 Good morning everyone, it's such a joy to connect with each one of you this morning. So glad that you could connect on the mentoring hour call, which we will have every week. Want to take this time to especially welcome our faculty and of course, all the students who are connecting with us. And then I will share briefly about the mentoring call, what it is all about. And then we will move ahead with the session for today. So let's begin with the word of the day. Tell me father, we thank and praise you for this opportunity that we can connect online. God, we thank you for this platform where we can share our hearts or the things even as we do is that the only suitable minister to our hearts strengthen each one of us in our faith, strengthen us, father in this journey that we are making with you. Or thank you for every single student who's on this call. And each one is trying to connect to the call. Father, I pray that we will have a blessed time together in Jesus name. All right. So I know that we have students who have enrolled for the current current courses at ABC Bible College. We also have students who are continuing with us from last year. What we generally do on this call is that we take some time to answer questions that any of the students have. Now these questions can be pertaining to our Christian life, or they could be about Christian ministry. They can be questions from what we are learning in our different courses. They can be questions outside or beyond the courses that we are learning. But it's a wonderful platform for open discussions and to just hear from each other. So I want to encourage all the students to please feel comfortable. If there's something that you've been thinking about, you can just go ahead and ask the question. Our faculty will do their best to give you biblical answers regarding that particular topic. So that's how we generally go through the mentoring hour that happens. So I will leave the time open for us to begin to ask questions. Yes, we have some more students joining in. So that's nice. That's wonderful. But if there's anything that one of you want to begin with a question, then please feel free to go ahead and we will be more than happy to address that question. So before we get into the questions, how has Bible College been so far? Since it's just been about 10 days maybe since our orientation. I know that this is a very special decision for each of you. We'd love to hear from you about how you're liking it, how the last 10 days have been. It's got ministering to you through the classes that you are attending every day. So would somebody like to share about that while we wait for some questions to come in soon? Please feel free. You can unmute and speak. So all of us will be able to hear you. Maybe I'll begin with our faculty. I'll request Pasasalina, how has it been the last 10 days for you as you're teaching your courses? Good morning everyone and just glad to be back teaching at the Bible College. It's a privilege and a responsibility and it's a huge learning experience for me as well because just going back through the same courses and preparing brings back so much of truth from God's Word which kind of enlightens me and also refreshes my understanding and also ministers to me in my life and the areas of struggles and challenges that I'm going through. Just powerful reminders of the truth from God's Word and we know God's Word is powerful and active and encourages and strengthens and builds us. So for me teaching is a learning for myself, just learning all the truths, reiterating the truths, also getting into a deeper understanding of God's Word and also how it ministers to me in my walk of life and how God speaks to me even as I prepare and I just enjoy it even though it takes a lot of time and energy but I enjoy the whole process and just praying that I just be excellent in what I do and how I communicate God's truth just impart it into your lives just asking the Holy Spirit for his leading and guiding. Thank you Pastor Nancy. Thank you Pastor Selena, such a blessing to hear that though you are ministering God is ministering to you as you prepare and as you teach these courses so God bless you that's an inspiration and we pray God's wisdom over your life as you continue these courses. Thank you Pastor Nancy. Thank you so I'm leaving this time open if there's anyone who'd also like to share how it's been last over the last 10 days you may share and if there's anyone with a question please feel comfortable either you can post it in the chat or you can just unmute and ask the question. Good morning Pastor Nancy, this is Esther from Hyderabad. Hello Esther, good morning, welcome. Yeah really amazed too just as you are saying the past 10 days it's just like yesterday and like the way we have begun you know laying axe to the road you know jealousy lust you know all these things which are really most neglected but you know it's really set a tone for beginning the courses and what I loved and I'm so glad God has given the opportunity is the love and the passion and the gentleness which all the faculty are showing us like so close to you know feeling the presence of God and the way you speak and the way it's an easy material to understand however the way it's being explained and portrayed you know we feel such a mighty anointing of God every word has life and it's speaking to us directly and I'm really glad and I'm so thankful to God that he has given me this opportunity to you know enroll in here and also make time to attend the classes regularly say thank and glorify God and I thank all the people who are behind APC and such a professional as such a flawless and you know committed and loving passionate work I mean many words I'm using but all of them are from the heart and I'm really really blessed by this and really like it's 10 days I'm really asking myself is it but thank you so much for being there for us I'm sure it'll be an enriching and make us very close to God and he will definitely enable all these learnings in our lives to be portrayed and not only just listen but you know put into action whenever we get a chance so thank you so much for this opportunity first in ANSI thank you thank you Esther I'm so grateful to you that you shared this