.200
And he became such a dear brother to me.

1291
01:27:22.200 --> 01:27:23.680
And then it was like the same thing.

1292
01:27:23.680 --> 01:27:26.240
Anytime we saw each other, it was a big hug.

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01:27:26.240 --> 01:27:29.240
He gave me his book, didn't have a pen.

1294
01:27:29.240 --> 01:27:30.800
He's like, I'm sorry, I'll sign it

1295
01:27:30.800 --> 01:27:32.040
when you get back from Brazil.

1296
01:27:32.040 --> 01:27:35.160
So I got to read his book on my flight

1297
01:27:35.160 --> 01:27:36.960
and got to leave it with Jessica Tate

1298
01:27:36.960 --> 01:27:42.080
so that somebody in Brazil or many somebodies in Brazil

1299
01:27:42.080 --> 01:27:44.320
will have their lives changed because

1300
01:27:44.320 --> 01:27:48.120
of the gift of Guido's testimony, which

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01:27:48.120 --> 01:27:52.240
he published before he left this earth for heaven.

1302
01:27:52.240 --> 01:27:54.920
So thanks for letting me share.

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01:27:54.920 --> 01:27:57.480
And thanks for being part of Guido's amazing life.

1304
01:28:00.320 --> 01:28:01.520
So good.

1305
01:28:01.520 --> 01:28:03.960
Anyone else who would want to share?

1306
01:28:03.960 --> 01:28:04.760
Yeah, we have a few.

1307
01:28:07.680 --> 01:28:08.400
Yes, come on up.

1308
01:28:11.280 --> 01:28:13.240
Oh my god.

1309
01:28:13.240 --> 01:28:14.000
You're here.

1310
01:28:18.680 --> 01:28:20.040
My name's Kamala.

1311
01:28:20.040 --> 01:28:26.360
And I had the blessing of being Guido's friend for 15 years.

1312
01:28:26.360 --> 01:28:28.640
And so it's been so wonderful.

1313
01:28:28.640 --> 01:28:32.480
I think I've just been so hungry to talk about Guido

1314
01:28:32.480 --> 01:28:33.880
and to hear about him.

1315
01:28:33.880 --> 01:28:39.640
And I know this was home for him for six and a half years.

1316
01:28:39.640 --> 01:28:44.080
And to hear the stories, just different iterations

1317
01:28:44.080 --> 01:28:49.240
of who he's been this whole time has been such a blessing.

1318
01:28:49.240 --> 01:28:52.400
And I've been sitting there thinking,

1319
01:28:52.400 --> 01:28:56.680
which one of the stories do I share?

1320
01:28:56.680 --> 01:29:00.240
There's so many of them.

1321
01:29:00.240 --> 01:29:01.640
Guido was all about love.

1322
01:29:01.640 --> 01:29:03.720
He loved me well.

1323
01:29:03.720 --> 01:29:05.920
And I'm going to miss that every single day

1324
01:29:05.920 --> 01:29:06.960
for the rest of my life.

1325
01:29:06.960 --> 01:29:09.840
But the story that I want to tell was years ago,

1326
01:29:09.840 --> 01:29:18.000
Guido felt like not enough Kleenex in the world right now.

1327
01:29:18.000 --> 01:29:21.960
Years ago, Guido, I think like my favorite memories of Guido

1328
01:29:21.960 --> 01:29:26.440
are answered prayers, like crazy things that we prayed for.

1329
01:29:26.440 --> 01:29:28.640
This is a safe place, though I will

1330
01:29:28.640 --> 01:29:33.960
say that Guido really struggled with just certain things

1331
01:29:33.960 --> 01:29:37.840
in addition to his addiction, just race relations

1332
01:29:37.840 --> 01:29:40.360
and how he saw people of color.

1333
01:29:40.360 --> 01:29:45.160
And he also struggled with having men as friends.

1334
01:29:45.200 --> 01:29:49.960
And so I'm pretty sure I was his best friend at the time.

