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uel We Worship You de Lord uel come on say [Music] Emmanuel the Lord is with us he's right there by your side you don't have to wor my friend you we worship you we worship you how many know when Praises go up blessings come down I Dare You Learn to praise and me in the midst of a trial come let us let us adore no matter no matter no matter I mean no matter what's going on in your life you got to know how to give him a sacrifice of praise now I know you know the song by now come let us adore him let us adore him thank you Lord kneel down before KN down he's the king of kings and Lord of [Music] lords come on say Emmanuel uel I like that Emmanuel uel He's My Redeemer he's my sa Lord I love you yes I come on help me say Emmanuel uel he's a king of kings and Lord of lords he's a great I am [Music] oh thank you Lord Emmanuel come on come on Emmanuel uel have I got a praise her in the house tonight U you really know what I'm talking about Emmanuel thank you Jesus We Worship You Lord come on 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and me in in the midst of a trial come let us us no matter no matter no I mean no matter what's going on in your life you got to know how to give him a sacrifice of praise I know you know the song by now come let us adore him let us thank you Lord kneel down before him down he's the king of kings and Lord of [Music] lords come on say emuel uel I like that Emmanuel uel He's My Redeemer he's my savior Lord I love you yes [Applause] I come on help me say Emmanuel uel he's the king of kings and Lord of lords he's a great I Amel oh thank you Lord Emmanuel uel come on come on Emmanuel uel have I got a praiser in the house tonight you really know what I'm talking about Emmanuel thank you Jesus We Worship You Lord come on come on you you yeah have I got a praiser in the house tonight come on and worship him thank you Jesus we worship we worship you Lord we worship you we worship you we magnify your name yes we worship you come on let me see some hands we worship Him we worship you everybody we worship you we [Music] worship next time you're riding down the road in your car sing this to the Lord you'll get where you're going much faster [Music] come let us come let us adore him kneel down before him kneel down before Him worship and adore Him worship and adore him come on say it again come let us come let us adore him kneel down before you kneel down before him in your presence Lord worship [Music] Glory help me say come on and say Emmanuel uel Emmanuel uel We Worship You de Lord uel come on say Emmanuel uel the Lord is with us he's right here by your side you up you don't have to worry my friend you up we worship you we wor you how many know when Praises go up blessings come come down wor I Dare You Learn To Praise Him me in the midst of a trial come let us let us adore no matter no matter no I mean no matter what's going on in your life you got to know how to give him a sacrifice of praise now I know you know the song by now come let us adore him let us adore him thank you Lord kneel down before him down he's the king of kings and Lord of [Music] lords come on say Emmanuel uel I like that Emmanuel He's My Redeemer he's my savior Lord I love you yes I [Applause] do come on help me say heuel he's the king of kings and Lord of lords he's a great I Amel oh thank you Lord Emmanuel come on come on Emmanuel have I got a prais her in the house [Music] tonight you really know what I'm talking about Emmanuel thank you Jesus We Worship You Lord come on come on he let you out you yeah [Music] I say I have all of the anwers and I don't know how long you'll feel this pain please believe that life is like a movie and God is wor working hard behind the scenes God is working working in your life working in your life working in your life God is working working in your life working in your life he's working in in your life it's all for you to Cate God's grace cuz every day there's something in the way but just before you start to fall apart remember God does all his best work in the dark [Music] he's working in your life in oh he's working in your life working in your life you can wipe your tears because God is working oh yeah oh he's working working in your life sometimes your Fai the facts don't line up when you're trying to believe but you feel like giving up you need to know he doesn't take any days off and he promis he would finish everything that he's done you need to know God is working working in your life working in working in your life he's working on your behalf God is working yes he is even when you can't see it even when you can't feel it working in your life so sit back and let him work let go and let him work pray and let him work let him work in your life sit back and let him work let go and let him work pray and let him work let him work in your life please listen let work let's go and let him work go and let work pray and let him work let let him work let him relax and just sit back and let him work and let go let pray and let him work let let him work in your life yeah yeah let him work let's go and let him work let go and let him work pray and let him work and let him work let him work in your life let go and let him work let go let him work pray and let him work let work let him work in your and when life doesn't make sense know that God is walking yes he is he's working on your behal you can let it go he's got it in control so you can wipe your life everything will be all right cuz it's working in your life just before you start to fall apart remember God does all his best work in the dark [Music] I can't say I have all the anwers and I don't know how long you'll feel this pain please believe that life is like a movie and God is working hard behind the scenes God is working working in your life working in your life working in your life God is working working in your life working in your life he's working in your life time for you to celebrate God's grace cuz every day there's something in the way but just before you start to fall apart remember God does all his best work in the dark working in your he's working in your life in oh he's working in your life e e e e what working you can wipe your tears because God is working oh yeah oh he's working working in your life sometimes your Fai the facts don't line up when you're trying to believe but you feel like giving up you need to know he doesn't take any days off and he promised he would finish everything that he said you need to know God is working your life working in your life working in working in your he's working on your behalf God is working yes he is even when you can't see it even when you can't feel it working in your life so sit back and let him work let go and let him work pray and let him work let him work in your life sit back and let him work let go and let him work pray let him work let him work in your life please listen let let's go and let them work go and let work pray and let him work let him work let him work let him 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hard for you to celebrate God's grace cuz every day there's something in the way but just before you start to fall apart God does all his best work in the dark is in he's working in your life in oh he's working in your life working in your life you can wipe your tears because Lord is working oh yeah oh he's working working in your [Music] life sometimes your faith the facts