Producer Marcus Green has the story.

Faith is the thing.

I always reflect on like what the Apostle Paul talks about this weight of glory that is like on the inside.

Like, I feel like that has been the thing which is really faith.

The faith that we have in terms of greater is he that's in us.

That has been the thing that really has allowed me to put one foot in front of the other ever since April 9th, which was the day my mom passed away.

I preached the funeral for the daughter of one of my neighbors at a local church.

The funeral her was packed.

And at that time we were told by the White House that and other authorities, wash your hands, don't touch your face and that was it.

Somewhere along that line, I caught COVID and I wasn't quite sure what it was, but what happened was my wife who was caring for me she also caught it and on April 9th of last year, she died from it.

My daughter and I were not able to attend my wife's funeral.

So when my wife was taken by ambulance to sign at Griffin hospital, I never saw her again.

She left the house, I was sick.

I crawled to the window to see the ambulance taking her away, and I never saw her again, never talked to her again.

You know, when you minister to other people when they go through challenges, when they've lost family members.

Well, this time around it was, I was that person in that seat.

And so I still am but even during those times, those months after my mom passed, there was still a congregation, that we had to minister to and yet we were still grieving.

When you preach faith for 40 years, and you encourage families who have lost loved ones, you encourage families through tragedy.

You encourage families through their difficulties in the black church, the gospel and the good news and the comfort of the word of God and the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

You use that as a pastor, as a shepherd.

When it hits you like it hit me last year, it really pushes a reset button that will determine the fact that my life will never be the same.

What I went through with my wife probably went through and the days that I couldn't move, the days I couldn't eat, the days that I was totally helpless, you know.

When I think about this, I get kind of emotional, because I think about what we have gone through.

I cannot describe the hate this as a Christian to call it a nightmare, but a year removed from all of that.

Now I am revisiting all of that.

There're still so many people who suffered from COVID major losses.

I know especially in the black church, there were many leaders that we lost.

There were many black families who lost family members in the church.

I'm preaching the gospel.

I'm president of a seminary training, and this hits me and my family, why me?

And the Lord allows us to ask those questions.

But He'll also answer those questions too.

Is it because of your mind?

And I'm trying to say something to the world, through people like you, that I'm a God who even when a tragedy hits your life, I'm doing it for your good, so that you might lift up my name and let the world know about a faith that looks on the bright side.

I'm sad and I'm not blaming God because she belonged to him and she's where she wants to be.

And he left me here because he has a purpose for me.

And so through all of this, all of this pain and agony and so on and so forth, my faith is greater than it has ever been.

But that also comes out of the crucible of suffering that is traditional in the black church.

And so we have the light of the world with a salt of the earth.

And so this pandemic gives an opportunity too for the Lord to showcase his grace and his mercy and his power of love and a very, very, very dark time.

The stories of loss and lonely goodbyes as a result of COVID-19 are the focus of a television and radio vaccine campaign from the Michigan department of health and human services.

Three Detroit area pastors are featured in the spots and they share their personal experiences with grief and offering reasons to get vaccinated against the virus.

Here's a look at one of the television spots followed by my conversation with two of the pastors, Reverend Charles Williams II, and Dr.

John E. Duckworth.

Some of the reasons why persons are hesitant, they don't know what's the long-term effects of the vaccine.

They don't trust it.

Given the history of Tuskegee experiment.

I also was hesitant.

Then I began to do the research behind the vaccine.

Do your homework.

stay off social media and talk to your family members that are ready got the shot.

We need to do this.

We need to get vaccinated.

There's no invincibility to COVID-19.

If it hits you and it hits you wrong, you're gone.