Shaun Newman Podcast - #891 - Sean Feucht

Episode Date: August 7, 2025

Sean Feucht is an American Christian singer and songwriter, who founded the Burn 24-7, Light a Candle, Hold the Line, and Let Us Worship movements. He is known for his contemporary Christian music, with over a dozen albums, and his activism, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic when he held large outdoor “worship protests” opposing restrictions on religious gatherings. In Canada, his 2025 “Revive in 25” tour faced multiple concert cancellations in cities like Halifax, Montreal, and Abbotsford due to public safety concerns. While in Montreal he also faced antifa setting off smoke bombs while he was on stage. To watch the Full Cornerstone Forum: https://open.substack.com/pub/shaunnewmanpodcastGet your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: [e-mail] Grahame: [phone]Bow Valley Credit UnionWebsite: www.BowValleycu.comEmail: [e-mail] Use the code “SNP” on all ordersProphet River Links:Website: store.prophetriver.com/Email: [e-mail]

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All right, let's get on to that tale of the tape. Today's guest is an American Christian singer and songwriter who founded Burn 24-7, Light a Candle, Hold the Line, and let us worship movements. I'm talking about Sean Foyt. So buckle up. Here we go. Welcome to the Shot Newman podcast. Today I'm joined by Sean Foyt. I was just saying to him, I've butchered your name many a time. I'm glad I'm getting that right this time around. Thanks for joining me. Awesome. For myself, the audience, just curious. Like, who? Who is, Sean? Tell us a little bit about yourself. Well, I don't know where to start.

I'm a dad. I got four kids, married to my high school sweetheart, love Jesus. I probably, I would say more than anything, more than an artist or author or speaker or evangelist or whatever, I'd probably just consider myself more a missionary. And that's what my parents were. That's what I've always wanted to be. and sometimes that looks like going into closed nations. Sometimes it looks like going in my own nation. Sometimes it looks like going into Canada.

Just wherever God tells us to go is where we go. And whatever he tells us to say is what we say. So yeah, that kind of sums up a little bit of me. I just, you know, every season looks a little bit different. But following God has definitely been a wild journey. Well, walk me through your time in Canada. I don't know how much you traveled to Canada before this, but how has your time in Canada been? Yeah, I've been coming to Canada for 20 years.

So I have a long history of all across Canada from Nova Scotia all the way to B.C. I've done ministry, worship, held conferences, done training schools, sent out mission. done big worship events. I have been going there for a long time. The last three years, we have been focused on these big outdoor worship evangelistic events called Let Us Worship. Started in the pandemic 2020. In response to the lockdowns and the kind of tyrannical government overreaks that we experienced in America, we really began to push back. And, you know, I think initially it was it's a lot of freedom of religion, a lot of just standing up for a free expression and against really unconstitutional laws and mandates. However, in the midst of that, we really started to see God doing some really amazing things and the hopelessness and the heartache and the addiction and the discouragement.

And God really began to use these events, not just really to stand up against the government, but really to stand for the king. And people began to get healed and baptized and saved and freed and filled with hope. So that kind of led us to start doing that in Canada as soon as the vaccine, Vax mandate was dropped. We started coming. And this is our third year of bringing these types of events to Canada. The last two years have been really amazing. Thousands of people have shown an incredible amount of unity and support.

However, a few things happened between the last two years and this year. One of them was the U.S. election, which was very contentious in Canada, apparently. It's really strong anti-American sentiment that resides there now. And then just the activism. I've never experienced the level of insanity that Canada is dealing with right now, the church. And to be honest, you know, I, you know, I just. didn't ask for this. I didn't want this. I didn't want the controversy. But it's illuminated my eyes to the heavy anti-Christian bias. And you could call it Christophobia. You can call it

persecution, the burning of many churches, the hypocrisy of the government to come after Christians to peacefully worship while letting people of other ideologies and religions do whatever they want. It's really opened my eyes to this. It feels eerily similar to 2020. And it's been, it's been a wild journey. You know, I don't know if I realized how, you know, you mentioned coming to Canada for 20 years, roughly. And then over the last three years, you know, like I've never heard your name before this. And that doesn't mean anything on your side. It could just mean as much on my side. But now you've become this, well, I don't know, in the circles I'm in, the amount of times I got sent your name over the last little bit to have you on has been something. And I'm like, well, who is this

guy? Like what's going on? In your world, over the last three years, have you seen it change in front of your eyes then coming back and forth to Canada? You point out Trump being elected and that being contentious and the elbows up and everything else here in Canada. But, you know, like, is that what you would put it to if you've been coming here that often? What changed this time specifically? Yeah, I think that I definitely think the election played a part in that. I think the trade war. I think the, and really the media, man, the media in Canada is straight up demonic. I mean, it is like, and I thought ours was bad.

