 This is the time for testimony. So let's give up for Brian. Come on now. He takes some courage to be here and Brian wants to share some things that God has been doing in his life. And there's a lot of things that he's going to share actually few testimonies, not just one. So God's been doing a lot of great things in his life. So we're going to take a step at a time and we're going to ask him, first of all, I already said Brian, but say your name and where you're from. Brian Pascoe, Washington. Well, nice, nice. So Brian, can you share with us just in a few words how you came to our church? We know that you're recent. How long ago you came and how it came about that you came to our church and kind of got plugged in? Well, it's been about maybe a good five months from now. I discovered you guys as a church through YouTube, watching Vladimir's videos on YouTube. That's nice. So it's about five months ago that you've been coming now. And as you see, Brian has been here every Sunday, every Wednesday, and he's been faithful coming. And so you find out through YouTube. And so you remember what sermon you were watching? It was about the killing your own lions or something like that. Nice, nice. So yeah, YouTube, as you guys know, we have a YouTube channel and we have a website. We have a lot of incredible resources. If you have people outside of the town or family members, if you got blessed with something, don't be afraid to share it. Post it on your Facebook and your Twitter. Call your friend, your family member. Hey, check it out. You never know. God can do amazing, great things. And as you hear Brian, that's how he came about the church and God changed his life. So kind of share a little bit. What were you experiencing before you came to church? And how did, how come into church helped you overcome certain problems and issues in life? One, I guess the main concern that I had or the main issue that I really had is really bad anxiety, like really bad anxiety. That's what really brought me closer or back into, into church. You know, actually, that's what kind of prompted me to start seeking God initially. And that's when I found Vlad and Hungry Generation Church online. So can you tell us a little bit more about this issue of anxiety? How, how does this issue affected you, affected your family, your work? How did it affect your mind, your sleep? All these, all these things. So we want to just know the extent of the problem. He was really overwhelming. He was almost paralyzing like mentally and physically. I remember not being able to sleep for a numerous amount of nights, you know, and that kind of spun out of control and made even worse. I wasn't really able to really be there for my family. You know, I was really emotional. Like I said, I really wasn't able to sleep. It was almost like a bad dream. Like when you have a really bad dream, you wake up and you have that feeling over you, you have heaviness over you. That's kind of paralyzing. It was like that, but like times three. So it was like that, you know, periodically as I was going to fall asleep, it would hit me, you know, it was like just like a wave of ice. Like it was just bad throughout the day. I couldn't, I couldn't really work. I'd, I'd be in my own cubicle there, you know, holding tears in, you know, crying for myself. It was, it was really weird. What about your, your health? I know you mentioned that it was, it was starting affecting and taking a toll on your health. Yeah, it got really to the point where I couldn't breathe. I ended up going to the hospital like numerous times, three or four times. That caused a lot of havoc financially, you know, I was under a lot of stress. And so how did you, what happened then? How, how did God come through for you? Uh, really it came through mentorship between Vlad and yourself, Elia. You know, if it wasn't for you two, I probably wouldn't, I don't know where I would be right now, you know, if it wasn't for you guys's mentorship and your genuine love, you know, for, for me, I don't know where I would be, you know, God, God, God came through tremendously, you know, where medicine couldn't reach me. His grace reached me. Come on, let's put our hands together. On many occasions, on many occasions we would meet up with, with Brian and he would stop by my house, his, his work is really close to my house. We would stop by and after work we would pray and just trust God. Is it true? That's, that's right. That's right. We would actually meet every almost every other day after work, say a quick prayer, you know, encouraging words that you'd share with me, really, really hit home for me. You know, it really made me build a stable relationship with God and really opened my eyes spiritually. So thank you for that. Okay. So wonderful. And now, how do you, how do you feel now? We know how, how, how severe the problem is. What's now, how, how's the anxiety, how that fear, do you experience it? How do you sleep? No more fear. I'm able to sleep fine now. You know, I'm not, I'm not taking any medication. It's all for glory to God. Wonderful. Come on, let's put our hands together for Jesus. God can do the impossible. And sometimes God uses foolish and, and foolish things like this, like pain and suffering to draw us closer to him. Not necessarily that God creates him or, or sends it to