 Good morning everyone. Welcome to this session. Let's begin this time with the word of prayer. Maybe one of us can please lead the word of prayer. Yes, go ahead. Anybody can lead please. Please. Amen. Thank you, Rebecca. Alright, so we've been talking about urban church planting. We looked at many areas from the beginning. We looked at how it's important to understand the definition and objectives of church planting. Why are you starting a church? What does Jesus say when he said go and make disciples? Church planting is one of those ways. Then we also looked at how God sees a certain city. God has a heart for every city, every nation. God has plans, purposes. And when you and I, as believers, we begin to launch out a ministry or our own church, we must be able to be sensitive, develop the ability to be sensitive to another heart for the city. Jesus cried over Jerusalem and we see in the Old Testament, Jeremiah had a heart for what was happening in the city of Jerusalem. And so when you and I as believers, God is asking us to pioneer a ministry, have a heart for the city, a love for the people, a love for the city. That's very important. Then we looked at two important factors in terms of church planting. One is the natural dynamics. Now, remember, ministry is spiritual but there's also the natural. The Bible is spiritual but also has a lot of natural things that we have to do. And so we look at natural dynamics, demographics of the place, economy, historical background, political system, what is happening, understand them. And get a feel of the city, get a feel of the people, the language, the culture, get a feel of it. Now, especially if you are planting a church in a city where you have been born and raised or you're familiar with the city, then we don't have to spend much time. But if you're looking at starting at another city or another nation, it involves a lot of background work of studying the natural dynamics. Now, we're not saying that only if we study the natural dynamics can we do well in the spiritual. No. We need to be wise. We need to walk in wisdom. So what did the apostle Paul do? Whenever he went, remember to the people of Crete, he says, your own poets have said this. So he studied about the poets of Crete and he looks at in the book of Acts, he says he goes to Athens and Corinth. He's able to look at the natural dynamics. And so it's very important that we do that. And even as we do that, that's our background. Our main standing is on the work of the Holy Spirit. Natural dynamics is for us to know how to do ministry, but our dependence is completely on the spiritual, on the work of the Holy Spirit. Because only the Holy Spirit can minister, can touch people's lives. And so remember that Paul says we are not wrestling against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers of darkness, against Satan. Let me look at revelations too and what the spiritual dynamics were of the church in Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira and Philadelphia. So you and I can, when we plan to look at a church pioneering ministry, try to find what is the spiritual dynamics of that city or that area. It could be human trafficking, prostitution, what is happening, bonded labor, trafficking, drugs, alcohol abuse, domestic violence, child abuse, all of these things. And then you and I can really pray that God will begin to open doors and the work of the Holy Spirit will minister to them. Now, one of the books that I can recommend you to read, now it does not talk about spiritual dynamics or natural dynamics, but we see that in the book. And that's the cross and the switchblade where this young pastor goes into New York City from the villages of, I think he was in another city, but he goes into New York, into the city. And how he began to understand the dynamics, what's happening there. And he was able to balance both the natural and the spiritual and God was able to impact him so powerfully. And there's also Jackie Pulinger's book called Chasing the Dragon where she goes into China and was able to start a ministry between drug addicts and prostitutes and how the Holy Spirit ministered and how she was able to be both understand the natural dynamics of Hong Kong and China and also she was able to see the spiritual dynamics, what was the main concern in Hong Kong and those neighboring cities. So these are two wonderful books you can read about it if you'd like, if you have time. All right, so then we looked at church planting, getting started, we looked at the survey phase. Today we'll get into chapter 11 talking about the launch phase. Now we've done our survey, we've done our preparation. We've had a core team, we've gone out as a core team, we have prayed, we have searched for a place. We probably spend about six months to one year just meeting in a small group praying for the launch. And when you know that God has told you, okay, go. Let's start it. That is your launch phase. So you only launch once. Now you can't do a launch every two, three times. It's like launching a product. You launch a product into the market, you can't keep launching. You launch it once, then you get new products, then you launch that. But in a ministry, in a church, you have one launch. Now there are two options on how you launch. Number one option is you already have your core team. You have about maybe six or seven or maybe even 10 people. You announce to them, okay, next Sunday, this Sunday will be the Sunday, the first Sunday of the church. Now remember that you have already shared with the core team. You have already shared the values, the vision, everything. So you can do it quietly. You can have, you know, just have a, you know, even if it's