My 2819 family, local and abroad, I love you.

And it is good to be in your presence again.

And to all of our digital disciples are watching right now live

in cities all across the country and a few pockets around the world.

We welcome you. You are part of our family

we want to apologize to you publicly for last week we could not live stream I would learn later on that

the city that we are in Atlanta they put a firewall around all of the high schools to keep teenagers from going on YouTube.

And we did not know that.

And so as a result of that, we could not live stream.

And we said we had a technical difficulty because we did not know what was going on at the time.

And that is what happened we could not

break through that firewall to bring this gathering to you we have no control over these things

we are in a lease facility and this is all the more why i'm encouraging you all of our digital

disciples all of our family in the room that we have to do something about this.

We do not own this facility while we're doing our best to be good roommates and good stewards.

We all believe in God for a place we can call home for ourselves.

We have an opportunity to come together on February 25th. No manipulation, nothing contrived.

For the first time of our history, we are taking up a special offering once a year to try

to raise capital first for our own facility and then to raise additional capital every year

for gospel expansion.

Okay? And I am not ashamed because God knows my heart before you.

I am not a money man.

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