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I believe he is a friend.
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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.
Sing like never before, oh my soul, I'll worship your holy name.
The sun comes up, it's a new day dawning.
It's time to sing your song again, whatever may pass and whatever lies before me, let
me be singing when the evening comes.
So bless the Lord, oh my soul, oh my soul, worship his holy name.
Sing like never before, oh my soul, I'll worship your holy name.
You're rich in love and you're slow to anger.
Your name is great and your heart is kind.
For all your goodness, I will keep on singing.
Ten thousand reasons for my heart to find.
So bless the Lord, oh my soul, oh my soul, worship his holy name.
Sing like never before, oh my soul, I'll worship your holy name.
Bless the Lord, so bless the Lord, oh my soul, oh my soul, worship his holy name.
Sing like never before, oh my soul, I'll worship your holy name.
And on that day when my strength is failing, the end draws near and my time has come.
Still my soul will sing your grace unending.
Ten thousand years and then forevermore, forevermore.
So bless the Lord, oh my soul, oh my soul, worship his holy name.
So sing like never before, oh my soul, I'll worship your holy name.
I will worship your holy name.
Your holy name
Holy name
Amazing grace
How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
And I once was lost
But now I'm found
Was blind but now I see
I see
T'was grace that taught
My heart to fear
And grace my fears relieved
How precious did
That grace appear
The hour I first believed
Oh Lord, I first believed
The Lord has promised
Good to me
His word my hope secures
He will my shield
And portion be
As long as life endures
Oh
Yea when this flesh
And heart shall fail
And mortal life shall cease
I shall possess
Within the veil
A life of joy and peace
Oh
When we've been there
Ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun
We've no less days
To sing God's praise
Than when we first begun
Oh, amazing grace, sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost, but now I'm found, was blind, but now I see.
In John 11, it says, Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life.
The one who believes in me will live, even though they die.
And whoever lives by believing in me will never die.
Do you believe this?
Father, we thank you that you are the resurrection and the life.
That even if we die, our earthly bodies on this earth, Father, we know that we have eternal
life because you promised us that.
So we thank you in this weird moment of loss, Father, that you are life.
For whoever believes in you will live, even if they die.
So Father, we thank you this night.
We thank you for who you are.
We thank you for what you are doing on this earth and for who you are on this earth.
And we thank you for the life that comes after this, that this is just a dressing room for
eternity.
Yeah, we love you, we adore you, and we thank you.
Amen.
Free to sit down again.
This might be an emotional night for some, I know, I just, I've been, I've been feeling
it this week, for sure.
And that's okay.
That's okay to feel.
We're gonna actually get to see something on the screen, a video that will, just some
bits and pieces of Guido and who he was.
So just lean back and remember who he was and, yeah.
What's up, my name's Guido Guidi.
You were born for great faith.
You were designed for it.
Everything about you is designed and wired to recognize God and to hear God.
Everything about you, all of your senses, your entire creation, what God made you, he
could do no better.
When he made Adam and Eve, it was the high point of his creation.
He could not improve upon his creation.
And everything about us, our emotional life, intellectual life, our senses, sight, sound,
smell, taste, touch, all these senses were actually given to us to be tools that we used
to discover him.
Praise Him from whom all blessings flow.
Praise Him of riches given low.
Praise Him above the heavenly host.
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
We sing Amen.
A friend of mine invited me to church.
And while we're at this church, we see this guy.
And he looks exactly like this member from Korn.
The bassist, Fieldy.
And I was like, dude, I think that's this guy, Fieldy.
And my friend was like, dude, why would he be at church?
And I was like, yeah, good point.
It's probably not him.
Well, the guy walked past me, and I knew it was him.
So I was able to go outside and talk to him for a little bit.
And I was just like, dude, why would you come to church?
And he was like, I love Jesus.
And I just, that, he got to, I got to spend like five minutes with him.
But after that, I just started thinking.
I was like, this guy has the ability to have all the money, all the girls, all the drugs.
Like everything that I thought was going to bring me happiness in my life.
And he's choosing Jesus.
And I knew I was never going to achieve that level, you know, of freedom in my life.
Because I thought that's what was going to bring me freedom.
Was all the drugs I could do without having to go to jail.
And so that helped me to just really think like maybe there is something to this Jesus thing.
I was invited to another church.
When I went to that church, it was a charismatic church.
And I had never been to one of those.
I get there, and I'm just like, oh, my God.
Like some of the weirdest people I've ever met in my life.
People are just like hands up.
They're dancing around.
They're doing all this stuff.
And I was just, oh, my God.
Like I cannot be here.
Like these people are tripping me out right now.
But I just knew I needed something.
And I knew there must be something to this Jesus.
While I was at this church, I got a lot of encouragement.
I was able to start feeling loved.
And while I was there, I was able to move in with a family.
And I had gotten to go to a couple conferences.
And at these conferences, there are just thousands and thousands of people loving Jesus.
And I just would feel so amazing while I was there.
But then after it would be over, I would kind of just be stuck in my head again.
And I was like, man, I just wish there was something like these conferences that happen all the time.
And a friend of mine was like, yeah, there's this school, BSSM.
And at BSSM, it's kind of like a never-ending conference.
And I was like, oh, my God, that's what I need.
So I was able to go through the application process.
And I got accepted.
And that may not sound like anything to you.
But for me, I've never been accepted to anything but basically jail and rehabs.
And I was accepted to this school.
And while I was at this school, just God has showed up in so many ways.
Highlight.
I won!
It's actually kind of good.
I love the look.
Can I do it?
Yeah, come on down.
I feel like I can no longer stand.
I would have stayed a little longer, held on a little tighter.
Now, would I give for one more day with you?
Because there's a wound here in my heart where something's missing.
And they tell me that it's gonna heal with time.
But I know you're in a place where all your wounds have been erased.
And knowing yours are healed is healing mine.
The only scars in heaven.