morning it's an encouragement for all of us here as a team to hear what you're saying grateful for your very kind words let's continue to pray for this is God's work through his spirit and we really want to see that play out we really want to see God work in all of our lives so let's continue to pray for the poses as they unfold let it be a blessing to each one of us thank you Esther Lucy has shared her comment here in the chat she says sister for me it's been a great journey as I attended the classes of faith it strengthened me at the situations I passed through the week God just asked God's just asking me to cling on to the promises just to stand on it as God spoke to from the very first day sickness is not unto death it's only to glorify God and my Lord through thank you sister she has added I want some other word which is more than thank you to praise God and also to learn God's word daily building me and working upon upon my faith wow that that's what we look forward to yes we are learning God's word but we want us to become hungry by the day and to just have greater sensitivity a greater capacity to receive more of what God is pouring out so yes let's let's continue to seek the Lord for more of his word to learn more of his word thank you Lucy I really appreciate your feedback there so if anyone has a question we can begin to take up questions thank you to those who are continuing to share about your experience here Daniel says actually I was looking for a Bible college which had distance learning but as far as I have searched I didn't find any some people told it's not possible to find any such college I found some college but the college was focusing on their own denomination but after attending ABC I could feel that ABC is all about keeping Jesus first without any other agenda all the staff are so dedicated towards teaching study material is so good praise God for every good thing thank you Daniel yeah we praise God for the opportunity to minister and we continue to pray that God will strengthen us glad to know of your experience so if anyone has a question please feel free you can you can pose it to the faculty here sister I want to say something oh yes yes sister get through please go ahead yes I just want to thank God for the and for all the faculty members in Bangalore APC college for giving me this opportunity well I'm a senior person and I'm now presently calling from Chicago it's night here night time and I come because my daughter was sick and to be with them so I felt that teaching was excellent because there's so many things I had done a bachelor in divinity but I did self-study and I couldn't find out so many details on my own but I'm so glad that I joined this and I'm getting to know the details of who we are in Christ about worship prayer intercession all these things I'm learning from scratch because this is my desire and my quest to learn even at my age I am so interested and I'm waiting for this opportunity to hear the time 10 o'clock you know to connect and this is my main reason is you know I have a lot of family problems which maybe later on I'll give testimony but my desire is to counsel children with mental health family marriages and this is why I want to do the theology the complete course and then the additional course and I found that your college is really excellent and I'm learning so much and I just thank each and every one of you and I thank God thank you sister and yes and we appreciate you for connecting even though it's you know quite late evening you have still chosen to connect to the call today and we greatly appreciate that we really appreciate the fact that you have chosen APC Bible College to study at and we God bless you and continue to strengthen you in him thank you thank you so much for sharing yeah another thing I want to ask you is I'll be traveling you know and those days I will miss my classes so can I do it later on when I have the time I'm in those missed days okay so as us to get to it as we have already communicated regarding the online courses we would want you to have an 85% attendance so can you keep that in mind even if you miss a few classes the overall aggregate of your attendance has to be 85% so that is a requirement for you to clear your course so please keep that in mind if you do miss a few sessions that should be all right but if it goes beyond 85 then you know for you to get a course completion will be difficult so I hope that answers your question thank you thank you thank you thank you sister just to add to Basan Nancy who get to just ask if she can catch on with the lectures yes the lectures will be posted on the Google Classroom so you could listen to any lecture that you missed sure yeah thank you thank you passes again that's good so let's continue and there are questions please go ahead and post them I can see is that a question from Lucy my question is how do we answer the people when people ask why God is allowed something to pass why is he silent how to convince them so this is the question that Lucy has she's asking how can we explain or answer to people when they say that you know God has allowed something to happen something something that that has happened how do we explain this to people I just want to request any of our faculty to please go ahead and address this question and possibly pick up would you please be able to take up Lucy's question yes um yeah Lucy this is a very valid question because people ask us why is it that I have placed my faith in the Lord and yet he has allowed permitted this particular event to take place you know in my family's life or something of the sort so what we can assure them of is you know remind them of all the verses that we have which speak of the great faithfulness of the Lord so the Lord chooses to operate in his own way he works in different people's lives and circumstances differently so that is his choice in his you know all wise wisdom which has no limits and even though he has the power to do absolutely anything whenever he wishes he chooses in his great wisdom to use his power to work in our situations according to his perfect will and because his thoughts are much higher than our thoughts sometimes we don't quite understand why he is choosing to operate in a