The Everyday Apostle
The Everyday Apostle
The Everyday Apostle - EP009 - Guillermo Barquero
Ever felt lost and found your way back through faith and perseverance? Guillermo Barquero, a Miami native and cloud engineer at Lockheed Martin, takes us on his transformative journey from a Southern Baptist upbringing, through a disconnected phase, to rediscovering his Catholic roots. Raised in a diverse religious environment, Guillermo's persistent questioning and deep prayer led him back to his spiritual heritage in early 2023. His story is one of continual growth and the profound impact of faith on his daily life.
Guillermo shares his academic and professional journey, starting with an uncertain college path aimed at appearing smart and struggling with physics courses. The turning point came with his discovery of coding, which he compared to solving intricate puzzles. From early coding successes to the challenges of advanced math, Guillermo's perseverance landed him an opportunity to work on a Department of Defense project. This pivotal experience not only honed his skills but also set the stage for a rewarding career at Lockheed Martin. His narrative underscores the importance of mentorship and dedication in overcoming hurdles to achieve professional success.
Beyond his career, Guillermo talks about navigating the job market during the COVID-19 pandemic and reflecting on divine favor in his success. His profound conversion experience in early 2023, catalyzed by a spiritual crisis, led him back to Christianity and ultimately to Catholicism. Emphasizing the role of community and active service, Guillermo discusses the importance of surrounding oneself with supportive people and staying committed to faith. He highlights the significance of the Young Adult Group (YAG) at St. Augustine, where young individuals engage in meaningful faith-based discussions and build lasting relationships. Join us for an inspiring conversation about living and serving in faith amidst the challenges of everyday life.
Welcome to the Everyday Apostle, where ordinary lives meet extraordinary faith. Join our host, kendall Peterson, as we explore how everyday men and women bring the gospel to life wherever they live, work and play. Let's dive into it right now right now.
Kendall Peterson:Hello and welcome to episode nine of the Everyday Apostle podcast. It's a thrill to be with you again. My name is Kendall Peterson, the host of the Everyday Apostle. We're here in studio. I've got a great guest for you today and super excited about getting to that.
Kendall Peterson:What I love most about this show is we get to bring all kinds of really great stories about people who are truly trying to live their faith in regular life whether it's work or in their clubs or sports, whatever they're doing and we get to bring those to you guys, because we're all struggling with the same thing how do we live this faith of ours in this real world? Big thank you for all of the prayers and messages that I've received. I actually ran the stats the other day. I was super surprised by the number of people who are actually watching the show. We've had over 20,000 views of this show so far and we're only on episode nine now. So thank you for watching and thank you for the feedback that I've gotten, and especially a thank you for our and thank you for the feedback that I've gotten, and especially a thank you for our partner in today's episode.
Narrator:This episode of the Everyday Apostle is brought to you by our partners, the WOW Center. For over 50 years, the WOW Center has been transforming lives in South Florida by empowering adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. They offer life skills, training, employment opportunities and social activities that help foster independence and build community. And there's an exciting event coming up you won't want to miss. Join us on October, the 25th 2024, at the beautiful Coral Gables Country Club for Wow Royale, starting at 8 pm. It's going to be an unforgettable evening with fantastic entertainment, gourmet dining and the chance to support a truly wonderful cause. To learn more about the Wow Center and get all the details on the Wow Royale event, visit WowCenterMiamiorg event. Visit wowcentermiamiorg. That's wowcentermiamiorg. Get involved, make a difference and be a part of something amazing the WOW Center empowering lives and building brighter futures. See you at the WOW Royale.
Kendall Peterson:If you get a chance to attend the WOW Royale, I highly recommend it. The WOW Center what an amazing place. I am partial in my life's, the executive director and I've been there a number of times. It is wow for a reason and I strongly encourage you to check that out and, if you feel a tug on your heart to support the Wow Center or to support our guest, somebody who I consider a friend, a brother in Christ, who I had the privilege of meeting on a mission trip that I went on earlier this summer and really just a solid, solid guy who I really, really appreciate, Guillermo Barquero.
