WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.460 All right. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Church Digital Podcast. Once again, doing a live stream 00:00:10.460 --> 00:00:16.800 here on a Tuesday afternoon, at least here in the States. Jeff Reed here, founder of the Church 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:23.240 Digital. And if you've been listening to the stream or not listening, watching the stream 00:00:23.240 --> 00:00:29.040 for the past 20 minutes, you know that music was muted. And I wasn't aware of the music being 00:00:29.040 --> 00:00:36.000 muted for 30 minutes until like 10 seconds ago. And so sorry to make it kind of boring 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:42.360 as you were hanging out here a little bit on the pre-show. And so, hey, got an interesting 00:00:42.360 --> 00:00:50.640 conversation coming up. If you're in chat, say hey. But we've got some really kind of 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:56.400 random things we're going to be hitting on, heading into the stream today. I was excited. 00:00:58.080 --> 00:01:05.040 He says, hi. Evidently, Troy is skipping school, not skipping school. It's so hard to 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:12.400 tell. Troy is working while at school and still takes the time to say, hey, Jeff, every Tuesday, 00:01:12.540 --> 00:01:21.220 love it. Troy graduates high school in a couple weeks, I think. And so, man, Troy, hey, good 00:01:21.220 --> 00:01:26.460 to see you. Hope things are going well today. And I'm praying for you, my friend. I want to get an 00:01:26.460 --> 00:01:35.580 update how it's going with your teacher. DM me on Discord or Slack. Slack. What is that? Where did 00:01:35.580 --> 00:01:42.460 that come from? Discord or WhatsApp? Slack? I haven't opened up Slack in months. I had a vendor that I 00:01:42.460 --> 00:01:47.300 had a contract with that used Slack. And that was the only reason I used Slack. Anyway, conversation 00:01:47.300 --> 00:01:53.300 for a different day. But I'm excited about what's coming up for the Church Digital. And so I thought 00:01:53.300 --> 00:02:00.720 I'd gather together and maybe just do a little bit of a tease talking about where we're going in the 00:02:00.720 --> 00:02:07.920 weeks ahead with the Church Digital. It's so interesting. Even Steve here is like, what's Slack? 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:14.060 Okay, Steve, there's a reason we haven't exposed you to Slack. Don't worry about it. Slack is like 00:02:14.060 --> 00:02:22.100 WhatsApp, but for business people. But it doesn't have near the exposure of business people. And it 00:02:22.100 --> 00:02:29.080 doesn't have any community based around it unless it's the community you build in. Like WhatsApp has 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:35.220 community built around it. But Slack is more isolated in the approach. But it's another asynchronous 00:02:35.220 --> 00:02:40.720 community. Troy is saying today is Leighton. That's Leighton, L-E-I-G-H-T-O-N, flat cap. 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:47.560 That today is when the EDM starts. And we're excited about that. I'm excited to get Beta 3 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:53.200 kicking off of Equipping Digital Missionary Cohort. We'll be talking about that soon. 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:56.220 We've had, for what it's worth, we've had about 00:02:56.220 --> 00:03:06.960 maybe 150 people want information on this most recent EDM cohort. And in total, we've had about 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:15.820 300 people register overall. And so at this point, we've graduated maybe 75 people from the course. 00:03:16.060 --> 00:03:20.840 And so, you know, some of the ratios were as an organization, we're trying to figure out 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:25.160 how to make it more sticky, how to adjust some of it. We're going to talk some about this 00:03:25.160 --> 00:03:33.540 in the weeks to come and roll some of this stuff out. Honestly, we've had some onboarding issues, 00:03:33.640 --> 00:03:38.920 some database issues over the past three or four months. And so working through getting some 00:03:38.920 --> 00:03:43.520 resolution on that as well. And the team's working hard on that. But we're excited 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:52.220 to see people like Troy kick off. And actually, Steve is starting to teach Equipping Digital Missionaries 00:03:52.220 --> 00:03:58.280 as well. Steve and Troy are in different cohorts as I think about it. I think Steve is actually 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:06.300 going to be teaching the, or co-teaching the Tuesday cohort, the Wednesday cohort, and Troy's 00:04:06.300 --> 00:04:13.120 in the Tuesday night cohort. But it's very exciting. EDM is going and growing with Leighton. 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:18.560 We're doing a couple cohorts in America. We're actually doing a Middle East cohort as well. 00:04:18.660 --> 00:04:26.600 Tariq is starting his first EDM cohort, Equipping Digital Missionaries cohort tomorrow. And so he's 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:35.680 putting finishing touches on that right now. Germany is going well as well. We've got our friend 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:44.280 Simon has been teaching a language specific German Digital Missionary cohort, literally as we're 00:04:44.280 --> 00:04:50.160 speaking. And so he's been doing it for a month or so. He's actually wrapping up, I think, the German 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:58.300 version of that. And then my friend Yatope. I'm so excited about this. Yatope's cohort has been going 00:04:58.300 --> 00:05:06.820 great. Now, this is actually a great example of, you know, we talk in the court about digital imperialism. 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:13.960 We talk about, yeah, not one passport needed. You know, equipping digital missionaries is global. 00:05:14.840 --> 00:05:19.740 Steve says, you know, it's global. We don't even need a passport to do the stuff that we're doing. That's beautiful, Steve. 00:05:19.740 --> 00:05:26.340 Thanks. You know, this is digital. We're talking about digital imperialism. You know, imperialism is, 00:05:26.500 --> 00:05:31.400 you know, back in the in the old days, it was you would you would battle one country would overrule 00:05:31.400 --> 00:05:36.340 another country in war, and then you would inflict that culture. And it goes back to biblical times 00:05:36.340 --> 00:05:43.120 and Babylonians taking over things and inflicting their culture on the surrounding. And so Jason 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:49.120 Morris, we've actually have theorized and talked about digital imperialism, about how we want to enforce 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:58.140 even subconsciously, not meaning to do it, but subconsciously of enforcing your local culture, 00:05:58.440 --> 00:06:06.140 your national culture in digital spaces where it could impact other cultures, even even secondhand. 