Latest / Worldview Matters With David Fiorazo / Jane Lledo: Joy Despite Trials Requires Purposeful Surrender
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- 0:00Welcome to World View Matters, discussing controversial issues, discerning current events,
- 0:10defending biblical Christianity.
- 0:13No topic off limits.
- 0:16And now, here's your host, David Firazzo.
- 0:20He reminded me that if people don't think about death, it's just an illusion, because
- 0:26we are all getting closer to it, and we either think about it now or we think about it later
- 0:32when we have to.
- 0:33And in my case, I've been forced to look at it, you know, for the first time, this concept
- 0:39of death was hanging out there, and always within my sights.
- 0:44And I had been ignoring it for a while, but then I wasn't able to anymore.
- 0:49Psalm 90 verse 12 says, teach us to number our days that we might gain a heart of wisdom
- 0:55and a quote, I love from that video today's guest, Jane Lido.
- 0:59If people don't think about death, it's just an illusion.
- 1:04I mean, yeah, perspective.
- 1:07So today's guest, Jane Lido, serves at first Baptist Church of Beverly Hills, located
- 1:12in West Hollywood, California, where her husband, Rob, is a pastor and has been since 2019.
- 1:19Now, a little bit his of history here, friends, this is how I know Jane, and that video,
- 1:23when she put that out, really ministered to me because of what she's going through, and
- 1:27I've learned a lot about keeping the faith through trials.
- 1:31We all, Rob, Jane and I, we attended a Calvary Chapel Metro Church in Santa Monica together
- 1:38about 25 years ago, and I've tried to stay in touch through the years, Rob and I have,
- 1:44and I have seen these two, this power couple grow, mightily in the grace and knowledge of
- 1:50our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
- 1:52And so, Jane worked as a television journalist.
- 1:55She's got 20 years in human resources over five years as an elementary school teacher.
- 2:01She's now a full-time mom and homeschooler, and last year started working from home in
- 2:06an independent learning charter school.
- 2:09And both of them were saved and born again about 30 years ago, and their devotion to faith
- 2:15in Jesus is what drives their lives, always wanting to grow and be more like him.
- 2:21And Lido, sister, so good to see you, welcome.
- 2:25Thank you for having me.
- 2:26It's so good to see you today, really, truly.
- 2:28God bless you.
- 2:29We'll get to your story more in a minute, but just you and Rob, just seeing you, and
- 2:35I remember I met with him when Rosanna and I took a trip out there.
- 2:38I think it was in 2015, I met with Rob, and I think he was studying as usual, you know?
- 2:45As usual.
- 2:46Yeah.
- 2:47He was studying, he was going through one of his degrees, right?
- 2:50But just to see the growth and the desire for the truth of God's word in him, it's just
- 2:56inspiring to me, knowing where he came from.
- 2:58And so, before we get into your story and your current health trials, and what, and even
- 3:04Rob recently had a stroke, so I just put that out there, and that's what you're going
- 3:08through now.
- 3:09Right.
- 3:10But tell us about you, when you guys met and Rob had a very rough background, he comes
- 3:15from Philly, so he does, he's, yeah, that you'd say enough, but okay, Jeff, if you want
- 3:23to put a picture of their beautiful family up, there they are, there they are, just amazing.
- 3:29So Jane, share a little bit about you guys, and just your early spiritual walk together.
- 3:35Sure.
- 3:36Sure.
- 3:37So basically, Rob and I came to faith as adults.
- 3:40I was 30, he might have been a little bit, you know, a few years after that, 33, 34.
- 3:46And so when we came to faith, he needed to come just functionally.
- 3:51He had had years, gosh, since he was 12, he'd either been on some form of substance like
- 3:57marijuana or whatever, spassed forward, alcoholism, crack addiction, all of it.
- 4:05And so for him to come to faith was a matter of survival and life.
- 4:10But he met the scriptures in such a way that it minister him and spoke to him.
- 4:15And he, he realized like a story is when he finally got sober, he was reading the scriptures
- 4:20in the shower like this.
- 4:22And he realized that the minute he put them down, he no longer felt the spirit.
- 4:27So he was detoxing with scriptures like this.
- 4:29So it's no wonder that he became a pastor later, the word really spoke to him.
- 4:34I know, it's really amazing.
- 4:36In my case, I came to faith because I just had a really bad sense of self-image or self-identity.
