Greetings, welcome to the Pastor Mike Drop podcast.

I'm Pastor Mike dropping the podcast with my co-host and our special guests, Emily Lang Paul. Hello, Emily. Hi, I'm good. How are you?

Good. Welcome back from a family trip, right? That's great. Good for you. All deserved. Thank you. And we were just talking. you are leading our team that's working on the building Hope

for Tomorrow project in terms of making some choices.

A lot of choices.

And John, you were saying, right, that it gets old.

Yeah, when you've been around Hope for a while, you outfit different buildings and, you know, car dealerships and gyms and all that.

But yeah, there's a lot of, there's a lot that goes into it that people don't realize.

Yeah, more than people think for sure.

There is.

And you and your team are amazing at that and you care deeply about it.

And we appreciate that on behalf of all of us.

You're making decisions to get stuff that's going to be durable and last and, and we appreciate that. On behalf of all of us, you're making decisions to get

stuff that's going to be durable and last and look great, I'm sure. That's a big part of knowing

your team, as I do. So, good. And we, let's formally introduce our guests who are here today.

We have two distinguished pastors from the Hope staff.

Yes, we do. Pastor Ben Mason, back with us. Thanks, Ben. Thanks for having me. Excited to be here. Welcome back, Ben. Thank you. Always good to see you. Yes. And Pastor John Annanson from Hope Waukee. Yeah. Thanks for having me. Hello. Good to be here. Always good to have one out of town pastor here. From way out west. So far away.

In Wauke.

When I saw that Ben was going to be honest, I said I knew we're going to have a good time. It's a good tandem. Really, it is. It's a good pair. So what's exciting in Waukee these days? Oh, man. So many things. We just had our end of the year kind of student worship night just to celebrate the end of the year.

And we had over a hundred years. things. We just had our end of the year kind of student worship night just to celebrate the end of the year.

And we had over 100 students baptized. We did outdoors, less messy if you do it outdoors. But I just

never want to take those nights for granted. I mean, these are, and so many of them, a few affirmations,

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