Guillermo Barquero:That was the most gringo way that I could say that Welcome to the show, Thank you, kendall, it is a privilege and an honor, and thank you for running the show because, honestly, I think testimonies are really powerful and I love what you're doing, so it is an honor to be here. Thank you, thank you.
Kendall Peterson:Thank you. So let me see if I can do you justice in your bio. Guillermo, better known as Guill or Will, or you have a number of different options for me, but I know you as Guill, a 28-year Miami native and the eldest son of two. I love how you referred to wonderful Nicaraguan parents. You didn't use the word Nicaraguan, but I couldn't pronounce the word you used. You attended Southern Baptist Christian School from kindergarten to 12th grade. Is that correct?
Guillermo Barquero:Yes, slight caveat, I did go to a public school my last year, oh okay, but the majority of it, majority of that.
Kendall Peterson:Okay, so you went to a Christian school for most of your upbringing. Then you went to FIU, florida International University, got a bachelor's degree in computer science and had an interesting, unique opportunity to work on a cyber defense research project for the Department of Defense, and now you work as a cloud engineer for Lockheed Martin. But what makes you very special, and which is why I wanted you on the guest all of that's great stuff, but what I really loved was your faith journey and the way that you describe how that faith journey still continues to this day. It's not I'm done with my journey. You're still very much on it. You stepped away from your faith for a while, came back in early 2023, you were attending a Protestant church and then recently, through a whole series of prayer and discern 2023, you were attending a Protestant church and then recently, through a whole series of prayer and discernment, you made the journey to engage in your Catholic faith, and so that's all part of the journey that we're going to get to on today's show.
Guillermo Barquero:Absolutely. I definitely have to agree that the journey does not stop. It is a day-to-day process. In fact, that's what it's all about. But yes, I come from, like you said, a Southern Baptist school. My parents are Catholic, but they were just trying to do the best for me and, like, there is differences between uh, you know, christians and Catholics, and they were very anti-Catholic. So I grew up with that theology and it caused a lot of stress within the house, um, but through that I I kind of I got a little jaded from the faith and I left Um.
Guillermo Barquero:But I mean, I'll get more into detail later, but essentially what I did is when I came back to the faith, I started asking a lot of questions. I feel like God put it in my heart to start asking a lot of questions because I could care less about the faith, I could care less about theology, church, history, all of it, but for some reason I just question after question started coming into my head. I ended up getting a journal and documenting everything that would come into my head and I said I'm going to find people to get me these answers and I didn't even know why. So from there, this is a long story. Short because it's a very long story and I'll talk forever. But I traveled, I talked to pastors, I talked to priests, I watched debates online, I asked questions in forums and eventually every one of my questions got checked off. And well, I, your parents, were Catholic. What was the faith?
Kendall Peterson:life in your home as you were growing up.
Guillermo Barquero:Great question. Honestly, my parents I will say a lot of us are affected by kind of the traditional Catholic I don't really know the word to use but we all fall into that category of traditional category. We kind of go to church sometimes and I would definitely say that affected my parents a little bit. But what I will say is that internally their faith was strong, very strong. We would go to mass together. They had me do my first two sacraments I was baptized as a kid and I did my first communion but really our faith kicked into high gear when my brother was born.
Guillermo Barquero:I have two brothers and my second, my first brother, the middle child. He is autistic, he's special needs and his birth was very complicated. But that's when I really saw that my family was a family built on faith and even though I didn't understand it at the time, it really now, looking back at it, really shows me that God has been with me throughout my entire life. Again, long story short, but my brother was born with a heart problem. He had surgery at about two to three months old and a lot of things were wrong with him. They said you know, there's a low chance of survival. He might be blind if he survives this surgery.
