 Okay, good morning everyone. Welcome to another session. Let's just begin this time with the word of prayer Could one of us please lead us in prayer? Maybe John. Let's pray gracious Lord, we want to thank you for this time Yes, we come before your presence to learn from your word. We pray God that you would speak to us and Courage us to follow your steps. So God help us to understand your plans and allies As a supplement as a ball to your hands and ask for your grace to be with him To lead us in this study and learning of God. We thank you in Jesus name. We pray Amen. Amen. Thank you, John. All right Before we go ahead, let's just Your quick review of what we did last week last week. We did something very important We saw how we as believers as we lead people to Christ We must also nurture them nurture these new believers into disciples, right? The Lord Jesus's instructions was very clear to each one of us. He said go and make disciples and that's what we want to do It's not about, you know, just winning souls. That's that's important but it's also about raising up these new believers into leaders and again, they go out and You know, bring make new believers and then disciples So we looked at nurturing believers Firstly by teaching the word of God, right? We emphasize on God's word not a person Not not people not this ministry or that ministry But teach new believers from the word of God teach God's truth teach about, you know, Holy Spirit baptism and You know, what a baptism the Lord's table These are simple truths yet. They are powerful truths one of the You know, you know, one of the things that we can do is give them one of a copy of who we are in Christ and You know, there's this whole Series on the in Christ revelations You know, when they read it, they understand. Hey, this is who I am after I have become a believer And so these are very important aspects. Secondly, we looked at Training in spiritual disciplines. Now as we teach the word as we You know, look to disciple new believers train them in spiritual disciplines meaning personal time and prayer personal reading of the word of God, Godly living You know repentance holiness and all the things that are attached to living a godly life Here's the important part If we are going to teach somebody to spiritual disciplines We need to be doing it first, right? We know that saying right practice what you preach And so we need to practice it in our own lives and then when we share it with others It's going to impact them as well. But then we looked at Christian Fellowship which is an integral part of for new believers and some of the ways are Getting them into fellowship is life groups Bible study groups Fellowship groups youth groups, whatever, you know, whatever age or Criteria there in you can get them connected to Groups where they can have fellowship with one another and after they've come to a certain level of maturity We equip them to serve in the church, right? Now doesn't mean that once they become believers, they can't serve in other areas. Yes, of course, they can serve in different areas But then as they're maturing you can give them more responsibilities more ideas more opportunities for them to serve so So we also picked up a few examples on Jesus the way he discipled people the early church how they went about raising disciples and how Apostle Paul in his ministry He raised many many disciples many many leaders And they again went on to impact the cities that they were in So that was chapter 12 on nurturing new believers From chapter 13 onwards If you look at your notes, you will see only pointers now. The reason the pointers are there is because We we can't put all the points into one chapter So we've divided them on different topics topics in different chapters. So we're gonna just briefly look look at chapters 13 to 19 and Hopefully today we can cover up at least 13 14 and 15 and then Next week We can cover up the remaining so next week should be your last class And we should be able to wrap up the sessions. Okay, so chapter 13 Even as we, you know, go about ministering reaching out to people we will face practical challenges Right. So chapter 13 is overcoming those practical challenges. What are some of them as mentioned here? threats persecution and abandonment now Being a Christian, we all know that there will be threats. There will be persecution There will be people who will abandon us friends may abandon us family may abandon us Yet we are to overcome those practical challenges We are still to help people overcome if we are going through that ourselves We are to overcome those challenges, right? You know persecution is something that is always going to be there Right. It's not surprising when we look at the early church and we look at even after the first century church Look at the second and the third century church. They went through enormous persecution the times of Nero Was just a horrible time for the Christians immense persecution so We as believers are not to look at the persecution or people's threats and abandonment of people and say, okay I think I'm better off, you know, just being a quiet Christian. No, no God has called us to overcome those practical challenges Let me give you this example When we came to the city of Mangalore, I began to talk to many pastors and I asked them, what do we do for Christmas? I came here in the month of July And I began to ask them what do we do for Christmas because in