Missionary to NYC Youth (Part 2) - Danny Sanabria

00:00 - Speaker 1 My name is Daniel Sanabria. I am from New York, born and raised. I am a husband, a father, and I am a missionary to young people here in New York City under the ministry called Youth for Christ, New York City. Happy to be here. 00:17 - Speaker 2 Welcome to Faithly Stories, the podcast that brings you inspiring tales from conversations with church leaders as they navigate the peaks and valleys of their faith journeys through their ministry work and everyday life. Join us as we delve into their challenges, moments of encouragement and answered prayers. The Faithly Stories podcast is brought to you by Faithly, an online community committed to empowering church leaders, pastors, staff and volunteers. Learn more at faithlyco. Get ready to be uplifted and inspired as we unveil the heart of faith through stories from the front lines of ministry. On the Faithly Stories podcast. 00:58 - Speaker 3 Oh, we are so happy to have you, Danny. So we only just met a week ago. Yes, we met at the Pastor's Prayer Summit. We were in Pennsylvania and it was an awesome conference. I met so many cool people, so many people that I just knew I had to hear more of their stories. So you're a missionary to the youth of New York City. I love that. Like break that down for me. What does that mean? 01:20 - Speaker 1 Yeah, you know, when I got saved, when I was 16 years old, I mean radically saved. 01:25 I mean, I was born and raised in church but when I was 16, I was radically saved and I said to myself I got to tell my peers about Christ. This changed my whole life, my perspective, and I just became like a lover for Christ. And I said I got to tell my friends, my neighbors about Jesus. And then I started my youth ministry journey from 16 on in my local church and I got to tell my friends, my neighbors, about Jesus. And then I started my youth ministry journey from 16 on in my local church and I got really involved in youth ministry and I haven't stopped. And so it became a full-time ministry later on in life and then with Youth for Christ and with other ministries and I said, man, my real goal here in life right now is to see kids come to Jesus. 02:04 I came to Jesus at a young age. I grew up in church but seeing young people following Christ when they're 13 and 14 and on is a like, it's a joy but a goal in my life to see. Hey, if you can change a kid's life when they're young, you can change a generation. And so I want to see kids come to Jesus and whatever it takes, if it takes a slice of pizza hanging out with them, or take them out to hear the gospel, to share the gospel. Let's do it, and so that's been my heart. 02:39 - Speaker 3 Now, when you felt those stirrings as a teenager, right, did you think that you would go into full-time ministry Because you studied business in college? 02:45 - Speaker 1 Yes, studied business in college. I'm an entrepreneur, I love business, my parents are in business, I got friends and family in business and it's just, it's in me, my DNA, starting something. My first business was in eighth grade selling beads Puerto Rican beads, flags, you know, back in those days and raising money. It's always been in my blood. I started at King's College here in New York City in the Empire State Building. I first started in 1999 and loved everything about the college, but again, ministry was in me. 03:24 Did I ever thought I'd be full-time? No, was it a dream? Yes, I knew I was going into business. I was probably going to be in my dad's business, in the dry cleaning business for all these years. But God has just put me in places that allow me to do full-time ministry, and so I was just grateful that allow me to do full-time ministry, and so I was just grateful. I just jumped right in there to say, wait a minute, if I could do this full-time, go into the trenches, go into the neighborhoods and preach the gospel, especially in my local church. Man, let's do it, I'm all in. 03:56 - Speaker 3 Yeah, and it sounds like you were right about all of that. Like the Lord has called you into all of it, into business, into ministry, because in addition to doing full-time ministry, you're also a businessman, you're also an entrepreneur. Tell me about that, yeah. 04:12 - Speaker 1 So again, danny always wants to make money to survive in the city and so I started a t-shirt business. I was always interested in t-shirts in my youth groups, just creating t-shirts for them. I had a friend of mine that was really in the t-shirt business and I would just go to his shop and hang out with him, give him orders, and give him orders, and I said, hey, man, can you show me how you do this? Because this is so cool. I'm paying you this much money. I'm trying to always get the you know, cheaper. Oh yeah, I was like, can you show me how to do this? And he was like, yeah, do this, do that. And he was breaking it down. And one day I told my wife I want to open a business and she looked at me she's okay, danny, you know this is your dream. And I said, yeah, I want to buy a t-shirt business and we're gonna make our own t-shirts and we're going to make our own money and I'm going to support my family. And she was