From Promise To Purpose: with Bro Phill Moreino

A six-year-old’s vow becomes a roadmap for a lifetime of missions—this conversation traces how a simple yes led from Guatemala to India, Tanzania, and finally to a thriving Bible college in Zambia. We open with the origin story: a child praying to receive the Holy Ghost and promising God he would go wherever sent. Years later, that promise collides with reality on a first trip to Guatemala, where dramatic deliverance and a key friendship planted seeds that would grow into long-term impact.

Threaded through every segment is a conviction: there is something in the going. Trips don’t just bless communities abroad; they reshape the ones who go, spreading a generational fire as sons and church members step into leadership and mission. If you’re wrestling with calling, authority, or whether short-term trips matter, you’ll find both stories and structure here—faith that submits, serves, and builds for the long haul.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_04 0:39

You know, my first missions trip was back in uh 2006.

SPEAKER_00 0:44

Okay. And uh well uh talk about your getting first involved with missions and stuff.

SPEAKER_04 0:52

Well, for me, it I really it goes back to whenever I was six years old. My my mom had told me that I needed to be filled with the Holy Ghost, so I started seeking the Holy Ghost in children's church. Uh the lady uh that was over the children's church told me about a missionary to uh India, well actually Africa the first week, and I prayed and asked the Lord to fill me with the Holy Ghost and I didn't get filled, and then uh next week she talked about India and I prayed again. I said, Lord, if you want me to go to India, I'll go to India, only fill me with the Holy Ghost, and I got filled with the Holy Ghost. So I all the way back to six years old, I'd always kind of I knew I'd made God two promises, even even whenever I got ready to get married. I told my wife, I said, uh, you know, I've got I've got a call of God on my life, I've made God some promises. So uh don't know how that's gonna play out, but it's it's all played out over the last few years.

SPEAKER_00 1:52

Wow, that's that's a really, really cool. I like that. So talk about your first trip. How'd you get like set up to go on it?

First Trip To Guatemala

SPEAKER_04 2:01

Yep. So uh Brother Schnow invited me to go in 2006 to Guatemala with a team that he was taking. Uh I really didn't realize how life-changing that was going to be for me. Uh we got there and it was just God began to work on my heart. I uh one of the things probably I remember most, I remember, you know, we dedicated our kids whenever they were young, but right while I was there, I remember the Lord saying, Will you will you give your kids to me the same way I gave my son for you? And that was that was hard for me. I remember sitting over in the corner just crying and weeping.

SPEAKER_02 2:41

Right.

SPEAKER_04 2:42

And uh praying and giving giving my son and my daughter for the Lord whatever however he wanted to use them.

SPEAKER_02 2:50

Right.

SPEAKER_04 2:50

Uh it it was a powerful time. We we saw a couple of women that were demon possessed that got uh delivered while we were there, and and then the Lord gave me a connection with a man by the name of uh Chuck Akers, who who became important later on in war missions work for me.

SPEAKER_00 3:10

Right.

SPEAKER_04 3:11

It was a it was just a powerful trip. God used it in a powerful way.

SPEAKER_00 3:15

What impacted you the most on that trip?

SPEAKER_04 3:18

Probably just I don't know. I I in some ways I'd say, you know, uh the thing I remember the most was those two women get delivered from demon possession.

SPEAKER_03 3:29

Right.

SPEAKER_04 3:30

But the relationship that I and I didn't even realize how important that would be, but the relationship I formed with Brother Chuck there, just getting to know him a little bit, right, turned out to be super important down the road.

SPEAKER_00 3:43

Right, yeah. So how long after that did you go on your next mission trip? Or b before I you answer that. When did you start uh your church's mission stuff at that time or was it later down the road?

India Doors Open And Obedience

SPEAKER_04 3:56

It was actually more later down the road. Um my my next mission strip was uh a young man came back from the Bible college there at OBI and told me that uh there was a man from India that had come and spoke at the Bible college. And, you know, I told you earlier about the promise I'd made to God, and I kid you not, it was just like whenever he started talking, I could just tell this was the moment. And uh so whenever he he told me about the man to come and he said, uh, Brother Chuck Akers is supposed to take a team and go there. And I just knew I knew the promise I'd made to God. I knew I wanted to keep my promise, and so uh went to convocation that year, found uh Brother Chuck Akers, and told him told him the story about my promise I'd made and and handed him a blank check, and I told him I said, if all I do is carry the bags, I don't care. I told God that I was gonna if he would fill me with the Holy Ghost, I'd go to India.

unknown 5:10

Amen.