♪ Don't belong to me and you ♪
♪ There'll be no such thing as broken ♪
♪ And all the old will be made new ♪
♪ And the thought that makes me smile now ♪
♪ Even as the tears fall down ♪
♪ Is that the only scars in heaven ♪
♪ Are on the hands that hold you now ♪
♪ I know the road you walked was anything but easy ♪
♪ You picked up your share of scars along the way ♪
♪ But now you're standing in the sun ♪
♪ You fought, you fight, and your race is run ♪
♪ The pain is all a million miles away ♪
♪ Joyful, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Joyful, today, today ♪
♪ Said I woke up to the summer shining through ♪
♪ Calling all my friends asking what's the mood ♪
♪ Feeling a little different, I'm on something new ♪
♪ Joyful, today, today ♪
♪ I ain't gonna let no clouds get in my way ♪
♪ The only road I'm walking is the one I pick ♪
♪ Catch me sitting in the sun, no time for shade ♪
♪ Today, today, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
♪ This is the day that the Lord has made, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
♪ And I ain't gonna let it slip away ♪
♪ I'm gonna be joyful, yes, I am, yes, I am ♪
♪ Joyful, today, today ♪
♪ I'm gonna be joyful, joyful, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
♪ I'm gonna be, I'm gonna, gonna be joyful today, today ♪
♪ I got that feeling that you get when you get new kicks ♪
♪ Bell ringing on the last day of singing, yeah ♪
♪ High-fiving everybody, but we outta here today, today ♪
♪ So fast, life comes and goes ♪
♪ Make it last, best slow your road ♪
♪ They don't take it as a choice, but you gotta know that ♪
♪ Today's the day, ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪
♪ This is the day that the Lord has made, ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪
♪ And I ain't gonna let it slip away, nah. ♪
♪ I'm gonna be joyful, joyful, ooh, ooh, ooh, gonna be. ♪
♪ I'm gonna be joyful, joyful, today, today ♪
♪ I'm gonna be joyful, joyful, yes I am, yes I am. ♪
♪ I'm gonna be joyful, joyful, today, today. ♪
Also, I'll share this with you.
So we had a 13 hour prayer night
from Thursday night till Friday morning.
And so I, someone texted me at like midnight
and was like, hey, you should really come, God's showing up.
And I just happened to wake up like around 1231
to use the bathroom.
So I was just like, oh, I don't wanna go.
And then God was like, really?
And I was like, okay, God, if you're really moving,
like I, for sure, of course.
I just, you know, sometimes people say things
and then it's just like, I don't know, but whatever.
So I go there and around like two,
between maybe two and three in the morning,
dude, this fricking like glory cloud thing shows up.
It was the craziest thing I've ever seen.
You could feel his presence.
I've never felt it so amazing and beautiful.
And there were all these little feathers,
like snow particle looking things,
just floating around, like circulating,
but they were more going up instead of falling down.
Craziest thing I ever saw.
All right, hope you're having a good day, bye, or night.
I don't know what time it is there.
I don't know about you, but there wasn't a,
don't think it was a picture up there
where Guido wasn't smiling.
Oh, I miss that guy.
You know, seeing that, just kind of,
he was such an amazing guy.
And I know, I know him for the part of,
I think I got to know him when, about 2017.
So I've only known him for the last four years of his life.
But this was my experience of him.
This was who he was.
And my experience of him through school,
and I know, of course he had his ups and downs,
but there was always that, Guido with that spark.
spark in his eye, always up to something mischievous.
There was always a prank coming, you could feel it.
He would jump up and scare you or say something funny,
but I thought I'd just share a little bit
of my experience with Guido,
because to be honest, that's all I can share.
I can share about my interactions with him
and who he was to me,
and then just share a little bit
what actually scriptures is saying about where he is now.
As I said, I always remember,
he always had a smile on his face.
The first time I met him, he had a smile on his face.
Coming into second year of ministry school,
not really knowing what was gonna happen
or who he was gonna meet or he never knew me,
but he had the smile on his face and I knew this guy,
I'm gonna like getting to know this guy.
And if you've had any interactions with Guido,
you always know he's always the first one
to volunteer to help.
He's always the first one to stack chairs.
He's always the last one in the room
to help clean up something or just help you carry something.
That's the Guido that I knew.
Guido came into my life as a student,
but he became a friend.
He became a friend to me, my wife, and my family,
and he got to know my daughter.
My son wasn't born at the time,
but when he came into our life, he got to know my daughter.
And Guido was great with kids.
He's always great with kids.
He always got down on their level, looked them in the eye,
and he would always persuade them to play with him.
And my daughter doesn't play with anyone.
She plays with a lot of people,
but not everyone gets to play with her.
But Guido, he came right in.
And what we saw a lot about Pierre,
especially at the end part,
obviously Guido, Guido loved the Lord.
If you've had any interactions with him,
you know that his life wasn't always that way.
He had a good two decades of the Lord
coming in and out of his life
and him not necessarily always choosing him
and struggling with addiction.
But about six and a half years ago,
his life took a turn for the better.
And so many people have been touched through his life,
through his smile, through his prayers,
through his testimony, through his just, his awe of God.
I remember having team meetings
when he was one of my interns,
one of my third year students.
And he would come in and he would be so excited
because he just realized something new about God.
He just read something new in the Bible
that he'd never read before,
or he heard something that, God is this,
guys, did you know this?
And he was just, he was like a kid,
just getting excited about things
that was very foundational,
but that actually got to me so many times.
Things that for me is like,
yeah, I've heard that a million times.
But then Guido came in and was like,
have you read this?
Have you heard this?
And we're like, it doesn't feel like I have to
when you say it that way.
Guido has something about himself,
of the honesty, the raw honesty,
and just the authenticity that he carried.
He was just himself.
Highs and lows, he was himself.
You could always count on that Guido was himself
in any setting.
But Guido wasn't first and foremost a minister
or someone that was a student.
Guido was first and foremost a brother,
a son, and a friend.
He was someone that wanted to relate to you
and wanted to meet you at your level
and understand you.
Guido was always curious, in my experience.
He was always curious, always wanted to know,
always had questions, always, his mom would know.
I've seen Guido laugh.
I think we all have.
But I've also seen Guido cry.
I've seen him take in of the realities of life
and people not necessarily responding
the way he wanted people to respond.
Or when he prayed for someone
and they didn't get what he prayed for.
Guido had a lot of empathy, and I love that about him.
There were moments where Guido came,
and at the time when we met pretty much on a daily basis
as he was a student, asked for advice.
And it wasn't always about ministry.
It was a lot of times.
But so many more times it was about family.
it was about relationships, it was about how do I dream, how do I think,
what should I dream, what's appropriate, how far can I go?
He always had those questions and I always got to encourage him, hey, Guido, you can go as far as
you want, there's no limits for you. And I remember the time when he was asked to go to Biola and
and speak, Biola University, and he came to me, he's like, I don't know if I can do this,
I've never done anything like this before. I'm like, bro, you got what it takes,
you just open your mouth and share what God has done in your life and you're good. He's like,
sure, yeah, yeah, sure, go for it, just go for it, take a risk. He went and he came back buzzing,
because he'd done just that, he was himself, he just started sharing and he's like, they want me
back, they want me to come back. I'm like, there you go, I told you it was going to go well.
But there was something about Guido, when he just started sharing about
the things that he was passionate about, it just started spreading.
He ministered to a lot of people that most of us probably wouldn't even say hi to.
He loved people on the street, he loved people in misery,
he helped people and always went another round. I remember being, traveling a little bit with him and
always walking down the street, he was always stopping, like,
always walking down the street, he was always stopping,
like, always stopping talking to someone, always stopping helping someone, always
stopping and giving someone some money, helping them.
