 I'm just waiting for the recording to start. Okay, recording started. Good morning and welcome everybody to the class today on Urban Church Planting. And let's just begin with a word of prayer. Let's see, Kannan, is your phone okay? Or are you able to pray? Or... Yeah, you can hear me. You can hear me or not? It's a lot of noise, Kannan. Okay, no mind. I can hear some buzzing sound on back. Yeah, okay, no mind, Kannan. Let's have somebody else pray. Okay, yeah, so, Kannan, where did you pray? And then we will start. Sure, Master. We pray. Lord, thank you for this day, Lord, for this amazing meeting, Lord. What else are we going to learn about the practical aspect about the church planting, Lord, Father? We know that, Lord, Father, it's not easy to start a church. But, Lord, Father, if you are with us, Lord, everything is possible, so Lord. Father, I pray for all the students to open up our hearts, open up our eyes, Lord, Father, to know, to know your word, Peter, Lord, Father. And, Lord, Father, I pray that, Lord, Father, as we join in with this weapon church planting, Lord, Father, give us the blueprint and help us to know your timing, Lord, Father. So, Lord, I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen, thank you, thank you. All right, so thank you for being part of the class. We're going to continue from where we paused yesterday. I'm just going to share the PDF for all of us. Okay, so we started talking about some of the practical aspects of church planting or getting a ministry, a Christian ministry, started in an urban context in a city, a metropolitan area where it's complex, a lot of people are there and so on. So I'm just, we're just going through some, different things to think about. So first thing we spoke yesterday was about the, and the core theme, the importance of having a group of people who are length-minded, who are committed, who will be able to work towards establishing a new church or the ministry that you desire to start in the city. Then we talked about preparing from a distance where even before you actually get on the ground, you can start preparing, and something I'd encourage each of you to start thinking about even for your own ministry. Like we said, next year you're going to be graduating. And so it's good to start thinking, what are you going to do? And if the Lord is leading you to go to a city, go to some place and start a ministry, it's good to start preparing even from a distance, start thinking about it, doing the research, like we said, writing down, praying about it, writing down what God is speaking to you and prepared from a distance. And the third point that we covered yesterday where we stopped was about relocating to be on site. So at the right timing, you move into that place or you move into that ministry that God is leading you to do, to plan the church or to start the Christian work there. And then, so as part of that, you begin to go about doing the survey phase and the preparation, the launch phase, which we will be talking about. All right, so we're going to go move forward from there and feel free to ask questions anytime or even type your questions in the chat and we will take it up. I will try to keep some time for questions before we close today. So another important part, especially for those of us who are starting out in church planting or starting out a new ministry in the city, the very important question is about finances. You know, how are we going to get the money to do this? Now, there are several options. If you are being sent by a church to go and start, to go and plant a church, very often the mother church, so to speak, or the church that is sending you will help you financially, at least for a period of time to get started and so on. So that happens in some cases where the sending church will, you know, will support you or in some cases people use their own personal finances to, if they already have had some savings, they will do that. They'll use their own money to go and get a church started or a ministry started. But in addition to that, which is an option, the finances can come from the sending church personal finances. You know, I want us to be open to the idea that sometimes you may work for a period of time. So you may work professionally for a period of time while you are in parallel planting the church. So maybe some of the team members, let's say if two or three people are going or three families are going, they may say, they may discuss and say, okay, you know, for the initial period, each one of us will have a job. We will work and then, you know, we will take care of our families and then we will also start the church. And maybe, you know, at some point of the church has enough finances to pay for the people. Then, you know, people can transition to becoming salaried staff, so on. So there is nothing wrong in taking this approach. I, and like I mentioned yesterday, we see in scripture that even the apostle Paul and his team members in different cities at Corinth, at Ephesians, at Thessalonica, they worked and what we can understand from scripture is they were tent makers. They actually made tents and they sold the tents to people. So they made tents, they sold them, they earned money and it took care of their own personal needs, the needs of the team members, while they worked at the same time in planting or establishing a church in a city. So that is an option. But we have to admit that it is a challenging option. It's not very easy. And, you know, and, you know, at some point you can decide to transition from working professionally into, you know, focusing full-time on the church and the ministry. Or in some cases, people continue to work professionally, you know, and they have other people who will serve full-time in the church plant. That is also an option. So the important thing is to know what has God called you to do? And what has God called you to do? How does God want you to organize the finances for the work you are doing? There is no set way. There is no, it's not like there's only