SPEAKER_04 5:11

And if all I do is carry the bags, I want to go.

SPEAKER_03 5:14

Right.

SPEAKER_04 5:14

And so we went and again God God did some powerful things while we were there.

SPEAKER_00 5:21

Uh, you got any stories from that trip you can talk about?

SPEAKER_04 5:25

You know, um part of it, it you know, India is such a different place. It's Eastern culture, things are so different. Uh, you know, never been to a place where, like every business you walk in over there, you they've got little shrines on the walls to their Hindu gods.

SPEAKER_02 5:46

Right.

SPEAKER_04 5:46

Um, that kind of stuff. So women out there in the in the street that were taking these great big rocks and hitting them with rocks and breaking them down into little rocks. Uh what I made two dollars a day, you know, you just realize as far as uh probably there was a a message the Lord gave me there that I I still carry with me to this day. I mean, it was just it w it was a powerful how there was a the when we got there the man told us he said uh the state they lived in had 40 million people. He said, God's promised me we're gonna he's gonna give us this state. And I remember thinking, How can that be? And uh as we were preparing, God spoke to my heart and said, you know, how Joshua came up to the river and how it looked so impossible that they could get all them people to the other side. Now that just just some truths that came out of that that have that stayed with me to this day. Yeah, I can I can hear I can hear warm women crying out that uh had a demon possessed, and how, you know, I mean it it's just a it's a very spiritual place, most of it wicked spirits, you know. It's just but but it was a powerful time. God God really moved in my life, and it was certainly a changing uh a turning point.

SPEAKER_00 7:16

Right. So when did y'all start to uh y'all's church uh start getting involved in starting y'all's mission stuff?

Culture Shock And Spiritual Warfare In India

SPEAKER_04 7:26

So probably so in in in 2011 the Lord opened up an opportunity, actually I guess it's 2012, I went to Tanzania. Okay. And while I was in Tanzania, uh I met met a couple of men there, one of them that I I'm very closely associated with now. His name is Sinat Peary. Um but these two guys had gone to a Bible college and we were there and they did church planning. I actually went with a man that uh that that um he was actually a Baptist guy. And he kept telling me about these charismatic people. And when I got there, I asked him, Are y'all charismatic? And they said, No, we're not charismatic, we're 100% Pentecostal. And he said, The only guy here that's not Pentecostal is the guy who brought you. He even realized I was a Pentecostal. So it was a it was a powerful time. God God began to create a relationship between us there, and and while we were there, I got to talking to uh to the men and the school that they had gone to that had been so powerful had been dissolved, and the Lord placed it in my heart to restart it. And so uh, but he placed it to restart it in Zambia. Even though we were in Tanzania, he placed it to restart it in Zambia. And so that I came home on that trip. There was something else that was very much life-changing in my life. Uh I was talking to them about the Bible college, asking them what happened, and they told me how the the man that was paying for everything had got involved with the director's donor. And I I'll never forget, I stuck my finger out. I was sitting there on a a little cushion inside of a tiny house, old house, old cushion, old couch, and I stuck my finger out and I said, you know the problem was is he wasn't under authority. And when I said that, God told me I wasn't under authority. And it I didn't tell nobody there that day. But when I got home, when I as soon as my plane landed while I was on the tarmac, I called my pastor. And um I told him, I said, I gotta see you tomorrow morning. So I met him in his office and I knelt down there and I said, Pastor, I I'm sorry, I know I've been your deacon for, I don't know, it was like six or seven years, but I said, I really didn't realize I wasn't under authority, but from this day forward I come under your authority, and I've tried to bring every area of my life under authority. Uh and as I have, God has just begun to that's when everything began to change for me. That's when the the missions work began to change. I uh He placed it in my heart to start a a foundation. The Lord has blessed us in our business, and we started a foundation for the purpose of helping create that school, and I put men over the foundation, uh, and I just serve as the director, so they tell me what to do. I I tell them my vision and and they help guide the vision and and through that process God has really helped me and led me.

