Dynamic Voices for a diverse church. This is Pass the Mic.

Greetings and God bless. This Tyler Burns you can follow me on

Twitter at Burns 23 follow at your own risk.

I had you go in there this is not Tyler Burns. This is Jamartisbee, Tyler's co-host and

Tyler sends his regrets. He's traveling today. His travel plans got changed a little

bit and so he cannot be on the podcast but I figured you know we're used to

Tyler introing the show and he's got such great podcast personality that I would try to emulate

him that's the best form of flattery. However, I don't think I pulled it off unless I fooled you for a couple of seconds.

But I'm excited about the show today. We have a special guest on with us who I'll intro in just a minute but I do want to

take time out and recognize that on October 31st which you may alternatively celebrate as Halloween day or Reformation Day, I celebrate

Raniversary. The Reformed African American Network officially launched on October 31st, 2011 so October 31st 2016

marks our five year anniversary. It has been an incredible journey. I remember sitting with my laptop in the dining room.

It was nine or ten o'clock at night. I had just created a Facebook page for this thing called the Reformed African American Network,

and I was about to press Enter.

And I just had this feeling that once we put it out there and made it public it was going to be well beyond whatever I could

predict and that has been true but throughout the years God has been so faithful to this ministry.

He's brought along amazing people like Tyler Burns, like Bo York,

or producer like Elodie Queton who manages the website, a board of directors, we're a

501c3 now. Between our two social media accounts on Facebook and Twitter,

we have almost 20,000 likes and follows.

We have almost one and a half a million views

on the website, and things are going well. So thank you to all of our listeners, thank you to all of our readers and supporters and friends as the Reformed African American Network celebrates five years.

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