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What do you do when the bottom drops out and life breaks in ways you never imagined? Charlie and Jill LeBlanc have walked that road, and through their personal story of loss, they’ve discovered the sustaining power of God's presence. In this podcast, they offer heartfelt conversations, Scripture-based encouragement, and the kind of hope that only comes from experience. Whether you're grieving, struggling, or searching for peace in the middle of chaos, this space is for you.
Welcome back to the Finding Hope podcast. We're Charlie and Jill LeBlanc, and we just wanna talk about getting through what you've never asked for. We're gonna jump right in because we have, a really great interview we want to show you with our good friends, Carly and Ashley Terradez.
Charlie LeBlanc:Yeah. You know, these guys are just some amazing friends of ours. We've known them for twenty plus years. They'll talk about that in the interview because they're interviewing us. But the beautiful thing about this interview is that Carly and Ashley Terradez have an amazing healing story. In fact, their own daughter, Hannah was healed supernaturally, and we actually saw that.
Charlie LeBlanc:We were in England with them and Andrew prayed for their daughter who was on her deathbed, and the daughter was healed. I remember wonderful rejoicing times with them, with their daughter being So the beautiful thing about this interview is these guys have a powerful healing ministry, have seen many, many physical healings in their ministry. But yet when they read our book and you'll see this, they were so deeply touched because they know as it is in any healing ministry, they have people that win and get healed, but so many that don't get healed. And there's we're not here to explain why that is. We don't even know why that is.
Charlie LeBlanc:We know our son wasn't healed and we stood in faith and believed in. They're such precious people because they have such compassion. The Bible says, weep with those who weep and rejoice with those who rejoice. And so they rejoice with those who who receive healings, of course, and we do as well. And when someone's sick, we'll pray for them, we'll trust the Lord, ask God to heal, believe God for healing.
Charlie LeBlanc:But when people don't get the healing they want, that's where Jill and I have stepped in in our ministry and our calling is just to really reach out and help you. Those those of you, if you're here today and have had a loss, our heart is to help you. And I think you're gonna be blessed by this couple. They're very powerful and sweet. And, and we just encourage you to sit back and just enjoy this interview that they did with us.
Jill LeBlanc:Yes. We just pray that you receive affirmation for your own journey that you are walking through. God is there to help you and to hold you and carry you through this time. And so we believe you'll be encouraged through this.
Charlie LeBlanc:Amen. Well, God bless, and thank you for watching.
Ashley Terradez:We're so glad you've joined us today. We're with our very dear friends, Charlie and Jill LeBlanc. So glad they're able to join us today. You know, Charlie and Jill, are international worship leaders. They've been around the world leading worship and ministering for over forty years.
Ashley Terradez:You look too young to be minister of over forty years, but ministers of over forty years, we met them some seventeen, eighteen years ago in England and just hit it off and being dear friends ever since. They've led worship for Joyce Myers, for Andrew Wommack, literally in stadiums and conferences all around the world. Today, we're not going to be talking about that. Today, we're going to be talking about something very, very dear to them in effect. Something that turned their world unfortunately upside down and this is going be a form of healing for you today.
Carlie Terradez:Absolutely, you know people go through things in their life that they just struggle to recover from and sometimes we find ourselves getting stuck at a point that was so painful and so tragic it really affects every relationship, every decision that we make going forward from that point. And today we've asked Charlie and Jill to come on and share with us because they had a tragic loss in their family, the worst kind that really I think anyone can have but they've experienced such healing that we wanted them to come and share because there is such valuable gold in what they have to share. This is something that I know is really going to bring healing to your heart. It's going to bring healing to homes. I believe that this program today is gonna be a turning point for so many people.
Carlie Terradez:Charlie and Jill, thank you for coming.
Charlie LeBlanc:My pleasure.
Carlie Terradez:And just being so willing to share something that's painful.
Carlie Terradez:And please just go ahead and take your liberty and and share your story with us.
Charlie LeBlanc:Yeah. Well, you know, we appreciate you guys having us on. I said that earlier of course. And, you know, in general, hardship comes to a lot of people on earth.
Carlie Terradez:Sure.
Charlie LeBlanc:And we see through scripture a hardship hitting a lots of great men and women of God. And, you know, as as believers and as young people in the Lord and and ministering and and leading worship, we never dreamed that this type of pain and hardship would come into our life. Unfortunately, it did, and, and we lost our son January 14, as you mentioned, of 2009. And, and to be honest, it broke us. It broke us.
