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EP360: Final Preview - Jeff Talks Digital Neighborhoods

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  1. All right. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Church Digital Podcast. It's funny, the music

  2. faded out in my ears right in time, and I wanted to make sure I didn't mess anything

  3. up. But hey, Jeff here, founder of the Church Digital, excited about the conferences we've

  4. got coming up right around the corner. We, the Church Digital, we're a digital missionary

  5. sending agency. We want to equip and mobilize people to be missionaries in digital space

  6. around the world and through our equipping courses and communities and resources that

  7. we're sharing and even mobilizing people in the outposts for relational accountability

  8. and coaching. Man, it's so much fun. I love my job. I love getting to do what I do on a regular

  9. basis, and it is so much fun. I was having a conversation. I was working today.

  10. At a physical church, I'm doing some coaching right now with a physical church that is transitioning.

  11. It's on the older side of the equation. They're getting ready to like, you know, they're moving

  12. towards more of a generational thing. And, you know, I was telling them a little bit. It's

  13. funny. I mentioned World of Warcraft. I mentioned World of Warcraft. I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

  14. You know, let's talk about churches and video games. And one of the ladies here, oh, you're

  15. not in World of Warcraft, are you? And I smiled because it's like, yeah, I know some guys that

  16. are in World of Warcraft. Actually, yes. Yeah. XP Church is all about. Wow. And she, it was

  17. like it was a triggering mechanism because her husband evidently in college played a lot of

  18. World of Warcraft. Well, a lot of us played World of Warcraft a lot, you know, back in the

  19. day. And so it was fun. It was like, I had to like coach her through. But oh my gosh, so

  20. excited about the Digital Missionary Conference this next season kicking off tomorrow. Literally

  21. like right around the corner tomorrow here with the Digital Neighborhoods Conference. You

  22. know what? I heard an interesting tidbit that I haven't even validated. One of my team, Andy,

  23. we were just previous to this call. I came on this call late. I apologize. But came on the

  24. call here late today because we were doing a tech check with a lot of the sponsors, breakout

  25. leaders and the people in play. And so just wanted to, oh, cool. Yeah. So we are about right

  26. now, the Digital Missionary Conference, we're right at about 600 people. 600 people right

  27. now are walking into, are signed up for the Digital Neighborhoods Conference that's happening

  28. tomorrow. Excited about these people, the global reach that's involved. Here, the heart of the

  29. here, the heart of this conference, like I'm going to give you some inside scoop right here.

  30. The heart of tomorrow's conference is centered around recognizing that these platforms, they

  31. have a unique culture unto themselves. And if they have a unique culture, well, then why are

  32. we not treating them like neighborhoods? Why are we not recognizing the personalities and

  33. the cultures that exist in those spaces? And if we're talking about different cultures, by

  34. the way, what does the gospel look like in those spaces? How can we be reaching into those

  35. cultures, into those unique people groups to better represent the gospel digitally or even

  36. virtually or even in games like World of Warcraft? Listen, hey, the guy's talking crazy. Well,

  37. listen, if you've met me, all I do is talk crazy. But we're excited. See, I scratch my head

  38. when I'm talking crazy. But we're excited about the Digital Neighborhoods Conference coming up.

  39. So let me tease a little bit. I'm going to show you the venue. We're going to bring you in. We're going

  40. to show you what the Hublot experience looks like as well. We're going to talk about some other

  41. things. But let's kick this off first. And let's talk about what this what this experience is going

  42. to look. Laura, who who's going to be at the experience of what did the schedule is? Let me push this

  43. button. Oh, look, everything works so so magically. It's like I rehearsed it, which I did not. You would

  44. think I would have done a check check in advance. But no, sorry. I've kind of been running all day

  45. today. But we're excited about this. And so for more information on our Digital Neighborhoods

  46. Conference tomorrow, or what's happening digital Christ Center Recovery next week, or our European

  47. conference in two weeks or in the gaming conference in three weeks for conferences across four weeks,

  48. go to www.missionary.digital. That's www.missionary.digital. Here you go. Digital