1335
01:29:49.960 --> 01:29:53.640
And he would tell me, Kamala, I love you, but I need a man.

1336
01:29:53.640 --> 01:29:55.400
I need a man to be my friend.

1337
01:29:55.400 --> 01:29:57.880
And so I said, well, let's pray about it.

1338
01:29:57.880 --> 01:30:01.080
And so I remember the night after.

1339
01:30:00.000 --> 01:30:04.980
church like we held hands and we prayed and said you know God I could use some

1340
01:30:04.980 --> 01:30:10.440
help down here like send this person a man like send him a godly man to be his

1341
01:30:10.440 --> 01:30:15.840
friend and the next morning so we went to Sunday service and our Saturday

1342
01:30:15.840 --> 01:30:21.920
night service and then Sunday morning and he met this guy at coffee who

1343
01:30:21.920 --> 01:30:27.000
happened to be a black man and walking away Guido was like it would just be

1344
01:30:27.000 --> 01:30:33.560
like God to send me a black man because that's what I need to work on and I just

1345
01:30:33.560 --> 01:30:38.520
have so many stories like that where we would pray and God would answer it but

1346
01:30:38.520 --> 01:30:44.280
God would answer it just sort of with a laugh like I see you and I see where you

1347
01:30:44.280 --> 01:30:49.400
need to be but the story that I want to tell was though years ago Guido thought

1348
01:30:49.400 --> 01:30:53.400
that God was telling him or he felt very strongly that God was telling him to

1349
01:30:53.400 --> 01:30:58.400
write a book and I have so many versions of Guido's book on my computer

1350
01:30:58.400 --> 01:31:06.160
because we started and stopped so many times and so he said you know you have

1351
01:31:06.160 --> 01:31:09.720
to pray that this book gets done and I was like of course I'm praying for you I

1352
01:31:09.720 --> 01:31:14.640
will pray and he said no like I need to know that you're praying and so the only

1353
01:31:14.640 --> 01:31:22.000
reminder on my phone is 10 o'clock every day to pray for Guido's book and ever

1354
01:31:22.000 --> 01:31:26.840
since he passed my phone goes off at 10 o'clock every day and I don't know what

1355
01:31:26.840 --> 01:31:32.680
to do with that I don't know how to get rid of it I don't want to but it's been

1356
01:31:32.680 --> 01:31:37.640
so painful like not knowing what to pray for but thank you for your story about

1357
01:31:37.640 --> 01:31:45.080
his book being in Brazil I think that's what the reminder is gonna be that his

1358
01:31:45.080 --> 01:31:55.120
story gets told and that God is glorified and that's it thank you so

1359
01:31:55.120 --> 01:31:58.880
good yeah I just come up here

1360
01:32:03.920 --> 01:32:09.920
yeah hi everyone my name is blaze and I knew Guido from Orange County before he

1361
01:32:09.920 --> 01:32:20.280
came up to school and yeah I just want to say he when when the book he sent

1362
01:32:20.280 --> 01:32:27.280
some books to Texas to get into some prisons there and he actually got a few

1363
01:32:27.280 --> 01:32:35.000
emails back from some inmates in there and yeah so yeah the book is like making

1364
01:32:35.000 --> 01:32:40.880
impact and stuff and so I'm just really excited for just what God's gonna do

1365
01:32:40.880 --> 01:32:46.360
with it and just even though that he's not here like that his life would

1366
01:32:46.360 --> 01:32:54.280
continue to impact people and you just impacted my life like so much and I just

1367
01:32:54.280 --> 01:32:57.480
wanted to share this funny story like we were walking around Hobby Lobby it was

1368
01:32:57.480 --> 01:33:01.840
like the first time I'd ever been in there and the phone started ringing in

1369
01:33:01.840 --> 01:33:07.040
like there was like no employees around you know and so he's like he's like I'm

1370
01:33:07.040 --> 01:33:12.040
gonna answer that phone so he just walked over to the wall like answered it

1371
01:33:12.040 --> 01:33:18.400
and he's like he's like hello and the lady was like looking for a price check

