 Just waiting for the recording. Okay, the recording has started. So we are recording this lecture. Let's just take a moment to pray together and then we can get into our class today. Yeah, could somebody open us in prayer? Maybe Thomas, if you could open us in prayer please. Father and Jesus, thank you and praise you for this wonderful day, daily as we come. Listen from your word of Father, we are sitting here to listen and learn of death. Holy Spirit help us Father, help us and help us to understand the things that the wisdom of God rests upon us and the pastor who teaching Father, let your anointing teaches everything that the anointing abides on us that the wisdom of God will be avoid on us dead. Thank you and praise you for this wonderful time. Thank you for your glory and honor. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. All right, thank you. All right, the others are joining us. All right, so in this class on urban church planting we have gone through the introduction section and we just kind of and I will just do a quick review of what we did in the introduction and today we're going to go into section two where we're going to start talking about the practical aspects of urban church planting. And as I said in the beginning, although the focus is on planting a church in an urban context that is in a city or a large metropolitan area, this applies even to starting any kind of ministry, not just a church, but even if you're starting maybe a specialized youth ministry or you're starting a specialized children's ministry or something else in an urban setting. All of these ideas and learnings can be applied. It doesn't matter whether it's a church or some other kind of Christian ministry, you can apply these things. So I'm going to share my screen and we're going to quickly just review what we did in the introduction section and then go forward into the intersection two. Right, so in section one, just a quick review, I shared a little bit about my own personal journey being involved in different kind of work in the cities. We emphasized that the Holy Spirit is to be our leader, so our dependence is on the Holy Spirit in all that we do in the ministry. And then we talked about what are we trying to achieve in church planting? We are trying to establish a community that is self-sustaining, community believers that are self-sustaining, that will establish God's presence, and that will also have influence in the community or in the region where this church is planted. And this would be the same or mostly the same in any kind of ministry. Now we are looking at starting in an urban context. We want that ministry to have influence in that community or in that region or perhaps even in the entire city. Then in the introduction, we also emphasize God's heart for the cities that we must get God's heart and pray over the city. Now that is very important that we should feel what God feels so that we can see what God sees for the city. And one important thing for us to keep praying for the city and asking God for strategies and ideas on how to reach the city and who are the people he wants you to go to. One person and one church or one ministry or one Christian organization will not be able to reach the whole city. Each one of us has a little part to play in what God is doing. So God is orchestrating it and each one of us must be sensitive saying, okay God, I'll do my part in serving you in the city. So we need to get God's heart for the city. Then we talked about the natural dynamics of urban centers. You know how it's important to get an understanding of what's going on in the city, in the natural. So we mentioned here are some things that you can look at and you can take a slice of the city maybe not even if you don't want to survey the whole city, even just the area in which you may be engaged to get an understanding what is happening in the part of the city where you are working and that is important so that we can pray for that city. We can also understand where to target and what strategies to develop. At the same time, you must be aware of the natural spiritual dynamics of urban centers. So we talked about how even Satan is at work, the demonic powers that have worked are influencing people. We must be aware of that and we could see expression of it in various aspects in the life of the people whether it's the cultural or the social, the moral, the other problems, challenges are happening. We can see expressions of the powers of darkness since we must be aware of it. We must act strategically, preempt those things. We just did a quick look at a church planting in Michigan so that I didn't necessarily turn to every chapter but in the book of Acts, a lot of the ministry happens in the major cities of that day. So I just wanted to impress on us that right from the beginning. Sorry, can you hear me? Excuse me sir. Yes. Yes, waiting. Yeah, okay. Dave's coming. Okay, fine. Sorry, Dave. David, I was showing the PDF and so usually when I'm on the PDF, this auto admit feature doesn't, in Google Classroom doesn't work so people get stuck outside. All right, let me just go back to the PDF and I don't know why that happens. So what I was saying was in the book of Acts, we see that a lot of the ministry did happen in major cities of those days and it is an interesting study. We can