This is the Guido I remember, the Guido I learned to love. But Guido was just like you and me,
he had his struggles, he had his ups and downs, he had his bad days, just like you and me.
And sometimes his whole life came knocking and
tried to remind him of the past. And I can only imagine the things that
that he might have gone through in those moments.
But he always had Jesus, he always had the strength, he always had the strength to love.
I feel a void when Guido's not here anymore. I think all you in here feel the same way.
I miss him. We didn't interact a lot over the last months of his life,
but even seeing this video and even thinking and talking about him,
like, I miss him, I miss that smile. I miss hearing all this latest adventure or his next dream.
Or his current frustration about something. That was also Guido.
He was always frustrated about the injustices. Justice was important.
But as I was just praying about tonight and thinking about what I was wanting to share
with you guys, I just started reading in scripture what the Bible is actually saying about
what happens to us when we leave this earth. And I just wanted to read a few verses to you.
And then we're going to move into the next part of this night. But
this applies to Guido. Romans 8 38. For I am convinced that neither death nor life,
neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future,
nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation,
will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Guido knew this because he gave his life to Jesus. He lived this.
And I was just thinking about him today as I was praying. And it's easy to think about
the passing and that he's not here. But all of a sudden, God started to show me, hey,
do you actually know where he is right now? Do you know what he's doing right now?
And I just started picturing him standing in front of God with that big smile on his face.
And there's no struggles. There's no worries. There's nothing that is anywhere near the frustrations.
He is where he was created to be.
to be.
The ultimate goal is with God,
and that's where he is right now.
And he's enjoying it.
Let me tell you, he's enjoying it.
He's having a good time.
Jesus paid the price for Guido,
as he said in John 3.16,
for God so loved the world that he gave his only son,
that whoever believes in him shall not perish,
but have eternal life.
Guido has eternal life.
And there's nothing in this world
that has greater consequence
than actually us giving our life to Jesus,
because that has eternal value and eternal purpose.
And Guido made that choice,
and he gave his life to Jesus.
Because of that, he's with him right now.
Yeah, praise Jesus.
So as I was praying about this
and actually thinking about Guido, missing him still,
and his death feels like an injustice and a theft,
to be honest,
these verses came to mind.
Death has been swallowed up in victory.
Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?
Guido chose life.
And even in death, he lives.
And I read this as I closed worship,
and I'm gonna read it to you as,
John 11.25.
Jesus said to her,
I am the resurrection and the life.
The one who believes in me will live, even though they die.
And whoever lives by believing in me will never die.
Do you believe this?
And I think if Guido was here tonight,
he would read that verse and ask you the same thing.
Do you actually believe that?
Do you believe in him?
He would tell you his story,
and he would say,
this is the best decision I've made in my life.
He was all about it.
Guido is where he was created to be right now,
and he's having the time of his life.
I'm just seeing him sitting with Jesus,
just cracking jokes.
I think he is,
and I think Jesus is laughing the deep belly laugh
that he can do.
And I'm gonna read this to you as I close worship.
Punch your kids and dogs.
He loved dogs.
Yes, that's true.
Guido has his time of his life right now.
Guido left us way too early,
way too early,
by something that came knocking from his old life.
The addiction that he won over,
or Jesus won over,
came and knocked on the door
and actually, sadly, took his life.
That's where it feels like a theft and an injustice in this.
But,
death, where is your sting?
Where is your victory?
When death thought it won,
it was a victory for God.
Guido is having the time of his life
with the dogs and the kids and the angels and Jesus,
and having all the food that he can muster.
I don't know how he had the body figures
that he had with all that he ate.
I guess he worked out.
I was also jealous of him.
He could eat whatever and didn't change a gram on his body.
Guido was and is a beautiful human being
that is in a place right now
where we all get to go one day.
But,
I wanna suggest for a moment,
if you would just wanna close your eyes,
I just wanna thank God for Guido's life in prayer.
So, Father, I thank you for Guido.
I thank you for the one that you created him
and the image of you.
Thank you for all the memories,
all the joy that we've had with him.
Even the heartaches and the moments of trouble
that we've been, we still had him.
But, no, now you have him fully where you are, God.
God, so we ask Father that you would just come
and you see those who mourn,
I ask that you come in comfort.
I ask that you would just come and remind us
of the beauty of his life
and the beauty of who he is and who he was
and how he touched our lives individually
in different ways and shapes, Father.
And I thank you that we get to celebrate his life
and remember him and celebrate who he was.
Yeah, in Jesus' name, amen.
We're gonna do this now.
We're gonna hear a little bit from Guta's sister
in just a moment and some other people
that were close to him during his time here.
And then we're actually gonna take a moment,
if there is someone in here,
you have something that,
hey, a memory that you would wanna share
or something, a thought about Guido,
then we're gonna have a little bit of an open mic up here.
And we're gonna take a moment
for you to share if you want to.
But before we get to that part,
I'm gonna invite Robin up here and share a little bit.
So welcome up, Robin.
Thank you.
Hello.
Oh, goodness.
I'm not used to talking in a mic, so bear with me.
I've got something that I'm gonna read.
First of all, I think we're all motivated
by different things.
And some things, it's strange how one thing
can motivate one person and not another person.
But I was motivated.
I had a conversation, it was a tough conversation
with somebody who was really feeling raw.
But it led me to go to sleep that night
and then wake up and I just still had thoughts
that were just going through my head.
And so I just, I've kind of felt that nudge
to get up and write.
And this isn't something that I normally do,
but this is where I was at.
So,
my brother's life has been used.
Can you hear me okay?
Because I know I'm pulling the mic, okay.
My brother's life has been used for great things.
When I say this, it's easy to skip over his life.
Many of you here only know Guido's life
when he was clean and didn't know him before.
Yes, I'm sure you have heard his testimony
and heard snotted bits of his life before being clean.
Guido's life was a full life.
His life had years of pain and turmoil.
Our life as children was not an easy life,
but it was the life we knew.
During these difficult years,
there were many times we were protected or shielded.
And I've come to see this as God's holding,
comforting and protecting our soul.
I can tell you, I always could see how gifted Guido was,
the potential he had, how easy some things were for him.
But I can also say that some things
that were so easy for me, weren't for him.
We all have gifts that are unique to each of us.
Use your gifts.
Don't try to be like somebody else
because you're you and uniquely made.
You are you because of the life that you,
your life, you are you because of you
and the life that you have lived.
When my brother got clean, I was so excited.
These last six and a half years have been such a gift
to see how his entire life was used for great things.
Because of the life he lived,
it was so easy for him to do some things
and also difficult to do others.
When Guido met Becca, he was so happy.
He was content and at peace.
My mom and I came down for their wedding.
