Hello friends John Eldridge here welcome back to the ransom-tard podcast in the week of May 18th

Our fourth installment in the series on how to listen to someone's story, how to tell your own story.

So good. I actually have been going back and listening to it myself and getting so much out of it. I hope you have two.

Hey, I just wanted to send out a thank you to the generosity of all of our friends that have been helping us in this time. I think most of you

know but many people don't know because we don't talk about it very much. We are a

crowd-funded ministry and we are supported by the generosity of

good hearts just like you. And we don't ask often so most people don't hear us make funding appeals that's just

our style but from time to time we do want to say thank you and do let our needs

be known.

Now I recognize this is a very difficult time

for a lot of people and close friends

have lost work, lost companies, had to lay people off so we get it, we

understand. But if you're in a position in this time, if you're doing okay and you would

love to partner with us as we actually expand our reach and speak to more

people around the world. We would love your help. We would love your partnership. You can make a contribution

very simply online at ransompart.com. You can drop us a line, get on our website and find out how to do that. So thank you for remembering us in this hour.

Thanks for your generosity. Oh my goodness, it means so much to us. And if you can help, we would love that. And I know you're praying for us and that means even more.

So, okay, here we go into part four.

The novelist Virginia Wolf said, but to give you my life I must tell you a story.

It's true to be known to be known is to have someone know not all of your

story not exhaustively but to be known people need to know you they need to your story. And what we'd like to do in

this final episode is just help you prepare for that and just give some real

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