 Hello, I'm Mike McKee, the Bishop of the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church. Wednesday, March 5th is Ash Wednesday. That is the beginning of the Lenten season for Christians. So during those 40 days, Christians have customarily given up something during Lent. They've used it as a time for spiritual disciplines. And I want to invite you to engage in spiritual disciplines with me during the season of Lent this year. Each week, I will choose a time in which I will give up a meal. And when I give up that meal, I will use that time in order to pray for the churches, the mission, the clergy, and the laity of the North Texas Conference. Additionally, I may engage in a Bible study during that period of time in order to focus on why we use that Lenten season to prepare for the Resurrection Sunday or Easter. At the conclusion of Lent, the money that I would have used to buy food for that meal, I will then collect and I will then give it to a cause. The cause at which I will give it is known as the zip code project. And that is the project in our annual conference in which we are seeking to eradicate asset-based poverty in two zip codes, 75215 and 75426. I'm inviting you to join me and thousands of other United Methodist Christians in North Texas in doing simple things for spiritual disciplines during Lent. Give up one meal a week. Use that time to pray for the churches, the laity, the clergy of the North Texas Conference, and our mission emphasis, the zip code project. And then at the end of Lent, will you give a donation? A donation of the funds that you would have used for the meals that you gave up? Will you give that to the zip code project? I know that together we are going to have a Lent that will prepare us for the celebration of the risen Christ. I thank you for who you are and I thank you for what you do. God bless you.