  49. Neighborhoods, Control Out Recover, which is Christ Center Recovery, Addiction Recovery, European Digital

  50. Missionary Summit on October 1st and October 8th gaming. Registration is available for all of these

  51. by simply clicking on Save Your Spot right here. Get you registered for it and to sign up if you've

  52. registered in the past. By the way, it's good to see Bible with the Battles. DeMarcus is excited about

  53. the conferences coming up. Yay, DeMarcus. Thanks for jumping on my friend and sharing that. But we

  54. are excited about the experiences that we've got coming up across all of the conferences. We're going to be

  55. talking, I've been talking a lot about Digital Neighborhoods. You're going to hear me Friday, Thursday. We're going

  56. to talk a little bit about neighborhoods, but we're going to pivot because we got to, we're going to

  57. celebrate. We're going to start to tease what's coming up with the Control Out Recover Conference,

  58. etc. down the road. Oh my gosh, European. It's going to be crazy. Gaming. I'm not sure how gaming is going to

  59. work. Like that one, that conference is going to be 100% in Discord. And I don't know that I've ever

  60. seen a conference executed 100% in gaming. And FlatCap, you know, FlatCap's jumping on here. DMCons,

  61. the gaming conference, that's FlatCap's baby. And that's Andy's baby. So I'm excited about it. But

  62. even when they're talking about this, I'm like, I got faith in you guys because I ain't a Discord user

  63. like you guys are. Dems power users. I'm really more of just a pretty face in that. But we're going

  64. to move on. Hey, look, I just, I just, I constantly, I just want to bring more and more

  65. attention. This list keeps getting bigger and bigger. Would you just take a look at all the

  66. sponsors that we got on this thing? Like, you know, yay sponsors. But these are people. These

  67. are organizations. I feel like I just need to constantly keep pushing this. We got, you got

  68. Yatope chiming in from literally another continent, 24 hours to go, much less for you. My pro actually

  69. doesn't matter. It's still the same distance regardless. That was bad on my part. But look

  70. at all the people, look at all the organizations that are excited, that are backing, that want

  71. to connect and resource digital missionaries like you. It was, was funny, even at this, this

  72. older legacy church that I'm helping work through. The, the, the pastor looks at me and he's

  73. like, Jeff, you're the future. The stuff that we're working on right now, you know, I'm saying,

  74. Hey, it's not today, it's tomorrow. But for a guy that's at a legacy church, he's saying,

  75. Hey, like he's even recognizing the stuff that we're talking about here. This is where we're

  76. going. This is where things are, are pivoting more and more that way. So be encouraged in

  77. the road that you're on and realize that we, the church digital are representing and working

  78. with all sorts of organizations like the ones listed on this page to get the idea of digital

  79. missionaries out there in a massive, massive way. So let's do this. Let's dig in to what's

  80. happening with the digital neighborhoods conference. Specifically, we're going to be kicking doors

  81. open 10 a.m. Eastern. That's U S Eastern. That's UTC negative four for our global friends, but we're

  82. going to be opening this conference in, uh, in tomorrow, 24 hours or I started to say next week.

  83. I wish instead, it's going to be tomorrow, 10 a.m. Eastern. And so you can jump on here,

  84. missionary digital missionary.digital www.missionary.digital slash neighborhoods. And so learn

  85. more about that. You can see, uh, Jason Jamo, one of our first keynote speakers, our first keynote

  86. speaker for this season. He's doing an incredible talk. Excited about that. Look at this. The digital

  87. gathering begins at 19 hours, 36 minutes. My heart just, my heart just bumped on that 19 hours away

  88. from this. Uh, 10 a.m. Eastern doors open. First keynote is 11. Now, you know, when you come to a

  89. digital missionary conference, this is not a webinar that you just sit back and play in the background

  90. and consume content. Who wants to consume content? That's so boring. We want you to lean in. We want

  91. you to dialogue. We want you to ask questions. We want you to sit around a table, meet some other

  92. people. We want to create communities centered around supporting digital missionaries. And I can't wait

  93. to show you some of the stuff we've got coming up, uh, with Hublot. And so we're going to get to, we're going

  94. to walk through the platform here in a second, but check this out. Uh, mark your calendars, invite your

  95. friends, 10 a.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. CET. Excited about kicking this off. Tomorrow, register for free there.

