Hello and thanks for stopping by for today's Destin for Victory, where we feature the teaching

ministry of Pastor Paul Shepard. Coming up next, we move ahead in our teaching series, God is a

finisher, but first, there's an important message we'd like to share with you. Even though we say this

all the time here on Destin for Victory, we can't say it often enough.

Friends and partners like you are the lifeblood of this media ministry.

Your prayers and gifts help us reach the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

But as you may know, summertime is always difficult for ministries like ours.

And I asked Pastor Paul Shepard once if summer was always a tough time

financially for Destin for Victory. And here's what he had to say. Yes, it is. And it's simply

because people love us and they want to support us. But sometimes we're so glad to be through

the winter and the spring, and we're now in the summer, and we're ready to take some vacation

time and do some things that we've longed to do for months. And we get to do it, whether

it's travel or whatever. But I just want to encourage and remind our listeners that if we're

going to keep on preaching the word throughout the year, then the

support is absolutely necessary because I have found out that the bills don't take vacations.

They keep coming every single month.

And so we have to be ready to meet them with the finances necessary.

And again, it's not about the money.

It's what the money does.

Your giving allows us to keep on declaring truth that people need to hear day in and day out,

month in and month out.

So at every season, even in the summer, we get to keep preaching timeless truths if we have the financial support. I want to thank all of our partners, all of our donors, everyone who make sure to meet the financial needs so that lives are changed, souls are saved, and people come to know

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