- 4:44My identity was wrapped in achievement and it was wrapped in being loved.
- 4:48And so in my 20s, those formative years, I just spent all my time trying to make it
- 4:53at work and really trying to find a husband.
- 4:56I hate to put it that way, but that's pretty much what I was.
- 5:00I loved, you know, I just felt like I loved a lot of people.
- 5:03But it's, it's just when I had a boyfriend, I was all in and found that they weren't
- 5:08like God's grace later, I realized.
- 5:10And it, and I lived in the world.
- 5:12I did what the world did.
- 5:14And so both of us ended up meeting after we got saved at the church you mentioned, Calvary
- 5:19Chapel Metro Church at a Bible study.
- 5:22Amazing.
- 5:23And we, we were in a Bible study together early on.
- 5:26This was like the late 90s.
- 5:27We were all of us were.
- 5:28Yeah.
- 5:29I think in what a good, great core group, Mike and John Keeme and all these guys.
- 5:34Anyway, back to your story.
- 5:36I just want to invite our viewers and listeners to pray for Robin Jane, particularly
- 5:42Rob's going through.
- 5:43He heard it.
- 5:44He heard his back and he's dealing with insomnia because he had a recent, recent stroke
- 5:49and he's, he's doing better, much better, but he's not quite back in the pulpit yet.
- 5:54So please pray for Robin Jane Lido.
- 5:57Now Jane, last October, you had a diagnosis of what did you say it was a type of sarcoma.
- 6:06So and that rocks your world.
- 6:08If you were relatively healthy before then and all of a sudden, wow, now we got to deal
- 6:12with this.
- 6:13So when you made that video that opened up this podcast, I think you, you told me you
- 6:17were just done with rounds of chemo.
- 6:21Tell us about that and where your faith was at then.
- 6:24Sure.
- 6:25So at the moment of the video, I had had a complete evolution, revolution that the months before
- 6:32were working towards and that had to do with understanding death, my fear of it.
- 6:38And all I can say is lots of prayer and diving in the thing about when you have a health
- 6:45issue, it doesn't go away.
- 6:47And you have other issues that tempt you into thinking in the flesh, tempt you into thinking
- 6:54in the worst.
- 6:55You can kind of distract yourself.
- 6:57You can dive into work.
- 6:58You can dive into something else and maybe it goes away.
- 7:01It comes back but goes away.
- 7:03The thing about a health issue of this severity really is it doesn't go away.
- 7:08So you don't get a relief like that.
- 7:10So I had no, no option but to dive in.
- 7:13And what I mean dive in is I just kept looking at it.
- 7:16It meant moment by moment prayer, it meant so many things, grabbing it on the scripture
- 7:22with dear life.
- 7:23My husband Robb, I mean what a support he was during that time because he knows scripture
- 7:27so well and he could help me fight the battle spiritually.
- 7:30But I didn't have the strength any longer to do it on my own.
- 7:35I just didn't.
- 7:36So a couple of things that really stuck out to me before that video early on, which I
- 7:42wanted to mention if that's okay.
- 7:44It had to do with my sense of identity again, that seems to be a theme, right?
- 7:49You're always going to be wondering who you are in Christ.
- 7:51And at that time, I was at the best point of my life.
- 7:54It wasn't easy but I was finally staying at home, working from home, raising my kids,
- 8:01being a homeschool mom like all the things I'd wanted my whole life, I'd finally come
- 8:06to fruition a few years earlier and then being able to work and help my support my family
- 8:10from home.
- 8:11It just was like perfect.
- 8:12And that, when we introduced cancer into that picture, all of a sudden my focus went
- 8:18into what am I eating, you know, the treatments and all of this and I got really confused and
- 8:23I'm like, Lord, what's my purpose now?
- 8:26Like where do I put my attention and I raise, I cried out and like I don't understand
- 8:31what life is and like a general whisper literally within minutes.
- 8:36He said your purpose has never been different.
- 8:39Your purpose has always to be made, but was always to be made like Jesus Christ.
- 8:44The only thing different is we're now adding cancer into the picture and now I'm going
- 8:48to use this to do that as well.
- 8:51So it really put everything into perspective, cancer, I'll bay it a big one.
- 8:56I don't want to, I don't want to minimize it, but at the end of the day, it's a trial.
- 9:00Yep.
- 9:01And you deal with it like you do any other trial and that is on your knees, frankly.
- 9:07And it makes you and forces you to go on your knees.