  96. And here's your lineup. Platforms is placed as Jason Morris, rethinking the digital map, kicking the talk

  97. off. Great with that. And then we've got, uh, 12 and that's from 11, 15 to 11, 40 Eastern.

  98. And then we've got a number of talks coming up, uh, breakouts.

  99. Uh, Murheret and, uh, Melissa Emil from Jesus Film Project talking about creating, uh, interactive

  100. spiritual journeys with a software called Next Steps. Uh, communicating cross-culturally with

  101. honor, authenticity and humility. Keegan West and Bevan, uh, empowering believers beyond the pew. Dr.

  102. John being the church on social media and introducing Seed Bible, a new digital Bible platform. Excited

  103. about this. Craig Bradley, Nick Smith talking about the power of AI for discipleship. Micah Bales planting

  104. churches, microchurch networks with a pest. Um, we're talking Alan, uh, Taco. Why are they in the room?

  105. Reaching once shut the door, unlocking Google secret ad toolbox, Cameron Bailey. So, so we, that's just

  106. scratching the surface. What we got on breakouts, fluent faith, Jeff Vanderstelt. I've been waiting

  107. for Jeff Vanderstelt, Vanderstelt to share with this talk with y'all for a year, for a year.

  108. Scheduling conflicts one after another, either him or on me, like back and forth. And I was like,

  109. no, no, I don't want to do this as a podcast. I want this as a conference. Like this is, this is,

  110. this is a heavy hammer. The man's going to be swinging and I can't wait for you to hear it.

  111. Audience tracking. Your mind's going to get blown because mine was. First time I heard audience

  112. tracking, uh, was beautiful. I'm going to see that come on more, more breakouts. Dr. Tim Yee,

  113. uh, did soul care for digital missionaries. Lucas Pulley talking on calling underground network,

  114. talking about how to be called or what you're calling looks like. By the way, digital friendly

  115. organization. Can you be called to, to, to like a digital platform? I think so. Let's find out.

  116. Uh, Wes and Leah Brooks talking venture AI. Liz Anderson doing a deep dive on audience map. Andrew

  117. Jones talking augmented reality. Why we need recovery from, from Stacey Knapp. Alina Delp just

  118. talked to her a couple of minutes ago. Uh, real faith in virtual spaces.

  119. My friend, Tim Selleck. It's going to be another one. Good. Good. Another one too. Reaching the one

  120. excited, excited about these that are coming up.

  121. Maybe the best talk of the day as excited as I am for the others. Dr.

  122. Pichelischenko, uh, talking about apprenticing in the wild, reproducing leaders for digital mission.

  123. I want to see, Oh, you know what the text, they cut it out. Who's Pichelischenko?

  124. Yeah. This guy is, I mean, I want to say directly responsible, indirectly responsible. Let's say

  125. directly responsible because even as you're apprenticing and multiplying leaders, at some

  126. point you get in directly, but this man started it. Pichelischenko through crew is in, in global,

  127. uh, global church movements responsible for something like 2.4 million churches planted globally. That's

  128. 2.4 M with million with an M 2.4 comma 0, 0 comma 0, 0, 0. It's a lot of churches. And what does it look

  129. like to reproduce leaders? Well, how do you reproduce leaders for 2.4 million churches? I don't know. You

  130. just maybe start one at a time. Well, how do I start one at a time? He's going to tell us. And so

  131. excited about the idea of reproducing leaders, reproducing churches, starting a movement that

  132. grows beyond us. Y'all, this is going to be a challenging conference, live keynotes and breakouts,

  133. an incredible amount of connections, uh, table meeting peers, processing through times together

  134. with always. And if you know any of the events that I do always viable, powerful, real time engagement,

  135. super, super, super, super excited about the road that we have starting tomorrow for our digital

  136. neighborhoods conference. So what's it going to look like? What are we going to do? I want to walk you

  137. through that process right now. Uh, you are going to go to, um, let me see if I can fake this. Jeff,