one way you can do it. There are many, many options. But you need to think about this and you need to, you know, do what God wants you to do. You don't have to necessarily copy somebody else, you know, just do it the way God wants you to do it, right? Whatever you feel in your heart to do. I can speak for our own selves, you know, when we were leaving the US and moving back to India to start the church here in Bangalore, there was many, many options. A lot of people were giving us, you know, different people, I would say, sorry, different people are giving us different kinds of advice on how to go about it. Some people were saying, you know, why don't you become citizens? Why did you get green card? Why did you become citizens in America? And then you go, you travel to India, you do the work and come back. So some people were talking about that kind of an option. But then there was someone else who introduced us to a very large church and that church was willing to fund us with a certain amount. But then we would become missionaries of that church, which was an option, you know, and so on. But then in our hearts, one of the things we felt was we, when we come to India, when we do our work in India, we want to do it as a purely indigenous work because, you know, through the years I had seen in India a problem. The problem was people had the wrong notion that if you're going to start a work, you need money from outside India. Or if you're going to, you know, do a ministry, you had to be funded from outside India. People had the wrong idea. So in my heart, I felt, look, I want my life to be an example. Through my example, I want to make it clear to people, we don't have to depend on money from outside India to do the work in India, right? So even though there were these options, you know, we had a big church in the US who were willing to make us their missionaries and fund us, take care of us. We said politely, we said, thank you very much, but you know, this is not what God's calling us to do. So we declined their offer. The other idea about, you know, staying in America, getting a green card, we declined that. We said, no, we're just going to India. We want to do an indigenous work. So when we came back to India, the plan was I will work professionally for the initial period of time, as long as I felt I needed to do it and simultaneously start the church. So that's what we did. So when I came back, of course, because of, you know, God just orchestrating things, I was able to start a business. So I wasn't working for anybody else. I had my own, and of course, started with just one person myself. I was just doing software development work. And at the same time, we started the church. And so we did like, did it like that for 14 years. So from 13 years, I guess, from 2001 to 2014, that's how it went. We were doing the church work. At the same time, doing the business. Now, things were growing, you know? And I could say, looking back at those 13 years, it was not easy. There was a lot of tension both sides, the business side, because, you know, I was running my own company, which means I was accountable to all the customers and, you know, all those things, a lot of work, pressure. And then at the same time, there was the church. And the church was also slowly and steadily growing. It was a lot of, it was a lot to handle. And then in 2014 is when I transitioned fully to focus on the church. But it also had a lot of advantages. The advantage was, of course, money, especially in the early years, we were able to put a lot of money into the church from the business to get things started. So that was a big advantage. The other advantage was, and I could manage my own time. So if I needed to, you know, take a day to focus completely on church work, I could do it, you know, in the same office space. I would spend time handling business. And then I could, you know, take an hour off to meet with people or do any kind of church work. So it gave that kind of flexibility, which was very, very good, very advantageous. So there were the benefits. So doing that kind of work. And I'm just showing that personal testimony, just to show you that, look, there are many different ways that you can go about this and you feel you do what God is leading you to do. The only thing I would definitely say is, be very, very careful if you're also working because you can easily get pulled into that and forget about the main cause, which is the church plant or the ministry you're starting. If you're not a person who can balance, you know how to, you know, manage things well, then don't do it. Just focus on the church work. Because I know of cases where, you know, people start out saying, okay, I will do both. And they just get fully caught up in the business side or in the work side. And they forget about, they just cannot handle doing the church side or the ministry side. And so then it doesn't take off. So if you're not able to manage it, then don't get involved in the work at all. Just concentrate on the church plan to focus only on the church and just work on that along those lines. So I would just say, you need to do what God needs you to do. God leads you to do as far as this area of finances is concerned, but please think about it. Have a clear plan and go on. The other thing also, you need to keep in mind and we will talk more about this in the last section is there are other personal needs. There are, of course, the needs of family members and there may be special needs, you know, family members who might be, if they're coming with you. There may be, you know, in the workplace, if you're employed or self-employed. This is a big difference. If you're employed in an organization, then you have to give those eight to 10 hours to the employer. You cannot use that time to do ministry. Whereas if you're self-employed, you're more flexible. They don't think about schooling for children. You know, that is an expense then you need to think about all those things. So when you're looking ahead, you're planning, keep these things