Charlie LeBlanc:You know, we didn't expect, that type of pain and of course we didn't expect our son to lose our son as well. But, but you know God has been so good. The grace of God has been so strong in our life to pull us through. And so as a result, you know, just wrote this book, of course you you were gonna mention that, but, as a result our hearts, just like it says in in in 2 Corinthians, it says, with the same, compassion and and the same comfort that you've received from the Lord, now give out that same comfort to others. And so that's our heart.
Charlie LeBlanc:That's our goal. We wanna comfort you. We wanna comfort others with the same comfort that God has comforted us. So that's a big part of the book that we wrote. That's a big part of our heart.
Ashley Terradez:This book, When Loss Comes Close To Home, you know, I read this in one sitting. In fact, I read this on an airplane, an international flight back from Europe. And I just gotta tell you, this is
Carlie Terradez:You can see it's well loved.
Ashley Terradez:It's well loved.
Ashley Terradez:This book is the best book I've ever read in this subject, on grief, on losing loved ones, and also some real practical things about how you can help the grieving, because you know, you must know someone who's grieving right now. You must know a family member or a friend who's lost a loved one. Even if it was years ago, the grief is still there, the grief is still real, and this will really, really help you minister to them. And if you've lost a loved one yourself, this is gonna help you.
Carlie Terradez:Yeah.
Ashley Terradez:I read this with tears. I read this just in one go. I couldn't put it down. It was amazing. So, thank you for writing this book.
Ashley Terradez:This is so powerful, and I know it was painful to write. You know, the first chapter talks about the journey they took with their son, their only son, Beau Charles LeBlanc, died 01/14/2009, and you read that, and then you can really understand where Charlie and Jill are coming from, And then, some great ways that you can receive healing and you can actually embrace the grief because it's right to grieve, right? I think sometimes, you know, this program is called the abundant life. We're into the abundant life, you know, it's gonna be great. But isn't grief a Godly thing? Isn't crying and weeping is a time to weep and a time to rejoice?
Carlie Terradez:And Jesus wept with people, didn't he?
Jill LeBlanc:Yes He did.
Carlie Terradez:Right.
Charlie LeBlanc:Yes. And we see that, we know the shortest scripture in the bible, you know, Jesus wept. But we just pass over that, we don't realize that Jesus did was a man of compassion and he did have a heart and and in the human flesh that he was, again coming down to earth. At the tomb of Lazarus, he wept because there was his friend Lazarus, his friends Mary and Martha, and he felt the pain of humanity. Know Jesus is touched, the Bible says, with the feelings of our infirmities.
Charlie LeBlanc:And so, yeah, Jesus wept, we wept an awful lot. And I think sometimes in our circles people are confused about that. They feel like, well it's ungodly to weep, it's ungodly to mourn, it's ungodly to grieve. The scripture tells us that we don't grieve like unbelievers, but we do still grieve. And there are examples all over scripture, in fact even at the tomb of Stephen, they took Stephen and said godly men took him and they mourned over his loss.
Charlie LeBlanc:So we see Paul saying if Epaphroditus would have died he would have sorrow upon sorrow. I mean, so, you know, it shows that real humanity, you know, yes, we're spirit filled. Yes, we have God in us. Yes, we have the power of God in us. Yes, we have his strength in his heart. But at the same time, we also have emotions that God has given us. And when you're connected to a child, to a mother, to a brother, you know, a close friend, you're tied together and they and you lose them in an untimely manner especially, your heart is ripped out.
Ashley Terradez:Yeah.
Charlie LeBlanc:That's the bottom line. Your heart is ripped out. And part of our heart is to help Christians understand that they can grieve in a Godly way. In a Godly way as a believer would. You can grieve in in the actual presence of the Lord.
Charlie LeBlanc:You can cry in the presence of Jesus and feel his love holding you. In fact, what does scripture says? It says, he holds our tears in a bottle. They're precious to him.
Carlie Terradez:Yeah.
Charlie LeBlanc:And so we think, you know, it's ungodly to cry. We had a dear friend recently who lost her husband and she cried. She I mean, called us, about a month later crying saying, I feel so embarrassed that I'm crying. I know I'm not supposed to be. I'm a believer. I'm not supposed to be crying. I said, be quiet. I said, you are you have every right to cry. You ever Jesus loves you. He He holds you when you cry.
