Hey everybody, welcome back into the podcast. It has been a long time coming. And I'm so excited to be back with you here on the podcast. Chelsea is with me. As always. Yes, yes. That has not changed.

Yes, fortunately for me. Yeah, we have a addition to our family,

which is pretty crazy. If you are out of the loop and you just follow us on the podcast, you would

not know that we had a beautiful baby boy named Hudson Owen Hurst. He is the best and we are just so grateful for him.

And we've been very wrapped up in newborn life. And we've just felt like this podcast needs a

rebrand and needs to go in a new direction. So we're really excited about telling you guys

all of that today.

And yeah, I guess we could probably start off by breaking that down. Why the name change.

You want to explain it, Nick?

Sure, yeah, you can say that the name has been forever changed, I suppose. Yeah, we love Encounter Now,

and we absolutely loved our time as the Encounter Now podcast and we still

believe so, so much in the message of Encounter Now. But one thing that Chelsea and I have learned

throughout this time of being away is that there's a season for everything. Yeah. And seasons come and seasons go,

but the one true message that we both carry actually will never change.

Mm-hmm.

And so while we felt as though encounter now represented so much of facing tomorrow,

facing right now, which will prepare you for tomorrow,

and so many different areas and ways of your life,

we felt as though it was time to refresh and to go into a new direction with the forever

changed podcast.

And what this podcast represents is so many of you and so many of us collectively as a body have been forever changed by the grace

of Jesus. And so that is the real heartbeat behind this podcast. And we believe that there's so much

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