Celebration of Life | Pastor Ron Boni Part 2

somebody told me i was going to go preach a funeral service i said no i'm not we're going to have a time of celebration and if i had my if i had my musical instruments but my band here i would sing i'll fly away i mean we ought to we ought to be shouting we ought to be praising the lord we're making some pentecostal noise quran we're here if ron were here he would say what's the matter with you why are you so quiet you're in church you're in the house of god you're in the presence of the lord not in the presence of the dead come on somebody in the presence of a living god hallelujah jesus said i was dead but now i'm alive and alive forevermore i have contemplated my departure i i still uh this month of february i'll be turning 82 and so somebody asked me how much longer i had i said i'm looking for at least 18 more years i want to live to be a hundred i want to live long enough to marry off my two little granddaughter twins and if i can make it to a hundred i'll be able to mirror them off but anyway i was thinking about my departure you know the songs that we sing ought to be songs of worship and praise because god is worthy to be praised i need a kleenex kenneth give me a claim thank you kenneth is another one of my brothers i can order him around talk to make fun of him and everything even embarrass him but i'm thinking about my my celebration of life and i found the words to a song that i'm going to read for brother ron someday when i breathe my final breath and the doctor takes one look at me and says you're dead the truth is going to finally be revealed oh i'm going to find death ain't no big deal he'll reach down and gently close my eyes i'll be watching from the other side i'll be laughing about how scared i thought i'd feel oh but i'm going to find death ain't no big deal my soul is going to be just like a bird set free i'll sail right past the moon and onto the stars and i know i'll be amazed when i get to heaven's gates because i knew my way home by heart the light will shine much brighter than the sun and i'll be right back where i started from ain't no way to see how good i'll feel oh i tell you children death ain't no big deal ain't no way to say how good i'll feel oh but i tell you brothers and sisters death ain't no big deal we're afraid of death we're afraid of dying death ain't no big deal people have a lot of superstitions about death and dying and about those who have passed on tribe i come from they say we should never never put uh photographs of the dead a loved one on the walls or anywhere do not display their picture it's just their body they're not there if you could get if you get a picture the lord showed me this one day god told me one day that now i'll bring it down to ron if god would say ask ron ron you want to stay here or you want to go back there without any doubt ron would say i'll stay right here i'll stay right here why because death ain't no big deal you open one door walk through that door next thing you know you're in heaven it's amazing this thing we call death is really a favor allowing us to go from one life to another one world to another go from time into eternity this ain't no big deal i loved i loved ron how old was when i first met him sarah 16 prescott youth camp had a mighty outpouring of the holy ghost in prescott arizona i'm in an old-fashioned holy ghost outpouring tongues talking shouting dancing crying praising the lord prison youth camp shook under the power of god tehran got his start god just gave him a jump start his spiritual heart began to beat at that moment that's when god called him into the ministry that's where god put in his heart to be a preacher to be a father to be a pastor to be a friend to be anything and everything that god wanted me to be ron's got some history ended up back in arizona god spoke to my heart and i was pastoring uh pioneering a church in mesa time came for us to go and i said all right lord where do you want me to go and the lord said san carlos you know to me that was like god saying i want to go to the push washington i didn't want to go there and so god said go to san carlos and people told me no don't go there stay away from san carlos that's a bad place sound like the right place for a preacher to go then isn't it huh so i went and i asked god i didn't know why i was going to san carlos but god took me to san carlos my wife and i and that's when we met ron again after so many years we met each other again in san carlos i'm looking at a man that had a lot of accomplishments made a lot of achievements in his life his soul was empty his heart was empty just about to reach to reach the end of himself that's when we came to town i took one look at that man when he first came to that church building god said that's why i said santa carlos i sent you for my i sent you to bring my son back home again so i talked to ron about coming back to church and he said no no i'm not coming back he said i told the lord i will never sit on that platform again i will never stand behind that pulpit again i'm not worthy i don't deserve it i said you don't have to do anything wrong just come and sit in church because i know you like that that old-time preaching of the word of god and so ron said he'll do that came and listened to the preaching so one day i said ron where's your guitar he says at home he's still playing it once in a while at home i play it but you bring it to church sometime i know about that where the co-op i said i said just play it that's all i need i need guitar players so he said okay so we brought that guitar and he i'm not going to sit on the platform i'll sit down here it's fine he played it wasn't very long until he was on that platform wasn't very long until he was back at the altar weeping and crying the way back to god prodigal son had come home how that man tried to run away from god went to hear brother kalapa preach and