  138. can you fake this? I can fake this. You are going to go to name. If you've registered for the conference,

  139. which I hope you have, you're going to go to neighborhoods, neighborhoods dot missionary dot

  140. digital neighborhoods dot missionary dot digital. Uh, you're not going to see that because I'm

  141. taking it instead. You're going to see this page pop up, uh, which is going to give you

  142. a place for you to enter your email address. You enter the email. You'll get these instructions

  143. via email. You probably already have today. As a matter of fact, if not, you will soon,

  144. but you're going to type in your email address that you registered for. Chances are, it's the same

  145. email address that you get blown up with all the church dot digital email addresses. I'm going to

  146. type my email address in there, and then you're going to get a log in code. This is probably going

  147. to get sent to your, uh, to your email address. I'm going to just accept cookies to get out of the way,

  148. but this is what's going to be sent to your, um, email address, get that code and paste that four

  149. digit code here, uh, in, in Hublot. And that's it. It's going to let you in a super easy, super simple,

  150. and you're going to see a page that looks like this. Well, it may ask you some biographical

  151. questions. It's going to like tell you to upload a photo of yourself and, and who you are and what

  152. your title is and what you do and what some of your interests are. I would encourage you lean heavily

  153. into creating that profile because what you're going to see here with this, this online conference,

  154. it's not a webinar where you sit back and talk. You know, me, we lean in, we talk, we dialogue, we

  155. two-way conversations to maximize your, uh, the benefit of this conference. You're not an outsider.

  156. You're somebody who's sitting, you're leaning in to the conversation. So I want to encourage you

  157. to build out that profile and get ready to come in and lean into the conversation.

  158. But this is where we are here with the reception area. You can see, you know, some stuff about the

  159. conference. You can see our schedule of what we got for the keynote speakers

  160. and, uh, and, and the sponsors and other things. And we're still building out a lot of these sections.

  161. Um, and then you're also going to see, uh, some things move forward. Uh, some of our, our keynotes

  162. we've got here, you can come forward and see that, you know, you won't have to join us host button

  163. because I'm cool and you're not. Uh, but you'll be able to join that session when it's time.

  164. You'll also be able to see the breakout rooms and you can scroll through all the breakout rooms that we have.

  165. And so you can see more of that. Just give me a little taste of that.

  166. There's a digital summary, uh, intro video. You can play that back and listen to that. And that's,

  167. that's great. And then there's a leaderboard down here. It's got all sorts of, oh my gosh,

  168. I'm kicking everybody's butt. I got 123 points. Uh, I think that's because it's the amount of time

  169. I spent in tables and in breakout rooms, but the more that you interact with people,

  170. the more that you can win the game. And so I encourage you to try to win the game.

  171. Evidently Mehret, uh, over at crew is a Jesus film is, uh, is winning the game. Dr. Tim love,

  172. love, love me, Dr. Tim. Dr. Tim is, is winning the game too. And so here at the reception,

  173. when you log in, this just gives you an overview of what's going on in the conference,

  174. but what you really want to lean into is really this menu bar up here. Okay. It's going to give

  175. you the schedule of what's going on, which doesn't, I mean, it looks, this is really the schedules,

  176. how you access the keynotes, the breakout rooms, by the way, is the next tab here.

  177. This is where you see all the rooms. And so when it's time to join the rooms, uh, you can choose

  178. the one that you want to, they're all labeled with like the, the name of the speaker, the topic and the

  179. organization they're with. And so you've got all sorts of access to that. You can click on the tables

  180. and have a conversation. A lot of our tables are sponsor-based. So you see global church movements

  181. right up here at the top next to the church digital. And then we've got crew, we've got God tools,

  182. we've got Jesus film next steps. We've got right now media. We've got Reliant. Uh, we've got Cherith.