- 9:11I think with other trials in our life, the opportunity is there to force it to go on
- 9:16your knees, but we don't take it.
- 9:19And I'm talking from my own experience.
- 9:20I can't speak for your viewers, but upon reflection, I could see where this new relationship
- 9:27I'm having with Christ where I'm so close to him, closer than I've ever been.
- 9:33Now I could have, I could have used many other moments like that too, not to take away.
- 9:37God is sovereign and he knows the direction we're going to go in.
- 9:40And he's also gracious and merciful.
- 9:43But I really feel that we all every day have an opportunity if we just don't distract
- 9:48ourselves from what's happening, right?
- 9:50So there's a bug flying around here at home.
- 9:53But with that bit, we're at home.
- 9:55So I think that was one of the first learnings I got.
- 9:59And I think fast forward when it led me to a video was you have to deal with this concept
- 10:05of death.
- 10:06And let me tell you, we have two young kids.
- 10:09If it wasn't for them, Dave, honestly, all the years of scripture reading and praying
- 10:16and diving in and understanding who God is, all those years, you know, really led me to
- 10:22a point where heaven, great, I'm ready when you're ready, Lord, oh my kids, that, that
- 10:29really gave me a moment's pause.
- 10:30And I really, I'm not in a hurry to go because of them and it's very, very difficult.
- 10:36So I think that put a whole new perspective.
- 10:39So dying was really, and not that I have a month that I know that's going to happen.
- 10:45I think coming to grips with that is to your point that if we're not thinking about death,
- 10:51it's an illusion because the fact of the matter is anybody tomorrow could get an accident
- 10:55heaven forbid and be gone.
- 10:59I have this thing hanging there that makes it seem like it's going to come more quickly
- 11:06than not, but we really don't know.
- 11:09We don't know how this is going to manifest itself.
- 11:12And all I know is I'm praying for healing and I'm living each day as if it's my last
- 11:19because I have the gift to do that, teach me to number my days so I can have the heart
- 11:24of wisdom that's become very real.
- 11:27But in this video, one of the things I mentioned was, wow, there's joy to be had in the midst
- 11:32of this.
- 11:33Yes.
- 11:34When you're not afraid of death, when you're not living in the future and having it rob
- 11:39your joy from today.
- 11:42And that takes a lot of work, purposeful work in your relationship with God.
- 11:47It just does not come any other way.
- 11:49There is no shortcut.
- 11:50All this is done was forced me to do it more purposefully every day.
- 11:55Isn't it amazing, Jane, that we need reminders from God from life to live a certain way that
- 12:02we should have been living all along?
- 12:03Right?
- 12:04Sure.
- 12:05And this is all about, there's so many takeaways from your story perspective.
- 12:09And also it's a witnessing opportunity.
- 12:11We talked a little bit about this before we started the podcast for unbelievers.
- 12:17They can't grasp because to them this life is all there is.
- 12:22So they can't grasp someone having peace or even joy going through a health crisis or
- 12:29other issues.
- 12:30They just go, wow, because they don't have God.
- 12:32They don't know the peace.
- 12:34They don't know they don't have any assurance of eternal life.
- 12:38And we are so thankful.
- 12:39Our citizenship is in heaven, but of course those of you are watching from the states.
- 12:43We have people from different countries watching the podcast, but if you're a citizen of
- 12:47the United States and you're a Christian, we have a dual citizenship.
- 12:51So every one of us has a sphere of influence.
- 12:55And I think Jane, you found that out when you put that video blog out there.
- 13:00Oh, my way.
- 13:01I didn't mention that.
- 13:02It's called valleys, mountain tops and rainbows.
- 13:06It's that wordpress and the entry that we're talking about was about two months ago.
- 13:11And it's just simply titled joy, despite, I love that short and pithy joy, despite.
- 13:19And I encourage you guys to go watch and listen to her at that time in that moment.
- 13:25And that's what drew me in because we're going through our own, you know, trial and
- 13:28our family and with her, Zana, my wife.
- 13:31And that drew me in because I'm going, yes, great reminder.
- 13:34We can still trust God, have peace and even be joyful at times going through this.
- 13:41We've got to take a brief pause with Jane Lido and we'll be right back on World
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- 15:02So Jane Lido, we've been talking about your story and it's told you how it inspired
- 15:08me.