This was the happiest we had ever seen him.
We loved Becca instantly.
And they were so at ease with each other.
I was so excited to see what was next.
Now, what came next surprised me
and anyone that was close to him.
But this was not a surprise to God
since he already knew this union would lead him home.
When I said early on that Guido's life
had a lot of pain and turmoil, it did.
Guido was in the best place of his life
and had been for a long time.
At this time, he had dealt with, he had processed,
he had forgave, he had healed everything
that he could see at the time.
But Guido had never been in a true intimate relationship.
Yes, he had plenty of sexual relations in his life,
but not one based on love.
I've often thought of life in layers like an onion.
We get through one layer to then start the next layer of experiences until we eventually
reach the core.
This core was the final step for Guido's life here.
I never expected it to end so soon.
I saw it as the beginning to so much more, but this wasn't the case.
Guido lived a full life and touched thousands of people.
He loved and embraced life, and I look forward to hearing how he touched your life.
Remember that we all make a difference, and we are uniquely made, so be you.
One of the other things that I'm just going to share on a tidbit here is there's a lot
of different experiences that we can share, but one of the things that my brother went
through his years of in and out of jail, he would always, as soon as he got thrown in
jail, it was, pray for me, I don't want to be here.
Pray for me, I want out, but as we saw this reoccurring cycle often, honestly, it happened
way too many times, I started sitting back, and I'm going, you know what?
I don't know if I really want to pray for him to be out of jail right now, because when
he's in jail, that's when he got clean.
When he was in jail, he was in the Bible study.
When he was in jail, he was leading the Bible study, and at least two different times while
he was in jail, he had full revivals in the jails, where more than 100 people have given
their life, and so it was really hard for me to sit outside and want to pray for him
to not be in there, because it was doing the best that I'd seen him.
Okay, so I'm going to cut abruptly, because that's just me and who I am, so I'm going
to pass the mic to somebody else.
Thanks Robin.
We have some people that were close to Guido that wanted to share, so Jalisa, do you want
to start?
Yeah?
Hi guys.
I'm Jalisa, obviously it sucks that I'm here talking to you, but it's also a really high
honor to be able to do this.
If I'm honest, it feels a bit vulnerable to get up here and share a little bit about
one of my favorite people.
So here we go.
I met Guido in first year in 2016, and quickly he became a dad, an uncle, a brother, a friend.
Literally all of those in one for me.
Some days he was more like my uncle, some days he was more like my brother, some days
he felt more like my dad.
More often than not, he felt like my dad.
He would probably say, oh, she's my little sister, but to me that's what he represented.
We discovered that he was literally my parents' age, literally.
He was younger than my dad and older than my mom, so we sandwiched them.
So that's why it was so easy to see him as a father figure.
And you know, in family dysfunction, my own, I felt a lot of parental disappointment.
And where I expected the same of Guido, I was actually met with love and encouragement.
I never felt shamed for anything that I shared with him or because I wasn't better at something,
but instead he always had his guns loaded with truth bombs ready for me to redirect
me to what the father was saying and who God is actually.
So I never felt disappointment from Guido, but I always felt championed and loved by
him and I knew and I could feel the way that he believed in me and that really moved me.
Guido was an imperfect and an unpolished Christian who...
would let curse words slip out of his mouth every so often,
which I absolutely loved about him.
So I knew that he understood forgiveness and grace.
He was the first safe male figure I'd ever encountered.
And he unashamedly threw around
I love you's and you're beautiful's,
and things my natural father never said to me.
Guido helped start this redemption in my heart
for fatherhood and what it looked like
to view a healthy father.
In our friendship, we also discovered
that his birthday is exactly two weeks before mine,
to the day, Thursday to Thursday,
if his birthday is like March 4th.
And so I'm like, literally two weeks after.
And every year, he would send me cute little voice memos
of him singing happy birthday, which is my favorite.
He never forgot.
Even if I did, he never did.
He prayed for my brother, who was also in and out of jail,
prayed and helped me believe for redemption in my family,
who also lives in addiction.
He taught me how to change a tire.
But let's be honest,
I probably couldn't tell you how to do that today.
So went out the window.
We did homeless ministry together
at the Lighthouse Church.
We went on hikes together.
We went to see movies, which was so great going with him
because he always paid,
which at the time we had the cheap theater here.
So it may have been like $1.50,
but it was still on him and I didn't have to pay.
He'd tell me about cute girls around.
I'd tell him about cute boys and he'd get protective,
which was obvious.
We talked about his future children
and how I'd be D.I.J. to his kids
and how he'd be Uncle Guido's to mine.
I always envisioned Guido at my wedding, always.
And he always had a part to play,
whether that was officiating my wedding
or walking me down the aisle.
I never imagined that it would be this soon
that Guido would not be a part of it.
And I always imagined that we'd be lifelong friends
and I guess to some extent that's true.
I always felt so honored and proud to know Guido
and I still do.
I am so thankful that he left his legacy
and that we get to keep sharing it.
I consider Guido a hero in the faith
and an absolute legend
whose testimony is still so very powerful.
Yeah.
Thank you guys for giving me space to share.
And yeah.
And letting me cry up here.
Do you want me to pass it on?
Yeah.
Yeah, here you go.
My name is Brian.
And I am, like Julissa, just incredibly honored
to share who Guido meant to me
and our family.
And let me first start by saying words
can't really describe how much he meant to us
and how much he meant to our family.
I have three kids and he loved them so incredibly well.
And just like his sister shared,
we don't know the extent of what he fought through
to come here.
I remember one time I was praying for his face
and I could feel the metal plates
and the screws in his head.
And I was like, Guido, what happened?
And he's like, you don't wanna know.
I said, no, I wanna know.
The truth.
trauma and the pain he went through.
He is a hero.
I mean, the things that he fought through to come here.
A lot of us know Guido as the happy,
I mean, he was happy, the jokester and all that,
but the amount of fight and perseverance
and heart he displayed is really amazing.
Like many people here, my wife and I,
we met Guido when he came to school.
We were in the same revival group with Julissa,
and that was five years ago and not that long.
We're the same age, Guido and I,
and so just a fraction of his life,
but in those five years,
we saw just a tremendous transformation.
We saw him go from unapproachable and aloof
to careless, careful, I mean, caring,
selfless, and powerful.
I so vividly remember the first time we met him.
My wife and I, it was in first year,
and we were late, and so we had to sit
in the way, way, way, way back at the Civic Center,
like the nosebleed seats,
and we actually ended up sitting next to him
and find out that he got there really early
so he could sit in the way, way, way, way, way back,
and three things I remember about that encounter.
One, he did not want to be there.
Two, he had this tremendous bag of raw carrots
that he was eating,
and three, he was continuously offering them to us,
but that's who he was.
He was so generous.