SPEAKER_00 10:47

Right, that's powerful. So uh how how long's that school been going on? So it took us two or three years, but we managed to get it.

SPEAKER_04 10:58

So that was 2012. By about 2015, we had the school up and running. I think our first class graduated, so it might have been 2014, uh, and we graduated, I think our first class is 2015.

SPEAKER_00 11:11

Oh, that's awesome. That we I know I'm I know another church who's in the process of doing of getting a school together in uh I believe Honduras. And that's really awesome. It's it's I know I remember we went on a I went on Preston with that trip. And we was trying to get it to go on uh go to a school in uh somewhere, I can't remember where it was, uh Guatemala. And so yeah, it's important. It's important to learn absolutely to take that time.

SPEAKER_04 11:42

So I'm excited about you being in school there. That's a great thing. Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 11:49

Taking some time out of my life to try and learn, try and grow. So uh did y'all go to Zambia on that first trip?

SPEAKER_04 11:59

So so after being in Tanzania in 2012, then I started going to Zambia on a regular basis trying to get the school set up.

SPEAKER_00 12:06

So talk about your first impressions walking off the plane in uh uh or walk going into Zambia. Talk about your first impression.

Tanzania Encounters And The Authority Lesson

SPEAKER_04 12:17

Well, so whenever you land in Zambia, you're uh first off, so I I I took uh brother Tim Larido with me that first trip. You know, I I didn't know what to expect. I I'll be honest, I I was actually, I mean, I about scared my wife half to death uh, you know, the first time I went, but uh but in uh when we went to uh Zambia, we get off the plane, and it was nothing like what I expected, because we I think we went in like May or June, and uh it was like a hundred degrees here, and when we landed there, it was like seventy degrees for the high and fifties for the lows. And I just didn't think Africa was like that. I just always thought it was hot.

SPEAKER_03 13:13

Right.

SPEAKER_04 13:14

And uh and I guess I thought too, you know, uh sometimes we think of ourselves as being all these super spiritual people, but uh we got to Zambia, and Zambia is a I mean there's certainly places that need the gospel just like everywhere, but uh they're very Pentecostal.

SPEAKER_03 13:35

Really?

SPEAKER_04 13:36

And uh yeah, I mean I don't I bet you I've probably been to Zambia 25 times, and I I would say the majority, probably two-thirds of those times at least or more, while we've been there, we've heard about an all-night prayer meeting.

SPEAKER_03 13:56

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_04 13:57

It's actually going on while we're there.

SPEAKER_03 13:59

Oh, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_04 14:00

You know, it's just they're just powerful people. They have uh they have people that are in government that are Pentecostals. Uh it's it's just very common. They they it's uh the the people are very much uh hungry for God. I mean, they it it it just feels like what I know you're a young man now, but when I was a young man, the church seemed to be more powerful to me than what it is today.

SPEAKER_00 14:30

Right.

SPEAKER_04 14:31

And it it reminds me of that.

SPEAKER_00 14:33

Yeah. Yeah, you see powerful things going overseas. Powerful things. Speaking of that, what is some of the most powerful testimonies you've got that you've seen God do over there?

SPEAKER_04 14:46

You know, so when I was in Tanzania, I uh that first time, those two guys, I said, you know, and the reason part of why the Lord laid it on my heart to start a Bible college there. So I'm I'm t uh, we had two, one was a uh a pastor there in Tanzania, and the other is the pastor from Zambia. I asked, I was talking to the pastor from Tanzania, and I said, Okay, I said, uh, or he was telling me, he said, uh, my wife was about to die. He said, uh, he said, I came in one night and I was headed to church on a Wednesday night, and he said, She went back home, and they came and got me a little bit later, and she was comatose. And he said, uh, I went back, got her, took her to the hospital, and they started working on her. He said, I went in to see her on Thursday and she was dying. And he said, I stood beside her bed and I said, Thou shalt not die but live and declare the glory of God. And he said, by Saturday, it had all turned around and she came home.

SPEAKER_03 15:48

Wow.

