This morning, our brother Pete LaFond is going to come and he's going to encourage us to look for everyday opportunities to proclaim Christ. Brother Pete, you come and share with us what the Lord has laid on your heart. Good morning. That's pretty good. Good morning. All right. It works every time. Let's see. Get my stuff assumed here. Open your Bibles, if you would, to 1 Corinthians chapter 10. 1 Corinthians chapter 10, look at verse 31, and we'll read 11-1. Then there are going to be two other verses we'll look up, and then we'll start talking. These three verses we're going to look at here are going to be what's behind what I'm going to try to get across to you. Paul says in verse 31, I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved. In 11.1, be followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. This is a dynamite verse, certainly for us today. Turn over a couple of pages to Philippians chapter four. Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians. Chapter four, Paul speaking, and I'll wait till everybody gets it that has a Bible because, and I could quote these from memory. But this is for you. I got this already. I want you to see it's the Word of God. There's nothing like seeing it on the page with your eyes. Philippians 4, verse 9. Paul again speaking, those things which you have both learned and received and heard and seen in me do, the God of peace shall be with you. things that you've heard and received and seen in me, do. Big word in what we're gonna talk about this morning. And the God of peace shall be with you. Anybody here got enough peace? That's a promise. But there's some doing in there. You know when you do what's right, you're at peace about it with the Lord and with yourself. Now, turn back a page to Philippians 3.17. Again, Paul's epistles. Brethren, be ye followers together with me, and mark them which walk so. Walk as he walks. As you have us for an example. There are some good people that are good examples. but they were following the book. Can't have too many good examples of what the Lord has for us. Paul's God example for us, God's instructions to us through the life of Paul, through the life of Paul. And why is it that they may be saved? If you're saved, somebody was involved in getting the gospel to you. so you could be saved, and be certain you're saved because of what you've seen in the Word of God. A lot of pages, about triple space, though. I could almost read these without my glasses, so don't get excited. I timed it for 32 minutes. Let's see if I can make that. In 1 Corinthians 3, God called Paul to sow in water the gospel of grace. That's 1 Corinthians 3, 3, 9. Don't turn there. What's the gospel of grace? 1 Corinthians 15, 3 and 4. Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures, and was buried and rose again the third day, according to the scriptures. This is God's exact and specific definition of His, of God's gospel of grace. This is where we are today, the gospel of grace. Christ died for our sins. was buried and rose from the grave. Yes, that's a real track. I started printing those 30 years ago for people who couldn't see too well or dealing in 36 years now in prison with Bible courses Most of the men, at least in South Carolina, maybe a seventh or eighth grade education, can't read too well. We'll talk about this later. God's exact and specific definition of his gospel, it's not Paul's gospel. Paul preached it. God gave him that, but it's God's gospel of grace for us today. Paul sowed and watered the gospel, but who gave the increase? God gives the increase. I've never saved anybody, and neither have you. God gives the increase. What are we to do? Sow and water, expecting the harvest. I've never gone into a prison or knocked on the door or sat in the living room that I didn't expect God to save somebody. Certainly, we'll present the word to them. But I expect it. I've been out on visitation with a lot of people. You got to pull teeth to go. But I don't think they're expecting it is going to happen. Maybe most will never believe. That's not up to us. We're to go with the gospel. God gives the increase. This begs the question, are we laboring with God? Are we? Are we? Are we sowing and watering the gospel, expecting God to give the increase? I'm really, when I present the gospel and I know I've given him everything and there's no reason why he shouldn't believe, and when someone doesn't, I really wonder why. Yet I was a year knowing the gospel before I ever trusted Christ in good faith. So I know that's the way it is in many cases. But it wasn't because someone didn't tell me, because I didn't believe it initially. Why so in water the gospel? What did Paul say? What did God say through Paul? That they may be saved. That they may be saved. That they may be saved. We're in the may be saved business. That's the reason this church is here, and that's why your pastor's here, and I hope that's why you're here. That people may be saved. And become new creations. saved and become a new creation. Like it or not, that's what we become. New creations. Old things have passed away. All things have become new. New creations. Can you think of a place any more in need of new creations than this earth right now? New creations. New hearts. Badly we need that. It's up to us to tell them. What's