don't line up when you're trying to believe but you feel like giving up you need to know he doesn't take any days off and he promised he would finish everything that he's done you need to know God ising God is working your working in your life in working in your he's working on your behalf God is working yes he is even when you can't see it even when you can't feel it working in your life so sit back and let him work let go and let him work pray and let him work let him work in your life sit back and let him work let go and let him work pray and let him work let them work in your life please listen let's go and let them work let work PR and let them work let them work let them work let work relax and just sit back and let him work let go let work pray and let him work let work let him work in your life yeah let go and let him work let work pray let him work let work let him work in your life let go and let it work and let them work pray and let him work and let them work let him work in your eyes and when life doesn't make sense know that God is [Music] walking yes he is he's working on your behal you can let it go he's got it in control so you work your life everything will be all right cuz he working in your life just before you start to fall apart remember God does all his best work in the dark [Music] I say I have all of the aners and I don't know how long you'll feel this pain please believe that life is like a movie and God is working hard behind the scenes God is working working in your life working in your life working in your life God is working working in your life working in your life he's working in your life it's hard for you to celebrate God's gra cuz every day there's something in the way but just before you start to fall fall apart remember God does all his best work in the [Music] dark yes he's working in your life working in oh he's working in your life working in your life you can wipe your tears because God is working oh yeah yeah oh he's working working in your life Hallelujah come on and put your hands together for the King of Kings and the Lords of Lords hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah come on and put your hands together for the Alpha and the Omega the beginning and the end hallelujah hallelujah come on and put your hands together for Jehovah Gyra come on and put your hands together for Jehovah Rafi come on and put your hands together for Jehovah n come on and put your hands together in this place hallelujah hallelujah he's worthy he's worthy to be praised Hallelujah Hallelujah from The Rock rising of the Sun to the going down of the same his name is worthy his name is still worthy to be praised hallelujah hallelujah come on and magnify the name of the Lord in this place come on and lift him up in this place hallelujah hallelujah he deserves our worship he deserves the glory he deserves the honor hallelujah hallelujah Hal hallelujah hallelujah He's Worthy on tonight he's worthy on tonight and we bless God in this place we bless God In This Place hallelujah hallelujah entering to his gates with Thanksgiving and into his courts with praise be thankful unto him and bless his name hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah God is good and his Mercy his mercy endureth forever hallelujah hallelujah like I told him on Sunday we didn't come here tonight to be sad we didn't come here tonight for a doom and gloom memorial service hallelujah how many of us know that God is still worthy in spite of he's still worthy in spite of Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah to God be the glory on tonight to God be the glory on tonight and we come here no other than to lift him up to give his name praise to give his name glory and to give his name honor Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah at this time we're going to ask Min Stewart to to come and give us our scripture reading and after that we going to ask sister Nita Dixon to come and bless us with our prayer on tonight put your hands together as they come our scripture for tonight will be coming from Psalms 23 and what it does is let us know that God is seen as a caring shepherd and a Dependable gu we must follow God and obey his Commandments he is our only hope for eternal life and security Psalms 23 the Lord is my shepherd I shall not wound he maketh me to lie down in Green Pastures he leadth me besides the Still Waters he restoreth my soul he leadth me in the path of righteousness for his name's sake yay though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me thy rod and thy staff they comfort me thou prepares a table before me in the presence of my enemies thou anointeth my head with oil my cup runneth over surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever father God we thank you for this word may it be a lamp into our feet and a light into our pathway hallelujah hallelujah will want please bow your heads and close your eyes please bless the Lord on my soul and all that is within me bless His holy name oh Eternal God our Father we come before you right now God just giving you praise right now God for this is the day that you have made we will rejoice and be glad in it father God we pray right now you forgive us for all our sins all our wrongdoings please clean us a clean heart and renew your right spirit in us God we pray right now you s your sh kind of Glory in this place right now froming the pull pit to the door in the name of Jesus father we thank you right now for this is the day that you have made we will rejoice and be glad in that father we pray right now you go on our pastor Dr Rico newer you go on his family right now God you go on the fure family right now God you go on C Branch right now God but father we know God that us come here to stay father we thank you Lord that you are Jehovah Gyra you are a provider you are Jehovah ni you buy every battle that we fight father we give your name praise right now father go on the choir the same son of Zion to give your name Glory father God to speak to speak your word tonight that should not go for father we thank you and father we praise your name right now for I Will Bless The Lord all times his praise shall continually be in my mouth father we thank you Lord that joy of the Lord is our strength father we thank you Lord we still got joy Hallelujah father we thank you Lord that many of the FL of the righteous but the Lord deliver them all and father we give you praise father we give you honor father we give your name glory and father come in life's journey and we can no longer pray father as a home into that Kingdom we so careful and mindful to give your name to praise these are the fless say in Jesus name with Thanksgiving amen come on clap your hands hallelujah [Music] hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah anyhow Hallelujah anyhow yeah Hallelujah anyhow sometimes you just got to have something down on the inside and allow it to show up on the outside so on tonight Hallelujah anyhow Hallelujah Hal Hallelujah God you worthy God God we give you glory in this place Hallelujah we give you glory in this place hallelujah hallelujah if I got to do it all by myself tonight I'll do it all by myself hallelujah hallelujah he's worthy hallelujah hallelujah come on and bless the name of the Lord in this place Hallelujah Hallelujah I didn't come here to look at you and I hope you didn't come here to look at me hallelujah hallelujah but we came here to magnify God on tonight we didn't