he preached on the prodigal son went to north carolina and what are they preaching the prodigal son go to white river columbus champion where did he preach prodigal son that was him he came back and god restored that man hallelujah the past was written off erased washed away by the blood of jesus past no longer mattered only thing that mattered was now and for the rest of your life he said i can do that hallelujah well he didn't know how fast he was going to have to do that i worked with ron and prayed with him and talked to him and finally one day the lord said all right you're gone your job is over you administered the whole bonnie family now you're ready to go on so they tried to bribe me bonnie family tried to well not the bonnie family the hunters the chapmans antonio tried to bribe me they bought me a great big television set put in my room you might you know pastor we appreciate you you're just bribing me this all so they came in their delegation they just almost begged me not to leave san carlos they made some promises to me if i if i would stay and be their pastor i said no i can't do that but i will leave you a pastor i will put somebody in charge of the church and they said who and i said ron we made him our sunday adult sunday school teacher and ron filled that church up on sunday morning sunday school filled it up in fact there are more people attending sunday school than there were in the morning service the glory was coming down power of god was falling oh just kind of shook up the church a little bit we're not even in morning service and they're having a revival going on [Music] somebody came over said brother kalapa we're having choir practice you better come see what's going on stepped out the door and i hear the shouting and the praise in the lord choir practiced nothing they were having revival over there hallelujah so i told ron i said you're in charge when i'm gone he said i don't know if i can do that or not i said doesn't matter what you think the only thing that matters what me and god says and you're ready you're ready to do this well ron was more than ready hallelujah amen more than ready took that church until he had to leave what are we going to do now god build a church you know ron bonnie who me yeah you no not just you you and me god said let's build a church in san carlos and so he did the testimony of a man that had faith in god a man that believed god thank god he had enough family to fill the church the rest is history ron was like a brother to me not brother ron but ron my brother i didn't regard him as my peer i regarded him as my brother loved that man even loved carol after a while even even though she said i don't want to be a preacher's wife i don't even know how to be a preacher's wife i says follow wrong that's all you got to do she turned out all right huh yeah she turned out sometimes i feel those are my kids even though i'm not old enough to be their parents they just feel like they're my kids i'm proud of these two what they've done in san carlos what they've done in an indian country we had a real live celebration that was open to public we'd have a thousand people in the house of god honor that man i lost a brother i lost a friend but wouldn't you know ron's still at work he walked out of my life and he said i want you to meet my friend jim brown he's going to be your brother now then wallace be gay i lost one friend and i gained two more hallelujah now esther told me to behave myself while i'm up here you don't go talking like kenneth patton now huh so my whole family send their love and their condolences to carol and antonio's and hunters and alexanders and we traveled together in the northwest and his family we toured all over the northwest the vancouver island place called ukulele sarah remember those uh what you ate she thought they were something fried fried clams there and then they had fish head soup right salmon had soup well she found out she thought they're eating some kind of uh fried something else but it was seafood and when they told her what she had eaten she jumped in the car and said ron drive now stop and she quickly got rid of that food she's got to eaten of course we didn't tell anybody about it up there because they were they were being really good to us good to them in trying to feed them some of their traditional food we went into a place called gorst washington and uh when we were there in that little church building the glory of the lord had come down power of god fell they they these girls would sing power of god would come down then i'd preach and glory would fall all the time came and all this were filled with people who were hungry for god we're at the alder praying for people sarah came to me and said brother clapp i would ask you a question i said what do you see that red-headed white man down there at the alder i said yes she said how come [Music] that man can speak our language i said what are you talking about i'm getting goosebumps now what are you talking about that man is talking our language how come he knows our language and how come he can talk it better than we can they all began to speak in other tongues as the holy ghost gave them utterance oh that redheaded white man was talking about she better than the apaches can talk and do you know why because god is an apache god hallelujah amen i went right over to the man and put my arm around him i said brother once you learn that language he said what language that language you're speaking just a little while ago i don't know what that is that's just the holy ghost talking through me i said well those ladies over there see them stand they're still looking at you and esther told me don't say somehow or don't be somehow. i said see the ladies other they're looking at you somehow they want to know what's going on how come that redheaded white man can talk the apache language better than we can that man broke down he wept he cried