certain way but we have all these scriptures to to assure us and strengthen us and comfort us in the meantime you know with all these verses which speak of his great faithfulness and his love that endures forever endures through even the toughest circumstances that we you know could face so when anyone asks why is it that I have not why why has he not intervened in my situations yet or why is he being silent and has not spoken and done something we can always say the Lord will work in his ways but he has promised us that he is a God of faithfulness and we see his character very clearly reflected in all of the scriptures so we hold on to that we hold on to who he is and you know we look at all the examples of what he has done for people in the Bible when they called out to him and we just hold on in faith because everything that is presented in the scriptures is truth and we can trust it hundred percent and even as we continue to wait in faith the Lord will work out things in his time so we need to you know submit to his sovereignty and allow him to work in his own way so if he is choosing to be silent for a short season he has some perfect purpose in mind for that so we trust in him we trust in who he is we trust in what he has shown of himself in the scriptures and so we can maybe use please go ahead so I think I think the question is you know if you put it very simply the question is why is there evil in this world so it's so I think what the question asked is you know why why are bad things happening in this world when you say there's a good God why are there even why is there evil happening in this world there's war there are all kinds of evil happening you see that happening in our own nation so when you say God is there when you say God is sovereign and you say God is in control the question is why are bad things happening in this world whether it is whether it is at a personal level or whether it's you know something outside around us so I think the correct answer again you're looking at it from scripture one is the fact that God is not doing all this you know God is not the one committing wars and crimes and wickedness why do those things happen for several reasons one there is sin in this world and man essentially is sinful so a lot of the evil that we see in this world it's not God doing it it's sinful man doing it why do people go to wars why do people kill steal commit crime abuse women like we've seen in our own country why is that happening it's not God doing it it's sinful man who is doing it then somebody says why is God allowing it because God is we see he's given humans the freedom to choose you know the very fact that he allowed Adam and Eve to sin he didn't come in and suffer just let it happen why because he created humans with the freedom to choose so why is there evil in this world one because people are sinful people commit evil things second the devil is active in this world so there are a lot of things that are happening it's the devil's work it's not God doing it you know so it's the devil doing it if the truth comes to steal kill and destroy so God is sovereign but he has permitted the devil to operate on the earth for this given time and the devil is doing all kinds of evil things this will come to an end when you know we see in Revelation the 20th chapter when when Jesus comes and sets up his kingdom the devil's you know work of terror on the earth will come to an end but until such time evil is happening it comes against believers and non-believers it's the devil doing it we don't say God is doing it's the devil doing it the third reason why evil is happening in this world Romans chapter 8 Paul explains that from that fall everything went into a state of corruption that means everything God designed everything beautiful in the garden there was no sin there was no sickness there was no decay of any sense any sort so God created everything perfect that is his will that is his intent but since the fall everything went into a state of corruption so that's why people are born with deformities God didn't make them like that but why are people born with deformities why are people born with abnormalities why does our body wear out God didn't design our body to wear out but why does the body wear out because Romans chapter 8 explains from the fall corruption has set in and all of creation is subject to corruption there is a process of decay that has caused everything in this world to deviate from its original design so God is sovereign God is absolute bad in the world today there are three things that are happening one sin is at work through human beings the devil is at work and there's a process of corruption so these are the reasons why evil is happening and God for this time has allowed these things to go on and should be called is God responsible for this no God is not doing it right so what's the belief so that's how we can explain to somebody who's asking the question you know why does a good God allow bad things to happen in this world it's not God doing it but he's permitted this and we know the end of the story Revelation the 20th chapter as a reference earlier says all this is going to change there's going to be a new heavens in the new earth but there will be no wickedness no sin no pain none of these things right so in the midst of all this what's your the believer's responses somebody asks okay what's the the believer should stand up against this the believer should not accept this and say this is God doing it to me that's not the believer's response the Bible says we have to resist the devil the Bible says we have to resist sin the Bible says we need to you know believe God he's our Jehovah Rafa our healer our provider so God is at work countering the effects of sin satan and the corruption that's in this world I hope that puts things in perspective you can ask the follow question if you wish sorry to interrupt little bit thanks thank you pastor thank you pastor Ashish and thank you pastor Dupika for answering Lucy's question Lucy we hope that your your question has been addressed completely if you have anything more to ask you you may do so I can see her comment on the chat she says thank you pastor all right yeah it's been addressed thank you Lucy I will get