1372
01:33:18.400 --> 01:33:23.080
or something I don't know but like he's like he's like oh I don't work here but

1373
01:33:23.080 --> 01:33:26.800
like you know you just started having a conversation with this lady and like she

1374
01:33:26.800 --> 01:33:33.480
like didn't understand what was going on so you like talk for a while it's

1375
01:33:33.480 --> 01:33:38.320
like I'll try to find someone to help you you know and and then and then so

1376
01:33:38.320 --> 01:33:43.080
he ended up hanging up and so we're just you know look looking at all the cool

1377
01:33:43.080 --> 01:33:46.560
Christian stuff in there or whatever you know we're like walking around and then

1378
01:33:46.560 --> 01:33:52.440
the phone starts ringing again he goes over and picks it up again he's like hey

1379
01:33:52.440 --> 01:34:06.640
it's me again but yeah he was such a jokester you know and I I just loved him

1380
01:34:06.640 --> 01:34:11.320
so much and I just miss him so much and so I just wanted to yeah just give my

1381
01:34:11.320 --> 01:34:17.560
condolences to you guys and yeah everybody that is here and yeah I just

1382
01:34:17.560 --> 01:34:21.440
want to pray real quick so I just thank you for Guido God I thank you for the

1383
01:34:21.440 --> 01:34:28.360
life that he lived and just the impact that he made in the world and I just

1384
01:34:28.360 --> 01:34:33.400
thank you God for comforting the people that are mourning from from this tragic

1385
01:34:33.400 --> 01:34:40.240
loss and I just pray that you would be strong through this time for us God that

1386
01:34:40.240 --> 01:34:46.880
we could lean into you and know you in a deeper way through this God and yeah I

1387
01:34:46.960 --> 01:34:53.800
just thank you father that Guido is not in any pain anymore and I just thank you

1388
01:34:53.800 --> 01:35:01.120
father for that he gets to just be rejoicing with you now God and

1389
01:35:00.000 --> 01:35:06.680
Yeah, I just pray that his life would just continue to impact people and bring more people

1390
01:35:06.680 --> 01:35:15.200
into your kingdom and set more people free from addiction, in Jesus' name, amen.

1391
01:35:15.200 --> 01:35:20.920
Thank you, Bryce.

1392
01:35:20.920 --> 01:35:22.360
My name's Chris.

1393
01:35:22.360 --> 01:35:24.360
My first experience at Bethel was through recovery.

1394
01:35:24.360 --> 01:35:28.440
I met Guido through Hope Recovery about five years ago.

1395
01:35:28.440 --> 01:35:35.040
And I actually run a non-profit that uses story to bring hope around recovery and storytelling.

1396
01:35:35.040 --> 01:35:40.840
And it's interesting, the divine timing never actually worked out to tell Guido's story,

1397
01:35:40.840 --> 01:35:44.080
even though I've known him for five years.

1398
01:35:44.080 --> 01:35:49.360
And yet, through this experience, we're going to get to continue his legacy by telling his

1399
01:35:49.360 --> 01:35:50.880
story.

1400
01:35:50.880 --> 01:35:56.320
And I just want to thank you all for being part of his life, because it impacted me,

1401
01:35:56.320 --> 01:35:58.480
and it's impacted so many others.

1402
01:35:58.480 --> 01:36:03.120
And the seeds of words that were spoken over his life, many from you, there's always this,

1403
01:36:03.120 --> 01:36:07.160
when there's loss, it's like this, it's tragic, it's unexpected, we're like, what do we do

1404
01:36:07.160 --> 01:36:08.160
with these words?

1405
01:36:08.160 --> 01:36:11.560
What do we do with what we know is possible?

1406
01:36:11.560 --> 01:36:14.760
And I felt Guido was highlighted tonight, just the truth that they live on through you

1407
01:36:14.760 --> 01:36:16.760
and through me.

1408
01:36:16.760 --> 01:36:21.400
And I was not asked to do this, but I feel this, almost this charge from the Lord to

1409
01:36:21.400 --> 01:36:26.000
celebrate the ways that his life has impacted you.