00:06:06.780 --> 00:06:13.560 And what's happening in Africa is actually a really good example of that. And so I almost want to 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:20.780 take a example here. Ian's jumping on and saying another colonialism, yeah, digital imperialism, 00:06:21.200 --> 00:06:27.300 digital colonialism. Yeah, it does kind of both feel that way. Because what was happening in Africa, 00:06:27.300 --> 00:06:34.620 and we knew it was going to be a stretch. I'm going to make a confession here on stream. I may not say 00:06:34.620 --> 00:06:40.340 this publicly. You're going in the deep end here on the Church Digital Podcast right now. I don't know 00:06:40.340 --> 00:06:48.660 that I've said this in a public facing anything yet. So I taught the Beta 2. I just finished my second 00:06:48.660 --> 00:06:57.720 digital missionary cohort in Africa. And so Yatope did one. The first one kind of had mixed results. 00:06:58.460 --> 00:07:03.520 I jumped on. I was like, hey, Yatope, let me co-teach. Let me get an experience of what's 00:07:03.520 --> 00:07:09.560 actually happening. Let me see it with you. And so he and I taught one together. I have a confession. 00:07:11.080 --> 00:07:20.040 We invited maybe 30 or 5, 40 people to do this cohort with us. Sub-Saharan South Africans primarily. 00:07:20.900 --> 00:07:26.120 Out of that, we had maybe 10 or 11 people commit to doing the cohort with us. 00:07:27.340 --> 00:07:33.360 Go ahead and ask me, hey, Jeff, how many people actually completed the African cohort with you and Yatope? 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:43.880 Anyway, the big giant goose egg. Zero. Like, I don't even think we made it into week three. 00:07:44.520 --> 00:07:53.460 Like, it was horrible. And this is nothing racially against the Sub-Saharan South African people. 00:07:53.960 --> 00:07:59.040 Nothing culturally that we, you know, I'm not demeaning them in any way. 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:04.320 We, the Church Digital, had not figured out how to engage and connect with them. 00:08:06.200 --> 00:08:09.560 And so, you know, Yatope's like, hey, I want to try something. 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:13.540 And I love this. I love this about Yatope. Yatope's been hanging around with us long enough. 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:15.860 The experimental nature he's got is beautiful. 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:18.240 And Yatope says, hey, I'm going to do this. 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:22.400 I want to, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to cut all videos out of this thing. 00:08:23.280 --> 00:08:24.900 And I'm just going to talk. 00:08:25.460 --> 00:08:28.600 I just want to, want to, want to teach it myself. 00:08:29.220 --> 00:08:31.120 No, no watching videos in advance. 00:08:31.220 --> 00:08:32.080 No flipping the classroom. 00:08:32.200 --> 00:08:32.800 Flipping the classroom. 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:35.520 Jeff, I've never seen it work in an African context. 00:08:35.900 --> 00:08:37.880 Any of the other cohorts, flipping the classroom doesn't work. 00:08:38.660 --> 00:08:39.400 Let me do it. 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:41.920 Okay, Yatope, you, you run with it. 00:08:43.140 --> 00:08:46.520 Dude had like 12 or 13 people show up for his cohort, man. 00:08:46.620 --> 00:08:47.600 I am so excited. 00:08:48.580 --> 00:08:50.820 And, and engagement's been high. 00:08:51.740 --> 00:08:59.960 And so once again, it's, it's, you know, for us at a subconscious level and, and we, we knew it was coming. 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:02.600 We just had to experiment through it to find the way. 00:09:04.700 --> 00:09:07.860 It wasn't that the, our way was the only way. 00:09:08.740 --> 00:09:16.640 It's the deep end right off the bat with the church digital podcast today, how we were doing equipping digital missionaries, how we were teaching. 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:32.540 It's very important for, for me to say today that how we're communicating, how we're teaching, how we want to equip, like it's as, as we're working with outpost leaders globally and different people, even on different platforms. 00:09:32.800 --> 00:09:38.820 Like it's, we don't want to change the, the, the, the, the philosophy. 00:09:39.300 --> 00:09:45.000 We don't want to change the message, but, but we're completely fine changing the delivery. 00:09:45.620 --> 00:09:46.620 It was so funny. 00:09:46.680 --> 00:09:51.120 I was actually, we were interviewing, uh, another ministry partner yesterday. 00:09:51.700 --> 00:09:55.540 Uh, so Monday morning, 8am Eastern, first meeting of the day. 00:09:55.640 --> 00:09:57.420 It's an international organization. 00:09:57.420 --> 00:10:05.480 We'll talk, probably talk about this later today, if not next week at down hall, but so excited about some of the doors that this, this ministry partner is opening up. 00:10:05.860 --> 00:10:16.040 And, uh, in one of the email conversations, I said, I, I was like, I'm really, I really want to dig into what you're comfortable with for us to contextualize your message. 00:10:16.040 --> 00:10:28.140 And, you know, anytime you say contextualize to, to an author, to a content creator, to, to someone like even like a, an organization that does the, the curriculum that they do. 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:31.800 Like, okay, when you say contextualize, what do you mean? 00:10:32.180 --> 00:10:35.060 Like, are, are you, are you going to like rewrite our stuff? 00:10:35.100 --> 00:10:37.580 Are you going to like theologically misalign? 00:10:37.760 --> 00:10:39.380 Like you get concerned, right? 00:10:40.140 --> 00:10:43.640 And with this particular ministry partner, I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 00:10:43.640 --> 00:10:54.980 I don't want to change what you're saying, but I do want to change the delivery because, you know, your context, you know, may be different than what's happening in digital. 00:10:55.360 --> 00:10:58.440 And it's definitely different than what's happening in virtual reality. 00:10:58.860 --> 00:10:59.700 You know, it's funny. 00:10:59.840 --> 00:11:02.720 We, uh, we, we look at, I'll take alpha as it. 00:11:02.760 --> 00:11:05.400 No, let's do, um, yeah, I mean, let's do alpha. 00:11:05.560 --> 00:11:05.860 Why not? 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:12.080 Alpha, um, you know, in physical space, alpha is like a 45 minute video longer. 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:22.600 And, and you have dialogue, you know, as you're, you're in physical space, dialoguing through alpha, by the way, if you've never looked at alpha USA, um, definitely look at alpha USA. 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:28.860 It's, uh, or anywhere, any of the alpha global ones, an incredible ministry opportunity for digital missionaries. 00:11:29.320 --> 00:11:29.800 Incredible. 00:11:30.300 --> 00:11:36.660 We often thought that we, the church digital, we should be hosting like alpha talks, uh, on this. 00:11:37.580 --> 00:11:38.280 Oh my gosh. 00:11:38.280 --> 00:11:39.760 So much is happening in chat right now. 00:11:39.780 --> 00:11:40.640 I can't even keep up. 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:44.320 But, um, and so alpha 45 minutes physical. 00:11:44.620 --> 00:11:45.100 Awesome. 00:11:45.500 --> 00:11:46.080 Watch a video. 00:11:46.180 --> 00:11:46.840 Talk about it. 00:11:47.160 --> 00:11:47.460 Cool. 00:11:47.620 --> 00:11:47.960 Do it. 00:11:48.700 --> 00:12:00.100 Um, when alpha moved digital, actually the student version of alpha became the more popular version digitally because it was, it's shorter videos. 00:12:00.100 --> 00:12:03.460 It's more engaging cuts and edits. 00:12:03.460 --> 00:12:10.840 And, and it's, uh, uh, the, this, you know, the music soundtrack, kind of what you're listening to now, it drives and it keeps people engaged for longer. 