Guillermo Barquero:And my mom knows all the details, but I'll just leave it at this. My mom told me of a prayer she said. And she said she goes to God and she's like God. I don't make demands out of you, but I need you to give me an answer. And she said you can do whatever you want with my child, whether I keep him or I lose him. It's your will. And if you give him to me, I will take care of him for the rest of my life. But if you're going to take him from me, I need you to do it now, because I can't hold on to this anymore. And I think that kind of sums up what faith was like in my house. It really kicked into high gear when you know, in the toughest moments, and I think I'm all the better for it.
Kendall Peterson:But we could have prayed together a little more. I'll say yeah. So you want to give your brother a shout out?
Guillermo Barquero:Oh, absolutely so. This is a shout out to Gustavo Gussi, if you're watching and if you see this on the iPad, your brother's famous and we'll catch you at the WOW Center. Definitely check out the WOW Royale because my brother's probably going to go there. So, yeah, this is my shout out Hi, gussi, amazing.
Kendall Peterson:So your parents both still alive?
Guillermo Barquero:Both still alive, both happily married, taking care of my brother. Both of my brothers, one's in high school and Gustavo's there at home. But yeah, give a shout out to your other brother. Oh, yeah, for sure. How's it going, gabriel, he's a senior, so he's on his way to college now that's amazing.
Kendall Peterson:So strong foundation in faith. I would say so Sounds like mom's quite the prayer. Now that's amazing, so strong foundation. And faith, I would say so Sounds like mom's quite the prayer warrior. That's usual. What about your dad? What about your dad? What was his faith, Johnny?
Guillermo Barquero:My father is. I mean it's cliche to say, but he is my hero. He had a tough life. His grandmother showed him the faith and you know he had to leave Nicaragua as a young man in his teens alone, had to come here, study, and he studied hard, fluent in English and Spanish. He's a registered nurse. He's been doing it for over 30 years and the way he sums it up is that I'm kind of the opposite to him. I like to question everything For him. It's God has kept me through all this. I don't need to question anymore. He's been there with me and I'm going to keep living my faith and if I have to question, god will let me know if I have to Right. So he's a strong, independent man, very responsible, and you know we go to Mass on Sundays together all the time. Mom is a little busy with Grandma at home because she's sick, but whenever we can go together, we all go together, but me and my dad, we always go to Mass together on Sundays.
Kendall Peterson:So it sounds like a very strong family unit type, rooted in faith, yeah, and happy Despite all of the challenges that come through life and everything they have to deal with. Generally a happy household.
Guillermo Barquero:Yeah, absolutely, I'd say so. I love my family. They've been kind, they've been great, and despite the differences I might have had growing up with faith, you know I did go down the Protestant route. I feel like now it's, it's something that we just talk about openly. It was very touchy at first, right, um, and you know I won't mention the school or anything, I don't want to say anything bad about different schools, but they kind of instilled in me that Catholicism was like evil. Right and um, I'll say this quote imagine hearing this as a child, right, uh?
Guillermo Barquero:A pastor who told me who went on his honeymoon with his wife and they would go to cathedrals in Europe, and he was recounting his honeymoon and he says those cathedrals are so beautiful, catholic cathedrals, they're so beautiful. And isn't it ironic that the road to hell is so beautiful? Right, and me as a child, I'm hearing that and I'm thinking my family's on the road to hell is so beautiful, right, and me as a child, I'm hearing that and I'm thinking my family's on the road to hell. That's tough. So you know, we had kind of a disagreement at some point, which is what pushed me away from the faith.
Guillermo Barquero:It felt too uncomfortable, but I would say that no, despite that, I think you know God puts us in specific places for specific reasons. I can't doubt that. Because of it, I'm better for it. I have a love of Scripture that you know Protestants really, really do have, and I got that for more than 13 years. So family life is good. They're reading the Bible more now because of me, right? They're going to Mass. They're really asking questions that they've never asked themselves because I'm asking them, and I think we build each other up that way.
