 Okay, welcome back everybody. We are continuing our lecture of BC310, Church and Ministry Management. Evenson, I see your request about the book. I guess I will share this. Just a minute or two. I am just trying to shortlist which book to share. I don't want to put five books there and not read. It won't be a news. I just wanted to share one book which, you know, all of this could read. And so I will do that. I'm just trying to think which would be the best book to share. Christopher, your question, please. Yes, Pastor. In reference, this is in reference to one couldn't insert 28 in the NKJV version, where there's a use of the words first, second, after, and then. So we just wanted to understand from an organization perspective, does this imply there's a kind of a hierarchy? Yeah, so it's kind of interesting. Good question. The word first is the word that the Greek word is proton, which has to do with the first in time and first in place. So the apostle. So if you look at the Greek word, somebody was sent and the way it was used. It was used in the Roman military for that very first fleet of ship. That went in to invade and take over territory. Very first. So they were first in time and first in place. So that was, you know, the picture around which the word apostle was understood. So the apostle is not in the sense that they're of a better quality or, you know, they're all people. But I think an English word that would capture what is, you know, the picture from the Roman context would be the English word would be pioneer. So the first in the sense they're pioneers, they're first in time and first to get there. You know, like the first ship in the fleet of ships that would go to invade a territory. So when Paul is giving up and he says, you know, first apostle, doesn't mean the apostle is better as a person than somebody with an evangelist or somebody, you know. No, it's that he's in rank. Yes, he's important. But for the emphasis of that first is he's of this nature, first in time, first in the place, pioneer kind of person. And yes, in terms of leadership, in terms of a hierarchy, the apostle carried a lot of responsibility because he would be the one to make sure that what the Roman government wanted to bring in, basically they wanted to extend their kingdom, meaning bring in the culture and basically the culture and the government into that region. So he was responsible to make sure that happened. So therefore he had the rank and the authority to do that. So that's how we should understand first the apostle. So not that they are better in quality or nature, but they are they are in pioneers in terms of being first in time in place. They are in government or in order of responsibility. They carry so far as the apostle, prophets, teachers and so on. Okay. Yes. Thank you. Welcome. Okay. Yeah. So what I want to, since we are here in First Corinthians 12, I'll just make mention of this. You know, we have just mentioned about this whole rank and, you know, first apostle, prophet, and then you find later on in the order there is health and administration and varieties of town. But I want you to keep this thought in mind and you read the whole chapter of this Corinthians 12. All mentions that he says, God gives great honor to that which is less visible. Right. So this is in there. This is if you go back a few verses verse 23 and 24. He's saying, look, you know, the way God has organized this is what we think as less honorable. God actually gives greater honor. He gives greater honor to what that those members were less visible. So in the general church context, what is more visible receives more honor. But in God's perspective, God gives greater honor to what is less visible. This is, you know, verse 22, 23, 24. So we may tend to think, hey, I'm just helping. I'm just, you know, administrate. I'm doing that kind of work. You know, I don't have as much honor as somebody who's a apostle or a prophet or a teacher, et cetera. But keep in mind, God sees it differently. God gives greater honor to what is invisible, what is not very, you know, doesn't, isn't seen. So we shouldn't, you know, think of people who are serving as helps or administrators that is in the organization side of the church. We shouldn't think of them as, you know, being of any less importance. In fact, you know, the truth is, without them, we really would not be able to do so much of what we're doing. Having the reach and the impact and the influence that God gives to the spiritual minister. So it's very important, they're both important. Okay, let's just continue on the notes and go ahead and share that. We have, yes, we are a Prescottage 1228. So what we're doing is we just trying to establish from this Old Testament and the New Testament there, this whole part of ministry, it has to deal with administration, organization, all of that is actually very biblical, and it is very important that God is for it, God is not against it. One last set of scriptures will see is that in Paul the Episcopal, he admonishes or he encourages order within the local church. You know, in 1 Corinthians 11, verse 34, we are right there, 1 Corinthians 11-34, when it comes to, you know, when people are coming to receive the Holy Communion, the Lord's table, he tells them, you know, when you come together, you know, I want you to do this properly, orderly, and he mentions in 1 Corinthians 11-34, he says, the rest I will set in order when I come. That means there are certain things that are not, you know, not functioning properly in the church, in this case the Corinthians church. And he says, I'm going to set those things in order. 