 Okay, the recording is on. Okay, let's take a moment to pray together and then we will get started. Can I request somebody to pray with a class, please? Go ask them, we can't hear you. I pray that you give us wisdom and knowledge and also, Lord, bless your spirit in the on-passer sheath as he teaches. You name me, pray. Amen. Thank you. Okay, good morning everybody. I apologize. I missed quite a few lectures, but hopefully we'll catch up and as we move forward, we'll be able to learn some more things. So I put out a little, I wouldn't call it an assignment, but I put out something for you to start thinking about for next year. If you're interested, there is no compulsion to do that. And just to, you know, the things that we are learning in this course, BC 309, which is on urban church planting, along with what we are learning in 310, which is church administration. So I want you to think about, and of course pray, as God leads you, how you can bring those things together and develop a plan for a ministry you may feel God is calling you to start. Right? So this is not a compulsion to do this. It's more for, if you feel God is leading you to do that. Okay. So that means you're going to take this learning and try to see how you can apply it in your context, in your area, to whatever God is calling you to do. And one of the things that we will be doing next year is actually be launching something in India right now, the latter part of this year and then next year we will open it up to our Bible college graduates. Those are graduating next year is, if you want, there is no compulsion. You can, we will invite our students to submit a proposal of what they're planning to do, what they feel God is calling them to do, and then they're going to try and help our students, whoever, you know, as many as possible to get their ministries started in, you know, our goal is to help them, at least for the first three years, so that you can have a good start. And then, of course, you should be able to go from there on your own. If you get a good start, you can build on that. That's our plan for next year. And, you know, those who want to participate are welcome to. There's no compulsion. It's just our desire to help people get their ministry started, because that's the most difficult part. You know, how do you get something started? But once you get started, then, you know, you can keep building with God's help and grace. And so keep thinking about it. Now, we are going to want to just quickly review what we started talking about on the practical side of things, practical aspects of church planting. And, you know, we've covered all this just to refresh our minds. We talked about the church planting core team, how we prepare from a distance, how you relocate to the site, you plan for your finances. Now, we depend on God, but we also do our part of planning and being ready. Finances for the church plant, you plan for your personal needs, if you're married, then you need to think about your spouse and your children. You also plan for the legal and administrative side, you know, so that when you start doing something, everything should be fine legally. We talked about the survey phase, how you survey the city, you find your launch area, think about it. You want to, you know, understand your launch area where you're going to start the ministry, what's around in that place. And we also talked about the preparation phase, which is you could have some pre-launch meetings, you would be spending time at worship, prayer, intercession, fall the people. You pray for your, you know, you understand your target audience, you connect with them. There may be people of God is already prepared for you in that place that you're able to build relationships with them. You find your launch location, where you're going to get your ministry started. And then from there, where else can you grow? How else can you expand your work for that city or in that region? We also made mention of the house church model. Sometimes you may not want to do like a typical church, instead you may want to work in a house church model, which is fine. That is also a viable model. Then, you know, about the launch itself, some thoughts, you know, you do it only once, do it the way God wants you to do it. There are many different ways that people do it. You go with what God puts in your heart. Your first church service, think about it very carefully. Plan for follow-up so that people come, you should have some way of following up with them. So this is where we stopped, right? We're going to pick up here from Lesson 12. What I want to talk about is strategies for urban evangelism, urban mission. So, when you are planting a church or a ministry, and we're, of course, talking about the urban context, we need to think of some ways about which we can reach people. And so we said, you know, we looked at the example of the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 9, 16 and 23, where he said, I become all things to all people, to the Jew, I become like the Jew, to those without the law, I become as though I was without the law, but not without the law for Christ. So he stepped into people's worlds. You know, he became what they were so that he could reach them, connect with them. And that this is so important for us, depending on who God has called you to primarily serve and reach. Try to connect with those people. They should be