When I was ten years old
My father was called to lead a ministry to start a church
And we started in a little small town
It probably was
How many people live in the script, babe?
Maybe 450
Four hundred and fifty, not four hundred and fifty thousand
Four hundred and fifty, okay
And there was this building
We were in an organization, and they gave him this building
That when we pulled up
My mother's kind of petty y'all
She was pretty much like, "Oh yeah, they can tear this down"
Yeah, this is, we need to go back to Jesus
But my father
He looked at this dilapidated building
It didn't have bathrooms
It didn't have offices, no, no windows
He looked at it and he saw a promise
He saw a vision
And, um, I remember coming home every day from school
They would reroute us coming home from school
And send people to come pick us up from school
And drive us over to Scriven for months
For months, we would do this
And we would do our schoolwork
My father was a carpenter
And we would do our schoolwork, as they would build this church from nothing
Making it into a sanctuary
And I remember him building the doors
And Installing windows, and creating a bathroom
Creating a fellowship hall
The sanctuary is at about 50 people, maybe
And I remember him
Some days, we would commute from school
When my father had, like he would wear
Like robes or blankets over his head
And then he would be laying in the floor
Praying in the floor with a... robe of clothes
He would be clothed over his head
Praying for the power of God to meet His people
We started with seven
Seven adults and seven children
And I remember us being in Bible study
And people would be delivered and set free
We would come in and we have moments of prayer
With seven people
That God, would you create something that changes lives in this room?
And again, as a ten-year-old girl
I'm watching because my father, Bishop Murphy tells us all the time
That "Much is taught, but most is caught
And I was catching intercession
I was catching how to invoke the presence of God
And how to invoke a move of God
That's the church I grew up in
And God's church is still alive today
I said, God's church is still alive today
The miracles I saw then
It gave me the faith to believe in the miracles that God is doing now
God's church is still alive
This song is called, "The Church I Grew Up In"