Welcome to the For the Gospel Podcast where we provide sound doctrine for everyday people.

I'm your host Kosti Hen and I want to welcome our listeners on Apple Spotify and those enjoying this

on our YouTube video podcast format. First of all, Merry Christmas. This is our last

official episode of the year. It's Christmas Day when it comes out, but this was

recorded prior of course and I hope that you and your family are having a wonderful Christmas day if you happen to be listening to this on Christmas Day or if you're in the car or road tripping or picking back up where you left off in the new year,

Merry Christmas.

I hope it was an amazing or is an amazing time.

I'm excited in this episode to take you behind the scenes a little bit of where we've been in

2023 and tell you about where we're heading in 2024 and as always we tagged that

Lord willing. I want to share with you some of the

remarkable things first that God did through your support in 2023. If you've

never listened to one of our end of year episodes we've been a ministry for about three years now and I do

one of these each year. You may enjoy getting to know a little bit more about the nuts and bolts of our

ministry here for the gospel and if you're one of our regulars, this episode gets you in the loop of all that you have been a part of and all that's coming up in the coming year.

First, 2023 was our most effective year since we launched three years ago.

Here's what I mean by that.

Our goal coming in the year was to reach 1 million people per month.

Now we didn't just make that number up. It was

based on some of the prior data points and what God had done prior and it also was

involved with some of our goal setting and hoping we could reach more people

and that the Lord would use our little effort. And after falling short of the 1 million per month

mark for the first three months God picked up the pace. We actually

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