Hey friends, I'm Rachel Grohl and I'm your host for the Hearing Jesus podcast, where I help you to know God and to make him known.

Today is a Good News Friday episode, and I owe some of you an apology. I heard from several of you that you were disappointed that we didn't do Good News Friday last week.

And part of the reason is because the girls, Addy and Emma, were not able to update their blogs on time because, as is common in other parts of the world, sometimes the internet doesn't work, sometimes the electricity doesn't work, sometimes their ministry schedules are off,

and the blog post did not come in on time. But I'm back with an update from both Emma and Adi. I'm

going to read those here in just a minute. Thank you for those of you that are continuing to pray

for these kids that are changing the world and impacting it for the kingdom of God.

Before we get to that, just a couple updates.

Our Bible study live trip for November is officially closed.

So thankful for this unique group of people that God has brought together and so excited for

what he's getting ready to do in hearts and minds as we travel there together.

If you are somebody that was interested in the

Bible study live trip to Rome, Italy, I have exciting news. We're actually going to be opening up a

second trip in the spring. And so if you're somebody that maybe those dates didn't quite work,

or you couldn't get the time off of work, or it was too close to Thanksgiving, you have another

opportunity to go with us in the spring. And we are getting ready to open up the website for that.

We're finalizing just a couple things with those dates and that trip. The other thing I'm announcing

that I'm very excited and happy to do is we're actually going to be doing a payment plan for

that trip. It will be zero

interest. It will not be checking your credit. And I know there were some of you that just couldn't

come up with that full amount right off the bat and needed some sort of payment plan. That's now

going to be available for you as well. And so you can either email me and just tell me that you're

interested. A couple of those spots

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