study city by city that is recorded for us and how they impacted different cities. I just kind of highlighted some of the key things, you know, how they worked in Philippi, how they worked in Corinth, how they worked in Athens, how they worked in Ephesians, you know, and the dynamics in each of these cities was different and then in Rome, and Paul was there in Rome. So that was in section one, which was, you know, an introduction to what we're going to be looking at. So today, we're going to get into section two, which is that we're going to talk about practical aspects about church planting and Christian ministry in urban context. I have given you this PDF in the coursework section so you can download it from there and we're just going to, you know, understanding whatever I can and whatever, you know, we have learned in this whole process and, you know, hopefully you will be, you know, in your own experience as you begin to do things in your cities, in your areas, you know, there will be additional learning that will happen as you go along. All right, so we're going to talk about these practical aspects. And so the first thing is how do you get started? You know, what are some things you keep in mind when you want to get a church, a local church, a church blunt, or a Christian ministry when you want to get it started in an urban center. Now, about the personal preparation, that means what you do as a person in your personal life, we will talk about it in another section towards the end. I feel that is like that is perhaps very important. So I left it to the end so that, you know, it's like, here's how you're really going to start with your personal life. So those personal things, I've kept it to the last section. Now, one of the things that we would strongly recommend is to have a core team that you're going to work with. Now, there are times God will use us as individuals, I'm not saying he won't work with us as individuals, and we see examples where Philip, he went out as an individual. We don't know if he had others with him, but it seems like he went down by himself to Samaria, and he preached Christ there, and you know, a church was planted there and actually up to eight. So there are, there are, that's God will use us as individuals, he'll give us a vision and he said, go do it. So that is possible. I'm not ruling that out. But what we are placing before us is, wherever possible, try to work as a team, even if you have two people, that's fine. You know, if you have two or more people, okay, that's also good. You know, we see this, even the ministry of Jesus, that when he had, you know, he called us 12 disciples, he sent them out two by two. You know, so there is that support that people give to each other, there's encouragement, you know, there's, there's that benefit from being part of a team, even if it's two people, even Paul, when he first started, it was Paul and Barnabas, when they were sent out from Antioch, later on it was Paul and Silas, and then afterwards the team grew. You know, there are now other team members like Timothy and Titus and Luke and many other people that so, as things grew, his team also grew. But initially, you find that Paul went along with one other person. So it is good, and so we recommend that if you can, you know, start off with a core team. Now, how do you, you know, get a core team, what are some things you can do, right? Now, what are, sorry, what are some things you need to keep in mind as far as a core team is concerned? Here are some things just to, you know, for you to consider, and I feel these are very important, right? One is people in the team must have a good healthy relationship with each other, right? That means you should trust each other, you should support each other, you're not competing with each other. So this therefore means that, you know, hopefully you've known each other for some time, you know, so you can't just meet somebody and, hey, let's become a team and let's start, and a guard can orchestrate some things like that, but usually it is, you know, you've built a relationship of trust. Another thing is you need to be aligned theologically and spiritually, you know, that is also very important that two of you or two or three of the team, members of the team, should be aligned together, you know, one heart, one mind, spiritually. If there are differences there, eventually that could cause a breakdown in relationships. And, you know, the enemy is strategic. He would use those things to cause a breakdown. And if the team falls apart, then the work will fall apart. So you need to have people who are aligned theologically. You see I2I, you're a one heart, one mind, in spiritual things. It's also useful to have a team where you can compliment each other's gifts and skills, you know, so somebody may be good in ministering the word, some may be good in, you know, leading worship, some may be good in, you know, other aspects that are needed for that kind of ministry. If it's a church ministry, usually it's prayer and pastoral care and evangelism and administration. These are some things you will think about. If it is, you know, some other kind of ministry, your team composition should match the kind of ministry you're planning to start. Another important part of people who are going to be part of the team is that they'll