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:11.600 For a period of time. 00:12:12.300 --> 00:12:16.860 And so we've actually seen that the youth version of alpha is incredible digitally. 00:12:16.860 --> 00:12:23.160 And it's very successful to bring people in, to have a spiritual conversation, to be open to dialoguing about, you know, things of faith. 00:12:23.420 --> 00:12:28.220 People that are called to Christ can engage with a 15 minute video and then talk about it. 00:12:28.220 --> 00:12:29.880 Like that, that's, that's, that's acceptable. 00:12:29.880 --> 00:12:31.160 That's acceptable digitally. 00:12:32.160 --> 00:12:35.940 In virtual reality, people don't want to watch a 15 minute video. 00:12:35.940 --> 00:12:39.520 Like they want to watch a 30 second video and talk about something. 00:12:39.520 --> 00:12:44.400 Because in VR, it's much more important that people talk, um, than, than watch or listen. 00:12:44.400 --> 00:12:46.040 And so how do you get them talking? 00:12:46.040 --> 00:12:47.760 And how do you lead them through the talking? 00:12:47.760 --> 00:12:48.880 How do you do active listening? 00:12:49.840 --> 00:13:08.640 And so, as I was talking, you know, all the way back to Utope, Utope culturally understood who he was trying to reach in sub-Saharan South Africa better than a white bald man with a beard wearing glasses could do in Miami, Florida. 00:13:09.040 --> 00:13:11.780 And he is, he's adapting it. 00:13:12.500 --> 00:13:17.700 And so internationally, if you're watching this, that's what we want. 00:13:17.920 --> 00:13:24.840 We want to be very open-handed with, with our content, with our training, with our ideas, with our relationships. 00:13:25.140 --> 00:13:31.760 And, and empower people like you watching this to, to help us create digital missionaries globally. 00:13:32.180 --> 00:13:49.780 Realizing how we create digital missionaries in America is going to be different than how we create digital missionaries in Africa or Europe or, um, you know, the Middle East or Oceania or Asia Pacific or Russia or South America or, you know, insert place here. 00:13:49.840 --> 00:14:01.600 Which is going to be different than virtual reality where Mr. Pete is, which is going to be different than, and don't even get me started on some of the generational breaks, uh, in platform cultures, cultures, uh, platforms as places. 00:14:02.020 --> 00:14:08.420 Like, like, the idea is not to create a, uh, the way to train. 00:14:08.880 --> 00:14:15.400 The idea is to create a framework that can be adapted to best work for you. 00:14:15.800 --> 00:14:16.920 And that's what we're doing. 00:14:17.140 --> 00:14:22.200 Hey, we've got some incredible, that's much more on EDM than I wanted to do right off the bat. 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:26.240 But, uh, all that by saying that, um, what's his name? 00:14:26.280 --> 00:14:30.800 My friend Troy is starting Layton's EDM tomorrow night. 00:14:30.900 --> 00:14:36.900 And so coming on the chat, uh, Mr. Pete, uh, is, uh, is, is jumping in as well. 00:14:37.280 --> 00:14:39.520 Uh, Mr. Pete, we are in big screen. 00:14:39.580 --> 00:14:40.180 So I love this. 00:14:40.220 --> 00:14:45.240 Mr. Pete grabs our stuff all the time and I'll broadcast it in, in real time in big screen. 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:49.700 And so if you're watching in big screen, hanging out with Mr. Pete, uh, do that. 00:14:49.780 --> 00:14:57.080 Mr. Pete, I got to get with you soon ish, maybe, maybe, maybe in June. 00:14:57.280 --> 00:15:01.920 Uh, we got, we're got some stuff coming up with, uh, the digital missionary conference. 00:15:01.920 --> 00:15:05.900 And I want to loop you in on that life on mission. 00:15:06.020 --> 00:15:08.800 My new friend, Jose, Jose, man. 00:15:08.800 --> 00:15:10.680 Thanks for, uh, thanks for stopping in. 00:15:10.740 --> 00:15:11.380 Good to see you. 00:15:11.900 --> 00:15:14.200 Um, you Jose, we're, I'm excited. 00:15:14.320 --> 00:15:15.300 I've been thinking about you. 00:15:15.340 --> 00:15:17.740 I've been talking about you and Stacey past couple of weeks. 00:15:17.740 --> 00:15:22.220 We're going to have, uh, some things to talk about here in the months to come. 00:15:23.220 --> 00:15:26.420 Um, you know, Tom says, I want to change what I'm saying. 00:15:26.500 --> 00:15:27.840 I have no idea what that means. 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:33.500 Um, probably made something sense at some point, but, uh, well, I mean, that's assuming 00:15:33.500 --> 00:15:36.280 that Tom makes sense at some point. 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:38.360 And that right there is a big assumption. 00:15:38.560 --> 00:15:39.300 I love white beard. 00:15:40.160 --> 00:15:42.540 Just saying, Tom, glad you're hanging out with us. 00:15:42.600 --> 00:15:43.100 Appreciate it. 00:15:43.100 --> 00:15:48.560 Uh, Mr. Pete's letting us know that we are in VD, EDM or we are in VR now. 00:15:48.860 --> 00:15:52.880 And, uh, Jose is, uh, is, uh, in EDM. 00:15:53.160 --> 00:15:55.220 Jose, are you, are you in Tuesday or Wednesday? 00:15:55.520 --> 00:15:56.760 Who's your, who's your leader? 00:15:56.900 --> 00:16:02.340 Are you with Ian or are you with, uh, um, flat cap? 00:16:03.700 --> 00:16:06.080 He's got too many names, flat cap. 00:16:06.140 --> 00:16:10.340 He's in flat cap and discord says in, or, uh, excuse me, size. 00:16:10.880 --> 00:16:12.560 I I've been mispronouncing it for years. 00:16:12.660 --> 00:16:17.920 I found out the other day size, uh, size in, uh, in WhatsApp and say, and, and Layton, 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:19.400 like when I see him in the face. 00:16:19.400 --> 00:16:24.580 And so like, it's, it's, uh, he's a, he has an identity crisis, uh, so to speak. 00:16:24.940 --> 00:16:25.080 Yeah. 00:16:25.140 --> 00:16:29.140 Stacy, I'm telling you, Jose, Jose, he's going through. 00:16:29.580 --> 00:16:30.480 Uh, I'm excited. 00:16:30.620 --> 00:16:34.000 Jose, uh, I, I am, I am definitely, definitely excited. 00:16:34.280 --> 00:16:34.580 Okay. 00:16:34.620 --> 00:16:38.380 Hey, listen, um, that was a lot about EDM guys. 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:41.720 I was working on the interview and gals, excuse me. 00:16:41.800 --> 00:16:46.780 I was working on the interview of interviews that I really wanted to happen today. 00:16:46.900 --> 00:16:52.660 Like, like I have been accidentally working at accidentally may not be the best way to do 00:16:52.660 --> 00:16:59.240 it, say it, but I've been like, um, put it, trying to work on an interview for a couple 00:16:59.240 --> 00:16:59.620 months. 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:05.960 And, um, and, uh, there was something happened in this past week and I was like, we got to 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:06.220 do it. 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:06.740 We got to do it. 00:17:06.800 --> 00:17:07.680 Now's the time. 00:17:07.780 --> 00:17:08.920 Like, this is hot. 00:17:09.140 --> 00:17:10.460 We got to break this. 00:17:10.740 --> 00:17:13.860 And, uh, and, and, and, and timing just didn't work out. 00:17:13.860 --> 00:17:15.980 So let me, let me tell you what I'm working on. 00:17:16.060 --> 00:17:18.580 And, and, and we're, this is going to happen May 27th. 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:29.260 I don't know if you know this, there is actually a huge movement of digital missionaries within 00:17:29.260 --> 00:17:30.200 the Catholic church. 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:35.640 Like this is, this is, excuse me, digital missionaries, influencers. 