1410
01:36:26.000 --> 01:36:27.000
He's run his race.

1411
01:36:27.000 --> 01:36:32.320
And as I was driving here, I saw this picture of him smiling, with that smile he would get

1412
01:36:32.320 --> 01:36:36.920
when like, that smile that was like, you're being an idiot right now, kind of thing.

1413
01:36:36.920 --> 01:36:41.520
And I was listening to this worship song, the next song that shuffled on was called

1414
01:36:41.520 --> 01:36:46.560
Heaven and Earth, and the next song that shuffled on was called Missing You.

1415
01:36:46.560 --> 01:36:49.240
Out of all the songs in my Spotify library.

1416
01:36:49.240 --> 01:36:55.180
And just felt it was this little divine present, this reminder of where he is, and this invitation

1417
01:36:55.360 --> 01:37:00.980
to carry what we've experienced, what we've heard about tonight.

1418
01:37:00.980 --> 01:37:04.220
The last thing I'll share is, this memory came up tonight.

1419
01:37:04.220 --> 01:37:09.820
We were playing ping pong, probably two years ago now, and talking about writing a book.

1420
01:37:09.820 --> 01:37:13.140
And he was talking about how hard it was.

1421
01:37:13.140 --> 01:37:16.900
And writing a book, from a vulnerability standpoint, from a discipline standpoint, it's just not

1422
01:37:16.900 --> 01:37:17.900
easy.

1423
01:37:17.900 --> 01:37:20.860
And I know there's many of you in this room that were part of that process.

1424
01:37:20.860 --> 01:37:23.060
So thank you, because it is impacting lives.

1425
01:37:24.060 --> 01:37:27.740
But that was a gift that he gave us all.

1426
01:37:27.740 --> 01:37:30.580
And we get to be part of carrying that forward.

1427
01:37:30.580 --> 01:37:34.580
And I just want to say to the family, thank you for your love.

1428
01:37:34.580 --> 01:37:35.780
Thank you for believing in him.

1429
01:37:35.780 --> 01:37:36.900
Thank you for praying for him.

1430
01:37:36.900 --> 01:37:41.340
Thank you for walking through this process, engaging in the process.

1431
01:37:41.340 --> 01:37:46.900
It's an honor for me, for many others in this room to be a part of carrying his legacy forward.

1432
01:37:46.900 --> 01:37:47.900
Thank you.

1433
01:37:48.900 --> 01:37:49.100
Thank you.

1434
01:37:53.700 --> 01:37:55.700
So good.

1435
01:37:55.700 --> 01:37:57.340
Is there anyone else, before we close out?

1436
01:37:57.340 --> 01:37:59.140
Yeah, come on up.

1437
01:38:04.700 --> 01:38:11.100
Hi, my name is Veronica, and I remember Guido, it was so much fun.

1438
01:38:11.100 --> 01:38:12.820
Like, so much fun.

1439
01:38:12.820 --> 01:38:17.660
And I remember just, like, being greeted by him and how genuine he was.

1440
01:38:17.660 --> 01:38:22.620
And I remember one time we were in worship, and I had, like, a little bubble machine,

1441
01:38:22.620 --> 01:38:28.260
and he came over, and we were just blowing bubbles, and he was having so much fun, and

1442
01:38:28.260 --> 01:38:31.940
we were just, like, having so much fun.

1443
01:38:31.940 --> 01:38:38.180
And he just reminded me to enjoy the simple things of life, and cherish the things that

1444
01:38:38.180 --> 01:38:39.180
are right in front of us.

1445
01:38:39.180 --> 01:38:40.180
So yeah.

1446
01:38:43.820 --> 01:38:44.820
All right.

1447
01:38:44.820 --> 01:38:45.820
Anyone else?

1448
01:38:45.820 --> 01:38:46.820
Before we close this out?

1449
01:38:46.820 --> 01:38:47.820
All right.