Bangalore, we do a lot of events and programs And they said we don't do anything for Christmas. We are not allowed as Christians. We're not allowed to do anything in public You know in public places. We can't do carols and all of it. I thought to myself, okay, if we're not allowed to so we'll just do it In the church now, but somewhere, you know, we were praying as a church and as a family You know spending time and prayer and the Lord just put it in my heart to You know, not to not to go by what people say But listen to what he says what God is speaking to me and God very clearly told me Go and ask the malls If you can do carol singing So what I did was I went to some of the pastors. I said We want to do this. Do you think we can collaborate? Right? We can go we can ask for the malls if they can give us an opportunity. All of them said no And I was really surprised because I asked them why they said no, I don't think that's going to work. This is not Bangalore and that was quite You know feeling quite dejected But I thought okay, let me just do what God has called us to do He's saying do this. So we went to the malls. I went and met the managers And you know, we I remember we prayed and said God grant us favor because you know the city of Mangalore is Earlier 2008 2009 they were known for you know its persecution and all of that But anyways, we prayed for grace. We prayed for favor And we went and met this manager in about three good malls and All three balls They said it's never happened in Mangalore. We were we are excited. You can come you can do your carols. We will You know give you a place We will give you a book table We'll give you a table you can put your I told them about the books that we have it's free books Which you can you know people if they're interested they can take Then we also they said we will give get the sound system and get the place ready You do here for two days and the other mall we do it in two days And the everything just worked out right and On the days of the events there were a lot of people coming and watching But here's one thing that we did right Even though we got the opportunity we took Permission from the mall written letter saying that you know, we're doing christian songs christmas is a christian you know Christian program and it's a christian event and carols is something which is Related to jesus and christianity Uh, so we took a written letter from the manager got it signed everything but on the day It was quite intimidating because you know, uh, we were just about what we didn't have a full band. We were just one guitar With a few singers They were like a lot of people. You know coming to see what is this happening here? Uh, uh, it was quite overwhelming. But here's what happened It uh, you know the that whole thing went on Everything went on people came took books people also started coming to church after that But after that the entire city or all the pastors, uh, you know, quite a few pastors They began to call me. They said, how did you get permission to do this? Who gave you the permission? How how were you able to do this? Uh, they began to call and I said I went and asked them as simple as that When I asked the manager, he said, okay, we provided for everything. He asked me, you know, what do you need? I said, these are the equipments. These are the mics and we did it And consistently we kept doing it every year same every year books are going out All our publications I kept on the table And there was I'm not saying that everything was, you know, very smooth There were times when people came and asked for why are you all singing and they tried they stopped me also Uh, you know, we overcome those practical challenges Right. So in ministry, all of us are, you know, probably already in ministry or looking forward to ministry Do not be afraid of what people say Don't be afraid of the practice, you know, the Persecutions and things that are happening. God is able if God is telling you to do something Go and faith, right? Don't be afraid overcome those practical things right and There are many other obstacles to going to church again overcoming Of those practical challenges. Some students may say hey Monday to Saturday. I'm You know, I'm wake up early Sunday. It's difficult. Families find it difficult So we help them to overcome these challenges Cultural and religious practices now, especially if somebody's come from another faith And they become a believer they may not understand What the Lord supper is or they may not understand what why are people raising their hands and praying and worshiping and what's all this about So we need to help them practically to help them understand. They may have a lot of questions a lot of thoughts You know questions and they had why is it happening like this? So It's it's good not to condemn them. We should not condemn them. Oh, you don't know this No, so you just be available for them and help them Right. So chapter 13 is just those basic points. I want to get to chapter 14, which is strategies That you and I can use in evangelism Now we have two settings. We have an urban setting. We have a rural setting. So many of us may be in urban cities Many of us may be in rural towns or villages smaller or bigger villages now How can we Have you know create strategies for evangelism? right Now very important point is to remember to have wholesome methods Of evangelism, which means wholesome method to bring the gospel to