Carl Lentz

through laurel canyon to rodeo drive every day it's my first real experience as a christian was working with all um gay people i didn't even know that you know most christians don't have access or contact with people that don't believe like them at this point i'm 20 i'm like if you're breathing and moving you're a candidate for this good news yeah i loved it like my so that's why i learned quickly on my feet how to explain what i believe to people that were already like

through laurel canyon to rodeo drive every day it's my first real experience as a christian was working with all um gay people i didn't even know that you know most christians don't have access or contact with people that don't believe like them at this point i'm 20 i'm like if you're breathing and moving you're a candidate for this good news yeah i loved it like my so that's why i learned quickly on my feet how to explain what i believe to people that were already like

through laurel canyon to rodeo drive every day it's my first real experience as a christian was working with all um gay people i didn't even know that you know most christians don't have access or contact with people that don't believe like them at this point i'm 20 i'm like if you're breathing and moving you're a candidate for this good news yeah i loved it like my so that's why i learned quickly on my feet how to explain what i believe to people that were already like

Oh, here's this young Christian dude. I'm like, hey, I don't know why you feel like that, but this is what I know. And so all of my initial relationships were with people really far from God in their mind. And then I heard about Hillsong and ended up going over there to go to a conference and check it out. Loved it.

Oh, here's this young Christian dude. I'm like, hey, I don't know why you feel like that, but this is what I know. And so all of my initial relationships were with people really far from God in their mind. And then I heard about Hillsong and ended up going over there to go to a conference and check it out. Loved it.

Oh, here's this young Christian dude. I'm like, hey, I don't know why you feel like that, but this is what I know. And so all of my initial relationships were with people really far from God in their mind. And then I heard about Hillsong and ended up going over there to go to a conference and check it out. Loved it.

And then went back and stayed for four years and met my best friends there, met my wife there. Kind of felt compelled to continue to look at ministry as something that could be for my life. And left till song went back to Virginia Beach. We did young adult ministry for like, you know, seven, eight years there. Took a little tiny little thing to something that became really awesome.

And then went back and stayed for four years and met my best friends there, met my wife there. Kind of felt compelled to continue to look at ministry as something that could be for my life. And left till song went back to Virginia Beach. We did young adult ministry for like, you know, seven, eight years there. Took a little tiny little thing to something that became really awesome.

And then went back and stayed for four years and met my best friends there, met my wife there. Kind of felt compelled to continue to look at ministry as something that could be for my life. And left till song went back to Virginia Beach. We did young adult ministry for like, you know, seven, eight years there. Took a little tiny little thing to something that became really awesome.

And that's when we started realizing, you know, there's something special about all of us. Like you have a special call.

And that's when we started realizing, you know, there's something special about all of us. Like you have a special call.

And that's when we started realizing, you know, there's something special about all of us. Like you have a special call.

everybody listening has a special call and once you give that to God it's amazing what can happen with it we realize that about us like we have you know we're not like supernaturally gifted or anointed but we're like everybody if we plant our feet God will bless us you know use us and so we started seeing that in Virginia and then at that time Joel Houston who's a phenomenal songwriter he he said meet me in New York I'm up here doing some stuff and I met him up there and he was like

everybody listening has a special call and once you give that to God it's amazing what can happen with it we realize that about us like we have you know we're not like supernaturally gifted or anointed but we're like everybody if we plant our feet God will bless us you know use us and so we started seeing that in Virginia and then at that time Joel Houston who's a phenomenal songwriter he he said meet me in New York I'm up here doing some stuff and I met him up there and he was like

everybody listening has a special call and once you give that to God it's amazing what can happen with it we realize that about us like we have you know we're not like supernaturally gifted or anointed but we're like everybody if we plant our feet God will bless us you know use us and so we started seeing that in Virginia and then at that time Joel Houston who's a phenomenal songwriter he he said meet me in New York I'm up here doing some stuff and I met him up there and he was like

my dad wants to do a church in in america and i'm like where he's like let's do it here in new york and i was like well nobody else should do that but me and you because we know so much like you know early 30s and uh but we were genuinely like man that's a once-in-a-lifetime shot let's go to the the city of church graveyards where apparently nobody wants any piece of this

my dad wants to do a church in in america and i'm like where he's like let's do it here in new york and i was like well nobody else should do that but me and you because we know so much like you know early 30s and uh but we were genuinely like man that's a once-in-a-lifetime shot let's go to the the city of church graveyards where apparently nobody wants any piece of this

my dad wants to do a church in in america and i'm like where he's like let's do it here in new york and i was like well nobody else should do that but me and you because we know so much like you know early 30s and uh but we were genuinely like man that's a once-in-a-lifetime shot let's go to the the city of church graveyards where apparently nobody wants any piece of this

And let's give it a shot. And so we took our little family. We moved to Brooklyn, New York and started pastoring Hillsong, New York City. And as it grew, you know, our life changed a lot as as as it does with kids. And I loved it all. I love being a part of it. I love what God was doing. We saw hundreds of thousands of people get saved, hundreds of thousands every year.

And let's give it a shot. And so we took our little family. We moved to Brooklyn, New York and started pastoring Hillsong, New York City. And as it grew, you know, our life changed a lot as as as it does with kids. And I loved it all. I love being a part of it. I love what God was doing. We saw hundreds of thousands of people get saved, hundreds of thousands every year.