NARRATOR: He performs before sold out

crowds around the world.

He's won over two dozen music awards,

and he's been a spokesman for Coca Cola, Sony, Colgate,

and Toyota.

He even has a microphone named after him.

He's pop star Gary Valenciano.

But Gary V as he's called is more than a talented,

award winning musician.

He's a man who loves Jesus Christ

and lives to spread the life changing

message of the gospel throughout the world.

Joining me now is my dear friend Gary V

and it's wonderful to have you here.

Just so everybody knows, his wife, Angeli,

has been on the board of CBN Asia since the founding of it

way back in 1994.

And it just seems like yesterday.

When I say 1994, it's a long time ago.

It's been awhile.

To some, it might seem like a long time ago.

But there's so many things that transpired in the Philippines.

And then you have CBN Asia getting

involved in so many things-- Operation Blessing also.

So I guess because of the newness of events in there,

20 years doesn't seem like too long ago.

I saw you perform in June.

And it was electrifying.

And it took me back to 1994.

And I tell you, you haven't aged at all.

And the description of you as Mr. Pure Energy is--

what you do is unbelievable.

And a lot of people don't know that you

have juvenile diabetes.

You've had it all your life.

And yet, you have all this great energy.

And you're a walking miracle.

GARY V: I used to think that calling myself a walking

miracle would make people go, talk about trying to be humble.

He's not being humble about that.

But when the doctors say that your life expectancy from

the day of diagnosis is only 30 years and now I've been

on my 38th year with no problems whatsoever-- now,

being called Mr. Pure Energy at my age, I mean,

feeling the creaks and little--

I'm Mr. Pure Couch.

I mean, you come out on stage and I perform.

And living up to the Pure Energy is no longer

a challenge for me, because I think

people get to understand and see that the energy is not

mine in the first place.

And it's not pure because of my walk.

It's really pure because of the source of the energy

that comes out.

Because sometimes, Gordon, I step off of that stage,

I have a lack of sleep, sugar levels acting up.

And yet when I step out there, boom.

And it's not just because I love what I do,

but really it's just the love of God showing to me

and proving to me again and again I'm here for you, Gary,

and I'm using you for this purpose.

Make yourself available and and that's it.

Well, when the anointing hits you, all the fatigue leaves.

You're absolutely right.

Because sometimes I watch the playback of the concerts

and I'm like, can I ever do that again?

And immediately, no.

But I can do it for you.

So that's what keeps me going, because I never

thought I'd even end up in the entertainment industry.

What more stay around and hang around for 33 years

doing the same thing and not falling out of love with it,

but actually falling more in love

with it, because of the ideas that

continue to come into my mind and my heart for the people.

Well, tell us about those ideas.

What's fresh and new for you?

What new anointing do you have, new word do you have?

Let's start from the very beginning.

I have always been a frustrated multimedia kind of guy.

Like when I was young--

GORDON: I can't imagine you frustrated.

No, really.

No, because when I was young, when Star Wars first came out,

I used to have a Super 8 camera and I would create lasers

and I would burn stuff that belonged to my dad,

just because they looked like the cannons

that-- maybe "Star Wars," I would create lasers and stuff.

So that's always been-- storytelling

has been a part of me.

So to my three children, when they were a lot younger,

I would actually read the stories and change my voice.

I mean, I would get into the character.

And it did affect them.

They have never forgotten that.

So what I've been working on lately are short Bible stories

using some of my songs scored like a movie

and I have friends from back home who-- I have a friend.

His name is Mari Kaimo.

And he does all the narrating.

And it's beautifully done.

And then I play the roles of different people

that I make my friends hear and they go, who's that character?

That's me.

But I'm really into creating now short Bible stories that

go maybe for a minute and a half to two minutes,

enough for people to be in their cars, off to work,

and they're not listening to a sermon.

They're listening to a short story,

short enough to create a long, lasting impact in their lives.

I love doing stuff like that.