Kendall Peterson:Yeah. So you're growing up, you're in your house, everything's reasonably good. Some challenges there, right, Because you're you're getting information that might be contrary to what's at home and that's normal, especially in the teen year. You want to challenge that. Then you move off to college. You get into FIU. Did you stay at home while you went to FIU or did you stay?
Guillermo Barquero:Yes, I did stay at home. It was a blessing to be able to stay with my family. I had other options as well, but I love my family. Despite all the issues I may have had, I wanted to stay with them and, to be quite frank, I didn't even know what I wanted to do with my life. I was just like, well, if he's close, they'll accept me. And yeah, I went. But at this point, you know, I didn't know. I didn't have a faith life whatsoever. I guess I would be what you would call agnostic.
Guillermo Barquero:You know, I have a respect for the idea of God, but definitely not living it, and it's more like well, as long as I have the sincerity inside of me, I guess I'm okay, Right, so so that that was. That was pretty much what it looked like. Pretty easy justification, Very easy, isn't?
Kendall Peterson:it. So you're in college. What did you think that you wanted to do when you went off to college?
Guillermo Barquero:This is going to sound maybe a little immature, but I just remember going to college and I wasn't that great of a student towards the end of my high school career. I was very good in the early but I thought, man, I just need people to think I'm smart. I'm going to go do engineering. That'll be good. Come physics courses. Not for me, but fortunately I did get to take a programming class and boy, I fell in love with coding. It felt like solving little puzzles right, Making the computer do what you wanted it to do, and I went down that route. I said, no, swap me over to computer science. I like that, I want more of those courses. And then came the heavy maths and I'm like well, some of it's fun.
Kendall Peterson:You come to realize that all that math you don't think is the case when you're going through school. It's part of every part of life, right, right. So do you remember the first coding thing solution that you made?
Guillermo Barquero:Oh yeah, I mean, the first thing we always have you do is called a Hello World project. It's just getting the computer to print out Hello World. And I remember thinking I was ready to code like the latest Apple software. After I saw those words pop up, I'm like I can't believe I just did that. I made all these symbols spell out this, right. And you know, now, looking at what I do, I can't even explain it to you, you know. But I do remember, yeah, getting that like wow moment. Oh, my gosh, I can code, I feel smart, right, you know, yeah. And then there's other. I've had other successes and failures along the way.
Kendall Peterson:So, as you get to the end of your time at FIU, I did see in your bio the Department of Defense project that you were on.
Guillermo Barquero:Yes, so amazing opportunity. And boy am I thankful for the head researcher there who took an opportunity with me Because, like I said, I was not the best student. I really kicked it into high gear after my first year. But that first year was brutal and he took a chance on me because he thought I wasn't well, he didn't think that I did not have the credentials for it, but he gave me an opportunity. It was a research position where we did like applied machine learning right, Some AI stuff, before all the language learning models came out and all that, and I got to work hands-on on building a system for the Department of Defense. I can't go into details on it, obviously, but it was an amazing opportunity to get your hands dirty and build something that matters right, Detecting malware and things like that. It was amazing and without that I wouldn't be where I am today. That experience is what really made me stand out for Lockheed.
Kendall Peterson:So did you go straight from college to Lockheed Farnam?
Narrator:Yes.
Guillermo Barquero:Yes, most people end up getting their master's. But I fell in love with just working. I like to code, I like to do things, so I said, no, I need to get to that.
Kendall Peterson:Okay, what was that process like for?
Guillermo Barquero:you, I got hired in the middle of COVID so it was very, very scary job hunting. Graduated in 2019, in December, so come 2020 in March you know everybody was panicking, but you know, I applied. They had an online event at school and I just threw in my resume. They saw I had the Department of Defense experience and they're I guess that's what made me stand out right and they're just like yep, well, we don't have to train you as much, you're good to go.
