 What happened is about a month ago I received a phone call from a person from Georgia and it was very hard to hear and where you are and anything I'm renting a room and this gentleman he's engaged to a wonderful lady Mary right here and so let's give her a round of applause. Mary from Othello and turns out that he visited his city prior to coming here and he did not like our city and we don't fully blame him because there's not too many things to do if you grew up in a big city and he decided to come and live here but he did not want to do that and the Lord placed on his heart that he needs to come and live here. He worked as a driver for FedEx. He looked into a city and they were not hiring in FedEx and there was no way he could get a job in FedEx because they were occupied. He had a place lined up where he's supposed to move in as he's driving from Georgia the place he's supposed to move in they don't answer so he gives me a call I was like dude come over he comes over checks out the room I chose out I know Mary from Othello and he comes to the church next day and the next morning I want Brian to tell you what happened how he prayed and how God answered his prayer. Yeah basically what happened was I was talking to the Lord and asking him if it's as well for me to be here that he would make the way you know open the doors you know and I didn't see what was going to happen so I mean all I did was just have faith and basically what happened was I went over to FedEx and he said we're not hiring but I'll take your number and then the next day they gave me a call and pretty much they told me to come on in. Before he gave me a call that morning I woke up the next day and I said Lord you know I really need a job so if you can just let me know if not I'll just go back and and he just opened the door for that. And how did that happen? What do you mean? I know the story. One guy got fired. One brother got fired I'm sorry if there's anybody here over there got fired it's he because of his prayers but he got probably the brother was sinning and so but yeah one brother got fired and he got called the next day and they said hey we did not have a job when you came here but now we do have a job do you still want to work here? So he's like yes and he came in and they gave him the job let's put our hands together for Jesus Christ let's give it up for Brian. Hey man Patrick come here for a second. Patrick is the man just Patrick how many weeks ago you came here for a second week yeah Patrick came here just literally for recently and he gave his life to Jesus Christ come on let's give it up for Jesus and Patrick how long has it been since you've been in the States? Like about two years and a half. Two years and a half and you came here as a student on a student visa which simply meant that if it costs you a hundred dollars to go to CBC and take one class it costs you double of that triple yeah and he's not a son of a millionaire or billionaire yet his heavenly father is pretty wealthy but the earthly father is a different story and so he came and it was very challenging because he couldn't go through school without how many quarters you went to school with? I went for like one year so you found money to pay for one year yeah and then you stopped going to school because of no money and you couldn't work because you did not have what? Like employment authorization and so basically like I came here as a student so I'm supposed to go to school like I can't I can't work off campus but unfortunately like some situations happened back home where I came from and I faced a lot of financially problems and it was I was just going through a hard time like emotionally mentally it was just difficult I couldn't even go to school no more and I applied for to change my status so I can be able to get job and go to school and it was supposedly I was supposed to take like three months for everything to finish but literally it took like seven months every time I keep calling them and they they'll say like it's still pending just wait just keep waiting a lot of time I lost hope sometimes I even got mad at God and when you gave your life to Jesus and I know you met with Ilya and Ilya prayed for you how long did it happen after that prayer that you got something in the mail? About the next week yeah literally literally like I met with Ilya and we were talking and he prayed for me and he gave me a lot of encouragement and it meant a lot like I felt different and then after that I went home for like a week a week after that and I just received in the mail like a letter of confirmation and my employment authorization so basically everything is done I was just it was so amazing like I didn't know what to do and I couldn't I couldn't I couldn't hold myself come on let's put our hands together for Jesus Christ did you didn't you did you call Ilya? Yeah it was late because I came like I came to it was on Wednesday after prayer here I went with my friend like I suck up practice and then I came home late like around midnight and then I found a man I just couldn't hold it I was like I was like I want to call Ilya but it was late but something just told me like just call him maybe he's not sleeping and I did I called him and I apologized I was like man I'm sorry for calling you late but you won't believe it you know come on let's put our hands together for Jesus Christ so imagine supposed to get take three months and it took about seven months and he just lost hope came and he gives his life to Jesus Christ just literally a few weeks ago and then Ilya meets with him encourages his faith and then a week later he gets it in the mail just stand here for a second he gets that thing in the mail so now he's able to get a job and is able to actually go to school for the same amount of money that you and I would pay to go to school come on somebody let's give our hands to Jesus Christ I wanted to tell you some testimonies um they're kind of old some of them uh one of them you've already heard before and it's mine it's how I realized that God was real um when I first moved up here from Colorado I was facing a custody battle for my son and I didn't have a job I didn't really have my own place to be at and I I started to see how my situation just it wasn't right and I felt very hopeless in what was happening and one day I was all alone and this was before I was a Christian I went into the bathroom and I closed the door and I started praying to a God I didn't really believe in at the time and I told him if this is your will for me to give up my side of the custody battle then you have to give my son an angel because I cannot handle knowing that my son would be without me and that he wouldn't be protected so um a week later I called up his father and I told him I was going to drop my side of the case and his grandma came and picked him up and I signed the papers to drop my side and a few weeks later I finally came to this church and I was invited to a cell group now home groups and the girls started praying and they were all encouraging each other and one of them told me and without anybody knowing about what I prayed about they told me that God answered my prayers and that my son got an angel and that that really was the moment that it sparked to me that God was real and alive and he could hear me and um another testimony I wanted to share with you was about my friend Robbie and I've known him for about 10 years and he just spent the last eight years in prison um he was diagnosed with stomach cancer and after I had become saved I tried to tell him about God and everything but he would kind of throw it back in my face you know I just had to endure it but um he was recently released to a halfway house in Colorado and because of my persistence and because of a roommate that he was blessed with he made him go to church and it was on a Wednesday two weeks ago and he messaged me after church and he told me that he gave his life to Jesus the next day he went to see the doctor and his doctor had been you know working for 43 years and he told them that his cancer was receding he'd never seen that happen before when Robbie told me I smiled and said that's because of God there's no other way um and I want you all to know that it's so important that we express what we've learned about God to other people