La La, la, oh, oh, oh, oh Kokel here, stand to reason, and I want to start

out by saying thank you, thank you, to the 54 people who have already signed up as new

strategic partners. We are in August, every August we have a given opportunity for you to

join our team financially. Strategic partner are those that have pledged to give a certain amount, 25, 50, 100, or whatever

to us on a monthly basis.

And you are our foundation.

You are our core group that we count on every single month to be able to move forward aggressively.

Now I made an illustration or I offered an illustration last week that goes back in history to 1792 and William Carey, who some of you know was the guy who really opened up India to missions.

Back then there wasn't anything going on like that. Hudson Taylor, China Inland Mission.

He's in China, William Carey, India. And he knew it was a dark place to go, and he told his buddy Andrew Filler,

I will go down into that pit if you will hold the rope. And that's what Fuller did and a whole bunch of other people for William Carey and his operation.

They held the rope as he went down.

And that's the way we see our strategic partners. You guys are holding the rope for us.

You're not going down so much in the way that we're going down.

You are going down in some measure. I understand that. We hope you all are.

You're paying it forward. You're doing the job. You're being ambassadors for Christ wherever

you place your feet. And that's what we want for you. This is our commitment to you to build you

in that way. But in order to build you, we need people that hold

the rope for us and make it possible for us to do what we do. And of course, you know the kind of

things that we're doing. We got a call on radio show. You're listening to it right now. We got

Red Pen Logic. He had Tim Barnett on last week talking, helping us

understand some things about the culture, particularly AI, as an example of the kind of thing

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