Pastor Keion Henderson

Everybody that's in that room isn't there because I'm good at what I'm good at.

Some of them are there because I didn't quit when I felt inadequate.

And there's some place in their life right now feeling inadequate.

And they get from me, well, I won't quit either.

So my testimony isn't just my success.

It's also my stretch marks, like how much I've been ripped and bruised.

pulled and the amount of tears I've cried and the amount of moments I felt like not enough and the rejection of my father.

And, you know, I didn't even meet my my brother, who I'm so close to right now.

I've known him my whole life, but he didn't even know I was his brother until I was a teenager.

Like, that's crazy that I was around him my whole life.

And it took me to be 15 years old for him to know that I was his blood brother.

Like, I've been through so much.

You know, like our church being hit by a hurricane and our team coming together to figure out how to just keep the doors open.

Like we've been through so much.

And there are people in our lives, Mick, who are not there just because we're great.

Some of them are there because we got a grind that we didn't quit when it wasn't great.

And and that we kept a smile on our face through all of the hell in the high water.

So you get it from both ways.

Some people are there because of the education.

Some are there because of the survival of ignorance.