people right now What is wholesome methods? Spirit led methods legal and ethical methods Right because we don't want to be people who will you know who try to deceive others and say, hey Why don't you come here? It's something that you may enjoy. We don't want to do that So if you see all our promotions all our banners and our invites every Invite will have an apc logo and Written all people's church Right. So even if we're inviting people, they know that this is a christian organization Right. So we are not deceiving anyone. We are not saying. Okay You know, it's just some regular concert or a regular Time of a regular youth meeting. No, they know That this is christian event Right. Now, let me share some things that have happened This young man in our church He once invited a friend. We were having a I think it was a potluck Because so it was during christmas time and so he invited this friend And he told his friend Right come. We're all going to go to this place and we'll have a nice dinner Right and so he brought him to church. Of course, there was a dinner in the church and all of that Uh, but this boy I met him and he was really offended right, uh, he said, uh, you know, uh, I'm sorry, but I'm really disgusted with what is happening here Uh, and I was quite taken aback. I said what happened Said no my friend. He told me that we're going out for dinner, but he didn't tell me we're going to a church Now what happened was, you know, uh, it's a christian event and he's a muslim by faith and here people had bought all kinds of non-vegetarian items including pork And he was really offended Really really offended. He said I can't even stay here. I said you're free to go. I'm sorry that, you know, you were not informed that it was a christian event and So I remember telling this young man in church. I said see it's good that you invited You want to invite people but do not deceive people Do not try to, you know, use unwholesome methods And I know that he's not going to come back to church at least for now And I told him I told this young man don't force this boy to come to church You can minister to him You know because it started off wrong And so now he has a wrong impression. They are trying to deceive. They're trying to, you know Just pull people into their fold and all of these things. So very important As leaders use wholesome methods right We become all things to all people We step into their world We understand them Right This this young man who was in church. He said, so what if folk is there? It's all right. No, anyways But I understood the hurt We hurt his sentiments right It's not it may be something very silly for us, but for him it was something very big So we need to understand Paul writes to the Corinthians and he says the whole thing about food sacrifice to idols and he says If this person Is weak and he feels that you know food offered to idols is something that's going to affect him don't eat it Right and so Paul is writing me saying to those who are weak become weak to those who are Strong be strong to the Jews be a Jew to the gentile be a gentile Right. So we must be able to relate and identify with people Now this is not only during evangelism, but also in your ministries in your church in your You know life groups or small churches whole house churches bible study groups relate to people Right Do not come to an immediate position of judging people Right because we will lose them and relate to them And as you relate to them also remember that is obedient Uh, you know, it's always good to be obedient to christ I'll share this as another example that happened recently about two weeks back This is young boy in our church serving always very faithfully But his mother His parents stay in a different country in Kuwait and so they they messaged and they called me and they said No, this boy likes a Hindu girl Please do something about it Right, uh And the Hindu girl wants to become a Christian So she's come about a couple of times. I didn't remember this girl, but she's come a couple of times And so please please speak to him So remember speaking I spoke to him and I said Um, you know, I didn't say no, you should not get married It'll be a whole thing wrong your life will be You know, your life will go to waste another So we must understand the person. He's 22. He's 23 years old Right boys, you know, it's a natural tendency boys will like girls And and so he likes this girl Now we just need to guide him But not judge him Right the wrong thing to do in this situation is to judge him. How can you find a girl who is from a different faith? No Right, uh, he didn't look at it. He just likes the girl as a person that she is right So we need to understand people relate to people Understand them. You got the young people. You got the just married couples. You got children. You got You know couples with small kids if the couples come late to church I don't go shouting at them saying hey 10 30s church. Why are you coming 1045? Oh, you we need to understand. No, they have a small child. That's going to be difficult You got to get them ready get them to come to church so relate to people Whether they're believers That they are unbelievers whether you're ministering to them Uh, uh for the first few times or you're just bringing in Christ into their lives relate to them They may say something about their religion relate to it Try to understand it Right We are not to go into it. Oh, no, all gods