I stay up at night and I'm working on it.

My wife says, honey, it's time to go to bed.

I said, wait.

But you can't cut that.

You're flowing in the--

When you're in the flow, you don't want to stop.

That's a different kind of energy, Gordon.

I mean, you're in your room and it's just you and Christ.

And if people want to know a little bit more about this,

you can check out on YouTube Gary V TV

and there are some things I released

during what we call the holy week event in the Philippines.

So from Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,

there was something for each day.

And these were just things that came into my head.

And the Lord allowed me to execute them

at the proper time.

And that's just one.

All right.

Give us two.

The other one is-- you know how children now love to play.

Children love to play.

But many times, they end up using only their hands to play

and in a space that's about this big.

But there is an effort now and a movement now

in the Philippines-- it's for UNICEF,

of which I am the ambassador of goodwill for the Philippines--

there's an effort to make children know that they can

move other parts of their bodies and enjoy just as much

by playing.

I mean, literally playing games.

So we're creating two CDs of old, Filipino classics

that have to do with games.

And we're treating them in a way that

would cater to younger people.

They can go out there and really enjoy.

That's another thing that I'm working on.

What would you tell somebody watching

who's maybe frustrated, too?

And how do you release the creative energy

that God has put within you?

How do you do that?

How do you get over the reluctance-- am I going to look

silly?

Are people going to laugh?

Or is this going to work?

How do you get through it?

Well, in my case, I have a great team that I work with.

Now, God may give you something, may give you

something to contribute, but He may not want you to execute it.

So there are times when I have an idea,

but I know it's not for me to execute.

And then I listen to my team.

And they're able to guide me as to where I want to go,

because creative people sometimes can just go so way

out of the box and to a point where it only

caters to themselves, believing that everybody else is

going to like it, but actually it

doesn't always work that way.

But if you have an idea and it's something

that's brewing in your heart, first this.

If you believe it's from the Lord,

then you have to stay in contact with Him.

You have to stay in touch with Him,

because He can take it from this direction to this direction

and still end up in the target that you want,

that He originally intended for it to go to.

The original design will always end up

the way it was designed to be, but the way, the process

by which you get there may not be

according to the way you planned it, but the way He planned it.

And when God gives you an idea, there's

no way of saying that OK, it's going to end once it's done.

Because there are songs that He's given me that still today

create an impact in people's lives.

So there's no end to it.

I may be gone maybe 10 years from now.

There's other artists that have come out.

But if they do any of my songs or at least the songs

that the Lord has given me, then it creates a whole new face.

But the original intention was you start it out, Gary.

I'll take it to where--

It needs to go.

It needs to go.

I'll guide the arrow to the target.

So that's my advice.

I've actually lived that.

I came back-- I'll tell you a personal story.

I came back from a mission trip to India.

And it was just horrible.

I felt defeated.

It was one of those where you preach your heart out

and I felt like I was preaching into a brick wall.

And nothing seemed to break.

And we didn't get the breakthrough

that I thought we were going to get.

And I come back and I'm over with Gary and Angeli.

They invited us over for dinner.

Scott Ross was there, Catherine was there.

And you sat me down and said, I've

got a brand new song for you.

And it was "Face to Face."

And boy, it just picked me up.

It was unfinished, I remember.

I said, it's not finished, OK?

But this is what I'm working on.

And I had no idea it had spoken into his life.

But even that-- I mean, for creative people out there,

you just have to make yourself available to be

used in any way.

And even if the product may not be exactly finished,

somebody, like Gordon, could hear it and it could--

I didn't know that it was speaking into your life.

The lyrics were-- I mean, I felt

like it was God singing to me.

Everything that was in that lyric

was exactly what I was feeling in that moment.

You have more than me as an audience.

You have a huge audience in the Muslim world.

How in the world did that happen?

Nothing was planned, Gordon.

But I guess because when I do my music,

I'm not trying to shove down anything into people's throats

and say, this is the way it's got to be done.

