 Hello everyone, my name is John Bulliam the director of evangelization and formation for the outreach office at franciske university And I'm blessed to be here with dr. Scott Hahn And we just want to share with for a few minutes about the excitement we have about the upcoming applied biblical studies conference and defending the faith conference. Yeah, thank you John It's been a joy for Kimberley and me to be co-hosting these conferences nearly 30 years And when we do this every year It's like we come down a mountaintop experience that we've shared with literally hundreds and hundreds of pilgrims who come and Who share in the the grace and the joy and the excitement when you experience this conference? What are your favorite parts of it? Well, I mean, that's like asking me what my favorite child is whoever I'm with, you know So, you know with regard to applied biblical studies my own Wednesday night Introductory talk is a highlight and then we always have a reception and then Thursday You know, it's just an amazing time of of song of prayer of great presentations and workshops as well And then Friday morning Kimberley always is the one who who brings it home, and I can't recall a time She didn't get a standing ovation. I mean she presents things from the word of God in such a practical and profound way And then of course, it's a it's a piggyback event It's like a Siamese conferences because as soon as that's done at noon on Friday We immediately kick into the early bird special for defending the faith starting Friday afternoon we have two presenters and then Friday evening. We always have a worship time like Saturday evening as well as Thursday night. We have holy hours We're going to have amazing homiless amazing present a presenters you look at a conference from Wednesday through Friday and then the doubleheader from Friday through Sunday and You're like this is greater than the sum of its human parts This was really brought about by the Lord God by the Holy Spirit And so, you know, you think about Peter James and John traveling up Mount Tabor with our Lord Moses and Elijah the law and the prophets the word of God is broken open and all points to Christ You know, that is the kind of mountaintop experience and when you go down, you know, our Lord won't say don't tell anybody You know, amen. He's got to say share this with everyone you meet We want to bring people to Jesus But the fact is these conferences enable us to bring Jesus to people absolutely when we go home Family members neighbors friends fellow parishioners we bring Jesus to them when we let them see the joy that is radiant Mm-hmm and that kind of afterglow usually lasts for days sometimes weeks or months and it just gives you that sense This is real. This is true, but it's beautiful. It's powerful. Well, thank you so much. This has been amazing I just listening to you. I'm getting more excited about the summer This is gonna be my 19th summer of conferences that that's I've been back and offer everyone out there Thank you for taking the time to watch this video And if you want to learn more about how you can be a part of these amazing conferences the applied biblical studies The defending the faith conference or any one of our adult conferences or find a youth conference either near you or on our campus Go to studentvilleconferences.com