almost be committed to the vision of the church blunt, the common vision. That means you say, yeah, we are going, you know, we are here for this reason. People shouldn't have another agenda, you know, they shouldn't be going, they're okay, I'm going to that city and I'm going to start a business, or I'm going to that city and I'm planning to, you know, start a restaurant. But you have to be careful about those things because then what will happen is their focus will be on their business, on the restaurant or whatever else they want to do instead of the vision of the church blunt. I'm not saying that they can't go there as church planters, but that has to be made very clear. I'm not saying that they can't go as, or as tent makers when they're going to plant the church. We'll be talking about that a little later. That is okay. Sometimes, you know, maybe people in the core team will also do some work to earn money. We see the Apostle Paul and his team did that in Corinth, also in Ephesians, also in Thessalonica, that when they went to these cities, they worked and they planted a church, so that is fine. We're not against it, but the focus should be, our main reason should be we're going to plant the church, then we're going to start this ministry, but the work we're doing is going to help us financially to sustain ourselves and the team. So there shouldn't be distraction and it should be very clear. And also the leader, who is the person leading the team should be very clear. If the main person who's responsible, the person who's going to make sometimes a final decision has to be made. People have shared their points of view, but somebody has to make a final decision. Somebody has to hear everybody and say, okay, this is what we're going to do. Sometimes it could be difficult decisions. There has to be one person who's going to handle that, who's a leader of the team. And so that person should be clearly identified. Usually, if that doesn't happen, there's no clearly identified leader, things will not go because everybody's waiting for the other person to take steps or to provide leadership. And then usually you'll find that group's just stagnating. They're not able to move forward because there is no leader who's saying you're going up forward. So these are some things to keep in mind, right? Now, if, you know, when you are starting out, there could be various ways that you're starting. Maybe you're already part of a local church and that local church is sending you out to start another church plant or startup ministry, then you do have the advantage of, you know, finding like-minded people, people who kind of fit some of these things we've talked about. You'd have the advantage because you can, in your own current local church, find people who may come and be a part of the team and then you can go together. So that's something you can do if you're already part of a church and your current local church is sending you out to start a new church or start a new ministry somewhere. This is an advantage. And, you know, we at APC, we like to do that, you know, that is we like to send a team out. And many of the church plants, I'm not saying all, but many of the church plants were started when we sent teams of people. In some cases, we only sent one person. I mean, you know, for example, our Bible College students, some of our Bible College students who graduated. For example, the church, you know, people who went out from here, you know, in Baloto Bazaar, Nasek, and the church in Odisha, the church in Kalyanas, different, different places. It was one person who went. Usually they were single at the time. They were not married. And they went, we backed them up, we blessed them. It's okay, go and start, start the work. But we gave them some of these kinds of instructions, you know, on how to get started, things that we'll be talking in this section. Many of these things are what we shared with them. And we helped them through that process. You know, so, and then eventually, you know, some of they got married. So the spouse became part of the team. And people came and joined them. And, you know, they could build a team in those places. So we have sent out people individually because they were the only one who came from that city or from that town to study here in the Bible College. And then we sent them to start a church. But in some of the church plans, we sent teams. So one example is when here in Bangalore itself, so APC Central was doing fine. We had South and we had North. When we wanted to start APC East, that is Whitefield. And I may not remember the year correctly. So forgive me if I make a mistake. It's, I have, we have a documented, but I just can't remember the year correctly. But so I think it must have been, I'm thinking 2012 or 2013, something like that. When we want, you know, it actually happened pretty spontaneously. I had actually gone to see one of our young people. We had a strong youth group. And one of the young people was admitted in a hospital. He had an accident. So he was in the hospital. So I had gone just to visit him in the hospital. And I was there in the hospital. And then there were other young people in the hospital room. And, you know, they were standing around him, the young men, the youth. And while I was there, and I'm just going to meet this person