1 Corinthians 14-40, which we just read earlier, he says, let all things be done decently and in order. So there is some sort of a structure, and if there is going to be order, there has to be structure, you know, the right thing in the right place. And so there is structure, there is order, that is to be maintained in the local church. Same thing in Titus chapter 1 verse 5, and Paul is writing to Titus, he says, Titus, I want you to set in order the things that need to be taken care of in the churches, right? So he's encouraging Titus, you know, things have to be in order. Now, so this is the spiritual side. That means you've gone through chapter 1 verse in the Old Testament as well as in the New Testament to substantiate what we are emphasizing. That is, organization and administration is part and parcel of the work of God. Some people find it very difficult, but I hope it is acceptable, what I've just said, but I hope, you know, by looking at both the Old Testament and the New Testament, we are able to, you know, accept that the truth that it is part of the work of God, that organization and administration is not separate. It is part of God's work. Now, let's look at things from a, you know, a practical perspective. In why is organizational administration important? From a practical perspective. First of all, in today's world, and especially in an urban context, there is a need, and in fact, there is an expectation for efficiency. People in the congregation, they expect the local church to be organized and efficient, especially in the urban context. You know, so, when people, for example, just think about Sunday morning churches, when they come, and if you say the service is going to start at 10 o'clock, they expect the service to start at 10 o'clock. Nobody's, you know, coming there thinking, hey, we don't like exactly what time the service will start. Maybe 10, maybe 1050, maybe 1030, no. In the urban context, people are very time conscious. If you say 10, they expect it to start at 10. They expect the church to be organized. That means, you know, that's not 10 o'clock. It's not the time that the van comes to the stage and starts connecting the other side. So they expect these kinds of things. Similarly, you know, there are other things. You know, maybe they need a letter from the church saying that they are members of the church in order to, you know, maybe for school admission, college admission, for other practical things. You know, they may need a baptism certificate. They may need, you know, other things, a matter certificate, so on. So all these are very practical things which, you know, the people expect from the church. It means the church has to be organized in order to provide that kind of service. So we can't escape that. From a practical perspective, people want to serve. They're willing to serve, volunteer with their skills and their time. They're willing to serve. And they want to serve. They don't want to be despectated. But in order to facilitate this, in order for them to be able to serve, we have to be organized. We can't just say, you know, do whatever you want. It won't work. You know, they expect us to be organized. And they also need to be organized to enable people to be part of the life and the functioning of the church. So in your church, you would have teams. You know, you volunteer teams. There's a media team. There's a sound team. There's a, you know, information depth team over there. There's the people handling the publications with various teams. And it has to be organized. Each team needs to know what people do. And then people in the congregation, the volunteers just plug in to these various teams. They're trained. They know what to do. They can serve. But if you're not organized, it's going to be very difficult. You know, just, okay, I just do whatever you want today. You know, then many things will be left undone. People will know what to do and how to serve. So in order to meaningfully engage volunteers in the church, in order to meaningfully engage members in the church and be part of what is happening, we need to be organized. A third reason why, you know, being organized, the proper administration organization of the church, is that we, the world in which we live, the modern world, the postmodern world, expects that the church be competent in many areas. They expect that. They expect the church to be able to use technology in order to serve them. So for example, they expect the church to be able to send email, you know, they expect the church to be able to connect with them through a, you know, through a website, through, you know, a WhatsApp message or, you know, various things that can be done. They expect the church to be doing that, that the church should have these competencies. So now in order for, you know, it's not just about, okay, you come to church and I give you a sermon on Sunday. Hey, I like to download the sermon on Monday and listen to it again. You know, or I like to go back to a sermon that you preached, you know, one year ago and I want to be able to listen to it, whatever, because the means to do it is there and expect the church to be using that to serve the people. Otherwise, you'll ask, you know, why can't the church do it? Because everybody else around is doing it. They, you know, they're engaging and making use of these tools and technology that are available. The church would be able to do that. So it just requires, you know, the world around that requires us to be using such tools and to be competent in using such tools to serve them. Okay. These are three, just simple practical reasons. Does anybody else want to add some to this? Any other thoughts on, you know, why do you, some practical reasons and why the church should be organized to that good administration? You want to share your thoughts? Anybody else? I just mentioned three. You want to share anything? Harrison, go ahead. Thank you. Good morning from here. Good morning. Yeah. There's