SPEAKER_04 15:48

He said, the following Saturday on our street, a witch doctor died. The next Saturday on our street, another witch doctor died. The third Saturday on our street, a fourth witch doctor died. The third witch doctor died, and then on the fourth Saturday, another witch doctor died. When it was all said and done on four consecutive Saturdays after his wife had come home, a witch doctor died.

SPEAKER_02 16:10

Wow.

Launching A Bible College In Zambia

SPEAKER_04 16:11

And that that was a powerful story to me. That's phenomenal. And so then I talked to the other guy and I said, So tell me about how y'all came to serve the Lord. And he said, Well, he said, I had a sister that had one leg that was about three inches shorter than the other. And uh he said they took her and got a shoe fitted for her, but her leg was so weak that she couldn't walk on it. So he said, My mom was trying to take her to a witch doctor. He said, Me and my brother got saved, and my brother trying to get her to uh somebody to pray for. And he said, A man came from India and uh they managed to get a car ride one way. He said, back in our country we didn't have many cars back in that day. And uh she was a bigger girl, and uh so he said, My brother and my sister and uh my mom all went to the meeting and my mom was really worried how we were gonna get her home. But uh the rest of the story I got from his actual sister, she goes to his church, but he told it that day, he said, but she uh I was talking to her and I said, So what happened? She said, Well, I started jumping on one leg and I was jumping on one leg, the other leg began to grow. And God grew it completely out. She said, I started running back and forth from the front to the back of the church, and they walked home that night and they they said, My Esther's healed, my Esther's and uh just a powerful time of how God had had moved in their lives. While we were actually there in Zambia for a children's crusade, we got we had some a lot of big children's crusades there for a number of years. We would have as many as close to 4,500 kids on the last day.

SPEAKER_03 18:04

Wow.

SPEAKER_04 18:04

Uh we'd have like three services and uh but they uh during one of those times we were there on Sunday in the Sunday morning service, uh Pastor Sinat had just told the story. He told the story how that in Jewish tradition, if a wedding procession and a funeral procession meet, he said the the funeral procession has to stop and give way to the wedding procession because death has to give way to life. Well, he had no sooner told that story when uh all of a sudden one of the men in the church, one of the deacons in the church stepped up, and as he stepped up there toward him, he literally died right there in front of us of a massive heart attack. And uh and and we're s we're sitting there thinking, What in the world? And nobody's doing chest compressions, and Pastor Signat says he calls two of his young men off the front row and says, Stand him up, stand him up. And he takes his hand and he begins to slap his hand and he says, I rebuke thee, foul spirit, in the name of Jesus. I rebuke thee, foul spirit, in the name of Jesus. And they he says, they let go of him, and he just drops to the ground again. He says, Stand him up again, stand him up again. And they stand him up again, and that second time, all of a sudden, life comes back into him.

SPEAKER_02 19:53

Wow.

Zambia’s Spiritual Climate And Prayer Culture

SPEAKER_04 19:55

And uh he goes ahead and goes to the hospital to get everything checked out. We're at lunch that afternoon, he said, Well, he went to the hospital, they checked him out, they said, Yep, you had a m a he had a heart attack, but they said, You're uh he's fine. They sent him home this afternoon. He was there, he was there at our meeting. Uh we would we went just recently with uh Pastor Snow and his wife, Alfrieda and I did, my wife. And uh got her picture taken with him, or Sister Snow got her picture taken with him. But it it just there's I mean I can tell you story after story how God has raised people from the dead, or there was a lady whose leg had been shattered and uh was in a cask, had to put it on a pillow. They brought her to church. Pastor Signat prayed and uh the Lord healed it. They went back to the hospital because they had already paid for the surgery to get it amputated and uh because it had become infected, and the doctor got so upset, he had them cut off the cast. Once he realized he took a picture of the leg and he said, There's nothing wrong with this leg and he s he swore that the two guys that had done the original x-rays were gonna be fired forever, and they brought the original x-rays showing how the leg had been shattered. But it's just it's just a story. I mean, one of the Pastor Signant while we were there recently told the story how uh just recently a young 17 year old man had uh died. And his grandmother called him while she was there in the hospital. They'd taken him to the hospital and he had died in the hospital. And she asked me to pray for him, Pastor Simon. Said and he said, I prayed that the Lord would comfort the family and help the family. He said, after I prayed for him, the Lord convicted me. I called him back and I said, Take that phone in there and put it up against that ear of that young man. And he said, I began to rebuke death in the name of Jesus. And that young man coughed and came back to life. After they pronounced the death.

