Hello, my name is Steven Lee. I'm the founder of SermonAudio and I just wanted to give you this brief update. I'm actually at Vault Site #2, and this is part of the process of building out the infrastructure of The Vault. Our first and primary location for The Vault is on the campus of Bob Jones University. in Greenville, South Carolina. And we're very thankful that we've been able to build out as much as we have been at that location. But this location is a little bit smaller, but we have a single rack. And we just finished filling out this rack. And these racks, it's not rocket science. Usually at the top we have a series of switches, then we have a bank of servers that do computing work, and then below that, you can't see it, we have our storage arrays that hold the data. So we have switches, servers, and storage arrays. And this constitutes The Vault. And we just have multiple racks with this configuration. And they work together in a cluster arrangement. But it's vital that we don't have just the one location. And so we're here at site number two. We are investigating a site number three and even a site number four and beyond. If we're serious about coming out of big tech, we need to have more than the one or two sites. We have to have the data in multiple locations and we have to have the workload also distributed. We have a lot going on at SermonAudio. We are in the middle of a webcasting architectural overhaul, which is going to be quite wonderful. It's not an easy task. We just released our Sermon Manager, which is paving the way for Global Sermons. Again, a big project. We just released also our mobile app, Sermons 3.0, and we're continuously pushing out updates to it upon receiving your feedback. Not a small task. Of course, last year we released our main SermonAudio site overhaul. All these things take enormous effort, friends, but on top of it all, that's the software side, that's the development side. You have a completely separate side. for hardware, for infrastructure, for things like this, which has got nothing to do with the development, but it's important because this will preserve our ability to propagate preaching. And there's no other way to do this but to build it out ourselves. We just want to say thank you to the the many friends who have been with us on this journey. You've been with us, many of you, from the beginning, and we've been taking it step by step. It's been a few years now, but by God's grace, we are building it out, and we've reached an important milestone in our support efforts, and you've been very generous, and you've been very prayerful, and you've been very encouraging and supportive. And thank you from the bottom of my heart. But know that we have many miles ahead of us, and we'll continue to work and do our best. As funds come in, as the skills are available, we'll continue to do what we know we have to do. This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world as a witness to all nations. And then the end shall come. This is our vision. This is our mission. Thank you for joining us on this fantastic journey. God bless you.
Visiting site #2 of The Vault with our Infrastructure Operations Manager somewhere in the colder climbs of the USA. We don't have the largest space here, but we're doing our best with what we have available. Our hope is to continue strengthening infrastructure resilience in the UK next.
This is an impromptu video to provide a brief update on where we are on both the hardware and software development. Thank you for your prayers.