Hey everybody, welcome you were born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo.

That's me. I'm Father John. I'm the executive director at Acts 29.

Will we talk about anything and everything having to do with transformation in the church?

I'm here as always with my partner in mission, Mary Guilfoyle. How are you, Mary?

Father John, I'm great, but I can't see you very well this afternoon.

This is a screen, right?

So a couple of weeks ago, we had semis parading around outside our office in support

of the Ukraine.

Last week we had, what, parade people?

St. Patrick's Day parade.

And bongo drums and who knows what else going outside our windows.

And today our power went out.

We have darkness.

We're sitting in the dark.

So if this doesn't sound as good audio quality, our apologies, this is the backup plan, right?

But it's kind of fitting given the topic, right?

It is.

So let me just move into that right now.

The topic for this afternoon's conversation is getting to the root of the matter.

Ooh, I like that.

Well, why don't we pray and then we can bust this open?

Sounds like a plan.

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