able to relate to you. You should be able to speak to their lives and so on. Now, some things to keep in mind is don't intentionally offend the people, right? In 1 Corinthians 10, you know, 31 to 33 pulses, and we get no offense. Sorry, this is 1 Corinthians 10, we call that. 1 Corinthians 10, 31 to 33 pulses, verse 32, give no offense either to the Jews or to the Greeks or to the Church of God. Verse 33, just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own prophet, but the prophet of many that they may be saved. So Paul is saying, I'm not here to offend people, but I'm here to please people. Kind of interesting because we know he also said, I do not please men. You know, that's Galatians 1 and verse 10, Paul says, if I please men, I cannot be a servant of Christ. And yet here he's saying in 1 Corinthians 10, 33, I please all men. What is what's he saying? He's saying, I'm not here to offend people. I'm here to have good relationships with people. I'm here to relate to people well. The intent is that they may be saved, right? So I want to draw them in. I want to share the gospel with them. So don't intentionally offend people. Of course, they may have different views and ideas and beliefs, all of that. But we try to connect with them and listen to them, care for them, and then lovingly share Jesus with them. And another aspect of the strategies that we develop is that we want to make sure our strategies don't bring any blame to the gospel, right? Whatever strategies we use, it shouldn't bring. It should be clean. It should be ethical. It should be morally right, you know, as we reach out to people, there should be no opportunity for blame. We're not inducing people. We are not praying on people on their innocence or gullibility. We are very German, very open in our approach to sharing Christ. So what we want to do is we want to share some practical strategies, ideas. So I am putting these before you as ideas. I'm not saying that, you know, you should do these, or this is how you should do it. Now I'm just saying, look, these are some of the things we've done here. And you can similarly, the Lord will lead you and give you strategies wherever you are working, right? So one of the things that how we have gone about this here in Bangalore is we've tried to develop strategies for different age groups. So you look at people in your city or wherever you're trying to reach people and you look at the different age groups, right? And then ubiquitous think, how can I reach these different age groups of people, which means I need to know where are these people? Where can I interact with them? How can I do that? And what are the strategies to do that? So you can look at different age groups. The other thing you can do is you can develop strategies based on areas of need in the city, right? So, you know, when you do your survey of the city and you say, look, our city has needs, these are the main needs. And this is what I feel God is calling us to address. Of course, you're not going to be able to address all the needs of the city, but you take one or two or three. And then you say, OK, let's see how can we address these needs? What are the strategies we can have to address that need? That's one way. So you and I start thinking like this, then the Holy Spirit will give us the ideas. You also think in different spheres of activity. So there are different professions that are IT professional. There are doctors, there are educationist, you know, different spheres of activity. So then you may say, well, how can we reach people who are educators? What can we do for them? How can we reach people who are working in a certain sphere of activity? What can we do for them? So as you start thinking along those lines, the Holy Spirit will give you some ideas and you go. Another way of developing strategies is by using the tools that are available. And I made tools. Of course, I'm using, I'm referring to technology, referring to mass media or even social media tools that we can use to engage with people. So you can think along those lines when you want to reach people in your city or wherever you're working. And the most important goal, which we said at the very beginning years, that when we make believers, we disciple and equip these new believers so that they in turn can reach more people. People reaching people is the most effective way, right? So we can have these strategies, which is good, but ultimately it comes down to people reaching people. I mean, somebody is inviting a friend or somebody is talking to a friend or somebody is praying for some person. Ultimately it's people who are going to reach people. So what we must do is we need to have a way by which we constantly disciple and equip our people so that they can influence others, right? So keep that in mind. So let's just go through some of these strategies for different age groups. Some of the things that we were able to do and just wait for you to start thinking. So when you think about children, right? So we're talking about kids who will be in school typically till they are 10th grade. They are about 15 or some may stay, you know, include 11th and 12th grades. So you're talking about 17, 18, something like that. They are in school. And they are a very important part of the 10, 14 window. So this is the age group where they are very open to the gospel. And if they make a decision for Jesus, most likely it's going to stay