Hey, everybody. We're live. It's the Pastor Mecktrap Live podcast, and I'm joined, as always, by my co-host Emily. Hello, Emily.

Hello.

Would you like to introduce our special guests from around the region of the Des Moines metropolitan area?

Two special guests we have with us, Pastor Scott Rains from our Hope Ankeny campus.

Hi, Scott.

Hello, great to be here.

And Pastor Andy Hermanson from Hope Grimes.

Hi, Andy.

Nice to see you guys.

It's fun to have you.

Yeah, it is.

That's going to be one of my favorite things about this.

I can tell already is we're just going to keep rotating and moving people in and out. There's enough going on around here.

You don't always get to talk to everybody as much as you want to, for sure.

That's exactly right.

And we've got a lot of really, really gifted and brilliant pastors like the two of you.

And it's always good.

I think for the depth of our faith to hear from a breadth of different teachers.

And that's a really positive thing.

So welcome to all of you, too, who are our faithful tuners inners, people who are watching

either on video audio feeds or on your favorite podcast platform if you're listening.

We're really honored that you spend this time with us.

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