 We admitted that the key was this initial family and then the family started inviting more family members and friends and Then a senior adult lady said, you know, I've been picking up some but I think we need to start running the bus and so just basically overnight we had a bus sitting in our bus garage and My first two years here. It basically was in the bus garage and so We started going to places where these children live and we would pick them up and we'd take them home. I Think for the most part we've been welcoming But it has been a disruption of our normal life and as people get older they get very set in their ways They're not really responsive to a lot of change and Therefore, it's been a little complicated On any given Wednesday night, we have a large number of kids come in and they're they're loud and rallying and obnoxious, but It takes them getting used to and it takes that that pill of grace you have to remember My goodness, I can't imagine how Jesus feels about me every time I come into his house When these kids come in and they're out he you just have to remember grace grace. We're here to love them. That's it I think God gave us the opportunity to do something we've never done before and I feel like we're only barely started. It's been well over a year But I think we're only barely started so I don't consider that we're a failure yet But we could have done better and I think we still have the opportunity to do a lot more with these children who come without parents and without parental support in their church going they come from backgrounds that are Simply different than where most of our members to come from our people have been I think not only generous and Accepting them, but they've also had to go back to the drawing board like all of us and say, okay We have these children here. How can we minister? But the main thing is that Gone through the power of the spirit still working through people and who knows what wonderful things are going to happen as a result of that While these kids may not be members of this church for a year from now while their parents may never darken the Doorstep of this church while they may never Contribute to the finance of the church The important thing is that we're planting those seeds the seeds of the gospel in those lives and 30 years from now 10 years from now those seeds may grow