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A Spirit-filled time with Ps. Candy Christmas & Jasmine Brady
April 16, 2025 · 36 min
Experience the blend of humor, candid discussions, and spiritual growth with Ps. Candy Christmas & Jasmine Brady.
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The Birth of Bridge Ministry 0:01 Welcome. This is Ignite Kingdom Talk. Make the marketplace the miracle place. This episode features pastor Kandi Christmas and Jasmine Brady.0:13 Kandi and her husband Kent are founding pastors of Regeneration Nashville, and she's the founder of the Bridge Ministry, serving the homeless of Nashville for over 20 years. Jasmine is the worship pastor at Regeneration0:23 Nashville and host of the Holy Holy podcast. Together, they cohost Cake Talk, where laughter, faith, and real life collide. Learn more at bridge ministry dot org and regenerationnashville dot org.0:36 We would love your help spreading the word and leveraging social media for the kingdom. Let's ignite Christian business leaders all over the world. Like, comment, share, follow, and subscribe. Join the Ignite community0:47 today. Ignite Kingdom Talk is made possible through the generous support of our Ignite Partner Access members. This subscription based community offers Christ centered accountability, encouragement, and growth through0:58 small groups. Are you looking for a network of like minded Christian business leaders to uplift and encourage you in your calling to the marketplace? Well, learn more and sign up today at ignite cb dot com. And now, in1:10 the name of Jesus, may your faith and hope be ignited fresh and anew.1:16 Hey, guys. Welcome back to Ignite Kingdom Talk. We're so excited to have with us today Jasmine Brady, pastor Candy Christmas, and we're actually here in your1:28 guys' world. Right?1:29 Yeah. This is where1:30 everything happens. That's right. And cake talk happens right here.1:34 That's right.1:34 I was looking for crumbs.1:35 And we1:36 don't have any cake today.1:38 I know. It's like it's like my gosh. It's like every if you guys haven't watched cake talk, every Tuesday Every time. At 1 o'clock1:46 Yeah.1:46 Oh my gosh.1:47 Yeah. We need cake.1:49 We need cake.1:49 Well, Dennis brought us muffins, but we already ate them before we started hit me.1:55 So1:55 so we wanna talk about cake talk. We wanna talk about the bridge or the brieage. Brieage. And it's just I love what you guys are doing. I love how2:08 even cake talk even cake talk, there's so much because, usually, I'm getting off a podcast or a community call, and we're always excited. It's always going on in the2:20 office, the cake talk. And you guys you you either you either have me laughing or or crying or or or something, or I I feel like I'm I'm sometimes I felt like I2:32 was the only guy on there. I was like, oh my gosh.2:34 More guys are joining every week. They are. Yeah.2:36 They are. But I love the you were talking about the cat.2:40 Yeah. The Oh, the lion.2:41 The lion.2:42 Yeah. We had an African, male lion when I was growing up. My dad wanted to start a theme park here in Nashville. There was was already a theme park, and it was2:54 centered around country music, and it was called Opryland. Do you remember Opryland theme park for many years? And, oh my goodness, it was, you know, we would buy season passes, and our parents would drop us off, and3:05 we'd be there all day, every day. And so, my dad felt like that, many of those people visiting the theme park, the country music theme park would be somewhere on church on,3:17 at church on Sunday. And so, he wanted to create gospel land, hence, the lion and and Lots of things like peacocks and llamas.3:28 Oh, yes. We had3:29 a You guys had a lot of3:30 I mean, when you started talking about it, I thought you were oh, she's just it's it's a joke or something. And I'm thinking, no. This is she's serious3:37 about it.3:37 Yeah. He3:37 was I feel like parent because I won't let my kids have a hamster, you know, and she had a lion or a lion. Right. Wow.3:44 The things that we learned see, I didn't know that a lion so so when you when you think of the lion of Judah Mhmm. That is Jesus Christ, you know, we were we're making reference to3:56 Jesus Christ. So then to own a lion is, you just see so many parallels and things that allegories, if you will.4:08 And I didn't realize that an African male lion fasts once a week.4:15 Wow. Did you know that?4:16 I know.4:16 And his roar can be heard from really far away. Right?4:18 Yes. His roar can be heard, 4 to 5 