Hey, good morning, church. Good to be with you guys. Welcome. Anybody joining us from Biso? Any guests? People in stage two watching online all over the U.S. and world. Good to be with you all. Start with an apology. I'm not J.P., Nate or Kathy. Please forgive me. But I got the word of God, so we're going to be good. And that's what they would say if they're standing up here. Like, dude, it's literally what J.P. just said. Give them God. Hey, so when I met J.P.

Now, 14 years ago, we started working together. Our wives became dear friends. And we literally

were like, hey, let's do this for life. Like, let's do ministry for life together this is incredible like just

the kindredness our families our kids theology all of it let's do it for life it's like yeah deal

done and then a couple years later like we're moving to waco and I was like what happened to for

life like what is this it's like Waco. I was like, what happened to for life? Like, what is this? It's like, come with us. I was like, oh, man, like I don't, like, I went to Baylor, Laura went to Baylor, but Laura's entire family, her grandfather, her mom and dad, her brothers, sisters-in-law, nieces, nephew, like everybody was in Dallas. My brother and sister-in-law are in

Dallas. Nothing made sense about going to Waco. So we're like, happy for you, glad God's calling

you there. We don't feel called there. So I guess it's not for life. And Laura in the midst of that

conversation was like, I am not moving to Waco. I'm never moving to Waco. I was like, man, you feel really

strongly about that. Like, why? Like, what in the world? And it's not what you think. Her family

was there, but there was something else at play when she's like, I'm never moving to Waco.

When she was a Baylor, her senior year, she went through this season, and when I say season is even too

short of a word, a year of undiagnosed OCD, obsessive-compulsive disorder that led to horrific

anxiety, depression as she just like spiraled and didn't know what was going on. So when we would

like come back for homecomings, even just driving by Baylor's campus on 35, she's got like racing heart PTSD because it was such a hard year, even though she had some of the best memories of her life, met some of the best friends of her life, like loves Baylor, loves the city, but the city, there was a hardness there, a difficulty that she had walked through.

And so when the preclude was like, come down, she's like,

I'm out.

Like I can't.

I never will.

Well, a year and a half ago, JP's like, all right,

now like real talk, we've got a need and you've got,

I think the gifting and wiring for it, would you come down? And I was like, man, I'll pray. But I got to talk to Laura. So I go to Laura. I'm like, look, Waco's come up again. She's like, John, I'll follow you to China. I'm not going to Waco. I was like, I know. Just would you pray? And she's

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