 Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Unfiltered. Pastor David, welcome as always. Pastor today marks the 10 year anniversary since Pastor Chuck went home to be with the Lord. And I can only imagine the things that you're thinking about and the times that he's ministered to you and what he's meant to you in your life. Reflecting back now 10 years, I mean that seems like probably went by quick. What are your thoughts when you think about today and you think about the anniversary of his passing? Well you know there are people who's going home or passing will always make an indelible imprint in your memory. Things that you will, you'll always be impacted by, you know, my father going home to be with the Lord, my mama going home to be with Jesus, you know, and my father-in-law, people who mattered in my life. And as you grow older naturally you see more people departing either for heaven or for judgment. And so in the case of my Pastor Chuck, yeah, it's a very, I don't know, it's a sober kind of sense that comes over me. He was my spiritual father in many ways. I got saved under the ministry of Arthur Blessed. But the very first church I ever attended as a Christian was Calvary Chapel. And so Pastor Chuck had been significant at that time already in the Jesus Movement and Jesus Revolution or whatever you want to call it. He already was. But over the course of the years, after that, after getting saved in all and getting involved in pastoral ministry and having him come out and speak at our fellowship, over the years he became much more dear to me, you know. And at the end of it, Marie and I became very close in many ways, very close to him and to Kay. Marie was on what was called Kay's board. And she was one of the early members of that. And she spent well over 30 years on Kay Smith's board. And me, I traveled with Pastor Chuck many times, went to Israel with him. My very first time in Israel was with Pastor Chuck, went with him on cruises to Alaska, went with him on cruises to the Mediterranean, went on the footsteps of Paul with him twice. I was on his board for the Calvary Chapel Outreach Fellowship Board that oversaw all the Calvary Chapels throughout the world. I grew to know him very well. And he became extremely special to me. When my father died, I spoke to Pastor and he called, Marie actually called him in. And she wanted me to talk to my pastor. And he spoke to me and shared with me like a dad would. On one occasion, we were at a pastor's conference. And I was, I sat down and talked to him a lot. We ministered together for many years. I did 25 years of conferences with him in Anaheim. He spoke here for numerous conferences we had over the years, 15, 20 of them or more. So we became close. And I remember sitting next to him and saying to him, you know, my father has gone home to be with Jesus, Chuck. And now you're my dad. And one of my fond memories was when I was speaking at the Anaheim Men's Conference. And I was the next speaker. And there were a line of chairs. And Chuck was seated in the center. There were maybe five or six chairs. He was seated there. He was doing the introductions. And when I was about to go speak, I went and sat next to him just to wait. And I'll never forget how he turned and looked at me. And I smiled at him. And he put his arm around me. And he drew me close like a son and a father. And he didn't let go. He just kept his arm on me and eventually he got up and walked up and introduced me. And so Chuck was extremely dear to me. And it was through his influence and his grace that God gave me ministry that reached as many and has reached as many as it has. He put me on K wave for many years and gave me opportunity to voice the gospel over the airwaves. He dedicated buildings for us. He was there anytime I needed him. And yeah, I miss him a lot, John. I think of him often. Marie and I both miss him an awful lot. So yeah, 10 years. 10 years have gone by. And it's difficult in some ways to even reminisce openly about it. But he was very important to me, very important to the kingdom of God, but he never saw himself as that important, which is humility. And finally, he's the one who impressed me the most. Though I that spirit of God did this, I must confess first and foremost, it was the Lord Spirit who said, this is what you must do. But he modeled to me, loving the word, teaching the word, saying true to the word, not being distracted by outside cultural things, stick into the word, stick teaching the word, and walk in the spirit. He modeled that for me. And so he taught me not to try and press out, press out forward, try to get known, be famous. He taught me just to be faithful. So for that, I'm very grateful. You know, Pastor, it's interesting. I didn't know Pastor Chuck on a personal level, just seen him a lot on videos. And there's a lot of things, a lot of tendencies that he has that I see that you do as well that I don't even know if you're aware of. Some of the times when I'll ask you a question, I never heard him say this, but the way he would read sometimes I'll ask you or say something you'll go, oh, and or just little these tendencies that I see that tells me how much of an influence he has in your life. And, you know, secondarily, if there's a way to thank Pastor Chuck for raising you up the way he did, that you are Pastor now, and so thankful for that, and that his legacy lives on through your ministries in a lot of ways. So I know that the church is appreciative of that, so I want to say thank you. And thank you for sharing that bit with us about how much he's meant to you. And so thank you for sharing that. First encountered him when he was 43 years old. Wow. I was I was 19, almost 20. So yeah, he had a large part of my life for many years. Well, thank you for sharing that, Pastor. Thank you guys for tuning in. We do want to invite you to our Wednesday evening service that starts at 7 p.m. will be you'll be teaching us in Romans chapter 15. You're just sharing that with me. I'll invite you guys to come out and join our friends and family to join us. And then again on Sunday, we have our 830 and 1045. Always great for you to come out and join us. Invite your friends and family. We look forward to seeing you and God bless you.