miles away, and it literally vibrates the ground. Wow.4:25 Wow. There's a message in that instrument.4:27 Oh, my word. So many. And then then, he would claim things as his own. And let me let me tell you, woe be unto the inhabitants of the earth if you touch what4:39 He has claimed. And so, you can see that in Christ because when we are His, He is our protector, He's our benefactor, and, you know, He's our refuge. And so, woe be4:51 unto the inhabitants of the earth if someone touches 1 of God's own, 1 of God's sons. So just so many. We could go on forever, and I have just some of the funniest stories when the5:03 cat got loose and all of that. So we'll we'll talk offline.5:07 No. I just need to ask quick. Is it the male? He just kind of breaths and sleeps and the women go or what? Not the women. But the female lions go out and do the hunting5:17 and the To the hunt. Yeah. Well, so, an African male does hunt. They're nocturnal, but they sleep about 21 hours a day. And so they do some hunting.5:29 Interestingly enough, a, a an African male lion can only run really fast for a short period. And if you're in the jungle, this is important news for5:41 you5:41 to know.5:41 We just went on safari.5:43 Yeah. We did. So Yeah.5:44 Yeah. We saw a lion, and this is good to know.5:46 And and if he doesn't catch his his catch his prey, then he'll just fall over and literally can't walk. And the reason that is is because his heart is too small5:58 to, to pump enough blood for his big body, to to run fast for a long a long ways.6:09 And so, you know, if you can outrun 1, you got it. Well, I was6:13 just thinking, you know, that the Lord on the Sabbath rest and Yeah. How much a male lion rest. Yeah. And that we have such a hard time as Christians. So true. Understanding,6:26 entering into the season of rest and knowing that that's not just sleeping. Yeah. Yeah. There's still things to do, but doing it from a place of rest, not toiling.6:35 Yeah. That's really good. Yeah. So so many things.6:38 It's it's it's this is so good, but it's it's what I wanted to talk about was the Bridge Ministries. Yeah. So Oh,6:46 I wanna talk about that.6:47 Did that how and you always get so excited about6:49 it. Yeah.6:50 How did that all come about?6:52 So back in the year 2000, I, was I suffered from depression. So I was a third generation depression sufferer. And, I was traveling with7:04 Gaithers and, flying on jets singing to tens of thousands of people a night, literally, singing with the the Gaither Bill and Gloria Gaither. And it7:16 was the height of my career, if you wanna say it like that. And and I started suffering from depression. And, you know what? I was a church goer. I was praying. I was reading my7:28 Bible. But, man, that thing came on me. And so, I decided that, I was not gonna take medication. And that's not really a journey that7:40 I would recommend to someone who is suffering from depression. You you know, if you're if you're needing help, then get help and obey the doctor and do. But I felt for me7:52 that there was something deeper, that God was leading me on a journey to find out the source of my pain. If you've got a cold, and your nose is running and you8:04 take, medication for the symptoms of the nose running, your nose may stop running. But, still, you're carrying the germ or the virus or whatever it is that's deep down inside8:16 this inside that's causing the symptom. And so I for me for for me, I felt that, antidepressants would would mask,8:29 you know, what the symptoms. But what was going on, I needed to take a deep dive. And I I, had been a pastor's daughter, raised in a pastor's8:39 home, sang gospel music, been through ministry my whole life.8:40 And, and so I just decided I would seek God. So it was it was hell hellacious.8:49 Mhmm.8:50 It was horrible because I suffered for about 3 3 to 4 years with it. Planned my suicide, prayed to die, was afraid was afraid to to die because of9:02 eternity. And an old man who had seen me sing was laying tall in a home of a friend's house. And, you know, feel free to9:13 jump in. I feel like I'm I'm just just take your time.9:17 You're doing good. Okay.9:19 Thank you. I love you. And, so he saw me and he was shocked at my appearance because I was frail and thin and sad. And and on9:31 the Gaither videos and all, I was vivacious and full of joy. And so this was a very different person than he had had seen. And so he said, you know, I feed homeless people9:42 under a bridge. Would you wanna go? He said, I roast hot dogs, but I'd like to serve them a a good meal. Can you can you do that? And then I said, yes. And he said, well, can you cook? Because I was pretty frail and9:54 thin. And I said, yes, sir. I can cook. I can make jambalaya for any size crowd. Just add more rice. And, so, because I was raised in Louisiana, jambalaya10:06 was something easy I could I could prepare. And so, we went down to the bridge that night, and we he was serving about 7 or 8 homeless guys. And, before10:18 you know it, the word got out that there was a lady down there serving big bowls of jambalaya and the homeless people. Little did I realize that10:30 there were 7, 11000 homeless people on the streets of Nashville. 