come here to magnify our issue we didn't come here to magnify our problem but we came here to magnify God on tonight Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Jesus Halle Hallelujah see he's still the reason that you live you move and you have your being he's still the reason that you woke up this morning he's still the reason that you still in your right mind he's still the reason hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah nothing changes the worthiness of God hallelujah hallelujah even in this he's still Victorious Hallelujah Hallelujah the enemy is defeated and God is still exalted hallelujah hallelujah Glory Hallelujah Hallelujah Jesus hallelujah hallelujah I don't know what was on your agenda when you came in that door on tonight but we about God's agenda on tonight it's not about any of us but it's about God on tonight we not going to make this about us but we going to make it about him on tonight we going to make it about him on tonight hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah glory to your name God glory to your name Hallelujah Jesus hallelujah hallelujah there's a there's a song that you hear quite often that says I got a praise and I got to get it out I believe some of you are in there out there in this congregation you got a praise and you need to get it out I believe there's some of you that got a praise on the inside and you need to show up on the outside on tonight and if that is you I'm going give you this time and I'm going to give you this opportunity to stand up and what whatever it is however you praise whether you wave your hands whether you clap your hands or whether you do a dance I'm going to give you this time and I'm going to give you this opportunity hallelujah hallelujah to give God some praise I'm going to give you this time and give you this opportunity to give God some Glory Hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Jesus yes God hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Music] at this time we going to call call on the choir to come and give us a selection [Music] [Music] come on and clap your hand with us in here if you know that we serve a great God why don't you clap your hands and join in with us and let's lift the name of the Lord in this [Music] house the greatness of the Lord [Music] Beau great the greatness of the Lord the love is I said the power of the Lord is UN great God God is great how many you know that God is great here and greatly [Music] too my God is great yes he is yes he is oh I say the greatness of the Lord say the Love Is the power of the Lord is unbeatable can we say it again say the greatness of the [Music] Lord say the power of is unable great is [Music] say God is great yes he is yes he is greatly to no matter what you're going through know God is he's the only one who can cover you w God he woke us up this morning gave us Life Health and Str no matter what you're going through all you want to [Music] do I love you Praise You [Music] Lord my God is great my God is great yes he is I say God is great he's a mighty good God God is great he's the one that deserves the glory the honor and the praise God is God God God and great and great praise Hallelujah [Music] we bring greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ on tonight I come on behalf of our church family our officers and members first and foremost to say thank you for all of you for coming and supporting our first family um we want to extend a warm welcome and I know you can physically feel the warm welcome in this room um but we count it all joy we do know that our church this Harville Community Darlington County the state of South Carolina and North Carolina from here to California have been touched by this tragedy and we are here to console pray for strength help guard up the new Kirk family at this time and we thank you for playing your part in this we're going to give space for people to give remarks the choir got a few selections so we're going to break it up so in this first round I'm going to start with the highest ranking official and what I can see I think they Senator M now we have I'm going to do this in categories now you don't desire to come up you don't have to you can just stand and be recognized but we don't want to Omit anybody so we um would like to begin with the senator if he' like to come and any public officials following that group we are have our we see our moderators here but we have any the moderators and Association officials and any Pastors in that order [Music] good evening church family it's good to be in the house of the Lord I would um be remissed if I didn't start by just um paying respects to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ um who really makes no mistakes um to um to my good friend um the pastor Reverend um thank you for the work that you have done and for this beautiful beautiful family um it's difficult in times like this to end up finding the right words and the the words is that there are no words um it's already been spoken and we know that the work that has been done it will speak for this family and so I would just say um keep your head up um everyone and embrace this family in prayer and not to the extent to where they have the memorial service and the commitment and the other work that will be done but the work that needs to be done thereafter and so I would just um Embrace everyone and tell to keep this family in prayer thank you I'm going to ask ask all past moderators to stand if you're able to all past moderators to stand Vice moderator all Vice moderators former Vice moderators all pastors of the P Association would you please stand and then all ministers uh would you please stand all pastors would you please stand all pastors would you please stand remain standing I won't be long but to God be the glory for the work that he has done and he's still God and he's still good good my wife and I uh who suffer from pancreatic cancer last week Thursday were coming back from the uh woman's session at mors college and I received a call from my office manager uh asking me whether I had heard about the accident concerning uh Pastor new Kirk's wife and child and children I said no I had not heard uh but when she told me what happened uh my heart dropped yeah my heart dropped my heart dropped because I realized that anything can happen at any time with any of us at any time and we never can tell there used to be a saying that we said at one time here today go on tomorrow but we've lived long enough to know that that's not true here today gone today but Pastor Newkirk I want you to know that our prayers are with you and your entire family I know your phone has been busy I've called you many times but I I I know what's going on and know what's going on and and and I want you to know that that we as men and women of God uh we share in your grief and we want you to know that uh there are times that we say things and they don't really mean a whole lot right now and and then the thoughts of grandmama come to mind even though we don't understand how God works and how God moves but I do believe that in time we'll understand better by and by so keep your head up as much as you can we're here for you we're here for you and uh we'll do whatever we can to make sure uh that we help you in your grieving as well as the children and grandchildren those who are connected God is still good and he's good all the time let the children of God say amen amen amen and amen