like, okay. And then one day it took me two years to save up and I said, hey, I bought a machine. And she was like, oh, you are serious, you bought a machine, I was like, yeah, and I'm housing it here in my friend's store. We're going to make it Long story short 10 years later, you know we're doing really well. God has opened a door. 05:28 This is a side business that I work at nighttime. I also got workers and partners into this small business. It's called Community Print Lab and it's exciting to be a part of that. But also I hire young people. I teach young people how to screen print, and so it's for me it's a discipleship tool. You know it's just hey, they hang out with me for eight hours and we're not just talking about t-shirt, we're talking about life and conversation, about you know how can, how can this bless you, and I had so many kids write on their resume. I worked with Danny, you know, in our printing business and they got jobs and so if I can be that help, I'm all in. 06:09 - Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah. So for you it's not like business here and ministry here. 06:13 - Speaker 1 It's everything together. Everything together has to be yeah, everything together. 06:18 - Speaker 3 Yeah, well, and so you have another business, you have a tracking business and it's connected to Youth for Christ, so talk a little bit about that. 06:25 - Speaker 1 Yeah, it's just a great, great story During the pandemic. So we work with kids in prison. Our ministry is Juvenile Justice Ministry. Right, Youth for Christ has different types of ministry, but in New York City we started with Juvenile Justice Ministry, working with kids from 13 to 19 years old inside the prison system, and we've been doing that for nine years. 06:48 So when the pandemic hit, a lot of these kids needed to go back home. They were sending them back home and they needed furniture. Mom, they didn't expect them to come so soon. So they called us up and said Danny, can you get them furniture? So I was like yeah. So I called my board member up here on the upper east side and I asked her hey, can you get him furniture? So I was like yeah. 07:06 So I called my board member here in the Upper East Side and I asked her hey, can you get me furniture? Her name is Bindiya. She's awesome. She's like yeah. So she went on Facebook we need a bed, we need this, we need that, and I will go pick up the bed in my car, pick up the furniture in my car or rent out a truck to go deliver these kids. And so the juvenile justice people were like this is awesome, keep on doing it. I'm like I mean there was like I mean 10 kids probably every month, and I was like I need a truck. So I knew a guy. If you're from New York, you know somebody. 07:38 - Speaker 3 I think we're gonna call this podcast I knew a guy, you know a guy, yeah. 07:43 - Speaker 1 So you know a guy. You know a guy, yeah. So you know a guy. I call. I say, hey, you know, sonny, I need your truck. I know you have a truck at the back of the. You know, can you just give it to me? I'm doing this for ministry. He was like, well, I'm not Christian, danny, so this is you got to pay me. So, long story short, we bought the truck with my local church, we paid you know great mileage and we started this business called Move for Justice. 08:06 - Speaker 3 Move for Justice. 08:14 - Speaker 1 And my wife said you should. My wife actually called it Move for Justice and we started a business, but this business was strictly for moving but also hiring kids that are former incarcerated. They're coming out of jail, they don't know what to do. We have a relationship with them, they love us. Hey, why don't you work with us? Let's do some moving jobs, and we have people from different churches call us up, but also other ministries calling up and I'll hire them and I'll spend eight hours with them lifting up furniture up and down. 08:42 But I'm going to tell you something right now it is the best ministry when it comes to discipleship is working with them. I can see Jesus calling his disciples come, follow me and just do ministry. But he was present, he was there doing ministry, and me doing ministry with them is that is, taking this furniture everywhere, but having the deep spiritual conversations. It was better than preaching on a pulpit or in church. It was me speaking to these kids about everything that's going on and I can just tell them about a biblical worldview and I'm telling you kids have been changed because of that. 09:23 - Speaker 3 Wow, that's powerful. Yeah, you and I'm telling you kids have been changed because of that. Wow, that's powerful. Yeah, it's really powerful. Um, I think you told me that all of this grew out of a prayer movement oh yes right, tell me about that man. 09:34 - Speaker 1 So there's so. So my life is a peril like I have. It's not like after 10 years. I started something. It's everything started at the same time, and so God Belongs in my City started, you know, probably in 2009. I was in ministry, working with another ministry called Street to Street Basketball Tournaments, but God Belongs in my City started in my office. I was a principal. See, I do a lot. I was a principal. 