 Okay, welcome. Good morning once again. And just wanted to read from John chapter 14, verse, yeah, verse, verse 16, 15, 16, right. And just talks about the Lord teaching about the Holy Spirit. Let me just read a few verses here. Verse 16 says, and I pray the Father and He will give you another helper that He may abide with you forever. Verse 17, the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees Him nor knows Him but you know Him for He dwells with you and will be in you. And just wanted us to go down to another verse which is verse 25 and 26, 26, right. But the helper, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you, right. And the Lord is talking about the Holy Spirit whom He's going to send during His earthly ministry saying, okay, now I'm going to go, but if I don't go, then in other words, He's saying if I go, then we will send the Holy Spirit, the helper who will be with you, who will remain with you forever, right. And it's amazing when you think about it, here is the Lord spending this time with the disciples and He's saying that, yeah, I've spent this time with you, I've talked to you, I've showed you many things, you know, you've learned a lot, but I'm going, okay. And I'm sure the disciples would have been like Lord, Lord at trouble, right. Even if you read, you know, verses, sorry, chapters 15, chapter 16, chapter 17, et cetera, you see that, okay. The people, the disciples were troubled, 14 especially, you know, verse 1, it says, let your heart not be troubled, which means that, you know, He saw that people were troubled, that He was talking about Him going. But He's saying, the Lord is saying, you know, it is to your advantage that I'm going because I'm going to send the helper, okay. So, you know, many times we think, right, Lord, if only you were here, right. If Jesus was here, physically, he'll be great. And if he's just sitting next to me, he's talking to me, how wonderful it will be, we think. And that's what the disciples were also thinking. And today, you know, I'm sure that is something that we think also, saying that, Lord, if you were here, speaking to me face to face, how wonderful that will be. But the Lord is saying, you know, I'm going that I might send another helper and he will be with you forever. He's talking about the Holy Spirit. He will remain with you. He will be with you forever. He will teach. He will remind. He will lead you into truth. He will be with you forever, you know. So, I was so excited just thinking about it saying, Lord, you're actually saying that the work of the Holy Spirit in a way, you know, he's saying that it's even greater than his physical presence. You know, I don't know if I can even say that, right. But I'm just thinking, you know, my opinion, I'm saying the Lord is saying, okay, it's to your advantage. It's to your benefit because the Holy Spirit will come and he'll remain with you, stay with you wherever you are, whatever, you know, you're going through. He's going to be with you. He's going to teach you. He's going to remind you. He's going to draw you on you. Right? He's going to be with you 24-7. And here we are. Sometimes we think, oh, I wish I had, you know, that face to face. What are you saying? Hey, I'm giving you something, this great treasure, the Holy Spirit, the person of the Holy Spirit who's in you. Right? So, this morning I was just listening to this verse and being shared and I was just, as I was driving, I was just thinking, God, what an amazing, what an amazing perspective. But you're saying that I'm going but then I'm sending and it's to our advantage that you're sending this Holy Spirit to fellowship with the commune with, to learn from, to be led through life's journey. Right? So, yeah, why don't we just pray and say, Lord, we just want to commit surrender, yield to the leading of the Holy Spirit. Right? And we just say, Lord, just open our eyes and open our ears to get a fresh perspective of the presence of the Holy Spirit in my life. Right? Father, we just want to thank you, Lord. Thank you, Father God, that we have the comforter, that we have the helper, we have the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit dwelling in us. And Lord, Father God, what an awesome privilege to host the presence of the Living God. Lord, that you choose to have an act with us, that you choose to inhabit us and dwell with us, God. We thank you, Father God. Lord, we pray, may this change us from the inside out. Lord, may this change us. Yes, Lord, we are no longer orphans. We are no longer alone. We are no longer, oh God, without Lord, any help or wisdom or Lord, we are no longer like that, God, because you, the God of heaven and earth is with us. And Lord, I pray that for each one of us that let there be a fresh understanding, a fresh revelation of the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives, Master. Lord, for it is to our advantage, Lord, that you went and you sent. And Master, I pray that we'll continue to walk, Lord, with this knowledge and understanding and may be a reality. Lord, let our life change, Father God, the way we see things, the way we do things, our conversations and everything. Lord, let there be a marked difference and transformation, God. We thank you. We give you all the praise this morning. In Jesus' master's name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Okay. So, Christian leadership, we've been looking at guidelines for planning. We looked at daring to dream, right? So, I think everything is all interlinked. I was just thinking that inner wholeness, Christian leadership is interlinking or interlinked, you know? Because if you are made whole, then you're there to