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

We're a couple of missionaries at Acts 29.

This is the podcast where we talk about anything and everything having to do with transformation in the church.

And Mary, the weather in Michigan lately got us ready for the weather where we are now,

didn't it? Yes, it did. It's been hot and humid back home and it's hot and humid in Louisiana.

It is hot and humid in Louisiana. We are blessed to be able to be down here with Father Andrew Merrick

and the great people at Christ the King Catholic Church,

which serves Louisiana State University. And I've never been down here. So this is actually

pretty great to be down here with him and with some of the staff, the great folks at really an

amazing parish. I've heard a lot about for a long time to do some work with college kids,

but we'll talk about that maybe after we pray. But what is the theme? So the thing for today is

the biggest mission field in the world. Well, you can guess what that is from telling what we

talked about, right? So let's pray, shall we, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Father, we do ask for your blessing and anointing upon our conversation right now, and even as

we pray, we just lift up in front of you all of the young men and women around this country

who are preparing to head back to college.

We ask that you'd raise up missionaries in abundance for that vineyard to go out and to share the gospel in an attractive and compelling way to tap into the zeal and idealism and energy of our young brothers and sisters

so as to overwhelm them and move them to surrender and mobilize them for mission so that they

would use the gifts that you've entrusted to them to help recreate and transform this world

which you so love.

We thank you for the great people at Christ the King down in Baton Rouge,

and we pray for not only them, but for all missionaries on college campuses,

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