Carlie Terradez:Thank you saying that because you know so often especially in our faith circles people become really afraid of their emotions. Or they feel like their emotions are bad or wrong or something that they need to be suppressed.
Charlie LeBlanc:Right.
Carlie Terradez:And this misunderstanding that if they were just in faith, they would suck it up and carry on and you know, God bless, we're all gonna see them in heaven. But then, there's so many people that go through life that are so wounded.
Jill LeBlanc:Yeah.
Carlie Terradez:Because they haven't really taken the time to grieve or haven't allowed themselves to grieve. And I know one of the things you talk about in your book is how important it is to still talk about the person that you've lost and that you love. They're a real person and they meant so much to you that just because they're not there physically that you don't still feel that. And so tell us about Beau. Tell us a little bit about your journey.
Jill LeBlanc:Well Beau was our he's our third child and was of course our youngest and when he was 22 he was diagnosed with stage four really severe cancer.
Carlie Terradez:An aggressive-
Jill LeBlanc:Of the thyroid, super aggressive. And just blew us out of the water, you know, he started complaining of a sore throat and, you know, he said, Okay, well, you know, we'll pray for you. And then it just kept getting worse, and so we said, Okay, go to a doctor, and just kept going. He did go to a doctor and they found that it was inoperable metastatic thyroid cancer.
Carlie Terradez:So right off the bat, must be such a shock to you.
Jill LeBlanc:Yeah, we were blown out of the water. It was that way from the get go. It was really beyond removing. It was spread all throughout his neck region. So we just really prayed and decided to go the medical treatment, medical route, as well as natural, you know, just juicing and different supplements and things like that. Just did everything we could in the natural.
Charlie LeBlanc:Yeah, of course the word of God, you know,
Jill LeBlanc:Of course.
Ashley Terradez:You're running graduates.
Charlie LeBlanc:You're running graduates. Graduates.
Ashley Terradez:Lead worship for Andrew Wommack.
Charlie LeBlanc:You know, believing God's standing in faith.
Jill LeBlanc:Totally.
Ashley Terradez:Anyone believes in healing, it's you guys. I mean, your faith, word of faith.
Jill LeBlanc:Absolutely.
Charlie LeBlanc:We totally expected this to be so easy. Wouldn't even be an issue.
Carlie Terradez:And this must be so devastating when you know the Word of God and you know how to speak words of faith and then something like this happens, must be like your faith is broken.
Jill LeBlanc:Yeah. Yeah, very much so.
Charlie LeBlanc:Exactly. I mean we were broken on two accounts. Anyone, a believer, non believer, anyone who loses a child would be broken.
Carlie Terradez:Sure.
Charlie LeBlanc:But then all of our faith in God was broken. I mean, it's like a what what happened here? You know, we were shattered. Everything that we had built our our life on in in confession and faith and believing in the cross and what Jesus has done for us, it was all shattered and and we we it took us a while really to pull it back together. And it took me a while to read the red letters in in my King James Bible.
Carlie Terradez:Yeah.
Charlie LeBlanc:You know, but but the Lord was full of love and and compassion toward us. And there's a scripture if you don't mind me reading that is in Lamentations. This one really really helped us a lot. And it's Jeremiah lamenting over the loss of Israel and being in captivity.
Charlie LeBlanc:But he put it like this, He says, I cry out my splendor is gone. Everything I'd ever hoped for from the Lord is lost. That's the way we felt. The thought of my suffering and homelessness is bitter beyond words, but he said he said, I'll never forget this awful time, and we don't. We don't forget it.
Charlie LeBlanc:No one you'll never forget when you have a terrible loss. He says, I'll never forget this awful time as I grieve over my loss, yet now this is where I love it. He says, yet I still dare to hope when I remember this, that the faithful love of the Lord never ends, His mercies never cease, great is His faithfulness. His mercies begin afresh every morning. So you know, we've sung that song Great is Thy Faithfulness, you know, we just always sing that, and He is faithful.
Charlie LeBlanc:But to see it in this context that Jeremiah is saying, Listen, everything I had hoped for was gone, and that's the way we felt. But he said, but yet I still dare to hope. I still it's a matter of a little kindle of hope that God still loves you. That God is still there to help you in your time of need. I remember thinking, where else can I go?
Charlie LeBlanc:You have the words of eternal life Lord. I want to run from this. I want to run from all of this. And we don't have time in this short program to get into all the details, but you know where else could I go? And God just began to go after Jill and me individually, not together, individually to show us how much he still loved us and to show us how he wasn't it wasn't him that caused Beau to die, you know.
