Hello, my friends, Michael Yusuf here, and I just wanted to thank you for connecting with leading the way.

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richly bless you as you seek to serve him. I have a very hard time saying no to speaking with our try to speaking to pastors and ministries.

I've always felt at least in the last 31 years, that's life of the church that God privileged me to birth,

that I want to go to every pastor convention or conference

of meeting to apologize to pastors.

My ministry started in Sydney, Australia, in 1975, after I graduated from seminary,

and I served in a church in Sydney for about two and a half years.

Then I left for health reasons. People got sick of me.

And I thought, well, pastoring is not for me. And I headed up an international ministry hit

court in Singapore, and the U.S. headquarters in Atlanta, the

Hagia Institute for Leadership Training. So while I was the managing director of this ministry

for nearly 10 years, I would speak all over the world to pastors. And I knew everything and what

to tell pastors. Pastors ought to do this. Pastors ought to do that. Pastors ought to, I did this for 10 years.

Then I became a pastor. And so I now take every opportunity available to me to go to pastors and

apologize. It's certainly very different when you're in the trenches.

We started with 28 adults and 16 children for service in Atlanta, 31 years ago.

Amen.

God gets all the glory.

But I do have a burden, and I'm going to ask you to bear with me and forgive me ahead of times.

Growing up in the Middle East, living in a highly secular society where I received my training

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