This is the Baymaw podcast with Marty Solomon.

I'm his co-host, Brent Billings.

Today we are sharing a special brief message about year-end giving the financial needs of our ministry and what we hope to do in the future.

Yep, tis the season, Brent.

And yeah, I think we've been last few episodes

we've chatted about just where we're at with the passing of Josh. And I remember when that

happened, we were just ramping up with the plans we had made weeks, months before, about

year-end giving. And it felt weird. Like it felt, no, it just felt

weird. It felt squishy. Grief does not care about making us feel awkward, about anything we're doing.

Nope. It sure doesn't. And so we had some really intentional conversations about what does this

do to our year-end giving? And in a lot of ways,

we dialed back some of, well, definitely some of the tone. We dialed back maybe even some of the

messaging that we would have planned on. But there were other plans that we had made. And it also

felt weird to not, like if we don't steward our financial needs well, that wouldn't honor Josh well at all.

Like Josh was in a place where he was really, he was really helping us meet some of our goals

for campus ministry and what the Baymont podcast means for college students.

He was doing some really cool stuff.

I know, Brent, you got in.

We had to get into some of his online spaces to share the news with his

students. And you were, you were a little shocked at how much Josh was doing. Yeah, like hearing from

his students about how he had been ministering to them even in the midst of some of his

greatest struggle. He's like, I can't do these regular meetings.

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