Thank you so much for being here and for inviting me. I can't tell you, I can't tell you how much I feel at home here.

I love that song. how much I feel at home here.

I love that song. Thank you, Jeff.

That was really, really powerful.

I'm aware that the most immediate tension producing event was the sole force yesterday.

Some of our folks came over.

Daniel, one of our youth ministers came over with a bunch of our teenagers to just talk where they could.

I don't know if you know, but emotionally inside of me, I'm sort of trembling with the Trayvon Martin case in Florida,

wondering how explosive that's gonna become.

You know, the young black man who is shot with a glass of tea in his hand and some candy.

So that's a little bit of the national and neighborhood tension that we meet in.

And here's the relation to my mission's message, here, whenever something like this happens, you and I operate out of

an incredible wealth of gospel blessing. We've got something to say into these situations.

There are peoples all over the world, several thousand of them with zero gospel. Zero church,

zero missionaries, no engagement, and no church.

And if things explosive and tense and horrible happen there,

nobody brings the gospel to bear on that crisis.

So that's what missions is about, trying to turn that situation around for the glory of Jesus. Let me pray that God would help us in this now.

So Father, I plead with you that you would come into this room in power now and here are hundreds of young people.

Most of them I would assume saying to you right now, just make it plain and I'm there.

Just make it plain. I'll stay. Make it plain. I'll go.

Just come and rivet my heart on your ambition from my life and I will follow.

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