a few things I've experienced in my church. Yes. And it gives, it gives a lot of concern. And I love this topic, you know, we are treating today. Because when we're not organized, it brings confusion. But when we organize, there's no room for confusion. It makes everybody knows what they are doing. You don't need to be told, you know, what to do before you do them. Because when the house is organized, everybody's prompting over their activities. There's no room for eye service. Because nobody's coming to tell you what to do and what not to do. So I believe when the house is organized, there's no room for confusion. So that's what I want to think. Good. Very good. Thank you for sharing that. And that is so true. When you're organized, everybody knows, hey, this is what I'm going to do. You don't need somebody coming and telling you every time, every day, this is what you're supposed to do. No, things work beautifully. That's, again, very practical reason why we need to have good organization and administration. Anybody else? Any other thoughts? Want to add to it? Go ahead. Well, I believe the reason the church needs to be organized is because God is an organized God. Everything he does is so perfect and so professional, he should say. God is a good professional. Even in the book of Genesis, you see him doing everything in proper order. So basically the church has to be in order because the God whom we serve is a God of order. So that's all I want to say. That's good. Yeah. So we need to imitate God. God is a God of order, structure and design. Yeah. I have a question. Thank you, pastor. You know, we learned that we must have organization in our churches. But a big problem in African churches, it is an organization. People or leaders say that to reorganize it is to give Holy Spirit your booster core in working. So they, a lot of churches, they do not want to organize things. They say that if you do a lot of organization, you will make Holy Spirit well to do his work. So sometimes you eat in a church, you don't know the time of going out of the church. You can eat at morning, but you don't know when are you going to depart. And when you ask questions, say you, you, you don't be a fleshly Keno male. You must not, you must not plan to go out of that presence until he himself wants. So can you help us in such scenarios? Yeah. Good, good, good thought. So, you know, one is, we have been, you know, trying to see a scripture that a good organization does not keep, you know, God out. So for example, in first Corinthians 14, where Paul is really talking about the gift of the spirit, the work of the spirit in that same chapter. You know, everything must be done decently in an order. The God is not the author of confusion, but peace. And, you know, in Paul is an apostle, the spirit, but at the same time, you think there has to be order in that church. So we have to learn how to blend the two. Our organization should be to facilitate and to administer the ministry of the spirit. Our organization is not to keep the spirit of God out, but it is to move effectively and properly bringing the ministry of the spirit to people. So that is how, you know, if we tell people, look, organization and the work of the spirit are not separate, the Holy Spirit is very organized. He is not the God of confusion. He is the God of order. And so when the Holy Spirit moves, he will move that way. Now we are very, very open to anything the spirit of God wants to do. To answer the other part of your question, which is, you know, hey, you know, we can enter in. We don't know when we will finish the service. I think our approach should be, look, we have an order. This is what we're going to do. We're going to spend so much time in worship. We're going to spend so much time in the Word and then we will dismiss. But this is our order. This is what we're planning to do. This is how we have allocated our time. But if we are going to remain completely submitted and open to the move of the spirit. So if and when the spirit of God wants to do something different, we will flow. But it will not do it in the flesh. And it will not unnecessarily make it a three hour service or five hour service just for the sake of doing it. If it's a genuine work of spirit, we will flow with it. But otherwise, in this time that we have allocated, God will move. God will minister to us during the time of worship, during the time of the Word. And there is nothing wrong with that. So we have an order like Paul says in 1 Corinthians 14, but we remain open. And then we flow to the spirit. So I think there's that balance where because even this extended time sometimes could be just fleshly. Meaning, you know, just somebody wants to think they keep on thinking or somebody wants to preach and they keep on preaching. Well, it's not of any use if people are tired or people are not paying attention or people are disconnected. It's not serving any purpose. So we will have to balance the two. That's how I would kind of respond to that and, you know, and go for it. I think an interesting scripture in 2 Corinthians chapter 1. If you look at it there, 2 Corinthians 20, somebody can read that. 1, 2 Corinthians 1 and verse 7. You can't leave me now. Give me a minute to come. This mic is on. 2 Corinthians 117. Somebody can read that for us. Can I request you? Go ahead. 2 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 1. Paul and Apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God. 1. 