[Music] ♪ How great is our God!

Sing with me.

How great is our God!

And God will see how great.

How great is our God.

The splendor of the King.

Clothed in majesty.

Let all the earth rejoice.

Let all the earth rejoice!

He wraps himself in light and darkness tries to hide, and trembles at his voice.

Trembles at his voice.

How great is our God!

Sing with me.

How great is our God.

And all will see how great, how great Is our God.

How great is our God.

Sing with me.

How great is our God and oh we'll see how great, how great is our God And he's the name above all names.

And he is worthy of our praise.

And my heart will sing how great is our God yes!

Name above all names He's a name above all names.

God is worthy of our praise.

And my heart will sing how great is our God.

Everybody sing How great, how great is our God.

Sing with me.

How great is our God and all will see how great, how great is our God.

Sing.

How great, oh how great is our God.

Sing with me.

How great is our God.

And all will see how great.

How great is our God.

Then sings my song.

My Savior God to thee yeah.

How great thou art.

How great thou art then sings is my soul my savior God to thee.

How great thou art.

How great thou art.♪ >>Albert>> Well, hello and welcome to the Basin PBS Anwar Family Studio.

I'm Albert Hall, and joining me tonight is Pervis Evans.

And we're so glad you're here.

As we celebrate the things that ground us and bring us together.

Faith that gives us hope, family that gives us strength and fellowship that reminds us we're never alone.

>>Pervis>> That's right.

Through music, we'll share songs that lift the spirit, heal the heart, and connect generations.

Whether you're listening with loved ones, with friends, or simply taking a quiet moment for yourself, know that this space is for you.

Tonight is where praise meets purpose.

Melodies tell stories and where every song is a reminder that we are stronger together than we could ever be alone.

We believe music has the power to lift burdens who spark joy and draw us closer to God and to one another.

So take a deep breath, open your heart and let the music speak.

Let it remind us of God's love, the power of togetherness, and the joy found when we walk this journey side by side.

- During tonight's program, we'll hear from several of our friends as they shared their love for music.

So let's continue with tonight's program with the Jones sisters singing Goodness of God.

[Music] ♪ I love you, Lord.

For your mercy never fails me.

All my days I've been held in your hands.

From the moment that I wake up.

Until I lay my head.

Oh, I will sing of the goodness of God.

All my life you have been faithful.

Yes.

All my life you have been so, so good with every breath that I am able.

Oh, I will sing of the goodness of God.

Oh, I will sing of the goodness of God.

I love your voice I love your voice you have here.

You have led me through the fire.

And darkest and darkest night.

I'll hold you up close like no other.

Oh, I know you as a father.

Oh, I know, I know you as a friend.

And I and I have lived in the goodness of the Lord, of God.

Yeah, Oh I know all my life you have been faithful, and all my, all my life you have been so, so so good with everything everything I am able Oh, I will, I will sing of the good of the goodness Oh, God, I will, I will sing Yes, I will of the goodness of God oh, oh, oh all my life you have been faithful and all my life all my life you have been you have been so so good Oh, ever I had, Ah ah ah ah I have never Yeah yeah I will, oh I will see all the good Oh goodness Yeah yeah of God Oh I will sing yes, I will of the goodness I know, of God yes, yes yes Oh I will sing of the goodness Yeah of God your goodness is running after its running after me yes!

Your goodness is running after it's running after me.

When my life lay down I surrender now I give you everything thank God your goodness in running after its running after me say it now yall!

Your goodness is running after running after me.

Yeah!

Oh!

Your goodness is running after its running after me with my with my life lay down I surrender now I give you everything Ah your goodness is running after yes hes is running after me Your goodness is running after Yes, it is!

running after me Yeah ah ah your goodness is running after hes running after me When my life lay down I surrender now I give you everything Ah ah!

Your goodness is running after its running after me Ah ah ah Listen here.

All my life you have been faithful.

That's right And all my life you have been so so good with every breath that I am able Oh, I will sing of the goodness of God!

I will sing yes I will!

Of the goodness of the goodness of God yeah yeah!

