Good morning, Harris Creek, and those visiting with us.

So glad to have you guys. We got some parents in the room. Welcome here. Want you to know that we love your students. They're in good hands. They're in God's hands through us, but it's a gift and blessing to have you all here. So if you've been journeying with us, but for the sake of our guests, you know that alcoholism is a part of my story. Lord got me sober at the age of 30. And three years

into my sobriety and surrender the Lord, I heard about post-Darfur in Sudan, South Sudan. I heard

about people struggling with alcoholism. I was at this fundraising event. And they were sharing

how because of the war, the country had been decimated,

they put landmines in all the fields so that any men who survived couldn't work the land, and the

women, out of desperation, to try to make any kind of money were making moonshine, which is this,

you know, illegal, unregulated alcohol. This particular kind of moonshine, which is this, you know, illegal, unregulated alcohol.

This particular kind of moonshine, they were taking embalming fluid, ethanol, from aldehyde,

like just putting anything they could into a 50-gallon drum and then distill it off

to make this incredibly potent and poisonous numbing agent. And so we've got a picture of it.

This is like I stopped by one of the moonshine stills. I mean, you can see like the, just like

horrific. You would be blind within weeks and dead within months. And so as I heard about this,

I like, man, I think I've got to go to

Sudan to tell these people about the hope of Jesus and that they can be free. And so I'd walk

around to these various moonshine stills and sit with them. I thought they would be like, no, you can't

come here. You're going to take our customers. Instead, they're like, oh, great, you're the

entertainment for the day. Of course you can sit here.

And so I would sit across from these alcoholics, just day drinking, this, I mean, numbed out of their mind. They didn't know if anything was getting through, but I was like, hey, what Jesus did for me, he will do for you. Just come, come and see. I told them that we're going to meet under this mango tree at first Baptist Kajou-K-G Sudan. And we go and we sit and we're waiting, me and my translator, on these benches under the mango tree, and hours and hours go by. And I'm like, Lord, you brought me here. Like, you're not bringing anyone. And lo and behold, I see on the horizon, someone walking, I'm like, are they going to the village,

are they going to the marketplace?

Sure enough, they finally come.

Here's one, there's two.

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