he sobbed and he praised the lord because he said people said that's not the holy ghost that's not the holy ghost he's only made nobody can talk like that in other tongues it was a holy ghost power of god fell we saw it nearly everywhere we went and outpouring of the holy ghost i'm reminded of a in the in the bible acts chapter number eight or not acts john chapter number 11 story about lazarus and he was a bonnie lazarus bonnie certain man was sick named lazarus bonnie come on somebody say amen one of these days that might be your name in there huh and so they sent word to jesus mary get on there and text jesus tell them he whom thou lovest is sick so mary got on her cell phone and text jesus better come the lord he will love us just sick so what is jesus remember i said god is gone as apache he had to have been apache because he was four days late for the funeral come on now say amen out there now i know there are people out there gonna say did they have a spin already when did they do that four days ago oh that long ago yeah where were you so lord jesus cell phone wasn't on silence rang and he looked at it oh our friend lazarus is sick so somebody said we better get over there lord now folks you're not going to read that in your bible you're hearing the kalapa version of this whole thing so so his friend said we better get over there and see this man and the lord said now let's just wait a while how long we gonna wait lord oh yeah we'll wait for a few days long enough for him to die let him die can you imagine i just can't it just bothers me that god can speak and get the code of man out patrolling his wife out now ron bonnie out god what's going on lord said i just let him die it's god's will it's a part of our life somewhere along the line it is appointed under man once to die after this the judgment so lord how long we going to wait long enough for him to die so they said okay so they waited four days later i should have had i should have had what's your name rachel hunter bonnie rachel bonnie hunter should have had her sing that song even when he's four days late what still on time hallelujah amen even if he's four days late he's still on time hallelujah why because god is not affected by time god does not live in time hallelujah amen god is not influenced by time it can be now or four days later and god's still gonna do what he wants to do hallelujah amen ah we get angry and say lord where were you anyway god said i'm here on my throne where are you at anyway monsoon get your eyes on who you are serving and who you are loving and who you are living for he's an on-time god he's an on-time god he's a god that's right on time don't ever say god is too late god is never late he's always on time the devil is a liar come on somebody the devil's a liar jesus this jesus that we're serving he's an on time jesus he'll be there when you need him he'll always be there when you need him he'll never let you down he'll never back away he'll never go somewhere else he knows where you are he knows what you're feeling and he's on his way to york [Music] that on time god he's on his way to your house he's going to your house hallelujah there's a miracle on his way to your house there's a measure of promise coming down your dusty road [Music] hallelujah there's a promise coming down the dusty road the word of god is still alive the word of god is still alive hallelujah oh glory to god hallelujah oh [Music] oh jesus hallelujah amen four days later hey let me warn you folks how many of you about ready for a warning huh huh if we stay here shouting and with him long enough he may decide lord i might want to go back there for a little while hallelujah amen so four days later he shows up where it came to martha the master is hearing is calling for you where is the master what the bible say the master is where right here come on folks the master is here jesus is where here and he didn't come here for a funeral service he didn't come here to say ron rest in peace come on i don't know why people always say they're wrong rest in peace that man ain't resting he's rested long enough man the resting is over marching around the throne praising jesus hallelujah he's uh he's like he wants when he is 30 years old oh hallelujah no more gray hair i want somebody he's shouting he's alive and well jesus is here and he's calling for you hallelujah amen can i do some preaching while i'm here you mind if i do some hard preaching while i'm here just so much i can just almost hear ron saying give it to him lay it on them amen they're used to it come on get after them they're used to it i showed a verse in the bible to carol yesterday paul the apostles in jail he said demas has forsaken me two others made their way they're all gone some other town these young men that i mentored are no longer with me they left me they forsook me they walked away from me we've seen him how many times i prayed with ron this young man i was training he's gone he left the church spent a lot of tears over those young men praying with them and counseling with them and now they're gone why do these young men walk away from what god he's trying to do in their lives one of those young men was john mark walked away from paul paul barnabas said we go back and visit these churches let's take john mark with us paul said no we're not taking him he forsook us refused to go to the work walked away from one of the greatest opportunities that young men could ever have paul the apostle would not take him left him behind one of the worst things that you as a younger man a younger minister a minister in training someone who has rubbed elbows with this man of god they were talking about one day you are going to realize you've been left behind you could have been right up there with him but now you're left behind you chose something else you chose somebody else rather than to follow the man of god years went by paul is writing to timothy he