 I'm Ronald D. Henderson, Director of Racial Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the North Texas Annual Conference. Hi, I'm Andy Lewis, and I serve as the Director of the Center for Missionary Outreach and also have the privilege of working closely with our conference's Journey toward Racial Justice Initiative. We would love to share with you an exciting series we believe is coming. Many of you may know that in 1844, the Methodist Church split over the idea of slavery. It was divided into the Methodist Church North, those who were against slavery, and the Methodist Church South, those who embraced slavery. In 1939, the Methodist Church North and the Methodist Church South came back together, creating the Methodist Episcopal Church. And a part of that compromise was to create the Central Jurisdiction. The Central Jurisdiction was a Jurisdiction where African Americans were segregated because of the color of their skin. In 1968, when the Methodist Church merged and became the United Methodist Church, the Central Jurisdiction was eliminated. And those of us who were part of the Central Jurisdiction that grew up in the West Texas Conference became a part of the North Texas Annual Conference. And in a series of interviews, we're going to document those of us, our story of those of us who had life in the West Texas Conference and have continued our fake journey in the North Texas Annual Conference. I think it's going to be an exciting event of interviews of men, women, clergy and lay who grew up in the West Texas Annual Conference and continued their journey in the North Texas Conference. I believe you will be blessed and enlightened. I'm still looking forward to people in our churches hearing these stories and learning these histories because I do believe that they will spark important conversations and have the potential to transform hearts and minds in ways that are so relevant to the challenges we face today. And so I hope that you'll look forward to this resource coming to you. We'll be packaging these interviews in a variety of ways so they can be used by Sunday school classes, can be shown in worship and can be shared via social media so that as many people as possible can hear these important stories. The series of interviews will be coming to you soon.