Hey, this is Stephen Fertake. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our

podcast. I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you.

Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life,

enjoy the message.

What a joy to be with you today. My name is Larry Bry, I'm one of the pastors here

at Elevation Church, but all my friends call

me LD.

And my wife and I had the distinct privilege of being one of the original eight families

18 plus years ago to start elevation church with Eric my friend here and I saw

Jay Rabin around here and and when we started the church 18 years ago my wife

and I moved into our house on a Friday night right when the church started,

went to the hospital the next Wednesday had our firstborn son.

Here's a picture of how it started 18 years ago. I think we got a picture to pop up there.

That's my boy, Corbin, Charles Bry, and I remember when we took him to E kids children's ministry the very first time

Miss Marie Neal was the first volunteer to hold him. She's still holding babies

18 years later at elevation

blatant him. Thank you Marie Neal. Thank you to all the E kids Heather and

Anthony and and all the people that have sewn into my son and all of our kids

I think the unsung heroes of this ministry are the people that show up every week that serve

our children and raise them up.

And now, this is my son, this is now,

this is just a couple weeks ago.

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