SPEAKER_00 22:33

Right. That's that's powerful. So uh y'all do y'all's work primarily in Zambia, correct?

SPEAKER_04 22:42

That is correct. We we do the Bible college there in Zambia. Uh we do the Bible college there in Zambia and and uh and we have we do some crusades there in Zambia, so most of what we do is right there in Zambia.

SPEAKER_00 22:59

Right. So you said you were called to India. What drew you specifically to Zambia?

SPEAKER_04 23:08

Well, so I t I told you that first time. I said the first week I prayed, Lord, if you want me to go to Africa, I'll go to Africa, only fill me with the Holy Ghost. And then the next week, if you want me to go to India, I'll go to India, only fill me with the Holy Ghost. And I've probably been to India four or five times. Uh but uh while I when I went to Tanzania, while I was there and God was dealing with me, I realized something I'd made God too promise. And I tell people, I say, if if you want to understand that, uh if you'll if you'll ask a child, or if you tell a child, hey, if you get AIDS on your report card, I'll give you twenty dollars. And then the next week you tell them, if you get A's on your report card, I'll give you a new bicycle. I said, whenever they get A's on the report card, I said, they don't want one or the other, they want both. And while I was there, I realized I'd made God two promises, and so uh Africa became just as much a part of what God and I do I still expect that God'll has things to do with my life in India, but uh in this moment of time it the focus is on Zambia and Africa.

SPEAKER_00 24:38

That's awesome. I love that, that's awesome. So what all do y'all do in uh in y'all's missions work?

SPEAKER_04 24:46

So we we have the we have the Bible college there. Uh each year we have classes. We uh we have done children's crusades, like I said, there in the past. Uh there's a possibility we may be doing them again. I've got a a door of opportunity that's opened up there in Tanzania with another friend of mine. Um we do some crusades. There's a chieftainess. They have chief chiefs and chieftainesses, and uh there's a chieftainess that uh what became a Christian and a lot of times down there when they would do the uh what you call the uh the uh the kids' crusades, they have a ritual. Oh, okay. Uh they have rituals where they dance every year to the ancestors.

SPEAKER_03 25:45

Right.

SPEAKER_04 25:46

Instead of doing that, she would hold a crusade. And so I said, I want to go meet this lady. So we became part of those crusades down there. And then just recently we we went back for an empowerment experience there with our our graduates, and that's something that we plan to make a yearly thing.

SPEAKER_00 26:06

Oh, that's awesome. I know y'all do that at y'all's church, and it's powerful. Really powerful. So uh is there any more stories you want to talk about about all those that stuff before you move on to something else?

SPEAKER_04 26:22

No, I mean I could tell you stories all day, but I'll I'm I'm glad to move forward.

SPEAKER_00 26:27

All right. So uh a couple years how many years ago was it you went with us? It's probably two, two and a half. Okay. Two around two and a half years. Uh you and your pastor, brother Randy Snow at the time, and then uh brother f uh brother uh Lonnie Adams, y'all was planning to go to Honduras. You I assume you and Brother Randy had never been, correct?

SPEAKER_04 26:53

That's correct. That was our first time there.

SPEAKER_00 26:55

I think that was all three of y'all's first time coming to Honduras.

SPEAKER_04 26:58

It was, every one of us.

SPEAKER_00 27:00

So somehow I got be got me and my dad was able to go on this trip with y'all, and we had a phenomenal trip. Absolutely. So let's go ahead and get into that trip.

SPEAKER_04 27:14

So uh went down there, minister's conference. Uh I I you know, it I was a little bit intimidated because uh pastor's gonna be preaching and and we're supposed to help him preach, and Brother Lonnie's gonna be preaching. You know, I'm the I'm the only guy in the group that's really not a a pastor, but uh it was just I felt like the Lord really helped us on that trip. It was just a powerful time where God just spoke into the lives of the ministers there, and and I mean we I still remember being up, y'all had rented that house, and we were up there, it was just pretty up there and everything like that. It was just a wonder time wonderful time of fellowship and uh just uh a wonderful time of seeing God move.