  183. Uh, we're going to have a prayer table here, uh, meet somebody new. We're going to have different

  184. topics that are going to be on the tables, but listen, this is all set up for you to engage

  185. in the dialogue, uh, with somebody that's doing ministry globally. Find people, learn from them,

  186. ask questions, uh, dialogue. Like, Hey, in, in the world of, of square pegs that don't fit in round

  187. holes, uh, it's, it's time to get the square pegs together and get them to connect. That's what we're

  188. trying to do here with the conference and specifically with the tables is get a way to connect in the

  189. dialogue, uh, the breakout rooms. This is a great way to talk on, to learn something on a specific

  190. topic and to ask questions in the dialogue. The keynotes are a great place for your head to explode

  191. because I know these particular speakers on these particular topics make my head explode. And if my head's

  192. exploding, chances are you're going to be to yours as well. But the tables, the tables are designed for

  193. you to interact in the dialogue directly with people. So go meet some people, have some conversations,

  194. lean into it. Hey, check this out. I'm excited about this. Our sponsors booth. We have a virtual booth

  195. set up with all sorts of resources for Jesus film, next steps, cruise building,

  196. there's our global church movements. Uh, I had, I talked with, uh, someone in Albania today, uh,

  197. about building this out and excited to see this crew. God tools, you know, let's, let's lean into the

  198. Jesus film when I want to see what Jesus film next steps. And so they got a video up here at the top.

  199. I'm hearing that. I'm not sure if you guys are.

  200. Yeah. I'm not sure if that's working to you, but hopefully, hopefully you heard a little bit of that.

  201. That was fun. Uh, and so you can learn more about them. You can interact with their social media.

  202. You can, you know, take a next step on how to do that. You can watch videos. You can see some of the

  203. services that they're offering. You can, oh my gosh, I want to talk to Melissa. I'd love to. And so you

  204. can even click on chat and you can have a direct one-on-one conversation with Melissa or with

  205. who's going to be on the stage or maybe, Hey, I'd love to like, maybe this is Melissa available for a

  206. quick face-to-face conversation. Click on me and go ahead and do that. And if she's available, great.

  207. And if she's not available, she'll, she'll say no. Like once again, the reason we do these conferences

  208. are for you to meet people. And so maybe just, maybe it's an opportunity for you to meet some

  209. people, ask some questions and learn about some of the software, learn about some of the functionality,

  210. learn about some of the features, learn about some of the opportunities you'll, you'll have, uh,

  211. how these organizations can help you be a better digital missionary. I hope you're getting

  212. excited about this. And so we've got, oh man, they've got all sorts of videos up here at the

  213. top. I'm curious how they've jumped that. Is that YouTube? I guess so. This is, I didn't know you

  214. could do this. This is cool. You see all the different Jesus films up here at the top. Maybe I should do

  215. that. Cool. God bless the people at Hublot for building this platform out. And so you can see,

  216. once again, all the sponsors that we've got here, um, Alliance mission, project, Exodus regeneration,

  217. uh, bam portals, um, uh, Reliant, the church digital, of course, right now, media crew, God tools,

  218. uh, next steps, Jesus film, and then crew global church movements. There's a lot of energy coming into

  219. here with a lot of resourcing that we want to see happen at the global level. And then there's the

  220. happening now where, okay, like what's open right now. So there's a breakout room that's open. It's

  221. our test room because we haven't officially launched the conference, but you click on this happening now

  222. tab and it's going to show you all the breakout rooms that are currently open or the schedule,

  223. what's happening on the keynotes or, or what's happening, what tables, who's actually sitting down at a

  224. table right now that I can join. And so the happening now is like, I want to join something.

  225. How, how can I get, how can I get in? Where am I? I'm coming in late. I don't want to be awkward.

  226. How do I find the action? And so happening now is, is going to be that. And so this is,

  227. it's just an overview of the menu that's, that's up on the top. Some other things to highlight,

  228. uh, the schedule, uh, what, what, uh, what things are coming up on your schedule. What do you want

  229. to be a part of? By the way, if you're over here, I believe that I have joined as a host,

  230. but I'm pretty sure you guys have a button here. Oh, you see where it says right here,

  231. add to your calendar, take a note or add to my schedule. You see that? So you want to put this

  232. on your Google Cal, click that and put it on your Google Cal. You want to take a note that put it

  233. into your account. You want to add to your schedule. You can do that. Uh, and that is already now added

  234. to my schedule. And now I'm going to come up here to my schedule and click. Oh, look, look how cool

  235. that is. Jason Morris is on my schedule. So I know I'm not going to forget it. Take advantage of the

  236. platform. The church digital is going to be working with Uber for a long time to go. So lean into this

  237. platform, uh, get at home because if you love the church digital, you will be getting used to.