in mind, you know, family members, your workplace, your schooling. Think through all these things before you go ahead and get started. Another important thing is, as part of the preparation, is to plan for the legal, the administrative and regulatory matters. You see, even though, so you're going to go start a church or you're going to start a Christian ministry, at some point, you will have to create it as a legal entity. And we are talking about this in the other course that we're doing on church administration, that you will have to form it as a legal entity. You can't just run it as a home church for a long time. I mean, if you want to do a home church with few people, okay, but if you want a growing church with lots of people or a growing ministry that's going to rent space and have a lot of things, it has to be a legal entity. You will have to have other things in place, like banking, finance, local government regulations, filing the professional tax, income tax, all those kinds of things. So it's good to just become familiar with this, okay, how are you going to handle it? I mean, you go into a city. You know, it's very, the best thing to do is to find a good accountant and a legal person who can help you, can do this work for you. So it's good to get their help and say, please help us in registering the church or the ministry and helping us with the accounting and other regulatory matters. So that's the best thing to do. So when you go into a city, go somewhere, get the help of a good accountant or if you have a believer who's an accountant, he will understand these things and will be able to help you. But think about it and prepare for it even before you start, okay? Let me pause here, any questions before I jump into the next topic? Any questions so far? So let's just move forward. I don't see any questions. So once you come into, so you've done this initial preparation, you got your team, you got your, all these things we've spoken about and you come into the place where you're going to start. Take time to survey the place, right? Take time to, let me see, I thought I heard a question. Let me go back here. Yes, Dave, what's your question, please? It's not the question, sir. Actually, we see that he's waiting for coming, so I'll... Oh, sorry. Okay, sure, you can come in. Yeah, because if I'm on the PDF, this auto-admin feature doesn't work. All right, let's wait, okay. So I'll just wait a minute or two before I switch to the PDF. So what I was saying is, so once you're on the ground, it is useful to survey the place physically. Now, you may even do the survey phase a little earlier, like you make one visit or two visits, survey the place, do all the preparation and then come, then officially launch. So there is no set way of how you would survey the place. One of the things we do tell our Bible college students, especially if they are planning to start a ministry in their own, in a certain area, a certain place, we tell them during this final year, go and survey that place. Meaning, look at it with these guidelines that we're telling you about. Think about, just go about that place and I will share some guidelines. What are some of the things you need to look for while you are surveying the area, surveying the place where you're going to start the work? So I will share with you a little survey that was done for Bangalore City. I will upload that into the coursework thing so you get an idea of what a survey looks like. So let me just go back to the PDF. All right, so take time to survey the city. So basically try to understand at a physical level. What is happening in the city? Now, many interesting things can happen during your survey phase. For instance, if you go to Act 16, let's read that because I think that's a very interesting passage. Act 16, 11 to 15. Can somebody read that for us? Act 16, 11 to 15, please. Act 16, 11 through 15. Therefore, losing from thruas, we came with a straight course to Samotharasiya and the next day to Nepalis and from Thames to Philip, which is the chief city of the heart of Macedonia and the colony and we went in the city abiding certain days and on the Saturday, we went out of the city by a river side where fear was won to be made and we sat down and spoke onto the woman who resorted, writer and a certain woman named Lydia, a seller, a propel of city of Hyathria, Hyathria, which forces God heard us, which heard the Lord open that she attended onto the things which were spoken of Paul and when she was baptized and her household, she besought us saying, if you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and abide there and she constrained us. Okay, thank you. So it's kind of interesting, it's even Paul and Paul and Silas and they are along with Luke. So they came, they crossed, they went out from, this was like they crossing over into Europe. So they go across the agency, they come into this whole district of Macedonia and the first city they go to is Philippi. So it's really interesting, it says in verse 12, so once they reach Philippi, they just, they were staying in the city certain days for some days. So we don't know whether it's three days, five days or how many days it was, but they were just soaking in the city, so to speak. They were in the city going around just soaking in what's happening. So you can say in some way, they were surveying the city, they were getting a feel of that city. They were in that city for certain days and then verse 13 says on the Sabbath day, they went out of the city. Now, why do they go out of the city? Because they would have heard, hey, on the Sabbath day, there's a prayer meeting that's happening by the river side. So although it doesn't state here, I'm just trying to infer certain things from this passage. Paul and his team, they must have been spoken to people in the city. Is there any prayer happening? What's going on? Then they've mentioned every Sabbath day, you go by the river, there are people who pray there. So he says on verse 13, on the Sabbath day, they intentionally went out of the