He was so generous,
and we ended up, I remember being like,
this guy does not want to be here,
and we were in the same revival group,
and we ended up in the same small group,
so it was me, him, and two other guys,
and small group is where I fell in love with him.
We grew close because we were the same age
and the other two guys in our small group were half our age,
so Guido and I were like,
what are we doing here?
What is going on here?
But that's when I saw how special he was,
meeting with him weekly,
hearing his heart,
hearing his story,
but I realized I'd be really close to him during retreat,
retreat week.
In front of our whole group, he stood up,
and I was shocked what he said,
and what he said was,
I just want a real friend.
I want a no BS, real friend that's not fake,
and I found myself drawn to him,
and I remember when I went up to him in that moment,
and all the guys surrounded him,
and I looked them in the eyes,
and I saw this depth of purity and authenticity,
and I was like,
you and me are going to be really good friends,
and I think we all know those eyes.
If you've had time to talk with Guido,
and you've looked in his eyes,
I think we all can agree.
The eyes, my wife always says,
you can tell someone by their eyes.
She's always like, let me see their eyes, let me see their eyes,
but anyone who's looked at Guido's eyes can tell,
we all agree.
He had a depth of character,
a depth of love,
a depth of authenticity,
and it was just something so pure and childlike,
and when you juxtapose that against his past,
you realize just the radical transformation
that God did in his life.
At one of our revival group meetings,
and David, you shared this,
we brought our daughter, who's now nine,
she was then four,
and she had just gone through a whirlwind of change.
She still thought we were on vacation.
We're from Virginia,
and she's like, when are we going back home?
She was in a new place, no friends,
and I remember that group,
Guido got down on his knees,
and he scooped her up,
and he was like, I like your tattoo,
and I was like, I have a tattoo,
and hers was fake, his was real,
but they instantly became best friends,
and whenever he would come over for dinner,
he would just take the time to play with her.
Chutes and Ladders, Candy Land,
he would just sit down and love on her,
and he would do that with all of our kids,
all the way forward to when
she was one of the flower girls.
his wedding, and she was too scared to walk down the aisle
by herself, so Guido walked her down the aisle.
And that's the kind of love that he had for my kids.
And his love for Jesus was so pure,
you know, he demonstrated it everywhere we would go.
You know, he would stop for the one.
Walking from the outside to the inside of class
took forever, because he knew every single person.
He would say hi to every single person.
He would hug every single person.
And he would genuinely say, you're beautiful.
I believe he broke so many things off of so many women
by just sharing, you're beautiful.
He would brag on everyone.
He would always stop for the one.
And he wasn't perfect, like Julissa said,
and that's why he was the perfect friend to me.
Because we were both kind of like,
we don't have time for anything fake.
Like, you know, we're older, let's get on with this.
Let's go, let's do this.
And that's what I loved, he was always raw.
He was always real.
He wasn't afraid to ask questions.
You know, especially in the culture of BSSM,
where sometimes you have the need to perform and be perfect,
and although he did have perfect attendance,
he was so real and so raw.
And that's what I loved about him.
And all he wanted to do was pursue God.
I mean, he would tell me, if God is so real,
if the Bible is real, why wouldn't we give our all to him?
Why wouldn't we?
And he challenged me.
He would come over and he would say, I'm fasting.
And I'd be like, don't bring your fasting
into this house, Guido.
And if you know how much Guido loves food,
the fact that he would fast is how much he loved God.
But he would challenge me,
and I'd been the lifelong Christian.
I was the one who grew up in church,
and he was like, if God is so real,
why wouldn't we give our all?
But over the years, he became so much more to our family.
He became family.
You know, we would have him over for holidays,
Christmas, Thanksgiving.
He would come to my daughter's dance recitals.
He would come to my son's baseball games.
He would always speak into them.
He would pull them aside.
He would pray for them.
He would encourage them.
He would talk to them.
He would love on them.
He was Uncle Guido to our family.
And I loved his questions.
Oh, I loved his questions.
He wasn't afraid of not knowing.
But all he wanted was more of Jesus.
And he wanted the people around him
to have that freedom and that joy.
You know, for me personally,
you know, he was an amazing friend.
And it's still a shock that he's not gonna be around.
It's still a shock that he's not gonna be
at our Thanksgiving table.
To me, it's a shock that we're not gonna be able
to go to Mount Shasta together.
He had a season pass this year and he was so excited.
But while it's easy to just focus
on how much we'll miss him,
you know, he's left us with so many fond memories
that we'll cherish forever.
You know, as a family, my daughter,
my oldest daughter, she couldn't be here.
She's in South Carolina,
but she was just sharing how much he meant to our family.
And I was like, yes, a huge hole is missing in our family.
But he left us with so many amazing memories,
so many amazing times, so many amazing memories
of dinners where we would have to go and buy extra meat
because Guido was coming over.
Of us biking together and he would have to wait for me
because I'm not that, I'm out of shape
and Guido is in amazing shape always.
You know, the memories I have of driving up
to Mount Shasta with him and him talking nonstop
and asking questions and having so much fun
with something like that.
You know, we'll cherish our fond memories of him
and we celebrate his incredible legacy,
the legacy that he's left among us,
the impact that he's had is incredible.
When people share with me the impact
that Guido had in their lives,
I'm dumbfounded about how much he's touched
and helped people overcome.
And I only see a small glimpse.
I know in heaven, he'll have
A line stretched out for miles of people waiting to say thank you, Guido.
Thank you for loving on me.
Your hello changed my life.
You look beautiful changed my life.
Your testimony changed my life.
Your book changed my life.
I know that's what's gonna happen.
And Jesus is saying, thank you, Guido.
Thank you for the way you lived your life.
So I just want to say, Guido, we love you.
You are our family forever.
We miss you tremendously.
But we celebrate that you're in heaven.
And we can't wait to see you again face to face.
Thank you, guys.
Hi, I'm Laura.
And I had the privilege of getting to co-pastor Guido a little bit at Hope Recovery.
And I remember coming to BSSM, and I don't have a really good filter either.
And so I loved having him around because I wasn't the only one cussing in group.
But I loved, as everybody I'm sure will say, just the authenticity.
You knew what you were getting when Guido walked in the room.
And nobody walked in the room and didn't feel important.
And I just loved that about him.
I loved the way he talked about his family.
He loved you guys so much.
And he was so proud of all of you and so proud to be a part of your family.
And he never candy-coated anything.
And despite all that, it just didn't matter to him.
When he would talk about you, the love that would be in his eyes was really quite impressive
and quite challenging.
That was the thing that Guido did for me.
He always challenged me with the fasting and all the...
He never did anything partially.
There was never any gray area to Guido.
There was no middle of the road.
He radically lived his life out.
And I think in the time that we had him, that he did as much for the kingdom as I feel like
I've done my whole life.