4000 of those were children and a plethora of people who weren't homeless that needed10:42 my help. And so so, I got excited about helping in a tangible way. You know, it's 1 thing to write10:54 a check and put it in a missions offering, which I thank God for people who do that. I've done it many times. But, to go and get your hands dirty and, and for the crowd to become faces11:06 and faces to become friends was was really an unusual experience for me.11:13 May I interject? Please. There's a part of the story that she doesn't get to tell often, and I think it's 1 of the best parts, is that when she was about 17 or 18, she had the desire11:25 to minister to the homeless and wrote out a business plan about, starting a ministry and all those kinds of things when she was very young on the bus before a concert. And, of course, those11:37 were 1 of the dreams that she hid in her heart that wasn't able to come to fruition because she was traveling and singing. So then in the season where God literally just retooled her, he brought, he11:49 brought to pass things that he had planted in her heart years ago. And I think that that's really important because there are dreams that we have maybe when we're younger that never seem to come to fruition.12:10 Life of in his time. It reminds me of Psalm 1. It says, he shall bring forth his fruit in his season.12:19 That's so good.12:19 And so the bridge ministry, it was in God's heart years and years before, he brought it to pass in her life. Yes. But it was about a season. And so we shouldn't disregard the things that are in12:31 our heart, even even as children, you know, to just hide them in our heart. Like Mary, when when the angel told her that she was going to have Jesus, it said, Mary hid these things in her heart. And then we just trust12:42 God to bring them about in his season. Is that alright?12:46 Yes. It's perfect. Thank you so much. Well, just to kind of wind wind up the the story, I read a doctor's report that says that when you do acts of12:58 kindness for people who can't reciprocate, it releases an endorphin inside your body called oxytocin. And, that's what happens when you get puppy love when13:10 you're a little kid and or at Christmas time when you're giving gifts. And there's this there's this overwhelming joy inside you. And this doctor's report likened it to a drug13:21 high. He said it it it's the same kind of euphoric feeling, as as a drug high, cocaine or whatever, which I've never done drugs in my life. But I can tell you13:33 this, I got high on on giving to people and loving people. And, and so, I literally gave my way out of the darkest place13:45 in my life. And so, I I do want to say this, too. The homeless people gave me more than I could have ever given them. And13:57 so I adore them. I love them with all my heart. A lot of mental issues. Many people are just down on their luck. Many people are just down on themselves.14:08 Yeah.14:08 Some are down on God because they don't understand. And so every Tuesday night, that was 21 years ago, in 2004, we we started the bridge ministry.14:20 And, so I've seen many people come to Jesus Christ, come to the knowledge of Christ, become preachers Yeah. Become tent tent preachers and pastors14:32 and and, more than that, just become vibrant Members of society. People. Members of society. Yeah. Thank you.14:41 Well, you know, it says that God the father, he loves to give good gifts14:47 to his children. Yeah, he does.14:49 And you are a gift.14:51 Oh, my goodness.14:52 And so, when you go down to the bridge and you bring other people, they become gifts as well because they're Christ's hands extended. Mhmm. And so, when you're feeding them, you know, when the Lord says what you've done15:02 unto the least of these, you've done unto me. And I just picture, you know, the Father up in heaven going, oh, look at my girl, look at what she's