1450
01:38:47.820 --> 01:39:00.820
Some of you might be wondering, how do I get my hands on that book, right?

1451
01:39:00.820 --> 01:39:03.980
We're actually having a bunch of them on this table over here tonight.

1452
01:39:03.980 --> 01:39:06.900
So I don't think there's a set price.

1453
01:39:06.900 --> 01:39:14.540
There is a basket, if you want to, whatever you want to donate and grab a book will go

1454
01:39:14.540 --> 01:39:15.980
to the family.

1455
01:39:15.980 --> 01:39:21.420
So there is a GoFundMe link, I think there's a Cash App link, and there's also a basket

1456
01:39:21.420 --> 01:39:22.960
if you have cash.

1457
01:39:22.960 --> 01:39:28.020
So someone's going to be there, I think, after and guide you if you have questions, but you

1458
01:39:28.020 --> 01:39:34.980
can grab a book, and anything you give tonight with that will go towards the family.

1459
01:39:34.980 --> 01:39:40.700
And just, let's spread that book, all right?

1460
01:39:40.700 --> 01:39:41.940
Let's spread it.

1461
01:39:41.940 --> 01:39:47.540
Let's spread Guido's story.

1462
01:39:47.540 --> 01:39:54.900
We actually, we're going to close out this time together, but I just wanted to, I felt

1463
01:39:54.900 --> 01:39:59.740
God prompt me to do something before we actually have Guido close out this night in prayer.

1464
01:40:00.000 --> 01:40:07.480
I just wanted to take the opportunity, if you are actually in this room tonight and

1465
01:40:07.480 --> 01:40:11.400
you don't actually know the Jesus that we've been talking about, you don't have a relationship

1466
01:40:11.400 --> 01:40:18.800
with Him like Guido had, like so many of us that's been up here and sharing about it has.

1467
01:40:18.800 --> 01:40:22.880
And I know Guido's heart is for everyone to know this Jesus.

1468
01:40:22.880 --> 01:40:29.200
So if you're in this room tonight and you don't know Him, but you want to, I would love

1469
01:40:29.200 --> 01:40:34.480
for you to come find me afterwards and actually let me know, because I'd love to pray with

1470
01:40:34.480 --> 01:40:40.160
you and actually lead you to Him, because He did everything for you, Jesus did everything

1471
01:40:40.160 --> 01:40:41.640
for you.

1472
01:40:41.640 --> 01:40:46.120
The life that Guido got to experience over the last six and a half years was because

1473
01:40:46.120 --> 01:40:51.520
of what Jesus did 2,000 years ago, dying on a cross, taking all our sins, all our stuff

1474
01:40:51.520 --> 01:40:58.400
on Him, so we could actually come to the Father and get a living relationship with Jesus Christ.

1475
01:40:58.400 --> 01:41:03.560
So if you're in here tonight and you're feeling maybe your heart is bouncing a little bit

1476
01:41:03.560 --> 01:41:09.000
extra in your chest right now as I'm speaking, come find me, or anyone that you've seen up

1477
01:41:09.000 --> 01:41:16.800
here that's been talking about Him, and we'd love to pray for you and with you, all right?

1478
01:41:16.800 --> 01:41:23.400
Well, we're actually going to have Guido pray for us.

1479
01:41:24.400 --> 01:41:31.400
Everyone just close your eyes, and God, I just ask right now that you just show every

1480
01:41:31.400 --> 01:41:36.400
single person, right now I just ask that you just fill this place with your peace, with

1481
01:41:36.400 --> 01:41:41.400
your love, that everything that we're trying to find is found in you.