00:17:35.640 --> 00:17:36.880 This is global. 00:17:37.120 --> 00:17:38.680 This is discipleship. 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:44.320 This is, uh, gospel oriented, um, within the Catholic church. 00:17:44.820 --> 00:17:46.100 And, uh, it was funny. 00:17:46.180 --> 00:17:53.920 I, I, I ran across them almost organically, um, while I was working with, uh, putting together 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:56.180 the, the spring digital missionary conference. 00:17:56.380 --> 00:18:00.800 One of our speakers was like, oh yeah, I actually have been working with the digital, with, uh, 00:18:00.800 --> 00:18:03.060 digital missionaries over in the, the Catholic church. 00:18:03.060 --> 00:18:09.200 And I was like, wait, what John Packard, John Packard, Josh Packard, Josh Packard was like, 00:18:09.220 --> 00:18:14.360 yeah, I've, I've, I've actually been working with like the Vatican on developing theories 00:18:14.360 --> 00:18:16.060 for the, the Catholic church. 00:18:16.060 --> 00:18:19.720 And I was like, uh, I, I, I didn't know such things existed. 00:18:20.080 --> 00:18:22.040 And he's like, yeah, actually I know the leader. 00:18:22.120 --> 00:18:23.620 Have you met, have you met Jose? 00:18:24.260 --> 00:18:25.960 Would you like me to introduce you to Jose? 00:18:26.020 --> 00:18:26.980 And I'm like, yes, please. 00:18:27.540 --> 00:18:33.220 And so Jose, uh, dear you, you quality, I'm probably mispronouncing the last name, but 00:18:33.220 --> 00:18:39.180 I've been WhatsAppping who's Jose, uh, who lives in Dallas, Texas, uh, for the past, 00:18:39.180 --> 00:18:46.040 uh, maybe three, four months, like, um, probably this year, uh, building a relationship. 00:18:46.060 --> 00:18:48.000 Jumped on a couple of zoom calls. 00:18:49.260 --> 00:18:54.820 It's the, it's the Hispanic Catholic version of, of Jeff Reed, like honest to God, we have 00:18:54.820 --> 00:18:55.700 the same stories. 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:57.100 We have the same struggles. 00:18:57.440 --> 00:19:05.480 Um, in some ways they're a little more, the Catholic is a little more, uh, advanced than 00:19:05.480 --> 00:19:12.840 us because the Catholic, uh, religion is more centralized. 00:19:12.840 --> 00:19:14.500 They all fall under the Pope. 00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:21.600 And so the previous Pope was a huge fan, was a huge supporter of digital missionaries. 00:19:22.040 --> 00:19:29.220 The, the problem really became convincing some of the regional, uh, was it, um, Cardinals 00:19:29.220 --> 00:19:30.880 to kind of dig into that. 00:19:31.020 --> 00:19:37.540 And so I, I've been wanting to have a stream with Jose and we just had been struggling trying 00:19:37.540 --> 00:19:39.520 to get Catholic denomination. 00:19:39.520 --> 00:19:40.180 I'm sorry. 00:19:40.560 --> 00:19:42.480 Uh, Tom is, is correcting me. 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:43.200 I apologize. 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:44.460 That actually is the right word. 00:19:44.460 --> 00:19:45.640 It is a denomination. 00:19:45.820 --> 00:19:49.500 And listen, it's, there are some people that are going to send me hate mail because I'm 00:19:49.500 --> 00:19:53.140 talking about Catholics and, and, and, and, and that and cool. 00:19:53.400 --> 00:19:57.540 Like there, I do view it as a, as a denomination. 00:19:58.540 --> 00:20:03.200 Um, there are, there are Catholics that get it. 00:20:03.200 --> 00:20:05.380 There are Catholics that don't guys. 00:20:05.380 --> 00:20:06.200 I hate to tell you this. 00:20:06.260 --> 00:20:10.700 There are evangelists, evangelistic churches that get it and that don't. 00:20:11.260 --> 00:20:17.640 Uh, and so, you know, scripture is filled with references to, uh, some will say father, 00:20:17.760 --> 00:20:19.700 father, and I will say, who are you? 00:20:19.820 --> 00:20:26.000 You know, there's, there's lots of, of references towards the fact that some who claim to be 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:31.120 Christians are not, and this should not be a surprise to anybody. 00:20:32.120 --> 00:20:34.860 So I'm having this, this conversation and this guy's incredible. 00:20:35.300 --> 00:20:39.960 And, uh, I was like, man, I really want to share some of these ideas and, and, and almost 00:20:39.960 --> 00:20:44.940 encourage our people and realize there's a whole other network out here of, of Catholics 00:20:44.940 --> 00:20:48.960 that, that are, that are wanting to do the same thing that we're doing. 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:53.160 And we're trying to figure out how to work together and align on some projects. 00:20:53.400 --> 00:20:55.740 And so I've been, I've been like, Hey, let's do a stream. 00:20:55.820 --> 00:20:56.400 Let's do a stream. 00:20:56.460 --> 00:20:57.160 Let's do a stream. 00:20:57.780 --> 00:21:03.280 You know, and then unfortunately, you know, the Catholic, uh, the, the Pope dies. 00:21:03.800 --> 00:21:09.860 Uh, there's a new Pope, an American, a Cubs fan is now, you know, embraced as, as the 00:21:09.860 --> 00:21:13.160 new, uh, leader of the Vatican and the Catholic church. 00:21:13.160 --> 00:21:19.140 And, and he's now, and, uh, and so I reached out like immediately and I was like, dude, let's 00:21:19.140 --> 00:21:20.020 have this conversation. 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:22.540 And, uh, he's like, okay, let's do it. 00:21:22.560 --> 00:21:22.900 Let's do it. 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:23.240 Let's do it. 00:21:23.320 --> 00:21:23.760 I'm Alex. 00:21:24.040 --> 00:21:28.940 He was actually WhatsAppping me from the plane as he was flying to Rome, uh, to try to figure 00:21:28.940 --> 00:21:31.240 out, you know, what was going on and, and, and all this. 00:21:31.700 --> 00:21:37.040 And, uh, and so he's still, he's in Rome right now and he thought he was going to be 00:21:37.040 --> 00:21:43.580 clear and, you know, it's leadership and organizational leadership change, lots of in and outs, lots 00:21:43.580 --> 00:21:45.380 of meetings, lots of, of things happening. 00:21:45.540 --> 00:21:48.140 And, uh, he just, he didn't have time to get free. 00:21:48.300 --> 00:21:51.660 And so we're going to do it the 27th. 00:21:51.660 --> 00:21:57.200 And so if you're interested in learning what the Catholic church is doing in the digital 00:21:57.200 --> 00:22:06.380 missionary space, I'll have the, um, I don't think he is the top leader in the space, but 00:22:06.380 --> 00:22:14.580 he's one of the, uh, the people in the, uh, in that team that's recognized even at the, at 00:22:14.580 --> 00:22:20.560 the Vatican level, who's, who's leading and in representing digital missionaries, literally 00:22:20.560 --> 00:22:21.420 at a global level. 00:22:21.620 --> 00:22:26.260 And so super excited to have Jose on the 27th. 00:22:26.500 --> 00:22:29.140 Some of you, I had hinted that it was going to happen today. 00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:31.960 I was, I was this close. 00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:37.180 Literally, we, we were dancing around it up until this morning and this morning or during 00:22:37.180 --> 00:22:42.020 the night, last night, he's like, dude, I just, I really can't because I can't step out 00:22:42.020 --> 00:22:43.960 of this thing and it's like, okay, no problem. 00:22:44.020 --> 00:22:44.360 We'll punt. 00:22:44.480 --> 00:22:45.000 Let's do it. 