a house in the house or even if it's a small hall that you have rented out, you can do it. You can go there, have the service timing, everything ready, you know, worship, lyrics for the worship, everything, all the practical things have it ready. And you can start with a simple way. So you can also tell the core team people, you know, hey, are we starting? So feel free to invite people and come. That is option one, simple way. Option two is you have a special launch, right? Where, for example, six months you've been praying and you've been praying and God says, okay, launch. So what you can do is take another month and have a month of promotions, right? You can do newspaper inserts. You can, we can do some kind of promotions in, you know, one-on-one promotions or you can reach out to a target audience. That is one. And then you can also have it. You can launch as a healing service or a music concert, a gospel meeting, anything. Make it big, right? So you're basically doing a lot of promotion for the church, right? Or you can start it off as a youth meeting, a youth concert, music concert, or a dance concert, anything, whatever you feel like. Right? But then again, the word also should be there. It should be like a church service as well. So you can choose that, right? Either a simple start or a big, you know, concert with a lot of promotions and all of that. Now, how APC started was in a very small way. And so it was Pastor and his family and a few others who got to know about that the church plant is going to happen. APC is going to start. So they were about 12 people in the house, Pastor's father's house, small gathering, very small. And I know that, you know, they did a little bit of, I think it was newspaper inserts and from those newspaper inserts, few of them got those invites and they found the place and they came. So it was not something very grand like a music concert or anything, right? But on the flip side, if you look at places like Mangalore, what we did was we had like a music concert, right? We hired a hall, I think it was way back in 2002 or 2002, 2003, somewhere around that time. Hired a hall, said, OK, music concert, few people came. And then from the next Sunday, we said, OK, church is happening in this place. If you'd like to come, come. So we've done both of it, both, right? And both works. So the choice is entirely up to you. But just remember, if you're doing it in a big way, you will need to have funds for, you know, for the promotions, right? You'll need to have funds for reaching out for newspaper inserts or either for that or for making the printouts available, printing it out. And so all of this, you must be prepared, right? And then there are, again, other different approaches that you can try. These are just two that we have mentioned. You can also try in a way of, you know, a fellowship, a regular service with a fellowship meal, right? Or you can also try, you know, a sports, first Sunday of a sports day, right? Now, this is just examples. I'm not saying you have to do any of these, but these are ways that you can. You can start. Now, here's important. First thing, the first church service, keep it simple, right? Now, even as you keep it simple, remember not to, there's a saying, right? Don't major on the minors or minor on the majors, right? Keep it simple. Something new people will find easy to follow. Now, how can they keep it simple? So for example, you expect 20 people in your launch, in your first Sunday service, right? So simple is choose the person who's leading worship, make sure that that person is choosing simple songs, songs that everyone can sing, right? Now, this is just an example, right? Simple songs, all of them can sing, right? Not very complicated. Now, you may have a full band. You may not have a full band. You may just have one guitar or one keyboard with a couple of singers. That's all right. The point is choose simple songs, right? Make it easy for people to follow, right? So what you can do is you have, you start off, you can either start with 10 minutes of prayer, right? It's after 10 minutes of prayer, 40 minutes of worship, then 10 minutes of your few announcements, and you wouldn't need 10 minutes, but keep that time for 10 minutes. You're just explaining the vision of the church. And then the remaining time, maybe 45 minutes for God's word, ministry time close, keeping it simple. Now, why? In the first service, you're setting expectations. Your first service sets the expectations of the people, what they can expect going forward in the church. You're setting your expectation. Now, picture this. Sorry, this is going to be a bad example, but please picture this. Imagine it's your first Sunday. You're going to start the church this Sunday, and the projector is not working. There's no lyrics. The projector is not working. One. Or imagine this church service starts at 8 a.m. And it's 8, 5, and we haven't started yet. What happened? You're setting expectations. So what will happen is those who are coming to the service will feel anyway, church starts at 8. They normally start at 8, 5, or 8, 10. So I'll go to church at 8.30. What's happening? Expectations. Now, if you look at the positive side, if the church starts at 8 o'clock and you've got a new couple or a new two boys who've come into youth, boys or girls, it doesn't matter. Two youth have come and sat. They say, okay, it's 8 o'clock and they see sharp 8 o'clock you started. What happens? Expectations are set. So these youth or the couple is going to say, hey, this church, nobody had come. Only four or five of us were there, but they started at 8 a.m. So for them, it doesn't matter. Time is time. What's happening? Expectations are