10:04 - Speaker 3 Danny, are you 108 years old? 10:06 - Speaker 1 I feel like it. I was a principal at my church local school. They needed a principal because the principal left and I was a secretary. When I first got out of college and they're like Danny, can you join me? I was like sure, it's entrepreneur, it's helping, it's starting, let me do this. And I had great support. My board was there for me. 10:27 But in that moment a teacher walked in and said Daniel, look at this article. And this article said one million New Yorkers don't need God. So the atheists were putting these ads all over New York City. And so in my office, where my youth leaders we had a Monday morning conversation meeting and I were my youth leaders we had a Monday morning conversation meeting and I read the article in front of them and in my book it was like so quick. In my book I wrote God belongs in my city, he belongs here, this is his city and there's believers in this city that love Jesus and we cannot stand for this. So let's pray for our city. 11:05 And so one young person said man, we should put that on t-shirts. I was like I know a guy. And so he was like we should do a prayer walk. Danny, why don't you get all the youth pastors in New York City that you know and bring them together and do a prayer walk from Battery Park all the way to Times Square, and let's do it in two weeks. And I was like, okay. So I called my youth pastor. Friends called Adam Dorso, called everybody and said, hey, let's do a prayer walk against this you know atheist ads and let's just do it in two weeks. So I called my friend. I need t-shirts. I have no money, but I need 300 t-shirts. Two days he gets it to me 300 t-shirts. White t-shirt that says God belongs in my city. No church name, no sponsorship. 11:53 It was just me and my youth that are like, what? 25, 30 of us? And so let's just pray, pray, pray. I was 27 years old. I got young people 13, 14, 15, and they're like let's do it. They call their friends, everyone's trying to find out on Facebook. We didn't have Instagram back then, it was on just Facebook and Twitter. I mean, we just blew up. 12:13 Long story short, I ordered 2,000 t-shirts in two weeks. Wow, I had a big bill 2,000 t-shirts. I was okay, this is bad. I was selling them really cheap because I really wanted to get the word out there. Gave out many, many. At the end of the day, 1500 kids came together from time square, from battery park all the way to time square, and then we had another group from 110th street come down and meet us at time square. You could look it up, california city I'll google it and telling you blew up prayer, the youth pray for the city, and it started there. And then again we'll be here all day talking about this. But that started this movement of prayer in New York City and all over America over 80 cities did prayer walks, wow. And across the country and across the world. So who would have thought that my young people, four of us in a room, would be all over the world saying God belongs in my city? 13:13 - Speaker 3 Wow, that's amazing. 13:14 - Speaker 1 Yeah, and we had no money, we had nothing, we just did it. And you know, the pandemic slowed us down and I'm 43 years old and I'm like I got to make. You know, this wasn't paying me All the proceeds. We gave it back to youth ministries, we did retreats with them, we gave it to youth ministry, we supported them, and Youth for Christ National Office said man, we need, let's hire Daniel, let's bring this together and reach kids with the gospel. And I'm like I'm all in. And so all of that came to fruition. That's why I'm here and that's why I love the city. That's why I'm here and that's why I love the city. That's why I'm not leaving the city, that's why I have 50 jobs to make sure I survive. But at the end of the day, we want to see kids know Jesus and we want kids in youth ministries across this city to be young people of prayer. I do believe when a young person prays, the church is stronger and will last longer. That's what I believe. 14:12 - Speaker 3 Wow, that's really. That's a beautiful story and your story's not over You're only 43 years old, 43 years old, yeah. Yeah, wow. So when you think about New York City youth today, you know you've been doing it not for 108 years but, for a good couple of decades. Yeah, what has changed about reaching youth in New York City today, and what do you think is needed? Do we need another prayer movement? 14:33 - Speaker 1 Yeah, I believe the church is in New York City. It's like a fire. You know how you start a fire. It's just like it's coming up. I believe that there are prayer movements happening right now in the Bronx Church of the City, with prayer, you know NYC, god is moving and I don't think we need to start something new. We got to see what's there and we just got to jump on it. And I think that the need for youth ministries to be on fire is now Like, I think the church leadership, they're all in, but the youth don't neglect the youth. 