Well, good evening and welcome to our midweek Bible study on Thursday nights. We're going through

the Bible, book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse. And tonight we are currently in the

Book of Isaiah. And Lord willing, we're going to complete chapters 38 and 39. We'll encourage

you and invite you at this time to turn there if you're not there already.

And before we get started, I just wanted to mention real quick that our amazing staff,

and they are amazing, are working tirelessly to keep up with the requests for a religious

exemption letter. I do need to apologize because I did not

realize that we would receive the number of requests that we were on the receiving end of this last

week. So they're doing everything they can to keep up with it.

We very much appreciate your patience. But here's the thing. On Sunday, Lord willing, I'm hoping to

make an important announcement about how we're going to be able to expedite this process online.

So we're working on that.

We would really encourage you to pray for us and pray for our staff, particularly Lane and

Grace High Night and, of course, Gail as well.

They have sent out literally hundreds of these. and Grace High Night and of course Gail as well.

They have sent out literally hundreds of these, but the problem is we've received not hundreds, but thousands.

And so I had to ask them to forgive me on Monday and then again on Tuesday and then yesterday on Wednesday and then again

today.

And so anyway, we're working on it.

We do have a solution for it.

And so for those of you online that have not yet received even a response, let alone

the letter, please, please, please, be patient

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