Grace and peace be on you you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ uh to our moderator and vice moderator and to all the verifying pastors and Friends of this this family and certainly to uh Dr Newkirk and his family um we just want you to know tonight that we come uh my wife and I uh along with the Macedonia Church just to to stand in solidarity with this community with this state uh and just people all over the country uh who are praying for you right now uh we we just come to join again in solidarity with everyone who are praying and uh lifting up your family uh at this time after having suffered this uh catastrophic loss and I realized that words right now are really ineffable to describe uh the depth of of pain and grief that you and your family are experiencing at this time um our prayers our thoughts uh are with you and as uh Dr Gamma said I myself have reached out as well but under the circumstances uh I totally understand uh you you probably uh um have gotten just a plethora of calls from people all over the country uh that are praying for you and just reaching out and concerned about you during this time and uh and we know that um that um lo and behold by and by um God will do what God always does uh in times like these uh he's done it before as we all know and he'll do it again uh but we pray right right now your strength uh in him and uh we're just we're just here to let you know we love you and uh and we have something for you and we we just want to bless you in any way that we can be of any kind of service or assistance um just just let just let us know and so may God just continue to bless you we'll keep in our prayers amen and uh uh we know that God will make everything all right God bless you real good amen and all of God's children said amen amen amen I want to uh begin I know that it's already been been said on this evening but I think it's worth repeating again our God is an awesome God he's an awesome God and we all know tonight this evening if you will that the Lord has protected all of us and and preserved us from the time we made our entrance into the world right up until this present moment and so everybody in this room as grief stricken as we are we owe the Lord Big Time amen so let's put our hands together one more time give the Lord Praise amen I'm the Lord Sear for Dr newerk and his family to the officers and the members of this this wonderful Church glory to God we know as Miss K Branch we thank bless and praise our God this evening for Minister Jackson She's a jewel and she's done a wonderful job and uh Expediting and and leading Us in this memorial service and certainly to all of the fivefold Ministry gifts to all of you my sisters and brothers in Christ much like like our moderator has already stated I was traveling on on last on last Thursday when we got the news about about the accident and I know that all of you agree with me it is it's literally impossible to to Pivot from a moment like that and go back to to business as usual it is it is literally impossible to do it and from that time until now even now as I stay at this place place that I've stood on many occasions and I'm comfortable in this place but even even now I don't know if you all have experienced this but from the time I received the news up until now I've had this seemingly this not it's not in in in my stomach it's just it's just been heavy and I was thinking today if if I'm feeling like that and you all are feeling like that just think about how Dr newerk and his children and his family is feeling in this moment and so I've not come to be flashy and grandstand and and make it and make it about me I love what Minister Jackson said I'm not trying to make it about me I just I wanted to come and show my brother and his family and and my family because K Ranch is my family to show them that we love them and we are supporting them through this I was I was coming up the road and I'll conclude I was coming up the road today and I was just talking with the Lord I wasn't doubting the Lord but I was I was questioning the Lord because I wanted to get some clarity and I I wanted to get some peace with what had gone on with the first lady his son and his and his other children and the spirit of the Lord took me to the psalm Psalm 37 I believe it's verse number 25 where David says I've been I've been young and now am I old but I've never seen the righteous forsaken I I got stuck on that word Forsaken and I got a bit of a piece in that moment because Spirit of the Lord reminded me that we might be we might be a lot of things in this moment and I'm sure we are we're we're sad we're we're angry in some cases mad we're frustrated we're irritated we're agitated we're exasperated but somebody in this room besid we ought to give God praise that we're not [Music] forsaken somebody in this room want to give God praise that Dr newer and the family come on open up your mouths and give God praise that they're not forsaken they're not abandoned come on somebody they're not alone God has not left them he's not he's not [Music] left he's not left us alone to to deal with this by ourselves and so family we we love you we're praying with you we're pray for you there's anything that we can do anything at all all you have to do is let us know God bless [Applause] you we don't have any more pastors that want to speak at this moment we'll have the choir come back after the choir we ask K Branch anybody from K branch that want to have a word to say you may do so after the choir s this praise the Lord everybody come on if you excited amen that you're still alive and God has blessed you to come and celebrate the life of this wonderful first lady I've had many moments where I've stood in this pull pit and preached for my brother amen and his beautiful wife amen Dr newerk when I got the news the first thing that came to my mind my heart was the words of father I I stretch when you don't know what else to do my hands right that's all I could say was to Lord to the [Music] no I know if th we Lord withraw thy from from the No No [Music] the I go and I ask the Lord to do this for you shine oh me oh shine come on Church you know [Music] it let the light glory to God from the light shine oh me sh me oh Lord shine [Music] me let the life from from the Li house [Music] sh shine on me come on somebody praise him while you're praising him God is going to strengthen this family come on your praise is working for them your praise is working for him somebody open up your mouth and Shout in this room oh come on you can do better than that we're praising God for his strength we're praising God for him to make a way we're praising go Hallelujah somebody ought to open your mouth and just shout like you know God is still good like you know he's still worthy like you know he's still able somebody open up your mouth and give him praise Dr new Kirk we bless God because we know you are a true man of God thank you for being who you are you have shifted this entire region because you're not like everybody else and I praise God for you my brother we can sit on the phone and talk for hours but let me tell you the one thing that I know about him is he live what he preach I said he live what he preaches and it's hard in these days to find folk that really live what they preach but I want is there anybody that can praise God cuz you got a real man of God that still got faith still got strength but baby when you're weak then the Lord will