Hi, I'm Erwin McManus and I want to welcome you to the Mosaic Podcast. I want to also bring

into some exciting things that are happening here. If you go to the Mosaic app, you will

learn about our conference coming up this year, about MSC's new album and their tour across the

country and you can learn how to connect and being more involved in mosaic in so many

different ways and by the way we now have the mosaic YouTube channel and you

go access not only these talks but

other fresh and new materials that are being created specifically for that

channel and so if you want to be connected in a richer and fuller way, not only be a part of the

podcast, get to the Mosaic app and get to the channel and we'll see you there.

Christine was pregnant with Parker, that's when we decided to really make Mosaic our home and attend and come and dive in every Sunday.

When we first became parents, we fell into a time of financial crisis.

We weren't expecting so many expenses to come up.

We needed financial advice, so we went to a planner and they looked over our situation and they said oh this is easy you just

need to cut your tithing and we both looked at each other and we said no that's not

going to happen.

That's not us.

I knew God was calling us to something and that was exactly what we didn't want to hear.

And we knew that that wasn't us.

That's not part of our story.

And it may sound crazy but we actually gave more. We increased our giving

God showed us what he had in mind and with that he met us in her faith.

And that summer became the most productive summer

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