- 15:09When you were writing a blog, when was it, is in January of this year, you came across
- 15:17Matthew chapter eight.
- 15:19Yes, I did.
- 15:20And you were talking about, you know, Jesus walking on the water and when they were amazed
- 15:25that he said, well, who is this?
- 15:26What kind of man is this?
- 15:27Even the wind and the waves obey him.
- 15:29And then he said, ye of little faith, how did that minister to you and walk us through
- 15:33that time for you?
- 15:35Sure, sure.
- 15:36I think what happened was, and he was sleeping in the boat, it was, it was that scripture.
- 15:43And so he was sleeping in the boat when there's chaos.
- 15:47And he told once he woke up, you know, and he stopped the waves, he would tell the disciples
- 15:51ye of little faith.
- 15:52And he said that a lot to the disciples.
- 15:54But I decided to look at it a little differently again.
- 15:57You read these scriptures, you're hanging on to the life to any hope that you can get
- 16:01because you got some tough news and you want to walk through it, just leaning from
- 16:06the Lord.
- 16:07And one thing I asked one question at that time was, well, what would it look like if the
- 16:12disciples did have faith, right?
- 16:15He said, ye of little faith, I'm like, okay, well, you know, no one can blame them.
- 16:18I don't blame them.
- 16:19But what would it look like?
- 16:20And so then I started to ruminate my head.
- 16:23Oh, well, would it be like a calm, excuse me, Jesus, you know, do you realize that there's
- 16:29these big waves?
- 16:30Could you help us out here?
- 16:31Is that showing more faith?
- 16:34And then eventually what I came to the conclusion was, I think if you have faith in the circumstances
- 16:41that you're surrounded by, don't look like you should have faith or they're chaotic.
- 16:47But Jesus is sleeping and resting.
- 16:49He's the savior of the world.
- 16:51He's God.
- 16:52He had the confidence that he could stop the waves.
- 16:55So maybe we should have the confidence that he could stop them too.
- 16:58Or frankly, that being next to him in the middle of it is the best place to be.
- 17:03So then I imagined maybe it would be lying down next to him.
- 17:07And that would be what it looks like to have faith in that boat.
- 17:10But then later I was in a women's ministry that I still do.
- 17:14And one of the ladies there, well, not a new believer, but pretty young in general and
- 17:22still in the first few years of her faith, said, I think what it means is to be able to sleep
- 17:29or be next to Jesus because that's the best place to be even if it means losing your life.
- 17:36And that ministered to me.
- 17:38It was like a digging deeper, going deeper.
- 17:41And I'm like, wow, but do I have that faith?
- 17:44Who does?
- 17:46It's easy to say when maybe you're not faced with it, but when you're faced with it and
- 17:50you're hanging on because you don't want your kids to be without you, all of a sudden
- 17:54you're like, man, I don't know that I have that.
- 17:56So it was, it was an eye opener, but it ministered to me and it spoke truth.
- 18:01And it did something to my heart and it got me closer to that.
- 18:05Wow.
- 18:06It just was thinking as you were sharing that to live as Christ and to die as gain.
- 18:11Die as gain.
- 18:12That's if you're a believer born again with the Holy Spirit.
- 18:15That's real to us.
- 18:16That should be reality.
- 18:17Because it is reality.
- 18:20There's someone I knew this was in the 90s, I think.
- 18:25He heard the news of his, a friend told him that his grandmother died and his grandmother
- 18:29was a solid old woman of God in church singing the hymns and it's really on fire for the
- 18:35Lord.
- 18:36And when he heard his friend told him that his grandmother died, his response was good
- 18:40for her.
- 18:42His friend was shocked.
- 18:44He was usually here, oh, I'm so sorry, but his response, I'm going, okay, let me think
- 18:49about that.
- 18:50That's real.
- 18:51That's the Christian perspective.
- 18:53And that's the reality.
- 18:56That's the reality.
- 18:57Yes.
- 18:58I mean, I think if we don't, and you know what, if we're not there, we don't understand
- 19:01that.
- 19:02That's okay, but know that that's the truth.
- 19:04And so then what closes the gap, we don't just, we don't just earnestly try what closes
- 19:10the gap is getting to know the Lord.
- 19:12I mean, if I could say so, you know, this journey through cancer has kind of surprised
- 19:17the faith and the strength.
- 19:19I've been surprised by what God's given me because earlier back in 2000, and you know
- 19:25this, 2004 to 2014, Robin and I struggled with in fertility.
