diff --git a/roles/git/hooks/files/post-receive-fedora-messaging b/roles/git/hooks/files/post-receive-fedora-messaging
index b8892002c1..a2dad7cf33 100644
--- a/roles/git/hooks/files/post-receive-fedora-messaging
+++ b/roles/git/hooks/files/post-receive-fedora-messaging
@@ -11,9 +11,14 @@ from collections import defaultdict
 
 import pygit2
 
+import fedora_messaging.config
 import fedora_messaging.api
 import fedora_messaging.exceptions
 
+fedora_messaging.config.conf.load_config(
+    '/etc/fedora-messaging/git-hooks-messaging.toml')
+
+
 # Use $GIT_DIR to determine where this repo is.
 abspath = os.path.abspath(os.environ['GIT_DIR'])
 if "/requests/" in abspath: