Hey friends before we start this episode I want to jump on for just a second and let you know about two things that I think are going to be very timely for this critical season that our entire world is going through right now.

Obviously with the coronavirus crisis

that's taking place in our country and has now hit really close to home for many of us

there's a lot of fear a lot of trepidation a lot of anxiety a lot of worry and so we as a

ministry want to respond to that by helping to continue to equip you as you live

learn and lead through pain and there are a couple of things that as a ministry we have been

planning for and preparing for but feel like we need to go ahead and release

quickly because it's poised for a time such as this. First of all, our community groups. We have mentioned these briefly,

but these are targeted groups, catered to the specific trial that you are walking through. I know when I lost my late wife

Amanda I wanted to talk to somebody else who had walked that valley or was

currently walking the specific valley of being a young widower.

I wanted to know that my life wasn't over, that I was going to be able to emerge from this,

that I was going to be able to figure out how to be a single dad, as well as potentially have a meaningful marriage

again and so I needed to talk to other people who are walking that valley and this is

something that we are hearing from many of you guys as well you're asking can you

connect us with people who are

walking a similar valley to me. Now we have the opportunity for you to do that

with our nothing is wasted community groups. We were going to launch these in June and now we are launching them early because of this

coronavirus because right now we're sensing that everybody is needing hope more and everybody

is needing community more and that's what these community groups offer.

So on April 2nd, we will be launching these community groups.

That's right, in one week, April 2nd, we're launching these community groups.

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