Hey, everybody. Welcome to the work born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo and Mary

Guilfoyle. We're a couple of missionaries of Acts 29, and this is the podcast where we talk about

how acquiring a biblical worldview brings us great hope in the God who created and rescued this world.

It calls you and me to be agents of transformation and recreation.

Mary, how was the windy city?

Father John, it was actually pretty windy.

It was. Hence the name.

Gosh, you know, I just wanted to take a minute real quick just to thank all of our friends who

prayed for us when we were in Chicago.

We were at Munderline Seminary, doing some work together with the seminary formation council. And we were working

with pastors who were receiving a transitional deacon. Right. We've been concluding a two-year

program of formation that we're going through. Right, right. We did the first module out of six, we did the last

module. And I think you and I and Rick were talking at the end of our time together that we really

sense that our time with them was a marker in the church. I think for me personally, I was just

filled with hope at the extraordinary pastors that have gone through this program. The great hope that I have

were the people sitting in the pews of these men's parishes. Just extraordinary men. And then we had

the blessing of being with Bishop Speese, who's just a really special. Yeah, just a really

tremendous man. So it was, it was a time of great grace. Yeah, I would echo that

just to thank everybody's prayers, who was interceding for us and for them. I left there so inspired.

You know what? It's often said, you know, horses need other horses to run with. And I shared that with the

guys. I mean, I just, I felt so inspired and called on. These were 50 or so,

just exceptional pastors from all over the country. And like you said, I'm really wonderfully happy

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