suddenly, I just felt in my heart, the Lord saying, what are you doing with all these young people? It is a very strange place. I'm in a hospital. I've gone to see somebody who has, you know, had an injury. And then some of our young men are standing around. And the Lord is saying, what are you doing with these people? And so they're standing in the hospital room. God put in my heart, with these young people, you start APC East, which is Whitefield and Whitefield. For those of you who know Bangalore City is an area that's pretty close to the technology park, a lot of IT places are there. And so IT offices and all that. And so right there, after, of course, you know, we've prayed and while we're just chatting, we just talking, saying, guys, how many of you are ready to be a part of the team that will go and start APC in Whitefield? I mean, it all happened inside the hospital room. And they all said yes. And so, you know, they became the core team. And of course, we, one of the young men who was one of the youth pastors then, we appointed him as the leader of that core team. And so with that core team, we went and we planted APC East that is in the east part of Bangalore, which is in the area of Whitefield. So that's how we started that. You know, so the point I was saying is we had a core team to help start that work. And the big advantage with that was this, these young people were already part of our church for quite some time. So they actually, and they were surveying, they were volunteering. So we didn't have too much training to do. We just had to say, hey, go and start. They immediately, all of them knew, you know, okay, this is how these are the things you need to do to host a Sunday service. These are things that need to be done if you're going to care for people in the team. So that we actually do not have any formal training as such because they were already serving in our main location. They all knew what needs to be done. We just had to say go and start. And they were ready to start, you know, so they were all volunteering, helping out. And, you know, we got that started. So, you know, a lot of things fit in because they already had good relationships amongst themselves. They're all part of the youth spiritually, all aligned. They belong to the same church community. They knew how, you know, the culture of the church and they knew how things needed to be done so they could complement each other. They just took their positions based on their existing gifts and skills. And they were committed, you know, of course, I would say all of them today except for one are in Bangalore. They all, sorry, all of them have left India except for one. So they all now overseas. But, you know, because they're young professionals and they're, you know, they have their jobs and their jobs give them opportunity to grow. So I would say, you know, from the core team, only one of them is still here. And out of them, you know, maybe six to eight people, I think all of them are overseas now. But the point was, at that moment for the initial, I think at least two years, they were all committed to planting that church and seeing it grow well. And we appointed, there was a clearly identified leader. The youth pastor could be easily appointed as the leader of that group because they all, they all knew him, they all respected him. And he already had, you know, some experience on leading a group. So what I wanted to say, I'm sharing that example because if you already have a local church where people are serving, it's very easy to form this core team to go plant a church or start a ministry. And like that, that's how we started ABC West. And like that, how we started many new ministries. When we wanted to launch our counseling ministry, I just, you know, caught, picked out about three or four people from the church congregation who were counselors who had some background in counseling. And they formed the core team. So they were professionally trained, but they were spiritually also very aligned because they were already part of the local church. So whether they're starting a new ministry or starting a new church plant, if you have people, you know, who kind of fit into these, these criteria, it's becomes very easy to start out new work with it in the same city or even in other cities. So keep this in mind that, you know, if you are already part of a church where, you know, you've been growing and you feel you need, and the church wants to send you out to start another church or another ministry, it's very good to find people from within the congregation who, you know, will commit to the same vision and they can help form the core team. The core team is very important. Sorry, let me just pause you and see if there are any questions before I go into the next idea here. Any questions on this, on the core team? Is it clear or any thoughts? Anything you want me to clarify? So I think everyone's following no questions. All right, so there's a question here, Kiran's asking, how do I identify church or reason? Kiran, what is your question? Is it, is the question, how do we determine whether we should plant a church or start a ministry or what exactly is your question? Can you just clarify your question a bit so I understand it? Sir, how we will identify our vision and our church, if church is saying something