Hey everyone, this month we're hosting a very special all-church event called the Return Gathering.

We believe that this gathering based on Joel II is an important moment for our church as we boldly and prayerfully step into a new season.

Ahead of the Return Gathering, Pastor Andy is bringing a seven-part podcast mini-series,

sharing different conversations with guests that you will find helpful and encouraging as we

prepare for this historic gathering at Saddleback. Let's dive in to today's conversation.

Hey everybody, welcome back to the final episode of the Return podcast. This is a podcast that we've been

doing to prepare ourselves for a gathering we're having here at Saddleback Church called the Return Gathering.

So to all of our Saddleback friends and family who are part of our bigger church family, we're glad that you've been listening in.

If you've been listening also from another context, another church, we're glad you've been listening in.

And today we're going to wrap it up up just focusing in how to prepare for this big

sacred assembly that we're having. I've got David Hibiski, who's on staff at Settleback,

and we've been friends now for 17 years, something.

Quite a while. Quite a while.

And we've done a lot of podcasts together.

We have. So this is going to be a fun conversation. I'm looking forward to it and glad that everybody's going to join with us. And hopefully it helps shed some

more light expectation and even just hopes of what God could do at the return gathering.

Yeah. So David, before we jump in, tell everybody kind of what your role is on staff here.

Oh, yeah.

Current role.

Currently, my focus is really exciting for our church, is really chasing after this vision that God gave you and in our church to want to resource help and build the home.

And we think about our homes and you think about families and marriage and parents and

grandparents even, like take anything in the home.

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