SPEAKER_00 28:06

Well, I'll tell you that message that message you preached about the oil was phenomenal.

SPEAKER_03 28:13

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 28:14

You was preaching full fire, it was phenomenal. I remember one cool thing about that trip was the two interpreters we had. We had a pastor from in the tech from in uh San Pedro Sula where we uh where we land in the city, and hit one of his daughters and a friend of hers went with us and talk about that.

SPEAKER_04 28:36

Yeah, it was it was so odd because uh, you know, these two girls that went with us, uh they weren't as um, you know, they they weren't really full-time uh interpreters. And uh, you know, I remember I think I had a different interpreter every day. And every day I felt like the Lord used the interpreter to speak the exact word. I mean it was just uh and I'll never forget that that last day, the one you're talking about, as we talked about the oil. To be full of anything, you have to be empty of everything else. And uh as the Spirit of God was moving that day, I I remember whenever we got done, he said, I could feel it like fire burning through me. Oh, she said, it was such a it was such a powerful time. The Lord really helped us that time.

SPEAKER_00 29:33

Yeah, I remember you was you was so on fire preaching and stuff that she like you didn't pause, you just kept going and she was like right behind you with it. She did phenomenal. It was it was powerful, really powerful. So I remember one cool thing about that trip was I believe it was what's that church called? There was a church that y'all had helped uh work on, help sent money to help build that y'all got to go see finished. What'd y'all think of that?

SPEAKER_04 30:02

That was an awesome time. Yeah, and I I I'll be honest. What I remember most, Kent, and again, uh we went to some church and Pastor and Danny and I don't know where your dad was. He must have gone inside too. I don't remember. I I just remember it was me and you standing outside.

SPEAKER_00 30:26

We were sitting in the truck in the rain. Yep. And just sit there and talk.

SPEAKER_04 30:33

And uh I I believe God I I personally believe in divine connection. And I felt like that was a divine connection. Oh, I was that the Lord just allowed us to form a more than just uh, hey, I know who you are, you know, but just to get to connect with somebody, and I believe God used that exact moment to to bring us together for a purpose. And I I'm telling you, and I know that's not why you called me today, but there's a call on your life, there's a purpose in your life, and God's gonna accomplish through you that which He has prepared from the very beginning of time.

SPEAKER_00 31:23

I appreciate that, brother. I really do. We we uh at that time I want to say I didn't get too many people's phone numbers. Whenever I went on a trip, I never got anybody's phone number. Yours was like one of the first persons I actually got a phone number for on a trip. And that that meant a lot to me that time talking. I really, really that meant a lot to me. Thank you for sitting there and talking with me on that. I really enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_04 31:47

Well, it it was a blessing to me too. Yes, sir. I love you, I love your spirit, I love your heart, I love I love your love for Honduras. I mean, everything about it is is great.

Why Africa And India Both Matter

SPEAKER_00 32:00

I appreciate that, brother. It was a phenomenal trip. I remember I hadn't went on a trip in a little while, I want to say, before that one. I had gone on two trips before that, and uh it took a couple years before I went on another one, and that was the one I went, and it was for a long time I always said it was my favorite trip I've ever been on. It was one of the best missions trips I've ever been on. And one of the things was getting to hang out with y'all and stuff, and I really enjoyed it. It was it was it was a powerful trip. The services were powerful. It was it was awesome. Getting to meet you, I I enjoyed it. We had a good time there talking, and also uh dying laughing on the way back to the airport.

SPEAKER_04 32:43

Absolutely, it was powerful. Not only uh it it was it was uh it was a powerful spiritual trip, but it was a fun trip too. I and I'll always be appreciative of the relationship the Lord gave me with your dad. I felt like that was a divine appointment as well.

SPEAKER_00 32:57

I agree, I agree. So yeah, it was phenomenal. Getting to watch you and Brother Randy was so funny. I enjoyed it. It was fun. So uh is there anything else about that trip that really stuck out to you you'd like to talk about?

SPEAKER_04 33:16

Uh, you know, other than other than the importance of divine appointment.

SPEAKER_03 33:23

Amen.