set. One of the things that we can do in the launch phase, make sure that you have everything set up and don't, you know, avoid last minute works. Now, you know, maybe many 15, 20 years ago, we would give printouts for songs. Okay, these are the songs you can sing. Now people have phones, right? And to have a projector is not a big deal. Or even if you can't afford a projector, it could be expensive or you don't have a projector screen. It's okay. What you can do is, you know, probably send the, you have the lyrics ready with you, right? But make it simple because what you do now will last for a long time. Of course, over time, things in church will change the way we have service. But the initial expectations are very important. If you say started 8, started 8. You say finish at 10, finish at 10. Don't go on till 10.30. Oh, but we are in God's presence. No, that's okay. You got to, we got to honor people's time. Right. Of course, it's a holiday. If people want to go back, they have to look after other things. But you say 8 to 10, try to stay with 8 to 10. Start on time and on time. Right. Because what they see now going forward, that's the expectation. Now look at this as a pastor. If you start off the start of the first Sunday with, you know, too much of the instead of the word, you're giving too many examples, cracking jokes and trying to get the audience or the people to enjoy the sermon more than the word of God, what's happening? You're going to say, hey, this is what we can expect. We can expect a few jokes. We can expect this in the sermon and we can expect, expectations are set. Right. Or what if in a sermon, you know, there's preachers goes on in the first Sunday I'm talking about, right? Talks about, you know, finances and this is what we need. And then imagine the people who have just come here. You're just launching. You're saying what all you need. You know, what are the expenses in the church now? And so be very sensitive when you launch. Right. Share your vision. That is very important. Now you may have few new people coming in for the first Sunday. Share your vision. Now the core team, you may have already shared it with them. Hundreds of times. That's all right. Share it again. Share the vision and show them how they can be part of the vision. Right. So for example, you can say, hey, the vision that we have for, you know, as, as, as we start this church, we may be 20 people here right now. But the vision that we have is we will be able to penetrate into all the spheres of influence in our city. We can be the salt. We will be the light. We are 20 people, but one day will come when we will be 2000 people and you can be part of that vision. What are you doing? Vision invigorates. Right. Oh man, now we are 20, but there will be a time when you'll be 20,000 or 2000, 20,000 people in church and it invigorates. It captures them. Right. Welcome them to be part of the vision. Don't force them. Welcome them. Let your life speak. Let your vision speak to them. The vision that is there in your heart when you share it with, with that same intensity when you're able to, when you really believe and trust your vision, people will grasp that vision and join along with you. Right. Be willing to share your vision. Be willing to, you know, ask them to ask those who attend your church to, you know, be welcome them to your vision, share in the vision and let them know that, hey, we're going to raise up leaders. It's not a one man show. We're going to raise up leaders. You can also be part of this. We're going to start life groups. We're going to start cell groups. We're going to start Bible study groups and we're going to plant many other churches. This is just the beginning. Right. We, we look to start at four or five churches in the city and then we also look to going outside of the city, blessing our nation. We, we want to see the missions teams. We want to see evangelism teams, healing teams. This is what we want to see and invite them to be part of it. Right. But even as we do that, let our focus, everything that we do be focused on Jesus. It is very easy to get the focus on us. So we're going to be talking. Hey, this, you know, this is what we're going to do. It's very easy for the focus to be turned towards either church growth or the focused on towards a person or the ministry itself or the things that we're doing in the ministry. No, the focus should be Jesus. Remember what Jesus says, I am the vine. You are the branches. Though that day that stay or abide in me shall bear fruit. So remember that he is the vine. We are the branches. We never cut off from him. He is the focus. He is the one who's going to bless the ministry. He will bless our efforts in the ministry. Right. So these are very simple points, but very important points. What you and I do in the initial stages will leave a mark in the person till the end. I remember speaking to an elderly woman from our church and she's been a member. And I got to know that she had attended the first Sunday of ABC service, first Sunday. Right. And I, this happened, I think in 2013-14 when I got to, when I spoke to her many, many years, and she's still attending ABC, right. And I asked her one thing. On the first Sunday, what is it that you remember? You know what is the first thing she said? She said we started on time. That's the first thing she said. We started on time. And she also said that the vision was shared. Right. And the first Sunday, there was a request for volunteers needed. There were very few people in church, but volunteers needed this different areas. Right. And to date, if you see, we don't start our Sunday services late. We're always on time. Unless there is some unforeseen, something