 I'm Esteve Lindy. I'm co-pastor here at Keller United Methodist Church with my husband, Jason, which is very unique to be co-pastors, but it's a situation that we've done together for, oh, 12 years now. We've been at Keller for almost four and we were at Saginaw United Methodist for seven. Keller UMC is a suburban church on the north side of Fort Worth. It's actually a church that I grew up in, which is very unique. I was confirmed here. I was married. I walked down the aisle. I married my husband right there. He and I grew up in this church together. So we went through youth group and this is where I heard my call to ministry. I'm also on the board of ordained ministry in the conference and I serve as the chair of the Order of Elders. I am excited to be the preacher at the North Texas Young Conference. I'm humbled. It's a huge honor. It's something that I always think that, you know, a bishop gets to do or Adam Hamilton or someone who's written a book. And I've not written a book. I'm just a local pastor. So I'm very humbled to come and speak to my peers in ministry and just a little bit nervous and terrified and excited. I think the fact that I'm coming from Central Texas to be the North Texas annual conference speaker just speaks to Connectionalism. You know, United Methodist, we're not congregational. We're not out there in a vacuum. We have so much that we share and so much that we hold in common. And as the future unfolds, I think that that connection is just going to get stronger. And so I'm just delighted to be part of the strengthening of the connection. You know, before COVID, we always talked about how we're the body of Christ and we're together. But now we, now we really feel that at a palpable kind of physical level that we did it before, because we know what it was like now looking back to have been isolated and removed and just the difference that it makes to come and worship together in body and in spirit. So there's a woman in my church who has just been suffering for some time with different physical illnesses. And it's kind of one thing after another. And I go see her periodically and it's like she preaches to me. I mean, it's like I come away from those visits and I'm the pastor and I'm supposed to go see her and remind her that she's not alone and God is with her. And somehow always the tables turn and she does that for me when I visit her. And I think that's, I think it's beautiful and I think that it's not just pastors that can have that hope. I think it's all of us who are in Christian community. I think that's the gift we can give to each other. It's a witness. It's a sharing of our faith. I ended up taking a spiritual renewal leave in 2021, kind of at the end of the COVID time. And I needed that. My spirit needed that. My family needed it. And it was very, it was just a really beautiful time that I had space to be with God. And I journaled and I prayed and I had to seek God's will more than usual about my call. I keep drawing strength from that experience and I feel like from what God revealed to me in that time. And so now I can go back and I can read in the journal and I know what God wants of me still. I hope for the church in the future is that these bones can live and that God makes a way where it seems like there is no way. And so what looks to us sometimes like death or the end or things are coming apart. Resurrection says that's not God's way. Resurrection started because of death. So some things might have to die. Some things might have to change completely. But I trust that the spirit brings life.