SPEAKER_04 33:24

Just recognizing so often. It's in those moments when we set time aside with God that God does things in our lives change the very course of our lives.

SPEAKER_00 33:36

Amen. Yeah, that sitting there really meant a lot to me. And I'll tell you, in one of your messages you preached, there was something you preached on that made me make a decision that I've just been doing ever since that trip. Uh I'll tell you about it later. I'm not gonna put it on the podcast, but I'll tell you about it. But it was a made it made me had me make a decision that I've uh that I've done for a long time now, so I really appreciated that. Well, I think we're gonna go ahead and get a couple more questions in before we close this podcast down. The first one I want to ask you is uh what has touched you the most in all of your missions experience?

SPEAKER_03 34:21

I know there's a lot.

Crusades, Chiefs, And Ongoing Training

SPEAKER_04 34:23

There is probably the thing that has touched me the most is uh when I see the impact, like probably one of the things that meant the most to me was looking up and all of a sudden I saw my son leading trips to different places. He's led trips to Africa, he's led trips to uh Honduras, he's led trips to to uh uh Guatemala out of our church to Haiti, you know, seeing that come to another generation, I think, and even just seeing not even in my own son, but in other people that get involved in missions as a result of having gone on missions trips, I think that's probably been the most impactful to me. Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 35:22

What would you say to someone who doesn't believe missions work is important?

SPEAKER_04 35:28

You know, what I would say to that person who says they don't know if it's important, I'd say go on a trip.

unknown 35:34

Amen.

SPEAKER_04 35:35

There's something about setting that side time aside. I've I don't know that I've hardly met anybody that's ever gone on a trip that hasn't been changed by it.

SPEAKER_00 35:44

Amen. Very powerful. So I'm gonna go ahead and give you a little bit of time here, or well, take as much time as you want. We got plenty of time to kind of just give some closing remarks, if there's something you want to say, a story you want to tell, or just stuff you want to say that maybe a question I didn't ask you, stuff you want to say before we close. You got as much time as you want, so you go ahead.

Honduras Trip And Divine Connections

SPEAKER_04 36:08

You know, I I guess if I would say anything, you know, I've I've probably I've probably been to Africa over twenty, twenty-five times. I've been to India probably four or five times, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras. Every one of those trips I can look back at times where God worked in my life, what worked in the lives of other people. You know, so often we think and it it is, you know, like just talking to you here today, there's things that happened in your life that are that I wasn't even aware of. There's things that God started and birthed in your life. There's something about that process of separating ourselves apart and going. And I if I was gonna end with one thing, I would end with this right here. The last thing we say in li is often the most important thing we say. If I'm getting especially if I'm getting ready to leave, right. I know whenever I'm getting ready to leave to go on a trip, I I have this list of instructions and I go through that list of instructions and I make sure that everybody gets that list because that that's gotta be done. And when the Lord got ready to leave, his last message was go ye therefore. And there's something that happens in the going. And I would encourage anybody who's ever who anybody who ever gets an opportunity or a chance, and if you haven't had a chance, call us and we'll try to give you a chance, because there's something in the going. We've got a one of the ladies that went with us on that trip, that first trip I went on to Guatemala. It was a future trip. We she went at a different time, one of the other times I went to Guatemala. And but she's getting ready to go into full-time missions.

SPEAKER_03 38:17

Wow.

SPEAKER_04 38:18

She's starting to itinerate right now. You know, I see others, uh I see them regular on mission. Once you ever get involved, you'll want to go all the time because there's something about the going that God uses in a powerful way. I just encourage everybody, follow the follow the call of God, go. As you say it.

SPEAKER_00 38:39

Amen. And with that, we're gonna close this podcast. This has been a good podcast. I've enjoyed getting to talk to you, brother. I ain't been I ain't talked to you. We talked the other day about doing this, but before that, I ain't talked in a little while. So I've enjoyed getting to talk to you again. It's been good. And I've when you're talking about Preston. Preston, if you don't know, Preston Marino is brother Phil Marino's son. We actually talked to him and his wife, Kim, on the podcast uh a couple podcasts ago, and they did phenomenal. Uh and they are really doing good in Honduras, brother. I've been on multiple trips with you, and I can tell you they they they've got it. They're doing good, really good at it. Awesome. Some of my favorite trips. I love you. Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to be on this podcast with you.

