Episode 5 | Brian Buono W/ Faith & Freedom Festival

In this powerful episode, Brian Buono shares his raw and transparent testimony of redemption — from a broken childhood as a latchkey kid and years of pride, ego, and exhausting control, to a life-changing encounter with Christ on a street corner just days after Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Brian opens up about:
• Growing up in a fractured home after his parents’ divorce
• The heavy weight of “fake it till you make it” and the facade of success
• His breaking point with anxiety and health fears
• The simple “Repent” sign that led him to salvation in a Verizon parking lot
• What true freedom in Jesus Christ really means

We also talk about the heart behind Faith & Freedom Fest — a free, family-friendly outreach event designed to bring the gospel outside the church walls and into the community.

🎟️ Faith & Freedom Fest
📅 Saturday, April 18th
🕐 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM
📍 Charlotte County Fairgrounds
🎟️ Completely FREE – Bring the whole family!

Live worship, food trucks, vendors, bounce houses, and the gospel preached.

🔗 Festival Information & Updates: https://www.fandffest.com/

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:24

Well, welcome to Cultural Connections. We're so glad that you're tuning in with us today. And I think the show is off to a great start, and many of you have subscribed to the page and shared the content, and we're very, very grateful for that. You know, these are conversations that we say are at the crossroads of Christ and culture, and we want our biblical faith to inform how we're really watching uh current events and things going on in our society. Marie and I are really blessed to uh welcome Brian Buno to the show today. Brian, thank you so much for coming and being part of this conversation today.

SPEAKER_04 0:55

I'm grateful for the opportunity. Thank you. Amen.

SPEAKER_02 0:58

So I was sharing with Brian before we started this episode today that our testimony of salvation really involves three things. First, what was our life before we came to know Christ as our Savior? Number two, how we came to know Christ as our Savior. And number three, what does Jesus Christ mean to us since we have trusted Him as our Savior? Um I met Brian a couple weeks ago. Uh we became part of a new fest called Faith and Freedom Fest that was hosted uh at Manatee County. And I met Brian and heard his testimony, and I thought these are the type of conversations that we really want to have. And so I'll kind of throw it to you, Brian. Tell us about tell us about where you're from and maybe your early life, uh, maybe experience, military training. What makes Brian Brian?

SPEAKER_04 1:46

Sure. Uh so I I grew up in uh upstate New York. Uh I'm a a product of two parents who divorced in the 80s when uh divorce was becoming more rampant. Sure. And uh I found myself uh and my brother, I have a brother that's two years older than me, uh, and we found ourselves uh really raising ourselves candidly. Uh my father did what a lot of men do when they split from their families. Uh he went off and um bet a lot of women and didn't really spend a ton of time with his kids. And my mother did uh the best she could. She went to school full-time and she also worked full-time. So my brother and I were left our own devices a lot, which for a 10-year-old boy at the time was not a great thing. I uh, you know, I got a lot of life skills and learned a lot of things on my own, but what it created for somebody um like me was a lot of pride and ego as I grew older. And I was trying to control things that were out of my control at a very young age. Um so that was my my adolescence was a lot of trial and error, a lot of learning, a lot of being I was a latchkey kid, uh, you know, came home from school. Uh my mother didn't come home until probably around 7:30, 8 o'clock at night, which was right around bedtime. Um so, you know, there were some advantages that I found later in life, but uh the unfortunate part was is that I spent the I'm 54 now, I spent the better part of my life, 20, 30, uh 20s, 30s, 40s, with a lot of pride and a lot of ego and uh a lot of what I thought was controlled. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:44

So I'm gonna ask a cliche question. If if you could go back and maybe your 10-year-old self, what would you want your 10-year-old self to know navigating that that difficult journey?

SPEAKER_04 3:57

Um I would want to tell my ten-year-old self that um you don't have to be perfect.

SPEAKER_01 4:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 4:15

Um yeah. It it it's it's hard because I I a lot of the things that I experienced uh that have benefited me later in life, um we don't know that I would wish away.

SPEAKER_02 4:34

Sure.

SPEAKER_04 4:34

However, given the opportunity, if somebody had said to me, Hey, you wish your mother was there more, I'd say, absolutely I wish she was there more.

SPEAKER_02 4:41

Sure. We as Christians get down the road, and it's not sometimes until we get down the road that we can make that confession that there is a God that's not just present in the perfection of our lives. He was always there. And I think the question was was trying to extract that uh understanding that God was involved in every part of your life. Now you may not have recognized he was there, but God is there.