  238. Google it's going to be a good, good thing. There is notifications, uh, and things, people that are

  239. viewing your profile notifications that are people are wanting to chat or talk with you. You'll see a

  240. lot of things in this space and, and, you know, push notifications that we'll send out throughout the

  241. conference. And then of course there's messages. My friend Cameron Bailey, uh, reached out a minute ago,

  242. but a lot of the DMS that you'll see are going to be through the messages. And so this is this

  243. platform. You're seeing how this is not a typical webinar. Y'all like I, you will never hear me say

  244. they, they market this as a webinar platform. And I'm like, why are you insulting your platform so much?

  245. This is nothing to do with webinars. Webinars is like whole other thing than what this is. This isn't,

  246. this is a online experience. And so joining the digital missionary conference is a great way for you to get

  247. connected into a, the online experience that we're off for offering this week. And we're going to be

  248. using the same platform for the, uh, for the crisis recovery next week and the European conference in

  249. two weeks. We're realizing in three weeks, the gaming gamers like discord for whatever reason.

  250. So we're going to go over to discord for that one. Uh, uh, we've got you to pay. This event is

  251. packed with very, very relevant topics. I'm excited. I'm, I'm actually curious to take on some of this

  252. because we're, I mean, we're, we're, we're challenging a lot of things here. Uh, when we're

  253. talking the digital neighborhoods conference specifically, it may make some people uncomfortable.

  254. If you know me, I'm okay with that. Uh, but, uh, it's, it's very, very exciting where we're going to be.

  255. Okay. Listen, so here's, here's what I need from you in the short term. We are, let's, let's pull

  256. up the webpage. As of me recording the video, we are 19 hours, 18 minutes at 41, 40, 39, 38. We're

  257. seconds away, 19 hours away from this conference happening. We've had a spike of people register,

  258. which is very exciting, excited to see the spike, uh, come about. Uh, and just obviously want to see

  259. that. It's so funny. You plan for months, you communicate for months and everything. Everybody

  260. signs up for everything. I love it. It's cool. No problem. Here's what I need you to do. Um,

  261. I want you to help get the word out. And so we've, we've built, a lot of you have heard me talk about

  262. this, uh, some media kits, some shareable graphics that you and some social media posts that you can

  263. help us get the word out. So clicking on the digital neighborhoods, gives you some information. Once

  264. again, the cost on all of our conferences, uh, is, uh, is free. It gives you a list of keynote speakers,

  265. but if you want speaker graphics, the Kelly Schenko, Cheryl Boyd, Jeff Vanderstelt,

  266. our own JMO opening up the keynotes for that, you can, you know, copy these and put them into so

  267. and paste them in the social media platforms. You can save them and reuse them, use them. I, I often

  268. put graphics and stuff like this, uh, as to text, to invite people to join online events or even like

  269. physical things too. Or we've actually created like complete shareable graphics that you can just copy

  270. everything, copy and paste it in. Uh, and so there's a number of pre-written social media posts

  271. that are available for that, or other graphics that you can copy and utilize, download the whole thing

  272. all in one fell swoop. Help us get the word out. First off, I do believe within your own social media

  273. networks, with your own influence. There are people that can utilize these resources. And so

  274. please take the opportunity, download some of these resources, get out there. One, just

  275. scatter seeds, see what sticks, because there's probably some people within your influence that

  276. might be interested in being a digital missionary like you, that might be interested in learning

  277. what sharing the gospel looks like in digital and virtual space, what the gospel

  278. can be, what discipleship is in digital and virtual space.

