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and thank you so much for daring to listen. Today, we are releasing a conversation between

Jay and I about Monrovia Fellowship in Southern California. There is a lot of documentation

in our show notes, thanks to the reporting of Julie

Royce.

In particular, we are going to be talking about a video that is a recording of the town hall

meeting that happened most recently and a letter that came from concerned staff and leaders

that went to the board there.

We saw our own story from our own church that was just miles away from this church in the

leadership response to the questions at the town hall and the concerns brought up in the letter.

And we really wanted to shine a light on what these people are experiencing as they are trying to fight

for goodness in their congregation. It is really heartbreaking. We know people who came from our church

and went to Monrovia Fellowship to hopefully rebuild community and restart and find a church

community that would care for them and choose goodness and integrity. And unfortunately,

that is not what is happening

at Monrovia Fellowship right now. So if you are someone that attends there and you're listening

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