with them for life. So it's a very important age group. Now, you know, for us here in Bangalore, we started a program called Catalyst that began in 2008. Now it started in actually an unusual way. I didn't necessarily plan for it. And then again, the sharing this testimony or the story more of to share that, you know, sometimes things may seem like it happens by accident, but it's God is orchestrating it. So what happened in 2008 was, you know, we were having one of our services in a certain school here in Bangalore, the north part of our city. And we had just asked permission from that school saying, can we use your school to have church service? And they'd given us permission. They gave us a classroom to use. Now, that particular school, they had three locations in Bangalore. So one day what happened, I got a call from the main person. They actually live in another city. They live in Mumbai and he happened to come into Bangalore. So he called and he said, I want you to come and meet me. So I went to meet him and he said, you know, how's the church going? And all that's fine. Then he said, can you do something for us? Can people from your church come and, you know, speak to the students? You know, basically do scripture lessons for the students. Now, till that time, I had not even thought about that. I never even thought of like going into schools and teaching scripture to students, but here was the open door. I mean, he's the director of all these schools. They had about 100 schools around in India. There are three schools in Bangalore. He was asking me, you know, can you people from your church come and teach scripture? And also, you know, talk to our staff and all that. I immediately said yes to everything. I had no idea how we were going to do it, but this was an opportunity. I just couldn't say no to. So I just said, yes, we will do it. And then I went, you know, I said, OK, how are we going to do this? How are we going to send people to go and teach scripture to all these classes in that school? And they had three schools. I said, you know, all three schools are open. We can start anytime. So that was a time. And again, so I said, yes, I had no idea how this was going to happen. And it was so wonderful. That was a time somebody sent the resume of, you know, now we know her response to Selena, but her resume came. It was also amazing. I didn't go looking for somebody. Her resume just came to me. It was emailed to me and she had graduated from Bible College and she had spent some time working with children in school. So she had just the right background and her resume came. So it was very easy. I just called her interview. I said, see, we have this amazing opportunity. The director has called us. He said, we can start teaching scripture in three of the schools and you're going to, I want you to, you know, make it happen. You can call it whatever you want. You can hire how many more people you want, but you have to make it happen. And so, you know, Pastor Selena joined us at that same, you know, I would say it all happened like within a week. Like the director spoke to me. Yes, the next thing is I get a resume in my email. It's the resume of somebody who's done this kind of work and speak to her interview her and she joins us. So I just feel that God orchestrated that wonderful opportunity. You know, I wasn't planning it. I didn't even think about it. Today, we can look back and I can tell you, you know, think about children and all that. But in 2008, it has really got orchestrating that wonderful opportunity. And so the catalyst program started. Selena did a wonderful job. She got in a lot of volunteers. She got in some paid staff and, you know, we started this. And of course, we had to write our own curriculum. Like, what are we going to teach the children in school scripture that we're going to teach from? I think it was grade two, the grade A, grade eight, and then grade nine and 10. We were teaching like what we call as value education, basically teaching the Bible, but in different things. So it was an amazing opportunity. And then we said, Hey, if we can do it in three schools, we can do it in more, more schools. So, you know, we knocked on some other schools and they've also opened up for us. And so at one point, and again, my numbers may not be very accurate, but, you know, I think we were in six schools and we were teaching 20 or 20,000 children every week. That was what catalyst program was doing. You know, and you can imagine in these classrooms, about 80% of the children come from non-Christian homes and they're listening to scripture being taught every week, one lecture per class. And so we were covering 20,000 some students, maybe more than 20,000, so it's every weekend across these five schools. And it was a wonderful that was happening. And it went on. And those days, we had great testimonies of children giving their lives to Christ, experiencing Jesus in their lives. But we were also very careful. Schools were telling us we can't distribute Bibles and all that in the classroom. So come and teach scripture, but, you know, you have to be careful about certain things. So we followed whatever instructions we were given by the schools and it served them well. Now, all of this, of course, came to a stop just before the pandemic. Things came, you know, we had to stop it. Then, so right now we just like in a very small way starting, but then there are other