Charlie LeBlanc:He loved us. He wept with us. Scripture You tells us in Romans 12, he says, weep with those who weep. And the Lord spoke to me, he said, Charlie, I would never tell Paul to write that unless I do it myself. Has Paul ever written anything that Jesus wouldn't do himself? You know what I'm saying? So I believe that Jesus actually wept with us and mourned with us and suffered with us.
Carlie Terradez:Yeah.
Charlie LeBlanc:And so he's that kind of God. The Father of mercies, the God of all compassion, the God of all comfort.
Carlie Terradez:I'm just thinking, I know that you were both there in those final moments. But you talk about your individual journeys. You went through this together and you've walked the path of healing together but yet at the same time you're individuals and how does that look different for each of you?
Jill LeBlanc:You know that's a good point just to say that you know when a couple loses a child, they both lost a child. You know, yes, that couple did as a collective, the family lost a child, but I lost a child, he lost a child. And so we all have an individual journey to have to walk. So I'm glad you brought that up because some people don't look at it as as it being so individualized, but it really is.
Carlie Terradez:Right.
Jill LeBlanc:So for me in the beginning, I was just completely blown out of the water. I was angry. I was I couldn't even cry at the moment because I was just so upset.
Carlie Terradez:Is there like a numbness?
Jill LeBlanc:There became a numbness, but you know, after his after he died, we continued to pray over him for five hours in our home.
Carlie Terradez:For him to be raised?
Jill LeBlanc:Mhmm. To come back, you know? I mean, this is the word of God, you know? This is the promises of you know? But after about four hours, I began to just wonder why is it taking so long for him to come back? You know, he's still just laying there and then at the end of the fifth hour is when we decided to stop praying, let him go, and I just I was just so furious. And I stayed that way for a for a few weeks probably.
Jill LeBlanc:And after about three weeks or four weeks, the Lord just began when he knew I was ready, he just began to to just do little things for me, show me little things, just just I began to see his fingerprint on things. And he just showed me how much he loves me and he was there with me that whole time. He was carrying me when when I was completely, you know, I I don't cuss really, I mean I but I wanted to, I just wanted to cuss him out, but I don't cuss, know, so I don't do that kind of thing, but I was just so furious, I was so mad, and and I was like, I don't I don't want anything to do with with you anymore, God. I mean, are you even really there?
Ashley Terradez:Mhmm.
Jill LeBlanc:And so that didn't turn him off.
Ashley Terradez:Mhmm.
Jill LeBlanc:He continued to hold me because he knew I was so wounded. He just loves us so much.
Carlie Terradez:So you know, if the Lord isn't afraid of your emotion, then we don't need to be-
Jill LeBlanc:He's not. He's He doesn't. It doesn't repel him. And so when he knew that my heart was ready, he just began to show me little pieces of his love and care along the way and eventually won my heart back. Wow. How long of a period of time did that take for you? Well, it was about four weeks before he began to just let me see his fingerprint on things. And then over the next probably well, it was it was a long time. It was because we were so broken, you know.
Carlie Terradez:Gotcha.
Jill LeBlanc:Nothing was stable, know, we would we would sense his love and then we would be upset and, you know, then we would be heartbroken and it was just, you know, a big cycle for a while. It was probably, oh, maybe, I don't know, four to six months before I was more convinced that, you know, he he just really loved and cared and and was was there for me.
Carlie Terradez:And during those during those first six months, I mean, did you take time off work?
Jill LeBlanc:Yeah, we did. We took about four months off before we started leading worship again.
Charlie LeBlanc:Yeah.
Jill LeBlanc:Being around people was the last thing we wanted to do. We just we just wanted to be alone and, of course with loved ones but not with big groups of people we didn't
Charlie LeBlanc:You know Andrew and Jamie Wommack who we were leading worship for at the time, they were just so sweet. Andrew looked at us and said, Listen, you take as much time off as you need to and he said we will help you, we'll take care of you, don't worry about it, you just take as much time off. So that was really really helpful for us to just get away.
Charlie LeBlanc:My brother had a condo near the beach in San Diego and we went there for weeks and just wept. I mean just wept, just cried every day and we'd get our stamina, we'd go take walks on the beach and cry and just, you know. So the Lord's grace was, you know, the scripture says his grace is sufficient for you, know, and it really is.
Ashley Terradez:I love how you could be so real with God. Even, you know, it's almost like God gave you space when you needed it.