doing. And of course, then the gifts come and they're not,15:14 even more than anything tangible, is the gift to his banner over us is love. And when you feel you're doing the things he's called you to, your purpose, you spoke about it last night in church. It was so good. Thank you.15:25 So good.15:25 Asking the Lord what what is your purpose? Yeah. And from young young when you wrote out your outline of this is what I wanna do, it's okay. That's deposited in you and now I'm gonna bring it about. And he15:37 took something so so dark in like a dark season15:41 Yes. Yes.15:41 And he brought you out of darkness into the marvelous light. But it was in that place of serving and trusting in Lord. I don't even have it in me to do it, but I'm just gonna step forward and do acts of kindness15:53 and how the Lord then just would be like, oh, that's my daughter. Look at it, I'm so pleased with her. How he said to Jesus, he would say, you know, this is my daughter whom I'm well pleased. Thank you so much.16:03 Well, Jasmine, what what was it like? Because you were you were young, but you remember all that?16:11 Oh, she was right in the middle of it. You know, my mom and and my dad both are they have always been wonderful parents, and they shielded Nick and I from quite a bit of that. So, I16:23 remember very little16:24 of16:25 of her darkness and depression, mainly because I think in the morning, she got us up for school and, you know, just did it in faith with joy. And then I think she suffered16:36 largely, like, while we were in school or while we weren't around. And, so but I also think it's the goodness of God because I believe that because she gave that season to the Lord, God16:48 was retooling her. And so he does. He shields us, and he covers us. And I think he covered that time in her life to where, it didn't scar Nicholas and I. You know, we we17:00 we don't have horrible memories of it. I do remember us driving around in that season and her seeing homeless people and saying, why don't we bring them home for Thanksgiving? And I was, like, terrified because I'm17:12 thinking, we don't know these people. But God was dealing with her heart. And, when I was 16 is when she started the Bridge Ministry, and, that was17:24 a very large part of my life. And then I began working there full time when I was 20 or 21, right about. And so, the Bridge Ministry, that's where I learned to love17:35 people. That's where I learned to lead worship. That's that's where I learned really what ministry was about.17:41 Tell about leading worship under the bridge. Oh, my goodness.17:44 Let17:44 me just say. So so, literally, under the bridge was a church service.17:50 Outside.17:50 Outside. And we still do this. Set up sound, chairs, and and while people are eating, then their worship the worship music is17:59 Regardless of the weather. Regardless of the weather.18:02 And so it was literally a church for homeless people, and they would migrate, and still do, from all over the city to come for church and food and groceries. And so, I just kind of wanted to give18:14 our viewers an image of what it is we're talking about, literally on the streets having church with hundreds of homeless18:22 people. That's right. And it could be raining, or the the sirens could be going off, or tornadoes. And then you have lots of homeless people that are battling drug addictions, alcohol addictions18:34 right there in the midst of the church service. And, not all of them are there for the church service. They're there for the food, and so they're not really respectful oftentimes of, you know, the gospel we're trying to18:45 present. So I'm trying to lead worship while people are drunk and dancing and fighting and brawling and in and out. And you just have to learn to lead worship to the atmosphere18:54 Yeah.18:55 And and see the heaven. That was great training. It was great training. And so now, I feel like I can lead worship anywhere because I learned to lead worship under19:02 the bridge. Amen. Wow. So it's it's almost I mean, I guess I I didn't realize, but even even where we're at, Regeneration Nashville has such19:15 such a great really a start from Bridge Ministries. Right?19:20 Yes. That's right. Bridge Ministries had been established 4 years before the church ever started.19:24 But Bridge Ministries started. You weren't really even fixed yet. Right?19:30 Oh, no. Not at all.19:32 I mean, there's there's a message even in that.19:34 Is she even now? Are we ever fixed? Where are we? You're welcome. I'm the daughter here.19:43 