dream, right? Because if we are hurting, then we are inhibiting, inhibited and not really daring to dream, okay? So, yeah. So, he's able to do much more than we ask a thing. So, you know, dream big. And in all the dreaming, let God be part of it, right? In all our dreaming, in all our planning. When we say dream, we're saying, okay, think big, you know, go beyond what we are capable of, you know, in our planning and so on. So, dream big. But involve God in it, involve the Lord in it, right? Then the next one, if you look at, what are we looking at? We're looking at planning, right? Some of the tips of, you know, how ways we could go about this well, do this well. So, the next thing that we see is, it seems opposite of daring to dream, which means be realistic and be practical, okay? So, I just want to ask us this question, you know? Is being practical opposite of being spiritual? Or have people told you, you know, you just go opposite of being full of faith? Sometimes. So, what does practical mean? Logic and science? Backup plan. In case faith doesn't work, works will work. So, practical is something that is workable, right? So, we're saying, okay, is this really, in practice, is it possible? That's what we're saying, right? Is this practically possible, you know? We can have a lot of theory, we can have a lot of wonderful, you know, discussions, but in life, will this really work? At the end of it all, you know, that's the thing. So, that's being practical. But I feel, you know, sometimes we think that, you know, being a person of faith is being, not being practical. Or being a visionary is not being practical. So, having these lofty dreams and ideals is not being practical, right? But actually, it's not opposite. You know, if you look at Proverbs, the book of Proverbs, right? If you look at, if you go through those chapters, what is it about? What is it about? Practical wisdom, day to day, right? That is what is covering all aspects of life. You know, if you pick any verse, you know, it's so practical. It's so down to earth. I just turned to Proverbs 15 and verse 1. A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh tongue serves up anger. The tongue of the wise uses knowledge rightly, but the mouth of fools pours forth foolishness, right? So very practical, right? At the same time, is it spiritual? Yeah, it's the word of God, right? So, so the thing is that practical and spiritual need not contradict, you know, need not contradict each other, okay? So, it's not contradictory. It's just that, you know, when I'm thinking, when I'm dreaming, you know, is it grounded? Is it workable? I'm sure you've read that book by Pastor Ashish, you know, being heavenly minded and earthly wise, right? So, which means that we, yeah, we need to be heavenly minded. We are living in two different realities, right? We are seated within the heavenly places at the same time, you know, on earth as well, living out our physical life here. So, we have access to two realities, two realms, the spiritual realm and the physical realm, right? That is, in our spirit, with our spiritual realm, we access, you know, the spiritual realm and, you know, the, whatever is there, the gifts and everything, which is part of the spiritual realm and we access by faith. At the same time, we walk on the earth, right, in the physical, natural realm. So, we have this privilege of doing that, right? So, one other thing, so the thing is when it comes to planning, when we say be practical, it doesn't mean that I'm not spirit-led or we should not be, you know, people of faith, etc., right? Efficiency 5 verses 15 to 17, see then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. You know, you see the whole thing, right? Saying, the will of the Lord, be wise, walk circumspectly, meaning be careful, redeem the time, don't waste time, right? And saying, understand what the will of the Lord is, right? So, will of the Lord, His Word, His ways, right? So, just wanted to share that, right? So, being practical doesn't mean that it's opposite of faith or opposite of being spiritual, right? Okay, so let's look at some, quickly go through some of these practical tips, right? Or planning hacks, if you want to call it that, right? Okay, so start with what you have, okay? So many times we are waiting, constantly waiting for that big thing to happen or, you know, big thing or big, whatever resources to come around, etc. And we never get started, so start with what you have. Do not take on more than what you can handle. Okay, so maybe in that season, we thought about season, right? Maybe you are in that season and we have certain responsibilities which go with the season. So, considering all that, don't take on more than what you can handle. Does that mean that I cannot stretch? Does that mean I cannot put in more effort? Right? So, it's talking about stretching and putting in an effort with all that, don't take on more than what you can handle, right? So, yes, when we stretch, we are capable of much more. Sometimes we, you know, we downplay or we are not even aware of our full abilities and potential. But at the same time there are, we know that humanly there are limits. We get exhausted, you know, our energy is limited, right? Our strength. Yes, we are capable of a lot, but it's limited. We need times of rest, refreshing, recuperation, right? So, with all that, with all the stretch, with all the efforts, don't take on more than what you can handle, okay? Gather information about the task at hand. Okay, when you're planning for, maybe it's something that, maybe it's a church plan, maybe it's something that you want to take up, some projects, some, something that you want to organize, some