And he did it in a really short amount of time.
And I personally feel really honored that he's up there looking out for us now.
He's in a real position of power to pray for us now.
I'm glad he gets to go to Jesus and go...
Yeah.
I'm glad he gets to go to Jesus and go, you got to give her grace.
I look forward to...
I do look forward to seeing him again.
And I just wanted to share one story.
A friend of ours, Andrea, she couldn't be here.
In the slide show, there was a picture of Guido and there was a man sitting and he was
shaving his head.
And then it's the only slide in the whole show that didn't have Guido in it.
And his name was John and he lived on the street.
And he came to the Lighthouse Church where they did a worship night every Monday night.
You were with him on that, right?
And this man walked in and he was covered from lice from head to toe.
I'm out right there.
But Guido wasn't.
There was nothing about anybody that challenged him that he wouldn't walk right up to them
and love him.
And he cut his hair and they took his clothes.
They took him to the Y.
They got him showered.
Guido went and bought him clothes.
And by the time he was done with him, he was lice-free, looked like he did in that picture.
And he did that for anyone.
It didn't matter.
He so challenged my walk and my life and my belief in Jesus and will continue to do
that.
And I am so incredibly happy that we have his story and that we can, as people who love
him, support his vision and get that book into every prison, that we can get that book
into every person's hand who, like, his life is going to be a legacy forever.
And I, for one, am just really privileged I got to be a part of that.
That's great.
Did we have Kara?
Kara?
Yes.
I've actually met you, so I didn't know who you were.
All right.
Wow.
So I did not have the pleasure of having a lot of time with Guido, but the time I did
did have was so impactful on my life,
and just a stirring with the Lord.
So I first came to Bethel in 2018,
never knew there was a school here,
didn't know anything about anything here,
except for I saw Bethel TV on music videos and whatnot.
And I was so freaked out, it was at a convergence training,
training, and he was in third year, I believe,
on 2018, no, second year, I don't remember.
But anyway, so I come into this conference,
and I actually was starting to do prison ministry,
and wanted to bring BSSM,
although I didn't know what BSSM was,
into the prison system,
and somebody just bought me a ticket,
and I ended up here.
And I was so freaked out, and I'll never forget,
Guido ended up sitting at my table,
and we started talking,
and I was literally trying to hide from everyone.
I didn't want anything to do with this.
I just felt very out of place.
And he started telling some of his story.
And immediately, I was just completely just blown away,
because I come from 20 years of active addiction.
I was 20 years in and out of prison.
I was completely transformed by the Lord,
but I didn't know how to talk about it.
I didn't know at that time,
how to kind of navigate it with other people.
And so at that moment, I felt comforted.
At that moment, I felt like,
well, maybe I could hang out here too, you know?
And so years later, I ended up coming to,
actually not years later, months later,
I ended up coming to BSSM.
First year, we did start BSSM in the prison systems
in Alaska, two different prisons,
in the Max Max prison,
and another prison that my dad's actually the chaplain at,
and I ended up coming here.
And so after that, you know,
there's something that happens
when you've gone through this lived experience together.
So I didn't hang out with Guido every single day,
but because when I was watching the pictures,
I was just tears of love and understanding,
because when you live in certain death every single day
for decades of your life, and the Lord transforms you,
and you see the goodness and grace and mercy and compassion
and freedom and hope
that you could not even try and find before,
I know what that feels like.
And so there's an instant bond that happens.
And every time I would see Guido, we would just know,
like we'd known each other our entire lives.
And so when he wrote his book,
it was so cool because he knew that I had, you know,
work in prisons and I'm back in Alaska now,
I graduated from third year last year,
and or this year, my times are all messed up.
In May, I just graduated.
But he called and he sent me like 10 of his books.
He was like, I'll just send you one, you can see what,
I'm like, no, I already know it's super powerful.
Like send me as many as you can.
And so he sent me 10 and I work at a treatment center
and I still go into the prisons.
I'm a chaplain up there.
And so I was able to hand out his books
to several of our recovery residences and prison chaplains.
And we had plans to meet.
I was coming here
on a Heaven and Business retreat this week.
And when I heard that he passed, you know,
and him and I had talked a lot,
we were very passionate about a lot of the same things,
just really bringing the freedom
from addiction and incarceration
and really bringing that freedom
and talking about it from the front of the church
and talking about it to everyone we can
and being on the street and sitting with our people
because that's been me.
I've been on the streets before.
And so it's me when I see someone sitting there.
And it means everything to me to sit and say, I love you
and you matter and you're important.
And so we just had this kindred bond
that happened through that.
But, you know, I just, when he passed,
I just had this incredible,
it was like this stirring that happened
of all the things that we had talked about,
of all the things that I knew that he wanted to see happen.
You know, kingdom on earth,
kingdom in our prisons, kingdom on the streets,
kingdom in every single person,
every single place, all the dark places.
Those are our favorite places.
And I just pictured, you know,
just so many people that his legacy is gonna continue
on and on and on and on and on.
Like there is nothing, nothing that the enemy has taken
that's not gonna be brought to glory for so many.
And so I'm just honored to be able to continue
to carry that out.
And I just.
I love you all already.
We've already had an amazing time.
So thank you.
We have a little bit more time.
So if there is anyone in here you
would want to share either a story or a thought
or a memory of Guido, now is the time.
So you can just come up here if there is anyone.
Yes, come on up.
My name's Cindy.
And I had the amazing opportunity
to do a ministry trip with Guido.
We went to Lubbock, Texas.
And it was awkward at first.
You know, you get however many people are together
and nobody knows each other.
And the first thing we did is it's Texas.
So we went for some kind of outrageously spicy tacos.
And so Guido comes to life right there with all the hot sauces.
And he goes back for seconds and thirds
and pretty soon he's cracking jokes.
And he just like bonded the whole team
because of the way Guido was.
And it was so fun to watch him come to life.
It was a trip with Jessica Tate, if anybody knows her.
And so there was prison ministry and there was street outreach
and all these things.
Guido and I kept ending up on the same things.
Like some people were over doing sozos all week
and we were out on the street.
And he was like a kid in a candy store
with ministering to those people.
And the other thing we were doing, you know,
it's a Bethel trip.
So we're going into churches.
And the atmosphere was just so dead.
I mean, the people were like so shut down.
And I just remember like going up to Guido and saying,
we have to do something.
And so we just broke out and got to the front of it.
We went on the stage and just started dancing like constantly.
And by the end of the week, everybody in every church
had all their hands in the air and they were all dancing.
And we would go out to dinner and Guido would just be,
I mean, hearing him talk about ministry and give testimonies,
you would just see, he would just radiate
the excitement of Jesus.
It was contagious and such a gift.
And he became such a dear brother to me.
And then it was like the same thing.