the best thing that you or I could do for another person? Anybody on this planet? Give them the gospel of Jesus Christ that they may be saved. Sowing and watering the gospel is heaven or hell business. It's eternal business. We do a lot of things in this world that are business, but nothing's going over but a saved person. And it's up to us to get the gospel up. Here are a few proven ways to sow and water the gospel of Jesus Christ. That's what the pastor wanted me to talk about today. And I've been doing it for 36 years. So I know it doesn't work that well. And you know what it comes down to? Christ died for our sins and was buried and rose from the grave. Who is there you couldn't tell that to? Do you know what the gospel of Jesus Christ is? Would you have a second to talk with him? No, before we can say no. Christ died for your sins, was buried and rose from the grave. Now we like to have a lot of time, but that's delivering the message, what the gospel of Jesus Christ is. Gospel tracts, I got them. I'm sure there's a church rack somewhere with, outside there. There'll be tracks. And why am I gonna start with tracks? Everybody knows what they are. And anybody can use them. Yet it's not the easiest thing to do, for some reason. Let's talk about that. Where can you place a track? A gospel track, where can you place it? Anywhere. Anywhere and everywhere. Next page. See how we're moving? They haven't, sometimes less is more. They haven't outlawed the distribution of gospel tracts. Yet. You know the climate we're in today. All the more reason to get them out. Thinks that places like China, it's against the law to do that stuff. Maybe it's coming here. Make your own track. Now I start with that, but there's a reason. I just want to show this to you. A lot of you have seen our gospel tracks. When I say ours, that I wrote. But there's a reason. You can tell I'm not a great speaker and not good for putting things down. That's why I'm up here with handwritten notes and big print and so forth. And probably the grandma. I'm from Massachusetts. The grammar's not that great. But I do know about the gospel. I started printing this tract in, I started going to the county jail in 1980, October. That's 36 years. Started going then. And I couldn't find, in Greenville, South Carolina, I looked and looked, went to the gospel hour for tracts, and I couldn't find one that really, you find 1 Corinthians 15, the gospel in. And I talked about, and there were good tracts, and you know, there's all kinds of tracts. tracks about every good christian tracks about everything but other denominations about this or that and the other thing but it's not a gospel track unless it contains a gospel of jesus christ now they're good thing don't get me wrong but you know telephone fell about this or that you don't ask about how to be saved and show how to be saved it's not a gospel track okay In my traipsing around prisons all these years, starting at the county jail, and I'm going to get the point of this, making your own track if you want to. I did it out of necessity because I'd have a man say to me, well, I don't want to talk or anything today, but if you give me something to read, I'd be happy to read it. Didn't want to talk. And I could give him a track, but I wasn't even confident of the track. Because it didn't have exactly what I wanted to say to him if he would let me talk to him. So I made up my own gospel track. Nothing new in there. It's a wonderful track. I think it's great. So when I would be able to give that to him, I know I would deliver the message. And what's on the front? The gospel, 1 Corinthians 15, 3 and 4. If he never opened it, and I leave these everywhere, post office, Somebody reads that, the message of the most important thing has been delivered. Now we want to do everything else too, but I don't want to leave empty handed not telling them what the gospel of Jesus Christ is. All right, gospel tracks. And I wanted to make an eternal security track. Why? If you're here today saved, and you don't know you're secure in Christ, you'll never walk with a track and tell, say, if you think you can be lost once you're saved, you're never going to tell. What good is it? Because you can't make it. Eternal security is most important. I've had fellows say, well, I see I've got to believe in Jesus. Believe what? The gospel. And I never leave a man till I say, You'll never have to do this twice. Are you lying to me about trusting Christ? I make it as tough as I can be, because I want them to think about it. Either you believe it in your heart, or you don't. If you've trusted Christ, you're going to heaven, because he's paid for all your sins. All right, tracts. Our gospel tracts are being sold and watered around the world. What? Anybody here ever heard of Rock of Ages prison ministry? Yeah, at least one. There were 20 guys in Tennessee with a printing press that would try to get people in as assistant chaplains. That was their ministry, prison ministry. I ran across a fellow in Greenville who was one of the 20. And I showed him my track, Clyde Johnson. And he says, you know, we print stuff. They'll probably print some up for you. Copy this track. They did. Sent me a couple of hundred. But he said, they want to use your track for themselves. I said, fine. The only stipulation