SPEAKER_04 5:06

Yeah, I I you know, so uh my mother is is Jewish and and my father um grew up Catholic, and they actually eloped uh because their parents, as you imagine, did not agree with what they were doing, and eloping back then was was not uncommon. Um so I grew up in a home with a father who was an altar boy and we had a Christmas tree, and a mother who was Jewish and we had a menorah, but yet we didn't go to church, we didn't go to Tabla. So it was it was interesting in that manner. Um so yeah, not not real, true faith or knowing Christ when I was when I was young.

SPEAKER_01 5:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 5:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:48

Interesting. So I was just I obviously I don't want to go too much on the the mental health or therapy side, but I think a lot of people say what you say um that you would go back and tell your 10-year-old self, especially people, I I too grew up in a broken home. Um, and so a lot of things maybe having to adult at a much earlier age than most children would have to. And this pull to be perfect, right? Or I have to get everything perfect. And I think a lot of that too is is you see a need and you see your mom, in my case, I would see my mom as well, needing help and thinking as a child that we can somehow adult enough to help out our parents who are maybe trying to do everything by themselves. So um I think what you say is is common among children who are raised in a broken home. You don't have to be perfect, but we we do sense there's a void and we try to fill it. And um I I will I agree with you too, the things you don't want to change because that part of you made you who you are. I I would, without knowing you that well, I would venture to say that you're probably a very strong person. Takes a lot to bring you down, right? Because this is kind of what what we know, you stay strong and you just keep moving forward. But in that, sometimes we we tend to think we have to be perfect. And but it's but I will say in that is what Christ, how he brings us to himself.

SPEAKER_04 7:12

Well, that's what I was gonna say. The the the irony to all of that is that my while my twenties and thirties and forties, I mean, you would look at me from the outside, I was in sales, I was wearing suits and ties, and I was on planes, and I was in the platinum lounge at the airport, and all the while thinking I was completely fulfilled. Um but knowing, knowing deep down that there was something that was missing, and it was a facade. I mean, it was all a facade. I I got myself into roles that I was not qualified for, but I did it because I was able to do it largely because of what I learned when I was younger. Fake it till you make it, like and um and it all came crashing down three years ago. Uh you know, married, two kids, a house, a boat, you know, all the things that you would think would make you happy. And um, beautiful wife, healthy children, everything that you would think that you would want. And I was, I was a mess. I was an absolute mess. The facade, I couldn't keep up the facade anymore. Um I was physically and emotionally, spiritually. I I mean it was void of spiritual, anything spiritual, but I was just exhausted, exhausted, exhausted um from keeping it up. The confidence I was the guy that people would look at and be like, well, he's got everything, he's confident, he's all that stuff, but it was all a facade. And um and three years ago, I I my father was diagnosed with cancer um at the age of 48, and I helped take care of him through his final years. Um and you know, when you're when when parents, you know, when their health fails, especially at a young age, you it it shakes you foundationally because you know. So I started having a lot of anxiety around health and stuff like that, thinking that I was going to have the same issues as he was gonna have. So as I was coming closer to the age when he passed, I wouldn't really say this out loud, but I thought I was ticking inside of me what happened to him was gonna happen to me. And as I neared that age, um, yeah, I mean, I just I I I broke. I was fighting with people in my work. Um, and by fighting, I mean uh, you know, the conference call where you're supposed to say all the right things. I was not saying the right things, I just couldn't keep the facade up anymore. Sure. Um so so yeah, uh 50, 51 years old, I uh my body just started to break down, and I was and that, and so which only confirmed even more that I was going to experience what my father experienced, these same exact things. And I had every test done, um, you know, every medical test done. It was everything came back showing that there was nothing wrong with me. But there was, I absolutely felt like there was something wrong. Um and I uh yeah, I I broke and ironically didn't find Christ then either. I thought, well, all the control that I thought I had, I'm clearly not doing it right, so I need to lean even more into the control. Yeah, sure. And and I I leaned more into gripping on to everything so tightly.

SPEAKER_00 10:37

Um Yeah, control in itself becomes a God to us. And your your story sounds very similar, and I would say the same thing. My my ability to remain strong was to remain in control. So if I could stay in control, then my anxiety was at bay, and I could keep everything the way I thought everything needed to go.

SPEAKER_02 10:56

Sure.