15:22 Yes, they're occupied by social media. Yes, they're annoying. Yes, I have a 11 year old. Yes, there's all of the above. The reality is we need to invest in more of youth as never before. If we're not putting a large budget in our youth ministries, we're going to lose these young people. They're hungry. This generation is hungry. If you're not investing in them, we're going to lose them Because, again, 24 hours, seven days a week, the enemy is after them. It is one click away, is one answer away. It's in their faces. They can't get away from it, but we need to be on the offense all of the time. That's why I get upset. When a youth ministry tells me I get wholly upset. It's a holy discontent. Oh, we're going to just meet once a month. 16:15 - Speaker 3 What. 16:16 - Speaker 1 Oh, we're going to meet twice a month. No, we got to meet every week. We got to be on top of them, because this generation is going to die if we're not with them. And so that's my goal as a Youth for Christ. Our goal is to empower youth ministries. The temperature of youth ministries in New York City, I think, from what I see, is they're ready, they're there, they're ready. 16:45 My daughter's hungry. She's 11 years old. She's not hungry because her father is hungry. She's hungry because she's feeling the spirit of God and she's doing it on her own. She's literally like dad, can I go pray a service with you? The grumpy dad would be like mommy, you got to go to sleep, you got school tomorrow, and there's a lot of parents like that. No, you want to come, and there's a lot of parents like that. No, you want to come, let's go. My dad used to drag us to church seven days a week. I'm coming from a Pentecostal church. Seven days a week, I've been a part of every single ministry you could think of. And, yes, we went home late, you know. Yes, we tired the next day to go to school, but there were seeds planted and I and I take my daughter to prayer and seeing her pray on her own, I got to feed that, and so we have to do that as a church. We have to look at our youth ministry and say, hey, let's disciple our kids and let's reach more kids. 17:47 - Speaker 3 So, danny, if you're a lead pastor and you're listening to this conversation and you're getting stirred up and you're saying, yes, I want to light a fire, we have youth and we have a youth ministry, but they're not quite sure how to do that, what's like a practical first step they can do to unleash the power of what is there. 18:04 - Speaker 1 Yeah, get in a room with all your leaders and have a five or 10 year plan and say how many kids we want. What's the number? 50, a hundred? Okay, this is what we need. What's our budget? Okay, if our budget is only 1%, you're losing. It needs to be a high percentage. Especially here in New York, it has to be high. I mean, I raise a lot of money to get to where I'm at and I encourage pastors to support me, but I also encourage them like what's your budget on the ground? And so that's key. 18:40 And then get in a room with young people and do not be a church of authority, but a church of relationship, meaning asking the questions hey, what's going on out there guys? It be just natural conversations. That will become a spiritual conversation. We call it in Youth for Christ Christ-sharing relationship. 19:09 A friend of mine, paul Cody, said this to me. He's from Young Life. He said when you say hello to a young person, that's the beginning of discipleship. That changed my life. It's not like when they. The beginning of discipleship is not when they come to church. Beginning of discipleship not when they come to church. Beginning of the discipleship when I go to the park and say what's up to a kid? I say I'll be here next week. I'm gonna beat you next week. I promise you, I'm coming next week and I'm coming the following week. I'm coming every week. So make sure that kid knows my name and I know their name. 19:37 And then, because this is the problem, we think we could save people. We don't save people. Scripture's clear. God saves people, god brings the bride together. Right, we just gotta be faithful and consistent. So I'll tell the church hey, be faithful and consistent and do it weekly. 19:57 If I went back to my youth days my youth days my doors are open seven days a week the church leadership would be upset at me because the kids would be in the church off hours. I was like what do you want me to do? They love the church. Mom and dad don't go to church, but they love being part of the church. I got to feed that. I got to help that out. Now again, there's rules, there's regulations. You know, I understand that, but these kids are hungry. You got to get on top of it and you got to focus on it. And you there's and there's and there's always. You always have to move with it. There's not one straight structure that we used to grow up like this. There's always a movement of it, but never fall away from the truth, right? So that's what I would tell you about to a pastor. Get on the truth, right? So that's what I would tell a youth pastor to a pastor. Get on the board, everyone on board, and let's focus on them. 20:49 - Speaker 3 Yeah, let's focus on them and be faithful and consistent. I love that. 20:52 - Speaker 1 Faithful and consistent. 