is, don't change it. OK? Fine. It's not copywritten or anything. I ran across a fellow at an admissions conference, one of the European director, European director. They got guys everywhere, all over the world, in prisons and without. He says, where'd you get that track? He said, I wrote it. You wrote that track? Now, I'm getting to a point on this. It's real easy. If you want to write something down, you can print it on your computer. You can make it any size you want. It's real easy to write your own tract. Why? You'll be more likely to pass it out if you know exactly what's in it and it's what you would say to somebody. That's what works. Our home church Morningside has been printing them for 15 years with Morningside Baptist on it. Now, that's not a plug for us. But they thought it was a good track. They put it on better paper than mine, nice, glossy, and everything. All right. I've never given a prisoner a Bible without our gospel tracks in it. We've sent thousands of Bibles out, and more now, where I'm not able to go in the jail. But people give me Bibles, and I send them to prisons. Our gospel track, our security tracks in each one. Why? I want them to have a Bible, but I want them first to know what the gospel of Christ is so they can look it up in their Bible. Where can you place a gospel tract? Anywhere and everywhere. Be creative with your tract distribution. Every gospel tract you give out is soul winning, folks. Remember, we don't save them. We give them the information so they can be saved. church visitation. I'm glad to hear that you've got these 150 names. What a wonderful thing to go out not cold turkey. Not just knocking on the doors and say, how you doing? But we understand that you're new in town, and you get in. It's wonderful. If you haven't been on visitation, get on the wagon with that thing there, because it'll be a lot easier than some other ways. So that's wonderful. Church visitation. Anybody here going out on visitation without tracks with you? Of course you've got tracks. My brother-in-law's church in Massachusetts has got things he hangs on the door with it to talk about the church and how to be saved. Tracks. Nursing homes. I've got ladies in the church still using these when they go to nursing homes. Why? It's obvious. It's a lot easier to read. Hospitals and doctor's offices. Never thought about it much until I started going to hospitals and doctors. You know, age 70, I was still spry. I'm 75. You can see I'm not spry. Doctors. I never go into a nursing home. I mean, or a doctor's office, or a hospital. St. Francis in Greenville still has Bibles, Gideon's Bibles out. That's kind of, for a Catholic place, that's pretty good. I stick them in. magazines in the office. I wouldn't go in without sticking one in a sports magazine or somewhere. You don't know. You don't know. Large print daily breads. They've been sending them to me for years for the prison. I put one in. It looks good on the table, and they'll open it up, and they'll see the gospel. You can do the same thing. I wouldn't go into my post office without leaving a track every day. I had people from one of the churches in Simpsonville support us, Calvary. Hey, I see your track all the time. They get the message then. Put the track out. Ah, it's easier. King-size tracks are easier for people to read. And last thing on tracks. When you choose a track to distribute, or you made it up, but you found nothing wrong with finding the track that's got the information you want to put out there. When you find that track, be sure the track contains what you want to deliver. And if you want to put your church's name on it, stamp it on. Pastor, this is for you. Be sure to have your pastor proofread the tract, so he knows what's going out with basically his name on it, because he's going to get the call if somebody wants to know some information. And he doesn't want you putting out something that's not right, or that's not going to be the way he would like to have it. I'm sure he wouldn't mind if you showed him something before you could put the church name on it. Okay, that was an extra added on. 2 Corinthians 5, Paul speaks of ambassadors. Ambassadors. An official, what's an ambassador? An official sent messenger. We send out ambassadors all over the world, sent to bring a message about the United States. an official sent messenger. Paul was an ambassador. God sent Paul as an ambassador, and he gave him the message, which is what? The gospel. The gospel of grace. And now Paul sends us as ambassadors, and he sends us with the gospel. Remember 1 Corinthians 11? Be ye followers of me, even as I am also of Christ? Oh, it's Paul, an ambassador. Be ye followers of him. He was an ambassador. Are we ambassadors for Christ? If we're saved, that's the calling. Now ambassadors can do all kinds of things. We'll talk about that in a minute. Why all of this that we've covered so far? Why? That they may be saved. The purpose of all of this, the purpose of this church, the purpose of you reading the Bible is that someone will be saved, or certainly know how to be saved. God will do the saving. The Spirit of God brings conviction. That's God's business. But He obviously wants us to go. We've got written directions of what we should be doing. OK. Page 5. Why? That's not bad. Another proven