complications now. We have, you know, there's a lot of anti-conversion things happening in our city or I should say across our nation. So schools are now become a little cautious towards having scripture being taught openly. So things are a little different now. So when I look back, I see that as a window of opportunity that we had 2008 till about 2018 for about 10 years, 18, 19. And we had a 10 year window where we could really do this. Things are a little different. So some schools, fewer schools are open now and we're still doing it, but in a much smaller scale. So that's been our experience and that is currently our experience here reaching out to children in the city. And I just want to just listen to what are your thoughts because if you're from different parts of the world, your experience or what's happening in your part of the world may be different. So just be interesting to listen to, you know, what are some of the challenges you think children face? What are some strategies that will work in your parts of the world? So just take a few moments, just keep a few moments for people to share that. Any thoughts anybody wants to share? Please go ahead. So we're talking about reaching children. So imagine you're starting a church or a ministry and you want to reach children in your city. What are the conditions there? What are some opportunities you can see? Feel free to share. Can I share? Go ahead. Okay. I think in Ghana, one of the opportunities to reach to children is the case of this marginalized group headquarters. Those who come from the northern part of Ghana mostly come to the southern part for economic activities. And when they come, because they are vulnerable, they are low income people, they are unable to take their case to school. So reaching out to these people through education is one of the opportunities that exists in Ghana for the propagation of the gospel. Eventually, when we are reaching out to the case, it means that their parents are also going to follow suit. So reaching out to the kids also means you are bringing the parents in and that will spread the nets of those that we are bringing in. We are reaching out to the gospel. Another opportunity that exists is also the senior high school through school outreach system. We reach out by organizing revival meetings in the secondary schools. They have days of spiritual emphasis in the schools. So if you are able to discuss with the school authorities, your ministry can take charge of, you can have a slot in the academic term to do that. And because the students are coming from different backgrounds, different areas, reaching out to them in a common area means that when they leave the school and go to their communities, they are going to impact their communities also. So for that is what I want to share. Thank you. Okay, good. Very good. That's good. It's good to be able to recognize these opportunities and move into it. That's wonderful. Thank you for sharing that. Anybody else, any other part of the world, what opportunities do you see in your city or where you are to reach children? We're talking about children. How could we do that? And good thoughts from Elisha. Anyone else? Pastor, me, Charles. Go ahead, Charles. Me, I'm already reaching children. So I do schools ministry. On average, I have around 17 schools that I minister in a week. Wow, 17 schools. How do you manage that? After some school, but like on Wednesdays, I have around seven. And on Friday, I have five. And then on other days, I have two, then one like that. So I move from seven to eight to another school, then eight to nine, then 10, like that, like that in a day. So I do ministry, but also on Saturdays, I do the children's home sale, which we call a good news club. So we do the every other week. So I have two of them. So if we meet on this Saturday, then we skip as they skip me, I mean, another one on the other Saturday, then we also meet the other Saturday like that. That's what I do with the children, but also I prepare camps, the Bible camps and then like I completed the recent one last week, but one. They are more looking the children. Very nice. Very nice. Very nice. So you're basically you teach them scripture. That's kind of the focus of what you're doing, right? Yes, it is evangelism. It is a discipleship and getting them published in their local Bible believing churches. Okay, wonderful. Excellent. Excellent. Thank you for sharing anyone else. So, you know, that one age that's one age group that you can think about as far as you're, you know, reaching out to the city and of course the local church, which you're pioneering will also have, you know, you call it gets to children search that serves the children who of the families were coming to the local church, but we're talking about also having strategies that reach out into the city. Now, one thing which I think is pretty common around the world is what we call as vacation Bible school or during the summertime and schools have some a break. We could conduct these vacation Bible schools. Now, of course, these vacation Bible schools are conducted by churches for their, you know, children who are coming to church, but it also becomes a very good opportunity to invite some others who don't normally go to church, not untouched people, even non Christians, people mother faith, you invite them to come to the vacation Bible school, and they're exposed to the scripture