outreach. Find out information. There's always enough and more, right? There are a lot of resources to gather information. Probably 13, 16 says every prudent man acts with knowledge, right? So, knowledge is information that you put together that is processed. But a fool lays open his folly, okay? Next one, you will not know everything. And that's true, right? So, we sometimes wish we had more information or more knowledge or, you know, more things about what will happen in the days ahead and all that. But we will not have full information, right? So, there is, there seems to be that gap. Somewhere we need to step off, right? The steps or the path seems to end. No, it's not laid out anymore, right? So, go with that. Plan with what we do know and step forward, right? Problems 20, 24, the man steps are of the Lord. How then can a man understand his own way, right? So, which means that the Lord is ordering or daining the steps. And sometimes, yes, it seems as if we don't know enough, right? I wish that these steps would be revealed. The five steps or ten steps ahead will be revealed. But it's not, but then go with what you have, okay? Then, don't be in a hurry, take things one step at a time, okay? Sometimes we want to fast forward things and just, it doesn't work, right? At the same time, I just want to say don't delay also, right? Sometimes, we delay unnecessarily delay waiting for things to happen and we end up not taking a step, right? So, don't be in a hurry. At the same time, you know, don't delay unnecessarily or postpone things, right? Then the next one is know your priorities. Know what needs to be done first, okay? In all this planning and, you know, what is the sequence of things? What is of the highest importance that needs to be addressed, okay? Problems 24-7, a great insight says, prepare your outside work, make it fit for yourself in the field and afterward, build your house. It's talking about the order, talking about the priority and importance. Prepare some, you know, prepare the outside work first. Write things down, okay? How many of us are in the habit of writing or in the habit of just knowing that my mind is there, you know, I can remember everything, right? I won't follow, okay, okay. So, that's about, that's the next thing. Next point, you know, that we need to look at. But yeah, the thing is to write down because we forget, right? We forget some of the things. It's good to, when I say write down, it's good to record somewhere. Maybe it's a voice note. Maybe it's something digital that you, you know, type in and, you know, save. But, you know, file it away, save it, document. Maybe, you know, out of the 10 things, sometimes we forget that those two important things, right, that you thought of. And then because we've not made a note of it, we forget, right? So, document it. Communicate the plan. You know, if it involves people, other people communicate the plan so that everybody knows that this is what we want to do, okay? Okay, sixth one about when it comes to planning, receive Godly counsel. Have God speak into your life, you know. The thing is that we are not alone in this, you know, whether it's ministry or work or anything. We, you know, God speaks to people, there are others whom God has blessed or God has taken them through and whom, you know, who can be a big help in our life, in our ministry, right? And sometimes God sends these people our way, right? I remember like as a new believer, as a young believer, there was this friend who always used to visit my house and it'll be on a, normally it'll be on a Saturday, you know, we'll meet and I remember that every time he visits and meets, I'll be so refreshed in my faith, in my walk with God so refreshing because he'll be talking about a lot of testimonies he'll share, a lot of information about what's happening in the, you know, what God is doing in the city, among the youth, in the colleges and so, you know, my faith will be so refreshed, right? So I remember that every time he comes and speaks, there's, there's so much of refreshing. Another person whom God would use in a very, very unusual way is like, I will have questions, I will have gone through some challenges and problems but, and then he would visit and we would talk and the conversation or the, some of the things that he shares will be exactly the kind of question, answers to the questions that I've been having, like that whole week, whatever questions that I had or whatever challenges that I had or whatever things that I was struggling with during the course of the conversation, what he shares will be those answers. So all I'm saying is that God will use, God will use others who have, you know, whom he has prepared, who have, you know, maybe more experience and more knowledge and understanding and wisdom, so we can receive, there's nothing wrong to receive counsel, Godly counsel, right? And Probs 1114 talks about the importance of receiving that counsel, you know, it says where there is no counsel or wise, you know, advice, the people fall, but in the multitude of counselors, there is safety, okay? And then several other, you know, scriptures in probably as well about correction and about receiving instruction and how plans are established by counsel, Probs 20 years 18. So, so we can always learn from others, but be discerning as well, right? Because, you know, others would share, you know, sometimes people in their sincerity share, this is what you should do, right? And, but the thing is that their situation was different, their experience was different. The factors were different, right? So, so you be discerning, you know, that's the spirit of God witness, the spirit of