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:46.640 Let's do it later on. 00:22:47.040 --> 00:22:47.880 I'm excited about that. 00:22:48.640 --> 00:22:51.340 So, uh, that's going to happen on the 27th. 00:22:51.340 --> 00:22:58.840 Now let's talk about, about the 20th and, and I want to invite you all to a sneak peek. 00:22:58.840 --> 00:23:05.400 I'm going to invite you into a sneak peek for something because next week we are going to 00:23:05.400 --> 00:23:08.760 do our town hall meeting. 00:23:08.760 --> 00:23:11.560 Now, as you know, and I'm actually going to click this button. 00:23:12.020 --> 00:23:14.660 Um, and that, that worked, that worked. 00:23:14.720 --> 00:23:14.860 Yeah. 00:23:14.920 --> 00:23:15.060 Yeah. 00:23:15.060 --> 00:23:17.540 It's, it's just a little, it's not centered. 00:23:18.120 --> 00:23:19.220 Let me do that. 00:23:19.240 --> 00:23:20.060 And that'll be better. 00:23:20.320 --> 00:23:20.560 Yeah. 00:23:20.560 --> 00:23:21.120 It's good enough. 00:23:21.620 --> 00:23:25.360 I, um, get Mo good enough to move on. 00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:30.800 So we do a town hall meeting every couple of weeks. 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:32.320 We gather together. 00:23:32.520 --> 00:23:35.780 We talk about, uh, this through our town halls. 00:23:35.780 --> 00:23:38.560 This is where we want to learn from you. 00:23:38.560 --> 00:23:39.420 What's working. 00:23:39.880 --> 00:23:42.960 What's not working at a global level. 00:23:42.960 --> 00:23:46.040 And, and essentially how can we help? 00:23:46.700 --> 00:23:51.560 I can tell you like as clear as day, I had a conversation with God and asked God, is it 00:23:51.560 --> 00:23:52.780 my turn to plant a church? 00:23:52.820 --> 00:23:53.860 You've heard me tell the story. 00:23:54.160 --> 00:23:56.580 God, is it my time to plant a church in digital space? 00:23:57.680 --> 00:24:01.640 And every time I ask, he clearly says, Nope, sorry. 00:24:01.900 --> 00:24:03.300 And then he says, help. 00:24:03.880 --> 00:24:07.420 And so I want to know how we, the church digital can help. 00:24:07.600 --> 00:24:09.000 So here's what I'm going to do. 00:24:09.400 --> 00:24:14.100 You know, normally in the town halls, I've done these things like, uh, live in the moment. 00:24:14.100 --> 00:24:17.860 And so we're actually going to release the survey, the poll early. 00:24:17.860 --> 00:24:25.780 And so you can zap that QR code that's on the screen right now, or you can go to the church.digital 00:24:25.780 --> 00:24:34.480 slash poll, the church.digital slash poll, because I literally right now want to hear 00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:35.280 from you. 00:24:35.420 --> 00:24:41.340 Now I'm not going to publish the results today because that's just for the town hall meeting 00:24:41.340 --> 00:24:47.740 in a couple in next week, a week from today, the stream this time next week, but over the 00:24:47.740 --> 00:24:52.560 course of this week, we're going to ask at a global level for the people connected with 00:24:52.560 --> 00:24:59.920 us to contribute to this so we can get a more accurate picture of what's happening globally. 00:24:59.920 --> 00:25:06.060 So if you are watching this live, you know, zap the QR code that's on the screen, the URL, 00:25:06.060 --> 00:25:13.440 the shortcut is the church.digital slash poll, P-O-L-L, as opposed to P-O-L-E-P-O-L-L, 00:25:13.500 --> 00:25:16.620 the church.digital slash poll, and that's going to get you in. 00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:22.360 But a couple of questions, and you should have the ability to answer these questions right 00:25:22.360 --> 00:25:22.600 now. 00:25:22.700 --> 00:25:23.920 Once again, zap the QR screen. 00:25:24.020 --> 00:25:26.900 If you haven't, you're not going to see the results. 00:25:27.040 --> 00:25:33.740 One person has already voted, but responses are hidden because I'm holding this back. 00:25:34.080 --> 00:25:39.020 But feel free to contribute at least once to this, the church.digital slash poll, zap 00:25:39.020 --> 00:25:39.760 the QR screen. 00:25:40.120 --> 00:25:42.120 Where are you from? 00:25:43.080 --> 00:25:44.620 You like the little map here on the screen? 00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:45.380 This is so cool. 00:25:46.100 --> 00:25:47.880 You'll see the graphic throughout. 00:25:48.560 --> 00:25:55.440 I asked ChatGPT to create a world map in the style of the church.digital brand. 00:25:56.260 --> 00:26:01.420 And so it created all the squares and kind of, quote unquote, pixelized the global map. 00:26:02.140 --> 00:26:03.000 And so I was like, yeah, that's cool. 00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:06.540 My wife looked at it and said, Jeff, Hawaii is only one island. 00:26:06.660 --> 00:26:07.300 So come on. 00:26:07.340 --> 00:26:10.240 You can only do so much with a giant square. 00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:12.640 Generalized. 00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:13.620 I think it's Gitmo. 00:26:13.700 --> 00:26:14.540 It's good enough to move on. 00:26:14.900 --> 00:26:16.400 So feel free to jump on that. 00:26:16.660 --> 00:26:18.440 Let us know the church.digital. 00:26:18.800 --> 00:26:20.620 Excuse me, the church.digital slash poll. 00:26:20.700 --> 00:26:25.940 The next question we want to know, favorite platform or community? 00:26:26.180 --> 00:26:31.340 Well, I guess I didn't turn that off because somebody said Discord, which is cool. 00:26:31.640 --> 00:26:32.520 We love Discord. 00:26:32.660 --> 00:26:35.720 Do I need to press H to hide that? 00:26:36.060 --> 00:26:37.860 I'm kind of curious why that showed up. 00:26:39.100 --> 00:26:39.580 That's okay. 00:26:39.640 --> 00:26:40.380 We'll figure it out later. 00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:43.240 Favorite platform or community? 00:26:43.420 --> 00:26:44.940 Feel free to vote on that. 00:26:45.900 --> 00:26:46.980 Next question. 00:26:47.500 --> 00:26:49.300 Who are you? 00:26:49.580 --> 00:26:50.960 I feel like I want to sing. 00:26:51.040 --> 00:26:52.060 Who sings the Who Are You? 00:26:52.260 --> 00:26:53.560 Who, who, who, who? 00:26:54.600 --> 00:26:55.780 Somebody's got to know that. 00:26:56.580 --> 00:26:58.640 Tom has got to know that. 00:26:58.740 --> 00:27:00.420 Tom, I'm kind of, is it, is it? 00:27:02.340 --> 00:27:03.400 Oh, my gosh. 00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:05.980 Who does sing the Who Are You song? 00:27:07.340 --> 00:27:13.300 It was, it was the song for, for years, for the CSI. 00:27:14.360 --> 00:27:15.640 It's, it's an older band. 00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:17.460 It's, it's a, it's not a modern rock. 00:27:17.520 --> 00:27:18.800 It's a classic rock band. 00:27:19.460 --> 00:27:22.140 I'm, I'm, I'm flabbergasted. 00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:23.580 I cannot come up with this right now. 00:27:24.200 --> 00:27:28.040 I feel like I'm a failure at some level because I cannot figure out. 00:27:31.080 --> 00:27:32.100 Is it Rolling Stones? 00:27:33.780 --> 00:27:35.520 All right, let's pop up ChatGPT. 00:27:35.520 --> 00:27:38.620 This is more important than anything we got going on. 00:27:39.360 --> 00:27:43.720 Who sings, Who Are You? 00:27:46.020 --> 00:27:48.100 ChatGPT to the rescue. 00:27:48.900 --> 00:27:50.060 Searching the web. 00:27:51.800 --> 00:27:56.240 The British rock band, The Who, released in 1975. 00:27:57.240 --> 00:28:00.200 Thank you, ChatGPT once again saves the day. 00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:05.980 I, to be honest, I, I use ChatGPT exclusively at this point for searching. 