20:52 - Speaker 3 Yeah, that's so simple but it's so powerful. I think anytime and I see this as someone who's trying to build a new thing when you're trying to build a new thing, being faithful in kids' is such an important ingredient. That's good advice. Can we talk about Youth for Christ for a minute? So Youth for Christ has over 100 chapters in the country and I got to imagine that every chapter is a little different. Every city or every town needs something different for their youth. You had mentioned that your chapter, the New York City chapter, really grew out of juvenile justice. Is that particular to New York City? Is that all urban areas? I'm just a little curious. 21:35 - Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean. Youth for Christ nationally is well known for their juvenile justice ministry. So Youth for Christ goes wherever their students are at Like, where they're at parks, schools, where are they? We're going to get them. Juvenile justice is a ministry focusing on young people that are incarcerated. Who's going to reach them? Who's going to go after them? And so Youth for Christ, for over 65 years, has been doing that. 22:03 And when they came to New York City and hired me, adam Durso actually endorsed me and I told Adam Adam, I can't do executive director, that's not me, that's paperwork, I can't do it. I was so scared, I was terrified. He's like no, danny, I believe in you, I think you can do it. And so when they came to me and sat down with me it could be nine years they said hey, danny, listen, we love what you're doing, you're doing a phenomenal job, but we want you to be a part of Youth for Christ. I was like yes, I'm getting paid for this and reach kids, I'm excited. Youth for Christ is all you know, and Billy Graham was the first employee. I was like I'm a part of that lineage, I'm a part of that lineage, I'm excited. So I'm like that's my hero and but they're like, listen, you know you can reach kids in campuses, in the neighborhoods, this is what you do. But there's a ministry we want to bring here in New York called juvenile justice, and I was like what's that? Like that was like his going to jail, it's like. Yeah, I was like like I mean, I mean I got arrested a couple of times. I was a kid, I mean, but you know, I never visit I probably visit one kid in Rikers, but I didn't know the ministry. I have friends that did the type of ministry, but I wasn't really into it, like, well then, this is what we're doing, take it or leave it. 23:19 And during that time I was, I was offered another job for another ministry and I was like this one or this one, I was debating this one, I can do it, let's do it. This one is new, it's dark, it's challenging, no one's doing it from a gospel perspective. And I said, lord, tell me. And he's like go where the darkness is at, go where no one's going. I was like I'm all in as an entrepreneur. I'm like let's do it, let's jump in to something that no one's really doing. 23:58 And so I call a friend of mine and say, hey, I need your help. You're doing this. I want to bring you the gospel. You're doing this from legal stuff and you want to change close jails. I'm going to come with Jesus. And he was like man. I've been praying for this, dan. I've been praying for partnership. So I'm like, just show me. 24:17 So I walked in. I'm in the Bronx Now. I'm from Brooklyn. Okay, we don't go to the Bronx, all right, that's just, we go there for the Yankee game, probably, but we don't go there hanging out. Even the Bronx, we look for the Brooklyn, it's a whole, it's a. It's a whole different thing. 24:31 And so I said, all right, he was coming at 10 o'clock. I said 10 o'clock in the Bronx, bro, I don't, I don't do 10 o'clock and come inside Horizon and come and see what we do. So I sat down, I waited for two hours and I waited and then a young girl walks in. She was 14 years old and he basically said, now, talk to her. And I was like, hey, what's your name? Where you from, from Chelsea, blah, blah, blah. She's like I'm here because, off the bat, I'm here because I robbed a Domino pizza deliverer. I'm like, okay, okay and right. There was like a punch in my gut. I just had a baby and it was like she needs to hear the gospel. This is where you need to be at. It's not ministry for juvenile justice. It's going to the darkest places. I'm like, I'm in, I'm all in and I went to her court date the next day. 25:36 - Speaker 3 Wow. 25:38 - Speaker 1 I was the only one that she knew. Mom and dad wasn't there. Her brother wasn't there. I was the only one she looked at me and dad wasn't there. Her brother wasn't there. I was the only one she looked at me and she was like, like, what are you doing here? Like you just met me. And that moment she told the court I'm pregnant, 14 years old, I need help. And I'm like, please, lord, and right there, just shook me and says no matter what I do, I got to get to these kids' faces, I got to do what I have to do. And so I did. I called people, I called government officials and said let me in. 26:14 By the grace of God, we've been in facilities for nine years. By grace of God, we have volunteers. By grace of God, there's churches involved, but there's a lot more work to do. And then, as my time has come, I became more of a fundraiser now than on the ground. And do I like to be fundraising? Yes, do I want to