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One thing that kind of blew me away is that after your sermon passed to Rick, you gave sort of the financial report for the year.

So you had up there like exactly how much money the church brought in over the calendar year on your PowerPoint in front of the whole audience.

That's a report that's a once a year thing, but we publish that in the bulletin every week.

How much money we've taken in in the last week up to the month of the year today, that's sort of said.

We thank transparency's a big deal.

So you are open with your finances.

Are you open with what everyone's paid? Does everyone know what everyone's paid?

No, we don't talk about that openly.

But I mean, if somebody really wanted to know, we would say this range, but they know where we live.

No, please get rich here.

Not even you guys, the owners or the leaders or whatever.

You might be interested to know this.

Paul doesn't get like a percentage of whatever the takes are on a Sunday.

They're a team.

They're a team of volunteers and they're called elders.

And their job is to they have the power to fire Paul.

And who owns the church?

These group of leaders, they're called we call them elders.

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