I will sing my Lord.

Of the goodness of God, [applause] of God.

Oh, God.

Yes.

Yes, Lord.

Yes, Lord.♪ [applause] - Thank you so much for being here with us today.

Now, you took us to church and you grew up in church.

[laughter] Tell us who were some of your influences musically and spiritually?

- Well.

Musically, our family was our inspiration.

That's all we've ever known.

Church is all we've ever known as children.

We played church, but we were able to see God through our mother.

Through a praying mother.

She taught us to pray together.

She taught us to stay together.

So when we sing, oh, I will sing of the goodness of God.

All our lives God's been faithful.

We saw that we had a living walking testimony - Thats true - of all our lives.

God has been faithful.

Amen.

Wow.

- Wow!

Now tell us a little bit If you wanted to encourage somebody who's watching, what challenges might you have faced that allow you to sing that song with such conviction?

- Wow.

I'm mother had was diagnosed with cancer three times, so she taught us even walking through cancer.

Trust God yes, and believe that he is God, that he is a healer.

- Yeah.

- And that he is a deliverer.

So we saw that first hand.

He healed our mother.

He's healed my sisters and my neice, because our mother said, trust God and watch - Yes!

God heals.

[cheering] - You can just feel that you believe what you're singing.

And that's what this is about.

Faith and family.

Thank you so much for being here.

- Thank you for having us.

- Next up is Free to Worship.

Singing That's My King.

[Music] ♪I wish I could tell you, I wish I could describe it, but I can't contain it.

Can't keep it to myself.

There arent enough colors to paint the whole picture not enough words to ever say what I found.

Wonderful and beautiful and glorious and holy.

He is merciful and powerful.

Who is talking about this?

Thats my king, we declare the glory.

Give him all the honor.

Altogether worthy.

Who we talkin about?

That's my king Theres no one before you.

Yes, we will adore you, all of this is for you who we talkin about?

That's my king Jesus, youre my king, hey Yes.

I'm not letting the rocks cry.

Without joining the chorus There arent enough notes to make the harmony.

It's the song of the angel.

(angels) Through all of the ages (ages) Its all of the earth and heavens symphony Yeah.

Wonderful and beautiful and glorious and holy.

He is merciful and powerful.

Who we talkin about?

that's my king.

We declare the glory.

Give him all the honor Altogether worthy Who we talkin about?

Thats my king Theres no one before you Yes, we will adore you.

All of this is for you.

Who, who we talkin about?

That's my king.

Yeah, he's my king.

Yes.

My king.

How about y'all?

Youre king?

Yeah.

Sing.

That's my king.

Yeah, that's my God, that's my shelter, my protector.

Yeah, that's my king.

That's my rock.

That's my anchor.

My knees bent down.

That's my king yeah, that's my God yeah thas my shepherd.

Oh yeah my protector That's my king (thats my king) That's my rock, my anchor, (thats my anchor) my defender yeah Who ya talkin about?

Thats my king We declare the glory Give them all the honor.

Altogether worthy who we talkin about?

Thats my king The glory, you can have the glory.

Yes we do Give him all the honor Yes we do altogether worthy Who we talkin about?

That's my king.

Theres no one before you No theres not Yes, we will adore you I will adore you Yes it is yeah Yes I will adore you Who we talkin about?

That's my king.

Who we talkin about?

Thats my king Who we talkin about?

Thats my king Who we talkin about?

Thats my king Who we talkin about?

Thats my king?

That's my king Oh yeah That's my king King forever Thats my king Who we talkin about That's my king.

Oh yeah.

Amen.

♪ [Applause] - All right.

That's my king.

- Yes!

- Awesome.

Now, let's talk a minute about your name.

Free to Worship.

Where does this name come from?

That's powerful.

And what about it?

Are you excited about the name Free to Worship.

- I think we were just a group of friends, um that came together.

And thank God we were all blessed with the gift of music.

And, we all love to worship.

And so that was the one thing that brought us all together.

Different backgrounds, um just different everything.