  279. I want to challenge you with this. And I said this previously, find somebody who can join you

  280. and personally invite them to this conference. Find someone who you want to mentor, to disciple,

  281. to train, to come alongside you. Cast vision with that person and ask them to sit through this conference

  282. with you so that they can better understand your ministry. Find the person that's going to come alongside

  283. you. If you're Paul, find your Timothy and join them in the journey. Find someone who can financially back

  284. you. Maybe it's a donor. Maybe it's someone in the family. Find someone who has financial resources

  285. that maybe doesn't understand what exactly you're doing. Maybe it's not like a major donor. Maybe it's

  286. just a family member that might be interested. Find small, simple ways to start in this. But if you're

  287. really trying to have a conversation about, okay, what does it mean to be a digital missionary and you're

  288. having a hard time explaining it to this person? Let the conference do the work for you. And third to

  289. that, maybe invite somebody that, either from your existing church or, you know, somebody who doesn't

  290. understand, not that is angry or, or, or bitter or judgmental, but maybe someone in your life that,

  291. that you've just, you know, like one of my close friends, like to this day, he'd say to me, he says,

  292. Jeff, I still don't understand what you're doing. Like it, the mind doesn't click for him. Like he's,

  293. he's, he's in ministry. He's incredible. Uh, he's very helpful as, as a person, but he just doesn't

  294. get it. And so conferences like this, this may be an opportunity to see a light bulb go off in

  295. somebody's eyes. And so take this opportunity to invite two or three people, find that person you

  296. want to apprentice to mentor, find that person that can help you, um, donate and help fund the,

  297. the work that you're trying to do. Maybe find that person that would be helpful if they were a

  298. part of it, he or she were part of it, but they're not quite there yet. Personal invitations for them,

  299. scatter seeds. Yes. Personal invites. Yes. As well. I want to challenge you both to do that. So scatter

  300. seeds, personal invites. Some of you, I just, I want to personally invite to this and I don't,

  301. I don't have a URL to this. And so, Ooh, that's the wrong thing. I didn't mean to do that. Um,

  302. some of you, I want to ask if you can, uh, serve us by, that was a very roundabout way.

  303. Oh, you know what? You didn't see any of that.

  304. That was funny. I thought you could see the window I was working in, but I wasn't sure.

  305. That's funny. Totally. Totally screwed that up. That's funny. It's not, it's not the right URL.

  306. I'll just do this this way. I want to ask some of you to join us to help serve in some of these areas.

  307. I'm, I'm looking for volunteers that are capable of serving for a couple hour slots throughout the

  308. conference. You can still watch the conference and be a part of it, uh, and serve. I'm looking for

  309. people that are capable of praying. I'm looking for people that are capable of providing some tech

  310. support. And I'm, and I'm looking for people that are, that are willing to be a greeter, uh,

  311. in, in some areas and just a relational voice. And so if you can help me, uh, by, um, by praying with

  312. people at, at a table, if you can help me, uh, pray with people that can greet people at tables,

  313. or if you can help me with tech support, three very simple, basic things, but would go very far

  314. in helping the conference go. That would be a major help for us. Okay. All right. I think that's it,

  315. y'all. I'm excited. We are, let's bring the countdown back up again. Push the magic button.

  316. We are 19 hours, 12 minutes and no seconds, 19 hours, 11 minutes and 55 seconds and counting down to

  317. making this thing happen. I'm excited. I hope you're excited. I hope you can share your

  318. excitement with somebody else. Great things are ahead. Um, I, uh, join me in praying for this event,

  319. uh, that people get excited for the gospel in digital and virtual spaces. And we can see God continue to

  320. move digitally globally using, uh, the, the, the tools and efforts and the resources and the commitments

  321. that we have. My prayer, honestly, is that another wave of digital missionaries is called out of the

  322. conference and out of the, out of the effort of the conferences that, that that's coming from this. So

  323. join me in that prayer. And, um, yeah, let's see what's happening moving forward. All right. Hey,

  324. I'm going to wrap up the stream today, short and sweet. Uh, but thanks for this. Uh, evidently,

  325. I'm doing a lot of talking tomorrow for the next digital missionary conference, digital neighborhoods

  326. kicking off Tuesday, Wednesday, 9, 17, September 17th, 10 a.m. Eastern doors open.

  327. See you there. If you haven't registered, go to www.missionary.digital. Thanks y'all. Have a good

  328. one. See you all on Wednesday.