way to present the gospel. I've never heard this talked on before. Another proven way to present the gospel. is through a home Bible study group. Home Bible study group. A home Bible study was the method God used to get Betty Ann and I saved. My brother-in-law had one at his house. He wasn't even running it. Betty Ann started to go. She got saved. Then they got on me to go. I never went. Don't need that stuff. What do I need a Bible study for? That's in my car selling days. Nothing wrong with car salesmen, but I was the typical one. You can tell I can sell cars. That's an awful thing to say, but nevertheless. I was saved. I started to go. God had the right person there, so I'd come back the next time. God worked this all out. But it was probably a year of knowing exactly that I was lost, and I believed it, and I believed the Bible. I went in knowing the Bible was God. I didn't have any problems with that. But I was hard-headed. It took me about a year, and I would say, as a direct result of a home Bible study. Let me define a home Bible study for you. Now, get this. This is a little detail. A home Bible study is this. A study of the Bible in a home. This isn't brain surgery. I may be the wrong guy up for brain surgery. But you see what it is. That's what a home Bible study group is. A study of the Bible in a home, not in a church. It's on neutral ground, in a home, neutral ground. We'll discuss that. their bible studies like that are informal casual usually on friday night and i'm giving you more information on this because who couldn't do this well uh... see what we might want to do a home bible study usually the ones i was involved in before we get down here uh... were on friday night that's a good night the end of the week most people are off saturday most people and uh... It's a way to get a free lunch too. Most Bible studies have coffee and cookies and sodas and stuff like that afterwards. And the cost is zero to go. And it's not in the church. Most of the people go, some are church, some are un-church. Whosoever will may come. Non-denominational, it's not mentioned about, we're not out of this church per se. Somebody might ask, you can tell them. But it's not that churchy. You know, for lost people, that's an important thing. Whosoever will may come. Non-denominational. Church-to-run church people, coffee and drinks. Why are home Bible studies so successful? And I'm living proof they're successful. And over the years, I can give you at least a dozen names of people that are in full-time ministry right now through one of those Bible studies at home. Many others just saved. A Bible study is not a book club. You know, people have book clubs, they come and discuss. Well, it's about a book, but it's not like the books. It's about the Bible. The Holy Spirit is there and in charge. If you got the Bible and you're sincere, the Spirit of God is there. The Holy Spirit convicts people according to His Word. And what are you studying? The Word of God. There are no man-made rules on how to run a home group Bible study. It's up to you. But the Holy Spirit will certainly guide an ambassador in the right way to run it. You have the promise of God that He's going to help you do it. All you need is a room, maybe in a coffee maker. And most people will come and bring the stuff different every week, so there's not really any expense involved. You'll meet a lot of different people that are good. The ones that are bad still need to hear the gospel. Home group Bible studies always bring about good questions to discuss. They come up, they just do. I've got years of this situation doing. It's kind of like a Sunday school class, but in a church. No, not a church environment. Like a Sunday school class, you could people know that teach Sunday school classes, you've been in Sunday school, it's a good place to discuss things. Don't have to stay on track, so to speak. But it's in a neutral ground in somebody's home. Home Bible studies get lost people to have a Bible in their hands and the gospel in their heart. That's the purpose of it. Get a Bible in there. Some people, they never had a Bible in their hand. You know, and some of you know what I'm talking about. They've never, this is a good way to get a Bible in their hands. Have Bibles, extra Bibles there. There's plenty of Gideons around that people throw away. Get them a Bible. People from any or no affiliations, male, female, young, old, married, or single, anyone can attend and everybody will be welcome. That's the basic sort of rules that you'd want to work with, but it's up to you. Home Bible studies are a good way to get a lost spouse into the Bible. I'm an example of that. I do the at-home Bible study. I grew up Catholic. First communion, confirmation, and see you later. That's what I'm boiled down to. Unfortunately, that's the way it is. We had, well, nuns had classes, but I never had a Bible. Never cared about it. Hey, I spent six years in the Air Force. Every place you go to, you have to go through the chaplain's office. They never had even the Gideon's New Testament they give me. Never, never said a word about it. I wish somebody had stopped me halfway through there. I'm glad I probably would have listened. Maybe I wouldn't have. But God had the home Bible study waiting for me. I was 33 when I got saved. I'm 75 