2 Corinthians 1 verse 17. When I therefore was thus minded did I use the likeness or the things that I purpose do. I purpose. I purpose do I purpose according to the flesh that with me there should be yeah, yeah, and nay, nay. So Paul is talking about how he makes his travel plan. Right. And the previous verse in verse 16. He's talking right in the Corinthians and saying, look, you know, I plan to come through Macedonia and then go through Corinth. And then from there I plan to go to Judea. So he was just saying, you know, this was what I was planning. So he's talking about travel plans. And this is ministry plans, ministry travel plans. And in that context in verse 17 he says, you know, the plans that I make, that is my travel plan. Do I do this lightly? I mean, do I do this at random? Privilegely, you know, do I plan according to the flesh? Am I just doing it, you know, by my own? There's no that there should be yes, yes and no, no, that should I just keep on changing my plan, you know, that the word is not something you can hold. So just going by the context here and Paul is talking about travel plans. And he's saying, you know, when I am, the implication is that when I am planning things, I am planning by the Holy Spirit. I'm listening to the Spirit. But at the same time, there could be change. It's not that I am saying yes, yes and no, no. And if you read, you know, what he wrote to the Thessalonians later on, it's like in Thessalonians chapter 3. He says, you know, I plan to come but Satan hindered. So he faced the genuine obstacle. He faced different things that were disturbing or trying to interrupt or hinder his travel plans. But the point he's making is the plan he's making to travel and minister, he's doing it by the Spirit. He's not doing it lightly. So there is planning, but there's spirit led planning. So if you try to do it for the local church service, you know, we plan what they're open to the Holy Spirit and we move as the Spirit enables us to do. Yeah, Kennedy, I see your comments in the chat, you know, for security reasons. We need to have administration to comply with local authorities. We need to be properly organized. Yeah, for all of these scripts. Let me move forward and then maybe I'll just share some practical things that we do here. Okay, so a practical perspective. Now here are some common excuses, you know, that we would find for poor organization, administration or sometimes even for the lack of these things. For example, some people will say, hey, I've not been trained, you know, I didn't learn this in seminary. And they didn't teach me about organization and management and leadership. And that could be an excuse why, you know, there is no proper administration of an organization of the church or the ministry. Sometimes we say, you know, another excuse, behave, we don't have killed people. Well, we don't have the means to hire skilled staff. Well, that's where volunteers can come and there are people in the congregation who are helpers or administrators and they will be more than happy to, you know, to volunteer. We just have to give them the opportunity. We just have to let them know there's a need and make it possible for them to come in and use their skills to volunteer and serve in the church. And we can start from there and then as the world grows, you know, we'll be able to hire skilled staff. Sometimes there is this whole spiritual side, you know, ministry must only be done by spiritual people. We, you know, church doesn't need administrators and, you know, skilled people, the secular people. And so in the minds of many, there is a divide, you know, spiritual people and secular people. But actually, you see here, right, when we read in 1st 1228, you know, administrators, they are spiritual people. You know, the deacon were people who are filled with the Holy Spirit and the wisdom of God. And they were the ones who are taking care of the business of the church. So we need to get this wrong. I get rid of this wrong idea that, you know, the people are doing, you know, the helps and administrations are non spiritual. No, no, no. They too are filled with the spirit of wisdom. They too are filled by the spirit of God, just that they're expressing their gift, grace and anointing through these means of administration and organization and so on. Right. Another excuse you'll find is that you'll hear about is, you know, the church must only focus on spiritual things. Of course, we are doing spiritual ministry, but then we need the organization to back up that spiritual ministry. Right. So the folk, the church is serving spirit people spiritually to the minister, the word and a prayer and worship. But that spiritual ministry needs to be backed up by very good organization and administration. And then, you know, similar to that, people would say, no, no, the moment you get organized and administered becomes like the corporate. You know, like I mentioned in the previous lecture, you know, because of the corporate and we don't want to become like the corporate world. Well, you don't have to have a corporate look and feel. We can be organized and be fully saturated with the Holy Spirit. And we can be organized and have a culture of love and of the Kingdom of God of righteousness, peace and joy. So just because we're organized and just because we have systems and processes and in a certain ways, it doesn't mean we become like the corporate. No, we can have all the organization and be saturated with the Kingdom of God. That's something. And we will talk about that when we talk about workplace culture and also church culture. We create that culture while we are organizing. So that's a very beautiful environment where people can come and they can use their skills. They can, you know, do their regular work, but it's a totally different atmosphere. And last excuse people give for not wanting to organize and not wanting administration is this is God's work, you know, and organizing and administering is fleshly. It's human. We shouldn't mix the two. Well, like we saw from scripture in Old Testament and New Testament that God's work has organization and