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We hope you enjoy this message by Pastor Chris Vallatin.

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I want to talk about the state of our union, the state of our union.

And I want to tell you that we've been, at Bethel, we've been going through quite a transition.

Of course, all the things that we've already talked about with COVID, but also as we commissioned Eric and Candace and team out to plant the church in Greenville, North Carolina. Am I right?

South Carolina is what I said. Making sure you're paying attention. Hey, at least I got the

country right, you know? And there's just been a lot of transition going on in our team.

And we've been, we started having

these meetings about, I don't know, about four months ago. They turned in, we call them the

as one meetings, we've been meeting together about 30, 40 of us, the senior leadership team

and managers, and talking about this transition. And I've been leading this transition for a while.

And we, you know, Bethel Music, for a while and we you know Bethel music

Bethel uh Bethel Media Bethel School of the Arts all the education and Bethel Church are all merging as

one. You're going to love it. We're going to roll it out for you soon. But just the spirit of it has

been so beautiful. There's been tears and and of prophetic declarations. And I think some of the

very best meetings I've ever been in have been in the last four months in these meetings.

And so, well, I started leading these meetings just trying to get everyone on one platform and

in one website. It just started out as a real practical thing. And the Lord just moved powerfully in

the very first meeting. And again, we just saw God just moving on our teams and the kind of the

motto, short, motto verses in a book of Acts twice, it says, and having come to one mind. And we were,

it was Holy Spirit orchestrated in one of mine. It's been so beautiful. But you know,

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