Well, Pastor John and Noelle are back in the Twin Cities.

Thank you for your prayers as they traveled administered in Brazil and Argentina.

It sounds like the trip was a big success.

Here are just a few updates from the trip by the numbers, 25,000.

That was the total number of people who heard Pastor John speak at live events, 25,000

folks, 1300 is the number of pastors who convened at two events with Pastor John, 1300 pastors.

Amazing.

And 20,000 free copies of books were given away on this trip, including titles like Expository

Exaltation.

God is the Gospel and Dangerous Duty of Delight, 20,000 books given away.

And on top of those big numbers came several personal testimonies of how God has used Pastor John's

ministry over the years to bring in people's lives, saving faith, to restore broken marriages,

and even to rescue one man from suicide.

It's incredible.

Both the big stats and especially those individual stories that you really only hear in face-to-face meetings

when you're on the road like this.

And on top of it all, God kept the Pipers and DG's team safe and healthy on the road.

And it's all the flights and the hotels and the travel in this eight-day whirlwind of a trip to Brazil and Argentina.

Again, thank you for supporting us and for praying for us so that we can send them out on the road to do ministry like this.

And the day the Pipers flew to South America, I flew to Texas to speak on campus at Texas A&M or TAMU as it's affectionately called.

There I spoke to students about social media, digital temptations, and smartphone habits.

The topics for conversation centered around my two books, 12 ways your phone is changing you and the new one competing spectacles.

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