- My motto here at Baruch Guitars

is that I build worship instruments.

Some of them are wood andsome of them are flesh.

- [Reporter] Hank Teutondeveloped a passion

for building custom-made guitarswhile in the Coast Guard.

Baruch is the Jewish word for blessing

and he seeks to instill godlycharacter in his students

as he teaches them how to craft guitars.

- When you bend a piece ofBrazilian rosewood, let's say,

first, you have to cut itto the right thickness.

So it has to be dimensioned properly.

Then you have to soak itand get it good and wet.

Then we steam it, raise that temperature,

and then I put it under pressureand you can see, I mean,

very easily, the analogiesto what God does in our life

as he begins to form and shape us.

Certainly God works in ourlives cutting out the dead wood

and putting in what's really beautiful.

As you sand a guitar, for instance,

try to get out every one of the blemishes,

we actually encouragethe guys to pray with me

about the person who will have the guitar

that the Lord will workeven as our sandpaper,

polishing out every blemish of our life.

- [Reporter] Hank's shop is

in a formerly abandoned railroad building

in downtown Montgomery, Alabama.

- This building was the baggage house

for the L & N Railroad and Union Station

as the Louisville Nashville Railroad

was making their way down to the coast.

I was blessed to be ableto purchase the building

and do a renovation, turn it into my home.

- [Reporter] Hank hadintended to use the building

as a place to make limitededition handmade guitars,

but he soon got theidea to use the building

as a place to host live music.

- One of the visions wasto turn it into a place

of collaboration andinspiration and incubation.

So we're inviting young peoplefrom across the city to come.

Every Friday night I'vegot a group of kids

who come down and play jazz music.

On Saturday mornings,we do bluegrass music

and we wanna be a placewhere, through collaboration,

the worship leaders cangrow in their experience,

in their approaches to leading worship.

- [Reporter] Also, several times a year,

Hank offers people a chance to win one

of the handmade guitarsand uses the proceeds

to support his orphanageand school in Haiti.

- Haiti has experiencedtremendous hardships,

politically, economically.

COVID obviously has shut down the country.

I chose to build a guitarto honor those students

down there, those orphans,

in order to bring aspotlight on their needs.

- [Reporter] Although Hankhas had some health issues

recently, he thinks God isnot finished with him yet.

- I'm convinced that Godstill has things for me.

And I think among them are thepath that I'm on right now,

building these instruments as fundraisers

for various good causes,the orphanage for one,

hospital for another,another hope organization

called Hope Heals is the third guitar

that I'm gonna do and perhaps more.

It looks like they are actuallymore on the horizon for me

to build these guitars,do this sort of raffle

for these amazing instruments,

and raising money for these causes.

- [Reporter] Hank and his wifeBrenda want to use the home

and shop as a place to extendbaruch to the community.

- So I want this placeto be not just a place

where my apprentices arebeing spoken into their lives

or are being blessed, butalso the other musicians

who come down and alsoall who pass this way,

that they'd see the face ofGod and experience the blessing

of baruch in their life.(gentle music)