different and not related to our vision, then sir, how we will clarify after that? I think the question is, if the church, so I'm just trying to understand any question, is it, is the question that the church that you're part of is wanting you to do something else, something different from what you want to do? Is that the question? The church vision is there? Okay, all right. So yeah, so those, those, those kind of situations do happen, right? Where maybe the, the church may want you to do a certain kind of work or ministry and whereas what is in your heart, maybe something different. So what would you do in a situation like that? I would, I would put before you two things to consider. One is the issue of timing, right? Maybe God has put something in your heart for you to do, which is your assignment, but which may be very different from what the church wants you to do, right? So there's no question on it. God has put an assignment in your heart, but that's different from what the church wants you to do, but there's a matter of timing. Maybe God wants you to do it. God wants you to start that work maybe five years from now. Okay. So what are you going to do for the next five years? Well, for the next five years, just do what the church is telling you to do because that can be a learning experience for you. It can be a training experience. So for the next five years, you, you go along with the church, but you let them know that, hey, actually in my heart, I am interested in doing something different. That's what it is. But, you know, I will, I, you know, I'm planning to do that same three or four or five years from now. So that's, that's in the future. But for now, I'm, I'm absolutely fine in, you know, going with what you're saying. So you work with them. Then when the time comes, you can, you can, you know, transition into what you really feel God wants you to do. However, if the assignment God has put in your life, God wants you to step into it now, right now. And the church is telling you to do something else. And that's when you prayerfully make the decisions, okay, I'm going to obey God. And you explain it to the church saying, hey, I feel that this is my assignment. And I feel I need to move into it now. Would you release me? And, you know, in most cases, the church will bless you and send you to go and do what you feel God to do, what you want you to do. So it's both the issue of what God wants you to do, which is ultimately what we all have to obey. And secondly, it's an issue of timing. So depending on what, when God wants you. And thirdly, I think most importantly is always do it in a very honorable way. That means always do it, maintaining good relationships with the leadership with other people. Don't pursue, I mean, try to avoid, you know, doing something out of, you know, all these leaders don't understand me and they are so mean and no, no, just do it in a good way, honorable way, explain it to them. And I'm sure they will support and, you know, so that's very important. The third thing, so I'm going to do it in a very, you know, with honor. Okay. All right, so let's go back now to the notes here and move forward. So the next thing you want to do is to start preparing for this. You know, in fact, I like to encourage all of you who are in your third year to start thinking about what God wants you to do and start preparing for it. We know, okay, you have still have one more semester. You still have many more months. And, you know, only in May of next, I mean, April end, you will be graduating May, sorry, April end, you'll finish your studies and may your first week or you'll be graduating. So you still have time. But I would encourage you to start planning, preparing from a distance, you know. So that's the next thing is, if you are planning to go and start a church in some other city, start preparing for it. I remember when we were living in the US, we knew, my wife and I, we knew we were planning to move back to Bangalore. And in the time for us, we were in Chicago at that time. And the time for us to move back to Bangalore is getting closer and closer. And so a little over a year, one year, actually a little more than one year before we planned to move back to India, we started planning. So I wrote some letters to few pastors in Bangalore. I informed them that, you know, we are planning to move back to Bangalore. And I had been away from Bangalore for about 10 years. So I kind of lost touch with and I hadn't visited too many times, maybe two or three times, three times, I think, two or three times I visited. So, but it was those very short visits. And so I really hadn't, you know, become very, I lost touch, I lost touch with a lot of people. So I wrote to these pastors asking them, you know, first of all informing them, they're planning to come back to start a church. Secondly, asking them for some guidance, you know, which part of the city would be, you know, needs a church. Now, which part of the city, you know, would be good for us to start a church. So we kind of did those things. So, and then of course, praying. So we started praying, praying for the city, praying for God to guide us, all of those things. So prepare from a distance. So we were in Chicago, but we were preparing for Bangalore. So sometimes you may need to prepare from a distance. So you