Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast.

Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

Hey, hey, good morning.

I'm going to have you stay on your feet.

Don't be too quick to sit back down.

We're going to pray in a moment, and so I'm going to have you stand to do that.

But I want to stop by saying what a joy

it is what an honor it is to be back with you you are family to our family I have known y'all

for a long time you've adopted this English sister many years ago and I'm glad you've not sought

to get rid of me anytime soon and it was a privilege to be entrusted to be in the circle that Pastor Daniel just mentioned.

And in that circle, I got to see up close the journey of your pastors processing God, what God was asking.

Not only what he was asking of them, but what he was asking of the

whole family. It involved their kids, their kids' future. And, you know, because we had just made a

decision to emigrate, which was a big move for our family and our kids, we kind of understood on

every level, this is not a small ask.

This is huge.

And to watch the process be handled with such prayer,

with such surrender,

with such sacrifice.

In fact, I don't know if you remember,

but I was here a little while ago before they came as your pastors

and I said, guys, you're about to get gold because I knew

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