make you strong somebody stretch your hands and say Lord whatever you do strengthen this man of God by the power of the Holy Ghost and it's already done my brother we love you and we bless God for you on behalf of myself and the Mount Herman Missionary Baptist Church family we want to give you this gift and we pray that it be a blessing to you and your [Music] family come on and clap your hand and give God some praise come on clap those hands and give God some praise somebody shout hallelujah come on somebody shout hallelujah glory to God glory glory glory Hallelujah Jesus hallelujah hallelujah we certainly we certainly honor God we honor God on this evening we thank God for the privilege the opportunity to come today to be a part of this memorial service we have a first lady and a son to Dr newerk on behalf of myself and Lady Bostic and the New Jerusalem Church Baptist Church family we to you heart our heartfelt sympathy and want you to know that today that we are C we are certainly praying for you I thank God for you for you've been over here in the hospital area for quite some time now and you and I have not had an opportunity to to actually Fellowship a whole lot together due to the pandemic and all those different things but I do look forward to us working even more together in the future but I want to say this before I sat down I I really got here just to say this actually my wife and I were talking today coming down the road and was talking about the service that we render to our people the service that these pastors are are rendering church family K Branch every Church representing here today your pastors need your [Music] prayers that's right amen they are going out of their ways they're up sometime day and night up and down these dangerous highways that's right they really need your prayers they don't need are talking about we praying for you they need somebody to pray for them that God will keep them as they travel two and four trying their best to do the work of the Lord as they are there for you in your times be there for them in their time God bless you pray for your pastors amen [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] anybody here ever known youve done wrong you sat in your bed and you cried all night long to turn from hes and down then you look for your friends and they could be found you told [Applause] Jesus work on me work on me I believe I say that again anybody here ever known you you've done wrong you sat in your bed and you cried all night long you and turn from life up down then you look to your friends and they they couldn't be found you told Jesus [Music] work on me on I said early in the [Music] [Applause] morning I say late late in the midnight I will [Music] [Applause] [Music] I ain't going nowhere until you work on me Lord [Applause] [Music] work the [Music] [Applause] morning I say l l in the [Music] midnight oh work on My Heart Lord me I ain't going nowhere until you work on me Lord now don't you [Music] right stay right there Lord you see my Bible tells me in Psalm 51 10 work me David said created me a clean heart and renew the right Spirit Within Me Lord Lord I want to be able to climb that rock and he to search My Heart Lord and when you're finished search my mind Lord on me if you find anything that should not be pleased take it away from me [Music] Lord just take it away from me Lord please anybody out here want the Lord my [Music] [Applause] heart me on me on me work on me [Music] [Applause] Lord I feel early in the [Music] [Applause] morning I say late in the Midnight [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Hour I ain't going nowhere until you welcome me Lord me [Music] Lord please just work on My Heart Lord work on me Lord you know everything that do the new curve going through but if you work on his heart [Applause] Lord Lord we want to be able to do your will Lord just work on my heart work on me I be able to clim that a rocking Hill work on work on me work on me Lord you know all about it just work on me Lord [Applause] [Music] work I said early in the morning I late late in the Midnight Hour [Music] work me me oh work on me work on me hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah oh hallelujah hallelujah Hallelujah work on My Heart Lord work on my mind Lord work on my soul lord hallelu hallelu [Music] [Music] [Music] at this time we'll yield space to any member of K BR that want to come this [Music] time this is from the U the co group first lady always was there whenever we was doing something she would always come and Bryson and the girls but we want to give you this in the honor of her we love y'all and you know I'mma always be here on grandma Kathy so y'all know I love you and I'mma be here for you [Applause] if nobody else from C want to come at this time Youth Department is coming today we stand here as the as the Youth of this great church remember in Caden he was more than an athlete he was a son a brother a grandson a nephew a friend and a member of our youth Department K was just like me a teenager with dreams and laughter his sudden passing teaches us regardless of our age we must treasure each moment it's hard to believe just the week of his passing we had education Sunday a time where we all celebrate our accomplishments in school and one thing we could always say during education Sunday his name was getting called for honoral every time he was smart and we all knew it but what we didn't know was that the excitement we Shar as we got our reward looked how the angel celebrated as he entered the gates just a few days later from Easter egg hunts to you Sunday to us the boys plugging up the video games and playing Madden in the Fellowship Hall kadan's smile and laughter will be remembered let's remember his Spirit and the lesson to never take life for granted at any age Lord save us Lord forgive us for any wrong that we have done create in us a clean heart and a spirit to worship you for the word says that no man knows the day or hour to Kaden's siblings and our pastor Dr Rico n Kirk we offer our deepest prayers may God give you strength Kaden now rested with his beautiful mother our first lady May their reunion bring peace to our hearts and in the days to come when we need strength to carry on May we always be K Branch strong [Applause] [Music] [Music] praise the Lord everybody um I just wanted to say I know a lot of you might have noticed that the section when Nathan opened the floor for C Branch to speak that that might have been short and because a lot of K Branch probably feel like I do you know what can we say we don't have any words for the amount of love and affection that we have for this family and if Brian Forte don't have no words who do have words and um Pastor a lot of times when I get this microphone I know you don't know what I'mma say and I don't know what I'mma say I don't pray before I speak I just talk and but I can say that thank you so much for sharing your family with us I make this really quick I remember when the new Kirks first got here and k um some of you U might not be familiar with the story but voting had already been closed we had I already had our candidate saying the new C weren't supposed to be our pastor but he slid in there some kind of way on an off Sunday when we had a week before the real pastor's come and new KK rasle and Dazzle on his little fill in week we open the flow back up I wasn't there on that particular Sunday when when he came and preached so amazingly