But the worship is what made us friends.

And we were free to do that together, despite what was going on in our lives, what we were feeling, um that freedom in worship is what drew as closer together and still keeps us together as friends.

- That's amazing.

And that's something we can all agree with.

We have that freedom to worship God.

So when you think about your togetherness, your bond, some of you are related by blood and others by heart.

So what is that like the bond that you have together when you can sing a song like That's My King?

- You know, the the crazy thing about all of us is the bond is absolutely there and it's absolutely true.

And the thing that unites us is the the blood of Jesus Christ.

Like, there's there's nothing else.

And there's one guy that sings with disease.

His name is Greg Williams.

And Greg, I'm just going to say it like this.

He is the blackest white guy.

I know, you know, [Laughter] like he used to growing up.

He would walk down the schools or the halls of Midland Christian with a tambourine, and that's what he would do when he would go to class when he was growing up.

You know, his parents know this now, but, uh you know, he would sneak away from his church and come to our church to hear the praise and worship and then give back to his church before church was out, before his parents knew that, you know, that he was missing.

But there's something that happens when worship happens.

It draws people closer.

It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from.

And that's why we can call each other more than friends, but also family.

- That's awesome.

Well, there's definitely liberty where the spirit is and you sound amazing.

And this band.

Albert, would you mind introducing our band?

Absolutely.

I'm so excited to have my friends here with us tonight.

Um over here on bass guitar is Mr.

David Luan.

- Yeah David Right back here behind him on on drums is Austin Taylor.

And then right here behind me is the maestro himself, Sergio Torres.

[Cheering and clapping] Thank you.

- Well, thank you so much for being here tonight.

You've certainly blessed us.

Well, we're just getting started.

So let's continue with the ever talented Baker family.

Singing It Is Well.

[Music] ♪When peace like a river attendeth my way When sorrows I see billows roll.

Whatever my lot though hast taught me to say.

It is well.

It is well with my soul.

It is well (It is well) with my soul.

With my soul it is well, it is well with my soul.

My sin knows a bliss of this glorious thought!

My sin, not in part, but the whole soul is nailed to the cross.

And I bear it no more.

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord.

Oh my soul!

It is well (It is well) with my soul (with my soul) It is well It is well with my soul.

And Lord.

Haste the day when my faith shall be sight.

The clouds be rolled back.

As I scroll and the drums shall resound.

And the Lord shall descend even so It is well.

With my soul.

It is well (It is well) with my soul.

(with my soul) It is well, it is well.

With my soul.

It is well, (It is well) with my soul.

With my soul.

It is well, it is well with my soul♪ [Applause] - Yeah!

- Man I have to say, that was absolutely amazing.

And thank you so much for that.

That blessing.

Such a blessing.

And now y'all's family is known, well known around here for music and for teaching.

And something interesting that I heard that you actually spend summers with your family singing hymns, right?

>>Emily>> We do, we do.

Actually, my great grandparents founded a Primitive Baptist singing school 70 years ago in outside of Fort Worth.

And we go every summer for a week and sing hymns in four part harmony.

And our girls learn all the old hymns.

We they learn how to read music, and they get to sing with all of their relatives.

It's really interesting because there's about 250 people there, and at least 180 of them are their relatives.

So they're singing with second cousins and third cousins and great aunts and great uncles.

And it's a beautiful legacy.

- So what what does it take to be a fifth cousin like can - I, - I just want to go like - You you are a fifth cousin.

- Oh - Now consider yourself a fifth cousin - Perfect.

That's all I need to know.

Just give me the date and then I'll.

I'll be there.

But, um no.

As music, musicians and people of faith, uh what values do you hope that your daughters will will carry on as they, as they grow forward, and share their gifts?

Like, what values do you hope that they would, take on with them?

>>Eric>> Well, we're very blesse these girls have been given incredible gifts by God.

And, they are using them now, and I hope that they will continue to use them, not for their own glory or for the applause of people.

But for his glory, and to let people know who he is and what he's done in their lives.

And so I'm just very excited to see that next generation carry that forward.

