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My name is Joe Thorne, I'm the lead pastor of a church called Redeemer Fellowship.

It is in St. Charles, Illinois.

And I'm Jimmy Fowler, Elder Candidate at said Church.

So, uh, said elder candidate.

Mm-hmm. Well, no, I said. I said.

I said yeah say that I said it okay I said that I said it okay I said

that said to you what are you doing what's up what's new how you like in the holidays

holidays it's actually called it's Christmas well there there's you know what I'm just really

tired there's Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays means holy days. Oh yeah yeah

let's just go ahead have our winter winter break. Is that what you want?

I'd rather call it a winter solstice.

I knew it. Yeah. I knew it. You can tell. I knew it.

How couldn't you know? How couldn't you know?

How couldn't you know? You hide it pretty well. Well, I sort of wear all that on my

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