Anytime we saw each other, it was a big hug.
He gave me his book, didn't have a pen.
He's like, I'm sorry, I'll sign it
when you get back from Brazil.
So I got to read his book on my flight
and got to leave it with Jessica Tate
so that somebody in Brazil or many somebodies in Brazil
will have their lives changed because
of the gift of Guido's testimony, which
he published before he left this earth for heaven.
So thanks for letting me share.
And thanks for being part of Guido's amazing life.
So good.
Anyone else who would want to share?
Yeah, we have a few.
Yes, come on up.
Oh my god.
You're here.
My name's Kamala.
And I had the blessing of being Guido's friend for 15 years.
And so it's been so wonderful.
I think I've just been so hungry to talk about Guido
and to hear about him.
And I know this was home for him for six and a half years.
And to hear the stories, just different iterations
of who he's been this whole time has been such a blessing.
And I've been sitting there thinking,
which one of the stories do I share?
There's so many of them.
Guido was all about love.
He loved me well.
And I'm going to miss that every single day
for the rest of my life.
But the story that I want to tell was years ago,
Guido felt like not enough Kleenex in the world right now.
Years ago, Guido, I think like my favorite memories of Guido
are answered prayers, like crazy things that we prayed for.
This is a safe place, though I will
say that Guido really struggled with just certain things
in addition to his addiction, just race relations
and how he saw people of color.
And he also struggled with having men as friends.
And so I'm pretty sure I was his best friend at the time.
And he would tell me, Kamala, I love you, but I need a man.
I need a man to be my friend.
And so I said, well, let's pray about it.
And so I remember the night after.
church like we held hands and we prayed and said you know God I could use some
help down here like send this person a man like send him a godly man to be his
friend and the next morning so we went to Sunday service and our Saturday
night service and then Sunday morning and he met this guy at coffee who
happened to be a black man and walking away Guido was like it would just be
like God to send me a black man because that's what I need to work on and I just
have so many stories like that where we would pray and God would answer it but
God would answer it just sort of with a laugh like I see you and I see where you
need to be but the story that I want to tell was though years ago Guido thought
that God was telling him or he felt very strongly that God was telling him to
write a book and I have so many versions of Guido's book on my computer
because we started and stopped so many times and so he said you know you have
to pray that this book gets done and I was like of course I'm praying for you I
will pray and he said no like I need to know that you're praying and so the only
reminder on my phone is 10 o'clock every day to pray for Guido's book and ever
since he passed my phone goes off at 10 o'clock every day and I don't know what
to do with that I don't know how to get rid of it I don't want to but it's been
so painful like not knowing what to pray for but thank you for your story about
his book being in Brazil I think that's what the reminder is gonna be that his
story gets told and that God is glorified and that's it thank you so
good yeah I just come up here
yeah hi everyone my name is blaze and I knew Guido from Orange County before he
came up to school and yeah I just want to say he when when the book he sent
some books to Texas to get into some prisons there and he actually got a few
emails back from some inmates in there and yeah so yeah the book is like making
impact and stuff and so I'm just really excited for just what God's gonna do
with it and just even though that he's not here like that his life would
continue to impact people and you just impacted my life like so much and I just
wanted to share this funny story like we were walking around Hobby Lobby it was
like the first time I'd ever been in there and the phone started ringing in
like there was like no employees around you know and so he's like he's like I'm
gonna answer that phone so he just walked over to the wall like answered it
and he's like he's like hello and the lady was like looking for a price check
or something I don't know but like he's like he's like oh I don't work here but
like you know you just started having a conversation with this lady and like she
like didn't understand what was going on so you like talk for a while it's
like I'll try to find someone to help you you know and and then and then so
he ended up hanging up and so we're just you know look looking at all the cool
Christian stuff in there or whatever you know we're like walking around and then
the phone starts ringing again he goes over and picks it up again he's like hey
it's me again but yeah he was such a jokester you know and I I just loved him
so much and I just miss him so much and so I just wanted to yeah just give my
condolences to you guys and yeah everybody that is here and yeah I just
want to pray real quick so I just thank you for Guido God I thank you for the
life that he lived and just the impact that he made in the world and I just
thank you God for comforting the people that are mourning from from this tragic
loss and I just pray that you would be strong through this time for us God that
we could lean into you and know you in a deeper way through this God and yeah I
just thank you father that Guido is not in any pain anymore and I just thank you
father for that he gets to just be rejoicing with you now God and
Yeah, I just pray that his life would just continue to impact people and bring more people
into your kingdom and set more people free from addiction, in Jesus' name, amen.
Thank you, Bryce.
My name's Chris.
My first experience at Bethel was through recovery.
I met Guido through Hope Recovery about five years ago.
And I actually run a non-profit that uses story to bring hope around recovery and storytelling.
And it's interesting, the divine timing never actually worked out to tell Guido's story,
even though I've known him for five years.
And yet, through this experience, we're going to get to continue his legacy by telling his
story.
And I just want to thank you all for being part of his life, because it impacted me,
and it's impacted so many others.
And the seeds of words that were spoken over his life, many from you, there's always this,
when there's loss, it's like this, it's tragic, it's unexpected, we're like, what do we do
with these words?
What do we do with what we know is possible?
And I felt Guido was highlighted tonight, just the truth that they live on through you
and through me.
And I was not asked to do this, but I feel this, almost this charge from the Lord to
celebrate the ways that his life has impacted you.
He's run his race.
And as I was driving here, I saw this picture of him smiling, with that smile he would get
when like, that smile that was like, you're being an idiot right now, kind of thing.
And I was listening to this worship song, the next song that shuffled on was called
Heaven and Earth, and the next song that shuffled on was called Missing You.
Out of all the songs in my Spotify library.
And just felt it was this little divine present, this reminder of where he is, and this invitation
to carry what we've experienced, what we've heard about tonight.
The last thing I'll share is, this memory came up tonight.
We were playing ping pong, probably two years ago now, and talking about writing a book.
And he was talking about how hard it was.
And writing a book, from a vulnerability standpoint, from a discipline standpoint, it's just not
easy.
And I know there's many of you in this room that were part of that process.
So thank you, because it is impacting lives.
But that was a gift that he gave us all.
And we get to be part of carrying that forward.
And I just want to say to the family, thank you for your love.
Thank you for believing in him.
Thank you for praying for him.
Thank you for walking through this process, engaging in the process.
It's an honor for me, for many others in this room to be a part of carrying his legacy forward.
Thank you.
So good.
Is there anyone else, before we close out?
Yeah, come on up.
Hi, my name is Veronica, and I remember Guido, it was so much fun.
Like, so much fun.
And I remember just, like, being greeted by him and how genuine he was.
And I remember one time we were in worship, and I had, like, a little bubble machine,
and he came over, and we were just blowing bubbles, and he was having so much fun, and
we were just, like, having so much fun.
