I think I used to put so much pressure on what church was supposed to mean to me.

Yeah, and you know Hollywood could be a very, very lonely, lonely place.

You're surrounded by so many different types of people with

different motives and different goals and I was struggling and I was feeling

alone and I was feeling lost. Going down Hollywood and La Breyer we'd always see all these people hanging out around 9 a.m.

And I just saw people smiling all the time.

Everybody happy.

It was like whatever they're doing there, they're doing it right because you just see all the love coming out of everyone.

I remember the first time we walked into church and I was like, what? It was just so amazing and then I realized this is an amazing family and they all believe in this church and this is somewhere I want to be

It was just so effortless to connect. And when Pastor Irwin first talked about the church staying in the heart of Hollywood,

it immediately spoke to me, okay, this is why I've always wanted to live here because I just love

the idea of someone that's maybe never even heard of Jesus or can one day be

walking down Hollywood and La Breah and see one of the baptisms and just say,

man, what is that?

Why are those people so happy?

We're here to stay because we want to be at a place where we can connect as a family.

We can learn from others. They can learn from us.

And this is a place that you can be forever. So you guys know we're in the middle of it right now. It's been an incredible few months as we've been trying to step into this impossible moment of purchasing this property here on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard in Lebraya.

And if you're new here, this is kind of the heat of a moment for us.

And I have to tell you, it's been an interesting journey for me. I've never really

wanted to be in the middle of buying a huge property like this and 20 million

seems so overwhelming to me and I don't know if I can take one more person coming up to me and saying

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