now. That's a blessing. Still talking. All right. anyone can attend home Bible said a good way to get lost by said that all right a good way to get lost family members you got family members at a loss most of people do in there you've invited him to church it's real tough to get someone to come to church in an invite but they might come to your living room Not for any false reason. This is a home Bible study. We'll study the Bible. But no rules or regulation. Good to get spouses that way. Lost family members. Neutral ground. In our last, now this is the end of Bible study. In our last Bible study group in Massachusetts, We lived in Kingston, Massachusetts before we moved down here, which was three miles from Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, right on the borderline. Had a nice house on Main Street and everything. We moved up on Thanksgiving and on Christmas, day after Christmas, and drove down here in a Hertz truck, put our kids in at the elementary school, Bob Jones. The last Bible study that we had in Kingston, Massachusetts, Betty put out flyers in the neighborhood. Here's what it said. Home Bible study. 250 Main Street. All are welcome with our phone number. We had three people, we had a family, three doors down to get saved. Walked the aisle of the church to get baptized and everything. Home Bible study. And we only had, that was a short one before we moved down. Again, all neutral ground. Most of them ended up going to church. On the front cover of every Bible course that we've sent out for 30 years, we have this. Betty made this label up for me. When you have completed this course, you might use these booklets to start your own group Bible study. It's getting in an inmate's hand. That's what they mail to. Or certainly share them with a friend. I want them to be used. quite a bit when I get a reply to this, say, yes, I want a Bible study course. There might be three or four other names tacked on there. But then I look what dorm they're in, they're usually three or four cells away from this guy that started it. They're going to have a group Bible study. And you can tell that when they all get ACES on it, because they studied it all over and figured it out. I don't care how they come out on the course. They had to read the material. That's what we're there for, to inform them. OK. Let's quickly revisit ambassadors. And I'm just going to go through this quick. And if your name's there, good. If not, get on it. Ambassadors sow and water the gospel. Ambassadors distribute gospel tracts. Ambassadors open their homes for Bible studies. Ambassadors bring people to the Bible study. Ambassadors, that's what we're supposed to be. Ambassadors go to their hometown mission field. There's lots of opportunities come up. You'll find a way if you're looking for a place to do it. Ambassadors go on church visitation. Ambassadors go to home and away mission fields. Go to the mission field. Some people do it full time. Or mornings, I don't know if you're able to do it here, but have mission teams that go out for two or three weeks a month. Bob Jones has teams going everywhere as always. Go on a mission team. Ambassadors, pastor churches. He's a pastor and an ambassador. Pastors teach Sunday school classes. Ambassadors maintain church buildings on the grounds. Ambassadors support churches financially. Ambassadors support missions by prayer and, and I got dollar signs here, by finances. Ambassadors lead choirs. Ambassadors sing in choirs. Ambassadors play in choirs. That's what ambassador does, something. Why ambassadors? Well, I left off the last one. Ambassadors pray. and pray, and pray, and keep praying. That's what an ambassador does. I have so many people for me, that's why I'm still going at 75. And people have been praying for our ministry. That's why we, I haven't had a pay job, pretty close a lot of times. We lost our support after 10 years. We had two people supporting us. And I had to get with it on deputation. So I had 10 years of full time in the ministry without that. God supply. It took four years of deputation. But I never missed a day at the jail. Now, this is because people have prayed for that way to do it. I don't recommend that's the way to do it. Get your support up front that you know is going to be there. All right. We can't save them. We must tell them. That's what ambassadors do. Tell them. Get it out there. Leave them a track. You never know what's going to happen with a track. They're good in good weather, bad weather, and they keep going. And they keep going. pastor from a church in Georgia that we visited on deputation back 20 years ago. He asked me if I would come back and speak on soul winning to his church, because I did a lot of this in my deputation work. He must have thought something that he liked. And I said, fine. And I agreed to come. We had a combined Sunday school class, everybody but the little kids. Everybody there for Sunday school came in, and I would preach the to them, then the morning message, I would have that. So get two doses of soul winning. And it's a good thing for a pastor, instead of harping all the time on soul winning, which, and I say that nicely, kindly, because that's what's gotta be, and that's why we're here, and that's why he's here. But to get somebody else that you know what they're