00:28:06.680 --> 00:28:10.060 And I would say, oh, yeah, Ian comes in after the fact. 00:28:10.460 --> 00:28:11.360 Where were you, bro? 00:28:11.720 --> 00:28:12.260 The Who. 00:28:12.800 --> 00:28:16.960 I've got Jose, Jose, the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland. 00:28:17.120 --> 00:28:19.920 That's not exactly what we were looking for. 00:28:20.020 --> 00:28:22.880 But ChatGPT did come in and save the day. 00:28:23.020 --> 00:28:27.360 Ian, you were technically a little late, but I'll give you credit because of, of delay. 00:28:27.820 --> 00:28:29.600 So, you, who are you? 00:28:29.700 --> 00:28:31.280 You are a fill in the gaps there. 00:28:31.980 --> 00:28:34.240 Missionary, church, staff, employee, missions, organization. 00:28:35.300 --> 00:28:36.820 Normie, you're a normal person. 00:28:36.980 --> 00:28:38.180 Well, we're all normal. 00:28:38.380 --> 00:28:39.520 Well, okay, except for Whitebeard. 00:28:39.760 --> 00:28:42.880 Everybody else is normal and filling in the gaps there. 00:28:43.260 --> 00:28:44.640 Ian's kind of a little off. 00:28:46.620 --> 00:28:48.020 A little bit. 00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:48.480 All right. 00:28:49.540 --> 00:28:51.740 Recent missionary success. 00:28:55.440 --> 00:28:57.280 Recent missionary success. 00:28:57.500 --> 00:28:59.000 That's what we're looking for here. 00:28:59.520 --> 00:29:00.760 Tell me a success story. 00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:05.840 I want to know in your missions work digitally, how's it going? 00:29:06.740 --> 00:29:08.820 I want to see some wins in here. 00:29:08.980 --> 00:29:11.940 So, share that success story there. 00:29:11.940 --> 00:29:16.920 I also want to know what your biggest challenge is today. 00:29:18.100 --> 00:29:19.200 What's not working? 00:29:19.580 --> 00:29:27.180 Tell me a story of where things are working and then concisely tell me what's not working. 00:29:27.180 --> 00:29:28.440 Now, it's funny. 00:29:28.440 --> 00:29:29.100 Now, it's funny. 00:29:29.220 --> 00:29:36.680 I actually thought about being able to type like multiple things, but then I figured some 00:29:36.680 --> 00:29:40.540 of you would like list out 15, 20 different things and just like blow it all up. 00:29:40.780 --> 00:29:42.240 The one thing, the top thing. 00:29:42.560 --> 00:29:47.540 Maybe it's like two or three, but really like what's the one thing that's not working for 00:29:47.540 --> 00:29:47.680 you? 00:29:47.840 --> 00:29:48.740 Would love to know that. 00:29:49.800 --> 00:29:54.260 Following up as well, equipping digital missionaries, the cohort. 00:29:55.260 --> 00:29:56.020 It's awesome. 00:29:56.160 --> 00:29:57.700 I took it and it was great. 00:29:57.820 --> 00:29:59.000 I loved every second of it. 00:29:59.300 --> 00:30:00.420 I think it's awesome. 00:30:00.840 --> 00:30:03.200 I'm going to take it soon and we'll let you know. 00:30:03.660 --> 00:30:03.960 Eh. 00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:07.120 I really wasn't that interested in it, which is cool. 00:30:07.260 --> 00:30:07.900 That's where you are. 00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:11.100 And then some of you may be like equipping digital missionaries. 00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:12.180 What are you even talking about? 00:30:12.540 --> 00:30:13.700 And if that's you, that's cool. 00:30:13.820 --> 00:30:16.060 I'd say, you know, read an email, join a community. 00:30:16.340 --> 00:30:20.700 But if, if you don't know what's going on, like we need to do a better job communicating. 00:30:20.960 --> 00:30:25.920 And so I want to know who you are and where you are in that. 00:30:27.040 --> 00:30:28.620 This is a fun one too. 00:30:28.880 --> 00:30:36.640 I wish the church digital would what, um, what do you want us to do? 00:30:37.580 --> 00:30:41.680 What is a, uh, an action step, a takeaway? 00:30:42.160 --> 00:30:44.260 What is a need that you get solved? 00:30:44.420 --> 00:30:46.220 What is something we can do to help? 00:30:46.780 --> 00:30:49.660 Like I'm, I, Jeff, I'm giving you the keys. 00:30:50.900 --> 00:30:52.220 What do you want from us? 00:30:52.600 --> 00:30:54.480 How can we best help you? 00:30:54.580 --> 00:30:58.600 I wish the church digital would do this. 00:30:59.520 --> 00:31:00.480 That's what I want to hear. 00:31:01.080 --> 00:31:01.900 Now, you know what? 00:31:01.980 --> 00:31:07.180 We are going to be publishing the results of all of everybody that we're going to be, 00:31:07.560 --> 00:31:08.940 you know, we're going to run this. 00:31:09.020 --> 00:31:12.220 We're going to announce this poll today in the communities. 00:31:12.220 --> 00:31:14.640 I'm announcing it here for the first time this morning. 00:31:15.060 --> 00:31:16.440 We're announcing it in the communities today. 00:31:16.440 --> 00:31:20.840 We're going to be running it in emails through our entire network over the course of the week. 00:31:20.840 --> 00:31:23.460 We'll be beating it in social media and other places. 00:31:23.660 --> 00:31:35.200 And we're going to share the results of it in the town hall meeting Tuesday, May 20th, 1 PM Eastern New York City time on YouTube. 00:31:35.320 --> 00:31:41.060 So we're going to be streaming on the church.digital slash, or excuse me, youtube.com slash the church digital. 00:31:41.320 --> 00:31:42.660 I don't know why I do that. 00:31:42.740 --> 00:31:44.780 I always want to do the church.digital slash YouTube. 00:31:45.220 --> 00:31:47.500 I don't want to do that for any of the other social media. 00:31:47.700 --> 00:31:59.140 Like I have no idea why I always, I, every time, every time I want to do the church digital slash YouTube, but it's not youtube.com slash church digital. 00:32:00.740 --> 00:32:10.720 What's the, when you're playing baseball, uh, the yips, you know, where you do something for so long and then you screw it up once and then you can't, you can't ever do it again. 00:32:10.900 --> 00:32:15.240 What was the guy's name in baseball that screwed it up? 00:32:15.280 --> 00:32:17.360 And then Lou Gehrig took over his job. 00:32:17.500 --> 00:32:18.620 That was the other thing. 00:32:19.620 --> 00:32:20.700 Oh my gosh. 00:32:21.320 --> 00:32:25.580 And then, you know, Lou Gehrig played however many, oh no, it was Cal Ripken. 00:32:25.860 --> 00:32:29.440 No, Cal Ripken beat Lou Gehrig, but it was Lou Gehrig, Lou Gehrig was the story. 00:32:29.760 --> 00:32:37.320 You know, Lou Gehrig, the baseball player, he played like, I don't know, a million baseball games in a row, uh, until Cal Ripken beat his strip, his, uh, stretch. 00:32:37.700 --> 00:32:43.020 But there was a guy that, that took the day off for like some lazy reason. 00:32:43.340 --> 00:32:45.280 And Lou Gehrig took over his job. 00:32:46.140 --> 00:32:50.640 Um, yeah, Chuck Noblock caught the yips, uh, with the Yankees. 00:32:50.740 --> 00:32:54.220 There are a lot of people that have caught the yips with the Yankees. 00:32:54.220 --> 00:32:57.920 Uh, that, that's another conversation, uh, towards that. 00:32:58.280 --> 00:33:02.300 Uh, and then, you know, I, I could make a joke about A-Rod, but I'm not going to do that. 00:33:02.360 --> 00:33:03.080 So that's cool. 00:33:03.140 --> 00:33:03.700 We're going to move on. 00:33:04.080 --> 00:33:04.860 Um, all right. 00:33:04.860 --> 00:33:05.860 So, Hey, we're excited. 00:33:06.040 --> 00:33:12.600 The town hall is going to be Tuesday, May 20th, 1 p.m. Eastern New York. 00:33:12.700 --> 00:33:15.280 And so we're going to, we're going to roll out the results of that. 00:33:15.620 --> 00:33:18.720 Uh, feel free to send a, you know, invite people into it. 00:33:18.920 --> 00:33:22.840 Uh, send the, uh, the link around to others as well. 00:33:23.040 --> 00:33:25.500 Uh, get them to church.digital slash poll. 00:33:25.660 --> 00:33:28.040 We'll redirect you there to get their, their opinions. 