may be right now in one particular place. But God wants you to go and start to work in some other city or some other place. So you can prepare from a distance, you know, you can gather a lot of information online, you can survey the city online, you know, get to understand. So get to understand the natural and spiritual dynamics of what's happening in that city from a distance. So, you know, online, you can read things, you can pray and think through on what's happening and write it down or discuss it with your team. So the team can start working together and say, Hey, one year from now, we're going to go to Bangalore, and we're going to start a church, or we're going to go to Chicago, we're going to go to, you know, Kathmandu, we're going to go to wherever, and we're going to start a church. So let us start doing some research, let us start understanding that city, where we're going, what is happening in that city, what are the kinds of people living there? So the natural and spiritual dynamics, you begin to study, and the people, you know, you share that information, you can, so you can write down, you know, what are your findings? Sometimes the Lord will speak to you on certain things. So write those thoughts down. And then as a team, you can pray over these things together and listen to what the Holy Spirit is saying, you know, he might give you ideas, he might say, you know, focus on this area, focus on this need, or do this kind of work. So all this is part of preparing from a distance. Something else that you can do is to develop a contact list. So if in case you already know people in that city, or your friends, you can let them know ahead of time that, you know, this is what you're planning, you can ask them for information, what's happening, yeah, so they will give you first hand information. You can ask them to recommend places where you can start a chair to start the ministry, you know, which part of the city would be important? And we will talk a little later on, you know, finding the right place to launch. So that is also important. And we'll explain why. So when you're, when you're, when you're, when you are preparing from a distance, you can connect with leaders in the city, you know, so you can inform them, you're coming, you can maybe even talk to them, do calls with them. They will give you some background of the church in the city. So whatever you're doing, you want to be aligned to what God has already been doing in that city. So it's good to know, you know, because in most cities, there will be, you know, most cities, there would be some amount of Christian activity that may have happened in the past, or that is currently going on. And so it is good to know that. So you don't come in, or let's say, so that you come in and you only build on it rather than, you know, destroying that. Provide, you can ask for help in terms of logistics, you know, so if they're willing to help you in finding a place, just helping you start, you know, you can get help. But if, you know, one very important rule that we is, if people are already part of a local church in the city, don't pull them out, you know, don't tell them to leave their church and join your new church, don't do that. And I let them always, they may be your good friends, they may be people you've known for a long time, but let them remain where they are, unless God, you know, puts it into their hearts that they should come and be a part of what you're doing. If God puts it in their heart, that's up to them, and they need to, you know, exit their existing church in a very honorable way, but you don't go and tell them to pull out, you know, everything has to be done in a very nice way. So these are things that we can do to prepare from a distance, you know. So even before you actually go into that place, where you want to start a church or a Christian work, you know, you can do a lot of preparation, even from a distance, you know, things that we have mentioned here. And let's just cover one more point before we close today. And then eventually you'll have to relocate. You'll have to actually go physically into that city or into that part of the city where you're going to start the ministry, right? So for this, of course, you need to know when God wants you to do it. I remember, you know, when again, just going back to our own personal example, when we were living in the US, I knew right from beginning, you know, I'm in the US temporarily, mainly for my education and get some professional experience, but I knew I was going to go back to Bangalore and, you know, plant a church and minister in India. But throughout my time, my prayer was God show me when you want me to go back. I want to be ready personally. I want to be ready spiritually and professionally to make this move. Show me when, you know, so that would be my constant prayer. I want to be ready and I want to move at the right time. And I remember in the year was, I think it was 1998. I think it was somewhere on that time, the second part of the year, when I made a trip to India. And I traveled, at that time, I traveled primarily through North India to do some Christian meetings, seminars and crusade and all that. It was on that trip that I felt strongly in my heart. It's time to move back, take one year to prepare yourself. So I, again, my dates might be