talking about, you know that they wouldn't say anything wrong, and hear it from another voice. Like you have evangelists to come in, to hear it from another voice, that's good. So I did this. But this is what I'm trying to get at. I opened the Sunday school, that first message, with the question, why be a soul winner? Why be a soul winner? Now a soul winner doesn't win souls. We lead them, God saves them. So it's kind of a, I don't know if you call it a misnomer, but soul winning. Why be a sole winner? Then I cleverly said afterwards, why not be a sole winner? There's reasons why we should do it. What are the reasons not to do it? And I thought of that all myself. I didn't cheat that from anybody. But follow me. I did the same thing in the morning service. Now, morning service, you got more people than at Sunday school. So you get the whole crowd again. Same thing. Why be a solo? Why not? After the meeting, a woman came up to me and said, I never thought of it that way. And I said to her, what way? What are you talking about? She said, why not be a solo winner? She got the message. Why not be a soul winner? And she dropped a $50 bill in my hand. Remember, this is easily 20 years ago, when $50 was rifty dollars to a missionary who's on deputation. Now, I don't remember the name of that church. It was in Georgia. It wasn't far out of Atlanta, probably 150 miles from Greenville. But I remember that $50 and what that lady said to me. I just threw that in. Now I say to you, why not be, when I say a soul winner, why not be an ambassador and get the gospel out? There's no good reason for a saved person not to do that. There's lots more ways, but I tried to cover everything that I could, and probably the easiest ways. Not everybody's in full-time service. We ought to be full-time ambassadors, though. Okay, almost there. I want to read again, you don't have to open your Bibles, what Paul said and we already looked. I please men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved. Ye followers of me, be ye followers of me, even as I am also of Christ. These are marching orders. Paul said, those things which you have both learned and heard and seen in me, do. Do. And the God of peace shall be with you. Brethren, be ye followers together with me, and mark them which walk so, as you have us for an example. Paul is God's example for us, God's instruction to us through the life of Paul. There's nothing not absolutely biblical and on point today than this. Why that they may be saved. Almost done. Big print. Last page. God did not save us for our power. Why? We ain't got any. We have no power. We don't have spiritual power in us. But that we might be a vessel that he could place his power into. That's why, to save us. So that he could place his power in us, then use us for his glory. That is, to make us a suitable ambassador of and for his gospel of grace. You want the power of God? If you're saved, he's come to live within, hasn't he? Never leave. Why they never leave? Sin's all been paid for, Colossians 2.13. Last thing. I guess this is a poem, would be considered a poem. I've had this in my little file of great stuff to keep, to use, probably easy 30 years. It's entitled, How Many Lost. Some of you may be familiar with it. I just, I've never used it before. How many lost have now perished? How many ears have not heard? How many hearts are still lonely? Hmm. Since I failed to give the word, How many minds are still darkened? How many lives full of care? How many souls are still searching for the truth I failed to share? Where are those souls that have stumbled? Where are the people who fell? Since I was sinful and selfish, Are they wailing now in hell? Where are my friends? And this is capitalized, where are my friends that are living, living lives by their own design? Will they escape from the falling? Will they know the Christ who's mine? Give me a burden for souls, dear Lord, to show the lost the way. Please use me for thy glory, Lord, and save a soul today." And I've added this. Ambassadors show the lost the way. That's what he's called us to, to show the lost the way. Give him the gospel of Christ. Why not? Why not? That's it. Page back to page one. We're done. Oh, look. I just, here's the gospel track. Who can read it? Even I could read this without my glasses. I made a security track. And I'm just trying to go back over the tracks because you can get in full force without really much of anything. Check the track rack you get out here, OK? These are fine. Most people can read them. But you know, if you make one up like this, throw it in your computer, you can make one like this. You can make one that big if you need to. Make a border out of it. But make sure your tracks have got what you want to say it. And you'll find it a lot easier to go out and do it. I'm done. Let's pray. Father, I come to you in Christ's name, grateful for the opportunity to be here amongst like-minded people. I'm grateful you gave me this opportunity to preach the gospel to people that know it and that can use it. I thank you for the church that supports us and has been faithfully doing it for 20 years. And I trust for as long as we're still living. And we thank you for all this and these wonderful people. We ask your blessing upon this church and this pastor. Amen and amen. Thank you.