La La La, la,

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, ho, ho, ho, or something like that.

Hello, friends, and welcome to the show.

Maybe we should have, instead of the chicken, have a ho, ho, ho, or something like that.

We used to have cats when Melinda was on board, and she would play those meow, meow, meow,

like somebody's pulling the tail of the cats, right?

They meowing out different notes and doing Christmas carols.

Anyway, that was the thing of the past.

We're probably beyond that.

We're grown up now, so we're not doing Christmas cats.

But I'll tell you what we are doing, and that is we're closing out our year financially at Stand a Reason.

And I can tell you the details right now, but we got some really cool plans for next year.

We're expanding in some very significant ways that's going to help the

organization and help you and help other people as we continue to build ambassadors for Christ

in knowledge, wisdom, and character. But we need to end this year strong. Okay? This is mid-December.

December, I don't know what the percentage is, but it's a massive percentage of our operating income comes in this month and it comes in from people like you.

So I'm going to say thank you in advance for all the people who have given already this month and all the people that will be giving. And I hope

that includes you, too, because if you've been benefiting from stand to reason, this is the time

and the way to say thank you, send a gift. And we will use that gift well. And we have been doing

that, too, by the way. We've exploded in the number of

outposts that we have. We got over 150 now. We added India as an international outpost,

so that's nine different countries that we have. We're serving 12,500 students on STRU, and we've got new courses coming out on a regular basis.

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