are wrong. Only my god is right Oh, try to understand Right. Uh, so for example, if somebody, uh, you know says hey, uh, you know This is what my religion believes. Oh, that's okay. Can you tell me more relate to it? I remember having this conversation Yesterday, uh, about, you know, in India, we're having, uh, this whole thing Of Dasara, uh, it's a big huge festival in our nation Everyone celebrated and uh, so I was asking this, uh Man and man, uh, what is Dasara now? I know what I know. What is Dasara what the whole context is? But I wanted to know from him. What does he understand? We can't relate to him So I then asked him question after question after question. I knew that he was, you know Are you getting I was getting on to his nerves almost but uh, but he was, you know willing to answer Uh, I asked him, what are the lights about? What what is what is the whole thing about? What is your understanding? Why why is it lights? Why is it called the festival of lights? But does that, you know, do you feel happy does? Is there a change inside you after the festival? Interesting thing he said was there's no change inside me. Is this change outside? You know things around us change Then I said, what about change inside you? When are you going to change Your heart our thoughts our minds And that went on to a whole new discussion. So what I'm trying to say is relate be culturally sensitive Be culturally relevant Now what works in one place may not work in another place. What works in India may not work in Africa What works in, you know, Africa may not work in the united states so Be culturally sensitive Be culturally relevant Right now we can't go to kids nowadays, you know kids are 14 15 even before that, you know, they already know how to use tabs and phones and all of that You can't go to a kid and say don't use my phone. Don't use the phone. Don't use media. Can't do that. I mean They will use it, right? We need to be You know culturally relevant But we can use these tools to bring them to christ right So what works in one place may not work in a different another place Remember that right now if if we are leaders or we are ministering to people Uh, if if you've shared this to a person and you feel that You can try it again. If it doesn't work, don't be dejected. Don't feel that. Oh, I you know last time it worked. Why didn't it work this time? It may work sometimes you've got to change the strategy now for example When we when I came to mangrove, uh, one of the things I noticed was Nobody wants to work on sunday Uh in the city of mangrove. Nobody wants to work on sunday. They want to take an off Right, they will not work. You give them business. They'll say no. Thank you. Today is the rest day So I was looking around on sunday the first few sundays that I came The whole place was empty. The roads are empty. There are no vehicles hardly any vehicles All the shops are closed. We have our church in a complex. We are the only people Only, you know, the only thing that is open in the entire complex of about Maybe 150 shops. We are the only ones open there so I knew okay, we need to change strategy The way we minister to people the way we do outreaches People are not going to come on a saturday evening If they come on a saturday evening for a worship evening, they will not be there on sunday morning And so I realized hey, we need to change this So I moved worship evening on friday evening so that you know saturday They have a rest and then uh sunday. They're a church So there there are different strategies and we will have to you know Keep adapting to those now We seek Not to intentionally offend people But minister in such a way that we draw them To christ I'm sure most of us want to do that. You know, we don't offend people You know different people may understand have different understandings of the word of god, right? remember this Young pastor that I met recently He was sharing with me and he was he asked me. Did you take the vaccine? I said, yes I took the first shot and he said oh Do you know that if you take the vaccine you lose your salvation? I was surprised I said I said what are you talking about? He said, uh, you know the vaccine if you've taken the vaccine You've got the mark of the beast and uh, you've lost your salvation Now the first thing that came to my mind was open the book of revelations and just you know Make him sit and make him understand things but You know, we are not there to offend people So, you know, just talk talk in the right way Be minister In such a way that they you know, they don't feel offended now. They may not have understood things So we teach them we we bring out the truth of god's word And we try and relate to them and I and I told him You know, he's got a good church about a hundred odd people now all the hundred of them Hundred odd people none of them have taken vaccine because of what he's teaching And they all believe that it's the mark of the beast and you know these kind of things so Even during these times do not offend people We may know a lot of things Like that's if you know That you're just you're there. You're listening. You want to help them. You want to minister to them, right? Uh First Corinthians chapter 10 was 31 to 33. Let's just read that one of us was first Corinthians 10 31 versus 31 through 33 Yes, one of us please read that Yes, uh, anybody john or anyone First Corinthians 10 31 to 33. Yeah That's desert. Okay first Corinthians 10 31 