back to chat here Pankaj her job has posted my name is Pankaj from Assam I thank ABC from the court of my heart because it's a it's a blessing for me I was always wanting to do theology studies but I could not go for it due to the lack of finances but God has blessed me with this precious college I really thank from my heart in Jesus name thank you Pankaj we are so glad to know that you're being ministered to through the college and we pray that you know God will continue to lead you and strengthen you in himself we have another comment here from Sanjay he says good morning to everyone it's been about two weeks since I started my classes at APC Bible College I'm returning to college after nearly 30 years and it's truly a blessing to be a student here the faculty is excellent and the teaching is inspiring I love the course curriculum which is truly refreshing it's like attending church every day for me give my regards to the entire faculty at APC Bible College you're a blessing to us students thank you Sanjay so encouraging to hear from you God bless you I is there someone who raised their hand to ask a question if so please go ahead you may ask your question okay um all right the Supra Deep has introduced himself they are nice that you're here on this call Supra Deep good to have you Suzy Villu says how do I respond to a very devout Hindu friend who's recently diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer who keeps telling me about the strength she finds in the devotion to her gods she's open to Bible verses and messages too so how to communicate about God and his nature to someone who believes in other philosophies and has a strong faith in those philosophies how to speak to them okay all right so Suzy I just want to clarify you want you want to share about Jesus with this friend is is that your specific question yes pastor okay she's open to uh she tells me to wait for any Bible verses that I share later but then she also talks about the joy she gets out of all the online meditation sessions all right okay thank you Suzy I'll leave it open for our faculty if anyone wants to step in and address this please do can I can I just say I'm yes so I'm actually driving awesome please forgive the there's any noise in the back um yeah so Suzy what we would do is you know it's a very very sensitive you know time and a person's life like this they fight in cancer and so one is of course we need to uh emotionally you know come alongside them and support them emotionally and we don't want to speak anything that would be hurtful uh that would uh you know damage or in any way affect their their own you know whatever journey they're making if they're drawing strength emotional strength from whatever source leave it at that don't you know we shouldn't push that but as believers you know what would are you know what should we be sensitive about one is uh for their own salvation that's the most important thing right um whether they get healed and come out of the cancer or you know if it's in in a very if it's in a terminal stage and they're going to die uh the most important thing is their eternity where they're going to spend eternity so our goal should be I just to share the gospel of Jesus Christ you know we we can never force anybody to receive Christ we can never uh you know uh that that conviction is the work of the Holy Spirit of the Spirit of God who can mix the world of sin righteousness and judgment you know John 16 verse 8 to 11 so what we should do is you know because she is open uh to listening to scriptures and I'll try to primarily share the gospel uh talk to her about you know eternity about salvation to faith in Jesus Christ present that to her see if she's open um the other aspect of course is to believe God for healing for her and again we want to do this in a way that is you know that shouldn't hurt her but just say can I pray for your healing in the name of the Lord Jesus and and and um and try to bring a try to pray for her uh for her healing uh and also just point her to the stories of Jesus in the gospel where people were healed from all kinds of sicknesses and all kinds of diseases so uh this would be a good approach one is to focus on her eternal salvation second is to encourage a faith in Jesus through the healing stories of the people in the gospels to bring her to see if she's wants she's open we can't force healing on somebody just like we can't force salvation on somebody but at least to see if she's open to receiving healing and we pray for her and leave the rest to God you know everything we do in love in compassion and respectfully uh and leave the the work in our heart to the Holy Spirit that's that's what I would share thank you so much thank you Susie for the question and Pastor Ashlish for addressing it uh here in our chat we have uh post from Shivukumar S he says good morning everyone my name is Shivukumar the classes are helping me redefine my spiritual life making me understand the scriptures and apply it to my life every day listening to the word of God is amazing thank you uh yeah I'm very glad to hear that Shivukumar and we pray that you know you will continue to to listen to God's word and continue to grow deeper in your intimacy with him let's um you know feel free to ask any other questions that we may have or even some comments discussion points that you'd like to bring up the time is open all right so while we wait for the next question uh we'll ask Pastor Deepika if you can briefly share you know how it's been for you teaching your classes in the semester uh yeah um I've taken two classes uh this week and the response has been good uh I can see that the students are really uh interested uh enthusiastic so I know that's very encouraging uh if you know it'll also motivate me to go the extra mile prepare more uh you know try and see how I can address the issues that they would have through the you know the lessons that I am covering so it's been uh very uh encouraging uh yeah and um it would be good if the you know while we are doing the class the students also can give uh their thoughts and ideas about what is being shared because that would make it so much more interactive so I look forward to that uh you know where uh others also uh can raise a hand