administration as part of it. It's not separated and we can go through all the scriptures that we've been through. It's very much a part of God's work. So the people who are doing administration and organization, they are doing God's work is that it is expressed differently, different from preaching and teaching and worship and so on. They're also doing the local part. And so we can, you know, overcome many of these excuses that people put out in trying to say why they don't want to be organized or why they don't like administration. We can respond to this and I and some of you have also shared, you know, some of the reasons why people don't like God organization and administration. Any other thoughts from your side? What would be the excuses if you encountered any on, you know, why people would go in or don't want a good administration organization? Any excuses you've encountered? So I was wondering whether to get in the next chapter or just give some examples. For instance, you know, here at APC, even for, let's say, a publication, a books. So we started printing books, you know, from the very beginning, which is back in 2000, 2001. So that's how I write a book. Now there's a small book or a writer. It's one thing to write a book. But this book now for it to really bless people, it has to reach the people. And in order to do that, you know, what is the process and we get into some of these details later on as you talk about systems and processes. But it's giving you an idea. So if I write a book and I send it to the printer. Now, right now we have like a publication steam. So there will be somebody who reads it. We have an editor and she will, you know, she's trained in this season. So she will read, she'll edit, she'll check the language, the grammar, you know, all of those things and the formatting, the layout, all the attention to it. I'm just trying to capture certain insights in the book. But she will take care of all of that, you know, how to hold the work of an editor to make sure that, you know, as far as possible, the mistakes are not there. Then it goes to the printer. The printer will type set, send the proof back. The proof has to be read. The corrections have to go back to the printer. The printer makes a correction, sends another proof so that back and forth can take, you know, about three iterations back and forth until all the errors, you know, have been addressed. And sometimes some errors still, you know, slip through. But as far as possible, the iterations happen between our editor editorial team and editorial and proofreading team and the printer. The proof is read many times. All the correction. Then when the editor says, okay, go ahead and print, then they will print. Now printing gets the book physical. But then how does it reach the people? Well, they send the copies back to us. Now we have a database. We have a database of bookstores around the country. We have a database of individuals around the country, pastors, Christian leaders. Okay. I think I temporarily lost connection. You can hear me now. Okay. Okay. So what I think, so we have a team who will, you know, dispatch the books. And of course, we work along with the printers along with our local post office because these are, you know, bulk, they go out and big boxes or we work for the local courier. So we have all of this in place so we can go and deliver, you know, boxes of books with the label to go to the bookstores. And then we can deliver hundreds of packets to the post office and they just stamp it to go out to, you know, pastors and individuals like that for English. So that work has to happen. And then it goes and reaches the people and goes into the bookstores and so on. So writing a book is one thing. But to get it to the people, there's, you know, there's a lot of people involved doing work in order for the book to reach. It will reach somebody. It'll reach their doorstep or it will reach a bookstore and then somebody gets it in the bookstore and so on, you know. And then that's when it only picks it up and reads it. That's when it is a blessing to people. But if that whole, all of that is not in place, writing the book, you know, really doesn't reach the people who need to, whom it needs to reach. And of course at the same time, we also have an online team. So the moment the book is produced, it goes up on our website, then it's distributed to digital channels. So there are about 30, 40 digital channels for which that book, the PDF book and the digital version of the book is distributed globally. So somebody sitting in some part of the world, when they search online for a book by that, you know, topic or theme, hopefully, you know, this book will show up there and they could get access to it. So there is a physical distribution, there is a digital distribution, but there are all people who are involved in making this happen. You know, so without their help, without what they are doing, which is basically a lot of work that's behind the scenes. Nobody sees it. Without their help, this will not go out to the people. So we have to be organized. And many of these people are paid people, right? And then when an English book is released, it is then translated into other languages. So we have translators, some decoordinating the translation. And again, the translated books go through a similar process. So all this happens with just one book and imagine you have many books, all these things are happening and need to be organized in order to serve people well. So just one example of, you know, one area of ministry. And like this, if you have many different areas of ministry, if you're doing media, if you're doing devotional programs, if you're doing different things, you will need teams who are very organized and you need skilled people and staff. And who