that has happened that, you know, that it has to be delayed very rarely. Why? Because they're well prepared. Now, we did it service one. We're continuing to do that now. It starts now. We'll continue later. I remember speaking to this, you know, this person and she said, on the first Sunday, when the vision was shared, everyone believed the vision. There were 12 of them in the room. What is the vision? To be salt and light to the city of Bangalore, a voice to the nation, the nations. And the vision was to start many churches in Bangalore, many churches out of Bangalore start missions. There were only 12 people, but there were people who captured that vision. Right. So don't look at what you have right now. You may have nothing with you. You may have a room with three people. If God is telling you to start, start. Be faithful and small, and God will give you bigger things. Of course, you plan to prepare, but don't look at what you have now. I always say this. Big doors open on small hinges. The hinges of the door are very small. It's not the size of the door, but the door is resting on those hinges. So when you open a door or close it, it's the hinges that are doing most of the work. So we must be, we must keep everything focused on Jesus. Don't look at what we are now, but look at what God can do in the ministry for us. Right. Then a few practical tips. Plan for, follow up. Some of the things that we must do is, in welcoming new people is to follow up through their journey. So plan well. So one of the things that we do at APC is we have something called as first time visitors. We call it FTV, first time visitors. So they have a card, they fill up the card. It has name, phone number, email address, and thread request as well. So what we do is when we receive those cards and over time, this process has been developed. As of now, what we do is once we get those cards, we have a three step procedure that we follow. Step number one is, of course, those details are added on an Excel sheet. Right now, we have something called as a CHMS, which all our data goes there. But in your launching phase, you may not have all of those softwares, but you can just have a regular Excel sheet, maintain those records. And so you can have an Excel sheet, name, number, contact details, email address, prayer request, and maybe even the age group area that they stay in. So three step process. One is we have the welcome call. So we call them up and say, thank you so much for visiting our church. Trust you, you had a blessed time. We get to know about the person. And then we see the prayer request. We say, hey, you sent in your prayer request. Let's, I want to pray for you. Can we pray for a moment? And then if the person, now as you're talking to the person, you get to know whether he or she is interested or if she is part of another church, we tell them to be faithful there. But if they're not part of another church and we're looking for a church, we say, okay, please feel free to join us, see if this is where you, God wants you to be planted. And then we do a welcome call. So normally if they are interested, we also connect them to a life group. If they're interested, we give them details. Then the following Sunday, the Sunday comes, the next Sunday, if they come to church, it's wonderful you talk to them, but we have a welcome call one, then you have follow up call one, and then follow up call two. Now what is happening? Through these calls, we are building a rapport. There will be times when people will say, no, I want to go to this church or I'm just visiting. So we just, you know, maybe you can market in your Excel sheet, do not call or do not disturb already part of another church. And you can, you know, just market red or so you know, okay, this person, I don't need to follow up, but the others, your plan, how you're going to, how and when will you welcome these visitors, right? Have a way of receiving their contact information. So basically what we do is the card, right? So you get, these are very simple pointers, right? Now over time we have learned this. So if we look at it now, we also have an online audience. So we have or apcwo.org slash FTV, first time visitor. So a person who's watching online can just go there, fill in their details. We get their details via email. We give them a call, thank them, pray for them. And they could be just watching us online. That's all right. So there's just develop a way of getting their details. It's a very simple thing. Have a place and time for them to interact formally and get to know at least few people in the church, right? So when it comes to this portion, now remember the first time visitors, when you launch a church, when you got new people coming into the church, they must be number one priority to the church. Now imagine you got first time visitors, they've come to church and then after the church service, you're saying, okay, why didn't the speaker work? Why is the projector like this? And they are just standing there, nobody to talk to, no. So what we have set in place, now again, I'm sharing all of this because it's over time, we have learned, we have gone through our set of challenges and failures and we've learned over time. So even as you launch, you can do it and service one. First Sunday itself, you can start all of this, right? You have a core team, you can start something called as the welcome team or a follow-up team. Now what does the welcome team do? They stand at the entrance and welcome those who are coming to church, right? So even when the first time visitors details come to us, right? These, the welcome team has already spoken to them, right? And after the service, we can also, what we do