so I didn't hear I didn't have nothing to base my vote on and I asked n i call my grandma and I say well what about this man that everybody talking about that they want to put him in the running n say oh that man can and he got a pretty wife look like she might be Puerto Rican and he got some little boys oh they so sweet and I met the I met first lady newerk and and the children before I actually met pastor newerk and if anybody has been around them y'all already know they got you I was immediately in love I didn't care whether he could preach or not that wife and that children was so sweet and I so then further on into K Branch okay so let me tell you about K Branch when you come into C Branch C Branch going to love on you and the way C Branch show love is by doing for you okay so if you like umbrellas don't tell K branch cuz you going home with umbrella every week if you like lemon pound cake you going to be have every lady pound cake in K Branch so with with with first lady newerk it was different because when she got there and you know I with the committee and I was like oh we going to make you welcome what you like earrings what you like necklaces y'all know what she said I like my husband and my [Applause] children she said Brian I don't know why why they keep bringing me necklaces every week K BR must be think I ain't got no necklaces I got necklaces I don't care about that how often do you meet a person or a a a partner newer had something very special because he had somebody who want wanted everything to be all right at home so he could go out and do God's Will and let me tell you that man ain't had nothing to worry about because it wasn't her labor to take care of the home and to raise her children it was her Joy I didn't understand it I ain't never seen nothing like it Pastor Bishop never seen anybody who you want to do this you don't want no jewelry but she was such a lover of her husband and her children and if you wanted to please her please her children if you wanted to make her happy make pastor happy so we learned that Emilia she has always been a great support I'm just tell this one last thing one time one night I was on YouTube live showing not bad I'm talking about bad I would I wouldn't draw that one soul to Christ and I look in the comment section and I froze cuz it said Dr Dr Rico newerk is watching I said all right y'all we got to close this live up because my pastor have just logged gone yeah so I'm looking in the comments I say I got to go cuz my pastor just logged on and up under his name it said this ain't pastor this first lady keep going so I just want to say that I love her I know a lot of you might have been around her and thought she was a quiet lady there wasn't nothing quiet about first lady newerk she told you how she felt when she felt how she felt it she was very opinionated and she said what she said and that was it but thank you so much Pastor for showing your family to us allowing us to be a part of the life we love you as everybody already said the whole nation here for you so we will continue to be there for y'all to all the children we love y'all and we will never forget the part of your life that you have shared with us that's why we don't like for him to get I can [Applause] talk because he don't know what quite what to say and Brian 14 you can't stand up in a Baptist Church and say voting was closed and somebody slid in and I got the moderator here pass moderator here officers all these pre over here y'all do know he's a comedian he was just trying to make y'all laugh we did things the right way you have a SE bro at this time we want to call up front Mr Cory right he is the principal of Kaden and we do want to rec recogniz Kevin Wilson he is a principal at Lee Central High School at this time good evening and first of all thank you for the opportunity to come up and speak um as they said I am the principal at lugol Elgen high school and I did serve as Cadence principal for this past year in our line of work when you have students to come through your doors you really think all right I have an opportunity for four years to get to know the student to get to love on them to pray for them to get to watch them grow to get them to be whatever they want to be in life and with such a young Soul you never imagine that you won't have that opportunity and a few short years ago um my brother had a chance to to perform in a play called what God allows and I didn't know how profound those words would be until I lost him a few short years after that to prostate cancer and at that moment I realized that those words were were prophetic because it's what God allows as humans in each of us and last time I checked there's only one perfect being on this Earth but as humans we want to question the why we want to know how we want to know how we're going to proceed and then we have to re realize it's what God allows and when he allows something we understand that he has a divine plan we may not understand it we may not know why but we just have to continue to press on we have to continue to understand that God has a purpose for everything he does he has a purpose for the people in our lives so to Dr newerk and his family our prayers are with you from the lugol Elgen family anything that we can do we are here for you and I want each of you as as the young ones and the child shall lead us as the young one said we need to remember each day that we live for God we live for ourselves so to each and every person in this building I ask you to remember always who you are but never forget who you are so thank you to each and every person here and to the new Kirk family please know that you're in our prayers [Applause] good evening um on behalf of Lee County School District as well as Lee Central High School I stand before you as a principal there um Dr newerk as well as your kids and your family um it was a shock for us all as well um um when you received the tragic news on last week when you was at our school um they're supporting your son um and many of us as was stated earlier don't have words to express um what you and your family are going through um the unexpected and untimely situation that occurred but do note that we're here to support you and we're here and whatever we can do just let us know um I just ask that all the members of ouri Central High School and our community if you don't mind just standing where you are because there's many of us that are here um and I know you had a merged a blended family but we all here standing and the many who could come today just know that we're here in prayer and we're keeping our [Applause] thoughts is there anyone else that like to have some words to say e e [Applause] e e [Applause] if no one else we ask the choir to give us another selection after the choir sing I'm going ask all the Ministers of pastors to come up front and let's do a prayer for strength for the new Kirk family um at that time [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh and I'm living the life and with the Lord yeah I S not straight [Music] Hallelujah God Aly oh I'm living this life yes I am and with the Lord yeah I shall not Hallelujah God Almighty oh like a thief in the night he shall return for me and that's the day that he come and by away you see I said Jesus you welcome you welcome me oh oh and I'm living in life the Lord yeah I shall not St Hallelujah God [Music] Almighty oh like a thief in the night he shall return return for and