to 33 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do do it all for the glory of god Do not cause anyone to stumble whether jews greeks or the church of god Even as I try to please everyone in every way For I'm not seeking my own good, but the good of many so that they may be saved Yeah, thank you. Yeah. So here paul is writing to the Corinthians. He's telling them Now some of them are jews in the church. Some of them are Gentiles So he's saying He's telling the jews Now you are circumcised So am I So that's good Then he's saying to the Gentiles You're not circumcised, but you have received christ and all the blessings of christ is in you and you have received salvation The holy spirit is in you. You have received the gifts of the holy spirit. So have I So what is he trying to say? He's not telling the the Gentiles, you know, go and get Circumcised In fact, he's telling you know to the Galatians. He says what made you change your mind Right that you went from the salvation to circumcision, right? So Here paul is trying to bring the bring his attention bring the attention to people that We are not to offend people In whichever standing they are in Right Uh, if if there's somebody who's come from a different faith or you're ministering to them And they have these weird belief systems and it may not, you know, make sense to us The first thing we usually do is try to you know Resist and offend them We should not Jesus has not called us to offend people But you speak the truth in love and then draw them to christ right We do ministry in a way that there is no opportunity to blame Right second Corinthians chapter six verse three to four. Let's read that second Corinthians chapter six three two four Go ahead, Divya. If you're there, you can read it We give no offense in anything that Our ministry may not be blamed but in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of god in much patience in tribulations in needs in distress in strides in imprisonments in tumults In labors in sleeplessness in fastings by purity by knowledge by long suffering by kindness by the holy spirit By sincere love by the word of truth by the power of god by the armor Of righteousness on the right hand and on the left By honor and dishonor by evil report and good report as deceivers And yet true As unknown and yet well known as dying and behold we live As chastened yet not killed as sorrowful yet not yet always rejoicing as poor yet making many rich as having nothing And yet possessing all things Amen such a wonderful verse that is Paul is trying to tell the believers listen now if we were in Paul's place I wouldn't have to give a I wouldn't have to justify my ministry Right because he's done such a wonderful work right his from the time he You know his conversion and we see he started off on his first missionary journey. He did powerful things There's a there's a saying that apostle Paul started off. He did what all 12 of them Did together he did it alone And so he didn't have to You know justify his ministry, but what does he say? We are doing our ministry in such a way that people do not point fingers at us In second Corinthians again later on he says We We are apostles and we are you know, we are legal or we are You know, okay to take the gifts To the receive the gifts that you have for us, but we don't take it Because we don't want people to blame Right and and Paul is saying here Do not give an opportunity for people to blame you for the ministry that you're doing Be right in every standard Right, uh, one thing that I learned Very important in ministry is have things on paper Have things on file on document things that you're doing Now we can say I trust this person and do things You know, maybe do a You know work together But trust is very often lost Right, uh, don't be surprised if people lose trust or you you lose trust on people It's very important to document things right, uh, and so One of the things we did was when we uh, you know, whatever we have events or programs We open up this excel sheet. We put everything in on paper. This is the amount we have Raised up the funds we have raised. This is the person who gave this much These are the things that we bought for the church. These are the things that we Still have this was the itinerary of You know all the things within the church the number of chairs the number of tables The sound system the cables to mics everything is on document Right our sunday offerings. Everything is on document Everything is on paper As I know nobody can say, okay, actually we received this amount. Where is the other amount? No, no Everything is being accountable for Even as we choose leaders we are very careful, right where we train up the leaders in the right way Uh, uh, you know teaching them, of course, we all will make mistakes but Teaching our leaders to train to to to minister to people in the right way And so god has commissioned us to preach So that when we preach We are not violating other people's time or property and whatever, uh, you know, they have but we are preaching So that they come to christ That is very sad And then there are plenty of people and plenty of stories that I can share where Leaders and pastors have violated their church members And even, you know, just going to the point of asking them to sell their house sell their car There's this one preacher in our city And it's a very sad thing this member these Young couple they came to church and