Jill LeBlanc:Yeah.
Ashley Terradez:And then came in and he's so compassionate. He's the best. I mean, he's the comforter, right? You can real. You can be real. So sometimes we feel like when we go to the Lord, have to put our mask on or top of the pain
Charlie LeBlanc:Come on now.
Ashley Terradez:You know, try and be like, you know, say all our confessions and say everything right. He knows what you're thinking anyway. He knows what's in your heart anyway. Absolutely. So it's healthy to just have those emotions out with the Lord, and you don't camp there, you don't If you're angry and stuff, you're not gonna camp there forever, but it's good to get it out and And share it with the if there's one person you can share it with, it's with the Lord because he loves you and he's got the best for you.
Jill LeBlanc:Absolutely.
Ashley Terradez:What an amazing healing and I know you never really arrive, you know, like you said, Charlie, when you lose a loved one, it's never gonna go back. I remember in your book you said people were saying, when's the old Charlie and Jill coming back? When's it all gonna be back to normal you guys can actually help others, which is a miracle in itself.
Charlie LeBlanc:That's healing.
Carlie Terradez:There's not a wholeness because he's not with you in a but there is healing, right? There is and it's different. You know just the fact that you spent so much time together that really ministers to me because I've met a lot of families that have lost children specifically and their marriage has not made it. It's just not made it. We were warned actually at the day after Beau passed, a wise pastor just was holding us and and ministering to us and he said, listen, I just wanna tell you, he says, your marriage, you need to really protect it. Because He said the enemy will come in and really try to get between you guys. You know, I I was had to be very sensitive to Jill as to what was going on in her heart at at any given moment in the day and as well as her to me. So if I was starting to think about Beau and getting sad or irritated or whatever, I would actually tell us, tell Jill, just want to let you know nothing against you, but I'm having a difficult day today. So, you know, just please don't take it personally. Just I'm gonna get through this. I'll be okay.
Charlie LeBlanc:But you know, and vice versa, she would tell me the same thing. So it was really a really tough time and I think this is a thing that we're really heavy on our hearts is to let people know that this is not something you just get over overnight. It takes time. You know there's a time for grieving. There's a time for weeping. And but but Jesus said he came to heal the broken hearted. That was one of the main things of his ministry.
Carlie Terradez:Yeah. Luke chapter four. That was His manifesto right out of the gate.
Charlie LeBlanc:And yet we feel like we can't have a broken heart. Well, if you can't have a broken heart, then takes out half of Jesus' ministry. I mean, he came to heal broken hearts. The bible says in in in Corinthians, it says, we see through a glass darkly, and then we'll see face to face.
Charlie LeBlanc:And, you know, yes, we know a lot of things. Yes, we have the mind of Christ. Yes, we can we we have the spirit of God in us, but there's a lot of things we don't understand.
Ashley Terradez:Sure.
Charlie LeBlanc:And in this life, you know, you you get to a place where, like with this loss of Beau, you know, where I went through all the scenarios. What happened? What could've happened, what should've happened, why didn't, what did I do wrong, what did he do wrong, what did we do wrong, what did we pray wrong, how did we fail, where did the devil get in, how did it, you know, I mean you can drive yourself mad going through all these scenarios, you know. And finally the Lord just set me down, he said, Charlie, just live, well I shouldn't say love, I came to the realization, live in what you you do know.
Charlie LeBlanc:What you don't understand, put it aside for now, but what you do know, live in that. So I knew that God was love, I knew that he comfort those who mourn, I knew that he wept with me, I knew that He He loved me. I knew His grace was real. I knew He'd forgiven me of sins. I knew I would go into heaven. I knew my son was in heaven. You know, so so I had to begin to just live in what I did understand and and not let what you don't understand hinder your life.
Carlie Terradez:Just chasing answers you're never gonna get.
Ashley Terradez:That's so good.
Charlie LeBlanc:Yeah, go after things, you know, you can ruin your whole future by worrying about and trying to figure things out rather than just living in what you do know, God's love, God's presence, God's peace, and yeah, yeah, you still stumble into but, but, but you know, push the buts aside and trust God that in the long run, he will show you what you need to know and how to move forward. And you know, I've resolved that if I don't ever fully understand what happened in our situation, that I know that if I wanna understand it when I get to heaven, probably won't. By that time, I'll just go pray. I don't care. We say, I got a list of questions when I get to heaven. When you get to heaven, you can forget these questions.