said timothy bring mark with you for he is profitable to me for the ministry [Music] wow bring mark he's profitable for the ministry what happened what happened to john mark he woke up his eyes got open he was on his knees one day before god and say god what a mistake i made what a mistake i made god i've wasted so many years of my life god said yeah but today is the first day of the rest of your life son hallelujah are you waiting here because you are going to get a text from one of the greatest preachers ever lived name is paul the apostle i want you to come i want you to come to where i am in jail because i have an assignment for you you are now profitable for the ministry and what i'm trying to tell you is that some of you young men you can come back you can come back you can come back you can find your way back home it ain't over for you yet you're not through yet you may have made a lot of mistakes but we're certainly a god that could correct the mistakes he can wash you one more time he can fill you with the holy ghost one more time he can give you an anointing of god that you walked away from god will restore you [Music] you will just come back so jesus appears on the scene and mary and martha are really patchy women you know what they said to jesus if you'd been here my brother would not have died i don't even know how those apache women are chickens you got a bunch of chicken how many of you know how those apache women are we're sitting in the san carlos assembly go to church there's a sister down here she gets up me to testify in apache she turned around and i thought she was talking to the people she sat down the sister in the back got it she began to testify an apache i'm sitting in a platform saying hallelujah praise the lord glory to god thank you lord after the service sarah alexander came she said brother copy you're sitting up there praising the lord what sister showing down you're talking the other sister over there talking you're up there praising jesus yeah that's right you don't even know what they were saying yeah just imagine their testify she said they weren't they were fighting she's complaining about her she gets up and starts complaining again her pastors in the platform thank you jesus hallelujah praise the lord oh mary said if you'd been here my brother would not have died martha came up and said if you'd been here my brother and not have died how come you always pick on the preacher when something goes why not wrong the preacher when something's going wrong well this people put a lot of fingers at this man blaming him and accusing him bringing up allegations against him when almighty god says touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm [Applause] [Music] so as gracious as jesus was he just kind of ignored their sarcasm a patchy sarcasm now i lost my verse but i know it well enough so martha said all right if you'd been here my brother would not have died and jesus looked at that lady and said i got news for you girl your brother's going to rise again oh glory to god your brother is going to rise carol that man is not going to stay in that ground he's going to rise again come on you alexanders and hunters and antonios and chapmans and your brother's gonna rise again your brother's gonna rise again your brother is gonna rise again ron bonnie is gonna rise again it ain't over for this man god said i'm not true with him yet hallelujah he's gonna come up come up come up out of the grave because there ain't no grave gonna hold my body down oh hallelujah amen oh man that lady smart alec woman i know in the last day he's gonna rise again in the resurrection jesus said ladies just shut your mouth for a minute will ya come on shut your mouth and i know some of your husbands wish you could do that but hey this one don't sound like a funeral sermon it wasn't supposed to be shut your mouth woman i am the resurrection in the life glory to god hey lady hey all you people out there crying and feeling bad don't you know who's in the house don't you know who's in the house are you aware of who's in the house hallelujah how many of you know who's in the house right now hallelujah i got a feeling jesus is in the house hallelujah amen i got a feeling jesus is in the house i got a feeling the father is nearby hallelujah sitting down there i could feel the holy ghost coming down god the father god the son god the holy ghost is in the house the three in one the almighty god all powerful gods all knowing god is in the house everything is going to be all right because god is in the house hallelujah the resurrection of the life he's in the house this man is not dead he's alive come on somebody ah somebody said is ron dead i said no he's not dead he's not dead he's not dead he's not dead he's alive in fact he's more alive right now than he's ever been in all of his to life more alive right now than he's ever been in all of his life hallelujah so a man die shall they live again am i sure this is not the end of the road we're not here to say goodbye every time i left ron bonnie or he left me see you later ron life is not over one day one day the voice of jesus came lazarus ron bonnie come out come out of the world step out of the world hallelujah your time has come son for you to come out of all that stuff enter thou into the joy of thy lord so how you doing ron is it really like they said it was is it really like the way your family sang about it the streets filled with little children laughing and shouting no more fear in their lives those abused and abused any longer those who battle with cancer the cats are gone how is iran on the other side is there really a street of gold are the walls they're on foundation of the wall still made out of precious stones is there a pearly gate ron was there a pearly gate was saint peter waiting in the pearly gate no somebody's made that up door swung open wide almighty god said welcome home son welcome home