and so on. So, these are all opportunities and I think we need to constantly look at that age group, look at ways by which you can reach children, and there are a lot of ministries and resources available. So next, we talk about the next age group, which is, you know, we generally call them youth. They're, you know, essentially going to college at this time between eight into 25, they may be doing the bachelor's program, some might be doing the master's program, but they're all in college. They transition out of school, in college, getting ready for their future professional life. Now, it's important for us to understand the youth, right? They're in an urban context, so we would, there have been a lot of studies done of the Gen C, the Gen Alpha, and Gen Beta, yet to come, people. I mean, they will be studying them, of course, but you know, the Gen Y, Gen C, Gen Alpha, these, this generation. And a lot of studies being done, so it's good to, you know, go look them up and see what are the characteristics, what are the things that this group is struggling with, and then begin to address them in your youth work, your outreach. So, first of all, we should be able to describe urban youth, you know. Urban youth today could be very different from urban youth of 20 years ago. So understand what are the youth, the young people in our day and time? What are they going through? What are their aspirations? What are their apprehensions? What are they concerned about? And then what are the strategies we can develop to reach youth in urban centers? We need to think about this, right, constantly. And especially if you're pioneering a church in a city, this age group is very important. You know, now in a city like Bangalore, we have a lot of youth who come to the city to go to college. You know, there are many colleges in our city, so there are students who have come from many parts of our country to study. They come for, you know, training, learning to study in these colleges. And so, you know, this gives a great opportunity to actually reach youth from many parts of the country because they're coming here to study. So that's an opportunity we don't want to miss. Now, here again, you know, it's kind of interesting the journey we've made. I went back in, I think this was, you know, when we started as a church and we were a small church at that time. And I'm going back in time to about 2002, 2003. Our first event, first youth event, I think was in 2002 or 2003, I think it exactly, but we did a special seminar on dating and marriage. And this was way back in 2002, 2003, that time, so February of that year. We, you know, we were ourselves, we were a very small church, we had just started in 2001. So as a church, in terms of numbers, we must have been just 30, 40 people, something like that. But we had a special seminar, we rented a seminar hall in a hotel right in the heart of our city. And we said, we're going to have a seminar on dating and marriage. And this was in the month of February, this around February 14th. And we just did whatever promotion we could. And it was very surprised, we had about 70 youth show up. You know, just, I don't know, a different word got around 70 youth showed up and I did a little talk on dating and marriage and whatever, you know. But then that's how we said, look, we're going to start reaching out to youth in our city. The next thing we did this that same year was we said, you know, we will do some events inside a cafe. And in those days, in Bangalore, a chain called Coffee Day was just kind of coming up, you know, just becoming. Let's say I would say it's one of those few coffee shop, coffee day, coffee shops, cafes that was coming up. And so we went to a coffee shop right in the heart of our city. And we said, you know, we want to use this place for two hours. This was on a Saturday evening. But we will give you business guaranteed, we'll give you business of 30 orders. That means we will order 30 snacks, 30 beverage. We'll give you guaranteed business. We just want to use this place for two hours. We're going to sing some songs. And we are going to have a little talk and some discussion. Now, the owner of this coffee day, in the heart of our city, we call it, let's call it MG Road. Yeah, he was more than fine. Do whatever you want as long as, you know, you give business for two hours. And so we had one person on a guitar. His name was Georgie. So he would be on a guitar. He would just sing songs and choruses, Christian songs, choruses, and youth would just gather. And then we would, we would just give a little talk or something from the Bible. And then we would, you know, we would provide some beverages and coffee. We would let them order whatever they want. One snack and one beverage, whatever. And so what happened was we started doing this on Saturdays and the numbers just kept growing. So we shifted the coffee day venue to, at that time, the largest coffee day possible in Bangalore. So we used to have, the numbers just kept growing. This coffee day went once a month. That was at a youth outreach. And I think we hit more than 100 youth coming together in this coffee day cafe. That was the largest one there that we couldn't, it couldn't hold more than that. It was just very congested and so on. So from there, so we did that for almost two years, I think, to some years. And then from there, once the numbers hit, crossed 100. We then moved into a more