1482
01:41:41.400 --> 01:41:45.400
So I ask right now that you would just touch them in such a special way, you would speak

1483
01:41:45.400 --> 01:41:49.400
to their hearts, that literally from this moment on, they would be forever changed,

1484
01:41:49.400 --> 01:41:54.400
that their days would just continue to grow, they would have a hunger that is so crazy

1485
01:41:54.400 --> 01:41:59.400
that they would never not think about you, that they would be completely obsessed, that

1486
01:41:59.400 --> 01:42:04.400
they would be completely strung out on you, Jesus, that everything in their life would

1487
01:42:04.400 --> 01:42:08.400
be revolved around you, that they would quit trying to tell you what to do, and they'd

1488
01:42:08.400 --> 01:42:13.400
be like, God, I'm done, I surrender, please just tell me what to do, and they would believe

1489
01:42:13.400 --> 01:42:17.400
that it's good, and they would believe that whatever you're going to do for them is going

1490
01:42:17.400 --> 01:42:21.400
to be absolutely amazing, and they would believe that the love that you have for them

1491
01:42:21.400 --> 01:42:25.400
surpasses anything that they will ever understand, and that they would believe that the future

1492
01:42:25.400 --> 01:42:30.400
you have for them surpasses anything they could even imagine, because that's what your

1493
01:42:30.400 --> 01:42:32.400
word says, God.

1494
01:42:32.400 --> 01:42:36.400
So I thank you so much for who you are, I thank you for what you've done in my life,

1495
01:42:36.400 --> 01:42:40.400
and I thank you for what you're doing in every person's life in here.

1496
01:42:40.400 --> 01:42:43.400
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.

1497
01:42:48.400 --> 01:42:51.400
Thank you, Guido.

1498
01:42:51.400 --> 01:42:57.400
Thank you guys for coming tonight, and I would encourage you to keep talking about Guido.

1499
01:42:57.400 --> 01:43:03.400
Keep talking about who he was to you, how he impacted your life.

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01:43:03.400 --> 01:43:09.400
Let's spread that book, and I want to thank the family for coming, and thank you for giving

1501
01:43:09.400 --> 01:43:10.400
us Guido.

1502
01:43:10.400 --> 01:43:12.400
Yeah, thank you for giving us Guido.

1503
01:43:12.400 --> 01:43:19.400
I know he was a part of your family first, and he became a part of ours, so thank you.

1504
01:43:19.400 --> 01:43:25.400
We're going to close this night out like this, and I believe there are still things in the

1505
01:43:25.400 --> 01:43:27.400
back that you can eat on your way out.

1506
01:43:27.400 --> 01:43:34.400
Grab a book, hug someone, yeah.

1507
01:43:34.400 --> 01:43:40.400
And lastly of all, we thank God for the life of Guido, for who he is.

1508
01:43:40.400 --> 01:43:43.400
Thank you, Jesus, for Guido.

1509
01:43:43.400 --> 01:43:45.400
Yes, amen.

1510
01:43:50.400 --> 01:43:56.400
Okay, so one of the things I would like to share is just hearing that is something that

1511
01:43:56.400 --> 01:44:01.400
I didn't share with you guys is most people that has been around in these last six and

1512
01:44:01.400 --> 01:44:03.400
a half years, that life has been spent in California.

1513
01:44:04.400 --> 01:44:08.400
So it wasn't in Washington or Arizona where we were raised.

1514
01:44:08.400 --> 01:44:15.400
So when he would come to visit us those couple of times a year, he was coming back into our

1515
01:44:15.400 --> 01:44:20.400
environment with the kids and stuff with my mom, but we weren't seeing the everyday interactions

1516
01:44:20.400 --> 01:44:25.400
that you guys had, the trips that he would do, the trips to the beaches, the trips to

1517
01:44:25.400 --> 01:44:28.400
the mountains, the snowboarding, the hikes, the mountain biking.

1518
01:44:29.400 --> 01:44:33.400
And so by him telling the stories and especially as I'm hearing you guys up here talking about

1519
01:44:33.400 --> 01:44:39.400
it or seeing all of the footage has been awesome because we didn't see him in this element.

1520
01:44:39.400 --> 01:44:41.400
We didn't see him in the element when he was clean.

1521
01:44:42.400 --> 01:44:46.400
Besides coming up for the wedding and like the few other times my husband and I came

1522
01:44:46.400 --> 01:44:50.400
up here and we went to Bethel with him, that was the only time we saw him in the element

1523
01:44:50.400 --> 01:44:52.400
of being clean and who he was hanging out with.