that's the day that he come and fly your way you see I said Jesus he you welcome he welcome me oh well I shall see yes I will I really shall meet oh yeah after the de in Christ shall rise we that are still alive he welcome he welcome me oh well I shall me yes I will I really shall G down oh yeah listen after the dead in Christ shall we that are still alive I said Jesus my God will oh he welcome he welcome oh oh he welcome me can I get a witness I said yes he will he going to welcome me when I been my Jo the Lord prepared I said need a Manion you ought to meet me there oh welcome many want I say welcome getting my house in order today hey you been faithful of a few good things that's what he's going to tell me listen when he call my name for return all life I said better today I'm going to take my flight some of you don't believe he's coming back if you don't believe nothing guess what you believe that I'm waiting on Jesus to shake my head I'm waiting on Jesus within my stand I said give him a ro rest it down in white I said give me my RO hey rest it down in Whitey I said give me my R oh dress it down in white I said give me my R dress it down in white Dr it down and white Dr it down and white Dr it down it down I said [Music] Jesus get M tonight tell me will you be ready welcome welc oh oh soon as my feet stri I'm going to put on my RO guess what we're going to shout oh he welcome me he welcome me he welcome me he welcome me oh welcome W he welcome me he's going to welcome me he's going to welcome me he's going to welcome me you fought a good fight you don't have to cry no more well done that good and faithful servant you can come on home you can come on home you can come on you can come on you can come on you can come on you can come on you can come on oh welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome oh you welcome [Applause] [Music] me everybody clap those hands everybody clap your hands if you love to praise him come on and clap your hands he's a mighty good God we want to praise him we want to bless him this is a celebration this is the celebration of life we want to praise you God we want to bless you God we want to thank you God oh welcome yeah he welcome me he welcome me he welcome me he welcome me get your house in order if you want to be welcome in get your house in order get your house in order he's standing with open arms just welcomeing your in yeah oh oh welcome [Music] he [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] will be when we all seees we will sing and shout when we are when we come on in here what a day when we are yeah we are and [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] amen again I'm ask all the pastors to convene up front um I'm going ask our senior pastor in the harer community Reverend JD blue if you will come and Lead this prayer on behalf of the new C family the K Branch Church family for strength for the days ahead and following the prayer if y'all have another selection y'all can sing that and we'll um get one of the ministers to do our own benediction [Music] [Music] Glory Hallelujah Glory Hallelujah oh Heavenly Father oh Heavenly Father Lord we come once more and again we are leaning on your ever lasting arms you are our strength yes you you are Our Redeemer yes Lord Heavenly Heavenly Father we come with knots all around our stomachs we come with a heavy heart and our minds are are wondering here and wondering there but oh God we we realize that even right now you're the same God yes God that promis never to leave us yes Lord yes Lord neither forsake us master master master master the sea is Raging but we just need you to speak to the troubles and wind and say peace be still Lord God our heavenly father we're here now because you allow us to s from east to west Lord the North in this sou we come in the midst of this building called C Branch we come under the leadership of you Lord yes Lord in your Under Shepherd Dr ner yes oh God we realize that all power is in your hand strengthening power healing power Lord Deliverance power God we realize that you told us that we know not the day nor the hour when you shall appear unto us but you did say let us be ready heavenly father look down upon this man this pastor this preacher this educator this teacher look down on him at this hour and help him to realize that many books he may have read but he remembered the Lord is my strength and my salvation Lord even now Whom Shall I Fear Lord I pray that th will look down upon the children touch them at this hour I know their minds are wondering I I know they don't really completely understand but Lord help them to realize that there is a God who promised to be a mother there is a God that promised that I will be a wife to you there's a God promised that I'll be a sister I even be a brother to you so Lord we're not lost we have you as our savior through it all through it all weeping may endure for night but your joy will come in the morning by and by Lord strength K branch in a mighty Divine Way help them to be able to stretch out them loving arms of tender care and Merc all around there past that this hour heal our broken w and Heavenly Father remind all of us that this world is not our home we are yet pilgrims passing by living on bar time and everything that we have we are using it because it's temporary even the breath that we breathe is in ours is yours the Lord and Lord we just come thank you we just come no just for by faith we're still leaning on you you're the prop you're the prop that we need right now but in the name of Jesus we just want to say thank you for all of us being under the shadow of your wings right now and then Lord no other and then Lord I don't know how and I thank you CU I don't know where when but the train is still moving it may come my way it may come your way but I'm so glad I know the conductor and I know to conductor done sign my name and and got my ticket in his hand and when it's all said and over we are praying that we hear him say Well done well done well done th good and faithful servant and in the in times like these we need to know him in the P of our sin somebody say Lord have mercy up Lord have mercy Christ Have Mercy In The Name of Jesus we pray amen amen and amen somebody say thank you Jesus somebody lift up holy hands in the sanctuary and give God the praise at this hour amen hallelujah hallelujah and I can feel you reaching thank you Lord lift your voice and say you are you are yes you are say strength [Music] like strength like no [Music] other and I can feel your [Music] reach said in the fullness of in the fullness of in the power of your name somebody say you lift me up thank you Jesus thank you Jesus you lift me up come on lift your voice we need to say in the fullness of your grace in the power of your name you lift me up higher God you lift me you lift me you lift me now if you really need God's strength just your voice say you are you are yes you are strength like strength like no other say strength like no [Music] other and God said I can feel you reaching one more time just lift your hands towards this family and say you are we ask that you endow us with your strength oh God strength like no strength like no other Str like we want you to feel it just like we're reaching right now Hallelujah Jesus thank you Lord this is our prayer to you in the fullness in the fullness God we ask you in the fullness of your grace and in the power of your name that you would lift this family up say