Well, welcome back to Catholic Ancius Live. I am Sikell at your host, just delighted to be here with you and feeling good because

by $1,000 we made that match last hour. We did make the match and it's exciting to us to make the match all three of the hours that we've been with you thus far to ask you for your support here at Catholic Answers. As Tim and I said last hour, we have to go beyond the match, especially in the last three hours of the pledge drive, which we are now in because the match money is it's helpful, but it doesn't get us where we need to get. We need to get to $220,000.

We're more than a third of the way there, though, and we're halfway through the pledge. Right now, this moment is the halfway point on our pledge drive that we do every three months here, and we're more than one third, slightly more than one third, maybe 35 or 36% funded. That's great. That is great.

It also means we've got a lot of work to do, and we're going to have to ask you for your help over the next three hours in order to get there, but there's good reason to be encouraged that it can be done if everyone will do their part, you know, whatever part you feel is appropriate for you to do. It sure would be helpful to us.

Let me, first of all, give out the number for those who want to ask a question of our guest Joe Heshmeyer this hour. That's 888-318-788-4. If you want to get on and ask Joe a question, 888-318-788-4, or you can use the app, just push the call button, and that'll get you in here.

888-318-788-4. I do that just to get that out of the way because I'm going to mostly be focusing on the other number, which is our pledge drive number.

That number gets you right into the offices of our co-workers here at Catholic Answers who will take your call and get you through in about 90 seconds if you need to go fast or be happy to hear your story or visit with you if you would prefer that.

They're all very, very, well, they're mostly very, very nice people and they're happy to talk with you. Well, you know, I mean, no, no possible. That number is 888-291-8000 here to join us to answer questions. Maybe do a little fundraising with us this hour.

Joe, Heshmeyer, Joe, thanks for being with us.

My pleasure. So, you know, I can't tell people listening enough if you guys don't pull through big in this hour, I'm going to look terrible compared to Tim.

He is a rock star. He's hitting all the gold. We all look terrible compared to Tim. We're going to joke around for an hour, raise $5, and then they're going to be so mad and say a little out of the show.

So, there's two things. There's the salvation of the souls and Joe's pride on the line this hour.

Ah, yes. Those two things are related. I want to be able to help save souls.

It would make you proud to save souls.

There we go. 888-291-8000. Did anybody tell you about the matches this hour? Joe, or should I tell you about the matches this hour?

Please tell me about the matches and tell all of our listeners.

Two different matches still available this hour. First of all, we start with a fresh $20,000 gift that was given to us to match.

That is, we get the $20,000 if we match the $20,000 a generous donor. That's to help us to raise the funds.

But there's a second match still available. We do have money still available in the second match, which is for anyone who starts a new monthly pledge.

So, if you call up and make a one-time pledge of say $10, it's going to be matched. It'll be $20. That's fantastic.

But if you call up and make a monthly pledge of $10, it'll be matched to be $20 this month and next month and for 12 months out.

And all that money comes to us immediately. We don't wait for that. You make your, you fulfill your pledge each month, but we get the full 120 as a match today.

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