God, you know, bring you to a place of agreement with what they are sharing, be discerning, right? Okay, the seventh one is when it comes to planning, don't be afraid to revise your plan, okay? Maybe something is not working, maybe you feel that, okay, here is something that is even better, right? Revise your plan. Proverbs 16, 3, permit your works to the Lord and your thoughts will be established, you know, very important verse that comes to planning and everything, you know, involving God and committing and submitting, you know, all those ideas and, you know, projects and everything to God says, commit your works and your thoughts will be established. Verse 9 Same chapter, a man's heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps. So, we are continually being open to the Lord's direction. So we plan, you know, let's say you plan something and you put down everything on paper and it looks good and it seems very watertight, you know, give space for the Lord to act on it, give space for the Lord to move and speak and make some changes, right? It could be it could be in several ways, you know, practically it could be maybe I'm just thinking maybe a worship leader maybe a, you know, maybe a sermon that you're preparing, maybe an outreach that you're preparing, so many ways, right? Practically if you see give space for the Lord, right? And if the Lord wants to make some changes and he's giving some new thoughts and, you know, some things to be operated, do that, revise that. And maybe the Lord says, okay, now is not the time you know, be ready to just go with it, wait, right? Be patient, okay? The next thing, okay, the most important part of planning is not planning itself, but why we are planning, okay? Because some of us get very excited about planning. Wow, good, good, pen paper, let's all sit down and get some coffee and get some snacks. Come, come, you know, let's, let's plan, okay? Whiteboard, charts, everything. But the, that is just a journey, right? But the objective is that we need to work it out. We need to implement the plan. Sorry? How we can? So, may I just use the mic now? Sorry. Like sometimes we plan for things, we keep our schedules, but we miss them, like we can't able to do it because of maybe time schedules or because sometimes we are not well and because sometimes we just write it but we can't keep it into action but what are the things that we can take or the steps we can take in forward to or do the work of the plan. To implement it. Yeah, so practical things. So we look at a few things, you know, it's coming up in our scheduling so a few things are there so we look at it. But what I think the thing is for us to understand that, you know, all these lists, all these plans that I make, you have that execution mentality or I want to do it. Okay. And to be aware that all these tasks are going to take time. Sometimes we plan, you know, the days plan look like as if we have some 48 hours in that day. It's put in so many things, it's like, wow, I just want to do this, do this, do this. I want to finish this. It doesn't happen. So be, you know, yeah, and then, you know, it's like how we plan. I mean, I used to plan like that for my exams. Three months back, three months back, you know, I'll have some 20 days for each subject. Then finally it becomes one day. Yeah, and then suddenly even the day before I'm like thinking, you know, I think I have time for resting. Maybe I have time to read the story book and all that. And finally just rushing, right? Yeah, so procrastinate, you know, delay. So all these things. So we can, so we need to understand that one is, okay, these tasks have some degree of difficulty and it takes time. So I'm going to do it. And one thing is to time box it. Saying that this task that I'm doing, maybe I need to draw this picture. I'm going to take this time. Put a limit to it. Start time, end time. Do it. And then after that, you might, because we might have some 20 things to do in a day, you know, let's say for example, and then your time box is saying that I need to finish it within this. Give yourself that, put that pressure to do it well, to do it, you know, in a perfect manner without mistakes, etc. I need to give this time. So give it to you. Give it that time. And now since we have our phones and everything, you can actually put those alarms, like put a stopwatch. Yeah. And then it just rings and then stops. And then you need to, you need to discipline ourselves to, you know, move on to the next task. So implementation, Proverbs 12 verse 11 says, he who tilts his land will be satisfied with that, but he who follows privility is devoid of understanding. So we want to do some good research. Okay. And you say, okay, let me check on YouTube. Okay. You started well, okay, on the subject, but by the end of the research, you're looking at some songs, you're watching some songs, you're watching some interesting videos on how to make, you know, butter chicken or, you know, where do you start and where are you finishing, right? So somewhere we just lost. Hey, that's a nice thing. That's a nice thing. So it says that he who follows frivolity is devoid of understanding in the sense, you know, I want some entertainment. We tell ourselves, I need some rest. I need to be entertained and then we, you know, we go, we'd get distracted. Like verse 27, the lazy man does not roast what he took in hunting, but diligence is man's precious possession. So diligence, which means focused effort and, you know, being aware of how we spend our time is very important. So planning is the beginning. We must be diligent to work out the plan. See, also, you know, we plan certain things and the certain