Bill Clinton Apostolic Testimony

I am so excited and it is my distinguished honor to bring to this podium into this pulpit into this great church President Bill Clinton would you come and greet us first today thank you thank you very much please be seated everyone I first of all I want to thank the pastor and his family and I want to thank you for giving me the honor of sitting where you're sitting now sitting between your two very proud right I tell you you should have heard what they were both telling me during the service let me say to all of you you know that of course that I'm in North Carolina because you have an election on Tuesday but I am here because by a remarkable twist of good-fortune 31 years ago when I became the Attorney General of my state at the age of 30 the woman who is my financial officer was the daughter of Pentecostal pastors and she was always praying for me and making fun of me at the same time to make sure I did not become an arrogant person in my hypo position at a young age and after we had worked together for a few months she said you know you should come to our camp meeting assume there'll be 3,000 pastors and lots of other people there and you're crazy about the music and you should just come so I went and it changed my life it changed my being associated with your people changed my life the head of our church in Arkansas was a man named James Lumpkin who came my friend until he died his wife was my friend until he died his daughter is perhaps the most inspirational singer I have ever known and her husband Anthony manga they passed through the largest Pentecostal church in Louisiana some of you know them and our families Hillary and I and in Anthony Mickie Mangan and our children we sort of grew up together and we saw them every summer and when I was president I went twice to their Easter Messiah service in Alexandria I watched them build their church when Hurricane Katrina hit I watched them give ten african-american pastors and their families homes because they were blown out of their churches until they could go back I watched them build a operation to help kids who were in trouble without regard to race to bring people together to lift them up again when I was president it is true what you said the Pentecostals were being somewhat persecuted in the among the Palestinians and the territories and so I called Yasser Arafat and I said you keep telling me your friend of the Christians here's your shot yeah get off there by here my friend and I must say I did a little bit better with him than I did with the Russians where he long said well but I gave it my best shot and when I wrote my the autobiography in 2004 I wrote two or three pages about the Pentecostal Church and some of you may have seen it but anyway I call Anthony Mangan and I read in my so I'm going to read you every word of this if this embarrasses you if there's anything that's factually wrong or embarrassing I will take it out but the rest of the world needs to know something about what I know of the heart of the Pentecostal feed thank you and so I wrote this I say this because I didn't come here to ask you to vote for my wife I came here to ask you to pray for and to and to vote do whatever you want but show up our country is in dire distress them our the people of this church all over America are hardworking people some have been blessed by God with great financial success most of you are just hard-working people and our country only works when it's fair for everybody across all the lines all the racial and religious and gender and other lines everybody's got to have a fair chance and it's not fair today so I just want you to pray for her and to make your voices heard and do whatever you think is right but don't set this out because we are being called upon to return to our true purpose and we must do it we are being given a chance to do it and the people North Carolina being given a chance to do it so I ask you for that the other thing I just want to say is thank you 31 years ago I found the Apostolic and it changed my life and it has never failed to be a blessing to me and to Hillary and to our daughter the maintenance call me once I'll tell you good sir I wrote about this when I was having a particularly rough time as president and he's Anthony Megan called me and he said I want to come see you and making what's to come and we won't stay long I said well I'm going to be in the White House tomorrow he said we're going to come for 20 minutes I said wait you're going to come all the way up here from Alexandria Louisiana to see me for 20 minutes he said yeah he said you've always been there for us we're here for you so he came out to see me we said a prayer make he gave me a song she wrote for me they turned around and left that's the kind of just because he knew I needed them and I needed to be reminded in the dark hour that I too was a child of God I this is why I'm here today Matt and I just want to say lots of interesting things have happened because of this when Mickey Mangan and a woman named Janice Joe strand who's now she and her husband Keith pass for a church in Ohio now they performed at my inaugural church service 93 on the way out the then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff : Powell who is known to many of you leaned over to me and said where did you find white women who could sing like he said I didn't know there were any white women see I looked over I said general that's one of the reasons I want I don't know people when my mother was died and we had her funeral and we had the movie to the convention center in my hometown Janice Jost ran sang holy ground at my mother's funeral she also is a remarkable person I don't know if you know them but she's a stunning musician and I heard her play once I said Janice where did you study she said I didn't God taught me to play God taught me to play and she never it's in her mid-thirties she went back and finally started studying music so she could write more sophisticated compositions but my mother was an unusual woman who had many kinds of friends Janice Oceana is up there singing holy ground the ground is moving and all of a sudden I hear this Phyllis grip on my shoulder and I turn around and one of my mother's friends Barbra Streisand looked at me and she said who is that woman and what is that music I have never ever heard anything like it and I said I have been trying to tell you about this for years for the first time in her life she recorded an album of spiritual music because she heard an apostolic woman singing at my mother's gym oh yeah no idea what the reach of your your spirit is I have to tell you here we are in this little church in North Carolina and I don't know where you found this guy but but I wouldn't let him go if I were you have fun I hang right on to him and all the rest of your just wonderful so that's what I have to say I just thank you for letting me spend a few minutes with you you know when you get close to these elections attentions are up the temperatures up we're all liable to say something we shouldn't say and we're all feeling things we shouldn't feel so it is a very good thing for me officer and I thank you I ask you for your prayers I'm very proud of my wife and I'm very proud of our daughter and I'm very proud of the campaign that that Hillary is made and into this will be an important thing to say but the most important thing is to do it in the right spirit and for the right reasons because our country must move amen thank you thank you so much you

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Id: 6Z6aQB89eCc

Length: 10min 27sec (627 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 14 2009