formal auditorium hall-like space. So, you know, that's kind of what we did in those early days to start reaching youth by doing meetings in a cafe, very informal. They would invite people and invite other youth. That's kind of how the youth ministry actually started for us. And from then, you know, then it became a little bit more formal. We were meeting in an auditorium and then we should call it in those elevates. It was our youth service. We had like a regular youth service that was going on. But then during one of those youth elevates, youth services, once, I remember one Saturday, I just felt that, look, instead of having this youth service, why don't we take the youth service into colleges? Because we were having a youth service in an auditorium and we were expecting the youth to come, which was fine. But most of it was us. We started coming. But what if we reversed the order and took the youth service into college campuses? So what we did was we approached colleges and said, hey, can we do what we're calling a elevate program in your college campus? In your college auditorium, for your college youth, whoever wants to come can come. And we are talking about, you know, we gave them the topics and those kinds of things. And to our surprise, the colleges are very open. So I think this was back in 2012, 2012. When we made this shift, where we said, I think it was 2012, 11 or something, somewhere around that time, where we said we will take these youth meetings into college campuses. We just called them as campus elevates. And we started doing it in college. And our youth used to go and they used to talk to the college youth. Sometimes there'll be a few hundred. In some colleges, I think we even had up to 600 people gathered in the auditorium. And we started doing this on a regular basis. So it became an outrage into these colleges for an opportunity for us to talk to college youth in their campus, in their auditorium. You know, in some places we had the opportunity to sing and go on our songs and then somebody would share. In some places they said no singing just to the talk. So then people would just go and do the talk. And so, you know, different colleges had different, gave us permission with different things. But the point was we had this opportunity to bring a message to the college students. And then we would get permission to leave a literature in the back. So students who they wanted to, they could take it and explore. So that became like an outrage to college students in our city. And so again, now everything stopped because of COVID. And we just trying to revive that, get that back to colleges that are open. And then along with that, we looked at what we call as having small groups, Bible study groups for college students close to their hostel. So these would be campus groups or, you know, Bible studies for them. So that worked to some extent. It was effective. In certain, I would say maybe two or three groups were effective. Not, it wasn't very big, but one group especially was very effective close to one college campus. So that was useful. So this has been our experience. Now we need to rethink how we are doing it, how we have to reach youth. And one of the things I'll just share the start and then I'll pause. I was just reading a recent update on, you know, reaching Gen Z, the current youth, the current young children probably are in their 20s. That they are not interested in hype. They're not interested in all the noise and the hype that we tend to put out for youth events and so on. But they're looking for substance. And that's one very important thing. And second thing the article also shared was one of the biggest challenges, of course, is mental health. Perhaps because of whatever they've gone through and perhaps of everything that's happening online, mental health has become a big issue for this generation. That's what we're talking about the year 80 to 25, 20 year olds. So what we are doing now is to begin to address topics and we can actually invite them for an intelligent time. So for example, right now when we are doing the sermon series on faith and science, we are actually promoting that in college campuses. So, you know, posters have gone up in over eight, nine college campuses. We are intensely promoting this event to college campuses, college students so that when they come, they can come and listen, they can see if the church is talking about faith and science. So it's talking about something intelligent. It's not just hype and noise, but the church is addressing questions that we have. And similarly, we need to think about addressing issues concerning mental health and so on, because that's a very important priority for this generation. So I've just shared with you some of our past experience in reaching youth and how things are changing with time. And we also need to adapt our youth ministry towards these things. So let me pause here and just take up any other thoughts that you have here on the youth. Any of your experiences, anything that you may be doing, so on. I'm reading Asha's comment here in the chat, reaching out to the children is so precious. I love the innocent mind. They are all, things are allowed to reach out to them in the future by doing activities and games. Wonderful. Connect them to the Father's Ark, amen. Sounds last week I connect to VBS. Wonderful. All right. Okay, so thank you. Anybody wants to share? We have a