and uh share their opinions on uh the topics that we are discussing uh so that the whole thing can become so much more interactive so yes I'm looking forward uh to the classes that are going to be coming up yes thank you thank you thank you so much uh Pastor Deepika nice to hear from you as well uh earlier Pastor Salina had shared uh and we pray that you know God will strengthen you as you minister his word in each course uh all right uh so if anyone wants to share about their experience uh in the last 10 days of uh attending classes you can talk about that as well right and in the uh chat section there's a question from Daniel thank you Daniel uh he says are the Christian denominations necessary why do we have this in Christianity when Jesus is only one why do we have the nominations is it necessary so if any of the faculty would like to take it up we we can uh Pastor Salina can I please request you to address Daniel's question yes uh Pastor Dancy uh thank you uh Daniel Oliver for your question uh so basically uh you know various Christian denominations uh came about arouse because of various historical uh theological and also cultural factors so over time you know uh there were different interpretations of certain theological concepts that have led to the formation of denominations and these differences might include like you know beliefs about sacraments the nature of God salvation also the role of the church and more uh also historical context throughout history because of various events debates and uh you know theological disputes that have contributed to uh kind of development of various uh Christian groups and also there were various theological controversies um that led to you know the emergence of new denominations as believers you know they sought to just uphold what they believed were correct correct sorry correct interpretations of scripture also maybe because of worship styles of practices different worship styles liturgies and practices that can uh you know uh uh that vary among various Christian communities uh so you know some denominations prefer traditional liturgy worship while others uh you know contemporaries worship styles also there is cultural influences you know Christianity has spread to different regions of the world uh in various cultural contexts which have influenced various Christian practices or the way Christianity has to be practiced um and so this has led to the creation of various uh denominations that reflect cultural contexts in which they were developed also uh you know uh different denominations have come about because of church governance um maybe you know some hierarchical structures led by bishops or you know some congregations are just autonomous they just don't have all this hierarchical structure of church governance um it can also be that various denominations have arose because of the way that uh you know uh the interpret scriptures um certain denominations interpret scripture uh in in their own understanding so we can differ in that uh which has led to the formation of denominations also difference in opinions on um you know social ethical issues that have led to various formation of denominations uh you know whether it is uh you know like human rights gender roles uh and and and more but uh yes you know even as we have various differences among them in denominations uh you know that uh it's important that uh these denominations at least believe in the uh you know uh scriptures and what how to interpret it right uh also that they believe in the trinity the father son and the holy spirit uh so it's not that these denominations have uh come about uh because they don't believe in in the existence of one god or also that they don't believe in the entire truth or of scripture but it's because of these various you know uh reasons that the denominations have come which helps them to worship this uh this triune god this god who is one in their own uh cultural setting historical setting or the challenges that they have gone through so but it's important that irrespective of the various denominations it's important to see whether you know they are not going away from the truth of scripture what is revealed in scripture there is no false doctrines that is being taught and also they hold on to the truth that we believe that god is one and in the trinity as far as that is there it's fine and also it's important that these denominations don't work in their own isolation but they also connect with others they are willing to partner uh you know uh with other churches in the city a city white church bringing about unity and oneness irrespective of their own way or style of worship i hope that helps daniel okay um yes daniel says thanks pastor thank you pastor salina for that comprehensive answer to the question i just like to add to what pastor salina said i'm reminded of the passage from ecclesiast chapter four versus three to six i would post it on the chat for us it says end of the evening to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace there is one body and one spirit just as you were called in in one of your calling one lord one faith one baptism one god and father of all who is above all and through all and in you also though there are various denominations for all the visits that pastor salina listed we know that we have one god one saviour the lord jesus christ uh so thank you daniel for that the question is uh i mean salina did a good job on saying why there are denominations for the question is are these denominations necessary necessity could you please address that yes okay uh so the denominations as pastor salina pointed out for various reasons maybe because of i think let's let's let's keep it simple so the answer is christian denominations are not necessary and that's a simple answer right so we don't need christian denominations jesus didn't set up denominations he built his church so our christians our christian the question was are christian denominations necessary the answer is they're not necessary somebody can follow jesus without being part of a christian denomination christian denominations are man made as salina was explaining but they're not necessary for a christian faith and uh there are you know there are the pros and cons like