urgent or requirements come up all the time. And we're going to look at that like how we need to delegate certain things, you know, for example, if it's possible, certain things we need to do. It's my responsibility. It's our responsibility. We cannot avoid it. Maybe it's something urgent, something very important. So we do it. But if certain things are there, certain demands are there, can that be you know, shelved so that what you planned to finish be done? We need to take a call. We need to decide is it important enough or can I do it later? So the present circumstances, you know, will always be there. There will be always some demands on our time or what needs to be done, but what needs, you know, what we should be doing be diligent enough to do it. Then the other thing is it's not enough to be busy but to ask ourselves, you know, am I busy doing what needs to be done or am I busy doing the right thing? Because a lot of activity, a lot of busyness does not mean that I'm being productive. I might be busy in some certain days where goes by where morning to evening I've been busy. I mean busy doing a lot of things and I'm thinking, you know, what did I do actually, right? And that happens when we, either when we have not planned or we have not been careful to check our plan with regard to the time that is just going ahead. So we've been busy. We've been doing things. It's not that we didn't do the important things or whatever, but what was planned did not happen. Did not take place, right? Okay. Any questions on this, about planning? So we looked at how planning is not, you know, it's not the opposite of spiritual. Like God is a God of plan and order and we looked at certain scriptures also, which you know, which we can misplace scripture which we can, we misapply to say that we should not plan, but that's not true, right? So with regard to warring, with regard to the Lord coming back and, you know, so on. So we see that God is the God of plan. He does what He purposes and so on. So we have him as an example and we'll be very effective, right, when we plan things. Okay. Okay. To no questions I think at all. Okay. So let's move on to another aspect. So which is organizing, it planning organizing, right? So we looked at vision, we looked at mission, we looked at goals, objectives and plans to achieve these goals. So when it comes to organizing, you know, this is also part of executing the vision or fulfilling the vision, right? So we need to organize. What does organize mean? To keep in order to arrange to put in place, right? Simple things that come to my mind is, you know, our clothes, right? At home, you know, do we, are we organized as personally are we organized, you know? To find some things, are we, do we spend some 15 minutes just searching, right? If you want to find keys, if you want to find your phone, if you want to find, you know, are you constantly searching or do you find it easily, right? So if you organize, then there is a set place for the set for the things, right? So we know, okay, this goes here, this goes there and so easy retrieval when you want to use it and and also effectiveness. Okay. So that's in a simple way. Arranging and systematic in orderly manner, right? So, but we look at organizations or ministries and teams and so on. So we need to understand that oh, by the way, you know, this, you will be learning in detail in church administration. I think that's coming next semester, I think, church administration. So, so you'll be leaning, learning this a little bit more in detail in depth of all these aspects, right? So anyway, so we know that every ministry has spiritual aspect of it, okay? And it also has organizational aspect of it, right? So spiritual aspect, meaning when it comes to ministry, what are some spiritual aspects or spiritual responsibilities? Let's say church for example, what is the spiritual aspect of a church? So, so when you say, you know, evangelism, discipleship, you know, prayer, spiritual growth, maturity, you know, so those are the spiritual aspects or spiritual responsibilities of it, church, right? Seeking God, pursuing God, worship, prayer, everything. Okay. So that's a big part of it. But also we should understand that the, you know, ministry and church and, you know, it has a organizational aspect of it. Okay. So what does that mean? That means like, okay, let's say we just take a church, for example, maybe church building, right? Maybe you're renting it, sorry? Congregation members, huh? Number, okay, number hmm. Yeah. So, so, yeah, maybe the growing or not. Yeah, so if the congregation comes in for worship, you know, you're invited, so where are they going to gather? How many are there? Where are they going to, you know, gather and, you know, is it a building? Is it something that you're renting? Something that you're buying, right? So all this is the organizational side of things, you know, and if it's a building, has the rent been paid? Is there electricity? Is there water? Like simple example we went to, we went to Kalyan last year. Okay. Now it was, it was raining and the previous day, the day of the meeting also, and on Sunday, we went on Saturday, so Saturday's meeting it was, it was fine Sunday because of the rain, there was some you know, disruption, power disrupted, connection was gone. So the whole day there was no power. Okay, the whole day and you can imagine Mumbai after rains, moist, you know, the humidity, heat everything. The whole day there was no power and so we had the evening, I mean, so we had the Sunday morning service, everything, but we actually planned for a worship, worship team training, okay, worship team workshop in the second