Kendall Peterson:So yeah, yeah. Throw a three-letter agency word around and they jump right on it. Absolutely. Where were you in your faith life at that point? Any prayer over hoping you get a job, or making it through COVID or your parents, or say anything like that I'm sure my parents were praying for me.
Guillermo Barquero:I definitely wasn't. I was relying on myself. And you know, to this day I still give the credit to God. God, god really gave it to me. Because if I look back at myself, I think, boy did I not deserve any of that. I had everything at myself. I think, boy did I not deserve any of that. I had everything at my disposal and I really did not do the best that I could with what I had. And it was a miracle of God that I got that position as a researcher and that I got this job now and now. I'm very, very appreciative. But no, faith was dead at that point. In fact, I was a little adverse to some folks who would like, well, you know, come to church with me or, you know, check this out. I just, I was a little church hurt. So no, no, faith was not involved, but God was still shining his favor on me, you know.
Kendall Peterson:He doesn't need us to actually ask him for that, Like he's there right. He's waiting for us and then when we ask, he's so pleased and grateful that we do, and he doesn't abandon us. Thank goodness, because that would have been a disaster in my life. Amen because, that would have been a disaster in my life, amen. So obviously something changed from that point to today, so talk me through that a little bit All right.
Guillermo Barquero:So, yes, I had a conversion experience pretty much in early 2023. And I'm kind of a baby Catholic, right, but I was very traumatized by some of the things that I went through in my religious upbringing and I remember just I don't know where it was, but maybe on social media I stumbled upon a scripture verse it's from St Peter, about it saying that it would be better for those who knew the way of righteousness to not know than to know and turn away from it. Right, and that, just, I don't know, it just obliterated me. Who knew the way of righteousness to not know than to know and turn away from it, right, and that just, I don't know, it just obliterated me. I fell to my knees, quite literally, and all of this stuff came back from when I was a kid. I lost the will to sleep, to eat, to just do about anything right. I was obsessed with just reading scripture, trying to find apologists who would explain things to me. I had a very deep hadophobia, fear of hell. It was terrifying, it was paralyzing, and throughout that experience I'll try to shorten it up because, again, it's a very long story, but, um, you know, eventually I had to have some really good friends around me, one very good friend of mine who I reached out to and I said, brother, I'm very confused, I'm, I'm in turmoil. Can I just go to church with you? That would be great, you know I, and maybe I can ask some questions there or something. So I go with him and him being a great friend of mine, lifelong friend, um, you friend, he sits with me, he tells me, he gives me the wisdom that he has and I start reading more scripture and I had a great comforting experience at the church.
Guillermo Barquero:But at that point I got very involved. I served, I did everything that I thought I should be doing and then questions just started coming in my head. I'd hear a preacher preach their message and wonderful message, but I'd kind of pause in my mind in certain points of the message and I'd think, wait, why don't you go a little deeper there? So that's when the journal began, got a journal, started writing my questions and, um, very surprised when I got different answers from different people, from different people. So and again, this is a long story, short at this point, but I would ask different pastors, different Christians, people I respected, and you know, sometimes I'd get a similar answer and sometimes I'd get a different one and, uh, I was very confused by that, so I started digging into the history. I'm like, well, why do you guys think differently?
Guillermo Barquero:You know, where did it all? Where did this all come from? Why are we all Christian today and why do you look different than me and why does he look different than them? And yeah, I started studying church history and in fact, my original intent was to convert my family. I started reading books and I would put notes and highlights and like this is why the Catholic church is wrong here and this is that and that. And I ended up converting myself. Well, god converted me. But through the process of that, I started becoming convinced, argument after argument, and it just fell apart and I bumped into a lifelong friend of my mother's. Randomly, I didn't know. She went there and she took me to eat breakfast and she said you know what? You should go to St Augustine's. There's a lot of young folk there. I think you'll fit in.
Narrator:I'm like all right, fine, I'll check it out.