then they shared this whole story How this pastor, you know would say some prophetic words and Uh, eventually he told the these two that if you bless the church with a car god is going to bless you With double the portion So this pastor forced the church members this this young couple to buy a car for the church I really don't know what the car was for but And they came and told me this and they are paying the loan Every month they are paying the installments for the car and the pastor is using the car and it was just So hurtful They are a young couple, you know, this banking employees It was very hurtful and they were very hurt with the whole thing And so when we do ministry Let us do it in clear conscience Let us do it In a way that nobody Will blame us for what we are doing So even as we do this strategies Identify different age groups What you do While you're ministering to a 60 year old you can't do that for a 16 year old Right. There are different age groups different criterias. So you minister accordingly There are different areas in the city which where there is a need in the city So you minister accordingly different spheres Of activities or spheres of influence that you want to minister to Then you have different tools that we can leverage Meaning as YouTube there's online You know videos podcasts Then there's a lot of things that we can share To minister and you know build people and reach out to people So even in this day and age I want to encourage during this time where people are where persecution towards Christianity is especially increasing Let us not become cold Let us hold on God has called us to preach Remember this one time Just the last week You know, usually I go out on outreaches, but the last over this whole, you know Karnataka was doing a survey on the churches and this whole thing For a couple of days. We didn't go out on outreach and we were praying During a family prayer the Lord very clearly told, you know minister to me and said this verse came very very powerfully to me said I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it We were praying and that just that just hit me so hard and I thought hey no matter what persecution comes No matter what people do or whether it's, you know, whatever it is against Christianity God is building his church. It is not us So if God is building his church, his promise is the gates of hell shall not prevail against it So I said, okay, let's go out. So I went out began to do some outreach began to reach out to people Giving out tracks doing everything Was there a Hindrance before that? Yes. I just thought let let this whole situation stop But I realized that hey If God is building his church, of course, we be wise. I don't I didn't you know, just go to random places I went to malls Looking at the right people Sharing the gospel with them But what I'm trying to say is Don't let fear no matter who you don't have to be a pastor. You can just be a believer within the church. Do not let fear Overcome you during these times. I love what the book of acts writes They went about doing wonderful miracles and There were threats on the disciples and there they say that they prayed saying god Give us boldness that we may face those threats So god has called us, you know, he's given us that authority and and so don't be afraid even as we use strategies especially in Rural areas we see persecution maybe in different nations as well We're seeing this and it's going to become a global problem a global persecution is going to rise It's going to be there, but that does not stop The work that god has promised That he's building his church. So let us continue to reach out in every way possible Bringing the gospel to people so for children Some of the things that we do at apc is we have something called as catalyst where we go to schools and you know once a week we share The word of god we teach the word of god and for colleges. It's called campus elevate You know college students we go and we share the word for a one hour one hour session And and then for youth you have concerts youth concerts youth events Coffee talks so many other things depending on your Setting you can you know probably do those events then for young adults you got professional groups you got working professional teams workplace groups Then for married families counseling groups Seminars women's conference men's conference. Oh accordingly you can you know Create events and do them now you may say okay, but I'm just a leader in the church or I'm just a believer in the church How can I plan? Go to your pastor go to your leaders. Tell them pastor. Can we try this? right take the step I'm sure your pastor is going to be happy your pastor will not say no How can you know He'll be happy that the church members are trying to do something to reach out to people So if you have a plan you have an idea sit with your leaders discuss Plan it out Right see what's going to work see the pros and cons Um and how you're going to do the whole you know reaching out how how you're going to implement the strategy plan discuss work it out You never know that god can give you an opportunity itself to Minister to many people. So if you're already a leader That's great. You can implement all of this if you're just a believer in the church Or you can go ahead and talk to your leaders talk to your pastors and get involved in the church Right get involved in reaching out to people You know one of the sad