Hey, everybody. Welcome to you. We're born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo. That's me. I'm Father John. I'm the

executive director at Acts 29, where we talk about anything and everything having to do with transformation in the church.

And I'm here with Nick and Mary, but I'm not giving Nick and Mary a microphone.

So you guys can wave to the, how you guys doing actually? You can hear you over here.

Good. Good. the the reason for that

we have a very special guest a dear brother spiritual father to us and really one of the most

inspiring leaders that we see in the church right now archbishop Alexander sample from the archdiocese

of portland how are you archbishop i'm doing fine but i don't know how i'm going to live up to that

yeah well it's all downhill from here.

Yes, that's right.

Oh, it's such a grace to be with you.

We're here at the, actually in Kansas City as we're recording us at the amazing parish conference.

And you brought, how many folks in from Portland? 20 priests, actually representing 18 parishes because two of them are parochial vickers

and on the parish leadership teams.

And then with lay folks from, I'm not sure actually how many total people we have here.

60, 70, something like that.

And there's about 5, 600 people at the conference.

It's just been a tremendously anointed time just to see what God's doing here.

You kicked us off with a beautiful

homily yesterday that was just real inspiring. We've got these tremendously providential readings

right now, right? With Genesis and the call of Abram to leave the familiar behind. And we talk

about that so often in our work. And I know you do in the Archdiocese of Portland.

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