you're done good you did good enter thou into the joy of thy lord ron will never be replaced but there are those out there god wants you to take up a responsibility i want everyone just to close your eyes for a minute while you do that just close your eyes just for a minute if i were a navajo preacher i'd make you stand up but are your eyes closed are you a john mark are you edemas are you a timothy are you an elisha are you an aaron if you walked away you're ready to come back your head bowed and your eyes closed i wonder how many of you would just slip your hand in the air and just put it right back down again there's one there's two there's three there's four there's five i know there are more than that six more than that seven more than that eight nine ten eleven twelve hallelujah lord i'm coming home give me a key of g there brother when you're hearing oh coming home coming home come on [Music] oh i'm coming home i'm tired ocean astray lord now i'm coming [Music] home [Music] let's all stand and sing it together shall we lord i'm coming home i'll stand [Music] oh [Music] my [Music] one more time now lord lord i'm coming home amazing grace like me we know [Music] god praise god god praise god praise god praise god hallelujah thank you lord god thank you lord amen god bless you may be seated praise the lord praise the lord praise the lord amen praise god i mean enjoy the message praise the lord praise god hallelujah hopefully they stay around for a whole week well the san carlos chairman is here he's going to bribe you 65 all right i think he can do more than that so far hallelujah thank you pastor george kalapa all the way from nia bay washington praise the lord amen so at this time we have the uh san crowless tribal chairman here with us praise the lord at this time he's going to do a special remarks also so let's give him a hand as he come chairman jerry rambler yeah uh pastor pen is a funny guy so i gotta watch out for him um how do we replace somebody like pastor ronald bonnie of the freedom holiness church i've known pastor bonnie since i became a member of the san carlos council in 2004 i was appointed to serve on the san carlos housing authority from 2004 to 2010 i eventually became chairman of the board pastor bonnie was the executive director of the housing authority at that time i eventually became close with him very close from 2004 to 2010 we built up the san carlos housing authority where we became one of the top five housing authorities in the united states in that time we built over 300 homes developed an excellent financial management system that hud granted us more freedom and flexibility because we were doing so good less administrative burden like reporting because we were doing so good we submitted our audits on time and had zero audit findings for many many years and in the whole process pastor bonnie developed an excellent working relationship with our housing employees and our board of commissioners when i became chairman i had to resign from that board board of commissioner position but i continue to work well with him he was an excellent executive director for housing authority he always has been and he always will be and that's how i'll remember him during this time we sat many times as i sought his counsel not only in the business side but also on the spiritual side with the issues i was going through as a individual and also as a councilman and a chairman he would advise me and provide me scriptures to further research and pray he prayed with me many times for our people pastor bonnie being a former member of our council would advise me on many issues that we were dealing with at that time and since and since we're still dealing with pastor bonnie was a god-fearing man he was a man of god he was a family man he cared deeply for god's children he gave his life to god and i am just thankful that i got to know pastor bonnie during that time that he was with us and then is there's nothing wrong with grieving we must do so to relieve ourselves of the pain the pain won't totally go away but it will help the bible tells us of many stories where the people mourn the passing of prophets and church leaders and as we heard today we have to move on and we have to celebrate we must celebrate pastor bonnie's life and contributions it will be good for the family to hear others talk about pastor bonnie and all the works that he did it will help the family and the church heal we must also celebrate the fact that this world is not our home we are probably asking ourselves why would this happen what could we have done we should ask these questions we can ask our bishops and pastors we can ask our leaders we don't understand everything that god does but i surely know today that pastor bonnie was called home by our heavenly father all this will help with the healing process i ask all of us to extend our love and prayers to the family and church members during this challenging time they are human beings just like us they need comfort and prayers just like us this will help with the feeling we must remember that this that it is the word of god to build the freedom holiness church we must remember that god's word isn't going anywhere it's still here with us the same thing that god used to build the church will continue to build the church freedom holiness church has lost its pastor but pastor bonnie faithfully raise the church of leaders i have no doubt the church leaders will continue leading the church love god's children and continue pointing the freedom holiness church towards our savior i am eternally grateful for the wise words of wisdom that pastor bonnie shared with me and i will continue working very hard to live by those words every day i have no doubt that someday those of us that choose to we will all see pastor bonnie again thank you the bonnie family for giving me this honor to say a few words today on behalf of our pastor and your husband your