The Story of Rev. Edward Good Bird with Kevin Finley

My great-great-grandpa became the first ordered a minute but at the same time he said I don’t choose one religion over the other because I know who I am but this is what I want to do and there was there was you know as always when you choose to do something people will say things people will be against it and he they were take say he wants to be like the white man and I remember my grandpa been telling me write up in the house right up there he said he said my dad he said he got people said things about he did what he wanted to do and so he said to me when you get older you do what you want to do don’t let anybody tell you who you’re gonna be or how you’re gonna do things so now today I’m a minister and I never I just talked about my last term and talked about in my last sermon this past Sunday I planned my whole life I wanted to be a basketball coach I wanted to be a football coach I wanted to be a teacher and but I never had this in it I never had the ministry in it I moved back here in 2009 and 2010 started helping out at the church it just grew the pastor said you really have a calling for this you should really think about it so I did took the classes my thought if it works good if it doesn’t that’s okay too so now before I knew it four years later at four years later at finish all the classes got my license and this is where I am today with all those good teachers coming along and we’re and we’re brother Charlie here and there’s all when I don’t know something I go to him cuz if I go to my mom she’s gonna say you should know this already that’s just the way it is that’s the way our mothers are and our dads are you should know that and then it’s not that they’re gonna sit you down and say this is what you should know you gotta be paying attention through your life when things are being done when they take you into that when you get your name all of those things we tell us my mother talk name your kids as soon as they’re born give them their hit odds or names so that’s how my great-great grandma luckily we had got her name but that wasn’t her first name though she had a they gave her another name when I say they it was her dad that named that named her and then so when Ed was born my great-great grandpa ed it was him again I don’t know it was center of the star that merit that named him they asked him what do you want to name your son so he named him right then and there it was good birthday and then that’s where so there was no English names excuse me back then those English names came after we started to go to school so that’s where that’s my small uncle is my great-great-great grandpa and just all the way down like that so then when I when I said all those names to you this morning I could you think of all the people I’m related to it’s really a small just though we have a lot of acreage here that’s a really small and you relate it to just about everybody here and somehow and Eva I didn’t even know some of the people I was related until I did my research then I asked my mom and then she’d say yeah you really this is how and that’s yeah I know now because I read it you know so that’s kind of where I come from in a nutshell