be on the ground? Absolutely. But the Lord has put me in a position to train, develop more leaders to do that and raise the funds to get to those doors. And I tell all my donors and pastors, I say let's keep the door open, because we have the door open for nine years. They love us, they want us, they want us to be part of these kids' lives and yes, it says youth for Christ. But they see our consistency, they see our yeses, they see our drive and they tell us why are you doing this? I'm like because this is what God's called us to do. 27:13 - Speaker 3 Yeah, Well, so we've got a lot of New York City pastors and churches who are following along with what we're doing and listening to the podcast. What do you need? 27:25 - Speaker 1 That's a big question. That's a big one. I don't want to get in trouble. What I need is this I need the church. Youth for Christ does not function as a power ministry only. No. Youth for Christ functions as long as the church functions. Can't do without the local church functions. Can't do it without the local church. I can't do it. I can't be in there and say Youth for Christ has a ministry. No, I have to call the churches in and say you have the people, you have the heart and your longevity. Youth for Christ could literally end, could be closed today, but the church will never close. It will never close. It's going to be open. And so I need the church to be inside the facilities. 28:09 So we're doing a new thing called Adopt-A-Hall. We have 20 halls. Halls are where kids stay and live. There are 10 to 15 kids per hall and we're looking for 20 churches to adopt a hall. Focus on those 10 students. What does that look like? Go and meet with them once a week. Go to their court dates, spend time with their families, tell the families where the church is. Support you, what are your needs, what are your wants. We're praying for you. We want to help you. So imagine 20 churches. Now there's 7,500 churches in New York City. I only need 20. To support, help YFC doors open to get the church in the building and then that church could support just that 10. Not the whole facility, just those 10 kids, the 10 roughest youth ministry you'll ever have. 29:01 It is not easy. It's not easy. I've knocked on churches all over for nine years. I've knocked on churches, I've called churches. I have friends that run churches, but most of the time they're like, ah, this is too much. And that's the reality, cause we're dealing with kids that just murdered, murdered kids in the streets. But they do need hope. They're going to spend time in prison for 15, 20 years, but we need to plant the seed and we need to be consistent in their lives, and only God can change. So the reality is this the church needs to be involved with Youth for Christ. I can't do without it, because I'm not the church, I'm just part of the church. 29:42 - Speaker 3 So if a church wants to get involved, Danny, what do they do? Do they reach out to you? 29:45 - Speaker 1 Yes, please, yfcnycorg and hit me up, let's do this, let's train you, let's develop you, let's help you, let's guide you, let's get involved. We're looking for funds too resources to make our budget to make sure our staff is good to go and make sure all these kids need what they need. 30:04 - Speaker 3 Got it, got it. Well. I have a feeling, Danny, that we've only just scrapped the surface of your story, of the work that you're doing. So I have a feeling we'll be talking again, but thank you so much. Thank you, thanks for having me, it's been such a blessing to hear how the Lord has used you, how he's we're together. Can you believe, like when you were arrested, like that would be such a key moment that that would like feed into your ministry, like the Lord knew what he'd be doing. 30:27 - Speaker 1 The Lord knew what he was doing, Shaped me up, changed my life, and now I'm all in with him. As Paul said it, I'm a, like he said. As Paul said, a slave to the lost, and so I want to be a slave to the lost. 30:38 - Speaker 3 I love that. Thank you, danny. I love that. Thank you Danny. 30:40 - Speaker 1 Thank you so much. I'm excited for, faithfully, what you're doing. Let's bring the. I love it, I believe this, what I believe on us, and this God's going to bless you because you're all about unity. John 17 talks about it. Jesus, he prayed about it. I think you're doing that. 30:56 - Speaker 3 Thank you. 30:57 - Speaker 2 Thank you, Danny. 30:58 - Speaker 1 Thank you. 30:58 - Speaker 2 Thank you for tuning in to the Faithly Stories podcast. We pray this episode gave you the encouragement you needed to continue on your journey. The Faithly Stories podcast is brought to you by Faithly, an online community committed to empowering church leaders, pastors, staff and volunteers. The Faithly digital platform offers innovative and practical tools and resources to enhance connection, foster collaboration and promote growth within the church and ministry space. Remember to subscribe, rate and review our podcast to help reach more listeners like you. Stay tuned for more uplifting tales from the front lines of ministry on the Faithly Podcast. Stay bold, stay faithful and never underestimate the power of your own story.