our life, but like the Bible says, he takes the bad and he turns into good. And so he can use sometimes these things to encourage us and to show us, look, I am the way I am your source. I am everything that you need. If you come to me, I will help you. I will bring you through. I will show you my grace. And like Brian said, where pills couldn't reach him, God's grace was able to reach and help him. Amen. Let's put our hands together for Jesus. Now, Brian is just loaded with testimonies today. So now it's actually sort of ties into this testimony because of his medical issues with fear and anxiety. He's had to go to the doctors all the time, to the hospitals all the time. And he wrecked up some, you know, of course, you have to pay for everything. He wrecked up some debt or some money that he owed. And so I want him to share a testimony of what God did in this area. Well, due to my numerous visits to the doctor and different doctors and numerous doctors, I racked up about $3,500 worth of bills. And I remember one time Myra gave me all the bills and told me, hey, you need to pay these today. I wasn't paying attention to them. I was actually ignoring them to be quite honest, sorry. But she gave me them and she's like, she said, you need to pay them today. So I went on a quick break and I was calling them individually because it's not just from one doctor. There's actually like three different doctors for the one visit that you take. So I was getting frustrated. I had filled out an application for financial assistance. I think it's what they call it through Cadillac. And I was frustrated in the fact that I couldn't email it to them directly. They're like, oh, you got to bring it here physically. There's really no way around it. So I got upset, actually almost to the point where I was almost angry. And I remember in that private booth that they have there at GISA, I was almost talking to myself and saying, God, you better show up. I need you right now. I can't pay these bills. I barely have enough to cover what I owe. I can't do this. And I was actually kind of angry at God in a way. And I remember moments after I actually was telling my coworker there that I was about to take a break and maybe go in and turn this application in when he actually had told me that his relative worked for Cadillac and was able to maybe help process my application into my surprise. About $1300 right now, we're written off and I'm actually in the process of working on getting the other half to complete the $3,500. Okay, come on, Charles. Let's put our hands together for Jesus. Sometimes even in our weakest moments and the most frustrating moments, God comes through in very unique ways, through through co-worker, through a friend, through, and sometimes it's through a very random thing. In his case, through a worker and God, you know, helped cover the first half of the bill, God canceled. And they said if the first half is going to God cancel, most likely the second half will get canceled, right? That's right. And so now, you know, God just took care of his anxiety, took care of even his bills that he wrecked up during that time. So let's put our hands together for Jesus. So Brian, I want you to share one last thing. You kind of already mentioned it, but about home groups. Church, we have those of you that may be new. We have things called home groups. This is where we get together on a smaller scale, maybe three, four, five of us, six of us, girls with girls, guys with guys now. Also, we have a Vladimir and Lana, they're leading a married home groups where married couples come together. But we have these home groups where we get together and we kind of just connect on a personal level. We discuss the word of God. We learn things in person. And if we have any questions, we address that. And so this is the home groups that we have. We encourage you, every single one of you to plug in. And I just want to, Brian, if you could just share briefly for 30 seconds of what home group did for you and your spiritual walking in general, just in your life. How did it benefit you? Well, it really woke me up spiritually before, you know, actually I had grown up in a church and had walked away for, you know, numerous reasons. But besides that, it kind of woke me up in a way where before I was in a kind of a routine mundane relationship with God, you know, and in where coming to home group, I was able to come back to the fundamentals, you know, and being in an environment that I feel comfortable in. You definitely feel the love amongst us guys. I don't know about you girls, but us guys, we feel this bond, you know, this true love, you know, that you feel that I've never felt, you know, before in a different environment, you know, that definitely does open up your eyes, you know, and make it that much better. Even when you're in service, you're able to connect different pieces and put them together. So that's definitely a big help to me. How did your relationship with God improve since you started coming? It makes it that much more real, you know, God is real, you know, it makes it that much personal. And then where you're able to apply certain things that you learn in home group to your own life. That's right. Come on, let's put it together for Brian for sharing this assessment. He can go ahead and take a seat.