1524
01:44:53.400 --> 01:44:57.400
So I thank you guys so much for being here and what you gave to him.

1525
01:44:57.400 --> 01:44:58.400
So thank you.

1526
01:44:58.400 --> 01:44:59.400
I appreciate that.

1527
01:45:00.760 --> 01:45:01.920
Take care.

1528
01:45:01.920 --> 01:45:02.120
Take care.

1529
01:45:02.320 --> 01:45:02.920
Thank you.

1530
01:45:03.120 --> 01:45:03.920
Bye bye.

1531
01:45:04.120 --> 01:45:05.440
Good night.

1532
01:45:05.600 --> 01:45:06.280
Whoo!

1533
01:45:06.440 --> 01:45:07.920
Good night, everybody.

1534
01:45:08.120 --> 01:45:09.380
Bye bye.

1535
01:45:09.700 --> 01:45:10.460
Bye bye.

1536
01:45:10.840 --> 01:45:11.600
Ahhhh.

1537
01:45:11.760 --> 01:45:12.520
Good night.

1538
01:45:12.560 --> 01:45:13.260
Thank you.

1539
01:45:13.420 --> 01:45:14.080
Good night.

1540
01:45:14.300 --> 01:45:17.160
Thanks to my lifelong friend Andie and my staff,

1541
01:45:17.160 --> 01:45:20.980
who will be friends with Jessica's husband Paul Constantin Serge

1542
01:45:21.000 --> 01:45:24.040
in order to show her the after class engagement photos.

1543
01:45:27.020 --> 01:45:28.200
And then what more could you want?

1544
01:45:28.200 --> 01:45:29.900
Well, you know how it is.

1545
01:48:00.000 --> 01:48:03.360
So come with me in this space between

1546
01:48:03.360 --> 01:48:05.360
All these things unseen

1547
01:48:05.360 --> 01:48:07.360
And this reckoning

1548
01:48:07.360 --> 01:48:12.360
I know I will never be alone

1549
01:48:12.360 --> 01:48:14.360
Yes, I know

1550
01:48:14.360 --> 01:48:20.360
I know I will never be alone

1551
01:48:20.360 --> 01:48:24.360
There'll be another in the fire

1552
01:48:24.360 --> 01:48:28.360
Standing next to me

1553
01:48:28.820 --> 01:48:32.820
There'll be another in the water

1554
01:48:32.820 --> 01:48:35.820
Holding back the seas

1555
01:48:35.820 --> 01:48:39.820
Should I ever need reminding

1556
01:48:39.820 --> 01:48:43.820
Of what you've been to me

1557
01:48:43.820 --> 01:48:47.820
I'll count the joy from every battle

1558
01:48:47.820 --> 01:48:51.820
Cause I know that's where you'll be

1559
01:48:51.820 --> 01:48:55.820
There'll be another in the fire

1560
01:48:56.320 --> 01:49:03.320
Oh, there'll be another in the fire

1561
01:49:03.320 --> 01:49:11.320
Oh, there'll be another in the fire

1562
01:49:11.320 --> 01:49:19.320
Oh, there'll be another in the fire

1563
01:49:19.320 --> 01:49:21.820
Oh

1564
01:49:25.820 --> 01:49:28.820
Oh

1565
01:49:44.820 --> 01:49:51.820
Grand Earth has quaked before

1566
01:49:51.820 --> 01:49:56.820
Moved by the sound of his voice

1567
01:49:56.820 --> 01:49:59.820
And seas that are shaking

1568
01:50:00.000 --> 01:50:07.280
and stir can be calmed and broken for my regard

1569
01:50:10.000 --> 01:50:21.440
through it all through it all my eyes are on you through it all through it all it is well

1570
01:50:21.440 --> 01:50:36.080
through it all through it all my eyes are on you it is well with me