half, post lunch. Now the thing is the water could not be pumped. There's no power, water could not be pumped. So there's no water in the overhead banks, no water in the taps, no water in the toilet. Right, so and we had actually asked for, there was about 50, or 45 to 50 odd people, I think were willing to come be part of the workshop and all that. Finally, we had to cancel it because the thing said that there won't be any power for the rest of the day. So we see that the organizational side is important, right, is or we would say that that influences the spiritual side of it, impacts the spiritual side of it. Right, the spiritual side obviously very important, that also impacts the organizational side of it, the processes, the systems and everything. So both go hand in hand. The mistake we could make is emphasize only the spiritual, leave out the organizational, there'll be utter chaos. Okay, we're having a full day meeting, we're having lunch, who's in charge, I don't know, what time will it come, we don't know, where are we going to serve the food, we'll somehow manage somewhere here, here, there, where are people going to wash their hands, so that's going to be chaotic, right? And people will be hungry and the second half of it is going to be a problem, right? On time, delays, all those things happen. So these go hand in hand, okay, we need to understand that, right? So emphasizing the organizational part and leaving the spiritual aspect of it, again, that results in chaos and everything is very well done, systems, process, organized, but something is empty on the inside because the spiritual aspect is not given importance, okay? Okay, so when we look at the organizational side of things, okay, so four broad areas where we can organize, organize the church or ministry, organize the people, right, because we know that ministry, church, everything is about people, organizing our schedule, right, how we spend our time, organizing our finances, how we spend our money, okay? So organizing church or ministry will always help us to function better, to minister better, okay? And it's on the basis of the people whom we are ministering too, okay? So when we look at a church or ministry, okay, who are the people that we are reaching with our ministry? Okay, what is it that we are doing in our ministry and who are the people whom we are reaching, okay? So if you look at a church typically, the church is involved in evangelism, so there are people outside the church that we are ministering to, right? So which means that we need to organize that aspect of it or that ministry, evangelism reaching out, maybe it is reaching out people not in the city but beyond the city, other cities or, you know, so we call that missions extending beyond our geographical location, right, missions. So that can be one area of ministry which needs to be organized. And also it would also mean, you know, building people who are part of the church, right, discipleship, spiritual growth, fellowship and so on. So based on that, we can actually broadly, you know, organize our ministries, right? So you have these things. So if we focus, okay, what are these ministries within the church? List them up and what should we do? How should we do it? What are the ministries which are, you know, we are reaching people outside the church? So based on the people whom we are serving, the people whom we are reaching, we organize our church and ministry, okay? Second thing we said, organize the people, okay? So people who are involved in serving, leading, etc., you know, so how do we organize the people in the ministry, okay? So the best thing is to see, okay, if there is a ministry area or overseeing a ministry effort to have leaders, to have leaders for that particular ministry area, it could be maybe, you know, just taking an example from, you know, our own church, okay, let's say life group ministry, right? Or we have a ministry like working professionals ministry. So we have ministry leaders who will oversee that, right? So what is the advantage of that? Helpful in? In overseeing, in giving a direction to that ministry, whatever efforts that needs to go into that ministry, whatever planning that needs to go into it, right? So of course we will, you know, we will look at it much more in depth, but then we have someone who is leading and let's say that person is trained, that person has the vision, that person is equipped, gifted for that, then you as an overseer of that entire church ministry, you are free to focus on other things and give whatever guidance is required, right? So the actual work. So in doing that, that person who is the leader is also fulfilling God's call on his or her life. So as a pastor slash leader, whatever, we are actually facilitating them to fulfill God's call on their life, right? Rather than doing everything ourselves, we are actually making space for them to fulfill God's call. See, other things like being aligned to the vision, being gifted in that area, having a call, you know, having a heart for all that, you know, needs to be looked into, right? But then this is what happens when we organize it rather than, you know, one person who is just running the whole thing, he organizes that, okay, this is the ministry area, have you defined that ministry area, right? And having done that, if you would give an appoint leader, so ministry leaders. So within the ministry, there could be different teams, right? So making sure that, okay, this is a function to, you know, you recognize, identify the ministry, recognize and identify the function within that ministry, okay? So even in Bible, you know, Bible college, I'm sure that you, okay, Bible