Joe Rigney

Yeah, so that's my former church.

I was a planting pastor at the church.

I'm no longer there.

I live in Idaho now for the last three years.

But I was in Minnesota for 18 years, including through 2020 and all of the riots during that year.

But yeah, what happened was during a service, a normal Christian worship service of a normal evangelical church,

an organized, planned, and coordinated group of people entered the church during its second service.

It was the first Sunday they'd had a second service.

The church was growing, and so they had a second service, added one.

They'd already had one.

The preacher had preached a message from the Gospel of John, chapter 13, called Love One Another.

And as they were in the middle of the second service, a number of people who had been there for the first half of the service stood up and began moving towards the front, doing what your video showed, chanting various slogans about Renee Goode, get out ICE, all of those sort of things, and eventually basically commandeered the building, yelling and screaming at the parishioners, a number of whom fled very quickly because,

in this day and age, you don't know if this is going to be an active shooting situation, right?

Like this is the sort of thing that happens these days.

And so people were trying to get the kids, you know, get the kids out, get the kids safe.

And you saw my friend, Jonathan, Pastor Jonathan Parnell, standing there saying, shame on you to these activists, these agitators.

and then being accosted by Don Lemon, who is embedded with the group and coordinating with them, and being harangued.

Isn't this a great example of constitutional liberty?

Don't these people have a right to assemble and free speech as they are disrupting a Christian worship service on a Sunday morning?

So it was shocking.