city, they went to the river side where they met this group that was meeting there for prayer. It was a women's group and they were meeting by the river side for prayer. And so they, you know, Paul and Silas and Luke and Timothy, I think, was with them at this time as well. So, you know, you can imagine these four men, they meet these ladies women's group. It's a very unusual thing. Men attending a women's prayer meeting. But they introduced themselves and they get to meet this leader of this group, Lydia. And so obviously, they take the time to share the gospel with her and it says in verse 14, the Lord opened her heart. So you can see, you know, through their surveying, just moving around in the city, God has set up a connection. God has set up somebody in that city who would receive them, who would welcome them with whom they could share the gospel. And so this woman, Lydia, she is baptized. That means she has received the message of Jesus Christ and she's baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. So while they were already a prayerful group, now they have become a believing group, a group of people who believed in Jesus. And, you know, and from then on the ministry begins. So notice, they didn't meet Lydia on the first day they arrived at Philippi. Now, sometimes God does that. He may supernaturally orchestrate a meeting on the very first day. Sometimes he just lets you do the survey part, just go around the city, get a feel of the city, God and meet some people in the city. And then he opens somebody's heart. And that's what happened in this case. So I think it's a beautiful example of, you know, just getting a feel of the city or getting a feel of the part of the city where you're going to do the ministry, just being there, just meeting the people, getting to know the people. And in the process, God can open up somebody's heart. He can open up a door of opportunity. The same thing happens in Athens. Again, it's a very interesting passage to read in Acts 17, verses 16 to 23. You know, I know it's a rather lengthy passage, but maybe let's just read verses 16 and 17, just two verses. Acts the 17th chapter, verses 16 and 17. Somebody could read that please. Now when Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked. Within him, when he saw that the city was given over to the idols. Therefore, he reasoned in the synagogue with the Gentile worshippers and in the marketplace, dealt with those who happened to be there. Then certain Epiuchian and Stoic philosophers countered him and some said, what does this new Babbler want to say? Others said, he seems to be a proclamer of foreign gods because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection. Thank you. So, you know, Paul comes to Athens. And like we've said earlier, Athens was an intellectual capital. It was a great place where many of these great Greek philosophers had come out of. So this was a place where people like to hear and discuss things. And Paul goes, you know, he goes into the marketplace. Notice verse 17. He comes to the marketplace every day. So what's he doing? He's there in Athens. He's trying to get a feel of the city, right? He's seeing what's going on in the city. He sees the city. A lot of idolatry is happening here. The city is given to idols. Then he comes to the marketplace. He sees people worshiping. He sees the Jews in the synagogue. And he also runs into these philosophers. Verse 18. People who like to discuss things. So, you know, Paul is just moving in the city. He's getting a feel. Okay. He's, you know, and, and, and, and of course, Luke is with him. And so Luke is, maybe Luke is not there as yet. So they're, they're on the ring. Silas Timothy are on the ring. And Luke is reporting this. What happened? So Paul is getting a feel the city and he's realizing, you know, there's, there's a lot of idolatry here. Oh, there are some Jews here. They worship in the synagogue. There are Gentile worshipers who also joining them. And then there are all these philosophers who like to discuss things. And so, and then he starts engaging with these philosophers. And, you know, and through that discussion with them, they invite him. They eventually get him a hearing at Eropagus, which is the on Mars Hill, which is, you know, the intellectuals in that city. So that's how the work gets started in Athens. But in both these examples, you know, we see how Paul went about things like when he comes into a new city, he takes the time to get a feel of the city, to survey the city. And so it is just a good model to follow. I'm not saying this is the rule and everything has to happen like this, but I'm just saying, you know, here are some guidelines. Here are some ways to go about starting a work in a city. You know, get to the survey, get a feel of the city. Another important thing. So the next thing is this is you need to select the launch area, meaning the place where you're going to start the work. Right. Now, if it's a church plant or if it's a ministry, you know, where are you going to begin the launch? Right. Now, you may be able to identify this before you even get into the city. Like, you know, maybe you're doing a survey through Google maps and you say, well, you know, I am starting a youth ministry. So I want to be near some colleges. And so you may find an area where there are, you know, three or four colleges. It's okay. That's a good place to start. Why? Because there are colleges there and I'm trying to reach the youth. You know, so like this, you could, you could identify this launcher even if you come to the city or when you are on site and you're surveying the city, you know, based on the information you find, you can make your decision or sometimes God may just direct you to a particular area where you should start your work. Right. So whatever it is, you know, your goal is to impact the city or your goal is to impact that part of the city. And, you know, you could eventually reach out to the whole city, but be sensitive to, to what God is leading you to do. Some other guidelines we give