Carlie Terradez:You're gonna be preoccupied.
Charlie LeBlanc:Exactly.
Jill LeBlanc:You're not gonna care.
Charlie LeBlanc:But, you know, you have to look at the right side of things. You have to look at the, you know, the the any good that you get eventually. Now at first, listen, you mourn, you grieve, you hurt, you cry, you get angry, you do it all. All of it happens.
Charlie LeBlanc:But at some point, you know, we just have to go and look at, you know, yes, I know my son's in heaven, and yes, I know that God comforts the brokenhearted, and he heals brokenhearts, and we're giving him our heart, and we're trusting him to heal us, and he has. It's been fourteen years, he's been continually layers of healing on our heart. We'll never forget our son, we'll never stop you know thinking about him and sorrowing over him in a godly way. And that's okay. Or even weeping at times. You need to move on. You can't let the enemy destroy your future because of your loss.
Carlie Terradez:Because grief will paralyze you.
Charlie LeBlanc:You just can't do that. You know, and I had to come to a place where I had to cast down imaginations and anything that exalts itself against the knowledge of Christ. I had to bring my thoughts captive. You know, there were times when the enemy would just say, you're no good, you're a terrible father, you shoulda had faith, you did. And I said, shut up. I'm over all this.
Charlie LeBlanc:God loves me and I don't understand it, but he loves me and he cares for me and he's gonna continue to use me in my life, and He has, you know, and that's the Lord. And His mercies are new every morning, His grace is sufficient for us. You know, I had a pastor friend right at both funeral look at me and said, Charlie, there's a faith to move mountains, but there's also a faith to stand when the mountain doesn't move. And some of you may be in that situation yourself. You may be in a situation where you had faith to move mountains but it didn't happen.
Charlie LeBlanc:But listen, now you're in a place where you need to have faith to stand even when your mountain didn't move, and God will give you grace to stand, He will give you the strength, you need to hang in there, you need to continue to pour your heart out to Him, Be transparent to him as they were saying. Be be honest with the Lord because he loves you so much. He's the father, father of mercies, the God of all comfort. That is that is his heart. That is who he is.
Charlie LeBlanc:He comforts those who mourn. He ministers to the brokenhearted. So, if you're in a brokenhearted, brothers and sisters, pour your heart out to him. Let you know, he knows your heart anyway, as you guys said. He knows your heart. So, love on him and let him love on you. Have to allow Him to heal your broken hearted. You have to let Him minister grace to you. And you know what? Give yourself grace. Be kind Don't to be too hard on yourself. Just give yourself time to grieve and to cry and let Him love you. And in time, there's a time and a season for everything, in time, your heart will begin to mend more, God's peace will begin to surround your heart and your life, and you will get better. You will get through this. I'm telling you.
Carlie Terradez:Amen.
Charlie LeBlanc:We're testimonies. You will get through this. It's not easy. We're not telling you it's it's candy coated.
Charlie LeBlanc:It's not easy. And if you look at 2 Corinthians you see all of Paul's pain, all of that he went through. And you know, one thing is to realize you're not alone. Amen. You're not alone. Not only is Jesus with you, but others have been through it. We've been through it. Paul the Apostle went through hardship. He thought he was gonna die many times. He didn't think he could make it. But listen, he made it, you'll make it, and you'll get to the other side of this. And we love you and we will continue to pray for you.
Ashley Terradez:So Charlie and Jill, that's been so helpful today. I know people have been ministered to, encouraged, and maybe even at a point where they can their heart can be healed. I know there's people watching that have lost loved ones, have are are grief right now. Would you pray with them and just encourage them.
Charlie LeBlanc:Of course. Lord, we just thank you for our friends that are watching, God. We pray that your love would continue to be manifest, that they would rec recognize your love, Father. We know your love never changes. We know that your peace never changes.
Charlie LeBlanc:But Lord, we've so many times are hurting as our friends are here possibly today. Lord, I pray God that their hearts would be enlightened, their heart and minds would be enlightened. God, that they would experience your presence and your love. God, we pray your peace that passes all understanding to guard their heart and mind. God, thank you that you care for us, God, that you comfort us, that you heal our broken hearts.
Charlie LeBlanc:And Lord, I thank you for continuing to heal their broken heart and minister grace and comfort to them today and every day as they walk through this valley of the shadow of death. Even Lord, you said you would be with us always, and we know you are. Bless our friends in Jesus name.