things I would say is that a lot of times No believers in the church. We become people who just come on Sundays and leave And then come every Sunday. That's it. We don't want to do that. We want to be people who will Build this lifestyle of evangelism wherever we are That we'll be able to share minister disciple people right So we will stop here 14 I think from chapter 15 onwards. We just look at those points Next week will be our last class and then I will put up our final assessment You can go through it. It's going to be simple questions go through it And fill it write the answers. It's an open book Question so you can look at your notes and all of that And then it's basically to know how how much you have understood from this subject. So Right any questions any thoughts before we close? Any questions any thoughts Has it been helpful? Has it been something that you have? You know learned As faster very helpful. Thank you Thank you, John. Is there anything like you we have any questions people, you know When we go and reach out to people Sometimes they have a lot of questions And so right we looked at all of those Pointers in chapter 3 chapter 4 Yeah, there'll there'll be a lot of things but we can go about doing what God's called us to do so right Any thoughts any questions? I'm guessing that everywhere the churches have begun right now So I think things are looking to be get back to normalcy. So I encourage you to Again, maybe you can keep targets reaching out to you know people you can just say okay one person a week I want to at least share the gospel to one person a week and you can start small And the more you do it the more we will get Familiar with it. We'll get more confident And the more we do it, you know, the Holy Spirit will empower. He will strengthen us. He will guide us right Okay, so there's no questions. Let's just Close in prayer Okay, we are sharing something our church is doing an evangelism course based on Lifeway ministries. Okay. Oh Yeah, we haven't really heard of life way ministries That's wonderful. It'll be great To a great learning as well. That's good. That's good right Nicholson's is a curiosity where these ministry ideas birthed by members or the pastoral team Few of the ideas were birthed by the church members I think the coffee talk was something that was birthed by some of our young adults But when I joined apc the coffee talk was already happening But from what I've heard it was the idea of some of our church members young Young our youth Who said let's meet in a coffee shop make it more, you know Like a relaxed atmosphere and so they were able to invite so that was done by our church members Then there was also One of the openings in catalyst College, sorry, it was a school Where one of our church members Their father was the principal of the school and so Through him we got an opportunity to get into His school and you know do catalyst so Of course, they gave us the idea and then the team the pastoral team We began to plan out on how You know to work it out, right? So for example, they said some of our youth came and said we want to do coffee talks in coffee day So the idea was given and then as a pastoral team we decided we discussed talked about it and then You know thought about how we could implement it the right way and then even for the You know the teaching in the schools the catalyst program This young man came and said you can you're free to have you know, some of the team members come And teach one hour session for the students from fifth standard to 10th standard So he gave us the opportunity, but then we had to plan it out, right? What to teach come up with the curriculum All those things so it was it was a combined effort. Yeah, I think I Submitted my midterm assessment. Okay. Uh, yeah, we uh, if you submitted it, uh, Isaac We will I would have received it. So I will take a look at it and Lance, you know, the marks will also show up on the marks column. So you can look at that as well Right. All right. Any other question? Very comfort and keep the camera on other ones who okay, okay Very comfort is a wonderful evangelist. It's just so powerful It's nice shape. Yeah, that's wonderful Okay, any other thoughts? Shall we close in prayer? So as I mentioned last uh next week will be the last class we'll wrap up on all the topics and uh Then we can get ready for our final term exam as well. All right. Let's close in prayer Father we just want to thank you lord for this wonderful time god Lord, we thank you for your word That so powerful that empowers that teaches that ministers Lord, we pray that we as your children god will develop this attitude Of reaching out of ministering to people of god that you have called us to be disciples That we will be Disciples will be worthy of the call that you have given us a god grant us The greater measure of your anointing in your grace your power In us a god and lord we have this great assurance That if you are for us who can be against us we thank you god We pray lord for each and every student even as they're going through all the different courses of this semester that your holy spirit will remind convict strengthen and touch each of our lives a god And lord, we pray that you will use each one of us for your glory And we will be channels of your blessing for your kingdom lord In jesus name we pray amen amen Amen, thank you so much everyone. Uh, have a great week ahead. I will catch you next week. The bless