Hi, Chris Bellatin here. Welcome to my podcast where I hope to inspire you to transform the world within you and transform the world around you.

I'm excited to share this message with you today. I pray the Lord ministers to you as you listen.

How are you guys? It's a... how many of you are first-year students? Would you raise your hand? First-year students? How many are second-year students?

There we go. Third-year students? Awesome. And then we have our online campus too and I'm sure they're raised in their hands because we have a lot of online students.

I do know right now we're training 3,675 students. I don't know if you know that. All over the world. 3,675 students are in school right now. In Bethel School. Not too bad, right? You seem unimpressed.

Okay. Well, trying to well you with those big numbers and you're like, I thought we were training in 10,000 or something. I don't know. Anyway, wow. So it's really exciting.

The first year coming back, I've got to teach three times last week and really powerful. My grandson, Evan, is in first-year school ministry.

So he's my fourth grandchild to go through school ministry and my son, Jason, went through school ministry years ago. But you know, you can probably understand this.

Kids go through your school ministry and they grump your house. There is a little, I don't know if I would call it anxiety, but there's something probably anxiety.

I should spiritualize it. It's higher, don't get anxious. But I'm like, the first day of school ministry, my grandson's in there and he's somewhere in the civic. And I remember he's there and I'm like, hmm, I wonder how he's doing.

So I get done preaching and I get my car and he's text me. Papa, that was amazing. I'm like, wow. Okay. Yeah, it was really.

And then the third time I spoke, he said, there's like Thursday or Wednesday or Thursday. He text me as I was getting my car and it's a Papa. This is amazing. This is changing my life.

So good. You know, this is the same young man when he was like, I think he's like six years old. I've told the story a few times before, but you know, he, when he was six, well, even now, but he was six, he's like real entrepreneur. She likes to make money.

But he likes to work for his grandma because she pays a lot of money for very little work.

So anyway, I was going to say something funny, but I'll offend everybody if I do that.

So he comes to our house and she's shopping and he's like six and he's like, Papa, I like to make some money. I said, okay. He says, well, grandma paid me money to work. I'm like, yeah, I know how that works.

And so it's, it's false. So there's like two inches of leaves on the deck. And I said, why don't you sweep the deck? So I sweep the deck. So I got him a broom. And he's like, no, grandma, give me the red one. All right, right, right, right, right equipment.

So I get him the right equipment. And he's sweeping the deck. And I go out and I'm cleaning the pool. And about maybe two minutes later, he's out there. He's chasing a butterfly.

And I said, Evan, did you finish sweeping the deck? Because I know that could not be possible. He's like, no, I'll be very tired.

I said, Evan, Superman doesn't get tired. He looked right up and he goes, Superman doesn't sweep leaves.

On that note, grab a hand. Let's pray, Holy Spirit. Thank you that Superman doesn't sweep leaves. We pray, Father, that you would, you do what you do when we gather.

Lord, I pray for our online campus and people there. I pray for us here. I pray that we would have a deep sense of your beautiful presence as we share and teach.

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