And he just reminded me to enjoy the simple things of life, and cherish the things that
are right in front of us.
So yeah.
All right.
Anyone else?
Before we close this out?
All right.
Some of you might be wondering, how do I get my hands on that book, right?
We're actually having a bunch of them on this table over here tonight.
So I don't think there's a set price.
There is a basket, if you want to, whatever you want to donate and grab a book will go
to the family.
So there is a GoFundMe link, I think there's a Cash App link, and there's also a basket
if you have cash.
So someone's going to be there, I think, after and guide you if you have questions, but you
can grab a book, and anything you give tonight with that will go towards the family.
And just, let's spread that book, all right?
Let's spread it.
Let's spread Guido's story.
We actually, we're going to close out this time together, but I just wanted to, I felt
God prompt me to do something before we actually have Guido close out this night in prayer.
I just wanted to take the opportunity, if you are actually in this room tonight and
you don't actually know the Jesus that we've been talking about, you don't have a relationship
with Him like Guido had, like so many of us that's been up here and sharing about it has.
And I know Guido's heart is for everyone to know this Jesus.
So if you're in this room tonight and you don't know Him, but you want to, I would love
for you to come find me afterwards and actually let me know, because I'd love to pray with
you and actually lead you to Him, because He did everything for you, Jesus did everything
for you.
The life that Guido got to experience over the last six and a half years was because
of what Jesus did 2,000 years ago, dying on a cross, taking all our sins, all our stuff
on Him, so we could actually come to the Father and get a living relationship with Jesus Christ.
So if you're in here tonight and you're feeling maybe your heart is bouncing a little bit
extra in your chest right now as I'm speaking, come find me, or anyone that you've seen up
here that's been talking about Him, and we'd love to pray for you and with you, all right?
Well, we're actually going to have Guido pray for us.
Everyone just close your eyes, and God, I just ask right now that you just show every
single person, right now I just ask that you just fill this place with your peace, with
your love, that everything that we're trying to find is found in you.
So I ask right now that you would just touch them in such a special way, you would speak
to their hearts, that literally from this moment on, they would be forever changed,
that their days would just continue to grow, they would have a hunger that is so crazy
that they would never not think about you, that they would be completely obsessed, that
they would be completely strung out on you, Jesus, that everything in their life would
be revolved around you, that they would quit trying to tell you what to do, and they'd
be like, God, I'm done, I surrender, please just tell me what to do, and they would believe
that it's good, and they would believe that whatever you're going to do for them is going
to be absolutely amazing, and they would believe that the love that you have for them
surpasses anything that they will ever understand, and that they would believe that the future
you have for them surpasses anything they could even imagine, because that's what your
word says, God.
So I thank you so much for who you are, I thank you for what you've done in my life,
and I thank you for what you're doing in every person's life in here.
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
Thank you, Guido.
Thank you guys for coming tonight, and I would encourage you to keep talking about Guido.
Keep talking about who he was to you, how he impacted your life.
Let's spread that book, and I want to thank the family for coming, and thank you for giving
us Guido.
Yeah, thank you for giving us Guido.
I know he was a part of your family first, and he became a part of ours, so thank you.
We're going to close this night out like this, and I believe there are still things in the
back that you can eat on your way out.
Grab a book, hug someone, yeah.
And lastly of all, we thank God for the life of Guido, for who he is.
Thank you, Jesus, for Guido.
Yes, amen.
Okay, so one of the things I would like to share is just hearing that is something that
I didn't share with you guys is most people that has been around in these last six and
a half years, that life has been spent in California.
So it wasn't in Washington or Arizona where we were raised.
So when he would come to visit us those couple of times a year, he was coming back into our
environment with the kids and stuff with my mom, but we weren't seeing the everyday interactions
that you guys had, the trips that he would do, the trips to the beaches, the trips to
the mountains, the snowboarding, the hikes, the mountain biking.
And so by him telling the stories and especially as I'm hearing you guys up here talking about
it or seeing all of the footage has been awesome because we didn't see him in this element.
We didn't see him in the element when he was clean.
Besides coming up for the wedding and like the few other times my husband and I came
up here and we went to Bethel with him, that was the only time we saw him in the element
of being clean and who he was hanging out with.
So I thank you guys so much for being here and what you gave to him.
So thank you.
I appreciate that.
Take care.
Thank you.
Bye bye.
Good night.
Whoo!
Good night, everybody.
Bye bye.
Ahhhh.
Good night.
Thank you.
Good night.
Thanks to my lifelong friend Andie and my staff,
who will be friends with Jessica's husband Paul Constantin Serge
in order to show her the after class engagement photos.
And then what more could you want?
Well, you know how it is.
So come with me in this space between
All these things unseen
And this reckoning
I know I will never be alone
Yes, I know
I know I will never be alone
There'll be another in the fire
Standing next to me
There'll be another in the water
Holding back the seas
Should I ever need reminding
Of what you've been to me
I'll count the joy from every battle
Cause I know that's where you'll be
There'll be another in the fire
Oh, there'll be another in the fire
Oh
Grand Earth has quaked before
Moved by the sound of his voice
And seas that are shaking
and stir can be calmed and broken for my regard
through it all through it all my eyes are on you through it all through it all it is well
through it all through it all my eyes are on you it is well with me
oh
even when my eyes can't see
and this mountain that's in front of me
oh we'll be thrown into the midst of the sea
and through it all through it all my eyes are on you through it all through it all it is well
well through it all through it all my eyes are on you and it is well
it is well let go my soul and trust in him the waves in me still know
his name so let go my soul and trust in him the waves and wind still know his name
him so let go my soul and trust in him the waves and wind still know his name
the waves and wind still know his name
me
with my
it is well
with my soul
well
with my soul
it is well it is well with my soul
well
with my soul
it is well with my soul
it is well it is well with my soul
Through it all, through it all, my eyes are on you, through it all, through it all, it
is well.
Through it all, through it all, my eyes are on you, it is well, it is well, it is well
with me.
Through it all, through it all, my eyes are on you, through it all, it is well, it is
well.
Lift up your eyes child, don't be afraid, I hold the world in the palm of my hand.
Lift up your eyes child, I'm calling your name.
My love for you is greater than the grains of sand.
I will be with you, there's nothing to fear.
Wherever you go, I will be there.
When all you see is arrows, I'll be your shield.
I will be with you, there's nothing to fear.
Come, come away child, I'll keep you safe.
I'll cover you with peace like a riverbed.
If you feel like you're sinking, sink into my grace.
Come find yourself in the love that will never end.
Oh, I will be with you, there's nothing to fear.
Wherever you go, I will be there.
When all you see is arrows, I'll be your shield.
I will be with you, there's nothing to fear.
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