will be able to do all this work in order just to serve the people, right? So somebody can, you know, listen to the devotional on their phone or, you know, on the website. You need people who actually help get these things up. So the organization part is very important. The people who do that are very important. Okay, so we will talk more on this as we go along. Any questions before we close up for the day? I'm not sure if I understand. Okay, I see Kennedy's question and I also see Maggie's hand. Let me answer Kennedy's question. Kennedy's question is, where churches are managed like personal properties. Yeah, Kennedy, that's a bad thing. Churches must not be treated like it's somebody's personal private business. That is very bad. But the sad thing is it does happen, you know. Sometimes, and I've seen this and you've probably also seen it, where the personal and the church things are all mixed up and, you know, the church is treated as like the pastor's house or all kinds of things happen and that should not be, and so what we will be learning as we progress in this course is how to do things right, how to organize and, you know, run the ministry properly without, you know, making these kinds of mistakes and treating it like a private business or a personal property. We should avoid that. We will learn how to do things right. Maggie, your question, please. Thank you, sir. Just want to ask, because our church, our local church, we are very organized. However, there are few people in the organization who are disorganized. They don't like the idea of being organized in certain time. How do you balance between being organized, the super organized one and those who bring in chaos? Thank you, sir. So I'm just thinking out loud. I'm not sure there's a perfect answer, but for the people, see, here's the thing. And I'm not saying these are the kind of people you're dealing with, but generally creative people, people who like their space, you know, who like, they don't like rigid structures. Generally creative people are like that. You know, they just, they want the freedom. They don't like too much of boundaries and so on. Like, you know, artistry, musicians, creative people, generally are like that. So we recognize that and therefore we give them their space in what they're doing. But if they want to serve, they have to comply to how the organization functions. They can have their space in other matters. For example, generally speaking, you know, musicians are creative people. But if the church service is going to start at 10 o'clock, they have to get everything ready and be ready to start at 10. So that's non-negotiable. They can be creative, you know, when they're practicing, when they're doing what they want, you do, you know, that's fine. But when you come, the service must start at 10. That's non-negotiable. And then while they're leading worship, they will slow in the spirit. Yes, they have a song list. They may have practiced a few songs, but then the Holy Spirit can lead them differently. They're free to flow. So there are certain things that we emphasize, and this has to happen. And then there is space for their freedom. If somebody is just plain disorganized, that is, it's not this case of being creative, but they're just plain disorganized. Then you cannot give them roles or give them responsibilities that require commitment and organization. So you have to, you know, keep them away from those roles and let's give them roles which, okay, even if they don't do it, it's not going to impact. You know, for example, they can be greeters. Yeah, if they don't show up, it's okay, somebody else can stand and greet. You know, it's not a thing. It doesn't matter. But they cannot be in the, for example, in the sound team because that has to happen. And if a sound person doesn't show up, people are not going to be able to hear the sound. So if they're to be there, they will be there. So for people who are disorganized, who are not really committed, they don't understand those things. And you give them roles that are, that will not impact what has to happen even if they don't show up. If they do show up, wonderful. They don't show up, no problem. Things will still go on. So that's kind of some thoughts I would give in response to your question. Is that okay? Thank you, sir. Yes, please. Thank you. All right. Any other questions? Any other thoughts before we wrap up? Okay. Somebody can close in prayer. We'll pick this up next week. We'll get into more details. And as we get into the details, I hope to find it more interesting. You know, we will talk about how to organize the ministry, get into specifics, and I can share more real life stories and examples. Somebody could please close in prayer and we'll dismiss after that. Go ahead. Anyone? Go ahead, please. Thank you. Prashant Father, we thank you and praise you, Father God, for the day which you have given to us. Father, every word what we receive, O Father God, we pray that let it deeply rooted in us with God. And let it transform our way of thinking, let it transform our character. Let it give us the importance to Father God to organize everything. Not only Lord Master in the church, but in our personal life for all. We know that we came to know that Father God, you are a God who works for Lord Master systematically. And we want Lord Master to live in that way. We surrender everything into your mighty hand. Every word what we listen to today, we want Lord Master to please preserve it and re-opera it. Thank you once again for using your servant in Jesus most holy and matches in prayer. Amen. Thank you, Pastor. Amen. Thank you. Thank you everyone. It's good to connect and be back together. I really appreciate all of you connecting and of course we will all have a good semester and a good year. Okay.