Guillermo Barquero:The week after that I go to Orlando to meet a coworker and I'm like well, I'm here on a weekend there. And I'm like well, I'm here on a weekend, there's a mass nearby.
Kendall Peterson:Let's go see if it's any different a little further up north and the preacher gives this homily.
Guillermo Barquero:That the priest gives a homily. I go and I ask him a question. Tell him I'm a Protestant, I'm just my research and I'm like, well, what's up with St Augustine? You know what's this guy up to? Why are people pointing me here? And I go and I read the confessions and boy did that guy sound Catholic. And not just that, his story, I mean, all of us can relate to St Augustine in some way. That man, he committed to a lot of devices right that we all fall to, and somehow still what this is all about. And well, just to kind of end it short, there I went, I got in contact with a wonderful lady at our parish, michelle, and she put me together with Father Louis Mrazny I think is how we pronounce his name and through multiple meetings he answered every one of my questions in my journal and we're great friends and he helped me convert. He is one of the best, most kind and caring men out there.
Kendall Peterson:For sure, and that all started with social media. You said.
Guillermo Barquero:Yeah, I think that's. I saw a story of some Christian friend of mine who posted that verse and that, yeah, that knocked me back.
Kendall Peterson:So that's the remarkable thing. That's why I love doing this. I love doing this as long as I've been kind of on this journey, which really isn't that long.
Kendall Peterson:I'm a late-life comforter. I was 42 years old, really, when I first truly believed in God. But in all of the conversions that I've seen since then they're all different and God knows, uniquely and personally, when and how to engage with you right. And then you know that journey of seeking the truth is very common. In that pursuit, People who want the truth Find it Absolutely. Seek with all your heart and you shall find Right.
Guillermo Barquero:Yeah, yeah, and scripture was extremely important to me in that journey and I love that you said that, because I really did. What I love about the Catholic faith and this is not to say that Protestants don't see it this way is that I really do. I see us as a family and I feel like our theology points to us as a family. As a family, and God relates to his children the way that any parent would, in that you might relate to one of your sons differently than you do another, or your daughter the way you do, and they also relate to you differently, they interact with you differently. God just has a way of speaking to us the way we need to be spoken to, right. All we need to do is just be willing to accept it, to hear it, and he really does, because I've gone through a massive transformation.
Guillermo Barquero:I very different, uh, you know, picture your typical in the world kind of frat boy, right? Um, no, no, now it's. Now it's Christ is at the center, you know, and I'm not I'm not perfect, I have things I have to work on, but I'm learning to die to myself every day, aren't we?
Kendall Peterson:all yeah, yes, that's tough, it is. That's extraordinarily tough, and it's tough to live that in a world that's built on I want what I want and I should have what I want, and I need to only pursue what I want and I get to make up my own reality around it. Um so, with that mindset like, how do you do it and how are you living your life in in a in this crazy world?
Guillermo Barquero:So much so that it kind of whipped me up into shape, it kind of formed my heart to make it easier to conform to what Christ wants. But, like you said, the world kind of beats us down with convenience these days, and convenience is the killer of consistency in most cases. And our faith, if it requires anything, is consistency. No-transcript, a lone wolf religion, it's quite the opposite. It's love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. And I love your neighbor as yourself, and you got to be surrounded by neighbors to love them right.
Guillermo Barquero:So for me, like I said, dying every day. That means the days where I especially wake up and I don't feel like doing this faith thing and I'm like, wow, is this really? Do I have to go pray today? Do I have to do this? Those are the days where you especially need to do it, because the day that you make enough wiggle room for you to just excuse yourself from that is the day you start falling apart. So I surround myself, I volunteer, and this is one of the things that I think a lot of people are missing. If you're active in your faith, you'll find much less reason to fall in your faith. If you're serving and you're keeping yourself busy. You're too focused on other people, way too focused on other people to even care about how you're falling apart and through that process, you're going to be built, put together right Through Christ. He's working through you and I think very strong evidence of this is in Matthew in scripture, when Christ puts the sheep on his right and the goats on his left and they said you fed me, you clothed me, you visited me in prison.