you lift me up yes you do I know that you will God say one more time say in the fullness of in the fullness of in the power you're a lifter you're the lifter he's the lifter he's the lifter he's the [Music] lifter cuz you are [Music] strength like strength like strength like no other and I can feel your reaching reaches to me I know that you will reaches I know that you will God reaches yes you are [Music] reaches reaches reaches to me [Music] bless the Lord oh my soul and all that is within me bless His holy name I've been asked to make an aoral appeal many of you have already given but we will not allow this opportunity to go by without a collective offering for this beloved loved B family so we can to ask okay uh and it doesn't matter what amount this is love this is a love offering for the new Curt family love is not what you say it's what you do so if you'd be so kind let's give some love okay uh we've been asked that we'd walk I know you've been sitting for a while so we can ask both we going to pass it okay all right we're going to pass it you won't have to walk some have given already Dr new Kurt and the new Kurt family we love you we love you we love you dearly we love you dearly [Music] you the storm [Music] thank you Jes let don't let us fall [Music] I know [Music] [Music] [Music] don't let us [Music] we're going to bless this love offering Eternal God our heavenly father we ask your blessings upon this offering now this love that has been given let it express itself in ways that only you can give the guidance and Direction continue to cover the new Kurt family as only you can in jesus' name we pray amen thank you as Pastor Dan just stated we are indebted to you all the har Community we say thank you for all the love and support that y'all are giving and we to to continue to give we ask that make sure that everyone that's here there's some signing books in the vest there please make sure you sign the book so Pastor newerk will know that you was here and showing love and we can B accordingly and to the K Branch Church family if anybody is in need of transportation for Saturday for the funeral in North Carolina please see me um tonight or by 10:00 in the morning and we're going to ask us Pastor from our sister Church Pastor black to come and give us some closing remarks and a benediction at this time and thank you all for coming much has been said and done in this hour and we're not going to delay but we do want to thank everyone for coming and being a support to Pastor new Cork's family his church family and it doesn't stop here it needs to continue so let's please continue to pray let's please continue to be a support in every way that we know how it's difficult it's hard and many many of us have experienced a loss but not to the degree that Dr newerk and family are experiencing it so we definitely going to be keeping them in prayer and there really aren't many words to say even though many attempts have been made but when we don't have words to say we know that God is God and when we don't know what to do we can pray and our prayers can go sometime where our words can't and where our presence can't and so let's depend on the power of Prayer and let's please hold this family in much prayer this church family and please know whatever we can do no matter how small or great the task please let us know and we'll be there for our sister church that's what it's all about let us all stand prayer has been made but we just want to ask God to continue to bless this family continue to give strength to this man of God continue to uphold this church I pray oh God that when our strength fail we can walk in the strength of the Lord and father when our heart is overwhelmed please lead us to the rock that is higher than I we thank you for these things now in Jesus name the Lord bless thee and keep Thee the Lord make his face to shine upon thee the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you his peace we ask this in the name of Jesus the Christ amen and [Music] amen sometimes your Fai the fact St lineer when you're trying to believe but you feel like giv up you need to know he doesn't take any days off and he promised he would finish everything that he done you need to know is God is work in your life working in your life working in working in he's working on your behalf God is working yes he is even when you can't see it even when you can't feel it working in your life so sit back and let him work let go and let him work pray and let him work let him work in your life sit back and let him work let go and let him work pray let him work let him work in your life please listen let work let's go and let him work let go and let him work pray and let him work and let him work let them work let work relax and sit back and let him work and let [Applause] go and let him work let him work in your life yeah yeah let him work let's go and let him work let go and let him work pray and let him work work let work let them work in your life in your yeah let go and let him work let go and let him work pray and let him work and let let him work in your and when life doesn't sense know that God is [Music] walking yes he is he's working on your behalf oh you can let it go he's got it in control so you can wipe your eyes everything will be all right working in your before you start to fall apart remember God Des all his best work in the [Music] dark I can't say I have all love the aners and I don't know how long you'll feel this P please believe that life is like a movie and God is working hard behind the scen God is working working in your life working in your life working in your life God is working working in your life working in your life he's working in your life it's all for you to celebrate God's grace cuz every day there's something in the way but just before you start to fall apart remember God does all his best work in the [Music] dark in he's working in your life in working in your life working in your life you can wipe your tears because God is working oh yeah oh he's working working in your life sometimes your fa the facts don't line up when you're trying to believe but you feel like giving up you need to know he doesn't take any days and he promised he would finish everything that he's done you need to know God is working your working in your life in your he's working on your behalf God is working yes he is even when you can't see it even when you can't feel it working in your so sit back and let him work let go and let him work pray and let him work let him work in your life sit back and let him work let go and let him work pray and let him work let him work in your life please listen let work let's go and let him work let go let him work pray and let him work PR and let them work let them work let work relax and just sit back and let him work and let go let pray and let him work let work let them work in your life yeah let's go and let him work let work pray let him work let him work let him work in your life in your life yeah let go and let him work let go and let it work pray and let them work let let them work in your eyes and when like doesn't make sense know that God is [Music] walking yes he is he's working on your behalf oh you can let go he's got it in control so you can wipe your eyes everything will be all right cuz he's working in your life just before you start to fall apart remember God does all his best work in the dark [Music] I can't say I have all of the ansers and I don't