SPEAKER_00 10:57

And God has a way of showing us that you're actually not in control and you've never been in control. And let me prove it to you.

SPEAKER_02 11:04

You know, we don't we don't know where these conversations will go. I mean, these conversations will go legs and travel to places that will never go. But there's probably somebody listening that that thinks that they have themselves in the position where they want to be, that their life is functioning the way they want it to, and they can self-empower their way to success. And one of the most important things that we really need in life is a is a biblical, godly definition of what success is really going to look like. And our pastor used to say, God has a way of bringing us to the end of ourselves. And I I think what you're saying is God was bringing Brian down to not depending on himself, but looking outside of himself, and that's where God is. So we we've skipped a lot of your story. I mean, you've you have military experience and and a lot of um business success. And so let's let's let's fast forward to um kind of the Charlie Kirk era. What's God doing in your life? How does God use uh the assassination of Charlie Kirk? And and a man on the street corner with a with a sign that has one word on it. Yeah. Tell us about that.

SPEAKER_04 12:11

I yeah, so when I was leaning into the control and and thinking that that would help more and realizing that it wasn't, um it was two years after uh you know I had broke. I told myself that I broke, um, and all the tests were turning back negative and everything like that. And it's it it messes with your mind when you're feeling a certain way, but everything that Brown is saying, you shouldn't be feeling that way because everything is fine. Um I so uh yeah, Charlie Kirk I remember hearing the news. Um I did not follow Charlie, I did not follow his content. Uh I knew of him. I, you know, knew that he was controversial, didn't really know why. Um but then when I learned of his assassination and I started to hear the stories about here was a man who believed s deeply in his faith and was incredibly proud of this country and um what it uh the opportunities it afforded him. Um I started to just learn more about who he was and and realize that here was this man who went to places where he was not welcome and preached and talked about Christ and talked about why you should be grateful for what we have and all those things. Um it spoke to me. Uh and you know, you mentioned my military service. Um, you know, going into the military, I went in during the first desert storm, and I can remember being in my dorm room in college and seeing uh the people you know the service members coming home and hugging their spouses and their family on the tarmac and just thinking, here I am in college, like what am I doing? Like, I gotta be doing there's something bigger. So when I learned of Charlie in his family, and he had kids.

SPEAKER_02 14:28

Yeah. That that same emotion just rose up in you again. Yeah. We need to do something.

SPEAKER_04 14:36

So I mean knew that he could have been killed. Yeah. And he still did it. Yeah. So for me it meant a lot. Yeah. So I started really digging into like, what is he about? And then I started uh, you know, and not only digging into what he was about, but knowing that I was broken. And I was in a place where I was just trying to latch onto something to give me some firm standing. All the while still having all the things from the outside that you would look at and say, why would this guy be this way? So yeah, I I um I would drive by this corner in Tacomas almost every weekend, and um these signs would be leaned up against the telephone pole at the intersection and uh a lot of scripture and and biblical signs, and I driven past this intersection for years, years and had seen these signs, and the one word I saw on it was repent. And every time I drove by, it just was like, oh, you know, like this is the word that keeps people from church because it just it because it felt so judgmental. It felt so like, you know, and I had pushed back against judgment, and I didn't want to be accountable, certainly, for anything. Um and it was the week after Charlie was murdered, and I drove by that intersection, and the pastor who um runs the church there in the Comas, Revelation Church, Pastor Casey McKay, uh every Wednesday and every Saturday, he is on the corner with signs. He's 70, I believe he's 74, 75 years old.

SPEAKER_01 16:36

Amazing.

SPEAKER_04 16:37

And he is there. It's an a Verizon parking lot, and he's there with his signs, and he's standing there waving. And that particular morning I drove by and I saw the sign. And I pulled into the parking lot. And it was really just to shake his hand and say, thanks for being here. Because I mean, shh, after what happened to Charlie, I mean, who is republically, right, stand on a street corner where you can somebody can take a pot shot out of you or do anything they want. And I mean, because I don't think anybody believed that that could happen in life until it happened to Charlie, right?

SPEAKER_02 17:15

Sure, sure.

SPEAKER_04 17:16

Um so uh so yeah, I pulled in and I I stepped out and I shook his hand, and he was just a big grin on his face, and he said, What's your name? And he said, If you were to die tomorrow, do you know do you know that you'd be going to heaven? And I said, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 17:35

Amazing.