college is a ministry, but within the Bible college, there are certain functions or some certain processes that are happening, okay? One is we have, okay, classes, classes are happening. What else? Agonization, hostels, what else is there? For the students, so the post classes, there could be certain things, right? And food is another outreaches, right? So this is one thing. And then if you look at the Bible college overall, if you see the whole process of administration overall thing and also admissions, which admissions is part of it, you know, there's so many different maintenance of the physical maintenance of the venue, right? So there are different functions within that overall ministry. So which means these functions, if it is big enough, if it is going to require time and effort, these need to have a leader. You can say a team leader or you know, somebody who is actually doing it, he needs to look after that. So when we set up things, and I'm sure, like, if you're serving in a church or if you're overseeing a church, you know, you've had that experience, just for us to know that, okay, this function needs a leader, right? It is an important function and without the leader, that function is going to suffer, okay? So we have that, okay? Then, of course, there are others who can serve in different areas, different functional teams, but you know, maybe they are volunteers, they are serving. Now, volunteers can be in all this, you know, ministry leaders, team leaders, they can be volunteers as well, right? Okay. Then, so we looked at organizing the church or ministry, organizing people, organizing our time, okay? Which is our schedule, our time, okay? So we need to know that time is a resource, okay? When we say resource, I'm sure we understand, you know, the first thing that comes to our mind is money. Money is a resource, something valuable, something that we use, something that is necessary. We need to understand that people are also resource, right? People are valuable, people are a resource. That's why we call it you know, human resource department or human resource manager or, you know, so human resource. So human, people are resource, resources. The third thing is that time is also a resource, right? This time is something valuable and in fact, it is something that cannot be, you know, once you, once time goes by, you cannot renew it, right? So that's the thing. You can't really say, okay, I want to add some more hours to the day or some more days to the month, right? It's a non-renewable resource, right? Like they say, you know, so it's good to organize so that we use our time well, okay? So, yeah, so you couldn't have calendars, right? So you can have an annual calendar where you can plan things for the entire year, right? Or and also a monthly calendar where you can plan for that month, right? So how many Sundays are there in a year? 52. 52 and I don't know if it's a leap year, I don't know if you can have one more. Anyway, 52 Sundays typically and, you know, if you're talking about a church ministry 52 Sundays, 52 times to minister and you might have some additional services like let's say Easter Sunday, sorry, Good Friday, Christmas, New Year this may or may not fall on a, Good Friday definitely not on a Sunday. So these are things that so you can plan ahead. You have an annual calendar and you plan, okay, what is going to happen on these days, right? So in APC this calendar annual calendar actually starts getting formed by October of the year for the next year, right? So October 2023 is when all this planning happens so that by January we know okay, these are the dates for some of those main things like conferences, other things, okay? So have you seen any of those calendars? Anyone? No? No? You've seen? Where? Yeah, yeah so please check, right? So it's there on the website if you go to let me just share that and then probably we can end so if you go to APC website events church calendar, okay? So let me just share that tab, okay, is it there? Can you see it on the screen? Okay, yeah so if you see it's February much the whole year and so it has some of these main events regarding the youth. So if you see this coming Sunday there is the youth meeting happening at APC South there is also the water baptism service that's happening, APC Central right? And so on. So these main events, these worship team shoots, many weekend schools everything is entered there so the dates are mentioned there so that way the entire schedule for the year is there. Now there is scope for change, right? In case certain things need to be changed, certain things are maybe cancelled, all that is there but then it is planned and kept so that everybody is aware of it right? So what happens is when we need to announce it to the church the media team just goes with this, look at the calendar they prepare whatever announcements and they go with it, right? If you see it also has the pulpit calendar okay, so I'm sharing that. So the pulpit calendar is mainly for the month okay so it talks about what are the church locations who is sharing where okay, if you see that it's who sharing where and also it talks about what are the messages, right? I'm just rolling the cursor over, you know, the power of the tongue second Sunday the power of the spoken word, third Sunday faith speaks, fourth Sunday healed by stripes, right? And then these are the people who are speaking at different locations so on, okay? So yeah, so this is one way of scheduling for the year or for the month, how we can organize the time, organize the schedule of the ministry, right? So this is useful and quite effective okay, so we'll stop here and catch up next week, okay