I mean, we fought obviously against our media and the leftist liberal bias. But as far as I know, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, as much of it is state funding. And so it's kind of starting to look like the government and media are all together and they're pushing their agenda. You know, you were talking about how you hadn't heard of me before, you know, and, you know, we had some pretty good traction in the last years. I mean, we had, you know, like I mentioned, thousands of people at almost every outdoor venue. But what happened this time is that the government officials, city officials, the media embed together to silence the sound of peaceful. Christians worshipping. And, you know, they can call it mega and hate speech and bigotry and all this stuff. But I mean, I have all of these events. Like we do Facebook lives. We do, we have

a YouTube channel. We have all of this stuff that anybody can go and watch and see what happens. I mean, we had, we were in Toronto because it got canceled, you know, six venues in a row. So we went to a church in Toronto, had thousands of people there, live streamed the whole thing. Just so people could see, the media could see what it is that we do, what it has. How do we talk? What's the message that we're bringing to the nation? And it's not any of those things they're saying. So there is, I am so bewildered at the indoctrination of, and the brainwashing of so many people in Canada at the hands of the media and the government. And it exposes a lot, not just to me and not just to people in your country, but literally to the world. I mean,

this was a global story two weeks ago, and I was getting calls from leaders all over the world, being like, what the heck is happening in Canada? Well, welcome to Canada. This has been, you're just one in a long list of people to have venues shut down and have protests, and I think it's just, you know, you're just the newest story of coming in and doing something, then painting you a certain way. and then, you know, all hell breaking loose, I don't know if I could phrase it any different than that.

Has media, you know, like, I know I've seen some different things where like Rebel News is there, but like I guess when I think of it, I'm thinking the CBC, the CTV, like as the stories progressed, have they at least come around or are they still painting you in the same picture? I mean, I think that there, you know, it's, I would actually say it's probably largely an embarrassment because it's kind of like the Streisand effect. You know, they tried so hard to cancel and censor and ban and it just got bigger. And then, of course, we got attacked by Antifa inside of a church in Montreal,

which is horrifying that this even happened in Canada. And that just made it even bigger. And so I think now, you know, you have like these opinion pieces. Well, he's testing the limits of free speech. This is really good. And then, of course, you have kind of the, you know, the Alberta press and the BC, some of the BC press saying, hey, we need to fight to have these happen. I mean, the amount of people that are not believers, that are not church people, they're just free speech people. And they're like, hold on a sec.

Like, this should continue on. If you don't want to go or you don't like this guy or you don't believe in what he says, then just don't go. But we can't have naked bicycle pride parade festivals all over sports. streets of our city or Muslims doing whatever they want to do down the streets of the city or Hindus or whatever and then silence peaceful Christians. This is a bad look. And I would agree, I think it is a bad look. Could you walk me through Antifa in Montreal? I'd read the story, but I guess you being in the room and seeing it firsthand. For the listeners out here in the West, and I mean, I guess all across Canada, too, but specifically for us out in the West, can you

walk us through this? Yeah, I mean, you know, I think that the short of the story is that they, you know, we had a venue that was canceled. And so then we, a church in Montreal, which is a cathedral building in 1930s, a beautiful building right down there in the heart of Montreal, the pastor was like, yeah, we'll host worship might. We'd love to do it. And he's Spanish pastor, I think from Guatemala. He's been a big part of the community. I had a huge feeding kitchen where they feed the homeless and they do outreach and just known for that in the community. And as soon as we announced that we were going to go to that church, it was like every activist in Quebec, you know, was up in arms, the police and well, you know, this is the mayor

said, we can't do this. We can't allow this hate speech inside of a church. You know, I mean, And it's like how much more authoritarian, draconian do you have to be to want to be a mayor that stops a church service inside the church on private property? So anyway, waves of police battalions were sent to find out what we were doing, kind of to intimidate us, to have a stop. And I just told the guy, I told the police officers who were actually really nice, I just said, hey, we're not going to stop doing this. Like, this is let us worship, man. We don't stop for anything.

We don't stop for the weather. We don't stop for Antifa. We don't stop for Satanus. We do what God's called us to do. So you're going to literally have to drag me off to prison. Like you will have to physically remove me. Otherwise, we're going to do this. And so anyway, we continued.