- 19:31And the first time I had a miscarriage, I wanted to walk away from the Lord.
- 19:35So I'm like, what was the difference between then and now?
- 19:38And I realized the difference was I just dove in harder with the Lord.
- 19:44And you know, I really felt led to everyday read scripture, gosh, go to church and green
- 19:50from the teaching, just purposefully go after God.
- 19:54And you have to fight for that in this day and age.
- 19:57You have to.
- 19:58But I don't think that it's a coincidence that I was able to cling harder to the Lord
- 20:07now than back then, given what's happened in my own walk with the Lord for 20 years.
- 20:13So my admonition to anybody is look and see where you're at with your relationship with
- 20:18Christ.
- 20:20Rarely any of us is satisfied.
- 20:22And whatever you feel you need to do to get closer to him, do it.
- 20:26If you're not reading, if you're not reading the Word every day, then read the Word every
- 20:31day.
- 20:32If you're not praying every day, then learn how to pray.
- 20:35You know, you're getting to know a person, but not just a human person, a divine person,
- 20:40the person, the living God, the king of this universe.
- 20:45We have an opportunity to connect, but we let so many other things get in the way.
- 20:49But we can start today.
- 20:50Just start today.
- 20:51You know, I made a decision a while ago to start and just ramp it up after those miscarriages.
- 20:58And I believe I'm reaping the benefit of it now during this trial.
- 21:03Well, you cannot live what you don't possess.
- 21:05And if you don't have the Word of God in you, all those years of study and really reading
- 21:09God's Word, having you speak and prayer, we'll need that someday if we live long enough
- 21:15on this earth with the trials and everything.
- 21:16We'll need what we put in what we invest.
- 21:19But when you were sharing that, I reminded me of a worship song.
- 21:23I think we were singing back then in the late 90s.
- 21:27One of the phrases is to know and follow hard after you.
- 21:31One pure and holy passion, I think is the right to know and help and to know and follow
- 21:37hard after you.
- 21:38I wanted to ask you something, Jane, because of what we've been dealing with too in the
- 21:42last two and a half years, I reached a point where you realize, okay, God's sovereign
- 21:49over all of this, over everything that's going on in our lives.
- 21:52And we can either panic and try to take things into our own hands or trust in him with
- 21:56all of our hearts.
- 21:57And don't try to figure it out.
- 21:59Lean on our own understanding.
- 22:00And I was thinking we spent thousands and thousands of dollars on supplements, on doctors,
- 22:05on tests, on all these different things.
- 22:08And yet I was trying to keep this balance of not being the woman with the issue of blood
- 22:15that came to Jesus and touched the hem of his garment because she spent all she had
- 22:19on doctors, but instead of getting better, grew worse.
- 22:24Can you speak to that perspective of not panicking and not going, like jumping from doctor
- 22:30to doctor and treatment to treatment and trying to do it, because you can wear yourself
- 22:34out just doing that.
- 22:36You can, you can.
- 22:37I think early on, one of the things that I felt very led to do through prayer was to
- 22:42control the narrative because I knew that well-meaning people, once they heard all the details
- 22:48up front, would just bombard me with information.
- 22:52And to be honest, I wasn't in a place, I wasn't in a place to be able to, to, to, to
- 22:57dissect it and look at it and figure out what was right.
- 23:00In fact, my, my wonderful husband took point for me on that.
- 23:04So I said, if you have something for me, you really feel you got to do it.
- 23:07Send it to him.
- 23:08And we'll walk through it.
- 23:09That was step number one.
- 23:11But I did all that to protect my walk with Christ because it's so easy to get distracted.
- 23:17So I just, I wanted to do whatever it took to protect my relationship.
- 23:21Even so, things still came my way.
- 23:24And all I could do was pray, feel right, but what was really difficult was when people
- 23:31would send you things with all these testimonials about how it cured them.
- 23:36And I don't doubt that.
- 23:37But in cancer, it's, I wouldn't say it's individual as a fingerprint, but it kind of is people's
- 23:43responses to chemo, responses to treatment, anything.
- 23:47It may or may not work.
- 23:48And so it was really difficult for me to hear that because then I thought, if I don't
- 23:52try it in my writing, my death sentence, I mean, that would be what would go on in my
- 23:56mind.
- 23:58And finally, again, with the support of my husband and other mature believers, we just walked
- 24:03step by step and said, listen, Lord, you're going to have to speak to me in my heart.