you is be sensitive to what God is already doing in the city. Don't do anything that would adversely affect other ministries that are already working in the city. You know, so if possible, avoid an area where that already has a church or many churches, at least there's got to be something different about you and other churches working. Maybe it's a language difference. You know, if there are regional language churches in that area and you're studying an English language, okay, it's fine. But don't get it, go don't do something that competes with some other church in the same area. So be a little sensitive to those kinds of things, you know, and like we also said, a good thing to do when you're about to start a ministry or a church in a city is to go meet some of the past and, past and leaders of existing churches and Christian organizations, introduce yourself, build friendships with them, share with them your plan, you know, see if you can learn something from them and also, you know, dispel any fear of competition or sheep stealing, you know, let them know, look, I'm here, I'm not to come here, not to compete with you. I'm just here to, you know, bless the city and do what God's called me to do. So all these things can be done when you are strategically deciding which part of the city to start the church. Right. So be sensitive. And just in our own experience when we came to Bangalore, like I said, I went around looking, you know, so we came here in December, end of December 2000. So the latter part of December, early part of January, I went around looking in Bangalore to find a place to start. Where should I start? And I really couldn't find anything, you know, and I didn't know enough about the city and things like that. So I remember towards the latter part of January, I was praying, I said, God, you know, I really don't know how are we going to start? And I've gone and seen all these places and how do I start? Based on the advice given to me by other pastors, I went to those areas where they said, you know, you should start an event and look, they couldn't find a place. But what do I do? And I remember, you know, God just spoke to me one morning as I was praying, he just said, start with what you have. So start with what I have. What do I have? Well, at that point, we were living in my father's house, my dad's house, in a certain part of Bangalore. And I said, okay, just start at home. Fine. So I went and asked my dad, I said, would it be okay if we just start right here in our home? Now I didn't tell him, God told me to say, God told me, start with what you have. I didn't say that. You know, I was acting upon what I knew God had put in my heart, but I need to, you know, just talk to him. And he said, yeah, perfectly fine. You can start here. So that's how we started. We just started in the living room of my father's, my dad's house with a very small group about 12 people or so were there. That's how we started. But then we did some work. Initially, I looked around many places. I couldn't, at that point, I didn't, because I didn't know much about the city. I couldn't, you know, find a suitable place. So we just started at home. We went around in the neighborhood inviting people and we started like that. But one of the things we made very sure throughout our journey was not to position our congregation. Close to another church where there would be any conflict, you know, if you want to be in a place where even if there is another church in the same area, there's a difference, meaning that may be a different denomination or it may be a different language church. So there is no, you know, conflict between them, people who go there and people who would come to the work we're doing. So be a little sensitive in these things. And when you're looking at where you are going to start your work, right? So once you've decided on your launch area, spend some time understanding it. So even, and then we started, this was long in 20 years ago, you know, we went house to house. We put flyers and of course I knew that my immediate area a little bit. So I knew, okay, this predominantly a non-Christian area. There's nothing much happening in terms of Christian work. So we just had to go house to house and inviting people and so on. So do some work in your launch area. Some of the things that, you know, you would think about is, you know, see where are the schools, where are the colleges, where are the malls, where are the pubs, where are the coffee shops, where are the other NGOs that are working, what are the businesses that are there, you know, because all of this would give you a part on, you know, where are the places you could evangelize, where are the places you could reach out to people and so on. So you have a general idea about the area in which you're going to be doing your work, right? This is your launch area. And of course as the work grows, you will be reaching much more in the city, right? Keep also in mind the kind of people you want to reach. Keep in mind the demographics. That means, are you reaching young people? Well, would these young people have their own transport? Or would they be dependent on public transport? If they're going to be dependent on public transport, then it's good to find a place where it's easily accessible to public transport. If they're going to bring, using their own transport, is there enough parking for them? You know, can they park their vehicles? So you'd think along those lines. If you're going to, you know, you're thinking about a place where you're going to have worship. So think about all those things. You know, in the place where you're going to have worship, are we going to be a nuisance to our neighbors? You know, if you make a lot of noise when we sing, is it going to be disturbing others? So even when we started in our living room, we were there for a very short time, then very quickly we moved to a rented space in kind of a resort nearby. They had an open space. So, you know, we moved the congregation there. So we were not disturbing anybody. So