And then they kind of had this line around the church where all these activists were. They were just this nasty people, you know, standing up against this. The irony is this like, it's these people. picketing and protesting a Spanish pastor wanting to have a church service. I mean, it's mind-boggling to me. I think the church says like three languages, French, Spanish, and English. And so anyway, in the middle of this, in Antifa guy, broke into the middle of the church service through two smoke bombs on the stage with the purpose of causing the fire alarm. to go, well, with the purpose of intentionally harming people, obviously, but then also trying

to get the smoke alarms to go off inside of the church so that everybody would have to exit out into the madness of what was outside, which was angry, yelling, screaming, profane, protesters. Thankfully, the smoke alarm didn't go out. It was a miracle, actually, to be honest. And we kept going. But all of that was captured, recorded. There's all these different angles you can look up of the guy who he is. We know the picture of who he is and it doesn't seem like the government in Quebec is interested at all in finding him or prosecuting him. But what they did do was find the church $2,500 for having a church service. So that to me is mind-boggling and further reveals, you know, they don't go after the protest or that attacked peaceful Christians.

they go after the church that had a church service. In your years of going across the States and coming up to Canada and anywhere else you went, has there ever been a time where you're like even resembles what's going on in Canada? I mean, I've been into, you know, to Turkey, to Israel this year, to Iraq, to Mozambique, Africa, Middle East, all over the world this year. and this the fiercest persecution and resistance I faced was in Canada. So I didn't really have that on my bingo card for 2025. But hopefully that goes to show people there and your listeners just how insane it is right now.

And if I can, Sean, I was expecting you to say this compares nothing to Iraq, et cetera, et cetera. That's where my brain is going. I was like, oh, yeah, stupid. like there's all these places and the persecution be way worse. And instead, you just said, no, this Canada is beyond what the rest of the world is doing right now in persecution. At least from your travels. Yeah, I mean, there, to allow an act, to have a police presence and then to allow a crazy activist to have a police presence and then to allow a crazy activist to come throw smoke bumps inside of the church.

Like, I've been going to the Middle East for years. Like, I've never experienced this. It's kind of insane. It's mind-boggling. And I was just in northern Iraq and Kurdistan with the president up there. And he was talking about how they have such a desire to see religious liberty in that part of Iraq. They want the world to know that this is a safe place for Christians, for Jews, for whoever. You don't have that in Canada, apparently, in Quebec.

In fact, Christians are targeted. And although I didn't look for this controversy, I didn't even know that it existed. I feel like it's my duty now, having experienced it, to tell people all over the world. Because things will not change. Like the best disinfecting is light, you got to shine light on it. And right now, the darkness in parts of Canada is mind boggling. with me. You're coming west. Can you, for anyone interested in what you're doing or where you're going, where are your travels in Canada taking you next? Yeah, so thanks for bringing that up. Yeah,

we're really hoping the western leg of this tour is a little more hospitable than the eastern side. We had all six venues canceled in the eastern side. I think we've had maybe three, of the two or two out of the five so far canceled in western Canada so we're coming to Winnipeg just pulling up my calendar here we are coming to Winnipeg on the 20th so two weeks from today and that August 20th and that kind of restarts our western portion so we'll be in Winnipeg Saskatoon Edmonton Colonna and then Abbotsford and I believe Abbotsford has canceled at the city. However, there's a big petition that's being sent around right now. And members of parliament have signed it to reinstate the permit. Winnipeg has canceled it and doesn't

really give a rip. So we're working on alternate venues there. Saskatoon is holding strong, baby. And Edmonton is holding strong. And Colonna is holding strong. So we'll see how those end. there's something significant though about bringing church to the open air and you know this is something that we shouldn't need to do this to test the limits of free speech however in canada it's this is far more this has become a bigger deal than just a church service like it's important people hear that this has become a deal of how tolerant how how intolerant are the most tolerant in the government it, right? Like, this is the whole thing. We're inclusive. We're taller and we're all this stuff, but you're actually not because you're letting certain groups do whatever they want and you're

targeting Christians. So this is putting a test. It's a litmus test. Again, we didn't plan this. Province by province of where do you stand? Nova Scotia failed. New Brunswick failed. You know, Quebec failed miserably. Ontario failed. So now we get to see where Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and BC rank. So join us. If I may, that doesn't surprise me sitting here. And I know lots of great people from out east. But if you do the scorecard on COVID, you're trending in the right with what you're

saying. Manitoba would be interesting to me because when the Freedom Convoy went through, they all talk about Manitoba because they shut down part of it and yet some of the greatest pictures, some of the greatest stories come from that province of the people that showed up, the amount of food that showed up, and how they found them on the highways. When you get to Eminton, Saskatoon, I would hope they would not be shut down. I would think there would be a fever pitch if they try to.

