 Remember the last worship service you all had at annual conference in the West Texas conference before merger. It was one of the most challenging moments in all of my ministry because we as African Americans in the United Methodist Church have struggled, had struggled to overcome many of the barriers which prevented us from reaching our God-given potential. And we had fought for merger because we thought that was the right thing to do. But when we got to that last day, when we called the road and when it was clear that we would merge with other churches, we suddenly realized that would be our last meeting in that conference, from that conference, that predominantly Black annual conference. I want to tell you, I never seen so many preachers crying in my life. My dad was this dad. Let's preach. I never seen my dad cry. I mean, we all, I mean, because we knew that would be our last together. The fellowship that we had, I mean, it was really a challenging moment and a painful moment. I mean, we were happy for the merger. We fought for that. We wanted to see that. But we knew we would never be together again like we had been because that was a fellowship that was so very important to us. We were grateful to God that we were moving forward. We knew that we were moving forward and that was the main thing.