SPEAKER_04 17:36

And he said, Are you saved? And I said, I'm not. He said, Do you want to be? I said, I do.

SPEAKER_01 17:41

Amen.

SPEAKER_04 17:42

So he prayed over me right there in a Verizon parking lot. And uh yeah, I mean, from that moment I mentioned to you before the interview, I mean, when it comes to most things in my life, I'm all in or I'm all out. And then I'm all in. So then it was, you know, church and trying to find a church and trying to be mindful that what I was doing was for the right reasons, if that makes sense. That I wasn't that this wasn't gonna just be a flash in the pan thing that I was just looking for something to save me in the moment and then I was sure to step away. No, sure. Because I've done that, you know, when you're hurting in your life, whether it's alcohol or drugs or whatever it is, right? Something just uh numb it and feel good for the moment. So um so yeah, so I from that moment, uh I have uh I have so I was in the corporate world for for many, many years, and when COVID hit, it um the company effectively shut down, and they gave me an opportunity to follow one of my passions, which was connecting with people, just connecting and making connections. And I started an event production company. Um the event I I started doing was just musical concerts and they were not faith-based at all. Um candidly, there were bands and people that I were was associating with that I wasn't proud of. Um certainly wasn't something I wanted to bring my kids around. Uh but it was uh it helped me fulfill a passion of just still connecting and kind of bringing people together. And I did that for five years and you know, was uh successful in the sense that you know we had thousands of people coming through the gate, we were making revenue and money, and people were seemingly leaving happy. Um and when you're somebody who has ego and pride, you get that, and it just feeds it even more. And um so when I when I found Christ and I got saved and the whole Charlie Kirk thing, I decided um that I was gonna completely flip the business to faith-based events going forward, that they were gonna be free, they were gonna be family-friendly, um, and that that borne the Faith and Freedom Fest.

SPEAKER_02 20:14

Yeah. So Brian's on the show today because you have a you have a great testimony of coming to faith in Christ. And as I said to you before we we started recording today, I think the the Freedom Fest is just uh an outgrowth of what Christ has has done in your heart and your life. And your testimony is as much of what I wanted from you today as to promote the event. Uh, but I do want to talk about the event. Um I'm just grateful to see what God's doing in your life. And the, you know, the Bible says, He which hath begun a good work in you, he will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. And so uh a lot of strings, even that you haven't been able to tie together of what God allowed into your life. I think he's gonna bring together for his glory and make you a great blessing. And so I just appreciate your transparency, and I'm sure it's an encouragement to our listeners as well. And it just makes me proud to be a Christian and to know I love God because of what he did for me. But I I love him more because of what he did for you too. So it's just a just a great story of redemption. So this is called uh the Freight the Faith and Freedom Fest. This is the second one, right?

SPEAKER_04 21:27

Yeah, this is the second one. Uh we did the first one at the Manatee County Fairgrounds uh a couple of weeks ago. Uh the first one was actually supposed to be in Port Charlotte um in April, April 18th. But then I learned we were able to secure a venue uh in Manatee County, uh, and that actually became the first one. Uh and it was good because it was a great um measuring stick and I'd learned a lot, um, even though I've been doing events. Uh learned a lot from that one and how we want to format it. And of course, you were there and you sang.

SPEAKER_02 21:57

I was there. I did sing. I I People know, but an amazing voice. They threw me up there at the last minute, so I'll have a bit of a different role next time. And I did preach a little bit too, so and enjoyed that. This is at Charlotte County Fairgrounds, uh, Saturday, April 18th, uh, from one to six. But I want to drill down on something a little bit. Uh, I think we understand the term faith. Okay. Um, we're talking about not just God ubiquitously, we're talking about the person of Jesus Christ, but our belief in the God of the Bible, um, that there's salvation in Jesus Christ. I mean, that's that's what we mean by faith, right? Yes. Okay, now freedom, this is um this is a little bit of a different word, and so we talked about that um before we started today, and I really loved what you said. When we talk about freedom, I think some of us mean or think we mean government or political parties. But but you said to me that this this term freedom has almost evolved more into the freedom that we actually have in the person of Jesus Christ. Maybe talk that through a little bit as you're learning, you're learning Christianity, you're learning churches, you're learning how some people cooperate and don't cooperate together. But what do you what did you mean by freedom in Christ?

