 I have a lot of hopes for the United Methodist Church and I have a lot of hope going into the future and I know we've been dealing with the pandemic. We're dealing with some struggles right now with you know people wanting to to split from the church but I've got a lot of hope. I believe that there's revival in the air for the United Methodist Church and I think that probably my biggest hope is comes from a Mark Miller song. There's a Mark Miller song and he says this in these lyrics. He says, draw the circle wide. No one stands alone. We stand side by side and I think that is my hope for the United Methodist Church in the future is that we keep drawing that circle wide to let people in to let them know that this is a place that you are welcome that this is the United Methodist Church is a place for you. I'm the pastor at First United Methodist Church in Henrietta, Texas and one thing that I noticed right when I got there that there was not a lot of guys in worship there was not a lot of men in worship and I know a lot of them in agriculture you know they're working they're doing their business and so I was like we need a space for men's ministry in this place we're doing a great job with our with our women's ministries and uh and women were coming to church and and had all these discipleship programs but there wasn't a lot for men and so I went to this diner and I noticed all the men were there for breakfast and so I said well okay this maybe opens a door for men's ministry and so I started working with four guys and we started eating breakfast at this diner and doing a bible study there and then the diner closed down and so I was like all right this might open an opportunity to do to do some ministry and so I invited all these guys over for breakfast at our church and so we started a men's ministry on Friday mornings we have about 15 to 20 guys now that meet for breakfast every single week and we're able to disciple I I teach them about Jesus they teach me about agriculture and cows and it seems to work out very very well what I love about the United Methodist Church are those words that you hear in the book of discipline that people are of sacred worth when I was a teenager there was a pastor and she came up to me and I was really on the struggle bus as the teenager I'd lost my best friend and she came up to me and said Aaron I want to tell you something that you are a person of sacred worth that God is working actively in your life that God loves you so much and there's nothing that can separate the love that God has for you and that meant the world to me it really really was the beginning of my ministry because I couldn't wait to tell people hey that you are of sacred worth and I think that's one of the things the Methodist Church does best