- 24:08And I had to lean on that.
- 24:10And that's what we've been doing.
- 24:12And it's meant I looked at my nutrition initially, but then it became a possible to maintain
- 24:16because of the chemo.
- 24:17And so now I'm going back and I'm just, I just really feel led to dive into vegetables
- 24:22and add as much as I can.
- 24:23I got to do this smoothie thing, which to get more vegetables in me, I really believe
- 24:28that there's something to that for me.
- 24:31But other people would believe I should be doing more.
- 24:33Other people think I should be doing in a different direction.
- 24:35And all I can do is just pray to God that I'm going in the right direction and go.
- 24:39But you have to say, notice some things and you have to just, I mean, I get you.
- 24:43It's so difficult.
- 24:44Yeah.
- 24:45This teaches us that there, because there are so many things you could do that we've got
- 24:51to just keep trusting no matter what.
- 24:52Do what we can.
- 24:53Yes.
- 24:54Yes.
- 24:55Stress over it.
- 24:56But just keep trusting.
- 24:57It just reminds me of, you know, Paul, the Apostle Paul wrote a lot about affliction.
- 25:02And I did a study on that word last year and just how he was afflicted in so many ways.
- 25:07And then he goes through these passages of all the things that happen to him and you're
- 25:10going, geez, I'm complaining about my life.
- 25:14And yet what then he said in Philippians, I think it's just to know Christ and the power
- 25:19of his resurrection and the fellowships of sharing in his sufferings.
- 25:24And I'm going, oh my goodness.
- 25:26What?
- 25:27And he, Paul was, uh, flagged.
- 25:28He was beaten.
- 25:29He was stoned.
- 25:30He was.
- 25:31He was left for dead.
- 25:32Yeah.
- 25:33He was left for dead.
- 25:34All through the Bible, all through scripture.
- 25:37And just encourage people to go read Philippians for a being just for nothing, but in everything
- 25:42my prayer and supplication and with thanksgiving, present your request to God.
- 25:48Paul wrote that from prison and Philippians is one of the most joyful books and letters
- 25:53in the, in the New Testament.
- 25:54Jane, you just got a minute and a half left.
- 25:56Just your final thoughts to encourage anyone who might be going through a trial and having
- 26:01a hard time grasping a good eternal perspective.
- 26:04Sure.
- 26:05Just don't give up on the eternal perspective.
- 26:08It's real.
- 26:09It's true.
- 26:10And even if your body and your feelings want to tell you it's not, don't give into that.
- 26:16Surround yourself with mature believers who can feed you the scriptures you need.
- 26:20Put them up on the walls if you have to read them out loud.
- 26:24I went through a time of reading scripture out loud in the house.
- 26:27It changes the air.
- 26:28If it's the word of God, it's going to change the air around you.
- 26:31You have to believe that.
- 26:32And so I would just encourage not to give up the persevere, but to know that God is not
- 26:39smaller than your circumstance.
- 26:41He's bigger.
- 26:43And he can get you through it or take care of it.
- 26:47That double-fisted faith that Shadrach Meshach and Abendigo had was whether, you know, I
- 26:53will walk through the fire and my God will be with me, right?
- 26:57But even if he isn't, I will not bow down to your idols.
- 27:00And that's it.
- 27:02That's it.
- 27:03Yeah.
- 27:04Praise God.
- 27:05The word is alive and active, sharper than any double edged sword.
- 27:07And faith comes by hearing.
- 27:09I like what you said about reading it out loud, getting it out there, speaking, scripture.
- 27:15Thank you, Jane.
- 27:16By the way, she's got a Facebook page.
- 27:17If you want to connect with her, you've got a one way right now for your profile, picture
- 27:21the one way sign.
- 27:23Yes.
- 27:24Jane L-L-E-D-O, Jane Ortiz Lito on Facebook and again, friends, their church.
- 27:31It's a first Baptist Beverly Hills, correct?
- 27:34Correct.
- 27:35All right.
- 27:36We appreciate your time, sister.
- 27:37Thank you.
- 27:38And give our love to Rob.
- 27:39I will.
- 27:40Thank you so much.
- 27:41Take care.
- 27:42Most, most welcome.
- 27:43Pray for them, friends.
- 27:44Rob and Jane Lito keep speaking the truth about things that matter.
- 27:48God bless you.