Pastor Paula White's Influence and Friendship

Many of you won't know this,

but Pastor Paula White was one of the first friends I made when I came over here.

And I'm going to talk about why I came over here.

But when I first got into this country,

a mutual friend of ours connected us and said,

you are fighting the battle for Christ.

She is fighting the battle for Christ.

You two need to connect.

And we had a lengthy phone conversation,

and I heard much of Paula's story,

which I don't know if you've shared all of that,

but you definitely should record it at some point.

And I thought, this is, this is my sister, right?

This is someone who's fighting the good fight.

And I'm saying this because I assume that by inviting me here today,

not only, because not only am I not from around here, but

I'm also from a different tradition, as you can tell by my, my clothing.

But I'm assuming that Pastor Paula White would have taken some flak for inviting me here today.

So I just wanted to take a moment to say I appreciate you and I see you.