00:33:28.440 --> 00:33:32.640 Um, listen, there's a lot of things that we're going to roll. 00:33:33.260 --> 00:33:39.260 The town halls are always, yes, we want to listen to you, but I'm going to be honest. 00:33:39.320 --> 00:33:44.500 Some of the things that we're doing right now, we're actually, because we listened to you three 00:33:44.500 --> 00:33:46.680 months ago in, in January, February. 00:33:47.040 --> 00:33:52.860 The reason we moved to a digital missionary model was because we listened to you all a year ago 00:33:52.860 --> 00:33:57.940 and realized, Hey, there's not churches hanging out with us. 00:33:58.180 --> 00:33:59.660 It's digital missionaries. 00:33:59.820 --> 00:34:00.600 It's individuals. 00:34:00.820 --> 00:34:02.940 It's normies hanging out with us. 00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:03.780 It's so funny. 00:34:04.260 --> 00:34:05.420 Ian is like normal. 00:34:05.520 --> 00:34:06.180 How insulting. 00:34:06.420 --> 00:34:07.860 I love that. 00:34:08.200 --> 00:34:08.580 Ian, thanks. 00:34:08.660 --> 00:34:09.420 Thanks for sharing that. 00:34:09.500 --> 00:34:13.000 But, you know, he's, okay. 00:34:13.100 --> 00:34:15.740 Ian is more, Ian's probably more normal than the rest of us. 00:34:16.280 --> 00:34:24.140 But, um, the, the thing is, is that by listening to these town hall meetings, by recognizing who's 00:34:24.140 --> 00:34:30.080 in the community, we realized that there was a need for us to pivot organizationally. 00:34:30.460 --> 00:34:37.200 And even equipping digital missionaries that came about as a result of having people like 00:34:37.200 --> 00:34:42.320 you in the town hall meeting say, the biggest thing that we need help with is, is equipping. 00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:48.420 And, and some of the things we're going to roll out in the town hall meeting next week are 00:34:48.420 --> 00:34:53.100 directly related to some of the lessons that we learned from the last town hall meeting. 00:34:53.680 --> 00:34:59.680 And so we realized that, you know, uh, we do, unlike the Yankees, sometimes we do actually 00:34:59.680 --> 00:35:06.620 learn from past experiences and want to aggressively help you in that instead of like the Yankees 00:35:06.620 --> 00:35:11.720 spending, you know, the, having the, writing the biggest checks and trying to buy what they 00:35:11.720 --> 00:35:15.680 think's the best names, even though they crash and burn on occasion. 00:35:16.040 --> 00:35:18.500 So, Hey, town hall meeting next week. 00:35:18.940 --> 00:35:23.660 Um, here, same channel, same place, the church that I did it again, youtube.com slash 00:35:23.660 --> 00:35:24.680 the church digital. 00:35:25.040 --> 00:35:29.220 Uh, I can tell you this, we're going to be, we're going to, we're going to be teasing 00:35:29.220 --> 00:35:30.840 some things coming up with EDM. 00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:34.580 We're going to be teasing a lot of things centered around the equipping. 00:35:34.740 --> 00:35:36.540 The future is bright. 00:35:36.640 --> 00:35:38.360 I've, I said this in the past. 00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:38.960 I'll say it again. 00:35:39.440 --> 00:35:44.440 2024 was the year of connection and community for the church digital, uh, new branding, new 00:35:44.440 --> 00:35:46.300 website, new missionary awareness. 00:35:46.860 --> 00:35:53.640 Um, a lot of change happens at the connect in the community level 2025 is the year. 00:35:53.640 --> 00:36:05.540 year of, of equipping and what we started, what with, um, what we started with, um, equipping 00:36:05.540 --> 00:36:12.040 digital missionaries is the first step of many things to come. 00:36:12.260 --> 00:36:15.360 I may have, I may have lost a relationship with Jose. 00:36:15.680 --> 00:36:19.360 Jose says, I'm going to turn the other cheek this one time, leave my Lee Yanks alone. 00:36:20.300 --> 00:36:20.920 Fair enough. 00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:21.360 It's fair. 00:36:21.700 --> 00:36:25.440 Actually, honestly, I haven't watched one baseball game, uh, this year. 00:36:26.020 --> 00:36:31.500 Like I just, I have, I've, I've, I've not had, I, this is, this is a, I haven't talked about 00:36:31.500 --> 00:36:32.020 this publicly. 00:36:32.200 --> 00:36:36.900 I don't think I actually played baseball with Alex Rodriguez, uh, in high school. 00:36:37.240 --> 00:36:43.440 And so I was, uh, I was on the baseball team in high school, Westminster, uh, played baseball 00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:44.000 and football. 00:36:44.180 --> 00:36:45.660 Alex Rodriguez was actually my quarterback. 00:36:46.520 --> 00:36:48.180 Uh, he was a sophomore. 00:36:48.340 --> 00:36:49.840 I was a, no, no, he was a junior. 00:36:49.960 --> 00:36:51.300 I was a sophomore. 00:36:51.780 --> 00:36:54.420 And so I was the center, uh, quarterback. 00:36:54.880 --> 00:36:59.000 And so, um, had a, had really a, I mean, uh, I don't want to say a good relationship, had 00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:00.080 a decent relationship with him. 00:37:00.100 --> 00:37:02.820 He was a baseball store, more than football at the time. 00:37:03.140 --> 00:37:06.320 And, uh, you know, he of course went on to do great things. 00:37:06.680 --> 00:37:14.780 Uh, and so I really don't mean to demean, but I, I just am not into baseball. 00:37:14.780 --> 00:37:19.520 Like I was, I, I, we can, we can unpack that at some point, uh, Jose, that, that might 00:37:19.520 --> 00:37:19.980 be fun. 00:37:20.640 --> 00:37:21.000 Cool. 00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:25.340 So, all right, but listen, some other things coming up and, and I'll go ahead and make this 00:37:25.340 --> 00:37:25.660 announcement. 00:37:25.660 --> 00:37:32.640 Now we, the church digital, um, we're going to be, uh, rolling out a new podcast season 00:37:32.640 --> 00:37:35.920 starting, um, after the town hall. 00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:39.340 So is it Tuesday, the third, uh, what's the Tuesday? 00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:40.620 What's that date? 00:37:40.660 --> 00:37:43.780 I meant to look that up and get it in my head before we got to this point. 00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:50.200 Do, do, do, do, do, do Tuesday, the third, Tuesday, the third. 00:37:50.220 --> 00:37:56.320 We're going to roll out a new season and, and we're calling it, uh, empowering tools. 00:37:56.320 --> 00:38:04.860 Now, so many, I, this, the one thing that I've learned from the, um, from the conference 00:38:04.860 --> 00:38:09.280 was that so much stuff is happening globally. 00:38:10.120 --> 00:38:14.500 Like there was so much interest in the breakouts and so many people were like, Oh my gosh, Jeff, 00:38:14.500 --> 00:38:19.460 when you did the, the, the rapid fire thing at the end with all the breakouts, that was 00:38:19.460 --> 00:38:24.160 my favorite part because I got to hear what these people were doing and I had no idea this 00:38:24.160 --> 00:38:24.800 was out there. 