there's a good and the bad but the basic answer is they're not necessary thank you pastor no no i just thank you pastor for addressing the first part of the question which uh you know i i missed also just our christian denominations necessary the answer is no they are not necessary okay and daniel agrees to that thank you pastor uh so we do have about seven minutes left so there are more questions we can accommodate them so uh let's continue please feel free to post your questions can i can i ask a question yes sam please go ahead yeah so actually this is from one of my cousins who's leading a church in one of the cities in india and he kind of reached out to me to pray for him and all of that but one of the things he was talking about is his father was the senior pastor and he suddenly kind of passed away during covid and and you know he's been involved with his father for a long time and now he's leading the church and one of the things that he's struggling with is uh how do you maintain the expectation of the congregation you know his father was very different he would visit homes almost every day uh whereas his leadership style is a little different a little more modern or whatnot uh so uh yeah this would like to know how you know how do you kind of maneuver uh you know that and how do you encourage him it's a very real thing and you know especially amongst the elders in the church he's um you know he's also trying to kind of maneuver than uh how to lead the church you know well after his dad so yeah that was a that was a question that i'd like to ask yes thank you for that question i'll share some initial thoughts and i request our faculty to please join me um so the way i look at it is that you know he would really need to settle his heart about what god is wanting him to do so once he's convinced that yes uh though this opportunity has come his way uh after his father passed away this is a call from god for him to conclude the work that's a place of strength he can be strong from you know that that conviction secondly coming to setting the expectations of people uh i believe that uh the good things that his father may have done as per the vision of the church the systems that have been put in place uh the ancient landmarks as you would call them it would be good for him to to maintain those things but since he is a different individual with a different leadership style um he can make decisions you know exploding the grace and the gift that god has given him and the style that god has given him it will be a challenging journey but to to um you know be strong in god and even receive council of elders and keep making those decisions to move the ministry forward would be really good and um uh regarding the expectations of people uh it it is it is difficult uh to work with people when they have they already know another senior minister of god and the way things were done earlier but uh i think um if if he can continue to do the work consistently trusting god and even maybe receiving council of good elders around him eventually that that honor and respect that his father got from the people i'm sure that he will see the same happen and uh he will be able to serve among the people so those are my thoughts but uh faculty please feel free to add to this and just a quick thought um to add to what Nancy shared um so you know the the core remains the same which is we teach and preach the word of god and we are ministering in the power of the holy spirit and the goal is to build people up and to reach the unsafe so the core doesn't change and we you know the new leadership there's and the younger person taking over the sun taking doesn't deviate from that so like those are like what Nancy mentioned the ancient landmarks the styles of course will differ so uh you know and people will slowly adapt and receive the different way of working the methodology but the core remains the same and as long as um the the new leader the younger person the sun stays true to the core and the congregation will you know it's it's a little transition that they make and their minds to a different style but they're seeing that the code is remaining the same so they will definitely uh you know adapt to it and actually uh the the the the newness of the methodology can also be very refreshing and not something to be you know um not not not a matter of concern but it can be something actually really refreshing thank you pastor i hope sam that has addressed your question yes thank you thank you so much um i we will wrap up our call as uh you know all of us to get to our classes uh i'll quickly address daniel's question here he asks does apc have online sunday service so our sunday service from the central location is live streamed daniel so uh you can view it online so i hope that helps uh let's pray together and close off for this morning i want to request pastor salina to please leave and pray okay let's pray father we thank you for this time thank you for all the students who could join the mentoring uh we thank you god for their thoughts and their words of appreciation that has blessed our lives and has blessed our hearts we pray god that even as faculty that then as ad bible college admin staff that we would continue to pursue excellence and uh do what things you want us to do in the way that glorifies you brings you honor and way that uplifts and encourages and edifies and builds our students god that you have entrusted to us we thank you for each one of them we bless them in your name you know the challenges and the difficulties that they're going through god we thank you that you are a faithful god that you are good that you would you're upholding them with your righteous right hand god and that you would take them through every situation and difficulty and that you would prove yourself over and over faithful to them god and we pray that we thank you for this day we pray that even as we go into our classes that you would continue to speak to us and bless us we bless you we thank you in Jesus semi pray amen amen thank you for us thank you everyone for making the time to connect on the call uh let we'll continue to meet every thursday so look forward to meeting you once again bye for now uh enjoy your classes god bless