is we tell our folks in New York church, we have a visitors welcome visitors launch, FTV visitors launch, please meet with some of our volunteers there, they'll be able to interact with you. Now, since it's the initial phase of the church, it's, you just launched maybe a couple of Sundays have gone by, it'll be good that as a pastor you are also there, right? As the leader, the pioneer of the church, you'll be there. And over time you build a team and you build a team to look after. But of course, for prayers people will come to you because you are the leader of the church, they will come, that's all right, right? But what's happening? You're setting a strategy, you're setting something in place, like a plan, okay, this is what it is. We will have this, we will have a place, visitors launch, and here people can ask questions, they can talk, new visitors, if they have questions about the church, they can come there, talk to us, right? Again, in the initial phase, it'll be good as pastors to call up there, or visitors. Now, even now, right, after so many years, we have five locations right now in Bangalore. So what we do is, we ourselves make the calls to the first time visitors. We also have a member care team, even the pastors make the call. We do follow up calls to the first time visitors because they've come to church, they've probably met you, and they would probably prefer getting a, you know, they would like, it's nice to get a call from the pastor of the church, the leader of the church. Then you invite them back, connect them to a small group, right? Now, in the initial phase, right, you can start something small. You can just have regular, you know, just cardboard pieces, cardboard, KG cardboard, you know, just small cutouts, and then you can ask them to write their name, contact number, email address, and a prayer request at the back. Now, over time you can get things, right, with your own branding, right? So you can put your church logo, put your church name and address and vision of the church. Over time you can do all that, right? Because all of that involves money and planning and, but initial phases just keep it simple, right? Now, you may not have cordless mics. You may have just a wired mic. It's all right. You may not have, you know, a big stage to start off with. It's okay, right? Start with what you have. Start simple, right? And if you look at now, you know, getting instruments and all of that, over time we can improve ourselves, right? But the initial phase, it's okay to start small, right? Because sometimes what happens is we feel, oh man, you know, look at this church, they're doing it so well. They have an LED screen. They have, you know, such good instruments. I also want to do that. Now, that's good. But must understand that this is happening after 20 years. It was not there 20 years back when they started, when we started, right? So over time, we improve. So it's okay to start small and to start in a simple way, right? But these are important things. Planning for how to follow up starting, you know, small teams like the welcome team, mushrooming team, right? Or maybe even a prayer team, right? You may be 10 people. It's okay. Form the team. The team will grow. Right? There'll be a time in your launch phase. All 10 of them will be in one team. That's okay. Right? Don't feel, oh man, no breeze. It's okay. Let it be. It starts small. And eventually the team will grow. What are you doing? You're setting in place this whole mindset that ministry, this church is not running by one person. There are teams. There are people involved and together we're getting the vision. Together we are working on this vision. We are fulfilling the vision to be salt and light. Right? So over time, you look back you know, after 10 years you'll have many new teams. Your existing teams would have grown and you know that it is a team effort in this ministry. Right? Did Jesus do this? Yes. The first thing he did after his 40 days of fasting he came back and he chose the 12 disciples. First thing he did. Right? What did the apostle Paul do? So I'm going to launch out in ministry. Took Barnabas. Second missionary journey. Took Timothy and Silas. Wherever he went, he went as a team. That's God's design. Right? So that's how we can plan for follow up. It's very important. What we do, welcome call. Follow up one, follow up two and then we you know, connect them to a team or even if they decide to move on, we just feel free. We don't force anybody. Right? Any questions on this? Right? The first service, the first launch. It's very exciting. It is an exciting time. You know, your heart is so you know, so joyful for God's faithfulness it's also important to press on through those after the first service after one month, after two months, after a year, you may see the church is growing. Sometimes the church may take time to grow. It's alright. Stay with the vision. Continue to minister to those who are there. Right? Trust your people. Trust your church members. Right? Give them responsibilities. Believe in what they are doing for you as well. Okay, let's get into chapter 12 before that. Any questions on this launch phase? First service. Your questions. Okay. Okay. I understand that all of us have you know, are making a note and understanding this. It's very important that we, you know, apply this when we are starting off. Okay. Chapter 12. We did this in the first semester. We did a little bit of lifestyle evangelism. We talked about urban evangelism and urban missions. But this let's quickly look at a few aspects here. Right? Now, prior to and also after the launch of a church of your of the local church, the and the local church must engage in urban