SPEAKER_04 39:23

I love you very much.

Lasting Impact And Generational Missions

SPEAKER_00 39:24

I love you too. Thank you for giving me your time today. Don't get off the phone just yet. I'm gonna pause this and then I'm gonna talk to you a little bit uh just to talk. But thank you for being on this podcast. It's been a blessing, it's been an honor to have you on. Thank you, and I'll go. Brother Phil talked about subjecting to his pastor, and I want to go into that a little bit. Hebrews 13, 17 says, Obey them that have the rule over you and submit yourselves, for they watch for your souls as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy and not with grief, for that is unprofitable for you. The Bible is very clear that we are supposed to obey authority, we are supposed to subject to the authority God puts over us. God wants us to do this. This is uh what he asked for us. We might not understand why he wants us to do it or why he has put that person over us, but he's got a reason. Our pastors, he's put our pastors there for a reason to lead us and guide us, and we need to subject to that. People at our bosses at work, we might think we can do a better job or we might not respect them, but God has called us to respect and to obey that person that we're working for. Our parents, kids, God put your parents over you for a reason. I promise you, they know way more than you know, and they can guide you and teach you how and show you what's right and wrong. So subject to that authority, don't go into a job or don't go to church thinking, oh, I'm just going, but I don't, I'm not gonna listen to the person that God's put over me. Listen to that person and do whatever it is God has of you. Subject to the authority put over you. So I want to encourage you today, whatever authority God has got over you. You might not know why, but God's got a reason. Whether it's that you need to learn, maybe you need to be humbled, maybe it's that he wants to teach you through this process, or maybe you need this authority for this time, whatever the reason, God has got a reason for that authority. So I encourage you to obey that authority. I promise you, I'm not saying this in a judgmental way. I'm not saying this in a way that uh I know what I'm talking about. I deal with this every every day, I deal with the same thing, not want to go subject myself to authority, but I have to crucify my flesh and do the same thing. And I know the authority put over me knows way more than I know. And if I will subject myself to this authority, I will learn, I will grow, and God is gonna use me. So I encourage you, whoever that authority is, a parent, a person at work, a pastor, whoever it is, subject to that authority and subject most of all to God's authority. His command comes before it all. Subject to God, subject to the authority he's putting over you and work for him. Well, I hope you enjoyed this episode of the Gods of the One podcast. This is a great episode. I know I said last time we were gonna be having a different guest on. We was gonna be starting a three-parter with uh uh Trevor Osborne, but different reasons. We I have it, we just it's not ready yet. That will be coming out. I cannot give exactly when, a few things gotta check, but it will be coming out. Those are three phenomenal podcasts. I cannot wait to let y'all hear them. The miracles that have been that he test has seen is phenomenal, but uh uh this podcast was great. Brother Phil Marino is one of the best men I've ever met. He hit I really enjoyed getting to go go overseas with him, and I've gotten to keep in contact with him through ever since then. And uh, brother Phil, if you do get to listen to this podcast, I just want to tell you thank you for all the memories and thank you for pouring into me. I really am thankful for it. Thank you so much, and I encourage y'all find y'all somebody like brother Phil or somebody around you who you really look up to and really connect with that person. I've got to connect with brother Phil, and it's it's there's nothing like it. So I encourage you to do the same, but I hope you enjoyed this podcast. This was a fun one. This is one that I've been talking about doing for a while, but it just took us a little bit to do it, so we finally got to do it. But I hope y'all enjoyed it. I hope y'all keep listening. I know we're not getting too consistent, but I promise you, more podcasts are coming out. God is moving overseas right now. There's a there's a podcast we have not got to record yet of a trip that happened last year. That let me just tell y'all. God absolutely moved in a miraculous way. I was able to go on this trip. Never experienced anything like this. God used everybody on the trip. It was unreal. Y'all got to keep listening because when that video, little, excuse me, when that comes out, it is such a powerful trip. I cannot wait for y'all to be able to hear that. But anyway, I want to thank you for listening to this episode of the God's Little One podcast. We hope y'all have a wonderful rest of y'all's day. God bless y'all, and I'll see you on the next podcast.