But I mean, but you think of that, and and and we we sometimes think before we can do anything for him, we've got to be at a certain level. We have to be19:55 we can't be dealing with these these things, these struggles, whatever it might be. Mhmm. I don't know. Just even last night even last night, I just kept thinking and I've I've heard your testimony,20:06 and but, yeah, when you were talking about it yesterday, I just I just kept thinking how many people are being held back? How many people can't20:18 seem to go to that next level because of something because of a past failure? A setback in their life. And and I don't know. There there was such an anointing on it. I I I even feel that20:30 same anointing now. I mean, you might be a viewer. You might be someone that's listening to this, and you're you need to take you you're you're you've got a decision that needs to be20:41 made. You've got you're supposed to take a step in the right direction. And I just I just feel that there's something there's something about being held back because20:53 of something you're going through. Can you just can you do this, Candy? And I know we've got I I I there's so much more I wanna cover. Can you look into that camera and just pray over over that? Because I know there's a21:05 viewer that is going through a situation right now, and they just need that that encouragement to take that next step.21:12 Alright. Lord, in the name of Jesus. Father, we command every lie of the enemy sir. To cease in Jesus' name. And we speak the truth21:24 of Jesus Christ into the hearts and the minds of your people, your children, oh, God, that they can know how valuable and how valued they21:36 truly are. And, Father, every gift, every call, Lord, we call it to fruition right now. Lord, we just the the I just sense a cloud of21:47 darkness around someone right now that is blinding21:47 you from the around someone right now that is blinding you from the truth of who you really are and God, what God wants to do in your life. And so, Lord, we call forth the21:58 plans and the purposes of God out of that cloud,21:59 out from among the cloud of lies that the enemy has told you. And, Father, we ask you for courage22:10 Yes.22:11 And strength22:12 Yes. To come forth and do and be all that God has called you to be. So, father, in the name of Jesus, we call it done. We thank you for it.22:22 Yes.22:22 In Jesus' name.22:24 Amen. In Jesus' name. Listen listen to this, guys. Thank you for that. Mhmm. It takes because I love fishing. It takes a a real live22:36 salmon to swim upstream22:39 Uh-huh.22:39 To jump obstacles and to swim against the current to the spawning grounds where new life takes place. Any old dead22:51 fish can float downstream. But to swim against the current and to overcome the obstacles in your way takes vision and courage. You just23:02 prayed about courage, and yesterday you talked about vision. I just man, I23:07 That's really good.23:08 I wrote that.23:09 That's really good.23:09 I did not write that. I did not write that. That was that was really, really good.23:14 I would love to just tell you a a little story, and Jasmine, you can help me tell this. But, my kids like for me to make cake. And and this this particular cake that they23:26 really like is a 3 layer white cake with this chocolate icing that is a a very dense and heavy icing.23:36 Like a fudge icing.23:37 It turns into fudge sitting on on top of this cake. Well, I had just found this recipe and I was pretty excited about it. So, I baked the 3 layers, of cake23:49 and I I I hadn't perfected this, recipe yet. And so I put all this icing on these layers of24:01 cake, and they weren't completely cooled yet, the layers. And so you you cooks out there, you'll understand what I'm talking about. The cake was really moist. And so the24:12 cake cracked down the middle, and we just had this earthquake right in the middle of this cake, parted right in the middle and fell over. Well, so the kids weren't home from school24:24 yet, and I think I think your dad was going to get you at school. Right. You guys came home from from school and could smell this cake. Well, I was more24:36 concerned about the presentation and what it looked like. So I took a trash bag. A clean 1. A clean 1. And I just We sprayed it off into that trash bag, tied it up and put itShow more In this video 0:00 The Birth of Bridge Ministry28:12 Faith, Worship, and Overcoming ObstaclesComments No comments yet. Start the conversation.
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