father your brother your uncle and your grandpa in closing i leave the scripture with you from psalms 55 17 evening and morning and at noon i will pray and cry aloud and he shall hear my voice i humbly ask our creator god to look kindly upon pastor bonnie's soul amen thank you thank you sherman rambler thank you for those words he's the lord so you have your tv waiting afterwards also we have the tribal vice chairman he's here also uh theo epson this time he's gonna give his uh special remarks also he's the lord he always wanted to sing maybe he might sing a short course bye sherman thank you um i want to thank the fam the bonnie family for allowing me to speak today i felt it's very important that i'd be here to say a few words for pastor bonnie let me start by going back to the first tuesday in april of 2007 i had just been inaugurated into my council seat as district representative for gilson watch district so that was done in the morning then in the afternoon i was already in a council meeting so in that meeting i was appointed to the sankhara's housing commission the very next day i was in the housing commission meeting and at that time i was sworn in as the vice chair of the commission and ever since then um i've worked closely with um with pastor bonnie i mean we went straight to work there was so much money there that had been sitting there for like six years so we immediately started working i realized i quickly recognized that he was a very intelligent man that he knew his job he knew what he was doing and he was very good at it what he was doing so we got uh we got to working and like chairman said um you know we built over 300 homes within a short period of time the first year we built over 200 homes uh the second year we're over 300 homes at that time i was you know i used to practice in court before i got on the commission and so when i heard about perfect audit reports clean audit reports every year i put it to the test i said we even using joseph eve every year let's use somebody different because i want to make sure that this is real so then um we did it you know pastor bonnie he got he advertised for bids from audit groups and and then the bids came in and we selected someone else and that year the audit report came back clean and then uh the joseph e group became more and more qualified in what they do so we can we went back to them and we continued with them other um other tribes other tribes really looked up to us like what um councilman altaja says from the white mountain apache tribe they look to us for guidance for advice and i say us but really they look to pastor bonnie you know for the advice even other countries they wanted to come to arizona to our little reservation to study how we do our housing program and our housing program was so so good it was so perfect it was excellent we had these clean audit reports for years and our housing projects were doing very well and it was sad when you know when he was separated from his employment and i was really you know i had strong objections to that because i knew that was not a good move for san carlos for its people for housing and today i don't know what the status is you know what our housing status is i'm kind of afraid to even check what our status is in housing but i just want to thank the bonnie family for pastor bonnie for you know the contributions that he has given to our people to our tribe great contributions and also to the community through church he's brought in so many people like his doors are wide open brought them in and then they have a saving souls program they have projects all the time going they give out cards door-to-doors and come to our church we want to introduce you to the word we want to put you on the right path so that way you can live a better life they have events that go on all the time they're always welcoming and that's what i really appreciate about the bonnie family i think they mentioned different names hunters antonio's and alexander but but bottom line they are the bonnie family and so you know and i'm also happy for pastor bonnie that he has made it to heaven because that's what he always taught us he said follow the bible follow the word and come to church and every time i went to a meeting with him i always recognized him as pastor bonnie i called him pastor i respected him and i always upheld his position in the community as a strong powerful religious leader and i don't think he was really religious leader per se i say he was a man of god a savior of souls a warrior for for christ and and i always will remember him that way so what he left with us is a strong base and like the chairman said we have to build continue to build on that the leaders of the church of freedom holiness must continue to save lives because we need it and like i almost called him doctor the pastor here the visiting pastor he said that he was told san carlos is a bad place to go well that might still be the case to this day you know but thanks to churches like freedom holiness thanks to the bonnie family we are helping a lot of people you are all helping a lot of people and that's very helpful for us right now crime is high but then it fluctuates back and forth and we're trying to deal with it we just had a shooting the other day where two young boys got shot and that's not good you know so if they were if they knew the word of god if their family was introduced to it then that probably won't happen and it probably has not happened in other places where this church the bonnie family has really helped in redirecting the lives of children the lives of families the lives of parents and just really helping in that way i think you all have done a great job continue to do the work that you are doing continue to work as pastor bonnie has taught us all you know because i've attended the churches and attended his sermon i have worked closely with him and he always told me this he said