evangelism. We must engage. Right? We must be able to evangelize, build evangelism teams. Right? And again, we teach as leaders, we form teams, we teach people in the church. Right? And urban missions, urban evangelism, both these words are interchangeable and these are different methods of bringing the gospel to people. Right? But even as we do this, remember, wholesome methods are spirit-led, legal and ethical. Legally, we talked about it, register your church, register your ministry. Be spirit-led, be ethical. I don't say this is just a service you know, inviting people to church. Don't say, no, this is just a service, just some youth getting together. Don't say that. Tell them it's a church service and this service is for people. It's talking about, we're talking about the Bible, we're talking about Jesus, it's a Christian church. Right? So be ethical. We become all things to people in order to reach them, be culturally sensitive, be culturally relevant. What works in one place may not work in another place. So again, just be wise in that, right? Even as you begin to evangelize urban missions, certain places online digital marketing may work. In certain places, no. Street evangelism or reaching out to schools, colleges may work. So you see what works, right? So there's a question here. What hinders us from stepping into people's world? Right? You know, often at times, if we are in ministry, pioneering phase, we are so, we are in a certain world, right? This is the church, this is the ministry, this is how it should be one day. All that is good, but we need to step into their world to reach out to them. If I have a vision to reach out to corporates across the city, I need to step into their world. Now, how do I do it? It doesn't mean you have to join the corporate and get a job, but what you can do is begin to understand what is the demographics of corporate sectors. One thing we know is work-life balance that is missing. Stress in the workplace, right? People are unfair treatment or unfair, no opportunities, right? So, we begin to understand what they are going through. Step into their world, right? And we don't, we seek not to intentionally offend people, but minister in such a way to draw them to Christ. We do ministry where, you know, Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 6, 3 and 4 in a way that there is no opportunity to blame. He said, we were blameless. We looked to our own hands. We made our own food. We ate of our own. We looked after ourselves. We never asked for anything. We never asked you for money. We never asked you for material. We looked after ourselves. We were never a burden for you. Why? Because you wanted to do ministry. Blameless. So, God has commissioned us to preach, share the gospel, share about Jesus Christ. Even if we are told not to do it. Right? We may, you know, all these bills that are coming up, they may come up stringent, even more stringent bills may come up, but we must make sure that the gospel is shared. Right? And when we are preaching, we we make sure that we not violate people. Right? Meaning their rights, their property, their time, their sentiments. Don't violate them. Right? Honor them. They may be somebody who is very small. Right? But honor them. Honor their time. Honor their their rights. Right? And then we identify and develop different strategies for different age groups, different areas in the city, different spheres. We have seven spheres of influence, seven mountains or seven spheres. And then we develop strategies. How do we enter into these spheres of influence? Leveraging tools that we have. One of the things that really you know, I was that really struck my mind was the use of Instagram and Facebook, right? Over the last six months, especially right now, in the church that we are in the east of Bangalore. It's a corporate sector as I've mentioned. We had about 30 or FTBs over the last six months. And I'm just giving an example, right? So out of that, about 30, I'm just giving a rough number. It's not exactly 30. But out of that 30, 95% of them came through Facebook ads and Instagram. 95% of them. And the other 5% was we had a worship evening once and then we had some of our church folks they invited people. 95% of them came via Facebook ad, via promotion on Instagram. Social media. So leverage tools see what you can do. And now it is said that you know, certain city, India is the highest number of Instagram users in the world. We've got the highest number. Now this is a this is something that I read a couple of years ago. I don't know if this is the same, but it's one of definitely one of the highest number of Instagram users in the world. So leveraging. And then you got different age group. You got the teens. You got children. You got teens. But what we do is we'll stop here. We'll start next week. Tomorrow we'll start with strategies for different age groups. So we have children, then we have teens, then we have youth, then we have middle-aged, then we have senior citizens. And so we look at different strategies, but what works here may not work in different cities. So we'll be open to different ideas, but we look at strategies that we can use to help us build our ministries. Right. Any questions, any thoughts? Right. So feel free to know if you have any questions about church planting or any pots that you have. Feel free to, you know, I know we can probably take some time to share your plans as well. It's all right, even if you haven't chocked it out or haven't really made the plan a solid plan, but we can share our plans and see how we can go about fulfilling what God wants us to do. All right. Thank you so much. Have a great day ahead. I'll see you tomorrow. God bless.