you have to be sensitive to these kinds of things as you decide on the launch phase. Okay. Any questions so far? Let me just pause and see any questions. Okay. Any questions? Anybody? Okay. Your fault in so far. Okay. And some of you may understand from your experience as well. You know, most of these things that we're talking about. All right. So once you've gone through the launch phase, let us start off on the preparation phase. I know we have less than 10 minutes, but let's just do some of these things. So part of the preparation. If you've decided on your launch area, your launch site where you're going to get started, then you're thinking about the preparation. What are some of the things you need to do before you stop? Right. So sometimes some people have pre-launch meetings. Now, we, you know, only, I would say only in, you know, when we started the work in Malaysia, which is the East part of Bangalore, did we do pre-launch meetings? But in all the other situations, we just started, but this is becoming a trend. And so I'm just sharing that with you is that how many people do pre-launch meetings? That means in the area where they are, they want to start the work. They may have some initial outreaches or meetings or seminars or different things that engage with the community before they officially launch. So we call them as pre-launch meetings. So sometimes they may have, you know, prayer meetings. Sometimes they may just have times of worship, you know, things like that. And I have observed that these pre-launch meetings can happen from three months to six months. And I know one team that did pre-launch, I think for one year or so. So it really depends. There's no set things. But so that means before they officially launch, they're just, you know, getting to interact with people in some informal ways without calling themselves a church or a ministry. They're just doing some initial things. You know, it could be, you know, breakfast meetings, lunch meetings, different things, you know, people can think of maybe they have a series of movies and they could do a series of worship evenings, prayer meetings, different things. But these are just things they're doing in that area as a pre-launch. And people would spend time in worship and prayer during the pre-launch meetings. So, you know, some groups would just say, okay, we're just going to spend the next six months just worship and prayer in this area before we officially start. Or they might say, okay, our team is going to spend one year, the next one year, next 12 months. And before we start the church, we're just going to be here and in worship and prayer as a pre-launch. And, you know, during that process, they will meet with people, they will connect with people and so on. So this is something that could be done. Again, it's not mandatory, but just an idea if the Lord leads you to do that. And also as part of your preparation, as I mentioned, identify your primary target audience and then the other extended audience. So, example, are you reaching young English-speaking professionals? Does it include young English-speaking married couples? What age range? You're looking from 18 to 35. That would be a core. It doesn't mean you're not going to reach others, but this would be a main core. So if that's going to be a core, then you need to know their needs. What are their needs? How will you connect with them? And, you know, how would you relate to them? You know, what are the ways you can serve them? So, for example, when APC started, when we started, our target audience was young working professionals. So, English-speaking working professionals in the city. You know, God always gives us a grace to reach certain people. Now, whoever. Some people may be sent to work with those who are in slums. Some people may be sent to work with children, or some may be even with destitute children, orphan children. Some may be with a certain language group. You know, you work with people who speak a certain language. So it doesn't matter, you know, how, you know, what group God sends you to. You need to understand your target audience, right? Because the kinds of ministries you do should serve your target audience. No point in saying, oh, I'm reaching young professionals. But, you know, the ministry you're doing actually is meant for some other language group. Then there's a disconnect. You won't be able to reach your target audience. Okay. I will share more about this and how, you know, how this will affect, you know, what we do next week. Okay. But understand, study your target audience and share some more thoughts on that. We're going to pause here today and we will take a few moments. Any questions so far? Okay. Let's close in prayer. And I will pick up on the same point of the target audience next week and give some further thoughts on that. Okay. Let's wrap up in prayer. Yeah. Who wants to pray? All right. I'm just trying to pick somebody. Dave, why didn't you close in prayer, please? Sure. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Thank you. You are our God. You are so merciful. You are so great. Thank you, Father, for your love. Thank you, Father, for your grace. And thank you, Father, for this day and for the class that we have been through, Lord Jesus. Thank you. Thank you. You are with us. You have been so faithful and you have always been there for us, Lord Jesus. As you learn, Lord God, just planting and as you learn it, Lord Jesus, help each one of us to visualize where you want us to go for your kingdom, Lord Jesus, give us the vision, Lord God, and help each one of us to have that complete vision so that we can do what you want us to do, Lord Jesus. Thank you, Father, for the class. Thank you, Father, for Pastor. And thank you, Father, for everyone, Lord Jesus. We thank you, Lord. Be with us throughout the day and we thank you once again, Lord. In the mighty name of Jesus, I pray, amen. Amen, amen. Thank you, Father. Thank you, everyone. Have a good afternoon. Enjoy the rest of your day. I'll see you again soon. Thank you.