couple of minutes. Just about youth, your experience, you know, shed a little bit about our story. I'd love to hear your story from your, your place, your part of the world. Anybody wants to share anything? Go ahead Charles. Okay. Thank you. We, we conduct youth, youth training. We, we mentor them in church ministry, especially they are usually provided by the church because the church writes a recommendation sending them to our training. The training is called Christian youth in action. We expect every youth that comes is already Christian. So we bring them for 10 days, training for five days. And then the next five days, they, we organize for them areas where they can meet children. And then they meet them. They are able to minister to them every day for five days an hour a day. And then there are those part that form the teams that are called open air team. These ones also go out with an instructor. Then they meet the children on boreholes, sports areas, those that are walking on the road are like that. So we do it every year for 10, 10 days. And for four years, a student graduates having completed the children's ministry and then they are able to be placed in areas of influence. Thank you. Interesting. Thank you for sharing that chance. So you do to have. So these are children from different churches, youth from different churches who are coming together. Yes, they come from different churches. Wonderful. So glad that you have this great opportunity to, you know, to impact the youth and then get them ready for them impacting others in their future. Amazing. And it's so good to know that you have youth coming from different churches that you can work with. And that's really good. It's really good. Thanks for sharing. Anybody else? Working with youth ages 18 to 25. So can I. Please go ahead. Thank you, Pastor. We are in a place where we are surrounded by universities. The house is just opposite to Jane to engineering college in this Annanthapur district, Annanthapur. And there is a Krishna Devaraya University and few colleges around. So this is a rented house. God gave us and we moved to this place in 2013. But we opened our home for the students to come and have their Bible studies in our house. There are 90 college students and different people who are need place because in some universities now they can't have Bible studies inside the campuses. So we have opened our home from then on. It's a working helping USA ministry that student ministry they do in this place and go to medical colleges and nursing schools where we meet with the children there and have Bible studies, regular Bible studies. There's not much singing and all that because we have to do it very quietly. In some places we are not even supposed to carry the Bible. Just go there inside and share. And that's how we were working. Sir, we started now after that it's online. Now slowly they're trying to again meet physically and reach out to their children. We build up a rapport because it's a hope and home. It's like they can come down anytime, share their heart, share a meal. So in that way we can mentor them and help them any medical need or financial need. Sometimes they come from a into background and poor background. So we can help them show them avenues where they can get help. So that's how we are able to help the youth in this place. Very nice, very nice. Thank you for sharing that and that's really special that you're able to open up your home. So that these college students can come. And yeah, and of course I know because of COVID, the book had to be stopped. As you resume, may the Lord just increase your influence and just draw people in. Wonderful. All right, I'll take a moment to read Susan Nirmal's note. I take teenagers, meaning age 13 to 19 offline, sometimes online. You do games, take them out, give them words, memorize, Bible stories, teach them to pray for others. Wonderful. Great to hear that. Susan, keep it up. All right, so thanks for sharing each one. Thanks for sharing your experiences, what you're doing. And I want to encourage you that as you begin to think about urban church planting, starting a ministry, it means that we are strategic in reaching different age groups. Start thinking that way, pray and the Lord will give us ideas and also open up doors. Right. We'll continue this tomorrow. Let's close in prayer. Anybody could just close in prayer and dismiss us please. Mr. Can I pray? Sure. Our gracious and everlasting Father, we want to give you praise and honor for this great opportunity that you have granted us this morning and this day. Father, we pray committing ourselves into your hands, O God, the inspiring messages that you have shared. We pray that you grant us the grace to be able to continue in our various ministries in the mighty name of Jesus. Father, those that we are birthing in us, the ideas that you are giving us through this interaction, we pray that you grant us the grace to start in the name of Jesus. Father, I pray that you grant each of us a burden to reach out to children and to young people in our generation that we will keep on expanding your kingdom in the mighty name of Jesus. Continue to supply us with great grace that we will be able to do more in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Thank you everyone. Have a good afternoon. Rest of the day. We'll see you tomorrow. God bless. Thank you for sharing. Bye now. God bless. Thank you, Pastor.