SPEAKER_04 23:14

Yeah, when I when I first decided the name, Faith and Freedom, uh, you know, candidly, it was it was about freedom as Americans and and the freedom we have to um worship um publicly without fear of retribution. Um the it has it has evolved for me because what I I've experienced and submitting is the freedom from the anxiety and the need to control and the ego. Um even after I was saved, you know, those are easy muscles to flex when you've been flexing them your whole life. And you can fall back into that so easily to try to grip onto and control things. And I find that when I'm just feeling that, that it's usually because I haven't um either prayed that day, I haven't for whatever reason thought about Christ in that day, I haven't opened the book or done something, uh even just putting on, you know, Joy FM and listening, you know, to the radio or some gospel music, and then it and then I can feel myself coming back to that. So for me, the freedom was freedom, freedom from all the worldly stuff. Yeah. That at the end of the day, and you know, look, it took me 54 years to get there, but I got there. Um what's really important?

SPEAKER_00 24:48

What really matters I was just gonna say, I was waiting for an opportunity to to kind of chime in because I like how you said it, because you're it's it's easy, the temptation is still there to pick back up control. And so I was jokingly say I am I'm a recovering control addict. That's what I am. I wasn't addicted to drugs, I wasn't addicted to alcohol, but I was addicted to control. Because in me, that that would be what would calm my anxiety down, right? Some people choose alcohol to calm their anxiety down, minus control. As long as I can control a situation, my anxiety is slow. But even when I was younger, I remember telling my then very new husband, please don't give me surprises. I I I can't handle surprises. It would shoot my anxiety out the roof because I had no control over that. Um, so it's it's something that God will remind you of daily that you're you're not fully recovered. Yes, you've been saved, but remember you have to give it to him every day. And I'll tell you just something that's helped me personally is understanding the sovereignty of God. And it's just a maybe as you're studying and learning theology, seek that out. What does it mean that our God is sovereign, that he is in control? And I don't have to be, and it's so freeing. I mean, the freedom that I live in now, understanding it doesn't matter what I do, because God is in control and God is good, and he is doing everything, working, even if it's against what I think should happen, but it's working for my good. Yeah, because that's what he does. And so it's just it's a beautiful thing, and I'm so glad that you have entered into not just freedom from the punishment of your sin and the penalty, but freedom for your own soul living on a daily life. What a wonderful thought.

SPEAKER_04 26:35

Amen. The peace, yeah. I didn't have peace for a very long time, very long time, and that's why my body was breaking down because I just uh was I was trying to do it all. So yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:48

Amen. So I want to pick up maybe on a little philosophical thing regarding freedom. Freedom is downstream from our belief in God, and I think where we are as a country, and Charlie Kirk had increasingly talked about not just um, yeah, there might have been a political movement that he was aligned with, but Charlie Kirk was very much leaning into a defense of the Christian faith. And it wasn't until after he died it occurred to me it almost necessarily was going to happen because the assassination of Carl Charlie Kirk proved that he was making a difference. And he was making a difference in the belly of the beast. I mean, he was going to places of higher learning, taking the the truth of the gospel into the domain of Satan. I mean, we we would admit that if if the devil said, I want to control the country, and in order to do that, I want uh academia, I want media, I want entertainment, and and he has those. And Charlie Kirk was making a huge difference, and he was, as I said, defending the Christian faith, but understanding, and I hear people say, Well, you know, our our rights come from the government. No, they don't. Our rights come from God and can be protected by the government. And so when we use the word freedom, I belie I'm saying when I use the word freedom, an acknowledgement of God, freedom found in him, and at least a government that seeks to protect the rights that we have that that are inalienable as gifts from God.

SPEAKER_04 28:21

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 28:22

So, you know, there were some speakers at the rally talking about um the foundation of our country, the uh the Christian principles upon which our government was founded. I I think Washington was um was quoted as uh you know saying it's impossible to rightly govern a people without God in the Bible. And the this is just a message that that we're trying to repeat to to a new generation of Americans to understand the American experiment will fail when the American ethic fails. There has to be a belief in God in order for us to s to sustain a uh a constitutional republic. And so uh I'm for anything that preaches the freedom that we have in Christ and harkens people back to we may not be as Christian of a nation as we used to be, but that's our foundation, and we have to determine what we believe about God if we're gonna perpetuate freedom to to future generations.

SPEAKER_04 29:14

Amen. I mean, I so when I first went public with the event um on social media, and of course, social media is a a breeding ground for people to take pot shots and say all sorts of things, I got labeled a Christian nationalist. Right?