I'm really sharing part of myself.

I have a dear pastor friend in Manila

who said from the day I met you, I kind of knew more about you

than you actually know.

And I said, why?

And he said because your music says it all.

Your music is a piece of who you are.

And I said, wow, really?

I better be careful with my music.

And he says, no, it's just you being at your rawest state.

And you allow people to see who you are.

And because of that, it's authentic.

So when I have failed and I fall short,

I make people know that through my music.

But I make them know that above that, there's God's grace,

there's God's forgiveness, there's God's love

that really never fails.

And so when, I guess, the Muslim world, I'm

not talking about a religion.

I'm talking about a relationship.

They get to see that.

They know about my diabetes.

So one time, there was an incident

that took place down south in an area that wasn't

too safe for people to go to.

But as part of UNICEF, I said, let's go.

So I went.

And it was all Muslims.

Their houses were burned.

And the government was being blamed for it,

but apparently a lot of what goes on

down there is between the clans, among the Muslims themselves.

So it's that whole mix up of everything going on.

And when I went, I spoke to some of them.

And many of the women especially were covered.

And the only way for me to sing was to use a bullhorn.

It was like, Hi, good afternoon, everybody.

I'm here now.

And they were all like this, they

were being very conservative.

And none of them were reacting in the beginning

until I started singing a song that I told them, many of you

have been around and supporting me for so many years.

And here is my way of letting you know that I'm here

and I'm loving you the same way.

And I rerecorded the song off of Steven Curtis Chapman,

which is "I Will Be Here."

So I started singing it, tomorrow if you wake up

and the sun does not appear, I, I will be here.

And slowly, from the women being like this,

you could see them-- I could literally see it happening.

And then later on, I was able to reach out to them

and shake their hands.

And the men, they're watching and seeing,

is this person for real?

Because they're only used to seeing me on television.

And here I am in a place where many soldiers wouldn't even

dare go to because they're not sure they'll come out alive

and I was there being able to speak to them.

And the greatest thing was when I was introduced,

the mayor came up.

And the first thing he says is, praise the Lord, hallelujah.

And I was like, and we're there.

But you see--

Of a Muslim village?

In a Muslim village.

But they respected the man, maybe because, again, he

wasn't introducing-- he was never there

to introduce a new religion.

He was just being himself, a follower of Christ,

loving the Muslims, who Christ died for anyway.

So when you're able to make yourself

available for that kind of use, there's

no telling as to how far and how deep

an impact God is going to make in the lives of those who you

might even think would never listen

to anything about the Lord.

And I didn't preach.

I just stood there.

And I guess they saw God through that one act and they softened.

And then later on, they were acting like everybody else.

Oh, you come back, [FILIPINO].

[FILIPINO] means hope you can come back. [FILIPINO], hi.

And I'm like, sure.

And those are moments that cameras may never catch,

but they don't have to.

They don't have to.

They don't have to.

For that moment to last for all eternity,

a camera doesn't have to be there.

When you change a heart and you open them up to God's love,

that will last.

You just have to make that little [POP NOISE].

And if that wall begins to come down a bit, somebody else,

God's going to create another event

that He's going to start chipping away that wall

so when it comes down, they get to see Him for who He really is

and who He can be in their lives.

And that's just one story, that story

of my being in that area of the Philippines

is one of the many stories I'm putting in a book.

Each day, I've been challenged by my sister, Gary,

you need to put a book together about the events that

have had an impact in your life and your career.

And Gordon, there are many stories.

I want to read it.

One of these days, I'll share it with people.

You've got to get it done.

All right.

I've got two of his latest CDs, "Gold"

and then "Gary V With You."

They're available now.

So if you want to check out my favorite singer

in the whole wide world, all you have to do

is go to where music is distributed, put

Gary V into your playlist, and you will thank me for it.

And Gary, thank you for being here.

Thank you, Gordon.

I was able to speak and share so much of this with people

out there.