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00:07 >> Casting crowd.
00:09 >> They've sold over 13 million albums.
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00:19 >> When we first started traveling and singing, it was really hard.
00:23 >> We usually do about 86 shows a year.
00:28 >> Homeschooling on the road is a bear.
00:31 >> It can be challenging.
00:33 >> We start getting stories and emails of people from all over the world.
00:38 >> It's really lifted me up.
00:39 >> It's real life.
00:40 >> It's crazy.
00:40 >> When I look at people that are singing our songs back to us,
00:44 God is connecting with that person through a song that he let me write.
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00:54 >> Who would have thought that I would be playing that song?
00:56 My husband's service.
00:58 >> That song just buried it to my spirit.
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01:06 >> Hearing these songs and their lives are being impacted,
01:09 then you start getting a picture that this is a little bigger than we thought.
01:13 >> We would always come home at the end of it, and we'd walk into our church, and
01:17 the middle school kid would say, hey, the fame and
01:20 people being excited about you is really a bit of an illusion.
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01:26 >> When the music world came to us, I was like, I'm a youth pastor, and
01:30 I wanna stay a youth pastor.
01:32 How can we do this?
01:33 >> There's no way he can't do both of these.
01:36 He said to me, they say you gotta choose between being a student pastor and
01:40 a musician, it's student pastor.
01:42 >> Leave Saturday night, get the bus back home.
01:47 They said we really believe to continue this ministry to the local church.
01:53 >> Mark has continued to be involved in the church.
01:56 He's still a youth pastor, and I still believe that's why he's able to
02:00 write with the impact on the church that he writes with.
02:04 >> One thing he says is, what I do in the church, that's real life.
02:08 >> As beautiful as art can be, if it's not pointing to the truth,
02:13 we're steering people in the wrong direction.
02:15 That's why music is powerful to me, because it can point us to the Father.
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