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This is the Join the Journey podcast.

Thanks for joining.

I'm Lauren Atkinson on the Join the Journey staff team, and today I am in the studio with another Watermark staff member, Robin Dutton.

Hey friends. Robin, so you have been on the podcast before. So glad that you're back and we'll

link your episode in the description. But before we jump in, can you tell us a little bit more

about what you do at Watermark? I'm on our external focus team as the admin.

So I have the 40,000-foot view of kind of what everything of the external focus does.

And external focus, if you don't know, is kind of our mission and outreach.

And so it's everything that looks out from the church, from global missions to local missions,

and I love our city campaign, everything in between. So I get to

help organize and make sure everything is going smoothly. That's awesome. So you keep the trains on

the tracks. I tempt you. For external focus. Love it. Okay, one more fun question before we get

into it and you don't know that I'm going to ask you this, but rumor has it that you are an incredible

artist and you love using art as a way to process what

you're learning in scripture so i'm curious have you been doing that this year with year of the

word i actually have i have one sort of re cartooning my way through genesis since this is an exodus

just a way to kind of slow down and take in the scripture and also

just doing word art along the way, which is super fun. I love it. That's awesome. And just a fun way

to use your creative talent for the Lord. Well, Robin, today we are in Numbers 10 through 13. And so before

we jump in straight to the passage, I'm going to give a quick two-sentence overview of what's been going on.

So in the beginning of the Book of Numbers, we see that Israel is wrapping up their one-year stay at Mount Sinai, and they're heading into the wilderness on their way to the promised land.

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