Obviously, there's a lot of freedom-minded folks sitting in the way. It does not shock me that out west, sorry, in Abbotsford, they canceled. And once again, it doesn't surprise me that Kelona is holding strong. Colonna has a very interesting group there that's been running all through COVID. And I would think they have their hands on making sure something like this doesn't get shut down. That's at least from this guy sitting here. Your scorecard tracks similarly to how COVID went. Yeah.

Wow, that's very interesting. I'm learning a lot. I'm learning a whole lot about your country. Well, it's, it shouldn't, it doesn't shock me what's happening to you. Because this has been the state of Canada now for how many years. And it just becomes more and more, I don't know, out in the open, I guess. And, you know, you're just one of the many who've come up here. And if you don't land in the right spot, then they shut you down.

And there's certain venues that are, I've grown thick. skin to make sure that they don't get shut down and there's others that bend immediately and i i guess you know with a few minutes remaining what have they been shutting you down for like that you're going to incite violence or is it i know there's a whole bunch of talk around the permits and yet i'm like it's a church that makes zero sense you don't have a permit every sunday so i'm just curious what is it that they've been shutting you down for yeah i mean it's all different reasons i think think that, you know, mostly what they love to say is for health and safety reasons. Obviously, we have no record of inciting violence or hatred or like we've never done that.

As I said, you can look at my 20-year history coming to Canada. But it's the threats of violence. So they're actually shutting down a free expression of worship because of the threats of the left or activists. Now, we have a whole team of lawyers that is there's going to be some litigation coming, province by province, in response to this. And so they're going to have to go through discovery and prove these threats. My guess is they won't be able to do that. It's a total fabrication.

But we'll see. And in terms of the permits, like, I mean, we've dotted every eye. crossed every tea. I mean, this is what we, this is what our organization does. Like, we did 50 U.S. capitals where we had to get permits and go through logistics and jump through government hoops. Like, we know how to do paperwork. We know how to fulfill. We know how to get insurance. We know how to get Porter Potty. Like, this is what we do. So on our end, everything was perfect crystal clear. On their end, they're trying to get around it and cancel it through vague reasons. But we know why. We know the main region. They want to shut Christians up. They don't want the church to gather. They don't want the people of God to worship. They don't want. I mean, this is an age old thing that's been happening for 2,000 years. And so it shouldn't surprise us. They flex these muscles in COVID. You know, now you have, I saw it out of east today. You have the climate crisis. So now you can't go hiking. You can't go fishing. You can't even go in the woods in Nova Scotia. Or you're going to get fined.

$5,000. Like, what? Like at some point, people in Canada have to wake up because this is absolute madness. And I want to do my part because there's such amazing people in that country. I want to do my part to help. Obviously, I don't live there. I wasn't born there. My passport is American, but I deeply care about the future of that country and have so many amazing people that I know to live there. So I want to fight as much as I can. I want to help as much as I can. And we'll see what happens here on August 20th when we reenter for the Western portion. If people want to find out concert dates, everything like that, I know Eminton is August 22nd, at least that's what I've found. Where can you point them to if they're trying to pay attention to when you come through or if they just want to show up to show support for, you know, free speech?

shit, you know, I don't know, people want to make sure that everything isn't shut down. We, you know, I get where they're coming from. Where can they find all that information? Well, they could follow me on, you know, Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, whatever. You know, just go to my name, Sean Foy, S-E-A-N-F-E-U-C-H-T. You can find out all the stuff there. You can also go to let usworship.us. That's kind of our main site.

Let us worship. That will have all the dates for all the upcoming events. Now, let us worship.ca. We also have that one, too. Let us worship.ca. And that we've converted primarily into a pledge. And so that has become a petition now that people across Canada have signed. I think we have almost 22,000 signatures on that petition. So, you know, we would love for anybody out there that hasn't signed that, please sign that.

It's going to help us in the litigation days to come. But, yeah, we would. you know, again, Winnipeg is on the 20th, Saskatoon is on the 21st, Edmonton, the 22nd, Colonna the 23rd, and Abbotsford, the 24th. You got your work cut out for you. Sean, appreciate you hopping on and doing this, and best luck with the rest of the lag here in Canada. Thank you. Thanks for having me on. I really appreciate it.