other tribes want me to work in their housing department run their housing program but i can't leave he said they're offering me way more money than what the tribe pays him double or triple more but the one thing he did tell me was that i can't leave my church so he loved his family he loved his congregation and he loved the community of san carlos the people of san carlos so that's what i really appreciate about pastor bonnie and the bonnie family my prayers my heart are always with you just remember that if you need anything in any way the church needs anything call on me and i'll be there to continue to help any way i can because i tried to do that with pastor bonnie you know but he was so independent he had all you guys raising the money and i remember i attend churches at the service and he would show the the matrix on the on the wall from a projector and says this is how much money we raise from all the things that you guys are doing this is how much we have right now and we need this much to get these certain things built in our church so i was witness to that how this church how this congregation raised the funds it needs to build the church that it has today so don't let anyone tell you anything different because i know this is a good church it has good members and had a great pastor so thank you everyone for allowing me to be here today and god bless you all [Applause] thank you vice chairman thank you doctor oh let's call your doctor wow dr kalapa all right it's the lord thank you jesus amen thank you again for those words so this time we're we're coming down to to a close uh very shortly here and right after the closing prayer we're going to do a viewing so we'll have all the pastors uh to go first and then you that are here keep your distance and let's do it promptly because time is running so this time we have a a song by our brother robinson right praise the lord thank you jesus [Music] i'm not bringing my bible to minister but you know uh pastor carol uh provided uh pastor ron's ties to us and i thank you for that you know the word of god in exodus it gives something it gives a meeting like that in exodus 29 29 something easy to remember 29 29 it says in the holy garments of aaron shall be his sons after him to be anointed in them and to be consecrated in them and i feel like what he after hearing about what ron has done and what a an amazing person he was a wonderful accomplished person he was i can wear this tie thinking that i can be able to i will be able to do that i will be able to be that type of person because he wasn't he was anointed by god i would love to be anointed by god father use me father use me let us worship the lord this afternoon okay he knows my name [Music] he knows my name oh how he walks with me oh how he talks with me oh how he tells me that i am his own yes i am his own yes i am his own yes i am his own yes i am his own and you know my name you know my name you know my name you know my name oh how you comfort me oh how you counsel me and it still amazes me that i am your friend yes i am your brain [Laughter] yes i am your friend yes he knows my name [Applause] yes he knows my name oh how he walks with me oh how he talks with me oh how he tells me that i am his own yes i am [Music] yes i am his own yes i am his own [Music] lord we love you jesus we worship you this afternoon god you are my jehovah jireh you are my jehovah rapper you are my jehovah niecey father god i worship you this afternoon you're a holy god you're a holy god you know my name just as it said in your word i knew you from your mother's womb father god i worship you lord yes he knows my name [Applause] yes he knows my name he knows my name yes he knows my name oh how he walks with me oh how he talks with me oh how he tells me that i am his own [Music] yes i am his own yes i am his own [Music] he knows my name he knows my name father i stand before you this afternoon nobody but me god i call on you jesus i need you jesus i need your love and i worship you this afternoon [Music] oh how he comforts me oh how he counsels me oh how he tells me [Music] i love you all in jesus name god bless you thank you jesus one thing that we forgot to mention is pastor wallace is our pastor we come from shiprock pentecostal church and so uh pastor wallace is our church and he gets after us a lot just as ronald getting after you guys in the church as well so we we have to and just as gerald said that our needs fellowship with each other when pastors here so thank you god bless you [Applause] praise the lord praise the lord thank you jesus amen so this we're coming to our conclusion of the service of today where we're blessed amen through the word of god through all the encouragement church let's all continue to pray for one another amen pray for uh first lady pastor carol praise the lord she'll continue to do the work of god amen the whole bonnie family the whole entire family praise god again you know they're so wonderful people amen very wonderful people they welcome you they with open arms praise god and their ministry and you know there's you know what else can you say it's the lord but god has just blessed you know a tremendous church on the reservation and praise god it's it's sitting on on that that uh the hill just like the noah's ark you can't miss that praise the lord so they're preaching the word and then camp meeting comes around there's that tent on top of that hill and and and and that that voice of music and preaching is all over the reservation he's the lord so you can't miss that you praise god so again thank you amen for each and every one of you praise god and it's time we'll do a closing prayer by our sister randy bonnie at this time she's going to come and do the closing prayer and again right after this we're going to do the viewing i'd like to have all the pastors to go first and then all of you you know keep your distance and let's do it promptly again