 The thing that I love most about the Methodist Church is actually what brought me into the United Methodist Church. I came from a non-denominational background for the most part and really the openness and the willingness to have engaging conversations with people that you don't agree with in our denomination has been life altering, really. We can have different theological ideas. We can have different ministry philosophies. We can have different social values, but there are like some baseline essentials in which we are working towards. My hopes for the United Methodist Church are an opportunity to step into the future even without knowing what that really looks like. I think there is a lot of, the Methodist Church has done a lot of important work in the way that people and communities of faith have needed to be able to understand themselves and understand the way their lives connect with the congregations in the church. As we see, there is a movement happening with people. There is a new need. There are different ways to identify and connect with others. And I think there is an opportunity for the United Methodist Church to really empower the next generation of clergy and laity to give opportunities for minority communities and marginalized voices to lean into this next iteration. Our work at Owenwood, that's probably one of the best questions we have is how do we connect people to the work that we're doing and how do we broaden their experiences and their understanding of who they are and where God is present in their life. And the things that I love about our work, particularly at Owenwood, is that there are different avenues to get on to the work that we're doing together. You can get involved with the farm, you can get involved with worship, you can get involved with our diaper distributions, you can get involved with our community garden, our after-school programs. They're all avenues, but they're avenues into this collective goal and spirit in which we believe we are called to work with the community and for our people because of where God has called us to. I came into this denomination not knowing everything. I was transitioning out of a different faith community and faith environment and I was given the opportunity to do the work of ministry without having to have my tees crossed and my eyes dotted. It was given the space to figure it out along the way with support while I was in seminary and was given opportunities to do ministry in ways that were meaningful for myself in the ways that I understood my call and the work that God is leading and so I think that's special. I think that that doesn't happen in a lot of churches and I think that is hard to do in certain denominations and so I'm grateful that this denomination gave me that opportunity.