- Amen.

Well, I have to say, the greatest gift that we could ever give our children is the gift of Jesus.

- Thats right.

- And so I appreciate you as parents for instilling that in your daughters.

So thank you all so much for sharing your gifts with us.

Well, I have to say, though, that music certainly runs in this next family as well.

Would you please help me welcome the Evans family singing for Every Mountain.

[Music] ♪Ive got so much to thank God for.

So many wonderful blessings and so many opened doors a brand new mercy.

Along with each, each new day.

That's why I praise you.

That's why I praise you for this I give you praise.

For waking me up this morning (Thats why I praise you) For starting me on my way (Thats why I praise you) For letting me see the sunshine (Thats why I praise you) of a brand new day.

Oh oh oh A brand new mercy (Thats why I praise you) along with each new day.

That's why I praise you.

For this I give you praise.

Your Jehovah Jhireh (Thats why I praise you) You are my provider.

(Thats why I praise you) so many times (Thats why I praise you) You met my needs.

So many times you rescue me.

Oh Lord, I praise, thats why I praise you for the blessings you give each day.

That's why I praise you.

For this I give you praise.

For every mountain.

You've brought me over.

For every trial.

You've seen me through.

For every blessing.

Hallelujah.

For this.

I give you.

Praise.

For every mountain.

You brought me over.

For every trial You see me through For every blessing.

Hallelujah.

For this I give you praise.

For every mountain.

You brought me over For every triumph.

You see me through For every blessing.

Hallelujah.

For this I give you praise.

For every mountain you brought me over For every trial you see me through For every blessing.

Hallelujah and for this I give you praise.♪ [Applause] - Yes.

- Wow wow wow, man.

Y'all just sang For Every Mountain.

And I know that your family story includes some some struggles and challenges and joys.

Maybe, you know, from the birth of your son.

You know, here's the challenges with that.

And to the joy of your daughter.

Um, but how do those experiences shape the way that you worship and minister today?

- Well, you know, Albert, when our son was born, he born, he was born, aspirating, and he spent ten days in the hospital, and we were worried about him.

But we learned to let go of worry and have faith because he had been prophesied to us.

- Wow - And we knew that he had a purpose.

And he came out.

And you can see him playing beautifully in that.

[Applause] And, you know, it didn't stop there.

We wanted another child and and we lost two children, um a miscarriage and a stillborn.

And we'd gotten to the point where we didn't know if we wanted to, to try again.

But I dreamed about my daughter before we were even married.

- Wow.

- And, you know, I believe their faith and hope in our lives for sure.

And this is the reason we sing.

- Amen.

Wow.

Amazing, amazing um and each of you, y'all bring unique talents, uh such as acting and singing and all the other things.

[Laughter] But but tell us about about those things and just kind of, um how do you see those gifts working together to glorify God?

- Well, certainly God has blessed us, and, he has gifted us, as um Eric shared before, you know, God gives the gifts, but it is the anointing that destroys the yolk And so we try to teach our children that no matter what gifts you give, always give it to God first and let him bless it and make a difference.

I know that my daughter has some of those experiences in her life.

- Amen.

Amen.

Well, what a what a joy it is.

And thank you all so much again for sharing your gifts with us tonight.

Well, as our evening is starting to come to a close, I'd like to invite Miss Laura to come and join us tonight.

- Thank you so much.

- Absolutely.

Thank you Pervis.

Gosh, what a great evening I am.

We're at Basin PBS and we just want to thank all of you.

You know, this started as an idea from the Bakers many months ago.

And then everyone got really busy and it kind of stopped.

And then we had Yuletide and then Albert and uh Pervis graced us with their music and we thought, man, we got to do something.

And it's amazing how your plan isnt always God's plan.

So we just turned it over to Albert and Pervis, and you couldn't have done any better.

So I just want to thank you and we love to celebrate family here and how important faith is, and gospel music.

And it's critical to our souls.

Um, I want to just thank you all again and everyone here who has brought gospel music tonight.

We just love you and appreciate you at Basin PBS.

Um, we'd also like to thank Roy Nelson with State Farm, who actually stepped up to sponsor this because it takes a village.

It's a it's not free.

It cost us some money.

So we just really appreciate Roy and also the Yeager family who helped build this building, and the Anwar family who who gave us so much in monetary donations to keep doing things like this, um I also want to thank our board, who supports these kind of programs, and our staff who you've met.

Some of it's the Dream Team, um and the crew and all of our freelancers, some that have been with us for up to seven years, some that are fairly new and all that we love.

So thank you all.

Um, finally, the viewers, if you're not a member, you can become one.

It's really easy.

$5 a month is the minimum.

Just go on our website basinpbs.org and sign up.

I, I told all the people earlier, if you're praying in the middle of the night and God lead you, just go to that computer or go to that cell phone and sign up to be a member.

As you know, we lost federal funding.

So everything we do here is through our community donations, and we're being blessed and we're being blessed every day.

And it's going to continue.

And I'm not done with you guys.

I gotta hear something else.

Please.

- Let's do it.

- Just bless me.

- Amen - Thank you.

Thank you all.

Thank you.

[Music] ♪Blessed us insurance Jesus is mine.

He's been my fourth man in the fire.

Time after time I'm born of his spirit.

And I'm washed in his blood.

And what he did for me at Calvary is more than enough.

So I trust in God, my Savior, the one who will never fail He will never fail.

I trust in God.

He's my Savior.

He is the one who will.

He will never, (fail) never, ever, never, ever fail.

He will never fail.

He won't fail you.

Perfect submission.

All is at rest, yes, I know the author of tomorrow.

He's ordered my steps.

So this is my story.

Oh, this is my song, God.

I'm praising my reason.

The King and savior.

All the day long.

Sing, I trust.

I trust in God my savior.

My Savior.

The one who will never, will never, ever fail He will never, ever fail never I trust in God.

He's my Savior my Savior the one who will never fail He will never fail.

Listen, I sought the Lord, and he heard, and he answered, I sought the Lord, and he heard, and he answered, I sought the Lord, and he heard, and he answered, that's why I trust him.

That's why I trust him.

I sought the Lord and he heard, and he answered.

I sought the Lord, and he heard, and he answered O Lord, and he heard and he answered Thats why That's why I sought the Lord, O Lord.

And he answered, I sought the Lord and he answered I sought the Lord and he heard and he answered Thats why Thats why I trust him thats why I trust him I sought the Lord and he heard and he answered that's why I, I, I that's why I trust him thats why I trust him My Savior, the one who will never fail.

He will never fail I trust in God.

He's my Savior My Savior, the one who will never you never, never.

He will never, never, never [Music] Oh, I sought the Lord said I sought the Lord and he heard and he answered I sought the Lord I sought the Lord an he heard and he answered and he heard and he answered Thats why I Thats why I trust Him I sought the Lord I sought the Lord and he heard and he answered I sought the Lord and he heard and he answered I sought the Lord and he heard and he answered Thats why I trust him I trust in God my Savior.

Oh, the one who will never never fail He will never fail I trust, I trust in the God my Savior, the one who will never fail He will never fail, I trust in God.

[Applause] I trust in God.

I trust in God Trust him.

Yes.

[Music] Jesus.

Come on.

To trust in Jesus, I just.

You tell him that he.

Is right and just.

To rest upon his promise, just, you know, say the Lord and Jesus.

Jesus.

Oh.

I trust you.

I praise him already.

Oh.

And Jesus.

Jesus.

Precious Jesus.

Oh, for a. Fortress to trust.

To trust him for.

His love.

Jesus will.

In the Lord, I will trust him.

Go.

I will trust in.

Oh, no.

Until, I will trust in the Lord.

I will trust in the Lord.

I will trust in the Lord, until I die.♪ - Yes.

[Applause] [Music} ♪I wish I could tell you.

Wish I could describe it, but I can't contain it.

Can't keep it to myself.

I don't have color to paint the whole picture.

I don't have words to ever say what I found.♪