Well, welcome. I'm Bob Lapine and Shelby Abbott is going to be stepping in to be the new

voice for family life today, the person with show notes and information and to help get

you pointed in the right direction. And Shelby is here and I thought it would be good

for you guys to get to know him and so Shelby, welcome.

Yeah, thank you so much for having me and thank you for being willing to trust me with

something that has been happening for decades now. And I really am humbled and honored to

be a part of such a great legacy here at Family Life today.

Well, I don't know if I've ever told you this, but you were a guest on Family Life today

back a couple years ago. And at the end of that guest session with you, I stepped out and was

talking with David Robbins, the president of Family Life. And I said, you know, when it's

time for me to step away, Shelby might be the guy, just from the conversations that we had

and the way that you were, I loved the fact that you were able to respond spontaneously to what

we were talking about. You were quick on your feet. What you were saying was substantive

and biblical, which is not, you can't always count on that being the case. And so I just

stepped out and said, this may be I'm not a prophet or the son of a prophet, but this could be

what God has for Family Life today going forward. Thank you for trusting me. And saying that

to David Robbins too, you did email me after that time. And you said, hey, great job. It was

really great to meet you. But I had no idea that you had had a conversation with David Robbins.

I loved you and had a wonderful plan for your life. You didn't have it. The Holy Spirit was

working in and through you in those moments. So speaking of God loving you and having a wonderful

plan for your life, his wonderful plan for your life has has revolved around the ministry of

crew for a while now. Did you come to faith through the ministry of crew? I did actually, yeah.

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