1571
01:50:36.080 --> 01:50:42.720
oh

1572
01:50:56.080 --> 01:50:59.120
even when my eyes can't see

1573
01:51:01.600 --> 01:51:05.120
and this mountain that's in front of me

1574
01:51:07.040 --> 01:51:11.600
oh we'll be thrown into the midst of the sea

1575
01:51:13.280 --> 01:51:26.000
and through it all through it all my eyes are on you through it all through it all it is well

1576
01:51:26.000 --> 01:51:37.680
well through it all through it all my eyes are on you and it is well

1577
01:51:40.080 --> 01:51:53.680
it is well let go my soul and trust in him the waves in me still know

1578
01:51:54.640 --> 01:52:10.400
his name so let go my soul and trust in him the waves and wind still know his name

1579
01:52:10.800 --> 01:52:25.120
him so let go my soul and trust in him the waves and wind still know his name

1580
01:52:27.680 --> 01:52:33.120
the waves and wind still know his name

1581
01:52:33.680 --> 01:52:37.840
me

1582
01:52:45.520 --> 01:52:51.840
with my

1583
01:52:52.800 --> 01:52:56.560
it is well

1584
01:53:00.320 --> 01:53:10.560
with my soul

1585
01:53:10.560 --> 01:53:13.280
well

1586
01:53:15.120 --> 01:53:17.280
with my soul

1587
01:53:22.560 --> 01:53:37.280
it is well it is well with my soul

1588
01:53:40.560 --> 01:53:45.280
well

1589
01:53:59.520 --> 01:54:03.280
with my soul

1590
01:54:10.560 --> 01:54:19.280
it is well with my soul

1591
01:54:21.680 --> 01:54:33.280
it is well it is well with my soul

1592
01:54:33.280 --> 01:55:00.000
it is well it is well with my soul

1593
01:55:00.000 --> 01:55:14.000
Through it all, through it all, my eyes are on you, through it all, through it all, it

1594
01:55:14.000 --> 01:55:17.000
is well.

1595
01:55:18.000 --> 01:55:38.000
Through it all, through it all, my eyes are on you, it is well, it is well, it is well

1596
01:55:38.000 --> 01:55:41.000
with me.

1597
01:55:47.000 --> 01:56:16.000
Through it all, through it all, my eyes are on you, through it all, it is well, it is

1598
01:56:16.000 --> 01:56:17.000
well.

1599
01:56:17.000 --> 01:56:31.000
Lift up your eyes child, don't be afraid, I hold the world in the palm of my hand.

1600
01:56:31.000 --> 01:56:38.000
Lift up your eyes child, I'm calling your name.

1601
01:56:38.000 --> 01:56:46.000
My love for you is greater than the grains of sand.

1602
01:56:46.000 --> 01:56:54.000
I will be with you, there's nothing to fear.

1603
01:56:54.000 --> 01:57:02.000
Wherever you go, I will be there.

1604
01:57:02.000 --> 01:57:11.000
When all you see is arrows, I'll be your shield.

1605
01:57:11.000 --> 01:57:19.000
I will be with you, there's nothing to fear.

1606
01:57:24.000 --> 01:57:32.000
Come, come away child, I'll keep you safe.

1607
01:57:32.000 --> 01:57:40.000
I'll cover you with peace like a riverbed.

1608
01:57:40.000 --> 01:57:49.000
If you feel like you're sinking, sink into my grace.

1609
01:57:49.000 --> 01:57:56.000
Come find yourself in the love that will never end.

1610
01:57:56.000 --> 01:58:04.000
Oh, I will be with you, there's nothing to fear.

1611
01:58:04.000 --> 01:58:12.000
Wherever you go, I will be there.

1612
01:58:12.000 --> 01:58:20.000
When all you see is arrows, I'll be your shield.

1613
01:58:20.000 --> 01:58:28.000
I will be with you, there's nothing to fear.

1614
01:58:42.000 --> 01:58:47.000
www.mooji.org

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01:59:12.000 --> 01:59:16.000
www.mooji.org

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1675
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1676
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1677
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