Well, howdy is Ashley Chase here, the executive director of Real Faith Ministries, which I get to run with my parents, Pastor Mark, and Grace.

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Well, it's a great honor to be here. I've been looking forward to being with you very, very much.

And it's interesting, before I jump into the Bible, the nation has a great need, particularly for fathers and the fatherhood of God.

For the first time in the nation's history, the majority of children born to women, 30 years of age and younger.

Those children are born out of wedlock.

And 40% of kids tonight go to bed without a father.

And a lot of you, single moms moms are carrying a double responsibility and a burden and

alone and when God chose to reveal himself to us he could have chosen any one of

a number of images and he chose father.

And he fills that role of father and he claims that he is even a father to the fatherless.

And what he does is he also raises up spiritual fathers.

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