Welcome to the Sword and the Trial, a podcast of Founders Ministries. Founders exist for the

Reformation of Local Churches. I'm Tom Askell. And I'm Graham Gundin. We are coming to you from

sunny Cape Coral, Florida. You probably wish you were here if you're living north of the Mason

Dixon line because these guys have been slammed with snow and freezing weather and even

some really difficult things that have happened in places like Colorado.

We prayed for folks there yesterday in our worship service and will continue to do so, praying

for churches in those areas that they might be able to minister in the wake of that natural

disaster.

But Southwest Florida is a great place to be this time a year, and especially over the next

few weeks because the weather will get better and there's a great conference coming up.

The Yankees have plenty of reason to come on down to Southwest Florida.

Speaking as a Yankee.

Speaking as a Yankee from Michigan, that's right.

So Founders has the national conference coming up in just a couple weeks, January 20th

through the 22nd. There still is space for the conference. You can register. But it is filling up.

Yeah, it is filling up, fill up quick. So get in there. We're also having a pre-conference,

January 19th. That's actually a Grace Baptist Church. And so a little less space there and space is filling up so you

can register for the pre-conference also at founders.org and that pre-conference will be you and it'll be

Vodi Baccombe and you guys will be talking about vocation. That's right. The call and yeah,

Travis Allen will be joining us. We'll have a conversation after Vody preaches about a called community.

I'll be preaching or teaching on the called life

and just this whole idea that every Christian is a called person. Sometimes we think of calling

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