Guillermo Barquero:To the others, the goats, you did not do this. You didn't do this to me because you didn't do this to the least of these. You didn't do it to me. What's striking in that passage is that the sheep on the right didn't recognize that they were doing it to him because it was who they were, they were just doing. So. They're shocked to hear that Christ is saying you know, wait, master, when did we do this to you? You know, when you did it to the least of these, you did it to me. They kept themselves busy. They were out there, living their faith, doing it, producing those fruit, and I think that makes the world of a difference when you feel like, wow, how do I keep this together? You serve others.
Kendall Peterson:Well, the risk of this being the St Augustine show. I know you're also involved in the young adult group at St Augustine. Do you want to talk a little bit about that?
Guillermo Barquero:Yeah, absolutely, it's been a wonderful privilege and a pleasure to work there. It's all volunteers, so I'm not getting paid for this, but they're a wonderful, wonderful parish. I went in because I signed up for this Lent group. Lent was going on and I just joined in and I said to everybody there hey guys, I'm a Protestant, I'm just here just to check out what you guys are all about. Eventually I went through the conversion and I said, hey, how do I, what do I do here? You know, I want to help, help out. And in fact, to be honest, they reached out to me and they said would you like to work in hospitality? Because they noticed I was going to every YAG and I was, you know, talking to people and all this stuff. So I said, yeah, absolutely, sign me up, I'll do it. And I signed up.
Guillermo Barquero:And now, you know, every Tuesday we have a young adults group there. This is kind of a shout out for that. It's anywhere, you know, from 20s to 30s. Young adults folk come in and we have different topics, different speakers. Right now we're going through community relationships, brotherhood, sisterhood, things like that and it's a very uplifting community and we get a lot of people. A lot of people were there for the first time and you know they're just curious. Some people who are reverts, some people who are even converts. I found people who came from my church there, which that blew my mind. I never thought that was possible at the time, but no, it's a wonderful group, great discussions. I love to ask people questions there.
Kendall Peterson:So sounds like a big theme in your life is surround yourself with like-minded people, people that can help you ask the right questions and seek the answers, yes and be in community, which we're called to do anyway. Well, I warned you that it goes by quick and we are at the end of our time. Oh man, you know, like I say every time, I could go on forever and you and I will have that opportunity for sure. Yay, thank you so much, yeah, absolutely, for joining me. It's been a real pleasure and I love what you've shared, and the whole range Definitely learned some things I didn't know. Well, thank you for having me. I appreciate it. So, guys, we are at the end of Episode 9 already, are at the end of episode nine already.
Kendall Peterson:I want to shout out one more time to the WOW Center, the WOW Royale event that they have coming up on October 25th and I will post in this episode's notes. If you check us out on our website, everydayapostlecom, you will see a link to the WOW Royale, get more information about it and you can register from there as well. Big thank you again to Guyet for joining me on the show, rachel, our producer. This takes a lot to pull together and so if you feel it on your heart or through prayer that you would like to support what we do through either sponsorship, straight donation, whatever works for you, there is information also on the website everydayapostlecom. Please check it out.
Kendall Peterson:If you are a business and you would love to advertise or you would like me to promote the show, I'm sorry, promote your business on the show. We get about 2,600 views per episode, over 20,000 in total it goes on for a while plus a subscriber list of about 1,200 people. So you have all of that at your disposal. Please reach out to me and with that we will bring this episode nine, the Everyday Apostle, to a close. I encourage you guys to continue on your journey of faith, continue on your journey in prayer and tell everybody about the Everyday Apostle. Thank you and God bless.
Narrator:Thanks for tuning in to the Everyday Apostle. Don't forget to like and subscribe on YouTube, on your favorite podcast outlet, and at our website at everydayapostlecom. Until next time, stay blessed.