thank you and may god bless you i just want to say thank you for everybody that's here and for everybody that helped um as far as giving in monetary donations and on behalf of carol and matthew nicole and i with all of our hearts thank you for such outpouring of prayers and your thoughts and your encouragement and i just want to say um i just want to say that everything that was said with about our dad is true because he left us an example though even when he was alive here i would hear him every time when he would minister he didn't just minister and live in your way outside the church he was our perfect example when we were at home when we visited him when we would sit to the table and eat he would gather us his kids together and tell us the things about life but one thing that sticks out between all of us he always led us to the cross he always led us to god one thing personally that he he always told me he would always say randy you may be going through a lot but jesus is there he will always tell us even when when my brother our brother was alive he would get us together and he would say this is jesus he is the way the truth and the life never forget him never forget who god is in your life and one thing that me matthew and nicole will always remember our dad for is the way he would always tell us follow your dreams follow your goals whatever it is that you set your heart to do it don't allow anybody to tell you that you can't do it and that's one of the things that we did when my brother was still alive he became like my dad jack of all trades he began to to explore he began to to know and set not set his boundaries but he began to know that the sky is the limit because of our dad and what did he do he became an emt not only that he went on to be becoming a hostess at the casino after that he said i want to be a trucker he became a diesel trucker he set all these goals for himself and he accomplished them with the help of god and not only that he became a musician too in the church same thing with matthew matthew said the sky's the limit because of my dad because of what he's gonna do what he taught me and what did he do he became successful and not only that he he learned how it was to be a boss to be a leader in the work field not only that nicole nicole said um nicole was nicole's the brains she's smart she's the smart one she went on to to educate herself because of our dad because of his example and what did she do she graduated with to with any you like our dad and then there's me i wanted to pursue my education i thought it was too late to do that i went to my dad and i told him that this is what i want to do he said go for it accomplish it and i did i became a i always he always teases me you're a legal drug dealer now and i would laugh and i would say no dad i'm a pharmacy technician he goes on the reservation you're illegal drug deal and i would laugh and not only that like i said he paved the way for for all four of us to know jesus christ to put him first in our lives and to know that no matter what know that god gets all the glory in success whether it's physically or spiritually and that's what he taught us so in closing i just want to thank you all again for being here and for knowing that that matthew nicole and i we know where her dad is and it won't be long until we see him again and it's coming so close to the point where we're not just getting ready we're being ready now and so we just want to say dad we love you we thank you for your example we're gonna miss you but we know that it's not goodbye it will see you later and we thank you that for imparting jesus christ into our lives and for letting us know that no matter what god gets the glory no matter what we're gonna look to god he's the author and the finisher of our faith and we thank you dad for your teachings for your preaching for your guidance and for taking time out just to let us know that there is a god there is a father that's up there that we can turn to it's all stan lord i just thank you today for the life and celebration of my dad father and god we know that he's with you you know that he's looking down and knowing that his work is done and god i just asked today did you comfort our hearts you be with us father and even in the days to come father months father did you lead and you guide us father and as we call upon you we thank you that you'll never leave us nor forsake us and lord even now even if our hearts are broken we know that you're our comforter we know that you will be with us you will walk with us i love you and i thank you father and god that you continue to move father by your anointing by your power and by your spirit i honor you father lord god i give you the glory father for who you are be with our friends and our family lord god continue to walk with them continue to talk with them continue to move lord god i thank you lord god even our friends lord god near and far be with them be with our loved ones father i give you the glory jesus for all that you're doing for all that you are father i thank you for the anointing that i feel even now for your holy spirit and god even now lord god as we layer my dad to rest men and comfort us father be with us i love you and i thank you for all that you're doing jesus and i just asked father lord gods that you continue to pull your spirit upon lord god not just family lord god but the church family the congregation i love you and i thank you and i honor you in jesus name i pray amen amen again uh thank you and uh just want to say uh thank you to the pastor of this church trinity baptist church here thank you for allowing for this funeral to take place here today again thank you and also uh the view like to have all the uh the pastors to go first and please uh don't touch the casket uh and then just keep your distance and let's do it promptly again thank you me you

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