a little off. It is either end of 1998 or end of 1999 that this was, that, you know, I had made the trip during the trip. I said, okay, it's time for you to move. One year, prepare yourself. So when I went back to the US, I shared this with my wife and I said, look, you know, one year from now, we are going to go back. Actually, we took more than one year, maybe a year and a half or so. But then since I was working with the company and I was, you know, heading up a project and all of that, or even more than six months, and I forget exactly again, maybe eight months, eight months before I could move back, I informed my organization, I said, see, I'm actually planning to relocate back to India, heading up this project, but you need to find somebody to replace me. So I'm telling you, you know, in advance, so that, you know, I don't want the project and all of that work to be disrupted because we are serving customers. So I'm telling you, eight months in advance, you know, so many months in advance that December of 2000, we are moving back to India. So I give them so, you know, there's a lot of preparation, spiritually, practically, you know, a lot of detail. So, but the timing is important. And I felt in my heart, this is the time to go. And I said the time December 2000, we are moving back to India. And then we started preparing for that, you know, different things that need to, you know, be arranged to be organized. We started taking care of it one by one. So after you've done, you know, your research, the time will come, you know, you have to move. But how do you determine that? Well, you have to ask God, you know, and God will let you know, you know, either he will speak to you in your heart, maybe he will orchestrate things. He will open up doors, you know, different ways that God will let you know, you know, when is the time for you to move, get into that place. So have a plan and how you would go about, you know, okay, once I move to that place, I'm going to, you know, I have to do this, I have to go through, you know, surveying, I'm going to do some preparation. And I've got to go through the launch, right? So you have a plan. In fact, we, you know, we wrote, we actually wrote down our plan. This is how we're going to launch the church. Now, not everything is going to work out according to plan because some unexpected things can happen. And in our case, it didn't work out exactly as the launch didn't happen as we planned it. But we had thought through on many things. So even though the launch didn't happen the way we wanted it, we thought it would happen. We were fine because we had also thought through on what we would do beyond starting the church. What was the vision? What was the purpose? How are we going to develop people? So because we had spent a lot of time in preparation, even if there are slight changes, you know, in what you're going to do, it's not going to shake you. You know, you've thought past, you know, just the launch, you've thought prepared yourself for the long term. And so you can stay the course, even if there are some minor changes that you need to make. Right. So I'm going to pause here that, you know, we will get into all these practical things as we talk about getting ready. But what we have said today is this, that as you get ready to start a church or any ministry, first, the core team is important. Now, sometimes you may do it all by yourself. That's fine. But in most cases, you would have a core team and we talked about, you know, what you need, what you need in the people are going to be part of the core team. Second, we talked about preparing and you can even prepare from a distance, even before you actually get on the ground to get started, you can prepare for the ministry, you can prepare for that church plant from a distance. And third, we said the timing, you know, to know God's timing on when you should get on the ground, when you should move, get into that particular city or area or region where God wants you to start and, you know, that relocating is something God would guide us. Okay. So let me pause here. Are there any questions so far on what we have looked at today? Any questions? Everyone's okay? Okay. All right. No questions. Things are clear. Okay. Fine. All right. So, we got to pick this up later this week. We will, I mean, sorry, guess tomorrow. We'll continue this tomorrow and we'll talk about, you know, just build different practical things that you can think about when you're getting ready to start a local church or ministry where God is leading you. Okay. Let's close in prayer. Just invite somebody to please pray with us as a class and dismiss us. Dave, you want to pray? Heavenly Father, we thank You for this wonderful time, for the fact that we have Lord Jesus. We thank You that You're teaching us so much, Lord God. And also, I pray that You help us to understand each and every single thing that we are being taught, Lord Jesus. And be with each one of us as we depart from this class, Lord Jesus. Help us to keep everything that we learn so that we can use it in our practical life, Lord Jesus. We thank You for this time. We thank You for being with us in the mighty and precious name of Jesus. I pray. Amen. Thank you, everyone. Enjoy the rest of your day. God bless you. See you tomorrow. Bye now. Thank you, sir. Thank you.