SPEAKER_02 29:30

Yeah, and I'm just oh for sure.

SPEAKER_04 29:32

Christian nationalists? Well, because I'm now a Christian and because I'm proud of the country I live in. And of course, it's supposed to have a negative connotation. Of course. I don't see it that way at all.

SPEAKER_02 29:45

Christian nationalism is a highly malleable term that can refer to anyone that needs to be relegated. It means nothing, but to people who use it, it is as a power pack term. Yep, for sure. I I love Jesus Christ, I believe in the authority of Scripture, and I am an American citizen, and I love my country. And I have people here at Calvary that are Christians and Bible believers and from another country, and they have the right to love their country too. There's nothing unbiblical about Paul saying his prayer, his heart's desire in prayer for Israel was that they might be saved. He was making as much uh a statement of their salvation as a love for his people. I love my people, and I'm a missionary to America. And I think what we're trying to do is is in a way uh preach the gospel to our culture.

SPEAKER_04 30:36

Yeah, for sure. The the event itself um is meant to provide a space for people to worship outside the four walls of the church. It's not to replace the church in any way, shape, or form. Um, and that was really kind of my goal for this was to provide that space. Um a lot of folks on candidly won't step foot in a church for all the reasons that they have. But they may be willing to go to an event, right, where there's live music, where there's food trucks, where there's vendors, right, where there's you know bounce houses for their kids. I mean, uh while the event is certainly for Christians, candidly, I would welcome non-believers, please come and s and and see what what we're about.

SPEAKER_02 31:23

Yeah. Amen. So there's a difference between the church and the kingdom. And Jesus said, seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. My pastor used to say, if you'll seek the kingdom, he'll build the church. And I think if all of us would say, my job is not to build the Calvary Baptist Church, Jesus said, I will build my church, which means he didn't say, I will build his church. He didn't say he will build my church. He said, I will build my church. My job is to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, which means uh the kingdom of God is not is not a government. The kingdom of God is within us, and there's a king sitting on the throne of our hearts. And so I say that to say, I I I see your I see the philosophy behind this is to get people who frankly aren't looking for a church to go to on Easter. Now, do we want them all to be in a church? Yes. Does everyone need a pastor? Yes. There's accountability, there's growth, corporate worship is essential. No one's trying to replace that. And I appreciate for I appreciate you saying that. But the kingdom of God can be something that is preached to everybody as we share the gospel. And we tell people look, we were citizens of a really dark kingdom. Oh, our we were of our father, the devil, and the king of heaven came, took a cross, died for our sins, and now he reigns within. And we want everybody to know who Jesus is. So I I don't take the last word on cultural connections because happy marriage means you always give your wife the last word. I understand. So I'm gonna give you the second the last word. Okay, and then I'm gonna give give her the last word. And I just want to thank you for coming on the show today. Thank you for having me. And I want to be your friend, and I want you to know that uh we're praying for you and uh really appreciate what you're trying to do.

SPEAKER_04 33:15

Thank you. Yeah, I would just uh invite everybody, um, April 18th, to come out to the Charlotte County Fairgrounds. It's an entirely free event. Um, bring your family, tell your congregation, tell your friends, uh uh, and tell everybody in the community to come out and support um local small business vendors who will be there and um and come out and enjoy a day with your family. Live worship music from some incredible worship teams and local bands from the area. Uh of course CBC United will be there as well on the stage. Um but we just welcome everybody to come out and have a wonderful day with us.

SPEAKER_01 33:52

Amen.

SPEAKER_00 33:52

And I'll just add to that um the gospel was given. I mean, there was a couple of people that came up and and spoke, and I I know my husband was one of them at the last time, and and the gospel was given. So if you have someone maybe that doesn't know the Lord as their savior, this is a great opportunity. I mean, like like you said, some people won't go to church, but if you invite them to some sort of event that doesn't feel like their strings attached, they'll come and and hear the gospel of Jesus Christ, which is the most important thing. So thank you again for being with us. And it was great to meet you. And I met your wife, and all that was great the last time. So wonderful.

SPEAKER_02 34:23

Wonderful. Amen. Well, uh, attach all the um fest information here at the end of this video. Please like this uh video and share it. And um, if you know Jesus Christ as your personal savior, I hope you'll come to the fairgrounds and uh just welcome, welcome Brian, to the family of God. So God bless you. Thank you for tuning in. Hope you have a wonderful day.