00:38:25.760 --> 00:38:30.040 And so we're, we're, we're kind of pulling from that a little bit and over the course of 00:38:30.040 --> 00:38:36.440 the summer, we're going to be featuring a number of ministry partners, a number of organizations 00:38:36.440 --> 00:38:42.880 that are creating powerful and effective tools that can help people like you doing digital 00:38:42.880 --> 00:38:52.480 mission work, whether it's a, an AI that does, that can do evangelism for you or a, um, or an, 00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:58.460 an assessment to help you, uh, better understand who you are as an individual and who's the leadership 00:38:58.460 --> 00:39:04.980 people around you are, or, or maybe it's, it's an evangelism tool or a technique that's available 00:39:04.980 --> 00:39:11.020 to engage with Gen A and Gen Z like there, we're already having conversations across the 00:39:11.020 --> 00:39:16.440 board with a number of organizations, software databases that are available to help. 00:39:16.440 --> 00:39:23.820 And, and, and the people that we're, we're inviting to the, this conversation are, how do I say 00:39:23.820 --> 00:39:29.700 this cost effective for the budget set up for digital missionaries? 00:39:29.900 --> 00:39:33.320 Like, like we're not talking about the big bucks here. 00:39:33.740 --> 00:39:36.160 Oftentimes we're not even talking about small bucks. 00:39:36.360 --> 00:39:43.680 Some of these organizations are, are nonprofit or offering product for, for free because they 00:39:43.680 --> 00:39:50.460 want to help, um, small churches, church planners, missionaries really be effective in their spaces. 00:39:50.460 --> 00:39:53.940 And so listen, I, I started, I started making calls last week. 00:39:54.060 --> 00:39:55.740 Hey, you want to jump on, you want to jump on? 00:39:55.860 --> 00:40:03.200 And, and it's been, you know, rapid fire people coming on and wanting to, to help share the 00:40:03.200 --> 00:40:08.120 resources that they have to help you become a better missionary. 00:40:08.120 --> 00:40:15.660 And so we're going to have empowering tools, uh, the, the podcast series, the stream series 00:40:15.660 --> 00:40:18.320 launching on June 3rd. 00:40:18.320 --> 00:40:21.260 By the way, my wedding anniversary is June 4th. 00:40:21.260 --> 00:40:25.480 That'll be my 26th, 99 to 25. 00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:27.160 That would be 26 years, right? 00:40:27.620 --> 00:40:27.940 I think. 00:40:28.140 --> 00:40:29.000 Yeah, we're good. 00:40:29.140 --> 00:40:29.420 We're good. 00:40:29.460 --> 00:40:30.000 26 years. 00:40:30.120 --> 00:40:30.780 We're 26 years. 00:40:31.140 --> 00:40:33.860 Tell my wife, uh, I'll be at the stream Wednesday, Tuesday. 00:40:34.120 --> 00:40:35.380 I'm taking Wednesday off. 00:40:35.400 --> 00:40:35.740 It's cool. 00:40:36.220 --> 00:40:38.460 Uh, and we're going to, we're going to go have some fun. 00:40:38.940 --> 00:40:39.460 All right. 00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:41.180 Uh, what else do I want to talk about? 00:40:41.240 --> 00:40:42.820 EDM three already talked about that. 00:40:43.100 --> 00:40:45.920 Uh, and oh my gosh, there's, there's some other things. 00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:46.940 I'm not going to get into it. 00:40:47.240 --> 00:40:48.880 Jose, I was going to get into it today. 00:40:50.020 --> 00:40:59.500 I feel like we need to, um, you and I need a healing moment before I roll at the next 00:40:59.500 --> 00:40:59.640 thing. 00:40:59.640 --> 00:41:03.040 I'm really excited about the next thing, but I did some damage. 00:41:03.180 --> 00:41:05.480 I hurt you, uh, about the Yankees. 00:41:05.560 --> 00:41:06.920 And so I, I, I apologize. 00:41:07.720 --> 00:41:15.480 Um, I do have some, you know, hurt feelings over the years where, you know, the, the Marlins, 00:41:15.700 --> 00:41:18.000 my, my Florida Marlins would win the world series. 00:41:18.460 --> 00:41:25.400 And then like the next year on, you know, all of them would go and be recruited by the Yankees. 00:41:25.600 --> 00:41:30.520 You know, we used to joke that the Florida Marlins was basically like the, the, the step above 00:41:30.520 --> 00:41:31.180 spring training. 00:41:31.180 --> 00:41:32.240 It was the farm league. 00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:34.720 The Florida Marlins were the farm league for the Yankees. 00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:36.320 We didn't have any money, but the Yankees did. 00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:39.420 And they knew how to write big checks, uh, for multiple years. 00:41:39.520 --> 00:41:43.160 The Marlins could always write a big check for one year, but they couldn't do multiple years 00:41:43.160 --> 00:41:43.580 in a row. 00:41:44.420 --> 00:41:45.420 Uh, but good for them. 00:41:45.820 --> 00:41:46.480 Glad it works out. 00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:48.300 Is Jeter still alive? 00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:48.740 I swear. 00:41:48.780 --> 00:41:52.120 I never hear from that guy anymore, but I don't, I don't pay attention to baseball. 00:41:52.240 --> 00:41:52.560 What do I know? 00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:53.240 All right. 00:41:53.360 --> 00:41:54.080 Hey, you know what? 00:41:54.380 --> 00:41:56.240 Uh, I think I'm going to wrap up. 00:41:56.280 --> 00:42:00.020 It's a little early 45, 40, 45, 45 minutes on the stream. 00:42:00.380 --> 00:42:01.380 That was a yips right there. 00:42:01.400 --> 00:42:06.140 I was stuck 40 to 45 minutes on the stream today, keeping it clean and simple. 00:42:06.140 --> 00:42:11.140 We have a lot of fun stuff coming up next week. 00:42:11.240 --> 00:42:12.420 So stay tuned on that. 00:42:12.980 --> 00:42:18.920 If you did not jump on the, uh, on the poll for the town hall meeting, please do that. 00:42:18.980 --> 00:42:21.600 The church.digital slash town hall. 00:42:21.780 --> 00:42:22.400 You know what? 00:42:22.420 --> 00:42:26.340 I'll go ahead and I'll throw that graphic up here one more time. 00:42:26.340 --> 00:42:30.520 If you manage to make it that far, uh, it would be that button. 00:42:30.520 --> 00:42:40.620 And so the church.digital, um, slout town hall, or you can just, uh, zap that QR code that's 00:42:40.620 --> 00:42:45.900 on the screen right there and that'll take you to Mentimeter, which will get you in. 00:42:45.900 --> 00:42:50.420 You should be able to self-direct you through the talks, uh, the different questions. 00:42:50.720 --> 00:42:51.820 There's a next button. 00:42:51.900 --> 00:42:55.320 I think you can click through if you've got questions, feel free to ask it in there. 00:42:55.320 --> 00:43:00.300 We'll be addressing questions at some point during the talk towards the end, but this is 00:43:00.300 --> 00:43:02.000 our opportunity to hear from you. 00:43:02.060 --> 00:43:04.180 So go ahead and take the time to do that. 00:43:04.620 --> 00:43:10.260 Let us know, drop questions in there and, uh, we'll be addressing them throughout the town 00:43:10.260 --> 00:43:10.780 hall meeting. 00:43:11.280 --> 00:43:17.900 So next week, um, 1 PM Eastern New York, the church.digital slash YouTube. 00:43:17.900 --> 00:43:19.140 I did it freaking again. 00:43:19.340 --> 00:43:22.580 That's three times that I've done it on this and I'm self-aware of it. 00:43:22.800 --> 00:43:24.840 YouTube.com slash the church digital. 00:43:26.240 --> 00:43:27.940 Uh, we want to hear from you on that. 00:43:27.960 --> 00:43:28.240 Okay. 00:43:28.600 --> 00:43:29.040 All right. 00:43:29.440 --> 00:43:34.700 And with that, at a 42 minute stream, we're going to, we're going to land a plane. 00:43:35.060 --> 00:43:38.660 So for Jeff with the church digital, this is Jeff with the church digital. 00:43:38.820 --> 00:43:44.340 Thanks for hanging out with us today on this Tuesday town hall next week. 00:43:44.440 --> 00:43:46.600 Bring a friend and we'll see you all then. 00:43:46.920 --> 00:43:47.740 Talk to you later. 00:43:48.360 --> 00:43:48.760 Bye.